2.1.4 Further Knights Training & Minor Fixes Patch
Monarchs,
Thanks to your reports we have investigated and developed the following fixes:
The training of the knights continues! Knights’ confidence has been boosted, bringing them closer to portals and allowing them to react faster to protect their archers. Additionally, archers have also received improved confidence training and will no longer hold fire in silly situations.
Archers and workers now drop their coins to the player correctly, even when they are located in a tower high above the ground.
Improved the visibility of quest items that have been dropped on the ground.
Call of Olympus: Fixed an issue that could prevent players from acquiring the upgraded coin bag in multiplayer.
Call of Olympus: Fixed a rare issue that could trigger an infinite loading screen when the player attempts to return to the Oracle island. This will prevent the problem from happening again in the future but not fix already affected save files. Please reach out to our Support Desk (link below), if you believe your save file is affected by this issue.
Norse Lands: Fixed an issue that would occasionally prevent a client from connecting to online multiplayer.
If you encounter an issue that has not been patched yet, please report it at https://rawfury.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1 This is the fastest way for us to have a look at what might be going wrong with your kingdom and help.
Enjoy your long and prosperous reign, brave Monarch!👑
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10 Years of Kingdom: Developer Update & Publisher Sale
Nothing Lasts… but Kingdom
Monarchs, we are happy to proclaim an incredible feat. Prepare the bonfire, mighty and high, gather together around it and let’s feast and celebrate this glorious moment of our shared joy:
📜The Kingdom series is turning 10 years this year 📜
Wise Rulers know their Kingdom will fall,
Brave Rulers do not despair.
Great Rulers know their riches can rule,
And spend every coin with great care.
Through struggle and joy, brave Monarch, it’s been 10 years of developing your own Kingdom in the mysterious and atmospheric forests and valleys, bamboos and snows, braving through the nights filled with a sinister force, blood-red moons and quests from gods themselves. 10 years of building, exploring, defending and conquering - and we are launching the celebrations now!
✨So let’s celebrate the occasion on the scale worthy of royalty! ✨
Raw Fury Publisher Sale – A Decade of Dedication
The grand 10-year-anniversary-themed royal fair this time is featuring a great deal of Raw Fury titles at truly celebratory discounts. Pick up these beautiful wares for all tastes and likes while they’re out there on the amazing offers!
In the spirit of celebration, we have forged grand entertainment, giveaways, competitions, know-hows and much more for you, Monarch! In the coming months we’ll be inviting you to participate and have a truly joyful time worthy of your royal presence, so we highly recommend subscribing to our social channels mentioned below for you not to miss any exciting events🎉
To add to that, as faithful Kingdom craftsmen, we continue focusing our efforts on improving the Kingdom Two Crowns experience. We have been releasing patches consistently with the latest one, 2.1.3 Knights & Zoom Fixes Patch, going live last week, and we’re aiming to continue with frequent updating to ensure your reign is as smooth and enjoyable as possible. We therefore ask - if you’re still experiencing issues with the game, please let us know via our support desk https://rawfury.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1 as this is the quickest way for us to have a look and investigate.
Enjoy the celebrations, brave Monarchs, but remember to stay vigilant at night…🌕
/The Kingdom Team
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As per our commitment to making sure your continued reign is as smooth and enjoyable as possible (excluding the attacks at night by you-know-who), we’re releasing the following update to your kingdom:
We took the knights through rigorous training to fix some errant behavior, as reported to us by our players. The training regimen included a refreshment of protocols regarding protecting their assigned archers, not abandoning a fight just because they take a hit or two, attacking portals and cave spawners, and retreating after the cave portal has been temporarily destroyed.
Fixed an issue in multiplayer that would cause the client’s coins to get stuck in mid-air when attempting to make a payment.
Fixed an issue in multiplayer that would cause currency to disappear from the client’s coin bag when sailing away or changing game modes.
Resolved a caching issue which could cause unintentional PlayFab account sharing.
After your feedback, we’ve decided to revert one of the QoL changes from patch 2.0: Player 2 dropping the coins from their coin bag on the ground when they disconnect. The coins will now stay in Player 2’s coin bag and become available when Player 2 reconnects, the same way it worked before the patch. However, gems and quest items will continue to be automatically transported to Player 1’s coin bag, to avoid soft lock scenarios.
