Main e1.5.8

Singleplayer

• Fixed a crash that occurred after a disbanded caravan entered a settlement.
  

• Fixed an issue that caused starving parties that had joined an army with food supplies to continue losing troops until the end of the day.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused new recruits to join a party with extra experience.
  

Multiplayer

• Fixed a crash that occurred upon round start if a castle gate was destroyed during the warmup phase.
  

• Fixed an issue with the Clan Invite button being visible when the player was not a clan leader or officer.
  
• Fixed an issue that the caused news images to not display on the Lobby screen.
  
• Fixed a multiplayer login issue for the Epic Games platform.
  

Beta e1.5.9

Singleplayer

• Fixed a crash that occurred after a disbanded caravan entered a settlement. (Also in e1.5.8 hotfix.)
  

• Fixed an issue that caused starving parties that had joined an army with food supplies to continue losing troops until the end of the day. (Also in e1.5.8 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed a bug that caused new recruits to join a party with extra experience. (Also in e1.5.8 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed DLSS settings not being shown in the options menu.
  
• Fixed a physic model issue with sturgia_castle_gatehouse_a_l2's merlons.
  
• Fixed an issue with helmet scaling inconsistencies.
  
• Fixed an issue on the party screen that prevented the reordering of troops with drag and drop.
  

• Revised bread cover types.
  

Multiplayer

• Fixed a crash that occurred upon round start if a castle gate was destroyed during the warmup phase. (Also in e1.5.8 hotfix.)
  

• Fixed an issue with the Clan Invite button being visible when the player was not a clan leader or officer. (Also in e1.5.8 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed an issue that the caused news images to not display on the Lobby screen. (Also in e1.5.8 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed a multiplayer login issue for the Epic Games platform. (Also in e1.5.8 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed some level design issues on the Domogtul Castle siege map.
  

Both

• Reduced Javelin and Throwing Axe shield-damage multipliers.
  

Main e1.5.8

Multiplayer

• Fixed an issue that was causing servers to crash.
  
• Fixed a client crash that could occur during matches.
  

Main e1.5.8

Latest Changes:

Singleplayer

• Fixed a crash that occurred when the player was killed while locked onto a target during a practice fight.
  
• Fixed ghosting in DLSS mode.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused an endless loop after the kingdom screen was opened.
  
• Fixed an issue with sieges being lifted prematurely (attackers were repeatedly visiting nearby towns to heal their wounded troops, creating a siege heal loop).
  
• Translation/language files in unselected mods are no longer loaded.
  

Multiplayer

• Fixed an issue with slow walking speeds when taking control of a unit in Captain Mode.
  

Previous Beta Hotfixes:

Singleplayer

• Fixed a crash that occurred when a value that was higher than is allowed was pasted in integer input fields.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when capturing the last settlement of a kingdom that was a target in the conspiracy phase of the main storyline.
  

• Fixed a DLSS related issue with the resolution scale causing a dark screen.
  
• Fixed a DLSS related issue with medium shading quality causing corrupted images.
  
• Fixed an issue with some settlements being unselectable due to the horizontal layout in the 'Gift Settlement' menu.
  
• Fixed an issue that made some notables disappear when loading save files.
  
• Fixed an issue with thumbnails failing to load.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused conversation tag weights (that affect dialogue variation) to be set improperly.
  

• Minor improvement to opening times for Clan, Character, Inventory and Party screens.
  

Singleplayer

• Fixed a crash that occurred when a crossbow was equipped by cavalry agents.
  

• Fixed an issue with AI archers failing to fire at mounted enemies until they were too close. Now they will start shooting sooner.
  
• Fixed an issue with 'Guaran' using the wrong civilian outfit templates.
  
• Fixed an issue with decreased troop count in common areas.
  
• Fixed an issue with thugs offering mercenary services in common areas.
  

Singleplayer

• Fixed a crash that occurred when the player or hideout boss killed spectator troops during a hideout duel.
  
• Fixed a crash caused by loading an old save that starts immediately with the siege aftermath menu, (which has been changed in new versions and contains pillaging options).
  
• Fixed a crash caused by average item price calculations.
  

• Fixed an issue that directs the player to a peace menu while raiding a settlement even though no peace occurs.
  
• Average gold amounts of towns are increased.
  

Singleplayer

• Fixed a crash that could occur after winning a battle.
  

• Increased the probability for NPC parties with a high ratio of wounded troops to visit a settlement and rest.
  
• Reduced the rate at which notables' recruitable troops upgrade.
  
• Fixed an issue with the colour grade selection in photo mode.
  
• Fixed an issue that blocked the loading of item thumbnail images.
  
• Leadership Authority perk's secondary effect is changed to 'Increase party size limit by 5'.
  
• Tactics Swift Regroup perk primary effect is changed to 'Decrease disorganized time for breaking sieges or raids by 15%'.
  
• Scout Foragers perk secondary effect is changed to '15% reduction in disorganized state recovery duration'.
  
• Fixed an error that caused caravan and garrison parties to not show up in the clan parties list.
  
• Fixed a bug that could sometimes result in non-clickable pillaging options after sieges.
  
• Removed relation penalties for killing a lord on the battlefield.
  

Singleplayer

• Fixed a bug that caused the mouse cursor to disappear on the campaign map.
  
• Fixed an issue with hordes of bandit parties being spawned on the campaign map.
  
• Fixed a bug that changed disbanding parties' names to 'unnamedMobileParty'.
  
