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1.0

Balance changes

General

• Wall hitpoints decreased to 1500 (down from 3000).
• Bastion improvement effect changed to give 300% wall hitpoints increase (up from 150%).
• Wall line of sight decreased to 1.
• Elmeti, Mamelukes and Li’l Bombards are now unavailable to train in the Fortress Age.
• Hire Egyptian Mamelukes home-city shipment effect changed to give 4 Mamelukes (down from 5).
• Monitors cost decreased to 600 wood and 200 coin (down from 800 wood and 200 coin); Long-range Attack ability range decreased to 70 (down from 100) and increased cooldown time to 1 minute 30 seconds (up from 1 minute).

Dutch

• Bank experience-points bounties increased to 110 XP (up from 70 XP) — “Build” — and to 220 XP (up from 140 XP) — “Kill”.
• Bank base build-limit increased to 6 (down from 4).
• Bank of Rotterdam and Bank of Amsterdam home-city shipments effects changed from +1 bank limit to +20% bank gather rate.
• Bank of Rotterdam and Bank of Amsterdam home-city shipments effects changed to increase Bank production-rate by 20% each instead of increasing their build-limit.

Iroquois

• 100 food added to starting crates.
• 200 wood removed from starting crates.
• Aenna cost increased to 110 food (up from 100 food).
• War Chief hitpoints-aura effect decreased to 10% (down from 15%).

Ottomans

• TEAM Silk Road home-city shipment moved to the Discovery Age (from the Colonial Age); effect increased to 25% (up from 15%); team effect removed.
• Abus gun reload time increased to 3.5 seconds (up from 3 seconds).
• Veteran Abus Gun improvement effect changed to also give +2 range.
• Mosque cost increased to 150 wood (up from 100 wood); XP income increased to 0.7 XP/second (up from 0.4 XP/second).
• Janissary hitpoints decreased to 225 (down from 235).

Portugese

• Settler cost decreased to 80 food (down from 100 food).
• 100 food removed from starting crates.

Sioux

• Bow Rider hitpoints decreased to 220 (down from 250).
• Cetan Bow hitpoints increased to 100 (up from 90) and speed increased to 4.5 (up from 4).

Spanish

• 3 Lancers home-city shipment effect changed to give 4 Lancers.
• 5 Rodeleros home-city shipment effect changed to give 6 Rodeleros.
• 6 Rodeleros home-city shipment effect changed to give 7 Rodeleros.
• 8 Rodeleros home-city shipment effect changed to give 9 Rodeleros.

1.1

Patch changes

Anti-cheat

• Variations of moesbar hack (Lazerbear hacks) are now detected better
• Detection of Third Party Map Hack / OOS Tools

User experience

• TAD user interface added to launcher
• Show FPS
• Quick links to get support and see errors with Patch
• One clean menu for launcher options
• Repair feature for bugged temporary game files

Map changes

• Treasure updates on multiple maps
• Team game support added for ESOC Maps
• California removed from standard maps (temporary, working out problems with this map)

Team map set

• Added ESOC Manchuria
• Added ESOC High Plains
• Added ESOC Hudson Bay
• Added ESOC Kamchatka
• Added ESOC Tibet
• Removed Saguenay (Hudson fills this slot now)

ESOC maps

• Fixed map description for rated play
• All maps are now playable in team / ffa.
• ESOC Arkansas: fixed mine amount
• ESOC Arkansas: fixed treasure amount and level
• ESOC High Plains: adjusted resource distribution and treasures
• ESOC Hudson Bay: adjusted map layout and treasures
• ESOC Kamchatka: suspended new layout for the time being
• ESOC Kamchatka: fixed treasure amount
• ESOC Kamchatka: unlocked season switch on Kamchatka (forgot)
• ESOC Manchuria: added more variations to the extra mines spawn
• ESOC Manchuria: moved the paired yaks to the mid line instead of the north area
• ESOC Manchuria: fixed mine placement for Manchuria team
• ESOC Tibet: fixed trade routes and res placement

RE maps

• New England: improved the distribution of the extra mines
• New England: improved the spawn of whales
• New England: improved the distribution of sheep
• New England: removed extra lakes present in the team spawn
• Patagonia: fixed 2nd deer spawn
• Patagonia: improved the distribution of sheep
• Siberia: placed the starting animals closer to TC
• Yukon: pushed the 2nd mine a bit away from TC

1.1.1

Patch changes

• Cinematic skip works now
• Annoying game.con issues are gone (Now building rotator works)
• New layer of anti-cheat added (No promises here, pretty small adjustment overall)

Map changes

• Reverted treasures largely to the original set. A few maps maintained a small number of slightly larger treasures. Overall spawns should feel better now.

1.2

Patch changes

• Fixed a hole in the anti cheat
• Fixed an issue that detects some special hotkeys as suspicious behavior
• Fixed an issue that detects random .bar (fonts.bar, data.bar ...) as suspicious behavior
• Visual C++ 2013 instead of 2015. This will fix issues with older OS, principally Windows 7 without SP1, which is the most frequent
• Added Building Rotator as an option
• Added Multi-Language (More Information soon)
• Some improvements & bugs fixes
• Improved installer
• Added mapsets images

Map changes

• Seven new maps added to the mappool: Bonnie Springs, Colorado, Klondike, Manchac, Mendocino, Tassili and Adirondacks.
• Colorado, Klondike, Mendochino, Tassili, Adirondacks and Manchac added to the team maps set.
• Tibet removed from the team maps set.
• The new maps have all been added to the ESOC maps set.
• K&B maps added to the patch in a seperate set.

1.2.0.1

Patch changes

• Fixed an issue that caused the launcher to crash upon starting
• Fixed an issue where the launcher would crash after clicking on 'options'
• Fixed an issue where playing on K&B maps would reset all your settings