Hello everyone,
I am excited to announce the release of the latest game update! This update completely overhauls most combat systems and adds in a stance based combat mode, updated mounted combat and updated tutorials. The update also contains a lot more polish, bugfixes and tweaks.
The main features of this update are:
- Stance based combat: Fight enemy officers and in tournaments using the new stance based fencing system. It's a directional combat system using 3 guards with the addition of kicks and stabs to break up the flow.
- Improved mounted combat: You are no longer a static character on a horse and can fully rotate while attacking allowing for a greater variety in strikes and attacks. You can also stab from horses. Along with this the mounted AI has been improved with visible targeting.
- Tutorials: This update adds an updated player controls tutorial and a battle tutorial that teaches the basics of commanding your formations.
- Pre battle parley: A couple of prebattle options have been added, you can challenge enemy commanders to single combat, do an instant charge or start deploying your army.
- UI Polish: A lot of battle UI elements have received an upgrade in clarity and polish smoothing out your game experience.
Your feedback is really important in improving the game, so feel free to share all your thoughts on the new combat.
Thank you for your continued support!
Full Changelog:
- Add Improved mounted combat
- Add improved mounted combat AI
- Add stance based combat system for skilled combatants
- Add combat system for generic ground combat
- Add updated player control tutorial
- Add back tournament quick battles
- Add battle tutorial
- Add new menui design
- Add prebattle options to battles
- Add new Frisian shield with straps
- Add Single combat
- Add improved formation icons
- Add stamina system
- Add specific block hit animations
- Add death animations when killed by mounted units
- Add message when you kill an enemy officer
- Add damage screen effect
- Add rally button
- Add new attack yell sounds for player
- Add small chance horses will poop if idle
- Add free camera if player dies during tournament
- Add battle exiting when player moves far away
- Add new camera angles
- Add text describing what killed player in battle
- Add new mounted attack animations
- Add animated crossbow for units
- Add new crossbow animation set
- Add generic movement sounds to player
- Add new balance bar to formation interface
- Remove excessive camera options in option menu
- Remove damage vignette effect
- Performance optimization on campaign map
- Performance optimization for battles
- Rename possess to ranged mode
- Disable general unit possession
- Tweak some sound levels
- Tweak global tax multiplier
- Tweak officer assassination cost
- Tweak cost of accepting officers into knighthood
- Fix input delay on melee attacks
- Fix formation officers responding globally to move order
- Fix ranged unit volley behavior
- Fix double handed axe unit using finishing moves
- Fix player leg physics when mounted
- Fix portrait performance on campaign map
- Fix tournament participants cheering immediatly after winning
- Fix officer heraldry colors switching back and forth
- Fix mounted attack release behavior
- Fix crash during battle caused by non-existing reinforcement ID
- Fix sluggish battle UI animation
- Fix archers keeping arrow in hand after battle end
- Fix inconsistent damage behavior when striking from horse
- Fix units making sound when having no head
- Fix sergeants having helmet voice sounds
- Fix tournament factions
- Fix tournament menu
- Fix getting run over by own cavalry
- Fix double tracing errors on melee attacks
- Fix some bad UI fades
- Fix crash related to invalid formation data when starting quick battle
- Fix main menu controller support
- Fix initial setup graphics options
- Fix parry block ending when releasing block button
- Fix after battle fight sequence on campaign map showing wrong winner
- Fix wrong shield impact sound for some Frisian officers
- Fix injured unit collision
- Fix characterstate not getting reset correctly in some edge cases
- Fix Frisian faction leader equipment
- Fix custom faction interface going offscreen
- Fix controller support on custom faction editor
- Fix controller cursor losing focus when moving around the campaign map with right stick
- Fix bug that causes enemy formations to stand idle
- Fix mounted block direction detection
- Fix tournament related crashes