Beta Patch Notes e1.5.5

Beta e1.5.5

Singleplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a crash related to formation AI.
• Fixed a quest issue that caused the game to crash on loading.
• Fixed two crashes that occurred after the player cleared an alley.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when performing hostile actions against neutral villages while serving a kingdom as mercenary.
• Fixed a crash related to initial kingdom hero spawn points that occurred when loading the game.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when pressing the exit to the main menu button while a conversation was active.
• Fixed a bug that crashed the game after gaining XP when the player was already at the maximum level.
• Fixed a crash which appeared after changing an option in the options menu.
• Fixed a crash that happened when the "Fight against the conspiracy" quest timed out.
• Fixed a crash that happened when Radagos was executed in the “Rescue Family” quest.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when entering the same village over and over again.
• Fixed a crash that occurred after offering a truce during barter.

Performance

• Fixed a bug that caused performance drops on the world map after sounds were cut.

Save & Load

• Autosave interval duration was increased. It now autosaves after leaving settlement and ending encounters.
• A notification will be displayed after saving the game successfully.
• Daily gold changes occurred multiple times in different loaded games for some saved games. This was fixed. Now the daily gold change occurs only once in a day.

Localisation

• Text additions, spell checks and punctuation fixes.
• Chinese localisation fixes.

Art

• Navmesh IDs changed for better AI behaviours in front of castle gates.
• Visual improvements on Khuzait, Vlandian and Empire villages:
  
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• Physics problems on some castle walls and rooves are solved in Tsagaan Castle.
• In order to have a better balance between ranged and melee troops, high ground areas and their connections between each other were reduced in number in Tsagaan Castle.
• Assigned alpha versions parallax to materials with parallax.
• Visual improvements on Battania Keep and gatehouse models.
• Improvements to the existing campaign maps icons.
• Added new cradle model.

UI
Changes

• Added autosave interval control to the Campaign Options panel.
• Added Married/Not Married filters to the encyclopedia hero list page.
• Added explanation tooltip to the tax value in Town Management.
• Now, the equip button in the inventory will replace the same type of weapon (if there is one equipped).
• Army overlay can now show more than 18 parties in the army.
• Barter offered item amount is now an editable text area.
• Players can now load save games with double click on the saved game tuple.

Fixes

• Fixed long party names overlapping weight values in the inventory screen.
• Fixed a bug that caused UI to disappear after inspecting a companion's troops while talking.
• Fixed minor visual issues in the tournament prize panel.
• Fixed a bug that showed swapped values for "Casualties Inflicted" for a diplomacy war item.
• Fixed a bug in the army nameplate that caused an issue icon to be visible even though the lord with the issue hasn't joined the army yet.

Battles and Sieges

• Added -20% damage and weapon speed/reload penalty for using weapons while mounted. This is lowered by the Riding skill and reaches zero penalty at 100. The effect only applies to troops and characters in singleplayer mode. Some mechanical weapons (such as crossbows) are exempt from the damage penalty.
• Heroes will no longer receive medicine skill experience for teamkills in battles.
• Some archery points in siege scenes were not being removed as expected when certain objects like walls and broken versions of walls were swapped around causing archer agents trying to go to undesirable positions. Fixed/added more functionality to add on deploy/remove on deploy properties.
• Moving in formation speed limits were not applied properly, they have been fixed and speeds were reduced overall, This is especially noticeable in shield wall, circle and square arrangements.
• When troops with ranged weapons were given the charge order they didn't approach the enemy if there was a friend in the way. This was fixed. Moving sideways to try to see enemies past friends was also added, making giving the charge order without telling troops to hold fire much more effective.
• Due to an error in updating the target agent after their target was killed and they moved back a few steps, ranged troops tended to face away from the enemy. This was fixed.
• Fixed a bug that caused formations to fidget about when trying to hold a defensive position.
• Implemented a new system that calculates troop power based on context. Removed cavalry troop simulation bonuses for sieges.
• Light crossbows are reloadable on horseback now. Some of the heaviest crossbows are capable of penetrating shields.

