We have put a lot of effort into polishing the current gameplay along with major improvements to the stability and performance of the game. We hope you enjoy it!
LATEST CHANGES:
- Optimized shader compiling and texture updating times. - Optimized performance at higher game speeds. - Optimized animations using levels of detail. - Improved illumination, terrain and weather visuals. - Improved depth of field effect. - Improved moving animations for humans and animals. - Improved problem reports for every activity. - Improved MOD integration, interface and output log. - Improved sound system support of device changes and recovery after standby. - Increased count limit for many entities in the game. - Added builders work group. - Added the option to share your tribe's progress on www.ancient-cities.com/map.php
LATEST FIXES:
- Balanced work priority system. - Balanced production in buildings and farmlands. - Balanced wild resources production. - Balanced population starting numbers and growth. - Balanced migrant groups probabilities and composition. - Balanced the effect of hunger and overwork on unrest. - Balanced domestic animal reproduction and feeding. - Balanced queue distribution in storages based in user priority. - Balanced housing service values. - Fixes and tweaks in raiding and trading missions. - Fixed AI tribes that could not settle in the regional map. - Fixed tool lack report remaining when deleting tasks. - Fixed game freeze when some fences completely block pass. - Fixed ambient lights and light effects on water. - Fixed female deer horns when dead.
KNOWN ISSUES:
- Previous savegames become obsolete due to big changes in the core game. - Translation for some of the changes is still to be done in some languages.
PLEASE ENSURE YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.
- Please send us a report if the game crashes and post report number in the forums. - Please use the Steam 'Players' forum to post your feedback, bugs & issues. - Please mod creators: Update & upload your mods when required.
WHAT'S NEXT?
- We are working on new content updates not yet disclosed. - We will continue improving the base game as a platform for future expansions.
HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF THE GAME?
- Please post a positive review on Steam to support this project.
Ancient Cities Community Feedback Hotfix
v1.0.0.5 Community Hotfix
In this hotfix we have focused on fixing the issues with the guided tutorial, resolving your bug reports and making further optimizations. We have improved shader cache compilation times and we are in contact with AMD and NVIDIA to check related issues in the OGL driver. We will keep you informed.
LATEST CHANGES:
- 3D sound system : Ambient, wind, weather and other effects improved. - Historical year pace decreased for slow speed and increased for fast speed settings. - The ready notification is also displayed for service buildings. - Probability of pregnancy and migrants affected by unrest and happiness.
LATEST FIXES:
- Improved shader cache compilation time while waiting for driver fixes. - Guided tutorial issues. - Domestic animal feeding and herding issues. - Tool lack report issues. - Group icons not showing when changing to regional map. - OpenGL crashes in big tribes. - Trade and raid crashes when the target tribe disappears after a sea level rise. - Starry sky recovered.
PLEASE ENSURE YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.
- Please send us a report if the game crashes and post report number in the forums. - Please use the Steam 'Players' forum to post your feedback, bugs & issues. - Please mod creators: Update & upload your mods when required.
WHAT'S NEXT?
- We will continue improving the base game as a platform for future expansions. - New content updates not yet disclosed.
HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF THE GAME?
- Please post a review on Steam to support further improvements to the game.
Ancient Cities Community Feedback Update
v1.0.0.4 Community Feedback Update
Lots of bug fixes, performance improvements, AI tweaks, tutorial improvements and many other adjustments to improve the game experience.
LATEST CHANGES:
.3 .4 - Multithreaded pathfinding and other CPU optimizations. - A lot of graphical improvements and optimizations. - Now you can select the settlement location when arriving to the local map. - Both guided and reference tutorials extended and improved. - Regional sea navigation. - New tribe report : running out of food. - Improved horse textures and animations - Improved fence and palisade gates visualization.
LATEST FIXES:
.3 .4 - Regional trading and raiding tweaks and fixes. - Increased chance to get missing knowledges from migrants. - Starving tribesmen will eat from unprocessed resources in processing buildings. - Issues with inaccessible constructions. - Building resources and requirements tweaked. - Tool lack report and tool count issues. - Hunting and butchering tweaked. - Slaugther and hunt deprioritized later in the day to avoid resource wasting. - Camera zoom keys also in the regional map. - Burying task erased when failing to go to a tomb. - Obstacle grid updated when a construction is deleted. - The dead are removed from buildings before dismantling. - Amd GPU texture corruption, flickering and halos issues. - Memory corruption crashes and freezes. - Game freezes when it is not possible to migrate for an AI tribe. - Game freezes sometimes after trading or raiding. - Crash when deselecting resources in a dryer while someone is working on it. - Some other rare crashes found in game reports.
