SpellForce: Conquest of Eo news & patch notes

Changes

• Renamed the average sized "Jewel" to "Cut Jewel" as that previously caused confusion.
• The ability to gain Sacrificial Blood is no longer lost after finishing the Ritual quest for Shal'Adir.
• Made the "units cannot be upgraded" tooltip clearer when it refers to being in the battle screen.
• Added an end-turn reminder if there are unfused constellations.

Bugfix

• Fixed the Banshee’s Screech skill animation not being played.
• Fixed the Artificer's Moonsilver upcrafting requiring Moonsilver instead of Adamantinum.
• Fixed the "Select a Constellation" title not being localized in other languages.
• Fixed Burgle's Heist skill not stealing anything from Zahaar and Shal'Adir.
• Fixed Shiny Collector achievement not triggering.
• Fixed an issue where locations from quests could spawn on hexes with constellations, preventing access to that hex (making the constellation unobtainable). Now hexes with constellations are excluded (the initial distribution still spawns some of them under guarded but accessible locations).
• Fixed Dream of Retirement not setting the Remaining Movement Points to 0.
• Fixed the Troll adventure in Regan Gor crashing when not owning DLC Demon Scourge.
• Fixed Life-leech not correctly adding up in Conjurer constellation.
• Fixed "Sinistra Annex" room extension not displaying the right value.
• Fixed dialogue conditions for Demon lords Krahz and Mrask that prevented you from making deals with them.
• Fixed stretched images in final adventure.
• Fixed a few German typos/naming issues.

Modding

• CampaignStartSchools now support awarding pages from different schools even for dynamic spell pages.
• IUnitModification: Converted the AdditionalArtefactSlots and RemovedArtefactSlots into ContentReferences, so they're moddable.

• Fixed: Certain locations were not spawning as intended in Norimar.
• Fixed: Killing enemies in the region was not awarding reputation with the Norcaine city.

New DLC Children of Nor for SpellForce: Conquest of Eo is Out Now!

• Website: https://conquest.spellforce.com/
• Facebook: https://fb.me/SpellForce
• Discord: https://discord.com/spellforce

Children of Nor DLC content:

• A new crafting class for you to enjoy: The Astromancer. Utilize the power of the stars by arranging jewels and finding the most powerful constellations all around Fiara.
• The cycle of the moon influences the world on both a big and small scale. You may find certain flora and fauna having adapted to this cycle.
• The Dark Elves are paying a visit to your corner of Eo. What do they bring?
• In the wake of the Dark Elves the circle mage Zahaar also makes his appearance. What’s his scheme?
• Artificers, fire up your forges. Moonsilver has been found!
• Visit Norimar as a new starting location for the Path of the Circle.

Changes

• Setting your Economic Difficulty on "Tough" or higher, now spawns additional loot guards around the world onto locations that did not have them before.
• A unit’s power is now calculated live based on its stats. This decreases the overall numerical ranges but gives you a truer comparison value.
• Familiar and Bodyguard promotions increase the owner’s upkeep.
• Storm Wyvern deals more damage with her blast.
• Buffed the consumables "Allfire Essence" and "Arcane Concoction".
• The “Advanced Settings” in the campaign setup are now integrated into the starting a campaign flow.
• We have updated the gamepad controls for the "Advanced Settings" screen.

Bugfix

• Fixed crafting recipe filter not always being shown when the first recipe was added.
• King's Mage Origins is now no longer locked, and the Circle Page is received after finishing the last adventure.
• Fixed tooltip anchors for "Faction Promotions", "Factions" and "Active Spells" to be displayed at the same position.
• Darkvale Gate Adventure fixed - Adventure no longer requires other loot than Undead Remains.
• Adventure Overview: Fixed an issue that would show an outdated position for an adventure if the stack moved recently which would also result in the adventure lingering even after it was resolved. This change will also cause previously visible adventures on a stack to not be listed if they vanish into the fog of war.
• Fixed an issue where the effects of auras weren't removed correctly if a unit influencing this aura died.
• Fixed the Troll City Adventure > Now the piles of rubble will turn into Mugwa Shrines.
• Fixed an issue where the camera would jump to stacks with queued movement although they cannot move.
• Fixed the mines in Silver Drift Hollow not being used by the adventure and instead spawning new ones.
• Fixed visual bug for random maps (e.g. flying coastlines, mountains)
• Fixed an issue where after collecting a room reward using gamepad you couldn't select any other rewards afterwards.
• Absorb Pain and Dreamweaver's Bond are not executed by default anymore when clicking on an ally.
• Improved performance issues when equipping / unequipping artefacts.
• Parry Stance now correctly replaces Guard.
• Cannot summon units on tiles with a shop anymore.
• Fixed Cursed Army Soul Reward showering you with artefacts.
• Fixed an issue with battle AI not correctly picking positions to summon units onto.
• Corrected the visual indicators for summoning units at high altitudes.
• Lodge building now won't be stopped if an enemy moves over the already built lodge and instead only cancels the building of the lodge if an enemy ends the movement on the already existing lodge
• Fixed an issue with the "Clearing the Mines" adventure not triggering the fight correctly.
• Fixed an issue that caused revived heroes and apprentices to have some of their stats duplicated.
• Fixed location income UI if influenced by demons
• Fixed a issues with battle speedup behaving inconsistently. It sometimes was active in idle and not active while enemy units were fleeing.
• Fixed the skill bar to be able to display more skills
• Fixed an issue where you could build a lodge onto another location that already had a skill active (e.g. harvesting) if you had to move to that position first.
• AI: Poison Coating Skill shouldn't cause Enemies to only move one step at a time

