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Major Update Now Live!

Latest update is now up.

Here are some of the changes:

  • Exhibition matches against beasts (wolves, panthers, tigers, bears, and lions) have now been added to the game. This gives players another avenue to advance starting-level fighters (10 or lower) and earn a bit of money while waiting for regular fight days.
  • Feed permanently injured fighters to hungry animals.
  • Age Of Gladiators can now be played with Steam in offline mode.
  • Various retirement texts now added to the game depending on play style.
  • Human owned gladiators can now be given instructions to try and spare defeated foes (enemies can still be executed by crowd vote though).
  • Stat added in office to show gladiators freed by player.
  • Increase enemy boss recruitment of fighters by 5%.
  • Players now start with 70,000 denarii.
  • Added keyboard shortcuts for main navigation (Stable, Staff, Market, Recruit, Office).
  • Adjusted reputation gain and loss to be significantly smaller each time.
  • Showman now has a 25% purse bonus instead of 100%.
  • Gladiators in Hall of Fame: view history button now available.
  • Animal Kills now show up as stat for gladiator.
  • Added a burn rate mail message warning a player if they are potentially spending too much money each day.
  • Updated Blacksmith tooltip to be more clear that they buff weapons and armor, not maintain them.
  • Staff life savings now seized upon execution.
  • Version number added to splash screen.
  • Fixed map so that Brundisium pin is now showing after reaching Rome.
  • Fixed a small formatting bug when viewing enemy fighters.