Old World s’étoffe gratuitement

Qu’il est agréable de voir un jeu suivi dans le temps. Surtout quand il est excellent.

Old World a bénéficié la semaine dernière d’une mise à jour gratuite plutôt conséquente, ajoutant des cartes, des évènements, de nouveaux objets ainsi qu’un gros rééquilibrage incluant une amélioration de l’ia (qui est déjà au-dessus du lot). Une bonne raison pour se replonger dans ce fabuleux 4x, dont j’invite les nouveaux lecteurs à lire ma critique, ou y plonger tout court si ce n’est pas déjà fait.

Changelog rapide :

• 2 nouvelles cartes duel (Rome vs Carthage et Grèce vs Perse)
• 24 évènements
• 11 objets
• Ajustements des lois, de l’arbre technologique…
• Amélioration de l’ia, qui entre autres estime mieux le danger et ne perd plus d’énergie sur des guerres secondaires triviales.

Changelog complet :

Main Branch 1.0.74111 Patch Notes Release 2024-09-18

Headline Changes

• 24 new events and 11 new items
• Two new premade maps designed for 1v1 duels
• Tech tree and Law rebalancing
• Performance and AI improvements
• Hall of Fame improvements
• Polishing updates to the Rise of Carthage and Heroes of the Aegean campaigns

Design

• Added 19 base game events, 5 Behind the Throne events and 11 new items
• Base game events have a focus on Exploring characters and acquiring items that give unique benefits
• Behind the Throne events relate to Rising Star leaders. The Rising Star trait is no longer automatically removed on becoming leader

Base Game Events

• [CHARACTER]’s Travels
• The Streets of [CITY]
• Ransom
• [CITY] Within Reach
• A Gift
• A Gift (alt)
• A Crown from [NATION]
• Towering Stones
• Under Attack
• A Dream in the Forest
• Taking Root
• The Ground
• Stitched Together
• [CHARACTER]’s Gift
• From the Dead
• Unwavering
• Something to Remember Them By
• Another Sunrise
• The New Face of [NATION]

Behind the Throne events

• To Rule is to Disappoint
• A Waning Star
• A Towering Reputation
• [NATION] Rules [NATION], for Now
• [NATION] Rules [NATION], for Now (alt)

Tech Tree Changes

• Moved Free Akkadian Archer card to Forestry
• Moved Free Battering Ram and Exotic Fur cards to Spoked Wheel
• Free Battering Ram, Akkadian Archer and Hoplite card costs brought in line with other nations free level 1 unique unit cards (200 -> 100)
• Moved Free Scholar tech card from Forestry to Metaphysics
• Moved Architecture and Vaulting back a tier in the tech tree
• Increased the cost of all 7th tier techs to compensate for the reduction in cost of Architecture and Vaulting (1500 -> 1600)
• Architecture requires Drama instead of Portcullis
• Portcullis no longer requires Drama
• Stirrups requires Portcullis instead of Citizenship
• Martial Code now requires Citizenship
• Windlass requires Manor instead of Architecture
• Siege Tower bonus card requires Windlass
• Free Perfume card requires Architecture instead of Portcullis
• Money Boost bonus card increased from 2000 to 4000 money

Law Changes

• Slavery now gives +4 Iron and +4 Stone per city instead of increasing Mine and Quarry output. No longer gives +1 Discontent
• Freedom now gives +1 Happiness and +20% Growth in all cities instead of Money per Specialist
• Tyranny now gives +20% Training in all cities instead of a global Training boost. Money per unit in territory increased from 8 to 10
• Divine Rule now gives +1 Order per Pagan Religion in all cities instead of Happiness per Shrine
• Pilgrimage now gives +25% State Religion spread. Holy City Money per Religion boost increased from +5 to +10. No longer affects Science from Groves
• Grove improvements now always give +2 Science in addition to previous effects

New Maps

• Two new 1v1 premade maps added
• Punic wars: Rome against Carthage
• Median wars: Greece against Persia
• These are accessible using the Premade Map option on the setup screen and from the Scenario menu under World Maps

Other Design Changes

• Most map scripts in multiplayer now place all human players on the same landmass.
• Exceptions are Archipelago, Continents, Player Islands and Disjunction
• This is optional on Mediterranean and Lakes and Gulfs maps using ‘Connected Player Starts’ as this can significantly affect player starting positions
• In MP games using the Player Development setting, extra cities have to obey the connection requirements of starting locations. If they can’t the player will not get them
• Significantly increased the effect of Ruthless AI on player opinion and war declaration modifier
• Laurion Mines now enable a Miner specialist on the tile
• Undo is no longer available in cloud games using the Strict (Teams) turn style. This does not affect cloud games using Strict (Players) which still have undo.
• Slums and Estates are now permanent and cannot be built over or pillaged (Behind the Throne)

