Cossacks 3

Patch 2.0.2.87.5828 (16 January 2018)

Multiplayer:

• 1. Ranked games points calculation has been changed:
• First player to leave, before the end of peace time receives a penalty to his score and defeat, even if his team has won the match.
• Any player who'd leave after the first one, won't receive any penalties.
• Leaving the game after peace time is over won't net a penalty. Points would be granted according to team's performance during the match.
• Player, who has got an ally leaver before the peace time was over, won't receive any defeat penalty, but will get victory points, in case he'd win.
• 1. Fixed errors, which prevented player from receiving points after the match is over.
• 1. Changed the mechanism of ranking in multiplayer. It's easier to get promotion to higher ranks now and players are distributed more evenly on ranking scale.
• 1. Matchmaking algorithm for quick games has been improved.
• 1. Fixed a rare error, causing nonmirror matches. Earlier, it was possible to have a Poland+Poland vs Turkey+Turkey matchup, instead of even nation distribution between teams.
• 1. Multiplayer games stability has been improved. Fixed some errors causing the game to 'hang up'.

Balance:

• 1. European and Switzerland pikeman protection against arrow decreased from 7 to 6.
• 1. Mercenary roundshier protection against arrow decreased from 19 to 17.
• 1. Mercenary archer normal arrow attack range increased from 650 to 700.
• 1. Mercenary grenadiers grenade attack range increased from 370 to 400.
• 1. Shipyards cost rise per building increased from 0% to 50%.
• 1. European shipyards cost decreased from 1700 wood, 900 stone, 400 iron to 1600 wood, 800 stone, 400 iron.
• 1. Russian, Turkish and Ukrainian shipyards prices were also slightly decreased.
• 1. Academy upgrades that increase artillery attack range, hit points, and repair now also have effect on mortars.
• 1. Various nations temple, church, cathedral, mosque prices was slightly reworked/decreased.
• 1. Turkish archer minimal attack range decreased from 400 to 300

Utility:

• 1. Added 15 minutes of peace time (PT) option.
• 1. Slight redesign of main menu and campaign's interfaces.
• 1. Added "Tutorial" button, which starts corresponding tutorial campaign.
• 1. Small fixes in various localizations have been made.

Patch 2.0.0.85.5767 (22 December 2017)

• Christmas-themed map and UI changes would allow you to enjoy the Christmas spirit at its fullest.

Patch 1.9.6.84.5754 (27 October 2017)

• Spooky count Cossackula at main menu art, Halloween-themed map changes, dark water and horrifying transformations of some units would allow you to enjoy the Halloween spirit at its fullest.
• During holidays there'd be some main menu arts: Halloween, Halloween 18+ and, of course, default one. You'd be able to switch art using "Change art" button in upper left corner of the screen.
• Don't miss your chance to enjoy the changes! New art and models would be active during Halloween only! At 20:00 by Kiev (19:00 CET) on the 1st of November pumpkins would dissappear, and everything would came back to its normal form.
  We thank you for being with us and wish you a great and trully spooky Halloween!
• PS:
  We're thanking Mark Kandaurov for dark water =)

Patch 1.9.5.83.5749 (26 October 2017)

Balance:

• Fast moving cavalry have +5 extra defence against bullets while moving.
• Bullet critical hit doesn't trigger on moving fast cavalry units.
• Multibarrel cannons have twice larger logical size, so it is easier to destroy them with artillery.
• Multibarrel cannons limit was changed from 5 to 3 per artillery depot.
• 18 century shooters without bayonnete production speed increased from 15-20%.
• 18 century dragoons production speed increased from 7-17%.
  Next changes to food and stone prices were applied in previous patch:
• Food selling price was decreased by ~15%.
• Stone selling price was increased by ~8%.

Mercenaries:

Light Infantry

• Attack damage increased from 15 to 16.
• Won't have +2/+2 formation bonus anymore.

Archer:

• Attack damage increased from 24 to 25.
• They won't have +2/+2 formation bonus anymore.
• Attack range changed from 350-650 to 300-750 (min-max attack range).

Bug fixes:

1. Fixed bug, allowing player was able to earn gold by ordering production of mercenary units (when they have already maxed price) and canceling production.
2. Tuned AI market resource exchange policy, for better base developing.
3. Tuned AI player to better constuct shipyards on island maps.
4. Fixed rare bug with uncontrolable formation in historical battles.

