Old World News

[h3]Old World test branch update 1.0.81964 Test 2026-02-24[/h3][p][/p][p]To switch to the test branch, right click Old World in Steam and select Properties, open the Game Versions & Betas tab and select 'test' in the version list.[/p][p][/p][h3]Known Issues[/h3]

• [p]Portrait Age Interpolation is not working and has been disabled regardless of the player setting[/p]
• [p]Improvement building animations missing texture[/p]
• [p]Volcano display issues[/p]

[h3]Design[/h3]

• [p]Negative opinion for civilian unit loss now applies only to Workers and Disciples, changed to -40 opinion for 20 turns[/p]

[h3]Programming[/h3]

• [p]Better AI legitimacy evaluation[/p]
• [p]Added support for bonus cards to use bonus names in tooltips (affects mods only)[/p]

[h3]UI[/h3]

• [p]Added hotkey for suppressing tooltips (hold Ctrl + X)[/p]
• [p]Added Unimproved Resources overlay to Overlay Customizer[/p]
• [p]Improvements to Luxury Management display, especially when no luxuries available[/p]
• [p]End Turn button now always active, clicking it will cycle to decisions preventing turn from ending[/p]
• [p]Free improvement bonuses now show as normal event popups first[/p]
• [p]Place improvement overlay not shown while bonus event is active[/p]
• [p]When placing free improvements, ctrl+click is required to replace existing improvements[/p]
• [p]Games with custom victories are skipped for unloaded scenario mods in Hall of Fame[/p]

[h3]Bugs Fixed[/h3]

• [p]Fixed unit promotion icon rendering behind unit banners[/p]
• [p]Fixed tile production icons drawing behind city widgets and transparent elements[/p]
• [p]Fixed unit icons drawing partially behind city widgets sometimes[/p]
• [p]Fixed scenario selection getting cleared when moving to MP setup screen[/p]
• [p]Fixed missing theology info on tech tooltips[/p]
• [p]Fixed bonus yield text bug[/p]
• [p]Fixed Unit Seen notification not firing if unit becomes visible mid-move[/p]
• [p]Fixed Default Governor bugs[/p]
• [p]Fixed Peaks adjacency requirement being ignored by Clerics on Sand tiles[/p]
• [p]Fixed encyclopedia display issue[/p]
• [p]Fixed Research UI not showing after renaming landmark[/p]
• [p]Fixed the Low graphics preset using the minimum rendering quality[/p]
• [p]Fixed dirt particle effects causing pink cubes to appear in the center of the map[/p]
• [p]Fixed MP games one human team getting stuck after victory[/p]
• [p]Fixed Ask to Declare War mission helptext[/p]
• [p]Fixed tile tooltip to show improvement defensive modifier in neutral territory[/p]

[h3]Old World test branch update 1.0.81799 Test 2026-01-28[/h3][p][/p][p]Most known issues from last week's Unity/URP upgrade are now resolved and work continues to fix the remaining problems.  We would appreciate everyone's help in checking for any configuration specific issues. Please do give the test branch a try and report any problems you find.[/p][p][/p][p]To switch to the test branch, right click Old World in Steam and select Properties, open the Game Versions & Betas tab and select 'test' in the version list.[/p][p][/p][h3]Known Issues[/h3]

• [p]Portrait Age Interpolation is not working and has been disabled regardless of the player setting[/p]
• [p]Timeline screen does not always render fog of war correctly[/p]
• [p]Volcano display issues[/p]
• [p]Improvement recommendation and unit icons can be hidden behind city widgets[/p]

[h3]Design[/h3]

• [p]When randomly assigning archetypes, characters with governor effect traits are much more likely to be assigned a governor archetype, and similarly general archetypes for characters with general traits[/p]
• [p]Killing Raiders now contributes towards goals to kill units of their original tribe[/p]
• [p]Raiders are less stubborn about raiding, if the shortest path is blocked, and will hit opportunity targets instead[/p]
• [p]Doubled Master/Elder Scribe money per Citizen, to +2/+4[/p]
• [p]Anchoring and Unlimbering states are not interrupted by attacks that apply new cooldowns (i.e. Immobilize, Stun)[/p]
• [p]Killed civilian units now count for Assyrian orders, Hero Leader Training, Epics Culture, etc[/p]
• [p]Units can pass through hostile civilian units, as long as they don't end their movement on their tile[/p]
• [p]Families and Religions get upset when their civilian units get killed and suffer -20 opinion for 40 turns per unit killed[/p]
• [p]Programming[/p]
• [p]Added Latin supplemental characters U+100 to U+17F to Avalon, Trajan and Judson assets, to assist Polish translation mods[/p]

[h3]UI[/h3]

• [p]End Turn button now always eligible to be clicked with 0 orders, will cycle to required items when clicked[/p]
• [p]Added Reset option when editing hotkeys[/p]

