• Fixed burning in duels
  
• Grad buffed for defenders slightly
  
• Fixed a crash
  
• Being kicked in shield held mode no longer stuns but flinches instead
  
• Shields can now sprint in held block mode (previously limited to walk) but movement is still slowed down (same as previous held block)
  
• Fixed a bug with shields where they could ‘store’ ripostes for later use
  
• Fixed Horde shielder AI
  
• Fixed a random flap sound playing when joining an Invasion game

This patch contains a little bit of everything. Two new Invasion scenarios, one on Grad and one on Crossroads, three new skins, and a new structure for the toolbox. We’ve reworked shields to be more in line with how parrying works, and their rebalanced held blocks are now only available by holding the mode switch (default R) button. This allows held blocks to be used to hold choke points while making it less desirable in 1v1.

And of course, what better way to wish you happy holidays than by sprinkling the patch with some time-limited festive content. Happy holidays!



Mjölnir Maul Skin


Basket Hilt Arming Sword Skins


Brute Bardiche Skin


Firepit - ignites projectiles like arrows, ballista bolts and catapult rocks that are in proximity






Gameplay

• Festivities
  
• Added second Grad Invasion variant, with blue being the attackers
  
• Added Crossroads Invasion map
  
• Reverted Catapult Nerf
  
• Split weapon bundle crates into two on and moved them closer to the attacker’s spawn on Feitoria Invasion
  
• Added Fire pit for Toolbox, can be used to ignite arrows, catapult, ballista and deployable ballista projectiles
  
• Mortar projectile ragdolling radius reduced slightly
  
• Added Arming Sword basket hilt skin, 3 variations
  
• Added Brute Bardiche skin
  
• Added Mjolnir Maul skin
  
• Adjusted original maul skin scale as it was stretched
  
• Buckler/Targe can now be thrown by holding R

Combat

• Kick is now 10ms faster, drains 10 stamina on hit and can be parried
  
• Block/parry no longer forces slow kick
  
• Switching weapon modes is now 50ms faster
  
• Held block shields reworked - now have a longer timed parry as default. Held block can still be activated by holding R, has no knockback and very low stamina drain, but heavily slows down movement speed and greatly increases blocking turncap as well as having a raise/lowering recovery. Allows riposting, but no normal attacks.
  
• Kicks no longer have extra ghost range vs shields
  
• Jumping/climbing no longer cancels hp regen
  
• Reduced Max behind parry angle slightly to fix some extreme cases of backparries
  
• Fixed bug where ripostes would get stopped by a clash against a non riposte
  
• Removed general shield movement slowdowns
  
• Updated CombatTest map with some highly experimental combat changes, added SKM Variant

Weapons & Equipment

• Spear can now force rearing on horses when stabbing from the front
  
• Buffed spikes slightly
  
• Reverted billhook movement slowdown nerf. Now 50% again

Visuals & Misc

• Updated German localization
  
• Siege tower score now ticks more frequently but awards less points on INV_Feitoria.
  
• Improved bandage use animation
  
• Improved lowerbody fall animation
  
• Fixed characters jittering up/down when standing on certain surfaces
  
• Increased score for objectives

Sounds

• Blocks/parries/chambers now play a more bassy sound on top for the local player
  
• Raised time to start screaming due to falling from 1 to 1.25

Just a small client side patch that fixes the tutorial from being non-completeable due to the catapult not reaching far enough.

Sorry about that!

Performance

• Fixed texture streaming issues and performance drop associated with it, for real this time

Gameplay

• Fixed dodge not working in some cases
  
• Adjusted catapult rock movement to be a bit shorter to avoid people shooting out of spawn protection
  
• Adjusted shield high block animation, no longer puts shields above head and now covers body more without extending forward too much which could be abused, fixes the broken looking blocks when a shielder is looking up
  
• Longsword strike main mode windup speed buffed 10ms (now 25ms total compared to patch 13)
  
• Billhook immobilize slowdown reduced from 50% to 40%
  
• Shortspear miss recoveries to 500ms
  
• Arming sword strike combo slowed down 25ms again
  
• Parry turncap slightly less strict
  
• Undercut glance now more lax, will trigger less on "normal" drags
  
• Reverted 5% global attack turncap change
  
• Huntsman window for receiving extra damage after you’ve switched from a ranged weapon reduced to 3 seconds (from 4)
  
• Fixed a bug involving certain objective barrels being catapulted

Our recently deployed Hotfix did not fix the ongoing issues with blurry textures and decreased overall performance on some hardware configurations.

