Dear friends, the long-awaited day has come - Steam achievements are now available for Egypt: Old Kingdom!
Besides, we added new tasks and features on the city map and the map of Egypt, we made some balance improvements and fixed some bugs.
New features:
- Steam achievements are now available;
- the cult of Osiris now reinforces other cults, and pyramids reinforce the cult of Osiris;
- the map of Egypt: more tasks are added (sands, cursed place, fish, pearls, Nile Cataracts, etc.);
- the map of Egypt: a remake of simple tasks, resources and improvements generation;
- the map of Egypt: Regional development is turned off;
- the map of Egypt: it is now possible to send expedition even to those are which is not under the player's control (but the relationship with a local tribe must be friendly);
- the map of Egypt: added new action applicable to tribes - Colonize;
- the map of Memphis: new tasks added (sands, Flat area, the spirit of Thoth);
- the map of Egypt: the generation and the mechanic of strategical resources is remade (it's not necessary to search for strategical resources);
- the map of Egypt: the construction of fortresses is turned off;
- the Sand Storm event can now place "Sand" debuff on an area;
- "Gifts of Hapi" can now happen on the map of Egypt;
- Dwellings of Senefru now give +30% to the resources od the area;
- the tutorial was updated with the step teaching to place workers' cards on the map.
Balance fixes and other improvements:
- original force of the cult of Ra is decreased by 50% (before it was 80%);
- the effect of purging the evil from the cursed place now doesn't disappear when the worker dies;
- changed the bonuses of some techs;
- changed the bonuses and consumption for some of the tombs;
- doubled the number of separatists who participate in the battles of the Civil War;
- Increased the bonus of raids on the map of Egypt by 5 times.
Bugs fix:
- fixed the fail of the 5th trial in case of the victory in the final battle;
- fixed the bug when workers returned to the player after Nubia's Rejection event;
- now it is possible to attack another tribe on the same turn after defeating Narmer;
- fixed the looting of the area by Narmer's army;
- fixed the bug when the player was attacked by another tribe after asking them for peace;
- fixed the constant growth of price for the construction of the main city temple;
- fixed the display of maat in the area with domesticated animals;
- fixed the boost of tombs construction by the architect 1 turn before the end of construction;
- fixed the overlap of the running away window during several battles in one turn;
- fixed the overlap of several attacks on Memphis during the Civil War;
- fixed the sudden appearance of pyramids on the map of Egypt;
- fixed the growth of resources coming from taxes during the construction when there are not enough resources;
Attention, please! Old saves will not be compatible with the new version! We added the tutorial of how to restore the previous version in order to continue to play with the old save.
That's it for now! Thank you for playing Egypt: Old Kingdom and helping us to improve it! We're always open to your comments, suggestions, and messages. Don't hesitate to report problems or praise us if you like the game ;) Or just press like to our posts, it's also a great motivation!