IMPORTANT This update contains a fix for a security vulnerability present back through version 1.13.5. While this should be taken care of by Steam, we strongly recommend everyone upgrade to this version. Additionally, due to the nature of the vulnerability, versions older than this will soon be blocked from joining the 1.18 online multiplayer servers. Translations · Updated translations: Bengal…
Campaigns · Heir to the Throne · S01 "The Elves Besieged": reduced starting gold, but added gold pickups near enemy keeps. Added more swamp hexes. · S03 "Blackwater Port": added a secondary, coastal entry point for this scenario, so Konrad can make better use of Merfolk if he has them. · S10 "The Siege of Elensefar": rebalanced gold, income, and AI. Maddock's AI is now less likely to defend unt…
Campaigns · The South Guard · S04 "Choice in the Fog": both choices should now be more similar in difficulty · S06a "Vengeance": increased the survival turns, but decreased initial enemy gold/units. · Heir to the Throne · S07 "Muff Malal's Peninsula": fixed incorrect portrait for Muff Malal in the time over event. · S28 "The Lost General": fixed "Cavefish" achievement triggering if you didn't r…
Campaigns · Heir to the Throne · Granite Golem: added "regenerates +4" ability, cost reduced from 35 -> 30, damage reduced from 35 -> 32 · Fix Elrian's Tath event triggering even if you hadn't yet completed Isle of Alduin. · Fix Elrian's Tath event not trigering after completing The Sceptre of Fire. · S06 "Isle of Alduin": fix Konrad and Elrian discussing Seimus too early. · S22 "Glamdrol": end…
Translations · Updated translations: Bengali, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, French, Hungarian, Portuguese (Brazil) Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes · Fix time of day sounds not playing.
Campaigns · Heir to the Throne · S22 "Glamdrol": fixed a lua error that would occur if Konrad completed the scenario without pledging any gold to the Stoneskins. · Liberty · S04 "Unlawful Orders": Kestrel's keep no longer gets blocked by his Lieutenant on turn 4. · S04 "Unlawful Orders": fix enemy soldiers having names. · The Deceivers Gambit · S04 "The Sylvan Seer": Silverback image is now sma…
Campaigns · A Tale of Two Brothers · Add achievements and relevant code. · Dead Water · S05 "Tirigaz": the orcs now use real ship units, instead of static images. Orcish gold reduced to compensate. · Dusk of Dawn · S02 "A Dream": remove "fearless" trait, but spawn more higher-level woses instead. · Eastern Invasion · S02 "Escape Tunnel": Now uses the core Dwarvish Miner unit, instead of a modif…
Campaigns · Dusk of Dawn · Remove custom "Troll Earth-Shaker" Rocklobber advancement to avoid confusing beginners. · Eastern Invasion · Add weather effects to several scenarios. · The Deceivers Gambit · S13 "Revelry, Revisited": fixed way too many enemies spawning after many turns had elapsed. · S13 "Revelry, Revisited": added more dialogue between the orcs and humans. · The Hammer of Thursagan…
Campaigns · Heir to the Throne · The finale's farm burning difficulty option now explains which option is the standard and which option is especially challenging. · The finale's farm burning difficulty option will now trigger automatically if you miss it. · Once unlocked, Carcyn now also includes a port on the north shore. · Fix Li'sar not using her elite recruits in Crossroads and Siege of Ele…
Multiplayer · 5p - The Wilderlands: · Fixed lag during AI turn (issue #10419) Translations · Updated translations: Ancient Greek, Arabic, Bengali, British English, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Finnish, French, Galician, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish User interface · The load-game dialog can now see the directories used by the development version (1.19.2 and later)
Campaigns · Dusk of Dawn · Added to mainline. · This is a new troll campaign. · 4 scenarios, novice level. · Heir to the Throne · Add new "Heir to the Throne" revision to mainline. · Rename existing HttT campaign to "Heir to the Throne, Classic" · Merge "Battle Training" into HttTC. · The Deceiver's Gambit · Revised Delfador and Garard's dialogue (again) · "Stirrings of War" and "The Ambassador…
Campaigns · Liberty · Changed some of Maddock's dialogue to stay consistent with The Deceiver's Gambit. · Difficulty scaling now follows the same pattern as the other beginner campaigns: 1x enemies, 2x enemies, 3x enemies. · Use the new Elensefar map from the revised Heir to the Throne. · Various minor bugfixes and tweaks. · Son of the Black Eye · Units now have access to customized AMLA. · Uni…
Lua API · Toggle panel now have the event handler `on_double_click`. If set, it will be fired when the user left double clicks on that widget. For other widgets, they can be wrapped inside a toggle panel for this to work. Translations · Updated translations: Ancient Greek, Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Galician, Hungarian Units · Arcane resistance of all Drake race unit…
Campaigns · Eastern Invasion · Terraent arcane resistance from 30% to 40%, melee arcane 9-5 to 8-5, cost: 82 -> 80 Editor · Fixed side default income getting incremented to 2 each time a scenario is saved Multiplayer · Add presets to allow saving and easily reusing game settings. Translations · Updated translations: Ancient Greek, Arabic, Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, F…
