Version 2.500 Multiplayer Alpha Begins Now! (September 9th, 2020)

Full changelog at:
wiki.arcengames.com/index.php?title=AI_War_2:Multiplayer_Alpha_And_Beta#Version_2.500_Multiplayer_Alpha_Begins _Now.21

Update 1.3.4.0 (9 September 2020)

Fixes
- Amphora Fabrica fixed
- Forced march decision fixed
- Administrative Burden was always greater than expected, because it also factored in the income of the new turn
- Fix to a message about slave dispatching
- Fix to a minor bug cancelled interception
- Fixed a few typos

Quality of Life and UI improvements
- Loading game is three times faster than before. Can now load really late-stage games much more easily.
- Clicking on a trade good in the trade panel will show it specifically on the map.
- Unit Maintenance cost shown in detailed tooltip
- RGD button bounces until player clicks on it once or plays a decision.
- Conversion chance is shown in the ethnicity tooltip (if absent, then the ethnicity is made only of slaves)
- Added more shortcuts: overlays now mapped to 1 to 7 then SHIFT 1 to SHIFT 7. Can switch between region and province with CTRL-SPACE
- 100% healthy units will have a bright green triangle on the Unit Panel, different to other healthy units (66-99%)
- Added a message when a new herd is given to nomads’ nations
- Provincial capital shown in the region panel.
- Fix in overlay ♥♥♥♥♥ building slots' where idle regions not part of a province would never show

Various rules change or improvements
- Distance is now a factor when checking who trades with who
- If you have two identical main capital/palace buildings, then one will be removed, even if you are within the limit of the number of capital regions.
- The last possible mission will still deprecate now, removing the oddity of seeing a negative turn number.
- Ships can't be deployed on land
- Ships are now ignored in case of land battles but don't prevent exporting to FOG II
- Population boom event restricted to regions with 75+ loyalty
- Increase in combat stat from decision 'motivate troops' factored if exported to FOG II
- Modifier added to a region will reset the current timer if the modifier was already present (previously the new one would be ignored)
- In transactions, AI will value a region which is one of its objectives more highly
- Persian usurpers in the DLC campaign won't have access to Immortals anymore
- Persia staging tweaked.

Setup and data changes
- Immortals have money Inc +50% but are not national unique anymore
- Units exported in FOG II now get +5% quality and +5% cost if they have an equipment (armorsmith etc.)
- Kartli fortress bonuses (special unique fortress for Kolchis) were wrong
- No more Celts as provincial units in Galatia when playing Campaign 550 BCE
- Epiteichismata can be disassembled
- Carthaginian Sacred Band fight centered in all terrains
- Elephants deployment revised in bad terrain
- Fix to elephants recruitable in Epirus region
- Hellenes friction: Penalties toned down depending of number of owned regions for Athens and Sparta
- DLC: Egypt now has Egyptian names for generals

Compatibility
- Compatibility with games in 1.30+ version: Full
- Before this point, most of the features would work, but we don’t recommend continuing multiplayer games.

Hotfix v. 1.0.13138 (8 September 2020)

- After tinkering away and troubleshooting, for what feels like an eternity, we believe we have finally tracked down what's been causing all manner of weird graphical issues for our MAC users! This was a particular tough nut to crack, but the so-called "red screen of death" and "lights out" issues should be fixed now.

Thanks to the community for helping us test this and giving us feedback via the support channels and discord.

Update 2.1.2 (9 September 2020)

Please be aware of plot spoilers in the description below!

Areas
- Fixed the issues with the characters’ movement in Ravaged Capital — Entrance.
- Fixed the issue when it was impossible to exit the Abandoned Keep after you completed the Betrayer's Flight quest.
- Fixed the issue when Tristian was stuck at Candlemere Tower during the Betrayer's Flight quest.
- The algorithm that determines the point to switch between locations has been changed and should now fix the error with exiting some zones.

Quests
- Fixed the issue when it was impossible to complete the Nok-Nok and the Great Mother quest if you entered the Goblin Clearing without Nok-Nok.
- Fredero Sinnet could die during the duel with Valerie. Resolution: fixed.
- After the duel of Valerie and Fredero, Ekundayo’s wolf became uncontrollable. Resolution: fixed.
- When talking to Ivar at the Lake Silverstep Village the second time, he could attack your character. Resolution: fixed.

Classes & Mechanics
- When the character wielded nothing in the main hand and a weapon (or a shield with the Shield Bash feat) in the off-hand, the iterative attacks with the off-hand weapon didn’t occur. Resolution: fixed.
- Resurrection and Raise Dead sometimes failed to work. Resolution: fixed.
- Locket of Magic Missile Mastery didn’t work on the Force Missile ability. Resolution: fixed.
- Confusion didn’t have any effect on enemies. Resolution: fixed.
- Bardic Performance failed to switch to a new song as fast as it should. Resolution: fixed.
- Lingering Performance allowed the character to gain benefits from multiple songs at the same time. Resolution: fixed.
- Sensei Advice: Diamond Soul didn’t work. Resolution: fixed.
- Draconic Mettle, which belongs to the monk's Scaled Fist archetype, had no bonuses against fear effects. Resolution: fixed.
- Some Blindness effects lacked descriptions. Resolution: fixed.
- Weapon enhancements of magi and paladins had no visual effect on characters. Resolution: fixed. Now the weapon enhancement duration is shown with a special effect.
- The Wild Energies spell failure chance was affecting potions. Resolution: fixed. Potions are now safe to use.
- Nereids' Beguiling Aura failed to provide immunity for 24 hours after a successful save. Resolution: fixed.
- Charges from quivers were spent at a double rate. Resolution: fixed.

