Yield! Fall of Rome news & patch notes

Hey ho everyone!

Thanks for your ongoing feedback and support. We have worked hard to get rid of some annoying bugs and are happy to release a new hotfix that should fix a lot of them.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where turn would run forever

• Fixed another ghost unit occurrence, also added extra gating to clean up this even if it should happen

• Fixed relationship to matter again, ai should not attack when friendly / neutral etc.

• Fixed bug with city houses being coloured red

• Fixed other smaller bugs

Heyho everyone!

A happy (belated) New Year to all of you! We want to celebrate this fresh year with a new Update. This one was more difficult than expected and took us some time but here we go!

The AI in “Yield! Fall of Rome” become smarter, now and the best part they can join your team to fight against opponents. 

NPC (Non-Player) FACTION CHANGES

• Changed NPC Factions to use a points-based scoring system,

• Adding a framework for diversity, using the point system for making it possible to give the different NPC Factions "personalities", acting differently in different situations

• “War Objectives” are introduced, so the NPC Factions can commit a group of units to a single target, making it more likely that they succeed

• NPC Factions will "sacrifice" units to reach a "War Objective", if the sum of the group will kill the enemy unit. Typically while defending a city or similar

• NPC Factions can now build roads to reach a target in order to attack it, if that makes a difference to kill the unit

• The hard AI is now a lot harder

• When playing Skirmish, you are in war with all hard AIs from the start. Friendly with easy AI and neutral with normal AI

• NPC Factions now will prioritize special units of the factions

• NPC Factions now will prioritize upgrading king

• NPC Factions now will use the “Attack & Move” skill to get back to safety

• NPC Factions now will prioritize to build elites (The Don, Moore, Shams) when available through policies

• NPC Factions now have some priorities regarding going "tall" (fewer cities, that are bigger) or "wide" (a lot of cities, but smaller)

• NPC Factions now use the "keep attacking" skill plus a lot of other improvements.

Co-op

• Added possibility to play on a team (multiplayer) with other humans against the NPC Factions

• NPC Factions can also be part of a team now

Multiplayer Sync Issues

• Fixed all known issues with de-synch

Campaigns

• Some of the campaigns were incredibly hard, and sometimes the NPC Factions could finish the mission goal within a few turns, this has now been fixed. The AI is still strong and difficult to compete against, but it will not win the mission in a few turns

Smaller Bugs

• A lot of smaller bugs in addition have been fixed as well

Yield! Fall of Rome Hotfix 1.0.2.0

As announced, today's hot fix addresses multiplayer and the bugs that occurred due to the API changes. Thank you all again for your help and support.

Fixed:

• Healing in multiplayer led to double healing and possible out of sync problem

• New king abilities could in some instances lead to out of sync problems

• Execute orders was possible even if it was not your turn in multiplayer

• Ai had some commands that are not properly communicated between server and clients, hence leading to out of sync problems

• Fixed edge scrolling (upwards)

• Server updates due to the fixes

Please, if you have found a bug or would like to share your opinion with us, please visit us on our Discord server. We will try to help you or discuss possible features with you

Yield! Fall of Rome Hotfix 1.0.1.10

We have prepared a new Fix for you, related to your feedback. We are preparing a new patch for you already which is dedicated to some more fixes to the Multiplayer.

Fixed:

• Steam login, reacting to the latest API changes and avoid disconnection or login bug.

• Multiplayer co-op against the AI fix

• Multiplayer turn 1 bug (player 2 losing its first turn)

• Execute moves button problem

• Cycle through cities button problem

• Next unit button changed to an icon (with tooltip)

• Endless turns bug handled

• yet another bug that led to "endless ai turn" problem.

• error with font for king selection screen

• Turned off localization for legal lines (to avoid error with wrong font)

• buttons overlapping and too small in some languages inside the Challenges front page

• missing translations when opening Challenges

Additions:

• Some visual upgrades

• Buttons for “next city” and “execute move orders”

Thank you for your patience and help. If you have found an error or would like to share your opinion with us, please visit us on our Discord server. We will try to help you or discuss possible features you can imagine.

Yield! Fall of Rome Hotfix 1.0.1.5

Thank you for your support. We are now trying to fix some minor bugs that occurred in version 1.0. We will start with the ones that caught your attention the most.

