Version 2.1.0 - Keeping Score

Features:

• Added a score screen when completing a map:

  • A score is generated based on your performance in the level

  • You can view the score of all players in the level

  • The score screen is shown after completing Skirmish, Survival, or Campaign levels

• Metal Skills are now unlocked by constructing the 'Metallurgy' support building for each Nation

  • Constructing or upgrading the Metallurgy statues/monuments/runestones will progress towards the next Metal Skill for the chosen Metal

  • The metal is selected when constructing the statue/monument/runestone for each Nation

• All buildings are now upgradable

  • All buildings have three levels of construction

  • Reworked some building upgrades so they are cheaper to upgrade but still provide meaningful improvements to the building

• All Champions now unlock sooner

• Decreased the rotation speed for slow moving units like vehicles

• Added reflections to all water

• Reworked the colouring and rendering of all water

• Added lily-pads over water

• Slightly increased the game contrast

• Slightly increased the size of some terrain (e.g. Trees)

• Added an animation when terrain is being harvested

• Increased the height of grass and added more height variation

• Added wind to all grass

• Increased the level-of-detail for the 'High' modal quality setting

• Increased the number of butterflies and bees

• Added particles and audio to the Greek Lithobolos and Norse Battering ram hit animations

• Add the 'F' key shortcut to cycle formation arrangement for the selected units

• The tutorial no longer counts towards the demo timer

Multiplayer:

• Multiplayer will verify all players are playing the same version of Plebs before starting

• Multiplayer will ensure players do not lag too far behind the other players if there are network or performance stalls

• Allow the host of the game to disconnect and reconnect

• Improved the feedback of placing buildings, setting unit targets, and making UI changes so they are applied immediately

• Allow the game to continue if a player has left

Gameplay:

• Set 'Map Grab' as the default mouse-movement setting - thanks /u/Revolutionary_Heart6

• Enable keyboard movement (WASD keys) by default - thanks /u/Revolutionary_Heart6

• Unit's will no longer re-target to an enemy if the player has explicitly set a new target

• The 'Highest' build priority will now be preferred by Plebs for resources above all other buildings, instead of taking turns

• Increased building explosion size

• Exploding buildings will now damage surrounding units

• Unit AOE attacks will no longer apply any damage to themselves

• Stop units from firing projectiles when they have stopped attacking their current target

• Animals will no longer collide with other objects when moving

Performance:

• A number of performance improvements to unit positioning

• A number of performance improvements to unit path calculations

• General performance improvements

UI:

• The building construction icons are now shown as greyscale if the player does not have at least one of all of the required resources

• Text dialogs in the Tutorial and Campaign now have 'speech' audio when it is being read

• Updated all UI windows to be closable with the Escape key or clicking away

• Added Metal Skill help text

• Fixed text rendering over icons which are coloured with a metal

Levels:

• Decreased the number of quarries on maps generated on 'Plains'

Bug-fixes:

• Fixed occasional crash when closing the game during a multiplayer level

• Stop Mines appearing to be placable outside the players land

• Disabling building hints setting value now saves correctly

• Fixed the seed not generating the correct randomness in some cases

• Fixed the placed building not showing particles in some cases

• Fixed bushes showing different colouring for different levels-of-detail

• Stopped ranged units from attacking through walls in some cases

• Improved units following their current target

• Upgrading buildings no longer causes the current in-progress vehicle from being destroyed

• Resolve the 'Plebs cannot get to building' warning message being shown incorrectly

• Houses will always place Plebs on the same level as the building entrance and not on hills

• Fixed upgrading and destroying buildings being upgraded not showing particles

• Fixed Egyptian Mason not placing sand piles

• Fixed refiners not requesting new production resources when upgraded

• Improved units spreading apart from each other

• Ensure changes to formations does not clear the formation ordering and arrangement

• Stop the camera shake from being applied even if the player was not near the cause