Dominions 6.34

This update adds more Fay summons and two new pretender gods. There are also a large number of tweaks and bug fixes, e.g. many ritual messages have been improved and there are icons for some more abilities. There has also been performance improvements and a couple of new mod commands.

General

• More Fay: Fay Archer, Unseelie Archer, Unseelie Folk

• New rituals: Summon Fay Archers, Summon Unseelie Folk, Summon Unseelie Soldiers, Summon Unseelie Archers, Summon Unseelie Knights, Summon Unseelie Prince

• New pretenders: Draugadrott and Buraq

• Sea of Ice global enchantment now makes all seas look frozen

• Eternal twilight didn't always affect resources correctly

• Better battle log text for mistform

• Temporary battle effects were not always removed on twiceborned units

• Max number of teams in disciple games increased 15 -> 20

• Most automatic monster summoning effects will now work when besieged too

• Fix for Son of Niefel's summons not going to his squad

• Revealed site could sometimes not be revealed for allies, fixed

• Mallqui can now be underwater, but will take damage every month

• Undisciplined storm drakes and similar will now fly attack

• Muspelheim no longer gets giants in underwater fort defence

• Size and strength negates effect now requires size 7+ for immunity (was 6+)

• Carrion Reanimation now creates as many commanders as necessary

• Better messages for Carrion Reanimation and Army of the Dead

• Many ritual messages now has 'goto province' even if it was blocked by a dome

• Ritual of Rebirth now gets rid of most afflictions as well

• Icon for underwater damage ability

• Icon for fast casting ability

• Text for cannot be used by cold blooded on magic items

• Commanders immobile without their mount could not survive a retreat, fixed

• Fix for a crash during host caused by mounted assassin in events

• Fix for AI trying to cast rituals without a lab

• Fix for AI trying to research when it is not possible

• Fix for AI trying to preach with non-priests

• Fix for bless from magic item ending after Life after Death

• Fix for some summon unique rituals not regarding polymorphed units

• Spell AI now less likely to cast barkskin when fire battle enchantments are active

• Spell AI, don't summon if our side is routing

• 3D tree clipping fix

• Faster first time map rendering

• Faster file loading performance

• New sprite for skeletal horseman

• Domes may protect against Astral Disruption

• Shields didn't protect properly against non-armor negating weapon blesses

• Turan Shah now has a sacred steed

• Faster hosting for large games

• Fix for start item exploit

• Event fixes

• Stat and typo fixes

Modding / Map Making

• New event commands: #req_monsterbs, #res_mnrbs

• Improved performance for mods with many sprites