• Import your save from The Banner Saga 2. You’ve put a lot of blood, sweat, and [mostly] tears into your story. Keep the caravan together and import your story!
  
• Spread around the Renown. You’ll use Renown to upgrade your characters. Spreading around the Renown across the caravan versus only a few characters will allow you to build varied parties. Also, in traditional The Banner Saga fashion, you never know who you might lose.
  
• Jump into the Eternal Arena. Compete in a weekly, global tournament and get your name on the leaderboard. Or try the sandbox mode with all the characters and enemies from the series.
  
• Be sure to check out the brand new The Art of The Banner Saga artbook here: Art of The Banner Saga Available Here
  
• Looking to join a group of friendly people and chat about great games like the Banner Saga? Visit us on Discord!
  

Bug Fixes and Improvements:

• Low rank characters had their abilities improperly removed on subsequent playthroughs
  
• Updated player spawn with guaranteed 2x2 spawning areas for the surrounded board on the steps of the white tower
  
• Removed word 'each' from no saves string
  
• Disabled dredge bell so stunned enemies that try to ring the bell don't cause an error
  
• Quitting while waiting for an arrangement to return from the server
  
• Heroic titles were not properly resetting when characters were reset from the assemble hero scenes
  
• Item duplication bug in Eternal Arena
  
• Setting of pillage mode in Eternal Arena was disabled because of an incorrect string in code
  
• Added tooltips for heroes to Eternal Arena Setup and Roster
  
• Initiative order was wrong in Pillage batles in Eternal Arena. This has been corrected
  
• Removed Nikels from Eternal Arena line up
  
• Nikels added back to Eternal Arena by popular demand - who doesn’t love Nikels?
  
• Addressed several performance issues
  
• Client work for the server versioning
  
• Localization fixes
  
• Ran a fix pass on Eyeless's possession ability
  
• Eyeless was incorrectly assigned as the killer in some cases when her possessed minion was slain - was a problem in Battle of Strength
  
• Balance pass on danger calculation for Eternal Arena Scoring
  
• Increased the size of the player deployment area for the Bolverk fight board for Survival Mode and Eternal Arena to support 6 2x2 heroes
  
• Apostate no longer has both abilities at level 3 when rank 1
  
• An enemy always being left out of the battle when making a pillage arena in Eternal Arena
  
• Polish to help UI in Eternal Arena Details page
  
• Adjusted item filters so that an item option only appears if there are at least 6 items at the current hero rank
  
• Rebalanced stat costs, mostly willpower
  
• Removed 'A Decisive Battle'/speed run scoring rule from Eternal Arena
  
• Added ea3e_server.json to have more restrictive enemy options when the server randomly creates a challenge
  
• Rupture to only fire on dredge and skulkers
  
• Addressed error where multi_wave_hero_sum scoring was incorrect
  

• Fixes Eternal Arena, Eternal Challenge exploit
  

• Fixes DLC & EA Waves rule issues
  

• Eternal Challenge: Come back every week to compete in a tournament with a global leaderboard.
  
• Arena Mode: Design your own battles, choose the enemies, and change the rules in this spellbinding sandbox mode.
  
• Play with all 46 characters, plus all enemies, and battleboards from the entire Banner Saga Trilogy and refine your party tactics.
  
• 39 new achievements (including 3 hidden ones)!
  
• 3 new leaderboards.
  

Patch Notes:

• Survival Mode: Incorrect achievements granting is fixed
  
• Survival Mode: Enemies no longer spawn on top of each other in certain battles
  
• Survival Mode: Now possible to win first battle without a 1x1 sized hero
  
• Backers: Added Backer portraits
  
• Audio: Addressed several VO start/end issues
  
• Misc: Other performance updates, fixes and improvements
  
• Localization: Additional text fixes to some languages
  

• Improvement / New - Survival Mode added to the game as paid DLC
  
• Achievement - Krumr's Mentor is now achievable
  
• Achievement - The Wave Breaker is now achievable
  
• Achievements - Player was erroneously awarded 'Scrape By' trophy after 'Sole Survivor' ending
  
• Animation - Stray Bleed Animation after killing an enemy fixed
  
• Audio - Game background sound and music now stops when minimizing the game or locking the screen
  
• Audio - Iver's monologue in the base of the white tower no longer repeating
  
• Audio - Rook's ranged attack now has sound effects
  
• Audio - VO fixes
  
• Bug - Game no longer enters unresponsive state after the pre-Ruin battle in Chapter 18
  
