English Longbowman is now available!

Special Unit

England now has Longbowman as first special unit, replacing Crossbowman.

Tooltip overhaul

• A nested tooltips system now enable reading the game mechanics inside the game. Hovering over most tooltips over 2 seconds will pop up another with further detail.

• The grudge tooltip now shows both current and next turn changes.

• The population growth now shows a detailed tooltip listing affecting factors.

Gameplay

• New Game Option: When enabled, units now can pass through own units. Occupying same tiles are still not allowed (except when assembling armies and ambushes)

• New Game Option: When enabled, units can perform surprise attacks, declaring war effectively. Causes big diplomatic consequences with other factions within 40 tiles.

• Towns now may disappear if abandoned for at least 10 turns. Visiting units reset the countdown.

• Cutting woods now removes the log or game resource too, but awards the player with logs. (rainforests can still not be cut)

• Depression now also decreases attack strengths.

• Ships now return home when abandoned by the shore for 3 years

• The ability "Heal All" will now heal all nearby regiments, not only own regiment.

• Market prices are rebalanced to reflect production costs.

• Replantation sliders will move automatically when replantation fails.

• Any resource that is extracted now becomes visible to everyone.

• Crossbowman range is now decreased to 2.

Visuals

• HUD toggle button allows enabling different combinations of HUD elements; unit banner, event reports and shade.

• Visuality related options are now persistent between sessions: Tutorial Lady toggle, camera-follow-mode toggle, info window toggle, sort by availability toggle.

• Building buttons now show the name of the most fitting building even when disabled.

• Expected wealth change is now available in the main HUD.

• Current labor allocation is now available in the main HUD.

Controls

• Key bindings can now be changed in the In-Game Menu.

Fixes

• Labor Auto-allocation now does not ignore disabling when recruiting units.

• Pending logistic changes are also saved in the save games now.

• Regiment visibility now updates correctly during Hotseat games.

• New found town automatic selection issue has been fixed.

• Maps with big clumps of mountains are gone.

• Regenerated maps are now less likely to miss a resource type.

• Russian Empire now correctly recruits a Presbyter instead of Priest.