Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

ArchAngel · Jan 8, 2021

Old One said:
Can horses gallop at full speed along near vertical cliffs the way they could in M&B?

No. Now they fall down cliffs and kill themselves if you spawn on a wrong map :D

Alienman · Jan 8, 2021

2022 maybe then...

ArchAngel · Jan 9, 2021

Damn, I had a 1900 vs 1400 battle and I lost it all.
My guy was 300 of very high level troops but the rest of 1100 had crappy units and we could not stop the wall of archers and horses they had. It was even going somewhat well until I died about 3/4 into the battle.
Luckily I got 1.6 mil $ and I hope I can kind of rebuild my army in a decent time. Bad thing was that my army was only cavalry (about 2/5 horse archers and 3/5 knights). It took a lot of time to make that and go around the world buying all warhorses I could find...

Konjad · Jan 10, 2021

Sieges are great in multiplayer, but AI is broken and terrible, therefore they are complete clusterfuck in single player. I definitely recommend buying the game for multi, but for single it's better to wait... Another 2-3 years

Hellion · Jan 12, 2021

Beta Patch 1.5.7 is already out.

https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?threads/beta-patch-notes-e1-5-7.437515/

Almost 15 GB download on Steam, wtf.

Infinitron · Jan 13, 2021

https://www.taleworlds.com/en/News/426

Patch Notes e1.5.6

Main e1.5.6

Latest Changes:
Singleplayer

Oathsworn now has more athleticism skills than riding.

Replaced one-handed and two-handed weapon skills for the Imperial Veteran Archer.

Fixed the case of some longbows having Vlandian cultures set on them. They are now Battanian Bows.

There were two Southern Noble Helmets. One of them is renamed to "Southern Crowned Lord Helmet".

Fixed an issue that caused some beard types to clip through closed helmets.

Fixed the problem of some character creation choices having weapons that could not be used with civilian equipment.

Fixed a crash that occurred when the player died during the defence of a siege while in charge of a formation that was previously controlled by the AI.

Fixed an issue that caused players to be stuck in photo mode when it was opened in arenas.

Fixed an issue that caused the scoreboard to not show up while pressing the scoreboard key.

Fixed an issue that caused weapons to be dropped on pressing Dpad down while the order menu was open.

Fixed an issue that caused a crash while trying to open the quest screen.

Fixed an issue that caused the UI to disappear when a transfer order was given in the deployment stage.

Fixed a crash that occurred when the player started a conversation with melee trainers.

Fixed an issue where the mercenary soldiers would cost more than the shown amount.

Fixed a crash that occurred due to marrying your daughter to a hero.

Fixed a crash that occurred due to invalid items in towns.

Fixed wrong text showing when ransoming enemy lords.

Minor bug fixes for Medicine and Leadership skills.

If construction is 0 due to low loyalty, the construction completion time will be "Never" in Town Management.

Fixed a crash that occurred while creating a new rebel clan's banner.

Did some improvements related to the rebellion clan destruction algorithm.

Fixed a crash that occurred while adding gold to a hero if the hero had more than 2147483647 gold.

Fixed a bug where the player gained charm experience after a rebellion started.

Fixed a Company of Trouble quest crash that occurred when successfully persuading a lord that was in the same army with the player.

Added quest giver name in the Landlord Need Manual Labor quest dialogues.

Fixed a bug that caused kingdom leaders to become an army member when the player asked them through a dialogue.

Fixed a bug that caused the daily project bonus to be 0 on the settlement management menu.

Fixed a crash that was caused by corrupted save files because of some unfinished raids.

Fixed a bug that caused the player to gain trade XP when storing items in towns.

Fixed a memory leak issue.

Fixed a crash which occurred when the New Campaign button was clicked.

Fixed a crash that occurred while the “Lady's Knight Out” quest was active and the quest giver left her settlement.

Fixed a crash that occurred when the main hero asked for the “Lady's Knight Out” quest while the quest giver was outside of her settlement.

Fixed a crash that occurred after heir selection if the husband/wife had been selected as heir and he/she had been in a fugitive state.

Fixed a crash that occurred when the “Conspiracy Base of Operations” quest was activated but there was no suitable hideout for the quest.

Fixed a bug that allowed declaring of war on a neutral clan.

Fixed a bug that caused the dead lords to thank us after helping them on the battlefield.

Deleting the “offered amount” text in the barter screen no longer crashes the game.

"Agent without head in photo mode" bug has been fixed.

