New "Swine's Bay" DLC Campaign + Free New Economic Campaign

Today we released both version v1.2 of Stronghold: Definitive Edition and our first DLC campaign,"Swine's Bay". Now available at 10% off during launch week, Stronghold: Definitive Edition's first DLC adds seven new missions continuing the story of your attempts to rescue the Jewel, this time from the notorious Slaver Captain Hogsfoot.

• A New Story - Rescue the Jewel from the scurvy-ridden clutches of the wretched Slaver Captain Hogsfoot in a new campaign.

• 7 Epic Missions - Prove yourself as a Stronghold veteran and strategist, with some of our most challenging military scenarios yet.

• Fresh Gameplay - Tackle each mission with 20 years of Stronghold experience and unique spins on traditional series gameplay.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2727990/Stronghold_Definitive_Edition__Swines_Bay_Campaign/

Version Number: v1.2 Date: 13 Feb 2024 Update Size: 150 MB

UPDATES

• Added the ‘Home Fires’ Economic Campaign - A brand new economic campaign featuring 7 challenging missions created by the designer of the original Stronghold campaigns, Simon Bradbury.

• Added 2 new Multiplayer maps - Snake Island - 2 players, 400x400 - “Island warfare as two castles battle it out across narrow crossings to a neutral peninsula.” - Vile Gulch - 4 players, 400x400 - “War for your quarter, as 4 Lords battle against each other while trying to avoid getting stuck in the mud.”

• Added a new Freebuild map - Forest - 400x400 - “An overgrown area that can be expanded into a vast open plain, rich with resources and the chance for a peaceful castle life.”

• Added Increasing Attack Sizes option to Freebuild advanced options - To use this, click on the “Invasion Difficulty” to cycle through until it changes to “Increasing Difficulty” - There are three speeds (Slow, Medium and Fast) which determine after how many attacks the difficulty will increase - The invasions still use the “Repeating Invasions” timer option and respect the ‘Peace Time’ option

• Added Steam Trading Cards

• Added Private Multiplayer lobbies, with invite codes - These can be used to invite players that are not necessarily on your Steam friend’s list

• Added Max Players setting to Multiplayer lobbies

• Added ability to hover over campaign mission names and show if the mission has been completed, and on which difficulty.

• Added scroll button to scroll through units in the UI when more than 8 unit types are selected

• Added Keep enclosed icon to the minimap

• Added ability to reload multiple Catapults/Trebuchets with rocks

• Mission 18 - End of the Pig - Updated player’s troops starting positions so they’re not instantly dying at the start of the mission

• Added pulse effect to Multiplayer ‘Ready’ shield

• Added ‘Balanced’ to Steam Workshop map tags

• Added right-click to move back in Market panels

• Moat delete is now draggable

• Opening Multiplayer chat will now show the last 5 messages

• Added Waypoint and Patrol information to ‘Controlling Military Units’ in the Help file

• Added videos for The Sergeant to all missions in The Jewel Campaign

  

BUG FIXES

• Removed Pike production from ‘Two Hovels & a Bucket of Fish’

• AI Character videos now stop playing instead of freezing on the final frame.

• Various text fixes in all languages

• Fixed Knight rally points

• Fixed wall pieces remaining after being deleted if placed in certain positions

• Added help icon to Good and Bad Lord buildings

• Fixed floating wheat farmers

• Fixed an issue where disbanding troops while they were patrolling would cause free peasants to start patrolling

• Fixed an issue that caused looping sfx on briefing screen

• Fixed an issue where, rarely, Hunter’s would not return to their posts after catching deer

• Fixed an issue where sometimes AI would attack their own gatehouse in custom missions

• Fixed gatehouse repair button not always showing active state correctly

• Fixed minimap team colours

• Improved unit sprite clipping when standing on a gatehouse

• Remove drawbridges from mission 14 ‘The Mountain Pass’

• Fixed an issue where control groups would not select units entering towers or walking through gatehouses

• Fixed an issue where the Lord would not always return to the keep during a Wolf event

• Fixed missing ignite pitch icon when archers are lighting pitch

• Fixed an issue where a player disbanding troops would break other players’ cursors briefly

• Fixed incorrect building availability in Multiplayer Tech Levels

• Fixed bears and rabbits despawning if they encounter a closed gatehouse in their path

• ‘Peace Time’ overlay now disappears after Peace Time has ended in Freebuild

• Fixed an issue where sometimes placing a wooden gatehouse would remove the wooden stairs on either side of it

• Fixed an issue where speech volume would break and reduce to inaudible levels

• Fixed an formatting issue in the French help text that caused some words to be joined together (thanks Hugo)

For support, please contact us through our support site: https://firefly-studios.helpshift.com/hc/en/15-stronghold-definitive-edition/