General:

• Performance improvements
• Added reset button for campaign progress
• Enemy units can now be selected to see their names, descriptions and stats
• Changed font type and font handling for readability and performance
• Improved automatic work unit selection for research
• Free Chaos Forge/Hell Forge researches now save their progress when interrupted
• Cast mode now remains active when casting spells while holding down shift key, similar to building traps/doors/work units with shift key
• It is no longer possible to "dismiss" a health potion or medal
• Minor controller improvements
• Singleplayer games will now be paused if the player opens the steam overlay
• It is no longer possible to control the paused game and game menus while the steam overlay is opened
• Added new sounds
• Corrected some sounds
• Added a "Play" button next to owned DLC that allows jumping to skirmish/campaign menus directly to start playing the new content for clarification of the DLC sub-menu
• New grayscale effect for some deactivated GUI to make their state clearer
• Dependency errors are now being shown in tooltip while research is in progress
• Unit list UI at top of screen now lets you select and multiselect units via the portraits with Shift/Ctrl-LMB
• Multiselection now has tooltips
• Shift/Ctrl-LMB-selecting unit groups now works in all RTS places in the game
• Area traps like the thrasher can no longer be built next to a room
• Chat log is now limited to 100 lines
• Chaotic / Absolute / Ultimate Evil now has a minimap icon
• Rework of mission goal display
• Build exactly the room tiles that are displayed as buildable in case insufficient gold for the whole room is available
• Improved error message when not enough gold is available to build even 1 room tile
• Game now shows a unit as having 1 HP when it's actual HP would be rounded down to 0
• Armor is shown as precise number with one digit after comma
• Unit details tab now shows real speed, not base speed of unit
• Research is now disabled but visible if only requirement is not met
• Maximum unit level is at 11 and is shown as yellow number instead of white
• Units without level information are by default displayed as maxed out (NPCs like Barthas, ...)
• New icon for room upgrade submenu
• Evil hand now can hold no more than one special item (medals, health potions) at a time
• Introduced minimap icon for spider spawner
• It is no longer possible to zoom with the mousewheel while using the unit pickup UI
• Multiplayer map "Ultimate Carnage": Added granite behind all portals
• Reworked various visual objects for performance and improved looks (particle effects, vegetation, etc.)
• Sent Halloween invitations to elven ranger, pikeman and crossbowman. They'll bring their costumes!

• Changed conversion rate of demon "gold to mana" spell
• Bards now switch to a better trap if they find one while deactivating another trap

• Fixed a bug that lead to players being stuck in loading screen when switching back to main menu
• Fixed a bug that could freeze the game when opening and closing singleplayer campaign screen very rapidly
• Fixed stat-based steam achievements sometimes being unlocked incorrectly
• Fixed floating numbers sometimes being shown incorrectly
• Fixed a problem with fog of war being uncovered due to switching resolutions
• Players may now drag monsterst with more than 1 HP onto healing stations
• Servants now have a post-teleport buff that lets dem ignore combat as they were sometimes stuck in combat after teleport
• Map "Hatchlings": Fixed broken lava sound
• Map "The Oasis": Fixed alliance units bringing spiders along to combat
• Fixed wall of ice sometimes being shown as pink
• Map "The Mountain Pass": Fixed minor graphic inconsistencies
• Map "Smog!": Fixed a group of 3 drakes in the sothernmost secret room not acting as a group
• Map "Hatchlings": Fixed a bug with the spider room walls
• Fixed damage numbers sometimes stacking indefinitely
• Fixed enemy unit's weapons sometimes being visible through fog of war in multiplayer
• Fixed various graphical glitches with floors and walls
• Fixed particle rendering glitches
• Fixed decoration clipping in the throne room
• Fixed some problems with destructable objects
• Fixed transparency issues with mission goal icons
• Units are no longer able to shoot through doors (not working for older savegames)
• Fixed a bug that resulted in units being stuck to the hand of terror
• Units can no longer be selected through fog of war
• Fixed several cases in which the AI would not recover from an error (units being stuck in place, etc.)
• Reworked digged mana crystal default representation
• GUI of guard room now works correctly
• Fixed a problem when hand of terror pickups something already gone in multiplayer
• Fixed wrong activity icon being displayed when switching arena puppet targets while unit is working
• Job information for units not currently working is now being hidden
• Fixed a potential blocker on map "In the swamplands" due to the crystal chamber
• Fixed highlights around weapons
• Guarding monster now work correctly with savegames
• Fixed a problem with doors staying open
• Fixed a problem with gimmick holograms floating in some cases in build mode
• Fixed a problem with displaying tooltips during multiselection
• Units will no longer follow destroyed entities
• Taunt effect now stops when the target dies
• Fixed a problem that confused certain spells during cast (e.g. if the player selected meteor and then selected fireball with the cast cursor activated, he would still cast meteor)
• Fixed dead units rotating in place
• Fixed invisibility shader
• Fixed some areas between UI elements not to be treated as UI space
• Fixed an experimental fullscreen error
• Fixed problems when saving a game while capturing an area in skirmish and multiplayer maps
• Fixed error message if skill target is not reachable
• Fixed various problems with character physics simulation in combination with teleportation, death, dragging, slapping
• Fixed save game names not fitting into the designated text box