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Here are the 03/28 patch notes for Old World.

Overview of changes

Introducing a new national ambition system Changes related to the all-out offensive Continent is set to base map script AI and performance improvements

Game related

National Ambition:

The final ambition is now called the 'National Ambition' and can be proposed early after completing the five ambitions. A suggestion event will occur when a player reaches 70% or more progress on a specific national ambition. National ambition is not included in the class judgment criteria (i.e., the general ambition proposal is not difficult). All national ambitions are listed separately in the encyclopedia. Added new national ambition: 'Gain +250 Food/Iron/Stone/Wood/Funds per turn' - replacing the existing 'Have 2000 of each resource' ambition Added new general ambition 'Own 4 village (Hamlet) line improvements' Ambition condition calculation and event adjustment so that various ambitions can be proposed.

Changes related to the All-Out Offensive:

The full-scale attack effect does not apply to leader units. All-out attack cannot be activated during cooldown. The leader unit enters a cooldown state after the all-out attack is activated. In the case of team battles, additional action points due to an all-out attack are granted to the owner of the unit. Changes related to the continent map script: Continent is set to base map script Added 'None' to 'Extreme Terrain' sub-option and set it as default Removed option to place tribal territory

Other changes:

Critical hits to cities are impossible Can be stunned when attacking units in a city with no health Panic and Flame Line effects grant 'Disarm' instead of 'Stun' to units that cannot retreat. Units recruited by a Zealous Leader will have their health fully restored. 'Fund Increase' tech card moved to 'Coinage' Removed 'Free Trireme' and 'Dromon Gift' skill cards National Ambition Proposal Timing Adjusted from 75% to 70% National Ambition event active even in no event mode The Flame Temple now grants an adjacency bonus to all improvements in the 'Mine' line (including the Laurion Mine) Commander Leader always grants all units +10 experience per turn (previously units had to be in standby) Free improvements can be built on resource terrain with regular improvement pings. When a city improvement is placed for free, it is removed without harvesting the resource. Adjusted the conditions for the ceasefire proposal event when AI occupies a city Roads and improvements cannot be built on friendly territory. Water tiles can be transferred between cities without going through adjacent land. Experience points exceeding the level cap are converted to training points. Ezana's 'Evangelist' trait grants Christianity/Adept only to units produced in that city (Wrath of the Gods) Added 7 new events that cause disasters to other players (Wrath of the Gods) Reduced duration of the 'Worship' mission to decrease favorability towards other religions (Wrath of the Gods) Increased Scrub spawn chance in 'Ebbing Sea' map from 2% to 10% (Wrath of the Gods) Adjust volcanic eruptions and earthquake intensity (Wrath of the Gods) Reduced chance of disasters occurring on Rare and Very Rare settings (Wrath of the Gods) 'Wrath of the Gods' scenario uses more custom map scripts for volcanoes (Wrath of the Gods)

Programming

Rendering API changes: Linux and Steam Deck use Vulkan by default.
Windows supports Vulkan with the command line option -force-vulkan Epic Mac version works natively when running outside of the Epic launcher (e.g. Heroic) Improved UI responsiveness when switching between workers Performance Improvement Improved combat related AI Improving the use of AI's all-out offensive Improve AI command prediction when planning a move AI moves more aggressively towards enemy cities during war When you have a Strategist leader, the AI is more likely to place ranged units in forests when defending. Reduced frequency of AI fortress construction AI tries to keep ship units anchored for a long time to prevent land units from becoming isolated. AI is less likely to build useless wonders (e.g. Jebel Barkal in a world without a religion) AI cares a little more about culture Invasion tribe becomes less passive Added ALLOW_CITY_CRITICAL_HITS global variable for modders Changed the mod manager to not load all installed maps when retrieving subscription information Use TRAINING_PER_XP value when converting excess experience of a unit to training points Production-capable projects need to specify ProductionType (e.g. YIELD_CIVICS ). Non-production projects do not. iCivics in project.xml changed to iCost

Change the UI settings screen:

