Devotees of chaos is fun but it gets really anoying when my own buffs give me negative effects like infectious insanity.

Darwins descendants doesn't enable the version of philosopher soldiers from empire tree expanded. Not sure which page to put it on, might need a comp patch.

Most of these traits are good, very good even. However I personally think Curse Of The Moon should've been a form trait rather than society trait - having a river troll or a dread spider matriarch suddenly turn into a spirit wolf is weird and a bit of a drawback, you see. Moreover, the spirit wolves themselves are ALSO affected by the "evolve into spirit wolf" mechanic since they're tier 3, effectively meaning they'll eventually lose the experience buffs.

I think this society trait mod is far more flavorful and unique than the rest. However it does seem to be rather buggy. A number of these seem to erroneously add undead status to your race.

Is Colossi Legion supposed to make you big like super growth? Would be really cool if it did or even bigger. Right now looks like it gives you the buffs and drops model count, but that's it.

@fir2198 its not just you, its bugged. The models don't show up, they are set to evolve without a proper evolution target also, so they just revert back to recruit level when maxed out. From the other comments it would seem the mod might need an update for the current patch

Necrotic Flora isn't working on my hero's is that on purpose?

Descendants of Darwin seems to cause crash on map generation (after the loading finishes) if I pick it

Er, *does not, add a spell for Tide Spirits. (Though if you train them, they toonare Undead, and the same is true for the Tome of Tides summon spell if you install that. Light Spirits are too.)

Oath of the Caller is bizarrely adding the Undead trait to all your Elementals. Weirdly, it doesnt do this to ones summoned in combat with combat summon spells, only permanent ones summoned or trained on the world map.

It also unlocks training for Tide Spirits, but does grant a spell for summoning them, and could use adding the newer light & corrupt spirits.

I'm not sure if it's just me but my units with Curse of The Moon don't show up properly as a unit when they evolve to a Spirit Wolf. When I check the Spirit Wolf's model, it's stretched like crazy.

Can confirm that wave tactics turns all units of a faction undead. Also, might make more sense as "wave tactics" in a setting where there are many non human soldiers.

Does this need an update for Archon?

Devotees started causing breaks after I hit 15 chaos.

there is a bunch of nice idea in your mode, but has you pointed out balancing aint your strong suite, there is pretty much no reason to go with base game trait over yours, it's not even remotly close the one who isn't runing one of your op trait will loose.

lol at Merchant Kingdom. Let's just make Silver Tongues completely redundant.

Does human wave tactics make anyone else's units undead? Kinda funny at first having undead celestials.

Also, Soul Infusion seems to only require 30 souls, instead of fifty.

I am currently playing in the new beta and I am not sure if the Soul Forgers' trait is working as intended. The description says that you can draft Bronze Golems, but I have found that this is not the case. The spell for summoning them also does not automatically unlock, and you need to research the tome.

I greatly appreciate your mod and truly admire your creative ideas. Unfortunately, I had to uninstall it due to a crash issue when exploring the world tree. I am uncertain of the cause, but it might be due to a conflict with another mod, as I can explore normally without this mod. I wanted to inform you of this issue so you could investigate and potentially resolve it. Thank you for your efforts!

Really enjoying this btw, especially with the giant fashion mods that add bird / lizard heads to giants etc. Can finally make a Coutal race with Naga bodies and harpy wings with the lizard form!

Yes, airbenders is avaliable.

is airbenders avaliable now? it is unclear from the update post

Add to ragged veins, maybe Blood Brothers mechanic, fearless next to another with Bb..

Bugg I believe.
Spell Forced Evolution also gets me 1000 imperium when the unit evolves up. Using Curse of the Moon, Descendants of Darwin, Airbenders, and Merchant Kingdom with a Fire Giant ruler / Orcoid build.

Wouldn't the base game "fearless" ability be more fitting for human wave tactics? It simply removes routing, rather than completely negating morale.

I will likely have some time Friday to dedicate to fixing the bugs, making some adjustments and perhaps add a few more traits.

@Warrgrinn
That is not intentional, I'll add it to the buglist. Thank you for letting me know.

@ericbrown84
At the start of the game and when you select a Tome, if you have 1 affinity higher than all others you gain 1 affinity towards its countertype.
For example if you have 4 nature and 3 chaos, you'll receive 1 towards the counterpart of nature. Thus your shadow affinity increases with 1.

Airbenders can be added via random Empire selection (society trait filter) iirc.

i cant figure out how startouched affinity gain works. can anybody explain?

The new traits are legit fire!

@deli_deli_ Thank you for your work, I have added links to your and any other translation mods I found to the mod page.

First of all, thank you all for the support. You reporting bugs and suggestions are much appreciated.
Secondly, sorry for the long and sudden period of absence, something urgent came up and is still keeping me quite busy.

I've had bigger plans that have sadly thus been delayed, in the mean time I thought I'd just release this update with some bugfixes and a few new goodies.

These are a little bit overpowered, in my opinion. Ruinmongers: Increasing city cap in late game is very expensive, so getting it from just razing a city is a bit too easy. I like the idea of only being able to make cities from ruins, so perhaps just making founding cities from ruins free would be a way to go? Or even gaining imperium from making cities from ruins, so that you could choose to put that into the city cap?

Getting a T3 from Mountain Raisers at the start is also very strong, comparing it to Perfectionist artisans that bring with it a hefty penalty of double production costs. Maybe add something to balance that out, like farms and foresters providing less resources, for example?

Just a few initial thoughts, let me know if you want more feedback. <3

Great mod. I have made a Chinese translation for it. Thank you for your mods.

Thank you for the wonderful mod !
I made Japanese translation mod :)
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3486996213

Those look sweet! I must try this, thanks for making it.

Getting research for just casting spells is insanely powerful

The spells that Soul Forgers use to turn souls into binding essence arent working for me either, the other effects are working normally.

Not sure whats causing it, but just subbed to this and the Arcane Warmaster bonuses do not seem to be applying to my battlemage units, at least the starting ones. Playing Mystic (Attunement) culture with Startouched, if that matters.

Loved the new update! Looking forward to other updates and the tome mod.

I actually hope for devs to implement some kind of completly Citiless culture which forces player to constanttly move on the map

@ThaBombs
ah cool... so you´re building big ^^ go for it. If I´ll do another tome at all it will be most likely a while in the future, so probably yours are done then already and I don´t need to start one at all xD
For the context, how does it look like using the game for homebrew DnD campaigns? you just rebuilt your DnD characters to use in AoW4 or how can i picture it?

Great work dude, keep'em coming. Love to see more tome mods also.

@Sindir. I am actually planning a set of tome mods as well, some of which are designed to interact further with the concept.
I've got a homebrew setting for my DnD campaigns and some of these traits, Soul Forger included were needed to represent some of them.
And as always I love to hear feedback, take your time and I hope you enjoy the playthrough.

followed the way of this mod in discord.
Some traits are base on super nice ideas. The soul forge trait actually has the same name and base idea I planned for a future tome mod xD As you asked for feedback I might test it out a bit.
But sadly I have really few time to play ^^"

Awesome. Enjoying it quite well.

These traits look really cool! A lot of creative ones for sure. For now a bit strong as other already said but you say balance patch already on it's way

@Solack (Zacle) Thank you for the great suggestion. I have opened a discussion thread here on steam and on discord