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Empires and Tribes

Hotfix notes for Version 1.45
This hotfix fixes some errors that could occur when game saves were corrupted. Among other things, this could lead to new games not being able to be started.
We also smuggled a small update for the dynasty system into the patch: All members of the dynasty now have their new home in the keep and the palas extension of the palace. The units now go to sleep here at night and spend part of their time in the palas during the day. We have also revised the associated building models and integrated them into the patch.

Your team from Empires and Tribes


- Added new models for the keep
- Added new models for the palas
- Added LOD and Shadowcaster for the keep and the palas
- Added new animations and new behavior for the dynasty members inside the keep
- Added button in the menu of the town hall that opens the menu of the civil servants


- Children are now spawned in new buildings only when the population size reaches 40 instead of 15 inhabitants
- Fixed a bug that could lead to not being able to load new maps if a savegame was corrupted
- Fixed a bug that caused savegames not to be displayed if one of the files was corrupted
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when saving if the savegames were corrupted

Patch notes for Version 1.45
With this update, the Dynasty system is implemented as a new feature. You now have the possibility to search for a partner among the townspeople or among the single nobles of the surrounding countryside and to woo them. For this purpose, we have integrated four new personality types, which play a decisive role in courtship, for example in compliments. After marrying your fiancé(e), you can now found a dynasty with up to three offspring and watch your children grow up. They can succeed you after they reach the age of 18 if you die of old age or in battle. Age also now plays a role in the population. Thus, from now on, you will have to take care of children among the population to a small extent, and you will be able to employ them in the city's businesses only after they reach the age of 18.
Furthermore, we have been able to fix the bug of empty cart drivers thanks to your help. If you still have a problem, we would be grateful for your reports in the forum.
Last but not least, we have integrated two new maps for the free game. On the map of the 4 kingdoms you can play against three opponents at the same time for the first time. On the map of the Island of Kings, a charming settlement site on an island in the middle of a river awaits you.

Your team from Empires and Tribes


- Dynasty feature added
- Residents of the city as well as nobles from the surrounding countryside can be courted as spouses
- Added the possibility of marriage and divorce
- Added the possibility to give compliments
- Added possibility to give gifts
- Added possibility to have children
- Possibility to send children to education added
- Added possibility to continue playing with an heir after the death of the player


- Added aging of the player and his natural death
- Added aging of NPC's
- Added affection of NPC's towards the player
- Added 4 different personality types for the NPC's that affect the behavior of the family options
- Added children as new NPC's - they are randomly generated instead of new residents and can be assigned to city works only when they reach 18 years old
- Added feature that increases the priority of farms for pickup by cart drivers when the farm warehouse is overcrowded
- Added 2 new maps for free play

- Fixed a bug that could cause goods not to be picked up from farms if the cart drivers were in the wrong state
- Fixed a bug that caused the sound not to play when creating roads
- Fixed a bug that could lead to incorrect calculation of starting resources after restarting campaigns

Patch notes for Version 1.44
We are happy to announce that with this update, the last maps of the campaign will be integrated and it will now be possible to fully play through to the end. In addition, we have added the ability to change the simulation speed, a new feature that has been on our feature list for some time and was extensively discussed by us, as the game design concepts of RTS and RPG games require very different solutions. So far, the ability to speed up time is also explicitly possible in First Person Mode. We are especially curious about your feedback here. Feel free to write us what you think of it, how it makes the game feel, and whether we should keep the feature as is. We have continued to integrate new NPC's with the innkeeper and the abbot, and new options and quests for them as well, to make life in the city a little more lively. We've also added several icons and tooltips that show, for example, the position of wolves or information about the current law situation. Furthermore, we were able to increase the performance, especially in the late game, by integrating optimized shadow casters.

Finally, we would like to make an announcement about the further development: We plan to finish development on Empires and Tribes by the end of the year. Of course, we will continue to work on optimization and polishing after that. But if you already have feedback on which part you think has fallen short so far, or which features you would still like to see, now is the perfect time to let us in on it!

