*** Released 11/25/2013 ***
Fixes
Fixed an issue the Heart of Morian trophy not giving the Constitution trait
Fixed rivers in the FE scenario from Parottmath
Fixed an issue where Daxus the Slaver won't have weapons on a specific branch of that quest
Fixed an issue keeping the Spikes of Krax from being able to be trained until you learned leatherworking
Fixed an issue where wildland bosses would leave their wildland area and attack cities (causing the area to not be able to be defeated as well as destroying early empires)
Hang (game not responding) fixes
Crash fixes
Performance improvements
Balance
Iron Golems can be designed with the Brutal Nature trait
Added the Endurance II trait to the Warrior skill tree
Added the Endurance III trait to the Defender and Warrior skill trees
Added the Endurance IV trait to the Defender skill tree
Adjusted some combat ratings to be more fitting
Reduced the production cost of the Butcher, Storehouse and Tax Office
Reduced the attack bonus on the Armory Outpost upgrade to 25%
A Champion can only use 1 Healing Nectar per battle
A Champion can only use 1 Healing Potion per battle
A Champion can only use 1 Iru Elixir per battle
Reduced the hit points on Syndicate Thugs
Wilding Shamans now summon a small party of Wilding Riders
Burning Hands can now be cast if there are allies in the area of effect (allies aren’t damaged)
Added a 5 turn cooldown to the Demonic Ally ability
Heart of Fire gives the city a 5% unrest penalty
Summon Lightbringer’s blinding effect now correctly effects Dodge
Players giving tribute are no longer treated as if they are under non-aggresion (ie: you can still declare war or kick them out of your lands, declaring war will cancel the tribute)
Caravans can’t be targeted by spells
Cost to rush decreased from 1.5 to 1.33
Techcost increase per tech reduced from 10% to 5%
Familiars will not get bonus levels if their summoner get bonus levels on his summons
UI
Added a bunch of improved spell descriptions
Added miss sounds to Arching Shield Bash, Bleed, Break, Channel Lightning, Cleave, Crushing Blow, Deadly Bite, Decimate, Double Strike, Eviscerate, Guarded Strike, Hobble, Hurl Boulder, Impale, Shield Bash, Singing Forge, Spit Acid, Stun, Sweep and Throwing Knife
Cycling through units with 'U' now skips units that are guarding
Fixed stationed unit entry so the eject button is on top of the damage display fill, so it can be clicked when a unit is damaged
World maps loaded from the Setup World screen now display the name tagged in Elemental.str by the name in their filename, rather than using the filename name directly (for translations)
AI
Unique monsters always get into the decision queue each turn (so they will try to wreck you)
Modified treaty values so that trading is more fair.
Peace treaties substantially cheaper for factions that are far away from each other.
Relations adjust more slowly than previous
New API: CalcRelationsFromRelationWeights is designed to let us, at a glance see what a given AI feels about another player.
Much more sophisticated relations evalauation (lots of stuff)
New DIplomacy relations evaluator implemented. Now modifiers also take into account the current relations and kick in only if that condition is met as well. (for example, if someone is far away from you, it won't just give you a +1 because they're far away. It'll only give you a +1 if their relations are starting to head towards warfare, the effect is that there's a lot more drifting to neutral rather than extremes)
A lot of new interactions with players to explain why they feel the way they do.
More interaction with the player about what the AI is doing about others.
Conquering a city now reduces the city population by 75% (was 50%)
New attitude modifiers:
We are not competing for territory: +1 (conditional if below neutral)
I don't really know you: -1 (conditional if above neutral)
What you are doing is really not my concern +1 (conditional if below neutral)
You are beyond my sphere of influence -2 (conditional if above neutral)
Same Allegience diplomatic bonus decreased by 1
Tribute treaty does does less bonus if relations are high, more bonus if relations are low
Jealous -1 (conditional: Must be proud, have a lower power rating, above neutral)
Why aren't you trading with me? -2 (conditional: Must be greedy)
AI is more likely to surrender.
Lowered the AI "Too early to surrender" threshold from 10 years of war (40 turns) to 3 years of war.