24 February 2024 Update

2 March 2024 Bugfix Update

Equivalent to Nightly Patch Version r3979

Fixes

• Fix Cair Andros siege collision/barriers
• Fix collision and material settings for Grey Mountains Hold tower
• Allow beserker trait in sea battle mission; fade out agents that fall overboard; add a distance check to enemy spawns, so they don't spawn right to the player
• Adjust lord escape chance for "capture lord" quest for better scaling with prisoner management skill
• Add Radagast, taking Gandalf's part in northern theaters
• Make sure Gandalf always leaves after "don't make me late" talk

24 February 2024 Update

24 February 2024 Update

Equivalent to Nightly Patch Version r3973

Gameplay & Fixes

• Fix to agents despawning in sieges due to WSE2
• Limit defender reinforcements if player is attacker, so sieges don't drag on; also disable attacker fadeout for player agent
• Fix to capturing tribal orcs
• Make troll pushback rarer
• Add Radagast, taking Gandalf's part in northern theaters

Scenes

• New Dunland Camp scene and siege
• Add animated town workers, training soldiers and other ambience improvements in a number of scenes
• Scene gameplay improvements: Khand siege, Goblin Town siege, Moria dungeon scenes
• Add civilian walkers to Mirkwood, Lorien, Vale centers

FormAI

• Fix a few instances of suicidal charging in TLDFormAI, improve behavior for "no formation" factions; other possible bug fixes
• Fix order menu for NewFormAI, prevent conflicts with battle menu
• Add support for horse archers in NewFormAI, also improve regular cavalry AI
• Fix two causes for senseless charges in NewFormAI

7 December, 2023 Update

Gameplay

• Completely overhaul Isengard Last Stand quest
• Rebalance some Rohan troops and items
• increase number of sold goods for factions that have only one center
• Disable resource point cap, increase faction gift amounts
• Add prisoners escaping mechanic
• Enable enhanced combat AI for heroes in sieges
• rebalance Isengard reinforcement templates
• Assign surgery to all lords for more realistic k/w ratio in autocalc
• overwrite hardcoded surgery effect in battles, adding a base wound chance based on troop level

Assets & Visuals

• New Mordor swords by Giles
• Improve Hornburg siege scene
• Add Isengard siege scene, make siegable
• add a lighter version of black snake armour
• New and improved Dunland armours + Dunland sword
• Fix mail scale on Gondor and Khand helmets; adjust mail brightness on Gondor armours
• Improve Gondor Warhorse texture and add new variant

Fixes

• Improve skinning, geometry, texture for Harad Black Snake and Harad Heavy armour, for less clipping and deforming
• Fix Khand armour leg skinning
• Fix spawn entry in one Ithilien battle scene
• Make male head LODs slightly slimmer to reduce flickering with some helmets
• Make sure Dunedain ranger armours appear in store
• fix a bug that caused AI parties to capture wrong prisoners when capture quest was active
• Cancel horse archer AI if battle is over, in order to avoid awkward animation stances
• Improve scout camp position check
• Fix Crebain Riders having no side weapon
• Avoid capturing bandit orcs while capture quest is active
• Make Merry and Pippin show up at a slightly more lore friendly time

12 August, 2023 Update

Fix an issue with retreat gates not closing properly
Adjust reinforcement calculations in siege mission template
Improve Minas Tirith siege, fix badly placed retreat gate
Fix for random quest failures after a center is razed
Fix burial mound/pyre slot assignment
Fix Isengard center scene

6 August, 2023 Update

Equivalent to Nightly Patch Version r3862

Gameplay

• Add camel riders as reward troops
• add possibility to capture elfs and orcs if "capture prisoners" quest is active
• scale captured enemies with prisoner management
• Add prisoners escaping mechanic

Assets & Visuals

• Complete new asset set for Arnor
• Add back the old shoulder shields to Khand armours
• add a lighter version of black snake armour
• New and improved Dunland armours + Dunland sword
• Fix mail scale on Gondor and Khand helmets; adjust mail brightness on Gondor armours
• Improve Gondor Warhorse texture and add new variant

