Old World February 11th Updated Test Build

Old World test branch update 1.0.82044 Test 2026-02-11

To switch to the test branch, right click Old World in Steam and select Properties, open the Game Versions & Betas tab and select 'test' in the version list.

Known Issues

• Portrait Age Interpolation is not working and has been disabled regardless of the player setting

• Volcano and Harbor display issues

• Water Shrine graphical effects showing above specialist icon

• Resources not fading when unit on tile

• City widget shows on top of unit icons

• Fog of War flickering

• Unit display issues during AI turn

• Show Single Units graphics option issues

Design

• Unique Unit (UU) tech bonus cards are now unlocked through culture instead of tech

• First tier UU bonus cards have had their cost increased from 100 to 200, give 2 units, and require a city with Strong culture

• Second tier UU bonus cards require a city with Legendary culture

• Zealot leader general now performs a Heal action after each kill, instead of being able to Apply Enlist

• Fervent (Piye's unique trait) now enables Apply Enlist as a leader general, at a cost of 100 civics (Wonders and Dynasties)

• Ballista strength reduced from 6 to 5

• Carthage city founding bonus reduced from 200 to 100 civics

• Founding Christianity no longer requires ownership of a Jewish city, now requires 3 Jewish cities globally

• Engineer promotion and general trait allows road building instead of bonus against siege/ships

Programming

• Updated unity packages (relay and lobby replaced by multiplayer services)

UI

• Families are now shown before Religions on the tab panel

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed Hall of Fame display for scenario custom victories

• Fixed units passing through hostile civilians cancelling under construction improvements

• Fixed Dynasty being displayed as "default" with selected Archetype

• Fixed starting a game with more instances of a nation using a preset leader than existing dynasties for that nation

• Fixed Server game Host Controls screen not appearing

• Fixed world space text sometimes not showing tooltips

• Fixed hotkeys not triggering unit cycling

• Fixed per citizen generic specialist help text

• Fied lumbermills not being replaceable

• Fixed animations when Reduce Animation Detail is enabled

• Fixed movement range lines drawing in front of floating world UI

• Fixed worker particle effects display

• Fixed unit cooldowns rendering under cloud

• Fixed Timeline screen display issues

• Fixed overflowing tooltips in Encyclopedia

• Fixed Marshes affecting display of adjacent tiles

• Fixed Rebel units from events sometimes not being assigned to a player