Fixed:

• Odoacer sending Settlers as spam army (including in intro campaign),

• A Tutorial hiccup that could occur when using a Scout

• Made it easier to attack units ("button did not catch all clicks"- problem)

• Minor updates to some improvement icons

• Additional Smaller fixes

Citizens, warriors, and monarchs,

the day has come. After countless battles fought during Early Access, Yield! marches proudly into its 1.0 Full Release.

This is more than just the “end” of Early Access - it’s the beginning of a new era for Yield! We've re-forged core systems, introduced a massive array of new skills and abilities, and refined the balance of the battlefield to make every decision count. Your monarch now grows with you, your units march under a clearer banner of progression, and your enemies are craftier than ever.

We’ve listened to your feedback, pored over battle reports, and hammered away at the game’s foundation to deliver the most complete, strategic, and replayable version of Yield! yet. Whether you’re returning from the front lines or stepping onto the field for the first time, this update ensures no two campaigns will ever feel the same.

So rally your armies, sharpen your strategies, and claim your place in history. Rome may be falling - but your empire is just beginning.

Note: Due to the new XP and skill systems, saves from older (Vanilla) versions may not be fully compatible. If you’re coming from an earlier Early Access build, we recommend restarting your current mission (not the entire campaign) before continuing your conquest.

Patch Notes – 1.0 Full Release

System Changes

• Veterancy Rework – Fully experience-based with clearer gain indicators. See exactly how much your unit needs to level up.

• Status Effects Overhaul – Lingering effects now display in the unit info panel alongside buffs from terrain or auras.

• Monarch Level System Rebuilt – Monarchs now start at Level 1 and can reach Level 10, with a unique progression curve and manual specialization choices for endless replay variety.

• Campaign Monarch Progression – Monarch experience is now permanent for the entire campaign. Resurrected monarchs retain their last level.

Balance Updates

• Veterancy Completion – Units missing upgrades now have full skill paths (e.g., Battle Ram, Settler, Trader).

• Faction & Unit Rebalance – Horse Scouts and Peasant Militia adjusted for better faction identity. Battle Ram durability reduced but given new growth upgrades.

UI / UX / VFX

• New Particle System – Level-ups, healing, and abilities now have individual visual effects.

• Faction Preview Panels – Updated with clearer faction identities and monarch info.

• Monarch Skill Tree – Fully navigable, with previews of future skills and enemy monarch abilities.

• Active Ability Visualization – Abilities now appear centered over units for clarity.

Tutorial

• Updated and expanded to cover new systems and mechanics.

Attributes, Skills & Abilities

• Clear Categorization – All upgrades are now explicitly Attributes, Skills, or Abilities.

• +49 New Passive Skills – From Vampirism to Emperor Shield, drastically expanding unit customization.

• +24 New Activated Abilities – Including Spear Throw, Blood Ritual, and Relentless Assault.

Heyho everyone,

It’s been a long road since we first opened the gates to YIELD! in Early Access - and you’ve been right there with us every step of the way. Through your feedback, suggestions, bug reports, wild ideas, and the occasional “Wait, what if…?” moment, you’ve helped shape the game into something far bigger than when we started.

For months, you’ve been asking the big question: When’s 1.0? Well, it’s time to stop wondering. YIELD! 1.0 launches on the 11th of August! 

What’s New in 1.0?

One of the loudest requests since day one has been more faction variety and a bigger, bolder role for Monarchs. We heard you - and we’ve gone all in.

• Monarch Overhaul - Kings and Queens now have expanded Skills, Attributes, and Abilities that can change the flow of battle.

• Persistent Progress - Monarch experience now carries over across your whole campaign (up to level 10), even if they fall in battle.

• Unique Monarch Playstyles - Each Monarch now comes with distinct advantages, giving their armies a completely different edge.

• Revival With Honor - If your Monarch is defeated, they return with their full experience intact.

• New Buildings & Balancing - Fresh city structures, refined balancing, and quality-of-life tweaks across the board.

And that’s just the highlight reel - this update is stacked.

Why This Matters

Version 1.0 isn’t the end of YIELD! - it’s the start of something new. With this foundation in place, we’ll keep building, tweaking, and adding more ways to conquer, scheme, and outwit your foes.

You’ve helped us get here. Now we can’t wait to see what you do with it.

Let’s make history together.

