Update v1.02.10691

• NEW Feature; Training Grounds: Give your units individual skills and abilities. Different heroes provide different training opportunities. Gets unlocked during a campaign, is unlocked from the start in Onslaught.
• NEW Feature; Merchants: Buy and sell resources at traders you unlock during a campaign. In Onslaught only available to the Empire faction at the start.
• NEW Feature; Transmute Artefacts: Get rid of your excess artefacts by turning them into other resources or gold. Gets unlocked during a campaign, available from the start in Onslaught.

• NEW Marcra; Marcra now has a Skill tree
• NEW Tirea; Tirea now has a Skill tree
• NEW Transmuter; Changed the skill tree of the Transmuter, providing one spell-focused path and one summoner-focused path; also adds new skills to their skill tree
• NEW Multiplayer/Skirmish Maps; Added new Capture and Kill All maps to the selection
• NEW Multiplayer; Added ability to send a message to your opponent upon uploading your turn
• NEW Multiplayer; Implemented ability to be notified if multiplayer game is available for you to play.

• Ailsa; Changed Ailsa's skill tree a little (Lightning Strike reachable via Mist or Turn Evil, Turn Undead became Turn Evil affecting Demonspawn as well)
• Units; Siege Engine Upgrade tree has been added
• Units; Imperial Golem received more armour and more artefact slots, turning it into a walking fortress
• Units; The Fleshwalker's Corpse Explosion skill now deals damage in addition to infecting
• Mercenaries; Added more fitting Names to mercenaries for their class/race.
• Balancing; Base grade core units (Younglings, Maidens, Spearmen, Peltasts...) have less impact on morale when they die
• Balancing; Adjusted magic damage of units between Barbarians (Stag Riders) and Empire (Pegasus/Night Mares)
• Skill Balancing; rebalanced some Skill Mana Costs (Grow Trees, Winged Leap...)
• AI; Tweaked AI behaviour regarding resting, especially for flying units. Should not start resting next to you when they can move away.
• AI; Fixed a bug with Heavy Weapons which led to Siege units often going into melee rather than shooting
• Options; Added option to enable/disable ground fog like swirling mists
• Procedural Map generation; Decreased VRAM usage.
• Onslaught Campaign Map Fix; Implemented an option to disable "GPU Procedural Generation" of maps. Users can disable this option if their game crashes during generating maps
• Tooltips; Tooltips that provide a summon able unit now show the units summon costs
• Skirmish/Multiplayer; Replaced the old random generation with the same type of generation used in Onslaught. Generates more structured/sensible maps.
• Skirmish/Multiplayer; in Skirmish/Multiplayer: Falirson now rides on his bear
• Multiplayer; Fixed various bugs causing the replay to not play correctly
• UI Multiplayer; Join and Forfeit button have been moved to the game details screen
• UI; Increased inventory UI size
• UI; Redesigned Save game window so it can support scalable text sizes
• Settings; Implemented a setting to disable idle variations (Units randomly executing actions during idle).
o This setting can only be accessed by changing the value of mShowCharacterIdleVariations in Custom.fg2settings manually
• Settings; Changed how resolution chooser works. It won't bug out now when choosing certain uncommon values.
• Blob Shadows; Added an additional option for blob shadows
• Terrain; Tweaked terrain generation and textures for all themes
• Loading Screens; Loading screens should stall less visually
• Loading Screens; The loading screen now shows the correct logo in the upper left
• Bugfix; fixed a bug that showed stats of the enemy in several tooltips during enemy turn
• Bugfix; Fixed an issue where units would be dragged along after their death
• Bugfix; Fixed an issue where more than one page of skills of for a unit could cause a game hang
• Bugfix; Eagle Riders are not tagged as Animal anymore and thus not charmable
• Bugfix; Fixed several issues with applying Status Effects and Self Effects in combat and more special skills (charge line, winged jump, skipping a skill)
• Bugfix; Fixed hiding bug, where a unit spawns hidden although an enemy unit is on the same position
• Bugfix; Fixed a bug where certain dialogues would trigger twice (if you gained a unit during the dialogue)
• Bugfix; Fixed graphic bug, where skirmisher sometimes disappear during an attack.
• Bugfix; Fixed bug if an artefact should be removed but this artefact is not assigned to any unit
• Bugfix; Fixed bug during enemy reinforcements to cause a unit to not spawn, which causes "Kill All"-Objectives to break.
• Bugfix; Fixed a bug where the World map was not centred around available mission until you end the post mission dialogue
• Bugfix; Fixed a bug where renaming of units in battle was not possible
• Bugfix; New text message for removing a finished multiplayer from the list instead of showing "forfeiting"
• Bugfix; Fixed issue where units would be wrongly tagged as quest objectives upon respawning
• Bugfix; Fixed an issue where team buffs would not be restored correctly after loading the game
• Bugfix; Fixed an issue where autosave was not triggered after deployment
• Bugfix; Fixed an issue where the first players camera position was not persisted correctly in Multiplayer
• Bugfix; Fixed an issue where changing teams in the multiplayer skirmish player selection would bug the menu
• Bugfix; Fixed an issue where an unknown spawn identifier would show up as "empty" in the game editor
• Bugfix; Fixed an issue where the damage previsualization would not factor in Bonus Charge Damage from artefacts
• Bugfix; Fixed an issue where scouting or casting Spirit Vision above a unit would hide that unit
• Bugfix; Fixed an issue where the Dragon Breath ability wasn't blocked by aerial units