Players communication:

1. Private messages were reworked. Now you are able to send private messages without /w (/whisper) command! You may just click on player in list (located on right to the chat window), or on his\her message in chat window in order to write directly to him, as writing nickname correctly for each message was hindering communications.
2. Message filter. You may filter all messages with next options:
   a) Show all messages;
   b) Show only your messages along with messages sent to you.
   Forget about missed opportunites on playing interesting battles with your friends, just because their messages were 'lost' in global chat, just use a "Private messages" checkbox in upper right corner of chat window.
3. Instant inputbox's addressee clearing: after reaching ':' symbol before his nickname: just press the Backspace button twice.
4. You won't be wasting time on clearing message anymore: just press button "Clear" (located under the chat window), and you'd be ready to write a "Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks". Reminder: you may delete your message with 'Escape' button too.
   We hope, that this chat update would allow you, cossackers, to find and create lots of great multiplayer battles!

Developer comments:

1. Changes in market prices should move focus from food to stone in middle and late game. Now, food economy was dominating most part of the game.
2. Most of 18 century dragoons was less powerful then their 17 century brothers. We tried to change it and give 18 century better chances, but with much greater price to produce enough power.
3. Most of 18 century shooters with out bayonnete was less powerful against general musketeers and don't have chance to play its unique features with higher bullet damage but more fragile against any melee enemy unit.
4. We have removed formation bonus for mercenary infantry, while increase base damage, for units that don't use officers to form squad. We find this feature non-challenging while it give quite unpredictable advantage. Removing such bonus made these mercenary units power predictable.

Patch 1.8.9.82.5710 (08 September 2017)

• Added a function to change nickname and password in internet shell. In order to change your credentials, please, click on "Change profile" button.
• Fixed a bug, causing peasants disappearance from mines after changing host.
• Starting from today, nations of Switzerland and Piedmont are now available to every Cossacks 3 owner, regardless the edition. Each new nation brings exciting new things to the game: unique units, original soundtrack and marvels of its architecture.

Patch 1.8.1.80.5478 (02 August 2017)

Battle:

• Attack animation speed is decreased by 20%. Attack time is higher by 25%. All melee units start to deal damage less frequently. While shooters reload time wasn't changed
• Removed 30% chance that mortar ball won't deal any damage.
• Changes in map generation rules. Places for one gold, iron and coal mines were moved further from the base.

Economics:

• Decreased needed count of wheat cut out to gather food from 26 to 22 times
• Increased portion of gathered food by 12.5%
• Price for buying Iron and Coal is increased by ~40%. Now you have to sell more resources to get same amount of Iron and Coal. Selling price of this resources wasn't changed

General:

Mill:

• 2st food harvesting upgrade efficiency decreased from 250 to 180%

Academy:

• Field life upgrade cost decreased from 1400 wood 525 gold to 1000 wood 475 gold
• "New construction materials" upgrade cost decreased from 13500 wood, 8714 stone, 1150 gold to 9400 wood, 7850 stone, 1150 gold
• Design new barrel types' upgrade cost decreased from 7000 stone, 9050 gold, 27235 iron to 3000 stone, 4550 gold, 19200 iron
• "Develop geology" upgrade cost decreased from 500 gold to 250 gold
• "Develop medical science" research time doubled, and effects reduced in 2 times (heals 50% of health points now)

Blacksmith:

• "Forge metal armature" upgrade cost decreased from 19320 stone, 350 gold, 900 iron to 12320 stone, 350 gold, 900 iron

Artillery Depot:

• 1st, 2nd and 3rd upgrades for cost and construction time for cannons and howitzers research times decreased from 31.25s to 10s

Balance:

Coselette - Spain:

• Pike protection decreased from 4 to 3

Pikeman 17th century - Poland:

• Fixed bug when 6th protection upgrade gave +3 only to sword, and not to pike and arrow

Roundshier - Austria:

• 5th protection upgrade protection bonus decreased from 2 to 1

18th century Pikeman - Europe:

• Training time decreased from 1.5s to 1.25s

18th century Pikeman - Sweden:

• Training time decreased from 2s to 1.5s

Serdiuk - Ukraine:

• Damage increased from 10 to 12
• 5th and 6th damage upgrades bonus damage decreased by 1

17th century Musketeer - Austria:

• Training time decreased from 7.5s to 6.5s

17th century Musketeer - Spain:

• Training time decreased from 9s to 7.5s

17th century Musketeers, Janissary, Strelets:

• 3rd protection upgrade's food costs decreased by 1000-2000

Archer - Algeria:

• Training time decreased from 2s to 1.5s

Turkish Archer - Turkey:

• Training time decreased from 4.5s to 3s

17th century Officer - Europe:

• Health points decreased from 150 to 125
• Damage decreased from 40 to 30
• Training time decreased from 12s to 10s
• Gold consumption rate increased from 40 to 60
• Damage upgrade's bonus damage decreased from +30 to +20
• Upgrade time decreased from 47s to 15s

17th century Officer - Russia:

• Health points decreased from 150 to 125
• Damage decreased from 55 to 40
• Training time decreased from 15s to 12.5s
• Gold consumption rate increased from 40 to 60
• Protection upgrade's bonus increased from +8 to +10

17th century Officer - Turkey, Algeria:

