Patch 1.1.2 notes (June 28)

— Added diplomatic interactions with other Masters.
— Added alchemy (turning gold to gems and vice versa).
— Changed and improved unit information screen.
— Added new achievements.
— Fixed and improved Phoenix unit model.

Fixed:

— Untimely recalculation of troops’ mobility after constructing the buildings that increase it and using ‘Fair Wind’ ritual.
— AI spending money and advancing ineffectively.
— AI building three shipyards in one province.
— AI not hiring an army while exploring a province with a garrison for a long time.
— AI not building outpost while having access to fort.
— Spell efficiency algorithm for AI. Heroes used to learn not the most powerful spells which resulted in development lag of Wizard and Commander.
— AI heroes not always learning new skills on level up.
— Acquiring too much experience during sight exploration with a hero meeting Spirit of Knowledge.
— Ritual not being displayed with fog of war on and being displayed with it off.
— Lack of increase in the price for missing resources during items purchase.
— Bonuses for units with knowledge of dead lands and desert not working.
— Game crash caused by quest checking after finished battle and dialog display for heroes under AI control.
— Game freeze during turn ending caused by AI hero’s item equipment.
— Rare game crash caused by map generation and exiting the game.
— Incorrect award display for victory on the Arena.
— Rare game crash on exiting city screen caused by hero’s unprocessed dialogs from previous shard.
— Too strong province guards on early campaign stages.
— Bug causing heroes to be stuck in a province due to AI player using a ritual that triggers an event.
— Injury animation for Executioner unit.
— Blinking of ‘Cancel’ and ‘Change’ buttons in the city screen.
— ‘Attack Shard’ window’s tooltip covering functional buttons.
— Game’s icon disappearing from Alt-Tab menu in Windows Vista, 7 and 8.
— Improved creation and removal mechanism of the render’s context.
— Possible game crash with the ‘Incomplete draw buffer’ error.
— Possible game crash caused by changing graphic settings.
— Possible game crash caused by launching the game on several Intel video cards.
— Disconnect in multiplayer caused by a match being inactive for a long time.
— Commander that uses some of Scout’s skills can now shoot with crossbow.
— Synchronized attack and animation for Centaur, Ballista and Catapult units.
— Removal of one fragment of the castle’s wall during its assault.
— Interface elements for provinces that aren’t bordered with player’s not being displayed with Fog of War off.
— Game freeze caused by pressing Escape button in the city screen.
— Bonuses for mixed skill sets of Commander not working properly in some cases.
— Reduced sound volume prior to and after a battle.

— Added German localization.
— Improved font texture for German and Polish versions of the game.
— Different icons for achievements (in-game only for now, will be available for Steam soon).
— Added additional check of the files integrity for the autoupdate system.
— Removed scrollbar from dialog windows. They are now scaled depending on the amount of text.
— Extended header in the statistics screen on the strategic map.
— Added ‘Lowest’ graphics preset in the settings.
— Added extended tooltips for spells on the city screen.

Fixed:

— Province’s resource not appearing based on the event results.
— AI heroes not getting experience from visiting arena.
— Inactive ‘Start battle’ button when entering arena’s tribune.
— Hero’s karma change when he’s watching fights from arena’s tribune.
— Dialog window covering units hire window on some events.
— Dialog window appearing above the window for choosing a guard during an event where player’s province with more than one guard is attacked.
— A bug causing hero’s negative mobility.
— Possible game crash during loading caused by ATI video cards.
— Possible game crash when saving profile.
— Game crash caused by switching from ‘Minimum’ to ‘Maximum’ graphics preset.
— Empty necromancy window appearance when the battle is finished.
— Generation of impassable tactical map.
— AI bug that prevented it from hiring the best guard available.
— AI bug that prevented it from hiring any guards at all.
— AI’s algorithm for battle result prediction.
— Simultaneous shooting of AI’s archers on the fastest battle speed.
— Resources becoming available after clearing any sight in a province instead of a certain one.
— Letters cutting in the strategic map’s statistics screen.
— Quests could be considered as complete when clearing sights in a non-quest province.
— Player’s heroes inability to leave a neutral province because of AI’s heroes (AI considered these provinces as passable).
— Incorrect display of change in gem / gold revenue caused by events.
— A bug that caused AI’s dead heroes to level up thus not letting it to resurrect them.

— Added Polish localization.
— Optimization of AI’s turn calculation.
— Added item sets.
— Coefficient for transfer of karma and relations with other Masters is increased.
— Added intro video for Russian and English versions of the game (Steam only temporally).
— AI logic for hiring and removal of units has been reworked.
— AI logic for buildings construction priority has been improved.

Fixed:

— Game freeze caused by using the ‘Astral Gates’ ritual.
— Game freeze caused by ordering a unit to shoot while his previous animation was still playing.
— Game crash caused by bandits attack during province exploring.
— Game freeze caused by an attempt to capture an already lost province with an allied race.
— Game crash caused by an attempt to see detailed information about a unit.
— Incorrect HP number for the barbarian units after their recruitment.
— Inability to obtain astral bonuses while defending your own shard.
— Bug with the access to the buildings that were acquired during attack on the other Master’s shard.

Improvements:
— Turn resolution code has been optimized, resulting in speed improvement during AI turns.
— Better support for scaling interface windows.
— Provinces under AI control will now trigger random events just like the player’s provinces do.
— Maximum zoom level on strategic map has been increased a little; the camera can be brought even closer to the ground level now.
— AI construction decisions have been improved.