Turn-Based Mode
- In the Stag Lord’s Fort, if the enemy ran to ring the bell, the enemy’s turn couldn’t end in turn-based mode.
- In the PC version, you couldn’t switch actions in turn-based mode when you hovered your mouse over an enemy with an unused touch spell.
- Full-round spells weren’t applied during the current turn if they were targeted outside their range, within a 5-foot step. Miscellaneous
- The character’s movement stopped before it should when the camera was centered on the active character and in some other cases.
- Irrelevant messages were displayed in the log on mouse-hover over a trap by a character with a low Trickery skill level.
- Fixed the character’s movement in the throne room when seated.
- An animal companion wouldn’t get up after it fell in combat. Resolution: fixed.
- (All platforms) An error during an attempt to save the game could corrupt the previous save. Resolution: fixed. Now the saving error does not affect the previous game save.

A friendly reminder: while we deeply admire the contribution that mod authors make to our game, we would like you to remember that running custom modifications can lead to unexpected bugs and crashes. Unfortunately, if you encounter any issues while playing with mods, our team will not be able to help you. If this happens, please report these issues to the mod's original creator. Also, remember that after each game update, there is a high probability of previously installed mods not functioning properly. If you wish to play with mods anyway, disabling auto-updates might prevent your save files from becoming corrupted.

Iron Harvest Change Log 01 - New COOP Mode and 3v3 Map

Greetings Harvesters,

Welcome to this our first of regular post-release updates. Your response to our release has been beyond anything the Kaiser himself could have imagined. Thanks a lot for the encouragement and constructive feedback! Here you’ll find the improvements we’ve made since here.

General Changes

- The 7th Rusviet mission has been significantly reworked. The AI has been adjusted and a bug has been fixed that sometimes let to an overproduction of guardian mechs. As a result, previous saved games are now invalidated for this mission.
- Fixes to aid progression for those who played during the open beta and hadn’t completed the missions in the intended order.
- Mechs preview skins are now always removed before a new one is displayed.
- Background diagnostic tools added to create detailed logs when online services fail (pending).
- Added auto reconnect to online services after 30 seconds if connection unexpectedly lost.
- If not accepted, the EULA auto pops-up so that it is easier to access online services.
- U.I. fixes and improvements to accommodate text changes.
- Language localisation improvements and fixes.
- SFX added.
- Saved game improvement, incl.an overwrite function when you have reached the maximum number of save games possible.
- General improvements to aid match making.
- GOG pre-order mech skins are now available.
- Steam achievements are now available.

New Campaign COOP Mode

You now have the option to play through the entire campaign with a buddy. Coordination is key.

- You only need go to the Campaign overview menu.
- Click the mission you want to play.
- Invite a buddy and play.

You’ll play the campaign as normal, however each of you can control all available units. Work together to achieve your goals and blame the other person when you lose! :P

New Multiplayer/Skirmish Map

Fresh from the trenches, 2Sk3tchy has created this overview to tempt you once more into battle.

New Native Mode Story Trailer

We’re also pleased to work with so many international peoples and so we now have a native mode cut of the Story Trailer. Somehow, even if you don’t understand the language, the words carry extra weight when spoken by a native.

“Thanks to this effort from KING Art, the native mode throws player right into the middle of this European conflict and they can dive even deeper into the thrilling story line. It’s truly amazing seeing my artwork and the world I worked on coming to live in this way. For me personally I wouldn’t play it in any other way then with the native languages for each faction, it just adds so much to the experience”
- Jakub Rozalski, the artist behind the world of 1920+.

Balance Changes

We collected data and feedback from all your battles and are working on balancing changes. These changes are currently being tested and if everything works out will be part of next week’s update.

Accolades

We’re still extremely proud and honoured many of you love the game (see video). We’ll keep working hard winning those over, who are still missing something.

Fixed

- Bug: Increasing or decreasing the number of electricity grids many times (e.g. by creating new grids or connecting different grids together by placing power poles) no longer causes performance issues.
- Bug: Builders no longer stop upgrading a building at 99% upgrade progress.

Improved hint text.

A quick update in from Yak HQ. We've improved the hint text on some collectables in chapter 4 and 5. As you were, good luck Agent!

Rev 31663 Hotfix - Major bugs fixed and small localization update

Localization:

- We added a few translated lines to Czech and German localization.

General:

- Companions were able to take even story related missions that they shouldn't do - we fixed it.
- Fixed an issue that caused our companions went missing in the base after getting back from prison.
- Fixed an issue that made player use resources on the missions that were hidden in Base storage.
- Player was not able to build stuff in Base using resources hidden in Base storage - we fixed it.