Removed 'Options Presets' dropdown from Simple Settings, added 'Event Levels' instead Added 'Reset Options' button to Advanced and Multiplayer Settings screens Added difficulty setting to Advanced Settings screen When switching between the Simple/Advanced settings screen, only the country and dynasty settings are maintained, and the rest are saved separately. When entering the settings screen with a custom map with limited country selection, the map settings are changed to not be maintained (all countries are visible) Fixed activated DLC not resetting every time

Other UI changes:

The selected character is displayed in the upper right, and the ambition is displayed in the upper left. Added 'Net Yield Change' to Expert Build tooltip (includes yield deduction for the replaced Expert) Popup text minimum scale down Remove background UI blur when an event occurs EffectUnit links now include icons by default The slider on the timeline screen is disabled while progressing through seasons or years. Clarification of help regarding urban area numbers The authenticity bonuses for the Mysteries are named by cultural tier. Same tile can be reserved multiple times (units do not execute immediately) Right-clicking the last tile in the movement queue will cause the unit to move. Change the order of the luxury panel buttons Sorting of goal information by scenario Displaying Archetypes in the Successor Panel Display strategic resource icons in the categories of units that can be produced Displays the number of turns remaining on the temporary unit effect icon Change all happiness/dissatisfaction harvest indicators to symbol-based If there are multiple workers on a tile, the tile tooltip will display the list of workers. When selecting a character, move the camera to the relevant city or unit. Always show study UI regardless of selection state Added notification for looted tiles Hold down CTRL key to hide the improvement tooltips Reflect terrain changes and current boundaries on the timeline After selecting a land unit, hovering over a water tile where you can anchor will display 'End movement on land tile required' Automatically pauses when a multiplayer game ends In multiplayer, the last player remaining cannot surrender. Show world tile text on top of city UI too The unworking wonders have a 'workers needed' sign Right-clicking on an already open tab menu will close it. Unit combat power tooltip text improvements Custom map description update Removed some harvest items from expert tooltips, added modified total harvest instead Remove line breaks from event options tooltips where objectives start Removed 'New Event for Wizard' button from Event Browser Links that do not lead to a city will only move the camera to that city (e.g. tribal raid notifications, etc.) When starting the game with a parameter string, the settings are not saved in the options file. Add custom save file prefix to standalone scenarios Added promotion and unit effect information to the encyclopedia Updated credits for production crew Shapur Dynasty description updated – Clarifies that the ‘Slam’ effect applies to melee and ship units (Wonders and Dynasties DLC) Plague flies only appear on units with the 'Plague' status, and plague fog is restricted to city areas (Wrath of the Gods) Forest fire visual effects softened (Wrath of the Gods) Changed the ping of improvement items to no longer be removed when terrain becomes impassable (Wrath of the Gods) Increased visibility of Plague Fog (Wrath of the Gods) Increased volcano animation speed (Wrath of the Gods)