• Health points decreased from 150 to 125
• Training time decreased from 10s to 7.5s
• Gold consumption rate increased from 35 to 50
• Damage upgrade's bonus damage decreased from +30 to +20
• Protection upgrade's bonus increased from +8 to +10

17th century Officer - Scotland:

• Health points decreased from 200 to 150
• Training time decreased from 14s to 10s
• Gold consumption rate increased from 45 to 70
• Damage decreased from 45 to 40
• Protection upgrade's bonus increased from +8 to +10

18th century Officer - Europe:

• Health points decreased from 150 to 125
• Damage decreased from 75 to 50
• Gold consumption rate increased from 80 to 90
• Damage upgrade's bonus damage decreased from +75 to +30

Hussar - Europe:

• Health points increased from 200 to 230
• Training time decreased from 16.5 to 15s

Hussar - Prussia:

• Health points increased from 210 to 240
• Training time decreased from 12 to 11.25s

Hussar - Hungary:

• Health points increased from 225 to 250
• 6th damage upgrades damage bonus decreased by 1

Croat - Austria

• Health points increased from 240 to 260
• Training time decreased from 18s to 15.75s

Hackapellita - Sweden

• Health points increased from 220 to 245
• Training time decreased from 19.5s to 18s

Reiter - Europe:

• Damage increased from 12 to 15
• 3rd, 4th and 5th damage upgrades damage bonus decreased by 1
• Damage upgrade research time increased from 15 to 23s
• Protection upgrade research time decreased from 15 to 8s

Cuirassier - Europe:

• Training time increased from 21s to 22.5s

Reiter - Sweden:

• Damage increased from 11 to 14
• 3rd, 4th and 5th damage upgrades damage bonus decreased by 1
• Damage upgrade research time increased from 15 to 23s
• Protection upgrade research time decreased from 15 to 8s

Reiter - Poland:

• Health points increased from 175 to 190

Don Cossack - Russia:

• Training time decreased from 15s to 13.5s

Vityaz - Russia:

• Damage increased from 11 to 14
• 3rd, 4th and 5th damage upgrades damage bonus decreased by 1
• Damage upgrade research time increased from 15 to 23s
• Protection upgrade research time decreased from 15 to 8s

Light Sipahi - Turkey:

• Damage increased from 12 to 15
• 1st, 2nd and 3rd damage upgrades damage bonus decreased by 1
• Damage and protection upgrades costs decreased.

Heavy Sipahi - Turkey:

• Damage increased from 12 to 15
• Training time decreased from 19.5s to 18s
• 3rd, 4th and 5th damage upgrades damage bonus decreased by 1

Mameluke - Algeria:

• Damage increased from 13 to 16
• 1st, 2nd and 3rd damage upgrades damage bonus decreased by 1
• Damage and protection upgrades costs decreased.

17th century Dragoon - Europe

• Training time decreased from 16.5s to 15s

T#####atar - Turkey

• Training time increased from 9s to 11.25s

Cannon:

• Health points increased from 6000 to 9000
• Maximum attack range increased from 2000 to 2160

Mortar:

• Protection increased from 10 to 25
• Dispertion decreased from 250 to 200

Buildings:

Artillery depot:

• Construction time decreased from 380s to 300s

Mercenaries:

Archer:

• Price is now slightly increasing, depending on count of these units (like the 18th century mercenary dragoons).
• Maximum attack range decreased from 700 to 650
• Price increased from 6 gold to 15 gold
• Training time increased from 1s to 1.25s
• Gold consumption rate increased from 8 to 16

Light infantry:

• Training time increased from 1s to 1.25s

Grenadier:

• Price is now slightly increasing, depending on count of these units (like the 18th century mercenary dragoons).
• Bullet damage increased from 15 to 16
• Price changed from 20 gold to 25 gold
• Gold consumption rate increased from 40 to 60

Sich Cossack:

• Price is now slightly increasing, depending on count of these units (like the 18th century mercenary dragoons).
• Damage decreased from 9 to 8
• Training time decreased from 2.75s to 2.5s
• Gold consumption rate increased from 75 to 150

18th century Dragoon:

• Price changed from 100 gold to 120 gold
• Gold consumption rate increased from 90 to 120

Patch 1.8.0.78.5461 (25 July 2017)

General:

• 1. Improved game's initial loading. Now the game's waiting for all players to load. Prior to patch, it was possible for a player with less performant PC to load slightly later than other players.
• 1. Improved units locations synchronization in multiplayer games.
• 1. New astonishing backgrounds on game's loading screens.
• 1. Added new hotkeys, to complement existing ones:
• Shift+(1-0) - binds a number to a group of units, adding units to an existing on this number group
• 1. New 'Free camera' option in settings, which allows to disable un-zoom constraints. Attention! as enabling this option may have negative impact on game performance.

