Unofficial Patch Age of Wonders 4
Items:
- The spirit damage enchantment for the Giant King’s obelisk does spirit damage instead of frost damage
Spells:
- Clarified the descriptions for Summon Wild Animal and Summon Greater Animal
- Immolate no longer applies additional effects 2x against burning units
- Lightning Torrent does damage, then reduces resistances, as the description says, instead of the other way around
- "Call the Titan of the Earth" has been standardized to work like other Conjure spells; the summon only lives for 3 turns now, but is summoned with full action points instead of 1. It also works in Water battles now
Siegecraft/Towers:
- Added a Siegecraft tag, and added the "ShowinTomeofWonders" tag to all Siegecraft & Towers to make them appear in the Tome of Wonders
- Catapult/Onager description now captures that it deals damage in a 1-hex radius
- Ballista tower damage reduced to 25 and catapult tower damage increased to 25 so that Catapult towers are a worthwhile upgrade
- Bolt Repeaters have been adjusted to be a straight upgrade to Ballista towers, and less like catapult towers. Changes includes; Increasing their tier, removing the cooldown on their attack, and removing the AoE effect
- Towers no longer start on cooldown. Why would there not be ammo loaded in them at the start of the battle?
- The many instances of siegecraft units having multiple copies of the same immunities has been fixed
- Blight immunity has been removed from Ballista/Catapult towers
- Great Bombard no longer has copies of the abilities it automatically gets from being Siegecraft
- Earthshatter Engines no longer have Morale Immunity since Siegecraft already aren’t affected by Morale
- Earth Tremor’s description now says how much damage it does to obstacles
- Catapult Towers & Ballista Towers are no longer immune to Blight
- Healing Spire is now a Tier 3 unit since other towers, including the Necrotic Spire, are Tier 3
- Umbral Towers now properly say that they say summon splitterlings
- Lava Burst now says how much damage it does
Units:
- River Troll’s Razor Net can flank now
- Inquisitor’s Bolt of Judgement can flank now
- Butcher Ogre’s Butcher’s Cut is now a weaker effect that checks 3 times to apply 1 stack of bleeding & sundered defense, instead of checking 1 time to apply 3
- Butcher Ogre’s Butcher’s Cut ignore status resistance like other % missing health effects now, but damage has been reduced
- Base strength for Druid of the Cycle’s End has been increased from 90 to 100 to match other % missing health effects, but only applies 2 weakened on failure instead of 3.
- Kraken’s Pull of the Deep now ignores status resistance to make it like other % missing health effects. Damage on a failure has been reduced from 40 to 20.
- Resurgence no longer heals units back to 50% health (This was done because Resurgence is the only way in the game to heal from combat, which seems like a clear oversight. It’s also strange how it is better for a unit to die in battle than to barely survive with Resurgence)
- Ascended Pyrebearer no longer reduces health by 20
- Divine Protection cost has been reduced from 200 Mana & Casting Points to 120 Mana & Casting Points
- Empower & Greater Empower increase damage by +50%/+100%, up from +40%/+80%
- Guardian Spirit from Rite of the Guardian Spirit increases Resistance by 2, up from 1
- Resurgence from Paragon of Order & Undying Warrior also increase strategic map health regeneration by +10
- Youthful Rejuvenation heals for 20/40, up from 18/36
- Tentacled Escape no longer brings back the ruler with 50% health, but includes Slippery now
- Most unit summon abilities work in water and lava fights now
UI:
- "No Zone of Control" is no longer a hidden effect
- Climates are now visibile when inspecting a sector
- The description for Mount Form traits now specifies what movement speed the Mounts give, and a hyperlink to the Mount item given to Heroes is provided
- Clarified the descriptions for Demon’s Gate, Wildlife Sanctuary & Wyvern Eyrie improvements
- Reaver culture description captures that they have a unique Siege Project and the Free City nearest them does not match their starting race
- Clarified how the "Execute" Hero skill works
- The vision bonus from floating has been reduced from 2 to 1, but is no longer hidden
- The description for the Corrupt Soul’s Crushing Anguish more precisely states what it does
- The Druid of the Cycle’s "Cycle’s End" ability now clarifies how the success chance is calculated
- Fixed the description for the Temple of the Exalted skill
- Fixed the description for Overcharge to say 50% instead of 50
Water:
- Water Movement now reduces movement cost for sunken ruins and mangrove forests to 6 instead of 3. Water Movement also more precisely states what it does
- Amphibious’ description is now more precise about what it does
- Amphibious units no longer get the floating vision bonus when in water
- Embarked now says that it gives Water Movement & +1 Vision Range (Down from +2)
- Ghost ships get +1 Vision range
- Not really a bug fix as much as a vibes check, but basic Seafaring is no longer required for Amphibious, Floating or Flying units to cross the water, but is required to build Province Improvements in the water
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