Free "A Clash of Pumpkins" DLC

• Three Halloween motto battle cards: "Island of Horror", "Ghost Forest", and "Killer Penguins!"
  
• Hero costume variants for the Halloween cards:
  
• "Pikemen" are dressed up as "Soldiers"
  
• "Elven Archers" are dressed up as "Elven Magi"
  
• "Dwarven Warriors" are dressed up as "Cannon Dwarves"
  
• "Penguins" are dressed up as "Snowball-Throwing Penguins", "Batting Penguins", "Kamikaze Penguins", and as a "Penguin King"

Improvements in "A Game of Winter"

• Nosferatu and Grimlin now perform their duties in the graveyard
  
• Greater space efficiency in the graveyard now has a positive instead of a negative influence on resurrection times
  
• Resurrection times in graveyard are now shorter
  
• Researching "Drink Blood" for leeches had no effect
  
• The "Gruesome Bear" fear skill visual FX for were broken
  
• Leeches were not counted in the population overview
  
• Damaged creatures without a need for a Final Resting Place defiled all available resting places by mistake
  
• Clay pots will now no longer appear outside the player dungeon when skeletons are teleported using the "The Undead Are Here!" spell when carrying them.
  
• Minor text errors corrected: "Strong Leeches" and "Insidious Leeches" research options did not show the research level; description of "Final Resting Place" suggested that each creature would build its own resting place
  
• Special SSAO flickering effect for ice surfaces has now been reduced
  
• Visual FX of the right Undead throne room treasure chamber did not work for certain fill levels
  
• "The North Forgets": Floor areas now cave in
  
• "The North Forgets": The area that can be walked into at gold mine entrance has now been corrected
  
• "The North Forgets": A decorative guard has now been removed to give Barthas slightly more space to work
  
• "The Fall of the Wall": Floor areas now cave in
  
• "The Fall of the Wall": Entrance area of the gold mine now adjusted in order to improve the chaos when a large number of units enter
  
• "Death Becomes You": Dragon Lizards placed in pre-existing spawner building
  
• "Don't Let Go!": Worker troop interval will now never fall below eight minutes
  
• "Splashing in the Fountain of Youth": Visual FX of an Ent skill was broken
  
• "Splashing in the Fountain of Youth": Spiders and Dragon Lizards now attack the throne room when they are attacked
  
• "Summiteers": Overlapping of palisade wall with cliff has now been corrected
  
• "Summiteers": Dialogs in closing sequence after defeat can now be heard properly
  
• "The Ultimate Evil": Meltysand is now asked not to leave the ritual site during the ritual
  
• "The Ultimate Evil": Dialog was missing when Meltysand was resurrected for the first time
  
• "The Siege of New King's Ending": Battle actions are now disabled at the end of the map
  
• "Plains of Elsa": Dragon Lizard room is now removed when all Dragon Lizards are dead
  
• "Plains of Elsa", "Hero's Tomb": Meltysand now returns to her original position after fights and can no longer be lured too far away

Overall improvements

• Saved games from version v1.4.1 or older could no longer be loaded with version v1.5 in some cases
  
• Effect area of area traps has now been increased slightly so that even the smallest penguin can now no longer sneak past them
  
• Surface decoration objects sometimes had the wrong texture and shading
  
• Certain texts which were cut off are now displayed in full
  
• Damaged doors are now displayed correctly after a game is loaded
  
• Horde creatures can now also be further upgraded to better creatures even when the maximum level has been reached
  
• Toolbox icon for production in the Tinkerer's Cave has now been reduced in size so that it can fit in the frame
  
• Line spacing of subtitle text has now been increased slightly for better legibility in certain languages
  
• Subtitle portrait was displayed in the wrong position for one frame
  
• Minimap positions were displayed incorrectly for one frame when different entrances were used
  
• Malakay now has a name and a description in his details window
  
• "Occupy Wall Street!": Floor height during Malaky event is now correct

• New faction: The brainless army brings a new, undead menace to the Dungeons 2 universe.
  
• New tasks: A completely new and fully-scored and voice acted campaign with 8 extensive missions awaits you.
  