Errors:

• 1. Fixed a rare error, rendering DLCs invisible for the game, even when user owned them.
• 1. Fixed an error, which prevented players from building one of the mines in second mission of Turkey campaign.
• 1. Fixed an error with medicine upgrade, which was increasing max hp for other nations units.

Patch 1.6.4.77.5351 (21 June 2017)

General:

• 1. Changed map generation for games with players count <=4 on terrain type Land. Players respawn points are closer to each other now, and have dispersion in their location. In some cases players would be even closers. Without scouting it`s impossible to determine how close are enemies spawn points.
• 1. Shooters critical hit chance increased from 4% to 5% (Chance to deal additional 0-500 damage).
• 1. Distance, allowing enemy units to block artillery fire, has been decreased at 25%.
• 1. 18c barracks construction time decreased by 10%.

Upgrades:

• 1. 'Raise builders salary' (building construction time -75%) upgrade cost decreased from 9050 gold to 6950 gold.
• 1. 'Research improved steel grades for cuirasses' (armored soldiers defense +2) upgrade cost increased from 7950 gold to 9750 gold.
• 1. 'Forge new cuirasses' (armored soldiers defense +2) upgrade cost increased from 3450 gold, 8900 iron to 4950 gold, 10500 iron.
• 1. 'Design flintlock' (musket cost -50%) upgrade now affects all 18th century shooters, including mounted ones.
• 1. 'Design flintlock' (musket cost -50%) upgrade cost increased from 1550 gold, 3700 coal to 6050 gold, 7750 coal.

Units balance:

Mercenaries:

• 1. Archer damage decreased from 25 to 24
• 1. Roundshier bullet protection decreased from 9 to 8.
• 1. Sich cossack training time increased from 2s to 2.75s.
• 1. 18c dragoon damage increased from 16 to 18.

17c pikeman - Europe:

• Bullet protection decreased from 5 to 4.

Hussar - Europe, Prussia:

• Decreased total upgrades cost at 26000 gold, 7000 iron.

Heavy cavalry (Reiters, Cuirassiers, unique units with cuirasses):

• Pike protection increased by 1.

Errors:

• 1. Fixed an error, causing AI to ignore firepower upgrades in academy for particular nations.

Patch 1.6.2.77.5344 (15 June 2017)

Economics:

• 1. Increased food harvesting speed by 15% (1 field holds more concurrently working peasants now).
• 1. Mine upgrades cost has been decreased.
• 1. Academy food upgrades costs have been decreased.

Market:

• 1. Resource prices regenerate (restore to their former values) much faster now.
• 1. Stone and wood prices has been increased. Wood is more valuable than stone now.

New features:

• 1. Random and multiplayer games options now include fixed speed options.
• 1. Random and multiplayer games options now include population limit options.
• 1. Critical hit mechanics has been reworked. Now, critical chance concludes 4%. Critical hit adds random damage (from 0 to 400). Units with high health would die less frequently, than infantry.
• 1. Now, you can form squads starting from 15 soldiers.

Palisade (wooden wall):

• 1. Protection increased from 15 to 95. Now it can hold some time against archers, but grenades are still highly effective.

Ships:

• 1. Ships construction speed upgrade increases construction speed in 5 times instead of 10.
• 1. Ships are constructed twice as fast now.
• 1. Ships construction prices are lowered.

Errors:

• 1. Fixed wood resource gathering on desert maps.
• 1. Improved game`s performance for large quantities of heavy sipahis on screen.
• 1. Fixed achievements: Frantic struggle, Uneven chances, Surrounded at all sides.
• 1. Fixed Stand Ground error for shooters. When you commanded to move&attack to point, shooters often didnt attacked enemies. And, when they reached destination point, they werent attacking units located too far, when they had enemy units nearby. Now, when shooter has Stand Ground order he looks for target he`s able to attack.
• 1. Fixed an error, which caused incorrect display of buildings hit points on client PCs. There were mines, which were looking damaged, and players were unable to order peasants to repair this mine or get inside. Shipyards, standing still with 0 hp, while not exploding were fixed too.

Upgrades:

• 1. XVIII century upgrade cost decreased.
• 1. Balloon upgrade cost increased from 1750 gold to 5750 gold, to compensate lower 18th century upgrade cost.
• 1. Bayonet upgrades (academy ones) costs have been decreased.
• 1. Changed firepower upgrades in Academy. Costs changed from 6000, 7000, 12000, 21000 gold to 5000 iron, 4000 gold, 7000 gold, 11000 coal.
• 1. Added both cuirass upgrades for Turkey (effects heavy sipahi).

Balance:

• 1. Stables, 18th century barracks, artillery depot costs decreased.
• 1. Artillery depot requires academy now (stables aren`t required anymore).
• 1. Construction time for stone and wooden walls has been lowered (33% approximately).
• 1. 18th century barracks construction time decreased by 20%.
• 1. Cannon`s reload time for cannister shot and cannonball shot is the same now.

