Game Updates

This page has every game update for Stick Empires listed from the newest update to the oldest update. If adding an update here, please have the wording be the exact same as it appears in-game. There is also the date the patch was added. The format is YYYY/MM/DD

Unofficial patch introducing new Stick Empires admins

2018/04/30

New accounts admins were given admin status to allow for chat moderation.
FACUFERI4, s07, ChaosEmpire8

All Empires are now unlocked

2018/04/25

All empires are now free of charge permanently.

"Thanks for a fantastic 5+ years of fun! To thank our awesome Stick Empires, Stick War and Stick Page community we are now giving away free memberships to everyone! Meaning all 3 Empires, Order, Chaos, and Elemental are now free! You wont need to do anything special, starting today all the Empires are unlocked. Enjoy!"

~CRAZYJAY

Unofficial patch introducing new Stick Empires admins

2017/08/29

New accounts admins were given admin status to allow for chat moderation.
Aeroface, gaismail(ISyncErrorI), willdabeast1(william1)

Unofficial patch introducing new Stick Empires admins

2017/02/?

New accounts admins were given admin status to allow for chat moderation.
ArrowsofTime (Antis)

Unofficial patch introducing new Stick Empires admins

2016/11/30

New accounts admins were given admin status to allow for chat moderation.
ShadowEmpire123, Darquess, ActiveFirewall, LVL9001, SpilledCoffee, sean893, ETxLazar

Performance Patch

2016/03/02

The match history list inside the user profiles now loads much quicker. This will help overall performance as long queries were clogging up the server.

Stick War Mobile Alpha

2015/10/30

Mobile release of Stick War Legacy. This patch did not affect gameplay. The patch note was:

We have remastered the original Stick War for mobile and the public Alpha test is available as of today. Please download and provide feedback here.

Official Tournament

2015/08/23

An official tournament hosted by WyzDM and several others featuring Crazy Jay resulted in a banner being shown at the top of the Stick Empires page allowing all users on the site to find WyzDM's tournament stream.

This patch did not affect gameplay. The patch note was:

We are hosting an official Stick Empires tournament to celebrate our 3rd anniversary with over $1000 dollars in cash and prizes. Check out THIS thread on the stick page forums for details.

Patch 2.29

2015/05/27

(Informal patch mentioned on the forums rather than in game as a note)

Small patch fix today, Tree's items fixed and the timer if you don't join a queue shows min and sec instead of looking like you have to wait 2 hours.

Patch 2.28

2015/04/11

Players that do not select an Empire during the empire select screen will have to wait 2 minutes to rejoin matchmaking
Upon expiration of duration of the Blind Gate spell an Earth Elemental is returned
Castle Air Elemental does splash burn damage
Water Elemental spell Mass Heal has a maximum total heal spread evenly among nearby allied units
Swordwrath Helmets now available in the armoury
Treature items now available in the armoury
Charrog items now available in the armoury
Many new armoury items for all units

Note: Miner animation cancelling with Chaos and Order miners was removed without statement

Patch 2.24

2015/04/13

Scorpling now costs 3 mana to spawn
V no longer able to build walls or towers while controlling enemy miners
Updated facebook login API

Patch 2.21

2014/11/24

New returning daily Empire Coin bonus

Chat admins added (Teal coloured).

Patch 2.18

2014/11/19

Chat ban feature added
Clicking on names in chat will now show users profile

Patch 2.17

2014/10/15

New items in the Armoury!
Bomber burn damage decrease
Cycloid Protect effect decreased
Cycloid health decreased
Fire Element decreased health
Elemental Castle Element decreased damage
Elemental ghost no longer stunable

Patch 2.16

2014/9/17

Spearton Shield Bash damage reduction
Cycloid Speed and Health increase
Chaos Castle Dead damage increase
Fixed Scorpling death animation loop
Performance improvements

Patch 2.14

2014/09/02

New Armoury!
Performance improvements. See the full here list of changes

Patch 2.12

2014/08/06

Featured live replays added to the main lobby!
Patch notes list moved to login screen to make space - not part of notes

Patch 2.10

2014/08/04

New Global Lobby Chat!
If you haven't already, check out this awesome 3D Trailer here by Praveen00.