[h3]Bugs Fixed[/h3]

• [p]Fixed map generation sometimes placing trees under water[/p]
• [p]Fixed some popup scaling aspect ratio issues[/p]
• [p]Fixed incorrect material on cataphract archer combat portrait[/p]
• [p]Fixed blur vignette rendering incorrectly in Pharaohs of the Nile scenarios[/p]
• [p]Fixed changing graphics preset in game causing a crash[/p]
• [p]Fixed Assyria urban tiles displaying incorrectly[/p]
• [p]Fixed rivers drawing over and display of city widget idle production icon[/p]
• [p]Fixed barbarian widget being partially occluded by unit models[/p]
• [p]Fixed exception during loading of incompatible asset bundles[/p]
• [p]Fixed Coastal Rain Basin boundary mountain range[/p]
• [p]Fixed Hardwood Forest player start position issues[/p]
• [p]Fixed missing clutter materials on Honey groves[/p]
• [p]Fixed opinion graph hover exception[/p]
• [p]Fixed hotkey assignments sometimes incorrectly being labeled as conflicts[/p]
• [p]Fixed inaccurate opinion sometimes showing in city governor tooltip for Grand Viziers[/p]
• [p]Fixed timeline FOW rendering incorrectly[/p]
• [p]Fixed some Chinese text localization issues[/p]
• [p]Fixed Drought and Earthquake display issues (Wrath of Gods)[/p]

[h3]Old World test branch update 1.0.81703 Test 2026-01-22[/h3][p][/p][p]This update contains a major systems upgrade. The engine has been upgraded to Unity 6.3 and the graphics rendering code reworked.[/p][p]Bugs are expected, please refer to the Known Issues list below and report any other issues you encounter via the in game bug report system.[/p][p][/p][h3]Known Issues[/h3][p][/p]

• [p]Portrait Age Interpolation is not working and has been disabled regardless of the player setting[/p]
• [p]Changing graphics settings whilst in game can cause a Unity crash to desktop[/p]
• [p]Egypt scenarios do not render correctly[/p]
• [p]Assyrian Urban tiles can cause errors on display and do not render correctly[/p]
• [p]Timeline screen does not always render fog of war correctly[/p]
• [p]Cataphract Archer texture is missing in combat previews[/p]
• [p]Volcano display issues[/p]
• [p]Improvement recommendation icons can be hidden behind city widgets[/p][p][/p]

[h3]Design[/h3][p][/p]

• [p]Adjustments to Family Archetype character tendencies:[/p]
• [p]Champions have more Zealots and less Heroes[/p]
• [p]Riders have more Heroes and less Zealots[/p]
• [p]Improvements to Carthage campaign persistency[/p]

[p][/p][h3]Programming[/h3][h3][/h3]

• [p]Unity updated from 2022.3 to 6.3[/p]
• [p]Graphics code converted to Unity's Universal Rendering Pipeline[/p]
• [p]The URP upgrade improves graphics performance, letting the game render with fewer draw calls and use fewer shader variants[/p]

[p][/p][h3]UI[/h3][p][/p]

• [p]Restart Game button renamed Reroll Game. This keeps the same map and preserves nation/dynasty of random AI opponents but now rerolls the random seed[/p]
• [p]New Map button renamed to Reroll Map. This button is not shown for games on predefined maps[/p]
• [p]Valid Improvements, Rural, and Urban worker filters show improvements valid anywhere in the city rather than just for current tile[/p]
• [p]Character XP is now shown when they have upgraded at least once but progress to next level is 0[/p]

[p][/p][h3]Bugs Fixed[/h3][p][/p]

• [p]Fixed character peak legitimacy including previous leader's ending legitimacy. "Legitimacy" in the HoF tooltip now "Final Legitimacy"[/p]
• [p]Fixed Bulwark Cuirass UI issue[/p]
• [p]Fixed Unyielding Banner reassigning general to non-player units[/p]
• [p]Fixed scores not updating after effectPlayers change[/p]
• [p]Fixed event decisions not getting restored after clearing selection[/p]
• [p]Fixed tutorial videos not showing in the encyclopedia on Linux[/p]
• [p]Fixed Wrath of Gods scenario warnings[/p]

[h3]Old World test branch update 1.0.81509 Test 2026-01-14[/h3][p][/p][h3]Design[/h3][p][/p]

