Hey everyone!

While you have been taming the new Tyrannosaurus Update, we prepared a hotfix that will tackle commonly reported issues. Issues like the graphical corruptions in tactical combat and commander saving problems should be fixed. Some important balance changes are also included! Thanks everyone for all the feedback on the new update! Enjoy, commanders!

• Fixed an issue where some players could not save or load custom commanders.
  
• Fixed graphical corruption in the lower-right corner of the screen in Tactical when Unit Outlines were enabled.
  
• Fixed crash in Imperial Archives when selecting a unit mod when the user did not own the Revelations DLC.
  
• Fixed AI issue where the AI could get stuck in a combat during interaction with a survey site.
  
• Fixed issue where taking back a colony that was occupied by marauders would not convert all sectors back to the player’s full ownership.
  
• Fixed issue where an overlord could not use war coordination functionality with their vassal, vassals will still be unable to use this functionality however.
  
• Fixed a bug where players could research Relativistic Projectiles from Kinetic Force Manipulation.
  
• Fixed rewards screens missing information on the source of the reward at the top.

• Fixed that Hazards were not penalizing the income of colonies they were attached to.
  
• Fixed that the Sunshard node and Exposed mineral vein would still provide income when occupied.
  
• Fixed that the Resupply Station would provide +5 Production instead of +5 Food.
  
• Fixed issue where changes to the game speed and perks would not correctly provide the correct number of starting colonists.

• Fixed that the Call of the Hive, Security Drones and Phase Echo Guard tactical effects no longer worked.
  
• Fixed that Ecological Warfare’s regeneration applied to Mechanical Units.
  
• Fixed that the Operator operation would not apply its discount to strategic operations.

• Fixed that the Vanguard Assault Bike was getting an unintentional 2 extra vision range.
  
• Fixed that the Autonom Golem would get stuck in an animation after using a grenade ability.
  
• Fixed that the Swift Beak could not correctly apply Melee mods.
  
• Fixed that the Tyrannodon had bad table manners.

• Fixed an issue, where players did not receive the next story quest after completing the “First Revelations” quest in the Obolus-5 mission of the Revelations campaign, if they had already annexed the “Hand of Rhemenses” sector.
  
• Fixed an issue that the production landmark next to the player starting position in the Gardip XX mission had no defenders when playing with the challenge level set to medium or hard.
  
• Fixed an issue where the “Art of Evolution” quest in the Arcadia Caeleste mission of the base game campaign did sometimes not complete when evolving a Psi-Fish unit.

• Players can no longer continuously enter a structure combat with the same stack, by continuously retreating from the combat; it now has a cooldown of 1 turn.
  
• Increased cost of Flying Hero Vehicles by +10 cosmite and +20 energy.
  
• Shield Damage will remain even if shields are completely removed and then re-added (e.g. by stepping out of swarm shield and back into it).

• Engulfer - Changed Prime Rank from ‘Prime Rank: Range’ to Prime Rank: Critical’
  
• Emergent can no longer transform into an Engulfer; turns into Hidden instead.
  
• Guiding Presence and Guiding Hand - Decreased range bonus from +2 to +1
  
• Hero Skill ‘Guiding Hand - Changed from 4 Turn Cooldown to Once Per Battle
  
• Tactical Operation ‘One with the Swarm’ - Decreased effect from +4 Shields for 3 Turns to +3 Shields for 2 Turns.
  
• Tactical Operation ‘One with the Swarm’ - Decreased cost from 5 Tactical Operation Points to 4 Tactical Operation Points.

• Protector Incarnation - Changed Unit requirement from Non-Mindless to Land Movement

• Mantra of Life - Decreased Shields from +3 to +2

For the patch notes of the Tyrannosaurus Update v1.200, check the official forums post here.

Over the last few months we have been working hard on the “Tyrannosaurus” update and it definitely does its name justice! Based on community input and findings, some major changes were made to the game. Here we highlight the biggest features and changes; for the full list of change notes, check the bottom of the post. But first, check out this sweet trailer!




A number of settings have been added to the game setup options to control the amount of push back the world gives to the player. These options can be used to make enemy players, NPC factions and spawners more passive to give a more relaxing game experience, or more active to up the game’s challenge.

These options can be edited separately under Advanced Settings, or are controlled under a master Game Intensity setting in the main setup screen.

An old favourite from previous games in the franchise; No Colonizer Mode blocks the ability for all players to build colonizers to create new colonies (a limited number of colonizers can be gained from the settlements pre-placed on the map). This leads to a game with much smaller empires, where the focus is more on the game’s military aspects than its economic ones.

A number of locations, primarily Visit Sites which would give temporary bonuses to the armies that visited them, have been reworked, remodelled and rebranded as Exploration Sites. These sites are heavily guarded and each has its own unique interior combat map. Once captured, each site has a unique buff it grants to units produced in the colony it is linked to, as well as giving a powerful economic bonus.