Patch 2.06

2014/06/25

New items in Armoury

Treatures now spawn Scorplings 7% slower

Treatures root ability now will not hit air units

Burn damage reduced for Fire Element and Bombers

Castle Air Elementals reduced damage

Patch 2.05

2014/05/28

Air Element speed increase
Infernos health increase
Fire Element range increase and moved 1 point of burn damage to upfront damage
Elemental Tower Spawn II is no longer freezable by the Water Element
Elemental Tower Spawn II health and damage increase
Infernos casting range increased for both abilities
Cycloids Tornado casting range increase
Blind Gate now lasts longer
Increased Water Elements advanced and normal heal amount
Decreased bomber burn damage
Decreased Archidon burn damage

Patch 2.04

2014/05/05

Water Element advanced healing increase
Earth Element health increase
Matchmaking now attempts to match faster computers and connections together
Treature spawn fixes

Patch 2.03

2014/05/01

Users who are rated over 1800 and have been inactive for a week will now experience slow weekly rating decay.
Reduced Water Element advanced Heal upgrade amount
Fixed Charrog burn freeze issue
Reduced Treature spawning rate

Patch 2.02

2014/03/27

Water Element healing amount reduced
Fire Element damage decreased
Scorpling spawn time reduced
Scorpling health and damage reduced
Charrog burrow movement speed increased

Patch 2.01

2014/03/21

V unit clones now more distinguishable
Introduced new Scorpling upgrade to nerf the Treature in the early game
Infernos' burning comet pools no longer damage air units
Treatures no longer block aerial units from being hit
Increased damage of Fire Elemental

Elementals Update

2014/02/28

The Elemental Empire is now live. Happy combining!

Patch 1.89

2014/02/03

Fire based spells now cause burn damage.
Increased Medusa Venom Flux damage.
Decreased Magikill Poison Spray damage.
Increased Shinobi Poison damage.
Improved unit casting when targeting individual units.

Patch 1.88

2014/01/06

Upgrades being researched is now shown when viewing replays.
First animated item added to Stick Empires, the flaming Magikill staff.
Fixed a bug in the Spearton automatic block.
Archidon fire arrows now do increased damage.

Patch 1.85

2014/01/02

Spearton Shield Bash is now automatic.
Improved the loading time for the live replay list.

Patch 1.84

2013/12/23

Improved networking on the server side
Now tracking users pings with the intent of eventually matching users together that have comparable pings.

Patch 1.83

2013/12/18

Units casting spells are now highlighted with a blue outline.
The Magikill Poison Spray spell is now updated to always cast to its maximum range.

Patch 1.78

2013/10/18

Added one time payment option for Membership.
Fixed issue with users being in matchmaking queue twice causing multiple games to start and resulting in an automatic loss for one of those games.

Patch 1.77

2013/10/10

All non members now get 5 free trials of Chaos

Patch 1.75

2013/10/01

Miners now will auto mine after being inactive for 4 seconds
Leaderboards now load faster.
Now able to cancel tech being researched.
Chat scroll fixed.

Ranked Deathmatch Update

2013/09/09

Deathmatch is now live and ranked!
Crawlers now have reduced build time
Improved performance for slower computers.

Patch 1.70

2013/08/14

Fixed issue that allowed users to pause the game as the statue was falling to avoid a loss.
Added a new lag tracker to the game which will be used in the future to ensure people with faster systems don't play against those with slower systems.

Patch 1.68

2013/07/11

Choosing random race now works
Custom match is now in beta.
Death match is now enabled as a game type within custom match. We will be looking to enable the ranked Deathmatch mode sometime within the next few weeks.
We encourage users to provide feedback on the stick page forums regarding the Deathmatch game type.

Patch 1.66

2013/06/25

New Items in Armoury
Fixed targeted projectiles

Patch 1.65

2013/06/18

Fixed Enslaved Giants not attacking in some situations
Fixed Deads not poisoning units when attacking walls or statues
Fixed bug where walls and towers could be built out of bounds

Patch 1.64

2013/06/03

Up to 20% faster game performance
Fixed Enslaved Giant attack speed bug
Slight Nerf to Eclipsor health and attack damage
Nerfed Chaos Tower attack speed
Decreased Crawler pack mentality research cost
Marrowkai now takes increased damage from the Shadowrath Shinobi attack
Increased Marrowkai Hell Fist damage
Buffed Crawler speed increase after upgrading predatory edge

Patch 1.62

2013/05/14

Custom Match and Deathmatch coming soon
New items in armoury!