Fixes

• Optimize Minas Tirith siege and battle scenes by removing hidden props
• Remove captured lords from main party if their faction has been defeated, also fixes a possible problem with capture prisoners quest
• Automatically cancel related center quests when a center is razed or taken
• Fix a case rare case where regular troops could scare mounts
• Fix AI and pathfiding issues in Moria, Dol Amroth, Dol Guldur, Umbar Camp sieges

3 July, 2023 Update

• Add the Harad sword scabbards by Giles.
• Improve Saruman's robe texture.
• Make the Sword of Eorl two-handed.
• Fix the black screens on macOS and Linux, where after playing for a while textures would corrupt and the player would be unable to load or save their progress, forcing a game restart. This was caused by the game ending up having too many opened files because it forgets to close the streamed sounds after reading them, reaching the OS limit. Most of this investigation, reporting and testing has been contributed by null-painter-error on Discord. Many thanks!
• Update the translations with the latest content from Transifex. Including tr, de, it, pl, cz, ko, th, uk and ru.

15 April, 2023 Hotfix

Fixed Camel mesh entry

13 April, 2023 Update

13 April, 2023 Update

Equivalent to Nightly Patch Version r3815

Gameplay

• Enable wages for reserve parties
• Adjust horse scare code to work with camel and other troops/items
• Reduced the daily progress towards friendship rewards

Assets & Visuals

• Harad camel mount by Giles
• New armours for Harad
• New armours for Khand

Fixes

• Fix quest failure if related troops die, cancel instead
• Improve battle size reset after sieges
• Fix Galadriel appearance in Caras Galadhon siege
• Fix raid village quest dialog
• Fix two unhandled cases for scout camp placement

4 February, 2023 Update

4 February, 2023 Update

Equivalent to Nightly Patch Version r3784

Gameplay

• Inventory Management turned into party skill, also reduces food consumption
• New formula for morale penalty from party size
• Implement basic desertion system based on party morale and player leadership
• Overhaul orc mutiny chance calculations, now based on party morale; give orc pretender enhanced combat AI
• Review troop hiring and selling prices
• Overhaul battle coherence system, making it more dynamic

Assets & Visuals

• New Minas Tirith Hall model + scene (based on a model gifted by Lolinilandecadon)

Fixes

• Fix HP shield stagger animation for mounted agents
• Clean up info pages, link them in new game start menu
• Stop reinforcements if coherence reaches zero
• Rework cover troops in order to make sure they're properly defeated
• Fix and adjust butcher trait requirements
• Fix prisoner slaughterin from party menu
• Improve lancer weapon selection

22 November, 2022 Update

[h1][b]November 22, 2022 Update[/b][/h1]

Equivalent to Nightly Patch Version r3745

[quote][i]New and existing macOS players; please [url=https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/299974223/361787186436486677/#forum_op_361787186436486677]follow the new install guide[/url] and report back.[/i][/quote]

[b]macOS and Linux fixes[/b]
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[*] Fix broken shaders. e.g. glitchy overall map terrain.
[*] Revamp the macOS install method; from now on we will patch the official Warband game binary's code to fix many of this version's bugs. This universal method should improve compatibility by acting on the root cause and let you switch between mods. (i.e. everyone's fonts and Data folder should work after this)
[*] Expand the macOS install guide to let people remove custom fonts here and on Linux, both versions share shaders.
[*] The patch also improves graphics by forcing the game to use a 32-bit depth buffer (objects far away won't flicker anymore) and gets rid of the sharp discontinuities as textures blur in the distance, now there's feature parity with Windows, it has a soft transition.
[*] No more workarounds.
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[b]General fixes[/b]
[list]
[*] Fix a misplaced staircase in the Minas Tirith siege.
[*] Reduce the frequency of horse and warg sounds.
[*] Make the Ent party also interactive when the Ent quest is not active.
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[b]Other[/b]
[list]
[*] Translation updates for Greek and Indonesian.
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