Naval Overhaul with new Hulk-line ships, Voice Chat feature, regional flags, and Inca civilization overhaul with Pachacuti campaign update.

  • Naval Overhaul to refresh water combat, economy, and ship balance

Hulk-line Ships (new)

  • New Hulk-line counter to Fire Ships

Catapult Galleons (changed)

  • Several civilizations also gain access to Catapult Galleons

Civilizations

Inca (changed)

  • Inca overhaul to align with the new DLCs South American civilization lineup

Campaigns

Pachacuti Campaign (changed)

  • Refreshed Pachacuti campaign

Features

Voice Chat (new)

  • Cross-platform Voice Chat feature in lobbies

Accessibility (new)

  • Added accessibility options like text-to-speech and speech-to-chat

Garrison Flags (new)

  • New regional garrison flag graphics

Waypoint Flags (new)

  • New civilization-specific waypoint/gather point flags

Profile Icons (new)

  • New Profile Icons for every civilization

Graphics

Javelina (new)

  • Added new graphics for Javelina

Bug Fixes

Stability & Performance

  • Fixed a crash happening upon pressing the Restart button on the ESC menu while watching a replay
  • Fixed a crash happening upon using Assisted Farm Placement (Shift+Left Click on gather points)
  • Using object-data-attack-delay in AI scripts can no longer cause a crash
  • Added a fix to prevent a crash that would occur when a new game is started while missing a player
  • Fixed a crash that would occur when launching a game with an invalid player configuration
  • Fixed a rare out-of-sync issue that could occur when starting playing on certain maps

Achievements

  • Fixed the conditions preventing players from unlocking the “Tour d’ltalie” achievement
  • Fixed an issue that would cause The Last Chieftains’s achievements to unlock prematurely upon launching the game
  • Fixed an issue with Civ Victory achievements for Chronicle civs not firing correctly

Graphics

  • Fixed an issue showing wrong farm texture on certain ground types
  • Fixed Elite Caravels graphics from not displaying some elements
  • Fixed Central Asian Monk death sprites not showing properly on certain angles
  • Fixed Owls displaying the Hawk sprite when flying
  • Fixed water textures visualization on larger map sizes
  • Fixed water textures visualization when certain light reflections happened on the shoreline
  • Fixed water 3D textures not being rendered properly in the editor when the 3D Water setting is enabled in the Graphics Options
  • Fixed the flag, fire, and snow graphics placement on the Spartan Fort

Xbox

  • Fixed a crash happening upon players trying to set Rally Points for buildings with the Site Menu for not available building types. This issue was happening in controller-only mode
  • Fixed the Accessibility Narrator not providing any information on the “Vote Results” tab under the Multiplayer Menu
  • Fixed input detection in the “Select Civilization” menus, preventing players from continuously scrolling through civilizations
  • Fixed villagers ignoring queued commands and going directly to the last waypoint/resource after force-dropping resources. The issue was happening in controller-only mode

PlayStation

  • Fixed the Accessibility Narrator not providing any information on the “Vote Results” tab under the Multiplayer Menu
  • Fixed input detection in the “Select Civilization” menus, preventing players from continuously scrolling through civilizations
  • Fixed some sections showing buttons from other systems instead of PlayStation ones
  • Fixed villagers ignoring queued commands and going directly to the last waypoint/resource after force-dropping resources. The issue was happening in controller-only mode

General

  • Fixed a crash some players were facing when launching the game on PC
  • Fixed an issue that would cause Voice Chat to default to On when launching

Source: Steam News