Fixes:
— Fixed an error with the body of a slain hero taking too long to be delivered to stronghold.
— Fixed an error with AI heroes’ level computation, resulting in AI heroes gaining levels too fast.
— Fixed an error causing the AI to engage into battles with hopeless odds of victory.
— Fixed an error causing the AI to ignore the construction limits, such as constructing 5 first tier military buildings instead of 4.
— Fixed an error causing the AI to overspend on mercenaries.
— Fixed an error in construction window, when clicking to select the Great Temples set of buildings caused selection of the Matter Transmutation set instead.
— Fixed an error with unlocking the “Viva la Revolucion!” achievement.
— Fixed an error where the unit selected in the garrison window sometimes could not be deselected and dropped from cursor, resulting in the game getting stuck in the garrison window.
— Fixed a misguiding tooltip on a bottom panel button in the citadel interface.
— Fixed a tactical combat interface error with ending turn while a spell is selected.
— Fixed an error with a medal being awarded after winning a shard for conquering every province therein.
— Fixed erroneous display of access conditions for the third foreign quarter building of lizardmen allies.

Version 1.07 (May 14th)

A new update is now available for download. Here are the 1.0.7 patch notes:

— Added a button at the center of the quarter wheel in the city screen. When pressed, it’ll position the camera on general city view.

Fixed:
— A bug that caused essential for progressing provinces appear on shards with standard conditions.
— Archmage’s inability to use two spells in his first turn.
— ‘Parry’ and ‘Forced March’ skills weren’t working properly in the first turn.
— Game’s freeze after diplomatic capture of a province.
— Event spam after hiring gargoyles.
— Wrong color of information display when a province is 100% explored.
— ‘Unrest’ icon will no longer be shown on the map if inhabitant’s attitude to player’s reign is positive.
— An exploit involving an exchange between heroes and hiring units in besieged enemy capital’s garrison.
— A bug that allowed learning spells during enemy capital’s siege.
— A bug that allowed learning spells from scrolls if the Library isn't constructed.
— Health indicator display at 1 HP for dragon and hydra units.
— A bug that allowed summoning creatures from eggs and keeping the eggs at the same time.
— Ability to summon creatures from eggs outside the garrison.
— Icons of guards unavailable for hire weren’t displayed correctly.
— A bug that allowed constructing planned buildings at the start of a turn during enemy capital’s siege.
— Mistiming in multiplayer caused by use of summoning skills or spells.
— Found ritual scrolls, guard pacts and building blueprints now won’t be displayed if hero’s inventory is full.
— Player’s portrait incorrect display on the statistics screen during the tutorial.
— A bug that caused wrong camera positioning in the city screen when a building from Foreign Quarter was selected.
— A bug that caused recurring uprising in a captured province.
— Inability to place units in a hot-seat or multiplayer battle after starting and leaving the tutorial.
— Upgrades for units weren’t displaying on the strategic map after using auto-battle or ‘Illusionary Battle’ ritual.
— A bug that caused the game to freeze after an enemy slug used ‘Necrophagy’ skill.
— Battle continuation after victory based on morale is achieved.
— Game’s freeze caused by using ‘Double Shot’ skill and enemy unit dying by the first shot arrow.
— Missing screen for choosing the second specialization for a hero when he was leveled up exploring a province.
— Game’s freeze caused by fighting in two battles in a row with different armies with auto-battle set to ‘On’.
— Game’s freeze caused by fighting in a battle and refusing to fight in the next one with auto-battle set to ‘On’.
— A nearby province was highlighted as impassable when ‘Forced March’ skill was used.

Patch Notes for Eador: Masters of the Broken World (May 7th)

Version 1.06

A new update is now available for download. Here are the 1.0.6 patch notes:

— Improved HUD for units on the tactical map.
— The way unit speed animation changes has been improved.
— Optimized tooltip display for mouse cursor movement.
— Improved support of displays with 768 vertical pixels resolution.
— Fixed ‘Lighting change’ mode functioning.

Multiplayer:

— Mistiming problems fixes.
— Fixed disconnection problems between the server and the game’s client in a multiplayer game and in the lobby.
— There are now two game modes in multiplayer:

1) ‘Advanced’ mode — number of points depends on the number of played games and achieved victories;
2) ‘Classic’ mode — every player has an equal number of points (1000 at the moment).

— Added icons for player statuses: ‘Player is looking for an opponent’, ‘Player is in the game’.
— Added information display of other players’ spent points.
— Updated prices for units, spells and items.
— Improved chat.

List of Fixed Bugs:

— ‘Endless siege’ bug.
— Berserk barbarian animation caused the game to crash.
— Selected building is not correctly highlighted in the city screen.
— Effects bug of ‘A portal to Chaos’ event.
— Battle starts before some of the dialogues are over.
— Capitals generating on neutral terrain types.
— AI controlled hero doesn’t attack the castle’s garrison while it’s under siege.
— Delays in selection, giving orders and showing tooltip for units.
— Problem with necromancy skill and hero information display after the battle.
— Inability to sell an item in some cases.
— Bug that caused heroes to receive new skills and parameters earlier than intended.
— Attack of the enemy castle with no units in the garrison.
— Bug with provinces capturing where defenders could become guards in some cases.
— Karma transfer from the shard map to the astral.
— Killing a skeleton during a battle could cause the game to crash.