Multiplayer

Added the winter version of Isle of Deriad.

Temporarily disabled a performance optimization due to the disconnects it caused from the MP Lobby. It will be enabled again once the issue is resolved.

Fixed some perk icons.

Adjusted all horses charge damage.

Slightly increased charge damage for light cavalry horses

Slightly decreased charge damage for heavy cavalry horses

This is to make bumps/knock down more consistent between the classes.

Added 8 new Horses.

Added 2 new Lances.

Changed the weights of all “Stronger Shield” perks to be the same weight as the default shields.

Reverted the recent friendly fire change in Siege game mode. We found a crash that might relate to this change and we want to investigate further.

Troop Changes:

Aserai

Beduin (Light Cav)

Replaced the “Long Spear” perk with a new “Agile Horse” perk

Replaced the “Heavy Cavalry Sword” perk with the “Long Spear” perk (moved from perk list 1 -> 2)

Renamed the default horse from Nahasan to Desert Horse

Increased the charge damage of the Desert Horse from 4 to 5

Added a new horse (Nahasan) for the “Agile Horse” perk

Decreased the charge damage of the Camel from 13 to 7

Decreased the speed of the Camel from 45 to 43

Increased the maneuver of the Camel from 70 to 74

Mamluke (Heavy Cav)

Replaced the “Cavalry Mace” perk with a new “Faster Horse” perk

Added the Long Spear to the default equipment

Replaced the “Long Spear” perk with a new “Larger Shield” perk

Added a new horse (Tough Nahasan) for the “Faster Horse” perk

Battania

Wildling (Skirmisher)

Remove gloves (easy to distinguish from oathsworn, show more team colour)

Oathsworn (Heavy Inf)

Decreased the weight of the “Heavy Oval Shield” (Stronger Shield Perk) from 5 to 3.2

Mounted Warrior (Light Cav)

Added the longer sword to the default equipment

Replaced the “Longer Sword” perk with a new “Agile Horse” perk

Added a new horse (Agile Dale Pony) for the “Agile Horse” perk

Increased the charge damage of the Dale Pony from 2 to 5

Decreased the speed of the Dale Pony from 44 to 43

Decreased the charge damage of the Fell Pony from 11 to 9

Decreased the maneuver of the Fell Pony from 69 to 67

Empire

Legionary (Heavy Inf)

Decreased the weight of the “Reinforced Oaken Kite Shield” (Stronger Shield Perk) from 5.8 to 3.5

Courser (Light Cav)

Replaced the “Cavalry Sword” perk with a new “Agile Horse“ perk

Added a new horse (Midlands Palfrey) for the “Agile Horse” perk

Decreased the charge damage of the Danustica Horse from 8 to 7

Increased the speed of the Danustica Horse from 48 to 49

Decreased the maneuver of the Danustica Horse from 68 to 63

Replaced the “Throwing Spears” perk with a “Lance” perk

Cataphract (Heavy Cav)

Replaced the “Cavalry Mace” perk with a new “Charger Horse“ perk

Added a new horse (Imperial Charger) for the “Charger Horse” perk

Changed Axe Perk made it bastard

Renamed and adjusted the “Kontos” perk to “Fast Kontos”

Increased the length and speed of the “Fast Kontos”

Replace the “Bow and Arrows” perk with a new “Heavy Kontos” perk

Added a new weapon “Heavy Kontos” for the “Heavy Kontos” perk

Decreased the charge damage of the Imperial Warhorse from 13 to 10

Decreased the charge damage of the War Courser from 10 to 8

Increased the maneuver of the War Courser from 66 to 67

Khuzait

Spear Infantry (Heavy Inf)

Decreased the weight of the “Footman's Wicker Shield” (Stronger Shield Perk) from 3 to 2.7

Nomad (Light Cav)

Replaced the “Tougher Horse” perk with a new “Agile Horse” perk

Added a new horse (Tarpan) for the “Agile Horse” perk

Increased the charge damage of the Steppe Horse from 2 to 5

Decreased the charge damage of the Steppe Charger from 13 to 10

Decreased the health of the Steppe Charger from 220 to 190

Lancer (Heavy Cav)

Added the “Cavalry Mace” to the default equipment

Replaced the “Cavalry Mace” perk with a new “Longer Lance” perk

Switched “Improved Armor” and “Tougher Horse” positions

Increased the speed of the Steppe Warhorse from 40 to 41

Increased the maneuver of the Steppe Warhorse from 68 to 69

Mounted Archer (Horse Archer)

