ADDITION: Cultures of Oceania Content Pack

• 6 New Cultures
• 6 New Wonders
• 15 New Narrative Events (including 1 cross-empire events)
• 7 New Independant People
• New In-Game Themed Music Tracks conposed by Arnaud Roy

ADDITION: Anne Bonny Update

• 1 Bonus New Culture: Caribbean Pirates
• 3 New Naval Units

MAJOR CHANGES

• Naval Units Ranged Retaliation! Faster movement, longer ranges, greater firepower!
• Larger Battlefields! You have more room to deploy you Units and can take advantage of the new-found mobility.
• Internal Trade! Deepen your ecomonic relationships with other Empires, but beware of any poaching…
• Strategic Resources requirement system! A single copy of each required resources is now enough to unlock construction, but at what cost?

CHANGES AND ADDITION FROM COMMUNITY IDEAS

• Steam Workshop and mods setup flow improvements.
• Modding Tool quality of life improvements, especially around versions checking.
• Map Editor quality of life improvements, especially around Resources and Natural Wonder placement.
• Added an option for players to rename their avatar.
• Adapted the HUD and changed the science button to make it round (again).

BALANCING AND OTHER CHANGES

• Nerfed the aggressiveness of the AI in Metropolis & easier levels of difficulty.
• Improved feedbacks for players on how to assimilate Independent Peoples in decline regardless of patronage level.
• Units: balanced the number of accesses required to built & number of accesses required to update.
• Infrastructures: balanced the number of resources required to built, new resources bonus granted & FIMS bonus per strategic or luxury.
• Electricity Technology: Bonus on coal accesses.
• Power Line Technology: Bonus on aluminium accesses.
• Nuclear Fission Technology: Bonus on uranium accesses.
• Balanced various Upkeep costs.
• Increased Naval Transport Units combat strength for all Eras.
• Increased Naval Units combat strength on Pentekonter and Quadriem.
• Reduced Naval Units combat strength on Cog, Carrack, Geobulseon, Galleass and Man O'War.
• Cruise Missiles, Nuclear Warheads and Thermonuclear Warheads combat strength all went down from 7 points.

FIXES

• Fixed a multiplayer desynch when specific game language was selected.
• Fixed an issue where game was stuck on pending turn after signing the Intellignece Coalition with an AI.
• Fixed an issue where Bombarding the main plaza during a Siege could cause a crash.
• Fixed an issue where launching a Nuclear Missile after using two of them the previous turn could lead to a softlock.
• Fixed an issue where disabling auto saves in a multiplayer game continued to generate auto saves.
• Fixed a game softlock when the host loses internet connection, while in loading screen.
• Fixed an issue where Land Units were keeping their abilities when embarked.
• Fixed an issue where The Santa Maria del Fiore Cultural Wonder would not benefit from religious bonuses as stated.
• Fixed an issue where Independent Peoples did not build Infrastructures in their Cities.
• Fixed an issue where Nuclear Missile launch was not canceled when the player was occupying the targeted enemy City.
• Fixed an issue where Independent People's territory remained under influence after they de-spawn.
• Fixed various minor UI and localization issues.