New (1667:1668) build is up

[Leszek]

A new patch has been uploaded

Please find the changelog below.
We would really appreciate your feedback.

Among other changes this major update introduce:
ORCS - play as a completely new race: the Orcs. These savage raiders are the perfect faction for early game expansion.
HEROES & CHAMPIONS - recruit unique adventurers to lead your armies: from mighty fighters to mystical wizards.
CRAFTING - forge magical artifacts, weapons, and armors. Imbue them with powerful enchantments and grant them to your heroes to bolster their power.
FIRE PLANE - explore a dangerous new world of Fire, with its own features, resources and creatures.
STRATEGIC VIEW - zoom out the map and enter the strategic view. Manage your empire and command your armies on a grander scale.



Full changelog:

-[fixed] Disappearing spells after canceling an enchantment/loading
-[fixed] After battle damage resistance would show 0 (instead of disappearing completely)
-[fixed] Sometimes damage resistances from spells wouldn't work
-[fixed] It's now possible to close abilities spellbook
-[fixed] Instant-cast-on-self abilities
-[fixed] Descriptions of damage multiplier effects
-[fixed] Some buff spells would show opposite value
-[fixed] Huge hp increase after level up
-[fixed] Crash on load on gateway
-[fixed] Crash during battle on the edge of the world
-[fixed] Insane spell damage
-[fixed] Unable to cast army-targeting spells
-[fixed] Wrong building names on cities list and post-battle summary
-[fixed] Infusion slider/cost not restoring after infusing
-[fixed] Save/load crash (rare)
-[fixed] Crash on multiple backstabs when the target died
-[fixed] Abilities spellbook for charge-based abilities
-[fixed] Heroes mana fix
-[fixed] Abilities exploit
-[fixed] Fire drakes seem to freeze combat
-[fixed] Battle summary null reference fix after abandoned feature interact
-[fixed] Feature guardians don't flee from auto battle
-[fixed] Mentor discipline fix