Billionworlds & Daedalic Entertainment

Yield! Fall of Rome Hotfix and small Update 09.129.5

Multiplayer

• Fix: Out of sync errors in multiplayer, should now occur a lot less often

• New Feature: Last Update we added the Chat for the Lobby this time we add the In-game multiplayer CHAT including being able to choose between team and global messages

Skirmish and Multiplayer

• Fix: King selection is now kept after starting lobby game

• New Feature: We added "random" to king selection, making it possible to choose this after first choosing a king

• Server: Added backend support for giving you a random king, when choosing random or not choosing anything (Skirmish, Multiplayer async & live)

More updates and tweaks

• New Feature: We added Controller vibration strength settings, including instant sample of the vibration strength when adjusting.

• With the last Update we added Edge Scrolling to the game, which you can switch on and off in the option menu. For this Hotfix we fine-tuned it

Heyho everyone, Today we have a small but helpful hotfix for you! Here are the changes/fixes:

• Fixed problem in multiplayer where lost messages could lead to players not getting latest moves of the enemies

• Fixed bugs with controller support for multiplayer

• Added extra countdown panel

• Campaign shown difficulty is now fixed

• Ai drop down difficulty is now available before creating lobby as well

• Added controller vibration slider in settings

• Made font in multiplayer battle list universal (to support all languages)

• Removed some High-scores in challenges, that were "cheated"

Heyho everyone,

Welcome to Yield! Fall Of Rome's Multiplayer Mayhem and More Update

Multiplayer:

"Live" Lobby for normal games

• Start public lobby's that everyone can join without specifying who

• Chat with other players in the lobby

• Adjust settings while inside lobby

• Everyone must be ready for the game to be started

• Start public lobby for asynch games, that can be filled up over time,

Add ai to multiplayer games

• Add x number of ai's to multiplayer games, both asynch and "live".,

• Possible to play on team vs the ai (the Ai does not really adjust for it, but it’s possible)

MP General

• Added more lightweight protocol for polling data,

• Less use of data,

• Faster updates between players,

• In-game chat

More updates and tweaks:

Basic buildings

NEW: Level 1: Barracks for civilian units (2 production)

Adjusted: Level 1: Throne - gives 3 gold per kill (4 production)

Adjusted: Level 1: Watchtower - gives 2 extra sight range

NEW: Level 2: “Corn Silo” - gives 6 population cost 4 productions

Adjusted: Level 2: Embassy - reveals the nearest undiscovered city

National wonders

New: Level 2: "Wild Boar" (5 production) - Rewards 1 extra of each yield when chopping resources (boar, deer, forest, fish, orca)

New: Level 2: "Woolmill" - Requires that you have at least 3 wool mills in the settlement. Reduces the cost of all units by 2 gold

New: Level 2: "Stonework" - Requires that you have at least 2 Stonework’s in the settlement. Reduces the cost of all buildings by 2 productions

New: Level 2: "Windmill" - Requires that you have at least 3 windmills in the settlement. Reduces the supply cost for all units by 1. (can't currently make this work cause supply is calculated dynamically through checking unit types)

New: Level 3. "Royal Science Institute" - +3 Gold for each tech you have researched at the time of the building it.

Collecting Crowns

"All Policies" rewards a crown for completing all milestones

Unit Skills

New: Skill’s "Shield" & "Greater Shield" - adds extra defence when defending against ranged attacks

Adjusted: Raid & Siege skills work against units in castles and ports but are nerfed by 1

Adjusted: Scouts gain XP from collecting huts

Adjusted: „Palace” Buffed income by 1

Improvements

“Lumberhut” - cost 3 gold

Veterancy

Minor to major overhaul to many units, especially navy, civilians and scouts

New Game Mode: Challenges

• Brand new Gamemode available for everyone: The Challenges of Gods
• 10 unique challenges
• Hard Mode for those looking to be truly tested
• 18 new achievements (+2 hidden ones 🤫)
• Compete for speed in the new challenge highscore leaderboard

Performance

UI & Map

• Improved general performance of all hexes in the game
• Improved performance when selecting hexes
• Improved performance when building improvements
• Improved performance when opening cities
• Improved performance in Policy Screen
• Reduced loading time into a game by ~20% (better on lower-end PCs)
• Improved performance when increasing settlement level

