Age of Wonders: Planetfall news & patch notes

Hello everyone! Starting next year, both Paradox Launcher and Steam will stop the support of Windows 7, 8, and 8.1. Please read more information here.

What does it mean for your experience?

• Since we will no longer support the Launcher for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, it means that the future versions of our Launcher will *not* run under these old OSes.
• Any launcher update beyond that point will cause it to stop working on above systems, and will, in turn, make it not possible to launch our games. Some of you who had their launchers update are likely experiencing that already.

Other details:

• We strongly recommend you consider doing the free OS update to supported Windows versions, like Windows 10 or 11. Both for Launcher compatibility and personal security.
• In the coming weeks, we’ll update minimal requirements for our games and DLCs on our storefronts, to reflect this change.
• Going forward, we’ll do our best to communicate changes like that ahead of time with you all. If any OS support is stopped for our Launcher in the future, we’ll do our best to communicate it ahead of time and we intend to introduce a feature to the Launcher which will freeze automatic updates on systems it no longer supports.

Thank you for understanding!

Hello Commanders, Over the last few months, we have seen many new Empires arise and flourish. From Dvars taming Tyrannodons to Shakarn riding mechs; every commander seeks their own way towards glory. Those victories are not without setbacks; sometimes caused by issues that are outside of a commander's power to fix. This is where we come in with another update! As mentioned in our 'Mission Accomplished' debriefing, active development of Age of Wonders: Planetfall has ended but we are committed to supporting the game where necessary. We want to thank everyone for the continued support and feedback on the forums! While our active presence in the community has ramped down; we still regularly check incoming posts and reports. Meanwhile, we are hard at work on new exciting things and while having no announcements at PDXCon, we will be participating in a couple of Panels! Check out the PDXCon Remixed Agenda for details. See you there! Stay tuned and enjoy, Commanders!

V1.404 - Update Notes

Fixes: Galactic Empires

• The Psi-Fish Hunting Grounds planet trait now forces the planet to be continents and disallows changing of game settings to prevent issues with Psi-Fish dwelling spawns.
• Fixed the Masking Frequencies planet trait not working
• Fixed not being able to choose the default Phoenix Walker requisition item as Vanguard, Amazon, Shakarn or Syndicate
• Fixed not being able to buy high level vehicles using Renown in certain situations

Combat

• Fixed evasion bonus from the Skitter ability not resetting after Undo
• Fixed Undo allowing you to circumvent the effects of Panic and Captivate
• Fixed that applying Impaired on a unit would reset cooldowns and once per combat abilities from the disabled mods
• Fixed a crash that occurred when you would Undo a move in combat after moving away from a hazard

Campaign

• Fixed issue where campaign missions could sometimes not be ended
• Fixed that the Forgotten NPC Faction would sometimes not be present in the Obolus-5 campaign mission

General

• Fixed that the Futurist achievement could no longer be unlocked
• Fixed issue where buying a grail cypher from an NPC faction would not deduct its influence cost
• Fixed occupied Shakarn and Oathbound colonies having access to previously built turret defenses unlike the other races
• Fixed Soul Beacon Maelstrom not giving Essence Charges to friendly units
• Fixed issue where operations that are being primed would not update when the amount of casting points available changed
• Fixed an exploit caused by repeatedly aborting the production of a Colonizer unit
• Fixed an exploit related to the Immaculate Breeding Ground Emergent spawn
• Fixed that certain actions and events could end up blocking the victory screen (both in the Galactic Empire and scenarios)
• Fixed multiplayer going out of sync by viewing the invasion forces in the Diplomacy screen
• Fixed a crash that could happen during an AI turn in the late game
• Fixed various instances where the AI could get stuck in their turn (which would leave you stuck at “Opponents are moving”).
• Fixed issues with higher quality settings on M1-based Macs

Hello Commanders, The timeline has set and the changes Oracle foretold have arrived. Two weeks ago we teased a balance patch, since then we've used our Open Beta to get community feedback on the proposed changes and we're very happy with the feedback we've received during this process. There are quite the changes in here and I'm not sure whether the name Hotfix really suits anymore but we hope that it makes the Experience smoother. Again we find ourselves at the start of the holiday season and it's been... a year. Naturally the Holidays are a bit different this time around but no matter how you spend the holidays, whether it's alone or with friends and family, Digital or Physical, we hope you get to enjoy the now and are able to forget about your worries. We at Triumph Studios wish you very Happy Holidays and stay safe this Holiday Season!

Update Notes: V1.403.43779

Updates Features

• Added an Undo Movement button into combat. This lets you undo the last unit move that you made, as long as the unit was not damaged en route, and no other unit abilities or operations have been triggered since.

General

• Removed the reputation bonus for sending gifts through diplomatic trades; this was causing exploits in both the Oathbound campaign and in multiplayer games where players could just send gifts back and forth for quick reputation gains.
• Changes to how the scan grail cypher interaction is working. After scanning the player will receive an event.
• Blocked Grails from spawning on Frontier worlds
• Updated the Tooltip for Residential Exploitations to make clearer how they function
• Updated the Tooltip for Popular Support to match the Triceratops Changes

Galactic Empires General

• Galactic Empire planets that feature grail quests will now only spawn grail sites that are not present (and completed by the player) on any of the conquered planets in the empire to make sure players do not have to rely on random chance for gathering all relics. (If all grails have been captured then grails will be fully random again)
• The available planets for galactic empires will now feature up to 7 (but not fewer than 3) planets that are based on the current level of the planet you will have: 1 planet of the right difficulty, 1 planet that is above your ideal difficulty (if possible) and 1 planet for each difficulty level below your ideal difficulty.
• Planet Traits that involve NPC factions will now no longer allow playing on the small map size in order to prevent issues where too few dwellings would spawn the map.
• Clicking on any added requisition item to remove it will now also make the related tab with available items selected on the left side of the screen.
• All Hero Items unlocked via Progression are now 'free items' meaning they do not have to be chosen as Requisition items to be available in game.
• Summon units are now available as requisition items when playing their respective race as well since you cannot otherwise build these units.
• Racial Secret Tech unit variants are now available as Requisition options when playing that secret tech.

Planet Traits

• The ‘Settle the Claim' secondary objective, no longer triggers on any diplomatic state change while an alliance is maintained with either target player.
• ‘Hive Development’ Empire Request now completes on 12 population rather than 16 to prevent issues with the Limited Space planet trait.
• Lowered the spawn weight of non-xenoplague spawners while the ‘Xenoplague Infestation’ trait is present
• Lowered the step count of 'Cleanse the Infestation' from 5 to 3 and increased the reward.
• 'Cleanse The Infestation' now also completes when clearing Livestock spawners (since these often also include Xenoplague units)
• ‘Voidbringer Thrallworld’ can no longer combine with ‘Aggressive Settlers’ (as the thrallworld's Ravaged world basis does not allow settlements)
• ‘Penguin Hive’ trait can no longer combine with Spawner Override Traits

Requisitions

• Added the Oathbound Battle Suit Hero Vehicles to the appropriate Unit Unlocks.
• Added ‘Pestilence’ Hero Weapon to the Xenoplague Progression Level 5
• Added ‘Acrimonious’ Hero Weapon to the Xenoplague Progression Level 10
• Added ‘Malady’ Hero Weapon to the Xenoplague Progression Level 18
• Added ‘Hasher SMG’ Hero Weapon to the Synthesis Progression Level 5
• Added ‘Voidblades’ Hero Weapon to the Voidtech Progression Level 5
• Added ‘Siphoner Staff’ Hero Weapon to the Heritor Progression Level 11
• Added ‘Link Shard’ Hero Weapon to the Heritor Progression Level 17
• Added ‘High Lord’ Vehicle Hero Weapon to the Heritor Progression Level 20
• Added ‘Structural Integrity Diminisher’ Entropy Mod to the Oathbound Progression Level 20
• Added Dvar ‘Phoenix Walker’ race variant to Promethean Progression Level 20
• Added Kir'ko ‘Phoenix Walker’ race variant to Promethean Progression Level 20

Races, Techs & NPC Factions Assembly

• Swapped the positions of Advanced Bionics and Molecular Computing in the tech tree

Dvar

• Dvar Trencher - Reduced armor from 3 to 2
• Dvar Foreman - Increased HP from 40 to 50HP
• Dvar Foreman ‘Hand Mortar’ - Increased damage from 8 to 10

Kir’ko

• Mod ‘Poison Excretion’ - The ‘On Death’ Explosion from now only affects enemies

Oathbound

• Added seer scrolls visual to the Oathbound Hacker
• Oathbound Aspirant - Reduced HP from 45 to 40HP
• Oathbound Protector ‘Embolden’ - No longer puts the unit into Defense Mode after use
• Oathbound Protector - Changed Prime Rank bonus from Firm to Shrug Off
• Oathbound Warden - Increased shields from 0 to 1
• Oathbound Warden ‘Warden’s Banner’ - Increased Crit Chance from 10% to 20%
• Oathbound Lightbringer - Increased shields from 0 to 1
• Oathbound Exemplar - Increased armor from 4 to 5
• Oathbound Exemplar ‘Storm Glaive’ - Reduced Damage from 16 to 14
• Oathbound Exemplar ‘Onslaught’ - Reduced base damage so it’s still 30 with the fixed Glaive Mode bonus
• Buff ‘Precognition’ - No longer stacks.
• Buff ‘Providence’ - The critical chance bonus is now properly capped and can no longer exceed the hit chance of the attack
• Debuff ‘Fatalism’ - No longer guarantees success for instant kill operations and abilities
• Mod ‘Oath of Loyalty’ - Now has a limit of +2 armor from adjacent units
• Mod ‘Destiny’s Manuscript’ - Reduced radius from 5 hexes to 3 hexes
• Mod ‘Destiny’s Manuscript’ - Will now apply either Fatalism or Adversity
• Mod ‘Beacon of Hope’ - Reduced radius from 3 hexes to 2 hexes
• Mod ‘Beacon of Hope’ - No longer stacks with itself.
• Strategic Operation ‘Expedite Doom’ - Reduced Strength Chance to instantly kill from 12 to 8
• Strategic Operation ‘Expedite Doom’ - Can now only instantly kill tier 1-3 units.
• Hero Skill ‘Oracle's Favor’ no longer gives a stack of Precognition to their army at the start of battle, and instead gives Precognition after they kill an enemy unit and costs 2 points.
• Hero Skill ‘Overload Power Core’ - Now properly gets damage bonuses from mods and hero skills
• Hero Skill ‘Overload Power Core’ - Now does Massive Impact
• Hero Vehicle ‘Protector’ - Increased armor from +2 to +3
• Hero Vehicle ‘Warden’ - Increased armor from +0 to +1
• Hero Vehicle ‘Light Bringer’ - Increased shields from +0 to +1
• Hero Vehicle ‘Champion’ - Increased armor from +0 to +2
• Hero Vehicle ‘Purifier’ - Changed from +1 shield to +3 armor
• Hero Vehicle ‘Marquis’ - Reduced armor from +3 to +2

Shakarn

• Shakarn colonists working in Infiltrator slots from the “Holo-Simulation Camp” structures now give research and production instead of research and covert operation strength. That amount of production is in line with what other racial slots would give.
• Shakarn Deadeye ‘Omni-Penatrator’ - Now starts getting long range penalties at 7 hexes (was 5)
• Shakarn Glaukos ‘Flow’ - Increased range from 5 to 7