Have fun playing. Your team from Empires and Tribes


- Added possibility to increase simulation speed
- Added keybindings and buttons for simulation speed
- Improved cart movement behavior
- Added possibility to invite bards at the marketplace to improve the mood of the population
- Added new NPC's: Innkeeper, abbot and monks at the monastery
- Added possibility to invite town councilors at the innkeeper to influence their political attitude
- Added 2 new inhabitant quests where the host is a part of the quest
- Added possibility to delegate the organization of the reception of the monks in the city to the abbot
- Added icon that shows in the building menu if a farm is connected to the camp
- Added icon that shows thieves, bandits and insurgents in the construction menu to better locate attacks
- Wolves are now displayed as an additional icon in the construction menu
- Added text that shows the road connection of outlying farms in the build menu
- Text in the tooltip in the writing room explaining how to send letters improved
- Added tooltip in the menu for selecting the next topics of the city council meeting, which shows the current legislation and its impact
- Added the last three campaign cards
- Archers and melee units now have much weaker attack values against buildings and walls
- Added icons in the building menu for important NPC's like the city councilors or the priest
- Icons for the representation of the buildings on the map revised
- Improved performance by optimized rendering of the shadowcasters of the LOD levels

- Fixed a bug that could lead to the fact that resources could not be added to the construction site by the player and the player could not start the construction even though he was at the construction site
- Fixed a bug that could lead to the thief not being able to be attacked by the player even though he was not busy robbing the town treasury at the time
- Fixed a bug that could cause the thief to be rendered incorrectly
- Fixed a bug that caused the destroyed model of the town hall to have an incorrect direction of movement
- Fixed a bug that caused the wrong icon for the monastery to be displayed in the map
- Fixed a bug that could lead to a glitch of the fire animation when attacking the keep
- Fixed a bug that caused workers to spawn at the location of their farm instead of waiting outside closed city gates
- Fixed a bug that could cause market carts to pass through closed gates
- Fixed a bug that could cause the building menu to open incorrectly after a construction site was completed
- Fixed a bug that could cause the height change arrows not to disappear when closing the building menu

Patch Notes for Version 1.43
With this update, four buildings get a new look: the carpenter's workshop, the bow workshop, the iron smelter and the tavern. In the iron smelter, we have also integrated a new building animation with the blast furnace and the associated bellows. We were also able to complete three new maps for the campaign. In two new campaigns, the player is given the task of withstanding Baron Stauff's attacks in the north of the country and ultimately besieging Stauff's main fortress. In the third new map, the player builds a new capital for the kingdom.
Furthermore, we have been busy in the area of sound design and can integrate a number of new UI sounds and some new ambience sounds with this update. Among other things, the movements of the cart drivers and the upgrades of the city are now dubbed with different titles that reflect the size of the city.

Your Empires and Tribes Team



- Added new models for the carpentry
- Added new models for the tavern
- Added new models for the bow workshop
- Added new models and animations for the iron smelter
- Added water to the wells
- Added three new campaign maps
- Added escape button in building menu, writing room menu and town council meetings menu
- Added icon that indicates if a residential building is being upgraded
- Added new sounds for the city upgrades
- Added new UI and news sounds
- Added new ambience sounds and sounds for the cart drivers
- German translation corrected
- The player can now build simple farmhouses faster at the beginning of the game even with poor tool selection itself



- Fixed a bug that caused the destroyed model of the store not to be displayed
- Fixed a bug that caused the destroyed model of the weaving room to have an incorrect direction of movement
- Fixed a bug that caused one of the music tracks not to be muted
- Fixed a bug that caused the player's hands to be visible in the building menu
- Fixed a bug that could prevent units from attacking enemy gatehouses in the campaign if they were located in castle courtyards
- Fixed a bug that could cause the camera to fly under the terrain in the court cases in the campaign
- Fixed a bug that could cause free workers to walk through the town hall
- Fixed a bug that caused male merchants in the marketplace to have female first names
- Fixed a bug that caused female residents not to close their eyes when sleeping
- Fixed a bug that caused residents to not open their eyes when awakened while sleeping
- Fixed a bug that caused residents to jump to the next animation when communicating with the player
- Fixed a bug in the UI in the main menu during campaign creation

Patch Notes for Version 1.42
With this update we release the revised versions of a number of buildings. For example, the mill, the weaving house, the sheep farm, the hunting lodge and the granary have been given a completely new look, and we have added a new model and new shaders to the player's hands. In addition, we have integrated into Empires and Tribes the features you requested, to be able to freely place the town hall at the start of the game and to be able to set patrols for units. In addition to optimizing the UI for Ultrawides, we have also been able to fix a number of bugs.

