[b]Age of Wonders: Planetfall[/b]

V1.101 - Revelations Expansion (19 November 2019)
Heritor Secret Tech

The Heritor are scions of a theocratic dynasty known as the Es’Teq. Their ancient technology allows them to harness energy and prolong their lives. They seek to reincarnate billions of followers that lay entombed across the galaxy and reestablish their divine rule.
Additional Campaign Missions

Experience the awakening of the Es’teq dynasty and the rise of their Heritor descendents with 14+ hours of new content across two campaigns.
Survey Sites Mechanic

Explore 30+ mysterious sites filled with traps and powerful enemies to reap unique rewards and uncover great secrets. With unique choices based on each faction, players can combine multiple sites to create endlessly different combat instances.
Tomb World Scenario

Challenge yourself to complete this deadly new Scenario, where Heritor enemies create an onslaught of destruction.
'The Forgotten' NPC Faction

Broken, insane, or otherwise unfit for Heritor’s utopian society, The Forgotten were never meant to be resurrected.
Threats to Your Empire

Reapers are robotic assassins created long ago to destroy those who were friendly to the Heritor cause, but now hunt all who walk the planet. Equally deadly are the Megasow and Piglets, bio-engineered wildlife gone rabid after the fall of the Star Union, which will devour anything in sight.
Locations, Pick-Ups, & Mechanics

Visit an Essence Gash or Es’Teq Well locations to supply new combat effects or abilities to your units. The Holopad pickup provides diplomatic rewards and additional influence over allies and enemies. Take over Imperial Defenses like the new Soul Beacon, Cluster Mine Deployer, or Firestorm Missile Silo to aid in combat.
V1.101 - Stegosaurus Patch (19 November 2019)
Feature: Combat Retry

    You are now able to retry a battle in manual combat once after seeing the results of an auto combat. This can be disabled in the Advanced Setup.

Feature: Orbital Relay

    Added a new sector Exploitation: ‘Orbital Relays’. Orbital relays function akin to teleporters, letting you transport an army through a relay to any other accessible relay in an instant.
    Forward Bases can be upgraded to Forward Relays, allowing you to connect them to the Orbital Relay network
    A new covert operation has been added to the ‘Insurrection’ skill in the cover ops tech tree: “Relay Disruption”.
    A new Diplomatic agreement is now available for any (Defensive) Ally with whom you share both an ‘Open Borders’ agreement: ‘Open Relay Agreement’.

Feature: Imperial Defenses

    Imperial Defenses are no longer destroyed upon exploration, instead, they’re turned off and their combat and world map effects will no longer be casted.
    Imperial Defenses in a colonized or annexed sector will gain a Garison Militia of equal strength to the Colony Militia and unlock a sustainable strategic operation, which can target a friendly or enemy colony

Balance
Balance: General

    Units bought from the NPC dwellings will now get production bonuses from the player's HQ
    Cover bonuses are now applied to hit chances after bonuses that make a unit harder to hit, rather than before. This means that stacking evasion mods with cover will be more effective, but so will using cover to reduce the effect of Easier To Hit debuffs.
    Units can now enter melee overwatch after sprinting
    Partial Obstacles, such as Dvar Trenches are no longer destroyed by Heavy units. Instead, they are now destroyed by units with the Large and Huge passive abilities.
    Any unit upgrade that adds a status effect on hit to a units attacks now has a higher strength to apply from single shot attacks than from repeating attacks.

Balance: Heroes

It was felt that Heroes in vehicles were too weak, mostly because heroes alone are actually more powerful than many vehicles when the game starts. These changes are meant to try and make the investment of getting into a vehicle more worthwhile.

    Vehicles now give a bonus to armor, shields and/or hit points instead of overwriting those stats on the hero
    Decreased Advanced Piloting unlock level from level 8 to level 6.
    Decreased Advanced Piloting costs from 10 points to 8 points.
    Vehicle Loadout perks now only give Vitality I instead of both I and II
    Decreased base hero hit points from 60hp to 50hp.

Balance: Hero Items

    Changed Death's Gaze to an AoE ability with a 4 hex radius and a casting range of 5.
    Changed Life's Grace to an AoE ability with a 4 hex radius and a casting range of 5.
    Life's Grace now dispels negative Status Effects
    Increased Bio Launcher Tier from Tier II to Tier III
    Tactical Aid Rig - Increased heal per Action Point from 7hp to 12hp.
    Tactical Repair Rig - Increased heal per Action Point from 7hp to 12hp.