• Fixed the prosperity loss calculations for pillaging.
  
• Fixed an issue with the AI taking into account the settlement owner culture instead of the settlement culture when deciding siege aftermath actions.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused lords to act like non-lord parties upon loading a save.
  

Singleplayer

• Fixed a bug that caused the cursor to permanently disappear on the campaign map.
  

Initial Beta Changelog:

Singleplayer

• Fixed a crash that occurred at scene load.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when an uninitialised inverse kinematics data was accessed for human characters.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when pasting a crafting weapon in the smithy.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when pressing 'transfer all' in the inventory.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when initiating a campaign map encounter.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred due to invalid items in towns.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when marrying your daughter to a hero.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred after clicking the 'you are my prisoner now' dialogue option while raiding a caravan.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when creating a new rebel clan.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when immediately sieging a settlement after leaving the training field.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred while initialising the last phase of the main storyline.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when the barter amount was 0.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred while loading a saved game after taking the 'Lord Wants Garrison Troops' quest.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred due to uninitialised parties in some old saves.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when a mission ended.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred during battles.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred after finishing quests that create special quest bandit parties.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred in sieges when the player died while controlling a formation which had previously been AI-controlled and the formation was attempting to retake a position.
  

• Improved campaign map loading performance.
  
• Optimised memory allocations to reduce frame drops on the world map.
  
• Optimised performance and memory usage in the animation system.
  
• Fixed some trade screen related memory leaks.
  
• Improved army deployment performance for field battles.
  

• Chinese language updates.
  
• Turkish language updates.
  
• Minor text fixes.
  

• Added 9 Battanian helmets.
  
• Removed shoulder armours that caused clipping issues on Sapling, Sprout and Vlandian Caravan Master units.
  
• Body armour weights have been recalibrated according to armour types and armour values.
  
• Armours no longer have adjectives which define their origin, e.g Southern, Northern, etc.
  
• Made a number of visual improvements on various architectural prop models.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the player character to have their fists open on the campaign map.
  

• Added three cheering animation variations. Different cheering animations will now play depending on the result of the battle.
  

• Campaign map mouse right-click and middle-click behaviour has been changed to hide the cursor and keep it at the same location.
  
• Improved visibility of the 3D gamepad cursor on the campaign map when zoomed out.
  
• Improved Vlandia settlement models and textures.
  

• Added a new casualty report option for non-hero troop kills/deaths.
  
• Added a new option, Track Attacked Settlements, that automatically tracks settlements in the player's faction that are under attack. The 'Only Leader' option only tracks these settlements if the player is the leader of the faction.
  
• Added a 'Lock Item' button to smelting items in the Smithy along with a warning if the player tries to smelt a locked weapon.
  
• Inventory items of the same type are now arranged by their value when sorted by 'Type'. Same value items are sorted alphabetically.
  
• Added a 'Continue Campaign' button to the main menu that loads the latest save game.
  
• The player party now shows at the top of the scoreboard in battles.
  
• Siege event icons on settlement nameplates are now visible during the bombardment phase.
  
• Governor assignments in the Clan screen will now take place when the screen is closed to prevent unwanted teleportations of clan members.
  
• Added a confirmation query to the game options on 'Cancel' if any changes have been made.
  
• Improved the readability of generic inquiry popups.
  
• Added a failed quest icon to the quests screen.
  
• Added an escape menu to the character creation stages.
  
• Removed the 'Enable Map Notifications' option since some notifications aren’t dismissible and are required for progression.
  

• Fixed a visual bug that caused the stone icon to show up incorrectly on the equipment selection radial.
  
• Fixed a configuration bug that caused some options to be set incorrectly.
  
• Removed 'Shops in Settlement' text from the Town Management screen if the settlement is a castle.
  
• Fixed an issue with smelting items being sorted differently when a weapon was smelted.
  
• Fixed some inconsistencies with hero portrait and conversation equipment.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused wanderers' locations to appear incorrectly in the encyclopedia.
  
• Removed incomplete language options from the game menu.
  
• Fixed an issue with siege icons failing to disappear when loading the game.
  
• Fixed an issue with the combat log which caused extra damage from skills & effects to be reported incorrectly.
  

• Added Pillaging: Players and AI can now choose to 'Devastate', 'Pillage' or 'Show Mercy' to settlements that have been successfully sieged.
  
  
  
  • 'Devastate' and 'Pillage' can damage the prosperity and projects of a settlement, as well as, diminish the power of notables in towns. Naturally, the previous settlement owner won’t be too happy about the destruction of their former home. However, the participants of the siege will see their coffers and party morale rise. Still, lords and ladies may or may not approve of the action depending on their traits.
    
  • 'Show Mercy' allows the winners to take over the settlement without causing too much harm to it or its inhabitants. While this is expected for settlements of one’s own faction culture, showing mercy to foreign settlements will cause unrest among the troops. Just as with the other choices, some nobles will approve or disapprove of the action.
    
  
  
• Improved the battle formations spawn system. Formations will now spawn within one of the four flanks during open field battles (from front to back order):
  
  
  
  • Center Flank: Skirmishers, Heavy Infantry, Infantry
    
  • Rear Flank: Ranged Units, Civilian Units
    
  • Left Flank: Heavy Cavalry, Cavalry,
    
  • Right Flank: Horse Archers, Light Cavalry.
    
  
  
• Players can now assign different troop stacks to different formations to change flanks and deployment order.
  
