Kingdom Two Crowns

Short Developer Update

• 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.
  

These are the fixes we've made in the public beta

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• Fixed an issue with an infinite loading screen being shown, caused by previously corrupt save files. Your save files will not be lost.
  
• Fixed an issue that would cause time to stop after player actions during the tutorial in local co-op.
  
• Fixed several issues that may cause the game to crash in the Call of Olympus campaign.
  
• Fixed an issue that would cause some players to be stuck inside the Cave Portal while exiting a Cave. Loading a currently affected save on this patch will solve the problem.
  
• The Souls for Hermes' Quest will now spawn at a higher rate across your Call of Olympus campaign. This will prevent players from being blocked from progressing in new saves of the game. Players that were already experiencing a roadblock in progression due to missing Souls will now find the necessary Souls to complete the quest at the Dock on Hermes' Quest island, but only once all other quests are complete.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from buying back lost gems at the Marketplace in Call of Olympus. You may need to revisit the islands where the Gems were first lost if the buy back option is not available immediately.
  
• An adequate number of Gem Chests will now spawn in new saves of the Call of Olympus campaign. If you have been soft locked on Artemis' Quest on a previous save due to a lack of available Gems, please reach out to our support desk so we can help.
  
• Asked the Greed to adjust their clocks so they can arrive on time at your Kingdom walls, instead of being too early.
  
• We also made sure your Knights will bring their archers closer to the wall at night for a more robust defense.
  

• Fixed another issue that prevented some older save files from migrating correctly to the new save system, causing an infinite loading screen. Loading your save file with your game updated to the hotfix patch should resolve the issue.
  
• For Mac users who are still experiencing the black screen, we are currently working on a fix. You can try to work around this problem by pressing Fn + F to exit fullscreen, and then enter fullscreen again. This should resolve the issue.