Accessing the Preview Branch 

1. Access Elemental: Reforged: Game Properties 

2. Select Game Versions & Betas 

3. In Selected Game Versions locate “preview - Public Preview Branch” 

4. Select “preview - Public Preview Branch”  

5. Ensure your game has updated 

6. Launch Game and Confirm that you see Elemental: Reforged 

February 25th, 2026 Hot Patch Changelog

Graphics

• Smoother transitions when zooming in close to the map

Optimization

• Improved end-of-turn speed and reduced CPU usage during AI turns

UI

• Fixed trait tooltips in conversations showing placeholder text instead of the correct trait name

February 24th, 2026 Hot Patch Changelog

AI

• AI now prioritizes defending areas around friendly cities, targeting goodie huts, enemies, lairs, and quests nearby

• Enemy lair upgrade speed now scales with game difficulty (slower on Novice, faster on Insane)

• Enemies will correctly obey Zone of Control in tactical battles

• AI and Human players now correctly found cities by paying the essence cost to fix spamming cities

• Added AI movement and unrest bonuses per difficulty level

Campaigns

• Added in a new campaign: Prelude

• Turned off fame in campaigns that rewards free champions

• Fixed missing strings in some quests

• Fixed campaign loading screens turning black

Fallen Enchantress

• Fixed missing city stats for Kilford

• Adjusted sequencing of the final battle popup to correctly appear before the battle

• Dynasty, Foreign Relations and Kingdom Report UI is disabled to properly align with the campaign

• Fixed goodie hut icons not disappearing correctly

• Resolved issues with champions spawning in water while using the transport ship

Legendary Heros

• Dynasty and Kingdom Report UI is disabled to properly align with the campaign

• Resolved crash pop ups occurring when observing cities

Gameplay

• Added in new item and recipe, the Potion of Essence that gives a sovereign +1 essence

• Units cannot get more than 15 stamina anymore

• Fixed stamina changes from tactical battles carrying over to the strategic map

• Revealing Shard and Reveal a Champion now correctly only reveals one random location instead of all

• Chances of having any additional children decrease as players have more children

• Fixed issues where chain mail proficiency was not unlocking high level chain mails

• Added in more quests

• Added functionality to the tent item, the tent will restore health but immobilize the unit/army for 1 turn

• Removed tech requirement from the air spell

Graphics

• Addressed issues with HP bars being extremely high up in tactical battles

• Went through and gave clothing to Units who should be wearing shirts

• Fixed issues with Magnar slave units having broken textures when designing them

• Fixed armies appearing 2 tiles away from their actual position

• Magnar Male units now correctly wear helmets instead of having the helmets clip into their forehead

• Made sure the champion Thane Bird is wearing the correct shirt

• Fixed units in the game having missing hair revealing a black spot on the back of their head

• Fixed missing Tile Designs for Wild Ogre Camp and the Witch’s Hovel

• Fixed loading screens blacking out when loading game within a game for campaigns

• Adjusted lighting in tactical battles to not be as bright

• Fixed mounted units appearing far away and small in the Shop Screen

• Updated tactical maps

Modding

• Added in a bubble indicator on the title screen if there are mod updates

• Improved loading and typing for foreign languages in other languages for modding

• Updated the modding UI to be more concise and easier to understand

• Fixed a crash when enabling/subscribing to mods

Optimization

• Loading games in foreign languages will correctly appear, load and save

• Loading into a game and loading a save will be much faster

• Opening the City menus is much faster

Text

• Fixed negative numbers incorrectly displaying as "+-2" instead of "-2"

• Updated Refined Arcana description to clarify it increases mana generation, not Essence

• Fixed issues where city names would not appear when cycling through the cities

• Fixed missing text in some quests throughout the game

• Improved loading for languages in other languages

• Fixed some typos within the campaigns

• Fixed missing text on some quest popups

• Updated fonts throughout the game

UI

• Fixed the Marriage button on the Dynasty Screen to work on all UI resolutions

• Added in the Ability to Edit, Copy and Delete sovereigns from the Choose Sovereign screen

• Added in the ability to Edit/Copy for sovereign factions

• Added in quest status information in quest location tooltips

• Fixed equipment tab being inaccessible when viewing enemy units

• Resolved issues of certain Units missing portraits, specifically recruitable monsters

• When opening the Hiergamenon no longer zooms in close to the background

• Continue button works when launching the game

• Updated the Unit and City tree on the left side of the screen to be updated to match the games UI

• Removed the Intro Sovereign book and replaced it with an updated screen

• Fixed missing map stamps for Mite, Spider, and Wolf lairs

• Added a confirmation when double clicking on items to use them

• Fixed missing images for some monster lairs

• Resolved clipping issues with the loading screen

• Fixed missing text after researching the Civic Tech

• Fixed missing image on the popup for when a faction is busy

City UI

• Adjusted the City Queue build status to fill when being built instead of using the old circle

• Improved the city build queue adding in smooth dragging when moving around build items

• Resolved issues where after casting Grip of Winter all of the city buttons became disabled

• Fixed city UI tooltips from being cut off

• Polished the City HUDs to support longer length text

• Fixed the city enchantment tooltip alignment

Icons

• Added in an archer icon for the tech tree

• Created icons for Bloodline traits

• Created icons for Lore traits

• Updated the Scholar’s Sanctum icon to correctly be transparent

• Fixed an issue where a player's Army Strength icon would disappear as they moved around the map

• Added in icons when an army constructs a tower for Spell of Making

• In the active effects tab being immobilized now has a proper icon and display

• Fixed missing icons in the Hiergamenon

• Added in missing icons in the research tree