• Fixed an issue with siege weapon auto-deployment that caused some ranged siege weapons and special archer positions to be left unused.
  
• Fixed a siege issue that caused attacking troops to run into walls until they routed after primary siege engines (towers and ram) were destroyed on all lanes.
  
• Formation AI siege behaviour scoring has been revised significantly, allowing all AI formations to attack or pull back when the situation demands it.
  
• Fixed a condition that caused incorrect calculation for formation AI behaviour selection.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented AI troops from selecting the correct weapon due to the distance of the enemy through nav mesh.
  
• Fixed an issue that mixed up the positions of the crossbow holster and bolt when spawning in scenes.
  
• Fixed various deployment spawn errors.
  

• Added all of the remaining combat-related engineering perks (10 in total).
  
• Fixed various perk problems with Athletics, Riding, Throwing, Polearm and One-Handed skill trees.
  
• 'Pick Them of the Walls' and 'Make Them Pay' perks have been implemented.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused security-related perks to give negative security to settlements.
  
• Minor bug fixes to Medicine and Leadership skills.
  
• Fixed the 'Duelist' perk secondary effect which rewarded the player with 300 renown for winning a tournament.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the player to get free 'Charm' skill.
  

• Fixed a bug that prevented family members from being assigned to increase relations in a settlement.
  
• Fixed an issue with the player's siblings being shown as naked and in the wrong education stage.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from being able to donate prisoners.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed the player to take troops from other non-clan parties.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented the heir menu from opening if the main hero died while sieging.
  

• Improved a calculation to make AI parties more decisive when engaging enemy parties on the world map.
  

• When a settlement's diplomatic state is changed (because of a change of owner, or a new war or peace declaration), all hostile parties that are inside will now leave the settlement. All hostile heroes without parties will be taken prisoner. All non-hostile heroes will be released.
  
• Mercenaries will now leave a kingdom if they do not get paid for several days because the kingdom is bankrupt.
  
• Kingdoms experiencing financial difficulties will now recruit minor factions less.
  
• War/peace AI has been improved so that clans make more logical war/peace declarations. The importance of distance between kingdoms has been increased for these decisions. Kingdoms further apart tend to avoid war/peace/tribute deals between each other in most cases.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented failed rebellion clans from being destroyed after 30 days.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused rebellion clan leaders to have the 'King' title in their name.
  
• Initial position selection for dynamically created kingdoms has been improved.
  
• Fixed a bug related to all player kingdom prisoners being bartered with the player automatically which lead to faulty notifications.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused a lord to barter all of his gold for the player's daughter.
  

• Changed the outcome from slaughtering horses from 4 meat and 2 hides to 3 meat.
  
• Added plural forms of trade items, e.g. 'Tyal horses' and 'amphorae of oil'.
  

• Fixed a bug during the loading phase that resulted in crafted items appearing in tournaments and not being removed from towns.
  

• 200+ power headman notables now provide elite troops.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused artisans to constantly lose power.
  
• Notables at villages which are bounded by a castle now gain more power each day compared to others.
  
• Fixed several bugs related to board games.
  
• Fixed a bug that showed a recruitment label on lords even if they didn’t recruit at a settlement.
  

• The deserter party in 'Extortion by Deserters' quest will no longer lose members due to starvation.
  
• Some dialogues have been updated related to the 'Art of The Trade' quest.
  
• Fixed a minor agent spawn rotation problem while spawning guard agents in the 'Gang Leader Needs Weapons' quest.
  
• Reenabled the 'Spy Among Us' quest.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused an incorrect quest log to be shown in 'Overpriced Goods and Art of The Trade' quest.
  
• Fixed a problem that prevented Issues from being completed with modified items such as 'Lame Desert Horse'.
  
• Fixed the 'hideout spotted' log of the 'Conspiracy Base of Operations' quest.
  
• Fixed a bug that set the relationship with the tutorial village's headman to -99 when the tutorial was finished.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented quest troops from the 'Train Troops' issue from entering hideouts.
  

• Fixed the position of the player when speaking with the advanced melee trainer.
  
• Fixed incorrect text showing when ransoming enemy lords.
  
• Fixed a problem that caused the conversation to become stuck while talking to the ransom broker in a tavern.
  
• Fixed camera issues when opening a conversation with a companion through the party screen.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented conversation hero guards from spawning in 'parley' and 'request a meeting with someone' conversation missions.
  

• XP needed to upgrade to tier 4 and tier 5 troops has been slightly increased.
  
• Passive XP for troops in NPC clans has been slightly reduced.
  
• Fixed an issue with mercenaries and minor faction troops having the wrong skill templates.
  
• Haramis now upgrades into Veteran Farises.
  
• Sea Raider Chief's athletics and riding skill values have been swapped.
  
• Barbers no longer carry weapons.
  
• Corrected the clearing of missiles attached to corpses while clearing the scenes, especially in tournaments.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused heroes with a child to have another child in quick succession.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused dead heroes to be shown in the characters location list.
  
• Fixed an issue that led to uninitialised temporary parties to exist longer than intended, causing nobles to remain as prisoners indefinitely.
  

Multiplayer

• Changed the defender morale effect when the attacker has the Keep flag from '6 / sec' to '[number of flags captured] / sec'.
  

• Echerion: Physics improvements and critical fixes. Smoothed out the corner at flag B.
  
• Xauna: Some visual fixes, physics improvements and winter fixes.
  
• Baravenos Encirclement: Improvements to one of the side tower ladders and its surroundings. Fixed a problem with horses getting stuck at flag G.
  

