Old World November 5th Updated Test Build

Test Branch 1.0.80559 Test 2025-11-05

Design

• Civilian units defend cities instead of getting pushed out

• Units with Leader Generals are immune to stun, panic, enlistment

• Can no longer hire Barbarian units (affects Carthage and Orator leaders)

• Added tribal unit upgrade cost of money equal to its upgrade cost in training

• Increased Prosperous trait money from 5/10 per culture level to 8/16

• Halved Intelligent trait science output

• Assassination attempts that fail have a chance to avoid negative consequences

• Enlisting a unit replaces any existing cooldown by the enlisted cooldown

• Capturing city timer no longer counts back up when city is left vacant

• Cities in the capturing state no longer go to Anarchy if no capturing progress has been made

• Units can pass through capturable cities without capturing them as long as they don't stop inside

• Ocean depth tiles are safe from Tsunami's (Wrath of Gods)

Programming

• Memory management cleanup, fixed more memory leaks

• AI builds more strongholds, citadels and unique units

• AI now uses units with disarm effect early, so that later attacks can take advantage of it

• Tribe placement improvements on map generation

• Automated workers now take into account road pings

• ModManager improvements

UI

• Added "Polearm" instead of "Rout" to combat preview, to make it clear when polearm units prevent a rout

• Holding Ctrl with a worker selected adds the improvement on the worker's tile (if any) to the unit action buttons

• Cloud games are now sorted by whether or not it's your turn first, time since last upload second, and alphabetically third

• Added selection to dropdown list for customizable leader portrait, name, age, gender, and trait, so that these can be reset to random after being selected

• Capitalized some game terms (Unit, City, Nation, Character, Tile, etc)

• Tweaked adjacent terrain target help text

• Improvement name is shown for bonus placements of improvements that produce no yields

• Planned specific improvements/roads for players on your team now listed on the tile tooltip (but still not as tile widgets)

• Camera no longer pans to failed unit movement if instant unit movement is turned on, or in Network games

• City screen button tooltip now differentiates between increasing and decreasing happiness

• Effect of free specialists now shown in improvement yield previews

• Unit modifiers to improvement yields only shown if unit on the tile

• Forced March button tooltip clarification

• Blocked abandoning ambitions in Learn to Play scenarios

• Changed High Vision icon effect color for Scouts

• Changed capture progress bar appearance on city widget when paused

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed attack preview not always updating

• Fixed error logged on shutdown

• Fixed unit repair recommendations

• Fixed Resources sometimes being listed multiple times in Encyclopedia

• Fixed never-buildable improvements appearing in map pin UI

• Fixed null reference in overlay customizer map pins

• Fixed mod manager UI when session is not already valid

• Fixed Atalia wikipedia link

• Fixed formatting of Zealot enlist tooltip

• Fixed 'Consumes X Orders' line showing when order cost is already shown

• Fixed enlisting a unit that had been capturing one of your cities not capturing it back for you

• Fixed effectCity help sometimes not appearing

• Fixed observer visibility update

• Fixed observer not being able to cycle decisions

• Fixed camera sometimes not panning to a unit that could not complete its movement

• Fixed movement preview when moving into a capturable city

• Fixed Tribe Elimination event and stat if eliminating a tribe through hiring a unit

• Fixed null reference caused by blank note pings

• Fixed yield panel not updating with changes to player trade network connections

• Fixed timeline borders for final turn when game is over

• Fixed Envoy trait tooltip

• Fixed player luxuries not being correctly updated when a resource was removed from a tile with a specialist

• Fixed city unit production buttons missing unit traits

• Fixed caravans causing game crash in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 2

• Fixed unit action cost labels sometimes getting applied to mission buttons (affects mods)