0 A.D. Alpha 22

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Development started by ​Wildfire Games on November 2016 (r18916).

An overview of all tickets handled is found at the ​milestone on trac.
To download and install the developmental release of 0 A.D., see wiki:BuildInstructions .

The following list presents all changes noticeable to the enduser up to r19125 (except TODO r19095), more important ones first.
Many small bugfixes are not mentioned here.

Gameplay & Balancing

Trade

r19108 Allow trade with neutral players (D34)

Heroes

r19052 Hero attack auras are relative (+20%) instead of absolute (+5) (r19055)

I.e. +1 to +3 attack damage for citizen soldiers and +2 to +8 for champions (if no upgrades are researched)

r19122 Hero auras (D37)

Ptolemian Cleopatra

+25% attack rate for each soldier and siege engine
Allied heroes +10% health, enemy heroes -10% health in 30m range

Macedonian Regicide Hero Craterus +20% attack and capture rate for Pikemen in 60m range
Macedonian Regicide Hero Pyrrhus +20% attack, but -15% health for each soldier

Citizen Soldiers

r18950 Spartan Skiritai Swordsmen cost 10 more metal and need 15 instead of 10 seconds to train
r19053 Mercenary slingers available to Carthaginians cost 30 instead of 50 stone (r19059)

Team Bonuses

Notice these bonuses only apply to the players allies, not the civilization itself.
r18920 Ptolemians: 1 food per second (#4082)
r19092 Mauryans: 50% cheaper temples and temple technologies and research/construction time(D19)
r19102 Persians: 15% more profit for land trade (D32)

Carthaginians: 10% more profit profit for international trade

r19093 Team bonuses are removed upon defeat (D12)

Art

See also the ​art roadmap forum post
TODO: r19095

New Models

r19061 Armor and Clothing: Tunic, Pants, Dress, Capes, Naked Body, Hero accessories

r18939

Foundations and construction sites
Animations
Briton walls and Fortress, and Textures
Carthaginian buildings
Destruction variants

r19001 Seleucid Elephant (r19002)
r19017 Seleucid Civic Center stairs
r19021 Gaul storehouse, metropolitan Seleucid cc actor, Carthaginian wall foundation and scaffolding
r19077 Sling weapon
r19029 Adapt brick and wood stacks on foundations to the terrain height

New Animations

r19061 Attack, Walk, Jog, Run, Idle, Gather, Farming, Sheepslaughter, Trade, Carrying, Promotion, Heal, Death for all units except cavalry and siege engines (r19065)
r19071 Capturing
r19069 Praying
r19090 Female healer, Syntagma formation, Celtic chariot

New Textures

r19065 Seleucid Elephant

Menu Backgrounds

r18968 Seleucid
r18967 Carthaginian

New Sounds

r19095 62 Death screams from opengameart.org

Maps

r18976 Disable Storehouse on Survival Of The Fittest (#3102)

Petra AI

r19085 Regicide: Send garrison order twice instead of repeatedly, try to find a closer building
r19089 Regicide: Guard hero with healers (#4142)
r19116 Diplomacy: Respond to alliance requests (#4431)
r18945 Last Man Standing support (#4143, r18955)
r19005 Research economic upgrades earlier
r19088 Attack instead of capture buildings when attacked by them
r19051 Only attempt to pickup treasure if noone else is already grabbing it (survival of the fittest)
r19081 Allow ships to fish further away from their dock while avoiding the enemy shoreline (D7)
r18923 Don't steal allied sheep (#4331)
r19064 Don't ungarrison ranged siege engines after garrisoning them for protection

Graphical User Interface

r18979 Colorize selected units in observermode by owner(#4167)
r19020 Grey out disabled buttons and options (#4350, r19023)
r19007 /kickspecs and /banspecs command to get rid of observers (#3241)
r19057 Petra AI setup hint in the singleplayer gamesetup (#4406)
r19120 Many tech tree bugs (#3993, #1646, #4263, #4217, #4108)

Modding

r18964 Resource types can be changed without touching the code (#3934, r18977)
r18916 Allow mods to mark directories as deleted (#2641)
r18985 Diminishing returns easier to modify (#4356)

Engine

Out Of Sync Bugfixes

r18942 Loading Templates with multiple parents (Temple Of Vesta #4316)

Performance Optimizations

r19026 Remove global message subscriptions of the Guard component (#4333)