We are releasing a new update for Warhammer 40,000: Gladius.
This update adds the ability to automatically issue attacks for maximum possible damage and improves the world generation. It also includes a host of balance changes and fixes to minor bugs. Thank you for reporting bugs and expressing your wishes and concerns!
Version 1.6.4 Changelog
## General
* Holding Ctrl when attacking now chooses a tile for maximum damage instead of only forcing melee weapons, thus also working on ranged units and traits such as rapid fire.
* Adjusted the world generator to spread water more evenly across the map and produce shorter cliffs.
* City traits, such as economic boosts like Cultist Sacrifice and edicts, now show in the city's tile hint.
* Tau AI will no longer install support systems into units of allied Tau.
* Produced hero level now scales with game pace.
* Replaced the wording "New" on the multiplayer screen with "Create" because loading games is done after clicking that button.
* Multiplayer game visibility is now taken from the lobby setting instead of the save game setting.
* Installed unit packs are now enabled for the introduction game.
* Killing Joke achievement no longer requires unit to be broken.
* Changed Super-Brolly 2000 achievement to "Use a Big Mek's shield to reduce ranged damage taken by your unit.".
* Engine cleanup, including minor stability and performance improvements.
* Improved scroll bar behaviour.
* Improved resource line wrapping.
## Balance
* Bikes and Jetbikes can no longer be pinned as per 7th edition tabletop rules.
* Teleporting or Orbital Deploying transports no longer allows unloading cargo units in the same turn.
* Increased Heavy Flamer damage by 0.5 and armour penetration by 1. The previous values were incorrectly identical to the Flamer.
* Moved Icon of Vengeance research to tier 6.
* Moved Icon of Flame research to tier 10.
* Reduced Tidewall Gunrig accuracy from 50% to 33%.
* Reduced Tidewall Gunrig costs and upkeep by 25%.
* Added No Escape and Ignores Cover traits to Bio Acid Spray and Gorestorm Cannon.
* Added Psychic Power trait to Psychic Scream.
* Changed Twin-Linked Plasma Rifle from 2 to 1 attack, 2 to 6 armor penetration and 4 to 3 damage. The previous stats were not correctly taken from tabletop.
* Reduced Nova cooldown from 3 to 1 turn.
* Increased Nova Fire attacks from +50% to +67%.
* Changed Blind Grenade from uncommon to common, reducing its cost from 80 to 40 influence.
* Reduced Broadside Battlesuit costs and upkeep by 33%.
* Added Daemonforge to Defiler and Venomcrawler.
* Added new Walker trait to walking vehicles, which reduces the movement cost in forests and imperial ruins by 1 (bringing it to 2 from 3).
* Kastelan Robot is no longer a monstrous creature.
* Increased In Diversity, Unity loyalty bonus from +33% to +100%.
* Reduced Scythed Hierodule hitpoints from 96 to 72.
* Scythed Hierodule now has Instinctive Behaviour.
* Reduced Grey Matter Dispersion loyalty loss reduction from -50% to -33%.
* Added No Escape to Soul Blaze.
* Increased Shred damage from +25% to +33%; affects Flayer Claws and Lightning Claws.
* Added Aura of Fear to Chaos Spawn, Defiler, Heldrake, Master of Possession, Maulerfiend, Obliterator, Venomcrawler, Warp Talon, Gauss Pylon, Obelisk and Tesseract Vault.
* Added Fearless to Chaos Lord.
## Bug Fixes
* Fixed invalid font glyphs in the Chapter 3: Citadel of the Witch objective descriptions.
* Fixed sometimes not receiving the reward for killing the Lord of Skulls.
* Fixed max movement sometimes showing as a negative number.
* Fixed being able to save a game with no name.
* Fixed Orks Extra Vehicle Armour missing upgrade requirements: Killa Kan and Gorkanaut.
* Fixed Gift of Contagion description.
* Fixed being able to teleport with Dimensional Corridor to your own tile, crashing the game.
* Fixed being able to claim the same item multiple times in some circumstances.
* Fixed Astra Militarum Dozer Blade missing Chimera upgrade requirement.
* Fixed cancelling the "Disband unit" function and re-executing it causing disbanding without confirmation question.
* Fixed Space Marines Dozer Blade upgrade description not mentioning Razorbacks.
* Fixed Tyranids Hammer of Wrath upgrade description and requirement missing Scythed Hierodule.
* Fixed damage buffs and debuffs not modfying the damage of some melee weapons correctly.
* Fixed a crash related to marking invalid tiles.
* Fixed Machine Empathy not applying to fortifications.
* Fixed Life Drain damage bonus applying against all units, not just infantry.
* Fixed Snazzy Digs achievement unlocking even if Flash Gitz are not moved.
* Fixed end turn button prompting to select research even after all research has been completed.
* Fixed Assault Cannon not benefiting from Warpborne Bolts.
* Fixed Skorcha not benefiting from Improved Frag Casings.
* Fixed Meteoric Descent not benefiting from Conjoined Weaponry.
* Fixed Heat Ray (Dispersed) not benefiting from Dispersed Targetting.
* Fixed changing action not refreshing yield overlays in some circumstances.
* Fixed missing Shadow In The Warp on Hive Tyrant.
* Fixed Tyranids Hammer of Wrath description not saying it affects Hive Tyrant.
* Fixed a bug related to movement costs resulting in a wrong movement area being shown under certain circumstances.
* Fixed a networking crash that could occur under very limited circumstances.
* Fixed item cooldown being reduced to 1 when moving items to another hero.
* Fixed Launcher preventing Steam invites from working properly when accepting the invite before the game was started.
* Fixed produced hero level being lower than intended on higher difficulties.
* Fixed cargo slots being displayed as floating numbers in the compendium.
* Fixed units dying from self-inflicted health loss not disappearing.
* Fixed attack estimate sometimes being incorrect.
* Fixed transports gaining Hammer of Wrath when using jump pack to land in them.
* Fixed effects that remove action cost, movement cost or cooldown not showing in hints.
* Fixed units not getting rendered properly when jumping into transports.
* Fixed Life Drain trait not being visible.
* Fixed Jetbikes still being pinnable in certain circumstances.
* Fixed passive abilities and items that go off cooldown while the unit is being transported not working when the unit exits the transport.
## Modding
* The GUI now makes full use of the extendable blueprints system and no longer uses skins. This increases flexibility and stability. See Data/GUI/Blueprints for the overhauled xmls.
* Added `` modifier effect.