Wyrmsun
Patch 5.2.2
- 5.2.2 Changelog
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* Miscellaneous
- Added support for the 1.5x scale factor.
- Changing the scale factor no longer requires restarting the game.
- Fixed an issue which could cause saving a game to fail.
* Units
- Fixed a crash related to a unit possessing ethereal vision due to a bonus, like e.g. the unique ship Skidbladnir does.
* User Interface
- Fixed a crash which could occur during a game in the mouse handling code.
Patch 5.2.1
- 5.2.1 Changelog
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* Miscellaneous
- Fixed an issue which caused gathering workers to lose their resource unit assignment when loading a saved game.
* Terrain
- The grass transition graphics have been updated.
- Added new grass decoration tiles.
Patch 5.2.0
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- 5.2.0 Changelog
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* Map Editor
- Setting a tile's terrain in the editor will now remove any units on it which are incompatible with the new terrain. Previously, they would be bumped to the nearest valid tile.
- Fixed issue which caused hue-rotated terrain to not show up with the correct color in the map editor's tile selection menu.
* Maps
- Fixed issue which could cause a settlement with no minimap color to be picked for settlement site generation in random maps.
- Removed the obsolete Gardariki, Italy, Southern Baltic and Tanais custom maps.
* Miscellaneous
- Fixed issue which could cause player data to not be cleared properly after a game.
- Fixed visibility issue which could occur when destroying cave walls during a game.
- Reworked how the minimap keeps track of unexplored/fog of war areas, improving performance (specially on larger maps).
- The Steam launcher has been rewritten in C++, with QML being used for the UI. In order to prevent issues if both the launcher and Wyrmsun try to access the file in which persistent achievement data is contained at the same time, the launcher now only checks just before and just after the game runs.
* Pathfinding
- Fixed a pathfinding issue involving land/fly-low units.
* Quests
- Quest completion data is now stored in [AppData]/Wyrmsun/quests.txt, instead of in the game's directory.
- Achievement data is now stored in [AppData]/Wyrmsun/achievements.txt, instead of in the game's directory.
- Fixed crash which occurred when Lua scripts tried to create a new player during a game, which occurred e.g. for the introductory dialogue of the A Bargain is Struck legacy quest.
* Terrain
- Fixed issue which caused forest regeneration to not trigger.
- The cave floor, desert sand and ford transition graphics have been updated.
- Added new cave floor, desert sand and ford decoration tiles.
* User Interface
- Improved the performance of the code which identifies which unit is currently under the cursor.
- Fixed key input issue which could cause command panel buttons without hotkeys to be triggered in a seemingly random fashion.
Patch 5.1.1
- 5.1.1 Changelog
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* Maps
- Fixed a crash when loading the map infos, when starting the Custom Game menu.
- Fixed issue when saving a game for a map which had multiple map layers, resulting in a crash when that game was loaded.
* Miscellaneous
- Fixed issue with getting a player's type (e.g. person, computer) through Lua, which caused problems with triggers.
* Terrain
- The snow transition graphics have been updated.
- Added new snow decoration tiles.
Patch 5.1.0
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- 5.1.0 Changelog
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* Maps
- Removed the obsolete Svarinshaug custom map.
- Fixed issue which caused maps in the user map folder to not appear the Custom Game menu.
- Removed the Aquitania custom map.
* Miscellaneous
- Saved games are now stored in [AppData]/Wyrmsun/save, instead of in the game's directory.
* Scenarios
- Fixed issue which caused some of the Western Migration triggers to not work properly.
* Terrain
- The dirt, dry mud, ice and mud transition graphics have been updated.
- Added new dirt and ice decoration tiles.
* Units
- Added Brown Bear, Black Bear and Polar Bear unit types. Brown bears are now generated in the Earth/Europe scenario map.
* User Interface
- Fixed issue which caused dropdowns to gain keyboard focus when clicked.
- Fixed issue which caused text fields to not lose keyboard focus when clicked away from.
- Fixed issue which caused key events to be propagated to buttons even though a text field had focus.
- Reworked the in-game menu to be QML-based.