However we are happy to announce that we have tracked down a bigger underlying problem and are already working on another hotfix.
Unfortunately the solution requires us to re-build lots of data for all our maps, which is an automated but sadly lengthy process.

We estimate that all maps will be fixed in 3-4 days. Until then we might be able to hotfix levels like Feitoria earlier, as these issues are most apparent on the bigger maps.

Once again, sorry for the inconvenience.

Performance

• Fixed Taiga performance drop
  
• Fixed texture streaming issues and performance drop associated with it

Gameplay

• Reverted the drag attack compensation change since it had unintended consequences
  
• Added new undercut drag prevention change to address this move specifically. This causes undercut drags that hit late to glance off, same with undercuts that were used to reverse hit enemies.
  
• Kick miss stamina cost reduced to 10
  
• Buffed archery projectile speeds (Recurve bow 5000 -> 5400, Longbow 5600 -> 6000, Crossbow 6100 -> 6500)
  
• Adjusted recurve bow sway significantly
  
• Adjusted longbow sway slightly
  
• Recurve bow now 1 point cheaper

Visuals & Misc

• Fixed player name display appearing even when aiming a bit too far away from the player

We are aware of the texture streaming issues as well as the bad performance in the Taiga cave area and will try to deploy a hotfix within 24 hours.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

This patch includes a large number of optimizations intended to improve overall FPS and reduce stuttering, especially during combat and on large player counts, as well as reduce load times. Also included are combat changes aimed at differentiating existing weapons more and at addressing overall balance. Finally, Feitoria has had its layout revised to make the ending more climactic.

Gameplay

• Substantial CPU optimizations across the board to improve overall FPS and remove stutters and hitches during gameplay, especially on larger player counts
  
• Optimized and improved loading times
  
• Workaround for server information update error
  
• Reworked Feitoria Invasion layout
  
• Disabled dodging with barrels
  
• Changed how deliverables work, it is now possible to drop them and pick them up (for attackers), and defenders can hold interact to destroy them
  
• Disabled climbing on oil cauldron, ammobox, rock spawn, rock basket
  
• Time to decline objective participation from 6s to 4s
  
• Fixed a case where dying on ladder in Horde wouldn’t remember your equipment
  
• BR/HRD Ladders on Grad now raise-/droppable
  
• King-type objectives (Invasion) are now invulnerable until the first player could've possessed them (prevents rushing to take advantage of AI)
  
• Traps and pavises no longer allowed to be placed on destroyables (which when destroyed would cause them to float)

Combat

• Parry/Chamber box is now bigger - now significantly wider horizontally, fixing cases of attacks going through parries. Now always covers the legs and feet vertically, this fixes the broken toe stabs and makes it much easier to deal with overhead drags to the legs. - also affects shields, although less. Parry knockback reduced slightly
  
• Parry turncap slightly more strict
  
• Global attack turncaps 5% more strict
  
• Trying to change attack direction during a strike release too many times will now get compensated by the game - this fixes (or attempts) the broken drags such as sky drags, waterfalls/wessex etc and promotes playing more “normal”
  
• Attack lunge now decreases gradually after 105cm weapon range (Longsword) - this means that the longest weapons now have the least amount lunge
  
• Miss recovery is now based on weapon length and speed or “weight” - this means that short one handed weapons now have significantly less miss recovery, making them much more nimble and lighter in use. Longer weapons have more, making misses more punishing.
  
• Blunt weapons now have crippling effect - this means that being hit by a blunt weapon now slows you down more when being flinched and causes more camera shake/stun effect - comes in two tiers, strength depending on the attack and weapon. Tier 1 slows down 12.5%, Tier 2 slows down 25%
  
• Billhook now has immobilize on the attacks that pull. This heavily slows down enemies and allows you to control them much easier
  
• Stab knockback is now straight and more predictable
  
• Huntsman now works differently and is no longer based on quiver, now only applies to enemies with a bow/crossbow in hand. This means that when switching to a melee weapon from a ranged weapon, after 4 seconds you no longer take the huntsman bonus damage, allowing archers to go melee without being oneshot from huntsman.
  
