General

• Each friendly bot you complete the quest of will now be appearing at the Basecamp. Stop by and say hi!
• Added unused tracks “Sector”, “Entropy” and “Destination” to the random track list in the Endless Run
• “Corrupted Cells” (in Endless Mode) now have a clearly different shape
• The Corrupted Healbot has been completely removed from the game, RIP!
• You can now upgrade your weapon to “Fantastic” rarity in Endless Mode at the cost of 10 powercells (at Willy Wonders)
• Reduced the price to improve a weapon to “Epic” rarity at Willy Wonders from 10 to 8
• Smithing Ted now always appear at the start of the second level in Endless Mode
• Added a "Return to Basecamp" button that appears if you're stuck in the loading screen for a while

Bugfixes

• Fixed issues with several perks not properly saved when using the “Save & Quit” feature and loading your game
• “Goliath Diggler” and “Goliath Digglet” will now properly undig if they spend more than 6 seconds under map
• Fixed an issue preventing the uncrouch input to be properly recorded when opening a menu in the basecamp or during a multiplayer game
• Updated the position of weapon pickups when you drop them to avoid them ending up underground or inside a wall
• Duke Nuker can no longer propel you inside a wall or underground when you use grappling hook on him
• Fixed an issue with player or enemy feet going CRAZY when stepping on doors
• Picking up sub-choice of upgrades or perks will properly register them as “Discovered” and show them in the class selector
• Rerolled bazar items now have the right price (and not the price of the previous item at their slot)
• Fixed an issue with the Endless Portal collision at the basecamp where you could get stuck inside
• Note: Version numbers are different on Xbox than other platforms, but it doesn't have any impact on cross platform multiplayer

Changes Overview

Difficulty settings renamed, to make the difference between presets and individual settings clearer. Settings outside the presets are now shown as ‘Custom’ difficulty in game with a breakdown of the individual settings.
Increased variety of crowning ambitions. This should make winning an ambition victory easier and more varied.
Grand Vizier rework (Behind the Throne). A big change to Grand Viziers based on player feedback, they now act as governors in all cities without a named governor and only control production in these cities.

Design

Difficulty rename:

The Advanced Setup Difficulty setting is now called Prosperity
The Simple Setup Difficulty presets remain as they were
Difficulty components are grouped together and indented under difficulty mode in the game parameters tooltip
Difficulty will be listed as Custom for combinations outside of the simple difficulty presets
Distant raids are now tied to Tribe Level instead of Difficulty
Achievements related to difficulty are now tied to Difficulty instead of Prosperity

Changes to Ask to Declare War mission:

Ask to Declare War mission now requires a Leader with the Schemer archetype. Removed mission tech requirement and lowered opinion needed to Cautious. Disabled mission for allies
Ask to Join War mission added, where you must already be at war with the target. This requires Pleased opinion
With Ruthless AI enabled, war requests will be denied if the player is close to victory

Other design changes:

Removed family preferences from crowning ambitions. Most crowning ambition events now allow three choices of ambition instead of two. Along with some bug fixes this should give a much higher variety of crowning ambitions offered
Alliance Victory is now a setup option. The default is off
Upgrading a unit now keeps its fortification state
Gifting, converting, hiring, or recruiting a unit can no longer result in it being in territory where it should not be
Can now upgrade units inside your team’s cities, even if they are not your own cities
Achievement ‘Alexander the Great’ no longer requires the Great cognomen, just have to destroy Persia as Alexander
Removed restriction on marrying Libyans in Rise of Carthage scenario 1
The Random Improvements option now allows any combination of shrine effects instead of picking a set from a random nation
Launch Offensive can now be used from a unit with a rout cooldown and it removes rout cooldowns from adjacent units
Pathfinder trait now gives 50% bonus to Camps and Nets as Governor and 20% as Leader instead of 100/50%
Swapped maintenance costs of Philosophy/Engineering and Professional Army/Volunteers
Neutral territory is now defined as either unclaimed, anarchy (city being captured), or owned by a nation or tribe you are not at war with
Fort defensive bonus, road and exploration river movement, Hero and Fort healing, Scout tree invisibility, all require neutral or friendly territory
Road and Fort construction requires friendly, unclaimed, or Anarchy territory
Added regular reminder to complete Influence goal in Learn to Play 3
Characters with a religion trait (Clergy, Mani etc.) can no longer be targeted by conversion missions
Conquered cities can no longer be given to a family that has not yet been founded
Grand Vizier now acts as a governor in cities without a governor and controls production only in those cities. Removed all other Grand Vizier yields (Behind the Throne)
Grand Vizier managed cities can no longer rush buy (Behind the Throne)
Grand Vizier courtiers are no longer giftable in MP (Behind the Throne)
Unpopular trait now gives nationwide 5% rebel spawn chance (Behind the Throne)

