Old World Blues patch 4.1.13
Update 4.1.13 was released on January 21, 2023.
Patch notes
Major Features
- Adjustments to many aspects of tech in combat. This includes scaling back last patch’s temporary fuel increase, changes to the innate strength of some combat modifiers, nerfs to reinforce rate and air attack, significant Wasteland Tactics doctrine tweaks, changes to many different types of equipment or units and more. The full details of the changes can be found here: https://pastebin.com/KWkFrzrC
Added
- Added 2 new advisors to the Last Redoubt
- Added 1 new decision in the Last Redoubt for Annabella
- Added cores of Jicarilla to the Maxson’s Chapter territory to prevent them starting with cores on Fort Lyon’s and New Syracuse, which was rendering two foci useless.
- Added 13 events and 16 decisions to Hangdogs including effects related to Lanius or the Legion, the chance to recruit Lupa, acquiring certain tech and a new/returning formable
- Added the ability to unlock the Tribal tech tree to the Riches of the Box focus for Hangdogs
- Added single decision to WARDEN to invite the Last Patrol to the Defense Network if they share a border
- Added the Scout Kit and PA Support Frame techs to Heaven’s Gate at gamestart
- Added 3% more stability to 215th at gamestart
- Added the first tier of Agriculture tech to Arroyo at gamestart
- Added AI weighting discouraging Free Fighters from sending volunteers to certain targets
Changed
- Changed the effects of some Settler, Raider and Tribal advisors for balance
- Changed certain focuses in the Settler, Raider and Tribal trees to be slightly weaker or altered
- Changed many national spirits that reduced production cost of Robots or added flat entrenchment speed across many nations to be weaker
- Changed the ai weights for researching most Naval Technologies to be lower
- Changed Naval Bases to be constructable on allied terrain
- Changed the maximum number of Coastal Forts per tile from 10 to 8
- Changed Outposts and Coastal Forts to have slightly less base cost but higher cost scaling
- Changed Deadline’s general portraits to improved versions
- Changed Site Y’s ideas, names, and flag to differentiate them from the Brotherhood
- Changed Hangdogs to no longer start with doctrine tech
- Changed some Hangdogs focuses for parity between the WARDEN/Hangdogs paths
- Changed WARDEN to inherit technology from Hangdogs again to encourage players to make proper research decisions.
- Changed Caesar’s +5% Organization from Conqueror of Tribes to +5% Recovery Rate
- Changed the modifiers of the Legion’s national spirit Legion Training slightly
- Changed some modifiers or effects in the New Reno tree to be slightly stronger
- Changed starting spirits for Santa Anna, the Flawed Parish and Reclamation Army Depot to give smaller fuel consumption reductions and fuel capacity increases
- Changed Arroyo’s starting spirit to grant 5% more political power
- Changed the NCR Dollars modifier slightly
- Changed Reclamation Army Depot to start with 20% less stability and war support, slightly less equipment in their divisions and 1 less civilian factory
- Changed 80% Compliance to give less non-core manpower
- Changed the Chems and Mutant Recruitment laws to give slightly lower conscription penalties
- Changed the modifiers of Brotherhood Outsider laws slightly for balance and consistency
- Changed the Outpost Builder design company Outpost Construction Speed from 20% to 15%
- Changed the Basic Hygiene Education decision to have a slightly longer cooldown
- Changed the Followers’ research decision to last longer and have a shorter cooldown
Fixed
- Fixed a new occasional crash related to the Legion Navy which a previous one covered up
- Fixed many Air units not bearing all applicable unit categories
- Fixed Patrolmen having no generic decisions
- Fixed the event for conquering Sun Dogs being fireable multiple times
- Fixed a focus for Twin Mothers that allowed for Hecate to be removed as a country leader and general for Ouroboros despite Ouroboros being independent
- Fixed S’lanter not having access to the generic advisors.
- Fixed the second and third starting events of the Bank End Bandits malfunctioning
- Fixed Santa Anna not becoming a naval commander when taking the focus “Appointing the Almirante”
- Fixed an Ouroboros focus which sometimes granted no effect
- Fixed players being able to delete their units to exploit and ignore the Hangdogs civil war
- Fixed a New Canaan advisor which lacked a properly localized name
- Fixed some minor development project typos
Technical Changes
- Adjusted the position of Lanius’s branches for symmetry
- Fixed a mostly innocuous missing bracket in a Robot City file