Patch notes

These are the patch notes for the HD version and changes as we transitioned to DE. When the DE version is completely coded we will restart the patch notes.

Patch 1.1

• Afghans

  • Battle elephants are no longer unintentionally available in the feudal age

• Bantu

  • Elite Assegai spearman attack bonus vs cavalry decreased from 16 to 12

• Khazars

  • Composite bow UT effect reduced from +4 to +3 attack

• Iroquois

  • War chiefs UT effect halved, now allows eagle warriors to regenerate at half the berserk base rate

• Thai

  • Thai battle elephants create slower, from 30% to 25% faster

• Mississippians

  • Militia line upgrades are now 50% cheaper

• Georgians

  • Monks now only get +1 range in the imperial age

Patch 1.2

• Mississippians

  • Champion removed

  • Blast furnace added

  • Militia line upgrades discount increased from 50% cheaper to free

  • Can now create villagers from castles/fortresses without requiring a unique tech

  • Previous castle age UT replaced with Thunderbirds: (400f/200g, eagle and falcon warriors move 10% faster)

  • Falcon warrior base speed reduced from 1.1 to 1

  • Eagle warriors no longer get +3 attack vs archers

• Caribs

  • Archery ranges have the appropriate amount of hp

• Chola

  • Bombard elephants minimum range increased from 0 to 3, projectile speed reduced from 4 to 3

• Manchu

  • Catapult cost increased from 140w/110g to 150w/150g

  • Arbalest added

• Khazars

  • Arsiyah attack bonus vs cavalry reduced by 1 for both normal and elite

• Dutch

  • Guilders UT effect reduced from 33% to 25%

Patch 1.3

• Dutch

  • Guilders also affects Musketeers

  • Guilders UT ingame text clarified to include Bombard towers and Musketeers

  • Musketeer cost increased from 50f + 60g to 60f + 75g

• Khazars

  • Ballista tower are no longer unintentionally available in the feudal age

  • Onager removed

  • Bombard cannons and scorpions no longer benefit from reduced minimum range

  • Nomadic horsemen UT effect reduced by 1

• Thai

  • Champion removed

  • Hoardings removed

  • Krabi warrior cost changed from 40f/50g to 60f/30g

Patch 1.4

• Afghans

  • Barracks/Stable/Range units no longer have +1 los in Feudal age

  • Insurgents now gives +40 attack vs siege

  • Hussar added

• Bantu

  • No longer have town centres that cost less stone, instead start with +100 stone

• Chola

  • Infantry no longer have +1 armour from feudal age, instead start with +150 wood

  • Plate barding armour added

  • Team bonus incorrectly stated that doubly rams/siege towers would not move faster than those units for non-mongols civs. They do, its hilariously broken, cant be fixed, and has to go.

  • Free guilds is the new team bonus

  • Bloodlines affects Bombard elephants

  • Battle elephants now gain +0.5 blast radius instead of +0.2, which is incorporated into the Pyromaniacs UT

  • New civ bonus: blacksmith technologies are automatically researched for free an age after they are available

• Helvetians

  • No longer have 20% faster working monasteries as a team bonus, instead spearmen have +6 spearman armour

  • Now have 35% cheaper monasteries

• Iroquois

  • Eagles are no longer attacked by wolves (Is this still an issue?)

  • Lumberjacks no longer carry extra wood

  • Team bonus changed to: repairers work twice as fast

• Kanembu

  • No longer have 35% cheaper monasteries

• Manchu

  • Archery range units no longer have +1 pierce armour from feudal age

• Mississippians

  • Fortress removed

  • Villagers now can be created from towers in castle age in double the usual time

• Polynesians

  • Maori warriors have +1 armour (+2 for elite)

  • Town centre’s no longer benefit from blacksmith range upgrades

  • Imp UT changed from Ka'aila Kino: Infantry +2 armour" to "Pã: Town centres have +3 attack

• Thai

  • Require the appropriate buildings to advance ages (Is this still an issue?)

  • Ngao effect changed from Elephants have +6 attack vs archers to Elephants have +9/6/6 attack vs cavalry/camels/elephants and move to Imp

  • Meritocracy effect changed from Cavalry attacks 15% faster to Infantry have +4 attack vs eagles and moved to Castle

Patch 1.5

• Afghans

  • Archer armour upgrades are now also merged with infantry armour upgrades

  • Technologies now research a flat 20% faster

• Bantu

  • Skirmishers now fire 25% faster

• Dutch

  • Team bonus changed to: Trade units move 20% faster

  • Guilders name, effect and cost changed to: Bastion - Bombard towers fire 20% faster, 600f + 400g

  • Musketeer rof reduced from 3.5 to 3

  • Musketeer cost decreased from 60f + 75g to 50f + 60g

• Georgians

  • Masonry and Architecture are no longer free

  • Castle age costs 25% less

  • Stables are now 35% cheaper

  • Monks no longer have +1 range in imperial age

  • Devotion effect changed from monks +5 monk armour to monks +1 range

  • Team bonus changed to: monks +2 monk armour

  • Royal Guards effect increased to +1 range

• Helvetians

  • Schlachtfeldmediziner moved to the castle age, cost changed to 200 food + 300 gold

  • Previous Imperial age UT replaced with: Reislaufer - Allies can train up to 10 Elite Swiss Pikemen at the barracks, 650 food + 400 gold