Syndicate

• Syndicate Subjugator - Now has Impose Discipline
• Syndicate Subjugator ‘Heavy Repeater’ - Increased damage from 11 to 12
• Syndicate Subjugator ‘Project Agony Field’ - Changed from Strength 8 Chance to apply Broken Mind to a Strength 8 Chance to apply Immobilize, with Slow on resist
• Syndicate Subjugator ‘Project Agony Field’ - Reduced cooldown from 2 turns to 1 turn

Celestian

• Lightbringer ‘Inferno Strike’ - Now counts as a Claw attack for modding purposes

Heritor

• Mod ‘Es’Teq Gauntlet’ - Reduced damage per charge from 8 to 4. The ability now correctly counts the first charge, so the total damage done is the same for a 2 essence charge unit.
• Mod ‘Es’Teq Conduit’ - Increased damage of Essence Blast from 8 to 10
• Mod ‘Es’Teq Conduit’ - Reduced damage per charge from +5 to +3
• Mod ‘Empowered Drained’ - Now gives Resurgence instead of a damage bonus
• Doctrine ‘Divine Legion’ - Reduced the additional essence charges from +2 to +1

Psynumbra

• Tactical Operation ‘Aria of Emptiness’ - Reduced Strength Chance to apply Catatonic from 8 to 6

Synthesis

• The Shakarn and Assembly hackers now have the Haywire Daemon ability
• Avatar ‘Disruption Virus’ - No longer suffers long range penalties

Void Tech

• Echo Walkers now cost 70 energy, 250 production (was 90/270), except for the Oathbound, Dvar and Amazon ones
• Echo Walkers - Reduced shields from 2 to 1
• Phase Manipulator ‘Energy Blaster’ - Reduced damage from 11 to 9

Xenoplague

• Plague Lord ‘Super Infection’ - Changed from Once per Battle to a 2 turn cooldown

Arc Weapon Tech

• Mod ‘Positronic Arc Storm Projector’ - No longer applies Stun

Entropy Weapon Tech

• Mod ‘Maxwell's Puzzle Box’ - Changed from a 4 Hex Cone to a 1 Hex Radius at Range 9
• Mod ‘Maxwell's Puzzle Box’ - Reduced Strength Chance to proc Reality Break from 12 to 10
• Mod ‘Maxwell's Puzzle Box’ - Increased chances to apply a random debuff from 1 to 2
• Mod ‘Maxwell's Puzzle Box’ - Increased cooldown from 1 to 2 turns
• Tactical Operation ‘Atomic Collapse’ - Can no longer affect enemy commanders

Laser Weapon Tech

• Mod ‘Laser Precision Module’ - Increased the gained damage from +20% to +30%

Autonom

• Killing a unit that is giving Networked to its allies now has a chance to stun or stagger those units as Networked is removed
• Autonom Monitor ‘Transmit Repair Nanites’ - Heal changed from 5HP per level of Networked to 10HP Total
• Autonom Monitor ‘Defense Laser’ - Increased range from 7 to 9
• Autonom Monitor ‘Defense Laser’ - Reduced damage from 8 to 6
• Autonom Monitor - Changed Prime Rank bonus from Extra Range to Bypass Cover
• Buff ‘Networked Level 3’ - No longer gives +1 range

The Forgotten

• Forgotten Serpion - Increased shields from 0 to 1
• Forgotten Serpion ‘Essence Fangs’ - Increased Strength Chance to Drain Essence from 4 to 8
• Shattered Ark - Increased shields from 1 to 2
• Shattered Ark ‘Shattered Communion’ - Increased Strength Chance to apply Corrupt Communion from 8 to 12
• Shattered Ark ‘Essence Channeler’ - Reduced shields cap from +3 to +2

Wildlife

• Savage Tyrannodon ‘Brutal Bite’ - Now has Massive Impact

Hero Items

• Staff of Turmoil is now a Tier 4 weapon

Fixes General

• Fixed issue where the “Now you see me” and “Critical Failure” achievements could be triggered by AI players.
• Fixed “Make your own luck” achievement not triggering.
• Fixed an issue where razing Imperial Defense would result in a AI hang for marauder units
• Fixed crash where the alliances would be modified the list of allies while it was processing the list
• Fixed issue where changing the side of a colony would not always update the city base connections
• Fixed issue where founding a colony on a forward base would not cause the race relation to gain the “Owns Colony” modifier.
• Fixed an issue that meant units with -200 morale would have a 50% chance to desert instead of a 5% chance.
• Fixed issue where grail sites would invalidate certain sectors when spawning
• Fixed issues regarding losing colonies and recapturing them turing certain connected sectors to state that they are disconnected
• Changed the Secondary Structure Pick List for the Spaceport from Government Palace to Spaceport
• Fixed an issue where global doomsday operations wouldn’t be canceled if a city containing a doomsday tower was razed

Interface

• Fixed issue where the Unit Template Manager would visually not properly refresh when scrolling the list after toggling the production state of one or more templates.
• Fixed the issue where the food sharing would reset back to default when on share all after the number of colonists slots
• Fixed a missing screen name for the Sun Shard unit property which resulted in the effect not functioning correctly
• Fixed Priority management for unique specialists on Controller
• Fixed Filter Settings for Various Doctrines & Operations
• Changed the linked icon for the Sun Shard & Marine Research Lab on the Military Overview
• Fixed a recieve/receive spelling mistake in Happiness Events

Campaign

• Fixed a rare bug, where the “Zemestian-4” mission would crash if Mephilas the Redeemer was in a vehicle by the end of the previous “Chimera Glacialis” mission.
• Fixed an issue that the Oathbound Exemplar rewarded by the “Claim the Grail” quest in the second Oathbound mission was in Glaive mode rather than Shield mode.
• Fixed an issue where scripts in campaign could sometimes cause defeated players to declare war or change their diplomatic state towards other players.
• Fixed an issue where the player could get negative popular support from a scripted war in the second Oathbound campaign mission.
• Fixed a translation mistake in Polish in the Grail choice menu. “Reject Oracle…” is now “Embrace Oracle…” in Polish.

Galactic Empire

• Fixed issue where several filters were not being shown for the Title screen Imperial Archives and in the Galactic Empire Requisition screen.
• Fixed issue where the “Grail Detected” planet trait would now show up in blue colored text with the relic icon when for active or available planets.
• Fixed a broken link in the Chaos Oracle Relic
• Fixed certain Item and Vehicle Unlocks being unavailable if you are playing as the secret tech that unlocks them.
• Fixed the Heritor 'High Lord' T4 unit being unlocked at level 10, fixed to the correct level 20.
• Fixed Cleansing pulse is now correctly marked as a tactical operation (and thus free with the Operational Stockpile trait.)
• Fixed certain Heritor strategic and tactical operations lacking the proper requisites to be identified as such

Invasion

• Fixed issue where pressing Y/Triangle on controller when starting a new planet while the galactic empire hall of heroes is already completely filled would still enter the recruit new hero screen (with no available heroes) even though there was no button prompt visible.
• Fixed issue where invasion structure could spawn on Lava and Void sectors

Units & Mod

• Sunbringer Anomalous Site Weapon now correctly has Melee Shield Bypass.

Dvar

• Fixed the Hardiness Training skill so it always gives it's bonus (a bug meant it only gave the bonus to units in cover)

Oathbound

• Fixed an issue that meant the Diviner’s Not Your Time could only target ground units
• Fixed the Diviner’s Thread hero weapon not being compatible with Entropy Mods
• Fixed a bug that means Oathbound Secret Tech hero vehicles would not be available to be bought after a reload
• Fixed Oathbound Purifier Units being unable to equip Melee Mods
• Fixed Glaive mode not giving the 25% bonus damage it should
• Exemplar’s Blitz is now correctly marked as an arc attack and is affected by arc mods.

Shakarn

• Fixed Infiltrators still using Holoshift in autocombat when they shouldn’t

Synthesis

• Fixed an issue where Arc Weapon mods could affect the Amplify Daemon ability

Void Tech

• Fixed Stasis Pocket Inducer displaying the incorrect Strength Chances

Paragon

• The Paragon Guard’s Shield Charge can no longer knock back light turrets

Psifish

• Fixed the Siren’s impregnate not working on Heavy Infantry

Hello Commanders, It's been roughly a week since you started building your own Empire and we see a bright future for the Star Union. The Universe, however, is always in flux and the Seers are seeing shifts coming through the veil. This patch comes from an alternate universe where we didn't have to fix a bunch of crashes days after release. The focus of this patch is some additional polish on the Units & Commanders and smoothing out the user experience. Oracle is also picking up another patch focused on addressing balance concerns, but the image isn't clear and the details are vague. We want to thank you for your continued support and all the feedback you've provided. Enjoy Commanders!

Update V1.402 - Patch Notes

Updates

Galactic Empire

• If the game fails to load the preferred empire on startup it will no longer show two error messages, but only one instead.
• AI leaders will now try to avoid picking leaders that the player also recruited into their galactic empire based on the names of the leaders. The AI will ignore this rule if too many leaders are blocked by the empire to ensure variety.
• Now hiding the empire screen while in the load empire/planet dialog for more consistency with other interfaces.
• Empire Victory Screen now has Horizontal lines at the top of each progression block to more clearly separate them from each other.

Oathbound

• A few optimizations to the models/textures of Oathbound content
• The Oathbound male leader heads were unintentionally all the same shape, this has been fixed.
• Tweaked the Oathbound white glowing eyes so they have subtle detail.
• Added an Oathbound-themed crown to the customization options. It's called Star Kings after all.
• Some of the Oathbound leader head item visuals have been updated to a higher fidelity
• Augur and Diviner heights on water have been adjusted so their feet are not in water anymore.
• Added custom model and icon for the campaign specific weapon Chaos Blade
• Added a couple cross-race shared hairstyles for the Oathbound leaders.
• Added faint gaps in the Oathbound leader facepaint so that eyebrows show through.

Interface

• Added information to the Colony Anarchy event panel, when trying to buy out the marauders or attack them while the Colony is still owned by a living non-war player, the tooltip for the buttons will mention the action will liberate the colony and return it to the current owner.
• Implemented sorting Tactical Operations in the Operations Screen based on whether they are available for the AI to use during Tactical Auto Combat.

Changes to building a sector (forward) base/annexing a sector to a colony when it is a volcanic sector or has hazards:

• No longer showing the warning for volcanic/hazards when building forward bases. (It is still shown when building a sector base or colony)
• We now show the warning when annexing a forward base to a colony (but not when transferring a base from one Colony to another).

Fixes

General

• Fixed colonist auto assign issue where auto assign would not be performed in order
• Fixed path preview. System was disabled but is now back. System will no longer show players the stored path for other players but will be able to use the path preview while selecting an enemy stack
• Fixed marauder and faction AI issue where they would not raze some structures on the world map and would be forced to cycle between the structures as they would regain a garrison next turn
• Fixed issue where lined up residential sectors would not make a sector 4 sectors away from the colony core annexable.
• Fixed the second Residential Upgrade not being named 'Residential Sector Advanced Upgrade' when viewing in the Research Tree
• Fixed issue where the victory/loss music would not always play.
• Fixed issue where coastal lava sectors would not be seen as uninhabitable.
• Fixed issue where sectors that are terraformed from a regular sector into lava, void, ocean or mountains would not correctly get the uninhabitable state (and vice versa).
• Fixed crash when trying to load a save game that happened due to the game trying to refresh relations before they had been initialized.
• Fixed issue where anomaly sites would be able to spawn on lava sectors.

