Changelog v0.17.0 - Seasonal weather effects and particles

Blizzards, storms, droughts and floods may now affect food production and your units across the map!

UI

• Zone Food Production buttons now show an animated icon if affected by any weather effects
• Font for ‘fancy’ texts have been adjusted to use a more easily-read font.
• Animated some parts of the UI slightly
• Improvements to various tutorials.
• Event log moved to bottom right corner.
• Replaced text with icons with a few buttons, such as Menu and Scenario
• Settlement buttons now framed in its own themed 3slice
• Cursor info window on the right removed and replaced with a Zone Info tooltip
• Event Log Viewer screen added which can be opened by clicking ‘View more’ in the Event log
• Food production prediction changed to be a weekly and percentage instead of a number of tonnes.
• Button for selected Settlement is now hidden when it is selected.

Settings

• Default settings of Master volume and SFX volume fixed to work for clean installs.
• Setting for Instanced rendering added should any graphical glitches occur.

Gameplay

Adjusting food gathering zones now immediately updates the food production forecast.

• New game mechanic of Zone effects/Weathers introduced
• Storms, reduces food production and increases cold damage significantly
• Blizzards, reduces food production and increase cold significantly damage
• Droughts, reduces food production
• Floods, reduces food production
• The scenario ‘The Defender’ is now significantly harder to complete.
• AI now keeps track of previously explored zones
• Cold damage taken reduced in neutral nation territory
• New game mechanic for Upgrading Zone Food production

Graphics

• Snow particles in the world introduced during winter
• Blizzards appear as snow-storms over affected zones
• Storms appear as rain-storms over affected zones
• Droughts make trees in affected zones change visuals
• Reduced color intensity of nation colors in previously explored fog
• Removed the WIP clouds visuals
• Removed the brightly colored stands the units were previously standing on

Input

• New hotkey ‘N’ added to Settle units.

Editor

• Creating a new nation will automatically select it.
• New nations default at 500 starting taxes.
• Can now change order of Actions when editing a Scriptable Event
• Can now change order of Events in Scriptable events list
• Icons added in many places (Treaty types, Nations)
• Can now delete nations
• Left and Right mouse button actions for different editor tools displays
• New scriptable event Actions introduced to dynamically build and spawn armies
• Scriptable event Trigger ‘Day’ now has a ‘Repeat days’ parameter
• Can now create and delete armies in the map editor.

Bug fixes

• Fixed some issues where camera would zoom out without user input.
• Fixed issue where flowers would sometime remaing on the map after spring
• Fixed an issue where Rewarding units worked when it shouldn’t have
• Fixed an issue where players would not get to the Victory screen
• Fixed a crash which would occur when entering a multiplayer lobby

Audio

• Reduced frequency of bird sfx

Technical

• UI system now supports animating scale of UI elements easily
• Fixed font rendering issue affecting single characters at the end of lines
• Instanced rendering now applied to several entity groups
• Font rendering can now render beautiful mathematical minus-signs when requested
• Full-screen maximizing on Windows now takes into consideration pixels border
• Fixed a few pointer-safety issues in thread-message synchronization

Planned changes

• Add lightning strikes to the storms
• Add some dust/wind animation to drought-affected zones
• Add some water particles/animation to flood-affected zones

Documentation

• Hotkeys page added to wiki