Restored the larger range of zoom levels on supported resolutions and made sure art assets fit the screen properly.
The audio in the splash screens will now play correctly when you start a new campaign or Challenge Island in an ongoing session.
Players can once again see color changes while randomizing the Monarch’s appearance in the loading screen.
The Cursed Crown will now display correctly on the Trojan Monarch.
The bomb is now the top priority of your workers. Workers pushing the bomb now won’t abandon it so easily in pursuit of other jobs. Additionally, when called to the boat by the wharf bell, the workers that were originally pushing the bomb won’t block other workers from taking over their bomb duties.
Challenge Islands: Fixed an issue that could cause some players to experience a soft lock in multiplayer while sailing to the next island.
Call of Olympus: Coin slots should now be visible for all mount locations in local co-op.
Norse Lands: Archers in towers will no longer call dibs on shields in the Shield Shop, making them available for other units to pick up.
Norse Lands: Workers will now seek safety behind the Kingdom walls a bit faster.
Norse Lands: Improved visual effects on fire effects related to the Fire Tower.
Fixed minor visual and functional issues.
This bugfix patch is part of our ongoing efforts to ensure the quality and smooth Monarch experience for Kingdom Two Crowns. Thank you for consistently sending your reports – we continue investigating them and developing further fixes.
If you encounter an issue that has not been patched yet, please report it at https://rawfury.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1 This is the quickest way for us to have a look at what might be going wrong with your reign and help.
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On this wonderful first day of April, we’re delighted to proclaim that there is a fine update galloping your way. The one that will weave your ancestors’ touch (and a shriek or two) into your glorious battles to lift and strengthen the spirits of your heroic troops, and terrify your enemy.
You, as the great and wise Monarch you are, standing full of pride and glory on your noble steed, will also share occasional wisdoms with your loyal soldiers that will later on be forever remembered and praised by your heirs and people in legends, alongside your bravery and rule.
See for yourself what the D.A.D.S Update is like in the teaser below✨
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🌸Developer Update & the Arrival of the Spring Sale🌸
Monarchs, can you hear it? That’s the first chirping birds of the spring this year. Can you feel it? That’s the wind lingering on your skin with long-awaited warmth.
And what else the spring brings is the delightful discounts for the Kingdom series! What a perfect time to complete your Kingdom collection with titles and soundtracks you’ve been missing. Check out game pages for specific discounts:
Spring has arrived! In the land of Kingdom this doesn’t only mean that we’re venturing into another season of adventures – but rather, as spring is often associated with new beginnings, we embark on newly discovered paths within the lands we know and love the most.
Thus, we’re continuing to improve the Kingdom Two Crowns and Call of Olympus experiences. We have been consistently at work with our sleeves rolled up high to make sure we catch pesky bugs and squish as many of them as possible. Thank you for your continuous help with tackling them. We have already deployed multiple patches and are currently working on further updates.
Kingdom Two Crowns is at the heart of the Kingdom franchise. And, as every heart deserves, we’re pouring our passion and love into further development of the game. We have already mentioned the patches but we’re also looking at adding things here and there. What comes out of our forge is yet to be announced but our goal is to sharpen Kingdom Two Crowns for the best experience possible and inspire you to revisit the game, solo or with a friend.
And that’s how the story goes for now, Monarchs! We’ll see you on your travels.
/The Kingdom Team
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This patch contains several bug fixes, improvements to memory performance and to networking including:
Fixed the issue that would cause Hephaestus' hammer quest item to disappear from the level in multiplayer, blocking your progress. If your save file was affected, loading the save on the new patch will automatically complete the quest and grant you the reward.
Fixed the issue that prevented the achievement Mediterranean Vacation from unlocking at the right time. Unfortunately, the achievement can not be unlocked retroactively on save files that were encountering this issue. To get it, the requirements must be met again in a fresh campaign.
Optimized networking and reduced traffic to improve online co-op experience.
Fixed several issues that could cause crashes to occur in specific gameplay scenarios.
Fixed the issue that would sometimes cause ruler animations to break when starting a co-op session.
