Iterum Q1 Changes

Summary of all changes made since mid january when playtest opened up, now available for testing

Gameplay

• Movement speed is now slowed down due to elevation differences, the higher the incline the lower the speed.
• Movement speed is now significantly reduced when crossing rivers.
• Armies automatically capture pacifistic units like Traders
• Can recruit ships: Bireme, Trireme, Trade ships, Transport ships. All ships have great water movement speed vs land units boarding their own make-shift boats. Transport ships can be used to quickly ferry land units great distances
• Armies can board ships
• Happiness penalty due to Disease deaths now varies with difficulty, and decays over time varying with difficulty
• Can build bridges over Rivers, speeding up movement over rivers
• Archers in armies now get a first-strike in battles, after which their regular melee stats are used
• Attacking from water tile is now penalized.
• AI will now avoid attacking from water files and attack forts around settlement if blocking passage.
• Pathfinding now avoids forts unless targeted explicitly
• When capturing a settlement you can now choose to either annex it, or enslave its citizens and torch it. Captured slaves can be placed in settlements and allocated to various improvement tasks.
• Amass wealth from trade victory condition is now functional
• AI will attempt to take unguarded forts
• Skirmishers and Primitive skirmishers can now hide/camouflage in Woods when standing still
• Traders can now be used to supply armies with food. Traders in the army automatically distribute food from their stockpile to the troops. Finding and taking a Trader on the map carrying food will also work.
• Building fortifications to level 2 will relinquish control from other nation settlements of that tile.
• Building a Market now enables you to buy and sell food and slaves in a settlement. Prices vary over time and on how much is traded.

UI

• Can now sort units by type in the recruitment screen
• Trade dialog updated to first select trade type, then source settlement
• Fixes when minimizing/maximizing the game window
• Population / Sanitation advisor added to the Improvement construction screen.

Graphics

• Support for normal maps added
• Anti-aliasing
• Shadows now fall on water too
• Day-and-night cycle for lighting added when playing on game speeds 1 and 2.
• Adjusted how world textures blend together, new setting added
• Ocean shore waves can now be turned on/off in the Graphics Settings
• Updated textures and mesh for table and the board pieces.

Multiplayer

• Fixes for unit movement, army movement
• Can now play custom multiplayer scenarios
• Can now save and load multiplayer game saves

Level Editor

• Hot-keys F1-F8 added for the different editor modes
• Mineral icons now hide when in other modes
• Can set Season lengths, if you want longer summers or winters
• New scriptable trigger added for Settlement/Supplies post taken
• New scriptable action added to remove a Settlement/Supplies post
• Can add and remove Fortifications
• New scriptable action to adjust AI nation opinion
• Can now see population of settlement in the inspector panel
• New scriptable trigger for Unit count of specific type
• Fixed so diplomatic treaties can be removed
• You can now set specific unit cold resistance values
• Can now set food cargo of Traders

Planned

• More multiplayer fixes, as some mechanics don’t sync properly still
• More minor game mechanics and adjustments
• More particle effects
• More animations
• More normal maps where missing
• More scenarios