Scorpion 1.2 Update - 24/03/2026

Hello Scavengers and Raiders and other Astral Barrens Explorers,

We have a new update: Scorpion 1.2 brings another round of balance adjustments, quality-of-life improvements, and stability fixes.

Nomads have learned how to pack up more efficiently and no longer require a turn to do so and Cataclysms have been scolded to no longer permanently terraform your beloved terrain.

Game Version: 1.014.004.120440

Nomad 

• Nomad Cities now pack up instantly (they still require 1 Turn to Unpack)

Scavengers

• Combat Summons no longer drop Looted Power

• Dustweaver 

  • Distributing Wind - Changed from a Leave One to a Free Action

  • Distributing Wind - Reduced Cooldown from 2 Turns to 1 Turn

Conquerers

• Added ‘Total War” which negates the Imperium Income Penalty from Unjustified Wars

• Annexing a Pillaged Enemy Province now gives an amount of Knowledge equal to the amount of Gold it gives

• Buff/Passive “Momentum”

  • Increased % Bonus from 20% to 30%

  • Now gives 1 Defense & 1 Resistance

• Dustweaver 

  • Weave Momentum - Changed from a Leave One to a Free Action

  • Weave Momentum - Reduced Cooldown from 2 Turns to 1 Turn

• Added prediction Text for the removal of Artifacts

• Adjusted the start of the Cataclysm Events to reduce things that require Player Action.

  • The second intro event for Echoes of the Fracturing now only triggers once the first cataclysm hits. And its text has been edited to explain that this will only get worse unless you find and explore the Fated Regions. This story event will not trigger if the player already found their first fated region.

  • The objective in the crisis at the start is to simply continue your journey until the player experiences the first cataclysm or finds a fated region, at which point the real objective kicks in to fully explore one of the Fated Regions. The rest of the crisis continues to function as normal.

• Removed the forced terraforming of Astral Barrens via a Cataclysm, resulting in Astral Barrens that could never ever ever be removed from a province.

• Battlesaint

  • Radiant Retribution now ignores modifications and defenses

• Sundering Curse no longer has the Base tag when gained from hero equipment

• Added a Notification for Free Special Province Improvements that can be build/redeployed

• Added a warning when attempting to Hasten Harvesting with only one turn remaining

• Updated Shield Item forge setup

  • Removed the default Defense mode override in all Shield Item templates in the Item Forge

  • The default Shield Defense Mode is now its own Infusion

  • Reworked all the properties for defense modes to hyperlink to their actual defense mode, so that it shows up nicely as a hyperlinked term in the bulletpoint list of all infusions an item has

  • Made all Shields require an active ability infusion, so that the player must pick a defense mode (by default the normal shield defense mode) when forging a shield.

• Added a new Pantheon Reward - Hero Origin “Nullifier Mage”

  • This Hero Origin let’s players start with the Fractured Orb 

Chaos

• Tome of the Warband

  • Unit “Lieutenant”

    • Increased HP from 80 to 85

    • Increased Resistance from 1 to 2

  • Combat Spell “Commander's Call”

    • Increased Temp HP healed from 10 to 15

    • Increased Morale gained from 10 to 15

Nature

• Tome of Sand Stalkers

  • Special Province Improvement “Grand Bazaar” - Increased the building cost from 60 Gold/130 Production to 100 Gold/250 Production

  • Combat Spell “Sandstorm”

    • Decreased Radius from 3 to 2

    • Decreased Casting Cost from 30 Mana to 20 Mana

• Tome of Dragons

  • Empire Bonus “Dragon Infusion” - Reduced the cost conversion from 2 to 1.8/Reduced the Gold cost of ranking up by 10%

Shadow

• Tome of Shades

  • Minor Race Transformation “Living Shadows” - Now only triggers on enemy hits

• Renamed "Physical Ranged” to “Missile”

• Increased the XP Cost for T4 & T5 Units

Arachnid

• Unit “Sand Scorpion”

  • Melee Strike - Increased Damage from 12 to 14

  • Melee Strike - No longer has Piercing

  • Sand Shift - Reduced Cooldown from to 2 Turns

  • Debilitating Sting - Reduced Damage from 20/20 to 15/15

  • Debilitating Sting - Now has Piercing

  • Debilitating Sting - Now has the Single Shot tag

• Unit “Fractured Scorpion”

