Beta Patch Notes e1.5.7

Beta e1.5.7

Singleplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a crash that occurred after Tacteos was rescued by the main hero in the tutorial phase.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when a player tried to enter some Empire villages.

• Fixed a crash that occurred during scene loads due to the navigation mesh.

• Fixed a crash that occurred while recruiting a mercenary company from a neutral army.

• Fixed a crash that occurred after attacking caravans or villagers as a mercenary.

• Fixed a crash related to press and hold function while picking up items with "F" key.

• Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash during barter.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when the companion was solving the “Help With Outlaws” quest.

Performance

• Fixed the rendering of snow on some places of the world map.

• Fixed a memory leak which occurred after entering a field battle.

• Memory allocation optimizations were made on the campaign map to reduce framerate drops.

• Campaign performance improvements.

Save & Load

• Save time has been reduced slightly.

• Save game optimisation.

Localisation

• Minor text fixes.

• Turkish language updates.

• Chinese language updates.

Art

• Added two new Sturgian light armours.

• Added a new Battanian scale armour.

• Visual improvements to two swamp and one highland battle terrain.

• Visual improvements on some Battanian houses.

• Fixed various armour clipping issues.

• Visual improvements on Vlandia arena models.

• Visual improvements on various interior building models.

• Fixed a bug that caused beggar agents to spawn more than there were scene beggar spawn points.

• Civilian navmesh fixes for vlandia_castle_005a.

• Improved player clan member spawning locations in settlements.

• Various village improvements.

• Improvements on some materials and textures.

• Fixed clipping issues on some helmets.

Animations

• Fixed a problem that caused agents to walk unusually fast in some cases.

UI Changes

• Map conversations now support voice lines.

• Improved the information shown in the Kingdom/Fiefs tab.

• Text input queries now autofocus on the input automatically (no need to click on the input anymore).

• Moved estimated GPU memory usage to the right side for better presentation.

• Added keyboard/gamepad shortcuts to the custom battle and save/load screens.

• Separated Performance options into different categories to better represent these options.

• The overall quality option is now at the top.

• Added colours to troop portraits in the party screen.

• Parties joining an army will no longer lose trackers that they had before joining the army.

• Face generation tabs can now be navigated with shortcuts.

• Added a tooltip to heir selection popup to better inform the player about the possible heroes' skills and attributes before selecting an heir.

Fixes

• Fixed search results in encyclopedia search not showing up after a character in Asian languages.

• Fixed a bug that caused a hero prisoner (or companion) to not be transferable in some party screens.

• Fixed a bug that caused the immediate escape of donated prisoners.

• Fixed an overlapping issue in crafting smithing hero selection.

• Fixed a visual bug that caused game menu items' text to go out of bounds.

• Fixed a visual bug that caused the completed check mark to not show up in completed tasks on the quest screen.

• Fixed a visual bug that caused governor name text to show up incorrectly in town management.

• Fixed a visual bug that caused a visual element to not show up in the quests screen.

• Fixed a bug that caused the "You're leaving loot behind" warning to show up in caravan trade inventory screens.

• Fixed a