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Changelog v1.12 — September 3, 2026

Notable additions

  • Changes to Arleon maps 1 and 2

  • Many Wielder specializations changed or updated

Adventure

  • Ranger/Archer research now gives +10 troop size with every research level

  • Footmen/Shields of Order research now gives +10 troop size with every research level

  • Fixed edge case exceptions on campaign maps when winning a battle during AI turn but at the same time having failed the map due to turn limit

  • Loading a saved game now restores the Wielder that was selected when the save was made

  • Fixed the Load option on the campaign defeat screen not loading the selected save correctly

  • Fixed town defence troop controls sometimes affecting the currently selected Wielder instead of the Wielder who opened the town

Wielders

  • Ranged specialization now gives 20% extra damage instead of 15%

  • Essence specializations now give 2 essence instead of 1

  • Race-specific specializations now give +25 instead of +20

  • Arleon

    • Gnaw's starting army changed to 3 Horned Ones, and his specialization now gives Controlled Berserker to Horned Ones

    • Ethylle’s starting army changed to 4 Faey Spirit and 1 Queen's Guard

    • Giandra’s starting army changed to 3 Faey Spirit and 1 Faey Nobles, and her specialization changed to +1 Chaos to Faey Nobles and Queens

    • Cecilia’s starting army changed to 5 Shields of Order, her starting skill changed to Hand to Hand, and her specialization now gives Footmen and Shields of Order Frontline Fighter

    • Hammond’s specialization changed to give Humans +5 initiative

    • Peradine’s starting army changed to 5 Minstrels. 4 Rangers and 1 Troubadour. His specialization changed to giving Minstrels and Troubadours Quick

  • Rana

    • Itchamo now gives Crawlers and Burrowers Double Strike

    • T’Chyra now gives Eth’dra +1 Arcana

  • Loth

    • Wiesh now gives +1 Arcana to Spectres and Seneschals

    • Brother Hillar, Kin of the Empress, was clearly underpowered and got one more rat

    • Ambertina gives +1 Destruction to Scavenged Bones and Blessed Bones

    • Roderick gives Humans +1 damage

  • Barya

    • Silkspool gives +1 Order to Pikeneers and Veteran Pikeneers


Battle

  • Shield of Orders HP is now 35, and damage is 4-8; cost increased to 400 gold

  • Damage done by Faey Fire, Arcana Blast and Cloud of Insects abilities no longer affected by spell resistance/immunity

  • Poisoned troops now list that as a negative effect on the “red arrow” next to their stack size

  • Fixed targeting hexes showing up for other player when active player is choosing a target for Fenghuang’s Blaze of Fire ability in a multiplayer battle

  • Fixed case where a troop that should normally get first turn next round gets the second turn instead when affected by Initiative debuffs that expire at the end of the current round

  • Fixed losing ability to control battles because the game failed to sign in to GOG

UI

  • PC players can now select a touch-friendly interface under Options > Video > UI Mode > Touch

  • The Touch interface provides larger controls and touch-friendly layouts across the main menu, adventure map, battles, campaigns and game setup

  • Touchscreen controls support direct tapping, dragging and pinch-to-zoom. Mouse controls act as touch input, with click-and-drag for panning and the mouse wheel for battle zoom

  • Many actions use a two-step input: the first tap or click selects and displays information, while the second confirms movement, attacks, spells, abilities or menu choices

  • Online multiplayer, community maps and the Map Editor are not available while using the Touch interface. Switching UI Mode returns to the main menu, so save any game in progress first

  • Auto-equipping the best artifacts from the inventory now also sorts the backpack by artifact power

  • Camera zoom level is now remembered when returning from a battle

  • Info Mode has been reworked to make explored maps easier to read. Important locations retain their names, less important objects use compact markers, completed interactions are visually de-emphasized and custom map names are respected

  • Fixed artifact market sell value not being shown on tooltips of set artifacts

  • Removed false interaction instructions on tooltips for buildings belonging to a town that you are occupying

  • Make "Are you sure you want to quit to main menu?" question in “player disconnected popup” actually care about the player's response

Multiplayer

  • Spectators can now send chat messages

  • Fixed case where battle spectator is left in battle scene after setting disconnected team to AI control

  • Upgraded the game’s online technology and optimized how game data is transferred between players

  • Reduced network traffic and improved compression for large game-state transfers, particularly while joining and synchronizing an online game

  • Improved host migration reliability, including selection of a new host when players on different platforms are present