Programming

• Performance improvements relating to unit movement and reminders
• Tribal unit movement AI is now somewhat more sophisticated
• AI no longer declares war on tribes to expand when it’s already actively fighting other players
• AI is now more likely to build farms around the Jerwan Aqueduct and less likely to build the Cothon in small seas
• Improved player start selection on premade maps that do not dictate specific starting locations
• Added randomization of player start selection on premade maps
• Achievement code cleanup
• Add virtual function for sorting of city site candidates, better for mods
• Improved AI unit danger estimate
• AI now helps their allies count down the capture timer for cities

UI

• Added sorting and filtering dropdowns and a regenerate button to Hall of Fame
• Hall of Fame now has a SP/MP (Singleplayer / Multiplayer) column and this is shown on the game tooltip
• Hall of Fame now shows icons instead of text for Load and Delete
• Added audio option for continuing audio track when switching fullscreen tabs
• Added obsoleting information to unit encyclopedia entries
• Added Religion Opinion tracking to stats screen
• Goals/Ambitions with time limits now show limit in bonus text
• Removed some details of unlocked missions from tech tooltips
• Tiles are now highlighted when hovering over event options that affect specific tiles
• In Rise of Carthage scenario 4 the anchor command will now show an explanatory tooltip if ships can’t anchor due to scenario rules
• Added notification for units that you kill during your turn
• City borders now pulse when hovering over the city center
• Pin Character mission removed. Pinning is now performed with a new star icon found under character actions
• Leader icon changed to a crown and non-succession royals to an asterisk to differentiate them from the pin icon
• Notable characters filter now only shows manually pinned characters and is ordered by turn pinned
• Harvested resource tooltip now shows regrow chance as a percentage instead of a die roll
• Family tree toggles now remember their previous state
• Yields are now shown for all agent network cities regardless of agent status when sorting by base yields
• Added support for a more complete set of stats in No Characters mode
• Refactored ignore reminders code. Now supports ignoring reminder types separately for characters with multiple roles
• Smaller tech status icons to reduce overlap on mini tech tree
• All laws and theologies now show yield previews where relevant
• Moved the generic improvement pings to the top of the dropdown list
• Ambitions and goals with multiple requirements now show progress for each requirement on separate lines
• Added yield name and sign in some bonus helptext
• Improved text selection in ping and bug reporting popups
• Heroes of the Aegean scenario 6 now highlights goal cities on the map
• Updated Credits

Bugs Fixed

• Rise of Carthage and Heroes of the Aegean campaign polishing pass, many bugs fixed
• Fixed damaged unit healthbar not always showing
• Fixed resources staying faded when a unit exits a tile
• Fixed fatigue increasing effects (Swift, Zealot leader) not always affecting hired tribal units
• Fixed raiding units not raiding after making peace with their original tribe
• Fixed pinned characters getting removed on leaders death
• Fixed tribe widgets being occluded by terrain in some cases
• Fixed the effect of multiple holy cities in the same city not stacking
• Fixed abdication sometimes leaving permanently exploring leaders
• Fixed mirror maps sometimes not having symmetric vegetation on resource tiles
• Fixed events not popping up on start of turn in hotseat
• Fixed clicks on locked tooltip links not registering actions (e.g. selecting a character)
• Fixed hover effect not showing on tech cards
• Fixed nation/tribe opinion not updating immediately after diplomacy changes
• Fixed city camera state not resetting at start of turn when selecting a city between turns
• Fixed Royal characters sometimes not appearing in family tree
• Fixed Assyrian capital combat preview being blocked by buildings on adjacent tile
• Fixed invalid index exception from rebels spawning from a city without a family
• Fixed raiders disappearing while inside city territory or adjacent to Kemet/Aten units in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 3
• Fixed Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 4 not completing when playing in Hotseat against the AI
• Fixed errors with portrait interpolation enabled when portraits are not setup for it
• Fixed portraits of characters without a tribe or nation
• Fixed AI hang
• Fixed inheritance preview showing wrong character when there will be no heir
• Fixed AI danger calculation for units that need to be unlimbered
• Fixed AI unit protection bug
• Fixed grammar on Unit Killed notification
• Fixed nested link issue in unit type link with promotions
• Fixed assert from using waypoints to move units
• Fixed critical hit icon sometimes briefly appearing before a unit goes on cooldown
• Fixed undo crash
• Fixed AI building ships where it should not be building any i.e. in small seas
• Fixed Inheritance screen not updating
• Fixed some reminders starting dismissed
• Fixed “No Team Movement” game option
• Fixed autonomous rule cities not repairing
• Fixed units not fully resetting their animation queue when an undo or redo occurs
• Fixed loading of lost games from the Hall of Fame
• Fixed bug preventing the hire of allied tribal units when in a player city
• Fixed loss of existing border expansion preview after selecting an event option
• Fixed credits popup null reference on application close
• Fixed dynastic mechanics of Ptolemy, Ashur-Uballit, Khufu and Mursili in No Events mode (Wonders and Dynasties)
• Text and Event fixes