-[fixed] Mana Leak
-[fixed] Healing on battlemap between battles
-[fixed] Fail-safe check on city HUD
-[fixed] Pathfinding problems (world map and battle map)
-[fixed] Bugged map scrolling on the edge
-[fixed] Rare load crash
-[fixed] Crash on att/def panel after dismissing last unit
-[fixed] Trade goods icon
-[fixed] Guardian wind icon
-[fixed] Witches Hut
-[fixed] Summon hero event fix
-[fixed] Fire Plane music is no longer 3D clip
-[fixed] After AI AutoBattle Manage Units Flee Null fix
-[fixed] Adjusted frame on applied spell tooltip
-[fixed] It's no longer possible to cast an ability on a target that is already under the effect of such ability or spell
-[fixed] Cursor will change while casting an active ability to show whether the target is legal or not
-[fixed] Active abilities duration
-[fixed] Active abilities summons
-[fixed] Active abilities AOE
-[fixed] Backlash could be cast on non-summons, which would freeze the game
-[fixed] Keen Edge
-[fixed] Active auras would not show on a unit that has any other perk (visual only)
-[fixed] Sometimes nothing would happen after casting an enchantment - it was not visible on unit, but visible on enchantments panel
-[fixed] All max hp increasing spells will now add both current and maximum hp
-[fixed] Performance improvement if there was a visible enemy city with an army inside
-[fixed] Bonuses from enchanted weapons didn't calculate immunity/resistance/vulnerability
-[fixed] Bonuses from enchanted weapons were different every time the tab was opened
-[fixed] Units killed by false life (or that having a hp increasing spell on them) froze the game by being half dead.
-[fixed] Corruption is not saved on shadow plane - after loading all explored tiles are uncorrupted
-[fixed] Infinite charges for Healer's Familiar (and other charge-based abilities)
-[fixed] Remaining turn counter for spellcasting on world map magic panel was wrong
-[fixed] Fixed infinite footsteps after backstabbing.
-[fixed] Advanced tooltips on city production would not work if there was an active event altering said production.
-[fixed] Healing effects restored figures in a wrong way
-[fixed] No more "empty" rewards from world features
-[fixed] Hypnotic Flame freeze
-[fixed] Removing of unit enchantments due to desertion after load
-[fixed] It's no longer possible to cast duplicate spells on units and cities on the world map
-[fixed] Neutral armies can no longer just enter player's city
-[fixed] Wrong amount of figures after load
-[fixed] bonus damage spells not working on world map
-[fixed] Restored tooltips on built buildings
-[fixed] Sometimes gold/mana frame and icon on alchemy panel were misplaced
-[fixed] Lost tribe crash
-[fixed] Can't attack if there's an army standing on a world feature
-[fixed] Roads not giving their bonuses properly
-[fixed] Pathfinding freeze fix after new turn (more than one plane)
-[fixed] Free ability use exploit
-[fixed] Stuck research spell description
-[fixed] Boneyard height
-[fixed] Taking over a city with an active enchantment after load would crash the game
-[fixed] Tooltips no longer leave the screen
-[fixed] Wrong hp after load
-[fixed] Lost cities would still be shown on cities list
-[fixed] Invisible scroll bar on cities list
-[fixed] Ending turn before summoning spell finished casting resulted in the summon being under enemy control
-[fixed] Walking bomb detonated during enemy turn would cause a freeze and infinite footsteps sound
-[fixed] Corruption is correctly saved/load
-[fixed] Max hp calculations after level up
-[fixed] Empty unit name on desertion notification
-[fixed] Bug after ranged attacks
-[fixed] Foresters' Guild tooltip
-[fixed] "Change me" while overwriting save
-[fixed] Null reference on fire arena
-[fixed] Dodge animation would play twice
-[fixed] Turn notification on battle map - showing player's name instead of "PLAYER'S TURN"
-[fixed] Unknown AI enemies are displayed as "unknown" on turn notifications
-[fixed] MISSINGSAVES on main menu load panel when no save file was found
-[fixed] Non-flying units cannot backstab flying units
-[fixed] Level issues after load
-[fixed] Wrong distance penalty during battles inside world features
-[fixed] Selecting a unit causes the city range, rivers and fog of war to overlay the terrain
-[fixed] Fishery tooltip
-[fixed] Gray mage and phantom lancer description
-[fixed] Acid Arrow and other damage over time effects
-[fixed] Proper defeated units list after auto-battle draw.
-[fixed] freeze after ending turn in loaded game
-[fixed] ocean population fix
-[fixed] bad research turn counter refreshing
-[fixed] nonexistent researched spell name on researched spell notification tooltip
-[fixed] default idle animations for HM engineers
-[fixed] fire battle board lava null reference
-[fixed] freeze after units movement on battle board
-[fixed] "new worker" notifications on all cities
-[fixed] Save/load crash
-[fixed] Bug with purchasing in city - if there were two items in the queue, the gold requirement was from the first building, but you paid the second building's cost.
-[fixed] Null reference exception after dispelling unit enchantment after load
-[fixed] ending one unit enchantment caused all other enchantments to be removed, leaving "empty" enchantment in enchantment panel
-[fixed] enemy sorcerer lord's tower is now destroyed after taking over an enemy capital
-[fixed] After locking one of the power spheres and reopening the window that sphere would still be locked but there would be a gem instead of lock.
-[fixed] Having one army selected and clicking "armies still require your attention" resulted in having two green army selections active.
-[fixed] Receiving units by diplomacy no longer crashes the game.
-[fixed] Removing hp increasing effects can't lower target's hp below 1
-[fixed] Fixed a bug with saving/loading enchanted weapons spells
-[fixed] City's range color was not refreshing after conquering enemy city
-[fixed] Killing last enemy unit with backstabbing no longer freezes the game
-[fixed] Paying mana upkeep for summoned units
-[fixed] Famine wasn't working
-[fixed] Drake rider had 90% for critical hit with 20x damage multiplier
-[fixed] High men temple now correctly gives power
-[fixed] Fixes for tooltips for some buildings
-[fixed] Null reference when building a road (and possibly during other actions)
-[fixed] Power now splits correctly under all circumstances
-[fixed] World feature's level is not changed after load
-[fixed] Healing familiar
-[fixed] road loading fix
-[fixed] Spell tooltips on unit panel were disabled.
-[fixed] Chaos channels.
-[fixed] Rivers are giving their bonuses correctly
-[fixed] When a city was placed on a corrupted area near water, city screen was not corrupted
-[fixed] Militia on city screen no longer overlays other info
-[fixed] Purchase button is cleared after purchasing if there is nothing else in the queue
-[fixed] You can transmute 0 mana for 0 gold in alchemy-
-[fixed] Unit switcher above the minimap is not centered
-[fixed] Blue moon didn't apply it's bonus to research from Sage discipline
-[fixed] Not working next page button on spellbook
-[fixed] The game shouldn't crash from out of memory error while generating any more
-[fixed] Default race on surveyor was always DRACONIANS
-[fixed] Expanding "sort by lord" popup on enchantment list caused unexpected behavior
-[fixed] Fixed many in-game texts
-[fixed] Win/lose conditions
-[fixed] Weird city-targeting spell issues
-[fixed] Enchantment panel
-[fixed] There was one additional militia unit during battle which wasn't shown on city screen
-[fixed] Amount of turns remaining to finish research wasn't updating (visual only bug)
-[fixed] Crash when opening abilities minipanel for some units
-[fixed] Army selection and destination flag animations are no longer fps-dependent
-[fixed] Number of opponents and world size drop down menus have wider colliders
-[fixed] Overwriting a file didn't update it's date
-[fixed] Units were losing exp after loading
-[fixed] Random obstacles will no longer generate during city siege
-[fixed] Bless duration (was 0)
-[fixed] AC modifying spells were not working