Your Empires and Tribes team



- Added new models for the mill
- Added new models for the weaving room
- Added new models for the sheep farm
- Added new models for the hunting lodge
- Added new models for the granary
- Added new models for the destroyed buildings of the dwellings Lv1,Lv2 and Lv3 , the well, the monastery, the marketplace, the potter, the woodcutter, the clay pit and the grain farm
- Added new models for the player's hands (male/female)
- In free play, the starting town hall can now be freely placed by the player at the start of the game
- Buildings can now no longer be built inside enemy settlements
- Units can now be assigned waypoints and patrol along them
- Menus optimized for Ultrawides in 4120:1440 resolution


- Fixed a bug that caused incorrect shading of merchants and iron textures after upgrading roads in the marketplace
- fixed text bug that incorrectly displayed a leg guard instead of an arm guard as a reward in the inhabitants' quests
- Fixed a text error that incorrectly displayed stone arrows instead of copper arrows in the merchants' offers
- Fixed a bug that caused the damage values of arrows to be incorrect and iron arrows did not cause damage
- Fixed a bug that caused the wrong icons of available food to be displayed in the menus of the residences
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash due to an incorrect calculation in pathfinding
- Fixed a bug that caused incorrect shading of the residents in the main menu
- Fixed a bug that could lead to simultaneous playing of music tracks after starting a game

Roadmap Q2 2023
Dear Community,

enclosed is our roadmap for the coming months.
On the graphical side, we will revise the last old models and make them more detailed. We will be able to release the first models in the coming weeks with the next patch. On the development side, we will integrate some of your requested features with the next patches. We are especially looking forward to the robber baron fortress as a new threat in the early and middle game in the random maps. We will also continue writing the campaign and adding new maps and missions.

Your team from Empires and Tribes



MAY

- Free placement of the city hall
- Waypoints for units
- Homestead revamp
- Weaving mill revamp
- Hunting lodge revamp

JUNE

- New campaign maps & more story and lore
- Tutorial rework
- Carpentry revamp

JULY

- Robber baron fortress
- Keep revamp
- Mill revamp

Patch Notes for Version 1.41
With this update, the Bishop's Seat will be integrated as a new building in Empires and Tribes. This is the largest possible building that can be built, devours huge amounts of resources during construction and enables victory by economic means. In the endgame, a race develops for the economic dominance of the players to be the first to raise the resources to build the bishop's seat. The diplomatic approval of the AI opponents also drops significantly when the Bishop's Seat is built, making an attack and eventual destruction of the construction site more likely. However, the Bishop's Seat is only available to the AI in new games and not when loading old save games. Besides the possibility to select victory conditions when starting a new game, we have also revised the model of the quarry and fixed some bugs.

Your team from Empires and Tribes

- Added new model for the Bishop's Seat. The Bishop's Seat is the largest building in the game and provides access to a church and a monastery for all inhabitants on the entire map. Through its construction, the game can be won economically.
- Added new models for the quarry
- Added new victory condition: Bishop's seat
- Added new selection of victory conditions when creating a random game
- Added construction of the bishop's seat to the victory conditions and the AI's construction orders


- Fixed a bug that caused the compass to not match the compass direction information in the campaign. To fix this, the compass orientation was adjusted.
- Fixed a bug that caused the farm not to be extinguished by the water carriers during the fire.
- Fixed a bug that caused the dialog option of the residents to work at the construction site of the farm did not work
- Raised the height of the viewing platform in the stone towers to allow a view over the battlements.
- Fixed a bug that in rare cases could cause a small incorrect change in the terrain, making gaps in the terrain visible
- Fixed a bug that could cause the AI's build orders to stop in the late game

Patch Notes for Version 1.40
With this update, the models of the Small Weapons Forge, the Copper Weapons Forge, and the Tool Forge are replaced with completely redesigned models. In addition, four more regions will be added to the campaign, in which you'll have to besiege Harald of Are's fortress, get a grip on Finncaster's ailing finances and rebuild a destroyed monastery, among other things. Here you'll meet new NPC's like the Archbishop of Finncaster, and you'll be able to stand your ground against new AI opponents like Louise Salier. Besides the integration of new sounds in the audio area, we were also able to fix a number of bugs. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all the reports and hints!

Your team from Empires and Tribes



- Added new models for the small weapons forge, the copper weapons forge and the tool forge
- Added 4 new campaigns
- Added new AI opponents for the campaign: Louise Salier and Johann Gothenburg
- Added new NPC's for the campaign
- Added tooltip showing how many units of which type will attack in the campaign
- Campaign map revised: regions not yet unlocked are now displayed in a more differentiated way
- The compass now shows the distances to the nearest cities and the texts are displayed brightly at night for better readability
- If a building in the construction menu is placed several times in a row (by pressing the shift key), the rotation is now maintained
- The tooltip for the production of the cities in the campaign now also shows the consumption of the goods


