Patch 1.4.5.69.4994 (20 March 2017)

Ranked:
- The game now has a ranked mode. From now on the players can gain points and progress in the ladder either by playing ranked or casual matches. Due to frequent match evasion and hacking offences, we decided to reset the ranks of all players, giving everyone a fair chance in the new season. Below are the main differences between the two:

Ranked games:
- You can launch it only by pressing ""Quick Play"" or by creating a special room in the multiplayer shell
- The starting options are set and cannot be changed
- All user created modifications are disabled
- Victory grants a lot of points;
- The match is considered ranked only if the game lasts more than 10 minutes.

Casual games:
- Launched from the multiplayer rooms
- The starting options are chosen by the host
- User created modifications are allowed
- The following starting options are set for the ranked mode:
- Type: Team versus Team, 3 vs 3, if there's not enough players the game will automatically switch teams to 2 vs 2 or 1 vs 1;
- Nations: random;
- Starting resources: 5000;
- Peace Time: 10 minutes;
- Map type: Land.
- For a more convenient way of finding ranked games, players can now use the 'Quick Play' button, which will automatically find suitable opponents for the player.
- You can invite up to two players to queue up together for a ranked match. To do this, create a special room and invite your friends, then you need to set the lobby eligible for the Ranked mode. You and your friends can only play on the same team.
- You have 2 months to get a desired title, as the ranked season lasts till the second half of May. The rewards will be distributed at the end of May as well.
- We leave the right to reset ranks of certain players if there will be proof of unsportsman behaviour, match-fixing or cheating.

General:
- The Balloon upgrade now removes Field of View for allies as well.

Cheating
- Cheaters will receive a more severe punishment from now on. We remind you that if you encounter a cheater, you can always send a report letter with a replay and a short description of the supposed hacking to support@cossacks3.com.

Errors:
- Dealt with bugs that prevented some players from seeing their Early Bird bonuses
- Fixed an issue that caused the game to use a wrong localization.
- Fixed a bug with the statistics screen, when after pressing the ""Replay the game"" button the new session used the settings from the previous game.
- Fixed a problem, when the keys responsible for camera controls (arrows) wouldn't respond if the player holds the Shift or Ctrl keys.
- Fixed typos in some texts.
- Fixed an error, when the ""Random nation"" option would never choose the last nation from the list.
- Fixed a bug in the 4th mission of the Prussian campaign, where an enemy's blockhouse wasn't considered hostile.

Multiplayer:
- Fixed an error, when after a several consecutive multiplayer games, the new session had a chance of suddenly ending or displaying chat messages from other games.
- Fixed an issue with MP room exiting, when the player would get a notification that he was kicked although he wasn’t.
- Fixed an error, when after a re-hosting the session wouldn’t count as ranked.
- Fixed a bug, that broke the re-hosting process: the notification about loading of another player would never go away and the game would refuse to start.
- Fixed an error, that caused the shell to appear empty after exiting a session.
- Fixed an error when the player wouldn’t get any points for winning a ranked game.
- We’re going to save TOP 100 players of this season to give the players rewards in the future.

Hotkeys:
- There is an alternative hotkey that allows the player to select all military units – Ctrl + Shift + A and Ctrl + Alt + A.

Balance
- Increased the formation bonus for a 400 units’ template from +2 to attack/+3 to defense to +3 to attack/+4 to defense.
- Increased the amount of peasants that can chop the same tree from 1 to 2, which increases the efficiency of wood gathering.
- Increased the rate at which each next building gets more expensive from 3 to 4%


Unit changes

Housings:
- Increased the amount of slots housings provide from 15 to 25.
- Increased the cost of construction from 50 wood and 50 stones to 100 wood and 100 stones.

