UI Improvements & Visual improvements

• New art assets for the Rival factions settled cities.

• Gorgalthon pre-made large map added

• Rival pioneer units added

• Music added to campaign quests
  
  

Balance & Tweaks

• Difficulty balancing to adjust for “mid-game lull” that occurred when player’s army was OP for most monster lairs around turn 75-150

• Champions lvl up stats adjusted so they aren’t completely OP mid-game

• Some crafted weapons damage reduction (mostly swords, a bit on bows, staffs seemed fine)

• Lots of Monster Lair tweaks to Bandits, Bandit Archers, and Barbarians

• Balanced lore requirements for unlocking spells

• Champions differentiated more on attack type (will level up more along fire, cold, poison, and arcane attack for the appropriate champions)

• Added more variety to loot drops

• Added the chance to acquire rare loot

• Removed turn limit on game (unclear, redundant mechanic)

• Less narrow mountain passes in random maps

• Quest rebalancing to maintain pacing

• Sorcerer King’s behaviour tweaked to be more engaging

• Sorcerer King starts off with more Urxens(pioneer units)

• General increase in Sorcerer King units

• Tweaks to how willing Rivals are to side with the Sorcerer King

• Tweaks to doomsday counter penalties in SK interactions

• Rivals won’t settle cities early on and are less likely to do so

• Champions defending Rivals’ capital cities are now much stronger at lvl25

• New intro tutorial messsage

• Revised first encounters with rivals

• Tweaks to the wording of declarations of war

• New Sorcerer King trade quest

• Better SK lieutenant positioning (now spawned relative to the SK and not you)

• Changed default music volume to 50
  
  

Bug Fixes

• More skills, upgrades, etc. immediately update stat displays and the minimap

• SK Strongholds now use proper tactical battle map

• City arrow sound effects added (need to improve the sound though)

• Added quest music to all the starting quests

• Fixed portraits missing on map size change for the Choose your Rivals screen

• Fixed recurring bug where pioneers were not always placed at the back of a tactical battle, where we want them to be.

• Small text tweak to dress up a couple quest options (metals and crystal resources)

• Text tweak. shards -> Shards

• Custom sovereign settings are remembered if you go back to make further modifications

• SK will complain about you building a second city pretty much no matter what

• SK will complain when you kill his innocent units

• Fixed self-targeting spells in tactical battles like “rush”

• Fixed how the first contact with rivals is triggered

• Better crafting reminder quest image

• Increased odds of the SK contacting the player but also increased the min # of turns between contacts to 12 turns (from 8)

• SK Threat goes up by 1 even with the persuasive choice after killing one of the LTs (non-persuasive choice is +1 threat and +10 doomsday) (I'm a badass choice is still +3 doomsday)

• Minor Race Setup Window now says "Your Rivals" when playing a pre-made map

• Fixed sliding cadaver bug

• Fixed stuck turn bug

• Fixed water edge on tactical maps

• Removed unused weapon types (so they don't come up in random drops)

• Unit type info card, shown during tooltip of trainable units on the city detail window, will now reflect any city training bonuses to stats on the tooltip.

• City arrows now have sound effect

• Misc text tweaks to “Volcano Anger!” quests

• Updated champion level-up window

• No longer popping up the "welcome to the beta" dialog at game start.

• Added a new tutorial notification that will act as a game intro, and pops up right after the user name their initial city

• Fixed bug where killing units in your territory would not make the Enemy Threat notification go away

• Fixed bug where units dying from poison would not play death animation

• A minor race is considered defeated once you have destroyed all their cities (previously also had to kill all of their wandering units)

• Selected champ traits now highlighted when the screen is accessed in “read only” mode

• Fixed logistics so that they will display the boost from the warfare sovereign trait

• Fixed bug where cities were losing their boosts to trained units, like from city enchantments (ex. +1 initiative per essence), in loaded saves

• Typo fixing

• Crash fixes

• fixed crash due to running out of suitable starting locations in a tactical battle