Campaign

• Fixed an issue where the wrong illustrations were shown (swapped around) in the debriefings of the second Oathbound campaign mission.
• Fixed a rare issue, where it could happen that the Void barrier at the end of the 'Equisat of Verdrice' mission was not properly dissipated, making the mission uncompletable. Now the entire Void barrier is removed instead of creating a small tunnel.
• Fixed a rare issue in the 'Equisat of Verdrice' mission, where the continuation of the 'Mushroom Plague' quest line would not trigger if the player already annexed the 'Shroomwood Forest' sector or had any units on the center of that sector, rendering that mission uncompletable. That fix does not apply to already running games. Please contact support to get already broken save games manually fixed.

Galactic Empire

• Fixed issue where Empire heroes would sometimes not appear in the heroes list when conquering a new planet if that hero was gained through the Oathbound Campaign.
• Fixed issue where properties given through the empire would not show the correct name in breakdowns.
• The Empire Screen (and Empire quest screen) will now prevent events from auto opening to prevent events from overlapping with the Empire screen.
• Fixed issue where empire heroes using mod content (Race or tech) could crash the game if that mod was uninstalled.
• Fixed issue where (base game) relics would sometimes not award their requisition items if the player started their empire with DLC enabled but would later play without the DLC.
• Fixed issue where deselecting a planet would not reset the camera back to the center of the starmap.
• Fixed issue where empire secondary objectives would have a weird production quest objective notification.
• Fixed issue where pressing the left shoulder button on controller while in the appearance editing screen during new Hall of Hero recruitment would abort out of the editor entirely.

Model Optimizations & Fixes General

• A few optimizations to the models/textures of Invasions and Revelations content
• Several unit icons have been better framed/posed.
• Fixed several unit on-hit particles (like blood, sparks) having the wrong particle or color.
• Fixed several unit particles being broken when moving onto water.
• Fixed several Revelations and Invasions unit particles being broken while on water.
• Fixed Hackers units' visual issues, where the guns clipped through their hands and the laser sight particle was offset incorrectly.
• Fixed missing several secret tech unit Kirko tails, plus Malictor Shakarn tail.
• Fixed issue where Shakarn units could take on the skin color of non Shakarn leaders.

Unit Particles & Weapons

• Ancestral Kirko weapon particles have been adjusted to fit the damage channel.
• Elite Paragon units have received particles to reflect the damage channel.
• Fixed Bio Staff's particle being offset from the center.
• Fixed Scavenger Shotgun hero item not being held like a gun by adding a custom model.
• Fixed female Scavenger models missing their gun arms.
• Fixed Guild Assassin's Lensflare looking double.
• Fixed Amazon Lancer having the wrong team color texture
• Fixed Trencher and Foreman's smoke particles.
• Added missing eye and hands to the Dvar Echo Walker unit model, and adjusted the particles
• Fixed hand positions for swords, staffs, cannons.
• Fixed certain weapons on dvar appearing small and rotated.
• Added more particles to the Apostate Tyrant and Adversary.

Commanders & Heroes

• Fixed female version of the Paragon Noble torso having spiky visual issues on the hands
• Fixed Vanguard female version of the Heritor torso having visual clipping issues at the wrists.
• Fixed Shakarn leader arms having see-through gaps in certain arm poses.
• Fixed visual issues on arms/ shoulder armours/ hip armours of some Oathbound leader outfits

Interface

• Fixed issue where the equipment pickup panel could overlap with the combat panel when trying to attack an army while currently standing on an item stash.
• Fixed issue where the player could continue to drag the camera with the minimap when a combat panel opens if they were already dragging the camera before the panel opened.
• Fixed issue where pressing B/Circle on controller would cancel the Invasion demand.
• Fixed issue where deploying a hostile strategic operation on a NPC faction would show the 'Diplomatic State Pending' message after war was declared.
• Fixed issue where the alignment changed event would not state the faction shop modifiers
• Fixed annex sector tooltip where the system would not correctly use the current city size to display how many colonists are required to annex a new sector
• Fixed issue where right clicking the Military Assembly Base and Orbital Reinforcement Platform in the Colony Sector.
• Fixed issue where right clicking certain structures (e.g. Standard Military Infrastructure) in the Colony Structure Production tab would not open up the Imperial Archives.
• Fixed issue where the radial menu when playing with controller could be opened while the World Event interface was open.
• Fixed the Oathbound Settlement missing their Flavour Text

Diplomacy War Coordination Fixes:

• Fixed issues where the turns to the mission target would be incorrect and fixed issues where the AI was unable to verify if they had completed the War Coordination mission or not.
• Fixed issue where the 'Target eliminated, scanning perimeter for more hostiles' message would not allow the player to abort the mission or select a different target.

Units, Mods & Operations

• Fixed the Amazon Operation 'Arcadian Restoration' counting as a Hostile Action
• Fixed the Aegis Tank rolling twice for Status Inflicts
• Fixed the Therian Bouncer only doing 2 damage when equipped with 'Ammunition: Electrified'
• Fixed the Growth Vine Sprout having 1 armor, the Growth Vine Bud now correctly has 2 Armor
• Fixed Reality Gate Echo operation targeting Enemy units as well
• Fixed the Shakarn Echo Walker being unable to equip Melee mods
• Phase Manipulators Abduct and Evacuate abilities no longer work on turrets
• Fixed Initiation Rites meaning killing an Echo of Despair would always summon another Echo of Despair
• The Forgotten Shattered Arc's Corrupt Communion will now properly work on units that are immune to psionic effects
• The Growth Vine Sprouts can now use tunnel every turn (was 1 turn cooldown)
• Fixed Oathbound Paladin Aspirant and Paladin Warden not passing the Arc Extension Mod on to the Malware Daemon
• Fixed issue where the 'Earth Crack' ability could be used by any unit as long as there was an Earth Crusher unit present in that army.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/79ca502178dfc66e7bdf5d851278ece57c0b0ea0.png Hey Commanders! Oracle predicted you guys could experience issues with the game after the Star Kings Release. We're rolling out a patch to your games that is aimed at addressing some of the critical issue the community has reported. It's great seeing everybody enjoying the Star Kings Expansion and the new Galactic Empire mode, and I can't wait to see the Empires you create. Without further ado I present the Triceratops Hotfix. Enjoy commanders!

V1.401 - Triceratops Hotfix

Updates

• Disabled Score Victory on Empire Planets

Fixes

• Fixed a issue where Empire Saves would be unable to be created or loaded
• Fixed an issue where hotseat would break when being attacked by another non-independent player
• Fixed a issue where the game would crash during Manual Saves of the Galactic Empire
• Fixed a issue where the game would crash if there was a empty AI Passivity in the Advanced Settings
• Fixed that 'Join the Cause' Empire Request would always be chosen
• Fix for a crash that could occur on Heroes Spawning
• Fix for a crash that could occur on Shakarn Heroes Spawning
• Fixed a crash caused by using Infiltartors while playing with a controller
• Fixed a crash that could occur due to Colony Razing in the Campaign

It is time to step into the light and claim your destiny. We are incredibly happy to finally get to share the Star Kings Expansion with you, our third expansion to the Age of Wonders: Planetfall series.The Oathbound await your guidance as their search for the Grail has led to encounters with new hostile lifeforms and old friends turned enemies. Alongside the expansion we also released a free update that is available for everyone; the Triceratops Update! Our girl Trixy brings tons of exciting goodies. Check below for all the details on expansion features and the free update.

Star Kings Expansion

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Oathbound Player Race

The Oathbound represent everything good and pure in a war-torn galaxy with the sole mission to save mankind. They are a noble race of Paladins in massive battle suits wielding arc weapons and are aided in battle by the mysterious Seers with the ability to manipulate the outcome of skirmishes through precognition. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/bff6fbc4edb0184b008e295074b671dfc6cdd368.png

Additional Campaign Missions

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Quest for the Grail

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New Wildlife: Apostates

A group of breakaway Seers who realized that they could be more powerful by tapping into the abundant chaos of the universe, the Apostates are Oathbound who reject their oath of protection to instead seek power, and unite under this corrupt goal. The Paladins are branded Blackguards and the Seers who survive the embrace of the chaos are forever transformed. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/2183d7f9ba4dc08bfdec1291500ee0be7d1f7714.png

New Wildlife: Mycellians

The Mycelians are the result of an attempt to create a new type of fungus based meat replacement. The research was cut short once the modified (and delicious) mushrooms became sentient and began to infest the nearby agricultural equipment, resulting in terrifying fungus-cyborg monstrosities. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/7a66c64944092c5447803a129f2707e8e50b9b66.png

New Wildlife: Psionica

Psionica are mineral entities that developed in the aftermath of the fall of the Star Union, in areas where massacres and natural disasters led to mass loss of life. While Quartzite normally function with physical energies such as heat or lightning, Psionica are infused with the psionic energy or pain and suffering.

Free Triceratops Update

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Galactic Empires

Customize your own Galactic Empire by conquering worlds with progress that carries over between play sessions. Combine technology from various races and carry over heroes between planets as you lay the foundation of an eternal empire! Planet Traits Planet Traits affect your expedition, what Secondary Objectives may be chased, and what your Experience modifier is made up of. Traits come in 3 different flavors, each modifying the world or those that seek to claim it: Features - These are traits that modify what structures / sectors or climates are present on the planet, the above example is one such trait, making hazards extremely common on this world’s surface. Inhabitants - These traits indicate the presence of a force with a particular agenda, usually an alliance of two or more factions. These could be a pair of bickering Dvar Consortia, an Assembly Reassembly initiative, or a Celestian Crusade. Modifiers - These traits usually modify a certain sector type, unit type or another game mechanic in a way you might not be used to. This includes for example: Increased upkeep for Tier 1 and 2 units, player empires’ units gaining Stealth or Doctrine slots being increased. Not all traits are negative, but negative traits will contribute towards the world’s XP modifier while positive traits may not. Relics Relics will grant a set of Requisition items for you to bring along on your expeditions, these will be unlocked by successfully conquering a planet with the relevant trait. For example: owning a planet with the 'Paragon Warlord' trait will unlock the Imperial Crown Relic, letting you bring Paragon units and mods on your next conquest. Your expansions just got a bit bigger. When the Triceratops Update goes live you’ll immediately unlock additional Planet Traits and Relics to conquer based on the Expansions you already own. Take the battle to a Voidbringer Thrallworld, a planet conquered and now inhabited by Voidbringers or collect the Misfortune’s Paw and bring the elusive Psynumbran Kitty with you to see the galaxy. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/f8deb50cdaaacf75ae6a3312ed6927e50e4574c7.png

Residential Sectors

Create Super Colonies by building beyond the city sector limit. Residential sectors are a new type of sector specialization that you can build to grow your cities beyond the standard 5 sector limit. Building the sector increases the max sector limit by 1 and extends the Annexation Range by 1 as long as the sector is adjacent to the Residential Sector. Urban Overlay Building a Residential Exploitation will terraform the sector into a new overlay: Urban. The Urban overlay does not provide the usual sector level bonuses, but instead increases the Resource income per colonist in a Colonist slot. Additionally units ending their turn in these sectors recover an additional 6 health on top of any Friendly Territory or Biological/Mechanical Recovery they might have. Colony District Buildings Introducing racial Colony District Buildings, which unlock new colonist slot types for each race and get upgraded to use strong economic effects synergizing with the game play strengths of each race. The colony district building of each race is unlocked by the Tier IV Society Research ‘Residential Development’. Each colony district building can be upgraded up to two times in each colony. The Basic building can be directly built in the Colony core. The Fine building requires the Basic building to be present and requires the colony to have at least one residential exploitation sector. The Immaculate building requires the Fine building to be present and requires the colony to have two residential exploitation sectors. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/caf48a7252bde7b31bdc2a0774aafcb095ebbc87.png

Endless Research

Each tech tree now contains a ‘Future Tech’ skill that can be researched an unlimited number of times. Future Tech provides a random stacking bonus every time it is upgraded encouraging you to keep on researching forever!

