Old World October Update: Archetype balancing and UI improvements

Main Branch 1.0.80396 release 2025-10-29

Headline changes

• Leader archetype balancing for Heroes, Builders, Zealots and Diplomats

• Added Road Improvement Ping (Map pin)

• Rebel chance icon added to Cities Screen and City tooltip

• MP setup and observer mode improvements

Design

• Hero leaders can now Launch Offensive after attacking. This still puts the Hero unit on cooldown, so they cannot act after Launch Offensive

• Add Urban (Builder Leader ability) stone costs doubled (20 on flat and 40 on hill)

• 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

• AI now requires a Diplomat leader to start a National Alliance. Increased probability of an alliance offer

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

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

• Harbors give 100% bonus to adjacent nets, up from 60%

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

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

• Specialist builds are allowed to continue after their improvement has been pillaged

• Map options limiting the number of city sites now concentrate sites around player starts

• Consorts can now be Regents without needing to be Royal. Ill characters will not be picked to be Regents

• Added repair cost to Town and Village improvements

• Free-for-all player starts no longer try to separate human players

• Ambitions that require Wonders now consider Wonders owned by teammates to be impossible to acquire

• When a preset character joins a preferred family their children now join the same family

• Reduced the amount of Forest on the Desert map script. Removed option to specify starting inland or on the coast

• Tribe units can now heal after moving

• 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

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

Programming

• Fixed several memory leaks (more improvements here coming next update)

• Memory allocation optimization

• Minor MP performance optimization

• Improved AI for Zealot leader enlisting

• AI no longer attacks civilians if doing so puts their units in danger of being killed

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

• Updated AWS SDK to 3.7

• Modio version upgrade

• Unity package updates

• Added option for CRC tracing when loading mods

UI

• Added Road improvement ping

• Cities with effects that give Rebel chance are marked with a Rebels icon in the city list screen and city tooltip

• Population in the city list screen is now a link to city specialists

• Worker build action button yields no longer subtract unimproved tile yields

• Map Overlay Customizer now has seperate options for Urban and Rural Improvements

• Renamed the City Number options and City Site Density to City Site Spacing

• Default player name in MP and network server name are now taken from the online platform nickname

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

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

• In sequential turn network games, observer view automatically switches to the next player when the observed player's turn ends. This is disabled after manually switching to a different player

• Observers now use their set language rather than the language of the observed player

• Chat hotkey no longer works for non-host observers

• Show Foreign Family Colors option now also applies to city widget crests

• Clicking a General portrait on a selected unit now selects the character

• Law tooltips now show family opinion changes instead of family class opinion

• New Place Bonus decisions get sorted to the front of the event queue

• Improvement pings no longer removed after a terrain change if the improvement is still valid or after a resource is added if the improvement matches the resource

• Added foreign opinion helptext to specify the portion of the Ruthless AI opinion that is due to a player alliance

• Added character archetype crest to mission targets

• When a unit cannot complete a move, camera pans back to unit location and fatigued sound is played

• Right-clicks on UI widgets now work with a tooltip locked

• Moved some help text to the advanced help text option

• 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

• 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

• City religious improvement tooltip now includes unfinished and pillaged improvements

• Added tribe elimination notification

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed AI development claiming more than the nation's share of city sites when using limited City Site Number options

• Fixed agent tab not properly updating after assigning agent character

• Fixed setup screen bug with number of players

• Fixed modified trade values not being calculated in trade bonus helptext

• Fixed city culture tooltip flicker

• Fixed overlay customizer not updating toggles when re-opening after making unsaved changes

• Fixed locked overlay highlight switching off of Custom when toggling customizer

• Fixed improvement filter issues, include unfinished improvements

• Fixed pillaging, burn and launch offensive not clearing hidden status

• Fixed some issues with temporarily hidden units

• Fixed retry cloud upload directing to succession UI

• Fixed map selection with character assignment UI active

• Fixed double state religion reference in happiness help text

• Fixed AI leaving Wonders unfinished if interrupted

• Fixed not being able to change language when it's not your turn

• Fixed popup and decision processing when not the active player's turn

• Fixed foreign characters showing on 1st turn of Hotseat game

• Fixed custom nickname bugs

• Fixed improvement net yield help text to include income from adjacent tiles that belong to a different city

• Fixed game reload inconsistent state

• Fixed pathfinder not being reset when a new tile is revealed

• Fixed implicit conversion with maiMinStats/maiMaxStats

• Fixed Recruit button not appearing with no orders

• Fixed assassinating heir mission not giving achievement when heir exploring

• 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

• Fixed mod infos initialization, source effects were not being properly set on new game. Fixes Rebel text in the Wrath of Gods scenario

• Text and event fixes

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