Patch 1.61

2013/05/09

Replays are now saved if one of the users times out or closes the browser window
Away feature of chat now works and prevents users from sending you game invites
Nerf: Swordwrath rage self inflicted health cost increased
Nerf: Order Giant damage reduced
Buff: Order Giants now able to cancel attack animation which allows for kiting
Buff: Chaos Giants now have increased health on all levels of giant growth
Buff: Marrowkai Hell Fists damage increase
Buff: Chaos Miner tower research time decreased and no longer costs mana
Buff: Chaos Miner tower fire rate increased
Nerf: Ghost respawn time increased
Nerf: Chaos Miner tower build time increased
Nerf: Bomber damage slightly decreased
Nerf: Increased Miner wall build time
Nerf: Castle Archers now invisible if within fog of war

Patch 1.60

2013/04/19

Users who quit games at the loading screen will now lose rating points. This was changed to punish people who avoid playing favoured opponents.

Patch 1.59

2013/03/22

Fixed replay bug where some punctuation characters would cause the replay to not load
Changed saved replay button at end of game to be a view replay button
Increased the distance that miner wall must be built from the Centre Tower

Patch 1.58

2013/03/20

Updated profile page viewed from live replays to protect privacy of players listed
Now showing correct race in match history

Patch 1.57

2013/03/20

Replays may now be loaded via a link that you may share with friends
Match history is now shown in profile page
Top Live Replays are now viewable via the main menu

Patch 1.56

Patch 1.56 fixes bug introduced in patch 1.55 where points are not updated on the end of game screen

Patch 1.55

2013/03/12

Order Archidons now cost 300 gold
Order Swordwrath now cost 125 gold
Updated main lobby chat windows
Fixed bug in IE that stopped some users from being able to start games
Updated the in game user interface to be more responsive during lag

Patch 1.54

2013/03/05

Now tracking users IP addresses so that we may ban user who attempt to exploit the game or grief other players. Please report any users who you suspect of hacking to support@stickempires.com

Patch 1.53

2013/03/03

Fixed in game chat denial of service exploit

Facebook Credits Update

2013/03/01

You are now able to make payments through Facebook! This includes many new payment methods including mobile phone and direct debit.

Patch 1.50

2013/02/28

Bombers no longer require 300 gold to manually detonate
Fixed issue where games would not start if user was playing on Facebook for longer then 2 hours.
Fixed issue where sometimes it would take 60 seconds or more to connect while playing on facebook

Patch 1.48

2013/03/22

Crawler speed upgrade now has reduced speed increase
Castle unit no longer costs mana to cast poison
Fixed issue where ghost would not spawn sometimes after retaking the Centre Tower.

Patch 1.47

2013/02/20

Facebook connectivity now works in Firefox
Fixed bug where users could pause at the end of the game causing the game to freeze
Fixed bug where some users would cause the game to freeze during the loading screen
Removed Facebook login prompt when game first loads

Patch 1.46

2013/02/19

New items in the Armoury
Spell Casters no longer walk into combat unless individually commanded to do so
Mana drain from Dead poison now only occurs on the event of a new poisoned unit
Fixed bug where Predatory Edge did not increase crawlers speed
Fixed issue where some facebook accounts could not be linked
Castle unit now only hit a maximum of 4 units with splash damage
Castle archer splash damage now affects flying units
Fixed arrows hitting flying units
Now unit closest to target area will attempt to cast spell
Enslaved Giant damage reduction
Meric Heal range increased
Castle unit increased damage
Eclipsor and Albowtross build time increase
Medusa and Magikill mana cost reduced by 100
Fixed bug where some users would close the game window at the loading screen forcing the other user to lose ranking
Server is now more strict when determining if a user is causing lag

Facebook Update

2013/02/13

Stick Empires is now on Facebook! Earn Empire Coins by inviting your friends to play.

Patch 1.42

2013/01/30

Fixed a replay sync issue
Fixed bug where units in hold position would not attack units behind them

Patch 1.41

2013/01/22

Fixed replay bug where non member replays would go out of sync upon executing a finishing move
Fixed an issue causing live games to go out of sync
Fixed issue where users would timeout after a game sometimes causing the wrong user to win
Fixed issue where background disapears when in low quality mode

Patch 1.39

2013/01/18

New items in the Armoury
Increased Castle Archer II cost to 600 gold
Increased Castle Archer III cost to 1000 gold
Added control group hot keys to select all units of a type. To do this press ctrl key and the number that is used to build a unit of that type

Patch 1.38

2013/01/17

Giant upgrade I now takes 40 seconds and costs 200 gold and 200 mana
Giant upgrade II now takes 60 seconds and costs 400 gold and 400 mana

Patch 1.37

2013/01/17

Interface now reacts correctly if you leave the game window while boxing units
Fixed a number of issues with the replay viewer
Fixed bug where miners sometimes do not face correct direction while walking to attack an enemy
Fixed bug where statue health upgrade was not working

Patch 1.34

2013/01/09

Replays now show users gold and mana on the correct side of the screen
Replays now working for users who play as random

Patch 1.33

2013/01/03

Miner bag size decreased by half
Miner mine speed increased
Miner walk speed increased (note miner collection speed is still the same)
Enslaved Giant no longer able to use animation cancel
Increased sound volume and quality
Shorter map on tutorial

New Armoury Items!