Additional Interface & Accessibility Improvements

We’re constantly hard at work to improve the experience our players have when playing our game. Last time that meant we had some big Diplomatic & Economy changes, this time we’re focussing on how accessible the game is. We’ve added Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text and Chat Highlights to the multiplayer chat system, making it easier to communicate with each other without the need of external programs. It’s also easier than ever to track which upgrades a colony will provide your units thanks to a handy drop down list in the colony overview. Likewise, Unit Buffs gained from Exploration Sites and Status Effect Resistances are now visible in the Unit Panel. Hero Weapons now have a background color which shows what damage channel they use and Unit Mods now have a small icon that indicates what secondary bonus they give (armors, shields, health or damage). On the Strategic Map we’ve adopted TibblesTheCat’s Banner Update which adds several tweaks to help the banners of different Factions, Commanders and Heroes stand out. There are also several gameplay improvements. Players can now toggle which Tactical Operations are available for the AI to use when running Auto Combat. This should make it easier for Amazon/Heritor/Forgotten players to receive their combat spawned units. We’ve also leveled the playing field between PC Players, Controller Players and AI. Holding SHIFT, while in combat, will now force the system to target the air hex over the current ground hex. Lastly, we know that sometimes you just have a horrible first turn, so the game now makes an Auto-Save at the start of your game. For the full list of change notes, please visit: Age of Wonders: Planetfall - Update: V1.400 “Triceratops” Now go out there and conquer some planets! Thanks for the continued support, commanders!

Hello Everyone! Today we are proud to announce the 3rd expansion for Age of Wonders: Planetfall! Star Kings follows the story of a new race, the Oathbound, on their quest to regain the Grail Configuration from the heart of Star Union space in order to create a new Galactic Empire. Star Kings will be released on all platforms on November 10th, along with a massive patch that we’re calling Triceratops! To start off this adventure, we have a Dev Diary to share with you which gives more information about the expansion! It can be found here.

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Hey Commanders!

We hope you've all had a great summer. At Triumph HQ we've been hard at work on the next Expansion and while that's coming along swimmingly , we've prepared a 'Welcome Back' Update. The focus of this update is on various crash fixes, optimizations and addressing issues reported by the community. During the summer break Age of Wonders - Planetfall also celebrated its 1 year anniversary, and while it passed quietly, we've had a great year. We want to thank you for all your support and we're excited for what is coming up! Enjoy, commanders!

Update Notes

General

• Fixed an issue where combat would hang after a battle where the player is attacked in hotseat mode with combat retry disabled
• Fixed a crash caused by a temp unit dying on new turn starts
• Kir'ko Outpost orbital icon fixed
• Vehicles of units with stagger resistance now also give it to the hero equipped with these vehicles.
• Fixed an issue where hero special abilities would disappear when they got into vehicles
• Fixed an issue where the Quartzite Worms had animation issues when moving, they pop up and down mid-run.
• Fixed an issue where Hero skin material looked very red when selecting a hero at first.
• Fixed Tactical Operations that weren’t benefiting from the Technologist Doctrine
• Fixed certain conditions bypassing Immunities
• Emissary doctrine now correctly only applies to influence rewarded from quests
• Fixed units not evolving when they reach prime rank by sitting on an anomalous site
• Fixed a rare case where attacking an army next to a sector base or colony wouldn’t trigger battle within the base or colony
• Fixed an issue with health regeneration bonuses being listed multiple times in tooltips
• Targeting Array duplicate text fixes

MacOS

• Fixed an issue which would cause the game to not be able to access installed mods

Assembly

• Fixed an issue where reprocess colonist would only give 2 turns of extra income, instead of 3

Shakarn

• AI Shakarn units now use the correct mod template icons.
• Shakarn's Tactician: Cooldown reset abilities now work on the One of Us All Along ability; Fallback can now heal adjacent targets.
• Shakarn (Un)happiness banners no longer use the Kir’Ko banners
• Fixed an issue where only one version of a propaganda broadcast could be active in a battle at once. Now each player can bring their own copy.

Syndicate

• Mirage Unit now correctly gains stagger resistance when it activates its defense mode while equipped with the Spatial Acceleration Sails
• Fixed a skinning issue on one of the 'Legs' options

Vanguard

• Fixed colony militia doctrine not properly scaling with the number of garrisons the player has built.

Psi-Fish

• Added chance icons to the Path of the Chimera Psi-Fish mod

Forgotten

• Eater of the Dead's Punishment is now 12 range 4 hex AoE instead of map-wide

Therians

• Bouncer: Bullet Spin now correctly has str 12 bleed chance when equipped with the Flechette Ammo mod
• Carbon Glaive now correctly counts as a Melee Weapon

Voidbringers

• Voidbringers Leviathan Resuscitate Thrall now correctly heals for 50%
• Voidbringers Leviathan no longer gets Maternal Rage when a Thralled Psi-Fish dies
• Flowering Node can no longer spawn from the Pandora Portal

Celestian

• Compelling Presence on the ascended teacher now correctly converts the mind controlled unit into a colonist

Heritor

• Es'Teq Confiscator now correctly states it can be applied to any unit.
• Es’Teq Conduit now has a PFX; Now correctly says it can be applied to any unit with an Essence Drain ability.
• Quintessence Ark can now just heal itself with Sacrament of Vitality

Promethean

• Aegis Tank's attacks are now considered Sonic and can use Sonic upgrades
• Superheated Plasma Actuators now has the correct price when equipping it on a Hero

Psynumbra

• Echo of Despair Sinister Chorus no longer applies to mindless units

Synthesis

• Doomsday Level 3 should now correctly apply Daemons to Compromised units.
• Hacker - Scrambling Virus: Accuracy settings allow it to miss if the unit is blinded
• Hero Skill: Electrification Subroutines now correctly affect psionic attacks

VoidTech

• Fixed an issue where Quantum Avatar could teleport static turrets, causing a crash

Xenoplague

• Bio-Spores Hyper Aggression: Cooldown increased to 3 turns; Buff duration decreased to 2 turns.

FireArms

• Firearms mods Incendiary Ammo now correctly states the adjacent damage (50%); Burning applied by the splash no longer affects burn immune units.
• Firearms mods Kinetic Phase Modulator now correctly says it bypasses 3 shield on the ability tooltip, when equipped

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/93fa46c45e042dc9ea6cc8ab1d20667d9f777046.jpg Hey Commanders, Time for a smaller hotfix to resolve some issues reported by the community. Thanks again for the continued support!

Update Notes

General

• Fixed a issue in HotSeat which would cause the game to lock up due to incorrect player handling in the turn manager. Saves made during combat will still exhibit this behavior upon finishing, players need to load a Regular/End Turn save.
• Fixed a issue in Tactical Combat which would cause the game to lock up if a player Retreated/Surrendered in a 3-way combat.
• Fixed an crash that would occur if the Invasion Foreshadowing event would attempt to spawn near a player when they have no structures but are still alive.
• Fixed an issue that meant units sometimes became immune to stagger after being hit by an operation.
• Fixed a crash during Campaign caused by improper handling inventories changing when a Commander/Hero is dead.
• Fixed an issue where the Invasion Title music would play regardless of product ownership.
• Added a workaround for when the Launcher files are unable to parse resulting in settings not being pushed to the game.

Mods

• Fixed the Therian Ally Insignia not providing the Primal Pheromones: Bioregeneration

Pickups

The 'Lost Stray' Pickup no longer spawns in RMG if the player does not have the Invasions Expansion

Invasions

• Fixed the Voidbringer Naga 'Thralled Tendrils' not correctly receving the Arc Damage swap

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Update Notes:

Balance

Units & Abilities

• Shakarn Firebrand - Reduced Armor from 4 to 3
• Shakarn Firebrand 'Omni Claw' - Reduced damage from 8 to 7
• Shakarn Firebrand 'Omni Shot' - Reduced damage from 9 to 8
• Shakarn Firebrand 'Staggering Force' - Cooldown increased from 1 to 2 turns.
• Wildlife 'Shepherd' - Increased unit Tier from II to III.

World Events

• Fungal Awakening event now only occurs in late game
• Earthquake event now only occurs in late game

Fixes

General

• Added missing Therian mod template icons
• Fixed that Shakarn commanders could be customized with some DLC content without the user owning that DLC
• Fixed issue where expansion NPC Factions would be visible in Advanced Setup even though the user did not own the required DLC.
• Fixed a crash that could occur after failing to access a specific texture.
• Fixed Unit Outlines not rendering when they are enabled
• Fixed issue where the Score Victory would not end on the specified round after the Invasion was defeated.
• Fixed an issue where Absorbing a Colony belonging to another race wouldn't unlock that race's Military Tech Tree
• Fixed a crash caused by using Cerebral Control Collars on flying Infantry Units that are on a water hex
• Fixed that Reinforcements could not be accepted or declined with controller
• Fixed an AI Hang that could occur if Independents attacked a structure that had their Garrison defeated in the same turn while having an Player Stack adjacent.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when entering a Promethean Vault Silver Landmark that was spawned from the associated World Event.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when using Holoshift in certain situations
• Fixed an issue which would allow Infiltrators to Target Tier 3 units if they were built in a Colony with Resonance Halls attached; combat saves containing an Infiltrator that attempted this action might cause issues, it is recommended to load an older save

Diplomacy

• Fixed issue where the AI could send a message about going to war when they were already at war with the player.

Units & Abilities

• Syndicate Hero Skill 'Farsight' - Superior Overwatch should now function on all weapons when in Overwatch mode.
• Dvar Hero Vehicle 'Excavator' - Now correctly has the Hyper Armor Defense Mode
• Hero Weapon 'Bio Grenade' - Can no longer target Flying Units.
• Voidtech Rift Generator 'Dimensional Rift' - Now correctly deals damage before teleporting the unit
• Laser Weapons Group 'Searing Module' - Now correctly melts shields from Ethereal units
• Firearms Weapons Group 'Ammunition: Fire Burst' - Now correctly causes Burning instead of Bleeding (for real this time).
• Promethean 'Hazmat Protection' - Fixed an issue with Hazard Immunity not correctly blocking Tactical Hazards.
• Synthesis 'Malware Daemon'- Fixed an issue where Malware daemons wouldn't mind control enemies when they died

Invasions

• Removed Metamorphosis from Strix and Naga units. Evolving them was difficult to trigger and would cause crashes.
• Enthralled units under your control are no longer affected by morale from race relations and will no longer desert
• Call Voidbringer now correctly unlocks when joining the Thermal Voidbringer Invasion
• Call Voidbringer operation now only shows up once in the Imperial Archives
• Fixed Call Voidbringer operation icon for Biochemical, Arc and Thermal
• Fixed a issue where Voidbringers retained the Psionic Armor Bypass property on all abilities even with the focus mods
• Fixed an issue where the Voidbringer Naga Abilities did not swap to the correct Damage Channel.