Character Development System

• Added 10 more combat-related tactics perks to the game. This finalizes the current tactics skill tree.
• Added and balanced 32 medicine perk effects on the campaign side.
• Fixed the speed bonus for siege engine construction of the Sweatshop perk in the Steward skill. Instead of a flat bonus of 20, it is now 20%.
• Fixed a bug that causes troops to appear as very old or young.
• Fixed a bug that caused children to show up in the inventory screen as selectable.
• Fixed a bug that caused the player to heal immediately just by waiting on the map.

Clan and Party

• Bandit parties which were close to a hideout were attacking other stronger parties because they assumed that parties inside the hideout would help them. However, that is not the case. They will no longer make this assumption.
• Fixed a bug that leaves the main hero's spouse in the main party in a fugitive state.
• Enabled AI marriages to occur over time.
• Gave most clans enough adult members to lead the minimum number of parties. Added children to some clans to ensure better long-term continuity. More changes will follow.

Armies

• Fix a bug that allowed lords in the player's army to recruit from raided villages.

Kingdoms and Diplomacy

• Fixed a bug that caused dead heroes to participate in kingdom decisions.
• Fixed a bug that led to mercenary clans defecting as vassals to other kingdoms during the main storyline.
• Fixed an issue that stopped kingdom decisions from properly resolving when the player joined the kingdom as a mercenary.

Economy and Trade

• Fixed a bug that prevents the effects of daily settlement projects.
• Fixed an issue that caused caravan speeds to drop to 1-2 speed because they were buying too many animals. Now, caravans do not buy more animals than their herd limit. If they have more animals than the limit, they sell excess animals when they enter a town.
• Fixed a problem with tanneries not making any profit and closing all over the world in the long term.
• All workshops are a bit more profitable now.

Crafting

• Missing/Invalid damage type strings were fixed.
• Fixed an issue with some crafted two-handed weapon blades not disappearing from the character’s back after drawing the weapon.
• Fixed a bug that caused the wrong tooltip and description to show at the smelting and refining screen.

Settlement Actions (Town, Village, Castle and Hideout)

• Players are no longer able to form caravans while in disguise.
• Players are no longer able to buy workshops while in disguise.
• Players can no longer heal by entering and leaving the training field.

Quests & Issues

• Quest battle AI aggressiveness improvements. (Quest NPCs will be more defensive in combat based on their skills.)
• Fixed a bug that caused some quest rewards to be floating-point numbers.
• Quest difficulties will now scale according to player progress even while the quest is ongoing.
• Crime rating will only be gained after the rejection of the counter-offer in the quest "Can't Sell Product at a Fair Price".
• Decreased relationship reward for the quest "Overpriced Raw Materials" from 10 to 5.
• Fixed an issue with the quest "Needs Grain Seeds" not giving relationship rewards or penalties.
• Fixed a bug that causes some conversations to not trigger in Manual Laborer Quest.
• Fixed a bug that caused a companion to join the quest duel in the “Notable Wants Daughter Found” quest.
• Prosperity penalty and bonus for Army of Poachers quest are changed from +-100 to +-30.
• Fixed a bug that causes the “Escort Caravan” quest ambush party size to be 0 in some situations.
• Fixed a bug that made the tutorial village headmen disappear.

Conversations & Encounters

• Fixed a bug that causes ransom broker's initial dialogue to be empty.
• Fixed a bug that opened prisoner conversation missions in a hideout with the lord’s hall background scene.
• Villagers and guards should change their dialogues if the player is lord of their settlement or faction ruler. Fixed a bug that caused lords to comment on raids on their settlements as if the player had been responsible.

