1.7.0

This is the final release of "A New Order" for the BfW 1.16 add-on server! Future releases will target 1.18 and up instead!

What's Changed:

• Delegate responsibility for maintaining certain files more granularly
• Link to additional funding options
• Add some GitHub Actions workflows, to automatically check code quality
• Keep certain maintainer-specific parts of the repository up-to-date with Dependabot
• New portraits, including ones for the Brigand and Outlaw Raider, along with some additional notes for artists
• Download size improved by lossless compression of images
• Additional notes for translators and other potential contributors
• Validator fixes
• Additional optional advancements are now enabled
• Additional disclaimer about mature content added
• New macros for wrapping dialogue messages
• Beginnings of code for "support conversations" between the hero characters (not actually accessible in-game yet)
• Beginnings of code to track player luck (not used yet)
• Rob Roe now has a death message when he's on the player's side
• Better handling of code regarding Kyobaine
• Gawen's allies remember that they're not supposed to call him "Gawen" more often
• Raedwood East is now enabled for regular gameplay
• Objectives should now do a better job of specifying gold carryover
• See README_egallager_mods.txt for scenario-specific changes

Pull Requests merged:

• Create CONTRIBUTING.md by @cooljeanius in #130
• (a bunch of Dependabot PRs; I don't think it makes sense to list them all individually)
• "Fixed" Reme rescue trigger on Bontom by @Toranks in #131 (note: may also have broken it in other ways...)
• Fix a bug that prevents an event at the recruitment of Kyobaine. by @oo13 in #134
• Fix invalid [kill] and Reumario joining on 09 Hired Swords by @Toranks in #133
• Update cs.po by @MultiSeptim and @celerini in #137
• Add new Brigand portrait by OneHourLate/Mells/ohlyf (submitted by @cooljeanius) in #138
• update .po files from the template and update stats by @celerini in #139
• Update cs.po by @MultiSeptim and @celerini in #141
• Add additional funding method by @cooljeanius in #140
• New Outlaw Raider portrait by OneHourLate/Mells/ohlyf, and a few other miscellaneous things by @cooljeanius in #142
• update .po files from the template and update stats by @celerini in #143
• add new Young Saurian portrait by AlysaaArt (submitted by @cooljeanius, currently unused) in #145
• Czech translation update from @MultiSeptim, verified (celerini/wesnoth-cs#264), update of stats by @celerini in #152
• Sync with my other repo (Dec. 2023) by @cooljeanius in #159
• Copy over changes from other repo (mostly a continuation of validator fixes) by @cooljeanius in #163
• Update russian translation by @alxrem in #176
• another sync of changes from my other repo, including an updated Medic frankenportrait from @DuncanusDillius, by @cooljeanius in #171
• Fixes for issues targeted for Milestone 1.7.0 by @cooljeanius in #194
• final revbumps for 1.7.0 release by @cooljeanius in #211

Issues resolved since previous release

• #23 (Reme's warning not to get too attached to clansmen: get variation for the clansman being loyal to work) (again)
• #32 (Scenario 10 "Siege of Haeltin" minor nits)
• #118 (Enable optional advancements?)
• #129 (Enable Raedwood East for regular gameplay)
• #144 (Additional MSG_ macros)
• #150 (Kyobaine easter egg: Need to check for presence of Lorin/Karen before including them in dialogue)
• #179 (idea - Lorin melee change) by @ForestDragon-wesnoth
• #182 (In Outlaw Base Ruvio calling Gawen "Gawen".) by @alxrem
• #187 (Lorin's phrase about bridges in Orannon) by @alxrem
• #199 (Rob Roe should have a death message when you control him)

New Contributors

• @dependabot made their first contribution in #149
• @alxrem made their first contribution in #176

Additional authors:

• @nemaara

Full Changelog: 1.6.0...1.7.0

1.6.0

What's Changed:

• New portraits, including new winter clothes for Kyobaine
• Image filesize reduced with ImageOptim
• Campaign now uses its own local copy of the AI controller, since the mainline one is being deprecated in BfW 1.17
• New debug utility for testing unit message display
• New scenario: Raedwood East (currently only accessible with debug mode)
• Misc. minor dialogue changes
• Removed some unnecessary loyal overlays when they clashed with the recruitment crowns
• Team-coloring for some images used as fake units
• Recruitment list/pattern changes for some AI sides
• Add level 0 saurians from "Across The Ocean" for use in scenarios where saurians appear
• Add level 0 "Rancher" unit from "A Story of the Northlands"
• All heroes should now be unrenamable
• Akladians now use a context-free grammar for name generation
• All units with leadership should now have at least a generic leading animation
• Updated Spanish translation from @Toranks
• Updated Hungarian translation from @kele17
• Additional translation notes for any other translators who might wish to update their translations, as well
• Additional dialogue in the easter egg where Kyobaine requests to go buy winter clothes
• Ensure Maurice and Alarice always have their genders set
• See README_egallager_mods.txt for scenario-specific changes