AI

• Improved performance with large amounts of units on the map
• Drastically reduced AI turn duration (~8x faster) ○ We managed to cut the wait-time for AI’s moves when the player doesn’t see nor has the information of their moves. The turn duration therefore remains approximately the same when you can see their moves. We’ve therefore also added the option to quicken or completely skip AI animation under animation and camera settings in the “Gameplay” section of Settings
• Gameplay Improvements
• Unit’s path is instantly visible when giving orders
• Right-clicking a city with a selected unit will now open the city screen if the current
• unit cannot reach the city this turn, or has used its movement
• Added screenshake effects and controller vibration when building improvements
• Added additional haptic feedback in controllers when building units and buildings in
• settlements
• Policy screen no longer closes immediately after enacting a policy
• Milestone Reached pop-up policy choice now has a back button and no longer needs
• to be made immediately
• Moved various camera settings under a “Advanced Settings” sub-tab
• Reworked Relationship panel on the right side of the screen ○ You can now see crowns owned by all factions in all single player gamemodes ○ You can see relationship between the present factions by hovering over their portrait on the right side of the screen ○ Added visual indication of which kings are currently alive

Bugfixes

• Fixed animation bug when a ranged unit attacked a unit with first strike (like the
• Bulgarian Footman)
• Fixed a softlock that occurred when a Settlement would level-up because of another
• player’s trade
• Fixed occasional visual flicker when navigating main menus with keyboard or
• controller

Patch Notes

• Next Unit" button properly selects the tile with that unit now
• Right-clicking city with another city selected will now open the intended city rather than the selected one

• Units queue movement whenever an order is given (right click) outside of their current movement distance. (old behaviour “holding the Right-Mouse-Button” still works the same)

• Bigger icons in the city screen, some icons are also adjusted to become more distinct.
• Borders and text descriptions added to city screen for clarity.

• Changed to zoom-out when entering city screen for less disruptive flow.
• Added more info when looking at locked improvements (not researched)
• Added more info on tooltip when building improvements.
• Added more info on all tech or resource elements on the map

• We added for all supported languages, translated names and descriptions to all Achievements

• The Turn limit for custom games has been increased to 999 turns

• Fixed bug where you could add movement queue to enemy units
• Fixed rebinding keys save between sessions
• Fixed error where one could end up with a starting location with only water around settler
• Fixed roads not showing correct cost when having built Curia Romana
• Removed ability to build 2nd harbour in a captured Roman settlement
• Fixed missing diplomacy update when capturing a religious site from another faction
• Fixed issue where religious sites could end up on the edge of the map.
• Fixed bug where choosing Roman policy did not update the relationship instantly (visually)
• Fixed bug where entering enemy borders did not instantly update the relationship. (visually)
• Fixed bug where the AI difficult mode not displayed correctly, easy, normal and hard are now displayed correctly
• Fixed the bug that after successful Campaign you sent back to Main Menu. You will be sent to the campaign screen like intended
• Removed special "pause" music volume from Settings screen
• Fixed bug with achievement "No Military"
• Fixed bug where you could click through the intro loading screen
• Fixed Profile screen to display “games” in the set language
• Fixed text overlapping icons
• Fixed high score list opening behind mission preview.
• Fixed Technology descriptions overlapping in text in some languages.
• Fixed Policy panel scrollbar overlapping with button in some languages
• Fixed an issue where after building a city wall the level of the city has been set to I

Visual:
• New outside-of-map visuals
• New clouds and fog
• More visual variation to the terrain
• Adjusted scaling of Improvements and replaced models for some of them
• Improved movement animations for Units UI:
• New UI for building Improvements, now in the context of the hex where you build
• New UI for Settlement info Audio:
• New sound effects
• Dynamic ambience related to the where you are on the map Changes:
• No longer wrapping of maps in the Campaigns Fixes:
• Optimized interaction with Units, Settlements and Improvements
• Better tactical decisions by the AI
• Bug fixes

• Introductory Campaign is a fixed Campaign designed for new players, and allows you to play as much as you want.
• Campaign of the Week is generated once per week, and can only be played through once. This is for those who wants to compete for highscore!

• Improved graphics
• Campaign overhauled
• New Policy system
• New Trade system
• Religion
• Foreign Relations
• The Romans as a special faction
• And much more!

• New definitions and visuals for Ships: Galley, Carrack and Caravel
• New coastal Improvements: Shipyard, Fishery and Seaport
• New land Improvements: Workshop, Toll Station and Castle
• Submerged Settlement borders

• New, visually improved Technology tree with new Technologies
• Improved Unit interface with more and clearer information
• Improved Settlement panel with more and clearer information on Buildings
• Bug fixes