Campaign

• Fixed crash in Shakarn campaign when Daiyu Jiang declares war on the player while James Henkins is in a transport on his own
• Fixed an issue where the first step of the “Sabotage Rift Reactor Alpha” and “Sabotage Rift Reactor Epsilon” Quest couldn’t be completed when the quest stack spawned next to the Imperial Defense instead of on top of it. For the fix to apply in active missions players need to load a save from before the Quest was given.

World Events

• Fixed crash when picking up equipment drops from the Orbital Weapons Cache event
• Fixed that the Interstellar Trade Convoy event did not correctly convert 50% of the production income to research income when using Generate Research

Localisation

• Fixed incorrect localisations for the Voidbringers
• Fixed a missing text entry in all localisations for NPC Quests during the Invasions
• Fixed a link in the Chinese & Japanese Localisations which didn’t open the correct Imperial Archives Page
• Fixed a localisation error stating that the Infiltrator was able to Holoshift into Tier 3 units.
• Fixed incorrect localisation for the Enhanced Limb Augments mod from the Therians.
• Fixed incorrect localisation for the Hunter’s Camouflage mod from the Therians.

Greetings, commanders!

The time has finally come: the Invasions Expansion is here! The new player race, the Shakarn, and the new Voidbringer Invasions mechanic, among many other additions, await you! Alongside the expansion we also released a free update that is available for everyone; the Diplodocus Update! The name might already reveal some of the focus. Check below for all the details on expansion features and free updates. To add to that: Age of Wonders: Planetfall has landed on Mac! Our team has been hard at work over the past few months getting this version up and running. Mac Commanders will be able to join up with PC Commanders to fight for planetary domination. Check the store page for more information and system requirements.

Invasions Expansion

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Shakarn Player Race

The Shakarn are a warlike race of lizard aliens from beyond the edges of Star Union space. Using holographic technology they have been spying on the Star Union for centuries, infiltrating their agents into every level of society, and stealing the Union’s technology. Now that the Star Union is gone, it is time for the Shakarn to strike and claim the fallen empire as their own! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/23208e560591959eb69301e65cf615f8182251d0.jpg

Additional Campaign Missions

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Voidbringer Invasions

Face the ultimate challenge as your world is invaded by a race of trans-dimensional beings known as the Voidbringers. These beings arrive via beacons which crash down over the planet, deploying armies of enthralled soldiers who destroy everything in their path. You must either destroy the beacons to end the threat, or submit and become enthralled yourself to conquer the world in the name of the void. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/30a9a210a19e55888b00744d04e9bfa4e23c35aa.jpg

Therians NPC Faction

This group of demihumans is the result of Terratech experiments into human genetic manipulation. Now they live on the edges of society, as pirates and guns for hire. Get on their good side to expand your armies with this ferocious lot. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/5b1b247f692b18ef389079238b7f4a65a378b7a3.jpg

World Events

27 global events that randomly affect the world, from meteor showers that spread cosmite across the world to distant supernovae that scorch the land into a lifeless desert. Stay alert to change your strategy on the fly as these events can affect the course of the game drastically. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/4516dce71771e616de7280e3784df43b6b83daed.jpg

Conquered Worlds

A new world type where one player starts with a large empire, and the other players are united in a team to take them down. Which side will be the conqueror and which will be the conquered? That’s for you to find out. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/332448dec9a1d675c333186e2ff32dd5e0b09a73.jpg

New Locations

4 new exploration sites have been added for you to explore and add to your empire: the War Docks, the Therian Alteration Labs, the Cosmic Manipulation Center and the Resonance Halls.

Free Diplodocus Update

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AI Player Personalities

AI Personalities adds two personality traits to all AI controlled players: the Preference trait and the Strategy trait. The Preference trait determines which things the AI player will like and dislike, this trait may also change their diplomatic behavior. The Strategy trait influences how the AI player runs their empire by changing which things they will research, which units they build and on which sector specializations they will focus. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/d71f3861886bc54e31727347c15f5b3b458431a2.jpg

Diplomacy Updates

Reworked AI planning system We have performed an overhaul of the AI planning system in order to expose more of how it works by making all internal modifiers visible in the opinion of an AI player. Additionally we have changed how they determine who to befriend making it more directly related to their opinion of the player. Neglect The AI now has a neglect timer which will trigger when they share an increased diplomatic state with the player and have not had any interactions from the player for some time. This system will give incentive to continuing to interact with AI players after you have achieved a certain diplomatic state. This neglect can be overcome by changing your diplomatic state, trading and sending a compliment or insult. Diplomatic Feedback We added a Diplomatic Feedback system that will inform what certain diplomatic messages from the AI mean or what effects they have. This is done for a number of different messages to help improve feedback from the system making it more transparent. While giving away some of the AI’s plan, this should provide more agency over diplomacy. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/cab6bb96cc22e1a91fe7485e01e7b600357be4e3.jpg

Balance

Weapons Tech The old arrangement of weapon techs meant a lot of investment was needed to reach high level weapon mods, this meant many players never got to use them, since they prioritized other parts of the tech tree which were more widely applicable. We decided to try and tackle this by making the techs cheaper and cross linking the weapon techs, so that researching one tech would also unlock techs for it's partner. We also looked over some of the less useful weapon tech trees and tried to extend to make them more useful. This involved making some weapon tech defensive in nature for variety, and allowing many biochemical mods to work on melee attacks, which makes them much more useful for Kir'ko players. Economy In the Tyrannosaurs Update we did a large pass on the game economy and we're continuing those balancing efforts here/now/with this update. In comparison with the Sectors on Land, the Aquatic sectors have been performing subpar. With this update we're closing the gap by increasing the income gains from various Aquatic Resource Nodes, Pickups and Landmarks. In the Tyrannosaurus Update we also added Exploration Sites which provide income boosts and Colony buffs, these sites we're still being spawned through the original Visit Site logic. We've changed that spawning behavior to ensure that Exploration Sites appear less in clusters and are more varied. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/a433719f6f2b00788dfbbb28de447b736a62cd70.jpg

Aquatic Combat Maps

The Aquatic Experience hasn’t just been looked at from a Strategic standpoint, we’ve also taken the time to expand on the Aquatic Tactical Combat maps. With this update a variety of Aquatic Pickups, the Cosmite Node and Sunken District will all have their own Combat Maps. This should cause some waves in those normally silent waters.

Small Multiplayer Updates

One request we’ve seen a lot was a more flexible Combat Card system. After this update you’ll have more control about when Combat Cards can be used by setting ‘Combat vs. AI’ or ‘Combat vs. Humans’ to use Cards independently of each other or not at all. Additionally you’ll find a new tab on the Diplomacy Negotiation screen that allows you to trade equipment with other players. Equipment available for trading includes Weapons, Vehicles, Hero Mods and purchased Mods. We’ve also made it possible to form new Treaties during active Vassalage and set up timed trades while in Vassalage or Fixed Teams. For the full list of change notes, please visit: Age of Wonders: Planetfall - Update: V1.300 “Diplodocus” Now go out there and conquer some planets! Thanks for the continued support, commanders!

Hello everyone! Today we are announcing the next expansion for Age Of Wonders - Planetfall: Invasions! Invasions will be released on the 26th of May on all platforms, and we’ll be doing a series of Dev Journals and streams to tell you all about it! Check the first diary out here

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/3166bd1880a0f6a108b6ea2faf4d3b56bac069d2.png Hey everyone! While you have been taming the new Tyrannosaurus Update, we prepared a hotfix that will tackle commonly reported issues. Issues like the graphical corruptions in tactical combat and commander saving problems should be fixed. Some important balance changes are also included! Thanks everyone for all the feedback on the new update! Enjoy, commanders!

Update Notes:

Bug Fixes

General

• Fixed an issue where some players could not save or load custom commanders.
• Fixed graphical corruption in the lower-right corner of the screen in Tactical when Unit Outlines were enabled.
• Fixed crash in Imperial Archives when selecting a unit mod when the user did not own the Revelations DLC.
• Fixed AI issue where the AI could get stuck in a combat during interaction with a survey site.
• Fixed issue where taking back a colony that was occupied by marauders would not convert all sectors back to the player’s full ownership.
• Fixed issue where an overlord could not use war coordination functionality with their vassal, vassals will still be unable to use this functionality however.
• Fixed a bug where players could research Relativistic Projectiles from Kinetic Force Manipulation.
• Fixed rewards screens missing information on the source of the reward at the top.

Economy

• Fixed that Hazards were not penalizing the income of colonies they were attached to.
• Fixed that the Sunshard node and Exposed mineral vein would still provide income when occupied.
• Fixed that the Resupply Station would provide +5 Production instead of +5 Food.
• Fixed issue where changes to the game speed and perks would not correctly provide the correct number of starting colonists.

Operations

• Fixed that the Call of the Hive, Security Drones and Phase Echo Guard tactical effects no longer worked.
• Fixed that Ecological Warfare’s regeneration applied to Mechanical Units.
• Fixed that the Operator operation would not apply its discount to strategic operations.

Units

• Fixed that the Vanguard Assault Bike was getting an unintentional 2 extra vision range.
• Fixed that the Autonom Golem would get stuck in an animation after using a grenade ability.
• Fixed that the Swift Beak could not correctly apply Melee mods.
• Fixed that the Tyrannodon had bad table manners.

Campaign

• Fixed an issue, where players did not receive the next story quest after completing the “First Revelations” quest in the Obolus-5 mission of the Revelations campaign, if they had already annexed the “Hand of Rhemenses” sector.
• Fixed an issue that the production landmark next to the player starting position in the Gardip XX mission had no defenders when playing with the challenge level set to medium or hard.
• Fixed an issue where the “Art of Evolution” quest in the Arcadia Caeleste mission of the base game campaign did sometimes not complete when evolving a Psi-Fish unit.

Balance

General

• Players can no longer continuously enter a structure combat with the same stack, by continuously retreating from the combat; it now has a cooldown of 1 turn.
• Increased cost of Flying Hero Vehicles by +10 cosmite and +20 energy.
• Shield Damage will remain even if shields are completely removed and then re-added (e.g. by stepping out of swarm shield and back into it).

Kir’Ko

• Engulfer - Changed Prime Rank from ‘Prime Rank: Range’ to Prime Rank: Critical’
• Emergent can no longer transform into an Engulfer; turns into Hidden instead.
• Guiding Presence and Guiding Hand - Decreased range bonus from +2 to +1
• Hero Skill ‘Guiding Hand - Changed from 4 Turn Cooldown to Once Per Battle
• Tactical Operation ‘One with the Swarm’ - Decreased effect from +4 Shields for 3 Turns to +3 Shields for 2 Turns.
• Tactical Operation ‘One with the Swarm’ - Decreased cost from 5 Tactical Operation Points to 4 Tactical Operation Points.

Heritor

• Protector Incarnation - Changed Unit requirement from Non-Mindless to Land Movement

Psionic

• Mantra of Life - Decreased Shields from +3 to +2

For the patch notes of the Tyrannosaurus Update v1.200, check the official forums post here.

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Greetings, commanders!

Over the last few months we have been working hard on the “Tyrannosaurus” update and it definitely does its name justice! Based on community input and findings, some major changes were made to the game. Here we highlight the biggest features and changes; for the full list of change notes, check the bottom of the post. But first, check out this sweet trailer!