• Clan Leaders can now appoint up to 3 Clan Officers. Clan officers can do everything the Clan Leader can other than appoint/demote other Clan Officers or delete the Clan.
  
• Replaced the number of people waiting in the queue with an average wait time.
  
• Added bell sounds to skirmish to indicate when morale is low.
  

• Fixed an issue that caused stuttering when going through an open gate.
  

• Fixed a crash that occurred when logging in.
  

Both

• Added an option under 'Audio > Sound in Background' to lower the game volume while the game is out of focus.
  

• Added 'Enable Death Icon' option.
  

• Fixed a bug prevented chat from working with the Numpad enter key.
  
• Fixed an issue with incorrect damage amounts being shown in the combat log.
  

• Improved the performance of siege battles.
  
• CPU memory usage has been reduced.
  

• Improved cavalry calculations to take velocity into consideration when switching to two-handed polearm weapons.
  
• Mounted agents will no longer needlessly change weapons when moving short distances or rotating their mounts.
  
• Agents will no longer throw their last throwing weapon if they have no other melee weapon.
  
• Revised weapon score calculation to:
  
  
  
  • Make agents choose between multiple polearms more effectively.
    
  • Take enemy armour into account when selecting a weapon.
    
  • Improve weapon reach consideration.
    
  
  
• Attacking and blocking with a game controller is now working correctly with all possible options.
  
• Missile trails have been moved to the sticking point of the missiles in order to show the throwing axes and knives projection correctly.
  
• Bastard swords and axes now work like polearms with shields (forced two-handed without a shield and forced one-handed with a shield, no longer requiring the pressing of the X button).
  

• Fixed a bug that caused the 'Refresh Rate' option to be reset to the lowest option in fullscreen mode.
  

Modding

• Added path duplication and fixed some bugs related to path and barrier renaming.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused an error when the 'Show Entity Physics' option was selected on the visibility window.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused an error when deleting a path point.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused a crash when the 'Calculate Ambient Occlusion' button was clicked on the vertex paint menu.
  
• Fixed a visual bug that caused selected meshes to be invisible in the vertex painting mode.
  
• Added CTRL+TAB shortcut for switching between the last selected debug rendering mode and 'Shaded' mode.
  
• A small warning icon has been added to thumbnails in the resource browser to indicate the ones that have issues.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the texture editor to show textures too bright.
  
• Performed a refactor to make special parties use special components according to their status. E.g. bandit parties will use bandit party components, caravan parties will have caravan party components, etc.
  

Beta e1.5.9

Singleplayer

• Fixed a crash that occurred when the player or the hideout boss killed one of the spectator troops during a hideout duel.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when pressing Ctrl and + on an empty item stack.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when switching weapon types in the crafting screen when secondary usage had been selected.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when encountering parties on the campaign map.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when trying to talk to a lord in a besieging army.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when executing the last non-mercenary lord of a kingdom.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred while loading a game after activating the 'Lord Needs Garrison Troops' quest.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred due to a 'Know-how' perk bug after attacking a caravan.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when entering a settlement after being held as a prisoner at the time of loading a save file.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred after the conversation with 'Tacteos' was finished.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred after the conversation with 'Arzagos' about 'Assemble the Dragon Banner' was finished.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when the 'Conspiracy Base of Operations' quest was completed with the Hideout Boss dead.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred due to clans being created in the last phase of the main storyline not having their leaders set correctly.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when loading an old save that started on the siege aftermath menu (which now contains pillaging options).
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred by decision proposals made by eliminated or mercenary clans.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred after losing a battle with an army.
  

• Fixed a bug that prevented saving on some game menus.
  
• Fixed a bug that made some notables and companions disappear on load.
  

• Fixed missing reference links for non-English languages in the 'Concepts' texts of the 'Encyclopedia'.
  
• Turkish translation updates.
  
• Chinese translation updates.
  
• Minor text updates.
  

• Added a new clothing item: 'Decorated Thick Tunic'.
  
• Added a new cloak: 'Reinforced Neck Guard'.
  
• Performance improvements to Sturgia level 2 gatehouse model.
  
• Fixed cloth physics issues with the 'Northern Warlord Helmet'.
  

• NPC characters now have a smoother transition from walking to running when escorting players.
  
• Inventory animation refactoring has been completed. Characters no longer reset their animations when a new item is equipped.
  

• Minor ambient sound fixes to scenes.
  

• Party Screen Change Values
  
  • The party screen now shows influence, horse and morale change on top of gold change. Influence gain shows up while donating troops, horse change shows up while upgrading troops, and morale change shows up while recruiting prisoners. Players are now able to see exactly how much currency they will gain or lose when they close the screen with the 'Done' button.
    
  
  
• UI Code Gen
  
  
  
  • We've implemented a new system for UI screen initialisation and execution. This change improves performance and memory usage.
    
  
  
• Gamepad Navigation Improvements
  
  
  
  • Players can now navigate some selected screens with the Dpad.
    
  • Initial menu and conversations with Dpad up and down. While on the campaign map, when the cursor is at the centre, players can click Dpad left, focus on the game menu and navigate the game menu with up and down. Clicking right and down at that stage will focus on the map bar and using Dpad left and right will navigate the map bar. From the centre, right will focus on the map notifications and up will focus on the portraits on the settlement overlay.
    
  • This feature is currently only enabled with gamepads but will be implemented for keyboard arrow keys and the enter key for the click action in the near future.
    