- [tweaked] Battle summary adjustments

-[changed] New generic information panel
-[changed] New abilities panel
-[changed] New swamp material
-[adjusted] Exp values
-[adjusted] Units balancing
-[adjusted] GUI adjustments
-[adjusted] new geyser
-[adjusted] Feature info panel
-[changed] Units no longer "disappear" when standing on world feature
-[changed] "Back" button to X on save panel
-[tweaked] Random starting race by default
-[tweaked] Unit tweaking
-[tweaked] Increased scrollwheel sensitivity on cities list
-[tweaked] Fewer, bigger neutral armies
-[tweaked] Increased performance of map scrolling
-[tweaked] Added other races for neutral factions
-[tweaked] Reduced size of units on world map
-[tweaked] small adjustments to pathfinding - MIGHT solve some of the current problems
-[tweaked] "Heal" army action is more responsive
-[tweaked] Markers under building are now only visible once a building has been built, their color depends on race
-[tweaked] Estimated damage now depends on the number of figures
-[tweaked] Fast movement option will now also increase view range
-[tweaked] Werewolf resistance reduced
-[tweaked] Building production times reduced
-[tweaked] Adjusted surveyor panel depth
-[tweaked] Adjusted battle summary depth
-[tweaked] Map, history and forge buttons are grayed out and unclickable



-[added] Att/def panel for tavern
-[added] Mentor discipline (start with hero)
-[added] More item abilities
-[added] More unit abilities
-[added] Premade items
-[added] Heroes can be equipped with premade (starting) items from .xml file
-[added] Ammunition
-[added] Abilities to allow attacking flying units (Reach Weapons, Long Range)
-[added] Sir Kaylen's icon
-[added] Default icon for units without one
-[added] Sneak ability
-[added] Strategic view (WIP)

-[added] Automatic selection of next unit during deployment
-[added] Buildings are abandoned when you can't afford their upkeep
-[added] Notification after a building is abandoned
-[added] Pegasi Riders
-[added] Doom Drake
-[added] AI personalities implemented
-[added] New dimension – Plane of Fire
-[added] New race - Orcs
-[added] Items
-[added] Heroes mechanics (models and icons will be added later during the development process)
-[added] Polish language
-[added] Base Attack Bonus additional attacks for hero on att/def panel
-[added] Disabled casting on bmap when not enough mana
-[added] Mithril and orichalcum model
-[added] Remaining turns to next spellcraft level on tooltip
-[added] Crossed wand to show illegal spell target on world map
-[added] Advanced spell info on research panel
-[added] Manual deploy
-[added] Starting distance between units on battle map now depends on the total amount of participants
-[added] Combat log (wip)
-[added] An option to finish the battle as auto battle
-[added] Before battle window with army strength comparison
-[added] An option to cancel attack
-[added] More combat log
-[added] Units flee (Auto battle)
-[added/changed] New fog of war
-[added] New attack/defense panel on unit panel
-[added] Racial unrest
-[added] New resource models (healing herbs, coal, iron, gold, silver, darkwood)
-[added] An option to continue after winning
-[added] All cities have a road under them by default
-[added] Left-click on "unit recruited" notification to select it
-[added] clear city build queue when city owner is changed
-[added] F1 to toggle surveyor
-[added] "T" to end turn on battleboard
-[added] Backward compatibility with saves (use at your own risk)
-[added] Notification when a new worker is available in city
-[added] Notification after obtaining new spellcraft level
-[added] Added a group of abilities that use charges instead of mana for abilities gained from spells
-[upgrade] refreshed cities list
-[added] Tooltips for mirror panel





Previous changelog (1621:1622M):
http://steamcommunity.com/app/265970/discussions/0/619568192696888404/

[LeftPaw]

Someones been busy. :D

[LeftPaw]

Complete computer lock-up after pressing 'end turn' on my first battle. This locked everything up, I wasn't even able to use task manager.

log sent.

