Beta Patch Notes e1.4.3

Beta

Versions Native: e1.4.3 SandboxCore: e1.4.3 Sandbox: e1.4.3 Storymode: e1.4.3 CustomBattle: e1.4.3

Singleplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a crash that happened upon leaving villages.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when entering some of the hideouts.

• Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash when the main hero's troops retreated while the main hero was wounded in Radagos' Hideout.

• Fixed a crash that happened when the rogue hero is killed in Notable Wants Daughter Found Quest.

• Fixed a crash that happened when the main hero was executed because of crime rating.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when a player successfully persuaded a hero to join his/her kingdom while sieging the related hero's settlement.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when asking tavern keepers for available issues.

• Fixed a crash which happened on exiting the game.

• Fixed a crash that happened when the game could not parse a bad translation text.

• Fixed a problem that caused crashes while ticking on the campaign map.

• Fixed a crash that occurred during marriage barter.

• Fixed a crash that happened at the start of the conspiracy quest.

Performance

• Reduced memory usage of large settlement scenes by optimizing the memory footprint of game entities.

• General CPU memory usage improvements for missions/scenes. For one of our currently most demanding scenes (Balgrad), which is very crowded, this meant a reduction of 100-150mb.

• UI memory usage was reduced on the campaign map. UI binding system performance improvements were made.

• Optimized weapon mesh loading behaviour for campaign party icons in order to prevent FPS drop spikes.

• Sword parts have been optimized for better performance during crafting.

Save & Load

• Fixed a bug that caused troop formations to reset after saving and loading the game.

• Fixed a bug that caused settlement characters to not to spawn after Saving and loading while waiting in a settlement.

• Fixed a bug that skips the first clan income after loading the game.

Localisation

• Chinese localisation improvements

• Punctuation fixes, spelling corrections and other localisation updates

Art

• Navmesh edits for better ai movement in the bazaar area of aserait_town_c.

• Navmesh edits for better ai movement on ladders for sturgia_castle_003.

• Improvements on empire keep models and scenes.

• Added new ultra-short afro hair

• Fixed some visuals issues in weapon crafting pieces.

• Sestadeim Castle now has a castle scene.

• Added new Sturgian armor set; Northern Lamellar Vest / Northern Short Lamellar Vest

• Fixed a physics issue with falling down and getting stuck near some of the walls

• Visual quality and performance improvements on trees.

• Added 3 new old looking Sturgian shields

• Fixed Northern Sloven Leather armor's clipping problems

Campaign Map

• Pathfinding and navmesh fixes in the world map.

• Army member icons now make a movement animation while relocating during events, instead of floating.

• World Map icon textures/models/materials were improved.

UI Changes

• New conversation screen on the campaign map

  • This will allow players to open conversations on the campaign map with other parties much faster and without a loading screen.

• Implemented cheering

  • Players can now cheer with the key “O”. A click will play the first cheer animation whereas holding “O” will open a cheer wheel with 4 animations in place. This is a feature in progress and will be implemented for MP with more features in future patches.

• Custom Battle Improvements

  • Now the "Select a Map" text disappears on editable area focus and all maps are visible on dropdown upon area selection

  • Now siege machines