• New subjects: Command 13 new units, including zombies and vampires.
  
• New rooms: Build 8 new rooms, like the cemetery and the laboratory.
  
• Multiplayer support: The undead can also be relied upon to spread evil and wreak havoc in battle against your multiplayer adversaries!
  
• New maps: Two new sandmox mode maps.

• Performance improvements
  
• Added reset button for campaign progress
  
• Enemy units can now be selected to see their names, descriptions and stats
  
• Changed font type and font handling for readability and performance
  
• Improved automatic work unit selection for research
  
• Free Chaos Forge/Hell Forge researches now save their progress when interrupted
  
• Cast mode now remains active when casting spells while holding down shift key, similar to building traps/doors/work units with shift key
  
• It is no longer possible to "dismiss" a health potion or medal
  
• Minor controller improvements
  
• Singleplayer games will now be paused if the player opens the steam overlay
  
• It is no longer possible to control the paused game and game menus while the steam overlay is opened
  
• Added new sounds
  
• Corrected some sounds
  
• Added a "Play" button next to owned DLC that allows jumping to skirmish/campaign menus directly to start playing the new content for clarification of the DLC sub-menu
  
• New grayscale effect for some deactivated GUI to make their state clearer
  
• Dependency errors are now being shown in tooltip while research is in progress
  
• Unit list UI at top of screen now lets you select and multiselect units via the portraits with Shift/Ctrl-LMB
  
• Multiselection now has tooltips
  
• Shift/Ctrl-LMB-selecting unit groups now works in all RTS places in the game
  
• Area traps like the thrasher can no longer be built next to a room
  
• Chat log is now limited to 100 lines
  
• Chaotic / Absolute / Ultimate Evil now has a minimap icon
  
• Rework of mission goal display
  
• Build exactly the room tiles that are displayed as buildable in case insufficient gold for the whole room is available
  
• Improved error message when not enough gold is available to build even 1 room tile
  
• Game now shows a unit as having 1 HP when it's actual HP would be rounded down to 0
  
• Armor is shown as precise number with one digit after comma
  
• Unit details tab now shows real speed, not base speed of unit
  
• Research is now disabled but visible if only requirement is not met
  
• Maximum unit level is at 11 and is shown as yellow number instead of white
  
• Units without level information are by default displayed as maxed out (NPCs like Barthas, ...)
  
• New icon for room upgrade submenu
  
• Evil hand now can hold no more than one special item (medals, health potions) at a time
  
• Introduced minimap icon for spider spawner
  
• It is no longer possible to zoom with the mousewheel while using the unit pickup UI
  
• Multiplayer map "Ultimate Carnage": Added granite behind all portals
  
• Reworked various visual objects for performance and improved looks (particle effects, vegetation, etc.)
  
• Sent Halloween invitations to elven ranger, pikeman and crossbowman. They'll bring their costumes!

• Changed conversion rate of demon "gold to mana" spell
  
• Bards now switch to a better trap if they find one while deactivating another trap

• Fixed a bug that lead to players being stuck in loading screen when switching back to main menu
  
• Fixed a bug that could freeze the game when opening and closing singleplayer campaign screen very rapidly
  
• Fixed stat-based steam achievements sometimes being unlocked incorrectly
  
• Fixed floating numbers sometimes being shown incorrectly
  
• Fixed a problem with fog of war being uncovered due to switching resolutions
  
• Players may now drag monsterst with more than 1 HP onto healing stations
  
• Servants now have a post-teleport buff that lets dem ignore combat as they were sometimes stuck in combat after teleport
  
• Map "Hatchlings": Fixed broken lava sound
  
• Map "The Oasis": Fixed alliance units bringing spiders along to combat
  
• Fixed wall of ice sometimes being shown as pink
  
• Map "The Mountain Pass": Fixed minor graphic inconsistencies
  
• Map "Smog!": Fixed a group of 3 drakes in the sothernmost secret room not acting as a group
  
• Map "Hatchlings": Fixed a bug with the spider room walls
  
• Fixed damage numbers sometimes stacking indefinitely
  
• Fixed enemy unit's weapons sometimes being visible through fog of war in multiplayer
  
• Fixed various graphical glitches with floors and walls
  
• Fixed particle rendering glitches
  
• Fixed decoration clipping in the throne room
  
• Fixed some problems with destructable objects
  
• Fixed transparency issues with mission goal icons
  
• Units are no longer able to shoot through doors (not working for older savegames)
  
• Fixed a bug that resulted in units being stuck to the hand of terror
  
• Units can no longer be selected through fog of war
  
• Fixed several cases in which the AI would not recover from an error (units being stuck in place, etc.)
  
