Conquest of Elysium 5.12, The Apocalypse Update

This is a major update that focuses on the Apocalypse, UI improvements and the AI. But there are also many other fixes, new magic items to be found, performance improvements and a bunch of new commands for modders.

General

• New sprites for all Apocalyptic Riders

• New monster: Giant Locust

• Movement of player owned stupid commanders is now shown by default

• New start options: --(no)showstupids

• New El bless effect: Holy Vengeance

• The Arch Devil will now leave his citadel if the apocalypse occurs

• The Lord of Corruption will now leave his citadel if the infernal gate remains open for too long

• Empire's Cardinal can break seals if Inferno is invading

• 9 new magic items

• Names drawn on commander tokens in army setup

• ctrl+right click to switch to another commander in Transfer Units screen

• Ambushes now start centered on a defending commander if any

• Strange mist will now create lots of clouds on the sky plane

• Terrain is burning when fighting in burning squares

• Baron can now create vassals from Unicorn Knights too

• Some animals may now revert to being independents after their owner is defeated

• Some Enchanter guardians might become Empire controlled if he is defeated

• Cursed false life artifacts created by Enchanter will now usually end up on a suitable target

• Ravenous Curse on some terrains didn't yield anything, fixed

• Fix for scrollbar on ritual screen

• Blindness fix

• Water attacks now has x2 dmg vs fire beings

• Saving game now also features dates and sorting

• No longer possible to swallow yourself

• High level mages less likely to use wands

• Destroying a spider thicket now results in a dead forest.

• Stupid units could be led after being charmed, fixed

• Fix for visible independent moves showing incorrect units

• Can no longer recruit normal units in sea citadels

• Planar tomes didn't work properly, fixed

• Particle effects for Troll Forests

• Fix for Monument of Hades being abandoned during construction

• New look for miasma

• Miasma shown in square info (i)

• Fire Shield spells now only affects friendly units

• Can now remove insane commander from followers

• No bushes on frozen sea or cloud battlegrounds

• Better setup for large monsters defending towers

• Mirrors can now survive underwater

• Fix for Palace of Dreams losing its gem income

• Rubble is now immune to petrification

• Fixed bug with wrong independent shown as moving

• Units with poison cloud try to avoid deploying close to vulnerable commanders

• Swamp Soul didn't work properly from Sky or Agartha, fixed

• Monster Fish didn't kill units in its belly, fixed

• Oak Golems and Forest Shepherds are now immune to Tangle Vines

• Ancient Commander's attack sprite looked squashed, fixed.

• Monster Snail got an AoE attack

• Sometimes another commander could claim to be the main commander, fixed

• Can now swap magic items directly with another already equipped unit

• Gates, walls, trees sometimes disappeared when transferring items, fixed.

• Commanders didn't wrap properly after changing text size, fixed.

• Improved placement of portrait when viewing stats

• Particle effects bug fix

• Fixed excessively popping mushrooms in swamps when zooming

• Save scrollbar position in mod selection screen

• Main map graphics performance improvement

• Fight performance improvement

• Typo and Stat fixes

AI

• Mid/rear rank units without ranged weapon will now behave smarter

• AI now only upgrade full batches of units to avoid wasting resources

• AI better at redistributing items

• AI Cloud Lord improvements

• AI enchanter improvement

• AI better at using ships

• AI improved strength assessment

• AI better at avoiding hopeless fights

• AI more careful with frozen waters

Modding

• Squareevents that set target unit didn't work properly, fixed

• There could occur one event too many at turn -1 for player 0, fixed

• Squareevent performance improvement

• New usable terrain can be (de)activated by players

• Terrain nbr 10000+ to get the inverted selection

• New recruitment list command: recterr

• New weapon command: affectfemale

• New monster commands: terrstealth, terrstealthinv, growterr, startinsanity, demonic, tiny

• New monster commands: elysiumshape, hadesshape, infernoshape, ...

• New monster/item commands: holyvengeance, dmgonterr, dmgonterrbonus, tangleres

• New terrain commands: destroyto, visible

• New class command: townbonusdescr

• New event triggers: +aiplayer, +humanplayer

• New event triggers: +squareactivated, +ownsloctarg, +hasaffunithere

• New event triggers: +varvarequal, +varvargreater, +varvarlesser

• New event actions: makeaff, makeminoraff

• New event actions: targetunitloc, holdit, copyvar

• recxcost can now be used 2 times on same recruitment offer

• minmonreq didn't work properly, fixed

• insanity command now implemented for real

• Terrain selector in map editor remembers old location