Beta Patch Notes e1.5.0

Beta

Versions Native: e1.5.0 SandboxCore: e1.5.0 Sandbox: e1.5.0 Storymode: e1.5.0 CustomBattle: e1.5.0

Singleplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a crash that could occur at the end of battles due to a missing check in a 'formation AI' behaviour.

• Fixed a bug that caused Manual Laborers quest to crash.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when annexation decisions were proposed by AI clans.

Performance

• Improved performance of retreat and flee behaviour of battle formations.

• Optimized AI ranged and melee target selection for performance and spike reduction.

• GPU performance improvements for towns - Make shadow occlusion queries great again!

Save & Load

• Refactored the save/load file paths so they won't include the Native folder.

• Fixed a bug that caused Siege Battle to continue in Lords Hall if players exited to the main menu while climbing a ladder during a siege mission.

• Fixed an issue that caused wrong prisoner numbers to be displayed in the load screen.

Art

• Fixed navigation mesh issue in Mazhadan Castle.

• Keep and arena menu images have been updated.

• Fixed a few bugged siege ladders that prevented climbing.

• Fixed castle gates physics issues.

• Fixed clipping issues on some of the gloves.

• Fixed visual glitches on some of the armours.

• Added a new Sturgian light armour.

• Improvements on Empire wall brick textures.

• Improved Empire Dungeon and some garden meshes.

• Fixed some parallax issues on Empire Buildings.

• Fixed trader missing issues in Vlandia cities.

• Fixed walkable area problem in some scenes.

• Crafting Axe Pieces have been optimised for future updates.

• Made some improvements (f.e. adding dynamic barriers and indestructible merlons) on the following scenes:

  • sturgia_castle_003, aserai_castle_002, khuzait_castle_002, vlandia_castle_005a

• Added 3 new hair types.

• Added new Battanian chain mail armour.

• Fixed visual issues on the male version of Northern Visored Cap.

• Fixed getting teleported into the void on Empire Tavern scenes issue.

• Improvements on some Aserai Villages.

• Helmets with wrong beard-covering tag fixed.

• Lords and Ladies facekeys revised for Sturgia.

Animations

• Fixed many of the agent movement errors near wall and stair intersections.

Campaign Map

• Fixed a bug which caused the raid particles to be invisible after a campaign save game was loaded.

• Improved geometry in world map, improved texture detail, paths and roads are added, fixed various visual problems with settlements, improved pathfinding. Aserai lands are re-rendered. slight changes in settlements placements for balance reasons. Change in some village productions for balance and lore reasons.

UI

• Changes

  • New Campaign Map Mobile Party Trackers:

    • Now players can see and track(keep inside their screen) mobile parties of their clans and armies of their kingdom on the campaign map, while they're not in the spotting range.

  • Encyclopedia Favourites:

    • Now players can favourite encyclopedia items so these favourited items will be shown at the top of their respective lists.

  • New Hideout Troop Management Screen:

    • New popup for hideout troop management before hideout battles that will decrease deadtime waiting for the party screen to load.

  • Players can now input numbers directly in Custom Battle sliders (army size, troop type percentage).

  • Added a tooltip to the execution notification ("Execute Him/Her" button) to show the player, who they'll lose relation with.

  • Added new Game Menu images for each cultures' settlement keep and arena menus.

• Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that caused the inventory screen to close when the item preview popup is open. Now ESC closes the preview first.

  • Fixed a bug that caused the governor selection panel to go out of