• Reworked digged mana crystal default representation
  
• GUI of guard room now works correctly
  
• Fixed a problem when hand of terror pickups something already gone in multiplayer
  
• Fixed wrong activity icon being displayed when switching arena puppet targets while unit is working
  
• Job information for units not currently working is now being hidden
  
• Fixed a potential blocker on map "In the swamplands" due to the crystal chamber
  
• Fixed highlights around weapons
  
• Guarding monster now work correctly with savegames
  
• Fixed a problem with doors staying open
  
• Fixed a problem with gimmick holograms floating in some cases in build mode
  
• Fixed a problem with displaying tooltips during multiselection
  
• Units will no longer follow destroyed entities
  
• Taunt effect now stops when the target dies
  
• Fixed a problem that confused certain spells during cast (e.g. if the player selected meteor and then selected fireball with the cast cursor activated, he would still cast meteor)
  
• Fixed dead units rotating in place
  
• Fixed invisibility shader
  
• Fixed some areas between UI elements not to be treated as UI space
  
• Fixed an experimental fullscreen error
  
• Fixed problems when saving a game while capturing an area in skirmish and multiplayer maps
  
• Fixed error message if skill target is not reachable
  
• Fixed various problems with character physics simulation in combination with teleportation, death, dragging, slapping
  
• Fixed save game names not fitting into the designated text box

New Features and Gameplay Improvements:

• Added Czech text translations (provided by a nice group of czech players! Thanks again! May still have some english texts and will be improved)
  
• Several sounds added or improved
  

Fixes:

• "In the swamplands": Fixed a blocker that prevented the player to build crystal chambers
  
• "Pixie village": Players can no longer build in entrance area, area enclosed with granite
  
• "Vassals (Chance of Dragons)": Fixed a bug that made a perk at the tree of life unreachable
  
• Fixed rare cases where level load never completed
  
• Fixed tooboxes/spider eggs being earmarked for objects that didn't need them
  
• Fixed naga mining effect
  
• Fixed a bug due to which centaurs would not trigger a "enemies entered your dungeon" warning
  
• Fixed missing Guludruul teleport effect
  
• Fixed issue with mana achievement
  
• Fixed savegame compatibility issue
  
• Fixed load game problem regarding guard rooms if the room under a horn got merged or splitted
  
• Fixed a bug that caused units to disappear when ordered to upgrade but arena was not reachable
  
• Fixed ent skill visualizations
  
• Fixed the dialog log to scroll to bottom on open and to display the text
  
• Fixed salary notification tooltip, now only uses the players creatures to calculate salary
  
• Sounds: Disabled doppler shift
  

• Fixed problems with savegames on linux
  
• Improved support for 21:9 resolutions
  
• No more "Connection to server lost" in singleplayer
  
• Fixed problem that would detect pretty much every attached device as controller and would switch to controller scheme too quickly
  
• Pentagram now shows its work status even when the unit is away to get gold/be admired a.k.a "Unit does not leave the pentagram anymore even when it requires gold/admiration" :)
  
• Fixed a bug in connection with the "apply" button in options menu
  
• Fixed a bug that made "improved training" work exactly the opposite of what it should do (meaning training a unit would take double as long instead of half as long)
  
• Implemented periodic auto-saves
  
• Fixed a bug that would make a host stuck in an infinite loading screen when the connection to other players was lost
  
• Quick game now launches a domination match, not a deathmatch
  
• Improved Overworld render performance for OpenGL and DirectX, increased performance for Linux and Mac (most probably for a lot of Windows folks as well)