  
  
• Added a colour switcher button to the Banner Editor. This button will swap the current sigil colours with the background colours.
  
• Changed keybind texts to key icons in the scoreboard and spectator screens.
  
• Added conformity bar and tooltip to party prisoner tuples.
  
• Moved governor assignment teleportation action to town management popup close to avoid unwanted teleportation of clan members.
  
• Added a new illustration to the kingdom 'Diplomacy' screen background.
  
• Added a new 'Issue Solved by Hero' notification to settlement events (notifications above the settlement nameplates) to inform the player about actions that AI lords are taking when entering a settlement.
  
• Improved how rich text icons are displayed. They're now shown more clearly (e.g. gold icon in texts).
  
• Added a warning (red text colour change) to map info bar party size label. It will now turn red if the main party is currently over the party limit.
  
• Added ransom broker to the mission name markers (ALT key in tavern scenes).
  
• Added a new rebellion map event icon.
  
• Changed workshop names to reflect their names rather than their job names, this will make the naming consistent with other screens.
  
• Improved visibility of the green arrow on the campaign map that shows up for gamepad navigation.
  
• Added map notifications for gained traits.
  
• Inventory menu + and - keys now buys/sells all when combined with Ctrl.
  

• Fixed small layout issues in the 'Recruitment', 'FaceGen', 'Options', 'Quests', 'Crafting', 'Character Developer', 'Encyclopedia', 'Gift fief', 'Inventory' and 'Education' screens.
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause the wrong damage amounts to be shown in the combat log.
  
• Fixed some input bugs with backspace in integer inputs.
  
• Added the missing 'Create Kingdom' hint back to the Clan screen 'Create kingdom' button.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the 'Last location' in notables' tooltips to appear twice.
  
• Fixed a bug that triggered the 'X Bandit Hero died' notification.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the party speed tooltip to be different from the actual speed.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the menu text to appear incorrectly after a hostile action had been ended by a declaration of peace.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the raid icon to be shown after saving/loading the game in a recently raided settlement.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the pillaging options to not be clickable after sieges.
  

• Killing a lord on the battlefield no longer triggers relation penalties.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented routed agents from switching to run mode.
  
• Spectator/ghost camera mode in missions now considers scrolling through more important characters first, such as generals, lords, companions etc.
  
• Parties with a high wounded ratio now visit settlements more often to reduce the risk of being caught by enemies.
  
• Fixed the prosperity loss calculations for pillaging
  
• Fixed a pillaging related bug where the AI would take into account the settlement owner’s culture instead of the settlement culture when deciding what to do after a siege.
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause incorrect AI formation behaviour.
  

• Sandbox mode has been added to the game:
  
  
  
  • Weight and build sliders have been added to both sandbox and campaign mode.
    
  • Sandbox mode allows players to choose a starting age group.
    
  • Sandbox starting positions on the world map are determined by the selected character culture.
    
  
  
• 'Pick Them off the Walls' and 'Make Them Pay' perks have been implemented.
  
• Crafting stamina and stamina recovery rate now scales with the 'Smithing' skill.
  
• 'Leadership' skill effect on morale has been decreased.
  
• Riding 'Veterinary' perk now halves the chance of a hero's mount dying or becoming lame after it falls in battle.
  
• Leadership 'Authority' perk secondary effect has been changed to 'Increase party size limit by 5'.
  
• Tactics 'Swift Regroup' perk primary effect has been changed to 'Decrease disorganized time for breaking sieges or raids by 15%'.
  
• Scout 'Foragers' perk secondary effect has been changed to '15% reduction in disorganized state recovery duration'.
  
• Fixed Smithing 'Sharpened Edge' and 'Sharpened Tip' perks.
  
• Fixed Scouting Vanguard and Rearguard perks and perk effects.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused mobile parties to be too fast when they had been called to an army with the Call to Arms perk.
  

• Family members can now be commanded in missions along with companions.
  
• Dungeon prisoners are now barterable along with prisoners in the party.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed the player to attack a clan member's party.
  
• Fixed a bug that provided passive relations increases when leaving children in a settlement.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented family members from providing a passive relations increase when left in a settlement.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from assigning a new clan role if the previous one was assigned to a caravan leader.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented the player's brother from being able to be assigned as governor or sent to solve issues.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some troops to need a horse when upgrading to unmounted troops.
  

• Fixed being able to join an army through conversation after a truce.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused a ruler’s clan banner to be incorrect after losing control of a kingdom.
  
• Fixed a bug that led to unregistered dynamically created kingdoms.
  

• Added Prison Break:
  
  
  
  • Players can break into enemy settlements to rescue clan and family members, vassals, friendly and neutral lords.
    
  • After approaching a guard with a bribe to let you into the dungeons, the prison break mission will begin. The sum of the bribe depends on the ransom value of the prisoner, security of the settlement and 'Roguery' skill of the player.
    
  • In order to break out the prisoner successfully, both you and the prisoner must defeat all the guards within the dungeon without getting knocked out. Higher security & wall level will make the break out harder by having more guards stand in the way of you and your escape.
    
  • Should the prisoner get knocked out in the escape, you’ll have to fight your way out alone to save yourself. Leaving the prisoner behind could result in him dying on the dungeon floor or being locked up behind bars again.
    
  • Should you get knocked out during the escape you’ll become a prisoner, or even worse, die.
    
