Old World October 14th Test update

Old World test branch update 1.0.85087 Test 2026-10-14

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

• Tribe units with an alliance to another player are more expensive to hire and recruit

• Religious conversion now happens immediately on founding a religion, to ensure that the initial religion head will belong to the founding player

• Religion head priority is given to characters from a family with a city of that religion

• Reduced the size of Duel of the Ancient maps that don't have water outside or between the paths

• Empires of the Indus DLC now enabled 50% of the time in Game of the Week, as for other DLCs

• Default map scripts no longer allow the distance between city sites to go below the minimum (8)

Programming

• Improved pathfinder efficiency

• Optimized game saving to XML

• Changed Immobile to a unit effect instead of a cooldown

UI

• Added a Players Screen (F9) showing a consolidated view of all known nations

• CTRL+clicking a mission now allows cancelling an active character mission and starting the new one in one click

• Notable (pinned or with notable trait or relationship) character updates are among those included in notifications

• Added game list refresh button to the main menu

• Cycle buttons are now only draggable with right click, to prevent accidental re-ordering

• Important character notifications are shown in the notification icon tooltips even if they are not included in the turn summary

• Reversed Cloud Games screen listing order

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed worker kill opinion penalty not being applied

• Fixed UU tech cards going directly in the draw pile when their culture requirement is satisfied

• Fixed player email not being updated when not done from within an ongoing game

• Fixed AI issue with not clearing cached current military unit number

• Fixed bug in water control tile prediction for anchored tiles that are farther than the ship's water control range

• Fixed network not being disconnected after multiple attempts with a full send queue

• Fixed nested submenus closing when clicking on the text area of context buttons

• Fixed family head not updating immediately when current head leaves the nation

• Fixed scenarios showing The New for difficulty in Hall of Fame (will now show Custom)

• Fixed Korean age helptext

• Fixed bug where hiring a player unit would increase as you hired more tribal units (affects mods only)