Balance Changes

• Selling a specific resource type (eg Whale, Gems, Cows, Stone) will now give 1 less gold each time you sell it during the same turn
  
• City gold maintenance calculation adjustments - overall should be higher, especially for small cities
  
• City gold maintenance reduced on Easy and Normal difficulties
  
• Chance of getting We Love You effects increases more with city population size
  
• Resource market price calculation adjustments
  
• Hut and Harbor random resources no longer favor Food and Luxury
  
• Harbor immediate free resources increase with population size
  
• Harbor gold production decreased to 1
  
• Harbor cost increased to 3 hammers
  
• Harbor enables water routes for city maintenance
  
• Jeweler gold production increased to 2
  
• Pasture adds 1 gold yield to hex
  
• Mine adds 1 gold yield to hex
  
• Russia city food yield bonus changed to 1 + population/3
  
• Workshop gold yield added to hex increased to 3
  
• Temple now also gives 1 gold per Holy Site you control
  
• Courthouse culture production increased to 2
  
• Fishing Hut food yield bonus increased to 2
  
• Monument now effects allied cities
  
• Satrap cannot capture a Holy Site with a Settler next to it
  
• In multiplayer, only military units can capture Holy Sites if an enemy settler is adjacent to it
  
• City build, Satrap, and Holy Site captures will no longer take hexes occupied by an enemy unit
  
• Hammers always higher priority than gold for auto worker assignment
  

Misc

• Improved Steam Deck / Controller support
  
• Added a visual indicator for a city when it has Unrest
  
• Challenge objectives will no longer require you to control more than 4 Holy Sites (after this week)
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with Arc de Triomph that could cause the number of points it grants to decrease
  
• Fixed issue where order or yield resources would change when refreshing
  
• Fixed an issue that could cause "disconnects" in single-player if your device went to sleep for a long period of time
  
• Fixed an error that occur when building a Legionnaire
  
• Fixed an issue where units would briefly show the wrong strength value
  
• Fixed an issue where enemy controlled hexes could show as unattached from the rest of their territory
  
• Fixed glitches in the shadows from several civilization specific units
  

Fixes

• Fixed issue where arrow keys would navigate UI elements and pan camera when in mouse and keyboard mode
  
• Note: This fix means the controller DPAD no longer switches the game into controller mode. You must press a controller button such as B to activate controller mode.
  

Misc

• The TAB keyboard key will now switch the game from controller to mouse and keyboard mode. Steam Deck defaults to controller mode - if using a mouse and keyboard with the Steam Deck press TAB at the start of a match to force it to switch to mouse and keyboard mode.
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Single-player Team games could generate a map with less than 4 start positions
  
• Fixed an error with citizen display and movement
  

Multiplayer Cooperative

Single Player Teams

Full Controller Support

Balance changes

Patch Notes for Update 1.1.926

New Game Modes

• Multiplayer Cooperative - play on a team with human players against one or more AI teams
  
• Single Player Teams - play on a team with other AI players against one or more AI teams
  

Team Play Rules

• Each player still chooses their own civilization
  
• All Wonder bonuses are shared
  
• Cannot build duplicate Wonders with teammates, even on the same turn
  
• Victory points are shared
  
• Victory points required to win are multiplied by number of civilizations per team
  
• Vision is shared with teammates
  
• Cannot attack teammate units or cities
  
• Cannot claim teammate territory
  

Controller Support

• Full controller support without use of mouse and keyboard
  
• Recommend using DPAD for navigation with our official layout but joystick mouse can also be used
  
• More improvements are planned - please give us your feedback
  

Balance

• All Technology hammer costs increased by 1-2 hammers
  
• Paying to move a citizen makes moving the citizen free for the rest of the turn
  
• AI tweaks
  

Misc

• More multiplayer data usage optimizations that should improve performance
  
• New City, Holy Site, and Hut card illustrations
  
• Added glow effect to Destroy Card button if no cards destroyed yet this turn
  
• Dotted lines that indicate citizens working hexes are now bold for a city when the city hex is selected
  

