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Dominions 6 - Rise of the Pantokrator

Illwinter Game Design Developer

Illwinter Game Design Publisher

2024-01-17 Release

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🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🕹️ Partial Controller Support
🎮 Full Controller Support

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Dominions 6.08

This is an Asphodel focused update, they got new type of manikins and gods. They also got spells and abilities to spread carrion seeds with which to infect their enemies and turn them into undead manikins. There is also a large amount of bug fixes, performance improvements, new mod commands as well as some balance changes. Asphodel

New sprites for manikins and carrion beasts
New Asphodel pretenders: Mother Mandragora, Titan Mandragora, Worm Soul
Carrion dragon now has a carrion vine attack that can infect targets with darkseeds
Asphodel's ritual Grow Fortress has now become Carrion Fortress instead
One third of sacred manikins will now be Carrion Furies
New types of manikin chassis
New magic items: Carrion Seed, Carrion Bow
Some magic items are cheaper for Asphodel
New spells: Sleep Vines, Vengeful Vines, Tangle Thicket
New sacred: Black Minotaur
Black Centaur get +1 berserk
Sagittarian replaces vine bow with carrion bow that can infect target with darkseed
Manikins start age fix

General

Increased 3D performance (+25% FPS) for Windows-AMD (new AMD driver) and Mac
Ind got cheaper temples as 'every mansion is a palace and every building is a temple'
Heroism bless +50% -> +35% xp
Awaken Forest now more expensive and only targets 50% of battlefield
Spiritform beings are now immune to petrification
Mossbody can no longer target spiritform beings
Magic scale 4+ didn't give horror marks correctly
Terrain changes now affects resources and can make people migrate
Performance improvements for main map and research screens
Performance improvements for large battles and turn generation
Spell AI no longer casts sermon of courage on mindless targets
No longer show regen icons that are incompatible with the monster type
More possible errors printed to admin log for lobby games
Keyboard shortcuts in scoregraphs (F2) were wrong
Skeletal Legion affected caster too, fixed
Liches now keep their age
Master password wasn't always properly remembered during game setup
Switching between lobby and local network could crash the game, fixed
Independent priests could cast all type of banishments, fixed
Icon for negative inspiration bonus
Migrations now less likely to lead into wastes or swamps
Weightlessness bless didn't affect combat speed
Supply usage was sometimes wrong on 'y' screen
More national summon rebalancing
Awe from throne did not show up in bless info
Keyboard shortcuts in alchemy didn't work properly
Twiceborn no longer has any effect on most monster shapes
Fix for twiceborn getting around uniqueness of some monsters
Stat penalty from blindness wasn't shown correctly
Blank config path could prevent game from starting, fixed
Humanoid apes and dogs now leave corpses when they die
Fix for simulacrum losing global enchantments when killed
Fix for simulacrum creator getting unexpected afflictions
Magic empowerment can now raise to max level 13
Chain mail of displacement now gives actual displacement
Income box was not shown when dominion was 0, fixed
Dreams of R'lyeh did not give Dimensional Overload in battle
Fixed possible memory corruption when two immortals returned on the same turn
Memory leak during host fixed
Rider's magic items never affected mounts that were commanders
Last messages didn't work in very large games
All Elemental Opposition rituals dispelled air, fixed
Most immortality effects now take priority over Life after Dead
Shinuyama had access to Caelum's national spell 'Call of the Drugvant', fixed
Pretenders no longer lose passive bless when outside dominion
Fix for incorrect retreat message mentioning fort
Fixed incorrect 'cannot lead magic beings' error message
Returning from the void can no longer put you inside a cave wall
Returning from Inferno/Kokytos will now usually leads to a cave
Fear and Dread no longer stacks with each other
Mirror walk no longer castable by stationary commanders
Fix for out of range dominion values in games with Dreamlands R'lyeh
Throne settings were not loaded/saved with ctrl-l/ctrl-s
Indep flags weren't flashing when choosing spell target province
Larger background texture in network lobby
Auto site searching now stops if inside a besieged fort
Elemental royalties permanent elemental summons can now be boosted
Fix for temporary spirit sight not working
Stygian Paths didn't work for units following along
Box selecting commanders/squads didn't always work properly
Network lobby games now keeps time better
F1 now shows sneaking commanders at the end
Fix for divine emperor not being able to storm castle
Farstrike ritual performance fix
Farstrike rituals were not always fully anonymous
The Missing Tune didn't work properly
Earthquake's special effect in caves didn't work
Random maps with edge start positions are now square shaped
Stat & typo fixes