Quality of Life

• Overhauled the "Active Spells" overview for better gamepad navigation (cancel spells via glyph).
• Reworked tooltip formatting for better readability.
• Crafting now supports controller drag and drop to slot items.
• Game Options now have an "Show Ai Movement on World" option. Enabled by default, it shows the movement of all visible AI stacks on the world map during their turn as usual. Disabling it, skips all that and leaves the camera in place, only showing you hostile actions against yourself.
• Game Options now have a "Show AI Battle Movement" option. Enabled by default, the camera follows every enemy on the battlefield. Disabling it always keeps you in control of the camera.
• Updated production queue tooltips to show more detailed information about what is being built.
• The overview map now displays stacks and many other locations.
• Remaining resource ticks will now show you how many days they last when in your influence area, respecting all the additional modifiers you have.
• On gamepad the pre and post battle screens will now remember which unit you inspected after returning to the battle screens instead of always selecting the first one.
• You can now change the speed of the gamepad emulated mouse cursor.
• You can now change the speed slowdown if the gamepad emulated mouse cursor is over an interactive element.
• A gamepad shortcut has been added to the Tower Room page, allowing for quick navigation to blueprints for the next available room slot.
• Build Lodge Skill now supports having multiple units with the skill in the same stack and being able to decide which lodge of which unit to build

Modding

• Antagonist Progression Effects are not getting skipped anymore if progression is increased more than one level.
• Necromancy recipes now support CraftingLockTags + you can bypass the "no life"-requirement in the NecromancyConfiguration.
• Necromancy recipes now support item creation.
• Changes how Spellcasting Modifiers in FactionModifications work (can now use tags and thus only modify a subset of spells).

• You need to sign an NDA. (To do this, you must be at least 18 years old and provide government issued ID as proof of your age.)
• You own the base game, SpellForce: Conquest of Eo on Steam.
• You have spent 30+ hours ingame.

Patch Notes

• Fixed reference to DLC in Tutorial 2, preventing users without DLC from playing it
• Fixed adventure Royal Mage so Circle invitation comes only after visiting Seat of Kings
• Fixed an adventure in Westguard, where you would fight Orcs who wrongfully belong to the Bastion faction.
• Fixed an issue where the Surrounded on all sides quest in Bastion would freeze.
• Bone pile now has treasure overlay.
• Fixed restart battle not resetting additional units from bodyguard (sorry, no more endless guards)
• Fixed an issue where building a room giving you +magic rooms in a magic room slot would make the save game unusable.
• Fixed several "Complete the campaign..." achievements not triggering with the Origins campaign.
• Fixed an issue that caused the game to hang if the Hero Overview Window is open while another hero is added or the state of a lodge changes and then a hero/apprentice receives damage during a battle.
• Fixed the loss warning in the pre-battle screen overlapping elements

SpellForce: Conquest of Eo gets "Origins" Update with Free Content & Features

• Fixed an issue where the selected item wouldn't be shown in the battle inventory using a gamepad.
• Fixed an issue where the "no action left to use this item" text wouldn't show up correctly in the battle inventory.
• Fixed issue where interactability of the select button in the battle inventory wouldn't be updated if you switched between inventories of two units.
• Changed how interactability is presented in battle inventory. It will now show the actual count of remaining items instead of x0.
• Fixed inventory tooltips in battle-map
• Changed how the game validates that the savegame folder can be written to reduce issues with win11 and onedrive.
• Fixed minor graphical glitch with keeping crafting items in slots (would refill a slot and then show you that you have "-1" of an item, but wouldn't let your craft anyway)

Patch 1.7

Balancing

Quality of Life

Bugfixes

Features

• You can now skip the initial events when starting a new campaign, instantly rewarding and unlocking everything up until your apprentice joins and the Circle tower spawns.
• Crafting recipes now immediately unlock and get remembered once you compiled a valid recipe in the crafting screen! No need to craft them first.
• There is a new optional advanced setting “Randomized Spell Research”, that shuffles the spells on each magic school page. This allows you to bring fresh wind into research by making it more surprising and dynamic. The assigned spells still follow a basic progression, but you can gain access to more powerful spells faster now.
• There is a new optional advanced setting “Second Crafting Profession”, that allows you to purchase a second crafting class a few weeks into the game.
• There is now a rare new soul for Necromancers with a special recipe...
• There is a new ability "Clandestine" available for several, more sneaky, units.
• Circle mages now utilize "Spirewards" to beef up their towers. Each spire they spawn provides one such Ward, greatly buffing defenses and changing the rules of battle. To remove the Ward, the corresponding spire needs to be destroyed. This is only enabled if “Antagonist Progression” difficulty is set to “Stronger” or higher.
• There is now a "Random Mage" option when selecting your archetype, assigning you random crafting and magic schools.
• Zombify and the Zombie Curse now create a new unit "Undead Beasts" out of turned animals.
• A new goblin unit has joined their (disorganized) roster and can also be hired through the Troop Quarters.
• Locations like Hunting Lodges and Border Posts now offer units for hire and replenish every week. They are marked on the overview map by a new icon.
• Slaves can now be sold instead of fired.

