Pixel-art RTS game TFC: The Fertile Crescent joins with MicroProse Software and it's now Steam Deck Verified

General Improvements

• Added localization for French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Simplified Chinese and Norwegian
• Language is automatically detected for new players and can be changed in settings for existing players
• Changed font from Gill Sans to Open Sans for improved readability
• Generally improved readability of tooltips
• The game is now Steam Deck Verified
• Computer Players are no longer only attacking you on the hardest difficulty level in campaign missions in certain missions
• Performance improvements to unit vision and detection systems
• Performance improvements to unit pathfinding
• Performance improvements to UI
• Improvements to unit chasing enemy unit behavior
• The animated error indicator above buildings that shows eg. when training a unit is house blocked is now better positioned so to not confuse which building it points at, and it also has a new design that makes it stand out a bit more
• Multiplayer skirmish room now shows selected game mode in map settings panel
• Player nicknames now show in allies and spectator players panels
• Changed description of Papyrus Scrolls to show more accurately how much more knowledge priests produce with this technology unlocked (showing +0.1 instead of 33% increase)
• Changed names of technology levels to Village and Civilization tiers
• Changed which units a unit is shown as strong and weak against in the unit production tooltip for most units
• Improved glyph margins between other characters in text
• Revolting units after being defeated doesn't count towards units lost statistics
• Smart Unit selection setting is set to off by default

Balance Changes

• Cedar Tree now has 40 wood (from 30) (palm trees still have 30 wood like before)
• Each Wall segment costs 5 clay (from 4)
• Gate has 450 hitpoints (from 750)
• Lead Bullets cost 25 metal and 50 wood to forge (from 50 metal and 50 wood)
• Copper Heavy Axe increases base attack damage by 2 (from 1)
• Tribe Unit doesn't occupy housing or consume food

• Brutal Horde Mode is slightly easier (10 seconds more between each wave and slightly less units per wave that is more noticeable in later waves)
• Mission 5: you need to control the neutral settlements for 3 minutes to win the game (from 5 minutes)

• Improved map generation of fertile land for all map types
• Generally slightly less fertile land spawn around player start locations for most map types
• Zagros Mountain has less fertile land
• Eridu Lowlands has slightly less fertile land and more plains tiles
• Tadmor Dessert is better balanced in general
• Changed tree spawn values for certain tile types on Zagros Mountains and Tadmor Dessert

• Slinger attack range is 10 (from 12)
• Slinger ranged damage is 7 (from 6)
• Javelin Thrower has 11 base ranged attack damage (from 12)
• Elite Javelin Thrower gains evasion and move speed bonuses after 2.5s since last attack (from 1.5s)

• Organised Warfare also provides Villager who is militia with an additional +1 melee damage and +1 ranged damage
• Logistics reduces military food consumption by 40% (from 25%)
• Masters of Siege Warfare also adds +2 siege damage to Slinger

• Defensive Tactics costs 3 Knowledge (from 4) and no longer provides Spearman with an additional +1 ranged armor
• Garden costs 40 clay and 40 wood (from 60 clay and 40 wood)
• Babylonian War Chariot deals 19 base ranged damage (from 16)

• Hieroglyphic Networks costs 3 Knowledge (from 4)
• Sickle provides +20% farming speed (from 15%)
• Medicine costs 2 knowledge (from 3)
• Temple costs 75 clay and 50 wood (from 75 clay and 75 wood)
• Temple has 32 vision range (from 24)

Bug fixes

• Fixed an AI bug that caused wrong chase enemy controller behavior and performance problems
• Elite Javelin Thrower description correctly states that +2 movement speed is gained out of combat (said +1)
• Fixed that select unit circle didn't render on top of farm
• Fixed food consumption tooltip stating that food is consumed every 15 seconds (was wrongly stating every 10 seconds)
• Fixed several wrong plains tiles on Zagros Mountains
• Fixed wrong description of Sapper
• Fixed wrong material on thrown javelin heads
• Mission objectives panel doesn't render in front of unit action tooltip
• Fixed missing villager icon in Slinger production tooltip strong against section when playing as Assyrians
• Fixed several cases that could lead multiplayer games to desynching
• Fixed memory leaks
• Fixed that occassionally the game over music would carry over to the main menu and play at the same time as the main menu theme
• Opening Credits after visiting Campaign Mode and then exiting Credits will now take you back to Main Menu buttons
• Opening Settings disables the current tab page opened
• Settings revert to default panel after closing and re-opening
• Fixed selecting Babylonian Chariots when part of selected group not working
• Fixed that some campaign missions didn't reset correctly when played multiple times in the same session
• Food Trend consumption indicator correctly shows for the last 30 seconds and not last 10 seconds
• Can ESC out of create Skirmish and Horde Mode multiplayer panels
• Fixed wrong color on unit shadows
• Fixed typos