The redone Journey is a campaign-like mode with a persistent turn-based continent map linking each game played. The world map brings new strategic challenges, and each game's objectives are determined by your long-term goals.

New Features and Improvements

• Added Journey world map and reworked all Journey mechanics
• Added coastal map type
• River maps with high water density can have multiple rivers
• Improved the shape of large rivers
• Unmounted humans are pushed backwards when damaged in melee
• Improved collision and pushing in large groups of units
• Various minor optimizations

Corrections and Fixes

• The available count of an equipment set was wrong when warriors equipped with that set switched to a tool to gather
• Carts and oxen had problems delivering resources to build fortifications
• Humans could become stuck attempting to reach resources in a stockpile to which they had no land path
• Fixed pathing issues for humans attacking and moving around walls
• AI scouts could become stuck and never explore new areas
• Units did not find a new path in response to gates opening or closing
• Units sometimes struggled to go through a single wall section opening in a wall
• Ships could be stuck on the edge of the map as if beached
• Humans removed from a building sometimes did not walk to its edge
• Animals ordered to leave a pasture did not exit the building in the direction of the order
• The skill gained by apprentices at a smelter was higher than intended
• Fixed a stutter that could occur on island maps
• Aggressive human warriors did not capture partially built enemy buildings
• Corrected some cases in which wall chains could not be joined
• Replacing a destroyed wall in a chain could result in an unnecessary extra wall section
• Gates and towers attached to walls could sometimes be captured from outside the walls
• The AI could attempt to build too many galleys or place them in boulders
• Corrected some issues with AI launching attacks with galleys
• Renaming an equipment preset and clicking 'Save' did not keep the new name
• Rally buttons sometimes displayed the wrong count of units that would rally
• The cursor responded to world objects behind the quick group buttons
• Existing houses did not emit smoke after loading the game
• Technology from the end of the queue that had made progress could be removed

Balance

• Warriors gain fatigue from attacking in melee, reducing their speed and melee hit chance; fatigue decreases over time
• Adjusted the balance of different melee and ranged weapons
• Making weapons and ammunition with better metal increases melee damage less and armor piercing more
• Most items take more time to craft
• Slightly reduced population growth speed at low food rations
• Economic hardships are more consistent for the selected difficulty level
• Limited the distance that capturing a fortification spreads to attached fortifications
• Gates cannot be opened or closed from their outer side if attached to a wall
• Ignition of wood fortifications caused by flaming projectiles and melee partially spreads to attached fortifications
• At least two herds of every enabled animal type are guaranteed on every map
• Siege Galleys can carry a maximum of 12 crew, not including the siege weapon and its operators
• Smelters use less wood
• Smelters require 200 stone
• Mines require 20 of any metal
• Pastures require 50 food
• Walls require 50 stone or wood
• Large boulders contain less stone

UI/UX

• The Scenario and Quick Battle menus can save and load preset settings
• The Map Parameters screen allows direct selection of land, coastal, rivers, and islands map types; water density no longer determines the map type
• Humans ordered to capture or burn a building spread out to nearby buildings
• Spotting and range ring dots update much more smoothly
• World icon groups respond faster to unit and camera movement
• Added warnings to save on the Map Parameters and Equipment screens
• The Pause Menu objectives list shows an icon for each objective
• Changing the resolution in Options -> Graphics requires confirmation or it will reset
• Added Journey sections to the Manual and How To pages
• Added new loading screen art
• Added a saturation slider to graphics options
• Added tooltips to the rally buttons
• Added tooltips for the weapons and armor on the Equipment screen