New Features

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Game Intensity Controls

A number of settings have been added to the game setup options to control the amount of push back the world gives to the player. These options can be used to make enemy players, NPC factions and spawners more passive to give a more relaxing game experience, or more active to up the game’s challenge. These options can be edited separately under Advanced Settings, or are controlled under a master Game Intensity setting in the main setup screen.

No Colonizer Mode

An old favourite from previous games in the franchise; No Colonizer Mode blocks the ability for all players to build colonizers to create new colonies (a limited number of colonizers can be gained from the settlements pre-placed on the map). This leads to a game with much smaller empires, where the focus is more on the game’s military aspects than its economic ones.

Exploration Sites

A number of locations, primarily Visit Sites which would give temporary bonuses to the armies that visited them, have been reworked, remodelled and rebranded as Exploration Sites. These sites are heavily guarded and each has its own unique interior combat map. Once captured, each site has a unique buff it grants to units produced in the colony it is linked to, as well as giving a powerful economic bonus.

Fleeing Enemies

In order to reduce the number of battles the player needs to fight, weak enemy stacks will now occasionally ask for mercy, allowing players to claim their location without a combat encounter. Additionally, stronger stacks will sometimes allow players to bribe them to leave.

Economy Changes

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Streamlined Terrain Interactions

The terrain in Planetfall gives boosts to the economic structures built within them, for example a Forest sector gives bonuses to Production and Food bases. The update changes these bonuses to always apply, rather than requiring the player to research and build special colony upgrades (i.e. a food sector built in a forest sector will now immediately go to level 2, without requiring the Forest Exploitation technology first). This makes the system much easier to understand, and allows players to experience the bonuses from terrain much faster and more organically. Since these terrain bonuses also affect the strength of the special upgrades that can be built in sectors, those also become more interesting and useful to the player.

Rebalanced Economic Research

The streamlining of the terrain interactions has meant we could remove a number of techs from the economy tree, which was generally felt to be overloaded. To take this further, a number of other techs have been removed and the tree has been rebalanced in order to make systems more useful.

Simplified Colony Economy

We’ve gone through the various economic bonuses the player gains from various sector upgrades and re-arranged them to make them easier to grasp. At the same time, a number of upgrades have been rebalanced to make them more useful, and less reliant on micromanagement to make the most of them.

Razing Colonies and Sectors

The player now gains resources of various types for razing enemy colonies and sectors. This provides more incentive for defending players to actively defend their territory rather than hiding in their cities. It also incentivizes players to destroy captured colonies, rather than keep them, leading to smaller empires which are easier for the players to manage.

Factions and Secret Techs

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Racial Starting Bonuses

In order to make the differences between the races more well defined, each race has been given a short term bonus that is immediately active from the start of the game, and a long term bonus which affects the race for the duration of the game.

Secret Tech Starting Units

It was felt that players had to work too hard to get any benefits from their secret techs, since they often didn’t unlock any units from their secret tech until turn 20-30. To fix this, each player (except for Xenoplague players) will now start the game with a tier 2 secret tech unit which they can immediately start using. This adds more variety to the early game, and makes the secret tech choice more immediately meaningful.

Xenoplague Streamlining

The Xenoplague secret tech now allows players to start with a Pustule unit and start spreading the plague from the first turn. Previously, this defining aspect of the tech was locked behind research, so the player was forced to get particular techs before they could enjoy the main feature of the Xenoplague.

Amazon Animal and Forest Gameplay

The Amazons have unique world map gameplay mechanics based around capturing wildlife units and spreading forests, which we felt were underperforming. The operations for creating forests have been made cheaper, and more bonuses have been added for the player to research that improve the bonuses forests grant. Amazon controlled wildlife now gain an inherent stat buff to make them more useful, which can be strengthened through research. Also, the many types of wildlife now evolve, allowing the player to capture a weak unit early in the game and watch it evolve into a more powerful one as the game progresses. A new, end game operation has also been added allowing the Amazons to control the powerful end game wildlife that was previously unavailable.

Special Operations

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Rebalanced Covert Operations

We’ve taken a look at the covert operations tree, rebalancing the operations to make them more useful as well as adding a new cosmite stealing operation to make the end game more attractive. The distribution of Operation Strength/Defense bonuses in the tree has been rearranged to give players who focus on covert ops more of an advantage. A tooltip has also been added to the covert operation targeting interface that breaks down the chance for the operation to succeed as well as providing information on what the player can do to increase that chance.

Rebalanced Doctrines

The doctrines in the game have received a balance pass to reduce the cost to deploy them. The tech tree has been re-arranged slightly to make the racial and secret tech doctrines more attractive to the player, by adding shortcuts allowing the player to unlock high level doctrines by doing economic research (previously the player could only unlock high level doctrines by researching all the lower level ones first) and allowing the player to earn doctrine slots by researching doctrines (previously doctrine slots could only be unlocked by researching a separate area of the tech tree).

Operations Interface Improvements

The operation launching interfaces have been rearranged to make it easier for the player to see what they have available and what they have active. This was achieved by merging several tabs, so the player can see everything on screen at once without needing to flip between different lists.

Diplomacy

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War Coordination Improvements

The system the player uses to coordinate attacks with their AI allies has been rebuilt to make it more responsive and transparent. AI players can now be directed to attack and defend specific locations, and will send more messages to give feedback to the player about when they complete or fail their tasks.

Trading and Diplomatic Offers Rebalancing

In order to make certain trade deals and diplomatic offers more worthwhile for both the player and AI, many of the trade items have received balancing. The prerequisites for peace deals and vassalage offers have been tweaked so it makes more sense when they occur.

Interfaces and Readability

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More Readable Units

We have done a number of tweaks to how units are rendered to make them pop out more on the world map and in combat. This is to address issues that units were often hard to see when they stood on certain types of terrain.

Clearer Overview Map

The overview map, which is viewed by zooming out to the max level on the world map, has received a pass to make the icons that appear on it more consistent and useful. Economic icons now receive a red outline when they are occupied by the enemy, to make it clearer to the player where potential issues with their economy lie. Owned sectors are now fully colored, instead of only showing the borders, giving a clearer overview of each domain on the map.

Clearer Level Tooltips

The text tooltips that described the effects of doomsday weapons and leveled sector upgrades have been given a pass to make them clearer, shorter and less overwhelming, making them much easier to read and understand.

Strategic AI

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Better Army Compositions

The strategic AI is now better at building higher level armies of more varied units, and is less likely to create monotonous armies of low level units. When reaching a certain phase of a game, they are now more inclined to create higher tier units as well. Additionally, the unit modding process for AI was improved to ensure the AI players upgrade units that already have mods with better mods once they become available.

Prioritization Improvements

AI players would often prioritize attacking independent armies and become overly defensive when opponents built up their military. With the update a lot of these weaknesses have been tackled and the AI has become a lot better at setting clear goals that result into more interesting interactions with players.

Other Improvements

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Tutorial and Practice World

We have done a pass on the game’s tutorial and the early campaign maps to address complaints that they were overwhelming for newer players. Upon completing the tutorial the player will now receive a suggestion to play a curated Practice Game before jumping into the campaign, since we feel that the early Campaign maps are simply too much for a new player to attempt directly after the tutorial.

Lots of Balance Changes

The update contains a HUGE number of balance tweaks to units, operations, and unit upgrades. These have been based on feedback from the community, with a focus on improving the balance of the PvP aspect of the game.

Fixes Fixes Fixes

Like any update, this Update contains a large amount of bug fixes. Thanks to the community for reporting the issues so we can continue improving the game! For the full list of Update notes please visit: Age of Wonders: Planetfall - Update: V1.200 'Tyrannosaurus' Patch Notes Thanks for the continued support, commanders!

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V1.104 - Stegosaurus 2

Feature: Auto-Explore Armies can now be set to 'auto-explore', this means that they will scout around the planet on their own; picking up resources along the way. These armies will no longer appear in your to-do events; allowing you to focus on other tasks. Feature: Tactical Operations Toggle When engaging in combat, you can now decide whether Tactical Operations will be used during Auto Combat. Fixes General

• When a unit is brought back from the dead, all of its Once Per Battle and Ability Cooldowns are triggered. This does not affect Escape Module or similar abilities.
• Fixed issue where AI player vs AI Player and AI player vs Marauders would no longer generate combat events.
• Fixed that unit icons in the army panel would flicker on army movement.
• Fixed issue where razing a Forward Relay Base would not cancel its Energy and Cosmite upkeep.
• Fixed a visualization error on the Livestock Spawner Tactical Map that caused biodomes to spawn in the incorrect color.
• Fixed issue where the doomsday level could go beyond 3 causing a crash.

Hotseat

• Fixed issue in Hotseat where the game could hang after manual combat when an AI player attacked the player.
• Fixed issue in Hotseat where the game could crash upon using combat retry and then closing the combat results.

Multiplayer

• Fixed issue where players could pause the turn timer while another player was in combat or viewing the combat results.
• Fixed issue where leaders would not load correctly in the lobby and loading screen if a player used a DLC leader but the host of the multiplayer session did not own the required DLC.

Units, Mods & Operations

• Sinister Chorus now correctly decreases Entropy Resistance
• PsiTec Vox Amp now correctly receives damage channel changes from Focus mods.
• Fixed Hopperhound Mantises not having a defense mode.
• Purchased Faction Units now correctly gain extra ranks from the player's HQ as well as other Upgrades.

Campaign

• Fixed 'Kir'ko Independence' in Xa'Kir'Ko (Kirko 02) not progressing in some cases after completing all three 'Collect Data from Xenolabs' quests. Note: Affected players will still have to end their turn for the quest line to progress.

Anomalous Sites

• Replaced the constructs in Phase 3 of House of Emperors with Scavengers.

UX

• Edge scrolling no longer moves the camera when input is blocked.
• Controller: Cycle Cities now correctly ignores Absorbing/Migrating cities

Updates General

• Doomsday structures are now being removed when a sector changes owner.

Language

• Added Korean language support.

Multiplayer

• Changing teams is now locked while the player has opted as ready to play.

Units, Mods & Operations

• Heritor Siphoner 'Es'Teq Siphon' - Reduced damage from 11 to 9

UI & UX

• Added a Secret Tech Filter to the Commander Selection screen.
• Skipping to the next to-do event will now focus the camera on the event.
• Cycling through cities is now done alphabetically.
• Where possible sector invasion event will now highlight the invading stack instead of the cell the invasion took place.

Unravel the secrets of a long forgotten dynasty... Age of Wonders: Planetfall REVELATIONS is out now! Get it with the season pass: https://pdxint.at/2qhgFXf

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/22be6639535b04867fd9d10609748f13ca9c3d53.png With the release of REVELATIONS just around the corner, it's about time we talk more about some upcoming features in both the expansion and the free content patch! Join us and Principal Gameplay Designer Tom Bird on twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive, Thursday 15:30 CEST!

A dynasty, long forgotten, is once again about to rise. The Age of Wonders: Planetfall expansion Revelations will arrive November 19th. Included in the Season Pass, more info HERE

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/e8b9faf0e23300276cc0ded5ca738d64e44f9261.png As we are about to get ready for PDXCON we have an update for the Ankylosaurus patch. The Ankylosaurus 2 update fixes gameplay, multiplayer and interface issues. Of course we have already been working on cool stuff for you folks. For more about that come find us in Berlin at PDXCON; and if you can't make it, keep an eye on PDX news & updates on social media. V1.006.1 - Ankylosaurus 2 Gameplay

• Fixed missing translations
• Fixed issue where sometimes strategic actions, such as “build (forward-)base” would not be cancelled when a player was defeated.