Fixed the issue that would cause the client player’s movement to break while riding the Hippocampus.
Fixed the issue where the boar re-spawning in wintertime would have the game consider the island as incomplete. If you give any lingering threats a good whack in this patch, it should do the trick and the island status will stay as "completed".
Shield Walls in Norse Lands should now block Crushers correctly.
Archers following a Squire or Knight should no longer be left outside the safety of the Kingdom walls at night.
Archers on the Fleet boats should now attack Serpent weak points correctly.
Farmers who have boarded a boat will no longer occupy farmlands.
Fixed minor visual and audio issues.
The zoom levels have been temporarily capped to prevent issues with environment graphics, while we are working on a bigger fix to preserve graphic integrity at more zoomed out levels for a future patch.
We'd like to take a moment and thank those of you who have tested the multiplayer public beta and confirmed the networking performance has improved. We will now end the public beta, so everyone in it will be automatically reverted back to the default branch which now, after this patch, has the same fixes.
We will continue to patch the game with more bugfixes as soon as possible.
As before, we always communicate updates on our X, Facebook and Discord, so please make sure you follow them to stay on track with the latest news. If you encounter any further issues, please report them at https://rawfury.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1 as this is the quickest way for us to investigate and get back to you.
Thank you for your continuous support.
/The Kingdom Team
🎮Dev Update - Multiplayer Fixes🎮
Monarchs,
The team is now back from the holidays and our annual internal conference where we spent a lot of time planning. We will share more on that later, but for now we would like to focus on fixing and addressing some of the multiplayer issues identified in the game. We have implemented and tested a series of these fixes and would like to invite the community to participate in a public beta test for additional feedback. We deeply appreciate everyone's patience as we keep developing and implementing fixes to issues in the game.
Please note that this solution is still in testing - however, if it helps you, please do let us know in the comments. Some questions that could help would be - is it stable? Are there any unexpected disconnects? Is the connection reliable? Is there a lag? If it plays well for you, we'll be working on patching the game as soon as possible, so that you could start enjoying the multiplayer fully.
To access the beta, please follow these steps:
1. Go to your Steam Library 2. Right click on Kingdom Two Crowns -> Properties -> Betas 3. In the list of betas, please select "public-test - Multiplayer fixes to version 2.1.0 (Feb 25)" 4. Enjoy!
Important - please make sure that your play partner is also playing the beta, and that you've made a backup of your saves before installing the update.
These are the fixes we've made in the public beta
With the goal of eliminating multiplayer issues and disconnects that players have reported, we have taken a good hard look at our networking code and found ways to reduce the overall network overhead. Our networking now uses less additional data to identify messages and state their purpose. We have also increased the timeout duration for connections meaning it will stick in there longer when you experience lag spikes or connectivity issues. We deployed some advanced optimization heuristics on our most common message types to also reduce the actual amount of data being sent. Along with the already optimized overhead, these two put together result in up to 40% less traffic. Finally we implemented some Steam specific optimizations to better utilize the Steam P2P networking API, minimizing external overhead and fixing a potential bottleneck.
/The Kingdom Team
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Thank you for your patience as we've been working hard to identify, investigate and develop fixes for the issues you have reported. We have now published a major patch addressing the following bugs:
Fixed an issue that could cause the players to lose the required souls for the Hermes Quest in certain multiplayer situations.
Fixed a bug that would cause the Cerberus head items to duplicate infinitely, filling up the coin pouch.
Fixed an issue that could cause Persephone to disappear forever or escape to other islands.
Fixed a bug that prevented players from paying for the attack on the Serpent's weak point in split screen co-op.
Fixed an issue that would cause a black screen when launching the game on Mac. If you are experiencing this issue after downloading the latest update, try restarting the game once OR exit and enter full screen once by using Command + Control + F (Big Sur and earlier) or Fn + F (Monterey or later), and the problem should be solved.
Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause mount abilities to be unusable until the player changes to another mount.
Fixed a damage bug with Pikemen and Hoplites that would cause them to do less than intended damage against high health enemies.
Fixed several issues with Knight behavior when interacting with the Serpent, including situations where they would stop moving entirely.
Fixed an issue that prevented islands in Call of Olympus from being registered as completed properly, causing decay to happen when it should not.