Races, Weapons and Secret Techs

Based on the feedback we’ve collected we’ve done a huge range of tweaks to the game’s balance. With these changes, we were mainly trying to achieve the following:

    Increase compatibility between races and secret techs by allowing unit upgrades to be used more freely
    Increasing the strength of many tier 3 units which were considered sub standard
    Reduce the effectiveness of certain defensive mods, which were too powerful (especially those involving evasion and health regeneration)
    Generally try and balance the strength of units and upgrades across the board, to fix some obvious cases where a unit or upgrade was much stronger or weaker than it’s equivalents elsewhere.

Balance: Assembly

    'Emergency Quadratic Shielding' Mod now has stagger immunity in the post death effect
    Disassembler 'Gatling Gun' - Increased damage from 11 to 13
    Constrictor (Tactical Operation unit) 'Static Crush' - Reduced damage from 25 to 22
    Cloaking Implants can now be applied to all light, non-mechanical units (was light cyborg and biological)
    Quantum Support Nanites now heals for 10hp per turn (was 20%)

Balance: Vanguard

    Engineer shotguns now has 1 level of high impact
    Vanguard 'Gun Turret' (Engineer Summon) - Increased hit points from 20hp to 30hp
    Laser Tank 'Laser Cannon' - Increased damage from 12 to 14.
    Laser Tank now has 'Hyper Armor' defense mode
    Walker - Increased damage of 'Gatling Gun' from 11 to 13.
    Vanguard Racial Building - Increased experience gain from 'Combat Simulation Center' from 2xp to 3xp
    Improved Combat Sensors - Decreased harder to hit percentage from 20% to 15%.
    Improved Combat Sensors Sensors can now be applied on Non-Animal and Non-Ethereal units instead of Light Units only.

Balance: Amazon

    Amazon Defense Turret - Increased damage from 11 to 13 damage
    Amazon Biomancer 'Scan:Catalogue' - Increased the cooldown from 2 turns to 4 turns.*
    Advanced Instinct Controller - Decreased psionic resistance from 5 to 4.
    Regenerative Bio Regulator - Decreased biochemical resistance from 5 to 4.
    Blood Fury Inducers - Decreased the max stacks from 4 to 3.
    Blood Fury Inducers now gives 4hp per stack (was 10%)
    Regenerative Bio Regulator Mod now heals for 8hp per turn (was 15%)
    Grounding Harness Mod can now be applied to all units with Land Movement (previously excluded Mechanical units)
    Primal Awareness Amplifier Mod can now be applied to all non-mechanical and non-mindless units (was all biological and cyborg units)
    Reforestation operations will no longer destroy the roads in a sector

Balance: Kir'ko

    Emergent 'Gunk Spit' - Increased the range from 5 to 7.
    Emergent 'Gunk Spit' - Increased the damage from 7 to 11.
    Emergent 'Gunk Spit' - Changed from repeating to a single shot attack.
    Emergent 'Gunk Spit' now has a str 8 chance to apply blind.
    Frenzied - Increased hit points from 40 hp to 45hp.
    Frenzied 'Battle Vomit' now has Choking (str 8) instead of Armor Melt.
    Hidden Units now have Flanker
    Hidden Rifle attacks now have High Impact
    Adaptive Carapace - Decreased max stacks from 5 to 4.
    Adaptive Carapace can now be triggered by melee as well as ranged attacks.
    Tunneling Claws - Increased damage bonus from 10% to 20%
    Tunneling Claws can now also be used by the Ravenous
    Tormented 'Visions of madness' - Changed from once per battle to a 3 turn cooldown.
    Tormented 'Visions of madness' - Increased Insanity duration from 1 turn to 2 turns.
    Tormented 'Echoes of Torment' - Increased the optimal range from 5 to 6, meaning it has 60% hit chance at max range instead of 50%.
    Tormented 'Echoes of Torment' now checks each target individually.
    Accelerated Healing now heals for 8hp per turn (was 15%)
    Cloaking Carapace can now be applied to all light, non-ethereal units (was light kirko, animal and mounted units)
    Adaptive Carapace can now be applied to all non-ethereal units (was kirko, animal and mounted units)

