Recent Ara: History Untold Patch Brings Game Balance Changes and Updates

In late September, developer Oxide Games, in collaboration with publisher Microsoft, launched the grand strategy game Ara: History Untold, exclusively for PC. Following its release, the team has been actively releasing patches to rectify various issues reported by players.

This week, Oxide Games introduced a substantial update, shifting the game to version 1.0.3. According to the official patch notes, this update features numerous balance adjustments alongside enhancements targeting stability, performance, and game settings:

Balance Adjustments

• Academy wealth maintenance revised from 8 down to 3
• Eliminated food maintenance requirement for Air Force Base
• Removed wealth maintenance for Armory, while reducing materials maintenance from 4 to 3
• Brewery now has its food maintenance lowered from 3 to 1, and wealth maintenance adjusted from 5 to 1
• Adjusted Chemist wealth maintenance from 7 to 3
• Revised Community Garden wealth maintenance from 20 to 1
• Data Center wealth maintenance decreased from 10 to 3
• Changed Distillery food maintenance from 5 to 1, and wealth maintenance from 8 to 1
• Docks wealth maintenance significantly reduced from 10 to 1
• Drydock wealth maintenance updated from 15 to 2
• Exhibition Hall wealth maintenance adjusted from 15 to 5
• Factory (upgraded from Crafting Guild) has had its wealth maintenance reduced from 10 to 5; materials maintenance set at 5 and wood maintenance at 5
• Fermenting Hut wealth maintenance changed from 2 to 1
• Reduced wood maintenance for Fishing Nets from 5 to 1
• Grocer wealth maintenance adjustments from 12 to 5
• Crafting Guild wealth maintenance changed from 5 to 2; materials and wood maintenance also set to 2
• Mill wood maintenance minimized from 5 to 1
• Artisan Studio wealth maintenance decreased from 20 to 5
• Naval Base’s food maintenance changed from 5, while wealth maintenance is now set from 15 to 3
• Nuclear Power Plant wealth maintenance altered from 20 to 10
• Oil Well’s wealth maintenance adjusted from 15 to 5
• Pharmacist wealth maintenance significantly revised from 10 to 1
• Monastery’s wealth maintenance set to 1 from 5
• Stadium wealth maintenance decreased from 15 to 5
• University’s wealth maintenance adjusted from 7 to 5
• Windmill wood maintenance lowered from 7 to 2
• Zoo’s wealth maintenance revised down from 20 to 3
• Cement Plant’s wealth maintenance established at 5, while materials maintenance remains unchanged at 5
• Fixed an issue with SRs8000 providing bonus Prestige across all improvements instead of its own
• Addressed a bug that sometimes prevented players from demolishing upgrades without reloading the game

Game Settings Improvements

• Fixed a problem where certain players couldn’t join multiplayer sessions due to save file incompatibility
• Update to the game’s default settings (Auto Detect) has been made
• Maximum Frame Rate has been standardized to 60 by default, with options for players to modify this setting

Performance Enhancements

• Tackled an issue that could cause crashes for a few players when hovering over the Army panel
• Optimizations in Graphics Rendering enhance framerates, especially at higher resolutions
• Players can now change the default maximum framerate of 60, which helps in reducing power usage on laptops

Stability Improvements

• Addressed a bug affecting the repair process for improvements
• General stability enhancements
• Improved detection capabilities for external/discrete GPUs

In summary, the 1.0.3 patch for Ara has introduced “minor bug fixes, along with stability and performance upgrades”based on community feedback. The developers are committed to rolling out weekly patches and hotfixes, and they mentioned they are in the process of developing more significant updates to be revealed soon. Players can access the game on Steam, Microsoft Store, and through PC Game Pass for the standard edition.

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