- Add officer traits: officers can start with traits or earn them based on actions or randomly by a really small chance
- Add desertion mechanic for disloyal officers: Officers with negative loyalty will randomly desert
- Add global gamelog to campaign
- Add autosave to campaigns
- Add equipment icons for new body armor
- Make officer loadout icons use new equipment system
- Add support for multiple campaign savegames
- Add officer name to traveling unit tooltip
- Set alternate player on foot camera as default
- Having a famine now influences loyalty instead of randomly deserting units
- Fix death scene character showing wrong faction
- Fix dead officers being replaced with invalid data
- Fix invalid shield mesh on minsterial on foot officers
- Fix default officer showing as portrait on settlements with empty garrison
- Fix non battle ready units dissapearing from garrison after battle
- Fix normals on some gambeson armors
Voor de Kroon
Patch Notes - December 19th 2023
One year of early access
It's been one year since the release of Voor De Kroon in early access and I want to thank everyone for believing in and supporting the project! It's been one hell of a ride already and I can't wait for the coming year.
There's still a couple of big features coming up including the campaign/map editor. The game will also receive a lot of polish and quality of life updates in the coming months.
I hope to see you in 2024 and let's work towards 1.0! If you have any suggestions or questions, feel free to make a post in the discussions.
Thank you!
Patch Notes - December 11th 2023
This is a patch that addresses a lot of issues regarding officer equipment and adds some new equipment. It also fixes a couple of hard crashes, most notable being the game crashing when starting a siege with a round castle.
Thank you for all the support so far and stay tuned for larger updates!
Changelog
- Replace two handed knights with sergeants on foot
- Replace lords onf oot with sword and shield unit
- Add crusader bible hauberk with gambeson vest
- Add crusader bible hauberk with gambeson vest Coif variation
- Add crusader bible Gambeson with gloves
- Imrpove look of player death scene
- Reduce officer assassination cost
- Remove blunt weapon damage penalty against cloth armor
- Improve visibility of supply lines during winter
- Add big end turn button
- Always show supply lines
- Remove small campaign UI buttons
- Move faction overview button to campaign portrait
- Change portrait name to faction name and add faction shield
- Add diplomacy button to settlement detail menu
- Improve workshop factions logic, precache data to reduce overhead
- Improve campaign portrait quality
- Adjust campaign map lighting
- Increase settlement start population low threshold
- Increase settlement population scale
- Fix settlement building slots resetting to invalid state
- Fix militia officers using 1.5 hand swords
- Fix All officers using the same weapon
- Fix hairtypes not being assigned to factions correctly
- Fix missing head on dead player cinematic
- Fix after battle screen player character
- Fix officer equipment not initializing correctly for factions
- Fix blood on falchion sword
- Fix player still being able to start game without a way to breach castle in quick battles
- Fix weapon hand placement for officers
- Fix reinforcement officer portraits
- Fix blood on painted dargen helmet
- Fix blood on cloth coifs
- Fix missing siege data on round castle causing a crash
- Fix hood clipping
- Fix crash related to missing physics asset
- Fix vertical alignment of campaign portrait in settlement details
- Fix being able to reinforce from settlements under siege
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Thank you for all the support so far! I hope to continue this adventure into 2024 with you.