Bug fixes

Fixed an issue where Korean text would intermittently not display Fixed an issue with auto-sizing text Fixed an issue where pop-up text would not update immediately when changing the text scale Fixed an issue that occurred when removing player ownership from a tile with religion. Fixed a forest tile error above a lake on the Middle East map Fixed an issue where the city border preview was incorrectly displayed west of Pella (resolved by removing the city tile) Fixed a threading issue that could cause server-side exceptions Fixed bug related to unit reservation Fixed an issue where units would not be selected due to the overlay UI Fixed an issue where some UI elements would not update when canceling after building a city Fixed an issue where the alignment of the comment arrows in the event pop-up would sometimes be misaligned Fixed bug related to city recommendations Fixed an issue where workers and ships in cities without defenses would not take damage when attacked Fixed an issue where clicking on some areas of the UI would incorrectly select map elements Fixed continent map script bug Fixed an issue where caravans could not pass through anarchic territories Fixed an issue where improvements could be repaired even within enemy territory Fixed an issue where unit health bars were displayed incorrectly in some attack previews Fixed an issue where the Ignore Country Start Position option did not work on certain maps Fixed an issue where the family capital bonus was not displayed in the UI before establishing the capital Fixed an issue where the 'Road Connection' overlay would not update when the mouseover tile changed Fixed an issue where hovering over construction recommendations would cause them to flicker on some screens Fixed an issue where in some situations where the AI could still win while the player was winning at the same time Fixed bug in ambition validity judgment (goal value calculation error) Fixed an issue where the 'Barbarian Legion' challenge was not working in Hotseat mode Fixed an issue where Greek and Assyrian capital buildings would not display when adjacent to a river Fixed an issue where the 'Allow Negative Nicknames' option would appear when setting a character to unused Fixed missing icon for 'Free Advisor Assignment' encyclopedia entry Fixed an issue where help was displayed for features that did not have encyclopedia links Fix null reference error in encyclopedia Fixed an issue where the Successor Law preview tooltip was displaying incorrect laws Fixed an issue where the 'Added Subject' statistic did not increase when recruiting a foreign courtier, even though they were an existing subject. Fixed an issue where disorganization would not recover Fixed some AI related bugs Fixed an issue where the research UI would not update immediately when there was a change in yield Fixed an issue where a low-ranking victory was displayed when achieving an indirect objective in the Carthage scenario Fixed portrait editor loading issue Fixed an issue where portrait models could obscure each other Fixed an issue where the unit switching tooltip was not properly fixed Fixed an issue where ships could be built on tiles that had been converted to land Fixed nested links in candidate tooltips Fixed Team Color Intensity Slider bug Fixed an issue where border colors were not displayed properly in timeline GIFs Fixed Citrus Forest tile configuration error Fixed ZOC (Zone of Threat) display error Fixed an issue where the loot notification link would trigger unit selection Fixed dropdown UI appearance bug Fixed an issue where automatically built cities would not be repaired immediately even when under pioneer damage Fixed a bug in the crop display in the Effect City help Fixed an issue where events that occurred after building a city were missing Fixed an issue where connections would occasionally drop when there was an empty slot in network and server games. Fixed pathfinding errors for stealth units Fixed an issue where AI would repeatedly move between the same tiles Fixed an issue where initialization phase effects (e.g. changing religious favorability based on difficulty setting) would result in a null pointer (mod only) Fix aiUnitTraitConsumptionModifier help error (mod only) Fixed Steira related repair harvest purchase error (Wonders and Dynasties) Fixed an issue where floods were not displayed properly in some situations (Wrath of the Gods) Fixed an issue where the difficulty/game settings tooltip would display disaster numbers when content was disabled (Wrath of the Gods) Fixed an issue where graphic settings (Motion Blur, etc.) were covered by disaster post-processing effects ((Wrath of the Gods) Fixed rendering issues that occurred when terrain elevation changed (Wrath of the Gods) Fixed an issue where disaster effects would disappear too quickly from the river in certain situations (Wrath of the Gods) Fixed an issue where eruption effects would appear on volcanoes shrouded in fog (Wrath of the Gods) Fixed an issue where the legitimacy penalty would be doubled when rejecting a request (Wrath of the Gods) Fixed an issue where trees were not being recognized as requirements even if they were removed for construction (Wrath of the Gods) Fixed an issue where global disasters were incorrectly applied to all tiles (Wrath of the Gods) Fixed an issue where the event would not occur even after achieving the victory conditions in the 'Wrath of the Gods' scenario (Wrath of the Gods) Fixed an issue where duplicate victory condition events occurred in the 'Wrath of the Gods' scenario (Wrath of the Gods) Fixed an issue where hurricanes would not display correctly in some situations (Wrath of the Gods) Fixed the accumulation error of disaster stats when resetting/restarting the map (Wrath of the Gods) Fixed an issue where medium and large raid events were invalidated (Wrath of the Gods) Fixed an issue where city lots would become impassable due to disasters (Wrath of the Gods) Fixed a bug related to global disaster occurrence (Wrath of the Gods) Fix text and event errors

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