Balancing

• The standard setting for World Progression on "Balanced" difficulty is now "Time to Explore".
• Neutral factions (Monsters, Independents, Undead...) do not upgrade their stacks anymore and start with potentially bigger stacks, based on where they spawned. This means their power is locked and you should have an easier time leveling up new stacks and units.
• Tweaked the AI of stacks attacking your tower. They should not abandon their mission so quickly if your tower is surrounded by troops.
• On “Impossible” difficulty, Circle mages use Titans to guard their towers.
• Increased start reputation with Cities all around for a more pleasant start experience.
• Increased the Item Find bonus of "Sky Iron Rune of Cutthroat" from 10% to 30%.
• Increased the Room Crafting speedup from the "Construction table" Workshop extensions from 1 to 3.
• The spell "Prosperity" now affects all your locations instead of just the tower and lodges.
• The "Flight" spell now works on a whole stack for a few days instead of one unit indefinitely.
• Mana conversion rate for "Insight" is now 1:1.
• Shipwrecks now have more thematic loot drops.
• Battlefields drop more artefacts and do so more likely.
• Occultism schools spell "Summoning Circle" has been changed to "Chaos Shrine", a smaller version of the Chaos Altar that allows for early game Demon hiring. Also adapted "Chaos Altar" and "Pandemonium" hiring lists, so Occultists can access the whole cast of Demons.
• The "Sinister Incantations" extension for the Amalgamation Chamber is easier to craft.
• Lore Grimm's Bombs were made stronger, and he gained a new ability.
• For "Demonology DLC" owners an Occult shop now operates in Uram Gor.
• Changed how Philo's Demon-form works.
• The kennel's "Feeding Pit" is harder to craft and there's an alternative extension that is obtainable earlier.
• Raiding tombs now only requires 2 instead of 4 turns.
• Inns, Hamlets, Hives, Construction sites and Grain silos now provide loot the first time you visit them.
• Made the Teleport spell cheaper to research.
• Distilled Aria now triples potion production.
• Added two new week events that can occur.
• Switched Alchemy-recipes of “Sealed Elemental” with “Mindnumbing Elixier” and “Draught of the Giant” with “Dancers Potion”, moving the former up to 3 Thresholds and the latter down to 2 Thresholds.
• “Sky Iron Glyph of Despair” additionally provides +1 Willpower.
• Reduced missile damage of Occultist Apprentices.
• “Sacred Water” deals less damage.
• Doubled the daily magical heal of “Copper Glyph of the Lifegiver”.
• The spell “Instant Castle” cannot be cast into enemy Domains anymore.
• Increased amount of XP gained from harvesting.
• The research to create the Artificer minion now requires flintstones instead of Finon Beer.
• Increased AoE radius of the “Guarding Totem” consumable.
• The “Aggressivenes” difficulty settings now also decide what behaviours the AI can use, with more hostile behaviours being locked behind higher difficulties.
• Selling items now factors in their level (e.g. for demons and levelable artefacts).
• The Demonlord that marks and then turns your apprentice now always spawns in reachable distance to your tower if possible.
• Switched the positions of “Transmute”, “Freeze Water” and “Flight” inside the spellbook.
• Doubled the Proficiency base-income of Landmarks (5 -> 10).
• Increased Allfire base-income of Allfire nodes.
• Improved spawning of the first/closest Apprentice school. Should now always be in reachable range.
• Increased armor of Combat mage apprentices.
• Protector apprentices now start with the "Absorb Pain" skill instead of the additional Shield slot (which they can now learn from leveling up).
• Increased heal value of "Melding Flesh” upgrade for the Undead.
• Changed the Artificer's goal to unlock the Forge to a glyph investment.
• The first Alchemy goal in the spellbook now accepts any Primordial location, not just forests.
• (Demon Scourge) Krahz Al'Guh's present to you allows you to hire Slaves.