Balance: Dvar

    Explosive Resistant Armor Mod - Increased Armor bonus from +1 to +2
    Reconstruction Kit Mod - Increased healed hp from 25 to 35.
    Reconstruction Kit Mod - Increased resurrection hp from 25% to 50%
    Reconstruction Kit Mod can no longer resurrect tier 4 units.
    Dvar Excavator now has the 'Hyper Armor' defense mode
    Dvar Excavator now enters defense mode after using defensive flamers
    Dvar Rocket Artillery 'Train weapons' now only affects missile barrage
    Dvar Rocket Artillery 'Mounted Gun' - Increased damage from 9 to 11.
    Dvar Foreman 'Hand Mortar' - Increased range from 4 to 5.
    Dvar Bulwark 'Concussive Volley' - Decreased range from 7 to 5.
    Fortified Trenches now heal for 8hp per turn (was 15%)
    Advanced Target Recognition Mod can now be applied to all units (was mechanical and infantry only)
    Illuminator Targeting System Mod can now be applied to all heavy units (was heavy mechanical and cyborg only)
    Captain's Regalia Mod can now be applied to all infantry and mounted units (was infantry only)
    Tectonic shift can no longer be cast on water sectors

Balance: Syndicate

    PsiTec Vision Enhancers mod - Increased Shield bonus from +1 to +2
    Adaptive Camouflage Projector mod - Decreased the harder fo hit from 20% to 15%
    Drive Modulator mod - Decreased heal hp per use from 15 hp to 10hp
    Overseer 'Cerebral Override' no longer triggers Arc Retaliation Defense
    Overseer 'Cerebral Override' no longer has damage increased by the Heavy Weapons Factory
    Wraith 'PsiTec Cannon' - Decreased damage from 13 to 12.
    Wraith 'PsiTec Cannon' - Removed High Impact.
    Subjugator 'Project Agony Field' - Increased damage from 12 to 14
    Subjugator 'Project Agony Field' - Added High Impact
    Subjugator 'Project Agony Field' - Added Armor Bypass
    Mirage 'Defense Mode' now grants stagger resistance
    Guild Assassin 'Pulse Sniper' - Increased damage from 20 to 22
    Guild Assassin 'Breach Round' now adds 30% accuracy to the next attack
    Indentured 'Arc Power Blast' now has an inherent +30% accuracy bonus
    Syndicate Enforcer now has stagger resistance
    Enforcer 'Defense Mode' - Increased Shield bonus from +2 to +4 to adjacent allies and self.
    Enforcer 'Defense Mode' can no longer stack.

Balance: Firearms

    Shredder Bomb Operation - Increased costs from 25 energy and 1 operation point to 30 energy and 2 operation points.

Balance: Biochemical

    Ionic Infusion Mod - Decreased chance to apply Electrified from 12 strength to 8 strength
    Acid Rain Operation - Decreased damage from 8 to 5
    Acid Rain Operation - Decreased the amount of armor melt from 2 to 1
    Acid Rain Operation now lasts 5 turns.

Balance: Psionic

    Mantra Of Clarity Mod - Decreased harder to hit from 20% to 15%

Balance: Explosives

    Explosives: Incendiary Mod - Increased strength chance to apply bruning from 4str to 8str
    Explosives: Electrical Mod - Increased strength chance to apply electerfied from 4str to 12str

Balance: Psynumbra

    Oblivio Mundi Operation (Psynumbra doomsday) - Decreased unhappiness from 40 to 30
    Amazon Initiate 'Dark Vine' - Increased the range from 5 to 7
    Amazon Malictor 'Dark Thorns' - Increased the range from 5 to 7
    Pain Mirror Mod - Increased damage from 6 to 8
    Pain Mirror Mod - Increased range from 3 to 4
    Psynumbra Sacrifice to the Abyss - Increased summon duration from 3 turns to 4 turns
    Psynumbra Sacrifice to the Abyss - All compatible mods are now copied over into the summoned unit.
    Kir'ko Initiate - Removed Psionic Mastery
    Kir'ko Malictor - Removed Psionic Mastery
    Syndicate Initiate - Increased costs from 80 energy and 250 production to 100 energy and 270 production
    Syndicate Malictor - Increased costs from 120 energy, 400 production and 20 cosmite to 140 energy, 440 production and 25 cosmite

Balance: Void Tech

    Dimensional Cascade Operation (Voidtech Doomsday) - Decreased stolen energy income from 40% to 30%
    Create Phase Echo Operation - Increased costs from 60 energy and 5 operation points to 75 energy and 7 operation points
    Dimensional Collapse Operation - Decreased costs from 100 energy and 9 operation points to 75 energy and 7 operation points
    Phasewalk Modulator Mod - Decreased harder to hit from 25% to 15%
    Phasewalk Modulator Mod can now be applied to all light units with ground movement (was infantry and mounted only)

