Patch 1.705 (01 November 2016)

- Nymphs should no longer show up in rewards from Spring of Life locations.
- AI no longer tries to dispel meditate, so it has casting points and mana left for more usefull things.
- One of the classes had a double frost protection hero upgrade, which was removed.
- Fixed a couple of rare crash when loading a save game.
- Modding: All of the 'AoW City Operation' now correctly check their required properties
- Fixed and clarified English loading screen text
- Fixed French typo in Cannon description http://aow.triumph.net/forums/topic/typo-in-french-version/
- Fixed German Dark Pact Ability & Spell description http://aow.triumph.net/forums/topic/sprachfehler-in-der-deutschen-version/page/3/#post-241004
- Tweaked Audio settings for sound effects reported to be too loud
- Fixed an issue that prevented modders from editing XP pickups without causing instability
- Fixed various crashes caused by removing mods which add new banner colours and icons
- Fixed an issue that caused the camera to zoom in during combat while the user was moving the camera, was supposed to be when the user WASN'T moving the camera
- Fixed an issue where Users could glitch the leader editor by selecting creation master, then changing to necromancer and back again.
- Fixed a crash caused by modders adding starting properties to city cores
- Fixed an issue where skills given by libraries didn't trigger the All Knowing empire quest. Library rewards will still not trigger the Sage empire quest.
- Fixed crash when city was being razed while at the same time a player had a 'Independent Can Discuss: ...' event
- Fixed ironman exploit where a player could exit TC without triggering an ironman notification
- Fixed crash when clicking on empty specialization icon in diplomacy interface
- Fixed issue where master specialization would not be correctly removed when removing adapt
- Fixed a bug in RMG (online multiplayer) games where players would sometimes not start on the map layer that they had selected in the leader customization menu.
- Fixed a bug in RMG where choosing 'Random' advanced setting for 'Resource Sites' (as well as other options with 'Random') would be a random value per player instead of the same random value for all players. Which meant that some players could start without any resource sites, while others start with many resource sites.
- Choosing 'None' roads in RMG does not remove bridges from lava hexes anymore, because it made the map too hard to taverse.
- Added a new unit property that can be used to change the strength of resistance checks. See: AoW Unit Property: Resist Strength Modifier.
- Removed duplicate entries from the tome of wonders for the Fire Cannon and Movement Upgrade abilities.
- The Magical Structures Skill no longer gives the - unintended - Arcane Study bonus.
- The Polearm ability description now - correctly - states it give a +4 damage bonus. It used to say +5 which was incorrect.
- Frostling Scoundrels now have Projectile Resistance on Bronze, like the other Scoundrels.
- Fixed an interface issues where properties would display 'Unknown Property Source!' when it could not find the source of the property. Instead of displaying the property's screen name.
- Fixed a geometry gap in the city walls of arctic city battles.
- Fixed a graphics glitch for one of the human male hairdos.
- Fixed an PBEM Ironman exploit where replacing delete/replacing save games, would in some cases not trigger an Ironman Notification.
- Fixed an issue in multiplayer with the Production Resource Pickup. Which allowed a player to select both city upgrades if the game was continued from a save game.
- Modders can now add a requisite to units who stolen from other players using mind control. The requisite is applied to the unit when battle ends.
- Fixed an issue where it was possible to reload a multiplayer game with different seal settings than it was created with
- Leaders affected by swallowed whole can now be rescued by killing the swallowing unit
- When a unit has been resurrected during tactical combat, it will no longer give XP or casting points (via Essence Harvest) for the rest of that battle
- Map Editor now streams content cutting memory use considerably.
- Fixed an issue with PBEM Ironmode warnings.
- When a unit has been resurrected during tactical combat, it will no longer give XP or casting points (via Essence Harvest) for the rest of that battle.
- Fixed rare bug in PackageManager where it would not correct detect previously publish workshop item.
- Mod Editor now only loads low-resolution textures, cutting memory use considerably.
- Linked the correct bird for the Halfling Eagle Rider.
- Resolved an exploit in Diplomatic AI.
- Increased the PBEM save game size limit.
- Fixed a typo in the English Warp Domain description.
- Updated to Poison Domain description to include which units are not valid targets for the spell's effect.
- Updated the Ancient Ruins description to correctly indicate the reward for clearing this structure.
- Fixed the dragon animation so they correctly spawn particles when using the fire spit ability.

Patch 1.705 (01 November 2016)
Hello All!

- After Age of Wonders III clocking 10s of millions of hours of gameplay, and getting the feedback to go with it, we are happy to officially realase the official V1.705 "CAESAR" patch! This marks a new level of refinement for the game, especially for the master Age of Wonders 3 strategists, multiplayer gamers and modders. The variety of balance and bug fixes should benefit everyone.

