Old World Update: Multiple victories, succession games and custom map overlays

Main Branch 1.0.78921 Release 2025-07-23

Headline Changes

• Added support for Multiple Victories and Succession Games

• Custom Map Overlay added, Overlay and Map Pin UI improvements

• AI improvements

Design

Multiple Victory support

• On achieving a Double, Points or Ambition victory, players will be prompted to either accept victory or try to pursue another victory condition

• While pursuing additional victories, defeat can still occur if another player satisfies a victory condition

• Multiple victories are tracked in the Hall of Fame

Succession game support

• Added 'Send to Player' option to in-game menu for Single Player games

• This is designed to support Succession games and can also be used generally for sharing saves

• Select a friend from the dropdown or enter their platform ID

• Games will appear on both the sender and recipients Current Games list on the main menu

• The Current Games entry will be deleted automatically after the recipient loads the game and can be manually deleted in Host Controls by both parties

Other design changes

• 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 to resources of different types

• Holy site legitimacy events are now guaranteed to trigger on improvement completion

• Distant raid probabilities are now based on each player's Prosperity rather than global Tribe Level

• Gadarat's Subjugator trait spawns worker at cleared site rather than capital (Wonders and Dynasties)

• 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)

• Added goal Declare War on Tribes Three Times to the Wrath of Gods scenario

Programming

• Enabled cloud games on test builds

• AI attack and retreat tweaks

• Added some AI flexibility in still getting kills when an attack doesn't go as predicted

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

• AI is less eager to buy tiles

• AI makes truce with other AI more easily when it detects a stalemate

• Adjusted the target number of units for the AI

• AI places more value on walls after reaching its unit target

• AI now tries to explore rival territory, if possible, to reveal cities

• 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

• Map pin UI improvements

• Map Overlays can now be locked with right click

• Added option to set default map overlay

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

• Event triggers are now displayed at the top of events where relevant

• Added popup notifications for some bonuses (Diplomatic, Subjugator, King of Kings, Fickle Band)

• Landmark discovery popups no longer shown when starting an alliance

• Cloud games that were last played on a different version will be greyed out with a warning. Use Ctrl+click to load a game from an earlier version. Saves from later version cannot be loaded

• 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

• Added Governor Project reminder category for religious dissent (Sacred and Profane)

• Added custom helptext for Ebbing Sea occurrence (Wrath of Gods)

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed yield previews getting stuck

• Fixed bug that could cause games to fail to start after selecting Learn to Play scenarios

• 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 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 AI build choices not respecting the Guilds law

• Fixed selected city widget not being interactable

• Fixed tribal units not getting allied territory water movement bonus

• Fixed toggle sizing on some resolutions

• Fixed Event Browser not using full screen

• Fixed Encyclopedia errors

• Fixed anarchy road building bug

• Fixed Lose a City goal not completing when losing a city due to an event

• Fixed ship harvest helptext showing xp is gained from harvesting

• Fixed player count not resetting when switching from premade to random map

• Fixed units counterattacking when they could not have targeted the attacking unit on their own turn

• Fixed AI trying to start a Caravan mission over and over when it's not possible

• Fixed heir sometimes getting auto-married instead of getting a marriage offer

• Fixed portrait loading error when toggling mods in SP setup

• Fixed custom nicknames for leaders not being applied from events

• Fixed chat and pings not working when not your turn in network MP games

• Fixed players not being able to act after ending their turn when still their their teams turn with Strict (Teams) turn style active

• Fixed AI behavior for congested battlefields

• Fixed issues when removing tile visual effects, which were causing problems in the Pharaohs of the Nile scenarios

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

• Fixed minor victory broken link in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 6

• Fixed bug that could cause turns to be skipped in the Wrath of Gods scenario

• Fixed Occurrence effects applying multiple times to cities (Wrath of Gods)

• Fixed Occurrence overlay sometimes not clearing (Wrath of Gods)

• Fixed Occurrence terrain change notifications appearing for out of bounds tiles (Wrath of Gods)

• Fixed mod upload error

• Mod browser and upload page fixes

• Text and event fixes