Programming

AI performance optimization
AI builds fewer duplicate roads
Improved AI retreat vs attack decision making
Added more logging for AI unit priority comparison failure
Hall of Fame games now store the active player so that when you load them the player stays the same
Improved replay so that it still works if there is data only from the current turn
Removed improvement dynamic text object from each tile to save some memory
Bonuses and EffectCities give only EffectUnits, not Promotions. Promotions are only for units that can gain XP
Unit effects that come from disabled promotions can now be assigned by bonuses and city effects
Disabled implicit subject conversion for DiplomacySubjects bonuses
Turn Lock function removed

UI

Character tooltips no longer show trait effects
All attacks now listed under Units Attacked notifications (previously kills were not shown)
Free promotions are now indicated in the city production list and unit type tooltip
“Death of governor” decision now auto-invalidates if the city can no longer have a governor
Defeat status now shown when the active player is eliminated in MP even if the game is still ongoing
Event browser story preview improvements
Law strategy notes updated
Added minimize toggle to player goals/ambitions display
Inverted red/green warning text in some cases for negative yields
User assigned hotkeys now have more flexibility. Assignments can use previously reserved keys and conflict with non-assignable hotkeys
Crowning ambitions are now indicated with the legitimacy crown icon
Added some missing keyboard shortcuts to button help
Improved Choose Governor tooltip
Pillaged permanent improvements now show a pillaged icon
Encyclopedia improvements

Bugs Fixed

Fixed invalid moves adding undo points
Fixed some events failing to appear with the Ruthless AI setting enabled
Fixed player connection state UI for single-player network games
Fixed Thracians in Learn to Play 4 being visible before they should be
Fixed server games preventing eliminated players from joining one last time to see what happened, and for the game to be saved locally as a loss
Fixed bug where client could be in a different language to the active player
Fixed Hall of Fame bug where regenerating was replacing Scenario specific text with Generic game text for Nation, Leader names, and Difficulty
Fixed Hall of Fame difficulty sorting
Fixed network messages being sent out of order
Fixed achievement text that referred to Kushite Cavalry instead of Mounted Lancers
Fixed Ten Crowns achievement incorrectly counting regents twice
Fixed improvement pings not appearing when law requirements are not met
Fixed vegetation help text to correctly state a ranged attack penalty
Fixed possible array out of range for bad event links
Fixed bug preventing some Crowning Ambitions from appearing
Fixed bug allowing ambitions to appear in events with random ambition selections that should only appear in specific events
Fixed cycle button position not updating shortcut keys and not getting saved
Fixed some road pathfinding issues
Fixed player start location bug in the desert map script and made start location picking more robust in general
Fixed illegal urban tiles placed in mirror maps
Fixed character ratings appearing with a divider in some cases
Fixed research popup closing after using Redraw
Fixed null ref in encyclopedia
Fixed duplicate Hall of Fame entries when reloading a completed cloud game
Fixed character suffix bug where a ruler would get the II suffix if a parent had the same name but never was a ruler
Fixed incorrect suffix on Ptolemy II
Fixed event system bug that can very rarely lead to valid subjects being deemed invalid
Fixed tooltip expansion when hotkey changed
Fixed order yield rates not updating when starting/finishing construction
Fixed broken Civ Fanatics forum link on main menu
Fixed AI movement null reference
Fixed several Portrait Editor bugs
Fixed load/save bug for mods that give bonus effectUnits
Fixed duplicated Hittite portrait
Fixed errors when loading saves with deprecated promotions
Fixed wrong memory display when giving a conquered city to a family
Fixed opinion and legitimacy bonus from founding a family seat getting applied more than once in some cases
Fixed enlist effect not getting cleared after use
Fixed cases when opinion and legitimacy for founding a family seat could get applied more than once for the same family
Fixed spymaster context menus sometimes not appearing
Fixed agent missions and networks menus appearing on foreign spymasters
Fixed formatting of tile and city tooltips
Fixed improvements from inactive DLC showing up in build menus
Fixed invalid improvements sometimes appearing under Valid Improvements filter
Fixed goals display spacing
Fixed AI modified collection exception
Event audio fix
Fixed trait loss causing unrelated events
Fixed tribal invasions getting stuck
Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 2 goals sometimes not getting offered
Fixed Rise of Carthage scenario 2 and 3 olive-counting goals
Fixed Rise of Carthage starting heirs not being Royal and therefore not tutorable
Fixed Macedonia not getting family promotions on their starting units in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 6
Fixed bug in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 6
Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 2 event triggering multiple times
Fixed Grand Vizier traits not affecting the cities where they are acting governor (Behind the Throne)
Fixed some UI instances where the acting governor was being treated as the actual governor (Behind the Throne)
Fixed unit widgets failing to display icon and shapes not included in their respective default sprite atlases (affects mods)
Fixed General not getting removed when upgrading a unit to a type that cannot have one (affects mods)
Text and event fixes

