Old World July 2nd Updated Test Build

Test Branch 1.0.78617 Test 2025-07-02

Design

• Multiple Victory support added. On achieving a Double, Points or Ambition victory, players will be prompted to either accept victory or try to pursue another victory condition. Multiple victories are tracked in the Hall of Fame.

• Religious improvements may now be adjacent to improvements of different religions

• Launch Offensive now gives the unit and leader 20 XP

• Events can no longer end a war with a tribe that has a player ally

• Resources added during the game (events or other bonuses) can now be placed adjacent resources of different types

• Akhenaten can build Altar of the Aten improvements which spread Atenism, a new unique religion for this dynasty. Disciple bonuses removed. (Wonders and Dynasties)

• Nebuchadnezzar I's brother now recognized as Royal (Wonders and Dynasties)

• Occurrences no longer change or remove existing resources, or add resources to improved tiles unless the existing improvement matches the new resource (Wrath of Gods)

• Occurrences no longer add vegetation to tiles with resources that don't allow that vegetation (Wrath of Gods)

Programming

• AI retreat tweak

• AI is a little more careful with sacrificing its good units

• Decoupled subject picking from events

• Missions now take an arbitrary list of subjects and relations

UI

• Custom Map Overlay added, giving a lot more flexibility in what is shown on a map overlay

• Map pins can now be added and removed using a grid of icons from the Overlay Customizer

• Added new player option: Advanced Help Text. Some tooltip information removed when this option is not enabled

• Added starting characters to SP setup stats screen

• Added support for cycling through occurrence tiles on click

• Added turns of/since conflict to player and tribe tooltips

• Mission subject info now shown in Encyclopedia

• Up/Down arrows cycle through encyclopedia entries

• Added yellow warning text to specialist "replaces" text

• Added visual flood effect for extreme Iteru flooding in Pharaohs of the Nile campaign

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed yield previews getting stuck

• Fixed map generation for games with 2 human teams where the middle of the map is not suitable for player starts (e.g. Hardwood Forest)

• Fixed border expansions sometimes including urban tiles that belong to other city sites

• Fixed free improvement UI not triggering when completing Jebel Barkal

• Fixed free improvement UI not showing dynamic improvement text (i.e leader name on Stele)

• Fixed data issue with some tile status text

• Fixed succession list character links showing effects of being a leader instead of current character effects

• Fixed empty categories in cloud emails

• Fixed project net yield bug

• Fixed MP setup spacing and text wrapping issues

• Fixed Occurrence overlay sometimes not clearing

• Fixed Occurrence terrain change notifications appearing for out of bounds tiles

• Fixed rout preview sometimes being shown incorrectly

• Fixed Caravans consuming orders when they cannot move

• Fixed subject matching for characters in eventlinks

• Fixed Road To overlay not clearing after selecting tile

• Fixed some parts of the research UI sometimes being uninteractable

• Fixed note map pings

• Fixed Pharaohs of the Niles scenario 1 undo back over army deployment

• Fixed mod upload error

• Mod browser and upload page fixes

• Text and event fixes