23 March

Update 1.12 - Massive update and 30% off sale!

• Greatly improved visual performance when many units are on screen
  
• Added Chill Mode to the campaign - greatly reduces silver and happiness drain for a calm and easy gameplay
  
• Major pathfinding update - units appear on walls correctly now, without units dropping to the ground
  
• Fixed a lot of additional problems with pathfinding on walls
  
• Livestock now has an overlay icon to make them easy to select or task peasants on
  
• Fixed major issue - archer units can attack buildings now
  
• Fixed units falling through ships in naval combat and all other naval combat pathfinding issues
  
• Reworked diplomacy peace making - it`s now much harder and expensive to conclude and maintain peace
  
• Fighting enemy armies increases diplomatic relations and greatly helps with peace negotiations
  
• Fixed major lagspikes when sieging large towns and AI opens gates to ride out
  
• Battle rewards now scale depending on the battle size.

• Major rework and improvement to world map AI - armies will no longer attack same targets but spread out to look for weaknesses
  
• World Map AI will often now attack in the first couple of months of the campaign, instead of letting player build up for a year
  
• Fixed major issue with world map AI sending armies to attack player - will seem like a brand new experience. Effected all mid to late game campaigns
  
• World Map AI will now send armies to attack player from far away towns and nations
  
• World Map AI will complete it`s attacks on other AI towns faster without waiting around for months
  
• World Map AI will never take long year long break from attacking player

• Fixed Options menu appearing behind quest windows and being unusable
  
• Changes to Tutorial and Campaign where sound volume for voices will no longer jump up an down
  
• Fixed voices narration volume in campaign and tutorial being too quite
  
• Added new Voice Volume setting to the Options - controls voiced over narrations volume
  
• Fixed unit groups at the top overlapping with building banners
  
• Fixed weird sound popping when skipping to the next dialogue conversation in tutorial
  
• No longer applying large happiness penalty for entering town, only usual drain over time
  
• Looted town is no longer auto-invited to join battle
  
• Fixed game hanging when auto-resolving battle with a looted town
  
• It`s now possible to select buildings by clicking the building banner
  
• Building banners now show in multiplayer games
  
• Fixed issue with world map army selecting when clicking on the ground near it
  
• Greatly reduced lag that sometimes would happen when capturing the enemy flag
  
• Fixed various issues with units on walls or on ships at the start of the game
  
• AI will rush out from walled city to counter only if it has a strong chance of winning
  
• Very rarely will AI now rush out from town just to surprise player
  
• Large ship in naval combat can now be fully walked on
  
• Fixed issue where AI army half across the screen would still protect it`s city
  
• Arrows and ballista will no longer always hit village houses and set them ablaze
  
• Ships no longer disappear during naval combat intro and outro cinematic

• Diplomacy Gift and insult cost greatly increased, especially when the player is King
  
• Trade Agreement cost increased when the player is King
  
• Declaring War on a nation sets relations to -50, instead of 0
  
• Increase the silver cost of Suing for Terms by 10x
  
• Reduce diplomatic cost of Suing for Terms from -10 to -5
  
• White Peace available at -10 relations instead of -30 relations
  
• Only armies directly on top of cities will be auto invited to defend them
  
• Range where armies can be invited is reduced by 30%
  
• Can capture more units during battles, from up to 5 increased to 8
  
• Mounted hobelar nerfed around 20%
  
• Livestock max food is half of what it used to be. Same on start and grow quicker
  
• Raising towns now has less diplomatic relations penalty, -3 for hamlets and -6 for towns
  
• Reduced battering ram attack by 30% - to make Belfry and Escalade more attractive options
  
• Reduced archer fire arrows damage by 25%
  
• AI gets 5 minutes less (25 total) to conquer large player town
  
• Silver drain increased- half an hour long battle now costs around 600 silver on medium
  
• Units a 20% more likely to stay and fight until death instead of retreating
  
• Price of trade goods increased 2x, makes it more important to produce trade goods in cities or through combat
  
• Selling trade goods is 2x more profitable now

13 March

Update 1.11 - The Game Changer

• Added detailed overlays for all unit battalions with a unique flag for each unit type
  
• Added useful information to unit flags including hitpoints, stamina, level
  
• Retreating battalion is clearly marked with ripped up white flag
  
• Fixed the last combat crash, the only rare crash left is on the loading screen
  
• Completely reworked how melee units attack buildings and gates
  
• Added hitpoints bars to siege equipment, buildings, walls, gates - only shown when damaged
  
• Added ability to select and task units by their flags instead of units - simplifies battle controls
  
• Added silver reward for completing grand campaign objectives - from 8000 to 90k silver
  
• Improved random terrain - more variation and less closed off areas
  
• Removed grinding from building up towns in campaign mode - much faster, streamlined experience
  
• Reworked RTS gameplay flow - much faster resources income and build times
  
• Skirmish rebalanced for much faster gameplay experience, with faster AI progression
  
• Build and Destroy gameplay plays a higher role in battles now - allowing both the player and AI to build up faster
  
• Removed high game speed option in RTS gameplay - no longer needed with faster gameplay
  
• Player will now get kicked out of town management, once happiness drops below -50
  
• Reworked how world map objectives are shown in the tutorial
  
• Fixed major issue with cavalry being useless in melee combat

• Retreating units are now removed from unit type numbered groups
  
• Reworked unit routing - only some will route, and some will die - freeing up pop for build and destroy gameplay
  
• Can no longer target mill or village houses
  
• Larger battalion tasking arrow
  
• Fixed selecting units from multiple unit selection only working half the time
  
• Fixed game breaking bug when resuming a saved Hamlet battle in Skirmish menu
  
• Allied player AI is now dark blue color instead of grey
  
• Reworked the look of the town and battle minimaps
  
• Greatly reduced number of spike walls on all siege camps - easier to form up armies and navigate
  
• Ballista bolt now has a visible attack trail
  
• Tutorial 2 polished and improved – the English now properly retreat, less total defense time
  
• Tutorial 2 and 4 minimaps fixed
  
• Chapter 2 tutorial removed a confusing front walls control point
  
• Tutorial chapter 7 fixed the bugs with stone and iron mine confusion
  
• Fixed a lot of level design issues in the town of Caen level
  
• Corrected some hamlets using old round towers
  
• Chat is now always closed when starting the game
  
• Ranged siege weapons have a larger line of sight
  
• Ranged siege weapons will only fire at targets within their line of sight
  
• Fixed exploit with Army Tent destroy button
  
• Fixed issue with campaign cinematics playing with other background voices
  
• Faster screen scrolling speed in battle on minimum zoom out
  
• Slightly higher min zoom in the camera

• Rebalanced unit strength values - militia and hunter less, elite units more
  
• Hamlet upgrade cost increases by 40% of the base cost per city level
  
• Greatly increased starting resources for build up
  
• Increased happiness drain and silver drain - was necessary as gameplay is much faster now
  
• Greatly increased all buildings hitpoints - harder to destroy with siege and fire arrows
  
• The cost of leveling up building is greatly increased both in towns and on the World Map
  
• Leveled up buildings are about 30% more effective now in battles and production
  
• Units have a higher chance of fighting until death without retreating
  
• Looting and Raising low-level towns bring 200-400 more silver
  
• A bit of a boost to ranged units - were nerfed too much before
  
• Major boost to cavalry in all stats for the best field unit
  
• Destroying building on the world map gives fewer resources
  
• Siege units consume 1 resource of stone or iron for each shot
  
• Storehouse add 100 additional storage Base storage increased by 100
  
• Increased peasant carry capacity by 50%
  
• significantly increased price of walls in Iron