• Bug - Game no longer soft-locks at Chapter 19 start after Ruin battle
  
• Bug - Title no longer enters unresponsive state after a conversation with Tryggvi in Chapter 18
  
• Design - ‘Party’ text no longer overlaps with the talent points on the roster screen
  
• Design - Close button no longer fails to function on GAME OVER screen
  
• Design - Ready timer for selecting reinforcements in wave battles ticks properly
  
• Design - The character ‘Bersi’ begins with the correct number of kills
  
• Gameplay - 2nd ability capped to Rank1 on Recruit
  
• Gameplay - Chanter Stonesinger's channeled abilities cannot be interrupted
  
• Gameplay - First Warped Stoneguard no longer skips its first turn during the Dredge Bell battle
  
• Gameplay - Game will now launch properly on Mac in some cases
  
• Gameplay - Hurler's Sunstrike - Ability properly prevents enemies from using their abilities
  
• Gameplay - Fixed an issue if you triggered the Juno's death tutorial and finish a wave battle before triggering the popups
  
• Gameplay - Impale applies damage when repositioning characters during wave redeployment
  
• Gameplay - Inconsistency between Shield Wall's functionality and its description fixed
  
• Gameplay - No longer need to quit game from main menu twice to actually quit the game
  
• Gameplay - Proper visual indication when using controller that you need to confirm to access the heroic titles
  
• Gameplay - Resuming game upon reaching the Dredge Godstone no longer causes caravan to skip the Godstone's event and camp
  
• Gameplay - Ruin no longer takes double damage from effects that trigger during her turn
  
• Gameplay - The caravan no longer stops briefly after returning from Arberrang for the second time
  
• Gameplay - User can no longer increase Morale in the Dredge Godstone via Rest even when the number of days equals 0
  
• Gameplay - Warped Varls now do damage when they use Tempest
  
• Graphical - Manually resizing the screen when it is changing from windowed to full-screen while the game is opening, no longer causes game to stay on windowed but act as full-screen
  
• Graphical - Shield HP now disappears after being destroyed with one hit
  
• Graphical - View of Arberrang is now displayed properly during the final cinematic if player finished playthrough without returning to the city
  
• Graphical - Wall debris falling in a more natural way
  Localization – Many localization fixes
  
• Save - Fully functional ‘Resume’ button is no longer present after player deleted all the Save Profile Slots.
  
• Save – Game now Autosaves after Rugga Tent Battle
  
• UI - "Load Game" window no longer remains displayed if opened right before the loading screen
  
• UI - Achievement Strings are corrected from their placeholders
  
• UI - Castaway Ability "Barbed Stones" no longer has placeholder text
  
• UI - Characters can now use all points they have available
  
• UI - During reinforcements, selecting empty space with controller in hero roster shows 'Remove' text
  
• UI - Invisible buttons in pause menu can no longer be accessed by using a gamepad
  
• UI - Localized Subtitles Now Working
  
• UI - Placeholder text in Oddleif dialogue after meeting with the King event in French localization now removed
  
• UI - Placeholder text is removed from Juno’s ‘Thread of Life’ ability in Information Panel during battle
  
• UI - Poisoned Status Hover State Tooltip no longer contains placeholder debug string
  
• UI - Selected button no longer persists during a wave battle
  
• UI - Tally Page is now visible after the last return to the Arberrang
  
• UI - Typo during Valgard's speech in chapter 21 is fixed
  
• UI - User is now able to add points to talents other than default via gamepad in certain conditions
  
• UI - With the controller you can now use the "Close" button on the ability window
  
• UI – Marketplace background overlay now covers the entire screen
  
• UI – The text of wave turn counter does now fits into the textbox in Japanese
  
• UI – Typo in Unmoved Heroic Title Description is corrected
  

• Arberrang and Darkness caravan are swapped after losing the Frozen Lake battle
  
• Player can still perform an attack after killing an enemy with a Valka Spear
  
• Second Basement Wave does not spawn in the 3rd Return
  
• Additional checking to make sure that gating isn't cleared prematurely during "lost battle" time loss consequence
  
• Fixed Oddleif showing up in Arberrang return 5 in Ch.21 even if she no longer appears in Ch.20
  
• Male Horseborn cause battle with waves to end prematurely
  
• Story updated, after losing the Arberrang field battle, so it doesn't repeat
  
• Fix for Eirik being mentioned in darkness popup when he's in Arberrang
  
• Additional work to fix import issues Eirik - note this issue is impacted by what version of Banner Saga 2 your save game was on