Other

• Basic units will no longer use polearm type of weapons as they were getting too good at stopping cavalry charges.
• Removed the out of place shield from Tacteos' back.
• Some Aserai notables and peasants were wearing out of place armour. This was fixed.
• Changed a few tournament loadout matchups for Battania and Aserai. Fights between all ranged units and ranged versus two-handers are less likely to happen.
• Changed armours and shields of Caravan Guards of Sturgia, Vlandia and Empire.
• Added player spouse death notification.
• Fixed a bug that causes some dancers and beggars to spawn very young.
• Added an option to enable/disable birth, ageing and death in the campaign. With this option enabled no new hero will be born and no one will die in the game.
• Item Modifiers Update:
  
  • While modifiers worked mostly as intended for armours, they did not work correctly for weapons(stats of weapons were not affected by them), that's fixed.
  • Not all items had the correct modifiers associated with them, that's fixed.
  • Modifiers now affect stack count correctly("large bag of..." works).
• Lame Horse feature was implemented:
  
  • When your horse "goes down" in a mission there is a chance that it will get the Lame modifier, which will affect the stats of it.
• Players can now forfeit board games on the enemy’s turn.
• Improved the replacement of invalid or deleted items with trash items. This may help some corrupted saves and should make it less likely for corruptions of this nature to occur.

Multiplayer

Please Note: Multiplayer servers will be opened for the beta branch to enable you to test the changes below. They will open tomorrow (Friday) around 11 am UTC and will remain open over the weekend.

Design & Balance
Combat

• Bows, Crossbows and all Throwing Weapons' readying/aiming duration and patterns are now related to weapon speed (aiming used to be standard for all ranged weapons).
  
  • The faster the weapon is, the faster it readies up, the smaller the initial crosshair, the faster it gets accurate and the longer it holds max accuracy.
  • Minor adjustments will be made after reviewing performance.
• New Perk for bows and crossbows:
  
  • Faster Release - Grants faster-travelling projectiles to increase the effective range of Bows and Crossbows. Does not increase the damage value.
• Crush Through is only possible with Battanian Two-Handed Mace and Sturgian Two-Handed Hammer. Both weapons' swing speed and damage have been adjusted.

Weapon and Equipment Changes

• New Weapon: Battanian Throwing Axe
  
  • Similar to other throwing axes
• New Weapon: Aserai Throwing Axe
  
  • Deals more damage, Stack count 2
• New Weapon: Battanian Bastard Sword
  
  • Can be used two-handed
• New Weapon: Vlandian Bastard Sword
  
  • Can be used two-handed
• New Weapon: Western Bastard Sword
  
  • Can be used two-handed
• New Weapon: Fast Hunting Bow
  
  • A very fast bow with low damage
• New Weapon: Light Javelin
  
  • A javelin with lower damage
• Slightly increased damage of all Lances.
• Javelin
  
  • Stack count increased from 3 to 4
  • Extra Javelin Stack size increased from 6 to 8
  • Damage is decreased from 46 to 34
• Jareed
  
  • Stack count increased from 2 to 3
  • Damage is decreased from 65 to 52
• Northern Fish Harpoon
  
  • Extra Harpoon Stack count increased from 7 to 8
  • Damage is decreased from 44 to 33
• Reinforced Northern Fish Harpoon
  
  • Stack count decreased from 4 to 3
  • Damage is decreased from 60 to 49
• Imperial Javelins
  
  • Stack count decreased from 4 to 3
  • Damage decreased from 56 to 45
• Short Bow
  
  • Accuracy decreased from 91 to 84
  • Damage decreased from 49 to 46
• Hunting Longbow
  
  • Accuracy increased from 90 to 96
  • Damage increased from 54 to 60
• Recurve Bow
  
  • Damage decreased from 56 to 50
• Superior Bow
  
  • Accuracy decreased from 90 to 72
  • Damage decreased from 56 to 32
• Fast Short Bow
  
  • Accuracy decreased from 89 to 82
  • Damage decreased from 47 to 34
• Strong Recurve Bow
  
  • Damage decreased from 62 to 61
• Yeow Long Bow
  
  • Accuracy Increased from 97 to 98
  • Damage increased from 70 to 73
• Arbalest
  
  • Damage increased from 95 to 100
• Vlandian Throwing Axe
  
  • Damage is decreased from 113 to 34
• Sturgia Throwing Axe
  
  • Damage is decreased from 90 to 34
• Khuzait Eastern Lance
  
  • Length is increased from 189 to 196
• Knight Heavy Horseman's Kite Shield
  
  • Hitpoints increased from 105 to 130
• Clan Warrior Targe
  
  • Armour is increased from 5 to 8.
  • Hitpoints increased from 100 to 130
• Northern Round Shield
  