Notes for Modders

EffectCity.aeFreePromotion becomes EffectCity.aeFreeEffectUnit
Promotion.aeGrantsEffectUnit is replaced by EffectUnit.aeKillGrantsEffectUnit
Bonus.aePromotions no longer exists, bonuses should grant EffectUnits instead

Patch 1.7.25 adds an extra section to Haven's training area

This week we have been working on the training area and onboarding experience. We’ve added, but not quite finished, a new room where you can learn about magic. Outside the Haven’s temple a new Travel Master npc can teach you about traveling. They will also provide you with the necessary travel gear if you are about to set out on the prologue mission.

Gameplay Changes

• When you enter the game the first time the prompt explaining movement appears.
• Adds a travel master outside the temple in Haven. In the first run of the prologue they approach you and give you travel gear.
• Adds a warning when you try to journey with unequipped travel gear that could have been equipped.
• Starts a new room in Haven’s training area to learn about magic.

Bug Fixes

• Standing on or behind a teleporter doesn’t trigger the automatic camera change.

Claudio Norori [developer] 18 Jan @ 7:10pm

>>> Originally posted by Banished Privateer:
>>> What are the recent updates and changes???

hello, multiple bug fixes in the co-op mode, I'll post the changelog soon

Update #5

OVERVIEW

• Reprocessed Audio: English, French and Spanish speech
• Frame Pacing: for a smoother experience on various monitors
• MacOS: Xbox controller support
• Gamepads: triggers now adjust cursor speed


Let’s get to the bit you’re probably most curious about…


REPROCESSED AUDIO

We went back to the original low quality source recordings, and reprocessed tens of thousands of speech lines, using a mixture of new methods and settings best suited to language and character performance.

10 thousand?
Yes, per language! Inspired by your passionate feedback, and with careful guidance from native speakers, we manually reviewed each character and their different recording sessions and tried to improve quality and achieve a consistent sound across all dialogue lines.

So what’s changed?
For some lines, not a huge amount, and expectations were realistic. Yes, some audio files in a vacuum could be pushed further, but with diminishing returns, and at the cost of sounding really incongruent with the rest of the cast.

However, overall background noise has been reduced and significant distortions have been addressed, for a cleaner more balanced sound that best preserves the nuances of the original actor performances.

It might not sound drastically different in some cases, but it should sound a lot more enjoyable now, especially over longer gaming sessions with headphones on.

Some interesting things that factored into this process
    • While the original voice lines from 1996 were recorded at 44kHz, they had to be reduced to 11kHz because of memory limitations at that time. That doesn’t sound like a big difference, but it sounds like a big difference!
    • At least twice a day someone will perform a flawless Hello George, what can I do for you now in the office.
    • If you try to routinely compare thousands of audio files in a collaborative database your browser freezes. This is a clever design that forces you to take breaks before everything starts sounding the same.

Conclusion
All in all we’re still glad we chose preservation of these original audio performances over re-recording them. This has been a subjective and exhausting process, we have learned a lot, and are pleased with the end result. We really hope you enjoy it too.