Quality of Life

• Gold and mana tooltips now show how much free upkeep remains unused.
• Location Incomes will now display a separate icon for each 5 of the same income to make it easier to read.
• A small number next to a unit’s Artefact/Mind/Glyph-slots now displays how many eligible items you have in your inventory.
• Totem skills now display the totems' ability in their tooltip.
• Colors on shrines now indicate the Buff a visiting stack will receive.
• You can now filter Artificing recipes to display only those that create an artefact.
• You can now display the sell value of items in the tower market/inventory.
• You now get a notification whenever you unlock new units to hire in your tower.
• When hovering over a Room reward in a city, it displays that room's tooltip so you can actually see what that room will do.
• Active Spells now show their effect tooltip for a quick overview of what you are spending your mana on.
• Random generated maps (3D world and overview map) have the extents of the world now clearly marked with a border element.
• The base campaign has the extents of the world marked only in the overview map
• Advanced Settings are now better integrated in the campaign setup flow. Allowing for starting the campaign from within the settings screen (no need to go back again).
• The Hero/Apprentice overview screen now also selects the focused stack/lodge when clicking on them. Selecting a dead apprentice there also allows you to inspect them and even fire them.
• Skillbuttons in Battle now show certain aspects of the skill: how many actions the skill costs, if it ends the units turn, if the skill repeats until all actions are used, and if the skill costs focus.

Bugfixes

• Isgrimm's story does not unintentionally give you the Artificer page anymore.
• Fixed double text in Sword of the Swordmaster.
• Fixed the bug where some battles in adventures would show you a lower combat power than the opponent army than actually had.
• FIxed issue with skills like Harvest/Mine not clearing a saved path, thus the stack wandering off when ending the turn before the harvest is complete.
• Fixed the Coldmark "Mole Race" adventure deducting its entrance fee twice.
• Fixed Firebloom Coating and Flame Armor Potion having no prices.
• Fixed faction-wide spells that do not provide unit bonuses still being displayed in battle.
• Fixed an issue where canceling any active spell would not correctly update your free mana upkeep.
• Fixed an issue where inspecting a unit in shops would show promotions that were replaced by other promotions.
• Fixed a bug in Antagonist AI that caused Antagonists to send only weak attackers or no attackers at all or sometimes multiplying their stacks.
• Battle Enchantments, such as "Volcanic Activity", do not trigger in the first round of combat and now correctly show their warning first.
• Fixed broken combat UI if defender has First Strike but Attacker prevents retaliations.
• The Consume Corpse skill now shows the correct heals for the correct units.
• Reduced volume for "Blinding Powder", "Throw Sand" and "Throw Gunk".
• Fixed the sound for “Meteor” being off target.
• Fixed daily regeneration calculation sometimes being wrong in Health tooltip.
• Fixed bug in crafting if a crafting slot disappears by finishing another crafting -> resulted in possible Exception and refunded the cost of the just finished crafting.
• Fixed the issue where only one Shaper Ruin could be researched from the spell book per campaign. Now every "Shaper Secret" reveals a Shaper Ruin. (Will not reveal them retroactively.)
• Fixed not being able to switch filters via triggers for Demonology Crafting when using Gamepad.
• Fixed stun not stopping the attacks if defender stuns the attacker during melee skill.
• Fixed an issue with Autoresolve, where your only unit would be marked as "could die" although the prediction was a Heroic Victory.
• Fixed an issue where Undead did not spawn if Darkvale was entered after visiting Sevenkeeps - now both the Gate and Sevenkeeps should spawn them and tell you to bring their remains to the gate for a reward.
• Stacks aren’t allowed to move over locations with interactions (e.g. Shops) anymore, which prevents enemies standing on those locations and can’t be attacked.
• Fixed being able to protect the player tower by surrounding it with player owned locations by allowing stacks to move over locations not owned by that stack's faction.
• Fixed Isgrimm employing Human Crossbowmen instead of Dwarven ones.
• Fixed Isgrimm going into Cold War lowering reputation with the trolls.
• Fixed issue where “Tabula Rasa” would not cleanse all the status effects that “Cleanse Ally” does.
• The Crypt of the Revenant Adventure should now show better which adventures to follow to unlock the location.
• Fixed issue where additional spawned units in battle could spawn on tiles which are impassable.
• The toggle buttons in the advanced settings now have hover and click sounds.
• Fixed issue where you would still gain reputation from locations even if they are conflicted.
• Fixed camera not being at the correct position when switching between the world and the overview map.
• Implemented a level up fallback entry, for if somehow a unit would run out of eligible upgrades, to allow you to still gain something and continue leveling up.
• Quickload now checks and displays errors (e.g Missing DLCs).
• Autoresolve can now correctly handle units that are immune to routing.
• Fixed retreats counting as victory for levelable items.
• The icons for special states within unit portraits (like slaves, clandestine, etc.) now correctly update when leveling up/equipping an items that changes this state.
• Stacks with Adventures on them won't repeatable attack a stack and thus trigger an adventure. They stop after the first time.
• Fixed an issue where a retreating stack would sometimes make a weird detour, travelling a substantial distance around a mountain or similar.
• Fixed various ghost units and locations to be visible when overlapping with fog of war.
• Fixes an issue where bonuses for stackmates would not be updated correctly if they gain the required conditions later on. (e.g. Pack Tactics and Puppetmaster)
• Fixed an issue with adventure spawning, where it sometimes overwrote existing ones or wasn’t able to spawn.
• Fixed certain tiles not being valid to summon a location on, that seemed like they should be (e.g. frozen terrain for Instant Castle & Wells).
• Fixed an issue where unit details would retain and show false data from being opened previously.
• Line attacks, such as Fire Breath, are blocked by high obstacles.
• Teleport skills, like Prowl or Burrow, cannot be used while the unit's movement is somehow prohibited (e.g. rooted).
• Fixed an issue where upon loading some unit incomes would be duplicated (e.g. Aristocrat).
• Fixed an issue causing items in additional inventory slots added to units to be returned to the users inventory on load.
• Fixed an issue causing the no file access error message to not appear.
• Fixed an issue where enemy stacks would spawn inside locations they are not allowed into (e.g. shops).
• Fixed the lighting being too bright or weird when inspecting a unit in combat.
• Fixed being able to have two flying tower spells active. They now cancel the old one before applying themselves.
• If you lose an item slot on a unit the equipped item will now be returned to the inventory.
• Fixed an endless loop in Demon lord Azra'Zil’s adventure.
• Fixed an issue where levelups choices are different after restarting the game.

