Beta Patch Notes e1.6.1

Beta e1.6.1

Singleplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a crash that occurred when determining the leader party of a siege when pillaging.

• Fixed a crash that occurred after completing a crafting order for a noble that is in a party.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when selecting "leave it to others" during sally out missions.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when a caravan received items with modifiers.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when fading out agents (mostly seen during tournaments).

• Fixed a crash that occurred during large battles.

• Fixed a crash caused by a raider party that was not removed during the “Destroy Raiders” quest.

• Fixed a crash caused by the “Rival Gang Moving In” quest while loading to the waiting to join the fight state.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when calculating inventory stats of a party with corrupt inventory data while loading a save.

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

• Fixed a crash that occurred when attempting a prison break.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when encountering a “Noble Revolt” quest party.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when using drag and drop in the equip item panel.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when removing a prisoner hero with the slider and then trying to execute the prisoner.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when opening the inventory screen while having many companions in the party.

• Fixed a crash that occurred after losing the battle against town guards in the “Gang Leader Needs Weapons” quest.

• Fixed a crash that occurred due to some notables having null as their current settlement.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when opening the quest menu that was caused by empty log entries.

• Fixed a crash that occurred after the player selected an heir from their own party.

Performance

• Optimisations to the campaign map party icon loading, reducing spikes.

• Improved thumbnail render performance.

• Additional minor UI memory improvements.

• Dead notables and wanderers are now removed from object manager after 7 game days.

Save & Load

• Fixed party name error when loading an old save for non-English languages.

Localisation

• Various text improvements, fixes and grammar corrections.

• Turkish language updates and fixes.

• Chinese language updates.

• Added translation support for French, Portuguese, Russian, Italian and Spanish for translators.

• Reworked German post-processor.

Art

• Added new musical instruments: Bodhran, cornu, dombra, oud, flute, hurdy-gurdy, vielle, kemane, harp, khomus, nay.

• Added crowns for Battania, Northern Empire and Western Empire.

• Added a splash screen to the initial loading screen.

• Added more variety to facekeys and banners to solve duplication issues.

• Added 11 new villages (also added to settlements.xml and custom battle scenes.xml):

  • empire_village_001 (Dyopalis)

  • empire_village_005 (Vealos)

  • empire_village_006 (Tevea)

  • empire_village_009 (Aeoria)

  • empire_village_011 (Gaos)

  • khuzait_village_g (Tismil)

  • khuzait_village_h (Usek)

  • vlandia_village_d (Halisvust)

  • vlandia_village_e (Etirfurd)

  • vlandia_village_f (Hongard)

  • vlandia_village_h (Palisont)

• Minor scene fixes to Empire, Aserai, Vlandia and Khuzait towns and castles.

• Sound improvements to Empire, Aserai, Vlandia, Khuzait, Battania and Sturgia town and castle scenes.

• Performance and visual improvements to Sturgia level 3 castle models.

• Improvements to some materials and textures.

• Fixed an issue with snow not being properly rendered in some scenes.

Animations

• A feature that reads the positions of the joints was disabled for hogs and chickens as it was causing problems.

Audio

• Added sounds for civilian animations.

• Fixed phasing errors in distant combat sounds.

• Minor improvements to settlement ambients.

• Intro video sound is now