Darkest Greetings Underlord, As part of the unleashing the huge undertaking of supporting an entirely new language we’ve developed a large number of fixes and improvements to your game! Want to know more about the aforementioned language? Read here! Otherwise, read on for all the awesome changes that have come in Patch 1.6.4!

Chinese Language Support

As of today War for the Overworld is now available in Traditional and Simplified Chinese, you can read our full announcement here.

Special Worker Skin - Dragon Worker

To celebrate the Chinese release we’ve unleashed a special worker skin upon the world.

The Dragon Worker has a very special unlock condition, upon logging into the game between now and Chinese New Year (In February) you will be treated to a special achievement and find the new worker already available in game. Should you miss this window it will be available again every Chinese New Year!

New Maps

Once again we’re introducing a number of new maps all loving crafted by our excellent team of volunteer QA members. As always a huge thank you to them for their time and efforts, be sure to give them a pat on the back if you see them.

Localisation & Community Translations

Cutscenes now showing subtitles on all cinematics
Improved reliability of game loading into the correct language

Performance Optimisations

We’ve implemented a number of significant performance optimisations which should greatly enhance game experience, especially on lower end GPUs. We’re really pleased with these improvements and of course we’ll continue to keep seeking opportunities to further improve the performance of the game.

Numerous Performance Optimisations with up to 25% increased FPS and reduced stutter:
- Implemented a new deferred renderer
- Optimised Unit Shields
- Improved Minimap Performance
- Refactored a number of older scripts for to improve performance in newer Unity versions
- Improved Animations to reduce memory & rendering load
- Improved Floating Emoticon performance
- Optimised dynamic battle music performance
- General pathfinding performance improvements
Huge vaults now build and destroy much faster

Sound Changes

Vastly improved battle music system to improve reactivity in combat
Sound Effects volume slider now affects more sounds
Spirits now play an appropriate death sound
Added an attack sound to the Archon
Improved Audio Levels during cutscenes

Visual Changes

Piggy Projectiles in the tavern are now appropriately flambeed
Improved image quality of Floating Emoticons and Unit Shields
Improved Animations when units eat piglets in the Slaughterpen
Added a new Kasita Hand and Pickaxe
Improved Cutscene Quality
Added Warden Work Animation
Added VFX on Juggernaut Work
Traing dummys in the Barracks are now more reactive to hits
Improved menu transitions
Improved visuals on the Wormhole potion
Brightened the Walls, Floor and Tiles of the Mira theme to bring them in line with the rest of the theme
Improved Alchemy Lab lights
Updated the main menu
Chunders now play work animation
Skarg plays sleep animation
Fixed brightness of the campaign map
Realigned torture chamber vfx

Multiplayer Changes

The minimum character limit for creating a lobby in Multiplayer has been reduced to 1

Level Changes

Lockshackle (My Pet Dungeon)

Beasts will no longer become angry on this level

Skirmish Maps

Styx

Replaced Artefacts of Greater Sin with Artefacts of Sin

SeasteadII

Added extra outer defenses for the Empire
Changed inner water areas to use Empire Water tileset
Changed Wooden Bridges to Empire Granite Bridges
Changed Artefacts of Greater Sin back to Artefacts of Sin (unintended change)
Set Destroyable setting of Empire Gateways to True so they can no longer be captured.

Populace

Moved the Core of all players closer to the middle of the continent, distance between players is now equal
Fortified path between players with Augrum Walls

StarDust

Tweaked central area, now with more building space and gold!

Miscellaneous Improvements

Upgraded to Unity 5.4.5p5
Updated game credits
Tutorial videos are now played from a local file rather than streamed
Port Forwarding Advice link now takes players to the updated Userecho Article
Clicking on the Port Forwarding Advice link will no longer revert the player to the main menu upon return
Gold Statues can now be dropped on allied ground and thus transferred into an Ally’s control

Bug Fixes

Crashes

Possessing a Piglet that gets placed into an Oven will no longer soft lock the game
Fixed an issue that could cause the game to seize on startup, this only affects the GOG version

Double clicking buttons on the main menu will no longer cause them to disappear

SFX

Fixed an issue which prevented dynamic battle music from playing

Levels

An Empire owned tile will no longer appear next to the player’s Dungeon Core on Lagoon (Sandbox)
Ghouls now correctly follow necromancers on Snowhope (MPD)
Rhaskos’ Dungoen on Hell’s Deep (MPD) is now correctly revealed by Revelation
Optional Objective on Hell’s Deep (MPD) now correctly required Rhaskos to be defeated to complete
Home Realm can no longer be restarted as intended
Incorrect number of Democorns will no longer be present after reloading Ponygrasp (MPD)
Volcanic Bridges on Lavafall and Caldera now correctly have lava beneath them instead of Water
Reported Map Size should be consistent in all menus now
Fixed an exploit which allowed access to locked MPD levels without owning the DLC
Fixed map editor placed beast den for a single faction showing black incorrect tooltips