  • Improved disconnect handling during loading screens and when leaving battles

  • Fixed selecting “No” when asked to leave an online game still returning the player to the main menu

  • Fixed the lobby becoming unresponsive after opening the mod browser

  • Fixed rare issue where a team could wrongfully have their turn ended before it even begins when playing hotseat

Map Changes

  • Fixed duplicate Lady Hammonds showing up on second map of Mehry’s tale

  • Fixed a trigger-flow softlock in Yulan map 2

  • Fixed Yulan map 3 sometimes showing Meilin’s Flora victory text after the R’lac battle

  • Added a Vault of the Old Empire to Rana map 4

  • Corrected portrait directions throughout the Barya campaign

  • Fixed camera issues and incorrect intro dialogue portraits in Mehry’s Tale

AI - Adventure

  • Prevent AI wielders from making suicidal attacks against wielders standing on town wall gates because it didn’t take garrison troops into account when determining threat level

  • Fixed issue where AI could look at wrong amount in its “wallet” when determining its need for a resource

  • Misc improvements in AI recruitment so it makes better use of troop dwellings, available troop slots and resources

  • Fixed issue where AI would unnecessarily disband existing troops when purchasing troops from a neutral troop dwelling

  • Fixed issue where AI would try to transfer troops to wielder that could not accept them due to their (previously) buffed max size

  • Improved AI movement, route selection, threat evaluation and use of teleporters when escaping danger

  • Fixed issues where AI could end up with the wrong cost for future building upgrades, messing with its budgeting

  • Fixed several edge cases that could stall AI turns, particularly around repairing or pillaging troop dwellings and handling defeated Wielders

Performance, loading and memory

  • Improved frame pacing and camera movement on the adventure map, especially on large or heavily explored maps

  • Reduced hitches during minimap redraws, fog-of-war updates, map-object visibility changes and Info Mode toggling

  • Reduced stalls and memory allocations during AI turns and pathfinding, with the largest benefits expected on bigger maps and later rounds

  • Reduced recurring memory allocations and unnecessary hidden updates in the battle interface

  • Improved loading when entering adventure maps and battles, with more responsive loading screens and fewer stalls immediately after a map appears

  • Reduced loading overhead in single-player and hotseat games

  • Reduced startup memory by delaying battle visuals, menus, portraits and other content until they are actually needed

  • Adventure menus such as towns, troop dwellings, markets, rallies and trading are now loaded when first opened rather than all being created when the map loads

  • Desktop and Touch interface assets are kept separate so the game does not load both versions of large menus at the same time

  • Reworked audio loading so menus, adventure maps and battles only keep the sounds and faction audio needed for the current context

  • Reduced memory use on large maps by removing duplicated map data and releasing temporary loading data when it is no longer needed

  • Fixed several cases where generated terrain, grid and path geometry, minimap textures, outlines and temporary materials could remain in memory after use

  • The game can now release hidden menus, pooled objects and map geometry when the operating system reports memory pressure

  • Reduced memory spikes when overwriting a save by loading only the information needed for its preview rather than a second complete game state

  • Low and Lowest graphics quality now use smaller font atlases to reduce memory use, while higher settings retain the full-resolution fonts

  • Lowest graphics quality no longer loads or plays ambient map audio, further reducing its memory requirement. Other quality settings are unchanged

  • Fixed a crash when using the Lowest graphics-quality setting with certain colour-tinted map objects

  • Improved the appearance of see-through effects on the Lowest graphics-quality setting

  • Video render scale now snaps to clear 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% choices

  • Fixed crashes that could occur when returning to the main menu from memory-heavy battles, the Map Editor or the Mods menu

  • Fixed campaign cutscenes sometimes crashing when skipped, exited or replayed

  • Fixed objective popups sometimes freezing when they appeared while the adventure interface was hidden

  • Fixed rapid or overlapping menu inputs occasionally dropping a scene change or starting two local games at once

Misc

  • Fixed Tian Necklace trinket artifact only giving Chaos and not Order essence income

  • Fixed Mian headpiece artifact not giving its Initiative bonus

  • Random map generation now includes validation step that should ensure that all player starting positions are reachable in the final map (will make five attempts at generating before failure)

  • If enabling Beacons of Power when creating a random map but then disabling them as a victory condition in lobby it is now possible to play with beacons that allow teleportation but not victory

  • Various additional performance, stability and compatibility improvements

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