Units balance:

Mercenaries:

• 1. Light infantry damage increased from 14 to 15
• 1. Roundshier damage decreased from 8 to 6.
• 1. Roundshier price increased from 8 gold to 12.
• 1. Roundshier protection changed from (pike 4, sword 5, arrow 17) to (pike 5, sword 3, arrow 19).
• 1. Archer damage increased from 20 to 25.
• 1. Grenadier grenade attack range decreased from 500 to 370.
• 1. Grenadier's health increased from 25 to 30.
• 1. Dragoon's damage decreased from 20 to 16.
• 1. Dragoon's reload time decreased by 15%.
• 1. Dragoon's minimal shooting range increased from 300 to 350.
• 1. Dragoon's maximal shooting range decreased from 850 to 800.
• 1. Dragoon's shot cost in iron increased from 4 to 5.

Register cossack - Ukraine:

• Damage decreased from 13 to 12.

Hetman - Ukraine:

• Damage decreased from 75 to 70.
• Decreased hetman attack upgrade value from 50 to 30.
• Training time increased from 13.5s to 17.5s.

Heavy sipahi - Turkey:

• Pike protection decreased from 3 to 2.

Peasant - Algeria, Turkey:

• Food consumption decreased by 10%.

Light Infantry - Algeria, Turkey:

• Damage with all upgrades increased by 2.

17c musketeer:

• Protection upgrades costs decreased.

Grenadier:

• Protection upgrades costs decreased.

17c dragoon:

• Protection upgrades costs decreased.

18c cavalry:

• Protection upgrades costs decreased.

17c shooters:

• Almost all 17th century shooters (except serdiuk) are trained 0.5-1 second faster now.

Mounted shooters:

• Almost all mounted shooters are trained faster.

18c shooters without bayonets:

• Protection upgrades costs decreased.

Patch 1.6.0.76.5321 (31 May 2017)

General:

• 1. Nations list in game creation room has been changed and adapts to your resolution.

Balance:

• 1. Officer`s attack speed decreased in a factor of 2.
     Europe - Production time increased from 5s to 12s.
     Russia - Production time increased from 6s to 15s.
     Turkey, Algeria - Production time increased from 4s to 10s.
     Scotland - Production time increased from 6s to 14s.
• 1. Attack upgrades for russian and scottish officers values decreased from 45 to 30.
     Defense upgrades values for russian, ottoman and scottish officers decreased from 10 to 8.
• 1. Production time for officers attack upgrade increased to 46.875s.
• 1. Production time for artillery has been decreased:
     Cannons - from 120s to 75s
     Howitzers - from 150s to 94s
• 1. Movement speed for cannon, howitzer and multi-barreled cannon increased by 10-15% approximately.
• 1. Art depo upgrades for all artillery units have been changed. Now, there are 3 upgrades for both production time and cost. These upgrades have higher efficiency and their cost was changed.
• 1. Costs for 3rd, 4th and 5th attack speed upgrades in tower decreased:
     3rd upgrade - from 600 gold to 400 gold;
     4th upgrade - from 700 gold to 450 gold;
     5th upgrade - from 850 gold to 500 gold;
• 1. Spanish and portuguese storehouses build time and cost have been decreased:
     Build time - from 6.25s to 4.68s;
     Cost - from 20 wood 50 stone to 20 wood 20 stone ;

Errors:

• 1. Fixed a bug, which allowed to upgrade mines and towers above the limits.
• 1. Fixed a bug, which caused healing upgrade in academy to disappear, in case if academy was captured upgrade process.

Patch 1.5.4.72.5150 (27 April 2017)

General:

• Reduced the critical (headshot) chance of muskets from 4 to 3.
  AI Adviser (function from DLC Guardians of the Highlands):
• While choosing troops to set on guard near buildings, adviser will try to use melee infantry.
• AI assistant won`t repair buildings which were set on fire by player via pressing the Delete key.
• Changed peasant selection algorithm used for constructing new buildings. Now it processes game priorities, size and time of construiction properly
• Now AI sets peasants training on infinte production, instead of building them one by one.
• Changed resource gathering priorites. Now adviser would send lesser amounts of peasants to gather food.
• Fixed an error, which caused adviser using units from squads to set on guard.

Errors:

• Fixed an error, when units able to shoot and attack with bayonet werent able to attack in melee if reload time for musket wasnt over.
• Fixed an error, causing some shooters inability to shoot from maximum range.