Modding

• Fixed the hardcoded maximum Level in Occultism's Sacrifice spell (affected modding).
• Adapted City/Antagonist reputation levels so they are more easily moddable.
• Extended functionality of WorldSpawnerRule for modding (you can inject and control all kinds of stuff now).
• Tuned down Human_PurityKnight_01 footstep sounds.
• Image Size for all Images can now be queried in the mod developer menu to make it easier to create new images with the correct sizes.
• Changed how .odlo overrides work. All assets in content packages should now be overrideable regardless of how they are loaded.
• Added mod developer menu option to copy the content reference of an asset to the clipboard for easier mod creation.
• You can now import .ogg, .wav and .mp3 files. The extension will be stripped when determining the content path for it. e.g. “sound.clip.ogg” will be addressable as “sound.clip”. Due to some limitations all audio needs to be loaded upon startup so don’t add gigabytes of sounds.
• Fonts can now be imported into the game.
• You can now use the new type PerLanguageFontSettings to override fonts for a specific language. Default Configuration can be found at com.ownedbygravity.sf.base/ DefaultLanguageFonts.asset. Additional Configurations can be added by having an asset with a different name and the ApplicableLanguages property set to your language.
• Exposed more properties to be moddable.
• Stackslots are now defined by a contentReference in the Factiondefinition, so they are easier moddable.
• You are now able to create new unit definitions via modding.

A Dream Come True - SpellForce: Conquest of Eo Weaver's Realms Expansion Is Out Now

• Website: https://conquest.spellforce.com/
• Facebook: https://fb.me/SpellForce
• Discord: https://discord.com/spellforce

Feature

• There is now a tasklist in the top right corner displaying your most important current goals that can be toggled via game settings.
• You are now able to customize which major storylines - heroes and new DLC content – will be part of your campaign in the difficulty screen when starting a new game.
• Russian translation by Eduard "Satenskyhou" Velikanov is integrated. A BIG thank you for his work!

Balancing

• Blind status effect duration limited to 2 turns
• Rebalanced action/focus costs for several AoE spells
• Pillaging a Lodge also destroys it now
• "Hunter" promotion provides 1 Meat per battle
• Reduced Wisp armor and melee damage to make them less tanky and prevent early Wisp flooding
• Purity of Light units deal additional damage vs Demons.
• Yria's units deal additional damage vs Demons.
• Increased chances to loot an Artefact from Battlefields
• Increased first crafting room build duration to 2 for more even starting flow
• Ritual Site is weaker but permanent
• Graveyard changed from +2 Mana => +1 Mana + 1 research
• Execution only works against units of equal or lower tier (so only titans and heroes are able to execute titans, heroes are generally safe, etc.)
• Switched skills given by Artificer recipes Copper Occultism and Corrupted Occultism
• Arsonist’s “Throw Torch” now costs 2 actions
• Tiara’s Priestesses are now Healers
• Fire Golems have Elemental Resistance
• Hellhounds count as demons