Pull Requests merged:

• Update hu.po by @kele17 (committed by @cooljeanius) in #87
• minor tweaks by @cooljeanius in #88
• Correction (to Czech translation) by @celerini in #90
• New Akladian Wiseman portrait by OneHourLate/Mells/ohlyf (submitted by @cooljeanius) in #89
• restore hu.po broken by a8013d3 by @celerini in #91
• Add new Akladian Holyman portrait by OneHourLate/Mells/ohlyf (submitted by @cooljeanius) in #92
• Update Hungarian translation by @kele17 (committed by @cooljeanius, with feedback from @celerini) in #93
• Minor credits update by @cooljeanius in #94
• update (translation) stats by @celerini in #95
• Add new Akladian Wonderman portrait by OneHourLate/Mells/ohlyf (submitted by @cooljeanius) in #96
• Run ImageOptim by @cooljeanius in #97
• Remove loyal overlay on Lady Lorin by @Toranks in #98
• rename AI_CONTROLLER macros by @cooljeanius in #99
• ES - Title and difficulty translated by @Toranks in #101
• copyediting of toplevel docs by @cooljeanius in #104
• Update units/_main.cfg by @cooljeanius in #102
• copy over some changes from my other repo by @cooljeanius in #105
• Fix loyalty check in S02 for issue #23 by @cooljeanius in #110
• miscellaneous changes I'd been sitting on by @cooljeanius in #109
• msgmerge with latest POT and update stats by @celerini in #115
• Castle blink fix on S13 by @Toranks in #113
• Lots of changes! New scenario! New portrait! Bugs fixed! by @cooljeanius in #117
• msgmerge with latest POT and update stats by @celerini in #119
• Spanish translation (Progress: 10%) by @Toranks in #120
• Loyal overlay fixes by @Toranks in #103
• Update code for odd/even turn number check. by @Elvish-Hunter in #121
• Recall can't be undo on this scenario, deleted messages by @Toranks in #124
• Removed all redundant {IS_LOYAL} by @Toranks in #123
• Fixed die event for heroes doesn't trigger on S27 by @Toranks in #122
• Another major-ish content update by @cooljeanius in #125
• resync by @cooljeanius in #127
• Spanish translation 100% (except debug strings) by @Toranks in #126
• prep for 1.6.0 release by @cooljeanius in #128

Issues resolved since previous release

• #23 (Reme's warning not to get too attached to clansmen: get variation for the clansman being loyal to work)
• #42 (S21b, "Haunted Place": add a better secret for that northern encampment that looks like it's supposed to have an enemy side at it)
• #67 (Move Akladian name generation to new context-free grammar name generator)
• #70 ({CHECK_EVEN}/{IF_EVEN}/{IF_ODD} macros are broken)
• #72 (Finish writing scenario that uses maps/RaedwoodEast.map)
• #78 (Event where Hoyre is supposed to return in S04 on NIGHTMARE doesn't actually work)
• #106 (Infinite increasing amount of gold for the outlaw in S08 on Nightmare)
• #111 (Useless Spanish translation)
• #112 (Name to basic healing skill learned on S14b)
• #114 (a bunch of units are renamable that shouldn't be)
• #116 (ensure all recruitment lists match up with recruitment patterns)

New Contributors

• @Toranks made their first contribution in #98
• @Elvish-Hunter made their first contribution in #121

Additional authors:

• @nemaara

Full Changelog: 1.5.0.1...1.6.0

1.5.0.1

So, after tagging 1.5.0 another commit slipped in before @nemaara actually uploaded it to the add-on server, so this tag is for the version of 1.5.0 that actually exists on the add-on server.

What's Changed

• Update cs.po by @MultiSeptim in #86

Full Changelog since previous tag: 1.5.0...1.5.0.1
Full Changelog (if we pretend the previous tag doesn't exist): 1.4.1...1.5.0.1

1.5.0

What's Changed

• There is now a new NIGHTMARE difficulty! If "Impossible" wasn't impossible enough for you previously, well, now it ought to be!
• There is now an additional Ruvio mood portrait
• Credits are updated
• Improved debugging
• Some code reorganization
• Some previously unused abilities are now used
• Some maps now look prettier
• "time over" events where characters comment on enemy reinforcements arriving will now actually show those reinforcements
• Other gameplay changes are rather hard to disentangle from the new NIGHTMARE difficulty, so they aren't enumerated here