- Fixed a bug that caused the rotation of decorative objects not to be saved. This is fixed only when new objects are placed.
- Fixed a bug that caused resources that were supposed to be sold in the current cart load at the merchant could no longer be taken out, as this was incorrectly counted as a sale
- Fixed a bug that caused builders to be able to take resources out of the warehouse even though there were no resources in the main warehouse. This could result in a negative resource balance.
- Fixed a bug that caused only one type of resource to be displayed in the messages, which was fetched from the warehouse by the construction workers.
- Fixed a bug that could cause negative resource values to be displayed in the menu of construction sites
- Fixed a bug that caused the dialog option for saying goodbye to be missing for the construction worker in the campaign
- Fixed a bug that caused the end dialog in the campaign for exporting carpenter goods to be triggered multiple times
- Fixed a bug that caused the priest's events to trigger frequently
- Fixed a bug that could lead to incorrect rendering of the interior of the residential buildings
- Fixed a bug that could lead to incorrect display of the buttons when creating the player character in the campaign
- Fixed a bug that could cause the camera to behave incorrectly when opening the combat menu when closing the building menu
- Fixed a bug that could cause the battle menu not to close when pressing Escape even though no unit or army was selected
- Fixed a bug that caused incorrect calculation of food consumption of cities in the campaign when the player was in another city
- Fixed a bug that could cause construction workers to run through the air
- Fixed a bug that could cause construction workers to run to the edge of the map when their housing was upgraded from Lv1 to Lv2
- Fixed a bug that when returning to old regions in the campaign, not all savegames were recognized and the region was reset to the beginning
- Fixed a bug that caused unlimited savegames in the main camp in the campaign
- Fixed a bug that caused the sound to be triggered multiple times when missing trade goods
- Fixed a bug that caused the tooltip indicating too slow resource pickup to be displayed incorrectly
- Fixed a bug that caused the tooltip displaying the needs of residents not to be closed when the building was upgraded
- Fixed a bug that caused the old models to spawn when discarding the swords from the inventory

Hotfix for Version 1.39
This hotfix fixes some issues that occurred in the new campaign.

Your Empires and Tribes Team

- Fixed a bug that caused the player character to be displayed incorrectly when playing the campaign
- Fixed a bug that caused the hitboxes of the merchants in the market to be poorly recognized
- Fixed a bug that could cause the quest marker not to be removed in the campaign even though the task was completed
- Fixed a bug that caused the player not to be given a copper axe by the NPC in the campaign
- Fixed a bug that caused buildings unlocked in other regions to not be unlocked in older regions
- Fixed a bug that caused the grass in mountainous environments to not be removed correctly at the drop-off edges
- Fixed a bug that caused units to fall through wooden bridges
- Fixed a bug that caused the campaign region to be restarted and not load the region's last save game when using the load menu in the main menu
- Grass is now removed from town halls and stores in the area where resources for building construction are spawned
- Font showing the experience level of the player has been improved
- The quest to slaughter five chickens is only given when there are at least five chickens in the city
- The quest to make a bottle to check if the well has been poisoned will not be given until a pottery has been built where the player can craft the bottle

Patch Notes for Version 1.39
With the update to version 1.39, the new campaign mode will be integrated into Empires and Tribes.
You now have the opportunity to take on the role of the heir to the throne of Finncaster and assert yourself in a world of competing principalities. Build new villages on the outskirts of your dominion or expand existing settlements and solve the tasks of the new quest givers, such as the Council Elder, to expand your sphere of influence. A world of 16 connected regions awaits you, of which the first 6 regions are unlocked with this update. In each region, specific main and side quests await you, which are subordinate to a larger storyline. You can trade between the regions and switch between the regions at will via Direct- and Quicktravel, for example to further expand a village after the construction plans for further buildings in another region have been unlocked. We plan to gradually expand the world with more regions in the coming updates.
Also, with this update we have integrated the interior models for the residential buildings and fixed some bugs.

Your team from Empires and Tribes


Version 1.39

- Added new connected campaign maps
- Added traveling between regions via Quicktravel and Directtravel
- Added passive production in regions while player is in other regions
- Added storage system for connected maps
- Added inter-regional trade between regions
- Added new main quest and side quests for the campaign
- Added new NPC's for the campaign
- Added new quest items: News and Bulls
- Added new menu subitem in the quest menu for the campaign quests
- The position of the surrounding towns is now shown in the compass in the campaign maps
- Added interior models for the Lv2 and Lv3 dwellings
- Revised model of wooden bridges

- Fixed a bug that could lead to a crash when building walls
- Fixed a bug that could lead to a crash when building wooden towers
- Fixed a bug that could lead to a crash when units were fighting
- Fixed a bug that could lead to incorrect attack behavior of units when buildings were selected as attack target
- Fixed a bug in the pathfinding calculation that could cause residents to take large detours
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when building the Copper Weapon Forge if the player was in the forge while it was being completed
- Fixed a bug that prevented enemy buildings from being selected as attack targets in the combat menu
- Fixed a bug that could cause residents to freeze at the fireplaces in the walking animation
- Fixed a bug in the model of the lumberjack Lv2
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