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Ara: History Untold has released a big update for all

Luke Henderson

Oxide Games have announced that a big update for Ara: History Untold has been released, called The Invisible Hand the update includes many refinements to micromanagement, the Battle Viewer, unit upgrades, and much more to create an even more engaging and accessible grand strategy experience. Check out the video below to get the rundown of the update.

As with most games and their big updates, there are highlights that are what the developers are calling out what they consider the most important updates.

  • National Economy Screen

  • Manage your nation’s crafting, supplies, and policies from a single screen, replacing the crafting panel for streamlined management.

  • New Amenities

  • Over a dozen new craftable amenities added, offering additional strategic choices:

    • Anvil: provide a 150% buff to improvements that can be supplied with them.

    • Biscuits: grant players a +25 to food as an Amenity.

    • Mining pick: add +50% harvest rate to improvements.

    • Fuel cell: gives 150% craft rate at improvements, or 100% Harvest rate to improvements, +3 City Health.

    • Sewing machines: sewing machines add 200% craft rate to improvements.

    • Fresh produce: grant +200 food per turn, +5 health per turn as an Amenity.

    • Scrolls: grant +15 City Knowledge as an Amenity.

    • Baked goods: give +50 food/turn, -5 City Health as an Amenity.

    • …and more!

  • Unit Upgrades

  • Upgrade units within your army directly by issuing the new Upgrade Order, but be mindful of the resource and turn cost to complete the upgrade.

  • Advisors

    • Introduces a Sovereign Advisor.

    • each advisor provides suggestions to enhance your strategy.

    • this feature will become more intelligent in future releases.

  • John A. MacDonald

  • Canada joins the world stage, expanding your diplomatic and strategic options!

  • Earth Map

  • Added as a pre-made map focusing on gameplay over strict geographical accuracy:

    • Britain and Ireland share an enlarged island.

    • Features like the Canadian shield and Gulf Stream are accounted for.

    • Enhanced mountain ranges for natural barriers.

  • Redeployment

  • Reform armies with units being sent back to your reserves for better strategic flexibility.

The full list of changes and updates can be found on the games official website.