Imperator: Rome’s Update 2.0.1 is now live, a look at its patch notes revealing a series of tweaks to the grand strategy game’s interface, bug fixes, and more.
Update 2.0.1 also adds a new Anatolian city set that’s available for all Imperator: Rome players, while introducing a new tooltip for Ancient Wonders that are under construction. The AI will now properly assign commanders to legions, while levies have a scaling cooldown based on their strength upon disbanding.
Here are all the changes and additions that Imperator: Rome has received in Update 2.0.1, as per the full patch notes:
Interface
Art
- Added unique Anatolian city set, free for all users
- Family Heads now distinguished by a colored bar in their portraits
- Pretenders are now distinguished by a bloody ruler coin in the character card
Tooltips
- Mouseover of state view Pop piecharts now displays the percentage with integrated cultures, adherents of the state religion, and total population (our intention is to iterate on this feature, however, we felt access to these values was more important to include in this state than not at all)
- Added new tooltip for Ancient Wonder under construction
- Changed opinion texts from first to third person to avoid confusing tooltips in diplomacy view
Other
- Character’s current Party Conviction in republics is now displayed in the character card
- Pops are now sorted by Poptype by default in the pop view
- Added a bunch of extra information to Great Wonders window and tooltips
- Added warning for lack of materials when building Great Wonders
- History entries for Legions will no longer use Christian calendar
- Tweaked provincial trade info interface
Sound
- Prevented DLC-locked music tracks from playing for non-DLC owners
Game Balance
War & Peace
- Levies now have a scaling cooldown based on the strength of the levy at disband time - this also applies to levies who are auto-disbanded due to stackwipe
- Levy cooldowns will now be reset if attacked while at peace
Other
- Added Diadochi Rivals opinion modifier between successors to make alliances less likely at the start of the game
Bug Fixes
AI
- AI now properly assigns commanders to Legions
Code
- Improved Levy size calculation slightly
- Fixed being able to merge tribal levies led by different chiefs
- Fixed state capitals ownership flipping
- Added rounding to Great Wonder price
- Disallowed risky interactions in lobby view
- Fixed issue with loading saves made in observer mode
- Lowered hotjoin tick limit in an attempt to help slower computers catch up
- Fixed issue where money increased in value when changing hands
Interface
- Fixed tooltips referring to Great Works instead of Great Wonders
- Fixed multiplayer interface elements not using new UI design
- DLC deities will now properly use vanilla icons as fallbacks
- Fixes issues with character loyalty tooltips
- Effects section of tooltips should now be hidden if there are none
- Inventions should now properly list effects in their tooltips
Script
- Fixed Barbarian Corsairs task not requiring territories to have pirate havens
- Fixed Divine Founder Thracian mission task deifying multiple characters
- Fixed being able to arrange marriages with or for imprisoned characters
- Fixed republic corruption events not making much sense
- Fixed League of Corinth mission tasks requiring exactly 3 subjects instead of at least 3
- Fixed Mithridatic regnal numbers
- Fixed Thrace event drawing Epirus into war firing if already involved in a war together
- Fixed Soloi decision being available too widely
- Fixed broken happiness modifier in reward for Cities of Greece
- Fixed issue with Italiote League task highlighting
- Fixed losses tooltip listing Phrygia in Antigonid Cause Wavers stubborn choice
- Fixed mission tasks requiring more buildings than it was possible to build
- Made Mithridates events more reliable
- Fixed tooltips and regnal numbers in heir events for Mithridatids and Attalids
- Fixed some tooltip issues when becoming Pergamon
- Fixed matching names of support pretender and intervene in succession crisis character interactions
- Fixed broken tooltips in Thracian missions relating to releasing subjects
- Reworked land given to Pergamon in Antigonid split events
- Fixed some cases where subunits and legion maintenance modifiers were granted in events to countries that didn’t have legions
- Fixed highlighting in Italiote League task for Magna Graecian minors
- Fixed League of Corinth not being a subject if created anew
- Fixed missing governor portraits in state improvements events
- Cleaned up tooltip of Revoke Holding interaction party impact
- Fixed event not destroying Colossus of Rhodes
- Fixed missing opinion localization in the Thracian missions
- Fixed various literally unplayable typos
Setup
- Fixed some incorrect terrain types in Anatolia
- Removed Kennataia tribal tag in Anatolia
- Fixed Gortyna’s fort locator being misplaced
Other
- Fixed Spanish localization of Governor Policy tooltip
Update 2.0.1 should be compatible with Marius Update 2.0 saves, but a separate Steam branch allows you to roll back to the previous version, in case you encounter any issues.
Imperator: Rome is out now on PC.
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