Improvements

• You can now center the camera on a city when clicking on the faction in the faction overview.
• Units that revive after a battle now keep their current world movement points
• Values in Tower Screen showing maximum apprentice etc. values now show total values (taking rooms and upgrades into account)
• Lightbringer has less stiff Idle animation
• Command Speed (right click speedup) can now be set as low as 50%
• New model added for Ghouls
• Added several new level up options for units
• Added Overview Map icon for Shops, Shaper Ruins, Landmarks, Allfire Nodes
• Added dropshadow to icons on map to make them more visible
• Teleport spell can now teleport to locations which don't have a garrison, adventure or any other interaction.
• Potential losses in the pre-battle screen are highlighted more prominently.
• AI can now correctly use Raise Undead Skill.
• Fixed some content delivery issues causing some asset to be packed twice and using up additional memory.
• General performance and memory optimizations make the game much less memory hungry.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug in internal damage calculation that was doubling damage modifiers (e.g. slaves would deal -36% instead of -20% damage, blinded deducted more than -25% damage...); display in interface/tooltips was correct and hasn't changed.
• Adapted battle AI when using aoe skills: should not spam battlecry when everybody has it already anymore etc. & AI shouldn't buff/debuff destructibles anymore
• Incorporated AllyPromotionBonus into BuddyBonus, so it has proper bookkeeping and is visible to player. -> e.g. Strength of the Pack, Dominator etc. are all visible in UI now and update accordingly (they were working before, just not visibly)
• Fixed a bug where units with Consume Corpse would heal after a fight when retreating from it
• Fixed a bug where a hero wouldn't spawn when your tower was in the middle of an ocean/mountain
• Fixed a bug where income from equipped artefacts would multiply by saving/loading the game
• Added loot message when raiding a tomb/grave
• Fixed a crash in combat that would sometimes occur, especially surrounding poison/Tiara's Curse and healing
• Fixed a bug with income not deregistering when having a location, that could be melded with but isn't (e.g. mananode), was removed within the players influence area
• Added Achievement for completing Galtrak‘s Hero storyline
• Fixed a bug where unit resistance/weaknesses weren't displayed correctly when inspecing units in shops.
• Fixed a bug where there was no warning of an Attack of Opportunity if the unit itself was unable to do AoO's.
• Fixed an issue where some tower events would not give you any loot if there was no stack in your tower.
• Fixed an issue where flying with the tower without influence area could delete influence from other locations (e.g. melded mana nodes).
• Fixed an issue where additional income from effects on locations was not correctly added to your income per turn.
• Fixed an issue where you weren’t able to deal the maximum amount of damage displayed in battle.
• Fixed the issue where the battlemap for a set hex would change after reloading.

• Website: https://conquest.spellforce.com/
• Facebook: https://fb.me/SpellForce
• Discord: https://discord.com/spellforce

• 2 new enemy factions: Demons and Trolls
• New Mage Type: Demonologist
• New Spell School: Occultism
• 25 new units
• New Boss enemies: Demon Lords
• 120+ new adventures with hours of new quests
• 30+ new unit promotions
• 2 New Win Conditions
• 25+ new tower rooms and expansions

• Quest overview – allows you to quickly find and navigate to active quests on the world map
• A new hero: Galtrak, the orc blood mage brings his own kind of magic that may even unlock new spells for your wizard…but they come at a price
• New world locations: The sullied village

• Strong performance improvements to optimize your experience on lower-end systems and speed up loading times
• Improved gamepad functionalities and guidance
• Reworked magic school distribution so they do not spawn in completely unreachable locations anymore where apprentice would get stuck.
• You can now jump to the next/previous valid target while casting a spell on the world map

• Fixed various character outlines not being displayed correctly
• Fixed battle being stuck when an units gets routed (morale)
• Fixed game being stuck on the world map when you freeze an enemy stack
• Fixed an issue where the tower stayed contested after leaving an enemy influence area.
• Teleport/Recall spells now wipe a stacks memory, so they do not teleport back again if movement was queued

• AUTORESOLVE 2.0 - The new formula accounts for most of the skills, promotions and abilities in game which makes it take into account supportive units and strong builds much better than before. Still does not play like a human...
• Added new Ability "Leech Energy" (Life leech vs Fantastic units). Can be found as an artifact, crafted (Glyph of Occultism) or gained from level up for certain units.

• Watchtower and Inn are now spawned in Uram Gor
• Changed wishing well adventure to give one cool reward and diminishing returns after that
• Build Golem does not have universal upkeep anymore and does not count as summon, instead the upkeep depends on the created golem. Only newly built Golems are affected
• Added exception handling if settings file is corrupted to avoid black screens on startup and instead load the default settings as fallback
• Tweaked camera angle on world map (better taking mountains into account) and the camera in battles can now zoom in more closely
• Tweaked location and resource overlays to cause less occlusion
• Spell school dialogue condition displays number of required spells in that school (e.g. )
• Faction tool tip now displays effects that are active in that faction's domain

• Antagonist Power Overhaul - Partially affects all difficulties (slight changes to army pools, fixed bugs that prevented final stack from attacking player) but mostly impacts hard and impossible difficulty (stronger antagonist tower and attack stacks, stronger final stack, additional battle enchantments for antagonists on those difficulties, increased attack wave intensity). Also circle mage tower battles have to be fought manually.
• Earthlore spell correctly considers ore rarity of region its being cast in. (before that it was basically 50/50 to get adamantinum)
• Shortened cast duration for Aether Beast skill cast
• Build Golem spell does not have universal upkeep anymore and does not count as summon, instead the upkeep depends on the created golem. Only newly built Golems are affected
• Kennels don't block everyone else from getting Follower (checking against active promotions, not all)