  • Armour is increased from 5 to 10
  • Hitpoints increased from 105 to 135
  • Weight increased from 3.3 to 4.5
• Bastard Axe
  
  • Swing speed increased from 71 to 87
  • Damage increased from 65 to 95

Troop Changes

• All Shock Troops
  
  • Combat Movement Speed modifier is decreased from 1.0 to 0.9
• Aserai
  
  • Skirmisher
    
    • Spear perk is changed to Pike perk.
  • Tribal Warrior
    
    • Mace perk is changed to Long Sword perk.
    • Javelins perk is changed to Mace perk.
    • Spear perk is changed to Long Spear perk.
  • Guard
    
    • Javelin perk is changed to Light Javelin perk.
    • Mace perk is changed to Throwing Axe perk.
  • Archer
    
    • Sword perk is changed to Faster Bow perk.
    • Axe perk is changed to Better Fletching perk.
    • Spear perk is changed to Sword perk.
    • Troop Count is increased from 14 to 15
    • Speed is decreased from 75 to 74
  • Veteran
    
    • Armour is decreased from 32 to 26.
    • Speed is decreased from 75 to 74.
    • Troop Count is increased from 10 to 11
  • Beduin
    
    • Swapped Camel and Cavalry Sword perks.
• Battania
  
  • Clan Warrior
    
    • Throwing Spear perk is changed to Spear perk.
  • Wildling
    
    • Larger Shield perk grants Light Oval Shield instead of Heavy Oval Shield.
  • Savage
    
    • Javelin perk is changed to Light Javelin perk.
  • Oathsworn
    
    • Heavy Mace perk is changed to Bastard Sword perk.
    • Javelin perk is changed to Heavy Mace perk.
  • Ranger
    
    • Two-Handed Axe perk is changed to Faster Bow perk.
    • Two-Handed Sword perk is changed to Two-Handed Axe perk.
    • Spear perk is changed to Throwing Axes perk.
    • Troop Count is increased from 14 to 15.
    • Speed is decreased from 75 to 74.
  • Fian
    
    • Falx perk is changed to Better Fletching perk.
    • Faster Arrows perk is changed to Falx perk.
    • Troop Count is increased from 9 to 11.
    • Speed is decreased from 74 to 73.
    • Armour is decreased from 29 to 24.
• Empire
  
  • Recruit
    
    • Extra Javelins perk is changed to Pilum perk.
    • Axe perk is changed to Extra Javelins perk.
  • Menavlion Infantry
    
    • Javelin Perk is changed to Light Javelin perk.
  • Legionary
    
    • Mace perk is changed to Bastard Sword perk.
    • Pilum perk is changed to Mace perk.
  • Archer Militia
    
    • Light Crossbow perk is changed to Stronger Bow perk
    • Strong Arrows perk is changed to Better Fletching perk
    • Mace perk is changed to Stronger Arrows perk
    • Spear perk is changed to Extra Arrows perk
    • Axe perk now replaces default Sword.
    • Troop Count is increased from 14 to 15
    • Speed is decreased from 75 to 74
    • Cost is decreased from 120 to 110.
  • Palatine Guard
    
    • Menavlion perk now replaces the default Sword when picked.
    • Faster Bow perk is changed to Crossbow perk.
    • Extra Arrows perk is changed to Small Shield perk.
    • Strong Arrows perk is changed to Mace perk.
    • Mace replaces default Sword when picked.
    • Troop count is increased from 9 to 11.
    • Speed is decreased from 75 to 74.
    • Armour is decreased from 32 to 26.
  • Courser
    
    • Throwing Spear perk stack count decreased from 2 to 1.
• Khuzait
  
  • Spear Infantry
    
    • Move Speed value is increased from 77 to 78.
    • Default Spear is changed to Long Spear
    • Long Spear perk is changed to Long Sword perk.
    • Stronger Shield perk is changed to Heavy Mace perk.
    • Long Sword perk is changed to Pike perk.
    • Heavy Mace perk is changed to Stronger Shield perk.
  • Steppe Bow
    