Patch Notes - November 21th 2023
- Add streaming mode that disables most forms of violence to prevent content policy violations. (Blood, excessive screaming, dismemberment, fire)
- Add small chance that arrow is non lethal when neck or head is not hit
- Disable windowed and fullscreen default unreal hotkeys
Patch Notes - November 19th 2023
Changelog
- General CPU optimizations
- Improve look of sunny winter weather
- Increase snow particles during snowy weather
- Tweak foliage autumn look
- Improve realistic color mode daytime sky
- Improve nightttime sky and lighting
- Add menu option for per bone motion blur
- Add some weight to melee attacks on foot
- Always break lance on impact
- Show performance setting screen on first game load
- Castle flags display defender faction heraldry if global heraldry is enabled
- Hide heraldry shields on unit cards when global heraldry is enabled
- Revamp battle size options
- Add more foresty environment to alcmare
- Transform Haelrem to Alder forest
- Add Alder forest biome
- Tweak cavalry turning behavior
- Add collection of mask examples to game folder
- Remove unused assets from game to reduce package size
- Fix battlesize setting
- Fix artillery knockback and fire hits
- Fix reinforcement officers in quick battles
- Fix dismounted units triggering formation attack marker
- Fix castle naming using the wrong prefix during quick battles
Patch Notes - November 15th 2023
- Randomize blood patterns on surcoats and helmets
- Fix blood on knights helmets
- Fix blood on surcoats and modular officers sometimes not showing up
- Fix can't start siege battle without ladders
Patch Notes - November 15th 2023
- Can now start campaign siege when one ladder is placed instead of all
- Tweak formation cohesion vs unit level
- Lower frequency of boiling water drops
- Add crusader helmet to random heavy knight helmets
- Improve horse cloth normals
- Increase ammo of all ranged units during a siege
- Force highest lod on player helmet
- Fix siege units hugging square castle corners
- Fix units disengaging when moving to a new defense position in castle
- Fix attacking siege units pushing through defending units
- Fix AI navigation on square castle
- Fix player orders during sally out battle
- Fix charge ladders order not actually charging ladders
- Fix blood not working on officers
- Fix dehorsed minesterials using old model
Hotfix - November 13th 2023
- Fix cavalry stopping right before charge impact
- Fix heraldry background grid in heraldry editor
- Fix steam workshop faction backgrounds not being named in heraldry editor
Patch Notes - November 13th 2023 - Siege control update
I am excited to bring you this week's update for Voor de Kroon.
🎮 Enhanced Siege Battle Controls
- Specific controls for siege battles added for more strategic command over your units.
- Tweaked siege defense AI.
- Player needs to start the assault manually. This allows the player to first attack the castle with ranged units for example.
👥Improved Formation Behaviors
- Increased formation cohesion. This makes sure formations stay in shape when traveling long distances. Lower level formations can still fall apart when making too big movements.
- Tweaked formation charge behavior
- Some tweaks to the underlying battle engine
🔧 Bug Fixes and Optimizations, etc.
- A plethora of fixes to enhance game stability and performance.
- Introducing two new hairstyles to personalize your characters further.
As always, thank you for your support and all the feedback! It helps development a lot.
Full Changelog:
- Implement specific orders for siege battles
- Implement specific siege defense orders
- Improve siege defense AI
- Projectiles bounce off stone structures
- Remove US grouping from year on battle date widget
- Add some extra checks to formation class to prevent empty formations still 'existing' in some edge cases
- Implement formation cohesion algorithm
- Make Frisian lords more authentically frisian
- Add rough cut hairstyle
- Add Frisian hairstyle
- Force exit battle if player is defeated
- Tweak castle brick color
- Player can't start siege when not all available ladders are placed during campaign
- Add text notification when ladders are placed or gate is breached
- Tweak cavalry behavior
- Fix head flipflopping really fast when looking backward on alternate camera
- Fix lords still using old models during campaign
- Fix lords on campaign using wrong sword
- Fix lances clipping through shields on back
- Fix hand clipping through frisian officer shield
- Fix horse heraldry position in battle
- Fix Feudal militia commander shield clipping arm
- Fix siege engine officers portriats in battle
- Fix formation charge location
- Fix battering ram collision
- Fix ranged army in quick battles spawning cavalry units for siege battles
- Fix ailettes color brightness
- Fix custom faciton naming logic
- Fix heavy knights mkaing too many noises
- Fix siege engine icon not hiding on battle start
- Fix officer faces clipping chainmail coifs
- Fix edge cases where you can still attack a player with 0 units
- Fix round castle stormram path
- Fix wall sapping logic in campaign
- Fix wall not staying sapped after siege ends
- Fix hand item placements for new models