KNOWN ISSUES:
- AMD 7000 Series crash to desktop. Please, check game forums.
PLEASE ENSURE YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.
- Please send us a report if the game crashes and post report number in the forums. - Please use the Steam 'Players' forum to post your feedback, bugs & issues. - Please mod creators: Update & upload your mods when required.
WHAT'S NEXT?
- We will continue improving the base game as a platform for future expansions. - New content updates not yet disclosed.
HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF THE GAME?
- Please post a review on Steam to support the game development.
Ancient Cities Community Feedback Hotfix Beta
v1.0.0.3 Community Feedback Hotfix Beta
LATEST CHANGES:
.3 - Both guided and reference tutorials improved. - New tribe report : running out of food. - More horses and cattle texture variations.
.0 - Tribes in the regional map. - Trading to other tribes. - Raiding against other tribes. - Child animations reworked. - Different textures for wild and domestic goats.
LATEST FIXES:
.3 - Improved game loading times. - Improved CPU & GPU performance. - Amd GPU texture corruption, flickering and halos issues. - Trading and raiding tweaks. - Hunting and butchering tweaked. - Building and corpses decay rate decreased. - Building resources and requirements tweaked based on players feedback. - Incorrect resource dropping on dryers when process done. - Less big boulder density to improve building placement. - Issues with inaccessible constructions. - More straw resource from tall grass. - Daily calorie eating increased when starving to help on recovery. - Starving tribesmen will eat from unprocessed resources in processing buildings. - Higher levels of overwork affects fitness. - Increased chance to get missing knowledges from migrants. - Game freezes when it is not possible to migrate for an AI tribe.
.0 .1 .2 - Random crash related with fleeing animals. - Fixed some texture issues, related with Windows 11 crashes. - Some animation improvements in the regional elements. - The beginner mode has been adjusted to help new players. - Compressed textures and other graphical optimizations. - Dismantling has been accelerated to facilitate migrations. - Guided tutorial issues when going to menu screen. - Regional groups stuck in some situations.
KNOWN ISSUES:
- Driver issues related to AMD 7900XT graphics cards. - Some graphical glitches for AMD cards in low settings. - Multithreaded shader loading not working for AMD cards.
PLEASE ENSURE YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.
- Please send us a report if the game crashes and write down report number. - Please use the Steam 'Players' forum to post your feedback, bugs & issues. - Please mod creators: Update & upload your mods when required.
WHAT'S NEXT?
- We will continue to fix bugs and improve the base game to serve as a platform for future expansions.
HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE IMPROVEMENTS IN ANCIENT CITIES?
- Please post a review on Steam to support long-term improvements to the game.
Ancient Cities Official Release Hotfix 2
v1.0.0.2 Official Release Hotfix
LATEST CHANGES:
.0 - Tribes in the regional map. - Trading to other tribes. - Raiding against other tribes. - Child animations reworked. - Different textures for wild and domestic goats.
LATEST FIXES:
.2 - Random crash related with fleeing animals. - Fixed some texture issues maybe related with Windows 11 crashes. - Some small tutorial changes. - Some animation improvements in the regional elements.
.1 - The beginner mode has been adjusted to help new players. - Compressed textures and other graphical optimizations. - Dismantling has been accelerated to facilitate migrations. - Guided tutorial issues when going to menu screen. - Regional groups stuck in some situations.
.0 - Wild resources numbers more differentiated between game modes. - Same preference for any type of feeder. - Gathering production increased. - Tweaked migrant numbers.
KNOWN ISSUES:
- Saved games could become obsolete after a game update.
PLEASE ENSURE YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.
- Please send us a report if the game crashes and write down report number. - Please use the Steam 'Players' forum to post your feedback, bugs & issues. - Please mod creators: Update & upload your mods when required.
WHAT'S NEXT?
- We will continue to fix bugs and improve the base game to serve as a platform for future expansions.
HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF ANCIENT CITIES AFTER RELEASE?
- Please post a review on Steam to support long-term improvements to the game.
Ancient Cities Official Release Hotfix
v1.0.0.2 Official Release Hotfix
LATEST CHANGES:
.0 - Tribes in the regional map. - Trading to other tribes. - Raiding against other tribes. - Child animations reworked. - Different textures for wild and domestic goats.
