There were rare cases of ships sailing through islands.Some interface elements were still visible in Pause mode.The info bar for quests / messages has been shifted slightly upwards, so that more orders can be displayed when the bar is expanded.In some menus the confirmation button was within the text box.

In rare cases the 'Fog of War' was not displayed correctly after saving / loading a game.

An error causing some interface elements to react to external input (eg, volume control on the keyboard, connecting a Logitech USB headset) has been fixed.

Errors causing this problem have been fixed.

Some special circumstances occasionally resulted in performance downturns.

This could lead to a new online profile overwriting another one.

In some cases, when creating an online profile identical ID's were given to different profiles.

Savegames from an online profile can now only be loaded once login to 'Gateway to the World' was successful.

Old games from an online profile could be loaded even without successful login to the 'Gateway to the World'.

If you want to delete savegames and / or screenshots online this must be done directly in the 'Gateway to the World'. Effective immediately, savegames and screenshots can now only be deleted locally.

It was possible to delete savegames and screenshots in the 'Gateway to the World' from within the game.

In return, the condition requiring the people's satisfaction level to be 'adequately satisfied' or better was removed. The Imperial Cathedral must now be built in 7 hrs and the Sultan's Mosque in 5 hrs (previously 8 hrs and 6 hrs).

The achievements 'We have no time to lose' and 'The Emirate' have been adjusted.

The 'Scroll through Ships' and 'Scroll through Warehouses' buttons were moved to a more prominent position above the minimap.

Norias no longer worked properly after buying the 'Mystery of the nomads' achievement.

Military influence areas and firing radii were visually improved to further simplify use of the military.

The player now has the opportunity have the Items on offer changed upon payment of a fee in gold.

A function was implemented allowing the items offered at all three ports to be changed.

The AI was unable to settle some islands.

Ships which have destroyed a target now wait at that spot for new orders rather than returning to their starting point.

Memory errors could lead to invalid savegames under specific hardware configurations.

The use of special characters within the Windows user name, profile name or savegame name caused several errors (eg invalid savegames or crashes).

A crash while saving a game could result in the online profile being lost.

The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.The major changes include: Updates to Anno 1404 and Dawn of Discovery have been released.

Anno 1404 ships