Beta Branch Patch Notes e1.2.0

Versions
Native: e1.2.0
SandboxCore: e1.2.0
Sandbox: e1.2.0
Storymode: e1.2.0
CustomBattle: e1.2.0

Singleplayer

Crashes

A crash that was caused by accessing the rider of a mount while the mount was changed was fixed.
Fixed a crash occurred when executing prisoner heroes.

Performance

VRAM usage was reduced by solving some memory leaks in the UI.
Fixed some of the spikes in missions.
Minor GPU memory usage reduction for the world map.

Save & Load

Skill Level is preserved when loading old version savegames.

Localisation

Added traditional Chinese.
Some grammar mistakes are corrected and some typos fixed.
Improvements, additions and corrections for Turkish and Simplified Chinese translations.

Art

Fleeing points for AI were added to battle terrains.
Fixed misplaced textures and added better-looking elements to the shop stands.
Fixed some visual issues in one of the aserai villages.
Fixed Vlandian Vanguard shield banner issue.
Fixed certain visual glitches that appear when rendering blood on flora.
Added three new items for crafting - one scabbard for swords and two blades for spears.
Fixed some problems on crafting items.

Fixed a bug where map notifications were sometimes lost without being shown to the player.

Battles and Sieges

When looting enemies, it is now possible for the system to provide an item with a modifier if the default value of the item is too low or too high.
Missiles can now pass through between siege ladders' steps.
Fixed that corpses and thrown boulders were not being erased after the entity below them was destroyed.

Combat AI

A critical bug that caused AI in sieges to act unexpectedly and possibly cause crashes, if the player was aiding a side (being a separate ally team during the siege mission), was fixed.
A critical bug that caused AI pathfinding to almost always reset its path when moving from static to dynamic navmeshes and vice versa, which caused performance issues and agents not being able to climb siege towers correctly, was fixed
Incorrect ordering of mission behaviours caused a team's general to be deselected at the “choosing formation to lead” stage of army sieges. This was fixed.
AI that should've attacked the inner gate after breaking the outer gate with the ram in a siege tried to run into the castle over ladders because they chose the reverse side of the gate to stand and wait for reinforcing those that attacked the gate due to a bug. This was fixed.
Fixed a bug that occurred especially when armies were far away from each other and caused agents to run towards the enemy when given the order to retreat.
Removed unnecessary pathfinding calls by the AI that caused performance issues especially in sieges without impact on the decisions they were trying to make.

Character Development System

Changed Skill XP increase formula to 10 + skill level.
Fixed an issue in char creation where switching to female from male and back would reset all beard and other male-only properties.

Clan and Party

Companions now come with cheap items with modifiers, so they are easier to recruit.

Economy and Trade

Higher tier armours are now produced in towns and can sometimes be found in the marketplace.

Crafting

Fixed a bug where crafted items could have different stats then shown during creation.
Fixed a bug where crafted items lost changes to stats when loaded from a savegame.

Settlement Actions (Town, Village, Castle and Hideout)

Boosting construction now adds 50 construction rather than x2 construction speed
Fixed an issue with asking companions to look for themselves or asking villagers to look for our companions near us.
Fixed a bug that made the settlement project's completion time negative.

Quests & Issues

Family Feud quest related fixes/improvements.

Bugs
- Fixed a bug that causes quest dialogues to disappear after Save & Load.
- Fixed a bug that causes a quest NPC to not spawn in the target village.
Improvements

Added/Changed some dialogue texts.
Added/Changed some log entries.
If the player dismisses the quest NPC from their party, the quest will fail.

The Spy Among Us (The Spy Party) quest related fixes/improvements.

General

Quest title is changed to "The Spy Among Us"
From now on, players can activate the quest even if the quest giver is inside an army.

Fixes

Fixed a bug that changes face keys of spy candidates.
Fixed a bug that causes the UI health bar to show wrong values for the player when duelling with the spy.
Fixed a bug that causes spy candidates to disappear when saving & loading the game inside the involved settlement.

Improvements

The spy will scale up according to the player's skills.
Added better battle equipment for the spy.
Added/Changed some dialogue texts.
The randomization parameter for townspeople to give player clues was adjusted to prevent problematic situations.
Added visual trackers for the spy candidates (Default: "Alt" key).
Issue duration was changed from 35 days to 5 days.

Lord Needs A Tutor quest related fixes/improvements.

Fixes

Fixed a bug that caused the quest NPC to disappear after the player was taken as a prisoner.
Fixed a bug that causes the quest giver and the quest NPC to be the same person.

Improvements

Added/Changed some log entries.
If the player and the quest NPC are somehow separated, the player will be able to track and find the quest NPC via the quest log and can thus continue progressing the quest.

Lord Wants Rival Captured quest related fixes/improvements.

Fixes

Fixed a bug that causes the quest to get stuck if the quest giver has no fiefs.
Fixed a bug that causes duplicate/empty log entries.

Improvements

Added a dialogue option that allows the player to deliver the target NPC to the quest giver.

Minor fixes for Headman Needs Grain issue.
Further issue quest dialogue improvements.
Persuasion parameters fixed in Army of Poachers, Family Feud and other quests.

Other

Overhauled equipment of minor factions to better fit their characteristics.
When we entered a town scene for the second time, guards were missing. This was fixed.
Fixed the colour of the player's companion portraits when we enter a hostile settlement
Made the player's brother a bit younger.
Fixed a bug that caused prisoners to become governors.

Multiplayer

Audio

Added notification shouts to certain events (like the distant shout when someone captures a flag).

Server & Network

Fixed issues related to requesting to join a custom game that is ending.
Fixed issues caused by multiple party members requesting to join a game at the same time.
Fixed some rare cases of disconnections from the Lobby.

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