Key Features

Improved Performance & Stability: Added in lots of optimization improvements by fixing memory leaks, improved frame rates, and resolved numerous crash scenarios across the game

Smarter AI Opponents: AI now makes more strategic decisions by settling on better terrain, smarter spell usage, and improved outpost construction

Refined Gameplay: Resolved quest and combat issues including battle freezes, missing rewards, and unclear quest text throughout the game and campaigns

April 1st, 2026 Hot Patch

AI

• AI no longer wastes casts stacking the same debuff on a target

Gameplay

• Fixed the “Eight Legged Troubles” quest not granting unit rewards after a battle victory

• Krax Betrayer ability updated to result in 25% of a defeated enemies joining them as population

• Improve monster lair variety and smooth out sudden enemy population spikes on large maps

• Recruited champions now have stronger, more fitting abilities that better match their intended roles like warrior, mage, or assassin

• Nerf Destiny's Force scroll - reduce Combat Speed bonus from +2 to +1 and increase recipe ingredient quantities

Stability

• Fixed a crash that could occur when the game tried to clean up certain objects too early

• Improved save/load reliability and fixed threading issues that could cause crashes or visual glitches during gameplay

• Fixed stability issues on high-end GPUs where the game could crash or glitch when the graphics card outpaced the processor

• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when cities transitioned to the trade screen

UI

• Fixed the Propaganda spell to use the correct icon

March 30th, 2026 Changelog

Campaigns

Prelude

• Fixed player confusion by disabling the party eject button in campaigns for champions

• Edited confusing text that implied splitting the party was possible for champions

• Fixed confusing text that implied Lord Markinn gives spells to players

• The campaign will identify if a player has completed a quest objective even if they have not gotten the objective yet

  • This will resolve players getting stuck on the “Troll Menace” quest

FE

• Fixed the Temple of darklings not giving a popup once clearing it

• Upscaled and fixed some units in the campaign

• Fixed confusing UI popups for the Glint of Glass location

• Champions when dying in combat no longer duplicate themselves

Gameplay

• Added support and fixed issues where Units will appear off their tile when moving around the map

• WASD camera movement has been fixed in sandbox and tactical battles

• Fixed issues where outpost improvements would disappear on reloading a save game

• Made sure the Sovereign's Call spell/ability does not lock its city growth to zero

• Resolved Noble's Legacy trait causing lag

• Fixed battle freezing when a unit uses escape while allied units are still engaged in combat

• Made sure units can no longer cheat by walking on cliffs around enemies

• Fixed lots of quests throughout the game not properly triggering, giving rewards or showing incorrect UI prompts

• Generic attack boost traits were incorrectly being factored into a Unit's attack stats

• Made sure custom units get correctly assigned a creaturetype and trait when saved

• Hergons have been balanced, female and male Hergons have different stats

• Completed a balance tweak to Champions so the number of champions isn’t dependent on the map size

• Champions now reduce Unrest by 5

• Fixed issues where the Assassin Demon Party was unattackable

• Wildling Archers now correctly use ranged attacks with equipped bows

• Fixed spell targeting when the intended target becomes unavailable in tactical battles

• Players are no longer able to cast high mana spells unless they can afford them instead of casting a spell causing negative mana

• Ophidians now properly drop Flawless Crystal ingredients

• 100 unrest functions as intended instead of having no effect

• The Krax Fortify ability no longer endlessly stacks

AI

• AI is much smarter about where to settle and no longer settles cities on barren tiles

• Made sure AI champions cannot cheat by selecting an extra talent path

• Improved AI decision-making for spell usage and outpost construction

Items

• Fixed powerful items costing 0 gold and making sure they can be sold

• Splintered Staffs are only used and displayed as a crafting ingredient

• Resolved equipping issues for the Warding Kite Shield

• Tent item now correctly works as intended, heals an army and they lose their moves for that turn

Graphics

• Removed the duplicate particle effect when units cast Fear

• Fixed incorrect textures on Carrion Men and Swordsmen

• Adjusted Norak's portrait pose

• Fixed broken textures on Ongr the Unbound

• Fixed the Antipathy spell to finish its effect when completed

• Made sure when a quest or goodie hut gets correctly cleared its graphics will clear as well

Localization

• Fixed some translation errors throughout the game

• Fixed foreign language text clipping

Modding

• Made sure the modding sync button is working correctly

Optimizations

• Fixed rendering stability issues and optimized map/lighting performance to reduce potential crashes and improve frame rates

• Hardened save game loading to handle edge cases more gracefully

• Fixed a graphics memory leak

• Improved tactical combat stability when hovering over units or casting spells

• Fixed AI freezing during army management

• Added autoplay memory leak fixes

Crashes

• Resolved issues with the game crashing while using the Cartographer’s Table

• Resolved a crash while loading up an old save

• Resolved crashes that can occur in tactical battles

• Fixed various crashes for opening and closing UI

• Resolved crashes when attacking cities with no defending units

• Fixed crashes during AI turns

• Fixed crashes when spells killed an enemy (particularly Fireball with Focus, or Bottled Fire)

Text

• Added cutscene subtitles in English

• Fixed missing text when a troop is killed

• Updated some tooltips to correctly reflect what they do/provide

• Resolved cut off text throughout the game

• Fixed +25 spell damage being shown as 2500% in a tooltip

• Repeatable techs now show specific bonuses (+10 Food, +25 Mana, etc.) instead of generic text

• Updated Cooperation tech description to reference Palace and Tax Office instead of buildings that do not exist

• Removed outdated Watchtower catapult references

• Consulate tooltip now correctly shows +1 Prestige instead of Growth

• Resolved issues where quest given units have name discrepancies

• Fixed missing names in the in-game modding tools

• Fixed hard coded words that did not get correctly translated

• Midnight Stone is now Lesser Midnight Stone

• Fixed a missing string for +50% Tactical Spell Mana Cost

• Fixed confusing/misleading text for the Loner Ability, Eye of Abiex, Scarred Trait, Charge Ability and Summon Crag Spawn

UI

• Tooltips for a player's inventory now correctly work when hovering over an item

• Queue tooltip displays seasons for Buildings and Units

• Fixed tooltips flickering and showing the incorrect information

• Made sure recipes obtained as loot from battles or exploration appear in the crafting UI

• Tactical battle UI hot key now supports up to 10 keys and scroll bars are more friendly to use

• Fixed issues where the yield icons the player is standing on during a new game did not show up until they moved

• Added “Hold Shift to Lock Tooltip” hint to the bottom of any tooltip that contains sub tooltips

• Fixed the Dispel Enchantment confirmation dialog to correctly show the target city/unit name

• Added missing icons to player items, weapons, and armor

• Fixed offset tooltip alignment in the Dynasty screen

• Made sure City UI properly disappears when razing a city in sandbox and campaigns

• Enhanced the Delete Save Game prompt to be more intuitive to use

• Lair of Demons now has a cloth map stamp

• Updated Active Effects to not overlap

• Fixed white highlight color to yellow

• Fixed some spells with hard to read icons

• Fixed tooltips getting cut off in the custom faction screen

• Fixed premade map tooltips appearing behind the map selection screen

• Unit Design color picker is now correctly labeled and updates the units as intended

• Updated Tactical UI to not clip below the player’s UI preventing the player seeing whose turn is next

• Updated Crafting Recipes to have their own tooltip in the tech tree

• Emberara on the dynasty screen no longer has a missing background

• Resolved confusion with being able to equip more items than available slots