Version History
Here you can find the changelog of The Battle of Polytopia since it was posted on our website on 2019-07-10.
The latest version is 2.8.6.11924 and it was updated on soft112.com on 19 April, 2024.
See below the changes in each version:
version 2.8.6.11924
posted on 2024-04-15
Updated Unity version for improved stability and functionality
version 2.8.5.11920
posted on 2024-03-13
- Removed Aqua Crop and Aqua Farms
- Tech tree: moved Fishing to become the first tech in that branch
- Simplified Markets: 1* for each level of each nearby production building.
- Removed doubling for ports. Capped at level 8.
- Tech tree: moved ‘Burn Forest’ to Construction, and ‘Destroy’ to Chivalry
- Cheaper bridges, now 5*
- Lower Starfish income, now 8*
- Lower Bomber attack value, 3 instead of 4
- Temples grow quicker, reduced from 3 turns→2
- Misc adjustments
version 2.8.4.11684
posted on 2023-12-19
Skinpack #4 - Ai-Mo, Quetzali & Yadakk skins that will change the entire tribe's looks and music!
version 2.8.2.11621
posted on 2023-12-10
Map Generation Improvements:
* More variety to Continents and Pangea map
* Improved city placement
Several Bugfixes:
* End Turn now properly turns blue when all units are out of actions
* Removed option to break ice on a frozen unit
* Market sprites now properly updates when building or destroying ports
* Invisible units are now revealed when breaking ice or harvesting starfish
* Removed confirmation popup when harvesting starfish
* ...and more
version 2.8.1.11523
posted on 2023-11-21
Path of the Ocean""Update
A major update drastically improves the naval warfare in the game.
* New naval units such as Raft, Rammer, Bomber & Juggernaut Ships.
* Other new units in the game are Starfish, Bridges, Market & Lighthouse.
* Improved Continents map type and the new Pangea map.
* Adjustments in the Special Tribes.
* AI Improvements.
* General bug fixes and improvements.
version 2.7.2.10985
posted on 2023-09-12
Improved flow with instant tournaments
Updated Android SDK and purchasing package
Updated About page
Performance improvement when sending out Explorers
Performance improvement for city connections, reducing loading lag
Bugfixes:
Fixed games broken by our recent server issues
Infinite growth bug fixed
Player sorting in win screen adjusted
Resigned players now show as bots
version 2.7.1.10795
posted on 2023-07-05
Fix map sizes in pass and play
Fix bots incorrectly labeled as easy
version 2.7.0.10791
posted on 2023-06-26
New Skin pack Release!
Skin pack #3 includes the following skins:
Oumaji Khondor
Kickoo Ragoo
Zebasi Anzala
Reward popup clarity fixes
News items displays in a grid on wider screens.
Don’t show stars in result screen for creative games.
Glory shows correct winner head.
Various UI tweaks & Bugfixes.
Known Issues:
There is a bug where skins won't show if you play a multiplayer game with someone who has not updated to the beta/latest version
version 2.6.0.10643
posted on 2023-05-11
Introducing instant tournaments: join a tournament queue to be matched with other players that want to play a tournament right now. As soon as enough players have signed up, your tournament will start immediately.
And various bug fixes
version 2.5.0.10384
posted on 2023-05-11
- New fabulous skins for Imperius, Luxidoor and Xin-Xi
- Replaced intro with ambience
- Fixed units getting poisoned by cloaks
- Upped min supported game version to 51
- Removed custom language
- Increased number of pass&play players
- Fixed frozen ports movement
- Update route connections after explore
- Fix cloak battle preview
- Added shared fog option to replays
- Exploding units do damage before giving pop
- Failsafe for games out of sync with server
- Various tiny fixes and optimisations
version 2.4.8.9920
posted on 2023-03-03
Fix startup crash related to notifications
version 2.4.6.9717
posted on 2023-02-07
Crash fixes
version 2.0.69.6093
posted on 2022-04-06
- Added new "Boot Camp" tutorial, which will play as either your first game or if you tap "Boot Camp" when creating a New Game
- Online friends (green dot near player name as indicator that he is online, second thing is that players can now see when other players are making a move in real time - "Waiting for Midjiwan to play..." if player is not in this game right now, "Midjiwan is playing..." if player is making move right now.
...
version 2.0.68.6063
posted on 2022-03-21
- Fixed bug where pressing game notification crashed application
version 2.0.66.6005
posted on 2022-02-15
- Turned off online friends feature
- Iteration of fixes for game crashing cases
version 2.0.65.6004
posted on 2022-01-26
- Fixed Android 12 crash
- Added online friends feature
- New about page
version 2.0.62.5903
posted on 2021-12-15
- Fixed bug where some players couldn't finish game
- Added possibility to resign from games that are corrupted
- Fixed bug where multiplayer friends list won't display any friend requests unless the player already has some friends
- Fixed bug with -1 game version on friends pop up
- Added Russian translation provided by community (thanks to Illantalex, QuasiStellar, Saichi2Taiko, and Oleg_1111 for all hard work ❤️ )
- Backend and client optimalizations
version 2.0.61.5738
posted on 2021-10-25
- Adjusted enabling/disabling all tribes so that it does not trigger when scrolling
- Fixed bug where units in tech tree would get the status effect of the last visited unit
- Fixed bug where you would be counted as winner if you died but the real winner resigned
- Fixed crash in second turn of a pass and play game after viewing tech tree
- Fixed crash on startup for people with Turkish as system language
version 2.0.58.5676
posted on 2021-09-28
General Balance:
-Increase income for clearing forest to 2*
-Increase price of knight to 10*
-Improved map generator
-Replaced teach stealing when meeting a new tribe with star rewards based on that tribes score
-Mountain defence bonus moved to climbing tech
-Cymanti toned down a few steps to be more on par with the others (nerfed)
and much more...