Fixes

• Fixed issue where building an improvement on a hex would remove Battlefields
  
• Fixed an issue where city pillages would remove nearby Battlefields
  

Fixes

• Several Chinese localization fixes and improvements
  
• Fixed errors that could occur related to the deck inspection popup
  

Misc

• Added Battlefields to hexes where a unit dies. These produce 1 culture per dead unit for the owner of the hex
  
• Added Very Long custom game length - 200 points and 50 turns
  
• Killing an enemy unit now gives 1 happiness to your nearest city
  
• Base multiplayer turn timer increased 10 seconds
  
• Turn timer visible countdown changed from 30 seconds to 45 seconds
  
• Changed Long game length max turns to 40
  
• Changed Normal game length max turns to 25
  
• Can no longer redraw your hand while you have cards stored for next turn
  
• Can view the cards in your deck (unordered) by mousing over the Draw Card button
  
• Added a custom game setting for coastal player starts only
  
• Added menu option for enabling or disabling automated camera panning to Wonders built by other players
  
• Most floating text size decreased
  
• Added single-player Skirmish setting to use the multiplayer unit movement rules
  
• Yield and Citizen hover popup delayed slightly more to prevent accidental Citizen pick ups
  
• Adjusted civ assignment so that your preferred civ should never be taken by a player that did not select that civ
  
• Parthenon deck inspection view now shows cost that includes adjustments such as increased hammer cost from Wonders already built
  
• Multiplayer network data usage reduced
  
• Minor map generation performance improvements
  
• Random number generation status for market, shuffle, and harbor is saved and restored for save games
  
• Changed free citizen movement highlight glow to be more conspicuous and consistent with other glow effects
  
• Ability icons on map now always display in the same order
  
• Conquistador can now fire 3 times in a single turn instead of 2
  
• Wheat now gets the resource diversity bonus like other food resources
  
• Some adjustments and fixes to the tutorial campaign
  
• In-game bug report submissions will now retry if the initial send attempt fails
  
• Bots no longer build cities on Holy Sites
  
• Bot builds slightly fewer siege weapons
  

Balance

• Winery gold yield for hex increased from 1 to 3
  
• Cultivate now also adds 1 gold production to Farm and Winery
  
• Persia's Satrap ability now also claims an extra random unclaimed hex next to the target hex
  
• Himeji Castle now produces 4 hammers and 3 culture
  
• Himeji Castle causes the extra military unit drawn to cost 20% of its strength in gold
  
• Conscription unit gold cost reduced to 20% of unit strength
  
• Spearman now does 400% damage when defending against mounted units
  
• Cossack flank attack damage slightly reduced and splash damage limited to 2 units
  
• Great Wall now adds 1/3 of unit's total movement cost instead of a flat 1 movement. This makes it more effective against mounted units, Scouts, and Settlers
  

Fixes

• Fixed a crash that occur sometime after building Parthenon
  
• Fixed an issue where floating text over a unit would continue to move to the side if the unit model was hidden
  
• Fixed issue where players could build a Barracks near enemy cities instead of just friendly cities
  
• Fixed an issue where the default Citizen on the city hex could be destroyed with abilities like Ritual and Conscription
  
• Fixed issues where players could pick up resource tokens while playing a card and could pick up a card while holding resource tokens
  
• Forage used on water tiles by England now correctly receives the gold bonus if used in England's territory
  
• Fixed issue where building lumbermill would not refresh terrain yield on resource overlay
  
• Fixed an issue where attack orders that result in no targets still reward promotion slots
  
• Fixed an issue where multiplayer games would reduce custom game map sizes with less than 5 players. This could cause map generation failures
  
• Fixed an issue where Mac clients could not join friends from their Steam friends list while the game was not loaded
  
