Gameplay Features & Content Additions

• Rivals

• Rival factions now train pioneers and found new cities (*pioneer art temporary)

• Players can choose what Rival factions will show up in a random map, and the overall difficulty of Rivals

• The diplomacy screen allows you to declare war on a Rival faction at any time

• Doomsday speed setup option

• Sovereign Storylines

• Each sovereign now has a unique storyline built into their intro quests and interactions with the Sorcerer King

• Sovereign Skill trees significantly improved (especially the Wizard)

• New skills, better progression, etc.

UI Improvements & Visual improvements

• Using items directly after crafting now works properly

• Icons for Legendary weapons and materials (as well as a few normal items)

• Scrapyard Arenas given some particle love

• Added code so that Tutorial-style notifications will start expanded as they are added to the notifications area

• Tutorial message added for when Shards are attacked

• Tutorial message added for Enchanting screen

• Burninglands Beach terrain texture polish

• Update to Shadowlands strategic map assets models, textures, and particles.

• Removed city improvements that can’t be built from city details

• On the diplomacy screen, now sorting the minor race entries in the following order: Allied, Known, Allied with SK, Unknown, Dead

• Adjusted Enchanting screen to show items first and then spellbook enchantments last

• Portrait art for secondary quest locations

• Added tooltips for unit medallions in crafting popup

• Spell art for newer tactical spells
  
  

Balance & Tweaks

• More frequent interactions with the Sorcerer King

• Fewer SK strongholds spawned at the start of the game

• City enchantments can now be stacked

• Removed the doomsday related leveling up of SK units so that a darkling doesn't ever become a badass

• SK also now will get more units as the game goes on

• Tile essence balance:

• Forest tiles reduce essence of tiles by -3 instead of -1

• Enchanted tiles increase essence tile yields by +1 instead of +3

• Crystal crags provide +2 essence to tile yields instead of +5

• New music change reduced from every 25 turns to every 20 turns

• Harvest Shadowland spell (Guardian spell) no longer produces doomsday points

• Generally decreased lore cost

• AI much better at targeting shards

• Ogres now look for Splash Damage opportunities when using 'Hurl Boulder'

• Changed default ground cover option to high, most players won’t have bad performance from this

• Spawn Rating tweaks to Abandoned Village and Ancient Tomb quests

• Adjusted difficulty of some quest triggered battles

• Added tooltips for the ingredient entries in the Crafting Screen

• World Setup Screen: changed text for "Random" to say "Generate Random World" instead, because some people were thinking it just picked one of the maps in the list below at random

• Spellbook crafting items raised to cost 5 mana instead of 1

• Minor quest balance (Doomsday counter reduction rewards lower)
  
  

Bug Fixes

• Beam effects now display consistently

• Mousing over tiles near mountains no longer moves the cursor selection to some odd location

• Fixed goodie huts not being spawned as often as they should

• Custom Sovs now get the Universal Spellbook

• Fixed old bug where music channel is resumed when game regains focus, instead of whatever was playing when focus was lost.

• Removed more trigger data from 'Tower of Mastery' quests so they will only be triggered by the appropriate Sovereign Ability

• Bunch of Text fixes

• Fix for tactical ranged attack (such as bow) not playing attack sound

• Fix for Harvest Mountain spell able to be casted on shadowlands mountains.

• Fixed Death Ward Scroll missing icon

• Fixed bug where enchanting popup lied saying you could choose who to equip enchanted item on

• Fixed stretching issue with some videos

• Made the map name control wider to accommodate longer map names without ellipsing

• Removed text and warnings about needing to do further research in order to access higher level quests/goodie huts

• Quests can control the threat level displayed for any goodie huts they spawn

• Updated quest started sound

• Smoother video playback

• Replaced placeholder image of the Garrison Gate quest location.

• Adding pioneer onhit animation

• Fixed bug where sov-specific final battle would have your Sov unit rather than the army you stepped on the SK Lair with

• Added code so minor quest's origin x/y is set to their capital city x/y, rather than being left up to wherever the local player's sov happens to be standing at the time the quest is triggered.  This allows created goodie huts and secondary quest locations that are spawned in a radius to be near the minor race's area, which is our intention.

• Fixed bug with quests that give a specific recipe as a reward, that caused them to think they were also picked randomly.  This caused them show up twice during the quest complete screen, once for specifically given recipes, and once for randomly picked recipes given.

• Fixed Crafting Screen: light text on light background

• Fixed a Game-Within-a-Game clean-up issue that caused a crash on the Customize Sovereign Screen, found by investigating Steam crash reports

• Removed a Loot_DeadRat treasure from Quest_Inn_18.xml, also fixed a misspelled Loot_GarlicClove

• Decreased the height of ingredient entries so the Enchanting screen can fit 4 rows of them rather than 3.

• Fixed bug where a city's defending army would still be killed even if the defenders "escaped" to end the battle.

• City's claimed resource hoards die when city dies

• Claimed city tile world props die when city dies

• Fixed some stray data that was causing the Tower of Mastery interaction to pop-up incorrectly