Increased the charge damage of the Steppe Saddle Horse from 2 to 3

Increased the charge damage of the Steppe Tough Horse from 3 to 4

Sturgia

Varyag (Heavy Inf)

Decreased the weight of the “Large Round Shield” (Stronger Shield Perk) from 4 to 2.8

Raider (Light Cav)

Made heavy axe default

Increased barding armor 4->15

Adjusted horse harness visual

Replaced heavy axe perk with looted horse perk (grants a random horse on spawn)

Increased the charge damage of the Trotter horse from 4 to 5

Druzhinnik (Heavy Cav)

Added the Long Spear to the default equipment

Replaced the “Larger Shield” perk with “Agile Horse” perk

Replaced the “Long Spear” perk with a new “Larger Shield” perk

Renamed and adjusted the “Lance” perk to “Heavy Lance”

Replaced the “Bow and Arrows” perk with a new “Long Lance” perk

Decreased the charge damage of the Tougher Tyal Horse from 12 to 11

Decreased the maneuver of the Tougher Tyal Horse from 66 to 64

Vlandia

Vanguard (Light Cav)

Added the Cavalry Mace to the default equipment

Replaced the “Cavalry Mace” perk with a new Faster Horse“ perk

Added a new horse (Hunter) for the “Faster Horse” perk

Increased the charge damage of the Saddle Horse from 2 to 5

Increased the height of the Saddle Horse slightly

Increased the charge damage of the Jaculan Horse from 2 to 4

Decreased the speed of the Jaculan Horse from 47 to 44

Knight (Heavy Cav)

Replaced the “Cavalry Mace” perk with a new “Faster War Horse” perk

Added a new horse (Faster Charger) for the “Faster War Horse” perk

Decreased the charge damage of the Charge from 13 to 12

Increased the charge damage of the Brawler from 9 to 12

Initial Beta Changelog:
Singleplayer
Crashes

Fixed a crash that occurred when clicking on a militia or caravan's portrait in the settlement overlay menu.

Fixed a crash that occurred when unlocking perks.

Fixed a crash that occurred when the main hero spoke with a disbanding party.

Fixed a crash that occurred while executing prisoners.

Fixed a crash that occurred in conversation with Radagos while “Rescue Your Family” quest was active.

Fixed a crash that occurred when dead notables still had caravans.

Fixed a crash that occurred when changing the culture of a character during character creation.

Fixed a crash that occurred by crafting pieces that were missing from the game files.

Fixed a crash that occurred due to the “Beast Whisperer” perk when the game tried to give a mount to a party.

Fixed a rendering crash that occurred when entering a hideout.

Fixed two crashes that occurred after the player cleared an alley.

Fixed a crash that occurred when a companion was solving the "Help With Outlaws" issue.

Fixed a bug that caused a crash after the player gained a fief by bartering.

Performance

Did a refactor to make the ItemRoster system faster and more stable.

Reduced spikes during tableau generation for characters in UI.

Performance improvements for crafting dagger pieces.

Performance improvements for Vlandia village houses.

Performance improvements for Khuzait houses.

Localisation

Minor text updates.

Turkish localisation updates.

Art

14 new villages were added.

26 new battle terrains were added.

Added new Sturgia Light Armour.

Added new Highland Scale Over Mail Armour.

Added some variety to existing shoulder armour pieces.

Added new flax plantation and vineyard models for the campaign map.

Various weapon improvements and fixed some bugs on weapons.

Fixed direction issues on some seax knives.

Fixed Bearded Axe’s handle issue.

Training Ground (Tutorial Scene): Fixed a tree coming out of a house.

Missing texture issue fixed for the dungeon in Revyl.

Northern Light Harness skinning problems fixed.

Various village improvements, fixed some bugs in villages.

Visual improvements for Battania arena models.

Fixed incorrect snow rendering on the outer mesh of the world map.

Animations

Fixed a bug that caused the player's companions to play villager animations.

Campaign Map

Changed village lore to match new locations and changed the production of some villages.

Fixed a bug that spawned the main hero in an unplayable area after heir selection.

Fixed a minor campaign camera issue in which the camera got stuck on high terrain when moving to a location automatically.

UI

Changes

Settlement Nameplate Events

Whenever a player gets in the viewing range of a settlement, they can see if there is a tournament or an issue available in that settlement without visiting it.

