Version 1.4.0 - Champions

Gameplay:

• Added the Champion unit

  • Champions are special units that provide boosts to your army or town.

  • Each Champion can be created at a 'Champion Palace' building and can only be built once their requirements are met.

  • Multiple 'Champion Palaces' can be built, but each can only create one Champion at a time.

• Added the Veteran Champion

  • A Veteran requires a certain number of enemy units to be killed.

  • The Veteran will boost your armies strength, all soldiers within the Veteran's radius have increased defence and attack.

• Added the Merchant Champion

  • A Merchant requires a certain number of resources to be produced in your town.

  • The Merchant will boost your worker's efficiency, all workers within the Merchant's radius will work faster.

• Added the Architect Champion

  • An Architect requires a certain number of buildings to be built in your town.

  • The Architect will boost expanding your town, all buildings within the Architect's radius will be built faster.

• Added the Champion Palace building

  • Greeks can place the Anaktoro building to create Champions

  • Greeks can place the Kastali building to create Champions

• Increased the strength of all Towers

• Increased the damage of all Sentries in Towers

• Increased Tower Sentry range to match the view distance

• Added Norsemen Beekeeper gather animation

• Added Norsemen Cooper animation

• Added Norsemen Longhouse upgrade model

• Formations 'prepare' less often when moving

• Reduced terrain regeneration delay

• Display current number of free Plebs in a town

• Allow the number of free Plebs to be changed per town (shown when looking at each town)

• Slightly increased the duration for harvesting terrain

Features:

• Added tree stumps and rock pebbles where Trees and Rocks have been harvested

• Added upgrades for all harvesting buildings which increase harvest distance and/or radius

• Added notification for when a player is defeated

Performance:

• Add level-of-detail models for all static objects

• Added level-of-detail models for Grass

• Added setting to turn of Grass

• Disabled dynamic lights on lower quality settings

• Hide small scenery when zoomed out

• General render performance improvements

• UI animation performance improvements

Levels:

• Reduces the spawn rate of all animals

• Minor balancing changes to some levels

Bug-fixes:

• Resolved Plebs not being assigned work when they were available

• Ensure Plebs can always take food to houses when there is existing food

• Resolved saves being incorrectly loaded in many cases

• Resolved terrain paint and grass alignment

• Repaint growing terrain when loading from a save

• Modified how resources were requests for buildings which produce multiple output resources per input resource

• Corrected in-progress building UI not showing the correct number of remaining resources

• Limited projectile arc heights when close to their target

• Restore building upgrade models from saves

• Corrected moving house bedtimes

• Resolved every other unit movement request failing in some cases

• Soldiers will now correctly follow moving enemies

• Resolved animals not being 'released' if the harvesting building is upgraded

• Fixed projectiles state not being restored correctly from saves

• Other crash fixes