  • Ring archer armour added

• Kanembu

  • Team bonus changed to: Trash units now create 20% faster

  • Receive +1/2/3 free villagers per age

  • Stables are no longer 35% cheaper

  • Foragers no longer have +10 carry capacity

  • Mafarauci now take up a full pop space

  • Elite skirmisher is free

  • No longer have access to Theocracy in the castle age

  • Previous castle age UT replaced with: Cima - Mafarauci move and fire 10% faster, 200 food + 200 gold

  • Can now create stables and scouts in the dark age

  • Champion removed

  • Halberdier added

  • Plate barding armour removed

  • Plate mail armour added

  • Arbalest added

  • Hussar added

  • Siege onager removed

  • Siege engineers removed

  • Siege ram added

• Khazars

  • Towers no longer shoot 15% faster

  • Masonry and Architecture are free

  • Bombard tower removed

• Manchu

  • Cavalry archers can no longer be created from the stable

  • Economic upgrades are available an age earlier

  • Non-elite Catapults +1 range

  • Previous imperial age UT replaced with Fire Medicine - Fortifications do blast damage, 600 gold + 1000 food

  • Hand cannoneer added

  • Bombard tower added

  • Masonry removed

  • Hoardings removed

• Mississippians

  • Militia line upgrades are no longer free

  • Towers shoot 15% faster

• Nepalese

  • Can now also build universities in feudal age

  • Miners no longer have +10 carry capacity

• Nubians

  • Team bonus changed to: Lancer available at the stable in the castle age

  • Caravan is free

• Thai

  • Previous castle age UT replaced with: Conviction - All units have gain a small amount of resistance to conversion, 200 food + 200 gold

Patch 1.6

• 11 new civs added!

  • Araucans

  • Bengalis

  • Javanese

  • Kongolese

  • Somalis

  • Songhai

  • Toltecs

  • Uyghurs

  • Vandals

  • Vlachs

  • Waris

• Afghans

  • Trebuchets now create 30% faster

  • Insurgents cost and effect changed to: Trebuchets can be created from siege workshops, 600 wood + 400 gold

  • Team bonus change so that outposts no longer have +2 LOS

• Bantu

  • Guilds removed

  • Spearmen no longer have -10 hp in dark age

• Caribs

  • Guilds removed

  • Architecture added

  • Fortified walls added

• Chola

  • Stone shaft mining removed

  • No longer start with +150 wood

  • Can now build plantations in the feudal age

• Dutch

  • Demolition ships no longer have +2 LOS

  • Can now build bakeries in the feudal age

  • Stone shaft mining removed

  • Bastion effect changed to Gunpowder units are 50% more accurate

• Georgians

  • Monaspa

    • Speed increased from 1.35 to 1.45

    • Gains +10 attack vs gunpowder units

    • Armour decreased from 2/2 to 1(2)/2

    • Cost changed from 60 food + 60 gold to 90 food + 30 gold

    • Elite upgrade cost decreased from 1000 food + 500 gold to 600 food + 500 gold

    • +4 attack vs rams now requires the elite upgrade

    • Elite Monaspa hp decreased from 120 to 100

    • Rate of fire increased from 2 to 1.8

  • Royal Guards now gives Monaspa +50 hp

  • The discount for monk cost is no longer increased to 25% in Imperial age

  • Camels removed

• Helvetians

  • CA UT effect changed to: Spearmen now have +6 spearmen armour

  • Can now create cows from the mill

  • Stone mining is no longer free

  • Team bonus changed to Monks +2 LOS

• Iroquois

  • Blast furnace can be researched in the castle age

  • Guilds removed

• Kanembu

  • No longer have access to stables/scouts in the dark age

  • Military units cost -10/15/20/25% food per age

  • Lose Bloodlines

  • Lose Hussar

• Khazars

  • Cavalry archers no longer create 20% faster

  • Stable technologies doesn’t cost gold

  • Now have access to Steppe Lancers

• Manchu

  • Now have access to Steppe Lancers

  • Thumb ring is no longer free

  • Scorpions now have no minimum range

  • Gunpowder units now move 20% faster

• Mississippians

  • Villagers can no longer gather from fish traps

  • Fish traps work 30% faster, up from 15%

  • Eagle warriors now move 10% faster

  • Castle age UT changed to: Thunderbirds - Infantry +8 infantry armour, 300 gold + 600 food

  • Imperial age UT changed to: Platform mounds - Tower stone cost replaced by wood, 400 stone + 200 food

  • Guard tower and keep removed

  • Masonry and architecture removed

  • Arrowslits removed

  • Falcon warriors movement speed increased from 1 to 1.1

• Nepalese

  • Yak riders rate of fire increased from 2 to 1.8

• Polynesians

  • Maori Warrior

    • HP increased from 45(55) to 60(80)

    • Armour decreased from 1(2)/2(4) to 0/2(4)

    • Attack bonus vs standard buildings removed

  • Economic buildings no longer construct 30% faster

  • The resources returned upon villager death civ bonus is increased to 50%, and applied to all economic units

  • Fish now last 50% longer

• Thai

  • Receive an additional +50 stone per age for a total of 100 stone and 100 wood per age

Patch 1.7

• Afghans

  • Technologies no longer research faster

  • All units now have +5 hp

• Nepalese

  • Archer armour upgrades are no longer free

• Songhai

  • Lots of changes, redo completely