Conquest of Elysium 5.21

This update brings another new playable class to Elysium, the Raksharaja, a Demon that has infiltrated and taken control over a society of monkey people. The Raksharaja will use the monkey to get hold of blood sacrifices in order to summon more demons. This new class also comes with a new tune made by Adrian von Ziegler. This update also contains a lot of fixes and some new contents like more magic items, unique battle maps for more locations, new combat spells and a new random event. There are also improvements to the AI and a bunch of new commands for modders.

General

• New playable class, the Raksharaja

• 6 new magic items

• Enormous map size width increased 78 -> 80 squares

• New battle maps: House Ruins and Town Ruins

• New random event: Elemental Anomaly

• New spell: Blindness

• Wandering Damned Merchants in Inferno

• Not selected commanders are now darker, to be more visible against snow

• Twiceborned necromancer now revive in the citadel twiceborn was cast in

• Burrowing units could try to emerge on friends instead, fixed

• Allies in a castle siege attack could not burrow

• Some defensive walls no longer attacks terrain

• Fix for wall attacks in battle log

• Fear effects on terrain is no longer printed in battle log

• It was sometimes possible to select a square outside the current plane, fixed

• No longer possible to go berserk in fight aftermath

• More corrupted Town and Port names for Hades

• Fix for port sea look in Hades

• Painted Crystal Priestess didn't enable Sorceress recruitment

• Fade Effect did not stay disabled, fixed

• Statues created by Magistratus didn't depict the Emperor

• Resources now take less space when there are many types of incomes

• Cow of Plenty now bestows Blessings of Plenty on farms

• Fix for failed multi-summoning not showing the units properly afterwards

• Half Buried Sinners became wrong terrain when destroyed sometimes

• Giant Sized monsters can now also take drowning damage

• Faster and more reliable clustered start setup, especially with custom maps

• Scrying spells cast from Elysium can now target the nearby planes as well

• Range bonuses are shown on weapons in unit stats

• Disintegrate casters could target their own boat, fixed

• Disintegrate now leaves no corpses and bypasses some on death effects

• Fix for disintegrate affecting terrain if unit in square was killed

• Travelling Merchants can now travel to near Elysium planes also if possible

• Message when King is crowned in capital

• Visions of Dread now only affects enemies

• Fire spells can thaw frozen targets

• Cold spells can put out fires on targets

• New graphical effects for prebattle fear

• Magic touch attacks now have initiative 3

• Golden Magic renamed to Dawn Magic

• No visible effect when reanimating on a square with no corpses, fixed

• Reduced CPU usage when on map screen

• Magic maps now reveal units too, again

• Ape type corpses are now kept track of and can be raised

• Nexus now protects Elysium from magic anomalies and can be disabled

• Infernal Horde now gives slightly less Demonic Locusts

• Resistance Spells now only affects friendly units

• Mixing humans and fish in a ship squad could result in humans deploying outside ship and drown, fixed

• Independent Gorgons are now commanders

• Fix for too loud sound when entering combat by shifting plane

• Random pitch for sound effects

• New sound start option: --randpitch=X

• Save file size reduced

• Stat and typo fixes

Network / Multiplayer

• Scrying network performance improvement

• Fix for horror summoning in network games not working properly

• --seclobby to connect to backup lobby server

AI

• Cloud Lord AI improvements

• AI smarter item distribution

• Fix for some independent behaviors

• Inferno didn't react when one of their citadels were conquered, fixed.

• The demon lord Belial now brings troops along with him when going to Elysium

• It was sometimes possible to see when AI was scrying

Modding

• New ritual commands: multiplane, updhomeifterr, seasonreq, clearsquarespec

• New monster command: ape

• New item commands: magicboost, pathboost, mr, morale, str, rank, falselife, curseditem, extracost

• New event triggers: minterrains & minunits

• Weapons can now also use the * flymodes

• Improved interaction of promotion and other addstring commands

• randomloc 3 (rand enemy com) didn't take setplane into account

• choosefxtarg -1 = can choose enemy units too

• teleportloc 3 = teleport target unit and his entire army

• Map editor: alt-r to reduce terrain in a square

• Map editor: alt-d to destroy terrain in a square