Multiplayer and PBEM

- Fixed an issue in multiplayer with the Production Resource Pickup. Which allowed a player to select both city upgrades if the game was continued from a save game.
- Fixed an PBEM Ironman exploit where replacing delete/replacing save games, would in some cases not trigger an Ironman Notification.
- Increased the PBEM save game size limit.
- Fixed ironman exploit where a player could exit TC without triggering an ironman notification
- Fixed an issue where it was possible to reload a multiplayer game with different seal settings than it was created with
- Fixed an issue with PBEM Ironmode warnings.

Balance

- When a unit has been resurrected during tactical combat, it will no longer give XP or casting points (via Essence Harvest) for the rest of that battle.
- Leaders affected by swallowed whole can now be rescued by killing the swallowing unit
- The Magical Structures Skill no longer gives the - unintended - Arcane Study bonus.
- Frostling Scoundrels now have Projectile Resistance on Bronze, like the other Scoundrels.
- Nymphs should no longer show up in rewards from Spring of Life locations.
- One of the classes had a double frost protection hero upgrade, which was removed.

Stability

- Fixed a couple of rare crash when loading a save game.
- Fixed various crashes caused by removing mods which add new banner colours and icons
- Fixed crash when city was being razed while at the same time a player had a 'Independent Can Discuss: ...' event
- Fixed crash when clicking on empty specialization icon in diplomacy interface

Random Maps

- Fixed a bug in RMG (online multiplayer) games where players would sometimes not start on the map layer that they had selected in the leader customization menu.
- Fixed a bug in RMG where choosing 'Random' advanced setting for 'Resource Sites' (as well as other options with 'Random') would be a random value per player instead of the same random value for all players. Which meant that some players could start without any resource sites, while others start with many resource sites.
- Choosing 'None' roads in RMG does not remove bridges from lava hexes anymore, because it made the map too hard to taverse.

Modding and Tools

- Added a new unit property that can be used to change the strength of resistance checks. See: AoW Unit Property: Resist Strength Modifier.
- Modders can now add a requisite to units who stolen from other players using mind control. The requisite is applied to the unit when battle ends.
- Added support for additional workshop tags to PackageManager
- Modding: All of the 'AoW City Operation' now correctly check their required properties
- Map Editor now streams content cutting memory use considerably.
- Mod Editor now only loads low-resolution textures, cutting memory use considerably.
- Fixed rare bug in PackageManager where it would not correct detect previously publish workshop item.
- Fixed an issue that prevented modders from editing XP pickups without causing instability
- Fixed a crash caused by modders adding starting properties to city cores

Graphics and Glitches

- Fixed a geometry gap in the city walls of arctic city battles.
- Fixed a graphics glitch for one of the human male hairdos.
- Linked the correct bird for the Halfling Eagle Rider.
- Fixed the dragon animation so they correctly spawn particles when using the fire spit ability.

Text and Localization

- Fixed a typo in the English Warp Domain description.
- Updated to Poison Domain description to include which units are not valid targets for the spell's effect.
- Updated the Ancient Ruins description to correctly indicate the reward for clearing this structure.
- The Polearm ability description now - correctly - states it give a +4 damage bonus. It used to say +5 which was incorrect.
- Fixed French typo in Cannon description
- Fixed German Dark Pact Ability & Spell description
- Fixed and clarified English loading screen text
- Removed duplicate entries from the tome of wonders for the Fire Cannon and Movement Upgrade abilities.

Miscellaneous

- AI no longer tries to dispel meditate, so it has casting points and mana left for more usefull things.
- Tweaked Audio settings for sound effects reported to be too loud
- Fixed an issue that caused the camera to zoom in during combat while the user was moving the camera, was supposed to be when the user WASN'T moving the camera
- Fixed an issue where skills given by libraries didn't trigger the All Knowing empire quest. Library rewards will still not trigger the Sage empire quest.
- Fixed an issue where Users could glitch the leader editor by selecting creation master, then changing to necromancer and back again.
- Fixed issue where master specialization would not be correctly removed when removing adapt
- Fixed an interface issues where properties would display 'Unknown Property Source!' when it could not find the source of the property. Instead of displaying the property's screen name.
- Fixed an issue on certain Linux distributions where the checkboxes were not visible in the User Content tab of the Launcher.
- Resolved an exploit in Diplomatic AI

Patch 51.2 (01 November 2016)
Modding

- Mods can now be used in the game to enrich the experience even more.

General
New Gravity mechanics:

- Races with Low-G tolerance have a -25% penalty in Normal-G worlds and -50% penalty in High-G worlds.
- Races with High-G tolerance have a -25% penalty in Normal-G worlds and -50% penalty in Low-G worlds.
- Races with Normal-G tolerance have a -25% penalty in Low-G worlds and -50% penalty in High-G worlds.

