Old World September 16th Test update

Old World test branch update 1.0.84726 Test 2026-09-16

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.

Design

• Sages no longer get a free Archive on founding a city, instead they can build Archives without Metaphysics

• Units with leader generals are now immune to the Fireship effect

• Generic religion building ambitions are no longer offered (religion-specific building ambitions remain)

• Event review and tweaks based on analytics and player feedback

Programming

• AI anchoring and overseas expansion improvements

• Transport layer changes to potentially fix issues with MP not connecting to cloud VM servers. Removed duplicate log spam when the send queue is full

• Moved some event bonuses from multiple independent trait rolls to a single uniform roll

UI

• Added the ability to trigger the combat preview panel for tiles other than the selected unit's current tile. To use this, add a waypoint using CTRL+click, then mouse over the attack tile from the waypoint.

• In network games with observers allowed, players can send chat messages that only observers can see and observers can send messages to specific players

• Cloud game order reversed so that the more urgent ones are at the bottom

• AI no longer plays the rest of the turn after a player surrenders in a 1v1 game

• Added email field to bug reporting popup

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed Hittite portraits showing the Egyptian portrait background

• Fixed city widget not being hoverable with city open, which prevented renaming a city

• Fixed Chittogarh (Empires of the Indus) and Blessing of Healing (Wrath of Gods) healing all units, now only heals team and allied units

• Fixed inheritance screen and family/religion tab text potentially displaying outside of their windows

• Fixed undo delay and redo issues

• Fixed random traits from events sometimes applying multiple times

• Fixed point symmetry resource issue

• Fixed MP chat dropdown issue

• Fixed bug preventing servers running on Linux

• Fixed cloud games with non-ASCII characters in the game name failing to upload

• Fixed promotions being available for Workers upgraded from Steppe Riders (Empires of the Indus)

• Fixed potential Family Control null reference (Empires of the Indus)

• Text and event fixes