Pull Requests merged

• move cs.po to the right location by @celerini in #59
• Translations by @celerini in #60
• add a 4th "Nightmare" difficulty by @cooljeanius in #53
• remove __UNUSED__ ifdefs by @cooljeanius in #62
• Update cs.po by @MultiSeptim in #64
• open and re-save certain maps with the map editor by @cooljeanius in #71
• Make terrain in fall maps look more fall-like by @cooljeanius in #66
• script "time over" cutscenes where necessary by @cooljeanius in #68
• additional translation notes by @cooljeanius in #69
• re-sync with other changes from main branch by @cooljeanius in #74
• Additional map updates by @cooljeanius in #75
• miscellaneous changes @cooljeanius had accumulated in #76
• add "Broken Ruvio" portrait that @cooljeanius had commissioned from olivia_lucy46 in #77
• msgmerge with latest POT and update stats by @celerini in #80
• more changes that @cooljeanius had accumulated in #83
• 1.5.0 Release by @cooljeanius in #84

Issues resolved since previous release

• #22 (Scenario 1 minor nits)
• #28 (Update credits)
• #29 (the one about time over events)
• #40 (certain bridges looked wrong)
• #46 (Uri van Roe weird behavior in S4)
• #51 (more variance for Akladian name generator)
• #52 (Better fallback code for cases of players killing enemy leaders that they shouldn't)
• #55 (use abilities)
• #63 (autumn terrain)
• #82 (Gawen was asking himself to destroy bridges)

Additional authors:

• @nemaara

Full Changelog: 1.4.1...1.5.0

1.4.1

a.k.a. "Revision for BfW 1.16 release". Released April 23, 2022. Changes of note:

• New frankenportrait for first scenario's Medic
• Bor Cryne, Uri van Roe, and Lorin now all have traits
• Snowshoes items now grant a trait to show which units are wearing them
• Updated Czech translation
• Lorin should now always have the correct portrait
• Units now have the direction they're facing modified more often
• Correct spelling of "Anduin" to "Alduin" everywhere it's mentioned

Pull Requests merged

• initial work on a port to BfW 1.16 by @cooljeanius in #36
• additional work porting to BfW 1.16 by @cooljeanius in #43
• add cs.po by @celerini in #41
• msgmerge by @celerini in #47
• Update cs.po by @MultiSeptim in #48
• Change Uri van Roe behavior in S04 (Battle of Barnon) by @cooljeanius in #49
• final cleanup before BfW 1.16 release by @cooljeanius in #50

New Contributors

• @celerini made their first contribution in #41
• @MultiSeptim made their first contribution in #48

Issues resolved since previous release

• #15 (Fix wrong ellipses)
• #18 (Battle of Barnon: message about being able to evacuate in different directions can be confusing if player clicks thru too quickly)
• #25 (Double-check that interrogations in S17 are okay)
• #30 (Battle of Barnon: improve code surrounding Uri's [leader_goal])
• #31 ("Unexpected Guests" minor nits)
• #34 (Add indicator to show which units are wearing snowshoes)
• #35 (Port to 1.16)
• #39 (Lua error on discovering Bontom's location in BfW 1.16)

Full Changelog: 1.4.0...1.4.1

1.4.0

Major content update; should qualify for a 1.4.0 release. Released on October 6, 2021. Changes of note:

• New sandy version of the "Trapped" map for the benefit of Dunefolk
• Added snowshoes
• Player-controlled Akladian Wisemen are now buffed upon recruitment
• Add Souls from Default L0 Era for use by undead

Pull Requests merged

• Redo advancement path of Akladian Clansman/Warrior/Leader/Chieftain by @cooljeanius in #12
• Update sprites for Akladian Homeguard line by @cooljeanius in #13
• Major content update; should qualify for a 1.4.0 release by @cooljeanius in #17

Issues resolved since previous release

• #8 (missing sound effects)
• #9 (Lvl 1 Akladian Warrior advances to Lvl 1 Akladian Leader)
• #11 (Akladian Homeguard line: mismatch between sound effects, damage type, graphics, and description)

Full Changelog: 1.3.0...1.4.0

1.3.0

First release to be tagged with git tag. Released on April 21, 2021. Changes of note:

• switching commenting-out of code to ifdef-ing out of code, or just removing it
• "Khalifate" to "Dunefolk" renaming
• varying more quantities by difficulty
• general copyediting of text
• changing calls to {MESSAGE} to use the CAPTION_TEXT parameter when relevant

Pull Requests merged:

• Have @cooljeanius take over maintenance of this campaign in #2
• Fix bugs related to translation mechanisms by @oo13 in #3
• Fix a bug where Gawen's death doesn't cause a defeat by @oo13 in #4

Issues Fixed

• #1 (clarify whether this is a fork or the new upstream for this campaign)

New Contributors

• @oo13 made their first contribution in #3

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nemaara/A_New_Order/commits/1.3.0

For scenario-by-scenario changes, see README_egallager_mods.txt (1.3.0).