New Pollution mechanics:

- Pollution is now generated by Population and Production output.
- New ongoing effect: If pollution in a colony goes up, it pollutes the soil and reduces cells’ food output.
- Pollution Cleanup project is no longer available.
- Biome tolerance and Pollution cleaning from buildings are now flat values.
- Pollution Processor moved to Molecular Compression Technode. Core Waste dump cleaning value increased.

Galaxy Generation

- “Planetary density” added to match options.
- Tiny planets added (Updated size chances and Gravity table).
- Galaxy generation improved to support the new gravity mechanics.
- Monster quantity by galaxy size increased.
- New Gravity Tolerance perk influences the player’s Home Planet’s gravity.
- Tweaks to better support low gravity planets.

Perks

- Races with Low-Gravity tolerance now have the "Low Gravity Homeworld" perk.
- Races with High-Gravity tolerance now have a "High Gravity Homeworld" perk.
- Creative perk research bonus increased to +50%.

Animations

- Polished animations and blending of emperors and advisors

Cinematics

- Cinematics now play when defeated instead of the old pop-up
- Removed the narrator and subtitles from Custom Race’s cutscenes.
- Cinematic cameras, now uses real mesh distances in tactical battles.

AI

- Improved selection of defense points.
- Improved evaluation of Declare War On.
- Improved how the AI manages space pirates while being at war with other races.
- The AI is now better at building bombers.
- The AI is better at considering transports for other targets.
- Expansionism trait improvements.
- Improved invasion by allowing multiple invasion targets at once.
- Improved invasion by building troop transports in advance.
- Improved invasion by making troop transports move together with all military fleets.
- New Planet Rating heuristic for civilizations, now uses estimated outputs.
- Racial Grudge is now used in strategic analysis.
- Re-balanced pacifist trait in General Strategy to make it more noticeable.
- Refactored Racial Grudge so it has degrees and is not binary.
- The AI now plays smarter in Cluster Galaxies.
- The AI now plays smarter in Huge Galaxies.

Tactical

- Improved opening moves for the AI.
- Automatic toggle on a weapon/s when receiving general/weapon focus order.
- Tactical Weapons can now be fired manually.
- Changed how the AI chooses and changes squadron formation.
- New Auto-Pause option on screen.
- Reduced cinematic "Missile Cam” occurrence.
- Reduced time compression smoothness.
- Back end now use the new system for focus fire.
- Formations have been rebalanced to make them more meaningful.
- New Plasma Web FX.
- Clicking on a ship now selects only that ship, double-click selects the whole squadron.

Tactical combat – Balance
Re-balanced Fighters:

- Fighter Bay size reduced (40 -> 30).
- Bomber Bay size reduced (50 -> 35).
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Heavy Fighter Bay size reduced (60 -> 40).

- Tweaked Tactical Battles Pacing:
- Tweaked Hull Visual Scales
- Increased Max Speed for Most Hulls
- Reduced Rotation Speed for Most Hulls
- Reduced tactical health scale
- Increased CDs on all weapons to keep DPS and Battle Length similar to previous iteration.
- Phasors Damage Nerfed 35 -> 30
- Gauss Cannon Damaged Buffed 35 -> 40
- Pulson Missile Damage Nerfed 50 -> 40
- Zeon Missile Damage Nerfed 70 -> 60
- Energy Absorber CD increased 15 -> 25
- Shield Capacitor CD increased 20 -> 30
- Removed a Redundant Instance of Cooldown on the Pulsar Entry.

UX

- Added Automatic Formation Icon.
- Added pulsing animation to "Victory Is Nigh" notification.
- Citizen transports can now be built in bulk.
- New fully configurable ship mass production picker.
- Limited bulk building to 5 ships max.
- Added a “below max recommended player” count in the galaxy generation menu, to use as initial value of each galaxy size.
- Disable Intro Video Option.
- Set the recommended player count instead of the max count when a new galaxy size is selected.
- Added Scroll and Close functionality to notifications.
- Added new feedback for new pollution mechanics.
- Added missing tooltips that add necessary information in the ship design menu.
- Improved feedback for Blocking and Guarding commands.
- The Guard order can now be issued anywhere.
- Added new formations functionality, weapons and specials functionality in the tactical combat interface.
- Added status effect icons in the tactical combat interface.
- Added tooltip Auto-Pause for tactical battles.
- Added Status Effects to the tactical combat HUD.
- Numerous tooltips improvements.
- Added cost, command points, attack rating, defense rating, armor penetration, and drones system tooltips in the Ship Design menu.
- Added new feedback to Economic victory.

Controls – Modifications for “Tobii eye tracking” devices

- Cursor stays on planets when camera is shifting on extended view.
- Improved gamepad warp by adding cursor clone.
- Look at a planet and push left stick to see tooltip.

GNN

- Added intro animations for GNN
- Added New Economic Victory GNN trigger