Old World October 22nd Updated Test Build

Test Branch 1.0.80302 Test 2025-10-22

Design

• Mounted units no longer get attack bonus into Marsh. Renamed Flat to Open for Mounted Attack bonus

• Adding urban tiles (Builder Leader ability) stone costs doubled (20 on flat and 40 on hill)

• Eliminating the last unit of a tribe outside of a camp now also counts as eliminating the tribe and triggers elimination events

• Spending Civics to Enlist (Zealot Leader ability) no longer expires after 3 turns, but the effect is removed when the leader is removed from the unit

• Duplicate nations are now allowed even with preset leaders, as long as dynasties are not duplicated

• In No Events / No Characters, truce offers cost nothing if you're winning the war

• Unit position swaps clears temporarily hidden state of the swap initiating unit

• Characters with an active mission on them (like marriage) cannot be auto-married in the meantime

• Great Lighthouse now applies faster upgrade bonus to existing hamlet class improvements, not only newly constructed ones

• AI now aims to have have a minimum of about a tenth of its units be its Unique Unit

• Added initial turn timer time stockpile. Slow adds 3 minutes, Medium 2 and Fast 1

Programming

• Fixed several memory leaks

• Memory allocation optimization

• Improved AI use of Enlist

• Unhardcoded some AI diplomacy parameters, made warState.xml more mod-friendly

• Updated AWS SDK to 3.7

UI

• Added Road improvement ping

• Temporarily hidden units show a timer

• Temporary hidden status is ignored for damage preview if unit has to move for previewed attack

• Last choices for customized leaders are remembered

• Cloud game hosts can now rename the game using the host control popup

• Succession list helptext (tooltip for the Inheritance button) shows archetype icons

• Removed Follower list when selecting families

• Remove the separate popups for dead/retiring governor, agent and general

• Improved goal instructions in Learn to Play scenarios

• Moved some tooltip text to advanced help text

• MP Setup screen newly added players duplicate the parameters of the previous player

• City religious improvement tooltip now includes unfinished and pillaged improvements

• Added tribe elimination notification

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed AI not building most projects

• Fixed map scripts sometimes generating marsh on hills

• Fixed Regicide achievement not always triggering

• Fixed characters incorrectly showing under Court filter

• Fixed tile widgets not always updating after place bonus decision resolved

• Fixed not being able to retire when there are no opponents in SP

• Fixed possible null reference when a city is razed

• Fixed Mounted unit attack bonus incorrectly being listed in tooltips as a negative defensive modifier

• Fixed tribal unit movement bug

• Fixed extra divider in improvement tooltip for improvements with no yields

• Fixed event trigger text not always showing correctly

• Fixed camera hotkeys not working in map editor

• Fixed MP setup when playing scenarios where player order doesn't match scenario save

• Fixed new tribe leaders not following their tribe's religion in Wrath of Gods scenario

• Text and event fixes