Patch 0.2 Significant AI improvements

there were some big changes that we needed to do so it took us a bit more time to do it, here is a full list of changes.

Next big patch is to be expected on 20th July that will add NEW CONTENT to the game.

AI changes

• made Easy AI much easier, defaulted to Normal now

  Regions

• Upgrades villages past initial specialization

• Upgrades regions smarter

• Upgrades special regions

• Upgrades are limited and affected by difficulties

  Map

• Grabs pickups on map

• Grabs shrines and mana pools

  Army

• Unit upgrades are limited by difficulty levels.

• Army compositions are managed to avoid off balance armies

• Armies are reordered smartly for their combat order

  Spellcasting

• Spellcasting has been expanded on to avoid starving mana

• Now cast Voice of God, Curtain of Souls, and Blast Monolith

• Some spells are gated behind difficulty

• Rune spells were altered to follow difficulty level

UX

• NEW! Changed the display for settlement indicator stats on world map

• NEW! Transfer button now appears and it's visible when army can be transferred for any reason

• Several user interface performance optimizations.

• Several user interface display fixes.

• Settlements should now display correct numbers for population increases where before it was being locked to a minimum of +1.

• Some display fixes for artifact creation.

• Fix for some banners not updating ownership colors.

• Stats are now updated in manual combat when hovering over unit card

• Removed ownership percentage if player doesn't have at least 1% on all settlements

• Slightly improved readability of combat logs

• Ambush will now properly display when selecting one or both avatars, fixed issues with missing ambush circle sometimes

Gameplay

• Added several road connections during map generation to avoid huge unpathable sections.

• Subdue will automatically finish expand empire quest

• Double population quest is not set to > increase total population by 2000

• Increased manual combat mortality from 0.23 to 0.3

• When executing retreat, both of player avatars will now properly retreat

• Retreating in manual combat will make you lose 5% total army

Misc

• Fixes for not being able to recruit a dragon from an allied owned Ancient Beast building.

• Fixed a bug where two avatars in the same region as their owner's Harvest of the Weak was causing double unit gains.

• Fixed some rare cases of avatars being stuck post combat.

• Fixed a rare bug with manual combat that could cause finishing it to make the day timer fail to restart.

• Region destruction sound will now pause when the game is paused.

• Fixed a bug that could cause Warp Monolith to sometimes cost more than it should.

• Fix for Edict of the Unmaking showing on a neutral settlement after selecting any player owned settlement.

• Several performance fixes for gameplay systems.

• Major performance updates to the update of the region ownership display.

Visuals

• Improved formation so that army is stacked more tighter if specific unit type is missing

• Fix for road visual remaining in the rift of a destroyed region.

• Several fixes to the speed of region display generation when fog of war reveals.

• Fixed Haad avatar animation in combat

• Fanged lagomorph vfx changes

• Defend, Mindbend and Terror have new effects in combat

• Updated recruit effect

• Updated curtain of souls effect

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