Fixed several Norse Lands mounts' abilities not triggering pushback effect correctly.
Fixed several issues with unit behavior when they interacted with Persephone’s cage, including Knights running past it.
Workers will no longer run indefinitely to one side after their work gets destroyed.
Breeders will no longer hit units standing behind walls.
Floaters will no longer get stuck on walls.
Fleet boats will now join a player bearing the banner even if there is no squad present.
Squads will no longer jump off the ship when the player tries to sail away.
Tweaked Greed portal behavior to not activate at inappropriate times.
Lowered the spawn rate of Greed portal defense waves at lower difficulty settings.
Fixed an issue that would cause the achievement “Master of the Sea” to trigger incorrectly.
Fixed malfunctioning camera movement that would happen after destroying the caves in the Skull Island challenge.
Fixed an issue that prevented players from selecting their preferred ruler in the Lost Islands challenge.
Fixed an issue that would cause the game to freeze if the player turns off the tutorial in Challenge Islands.
Fixed the Cursed Crown placement on most Royal Wardrobe ruler skins.
Fixed an issue that would show incorrect island completion values in the save slots.
Fixed an issue that would show incorrect gem and portal values on the map.
Fixed some text strings flowing outside of the visible area during split screen co-op.
Addressed several visual issues with sprites, VFX, and UI.
Addressed several visual and sync issues in multiplayer.
With this patch we have resolved a wide number of issues that you have identified and we are still investigating a few more. We're committed to making Kingdom a high quality experience, and are therefore continuously at work on improving it. We always communicate updates on our X, Facebook and Discord, so please make sure you follow them not to miss any. If you encounter any further issues, please report them at https://rawfury.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1 as this is the quickest way for us to have a look and get back to you.
Thank you for your continuous support. It is thanks to your love for Kingdom and the support desk tickets you created that even a small team like ours has a chance to tackle the trickiest of bugs.
/The Kingdom Team
👑Vote for us at Steam Awards!👑
Monarchs,
It’s the time of the year when the gaming community gets together and reflects on an incredible year for games. This year has brought some truly awesome experiences and the Kingdom team is cheering for everyone that has contributed to the gaming landscape of 2024.
We are proud to have contributed ourselves, with the launch of Kingdom Two Crowns 2.0 and the Call of Olympus DLC - our biggest, most ambitious addition to Kingdom Two Crowns ever. It’s been such a great ride with reveals, activities and finally to share your moment of discovery and exploration, albeit with a few speed bumps at times.
We would like to extend a special thank you to the community members who have helped us identify a set of issues by submitting bug reports, enabling us to find the root cause of most of them. We are working hard to get back to you with a new set of fixes as soon as we can, so that everyone can experience the game as we envisioned it. Call of Olympus is the most ambitious set of changes, upgrades and experiments with features of Kingdom Two Crowns and we have expanded on many of the things we enjoy and taken them to the next level.
We truly love Kingdom and we hope this love is felt. We would be grateful, if you’d be considering us for the “Labor of Love” category in this year’s Steam Awards and we will be back as soon as possible to roll out the next bugfix patch for the game.
Sincerely,
The Kingdom Team
Patch notes Kingdom Two Crowns 2.0.4
Monarchs,
Thank you for your understanding while we're doing our best to fix the issues you have reported to us. This patch fixes the following:
Fixed an issue where you could get a soft lock, if you picked up more souls for Hermes's quest than what’s actually needed to complete it. This patch fixes this issue for players who have already encountered this, and also prevents it from happening in the future.
We are also hard at work on a bigger patch that will include various bug fixes. One of our top priorities right now is the multiplayer irregularities some of you have encountered. Thank you for taking your time and reporting them to us - the tickets you create at our support desk are invaluable as the save files and logs that you share allow us to get to the bottom of the issue. If you’re experiencing problems with the multiplayer (disconnects, lags, etc.) and you have not reported them yet, please submit them to our support desk:
1. When you encounter the issue, please press CTRL+F12 to get a zip file on your desktop. 2. Send the file to our support mentioning that it's related to the multiplayer issue in the title - https://rawfury.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1
When we have further updates, we'll communicate them as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.