  • Melee Strike - Increased Damage from 12 to 14

  • Melee Strike - No longer has Piercing

  • Disrupting Sting - Reduced Damage from 40 to 30

  • Disrupting Sting - Now has Piercing

  • Disrupting Sting - Now has the Single Shot tag

• Unit “Hunter Spider Matriarch” - Increased HP from 110 to 130

Dragons & Wyverns

• Unit “Bone Dragon”

  • Now have Life Steal on their Attacks (to fit the Natural Regeneration of other Dragons)

  • Putrid Breath - Increased Blight Damage from 20 to 30

• Fire Dragon “Fire Breath” - Increased Fire Damage from 31 to 40

• Frost Dragon “Frost Breath” - Increased Frost Damage from 31 to 40

• Golden Dragon “Purifying Breath” - Increased Spirit Damage from 22 to 30

• Obsidian Dragon “Lightning Breath" - Increased Lightning Damage from 31 to 40

• Fractured Dragon “Anti-Magic Breath” - Increased Physical Damage from 31 to 40

• Unit “Wyvern Fledgling” - Now has “Lesser Burst”

  • 4 Range, Single Action 1 Turn Cooldown

  • Deals 15 Fire 1 Physical Damage to target unit

Misc.

• Unit “Sand Worm”

  • Increased HP from 120 to 130

  • Charge Strike - Swallow Whole now has a 60% chance to apply

  • Charge Strike - Swallow Whole will now only trigger if the worm hasn’t already eaten something

  • Earth Tremor - New Effect: Now has a 60% chance to Immobilize

• Unit “War Golem”

  • Magic Strike - Increased Damage from 13 to 15

  • Magic Strike - No longer has Breaching

  • Infernal Ray - Now has Breaching

• Unit “Dire Bear”

  • Increased Defense from 4 to 5

  • Swipe - Increased Damage from 26 to 30

• Unit “White Wolf”

  • Increased HP from 110 to 120

  • Enfeebling Howl - Increased Damage from 18 to 30

• Unit “Phase Beast”

  • Now has Large Target

  • Increased HP from 110 to 120

  • Phase - Replaced with Fast Phase

    • Range 3

    • Free Action

    • 1 turn cooldown

• Unit “Phoenix”

  • Overheat - Increased Damage from 22 to 30

  • Overheat - No longer affects Friendly Units

• Annexing a Pillaged Province now also reduces the City Population by 1

• Ruined Nodes now allow players to still Annex their specific/unique Province Improvement Types.

• Replaced the map border on Barren Maps with Mountains instead of Sand

Crash

• Fixed a crash that could occur due to a City Barges being defeated without being assigned a killer.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when inspecting the “Ruler returned from the Void” Notification

• Fixed a crash that could occur due to Pall of Darkness self-destructing before finishing Terraforming.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when inspecting the “Max Population reached” Notification

• Fixed a crash that could occur during the end turn when updating Quest for City Barges

• Fixed a crash that could occur in Story Events

• fix a crash happening when winning a game while a specific event is still waiting as notification

• Fixed a crash that could occur in the simulation of Combat Actions

AI

• Fixed an issue where Free City Patrol Stacks would not move after being created

Art

• Fixed an issue where Nomad City Barge for Dwarfkin form had a Beard

• Fixed an issue where the Nomad tents did not show their texture in the Underground Combat Maps

• Fixed an issue where the "Elder Vampire" ruler had a broken stance when equipped with the "Fractured Orb" weapon skin

• Fixed an issue where the Herald of Glory outfit is cut off at the waist on an Ancient form Vampire Lords.