Balance:

• 17th century musketeer - Poland:
• Reload time decreased from 3.4375 to 3.125 sec
• Production time decreased from 6.5 to 6 sec
  17th century musketeer - Netherland:
• Production time decreased from 7 to 6 sec
  17th century musketeer - Austria:
• Production time decreased from 9 to 8.5 sec
  17th century musketeer - Spain:
  -Production time decreased from 10.5 to 10 sec
  Pandur - Austria:
• Reload time increased from 4.375 to 4.6875 sec
• Production time decreased from 9 to 8 sec
  Chasseur - France:
• Reload time decreased from 6.25 to 5.9375 sec
• Max shooting distance increased from 1000 to 1050
• Production time decreased from 12 to 10.5 sec
  Highlander - England:
• Production time decreased from 7.5 to 8.5 sec
  Archer - Algier/mercenary:
• Fire arrow max shooting distance decreased from 800 to 600
  Hussar - Prussia:
• Production time decreased from 12 to 11.25 sec
  Reiter:
• Production time decreased from 27 to 24 sec
  Howitzer:
• Hit points reduced from 4000 to 3000
• Minimal attack distance increased from 550 to 650
• Maximal attack distance reduced from 1400 to 1350
  Mortar:
• Hit points reduced from 500 to 400
  Multibarrel cannon
• Added 500 protection against cannister, to prevent killing other multibarrel cannons standing nearby
  Frame gun - Scotland:
• Hit points reduced from 3000 to 2500
• Reload time increased from 2.1875 to 2.8125 sec

Mercenaries:

• Changed gold consumption:
• Light Infantry from 3 to 4
• Roundshier from 6 to 10
• Archer from 4 to 8
• Grenadier from 20 to 40
• Sich Cossack from 60 to 75
• Dragoon 18c from 60 to 90
• Grenadier (mercenary):
  Increased resource consumtion on shot from 2 iron 3 coal to 2 iron 5 coal
• Dragoon 18 century (mercenary):
  Increased resource consumtion on shot from 4 iron 5 coal to 4 iron 8 coal

Patch 1.4.5.69.4994 (20 March 2017)

Ranked:

• The game now has a ranked mode. From now on the players can gain points and progress in the ladder either by playing ranked or casual matches. Due to frequent match evasion and hacking offences, we decided to reset the ranks of all players, giving everyone a fair chance in the new season. Below are the main differences between the two:

Ranked games:

• You can launch it only by pressing ""Quick Play"" or by creating a special room in the multiplayer shell
• The starting options are set and cannot be changed
• All user created modifications are disabled
• Victory grants a lot of points;
• The match is considered ranked only if the game lasts more than 10 minutes.

Casual games:

• Launched from the multiplayer rooms
• The starting options are chosen by the host
• User created modifications are allowed
• The following starting options are set for the ranked mode:
• Type: Team versus Team, 3 vs 3, if there's not enough players the game will automatically switch teams to 2 vs 2 or 1 vs 1;
• Nations: random;
• Starting resources: 5000;
• Peace Time: 10 minutes;
• Map type: Land.
• For a more convenient way of finding ranked games, players can now use the 'Quick Play' button, which will automatically find suitable opponents for the player.
• You can invite up to two players to queue up together for a ranked match. To do this, create a special room and invite your friends, then you need to set the lobby eligible for the Ranked mode. You and your friends can only play on the same team.
• You have 2 months to get a desired title, as the ranked season lasts till the second half of May. The rewards will be distributed at the end of May as well.
• We leave the right to reset ranks of certain players if there will be proof of unsportsman behaviour, match-fixing or cheating.

General:

• The Balloon upgrade now removes Field of View for allies as well.

Cheating

• Cheaters will receive a more severe punishment from now on. We remind you that if you encounter a cheater, you can always send a report letter with a replay and a short description of the supposed hacking to support@cossacks3.com.

Errors:

• Dealt with bugs that prevented some players from seeing their Early Bird bonuses
• Fixed an issue that caused the game to use a wrong localization.
• Fixed a bug with the statistics screen, when after pressing the ""Replay the game"" button the new session used the settings from the previous game.
• Fixed a problem, when the keys responsible for camera controls (arrows) wouldn't respond if the player holds the Shift or Ctrl keys.
• Fixed typos in some texts.
• Fixed an error, when the ""Random nation"" option would never choose the last nation from the list.
• Fixed a bug in the 4th mission of the Prussian campaign, where an enemy's blockhouse wasn't considered hostile.

Multiplayer:

• Fixed an error, when after a several consecutive multiplayer games, the new session had a chance of suddenly ending or displaying chat messages from other games.
• Fixed an issue with MP room exiting, when the player would get a notification that he was kicked although he wasn’t.
• Fixed an error, when after a re-hosting the session wouldn’t count as ranked.
• Fixed a bug, that broke the re-hosting process: the notification about loading of another player would never go away and the game would refuse to start.
• Fixed an error, that caused the shell to appear empty after exiting a session.
• Fixed an error when the player wouldn’t get any points for winning a ranked game.
• We’re going to save TOP 100 players of this season to give the players rewards in the future.