Modding

Potential crash bug fix for mods using new sounds
Fix for "too many sprites" error when using mods in textonly mode
Button to disable all mods in mods menu
Enabling mods from command line now requires both folder and modfile
Fix for #godpathspell
#remount event command didn't work
#norange now takes a value 0-100
#att now accepts values up to 100
Bless scale req modding, #orderscale, #chaosscale, ...
New site command: #look
New event command: #healaff
New monster/item commands: #clumsy, #powerofdeath, #fearofflood
New monster/item commands: #falsesupply, #glamourmanip
New monster commands: #godsite
New event commands: #addgeo, #remgeo
New item modding commands to create dancing weapons
New weapon commands: #spiritformimmune, #illusionimmune, #false
New weapon commands: #holyifhit, #killmagicifhit, #killdemonifhit
New weapon commands: #fireifhit, #coldifhit, #shockifhit, #petrifyifhit
New weapon commands: #aftercloud, #aftercloudarea, #poisonifdmg

[ 2024-03-06 11:02:36 CET ] [ Original post ]

Dominions 6 is currently under development. It is expected to be released on January 17.

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You are a God! You are master and ruler of a loyal nation. You have unimaginable powers at your disposal. You have claimed this world as yours. But there are others who stand in your way. You must defeat and destroy these pretenders. Only then can you ascend to godhood and become the new Pantokrator.

Dominions 6 is a turn based 4x strategy game suitable for both play vs AI, player vs player. Team play vs AI or players also works great as everyone can do their turns at once. The game has a huge variety of units, spells, magic items and different nations to play.

In Dominions you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. The type of Pretender Gods can vary from magically powerful arch mages to huge titans or large monuments. The pretender gods have different strengths dependent on what kind of god you choose and what nation you play.

When you start the game you decide what kind of god you are and how your Dominion affects your lands, followers and sacred soldiers. It is an expression of your divine might and the faith of your followers. If your dominion dies, so do you. Your dominion also inspires your sacred warriors and gives them powers derived from your dominion.

In order to win and become the one true god you have to defeat your enemies one of three different ways: conquer their lands, extinguish their dominion or claim the Thrones of Ascension.

Dominions is set in a fantasy world that draws inspiration from historical nations, cultures and myths. You will not encounter the elves of conventional fantasy in this game. Instead you might lead a nation of vanir from old norse myth. Aztecs, romans, israelites, greeks, kievian rus and lovecraftian horrors are just a few of the inspirational sources of the game.

The first Dominions game was released in 2002 and was well received by strategy gamers. Since then Dominions has been much refined and Dominions series is still actively played making it one of the longest running 4x turn based strategy games.

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Dominions 6 is scaled up compared to Dominions 5 and armies are larger. We wanted to tweak the balance between conventional armies and magic. To accomplish this a couple of changes are introduced. Incomes and resources are increased, while mages are more expensive. Battlefield-wide spells are more difficult to cast and there are instead more mid-tier spells. There are some other changes with the same aim.

The second and probably most influential change is the addition of a new magic path. No longer are illusions the domain of Air magic. Instead illusions, phantasms, dreams and the stuff of forgotten legends are manipulated with the path of Glamour. This has resulted in many new spells, items and sites being added to the game.

A third massive change is the separation of mounts and riders. Riders and mounts now have separate stats and can be targeted individually. This change probably has less impact on gameplay than the previous one, but will still have an impact on cavalry and nations using mounted units.

Dominions 6 will feature a number of new nations as well, with late age getting more, at the time of writing. The addition of the Glamour path has also affected several of the old nations.

There are also a number of changes intended to ease gameplay.

More stuff will be added in the upcoming months.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Any 64-bit distro
Processor: 64-bit intel/amd cpuMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 1.4+
Storage: 750 MB available space

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