Balance: Promethean

    Aegis Tank - Increased movement points from 24 to 32
    Purification Field Mod - Increased healed hp from 10hp to 15hp
    Phoenix Bomb Launchers Mod - Increased cooldown from 1 turn to 2 turns
    Pyrex Absorption Panels Mod now heal for 12hp per turn (was 20%)
    Pyrex Absorption Panels Mod can now also be applied to Biological units
    Amazon Purifier - Increased costs from 80 energy and 270 production to 100 energy and 270 production.
    Vanguard Purifier - Increased costs from 80 energy and 270 production to 100 energy and 270 production.
    Dvar Purifier now has Entrench
    Hazmat Protection Mod is now unlocked at tier 1 instead of tier 4
    Purifiers now have Prime Rank: Critical

Balance: Celestian

    Tenets Of Healing Mod now gives a heal that affects the caster and adjacent units, instead of just a single target.
    Regenerative Light on the Kir'ko Lightbringer now heals for 16hp per turn (was 30%)
    Declaration of Truth level 3 now heals for 10hp per turn (was 20%)

Balance: Synthesis

    Guardian Demon Shell Mod - Decreased harder to hit from 25% to 20%
    Total Network Integration Mod - Increased resurection health from 15% to 25%)
    Total Network Integration Mod no longer gives immunity to status effects.
    Malware Daemon - Increased damage per shot from 6 to 8
    Malware Daemon can now inherent passive mods from the caster
    Autonomous Repair Subroutines now gives 6hp per turn (was 10%)

Balance: Xenoplague

    Bloated Pustule is now a Mindless unit
    Xenoplague Parasite Mod - Increased health bonus from +5hp to +10hp
    Bio Spore Purification can now also heal mechanical units that have xenoplague mods
    Bio Spore Hyper Aggression - Changed from a single action to a free action
    Bio Spore Hyper Aggression - Changed from a once per battle ability to a 2 turn cooldown
    Bio Spore Hyper Aggression - Now affects air units
    Bio Spore Hyper Aggression - Can now affect mechanical units with xenoplague mods
    Parasitic Infection now reduces all damage resistances by 1 point (was biochemical resistance by 2 points)
    Added a new mod at tier 3 called Xenografted Muscles, that buffs melee units
    Regenerative Spore Cloud now heals for 8hp per turn (was 15%)
    Hyperstimulation Beam Operation - Can no longer target Mindless units

Balance: Independents

    Spacer Hellcopter 'Launch Fire Barrel' Increased range from 5 to 7
    Spacer Hellcopter 'Launch Fire Barrel' - Changed the name of this ability to 'Spacer Missile' to better match its icon and visual effect.
    Spacer Mad Preacher 'Effigy Hysterics' - Increased duration from 2 turns to 3 truns
    Paragon Reactive Shielding Mod - Decreased max stacks from 5 to 4
    Autonom Network Connector Mod - Increased Armor bonus from +1 to +2
    Self Repair Systems Mod now heals for 12hp per turn (was 20%)
    Regeneration Spores Mod now heals for 10hp per turn (was 20%)
    Growth Seed Cluster 'Regenerative Pollen Deluge' now gives 16hp per turn (was 25%)
    Wild Shrike - Increased movement speed from Normal to Fast.
    Wild Harrier - Increased movement speed from Normal to Fast.

Balance: Naval

It was felt that too much investment was required to deploy fleets into the oceans, so we’ve made changes to allow players to get to them earlier and deploy them more cheaply.

    All Tier 2 ships are now unlocked by default and no-longer require research
    All Tier 3 ships have had their unlock research moved to the location of where the T2 ship research was
    All racial ships have had their upkeep amount halved
    All racial ships are now cheaper to produce

Unit movement

There were a number of units that had 24 movepoints instead of 32. These units now have 32mp, and the Cumbersome property, which causes them to move more slowly in tactical combat. The following units are affected:

    Dvar Earth Crusher
    Dvar Rocket Artillery
    Dvar Baron
    Dvar Sapper
    Dvar Dreadnought
    Quartzite Basher
    Quartzite Crystal Worm
    Quartzite Worm
    Quartzite Crystal Basher
    Autonom Network Controller
    PsiFish Siren
    PsiFish Medusa
    Empire Walker
    Empire Behemoth
    Empire Techno Prophet
    Empire Heavy Trooper
    Growth Vine Sprout
    Growth Flowering Node
    Growth Seed Cluster
    Amazon Bombardon
    Amazon Arborian Queen
    Vanguard Walker
    Vanguard Drone Carrier
    Assembly Disassembler
    Assembly Reaver
    Kir'Ko Tormented
    Kir'Ko Barrager
    Kir'Ko Harbinger
    Syndicate Subjugator
    Syndicate Zenith