Hotkeys:

• There is an alternative hotkey that allows the player to select all military units – Ctrl + Shift + A and Ctrl + Alt + A.

Balance

• Increased the formation bonus for a 400 units’ template from +2 to attack/+3 to defense to +3 to attack/+4 to defense.
• Increased the amount of peasants that can chop the same tree from 1 to 2, which increases the efficiency of wood gathering.
• Increased the rate at which each next building gets more expensive from 3 to 4%

Unit changes

Housings:

• Increased the amount of slots housings provide from 15 to 25.
• Increased the cost of construction from 50 wood and 50 stones to 100 wood and 100 stones.

Pandur (Austria):

• Reduced the production time from 18.75 to 10.32 seconds

Chasseur (France):

• Increased the production time from 9.38 to 10.32 seconds.
• Increased the range of vision
• Decreased the fire range from 1050 to 1000.
• Increased the price by 10 gold

Peasant:

• Increased the melee range from 50 to 65

Hussar:

• Increased the production time from 14.84 to 17.8 seconds
• Reduced the bonus to armor after all upgrades by 2

Hussar (Prussia):

• Increased the production time from 10.16 to 13.16
• Reduced the bonus to armor after all upgrades by 2

Pikeman, 18c:

• Increased the attack after all of the upgrades by 2

Pikeman, 18c (Sweden):

• Increased the attack after all of the upgrades by 2
• Increased the health from 85 to 95
• Increased the basic attack from 11 to 12

Archer (Algeria):

• Decreased the arrow damage from 199 to 40
• Increased the production time from 0.78 to 1 second
• Reduced the amount of time it takes to shoot another regular arrow from 9.22 to 5 seconds
• Increased the minimal range of regular and fire arrows from 300 to 350 (the same as the mercenary archer)
• Increased the maximum range of regular and fire arrows from 600 to 700 (the same as the mercenary archer)

Patch 1.4.4.67.4923 (27 February 2017)

Multiplayer:

• Hosts' ranks are now displayed in the shell's room list.
• The ranked score is now displayed alongside their names in lobbies.
• Players can now see their position in the ladder, even if they are not in the top 100.
• Fixed an issue when a multiple players spawned at the same spot.
• Fixed the ""uncontrollable"" units, that ignored orders and didn't receive any damage from enemy attacks.
• Fixed an error when the session's season wasn't displayed correctly to all players in the room.
• Fixed a bug, that caused huge lags on naval maps and resulted in desynchronizations.
• Fixed rank display in the multiplayer mode.
• Players are now sorted above the mini-map: players from the same team are displayed together, different teams are separated by a line, while players without a team are listed last, "

Localization:

• Spanish and polish localizations are now available for Rise to Glory DLC.
• Fixed some typos and errors in English and Ukrainian localizations.

General:

• Fixed a bug, when recently produced units that were moving to their gathering point would lose their order if they encounter a hostile unit.
• Fixed the Access Violation error that often recurred in 20-30 minutes after starting a match, loading of a save, or exiting to the main menu. Unfortunately, save games with this error are unfixable.
• ""Surrender"" button now works correctly in singleplayer missions.
• Fixed an error with galleys, when they refused to attack a building if the target was in between the ranges of their first and second cannons.
• Ships now won't sail on land.
• Fixed lighting, now the map won't get too bright if you hover over to the lower left corner.
• Fixed the animation of artillery, that occurred after loading up a save file.
• Fixed a glitch that allowed to order multiple upgrades simultaneously, despite paying only for one.
• The name of the Bavarian musketeer is now displayed correctly.
• Fixed a number of errors with player separation above the mini-map."

Changes to the economy:

• An academy is now required to produce units in the diplomatic center.
• Reduced the mine upgrade speed from 15.5 seconds to 9 seconds.

Changes to unit balance:

• TL;DR: Nerfed elite musketeers, rebalanced damage of bayonets, overhaul to hired grenadiers and all 18th century gunners.

Grenadier (mercenary)

• fire power increased from 4 to 18
• Increased reloading time from 3.4 seconds to 3.75
• Slightly increased the bayonet attack range
• Increased cost of shot from 1 iron/3 coal to 3 iron/4 coal
• Increased the grenade's damage from 110 to 200
• Pauses between grenade throws of a hired grenadier is 0.33 times bigger than of the usual one
• Increased gold consumption from 20 to 25 pieces
• Decreased the range of fire from 850 to 750

Musketeer 18c

• decreased the melee damage from 18 to 10

Musketeer 18c (Prussia)

• decreased melee damage from 22 to 12
• fire power decrease from 55 to 35
• decreased the price from 240 to 200
• increased coal consumption from 1 to 3 coal per shot

Musketeer 18c (Bayern)