Patch 5.0.1
- 5.0.1 Changelog
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* Maps
- Updated the territory setup for the Tyrol area for the Earth map (scenario mode).
* Miscellaneous
- Updated the SDL library to SDL2, version 2.0.16.
- Updated the SDL_mixer library to SDL2_mixer, version 2.0.4.
- Fixed issue with the save game functionality.
- Fixed issue with loading a saved game from within a game.
Patch 5.0.0
A few new upgrades have also been added, namely Oil Lamp (+ sight for buildings), Furor Teutonicus (+ damage for infantry, specific to the Teutonic civilization) and House-Burning (+ damage vs. buildings for infantry), specific to the Norse civilization).
Since this new update contains major changes, with many menus having been reworked, the previous version (4.1.4) remains available as a branch, in case anyone wishes to roll back.
Enjoy!
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- 5.0.0 Changelog
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* Buildings
- Town halls, strongholds, mines and hunting lodges no longer leave a destroyed building "corpse".
* Encyclopedia
- Added support for encyclopedia entries having links to each other.
- Updated the literary texts for the encyclopedia, streamlining them (removing footnotes and the "|" character which denoted a caesura/break within a verse).
* Factions
- Fixed the requirements string for the Shadowcharm Clan faction.
- Renamed the "Goth Tribe" to "Gothic Tribe", the "Ostrogoth Tribe" to "Ostrogothic Tribe" and the "Visigoth Tribe" to "Visigothic Tribe".
- Renamed the "Swede Tribe" to "Swedish Tribe".
* Heroes
- It is no longer possible to start a custom game with a custom hero, they must now be recruited as other heroes are.
- Updated the hero symbol icon to use a frame, to make it more visible on the map.
* Items
- Added "Curupira's" magic prefix for weapons (+3 fire damage).
- Added Potion of Mana.
- Made it so the Elixir of Vitality has a purple color (previously it was gray), to make it more distinct from the Elixir of Dexterity (which is black).
* Map Editor
- Fixed crash which occurred when pressing the "OK" button in the player properties dialog.
- Fixed issue which caused solid overlay tiles to not be displayed in the editor.
- Removed the old mod creation tools from the map editor, due to the amount of maintenance they required, as well as their reliance on outdated parts of the engine. A mod creation user interface may come back in some form in the future.
* Miscellaneous
- Removed the No Randomness and No Day/Night Cycle options.
- Fixed crash which occurring when accessing Goblin sound options within a game.
- Removed the faction dropdown from the custom game menu, as a faction prompt already comes when starting the game.
- Removed the tech tree level dropdowns from the custom game menu.
- Persistent data (e.g. hero levels or quest completion) will no longer be altered during a game if a cheat was used.
* Mods
- Removed the mods submenu, as it only supported mods in an old format.
* Quests
- Added a couple of side-quests which only occur on certain days of the week in the real world with the objective of acquiring the upgrade of the corresponding deity, for the Norse and Anglo-Saxon civilizations. For instance, the Norse "Tysdag" quest only occurs on a Tuesday, and has the objective of choosing the Tyr deity.
- Added two side-quests for the Germanic civilization to build smithies.
* Scenarios
- Fixed crash which occurred when starting the Thunraz's Servant scenario.
- Added more predefined settlement territories for the Earth map.
- Added starting caravan for the Goldhoof Clan in the A Home in the Fields of Sand scenario.
- Added the Heimdall's Stones unique building to the new Earth map for the correct start dates.
- The A Home in the Fields of Sand scenario now starts during summer.
- Improved the quality of the projection used for the Earth map.
* Terrain
- Added new dry mud and mud decoration tiles.
- Dry Grass terrain no longer becomes covered in snow during winter.
* Units
- Fixed crash which occurred when a ranged unit was garrisoned inside a caravan while near enemies.
- Increased Spearman damage from 5 to 6.
- Minecarts can now move diagonally, and can move outside of railroads with a large speed penalty (-5).
* Upgrades
- Added Oil Lamp upgrade (+1 sight range for buildings), researchable at the Market.
- Added the Furor Teutonicus upgrade for the Teutonic civilization (+2 Damage for infantry), researchable at the Barracks.