[Leszek]

We still need the log

[donschmiddy]

Originally posted by SouthLane:

Complete computer lock-up after pressing 'end turn' on my first battle. This locked everything up, I wasn't even able to use task manager.

log sent.

had the exact same problems with the previous build a lot, but not only in battle, sometimes even on the worldscreen

edit: the recent update did not change anything. The game freezes every couple of turns (yeah not astronomical loading time) for no reason. My only question, why does no soul say this in their reviews, i can not be the only one this happens to...

i am quite angry because the reviews on steam say something somewhat different to what i have experienced... this is the first game i bought that disapoints me that much. I want my money returned to me...

[Karol13]

Updated battle report: Splendid!!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=327551781

[Haldurson]

I'm not sure if this is an old bug or a new one. On the world screen, it shows that I have about 1300 gold. But if I go into a city screen, it only shows 130 gold, and behaves as if that's all I have.

Also, I tried playing with a medium sized world, and all planes, and by turn 40ish, it takes about a minute or so between turns.

[Papa Cigam]

I'm really starting to look forward to Thursdays!!!!

[LeftPaw]

Originally posted by donschmiddy:

i am quite angry because the reviews on steam say something somewhat different to what i have experienced... this is the first game i bought that disapoints me that much. I want my money returned to me...

What is your OS, graphics card and CPU? There could be a connection.

@ Wasteland Interactive,
Can you let us know if you find the problem and it's fixed, because I don't really want to play again until it is. This sort of crash is scary. :)

[Skadrax]

Random crash - fixed (patch should be up today).

I'm not sure if this is an old bug or a new one. On the world screen, it shows that I have about 1300 gold. But if I go into a city screen, it only shows 130 gold, and behaves as if that's all I have.

It probably shows 130.0 gold.

edit: the recent update did not change anything. The game freezes every couple of turns (yeah not astronomical loading time) for no reason. My only question, why does no soul say this in their reviews, i can not be the only one this happens to...

This bug was introduced in the latest build, and we've fixed it - it's the random crash stated above.

[Demosthien]

[Mac OS 10.9.5]

Managed to get in and setup all the options but the game then doesn't get past the loading screen. It just beachballs or hangs with no progress. I have to force quit it in order to close.

Where are the logs kept and I'll post them?

[LeftPaw]

Originally posted by wtf4photography:

[Mac OS 10.9.5]

Managed to get in and setup all the options but the game then doesn't get past the loading screen. It just beachballs or hangs with no progress. I have to force quit it in order to close.

Where are the logs kept and I'll post them?

We are having a random crash on windows that we have to force quit from. We are waiting on the hotfix.

[Haldurson]

Originally posted by verandil:

I'm not sure if this is an old bug or a new one. On the world screen, it shows that I have about 1300 gold. But if I go into a city screen, it only shows 130 gold, and behaves as if that's all I have.

It probably shows 130.0 gold.

If that's the case, it's not clear. The problem, then, is that my gold isn't increasing from turn to turn, in spite of a positive income (at the time it was about 15.5 gold per turn, unless that was supposed to be 1.55 gold per turn, which indicates a totally different problem on the legibility of the decimal points in numbers).

[Avatar]

I just got the game today, unfortunately i tried to do a multiplane map my first time through.... got a ton of 'mini' lock ups whenever it was the computers turn, everything woulld freeze completey until the AI's turn was finished....which could take several minutes by turn 50.

Then I tried just a one plane campaign and it went much smoother besides a few bugs which I'll post later.

[Ronnie]

I got the game sometime back in earlier build. The earlier builds seems to be more playable longer but since addition of heroes and more content obviosuly new bugs will spring given time this game will shape up to be a nice game. It's not really playable at this time since early Beta.

[Avatar]

Well I found one big ol' hummdinger of a whopper of a giant insect inside the code:

Heroes break the save system,

You game will save perfectly fine up until the moment you have a hero, once you have one and save, when you try to reload you will get the following error message:

Null reference exception: Object reference is is not set to an instance of an Object.

I'll give you one guess as to what I think that object is.
If you guessed hero, then your right on the money.
Being unable to use saves that include a (player) hero pretty much is gamebreaking since I bought the game yesterday specifically to be able to use said heroes.