• Fixed issue where markers for how far you can go in a multi turn path where off by one.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the AI to freeze in battle when one of their units would rout
• Fixed Elixir of Subjugation item costing focus to use (unit-skill still costs focus)
• Undying units don't get offered death defy in level up
• Fixed several occasions of Skills (mostly throw potions skills) not profiting from additional Ability-range (or wrongly from Missile-range)
• Parry Stance does not replace Guard Stance anymore
• Fixed Loss end nodes -> unchecked further engage or added new end node with unchecked further engage
• Fixed Wendigo not having the passive Corpse Consume heal
• Fixed selection cursor in Elynn's Revive As Shaikan
• Fixed Flesh Colossus not displaying its On Death ability
• Fixed Death abilities of several units triggering twice
• Fixed infinite loop that appeared when two units with On Death abilities kill each other
• Fixed -% to willpower changes accumulating to below -100%, actually granting willpower for getting damage (masochistic spider queens)
• Fixed Purity Hollow Guards being in Hokan's Forge
• Fixed toggle buttons not working correctly with gamepad
• Fixed a bug where a fight in an adventure had a higher stack power than the option said (the other case, lower power than anticipated, is still possible if the AI can't spend all that budget)
• Fixed spawning adventures on the player's instant castles; also added validator check and fixed for Isgrimm as well
• Fixed Metor VFX not playing correctly when off screen
• Fixed toggle buttons not working correctly with gamepad
• Fixed a bug where a fight in an adventure had a higher stack power than the option said (the other case, lower power than anticipated, is still possible if the AI can't spend all that budget)
• Canceling fly spell during execution - abort spell is now blocked when busy.
• Fixed bug with moving location onto stack which builds a lodge
• Fixed component colors in tool tips
• Fixed a crash in combat that sometimes occurred when a unit with charge damage attacked an enemy from an adjacent hex
• Fixed a Rohen adventure where there could be a loop created by not destroying source location

• Added a variety of custom difficulty settings - set the game up exactly the way you like to play it
• Added antagonist selection at campaign start - choose whom you face in game!
• Display quality of slotted artefacts/glyphs in unit details
• Added essence filters for inventories in the tower menu - filter your ingredients by essence type

• Several performance improvements on worldmap leading to reduced system memory usage, improved loading times and smoother framerates (especially on weaker systems)
• Improved colors of crafting essences, to be better readable for people with various color vision deficiencies
• Can now assign build lodge action also into known fog of war
• Improved performance when gaining status effects in battle
• Increased supported concurrent domains displayed per faction from 50 to 128 (looking at you, Instant Castle spam)
• Tooltips correctly differentiate between "can cause"(30% chance) and "inflict"(100% chance unless resisted) status effect
• Made description of Thunderstorm and similar skills clearer
• Follower explains that it overrides Enslaved

• Resistances are now stacked relative chance based on difference to 100% (30% Resistance Base = 30% Resistance, add 20% from Spell/Glyph= 30+(70*20%)= 44% Resistance). This allows units with 100% resistance to still be immune, while providing diminishing returns for stacking resistances and prevents immune murder stacks.
• Steadfast now grants 50% resistance against status effects instead of full immunity
• Life leech only works against Mortal units to make it less universally powerful
• All summons in battle appear without actions to reduce summon spam strategies
• Specific Titan Spells can only be kept active once, like Global Enchantments (affects Forgemaster, Lightbringer, Primordial Treant, Shaper Golem)
• Consume Corpse now always heals the unit post battle for its healing value, but is rarer in levelups, so you don't have to hunt down or miss out on corpses in battle
• Balanced Magic Coffer/Gift/Reputation Increase spell values
• Made Dancers Potion and Unstable Elixir more viable
• Lowered strength of Copper Rune of Ashen and Copper Rune of Elementalist to match other runes of same powerlevel
• Enslaving a unit does not trigger moral loss/onDeath effects anymore
• Increased Damage for Berserker Trait, increased resistance for Quick Reflexes, lowered Resistance of BathedInLight
• Motivate has 1-turn cooldown and Motivate and Command cannot target the source unit (stops endless action exploit)

• Fixed savegame menu to show all savegames despite unknown files being present
• Fixed flyers not being able to fly over destructibles
• Fixed post battle unit state bugging out and not being displayed from then on
• Fixed Leech City not working on Westguard's Bastion
• Fixed Hokan Ashir having Purity troops, now has proper undead version
• Fixed loop in Estwal settlement adventure and adventure existing more than once
• Fixed Audale shops not properly unlocking the spells you bought
• Fixed an issue that caused kennel upgrades to override enslaved for all units instead of only beasts.
• When all combatants die during a battle, we now make sure one unit stays alive for winning faction to avoid errors with adventures
• Implemented fallback to make saves work again where multiple locations are saved at the same position
• Credits menu can now be exited with controller
• Fixed an issue that caused the follower spell to not work once kennel feeding pits have been built
• Fixed an issue where having a Draw result in a adventure battle caused the game to stop responding
• Fixed an issue that caused certain sacrifice unit options in adventures to stop you from progressing the adventure
• Fixed incorrect saved path adjustment if path was blocked or interrupted
• Fixed cocooned unit aborting attacker's melee skill
• Fixed crash in Silver Drift Hollow Mine adventure when fleeing from second fight
• Fixed issue where spawning a primordial forest inside your domain wouldn't instantly apply additional modifiers from rooms
• Fixed issue where apprentice join notification could break savegames
• Made sure correct message is displayed when no valid crafting recipe was found

• Fixed game crashing when it could not save to the hard drive due to Windows Defender or antivirus preventing that. (You will still need to manually add the game as an exception and allow it to create and write into folders)
• Fixed an issue where autosave would be triggered between an adventure and starting a battle inside of it causing incorrect behavior after loading that autosave.
• Added Quick save and Quick Load (F5/F8)
• Primary school now determines first apprentice's followers to add more variety to early game troops and decrease initial difficulty.
• New Hiring Locations were added for Start Regions to increase variety of initial units available.
• Antagonists do not spawn stacks close to your tower when going to war now, to prevent curb-stomping your tower out of nowhere. This should make the mid-game smoother and provide less of a difficulty spike.
• Antagonists also announce they are about to take actions against player via notifications.
• We tweaked Antagonist reputation loss (lose more when you bring the fight to them, less anywhere else) + Antagonist AI can send Titans now! That should keep end-game difficulty more even.