In order to reduce the number of battles the player needs to fight, weak enemy stacks will now occasionally ask for mercy, allowing players to claim their location without a combat encounter. Additionally, stronger stacks will sometimes allow players to bribe them to leave.


The terrain in Planetfall gives boosts to the economic structures built within them, for example a Forest sector gives bonuses to Production and Food bases. The update changes these bonuses to always apply, rather than requiring the player to research and build special colony upgrades (i.e. a food sector built in a forest sector will now immediately go to level 2, without requiring the Forest Exploitation technology first). This makes the system much easier to understand, and allows players to experience the bonuses from terrain much faster and more organically.

Since these terrain bonuses also affect the strength of the special upgrades that can be built in sectors, those also become more interesting and useful to the player.

The streamlining of the terrain interactions has meant we could remove a number of techs from the economy tree, which was generally felt to be overloaded. To take this further, a number of other techs have been removed and the tree has been rebalanced in order to make systems more useful.

We’ve gone through the various economic bonuses the player gains from various sector upgrades and re-arranged them to make them easier to grasp. At the same time, a number of upgrades have been rebalanced to make them more useful, and less reliant on micromanagement to make the most of them.

The player now gains resources of various types for razing enemy colonies and sectors. This provides more incentive for defending players to actively defend their territory rather than hiding in their cities. It also incentivizes players to destroy captured colonies, rather than keep them, leading to smaller empires which are easier for the players to manage.


In order to make the differences between the races more well defined, each race has been given a short term bonus that is immediately active from the start of the game, and a long term bonus which affects the race for the duration of the game.

It was felt that players had to work too hard to get any benefits from their secret techs, since they often didn’t unlock any units from their secret tech until turn 20-30. To fix this, each player (except for Xenoplague players) will now start the game with a tier 2 secret tech unit which they can immediately start using. This adds more variety to the early game, and makes the secret tech choice more immediately meaningful.

The Xenoplague secret tech now allows players to start with a Pustule unit and start spreading the plague from the first turn. Previously, this defining aspect of the tech was locked behind research, so the player was forced to get particular techs before they could enjoy the main feature of the Xenoplague.

The Amazons have unique world map gameplay mechanics based around capturing wildlife units and spreading forests, which we felt were underperforming. The operations for creating forests have been made cheaper, and more bonuses have been added for the player to research that improve the bonuses forests grant. Amazon controlled wildlife now gain an inherent stat buff to make them more useful, which can be strengthened through research.

Also, the many types of wildlife now evolve, allowing the player to capture a weak unit early in the game and watch it evolve into a more powerful one as the game progresses. A new, end game operation has also been added allowing the Amazons to control the powerful end game wildlife that was previously unavailable.


We’ve taken a look at the covert operations tree, rebalancing the operations to make them more useful as well as adding a new cosmite stealing operation to make the end game more attractive. The distribution of Operation Strength/Defense bonuses in the tree has been rearranged to give players who focus on covert ops more of an advantage.

A tooltip has also been added to the covert operation targeting interface that breaks down the chance for the operation to succeed as well as providing information on what the player can do to increase that chance.

The doctrines in the game have received a balance pass to reduce the cost to deploy them. The tech tree has been re-arranged slightly to make the racial and secret tech doctrines more attractive to the player, by adding shortcuts allowing the player to unlock high level doctrines by doing economic research (previously the player could only unlock high level doctrines by researching all the lower level ones first) and allowing the player to earn doctrine slots by researching doctrines (previously doctrine slots could only be unlocked by researching a separate area of the tech tree).

The operation launching interfaces have been rearranged to make it easier for the player to see what they have available and what they have active. This was achieved by merging several tabs, so the player can see everything on screen at once without needing to flip between different lists.


The system the player uses to coordinate attacks with their AI allies has been rebuilt to make it more responsive and transparent. AI players can now be directed to attack and defend specific locations, and will send more messages to give feedback to the player about when they complete or fail their tasks.

In order to make certain trade deals and diplomatic offers more worthwhile for both the player and AI, many of the trade items have received balancing. The prerequisites for peace deals and vassalage offers have been tweaked so it makes more sense when they occur.


We have done a number of tweaks to how units are rendered to make them pop out more on the world map and in combat. This is to address issues that units were often hard to see when they stood on certain types of terrain.

The overview map, which is viewed by zooming out to the max level on the world map, has received a pass to make the icons that appear on it more consistent and useful. Economic icons now receive a red outline when they are occupied by the enemy, to make it clearer to the player where potential issues with their economy lie.

Owned sectors are now fully colored, instead of only showing the borders, giving a clearer overview of each domain on the map.

The text tooltips that described the effects of doomsday weapons and leveled sector upgrades have been given a pass to make them clearer, shorter and less overwhelming, making them much easier to read and understand.


