Release Notes for Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes

Patch 3.0 (1 September 2021)

• Tile yield update on screen aborts immediately if the terrain is invalid for a city (perf)
• Fixed crash bug where garbage characters could get inserted into a scene node
• Increased the map tilt further so you can see more pretty stuff
• Calc Military Might now longer force updates the battle rank of units. (perf)
• AI city updating is now multithreaded (perf)
• CalcBattleRank changed to automatically cache the battlerank of the unit (major perf boost)
• Units now always get a battlerank of at least 1 to ensure caching of battlerank
• Sub-units of an army are no longer recalculated unless expressly ordered
• Thread safe city count method added
• Fixed a crash deadlock
• AI monsters less likely to attack a city on lower difficulties
• Monsters now use a cached combat rating to determine city strength (performance)
• Fixed multiple crash deadlocks
• Unit vector sized at 10 at start to reduce increments. (perf)
• Timer update increased from 1ms to 0.5ms
• Conclaves provide more research but less production and money
• Fortresses provide more production but less money and research
• Towns provide more money but less production and research
• New improvement: Tower of Knowledge. Provides +1 research per essence
• Tiny map size increased to 5x3
• Small map increased from 5x4 to 6x4 (20 to 24 sectors)
• Medium map size increased from 6x5 to 7x5 (30 to 35 sectors)
• Large map size increased from 7x6 to 9x6 (42 to 54 sectors)
• Huge map size increased from 8x7 to 12x8 (56 to 96 sectors)
• Wrote a replacement for toupper() that is much faster
• Lots of new quests
• AI improvements
• Quest based champions added
• Units take slightly longer to produce to balance the availability of more champions.

Patch 2.51 (31 October 2019)

• Unit movement engine optimizations
• AI update to be more greedy about getting goodie huts
• Early game technology costs reduced
• Default unit movement increased from 2 to 3 tiles.
• Sovereign default combat speed increased from 22 to 32
• Sovereign default HP increased from 20 to 28.
• Several bug fixes to late game instability

Patch 2.4 (17 October 2018)

Features

• Dwarf Lord gains access to Alchemist and other special buildings

UI

• Updated font engine for high DPI display

Patch 2.1 (28 September 2017)

• Updated to support 4K, 5K, and 8K screen resolutions
• Custom faction abilities now have descriptions
• Updated the Slow spell so that the initiative penalty is more punishing