This update offers performance improvements for huge games, new spells, more modding commands as well as a few new features and bug fixes. One of the more noticeable new features is that the map will now be drawn as snowy during winter if you don't know the actual temperature of the province (likely a better guess).
General- New arena fights (2 different and foreseeable by fortune tellers)
- New unit: Orphic Mystic
- New spells: Bind Keres, Curse Tablet & Seith Curse
- Unknown map parts shown as snowy during winter
- Ctrl+t to setup army for selected commanders only
- Better performance in army setup for very large armies
- Lightning bolts weren't drawn when they hit an empty square
- Fix for battle with 10000 soulless hanging the game
- Random map creation multithreaded
- Winter overlay didn't work properly for very large maps
- Cataclysm shown in Thrones of Ascension box
- Cataclysm setting shown among other game settings
- Immortals try to never rout
- Out of ammo archers didn't attack
- Sound effects slowdown during time stop
- Units always face proper direction when striking
- Red coloring of orders now take Power of the Spheres into account
- Turn number shown in season popup
- Improved stat info
- AI item distribution improvements
- Fire shield never works under water
- Mercenary bidding box supports shift for +/- 10
- Same start of message for castle battles regardless of defender/attacker win
- Curses shown on commander tokens
- Curses show when holding Tab on army setup screen
- Fix for unique monsters & Lord of the Hunt aging every turn
- Pluralization fix
- Stat fixes and tweaks
- Typos fixed
Modding- Using default flag with different color didn't always work
- Spell modding: #friendlyench, #hiddenench, #onlycoastsrc,
- Spell modding: #nocastmindless, #spellreqfly, #onlymnr
- Spell modding: #polygetmagic, #nextingeo
- Nation modding: #aicheapholy, #homefort, #buildfort
- Nation modding: #builduwfort, #buildcoastfort, #nationinc, #aiholyranged
- Nation modding: #halfdeathinc, #halfdeathpop, #noundeadgods, #domdeathsense
- Nation modding: #uwallmult, #uwallcom, #recallgod, #forestlabcost
- Nation modding: #foresttemplecost, #fortunrest, #riverstart
- Event modding: req_nomnr, req_code & req_anycode can be used multiple times
- Event modding: #inccorpses