Conquest of Elysium 5.12, The Apocalypse Update

This is a major update that focuses on the Apocalypse, UI improvements and the AI. But there are also many other fixes, new magic items to be found, performance improvements and a bunch of new commands for modders.

General

• New sprites for all Apocalyptic Riders
• New monster: Giant Locust
• Movement of player owned stupid commanders is now shown by default
• New start options: --(no)showstupids
• New El bless effect: Holy Vengeance
• The Arch Devil will now leave his citadel if the apocalypse occurs
• The Lord of Corruption will now leave his citadel if the infernal gate remains open for too long
• Empire's Cardinal can break seals if Inferno is invading
• 9 new magic items
• Names drawn on commander tokens in army setup
• ctrl+right click to switch to another commander in Transfer Units screen
• Ambushes now start centered on a defending commander if any
• Strange mist will now create lots of clouds on the sky plane
• Terrain is burning when fighting in burning squares
• Baron can now create vassals from Unicorn Knights too
• Some animals may now revert to being independents after their owner is defeated
• Some Enchanter guardians might become Empire controlled if he is defeated
• Cursed false life artifacts created by Enchanter will now usually end up on a suitable target
• Ravenous Curse on some terrains didn't yield anything, fixed
• Fix for scrollbar on ritual screen
• Blindness fix
• Water attacks now has x2 dmg vs fire beings
• Saving game now also features dates and sorting
• No longer possible to swallow yourself
• High level mages less likely to use wands
• Destroying a spider thicket now results in a dead forest.
• Stupid units could be led after being charmed, fixed
• Fix for visible independent moves showing incorrect units
• Can no longer recruit normal units in sea citadels
• Planar tomes didn't work properly, fixed
• Particle effects for Troll Forests
• Fix for Monument of Hades being abandoned during construction
• New look for miasma
• Miasma shown in square info (i)
• Fire Shield spells now only affects friendly units
• Can now remove insane commander from followers
• No bushes on frozen sea or cloud battlegrounds
• Better setup for large monsters defending towers
• Mirrors can now survive underwater
• Fix for Palace of Dreams losing its gem income
• Rubble is now immune to petrification
• Fixed bug with wrong independent shown as moving
• Units with poison cloud try to avoid deploying close to vulnerable commanders
• Swamp Soul didn't work properly from Sky or Agartha, fixed
• Monster Fish didn't kill units in its belly, fixed
• Oak Golems and Forest Shepherds are now immune to Tangle Vines
• Ancient Commander's attack sprite looked squashed, fixed.
• Monster Snail got an AoE attack
• Sometimes another commander could claim to be the main commander, fixed
• Can now swap magic items directly with another already equipped unit
• Gates, walls, trees sometimes disappeared when transferring items, fixed.
• Commanders didn't wrap properly after changing text size, fixed.
• Improved placement of portrait when viewing stats
• Particle effects bug fix
• Fixed excessively popping mushrooms in swamps when zooming
• Save scrollbar position in mod selection screen
• Main map graphics performance improvement
• Fight performance improvement
• Typo and Stat fixes

AI

• Mid/rear rank units without ranged weapon will now behave smarter
• AI now only upgrade full batches of units to avoid wasting resources
• AI better at redistributing items
• AI Cloud Lord improvements
• AI enchanter improvement
• AI better at using ships
• AI improved strength assessment
• AI better at avoiding hopeless fights
• AI more careful with frozen waters

Modding

• Squareevents that set target unit didn't work properly, fixed
• There could occur one event too many at turn -1 for player 0, fixed
• Squareevent performance improvement
• New usable terrain can be (de)activated by players
• Terrain nbr 10000+ to get the inverted selection
• New recruitment list command: recterr
• New weapon command: affectfemale
• New monster commands: terrstealth, terrstealthinv, growterr, startinsanity, demonic, tiny
• New monster commands: elysiumshape, hadesshape, infernoshape, ...
• New monster/item commands: holyvengeance, dmgonterr, dmgonterrbonus, tangleres
• New terrain commands: destroyto, visible
• New class command: townbonusdescr
• New event triggers: +aiplayer, +humanplayer
• New event triggers: +squareactivated, +ownsloctarg, +hasaffunithere
• New event triggers: +varvarequal, +varvargreater, +varvarlesser
• New event actions: makeaff, makeminoraff
• New event actions: targetunitloc, holdit, copyvar
• recxcost can now be used 2 times on same recruitment offer
• minmonreq didn't work properly, fixed
• insanity command now implemented for real
• Terrain selector in map editor remembers old location