• Implemented Quicksave (F5) and Quickload (F8) on world map (1 quicksave slot for now and quickload only loads quicksaves not any other) & don't allow to save over quicksaves
• Primary school now determines first apprentice's followers to add more variety to early game troops
• New Hiring Locations for Start Regions to increase variety of initial units available.
• Added floating text when a unit resists a status effect attempt through their working resistance.
• Dead Hero + Active Spells first time screens added

• Antagonists do not spawn stacks close to your tower when going to war now, to prevent curb-stomping your tower out of nowhere. Antagonists also announce actions against player via notifications.
• Tweaked Antagonist reputation loss (lose more when you bring the fight to them, less anywhere else) + Antagonist AI can send Titans now!
• made Toxic Distillate and Plague Vessel more different from each other
• Now displays floating text when a unit resists a status effect attempt through their working resistance.
• Skills display when they END the turn instead of when they don't
• Added icon indicating the rewards when a new tower level is unlocked next to the floors
• Implemented error popup in case something is blocking access to the save game directory
• Created more specialized overlays for locations and plants to make them more lightweight
• Tweaked Summon Beast to have more variety
• Tweaked some worldmap hints for location spawning
• Cleanse Ally skill works on everyone (so you can cleanse mind controlled units)
• Charmed Status effect (Mind Control) now tagged as negative status effect -> cleansable on own units
• Pristine souls are not ingredients (no essences)
• Word of Recall can be revealed sooner in spell book when owning the page
• Extra hiring-slot now shows different icon in location overlay ( hammers instead of unit+)
• Select tower/airship first when during flight to prevent accidentally moving units out
• Improved performance while in the tower menu or while viewing unit details
• Mitigation for everybody affected by the autosave + battle on turn start issue. We now explain what the problem is (needs windows defender allowing folder access).
• Improved Water Material in Region Alluvyan
• Changed Rohen horizontal faction banner color to Orange.
• Removed the story path where Castle Meldec would vanish

• Adamantinum increased to 2 all-color essences
• Nerfed wisps
• Fixed coloring/image in Tower menu (Allfire flow had wrong color)
• Room extensions balancing (Illithian Chamber bonus increased to 2, Employee of the Month more expensive)
• Tweaked Necromancy starting items (from hamlet) for easier first crafting
• Better balance for Shaper Secret fights
• Increased upkeep for Build Golem spell

• Summons in battle now have the "Summon" and "Expendable" traits
• Changed Fire Elemental to Fire Golem in spell book
• Fixed Silver Drift Hollow Mine did not award achievement for clearing the quest line
• Fixed the glyph and artefact equip window not being scrollable when using a controller
• Fixed selection cursor displaying "no valid targets" in reset exploitation skill (and for all skills that don't implement ValidTile-interface)
• Fixed Turn Animal only working on disordered or worse state; Turned state can be cleansed
• Flame armor has no resistance anymore -> cannot be resisted by own troops
• Fixed consume corpse working in any range, now only works in displayed range
• Fixed missile skill Volley previsualization showing wrong damage values and fixed visuals triggering delay when not in camera focus
• Fixed faulty tile definition on Cave 01 Battle map, near the entrance.
• Adjusted Visual representation of Mountain Tiles in Rushwater Down. was not clear enough.
• Fixed some Shaper Stacks being wrongfully assigned to New Purity of Light
• Fixed Hovered-Tile-Indicator not being rendered if occluded
• Fixed loca in Insight Spell popup
• Fixed imbalance in essences of poison coating/toxic distillate
• Fixed tower is still shown as next action after landing
• Fixed issue where autosave would be triggered between an adventure and starting a battle inside of it causing incorrect behavior after loading that autosave.
• Hide new tower levels until unlock says so
• Fixed not localized collect button in apprentice school
• Fixed hex highlight in WorldMapBattleEffect
• Fixed some elven stacks’ power in Alluvyan adventures not scaling correctly
• Fixed faulty tile definition on Worldmap in Region Westguard.
• Reworked hand-placed mine locations in Draycott and Stoneblades.
• Fixed bug that caused not triggering "War" when immediately dropping to 0 reputation
• Fixed reload/recharge statuses being cleansable
• Fixed Demon-form being cancelable by Steadfast/Cleanse
• Shaper Golem now has Construct trait
• Clarified "No Upkeep" wording in summons/mind controlled traits
• Fixed FireBeetle missile attack not being usable as default skill

Meet the Circle!

Time for action!