• Fixed active parry blocking from behind
  
• Plate leg armor now doubles kick damage
  
• Kicks no longer have headshot damage
  
• Kicks no longer drain stamina
  
• Following up a feint with a stab will now have 50ms more lockout - this should fix most unpunishable stab feints

Weapons & Equipment

• 1H Axe strike windup 25ms faster
  
• 1H Axe recoveries reduced to 400ms
  
• Arming sword strike combo is now slightly faster and has a bit more raw damage
  
• Arming sword recoveries reduced to 400ms
  
• Warhammer recoveries reduced to 400ms
  
• Warhammer main mode strike torso damage increased by 5
  
• Quarterstaff now has 400ms recoveries
  
• Quarterstaff alt mode strike damage now the same as the main mode, strikes now have 75ms faster combo speed
  
• Maul miss recovery to 600ms
  
• Cleaver miss recoveries reduced to 400ms
  
• Cleaver stamina negation nerfed by 1
  
• Cleaver stab no longer flinches
  
• Cleaver now takes 20 stamina to chamber instead of 15
  
• Dagger miss recoveries reduced to 400ms
  
• Dagger now takes 20 stamina to chamber instead of 15
  
• Shortsword miss recoveries reduced to 400ms
  
• Shortsword stamina negation buffed by 3
  
• Shortsword now takes 20 stamina to chamber instead of 15
  
• Falchion miss recoveries reduced to 400ms
  
• Heavy Handaxe miss recoveries reduced to 500ms
  
• Mace strike windup 25ms faster
  
• Mace stab windup 50ms slower
  
• Mace miss recoveries to 600ms
  
• Rapier miss recoveries reduced to 400ms
  
• Bastard sword 1H stamina negation nerfed to 12
  
• Bastard sword 1H stamina on hit reduced to 6
  
• Bastard sword 2H miss recoveries reduced to 400ms
  
• Messer 2H miss recoveries reduced to 550ms
  
• Messer stab windup slowed down 25ms
  
• Shortspear miss recoveries to 600ms
  
• Shortspear can no longer combo
  
• Shortspear point cost reduced to 3
  
• Billhook strike pull distance increased
  
• Longsword stamina negation buffed to 13
  
• Longsword main mode miss recoveries reduced to 550ms
  
• Longsword main mode strike windup 15ms faster
  
• Longsword alt mode miss recoveries reduced to 400ms
  
• Longsword alt mode strike windup 25ms faster
  
• Estoc main mode miss recoveries reduced to 600ms
  
• Estoc main mode stab windup 25ms faster
  
• Chambering with Estoc now costs 10 stamina instead of 15
  
• Estoc alt mode miss recoveries reduced to 400ms
  
• War Axe miss recoveries reduced to 600ms
  
• Poleaxe main mode miss recoveries to 600ms
  
• Poleaxe main mode strike windup 25ms faster
  
• Poleaxe alt mode strike can now repair toolbox buildings
  
• Executioner sword stab headshot bonus damage removed
  
• Executioner sword miss recoveries increased to 800ms
  
• Bardiche main mode miss recoveries to 600ms
  
• Eveningstar alt mode miss recoveries to 600ms
  
• Spear main mode strike miss recovery to 800ms
  
• Spear main mode stab now has more hit knockback
  
• Halberd alt mode miss recoveries increased to 800ms
  
• Greatsword halfswording miss recovery for stab now 400ms, for strike 550ms
  
• Greatsword halfswording stab now has 25ms faster windup and 25ms faster combo
  
• Zweihander main mode stab 25ms slower and slightly stricter turncap
  
• Zweihander halfswording stab now has 25ms faster combo, miss recovery to 400ms, swing miss recovery to 550ms
  
• Quiver no longer has invisible movement debuff
  
• Horde shields no longer slow you down
  
• Raised initial fire damage very slightly
  
• Fire no longer damages buildings outside of the actual fire
  
• Adjusted 2H rock AOE structure damage

Visuals & Misc

• Added two long beards and a moustache
  
• Players with the same name will now get a sequential number appended to the name, preventing confusion and abuse
  
• Characters will now start screaming when they're falling for longer than 1s, does not happen if you have the cat perk
  
