Old World Update: Rejuvenation map script added and naval combat tweaks

Main Branch 1.0.77503 Release 2025-04-30

Headline Changes

• New map script Rejuvenation added to the Wrath of Gods DLC. A barren desert that becomes more temperate and acquires resources over time

• Ships can now enter defensive formation, which works in the same way as Fortify for melee infantry. Ship promotion balance tweaked

• Added upgrade icon to city production buttons for specialists that replace an existing specialist

Design

• Ships can enter defensive formation, giving +10% defence against Ships per turn, up to a max of 30%. A counterattack is gained at maximum level and each attack against the ship removes one level.

• Grappler promotion immobilizes ships instead of stunning them and no longer has an attack penalty

• Fireship promotion no longer gives +10% attack

• Cockswain promotion gives +20% strength in National Territory instead of Rout

• AI more likely to break alliances with poor opinion

• Ruthless AI declares war on a winning player even if it's not completely ready to do so

• When a tribal alliance ends and there are tribal units in the same tile as player units, the tribal units are bounced, not the player units

• When a national alliance ends, a unit in its own territory never gets bounced

• Expose Agent mission takes 1 turn to complete (was 2)

• Rise of Carthage campaign tweaks and rebalancing

• Heroes of the Aegean scenario 2 rebalanced

• Slums worker discount removed and militia discount increased (Behind the Throne)

• New map script Rejuvenation added (Wrath of Gods)

• Occurrences that affect water movement (eg Hurricane) affect player-controlled water as well, both for water units and land units using anchored tiles (Wrath of Gods)

• Hurricanes remove Anchored status from ships (Wrath of Gods)

Programming

• Restart Game and New Map now generate a new game ID so that a new entry can be recorded in the Hall of Fame

• AI less averse to building Militia and Conscripts when it cannot build a latest upgrade regular military unit

• Pathfinder performance optimization

• Moved project spread to the Player class

• Memory refactor

• Testudo is now a unit effect

• Added delete functionality to Manage Mods tab for mapfiles with no ModioID/WorkshopID

• Added support for showing images of workshop maps in Manage Mods tab

• Added support for council positions that don't require any traits

• Added support in the game class for adding visual effects to tiles independently from the occurrence system

• Added support for yields with negative demand

• Added backwards compatibility for mods with zero-cost projects (notably fixes freezes in Projects+ mod)

UI

• Added upgrade icon to city production buttons for specialists that replace an existing specialist

• Added year of discovery to each acquired tech on the Tech Tree

• Can no longer see citizens, specialists, and happiness level of foreign cities without an agent

• Selection panel tooltips appear on the left

• Score/ambitions panel hidden with attack preview active

• Ambition display tweaks

• Added Net Yield Change to project build tooltips

• Improvement and specialist tooltip tweaks

• Added reminder count on tooltip for pillage reminders

• Decreased size of religion icons on city widgets and archetype/family icons near leader portrait

• Discord/Steam rich presence now updated after loading a save

• Added Save button to cloud host controls screen

• Notification URL icon shown in cloud game list

• Observer hosts of MP games can send messages only to everyone

• Added notification icon for City Damaged

• Added Increase Unit Movement Radius Visibility button to accessibility options to allow players to boost unit movement radius contrast

• Added spacing between archetype/ratings/items on character cards

• Source of counterattack damage in the combat preview is more specific

• Improved tooltip alignment and positioning

• Law tooltips now show F1 Encyclopedia links

• Encyclopedia updates

• Localization text updates

• Added explanation popup to target player when a mission has resulted in an AI or a tribe agreeing to declare war on that player

• Shrines are listed in city pagan religion help text, just as monasteries, temples, etc are listed for world religions

• Agent networks with agents now shown in Spymasters Agent Networks submenu

• Improved helptext for traits that can replace other traits

• Removed the Text tab from the Event Browser

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed DLC that is not owned being marked as disabled

• Fixed bug that forced some map scripts to put all players on the same continent

• Fixed increasing player count disabling Allow Duplicate Nations option

• Fixed Governor gendered helptext issue

• Fixed event browser not using selected language for event preview

• Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the AI from declaring war to expand

• Fixed broken river segments in mirror maps

• Fixed missing available luxury highlights

• Fixed enlisted unit of eliminated nation becoming a rebel

• Fixed bug with AI understanding of how city attacks work

• Fixed character mission tooltip positioning inconsistency

• Fixed left unit healthbar always showing 0 damage in attack preview

• Fixed specialist tooltip net yield change to correctly account for the loss of a citizen

• Fixed tile tooltips revealing yields for foreign improvements when at Peace

• Fixed restarting a hotseat game losing player information

• Fixed map selection clickthrough issues

• Fixed F7 city list not sorting when agent tab is selected

• Fixed incorrect default number of opponents set in single player setup screen

• Fixed configuration of female scout and female worker combat portrait prefabs

• Fixed city recommendation icons appear for non-visible production buttons

• Fixed agent networks submenu player colors

• Fixed issues with city widget capture text

• Fixed data issue for culture on city tab

• Fixed data issues for specialist widgets and pings

• Fixed improvements placed in the map editor always getting raised to the hill height offset

• Fixed irrelevant tribes appearing in the tooltip of some character bonuses

• Fixed team/tribe diplomacy icon not updating in score area when diplomacy changes

• Fixed event text/goal mismatch

• Fixed incorrect number of players stored in the options file for multiplayer settings

• Fixed hotseat games restarting with the wrong active player

• Fixed modio maps not showing in mod browser

• Fixed modio maps not updating properly

• Fixed a couple of issues with maps on Workshop

• Fixed Modio API errors on uploading mods

• Fixed modio uploading all files in Maps folder

• Fixed modio maps reporting version issues if modVersion is blank

• Fixed modio maps sometimes not getting metadata embedded in the mapfile

• Fixed modio maps images not showing on manage mods tab

• Fixed possible null reference when map filename isn't the same as map display name

• Fixed mods with file information showing private full path filename

• Fixed mod uninstall button not working on Install tab immediately after an installation

• Fixed issues with loading mod units from asset bundles

• Fixed UI exception for non-civics projects when AI build recommendations are enabled (affects mods only)

• Fixed non-civics projects displaying the incorrect yield above the build queue (affects mods only)

• Fixed Enlist killing enlisted units if the enlist-on-heal amount was too low (affects mods only)

• Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 3 not taking into account the final turn's yields for determining goal completion

• Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 3 issue with rebels capturing cities

• Fixed Civil War affecting all players (Behind the Throne)

• Fixed missing Clergy in Wrath of Gods scenario

• Fixed Stele appearing in improvements list when it cannot be built manually (Wrath of Gods)

• Fixed crash caused by Inferno (Wrath of Gods)

• Fixed Occurrences sometimes occurring more often than they should for a given player (Wrath of Gods)

• Fixed map Occurrences not being added to mirror maps (Wrath of Gods)

Notes for Modders

• Five separate memory types (MemoryCharacter, MemoryTribe, MemorReligion, MemoryFamily, MemoryPlayer) are now one type, Memory. The base file name is memory.xml

• Mods that add memories need to rename files, e.g. memoryCharacter-add.xml should be memory-character-add or just memory-add. The dash after memory is the important part

• Event bonuses are now just Memory / Forget, for all memory types. Events should take care to apply the bonus to the right subject. For example, a Memory bonus applied to a SUBJECTCLASS_CHARACTER subject is the equivalent of the earlier MemoryCharacter bonus

• It is recommended to upload new versions of map mods in order to take advantage of fixes and new features