Translations · Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Czech, Italian Units · Added Dune Rover attack, defend, and standing animations User interface · Fixed sidebar unit tooltip no longer taking damage resistances into account · Fixed the progress bar for sub achievements not updating correctly WML Engine · Added auto_sort key to control automatic alphabetical sorting. · add 'name_affe…
Add-ons client · Fixed downloading an add-on causing a crash. Campaigns · Son of the Black Eye · S15: improved AI behavior. · The Deceiver’s Gambit · Easy and Normal difficulties are now more challenging · Delfador now references Elende's prophecy much more in Part II · Numerous minor dialogue changes, scenario tweaks, and bug fixes · Various dialogue tweaks in Part II to better-resolve some of…
Editor · Clear old time-of-day schedule before saving new one, resolves scenario file bloat (issue #10115). Networking · Resolve crash on attempting to download MP replay from server, when using cURL 7.85.0 or later (issue #10139). Terrain · Fix bluff/gulch terrain overlays being conspicuously visible on the minimap display (bug #8924). Translations · Updated translations: Arabic, Bengali, Bulg…
Campaigns · The Deceiver's Gambit · Spells: clarified "Counterspell" description · S05: the allied AIs now attack at Dawn instead of Second Watch · S08: changed Trappers' dialogue to be less overtly hostile · S14: the final boss now heals less on lower difficulties Editor · Clear old time-of-day schedule before saving new one, resolves scenario file bloat (issue #10115) Multiplayer · Resolve cr…
Campaigns · Fixed campaigns not using the correct map settings Editor · `Convert To Scenario` menu item added to `File` menu that allows converting an already opened map to a scenario. Multiplayer · Added the foundation for multiplayer queueing Lua API · Add `mvt_alias` and `def_alias` to `wesnoth.terrain_types`. Packaging · Boost 1.70 or later is now required Translations · Updated translation…
Campaigns · Eastern Invasion · S04c: achievement now only triggers when escaping with all knights alive · S11/S99: flying units can no longer enter prison cells via the river · S12: fixed Dra-Nak (if present) having incorrect traits and portraits · S17b: AI is now more forced to recruit only higher-level units when gold reserves get too high · S99: prisoners now escape if their jailers are kill…
Campaigns · Delfador’s Memoirs · Campaign removed! Replaced with “The Deceiver’s Gambit” · The Deceiver’s Gambit · New campaign, replacing “Delfador’s Memoirs”! · _Yearning for adventure, a newly-trained apprentice from the magic academy at Alduin fights alongside Wesnoth’s king during a major war against the orcs of the north. Play a pivotal role during this time of turmoil, as despite a strin…
Campaigns · Eastern Invasion · S04c: give Mal-Ravanal gold to recruit more units when their army becomes too small · forbid all Dunefolk units to take the Plague Staff · fix minor bugs with dialogues · The South Guard · Major rewrite of the campaign · Adds an embedded tutorial, which is now the official starting campaign for new players · Tutorial · Description changed to explain that the stand…
Multiplayer · Implemented an attempt to fix the multiplayer server crashing if someone requested game history and then disconnected before receiving the results Translations · Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Hungarian, Italian Units · Dawarf - Decreased Cost from 17 to 12, Decreased Level from 1 to 0, and Decreased XP from 50 to 25 · Elvish Champion:…
Add-ons client · The Add-ons client now supports UI Theme type add-ons (id 'theme'). Campaigns · Son of the Black-Eye · Allowed Saurian Skirmishers to advance into Saurian Spearthrower. · The Hammer of Thursagan · Added Achievements. Multiplayer · OOS-bugs have been fixed. Translations · Updated translations: Arabic, Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, German, Hungarian, Norw…
Campaigns · Eastern Invasion · S04c: achievement now only triggers when escaping with all knights alive · S11/S99: flying units can no longer enter prison cells via the river · S12: fixed Dra-Nak (if present) having incorrect traits and portraits · S17b: AI is now more forced to recruit only higher-level units when gold reserves get too high · S99: prisoners now escape if their jailers are kill…
Campaigns · Eastern Invasion: "Drowned Plains" drastically shortened in length. Objective now involves gathering gold, not killing enemy leaders. Editor · Fixed a crash in some cases after setting which direction a unit is facing. Lua API · Added new function gui.switch_theme() to allow switching to another gui2 theme from inside a scenario. Terrain · Improved handling of bluffs/gulch transitio…
Lua API · Added new function gui.switch_theme() to allow switching to another gui2 theme from inside a scenario. · Updated to lua 5.4.7 Translations · Updated translations: Arabic, Bengali, British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Italian, Japanese, Turkish, Ukrainian Units · Walking Corpse: arcane vulnerability reduced from 40% to 20%. · Soulless: arcane vulnerability reduced from 40% to…
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