Beta Patch Notes e1.5.4

Beta e1.5.4

Singleplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a bug which crashed the game when the player attempted to pick up an item just before and during the hideout boss cinematic. Item interaction is now disabled during cinematics.

• Fixed a bug which prevented heavy infantry, skirmisher, heavy cavalry and light cavalry formations from spawning correctly in certain missions. This could cause crashes.

• Fixed a problem which crashed the game when the player transferred troops from one formation to an empty one and then gave a formation order.

• Fixed a crash that occurred while dragging-dropping items in the inventory.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when a player failed at romance bartering.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when an army leader died.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when forming caravans.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when clicking "take a walk around" after loading, if the save file was created while waiting in a village.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when the player bartered with bandits for safe passage.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when creating a kingdom.

• Fixed a crash that occurred with battle simulations.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when involved kingdoms made peace during a simulation.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when the main hero tried to marry someone within the same AI-led party.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when the player loaded a save file that was taken in the tutorial village menu in the tutorial phase.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when the main hero died with an active quest.

• Fixed a bug that made companions transport to another city while they were in the main hero's party. Also fixed a crash that occurred when the main hero clicked on the clan tab while the previously mentioned bug occurred.

• Fixed a crash that occurred while opening the Smithy in towns.

• Fixed some crashes and bugs that occurred when a nonplayer hero died in battle.

Performance

• Loading core assets separately to speed-up first meaningful render during game launch.

• Fixed CPU spikes on the campaign map caused by the distance checking algorithm.

• Various CPU memory leaks were removed.

Save & Load

• Clans are saved now. Clans added to XML will not be added to games that have already started and will only be available in new games. Deleting a clan from an XML will not affect save games.

• Save game files are now categorized by their game in the UI.

Art

• 5 new empire villages added.

• Various improvements on castle gates for better AI behaviours.

• Improvements to empire_town_j_siege's navigation mesh for better AI behaviours.

• There was a minor visual bug in Aserai parley scenes, about the flags getting into the walls. That bug was fixed on all the levels.

• Improvements to workshop scene props scaling.

• Visual improvements to Khuzait villages.

• Visual improvements on Vlandia keep model.

• Added rein rope simulation to chain_horse_harness.

• Northern light harness and Imperial riding harness were replaced with newer versions.

• Fixed visual issues on Sturgia and Khuzait keep banners.

• Improvements on some of the Empire villages:

  • Empire_village_f, empire_village_g, empire_village_h, empire_village_i, empire_village_j

• Fixed a visual issue on the board game.

• Fixed stair physics and some visual issues on one of the Empire towers.

• Fixed the player falling into emptiness issue in Empire dungeons.

• Fixed prison bars visibility issue in Vlandian dungeons.

• Fixed a bug that prevented smooth grass LOD transition.

• Improved quality of tree billboard rendering.

• Some GI updates were made to the empire_town_j_siege.

• Updated and enriched flora on