To switch to the test branch, right click Old World in Steam and select Properties, open the Game Versions & Betas tab and select 'test' in the version list.
Sages no longer get a free Archive on founding a city, instead they can build Archives without Metaphysics
Units with leader generals are now immune to the Fireship effect
Generic religion building ambitions are no longer offered (religion-specific building ambitions remain)
Event review and tweaks based on analytics and player feedback
AI anchoring and overseas expansion improvements
Transport layer changes to potentially fix issues with MP not connecting to cloud VM servers. Removed duplicate log spam when the send queue is full
Moved some event bonuses from multiple independent trait rolls to a single uniform roll
Added the ability to trigger the combat preview panel for tiles other than the selected unit's current tile. To use this, add a waypoint using CTRL+click, then mouse over the attack tile from the waypoint.
In network games with observers allowed, players can send chat messages that only observers can see and observers can send messages to specific players
Cloud game order reversed so that the more urgent ones are at the bottom
AI no longer plays the rest of the turn after a player surrenders in a 1v1 game
Added email field to bug reporting popup
Fixed Hittite portraits showing the Egyptian portrait background
Fixed city widget not being hoverable with city open, which prevented renaming a city
Fixed Chittogarh (Empires of the Indus) and Blessing of Healing (Wrath of Gods) healing all units, now only heals team and allied units
Fixed inheritance screen and family/religion tab text potentially displaying outside of their windows
Fixed undo delay and redo issues
Fixed random traits from events sometimes applying multiple times
Fixed point symmetry resource issue
Fixed MP chat dropdown issue
Fixed bug preventing servers running on Linux
Fixed cloud games with non-ASCII characters in the game name failing to upload
Fixed promotions being available for Workers upgraded from Steppe Riders (Empires of the Indus)
Fixed potential Family Control null reference (Empires of the Indus)
Text and event fixes