• decreased melee damage from 9 to 6
• fire power decrease from 55 to 35
• increased the price from 35 to 160
• increased coal consumption from 1 to 3 coal per shot
• decreased the production time from 7.03 to 5.62 seconds
• decreased the damage that melee upgrade granted from 2/3/4/5/6/10 to 1/1/1/1/1/1

Musketeer 18c (Denmark)

• decreased melee damage from 18 to 10
• fire power decreased from 60 to 40
• decreased the price from 195 to 160
• increased coal consumption from 1 to 3 coal per shot
• increased the production time from 4.69 to 7.03 seconds

Musketeer 18c (Saxony)

• decreased melee damage from 12 to 6
• increased the price from 35 to 50 gold

Grenadier

• decreased melee damage from 22 to 20
• increased HP from 100 to 120
• increased the production time from 4.69 to 5.62 seconds

Grenadier (Prussia)

• decreased melee damage from 28 to 25

Grenadier (Bavaria)

• decreased melee damage from 20 to 15
• fire power increased from 14 to 15
• increased the production time from 4.69 to 5.62 seconds

Grenadier (Denmark)

• increased melee damage from 23 to 25
• increased the production time from 4.69 to 5.62 seconds

Grenadier (Saxony)

• fire power increased from 15 to 16
• increased the production time from 4.21 to 4.69 seconds

Chasseur (France)

• increased the maximum range of fire from 800 to 1050
• increased the reloading time from 2.8 to 5.6 seconds
• decreased HP from 85 to 75

Highlander (England)

• decreased the maximum range of fire from 850 to 800
• increased the reloading time from 2.8 to 5.75 seconds
• increased HP from 100 to 125

Pandur (Austria)

• increased the reloading time from 2.8 to 3.44 seconds

Patch 1.4.2.66.4914 (24 February 2017)

Starting from today, nations of Saxony and Bavaria are now available to every Cossacks 3 owner, regardless the edition.

Full list of new units:

• Bavarian musketeer
• Saxon musketeer
• Bavarian grenadier
• Saxon grenadier
• Saxon Cavalry Guard
• Swedish Hakkapeliitta
• Prussian grenadier

Patch 1.3.3.61.4549 (6 February 2017)

New mechanics:

• Units will now experience collision when they approach enemy troops. Each unit now has a radius that will prevent enemies from going through them. This severely affects the cavalry units, as they won't be able to pass through units and make diversions behind the lines.
• Land units can now engage each other more easily.

Changes to gameplay

• The upgrades to firepower from the academy now recalculate after each unit's personal upgrade. Now they are not influenced by the amount of firepower units have at the moment of upgrade and scale independently. This heavily influences the early game stage and affects Serdiuk, 18th century musketeer of Prussia and Denmark.
• Resource gathering upgrades now influence the respective nation where they were learnt and don't stack together.
• "No cannons" option now fully disables artillery, not only cannons.

New game options

• "No diplomatic center", "No market" and "Without either" options are now available in the lobby.
• It's now possible to set starting locations: random positioning or allies grouped together.

Performance and AI

• Optimized the combat and target selection for units.
• Optimized the way AI thinks and reacts, sped up the processes

New in-game notices

• Now the game determines if you have a video card unsuitable for playing the game and will notify the player. In this case, you need to update your video card drivers from the manufacturer's website.
• Now the game will notify you, if it will find only an integrated video card, not a discrete one. If such situation occurs, we recommend you to update your video card drivers from the manufacturer’s website.

Fixed errors

• Fixed "stuck" units, which ignored orders.
• Fixed a bug, when after ordering a unit to go to an unreachable spot (mountain, building or water) the unit stopped reacting to the enemies nearby till the next order.
• Fixed an error, which caused the game to reset the blue colored player options.
• Fixed a bug, when units near one edge of the map could start moving in the direction of the opposing edge.
• In rare cases peasants would ignore "Build" or "Repair" orders. This was happening due to them already being on the spot where required action would take place.
• Fixed the "disappearing upgrade". Prior to this, certain upgrades would disappear from buildings if those buildings were captured earlier.

Once again, we would like to thank all the dedicated players and mod makers for supporting us – you inspire us to make the game better.
We would like to thank players LiptonVPaketike and Inventor for their assistance in fixing errors in this patch.

Have a good day!

Patch 1.3.0.60.4444 (18 January 2017)

• bug fixes

Patch 1.3.0.60.4440 (17 January 2017)

• bug fixes

Patch 1.2.3.58.4385 (23 December 2016)

• A new FREE mission is added to the game. Help Santa to rescue his reindeer and save Christmas for people all around the world!
• We’ve changed our main menu art, so it would be more suitable for this time of year;
• Redesigned the UI to give some additional holiday vibes to players;
• Added some holiday trees to the map generator, brings even more joy to the game!
• Peasants now use their holiday colored bags;
• Tweaked the lightning for a snowier atmosphere in the game.