Happy summer sale super polish and optimisation update!

Overview

Hey all! Today's patch brings not only a tonne of polish, but much-needed updates to the UI, and terrain changes. We are getting closer and closer to our ultimate goal! Hope you enjoy!

Campaign map

• Town total population (In town info panel) now displays whole population, not just peasants. - Beards now always show on the campaign map if the character has one. - Depth of field removed, as no longer necessary. - 'Unit Cards' now display what each unit type is when transferring and hiring. - Fixed army rep hair popping through the helmet. - LODS now used in campaign map. Controlled by Armoury so no longer loaded in each battle scene. - Can now transfer resources between your owned towns by using the trade panel. - Town lord now displayed in town info panel. - Town split forces panel disabled if a town is under siege. - Checking for needed steel for siege equipment now working properly. - More chance of hero's in taverns after scene load. - Only one trade caravan should be sent at once. - Light levels adjusted - should avoid blinding snow in the daytime. - Some grammar issues fixed. - Town/village/Markets etc trade scroll bars enlarged. - hero purchase panel will now close when clicked off-screen. - Player town Ai should now be more likely to upgrade villages. - Hero level cap removed - points needed are now calculated based on hero level. - More hero stats added - Keep track of their kills! - Auto battle panel now shows if a battle is over the sea. - Battle unit text now uses proper localization names. - Merging armies walk animation should correctly play. - AI village upgrade improved. - Resources are correctly removed from origin town when using the trade panel. - Button properties take off town automation options - only toggle is interactive. - Expenses ledger now take into account the town tax setting. - Keep upgrade gold cost increased massively. - Ai will upgrade towns slower while the player has no towns. - Stables final upgrade resource cost slightly reduced. - The hair on units is now removed and pooled properly, preventing hair sticking through helmets. - Ending war with a faction now resets your faction relation to 0 as opposed to just adding 10 relation (War could soon be declared if it was below -20). - The player can now interact with camps with only 1 population. - Heavily optimized army navigation - improvement to game FPS included. - All party gold is now available, Negative faction gold is no longer included when checking. - Game quests are more available when a new game is started. - Hunt Deserters quest available. - Quest armies faction is now set depending on quest type. I.e Hunt barbarians quest faction is now set as barbarians. - Rescue prisoners quest added. Armies have a high amount of prisoners to rescue that will be added to your army as peasants. - Campfire interaction now depends on your relation to the camps faction. - Rank needed to declare king has been raised to 13. - Fixed issue when taking control of quest auto-complete battle victory not being recognized for quest completion. - If tracking a quest, the finder arrow will automatically update if you complete an auto-resolve battle. - Localisation added to campfire names and descriptions. - Campfire available unit types have been adjusted. - Collect prisoners amount now set per difficulty Tier. Also moddable. - Peasant carts model replaced with LOD support. - Fixed issue where resources were not being checked against unit equipment, and not allowing the player to purchase units. This will become more apparent when custom equipment is introduced. - Campaign map AI town progression will match the players current level more closely. - All scroll panels can now be scrolled with the mouse. - An issue with progress not being saved properly before the player defends a siege has been fixed. - Issue with siege equipment not transferring when players take over an auto resolve battle has been resolved. - Tutorial bandit army colour issue fixed. units changed to Bandit unit types. - 'All heroes' button added when creating armies. - Asking quest location should now clear village available quests until you ask again. - Issue where you couldnt complete a quest if you are at war with the owning town resolved. Can now complete the quest to improve relations.

Armoury

• New quiver model - Lods added.

Battle scene

• Siege equipment should now trigger AI log traps. - Log traps should be properly triggering and causing damage to units. - Units should now look in the direction of a sorted formation once they reach their target. - Nomads will now skirmish instead of standing and firing arrows, unless in formation. - Unit cards textures outlines/horse darkened. - Unit types displayed in forces selection panel. - Optimised peasant clothes unit LOD. - Crowsperch map starting look directions fixed. - Loading progress now shows after a battle. - The issue with AI not responding during some village battles has been resolved. - When AI is defending, persuing archers will now fall back into formation if they are too far away from the rest of the army. - Ranged weapon range no longer decreased due to weather, just accuracy. - An issue with siege equipment sometimes floating has been fixed. - Reinforcement generation slightly optimized. - Improvements to archer height distance issues. - Highstone map had a building hidden underground - Units would spawn here preventing the battle from ending. Fixed. - View the battle in a first-person perspective from any one of your soldiers by pressing the F key. - Reinforcement unit hair and beards now positioned correctly. - New battle terrains added x 5. - Log trap audio now connected to SFX audio controller. - Cavalry animation speed will adjust properly when moving information. - Newly improved algorithm for calculating terrain textures. Improved terrain visuals. - Higher grass detail (Available in the options menu). - New mud texture. - New stony ground texture. - Prebaked all blood particles - slight increase to load times.

Main menu

• Female hair placement fixed. - Six more coat of arms have been added. - Unit types displayed in custom battle and sandbox panels. - Should no longer need to restart VOC after confirming new mod. - An issue in custom battles with bandits and deserter factions unable to be allied resolved. - Trade index updated. - Advanced attack selection index added. - More coat of arms added. - Added option to increase grass/terrain detail amount. Recommended for higher performance PC's only. - All loading and helper text assets sharpened. - Player faction colors will once again show in the main menu.

Mod Support

• Barbarian starting condition should now be available in startingconditionsxml.xml. - A Barbarian friendly bool now available in startingconditionsxml.xml. - Changed file names for unit equipment, default equipment, and player start equipment. - Hero points needed, strengthxml, agilityxml & constxml obsolete. Now calculated internally.

Summary

Thank you all for your support, and welcome to all new players! Enjoy - Kerry