Controller controls completely revised and improved, in particular:

• Button assignment completely revised
• Context-sensitive display of button assignments
• Selection radius in RTS mode now increases over time, no longer manually
• New screen center marker in RTS mode: Prettier, no longer disappears in objects, gives feedback on the targeted object similar to the mouse cursor
• Start a New Game menus controls greatly improved (skirmish, campaign and multiplayer)
• Revised menu screens and modal dialogs for controller controls
• When last unit dies in a neutral dungeon, you can still use the D-pad to change region
• Magic bar with hotkeys is no longer displayed in gamepad mode
• Unit list GUI now usable with controller
• Build-Queues now supported
• Deadzone logic improved
• Tools (Crate-o-Mats, etc.) can now be scrolled through
• Tutorial messages and controller controls tip of the day adjusted
• Steam controllers supported natively (Steam)

Performance optimization, in particular:

• Dungeon rendering greatly accelerated under DirectX 11
• Improved performance when displaying damage values
• Pre-placed outside world units are only activated shortly before player contact
• A variety of little delays corrected (for example, when large areas are marked for excavation, new songs are loaded, when scrolling at start of a level, etc.)
• Evilization optimized
• Optimized rendering of simple outside world objects and dungeon decorative objects
• Other tasks optimized for multicore systems (e.g., animations)
• Optimized dungeon unit path calculation in the rough planning phase
• Overall unit path calculation optimized
• Corrected performance hit occurring with many un-stored resources
• Logic physics system optimized
• Various other small optimizations

Stability improvements:

• Greatly reduced memory consumption under DirectX 11
• Leak in Sound Effects corrected
• Reduced overall music and sound effect memory use
• Some assets were not unloaded properly after use
• Object pools release previously unused objects
• Reduced GUI texture memory use

Multiplayer:

• Team Domination: now works properly
• In 3/4-player games, the game is now always won/lost as soon as the first player has been defeated
• Removed distinction between LAN/Internet game
• Disconnections are now better communicated to players
• The initial camera position is now correct for all players when loading a multiplayer game
• A changed player color is now displayed correctly when loading a multiplayer game

Balancing:

• Barthas Snow will be revived after 3 minutes maximum (previously 6 minutes)
• The ghoul skill "Braiiins!" now has a cooldown and costs energy
• Research duration for some spells increased, for others decreased

Level design:

• "King Robert must die!“: Cannon tower weakened by 50%
• "The Battle of King’s Ending": Regeneration for the Ultimate Evil increased significantly
• Battle map: spawners better coordinated
• Corrected spawners in several maps, especially the Paladin mob in "The Poshlands"
• Some creatures in individual maps mistakenly failed to attack players
• Various script corrections
• Fixed several minor bugs and imperfections

Miscellaneous:

• Japanese localization added (Steam, retail, Gog, Mac App Store)
• More light sources are now placed on the dungeon walls
• GUI: Barthas now visible in the dungeon minimap
• Snowball trap no longer rolls immovable objects such as doors and brewery boilers away
• GUI: Text spacing increased for better readability
• Loading of large savegames accelerated
• Units hidden in excavated areas can no longer be targeted with spells
• Fixed several problems with Ragdolls
• Level loading now less tricky
• Repaired various visual glitches