• Fixed an issue where Rome's Infrastructure ability could target a card it already targeted this turn
  
• Fixed an issue where Battlefields would block improvements from being built on that hex
  
• Fixed an issue where Forced March was incorrectly causing units to ignore zone of control
  
• Fixed Garrison card text to correctly include fact that it also gives a defense bonus in cities
  
• Fixed an issue where you could apply Garrison to the same unit twice
  
• Fixed issue where resistance to culture steal value would show on culture overlay for a hex player used to own but no longer does
  
• Fixed localized Pyramids card description text
  

Patch Notes for Update 1.1.858

Multiplayer Ranked Games

• Ladder Season 1 starts December 21
  
• Season 0 is live now and all ranked profile data will reset when Season 1 starts
  

New Single-Player Challenge Objectives

• Added Control X Holy Sites challenge objective
  
• Added Have X Stored Gold challenge objective
  
• New objectives can appear in Daily Challenges, Weekly Campaigns, and Hegemon runs
  

Misc

• Max gold that can be stored between turns increased to 100
  
• Can no longer pillage your own cities
  
• If a Spearman is defending against a cavalry unit it always fights even if its not the top unit in its stack
  
• Added a few festive UI decorations
  
• New custom game option: Limit Card Burn Resources. This toggle defaults off but if enabled will limit the amount of resources you get from burning cards during your turn to 2 hammer + 1 science, 1 hammer, 1 gold, 1 gold....
  

Balance

• Great Wall - now adds a flat 1.0 to movement cost when entering your territory instead of a full turn's movement
  
• Pyramids - only gathers resources collected by Mine
  
• Pyramids - no longer gathers from hexes controlled by another player
  
• Workshop - now produces 3 hammers
  
• Found Capital immediately produces 5 gold
  
• Palace - gold production reduced to 1
  
• Conscription - now sets unit gold cost to 33% of its strength
  
• University - culture production reduced to 3
  
• University - happiness production reduced to 1
  
• Catapult - cost changed to 4 hammers with alternate cost of 1 stone
  
• Market building - now costs 5 hammers with alternate cost of 1 stone, 1 marble
  
• Market building - base gold production increased to 6
  
• Market building - per-citizen working city hex gold production increased to 4
  
• Road - base cost now builds a road over 4 clear hexes instead of 3
  
• Turns until resources sold on market are available to other players reduced
  
• Market sale prices only fluctuate up or down if more or less than 33% of a given resource type that was available for sale actually sold. For science the threshold is 50%.
  
• England chance to generate a hammer on resource sale increased to 33%
  
• Aztec Jaguar - card in your deck gains 1 strength every 2 turns, and cost goes up by 1 hammer every 4 turns
  
• Aztec Jaguar - base strength reduced to 4
  
• Aztec Sacrifice ability - Also draws a Charge or Mobilize card when played
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where a game's achievement state would not be stored when saving your game
  
• Conscription no longer effects cards that have already been effected by Conscription
  
• Strength from Royal Guard promotion is now adjusted when a unit moves instead of just when the turn changes
  
• Fixed an issue where units killed while defending were not counting for Arc de Triomphe points or the Lionheart achievement
  
• Fixed an issue where the Parthenon deck inspection popup would should the card cost breakdown panel to the left of the cards
  

Balance

• Imperial Guard now unlocked at tech tier 5 instead of 4
  
• Cossack now unlocked at tech tier 5 instead of 4
  
• Resource sale gold capped at 8
  
• Max multiplayer turn timer increased
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where French artillery was producing 1 hammer
  

Balance

• Burning firewood doesn't disable free redraw hand ability for this turn
  
• Palace gold production increased to 2
  
• Added second Firewood card to starting deck
  
• Cossack flank attack bonus damage and splash damage reduced
  
• Imperial Guard hammer cost increased to 10
  
• Turn timer slightly increased
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where blocked attacker advances would cause Charge to trigger another attack