Insane amount of changes, thank you!

What is your favorite aspect about the new update and DLC? There's a new penguin unit in the DLC. Also the new ruler type with the blobby form was pretty interesting to see.

the multiplayer AI take over is huge, tysm!!

“Summon Summoning Rift” sounds terrible. How about “Open Summoning Rift”? Love these updates though!

I am so happy with that Ruler filter, I made over a hundred already and can use a way to filter them. It's a long list to go through.

Great!

celestial looking ahh

So, correct me if I am wrong, but resonance field was not fixed and still not granting any casting points?

Some really good changes!
Great idea to rework the low tier units so they won't be just cannon fodder. And excellent that you reworked the targeting of insanity, animation speed setting, even AI not splitting armies and Unknown realms - personally I was hoping for these.

Great you are adding complexity and variations inside cultures, differentiating playstyles and synergies!

A FEW SUGGESTIONS IF I MAY
Resurrecting a dead unit in a battle - I wish the Combat Overview was taking you to the battlefield location of the dead unit after clicking on their "skull image". This way we could find faster who we want to resurrect on the battle map.

I just played a game where I had a pact to use Teleports with another empire. They declared war on me and kept using my teleports showing up very next to my cities. Why a declaration of war didn’t annul all the pacts with this empire?

The Character equipment selection window: I wish the equipment menu had some tabs to organize it as bows, one handed etc and tiers for instance. Currently it is a mess! Besides, sometimes there's something off when trying to disenchant items: I click "Disenchant" and the essence values don’t show up next to each item. They only come up when selecting an item but don’t switch to showing the essence value of all my items.

Please add more features to the hero creation. There's no options for mustache, only one short hair haircut, and clothes reflecting variety of cultures are lacking too.

I wish there was a setting to turn off this annoying fog over the desert realms.

I wish when given an option to recruit units post-battle, their upkeep cost was also shown in the Keep/Dismiss window when moving cursor over the unit's picture.

Infestations - I guess they are there just to bully the player. Some travel through vassals and vast territories just to pillage and bully the player. Sometimes I wish they were attacking who's the nearest to them. But I guess they're player focused, even if you're far.

The Magic Victory on the Very Large map size is too hard to achieve. I'd say almost impossible.

The AI is still bad in many circumstances - for instance constantly using kamikaze tactics when their one army attacks the stack of yours on their way. And I came back to AoW4 after a longer break and it seems like now diplomacy is too expansive to maintain early on. Then it is too late to fix many bad relationships and enmities.

Thanks for improving this game.

Wow! You actually listen to the community. Kudos to you, dear Devs.

Probably the most community-listening devs. Huge respect.
All changes are great. Still hoping for DLSS / FSR tho)

Originally posted by aclyte:

Probably the most community-listening devs. Huge respect.
All changes are great. Still hoping for DLSS / FSR tho)

DLSS will hot help you because bad performance comes from CPU. And I saw nothing about improving it in patch notes.
Seriously Ryzen 5 3600X not been able to generate 60 fps on any combat map with just 36 units is ridiculous.

School of summoning, but no new summons? Even the ancient Master of Magic game had more.

That's a lot of work. Rally of lieges nerfed too much though imo.

Originally posted by bayleerules:

“Summon Summoning Rift” sounds terrible. How about “Open Summoning Rift”? Love these updates though!

Not bad, but how about "Summon Summoning Summonrift"? The poetry of magic!

I loved every single one of these, super excited for the update!