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Changelogs
Version 1.0+
Changelog is no longer updated here. Please refers to the PDF readme inside mod, or on the VCMI launcher changelog tab.
Version 1.0
General : - BRAND NEW VISUALS FOR TOWN-SCREEN, SIEGE-SCREEN, ADV.MAP VISUALS, ETC.! - Updated town-related sprites to fit with the new townscreen (Icons, portraits, etc.). - Reworked building tree and made few changes to buildings costs. - Removed Dwelling 2 horde. Replaced unused building with special building “Genizah” (works as Tower’s library). - Added adventure map visuals for dwellings and castle.Added sounds for adventure map dwellings. - Spell: Increased spell points cost of ‘Met’. Fixed all spells description. New spell Amad (resurrection for Golems). - Removed Grail primary skills buff during a siege. - Fixed ‘Holy Breaker’ ability not stacking. Fixed & improved WoG support submod (Stack Experience). - Added 2 submods called “reversion” that allows to convert Refugee creatures into vanilla/WoG neutral counterpart. - Reworked Stack Experience for all units. Fixed neutral to refugee conversion (both vanilla & WoG). - Replaced Arrow creature with Enchanters (previously ‘Roving Enchanter’). - Grail: Removed Daeva summoning. Grants +20% magical resistance to player armies instead. - Daeva is now a creature reward for the new creature bank, guarded with Genies & Efreets. Daeva stats reworked. - Added new submod that replaces the town’s theme with a remastered version of the previously used theme from versions 0.1 → 0.7.
Heroes : Changed biography of Reza, Azar and Bhemnesh. - Classes: Changed Enchanter & Wanderer primary & secondary skills gain chance. Brand new sprites visuals. - Bhemnesh: Changed starting army. Replaced ‘Resurrection’ specialty with ‘Necrolem’ (flesh golem necromancy). - Shayan: Replaced skill ‘Tactics’ with ‘Learning’. Specialty ‘Motley King’ prevent bad morale for his army. It also gives a bonus to wandering creatures joining the army. - Aria: Changed secondary skill and specialty is now Estates.
Units : - New creature ‘Flesh Golem’, a special unit which is the specialty of Bhemnesh. Similar mechanics to WoG’s Ghost. - Streamlined commander’s data with “vanilla’ commanders. Now casts ‘Amad’ instead of ‘Namburbi’ and ‘Sigu’. - Nerfed neutral creature Shapeshifters a little bit. - Reworked graphics for Hell Steeds, Nightmare. Subtle improvement to Angra Mainyu & Ahriman portraits. - Tier 6: Hell Steeds & Nightmares now hates Unicorns/War unicorns and vice-versa. Nerfed Death stare 10 → 6. Removed ability to casts ‘Curse’ as it will now be part of Stack Experience (WoG feature). - Tier 7: o Rebalanced a little statistics and costs (mainly Angra Mainyu). o Removed abilities ‘Self morale & luck +1’, ‘Mind spell immunity’, ‘casts Sorrow’ and ‘casts Misfortune’. o Unit is now ‘non-living’. Added vulnerability to ‘Slayer’ effect (KING2). Magic resistance (+25% / +40%).
Version 0.8
General : - Misceanellous fixes, tweaks and upgrades. - Updated changelog/readme files and optimized files and workflow. - Reverted audio .OGG files back to .MP3 to preserve audio quality. - Switched v0.1-v0.7 town's theme with the alternate theme (can be manually reversed). - Fixed several unknown identifiers and resolved deprecated identifiers. - Fixed Hell Steeds & Nightmares idle animations. Several visual upgrades. - Removed Wake of Gods dependencies & added optional file for wog support. - Grail nows increase all primary skills by 5 and summons a Daeva during a siege. - Fixed Resource silo not producing the additional +1 sulfur per day. - SPECIAL1 building now produces 10% gold interest per week (same as Rampart's treasury). - SPECIAL2 building now increase movement rate of visiting hero (same as Castle's stables). - SPECIAL3 building description updated to prepare for the upcoming changes.
Heroes : - Upgraded Heroes portraits and specialty visuals. - Removed Areman spellbook. - Reworked Shayan specialty mechanics. generate a console error but it does works). - Fixed female/male sprites being switched for some heroes (Adv. map & combat).
Spells : - Emet : Reduced spell power. - Met : Reduced spell power. Fixed target conditions. - New ability : Holy Breaker and Dominion (unused). - Reworked gain chances for Refugee's spells and Refugee's mage guild spells. - Added/updated visuals for all new spells (even unplayable).