• [p]Added new national ambition - Control three of each Legendary Improvement[/p]
• [p]Changed Control Six Legendary Cities national ambition to Control Five Legendary Cities[/p]
• [p]Send 20 luxuries is now a tier 9 ambition instead of a national ambition[/p]
• [p]Disciples can now clear vegetation[/p]
• [p]Cannot build an improvement that removes vegetation if the unit cannot clear the vegetation[/p]
• [p]Traders no longer get a court merchant when founding their seat [/p]
• [p]Prevented building improvements on Marsh, except for Farms with Centralization[/p]
• [p]All fresh water sources supply fresh water to their own tile in addition to adjacent tiles[/p]
• [p]Remove Free Silk and Free Ebony bonus tech cards[/p]
• [p]Moved Free Porcelain bonus card to be unlocked by Coinage and reduced tech cost accordingly[/p]
• [p]Free Porcelain and Free Perfume bonus cards now give 2 instances of their luxuries[/p]
• [p]Autonomous Rule project is removed when a city is breached[/p]
• [p]Characters cannot give birth more than once a year (relevant for non-yearly turn scales)[/p]
• [p]Free laws that replace an existing law do not increment the law change count[/p]
• [p]Raiders can capture empty cities and city sites[/p]
• [p]Carthage scenario 2 now automatically uses the families that were founded in the first scenario and carries over goal memories[/p]
• [p]Increased maximum effect of god opinion on religion opinion in Wrath of Gods scenario (200 -> 500)[/p]
• [p]Reduced Tribal raid range in Wrath of Gods scenario[/p]
• [p]Disabled Venerate mission for and demands being given by Abandoned god in Wrath of Gods scenario [/p][p][/p]

[h3]Programming
[/h3]

• [p]Many UI optimizations[/p]
• [p]Memory leak fixes[/p]
• [p]Improvements to Safe Mode[/p]
• [p]AI border expansion tweaks[/p]
• [p]AI law value correction to avoid frequent changes[/p][p][/p]

[h3]UI[/h3][p][/p]

• [p]Added Peak Legitimacy and Peak Legitimacy per Leader to Hall of Fame (requires regenerating HOF for existing games, won't display on very old saves)[/p]
• [p]Added on-map icon to units that have been disarmed[/p]
• [p]Added hotkey for extending turn time (Alt-E)[/p]
• [p]Updated ZOC help text[/p]
• [p]Enabled gold cost to buy yields for recommended improvements tooltip[/p]
• [p]Added color-coding for Send/Return text in Luxury Management[/p]
• [p]Improved consistency of city build production cost tooltips[/p]
• [p]Trait opinion of leader now shown in trait tooltip even without advanced help text[/p]
• [p]Pagan religions are shown in the Adopt State Religion menu even without Divine Rule, with explanatory text[/p]
• [p]Yields from disciples on improvements are shown when disciples are selected[/p]
• [p]Anchor mission help text includes water control range[/p]
• [p]Condensed enlist ability help text[/p]
• [p]Greyed out effect for dead character portraits applied more consistently[/p]
• [p]Improved Settler Found City tooltip[/p]
• [p]Cities with zero yield are included in the nation yield breakdown[/p]
• [p]When a non-server network game has disconnected human players and the turn timer is counting down, a warning is displayed next to the turn time [/p]
• [p]Improvements to Citrus resource and Grove models[/p]
• [p]Improvements to Ruins model
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[h3]Bugs Fixed[/h3][p][/p]

• [p]Fixed Valid Improvements worker filter [/p]
• [p]Fixed stun, immobilize, and panic effects sometimes being applied to units inside cities[/p]
• [p]Fixed events that kill units not incrementing stats and goal counters[/p]
• [p]Fixed temporarily hidden unit pathfinding[/p]
• [p]Fixed some AI unit movement cases where it would trip over itself when there were units in the way[/p]
• [p]Fixed some minor AI combat issues[/p]
• [p]Fixed audio bug that occurred when only one music track was enabled[/p]
• [p]Fixed some unit panel icon issues[/p]
• [p]Fixed some tribal events incorrectly remaining after tribal elimination[/p]
• [p]Fixed Caravan mission button saying that there are no players when out of orders[/p]
• [p]Fixed some cases where city effects were not displayed[/p]
• [p]Fixed boundary tiles in Caucasus on the Old World map[/p]
• [p]Fixed character opinion load/save bugs[/p]
• [p]Fixed family seat icon data bug[/p]
• [p]Fixed State Religion reminder not opening submenu[/p]
• [p]Fixed build specialist tile highlights not showing with border expansion[/p]
• [p]Fixed Foreign Marriage mission in No Events mode[/p]
• [p]Fixed temporarily hidden units sometimes still being rendered for other players[/p]
• [p]Fixed village upgrade turns and improvement help text with Lighthouse[/p]
• [p]Fixed Occurrence effects not being removed when ended by an event/bonus (Wrath of Gods)[/p]
• [p]Fixed Veneration jealousy penalty being applied to both religion and god in Wrath of Gods scenario [/p]
• [p]Fixed tech helptext not listing non religion-based project unlocks in Wrath of Gods scenario[/p]
• [p]Fixed Carthage scenario 3 load/save bug[/p]
• [p]Fixed ModManager panel trying to update when not active[/p]
• [p]Text and event fixes[/p]

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