Conquest of Elysium 5.21

This update brings another new playable class to Elysium, the Raksharaja, a Demon that has infiltrated and taken control over a society of monkey people. The Raksharaja will use the monkey to get hold of blood sacrifices in order to summon more demons. This new class also comes with a new tune made by Adrian von Ziegler. This update also contains a lot of fixes and some new contents like more magic items, unique battle maps for more locations, new combat spells and a new random event. There are also improvements to the AI and a bunch of new commands for modders.

General

• New playable class, the Raksharaja
• 6 new magic items
• Enormous map size width increased 78 -> 80 squares
• New battle maps: House Ruins and Town Ruins
• New random event: Elemental Anomaly
• New spell: Blindness
• Wandering Damned Merchants in Inferno
• Not selected commanders are now darker, to be more visible against snow
• Twiceborned necromancer now revive in the citadel twiceborn was cast in
• Burrowing units could try to emerge on friends instead, fixed
• Allies in a castle siege attack could not burrow
• Some defensive walls no longer attacks terrain
• Fix for wall attacks in battle log
• Fear effects on terrain is no longer printed in battle log
• It was sometimes possible to select a square outside the current plane, fixed
• No longer possible to go berserk in fight aftermath
• More corrupted Town and Port names for Hades
• Fix for port sea look in Hades
• Painted Crystal Priestess didn't enable Sorceress recruitment
• Fade Effect did not stay disabled, fixed
• Statues created by Magistratus didn't depict the Emperor
• Resources now take less space when there are many types of incomes
• Cow of Plenty now bestows Blessings of Plenty on farms
• Fix for failed multi-summoning not showing the units properly afterwards
• Half Buried Sinners became wrong terrain when destroyed sometimes
• Giant Sized monsters can now also take drowning damage
• Faster and more reliable clustered start setup, especially with custom maps
• Scrying spells cast from Elysium can now target the nearby planes as well
• Range bonuses are shown on weapons in unit stats
• Disintegrate casters could target their own boat, fixed
• Disintegrate now leaves no corpses and bypasses some on death effects
• Fix for disintegrate affecting terrain if unit in square was killed
• Travelling Merchants can now travel to near Elysium planes also if possible
• Message when King is crowned in capital
• Visions of Dread now only affects enemies
• Fire spells can thaw frozen targets
• Cold spells can put out fires on targets
• New graphical effects for prebattle fear
• Magic touch attacks now have initiative 3
• Golden Magic renamed to Dawn Magic
• No visible effect when reanimating on a square with no corpses, fixed
• Reduced CPU usage when on map screen
• Magic maps now reveal units too, again
• Ape type corpses are now kept track of and can be raised
• Nexus now protects Elysium from magic anomalies and can be disabled
• Infernal Horde now gives slightly less Demonic Locusts
• Resistance Spells now only affects friendly units
• Mixing humans and fish in a ship squad could result in humans deploying outside ship and drown, fixed
• Independent Gorgons are now commanders
• Fix for too loud sound when entering combat by shifting plane
• Random pitch for sound effects
• New sound start option: --randpitch=X
• Save file size reduced
• Stat and typo fixes

Network / Multiplayer

• Scrying network performance improvement
• Fix for horror summoning in network games not working properly
• --seclobby to connect to backup lobby server

AI

• Cloud Lord AI improvements
• AI smarter item distribution
• Fix for some independent behaviors
• Inferno didn't react when one of their citadels were conquered, fixed.
• The demon lord Belial now brings troops along with him when going to Elysium
• It was sometimes possible to see when AI was scrying

Modding

• New ritual commands: multiplane, updhomeifterr, seasonreq, clearsquarespec
• New monster command: ape
• New item commands: magicboost, pathboost, mr, morale, str, rank, falselife, curseditem, extracost
• New event triggers: minterrains & minunits
• Weapons can now also use the * flymodes
• Improved interaction of promotion and other addstring commands
• randomloc 3 (rand enemy com) didn't take setplane into account
• choosefxtarg -1 = can choose enemy units too
• teleportloc 3 = teleport target unit and his entire army
• Map editor: alt-r to reduce terrain in a square
• Map editor: alt-d to destroy terrain in a square