This is a major update that focuses on the Apocalypse, UI improvements and the AI. But there are also many other fixes, new magic items to be found, performance improvements and a bunch of new commands for modders.

General

• New sprites for all Apocalyptic Riders
  
• New monster: Giant Locust
  
• Movement of player owned stupid commanders is now shown by default
  
• New start options: --(no)showstupids
  
• New El bless effect: Holy Vengeance
  
• The Arch Devil will now leave his citadel if the apocalypse occurs
  
• The Lord of Corruption will now leave his citadel if the infernal gate remains open for too long
  
• Empire's Cardinal can break seals if Inferno is invading
  
• 9 new magic items
  
• Names drawn on commander tokens in army setup
  
• ctrl+right click to switch to another commander in Transfer Units screen
  
• Ambushes now start centered on a defending commander if any
  
• Strange mist will now create lots of clouds on the sky plane
  
• Terrain is burning when fighting in burning squares
  
• Baron can now create vassals from Unicorn Knights too
  
• Some animals may now revert to being independents after their owner is defeated
  
• Some Enchanter guardians might become Empire controlled if he is defeated
  
• Cursed false life artifacts created by Enchanter will now usually end up on a suitable target
  
• Ravenous Curse on some terrains didn't yield anything, fixed
  
• Fix for scrollbar on ritual screen
  
• Blindness fix
  
• Water attacks now has x2 dmg vs fire beings
  
• Saving game now also features dates and sorting
  
• No longer possible to swallow yourself
  
• High level mages less likely to use wands
  
• Destroying a spider thicket now results in a dead forest.
  
• Stupid units could be led after being charmed, fixed
  
• Fix for visible independent moves showing incorrect units
  
• Can no longer recruit normal units in sea citadels
  
• Planar tomes didn't work properly, fixed
  
• Particle effects for Troll Forests
  
• Fix for Monument of Hades being abandoned during construction
  
• New look for miasma
  
• Miasma shown in square info (i)
  
• Fire Shield spells now only affects friendly units
  
• Can now remove insane commander from followers
  
• No bushes on frozen sea or cloud battlegrounds
  
• Better setup for large monsters defending towers
  
• Mirrors can now survive underwater
  
• Fix for Palace of Dreams losing its gem income
  
• Rubble is now immune to petrification
  
• Fixed bug with wrong independent shown as moving
  
• Units with poison cloud try to avoid deploying close to vulnerable commanders
  
• Swamp Soul didn't work properly from Sky or Agartha, fixed
  
• Monster Fish didn't kill units in its belly, fixed
  
• Oak Golems and Forest Shepherds are now immune to Tangle Vines
  
• Ancient Commander's attack sprite looked squashed, fixed.
  
• Monster Snail got an AoE attack
  
• Sometimes another commander could claim to be the main commander, fixed
  
• Can now swap magic items directly with another already equipped unit
  
• Gates, walls, trees sometimes disappeared when transferring items, fixed.
  
• Commanders didn't wrap properly after changing text size, fixed.
  
• Improved placement of portrait when viewing stats
  
• Particle effects bug fix
  
• Fixed excessively popping mushrooms in swamps when zooming
  
• Save scrollbar position in mod selection screen
  
• Main map graphics performance improvement
  
• Fight performance improvement
  
• Typo and Stat fixes
  

AI

• Mid/rear rank units without ranged weapon will now behave smarter
  
• AI now only upgrade full batches of units to avoid wasting resources
  
• AI better at redistributing items
  
• AI Cloud Lord improvements
  
• AI enchanter improvement
  
• AI better at using ships
  
• AI improved strength assessment
  
• AI better at avoiding hopeless fights
  
• AI more careful with frozen waters
  

Modding

• Squareevents that set target unit didn't work properly, fixed
  
• There could occur one event too many at turn -1 for player 0, fixed
  
• Squareevent performance improvement
  
• New usable terrain can be (de)activated by players
  
• Terrain nbr 10000+ to get the inverted selection
  
• New recruitment list command: recterr
  
• New weapon command: affectfemale
  
• New monster commands: terrstealth, terrstealthinv, growterr, startinsanity, demonic, tiny
  
• New monster commands: elysiumshape, hadesshape, infernoshape, ...
  
• New monster/item commands: holyvengeance, dmgonterr, dmgonterrbonus, tangleres
  
• New terrain commands: destroyto, visible
  
• New class command: townbonusdescr
  
• New event triggers: +aiplayer, +humanplayer
  
• New event triggers: +squareactivated, +ownsloctarg, +hasaffunithere
  
• New event triggers: +varvarequal, +varvargreater, +varvarlesser
  
• New event actions: makeaff, makeminoraff
  
• New event actions: targetunitloc, holdit, copyvar
  
• recxcost can now be used 2 times on same recruitment offer
  
• minmonreq didn't work properly, fixed
  
• insanity command now implemented for real
  
• Terrain selector in map editor remembers old location