Beta Patch Notes e1.6.0

Due to outstanding issues with e1.5.10, we have decided to not move it to the live branch just yet. However, we wanted to go ahead and share the new content in e1.6.0 with you all and collect your feedback nevertheless. The live branch will be updated as soon as the issues with e1.5.10 have been resolved. Thank you for your understanding!

Beta e1.6.0

Singleplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a crash that occurred after some castle positions were captured by the attackers in some scenes.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when passing over mangonel stone piles and arrow barrels with a cursor.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when talking to certain wanderer characters.

• Fixed a crash that occurred due to story mode heroes having no clans when loading a saved game.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when trying to call the “Lord Needs Tutor” quest NPC to an army.

• Fixed a crash that occurred due to item modifiers that were no longer valid.

• Fixed a crash that occurred while opening the quest log.

• Fixed a crash that occurred after completing the “Disrupt Supply Lines” conspiracy quest.

• Fixed a crash that occurred during the “Village Needs Help With Brigands” quest.

• Fixed a crash that occurred due to a notable's current settlement being null.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when losing the battle against guards in the “Gangleader Needs Weapons” quest.

• Fixed a crash that occurred if the player attacked the rival gang leader alone in the “Rival Gang Leader” quest.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when a ransom offer was made for a companion.

• Fixed a crash that occurred due to the main storyline’s second phase.

• Fixed a crash that occurred in the inventory screen due to the equip/inspect panel for equipped items.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when the player forfeited during the AI's turn in board games.

• Fixed a crash that occurred during loading of a save with corrupt party inventories.

Performance

• Completed further campaign optimisations.

• Fixed a bug that caused a loss in performance when the defender won a siege battle.

• Fixed a memory issue in settlement menus when the game language was Turkish.

Save & Load

• Added an Ironman game mode that restricts your campaign save to a single save file.

• Players can choose to enable this option during character creation and won’t be able to change it during the game. If enabled, this option blocks the "Save as", "Load" and "Exit to Main Menu" buttons. The game will create a single save file for each individual campaign and will overwrite it when the game is saved.

• Fixed a bug that caused the wrong background to be displayed in the menu when loading the game while in a dispersing army.

• Fixed a bug that caused notable portraits to be missing after saving & loading in the “Wait” menu.

• Fixed a bug with party names after save & load for non-English languages.

• Fixed a bug that caused a changed player character name to revert to the previous name after reloading the game.

Localisation

• Chinese language updates.

• Turkish language updates.

• Various text fixes and updates.

Art

• Added two new Sturgia boots.

• Added a new Battanian battle crown model.

• Added a new Western Empire battle crown model.

• Added a new Northern Empire battle crown model.

• Water refraction quality improvements.

• Performance and visual improvements to the Sturgia level 2 keep model.

• Fixed a bug that prevented the intro movie from playing