Elemental: Fallen Enchantress – Legendary Heroes v1.2 Beta Patch Released

A beta version of the v1.2 patch for Elemental: Fallen Enchantress – Legendary Heroes has been released on Steam, including a bevy of fixes and balance and AI changes. I’m going to quote the instructions to download the patch and the changelog for easy reference:

To access this patch go to the Betas tab in the steam client’s Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes properties and switch to the “Beta – Public BETA Opt-In” selection.

Fixes

• Removed Influence from the city levelup window
• Fixed the missing cloth map icon for the shadow rift
• Fixed an issue that caused ranged attacks to strike all enemies in auto resolve
• Fixed an issue that causes Sovereign’s with the Tactician sovereign trait to start midway into the Commander tree

Balance

• Increased Adventurers Boon trait from +8 hp to +10
• Ironeer Ale increases hp by 2 instead of 1
• Reduced Bless City spell casting cost from 500 to 250 and the effect from -30 unrest to -25
• Reduced Curse City spell casting cost from 500 to 250 and the effect from +30 unrest to +25
• Increased Propaganda spell from +1 gildar per essence to +2
• Increased the attack and fire damage form the Staff of the Furnace
• Caster’s Staff has a minor ranged lightning attack
• Haunter’s Staff has a minor ranged poison attack
• Switched the default tax rate to Normal
• Adjusted the tax rates to give more variance between the levels
• Switched Shattered Statue to give a random item instead of one of 5 preset items (so there is more variety)
• Reduced Escape scrolls form Uncommon to Common
• Moved Rush from Civics to Administration
• Arcane Mastery now requires Enchantment
• Glyph Stones requires Arcane Mastery instead of Enchantment
• Mounted Warfare requires Drills instead of Training
• Rebalanced tech costs according to the above
• Reduced Foundry’s to +3 Metal per Season instead of +4
• Reduced the Iron Works to +6 Metal per Season instead of +8

AI

• Fixed AI bug where one of the AI personalities could, in some cases, rush buy a unit without having the necessary resources (metal)
• Improved granular difficulty increases between challenging difficulty and insane. Rather than rely on a money cheat, the higher difficulty units get some additional unit perks that make them more interesting.
• Made all the AI personalities somewhat better at taking out targets of opportunity (like outposts)
• Made AI sovereign more concerned about clearing out monster lairs near its home base early game.
• Fixed a bug that could cause certain AI personalities (“unstable” and “paranoid”) to cease building city improvements
• Aggressive and Warmonger AI personalities more aggressive about destroying enemy improvements
• Some AI personalities will more aggressive target quests
• Fixed bug that kept AI from choosing the infinite projects (wealth, growth, etc.) if they had just trained a unit.
• Improved AI’s choosing of city specialities based on player strategy input (thanks forum and YouTube posters!)
• AI players will tend to do most of their unit building in fortress-cities when possible
• AI smarter about what types of units it builds based on its current economic/military conditions
• AI cab do sneak attacks, especially imperial factions if it is in its best interest
• Unstable AI personality will still do a sneak attacks (even if it’s suicide) and they just don’t like you.
• Paranoid AI personality will overstate their military strength (i.e. lie to itself)
• AI is more likely to surrender if the military situation is hopeless (you can disable AI surrendering in the game setup)
• AI smarter about using health items in tactical battles
• Fixed infrequent game hang bug
• Tweaked the way power ratings are calculated such that it more accurately takes into account the player’s *potential* military power as well as its current military strength.
• Fixed path finding bug that would cause the AI players to sometimes get stuck.
• AI is less inclined to settle on crappy food terrain
• Difficulty sovereign HP modifier now affects champions
• Reduced the HP bonus that harder difficulty AI players get
• Hard and Expert AI players no longer receive an HP bonus to their trained units
• Ridiculous AI players have a reduced HP bonus to their trained units
• Monster behavior overhaulted (won’t just walk away from lairs, won’t attack player cities from wild lands, just lots and lots of goodness here)