Beta Patch 2.05

Hi all, I've just released patch 2.05 to beta. You can access it by right-clicking the game in Steam -> Properties -> Game Versions and Betas and enabling the beta.

It's mostly bug fixes but there are a few new features and some graphical improvements as well.

I'm going to leave this in beta for a few days and do some testing of it, if there are any issues I'll patch them before it's fully released.

Visuals

• Improved the graphics a lot by increasing the strength of the sun and adding grass meshes and proper rivers that cut into the terrain.

• Added HDR adaptation.

Characters and politics

• Historical ruler battle records now appear correctly.

• Character epithets are now localised.

• Culture and religion population groups now have proper names.

• Province succession rules are enforced correctly.

• Fixed cyclic liege-subject relationships.

Rebellions

Rebellions now have distinct movements with their own demands.

• Army Mutineers demand higher army funding.

• Orthodox Rebels demand lower religious toleration.

• Rural Rebels demand lower taxes.

• Urban Rioters demand enough food to end a local shortage.

• Rebel demands are shown in the faction screen.

• Rebel factions now receive more distinct names.

• Fixed rebels choosing the wrong settlement for their demands.

• Preserved the proper identity of the Kyrnos rebellion in the tutorial.

Economy and buildings

• You can now borrow one, two or three months of gross revenue from the Senate.

• Senate debt charges 5% interest each month.

• Debt can be repaid or repudiated through the Senate screen.

• Borrowing, repayment and repudiation affect the Senate's opinion of the ruler.

• Senate debt and interest are shown in the economy screen.

• The senatorial families now care about maintaining the realm's revenue.

• Rebalanced food production, storage and consumption.

• Revised farms, fisheries, pastures, bakeries, flour mills, fish salteries, fumaria, granaries and horrea.

• Updated starting buildings to fit the new food economy.

• Subject economies are more stable.

• Ruined buildings can be rebuilt again.

• Fixed several problems in the building browser.

Military

• Added the ability to demote military commanders.

• Improved the military command hierarchy and saved command relationships.

• Military command actions are easier to reach.

• Armies can now embark with a right-click order.

• Improved embarkation and movement feedback.

• River crossings now apply their intended penalties.

• Besieging armies remain outside the settlement.

• Restored missing battle actions, icons and battle visuals.

• Destroyed or escaped units no longer leave incorrect data in saves.

• Improved formation-template renaming and assigned-force

Cheers,

Joe