• Added m.ShowServerInScoreboard (also found in options) which allows to disable the name showing up on scoreboard, useful to prevent stream sniping
  
• Friendly bear traps now show a marker when near
  
• Chain coat now takes metal color
  
• Fixed a dropped ladder mesh on Grad clipping the ground
  
• Fixed floating planks on HRD_Grad
  
• Darkened eyes on slitted kettle and sallet a bit
  
• Fixed motion blur settings on Feitoria
  
• Improved hitmarker sound on torso and leg hits

Sounds

• Adjusted hitmarker sound

Mostly quick fixes for Feitoria addressing exploits and some balance tweaks for Frontline.
Tweaks to Invasion balance and objective design will follow in a future update.

• Fixed Feitoria NPC weapons counting towards teamkill autokick
  
• Small collision fixes on Feitoria
  
• Removed mortar on Feitoria for the time being
  
• Nobles and Guards on Feitoria can now properly drop/throw/use weapons and equipment that they have picked up
  
• Tweaked Capture point and spawn placement between Outskirts and Keep capture points on FL_Feitoria
  
• Fixed overlapping fortifications on FL_Feitoria
  
• Lowered max speed of siege tower on INV_Feitoria
  
• Tweaked collision on Large Rock spawners so you can walk over them

This content update marks the release of Feitoria, our biggest map yet, featuring all of our current game modes.

Feitoria dock area

In addition, we have also added more siege-oriented features, such as the ability to drop and raise ladders, chuck large two handed stones from above, tip over baskets of rocks, and even pour boiling oil from cauldrons positioned at strategic locations.


Assortment of some new interactables


A new flat top helmet with 5 variants.

In the coming weeks and months we will be releasing more content additions and gameplay improvements: we’re adapting Mountain Peak for Invasion, finishing up work on our next new map Castello, as well as giving Horde mode some much needed attention.


Gameplay

• Added new map, Feitoria with support for all existing modes: INV_Feitoria_0, FL_Feitoria, HRD_Feitoria, FFA_Feitoria, FFA_Feitoria_64, SKM_Feitoria, SKM_Feitoria_64, TDM_Feitoria, TDM_Feitoria_64, BR_Feitoria
  
• Added stone basket trap interactable to existing maps
  
• Added oil cauldron interactable to existing maps
  
• Added boulder throwable which can be obtained from an interactable stone pile placed on existing maps. Deals more damage the faster it’s falling (gravity)
  
• Ladders now have an interaction UI widget like most interactables, and can now be dropped and raised by holding interact, as long as nobody is on them
  
• Invasion player respawn to 5s again
  
• Fixed getting stuck on Taiga trees
  
• Added 3 choppable trees to Grad
  
• Fixed exploiting NPCs in invasion/frontline by blocking them off
  
• Fixed removebots command removing map NPCs

Combat

• Crouch slowed down 25ms
  
• Reverted miss combos no longer having lunge change from previous patch
  
• Increased climbing speed on ladders by 15%
  
• It is now possible to jump off ladders while on them, jump will go where the player aims
  
• Base jump stamina cost reduced to 10
  
• Cat perk fall damage reduction buffed to 90%
  
• Brawler perk now also speeds up fists
  
• Executioner Sword strike turncap now more strict
  
• Executioner Sword stab stamina drain reduced by 1

Visuals & Misc

• Added new flat top helmet with 5 variations: Covered flat top, Covered flat top orle, Enclosed flat top, Enclosed flat top orle, Visored flat top
  
• Fall damage now has camera shake
  
• Camera calculations (3p and 1p) now take into account scale, making scaled characters look natural (viewmodel animations)
  
• Character scale is taken into account for interaction distance, allowing picking things up etc for bigger characters
  
• Fixed crossbow 1p interact animation
  
• Destroyable fence gate now has an additional state that removes the bottom board.
  
• Helmets now draw fake shadows onto the face to add depth and make them seem more grounded
  
• Fixed kills with torch saying “Stone” in the killfeed

Sound

• Improved a few equipment fall sounds and added some that were missing
  
• Ragdoll fall impacts now play the body thud sound while alive (previously only played when dead)
  
• Fixed a few Tier 2 (open) helmets muffling voice
  
• Enemy footsteps are now louder