Hotfix (e1.6.4) & Beta Hotfix (e1.6.5 - 12/11/21)

e1.6.4

Singleplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a crash that occurred during a conversation with the brother in the training field.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when the “New Campaign” button was clicked.

• Fixed a crash that occurred while playing the Tablut board game.

• Fixed a crash that occurred due to new items being added by mods.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when calculating prisoner barter values.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when a child was born.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused troops to desert from the main party.

• Fixed a bug that allowed the player to escape before the battle without sacrificing any troops if their tactics skill level was above 200.

• Fixed a bug that allowed players to gift a captured settlement that was still part of an ongoing ownership vote and receive a relationship bonus as an exploit.

Multiplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a number of bugs that were causing servers to crash.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused perk icons to be displayed incorrectly.

• Fixed a bug that caused some customization items to be hidden if certain perks were selected.

Changes

• Increased the cooldown time for shouts from 0.4s to 2.0s.

• Added new weapons (bows, cavalry spears, two-handers, a shovel and many more).

• Adjusted the perks of many classes (over 200 perk changes).

• Infantry

  • Weapon adjustments

    • Buffed some underperforming one-handed weapons.

    • Nerfed many two-handed weapons.

  • Added new melee-oriented perks for heavy infantry classes as well as replaced some existing ones.

  • Heavy infantry classes now have better shields by default.

  • Increased the combat speed for most heavy infantry classes.

  • Decreased the combat and movement speed of shock troops (they still remain one of the fastest troop types in the game).

  • Cost changes

    • Voulgier (Vlandia) 120 -> 130.

    • Legionary (Empire) 160 -> 150.

    • Guard (Aserai) 120 -> 130.

    • Ulfhednar (Sturgia) 120 -> 130.

    • Further increased the cost of shock troops in team deathmatch and siege.

• Cavalry

  • Couched lances will now disengage earlier on lower speeds.

  • Many weapon adjustments to lances.

  • All light cavalry now uses long spears by default. Light cavalry can now also upgrade into newly created cavalry spears.

  • All heavy cavalry now uses lances by default.

  • Slightly decreased the speed of horses.

  • Reduced the charge damage of all horses.

  • Decreased the armour values of all horse bardings.

  • Increased all horse hitpoints.

  • Cost changes

    • Mounted Archer 150 -> 250 (only in team deathmatch and siege).

• Ranged

  • Reduced the archers turning speed penalty while aiming.

  • Made weapon switching after releasing missiles faster.

  • Reworked the default bows of each class.

  • Changed the characteristics of nearly every bow and crossbow.

  • Reworked bow and quiver visuals of all items. Each arrow type now has their own “strong arrow” variation.

  • Added many new bows as perks. Perk bows now offer similar damage but other advantages like draw speed, range and accuracy.

  • Increased damage of throwing weapons (throwing axes received an extra buff).

  • Aserai Skirmishers now use Jereeds by default.

  • Cost changes

    • Wildling 120 -> 130.

    • Aserai Veteran 160 -> 150.

• Check the forum thread for more details.

Both

Crashes

• Fixed a crash that occurred when trying to play the game while not being logged into GOG.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused the launcher to continue to run when closed from the taskbar.

e1.6.5 Beta

Singleplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a crash that occurred due to new items being added by mods. (Also in e1.6.4 hotfix.)

• Fixed a crash that