    • Short Sword perk is changed to Better Fletching perk.
    • Short Spear perk is changed to Short Sword perk.
    • Troop Count is increased from 14 to 15.
    • Speed is decreased from 75 to 74.
  • Khan’s Guard
    
    • Default sword Ild is changed to Heavy Ild
    • Troop Count is increased from 9 to 11.
    • Speed is decreased from 74 to 73.
  • Nomad
    
    • Move Speed value is increased from 76 to 79.
    • Armour is increased from 14 to 19.
    • Default Spear is changed to Long Spear
    • Long Spear perk is changed to Lance Perk
    • Cavalry Mace perk is changed to Improved Armor perk.
• Sturgia
  
  • Brigand
    
    • Short Spear perk is changed to Throwing Spear perk.
  • Berserker
    
    • Javelin perk is changed to Light Javelin perk.
  • Varyag
    
    • Mace perk is changed to Bastard Axe perk.
    • Throwing Axes perk is changed to Mace perk.
  • Hunter
    
    • Shield perk is changed to Faster Bow perk.
    • Fast Arrows perk is changed to Shield perk.
    • Shield perk now grants Northern Round Shield instead of Northern Cavalry Kite Shield.
    • Troop Count is increased from 14 to 15.
    • Speed is decreased from 75 to 74.
  • Raider
    
    • Fixed Raider troops spawning with wrong barding.
    • Throwing Spear perk stack count decreased from 2 to 1.
• Vlandia
  
  • Voulgier
    
    • Javelin perk is changed to Light Javelin perk.
  • Sergeant
    
    • Mace perk is changed to Bastard Sword perk.
    • Franceskas perk is changed to Mace perk.
  • Arbelist
    
    • Faster Bolts perk is changed to Small Shield perk.
    • Troop Count is increased from 14 to 15.
    • Speed is decreased from 75 to 74.
    • Cost is increased from 110 to 120.
  • Sharpshooter
    
    • Faster Sword perk is changed to Better Fletching perk.
    • Pike perk is changed to Strong Bolts perk.
    • Troop Count is increased from 9 to 10
    • Speed is decreased from 74 to 73

• Fixed Clan Warrior troops spawning with the wrong default sword.
• Fixed couch lance bouncing at lower speeds.

Other - Miscellaneous

• Fixed an issue where options in the Friends list would not change when our role within the group (leader to member or vice versa) changed.
• Fixed Oathsworn gloves visually glitching.
• Clans can now be created with 2 players.

Server & Network

• Random players can no longer join premade games after a player disconnects.

UI
Changes

• Swapped places of Play and Armory tabs to centre the Play tab.
• Reporting a player automatically mutes them for you after a report.

Fixes

• Minor visuals fixes in the lobby custom game tab.

Both

UI
Changes

• Mission Order Radial:
  
  • The order UI has been changed and now has radial buttons. This is implemented mostly for gamepad usability since previously, that UI implementation was unusable with gamepads. Because of this, some orders had to be moved. F1 and F2 orders are unaffected but F3-F7 orders are now under a list, F3 (like F1 and F2). We're open to feedback about this change. So let us know what you think!
• UI now supports other language characters that are not included in the selected game language:
  
  • Previously characters in other languages would show up as block characters. e.g if your game language was English and someone typed in Japanese in the MP chat, the English player would see those characters as block characters. Now they show up as the correct characters.

Performance

• Optimisation made for agent spawning, improving the initialisation of battles and reinforcement phases.
• Optimisations made on inverse kinematics by reducing unnecessary usage in the animation system, slightly improving the overall performance.

Combat

• Fixed a scenario for crush through where the attacker could deal full damage to the opponent.
• Troop movement speeds when moving in arrangement had been reduced noticeably in the previous update, according to feedback and testing, this reduction has been made less severe for line arrangement.

AI

• Improved aiming and decision-making process of Archer AI.
• Improved AI behaviour while charging when they have throwing weapons equipped.

Modding

• Fixes for crashes when using road_instance script for river sculpting.
• Check for errors functionality in editor also checks the physics objects of the mesh bended entities.
• A new functionality added to the editor for re-baking the selected GI probes.

Known Issues
https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?threads/known-issues-updated.401168/

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