FRAME PACING

Some of you reached out to us about uneven frame rates. And unfortunately, there was a delay in that feedback reaching the tech team. Ironic. Anyway, some effort has finally been spent fixing this up.

The game should now detect your monitor refresh rate and automatically deliver a smooth and efficient experience! Even if you drag the game window to a different display. Hurray!

If you prefer your settings manual - or just wanted to fiddle about with our “creaky OpenGL backend”, there are some new vt7.ini config values to play with too: MACOS XBOX CONTROLLER SUPPORT

Fixed support for wired XBox controllers on macOS 15 Sequoia.

We use a brilliant library called SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer. Libraries are chunks of 3rd party code that teams can use to avoid having to re-invent the wheel! Super practical, very common! We noticed that since our last update, they released a fix for something that some of you reported in our game. So now we’ve updated to the latest version of SDL which includes fixed support for wired XBox controllers on macOS 15 Sequoia. So if you were trying to use a wired XBox controller on macOS 15 Sequoia then this is for you! How exciting!

GAMEPAD CURSOR SPEED

Holding down the gamepad triggers now adjusts cursor speed.

Honestly, this one goes out to our community on Discord. Someone asked for this to be included in a future update, and when we looked into it, it was easy enough to include last minute, so we did Here are the few lines of code it took, for those curious.

Updated Credits
We also took this opportunity to add a couple more of our Kickstarter backers who've sent in their preferred name in credits, and made an effort to include all of the change requests we received since launch!

Hope you're having a wonderful start to the year!

JOIN US ON DISCORD

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We always love reading from all of you, and one of the best ways to get in touch with us directly is through Discord!

Whether your reason for joining is to let us know about issues with our games, finding community with fellow adventure gamers, or simply to say hi - we'd love to meet you!

As always we look forward to hearing your thoughts on this update!

Love from us all at Revolution

Update - Jan 17, 2025

• Added Turkish language support
• Added Brazilian Portuguese language support
• Fixed some glossary issues in Chinese languages

Hotfix | V 0.8.9146.30060 #3587869d7

Survivors!

today we release a small hotfix consisting of bugfixes and stability improvements.

We’ve identified issues that could cause freezes and crashes when using Vulkan. As a result, we’ve optimized the DirectX 11 version to deliver comparable performance and improved stability. DirectX 11 is now the default launch option. If you’ve experienced freezes or crashes, please try running DirectX 11. Vulkan remains available but is currently considered unstable.

FIXED

• Minimap: Fixed an error that might have occurred when pings on the minimap were removed.
• Buildings: Fixed free workforce at worker amount slider displaying 0 when clicking on a production building for the first time in a game session.
• System: Fixed several potential memory leaks, especially when creating new sessions while a session was running.
• Expeditions: Fixed Endzone expedition not being finishable.
• Camera: Fixed errors when the camera was following an entity that does not longer exist.
• Graphics: Fixed DX11 water rendering.
• System: Fixed crashes and freezes (please use/try DirectX 11 version, which should now be the default).
• Savegames: Fixed corrupted "fog of war" states in savegames.

TWEAKED

• Camera: Camera edge scrolling is no longer possible when following a moving entity.
• System: DirectX11 is now the default rendering solution for the game (Vulkan is now deemed unstable).

Your Teams from Gentlymad & Assemble | 0.8.9146.30060 #3587869d7

The Invincible - One For All update

Hello, Astronaut,

Today’s update celebrates human connections!

During the astromission on Regis III you are looking for your crew, lost somewhere in the otherworldly landscapes. Your connection to your crewmates, your friends, and your natural curiosity of astroscientist is what is driving you towards lifting the veil of human cognition.

In today’s update One For All, we wanted to celebrate the determination coming from human connections, both strong and fragile bonds that we have, that keep us focused on survival and what really matters. Now you can get the game and merge two realities - of The Invincible and The Alters - by personalizing your astrorover with a brand new skin.

If you haven’t checked out The Alters yet, we highly encourage you to get to know another space traveler, Jan Dolski, and his crewmate, Jan Dolski, and his another crewmate, Jan… Have you ever wondered how it would go, living together with different versions of yourself?

- Starward Industries & 11 bit studios