Stardock is pleased to release v3.0 for Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes today. This new major update includes a host of performance improvements, crash fixes, balance updates and more.

Changelog

• Tile yield update on screen aborts immediately if the terrain is invalid for a city (perf)
  
• Fixed crash bug where garbage characters could get inserted into a scene node
  
• Increased the map tilt further so you can see more pretty stuff
  
• Calc Military Might now longer force updates the battle rank of units. (perf)
  
• AI city updating is now multithreaded (perf)
  
• CalcBattleRank changed to automatically cache the battlerank of the unit (major perf boost)
  
• Units now always get a battlerank of at least 1 to ensure caching of battlerank
  
• Sub-units of an army are no longer recalculated unless expressly ordered
  
• Thread safe city count method added
  
• Fixed a crash deadlock
  
• AI monsters less likely to attack a city on lower difficulties
  
• Monsters now use a cached combat rating to determine city strength (performance)
  
• Fixed multiple crash deadlocks
  
• Unit vector sized at 10 at start to reduce increments. (perf)
  
• Timer update increased from 1ms to 0.5ms
  
• Conclaves provide more research but less production and money
  
• Fortresses provide more production but less money and research
  
• Towns provide more money but less production and research
  
• New improvement: Tower of Knowledge. Provides +1 research per essence
  
• Tiny map size increased to 5x3
  
• Small map increased from 5x4 to 6x4 (20 to 24 sectors)
  
• Medium map size increased from 6x5 to 7x5 (30 to 35 sectors)
  
• Large map size increased from 7x6 to 9x6 (42 to 54 sectors)
  
• Huge map size increased from 8x7 to 12x8 (56 to 96 sectors)
  
• Wrote a replacement for toupper() that is much faster
  
• Lots of new quests
  
• AI improvements
  
• Quest based champions added
  
• Units take slightly longer to produce to balance the availability of more champions.