New Features and Gameplay Improvements

• Introduced an option in the options menu to get ingame notifications when a quick game match is looking for players
• Multiplayer chat (Enter to team, Shift-Enter to all)
• Introduced a new four player multiplayer map: The ancient Naga temple
• All multiplayer maps can now be started if there are at least two players
• Skirmish: Higher difficulties now more difficult. Enemies have higher Hitpoints, Damage and Armor
• Some spells can now be cast in enemy and neutral territory.

Balancing

• Guard Room: Horn/Gong cost increase from 500 to 750 Gold, and space requirement from 1x1 to 2x2 tiles
• Exploding Chest Trap: now explode each other when placed nearby
• Tentacle trap: Cooldown reduced from 2.5s to 1.5s.
• Improved tentacle trap: Cooldown reduced from 2.5s to 2s and damage increased from 30 to 35.
• Infested: Increased cooldown of explode from 90s to 120s
• Ent and Ent Elder: Severely increased hitpoints from 150 to 1500 and 200 to 2000 respectively

Other Improvements

• Play campaign map description audio when selecting mission
• Shadow lurker now uses invisibility in dungeon
• Unit z position changes now interpolated (smoother movement)
• Tutorial Screen: Removed "no more hints" toggle; can still be turned off in options.
• Notification events now have some context information (Name of dead creature, gold cost during payday, ...)
• Showing remaining time for rally flag (press Space)
• Improved player colored shader, with premulitplied alpha for better colors!
• Added tooltip info about casting range and holding mouse button to some spells
• Improved sound effects in several rooms
• Improved Guludruul Blizzard skill visualization timings
• Options Menu: Enable key rebinding when clicking on label
• Special campaign screen text for last campaign when playing as demon
• Show creature's xp and xp to next level in tooltip
• Show a bubble when waiting AI enemies get alerted by dropping monsters or attacking with spells
• Multiplayer: Region Names now show owning player name
• Multiplayer: Show disconnected status of players in stats
• Units now slightly move away when hit by unattackable enemy
• Improved some billboard particle effects

Fixes

• Fixed menu options (campaign, skirmish, multiplayer, etc.) not working for some players
• Fixed problems when launching logic process with MS.NET - workaround
• Possible fixes for steam invited lobby problems
• Skirmish Sevenhills: removed duplicated music ...
• Mana balls don't open doors anymore
• Catapults and other structures are no longer protected by paladin shields or mana shields
• Grumli in "The Battle for King’s Ending – This time it’s for real " can't be killed by tempting town portal anymore (like all other bosses)
• Prevent selecting portals in RTS mode
• A New Hope: Fixed completion bug of "Build more treasuries" side quest
• Fixed the overworld cursor uncovering the fog of war when the player had picked up units in the underworld
• Fixed royal treasury capacity display to correctly account for both treasury pile places (total capacity is 1000, not 1000 per pile)
• Fix: Succubus’ Bewitch needs to be researched
• Campaign: horde/demon selection button now has a tooltip
• Multiplayer: Fixed Little Snots stopping to work in some rare occasions if they found jobs of other players
• Stop bewitch skill when target dies
• Fixed bug where the Absolute Evil could get stuck in the lava river in first camapign map
• Correct font used for demon unit names in Polish, Russian, Korean
• Fixed damage display of sieged rockthrowers
• Fixed some projectiles like arrows not getting removed correctly.
• Fixed some oscillating AI behaviour (halfling bards running back and forth instead of disarming)
• Correctly rescan and attack recently detected enemies like Elven Ranger
• Orcs now carry their weapons when motivating
• Correctly continue resurrecting progress when loading a savegame (e.g. after game save/load)
• Fixed selection group key handling so they work when hovering UI as well
• Fixed tile selection in build room mode when gold changes.
• Fixed health bar positioning on spider eggs and other scaled objects.
• Correctly rebuild broken trap when worker find all boxes already present at gimmick
• Elven ranger now correctly uses invisible spell
• Fixed Ent smash effect to be always on ground
• Fixed Signal horn/gong not re-signaling again under some circumstances
• Fixed lava in horde throne Tier 3
• Fixed shader issue with demon entrance
• Linux: Fixed mouse scrolling not working on top border
• Linux: Fixed auto cam move after start of game
• The Battle for King’s Ending – This time it’s for real: Removed preplaced perk "The Abstinent" (makes no sense for demons)
• Fixed idle animation not getting played mid-combat for heroes
• Fixed spider web not getting deactivated correctly
• Fixed some occasions where global research buffs where awarded twice to pre-placed units.
• Omit most once-effects when not visible with camera
• Fixed some units getting stuck when too close to a collapsing spawner-house.
• Fixed "on cooldown" error if spell is recast by holding down mouse button
• Fixed evil hand is near - animation for rockthrower
• Fixed medusa ray not visible under some circumstances when targeting knocked enemies
• Fixed some rare bug causing spiders to get stuck in their spider caves
• Fixed: Infested cannot explode anymore when he just died.
• Various minor tweaks/fixes and improvements to maps