• Fixed an issue where the Gems on Noctus’ Cape were floating

• Fixed an issue where the Hunter's Hat and Rogue Hood appear incorrectly for a certain head type

• Fixed several issues for "Oathsworn" specific outfits on the female "Harefolk" form

• Fixed several issues for "Feudal" specific outfits on male "Harefolk" form

• Fixed leg issues for Longbow when using "Harefolk" form

• Fixed an issue where Nomad helmet options with the visor still disabled the beard/other-facial-feature options when selected for a form where the visors are disabled

• Fixed several Neck issues for Arcane Guard unit with various Forms

• Fixed an issue where Nekron would flap his ears

• Fixed an issue where several IP Rulers had Colorize enabled

Combat Map

• Fixed an issue where Sunlight Weakness would be active in Combat Maps that were Underground/Indoors

• Fixed an issue where the Warlord's Command cooldown effect was seen as hostile, which made the targeting previews red.

• Fixed and issue where Sandstorm and other negative marker spawning spells showed Green hexes for targeting

• Fixed an issue where Negative Resistance/Defense did not work

Culture

• Fixed an issue where Nomad Cities would lose accumulated food after Packing/Unpacking

• Fixed an issue where the "Capture Settler" and "Combat Result" screens appeared multiple times if a lone "Settler" unit performed auto-combat against an army multiple times

• Fixed an issue where Transfer Throne Operations would not be blocked/cancelled when packing up a Throne City.

• Fixed an issue where capturing a Nomad Throne City City Barge would not remove the Throne City Upgrades

• Fixed an issue where Unpacking a City could trigger the “City over Cap” Penalty for a turn

• Fixed an issue where Sentry Nests did not correctly unlock structures that Stone Walls would otherwise unlock

Fated Regions

• Fixed an issue where Fractured Wildlife could still be affected by Unit Enchantments & Transformations.

• Fixed an issue where removing Fractured Infestations in the Underground would still leave behind Sand

Events

• Fixed an issue where the Sapped and Fractured: Aftermath event reward did not properly apply the Fractured Transformation to Wizard Kings.

Item Forge

• Fixed an issue where heroes would get Cinderwind blast on their staves regardless of the staff

• Fixed an issue where several new Pantheon Infusions did not have the correct Magic Material Unlocks. 

  • Infusion “Summon Spirit Hawk” - Required Focus Crystal instead of Astral Dew

  • Infusion "Defense Mode: Nullify" - Required Arcanium Ore instead of Archon Blood

  • Infusion "Subdue" - Did not require Archon Blood

Interface

• Fixed an issue where it was not possible to change Teams of AI Players in Multiplayer

• Fixed an issue where specific types of additional Income would not display in the Annex Province Breakdown

• Fixed issues where Unit Enchantment Upkeep in the Enchantment Screen could be incorrect if the Enchantment targeted a Hero or Upkeep Modifying Traits were active.

• Fixed an issue where Unit Tooltips would show Total XP instead of XP of the current Rank.

Text & Descriptions

• Fixed a missing variable in the the “Fit for Extraction” event for Polish HIGH-40785: 

• Fixed an issue where Unit Panels would truncate the Movement Points in French, Russian, Polish and Spanish.

• Fixed an issue where several long named abilities would could each other off in Polish, Russian and Spanish.

• Fixed an issue where Giant King names didn’t fit inside the Title space in Russian.

• Fixed an issue where Debug text appears inside the tooltip from the last choice of "Reflections: Aftermath" event while having the Nomad city packed up

• Fixed an issue where unit descriptions for Astral Serpent and Wind Rager mentioned Fighter instead of Magic Fighter

• Fixed an issue where Swifstrike Blessing hyperlinked to Empowering Momentum instead of Momentum. 

Tomes

• Fixed an issue where Scorpion Venom Blades did not apply to all Melee attacks

Units

• Fixed in an issue where Shop Ogres would be considered part of the Player Side during Shop Leave events and would be affected by Unit Enchantments.

• Fixed an issue where the Blood Cultists Dagger of the Rite would inflict conditions upon itself.

• Fixed an issue where Accursed Ogres and Fractured Unicorns didn’t have Embarked Models

World Map

• Fixed an issue where Fractured Units would appear in the Golden Ziggurat’s Guardian Event Pool

• Fixed an issue where Seekers of Wonders would not spawn a cleared Ancient Wonder when players are in teams in the underground

• Fixed an issue where the Forsaken Temple and Withered Tree Ancient Wonder could generate already cleared

• Fixed an issue where the Barren Wellspring had an incorrect Affinity Requirement on the Restore Operation

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