Multiplayer

• Fixed that disconnecting while kicking a player would cause out of sync issues after a rejoin
• Fixed that you could cancel back to the previous menu while kicking a player

Interface

• Fixed that hero and unit icons would sometimes disappear
• Fixed that text in the lists in the Imperial Archives would be offset
• Fixed that you could not call NPC factions to war
• Fixed that the research tree had a big cross when playing with fixed teams

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/20d39d65776681f3dc5151464b7f67e2c9007f0a.png Hello everyone! Patch v1.006, also known as Ankylosaurus, is available and ready to be updated on Steam. Today we continue with our dinosaur-named patches with the graceful Ankylosaurus. Apart from the Multiplayer Kick system, signified by the typical dutch clog in its tail, we added some important community-requested features, like saving of the last used game settings and the selling of excess Food income! Additionally, there are some significant balance changes to city expansion and critical hit chance! Not to mention big quality of life improvements for interfaces and a massive list of fixes!

V1.006 - Ankylosaurus

Features

• The last used scenario settings are now saved. These are saved separately for singleplayer and multiplayer.
• World settings can now be saved into templates in Advanced Setup. Up to 3 templates per Scenario type.
• Implemented Kick feature; hosts of sessions can now kick other players through the Settings in the session overview.
• Added a prospect sector particle effect on sectors that can still be prospected, when you have a stack selected that have a Prospector unit.
• The “share all” food sharing option will now sell any excess food for energy if other colonies are not taking all of the shared food. This allows you to stop the city from growing and managing city happiness better.

Modding (Paradox Launcher V2 2019.09.01)

• Fixed issue with Mods not updating
• You can now add Mod Tags

Balance

• Critical chance of an attack is now capped by the hit chance of the attack. I.e. an attack with 20% chance to hit cannot have a crit chance of over 20%. This to prevent stacking crit increases from becoming an exploit.
• Stacking Damage Reflection from mods and abilities is now capped at 75% of damage reflected.
• Ruthless Killer from the Martial Tradition perk now only returns 1AP when it procs, not 3AP.
• Time Warp (Void Tech operation) and Dimensional Instability can now be removed using debuff cleansing abilities and operations.
• Indentured Contracts now reduces the energy cost of Indentured units by 33% (was 50%)

Balance: Assembly We’re planning to do a large balance patch in the future, however the Assembly are currently so strong compared to the other races that we’re bringing forward some of the fixes to try and bring them back into line.

• Assimilate now heals for 3hp per hit (was 6)
• Assembly Void Walkers now do 9 damage per hit (was 8)
• Assembly Scavenger - Shotgun now has 1 level of high impact (also affects the Vanguard Engineer)
• Vorpal Sniper - Vorpal Shot now has a 15% critical bonus (was 20%)
• Vorpal Sniper - Vorpal Shot now has damage 18 (was 20)
• Assembly Electrocutioner - Arc Projector damage is now 11 (was 10)
• Assembly Electrocutioner - Project Arc Blast is now range 7 (was 5)
• Remote System Purge now affects 3 friendly cyborgs in a chain (was all friendly cyborgs)
• Battlefield Autopsies now grants 3 research per unit tier after combat (was 5)

Balance: Colonizers We've changed colonizer cost, lowering the base cost and having an increasing cost for each additional colonizer you build. This change was made to address colony spam as discussed in the Planetfall community:

An early game land grab rush shouldn't be the only valid strategy, and

Having a large number of colonies resulted in too much micromanagement. We will continue to investigate people's experiences with colony expansion.

• Colonizers now have scaling costs. The first colonizer costs 50 energy, 20 cosmite and 100 production. For each colonizer you build the cost will increase by 100 energy and 10 cosmite.

General

• Improved random commander selection when setting up a game to increase the variety of commanders encountered.
• Turret defense structures now have unique icons for each race.
• Reduced stutter in Tactical Combat when moving the camera around for high refresh rate monitors
• Improved Tactical Combat camera zoom behavior, making the mousewheel and hotkey zoom faster (in particular with notably high- and low framerates)
• Fixed issue where Paradox Cloud Saves would always update the last modified time causing PDX Cloud Saves to always appear first when launching the game.
• When disabling cloud saves in steam, saves on the star map can now get saved as a PDX cloud save like the other save types.

Campaign

• Fixed an issue where commander/hero equipment and levels wouldn’t be transferred to the next mission if they had a vehicle equipped that is unavailable in the next mission.
• Fixed issue in campaign where items could sometimes not be equipped properly on heroes/leaders that are taken from previous campaign maps.
• Fixed an issue that caused the player to get stuck in a story message in the first Kir’Ko mission (Arcadia Caeleste) if he didn’t accept or decline the “Contact Nicole Crustus” quest and then cleared the Celestian Archives.
• Fixed an issue in the first Kir’Ko mission (Arcadia Caeleste) that the player could not enter the Dreamer’s Archives when they were owned by one of the allied Celestian players. Affected players will need to end their turn from their save game to gain access to the landmark.
• Campaign quests that get closed are automatically declined at the end of the turn if the player does not accept/decline the quest themselves.

Gameplay

• Critical and fumble chance of an attack can be seen in the attack’s preview (hold ctrl), in the Extra Info section.
• Level 5 industrial exploitation now correctly gives production instead of research.
• Fixed issue where the current food income was not taking into account for food sharing.
• Fixed issue where manually queueing the infinite energy/research production option for a colony would still cause “city production not set” to-do events.
• Fixed crash that could occur when a victory condition was triggered upon defeating another player.
• Fixed issue where the effect of doomsday weapons on Colonies would not refresh when a city was occupied or absorbed.
• Fixed a bug where you could dismantle the exploitation given by a landmark.
• Fixed a bug where your game could softlock when loading a combat save after you’ve patched the game.
• Fixed issue where destroying a Monitoring Station wouldn't cancel it being listed in the active operation list
• Fixed an issue that meant that Resurrect Hero could be used to break the max heroes in a game limit
• Fixed issue where the Brood Cluster building was able to reduce a unit production cost to 1
• Fixed a bug where racial research would unlock when you occupy a city of that race, rather than when you owned it.
• Fixed issue where a player would gain the research of races belonging to the colonies they had occupied on loading a save game. This would also cause an Out of Sync in multiplayer.
• Fixed issue where migrating an occupied colony would give the player the racial research belonging to the race of the colony prior to migration.
• Fixed issue where you were able to migrate colonies to another race even if the player had only occupied other cities of that race instead of owning them.
• Skirmisher Subroutines now correctly targets ground and air units (it was wrongly ground only before)
• Fixed issue where casting an operation that spawns a unit on the domain of another player could trigger war if in doing so that unit would trespass.
• Fixed Phoenix Defense Protocol not giving its operation defense bonus. The defense from the doctrine now protects against all operations, not just those that target your colonies.
• Fixed a crash caused by razing a city while a doomsday victory is running
• Fixed issue where Organized Cyber Divisions wasn’t giving it’s price reduction to certain Strategic Operations.
• Fixed issue where the research not set event was still visible after the player completed all researches and the doomsday victory condition was disabled
• Fixed issue where the colonist auto assignment would not keep in mind supply and happiness deficit when they were not set to ignored.
• Dvar doctrine Cosmite Collection Program now works correctly.
• Fixed issue where the player could prime Planetary Unification Protocol even if it was already active.
• Fixed issue where the Planetary Unification Protocol operation wouldn't be cancelled if the unifier victory was blocked.

Gameplay: Units & Abilities

• Dvar trenches now correctly give a 25% accuracy bonus to the units stood within the trench.
• Adaptive Network given through the Synthesis landmark can now stack up to a max of 5 Shields.
• Fixed Nanite Boosters' buff not working when the unit was being flanked.
• Fixed Phoenix Walker Vehicle not being able to use Dvar Melee mods.
• Fixed Quantum Avatar not giving it's buff to voidtech modded units equipped with the Stasis Pocket Inducer mod.
• Fixed Oblivious Refrain, which wasn't targeting air units, when it should.
• Fixed arc retaliation defense being triggered by cerebral override.
• Fixed breaching shot on the guild assassin affecting the snap shot ability.
• Fixed that sleep could be applied to units with status effect immunity.
• Pyrx bomb no longer hits units with thermal immunity.
• Cleansing light’s description no longer states it can only target friendly units.
• Fixed that when a Ravenous’ devour ability would be targeted on a flying unit above a ground unit, it would eat the ground unit (it did not matter what type of unit).
• Mantra of clarity now correctly shows up in the unit panel as a buff.
• The cerebral control collars ability is now correctly displayed in the unit panel.
• Fixed a bug where Echoes of Despair spawned in the wild wouldn't have Thermal/Biochemical attacks when modded with a Focus: Flames/Venom
• Fixed a bug where the Promethean Phoenix Walker would incorrectly enter it's defence mode after using Torrent of Flames
• Fixed a bug where the Synthesis Avatar's Amplify Daemon ability wasn't correctly targeting certain units.
• The description of the Dvar mod Reactive Kinetic Battery now correctly says that the mod can be used by Heavy units (used to be Mechanical Heavy)
• Thumper (Secondary Hero Weapon) no longer deal double damage
• Stopped the Voradon’s Devour ability from triggering as part of melee overwatch
• Prevent the Alert Protocol operation from removing actions points on units that use a leave one point or full action (continue) ability.
• Fixed bug where Mantra of the Branded wasn't allowed on psionic units
• Wraith Tank no longer hits itself when it has the Advanced Dislocation Drive
• Fixed Reassembly Modules mod not being addable to paragons and other non-assembly cyborgs
• Fixed an issue where Xenoplague units were being targeted by Xenoplague Operations when they shouldn't and vice versa.
• Fixed issue where triggering Disintegrate on a flying unit would cause Tactical Combat to get into a dead state.
• Fixed issue where Echo Walker clones, and other temporary units, wouldn’t despawn if they were using Emergency Quantric Shielding mods.
• Purifiers Plasma Bomb will now scatter if it misses
• Kir'Ko Star Guide can now correctly equip Path of Flames and Path of Venom mods
• Plasmoid and Phoenix Walker can now equip melee mods
• Star Guide can now target Blinding Light anywhere (before it was restricted to having a unit in the middle of the aoe)
• Fixed Zenith's Reinforcement Zone (now correctly targets allied Biological and Cyborg units)
• Fixed Sequential Kill System and Ruthless Killer giving multiple action points back when killing multiple units with a single attack.
• Fixed a bug where the Assembly Colony Defense Turret was being pushed when killed
• Fixed the Psynumbra Hero Skill, Dark Elation so it affect both ground and air units now, rather than only one or the other.
• Positron Converter now correctly targets both air and ground units
• Project Agony Field now correctly damages ALL units in the field
• Fixed broken animation on Dvar Echo Walkers melee strike.

