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The Battle for Wesnoth v1.16.2 Release Notes

  • ### Campaigns

    • Delfador’s Memoirs
      • S07: Clarified objectives (issue #5608) and remove End Turn being required to trigger victory (issue #6173)
    • Descent into Darkness
      • S08: Prevent possibility of Darken Volk advancing to Lich (issue #6351)
    • Heir to the Throne
      • S05b: Temples given an aged appearance to match ‘ancient temples’ description (issue #5576)
    • Sceptre of Fire
      • Added notes about Thursagan’s rune mechanics
      • S04: Mining objectives are much clearer now (issue #6154)
    • Secret of the Ancients
      • S06: Ardonna should no longer mistake hostile bats as ‘my pet’
      • S20: Directions “left” and “right” in character speech now use the character’s orientation, not the player’s
      • Consistently capitalise the name of the Academy of Magic (issue #6310)
    • The Rise of Wesnoth
      • S08: The appearance of Naga is now smoother (issue #6140)
      • S08: Refactored ship-boarding events (issue #6298)
      • S19: The troll’s gold is automatically collected upon victory if not already obtained (issue #6141)
      • S19: Avoid units spawning over chasms
    • Under the Burning Suns
      • Correct Traveler’s Ring description (issue #6043) and add an icon overlay (issue #6126)
      • Remove the “formation” ability from the attack predictions dialog, as it was in a confusing location; its effect is still shown in the calculations and chance-to-hit percentage (PR #6326)
      • S02: Pinnacle Rock is now shown during dialogue (issue #6125)
      • S04: Improve dialogue about dark underground tunnels (PR #6345)
      • S06b:
        • Account for non-elvish units encountering Dwarf Sergeant (issue #6196)
        • Grog will not die as quick now (issue #6196 & #6197)
        • Hermit dialogue cannot be accidentally skipped now (issue #6196)
        • Fixed bug where tentacles would not spawn (issue #6196)
        • Fast units cannot get stuck on the wall now (issue #6196)
        • Camera now moves to where the charges are blown up (issue #6197)
        • Fixed weird scout AI behaviour (issue #6196)
      • S09: Rebels joining Kaleh’s side are now loyal (issue #6229 and #6365)
      • The last unit killed to trigger certain events should no longer linger during those events (issue #6341)
      • The Dark Assassin’s race is not revealed until uncloaked (issue #6213)
      • The Dust Devil’s XP bar is now blue (issue #6212)
    • World Conquest:
      • Fixed for Winged Scepter not giving the correct defence values
      • Corrected the attack icon of ice bow from a lightning bolt to an iceball ### Multiplayer
    • Lobby joins are no longer displayed in chat even when that preference has been disabled (issue #6234)
    • Added a specific prompt for moderators before joining password-protected games (issue #4101)
    • Fixed add-ons not getting enabled for clients, leading to errors such as Unknown Terrain (issue #6285)
    • Fixed an information leak where planned multi-turn moves could be visible to enemy players (issue #6292)
    • Made planned moves visible to allies; this refers to trying to move more hexes than the unit can move this turn, it isn’t the whiteboard (issue #6292) ### Lua API
    • Fixed an error in gui.get_user_choice() and added support for the current DescriptionWML syntax (PR #6247) ### Translations
    • Added translations: Spanish (Latin American)
    • Updated translations: British English, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Scottish Gaelic, Turkish.
    • Lots of corrections of typos in en_US (untranslated text), which will require marking translations as non-fuzzy again
    • Implemented delayed translation option for gettext plurals (issue #6036, PR #6097)
    • Comments in .po files are now kept in order when the .pot is regenerated (issue #5989) ### Units
    • Added attack image for the Bone Knight’s trample
    • Added attack image for the Nightblade’s kick ### User interface
    • Improved translatability of MP ban durations (issue #6036, PR #6097)
    • Fixed missing sidebar tooltips in low resolutions such as 800x600 (issue #6264) ### Miscellaneous and Bug Fixes
    • Password storage was fixed to work with multiple accounts (PR #6290)
    • wmllint now automatically removes {MAGENTA_IS_THE_TEAM_COLOR}
    • Added workaround for connecting to the multiplayer server taking too long when Chinese or Japanese language is selected (issue #6291)
    • Added KeyboardInterrupt handling to many Python WML tools
    • Added --simple-version command line option
    • wmllint, wmlscope and wmlindent now support the command line --version flag, which reports the current version of Wesnoth (issue #6346).
    • wmllint is now capable of handling unit levels and types when checking recruitment patterns.
    • Fixed units on a recall list sometimes being put on the map by [modify_unit] or [store_unit]...[unstore_unit] (issues #6295 and #6315)
    • Fixed abilities that are shown as weapon specials in the attack prediction window being shown on the placeholder for units with no ranged attack, or dark adepts' melee response
    • Fixed a glitch after a move is interrupted, paths to the hex where the move started were shown (issue #6292)