  
  
• Fixed a mission end condition ambiguity that caused the player to skip the bandit boss fight by becoming unconscious just before all the bandits were killed by the player troops.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented town workshop buildings from affecting town construction speed.
  

• Removed randomisation when calculating issue difficulty.
  
• Duration, crime rating gain, and troop requirements have been updated for 'Escort Merchant Caravan', 'Overpriced Raw Materials', 'Nearby Bandit Base', 'Rival Gang Moving In', 'Needs to Deliver a Herd', 'Needs Military Training for Retainers', 'Can’t sell product at a fair price', 'Needs Access to Village Commons', 'Needs Grain Seeds', 'Needs Help with Brigands', 'Extortion by Deserters', 'Lady's Knight Out', 'Army of Poachers', 'Family Feud' and 'Gang Leader Needs Weapons' quests.
  
• Extortion by Deserters
  
  
  
  • Fixed the Deserter Party getting stuck in or near the quest settlement after the player lost a battle against them.
    
  • Fixed the Deserter Party moving too slow. Foot troops in the deserter party are now given Tier 2 horses of their culture to boost up party speed.
    
  • Reduced the size of the Deserter Party to adjust quest difficulty.
    
  
  
• Escort Merchant Caravan
  
  
  
  • The quest has been redesigned and reimplemented from scratch.
    
  
  
• Army of Poachers
  
  
  
  • Changed/added some dialogues.
    
  • The quest will now fail if the target village is raided or under raid.
    
  
  
• Deliver a Herd
  
  
  
  • The quest time limit has been increased from 5 to 30.
    
  • The crime rating penalty has been decreased from 30 to 10.
    
  • Herders were removed from the quest and quest dialogues were updated.
    
  
  
• Company of Trouble
  
  
  
  • The quest reward formula has been updated.
    
  • The food steal chance and amount were decreased.
    
  
  
• Needs Draught Animals
  
  
  
  • The number of animals will be determined when the issue is created and will not be changed as long as the issue is active.
    
  • The cost of animals formula has been updated.
    
  • Fixed a bug that caused the number of requested animals to be different from the quest journal entry.
    
  • Fixed a bug that caused the quest alternative solution reward gold to be given twice.
    
  
  
• Scout Enemy Garrisons
  
  
  
  • Only faction leaders will now be able to give the quest.
    
  • The quest will affect the quest giver's influence -0.1 daily.
    
  • The scouting skill requirement has been decreased from 40 to 30.
    
  
  
• The Spy Among Us
  
  
  
  • The base reward value has been increased from 300 to 500.
    
  
  
• The Art of The Trade
  
  
  
  • Fixed a bug that caused the quest giver to ask for 0 items and give 0 denars as a reward.
    
  
  
• Needs Access to Village Commons
  
  
  
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the rival party from spawning.
    
  
  
• Notable wants daughter found
  
  
  
  • Fixed a bug that allowed the hero to attack their companions in a duel.
    
  
  
• Raid an Enemy Territory
  
  
  
  • Fixed a bug that opened the encounter menu with the quest giver at the end of the conversation.
    
  
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the player to get stuck in a mission after solving the quest with a lord solution.
  

• Fixed a bug that caused the next dialogue to be broken after loading a game during an active persuasion attempt.
  

• Removed skill templates that overrode designated skill sets.
  
• Removed non-civilian tagged weapons from civilian starting equipment.
  
• Updated equipment and formations of the Bandit Bosses.
  
• Sturgian Veteran Bowman now uses the Nordic Shortbow.
  
• Removed the ability to recording campaign missions since it is not currently supported and causes crashes.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some heroes not to spawn after reaching adulthood.
  
• Fixed some encyclopedia entries that had inconsistent spelling and missing place names.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed the player to kill shop workers in towns.
  
• Fixed a bug that made new adults naked.
  
• Fixed a bug that made disbanded parties' names "unnamedMobileParty".
  
• Fixed a bug that caused all randomly generated starting player names to be Battanian.
  

Multiplayer

• Fixed a bug that caused the wrong team to win in overtime.
  

• Added two new siege maps: Domogtul Castle and Ayzar Stronghold.
  
• Xauna
  
  
  
  • Improvements to the pit fence physics and other fixes.
    
  
  
• Echerion
  
  
  
  • Many physics improvements to corners and other fixes.
    
  • Fixed the path material.
    
  
  
• Baraveneos Encirclement
  
  
  
  • Fixed an issue with the barricade changing its position when damaged near flag G.
    
  • Lowered outer and inner gate HP. Slightly increased G flag gate HP.
    
  • Some physics improvements.
    
  
  
• Tsagaan Castle
  
  
  
  • Solved physics problems on stairs.
    

• Fixed some troops from appearing as too old.
  

• Fixed a crash that occurred when logging into multiplayer.
  

• Added a new option to disable "Network Alert Icons" and added a visual representation to describe each icon.
  
• A confirmation popup now shows up while quitting a multiplayer game.
  
• Added a 'Mute / Unmute all players' button to the multiplayer scoreboard.
  
• Improved the visibility of player avatars and troop type icons both on the scoreboard and HUD.
  
• Added scores to the Skirmish and Captain game mode HUDs.
  

• Fixed a crash that occurred while logging in or reloading player data in the multiplayer lobby.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the 'Invite friend' button to disappear.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the 'Spear Brace' icon button to appear incorrectly.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the 'Rename Clan' popup to stay visible after the clan had been disbanded.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented the removal of clan announcements.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused 'un-mute all' to not function properly.
  

