Wesnoth 1.19.26

Campaigns

• Of Pearls and Pirates
  • Don’t show the tutorial hint about save-loading when Biased RNG is active
  • S05 "Lady Maudie": fixed Fireships being healable.

• The Deceivers Gambit
  • Fix missing siphon attack sound, which would cause a crash anytime the attack was used.
  • S07 "The Great River": reduced walking time from starting keep to first enemies.
  • Most spells now unlock when Delfador advances a level, not at the start of arbitrary scenarios.
  • S07 "The Great River": adjusted map to account for Delfador's additional spell options.
  • S04 "The Sylvan Seer": fixed an issue where playing S03 with a familiar but not S04 would result in the familiar having 0% defense / 100% cth for S05.
  • S14 "Long Live the Queen": Eldred's units are now mostly on a single side, instead of spread out over several. Scenario rebalanced accordingly.
  • S14 "Long Live the Queen": the final boss fight now has fewer random elements, and varies less significantly with difficulty.

• The South Guard
  • Don’t show some of the tutorial hints about RNG when Biased RNG is active
  • To add variety, later scenarios now feature a small number of mounted variation Walking Corpses.
  • S04 "Choice in the Fog": Replaced Ghoul leaders with Skeleton Archers. Side 8 now recruits a very small number of Ghouls/Skeleton Archers
  • S05b "Pebbles in the Flood": Mebrin now uses his nerfed stats from S06b, not regular Lich stats.

• Heir to the Throne
  • S10 "The Siege of Elensefar": reduced lag during Li'sar's AI turn.
  • S24 "An Old Friend": increased difficulty.
  • Jeniver: increased blowgun damage from 5-4 to 7-4.
  • S50 "The Battle for Wesnoth": Avoid setting negative time values for time areas
  • Added more explanation when you first enter the overworld.
  • Granite Golems can no longer traverse deep water.
  • Fixed a bug where some loyal units could trigger the Sceptre of Fire defection event.
  • S01 "The Elves Besieged": increased the turn limit on lower difficulties.
  • S02 "Flight of the Elves": moved one enemy leader into an easily-killable position, and added several defensive chokepoints.
  • S50 "The Battle for Wesnoth": reinforcement waves now grow much more slowly. Burning fields now affects Asheveire's gold less.
  • S11 "The Silver City": approaching from the north is now easier, while approaching from the south is now harder. The two approaches should now feel more balanced with each other.
  • S31 "Plunging Into Darkness": fixed one map mask being unwinnable if Konrad has a prisoner and 5 max moves.
  • S32 "The Swamp of Dread": adjusted starting location, terrain, and enemies to increase difficulty and variety.
  • S42 "A Crisis of Leadership": the scenario now gains a turn limit once Konrad is spotted.
  • Li'sar's units now use a different color scheme, to differentiate them (and their special abilities) from regular loyalists.
  • Delfador will no longer be offered +2 or +4 ranged damage AMLAs if he advances when his chain special has reduced his Lightning attack to only 1 or 2 strikes.

• The Hammer of Thursagan
  • Added experimental "regroup" micro AI.
  • S03 "Strange Allies": expanded the map.

Lua API

• `text_box` gui widget now has the gettable and settable properties `selection_start` and `selection_length` for cursor position/selection start and length of text selection respectively.
• Added getter `wesnoth.game_config.random_mode`, which is only intended to be used for the tutorial hints.
• add_overlay_text now accepts a border parameter

Translations

• Updated translations: Bengali, British English, Bulgarian, Czech, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish

Units

• Frost Stoat
  • Arcane Resist: -20% -> 0%

User interface

• Fix sound effect slider which was incorrectly affecting the music track volume.
• Footprints have been reworked:
  • The footprint path system now gives immediate strong visual feedback when multi-turn movement is assigned.
  • It does this by flashing any such footprints and fades them out over 2 seconds as the unit is deselected.
  • Changed how the red tint that indicated how movement costs works behind the scene. (cleanup)
  • Custom footprints is now possible with the new key `footprints` under ``, ``, `` and `` like `footprints="large_clawed_paw"`.
  • 8 new footprint variations added.

• Restored the original footprint images as the `default` set, used by units that do not set the `footprints` key.
• The `footprints` key can now also be set under ``, applying to every unit of that race. A `footprints` key on the unit type takes precedence over the race one.

WML Engine

• New tag avalible in in unit.cfg.
  • Lets us adjust the default frame with the same inputs used for the animation tags.
  • Example: image="units/monsters/wyvern/wild-wyvern.png" layer=50
  • This is an optional tag.

• Added optional input "parallel=yes|no" to which
  • Cause all movement animations to animate in parallel rather than one at a time.
  • Defaults to "no".

Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes

• Reworked the animation engine to track time on shared wall-clock anchored timelines instead of per-animation timers, making frame timing consistent within each drawn frame and speed changes (accelerated mode) smooth and drift-free.
• Fixed crashes when `current_time=` or `current_time=` was negative
• Added optimisations for several pixel iteration functions.
  • Speed-ups gained between 10% and 1200%, depending on the system and function.
  • The feature is configurable with an advanced option "SIMD acceleration", a command line flag "--no-simd" and an env var "WESNOTH_NO_SIMD".