Age of Wonders 4

v1.002.003.78130 patch (hotfix) - added the following settings: Display Selector, GPU Selector, Driver Workaround; multiple bug and crash fixes

v1.002.004.78464 patch (hotfix) - added a setting for monitor & GPU switching, added a setting to limit framerate when the game window is not active, added mitigation for GPU related issues, multiple bug and crash fixes

v1.003.002.80167 patch (Wyvern Update; compatibility with Dragon Dawn) - added a "Create Faction" option to the main menu, added a Random Ruler Generator, new Poisonous body trait and Artifact Hoarders social trait, new Origin Events, excavating diggable earth can uncover resource nodes and magic materials alongside pickups and the occasional marauding army, city ruins can be dismantled, Combat Action Camera can be disabled, renamed Shadow Walkers back to Devious Watchers, changed Melenis into the Wizard King she was intended to be, bug fixes (including fixes for numerous out-of-sync and crash causes), balance changes

v1.003.003.80377 patch (Wyvern Update 1.1) - expanded the Driver Workaround setting to include the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 line of GPUs, added a warning when a file verification issue is detected, added additional Soil Cover optimizations, addressed a hang that could occur on Start Turn, bug fixes, crash fixes

v1.003.004.81155 patch (Wyvern Update 1.2) - fixed Focus Point priorities on multiple screens, fixed Broken Tyrant Knight model when paired with boar mounts, fixed Wildspeaker model appearing broken in event scenes, crash fixes

v1.004.000.82125 patch (Watcher update) - balance overhaul (stress on research, Magic Victory, Tomes, Summon & Casting costs), enabled crossplay between all stores and platforms, improved memory efficiency in the animation systems, AI improvements (especially during sieges), added simple support to stop friendly or allied AIs from expanding towards the players domain, added the Revert option to the in-game menu in multiplayer, multiplayer stability improvements, multiple bug fixes

v1.004.001.82837 patch (Watcher Update 1.1) - implemented a fix that potentially mitigates the reported audio stuttering issues, fixed that the Bone Dragon was an Amphibious unit rather than a Flying unit, crash fixes, fixed an issue where Silver Ancient Wonders would generate additional large empty provinces around it, rather than only making a small province for themselves; making it hard for the AI to decide where to expand

v1.004.002.83608 patch (Watcher Update 1.2) - world map AI optimizations related to army movement and diplomatic trades, Grexolis Flow and difficulty changes

v1.005.003.85956 patch (Golem Update; Empires & Ashes launch build) - Item Forge and War Coordination mechanics added, Form Traits reworked, water gameplay overhauled, 7 new water combat maps added, 18 new events focussed on war, 6 new war-oriented quests, new unlocks added to the Pantheon, UI fixes, added Combat Advantage settings for AI as well as Human players, added new spell book interface, added AI personality picker, added Pangea map type, improved the Islands map type, bug fixes, balance changes, AI improvements, added an exclusive fullscreen mode in the graphics options, art tweaks, other changes

v1.005.004.86176 patch (Golem Update 1.1) - fixed an issue with the “Prometheus Avenged” where obtaining the feather would invalidate the Achievement even if it wasn’t used, fixed a common out of sync when observing combat - this should also address the frequent crashes - fixed a freeze/crash that would occur when exclusive fullscreen is enabled while Vsync is disabled, fixed several unit modularity issues, fixed Severing Mount not getting the Dispelling Field Ability, fixed a crash when calculating the sell price of items, fixed a crash when selecting an item type in the Item Forge, minor balance changes, other bug fixes

v1.005.005.86447 patch (Golem Update 1.2) - additional optimizations for combat encounters involving many units, AI tweaks, art and interface fixes, fixed an issue where Declarations would sometimes not be canceled if they could not be afforded if the player had declarations with different payment resources (Gold and War Spoils), fixed an issue where the difficulty settings would block War Coordination, fixed that the Gold Golem couldn’t retaliate, bug fixes

v1.005.006.87048 patch (Golem Update 1.3) - added "Pantheon Loading Failed" error dialog, added "Advanced Targeting Breakdown" setting to always display split damage and detailed targeting information, added "Camera Effects" setting, expanded "My Final Form" Achievement to also account for Races that you've become Race Keeper off, AI improvements, added beards to Dwarf Dragoons and Berserkers, prevented the Combat Engage Screen from opening more than once, balance changes, bug fixes, minor art tweaks, optimisations for out of memory crashes, fixed being unable to switch monitors in borderless windowed mode, fixed several issues related to the new exclusive fullscreen mode

v1.005.006.87265 patch (Golem Update 1.3 hotfix) - fixed a block in the faction creation flow when a ruler file corruption has occurred, fixed a siege flow issue where the order in which heroes died could result in an infinite siege, fixed a crash that can occur when an infestation becomes occupied by free cities, fixed a crash when transferring your throne city after losing the original one, fixed a crash that could occur in combat when a unit would end its turn on top of a different unit and remove it

v1.006.001.90116 patch (Wolf Update; Primal Fury launch build) - bounty mechanic added, reworked necromancy, introduced Leadership Clash modifier for armies with more than one hero, balance changes, new Pantheon content, sorted ascended rulers, UI tweaks, AI improvements, hero cap unlinked from city cap and instead increases independently over time, realm and trait randomization options added, added new free city upgrades, added dismantle province operation, Added Enchantment & Transformation Visual toggle, added the option to explicitly specify a name for the faction’s starting city, as well as rewrite the faction’s biography, added new audio cues, bug fixes, art and animation fixes

v1.006.002.90363 (Wolf Update 1.1 hotfix) - tooltip and UI tweaks, increased the map sizes of 2 player maps, improved player placement on the surface for 2 player map, reduced the amount of free cities on smaller maps, reduced the amount of mountains on land maps, fixed an issue where the AI City production manager did not include all structures that the AI can build (this also addresses issues with AI not building modded structures), fixed an issue where the AI could get stuck on trying to attack a quest army, art and animation fixes, fixed an issue where the AI would not always send out or accept a Call to War, bug fixes, fixed issue where in story realms the racial units of the other rulers would not get the same transformations as their ruler, multiplayer stability improvements, other changes

v1.006.003.91033 patch (Wolf Update 1.2 hotfix) - removed Leadership Clash introduced in Wolf Update, implemented AI hero recruitment cooldown, tThe Conjure Primal Animal spells will now only appear as research after you completed your first Tome of Magic, fixed issue where the AI would not always commit to a conquering a city after the walls has been breached, art and animation tweaks, interface tweaks, unit behavior fixes, fixed an issue where the game could get stuck without a combat result screen after replaying the same combat twice, fixed a common crash when combat ends and the world map is out of sync, other bug fixes

v1.006.003.91754 patch (Wolf Update 1.3 hotfix) - tweaked texture streaming and memory allocation, minor memory optimizations in several sub-systems, added additional warning messages in multiplayer, several out-of-sync issues fixed, fixed several exclusive fullscreen related issues, crash fixes, fixed an issue where the AI got stuck in a Siege state on a structure that doesn't require a Siege, fixed an issue where the AI got stuck due to the relation check that was done in the movement system not being updated, fixed an issue where the Dragon Ruler Affinity would reset to the Highest Affinity upon editing/customising, fixed an issue with Mark of the Tower imperium penalty applying to outposts, fixed an issue where Gold would be refunded when a structure is boosted

v1.006.003.92036 (Wolf Update 1.4 hotfix) - fixes some stability issues and identified crashes