Both

• Fixed a crash that occurred when enabling/disabling cloth simulation.
  

• Fixed castle gate colliders that were not fitting to the gate properly.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused snow to flicker in some scenes.
  

• Added the Sound Occlusion option. It's forced ON in Multiplayer and can be turned on/off for Singleplayer.
  

• Added a 'Reset to Default' button to keybinds category in the game options.
  
• Extended the 'Turn Camera With Horse In First Person' option to include 'Always'.
  
• Improved the readability of query popup texts.
  

• Official modules can now be enabled but not disabled through the launcher. This will address the issue where no modules would load. Players can now enable official modules from the launcher and open the game correctly. No more deleting LauncherData.xml!
  
• Added some missing characters from Korean, Japanese and Chinese language fonts.
  
• Fixed the combat log incorrectly showing a killing blow when one hadn't occurred.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the 'Refresh Rate' option to be reset to the highest option in fullscreen mode.
  
• Fixed the text for bastard swords and axes.
  

• Greatly improved initial loading of the game by changing how font files are loaded and through other fixes and optimisations.
  
• Fixed a memory leak that occurred after entering scenes.
  
• Small Multi-Core usage improvements have been made.
  
• Disk usage improvements have been made.
  

• Cloth simulation for capes has been disabled when the agent has a shield on its back.
  

• Fixed a bug that caused archers to ignore cavalry despite them being at the same distance as other troops.
  
• Increased the firing range of archers that are targeting cavalry units.
  
• Javelins now deal 75% of their weapon damage to shields (increased from 10%).
  
• Throwing Impale perk now lets javelins penetrate shields as intended.
  
• Throwing axes now deal 50% of their weapon damage to shields (increased from 10%).
  
• Reduced the accuracy of crossbows while moving and added mount rear as a negative factor for accuracy.
  
• Improved camera collision with objects such as walls and bridges.
  
• Combat physics fix to prevent agents hitting each other at the same frame with kick or bash
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the character to move forward when jumping without any other movement.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the wrong dying animation to be picked when an agent was killed with a heavy weapon.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to crouch while reloading the crossbow.
  

• Implemented and enabled a CPU benchmark, which can be accessed via the game options from the main menu.
  
• Fixed a DLSS bug that caused some blurring.
  
• Fixed a DLSS bug related to resolution scale causing a dark screen.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused corrupted rendering with medium lighting quality.
  

• Added new functionalities to the GI baking procedure.
  
• Added new mission parameters to the sound manager panel.
  
• Improved the body mask option for path barriers.
  
• Fixed the resize terrain issues.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused selection overlays to stay visible when helpers had been disabled.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the mouse cursor to snap to the bottom right corner.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the world map terrain to be black in the editor.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused decals to be visible even though their assigned layer had been disabled.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented texture's alpha channel sdf from being generated.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented reimporting of assets.
  
• Fixed inactive 'Terrain' and 'Shadow' options on the visibility window.
  

Main e1.5.7

Singleplayer

• Fixed a crash that occurred when pressing the 'Gift' button in the kingdom fief menu.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred after the 'Assemble the Dragon Banner' conversation with 'Arzagos'.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when the 'Gather all companions' option was selected in a tavern.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur after losing a battle with an army.
  

• Fixed an issue with disorganised parties not losing their speed penalty until they bought or sold an item or recruited troops. The speed penalty for disorganised parties is now removed after several in-game hours.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented AI parties from assaulting the castle when the player was in a settlement that was being besieged.
  
• Fixed an issue with clans not wanting to make peace even if they have several enemies.
  
• Fixed an issue with the plus (+) and minus keys (-) not working properly in the inventory. Now, + and - buttons buy/sell all items when combined with CTRL.
  
• Fixed an issue with the 'Family Feud' quest that caused the player to get stuck in a mission after solving a quest with the lord solution.
  
• Fixed a visual issue related to DLSS.
  
• Fixed an issue that granted passive relations bonuses when placing a child in a settlement.
  

• Added the missing 'Calculating' trait icon on the character screen.
  

Multiplayer

• Removed siege from matchmaking. Players can now access siege from the quick play tab or from the custom servers list.
  

• Khuzait Throwing Spear damage decreased from 113 to 87.
  
• Ash Throwing Spear damage decreased from 105 to 77.
  
• Pilum damage decreased from 113 to 83.
  

Beta e1.5.8

Singleplayer

• Fixed a crash that occurred when pressing the 'Gift' button in the kingdom fief menu. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when the 'Gather all companions' option was selected in a tavern. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred after the 'Assemble the Dragon Banner' conversation with 'Arzagos'. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur after losing a battle with an army. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when a crossbow was equipped by cavalry agents.
  

• Fixed an issue with disorganised parties not losing their speed penalty until they bought or sold an item or recruited troops. The speed penalty for disorganised parties is now removed after several in-game hours. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented AI parties from assaulting the castle when the player was in a settlement that was being besieged. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed an issue with clans not wanting to make peace even if they have several enemies. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed an issue with the plus (+) and minus keys (-) not working properly in the inventory. Now, + and - buttons buy/sell all items when combined with CTRL. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed an issue with the 'Family Feud' quest that caused the player to get stuck in a mission after solving a quest with the lord solution. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed a visual issue related to DLSS. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed an issue that granted passive relations bonuses when placing a child in a settlement. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed an issue with AI archers failing to fire at mounted enemies until they were too close. Now they will start shooting sooner.
  