Gameplay: Diplomacy & NPC factions

• Cosmite trade value within diplomacy has been increased from being worth 4 energy to 8 energy.
• Fixed issue where the trespass button in the trespassing confirmation for using an operation to spawn a unit would not function if the player is a vassal to the domain owner.
• Fixed issue where breaking a diplomatic treaty would not always cause a relation penalty.
• Using influence to ask a faction to leave an occupied colony will now liberate the colony if you are not at war with the owner of that colony. As opposed to you becoming the new occupier of that colony.
• Trading casus belli will now also instantly remove the grudge that player may have relative to the amount of casus belli points that were traded.
• When war is declared on a player that is suffering from the effects of futility of war - which disables the use of casus belli - they will no longer get the negative “war without casus belli” popular support effect.
• NPC faction accept- and decline demand buttons now show the amount of favor gained with the NPC faction in their tooltips. The tooltip will now also indicate that war will be declared if the demand is declined, if that is the case.
• Fixed issue where treaties which could not be paid for would instantly end any involved diplomatic treaties that were made within the same trade deal but do not have a fixed duration.
• Fixed issue where the player could spend all its resources before handling a demand and still be able to select the give resources to faction option.
• Fixed issue where Sway Ideology would reduce the diplomatic state of a faction relation to much
• Fixed issue where the offer/demand vassalage options would still be available when an alliance offer was already added to the trade.
• Added a new event and panel to indicate when a resource treaty could not be exchanged because one of the players couldn’t afford paying the resources.
• Fixed crash when an NPC faction, that no longer had a dwelling, gave the player a quest.
• Fixed issue where converting a base into a forward base or a colony could trigger a sector claim violation.
• Fixed an issue where capturing an enemy city that was producing something would efud the energy and cosmite cost to you, instead of the city’s original owner
• Fixed issue where the covert operation Casus belli would be given to the player when the covert op was detected, even if the caster was anonymous.
• Fixed issue where the locate sector button of a faction demand was no longer functional

AI

• Diplomacy trading tweaks to make the AI less agreeable to trades that are very imbalanced to them.
• Trading AI balance changes to make the AI less agreeable to giving away items/resources away for free in negotiations, particularly Casus Belli and Treaties.
• Fixed issue where AI players would sometimes change which NPC faction(s) they want to ally with and which ones to go to war with.
• AI players may now attack trespassing units from players they are not at war with but have 3 or more trespassing casus belli on.
• AI players no longer comment on events (such as improving your relation with a NPC faction) while at war with the player.
• AI players no longer denounce the player while at war.
• AI players will no longer buy-off casus belli from players they dislike. I.e. relation value at -200 or less.
• Fixed issue where the AI would sometimes not move onto structures/nodes they had previously bought from a NPC faction.
• Fixed some issues where some units would not move at all when threatened with a lot of overwatch
• The AI will now be less likely to make units run away during combat
• The AI will now immediately make colonizers run away if they enter combat
• The AI is now much more likely to use Phase Echo abilities on Echo Walkers
• Fixed an AI hang which could occur when an AI player/independent stack is attacking an undefended structure that has a stack next to it belonging to an ally of the structure owner.
• The AI now no longer interacts with Settlements during the first 8 turns of the game to ensure the player has enough time to be the first to obtain a second colony.
• Fixed AI hang caused by trying to attack a settlement that had come under their control during the same turn.
• Fixed AI hangs during their turn causing you to be stuck with “opponent is moving”.

Multiplayer

• The turn timer now no longer ticks down when you are unable to perform actions, for instance when auto combat is running.
• Prevent free production pickup event from being lost when the turn is ended by the turn timer.

Interface

• The selected stack will now be remembered when zooming out to the orbital map and reselected when you zoom back in.
• Increased the size of scrollbars so they are more noticeable.
• Added cosmite and influence generation to the colony interfaces.
• Leader Colony Supplements and Vices are now visible in the Imperial Archives under Hero Skills, the relative filters will now also properly filter these items.
• Pressing Esc now properly closes most of the menu screens.
• Fixed an issue where the scroll position in city production was not remembered.
• Tooltips have been added to the dismantle sector exploitation/upgrade options in the colony interface. Additionally, the amount of turns dismantling will take is now also displayed.
• Fixed the cost of unit mods being hidden in the unit interface if the player didn’t have enough energy or cosmite to buy them.
• Fixed bug where sometimes images would be incorrectly offset or scaled.
• Fixed bug where hyperlinks in interfaces related to NPC factions could not be clicked.
• Fixed bug where the UI could not be interacted with when meeting an NPC faction while the turn timer runs out in hotseat.
• Fixed bug where success and detection chances would not be shown while using a controller when casting a covert operation.
• Fixed overflow issue when 20 or more colonist slots were on 1 type of resource.
• Fixed an issue where 50% scroll speed was not selectable
• Fixed an issue where disabled checkboxes in lists would enable
• Fixed miss aligned text icons in headers above lists
• Fixed an issue where quickly switching selection in lists with controller would select multiple rows.
• Renamed the scavanger shotgun to scavenger shotgun to fix the typo.
• Trade screen now correctly identifies who has sent/is sending the trade and changes the “You offer”/”They demand” & “You demand”/”They offer” correctly.
• Hazard removal now shows how many turns are remaining until the hazard is removed from the sector.
• Fixed typo and formatting in Falsify Atrocities casus belli.
• Fixed an issue where switching input mode while in controls menu leads to dead states.
• Fixed issue where the Happiness Event threshold in the colonist tab for colonies was sometimes displaying the incorrect threshold depending on the happiness income and accumulated happiness.
• Fixed issue in the quest overview panel where the description of some campaign quests would only be partially displayed.
• Selecting Previous/Next city from the city screen now no longer selects cities you don’t own, preventing it from switching to a different interface without these buttons.
• When a covert operation is detected as well as when purging the Casus Belli gained for someone using covert ops is now visible in the Operation results as well on the internal purge screen (to the purging player).

Disclaimer: This update is still in the works for PS4 and Xbox One. Thanks for all the feedback! Many of these changes were a result of all the comments and reports provided to us. For any remaining issues please report them to: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?forums/age-of-wonders-planetfall-bug-reports.1056/ Have a nice day!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/c54b618b95d2713d4c85498f1d9e747ab025ea40.png Make room in your schedule on Thursdays, because we'll be doing weekly streams again! Join us on today at 16:00 CEST, as JimJ4m, cKnoor and Tom Bird do another Planetfall "Big Builds" stream at twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive !

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32811639/e321af8b0d887562df352f1761ec92e91a55bb8e.jpg Hello everyone! Patch v1.004 also known as the Velociraptor, is available and ready to be updated on Steam, GoG and PDX. We have decided to name our substantial updates after dinosaurs in honor of the Amazon beasts. We’ll try to reflect the updates’ focus in the choice of dino. This time around we decided to go for the Velociraptor due to its speed and size; which reflects this patch perfectly! It features a variety of fixes and quality of life improvements!

General

• Significantly reduced waiting times between turns late game
• Added edge scrolling; disabled by default (setting can be found in the Controls options)
• Added a button to randomize the commander names in commander customization
• Added an option to ‘Force Fast Combat Animations’ in the Options > Combat UI menu.
• Changing the language of the launcher now automatically updates the language setting for the game.
• Fixed startup hang when the installation folder contains non-ansi characters; this affected some of our Chinese, Japanese and Russian players.
• Other general stability improvements; including some of the most commonly reported crashes.
• Various text fixes in multiple languages
• Improved various Imperial Archives entries to provide additional and clearer information.
• Fixed that Steam invites to a password protected lobby would fail and show an “incorrect password” message.
• Renamed the invert combat camera rotation/zoom settings to X/Y axis. These 2 settings now support the mouse rotation in combat.

Campaign

• Fixed a problem that under rare circumstances the “Find the Propovus Lab” quest in the second Kir’Ko mission (Xa’Kir’Ko) could not be completed. Players that ran into the problem will need to re-enter the “Propovus” Xenoplague Labs sector with one of their armies to complete the quest.
• Fixed an issue where the player could get stuck in looping story messages after meeting the Psi-Fish in the first Kir’Ko mission (Arcadia Caeleste).
• Fixed an issue where the player could not complete a quest to ally Chin Til’Trz in the second Vanguard mission, if he already allied Chin Til’Trz before receiving the quest. Affected players need to wait for a new turn for the quest to complete.

Gameplay

• Added icons to operations on the Research screen to clearly show whether they are tactical, strategic or doctrine operations.
• Fixed an issue where the AI would sometimes offer peace and make war at the same time with players who are in the run for multiple victory conditions at the same time.
• Removed a line of text from the message that appears when a call to war is declined; to make the message clearer.
• Fixed a crash when the AI tried to denounce a player without having any Casus Belli to denounce with.
• Fixed that locating a sector that is being demanded by an NPC faction would close the demand screen. Fixed that the player could not declare war on an NPC faction while being in an Integrated (Highest) relation state with them.
• Fixed that the Hasher SMG hero weapon was missing particles and sounds when being fired.
• Sectors are no longer tradeable if they are annexed to a colony that is occupied. Trade analysis text has been changed to the following format “Trade analysis: good deal for you” to help clarify that this analysis is targeted at the player and is not something the (AI) player on screen is saying.
• Fixed crash in tactical combat when switching to nearby units while another unit is destroying an obstacle.
• Now you no longer receive race relation penalties at the start of a Fixed Teams session due to starting wars, to prevent negative relations from the start. Note: This only applies to newly created scenarios.
• Completing the last item in a city production queue now keeps the remaining production, rather than wasting it.

Disclaimer: Note that new text entries are English only at the moment; localization will follow shortly. This update is still in the works for PS4 and Xbox One. Thanks for all the feedback! Many of these changes were a result of all the comments and reports provided. For any remaining issues please report them to: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?forums/age-of-wonders-planetfall-bug-reports.1056/ Have a nice weekend!

Hello everyone! Planetfall Patch v1.003 is available! This mainly addresses system specific issues people have reported where they have been unable to launch the game, were confronted with freezes at startup, or have been unable to load a map. Then there are a bunch of smaller fixes. Please read the full patch notes for details.

• Fixed hangs and crashes occurring while the is starting up, i.e. before displaying the main menu.
• Fixed a freeze that would occur for some users on the game loading screen.
• Fixed a freeze that would occur for some users when loading a map.
• Fixed an issue for players with remapped Documents folder that would prevent the game from saving data. E.g. settings, customized commanders, save games. Note that this includes a fix for language not being correctly set in-game when changing them through the Paradox Launcher.
• In-game language selection dropdown now fits all core languages without the need of scrolling. This means you no longer need to scroll down for the simplified chinese option, preventing players missing the option.
• Fixed a crash in Leave-6 - the first Vanguard - campaign during the Syndicate quest line, when taking a specific story branch - i.e. following her quest line.
• Fixed an issue where the player was unable to buy the dwelling through peaceful means.
• Fixed an issue resulting in lesser quality tutorial maps due to random map generation.
• Fixed an issue for GoG users that caused false positive when checking for build compatibility in multiplayer games. This triggered warnings asking players to update their build before they could continue their game, when this was not required.
• Fixed an issue where clicking on the “End Turn” event would not end the turn.
• Fixed an issue where customization was not correctly applied in the Leave-6 - first vanguard - campaign map, after playing the tutorial. Note that this does mean that mods and experience gained in the tutorial map no longer carry over to the Leave-6 map. Jack(y) lost those in cryosleep, sorry.
• ‘Hide password protected games’ is now disabled by default in the multiplayer lobby.
• Fixed an issue where the wrong custom commanders can be deleted, if custom commanders were ‘disabled’ due to disabling mods or DLC.

We hope you have been enjoying the game so far! We will continue putting our efforts into resolving all remaining issues! For any issues please consult this thread on how to report: https://steamcommunity.com/app/718850/discussions/0/1643170269586711632/ Have a nice day exploring the remnants of the Star Union!

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