Units : - Rebalanced every units statistics, growth and costs. - Upgraded units portraits visuals. - Hell Steed : Replaced non-working 'cast Firewall' ability with 'cast Curse'. - Removed 'Veteran Sharpshooter'(ex-LVL4 Upg. unit). Sharpshooter are now LVL4 Upg. and statistics are now based on the original creature. Added new creature LVL4 called 'Sagitarrii' that can be upgraded into Sharpshooter. - Reworked LVL7 unit : Rebalanced its stats and abilities. - Commander now casts Sigu on ennemies and Namburbi on allies instead of resurrection. Healer ability. - Added 'Stack experience' for each units (when WoG submod is enabled). - New special unit 'Daeva', a powerful Djinn that is summoned by the grail during a siege.
Version 0.4
Heroes : - Given all heroes the ability to convert true neutral creatures into Refugee’s faction (ex: Gold Golem can be upgraded into Refugee’s Gold Golem). It Shouldn’t cost anything to convert creatures. - Rebalanced every Heroes starting army to make them stronger. - Added Heroes descriptions. - Replaced Heroes Battle & Map visuals with new original ones. - Changed Keyvan’s specialty and added “Šigû” as starting spell (in addition to the new version of “Namburbi”). - Replaced Kiana’s Ballista specialty with “Resistance” and changed her starting skills. - Replaced Shayan’s specialty with a new one, changed his starting skills and added surrender discount bonus per level.
Units : - Replaced creature ‘Peasant’ (ex-LVL1) with ‘Rogues’ (ex-LVL1U) and ‘Rogues’ with new creature ‘Spy’ (new LVL1U). Reduced power multiplier of Rogue’s spying ability from 3 to 2. Spies spying ability PM is set to 3. Replaced creature ‘Boar’ (ex-LVL2) with new creature ‘Vagabond’ (new LVL2). - Switched tiers between Tier 4 (ex-Sorceress/ex-Enchanter) with Tier 5 (ex-Gold & Diamond Golems). - Updated adventure map amounts of every units based on HoTA’s map editor values. - Rebalanced units statistics (Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 4 and Tier 5) to make them more coherent with their vanilla counterparts. Units are stronger but their growths are under-average. - Edited visuals & sounds of both tier 7 units and visuals of ‘Veteran Sharpshooter’ (LvL3 Upg.). - Updated creatures adventure map visuals, portraits & icons. - Hell Steed nows has the ability to cast “Fire Wall” with 12% chance as in WoG (doesn’t work). - Fixed sorceress missing “shot” sounds. - New neutral creature “Shapeshifter”.
Town : - Created Puzzle map visuals for the faction. - Created Siege visuals for the faction and replaced “Sorceresses” towers garrison by “Roving Enchanters” (Refugee’s Commander). - Optimized files (Buildings Areas & Borders). Edited Dwelling5 (ex-Dwelling4) borders & areas. - Added an alternate music for the town. To use it, go to “/Mods/RefugeeTown/Content/music/” and copy the music from the folder “RefugeeTownAlternateMusic” and paste it in the “/music/” folder to replace the actual theme.
Spells: - Old spell “Gottesbriefe” is renamed “Šigû”. - Old spell “Namburbi” (summon golems) is renamed “Emet”. - New offensive spell against all-type of golems called “Met”. - New spell “Namburbi” increase morale & luck of targeted/all ally’s troop(s).
Version 0.2
Town: - NEW TOWN SCRENN!, successfully replaced Cathedral's town screen with an original one. - New buildings: GRAIL, SPECIAL1 (Secret cave). - Animated buildings: GRAIL, Dwelling 6 Upg., Dwelling 7 & 7 Upg. - Renamed buildings and edited ressources costs and unlocking tree. - Edited creatures portraits & background to fit the new town screen. - Edited in-game Mage Guild background to fit the new town screen. - Edited various game icons to fit the new town screen. - Remastered town's theme.
New Spells: - Namburbi: Summon Gold golems (expert = Diamond golems). - Gottesbriefe: Reduce LUCK & MORALE of targeted ennemy (expert = all ennemy's troops).
Heroes: - Replaced Keyvan's specialty with 'Namburbi'. - Replaced Shayan's specialty with 'Resistance'.
Units: - LVL7 units will no longer have the ability to cast Sorrow & Misfortune after attack (with 50% chance each). Instead, it will now have the ability to cast Gottesbriefe after attack (with 30% chance). Also, it will now have the ability to cast Curse before attack (with 10% chance). Stats change (Nrm/Upg): Nerfed attack (-5ATK), Buffed defense (+4/3DEF) and Damage changed from 30-40 to 25-45. - LVL3 units: removed “Ranged retaliation” and “No wall” abilities. The ability “no melee penalty” will no longer apply to unupgraded units. Reduced speed (7 -> 5).
Misc.: - Fixed every .JSON files syntax errors and optimized their codes. - Improved heroes' specialties and other icons. - Fixed the two "Hordes" buildings that previously didn't worked.
Version 0.1
New Town “Refugee” with complete units roster (with portraits & map icons).
New Refugee’s heroes with their own skills/speciality/etc. (with portraits).