The strategic AI is now better at building higher level armies of more varied units, and is less likely to create monotonous armies of low level units. When reaching a certain phase of a game, they are now more inclined to create higher tier units as well. Additionally, the unit modding process for AI was improved to ensure the AI players upgrade units that already have mods with better mods once they become available.

AI players would often prioritize attacking independent armies and become overly defensive when opponents built up their military. With the update a lot of these weaknesses have been tackled and the AI has become a lot better at setting clear goals that result into more interesting interactions with players.


We have done a pass on the game’s tutorial and the early campaign maps to address complaints that they were overwhelming for newer players. Upon completing the tutorial the player will now receive a suggestion to play a curated Practice Game before jumping into the campaign, since we feel that the early Campaign maps are simply too much for a new player to attempt directly after the tutorial.

The update contains a HUGE number of balance tweaks to units, operations, and unit upgrades. These have been based on feedback from the community, with a focus on improving the balance of the PvP aspect of the game.

Like any update, this Update contains a large amount of bug fixes. Thanks to the community for reporting the issues so we can continue improving the game!

For the full list of Update notes please visit: Age of Wonders: Planetfall - Update: V1.200 'Tyrannosaurus' Patch Notes

Thanks for the continued support, commanders!

Hey everyone!

The holidays are drawing near and it looks like the Stegosaurus is already getting into the spirit. That means that we have some presents for you of course; this time in the shape of an update that contains some heavily requested features, like Auto explore! Besides these, the update contains a series of fixes, small updates and support for the Korean language. Thanks for your continued feedback and support! Enjoy!


Feature: Auto-Explore
Armies can now be set to 'auto-explore', this means that they will scout around the planet on their own; picking up resources along the way. These armies will no longer appear in your to-do events; allowing you to focus on other tasks.

Feature: Tactical Operations Toggle
When engaging in combat, you can now decide whether Tactical Operations will be used during Auto Combat.

Fixes
General

• When a unit is brought back from the dead, all of its Once Per Battle and Ability Cooldowns are triggered. This does not affect Escape Module or similar abilities.
  
• Fixed issue where AI player vs AI Player and AI player vs Marauders would no longer generate combat events.
  
• Fixed that unit icons in the army panel would flicker on army movement.
  
• Fixed issue where razing a Forward Relay Base would not cancel its Energy and Cosmite upkeep.
  
• Fixed a visualization error on the Livestock Spawner Tactical Map that caused biodomes to spawn in the incorrect color.
  
• Fixed issue where the doomsday level could go beyond 3 causing a crash.

Hotseat

• Fixed issue in Hotseat where the game could hang after manual combat when an AI player attacked the player.
  
• Fixed issue in Hotseat where the game could crash upon using combat retry and then closing the combat results.

Multiplayer

• Fixed issue where players could pause the turn timer while another player was in combat or viewing the combat results.
  
• Fixed issue where leaders would not load correctly in the lobby and loading screen if a player used a DLC leader but the host of the multiplayer session did not own the required DLC.

Units, Mods & Operations

• Sinister Chorus now correctly decreases Entropy Resistance
  
• PsiTec Vox Amp now correctly receives damage channel changes from Focus mods.
  
• Fixed Hopperhound Mantises not having a defense mode.
  
• Purchased Faction Units now correctly gain extra ranks from the player's HQ as well as other Upgrades.

Campaign

• Fixed 'Kir'ko Independence' in Xa'Kir'Ko (Kirko 02) not progressing in some cases after completing all three 'Collect Data from Xenolabs' quests. Note: Affected players will still have to end their turn for the quest line to progress.

Anomalous Sites

• Replaced the constructs in Phase 3 of House of Emperors with Scavengers.

UX

• Edge scrolling no longer moves the camera when input is blocked.
  
• Controller: Cycle Cities now correctly ignores Absorbing/Migrating cities

Updates
General

• Doomsday structures are now being removed when a sector changes owner.

Language

• Added Korean language support.

Multiplayer

• Changing teams is now locked while the player has opted as ready to play.

Units, Mods & Operations

• Heritor Siphoner 'Es'Teq Siphon' - Reduced damage from 11 to 9

UI & UX

• Added a Secret Tech Filter to the Commander Selection screen.
  
• Skipping to the next to-do event will now focus the camera on the event.
  
• Cycling through cities is now done alphabetically.
  
• Where possible sector invasion event will now highlight the invading stack instead of the cell the invasion took place.

Unravel the secrets of a long forgotten dynasty... Age of Wonders: Planetfall REVELATIONS is out now! Get it with the season pass: https://pdxint.at/2qhgFXf

With the release of REVELATIONS just around the corner, it's about time we talk more about some upcoming features in both the expansion and the free content patch! Join us and Principal Gameplay Designer Tom Bird on http://twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive, Thursday 15:30 CEST!

A dynasty, long forgotten, is once again about to rise. The Age of Wonders: Planetfall expansion Revelations will arrive November 19th.

Included in the Season Pass, more info HERE