Pandur (Austria):
- Reduced the production time from 18.75 to 10.32 seconds

Chasseur (France):
- Increased the production time from 9.38 to 10.32 seconds.
- Increased the range of vision
- Decreased the fire range from 1050 to 1000.
- Increased the price by 10 gold

Peasant:
- Increased the melee range from 50 to 65

Hussar:
- Increased the production time from 14.84 to 17.8 seconds
- Reduced the bonus to armor after all upgrades by 2

Hussar (Prussia):
- Increased the production time from 10.16 to 13.16
- Reduced the bonus to armor after all upgrades by 2

Pikeman, 18c:
- Increased the attack after all of the upgrades by 2

Pikeman, 18c (Sweden):
- Increased the attack after all of the upgrades by 2
- Increased the health from 85 to 95
- Increased the basic attack from 11 to 12

Archer (Algeria):
- Decreased the arrow damage from 199 to 40
- Increased the production time from 0.78 to 1 second
- Reduced the amount of time it takes to shoot another regular arrow from 9.22 to 5 seconds
- Increased the minimal range of regular and fire arrows from 300 to 350 (the same as the mercenary archer)
- Increased the maximum range of regular and fire arrows from 600 to 700 (the same as the mercenary archer)

Update (20 March 2017)

- Updated the soundtrack in mp3 and FLAC formats with fixed tracks 12 and 13.
- Thank you AdamHM for reporting and fixing the issue with these two tracks!

Patch 1.3.4f (20 March 2017)

- Greetings!
- The royal court at the Imperial Palace just decreed that Italian players can play the game in their native tongue!
- All hail the wise Shogun!
- Buon divertimento!

Patch Gamma 19 (20 March 2017)

- Added kerning to all text.
- Added Thai translation
- Extra endless milestones added.
- Ghost passengers in endless mode fixed.
- Carriages will no longer get stuck if they're moved late into an endless game.
- Fixed maximum efficiency being reported incorrectly when moving into the city screen.

Patch 1.5.2 (21 march 2017)

- Various fixes to Archer balance
- Chats that somehow end up being too tall for the screen now force to clip top so that controls are always visible
- Fixed Cornac extra points in the Infinite Dungeon
- Buffed Nova and Shock damage
- Feather Wind also increases pin and stun immunities
- Reduced the mana cost of Hurricane, Thunderstorm and Chain Lightning
- Fixed a rare level generation crash in the Prides

Update (21 March 2017)

- The playing cards for Alone in the Dark 2 have been cleaned up thanks to efforts of Trachalio, who donated the cleaned up cards.

Maintenance Update (21 March 2017)

- Shadow improvements.
- Game completion percentage rounding error fixed.
- Sometimes money achievements were not gained with the exact amount of money in bag. This is now fixed.
- Random crash and save game loss after being killed by a botfish fixed.
- Random illogical flying curve of projectiles in dungeons fixed.
- If you play with a gamepad, you can select Sky Island from World Map before unlocking the island.
- It is possible to get "inside" the Sky Island after watching the "Emblem of Sun" cinematics.
- It is possible to walk pass level portal in Great Forest.
- Hero slides uncontrollable if he dies frozen and has "last chance" equipped.
- Misplaced camera when Hermit talks to the hero after completing the well quest.
- Moving cubes removes nearby decoration objects.
- Performing a spinning attack without energy causes the player to be stuck for a moment.
- Blow fish characters cannot be killed with sword after being frozen.
- Tikarel, after completing Sky Island: Book vanishes when touched by a bomb.
- Bomb Island, mines, door in front of boss door: You don't get into the next room when swimming far most left/right through door.
- Tikarel: Stuck behind Neetie's garden.

The Ancients Awaken patch (21st March 2017)

Note: the version number is currently 1/1/1970 - this will be updated soon.

The aftermath of the Ancient War was devastating. The victorious Orcish Emperor executed each and everyone on Dys who practiced dark arts and summoning. The indisputable power they controlled and carried within their spirits became too dangerous to be used in the wrong hands. The bodies of those once the mightiest commanders were locked and hidden away in the Tombs that are scattered all around Dys. Never to be found again.

Until one day two heroes disembark on an island and hear the call for help of an Imperial Archaeologist.

- 8 intense dungeon questlines with epic boss battles.
- More than 15 new player personas with more upgrade options.
- New and modified NPC stats and personas for more intense fights.
- Reputation questlines giving you another alternative way of finishing your playthrough.