Old World July 29th Test update

Old World test branch update 1.0.84325 Test 2026-07-29

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.

Design

• Priest specialists increase happiness by 1/2/3 (from 1/1.5/2) and religion opinion by 2/4/6 (from 1/2/3)

• Bishop specialists increase religion opinion by 3/6/9 (from 1/2/3)

• Schemers can be Ambassadors and Chancellors in addition to Spymasters and Agents

• In team games where one player has a tribal alliance, tribes are less likely to demand tribute from non-allied teammates

• Huns won't ask for tribute before turn 20 or repeat demands until at least 10 turns after first being met (Empires of the Indus)

UI

• Added modsets functionality to mods screen, to allow grouping mods that can all be enabled at once

• Increased visibility of attack range outline for ranged units

• Added Urban to map pin options

• Improved color selection for High Contrast Player Colors option

• Luxury/source helptext improvements

• Updated Discord channel helptext on MP join screen

• Added tech path history to saves. Not shown in-game, for use by community save analyzers

• Added Disable SRP Batcher troubleshooting option

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed characters sometimes showing wrong nation color with high contrast option enabled

• Fixed event kills not advancing/routing when they should

• Fixed tribe killing goal getting invalidated too early in some cases

• Fixed duplicate floating text in some cases

• Fixed Buy Yields text on Road ping tooltip

• Fixed resource overlay and harvested icons overlaying each other when both are present

• Fixed unit widget healthbars rendering behind resource overlay

• Fixed character portrait interpolation settings (Tamil Male 05 and Rome Female 11)

• Fixed occurrences that reduce vegetation pillaging and destroying improvements by that mechanic (Wrath of Gods)