Hexarchy

Visual Overhaul

• All new terrain art
  
• New terrain biomes (cosmetic only for now)
  
• New fog of war graphics
  
• New road graphics
  
• New building arrangements to prevent clipping
  
• Yield and resource overlay arrangement changes
  
• New civilization colors
  

Misc

• Notification when building an improvement on a hex that successfully collects a resource
  
• Menu option for adjusting the size of resource overlay icons
  
• UI sizing tweaks
  

New Abilities and Mechanics

Charge! Ability

• Makes a unit attack a neighboring hex after moving this turn
  
• Costs 3 hammers, 3 gold OR 1 horse
  
• Researched from Military Tactics
  

Maneuvers Ability

• Allows a unit to ignore zone of control for this turn
  
• Costs 3 hammers, 3 gold OR 1 horse
  
• Researched from Military Tactics
  

Flank Attacks

• Attacking the same hex from 2 directions causes attacks from the second direction to unleash massive double damage
  

UI Improvements

• Increased size and clarity of yield and resource icons
  
• Added an icon for each unit that shows up on the map
  
• Added mouse wheel zoom
  
• Terrain resources will now show on discovered but currently fogged hexes
  
• Improved the selected hex panel
  
• New graphics for the card frames
  
• New card backs
  
• Card cost icon size increased
  
• Gold collection and payment is no longer animated when playing events between turns
  
• Added a hex details popup that appears when you mouseover a hex
  
• Slightly increased the amount a card must be moved up before being played to reduce accidental plays
  
• Added a debug panel that can be toggled in the menu - shows game timers and more
  

Graphics Improvements

• Animals are smaller and there are multiple ones per hex
  
• New tree graphics
  
• Lighting improvements
  
• Units are smaller
  
• Most improvements are smaller
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an error related to the discard pile
  
• Fixes for the ability icons that appear on top of hexes
  
• Fixed unit sleeping Zs showing on top of UI panels
  
• Fixed yield and resource icons showing on top of UI panels
  
• Fixed an issue where random things would be highlighted when moving a worker
  
• Removed random partial text that was in the bottom left of the screen
  
• Loud duplicate sounds no longer play when giving attack and move orders to a unit stack
  

Misc

• Tips are now disabled by default when not doing the tutorial
  

UI Overhaul

• Almost all UI graphics replaced
  
• Most UI components rearranged
  
• New fonts
  

Other Visual Changes

• New color scheme
  
• New fog of war graphics
  

Other

• New music from original soundtrack
  

Misc

• Resource sale prices start at 2g instead of 3g
  
• Luxury and Food resource sale prices are pegged at 2g
  
• Card hammer cost is increased by 1 for each time you've already played it this turn. Cost resets for the next turn.
  
• Reduced the brightness of lighting on the units
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Needs Orders button could show units that don't actually need orders
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where you could no longer draw cards to force your deck to shuffle when your draw pile is empty
  
• Fixed a problem where you could buy a resource off the market and immediately sell it for more than you bought it for. The amount of gold you receive for selling a resource you bought is capped at the amount spent to buy it. When you get x2 resources when buying a food or luxury resource, the cap for each is the amount spent divided by 2.
  

New Civics and their Abilities

Other New Content

Visual Changes

• New road graphics
  
• Changes to game world lighting (work in progress - expect more changes)
  

Other Changes

• Selling resources now gives you gold immediately instead of when another player buys it
  
• Workshop has been moved to the Feudalism technology
  

Bug Fixes

• Target hex arrow no longer clips on mountains
  
• Needs Orders button now refreshes when a unit is mobilized or a mounted unit is built
  
• Fixed rendering issues with Notre Dame
  
• Attempting to draw more cards no longer costs the gold if there are no cards that can be drawn
  
• Fixed UI glitches that occurred when canceling an order while a card was moving to the discard pile
  
• Fixed an issue where a card could accidentally be played by moving it off the screen when trying to destroy it
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where map generation could fail for certain daily challenges causing them not to load
  
• Fixed an issue where the game occasionally got stuck in between turns
  

Balance Changes

• Horseman and Knight start mobilized and can be given orders the turn they are built
  
• Military unit gold upkeep is no longer doubled outside your territory
  
• Enemy units no longer block maintenance routes for cities
  
• Unit upkeep costs are no longer blocked by zone of control that the unit is standing in
  
• Mobilize cost changed to 3 hammers or 1 horse
  
• Horseman cost changed to 2 hammers, 1 horse
  
• Knight cost change to 3 hammers, 1 horse, 1 iron
  
• Cannon cost changed to 4 hammers, 2 iron
  
• Great Work ability is only useable on a city once per turn
  
• Settler cost changed to 4 hammers or 3 food
  
• Farms now only produce 1 wheat, but add 2 food yield to a tile
  
• Enslave population now costs 2 happiness and no longer gives gold
  

New Multiplayer Turn Timer

Misc

• The city panel for a citizen token is now highlighted when you pick up the token. This way you can tell which city the citizen belongs to.
  
• D3D12, GLCore, and Vulkan graphics APIs can now be used with command line parameters (EXPERIMENTAL, see parameters here https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.4/Documentation/Manual/PlayerCommandLineArguments.html)
  
• Improved error collection
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where you could build a city on a hex that already had a citizen working it
  
• Fixed an issue where capturing a city could give you a hex containing a different city
  
• Needs orders button refreshes correctly when using Mobilize
  
• Bot settlers no longer attack
  

Misc

• When the target player count (currently 4) is reached in a publicly created multiplayer lobby, the game will automatically start after a countdown. This is to prevent someone from making a public, never starting it, and block other players from playing when they click "Find game"
  
• New (still placeholder) Lumbermill card illustration
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed jankiness when you mouseover the discard pile
  
• Fixed an issue where disabling the birds could cause the title screen to have an error when initializing. This could cause the buttons on the title screen to not work.
  
• Fixed a bug where Courthouse could increase a city's maintenance from 0 to 1 (thanks @vTri)
  
• Fixed an issue where Eliminate All Players daily challenges could be on larger maps than intended
  
• Fixed an issue where card hover pop ups could get stuck on the screen when playing events after you end your turn
  
• Fixed an issue where hovering over a hex would not cause the worker token to popup if the resource overlay had not been turned on this turn
  
• Fixed an issue with Discord integration that could cause daily challenge results to be reported for the wrong day
  
• Fixed spelling of "Colosseum"
  

Misc

• Fixed issues with the game running on Linux with Proton (Steam Play)