New Features:
-ELO rating for multiplayer games
-Show win ration on friend info
-UI Improvements
version 2.0.53.5476
posted on 2021-05-31
- Battle preview
- Award kills correctly when a unit explodes
- Mycelium no longer gives movement bonus
- Finish metropolis task when capturing high level city
- More likely to spawn further apart
- Sound updates
- Adjustments to Russian localization
- Dim background for better readability in menus
- Moved add friend button to top
- Fixed random tribe picking in online games
version 2.0.49.5345
posted on 2021-04-16
To make the game more fair we are making some changes to balance the game:
-Whales no longer spawn next to cities or other whales
-Clear Forest moved from Forestry to Free Spirit
-Clear Forest reward changed to 1 star
-Luxidoor capital is level 2 instead of 3 on game start
Other improvements:
-Make it possible to play while receiving stars
-Show a popup and a badge when you have new friend requests
-Fixed a bunch of small bugs
More info on the balance pass: balance.midjiwan.com
version 2.0.46.5089
posted on 2021-02-22
Fixed some bugs with the bugs:
- Adjustments to temple scores and descriptions
- Allow healing when hp is full but unit is poisoned
- Algae outside borders give population when expanding borders
- Standing on mycelium heals
- Ruins don't give explorers if the explorers can't move
- Explorers can move on algae
- Soft-lock after levelling up city to level 5 with fungi fixed
- Converted independents no longer get tied to a city
- Centipede push order prioritize direction of its following segment
version 2.0.45.5026
posted on 2021-02-19
If a bug explodes in the forest and nobody sees, does it still soft-lock the game?
- Not anymore!
version 2.0.44.5023
posted on 2021-02-16
* Added some bugs.
version 2.0.40.4420
posted on 2021-02-03
- Patches bug where the game appears to load twice when opening a multiplayer game for the first time
version 2.0.38.4415
posted on 2021-01-25
- Improved ruin spawns
- Internal tribe disputes have been settled (random siege fires fixed)
- Fixed achieving Metropolis by taking over high level city
- Fixed ability to promote unit after capturing city
- Meet tribe triggers when discovering enemy city
- Various bug fixes and improvements
version 2.0.32.4254
posted on 2021-01-11
- Optimisations
- Fix bug where you end up waiting for nature
- Fix bug where meeting tribes would not trigger popup
- Fix bug where routes did not update when freezing / unfreezing
- Fix bug where you didn't get unit upgrade options
- Adjusted drag sensitivity
- Various bug fixes
version 2.0.31.4155
posted on 2020-12-03
Improved mouse & stylus support
Any unit can capture cities
Sanctuaries no longer count animals that live in forests with lumber huts
Fix incorrect score when pushing with polytaurs
Fix unresponsive buttons
Optimisations
Various bugfixes
version 2.0.29.3971
posted on 2020-11-17
MAJOR UPDATE
* Multiplayer matchmaking. (Find players all over the world)
* Mirror Matches. (Meet opponents with the same tribe)
* Multiplayer Real time view.
* New map size (massive).
* Configurable map types.
* Creative Game mode. (Set up any kind of you like - even with no opponents)
* Player Avatars.
* Russian translation of the game.
version N/A
posted on 2020-07-10
-Fixed a bug with saving your personal high scores
version N/A
posted on 2020-06-29
Moving to a new user database. You should not notice any difference, just preparing for great things to come. If you have any issues let us at feedback@midjiwan.com
version N/A
posted on 2020-06-08
Added Italian, Spanish and French translations
version N/A
posted on 2020-04-27
Actually adding the secret language we hinted about in the last release.
version N/A
posted on 2020-04-23
-German translation of the game (plus a secret language added)
-Made the bots more likely to pick "expand borders" over "population" city bonus.
-Fixed a bug causing yellow screen crash if you added a broken custom language file
version N/A
posted on 2020-03-04
Solving an issue that caused popups and other graphics to become invisible on some devices (Specifically Huawei Y-6).
version N/A
posted on 2020-03-02
We have translated the whole game to Portuguese! More languages coming in the future.
version N/A
posted on 2020-01-07
-Fixed a bug
-Added something strange
version N/A
posted on 2019-10-07
Improved offline support for purchased tribes
version N/A
posted on 2019-09-04
Fixed issue with online multiplayer being locked for some players. We are still working on issues regarding lost purchases. Read more in this thread: https://polytopia.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:26270
Adjustments to the Polaris:
-Ice bank now has 10 levels
-Outposts now only give 1 population
-Improved explanation of penalties for skate units
Fixed bugs:
-Gaami freeze animation on each move
-ships become land units
-Pushing a Gaami from a city crash the game
-Back button close the game
version Varies with device
posted on 2019-07-04
Finally, after years of rumors, the Polaris tribe have emerged from the subzero regions! They are a Special tribe with the unique ability to freeze whole regions of the map! The Polaris will introduce a wide range of features such as Sleds, Ice Magic, Evil Gaamis and much more...