- Added the House-Burning upgrade for the Norse civilization (+20% Bonus vs. Buildings for infantry), researchable at the Barracks.
* User Interface
- Reworked the main menu to be QML-based.
- F11 is now the screenshot hotkey.
- Reworked the game's rendering system, graphical interface and input system to use the Qt Framework.
- The game is now always in borderless fullscreen mode, as the new UI framework supports that. The main purpose of the windowed mode was to allow alt-tabbing seamlessly, which the borderless fullscreen mode also provides. And unlike the old fullscreen functionality, this supports any resolution.
- Reworked the tech tree menu.
- The scenario menu is now depicted as a tree.
- Added a submenu for managing custom heroes, and made it possible to add a description to them.
Patch 4.1.4
- 4.1.4 Changelog
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* AI
- Fixed issue which resulted in AI players being able to hire units from any civilization from mercenary camps (no matter the civilization of the mercenary faction itself).
* Maps
- Fixed freeze/crash when starting the Southern Baltic map.
- Fixed issue which caused settlement territories to not be generated on certain custom maps.
* Miscellaneous
- Fixed a potential crash cause when processing triggers.
- Fixed issue which caused certain site positions (e.g. that where the Hlesey revealer should be created for the Thunraz's Servant scenario) to not be saved in a save game.
- Fixed issue which could mistakenly cause under certain circumstances a removed settlement site to be saved (when saving a game) as the settlement head unit for a settlement, instead of the town hall which had been built on top of it.
- The preferences.txt file is now saved in AppData instead of in the Documents folder.
- Improved save/load performance and memory usage for player tile exploration.
- Improved the performance of the database parsing and image scaling.
* Resources
- Added checks to prevent the stored resource quantity from becoming negative.
* Units
- Added Hobgoblin Warrior unit.
Patch 4.1.3
- 4.1.3 Changelog
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* AI
- Fixed issue which made the AI be able to take quests even if it didn't have a town hall.
* Items
- Fixed issue which allowed magic prefixes to be generated as suffixes and vice-versa.
* Interface
- Renamed the "Quests" screen to "Legacy Quests", to better reflect that these are missions in an old format, and which are supposed to be eventually updated to the Scenario mode.
- Fixed interface issues (e.g. incorrect button placement) which occurred after enabling the 2x scaled mode without restarting.
- Added terrain-only minimap mode.
- Added settlement territories (including non-land) minimap mode.
* Map Editor
- Fixed crash which could occur when clicking on the "OK" button in the player properties dialog.
- Fixed the position of the editor tile tooltip in the bottom-left in the 2x scaled mode.
* Multiplayer
- Fixed a potential desync cause due to floating point operations.
* Scenarios
- Fixed crash when picking the option to seek an alliance with the Hersings in the Haimadala's Progeny scenario.
* Units
- When randomly moving, people-averse fauna units will no longer enter a tile with an owner if their current tile is in an unowned one. In effect, this means that e.g. wyrms will not wander into settled areas if they start off in an unsettled one until their starting area itself is settled.
Patch 4.1.2
- 4.1.2 Changelog
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* Buildings
- Fixed the Dwarven Yale Pen being buildable close to a town hall.
- Fixed issue which caused guard tower range to be much larger than it was supposed to be, if the tower was already garrisoned before the upgrade to a guard tower.
* Characters
- The Mboytata unique wyrm is now a firewyrm.
* Maps
- Added Semi-Dry Grass and Dry Grass terrain features to the Earth map.
* Miscellaneous
- The error log in the stderr.txt file is no longer cleared when starting the game, being appended to instead. The file will be reset at start if it has grown beyond 1 MB.
- Fixed issue which caused the game to crash when quitting to the main menu from a mission.
* Sounds
- Fixed issue which caused the sound effects volume slider to have no effect on the actual volume.
* Terrain
- Added Semi-Dry Grass and Dry Grass terrain types.
* Units
- Added Firewyrm unit. Similar to the Wyrm, but it also deals fire damage, and possesses resistance to fire.
- Fixed the level up button being missing for the Dwarven Miner and Brising Miner.