• Fixed an issue with 'Guaran' using the wrong civilian outfit templates.
  
• Fixed an issue with decreased troop count in common areas.
  
• Fixed an issue with thugs offering mercenary services in common areas.
  

• Added the missing 'Calculating' trait icon on the character screen. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  

Main e1.5.7

Singleplayer

• Fixed an issue that caused DLSS results to look slightly blurry.
  

Multiplayer

• Fixed a few sound issues which may relate to "sound of doom" in MP matches.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the wrong team to be declared the winner if a player was killed in overtime.
  

Beta e1.5.8

Singleplayer

• Fixed a crash that occurred when the player or hideout boss killed spectator troops during a hideout duel.
  
• Fixed a crash caused by loading an old save that starts immediately with the siege aftermath menu, (which has been changed in new versions and contains pillaging options).
  
• Fixed a crash caused by average item price calculations.
  

• Fixed an issue that directs the player to a peace menu while raiding a settlement even though no peace occurs.
  
• Average gold amounts of towns are increased.
  

Main e1.5.7

Singleplayer

• Fixed a crash that occurred when executing the last non-mercenary lord of a kingdom.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when clicking Ctrl and (+) button on an empty item stack in the inventory.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when switching weapons in the smithy.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when the 'Conspiracy Base of Operations' quest completed with Hideout Boss dead.
  

• Fixed an issue with raid icons appearing after loading a save file.
  

Multiplayer

• Fixed a crash that could occur when logging in to multiplayer.
  

Both

• Enabled NVIDIA DLSS option for RTX graphics cards. Please ensure that you update your GPU driver before enabling this option.
  

Beta e1.5.8

Singleplayer

• Fixed a crash that occurred when executing the last non-mercenary lord of a kingdom. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when clicking Ctrl and (+) button on an empty item stack in the inventory. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when switching weapons in the smithy. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when the 'Conspiracy Base of Operations' quest completed with Hideout Boss dead. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur after winning a battle.
  

• Increased the probability for NPC parties with a high ratio of wounded troops to visit a settlement and rest.
  
• Reduced the rate at which notables' recruitable troops upgrade.
  
• Fixed an issue with the colour grade selection in photo mode.
  
• Fixed an issue that blocked the loading of item thumbnail images.
  
• Leadership Authority perk's secondary effect is changed to 'Increase party size limit by 5'.
  
• Tactics Swift Regroup perk primary effect is changed to 'Decrease disorganized time for breaking sieges or raids by 15%'.
  
• Scout Foragers perk secondary effect is changed to '15% reduction in disorganized state recovery duration'.
  
• Fixed an error that caused caravan and garrison parties to not show up in the clan parties list.
  
• Fixed a bug that could sometimes result in non-clickable pillaging options after sieges.
  
• Removed relation penalties for killing a lord on the battlefield.
  
• Fixed an issue with raid icons appearing after loading a save file. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  

Main e1.5.7

Singleplayer

• Fixed an issue with the 'Call to Arms' perk bonus. It is now 10% (as intended).
  
• Fixed a GPU memory leak caused by conversation scenes.
  

Beta e1.5.8

Singleplayer

• Fixed a crash that could occur during battles. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix - 08/02/21.)
  

• Fixed a bug that caused the mouse cursor to disappear on the campaign map.
  
• Fixed an issue with hordes of bandit parties being spawned on the campaign map.
  
• Fixed an issue with the 'Call to Arms' perk bonus. It is now 10% (as intended). (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed a bug that changed disbanding parties' names to 'unnamedMobileParty'.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when opening the character customisation screen with a young character. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix - 08/02/21.)
  
• Fixed an issue that caused some troops to remain static during hideout boss fights. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix - 08/02/21.)
  
• Removed erroneous skill templates from faction troops. Veteran Bowman units now use Nordic Shortbow. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix - 08/02/21.)
  
• Fixed a GPU memory leak caused by conversation scenes. (Also in e1.5.7 hotfix.)
  
• Fixed the prosperity loss calculations for pillaging.
  
• Fixed an issue with the AI taking into account the settlement owner culture instead of the settlement culture when deciding siege aftermath actions.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused lords to act like non-lord parties upon loading a save.
  

Main e1.5.7

Singleplayer

• Fixed a crash that occurred during battles.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when changing options with an RTX series graphics card.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred when opening the character customisation screen with a young character.
  
• Fixed a crash related to the 'Know-How perk' that happened when the main hero attacked a caravan or a villager party.

• Fixed an issue that caused some troops to remain static during hideout boss fights.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented the player from completing the 'Conspiracy Base of Operations Discovered' quest if the quest hideout had already been spotted when the quest was started.
  
• Removed erroneous skill templates from faction troops. Veteran Bowman units now use Nordic Shortbow.

Multiplayer

• Javelin stack size decreased from 4 to 3.
  
• Javelin Extra stack size decreased from 8 to 6.
  
• Northern Fish Harpoon stack size decreased from 4 to 3.
  
• Northern Fish Harpoon Extra stack size decreased from 8 to 6.

• Acceleration improvements to Skirmishers and Peasant type troops toned down.
  
• Empire Recruit:
  
  • Swapped Long Sword and Pilum Perk.
    
  • Spear Perk changed to Faster Sword Perk, grants Pugio.
  
  
• Aserai Skirmisher:
  
  • Better Javelins Perk grants 3 Jereed instead of 6.
    
  • Jereed Perk grants 3 Jereed instead of 6.