LATEST FIXES:
.2 - Random crash related with fleeing animals. - Fixed some texture issues maybe related with Windows 11 crashes. - Some small tutorial changes. - Some animation improvements in the regional elements.
.1 - The beginner mode has been adjusted to help new players. - Compressed textures and other graphical optimizations. - Dismantling has been accelerated to facilitate migrations. - Guided tutorial issues when going to menu screen. - Regional groups stuck in some situations.
.0 - Wild resources numbers more differentiated between game modes. - Same preference for any type of feeder. - Gathering production increased. - Tweaked migrant numbers.
KNOWN ISSUES:
- Saved games could become obsolete after a game update.
PLEASE ENSURE YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.
- Please send us a report if the game crashes and write down report number. - Please use the Steam 'Players' forum to post your feedback, bugs & issues. - Please mod creators: Update & upload your mods when required.
WHAT'S NEXT?
- We will continue to fix bugs and improve the base game to serve as a platform for future expansions.
HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF ANCIENT CITIES AFTER RELEASE?
- Please post a review on Steam to support long-term improvements to the game.
Ancient Cities Official Release Hotfix
v1.0.0.1 Official Release Hotfix
After receiving your feedback, we have made this weekend hotfix. It fixes some bugs, improves performance and helps new players in beginners mode. More improvements coming soon!
LATEST CHANGES:
.0 - Tribes in the regional map. - Trading to other tribes. - Raiding against other tribes. - Child animations reworked. - Different textures for wild and domestic goats.
LATEST FIXES:
.1 - The beginner mode has been adjusted to help new players. - Compressed textures and other graphical optimizations. - Dismantling has been accelerated to facilitate migrations. - Guided tutorial issues when going to menu screen. - Regional groups stuck in some situations.
.0 - Wild resources numbers more differentiated between game modes. - Same preference for any type of feeder. - Gathering production increased. - Tweaked migrant numbers.
KNOWN ISSUES:
- Saved games could become obsolete after a game update.
PLEASE ENSURE YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.
- Please send us a report if the game crashes and write down report number. - Please use the Steam 'Players' forum to post your feedback, bugs & issues. - Please mod creators: Update & upload your mods when required.
WHAT'S NEXT?
- We will continue to fix bugs and improve the base game to serve as a platform for future expansions.
HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF ANCIENT CITIES AFTER RELEASE?
- Please post a review on Steam to support long-term improvements to the game.
Ancient Cities Official Release
After a long early access development and testing stage, we have completed the gameplay planned in our Early access roadmap.
But this is just the beginning, there is much more to come for Ancient Cities:
Going forward the development will continue, fixing bugs and improving the game. Our plan is to turn the game into a platform for future expansions to be announced in the near future.
A big THANK YOU to everybody who have supported the game development!
If you want to support the long-term improvements to the game. Please, post a review on Steam
Uncasual Games team.
Ancient Cities Official Release
After a long early access development and testing stage, we have completed the gameplay planned in our Early access roadmap.
But this is just the beginning, there is much more to come for Ancient Cities:
Going forward the development will continue, fixing bugs and improving the game. Our plan is to turn the game into a platform for future expansions to be announced in the near future.
A big THANK YOU to everybody who have supported the game development!
If you want to support the long-term improvements to the game. Please, post a review on Steam
Uncasual Games team.
v1.0.0.0 Official Release
LATEST CHANGES:
- Tribes in the regional map. - Trading to other tribes. - Raiding against other tribes. - Child animations reworked. - Different textures for wild and domestic goats.
LATEST FIXES:
- Wild resources numbers more differentiated between game modes. - Same preference for any type of feeder. - Gathering production increased. - Tweaked migrant numbers.
KNOWN ISSUES:
- Saved games could become obsolete after a game update.
PLEASE ENSURE YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS ARE UP TO DATE.
- Please send us a report if the game crashes and write down report number. - Please use the Steam 'Players' forum to post your feedback, bugs & issues. - Please mod creators: Update & upload your mods when required.
WHAT'S NEXT?
- We will continue to fix bugs and improve the base game to serve as a platform for future expansions.
HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF ANCIENT CITIES AFTER RELEASE?
- Please post a review on Steam to support long-term improvements to the game.
Ancient Cities official trailer
The official version of Ancient Cities will be released very soon, in the meantime enjoy the new official trailer of the game!