Updates
Interface

    Improved the indicators that show when a unit has new mods available
    Keybinding improvements
        Added keybindings for accessing the following interfaces: diplomacy, operations, quests, colony overview, military overview and unit template management.
        Added keybindings for tactical combat abilities
        Chat (tab) can now be rebound
        Removed obsolete keybindings
        Recategorized all keybindings
    Added NPC faction toggles to the advanced setup world settings
    Right-clicking dwelling trade items now opens their Imperial Archives page

Gameplay

    You can now annex a sector to your colonies without having a unit present, if you've already explored and cleared it
    Infecting units with xenoplague when you are not a xenoplague player can now spawn xenoplague units under the control of a xenoplague player who didn't take part in combat
    Improved interface of the combat result. Now more clearly shows units changing sides or when units have transformed through metamorphosis or other effects.
    Applying mods to heroes/commanders now counts towards the Technologist Empire Task.
    The system can now remove a single mountain hex in order to place a road between two sectors, if more than one mountain hex would need to be cleared, then no road will be placed.
    Ravaged Worlds Planet Template - Commanders now spawn next to a resource node, which will be the recommended first annexable sector

Colony

    The Cryo-Medical Facility now gives one level of stagger resistance as well to units built in the colony.
    Your racial colony structure can now be built in colonies not of your own race.

Research

    Generate Knowledge is now no longer locked behind research, it is available at the start, for every colony.
    The 'Transit Infrastructure' sub-skill has been moved to tier 3 research
    The text and name of 'Colony Infrastructure' and '˜Anthropologic Research' have been swapped.
    The 'Xeno-Relations Division' sub-skill has been moved to the new 'Anthropologic Research' skill group.

Imperial Defenses

    The Targeting Array's combat effect has been changed to no longer make tactical operations cost no operation points. It instead now gives ranged abilities from friendly units +10% accuracy and +1 hex range.
    The Pulse Defense Turret's combat effect's chance to stun Cyborg and Mechanical units for 1 turn has been changed from strength 8 (arc) to strength 4 (arc).
    The following Imperial Defenses no longer block regeneration:
        Pulse Defense Turret
        Orbital Defense Uplink
        Aerial Denial System

Diplomacy

    Trades up to 5 turns ago can now be reviewed by clicking on them in the trade history. Only applies to trades made after this patch.

Tactical AI

    The AI is more likely to use melee attacks over ranged attacks
    The AI is less likely to stand units next to enemies that explode when they die
    The AI is more likely to use staggers against units that have full action attacks
    The AI will not longer make wounded units run away if they're independent
    The AI is more likely to use free abilities when available

Fixes
Gameplay

    Fixed an issue where units in garrisons wouldn't be affected by sector wide effects from doomsday weapons and other operations
    Fixed an issue where switching your hero's vehicle from a flying vehicle to a land vehicle while above the water would destroy your hero.
    Fixed an issue where using the Escape Module on a hero would put all unused skills on cooldown when the hero is resurrected.
    Fixed issue where embarking an army would drain all move points from floating and flying units in the army as well.

Units, Mods & Abilites

    Dvar Prospector, Dvar Earth Crusher, Amazon Arborian Queen no longer regain Full Move Points after cancelling their Sector Center abilities.
    Mind Controlled Units can no longer be retreated from Manual Combat as it would allow the owner to keep them.
    Valkyrie is now correctly listed as a Skirmisher Unit to reflect stats (was Elite)
    Amazon Lancer vehicle now correctly gives Defense Mode: Shields Up (was Defense Mode)
    Dvar Trenches now correctly give the 25% bonus to accuracy they always should have
    Reactive Kinetic battery now correctly states that it can be applied to all heavy units (description before said heavy mechanical only)
    Subjugator - Control Collars now correctly lists the strength of the mind control check
    Pain Mirror correctly bypasses armor
    Malware Daemon - Now correctly lists the strength of the mind control at 8
    Bio Spore Hyper Aggression - Now correctly describes the size of the AoE it affects
    Fixed Issue where the Laser Sword couldn't equip the Hallucinogenic Regulator mod

Audio

    Fixed Dvar Bulwark Autocannons' from being too loud.
    Fixed Hackers Shoot SFX