[DL] Old World [L] [RUS + ENG + 6] (2022, TBS) (80908 + 6 DLC) [GOG]

Main Branch 1.0.78921 Release 2025-07-23
Headline Changes

1. Added support for Multiple Victories and Succession Games
   
2. Custom Map Overlay added, Overlay and Map Pin UI improvements
   
3. AI improvements

Design
Multiple Victory support

1. On achieving a Double, Points or Ambition victory, players will be prompted to either accept victory or try to pursue another victory condition
   
2. While pursuing additional victories, defeat can still occur if another player satisfies a victory condition
   
3. Multiple victories are tracked in the Hall of Fame

Succession game support

1. Added 'Send to Player' option to in-game menu for Single Player games
   
2. This is designed to support Succession games and can also be used generally for sharing saves
   
3. Select a friend from the dropdown or enter their platform ID
   
4. Games will appear on both the sender and recipients Current Games list on the main menu
   
5. The Current Games entry will be deleted automatically after the recipient loads the game and can be manually deleted in Host Controls by both parties

Other design changes

1. Religious improvements may now be adjacent to improvements of different religions
   
2. Launch Offensive now gives the unit and leader 20 XP
   
3. Events can no longer end a war with a tribe that has a player ally
   
4. Resources added during the game (events or other bonuses) can now be placed adjacent to resources of different types
   
5. Holy site legitimacy events are now guaranteed to trigger on improvement completion
   
6. Distant raid probabilities are now based on each player's Prosperity rather than global Tribe Level
   
7. Gadarat's Subjugator trait spawns worker at cleared site rather than capital (Wonders and Dynasties)
   
8. Akhenaten can build Altar of the Aten improvements which spread Atenism, a new unique religion for this dynasty. Disciple bonuses removed. (Wonders and Dynasties)
   
9. Nebuchadnezzar I's brother now recognized as Royal (Wonders and Dynasties)
   
10. Occurrences no longer change or remove existing resources, or add resources to improved tiles unless the existing improvement matches the new resource (Wrath of Gods)
    
11. Occurrences no longer add vegetation to tiles with resources that don't allow that vegetation (Wrath of Gods)
    
12. Added goal Declare War on Tribes Three Times to the Wrath of Gods scenario

Programming

1. Enabled cloud games on test builds
   
2. AI attack and retreat tweaks
   
3. Added some AI flexibility in still getting kills when an attack doesn't go as predicted
   
4. AI is a little more careful with sacrificing its good units
   
5. AI is less eager to buy tiles
   
6. AI makes truce with other AI more easily when it detects a stalemate
   
7. Adjusted the target number of units for the AI
   
8. AI places more value on walls after reaching its unit target
   
9. AI now tries to explore rival territory, if possible, to reveal cities
   
10. Decoupled subject picking from events
    
11. Missions now take an arbitrary list of subjects and relations

UI

1. Custom Map Overlay added, giving a lot more flexibility in what is shown on a map overlay
   
2. Map pins can now be added and removed using a grid of icons from the Overlay Customizer
   
3. Map pin UI improvements
   
4. Map Overlays can now be locked with right click
   
5. Added option to set default map overlay
   
6. Added option Advanced Help Text. Some tooltip information is removed when this option is not enabled
   
7. Event triggers are now displayed at the top of events where relevant
   
8. Added popup notifications for some bonuses (Diplomatic, Subjugator, King of Kings, Fickle Band)
   
9. Landmark discovery popups no longer shown when starting an alliance
   
10. Cloud games that were last played on a different version will be greyed out with a warning. Use Ctrl+click to load a game from an earlier version. Saves from later version cannot be loaded
    
11. Added starting characters to SP setup stats screen
    
12. Added support for cycling through occurrence tiles on click
    
13. Added turns of/since conflict to player and tribe tooltips
    
14. Mission subject info now shown in Encyclopedia
    
15. Up/Down arrows cycle through encyclopedia entries
    
16. Added yellow warning text to specialist "replaces" text
    
17. Added visual flood effect for extreme Iteru flooding in Pharaohs of the Nile campaign
    
18. Added Governor Project reminder category for religious dissent (Sacred and Profane)
    
19. Added custom helptext for Ebbing Sea occurrence (Wrath of Gods)

Bugs Fixed

1. Fixed yield previews getting stuck
   
2. Fixed bug that could cause games to fail to start after selecting Learn to Play scenarios
   
3. Fixed map generation for games with 2 human teams where the middle of the map is not suitable for player starts (e.g. Hardwood Forest)
   
4. Fixed border expansions sometimes including urban tiles that belong to other city sites
   
5. Fixed free improvement UI not triggering when completing Jebel Barkal
   
6. Fixed free improvement UI not showing dynamic improvement text (i.e leader name on Stele)
   
7. Fixed data issue with some tile status text
   
8. Fixed succession list character links showing effects of being a leader instead of current character effects
   
9. Fixed empty categories in cloud emails
   
10. Fixed project net yield bug
    
11. Fixed MP setup spacing and text wrapping issues
    
12. Fixed rout preview sometimes being shown incorrectly
    
13. Fixed Caravans consuming orders when they cannot move
    
14. Fixed subject matching for characters in eventlinks
    
15. Fixed Road To overlay not clearing after selecting tile
    
16. Fixed some parts of the research UI sometimes being uninteractable
    
17. Fixed note map pings
    
18. Fixed AI build choices not respecting the Guilds law
    
19. Fixed selected city widget not being interactable
    
20. Fixed tribal units not getting allied territory water movement bonus
    
21. Fixed toggle sizing on some resolutions
    
22. Fixed Event Browser not using full screen
    
23. Fixed Encyclopedia errors
    
24. Fixed anarchy road building bug
    
25. Fixed Lose a City goal not completing when losing a city due to an event
    
26. Fixed ship harvest helptext showing xp is gained from harvesting
    
27. Fixed player count not resetting when switching from premade to random map
    
28. Fixed units counterattacking when they could not have targeted the attacking unit on their own turn
    
29. Fixed AI trying to start a Caravan mission over and over when it's not possible
    
30. Fixed heir sometimes getting auto-married instead of getting a marriage offer
    
31. Fixed portrait loading error when toggling mods in SP setup
    
32. Fixed custom nicknames for leaders not being applied from events
    
33. Fixed chat and pings not working when not your turn in network MP games
    
34. Fixed players not being able to act after ending their turn when still their their teams turn with Strict (Teams) turn style active
    
35. Fixed AI behavior for congested battlefields
    
36. Fixed issues when removing tile visual effects, which were causing problems in the Pharaohs of the Nile scenarios
    
37. Fixed Pharaohs of the Niles scenario 1 undo back over army deployment
    
38. Fixed minor victory broken link in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 6
    
39. Fixed bug that could cause turns to be skipped in the Wrath of Gods scenario
    
40. Fixed Occurrence effects applying multiple times to cities (Wrath of Gods)
    
41. Fixed Occurrence overlay sometimes not clearing (Wrath of Gods)
    
42. Fixed Occurrence terrain change notifications appearing for out of bounds tiles (Wrath of Gods)
    
43. Fixed mod upload error
    
44. Mod browser and upload page fixes
    
45. Text and event fixes

Main Branch 1.0.79004 Release 2025-07-31
Hotfix release that fixes a couple of potential game hangs. It also reverts the UI change requiring ctrl+click to load cloud games from previous versions on release builds.

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