Rooms

Fixed an issue wherre Garrisons in range of a Posession door never activated
Fixed an issue that resulted in defences being buffed multiple times by a garrison
Prevented tavern getting stuck when a table was deleted.
Tavern table now has correct amount of need satisfiers
Fixed an issue where Inhibitor’s would no longer be owned by the Empire if the Empire player had a Dungeon Core that was destroyed

Spells

You can no longer cast a number of Warband associated abilities (Such as Add to Warband or Peaceband) on the Warband icons. Preventing such things as accidentally adding all units to the Peaceband

Units

Added handling of units in walls on map load that got there from saving under extreme lag conditions
Fixed workers refusing to mine golden rats and piggies
Fixed up the frostweaver animsation and prevented the passive ability triggering the hit animation
When you mine Walls as a possessed worker, your workers will now correctly claim the tiles
Fixed an issue that prevented workers from collecting gold/defence parts
Neutral Vampires should no longer die in Prisons

Mutators

Titan Sin Summoning cost increase now also increases the excess Sin Cap to allow late-game summoning after all aspects are researched

Environment

Prevented Siege shrine effect persisting after level change

Multiplayer

Alchemy Artefact now correctly works for clients
Improved Forge spell reliability in MP for clients
Fixed an issue that caused some defences and constructs to never build in MP
Fixed Unit mood constantly showing as “Content” for clients

Visual Fixes

Fixed the orientation on the Temple Guard’s shield
Corrected an issue that caused some parts of the Archons neck to be split
Evil Arcane Portcullis is no longer incorrectly rotated
Fixed a number of broken team colour instances on Theme ceilings
Possession door projector added
Fixed rotated tile in mira theme water
Fixed founders theme core floating
Fixed projector wall not being the right size when building aureate monolith
Removed red tiles in Empire Sanctuary
Ally & Enemy Titan canceled icon improvements
Fixed golden statues returning to their original after save & load
Fixed Canceling selection of a min. 3x3 room leaves a blue mark in prop place
Prevented an issue which could cause the menu to animate off of the screen
Adjusted team colouring for Dwarf floor tile

Misc

Numerous Text & Translation fixes

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War for the Overworld
Brightrock Games

Developer

Brightrock Games

Publisher

2015-04-02

Release

Strategy Singleplayer Multiplayer Coop

Key Features

Build Your Dungeon - Excavate and build your dungeon beneath the earth of the Overworld. Design its layout as you see fit, creating an underground fortress filled with a wide variety of rooms, each with a unique use and purpose.
Evil Is Back - Play as an Underlord who has awakened from a deep slumber after countless years drifting in the Aether. This realm hosts a variety of enemies — both Heroes and Underlords will stand in your path as you fight for dominance of the Overworld
Veins of Evil - Choose from over 60 rooms, spells, potions, rituals, defences and constructs in the Veins of Evil as you progress through the game. There are a plethora of possible Vein combinations you can use to conquer the Overworld. Create your own unique flavour of evil!
Fortify Your Domain - Build a wide variety of defences within your walls to defend against — and destroy — those who seek to invade your domain.
Cast Wicked Spells - Call down unholy magic to strengthen your dungeon, route enemy forces, flood corridors with Micropiglets, or simply turn a meddlesome Hero into a geyser of giblets.
Unleash Devastating Rituals - Punish your foes or empower your own forces with game-changing Rituals that can do anything from raising an undead army, to instantly fortifying your entire dungeon.
Command Powerful Minions - Over 20 minions await your call, and will gladly work and fight under your banner... if you provide them with all the creature comforts they demand.
Conquer the Overworld - Play through a feature-length campaign, facing off against the Emperor of the Overworld as you fight for complete supremacy in the Realm of Kairos
Destroy Your Rivals - Take the fight to your rival Underlords in Skirmish or Multiplayer matches with up to four players.
Challenge Ruthless AI - Team up with a friend or fly solo and challenge devastatingly sophisticated AI Opponents in Skirmish or Multiplayer!
Shape the Underworld - Create entirely new Skirmish, Scenario, Sandbox and Multiplayer levels in the Map Editor and share them with other Underlords via Steam Workshop!
Test Your Mettle - Run the gauntlet of the prototype Survival mode and see if you can top the high score against waves of enemies!

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 12.04 or higher
Processor: Dual Core CPU @ 2.5GHzMemory: 4GB RAM
Memory: 4GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GT450 512MB or better. ATI 4870HD 512MB or betterG3D Mark: 1500Hard Drive: 7GB available spaceSound: Speakers or headphones        Additional Linux Requirements:        glibc 2.14 or later               libstdc++6 or later               GCC 4.9 or later               Only the latest video card drivers are supported               OpenGL 3.0 support is required        Full Knowledgebase Article
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: Ubuntu 16.04 or higher
Processor: Quad Core CPU @ 2.5GHzMemory: 8GB RAM
Memory: 8GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GTX 560 1GB or better. Radeon 8950 HD 1GB or betterG3D Mark: 3000Hard Drive: 10GB available spaceSound: Speakers or headphones        Additional Linux Requirements:        glibc 2.14 or later               libstdc++6 or later               GCC 4.9 or later               Only the latest video card drivers are supported               OpenGL 3.0 support is required        Full Knowledgebase Article

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