2012/12/22

Awesome new items available in the armoury.

Patch 1.31

2012/12/22

Rage now costs 50 gold and 50 mana but has reduced speed increase and effect time
Added ability to scroll through past news items
Improved feedback for users that are lagging
Now showing correct preview images for maps on loading screen

Patch 1.30

2012/12/11

New graphics toggle options
New finishing move for members, Spearton vs Swordwrath
Improvements to game performance
Rage now costs 50 more gold to research
Updates to unit movement
Improved visibility of tool tips

Patch 1.28

2012/11/30

New end of match screen
New heal, cure and stun effects
Updates to unit movement and collisions
Meric heal now costs 0 mana
Meric increased attack
Castle archers and deads now wear different armour to standard units

Patch 1.27

2012/11/19

Increased Swordwrath rage time from 4 seconds to 6.5 seconds
Fixed bug where Rage was not actually increasing attack speed

Patch 1.26

2012/11/19

Added garrison miner button to the HUD
Fixed unit and technology descriptions
Fixed bug introduced in last patch where units run into and push other units rather than attacking
Walls and Towers are now not able to be built past the middle of the map

Patch 1.24

2012/11/15

Now able to destroy walls as they are being built
Units are now able to catch up to units as they run away

Patch 1.23

2012/11/15

Bombers are now able to catch up to units
Dead castle archers now able to hit crawlers
Updates to server to decrease lag

Patch 1.22

2012/11/13

Decreased mana cost of Albowtross from 250 to 200
Fixed bug that allowed users to increase the attack speed of units such as Crawlers
Fixed bug that caused some ranged units such as castle archers and giants to miss their targets

Patch 1.21

2012/11/09

Fixed attacking walls
Fixed Cleric cure
Fixed Bomber items

Patch 1.20

2012/11/08

New sounds
Improvements to matchmaking
Removed automatic screen shrinking for slower computers
Improvements to unit control and the user interface
New Items in the Armoury

Patch 1.19

2012/11/08

New statue destroy animation
Reduced miner health and increased miner damage
Miner Hustle ability now increases miner health as well as speed
Fixed bug where archers sometimes miss their targets

Patch 1.18

2012/10/29

Music toggle for main menu
New items in the armory
Improved low quality toggle
Improved the feel of lag if opponent is lagging and you are not.

Halloween!

2012/10/25

We have added a new map to help you get into the Halloween spirit!

Graphics Toggle

2012/10/23

First version of new low graphics toggle for slower computers is enabled. We will be improving this over time and any feedback is welcome. Note this will automatically toggle on for slower computers so that both you and your opponent will get the best experience possible while playing the game.

Patch 1.14

Work in progress on auto toggling quality for slower computers

Updates to spell casting

Patch 1.07

Reduced game load time
Upgrade to faster servers
Spell casting improved
Cooldown added to Spearton Shield Bash.
Knight Charge reduced mana cost.
Deads no longer attempt to poison walls.

Patch 1.05

2012/10/10

Scroll bar in friends list.
Fixed casting of some spells such as the Medusa stone ability.
Fixed issues with the Chaos tower not being destroyed and increased its damage output.
Fixed issue where pressing space bar would not select all of your units.

Matchmaking Update

2012/10/09

Fixed issue where some users were unable to start matches or gain ranking points.

Patch 1.04

2012/10/05

Miner wall research time increase.
Statue health nerf.
Fire arrows now do additional damage.
Magikill poison ability now does increased damage.
Cleric heal now heals faster.

Patch 1.02

2012/10/05

New music, sound effects and items have been added to the game.

Patch 1.00

2012/10/03

New in game chat
New items in the Armory
Fixed bug where game doesn't start after playing the tutorial
Fixed bug where stoning a miner with medusa causes the game to freeze
Fixed bug where game sometimes doesn't start if one player has a much higher ping then the other user