Menu Shortcuts

Now players can use shortcuts to take actions in the panel they're currently in. For example, Change tabs with Q-E(LB-RB), Take/Dismiss all with Z-C(LT-RT), Recruit all with Z(LT) etc.

The game menu on the campaign map is now hideable. It will auto-open if there are any changes in the game menu.

Removed "need to be in the same party" requirement for the character developer. You’ll now be able to grant perks to clan members without moving them to your party.

Added a new option in “Gameplay Options” to control which order type to use (Radial or Bar).

Saved game categories will now be sorted by their most recent save time. The most recently saved category will be on top.

Personal kill feed skull will now show up white (instead of red) if the hit agent is unconscious.

Added "Time of Day" selection to Custom Battle screen.

Added equipment icons to custom battle heroes so players can examine them before the battle.

Scoreboard after the battle (rewards section) now also lists lords that have fallen in the battle.

Added variation to troops' types and faces in map conversation. No more same-face looters.

Center time image (on map bar) has been turned into a button that resets the camera to a default position on click.

Added colour to equipment in character portraits in the settlement overlay and used the correct equipment. These overlays will now vary more and be more colourful.

Hovering over a hero's health on the party screen now gives detailed info about their health.

Players can now “Copy and Paste” their weapon designs in Crafting with CTRL+C and CTRL+V.

Added detail to the load game caution popup to convey which modules are new, which modules are missing and which modules' versions are different.

Added error popup to the “Save/Load” screen that displays if the load action is unsuccessful.

Changed "Talk" and "Quick Talk" to "Visit" and "Talk" in the character popup.

Quick talk button is now disabled during the tutorial stage.

Fixes

Fixed a bug that caused lords in map conversations to smirk easily and in illogical situations (wounded).

Fixed a bug in tournaments that caused killfeed to show wrong colours for player's and their team's kills.

Fixed a bug that caused duplicate heroes to show up in the clan encyclopedia page.

Fixed a bug that caused a crash on barter Auto-Offer.

Fixed a bug that displayed wrong values for the "Casualties Inflicted" column in Kingdom Diplomacy tab.

Fixed a bug that caused the close popup button to not be clickable in Inventory item preview.

Fixed a bug that caused banners of enemies in the clan encyclopedia page to show up incorrectly.

Fixed a bug that caused texts in the escape menu not to be localized after language changes.

Fixed a bug that caused modifiers for items to be removed on party screen resets.

Fixed a bug that caused prisoner heroes to not be transferable.

Fixed a bug that caused wrong wounded troop values to be shown in settlement tooltips.

Fixed a bug that caused "gold change" text to disappear after a dialogue in the party screen.

Fixed a bug that caused the settlement overlay banner to not change on settlement owner change while the player is in town.

Fixed a bug that caused conversation partners to show up in the wrong equipment in quick talk.

Fixed a bug that caused localization of the tutorial panels and training field objectives to not change after a language change.

Fixed a bug that caused localization of the settlement nameplate names to not change after a language change.

Fixed a bug that caused beards of some 21-year-old heroes to disappear from their portraits.

Fixed a bug that caused incorrect weapon tier values to be shown for multiple piece weapons.

Fixed a bug that caused bandit cultures to be shown on the hero list page filters.

Fixed a bug that caused wrong disabled reason text to be shown in the crafting screen.

Made further changes on the head armours that some troops are using for readability and coherence purposes.

The Highland Plaid Dress is now The Highland Peasant Dress. The Highland Peasant Dress is now The Highland Plaid Dress.

Fixed a bug that caused the display of the deserting troops count to be wrong.

Fixed a bug that caused encyclopedia text to be wrong for dead female empire characters.

Fixed showing wrong companion names for clan roles in dialogues with our companions.

Battles and Sieges

Photo Mode Implementation

Photo mode functionality and interface was added to the singleplayer.

Improved accuracy with ranged weapons while mounted.

Target locking is implemented. Players can now lock their camera to an enemy with the middle mouse key by default.

Base bow values have been changed to tune both the AI behaviour and the player experience.

Fixed weapon skill-related damage being reported as perk related damage in combat.

Mounted units can now get a morale penalty due to casualties within their own formation.

Fixed a bug which prevented reloading of crossbows while mounted. This could have happened when the player was holding the movement buttons (while attempting a reload) or when the horse was standing still.

A two-way dependency caused the position calculation to constantly change, causing formation AI defending a position to endlessly fidget about. This has been fixed.

Character Development System

Added weapon knockdown mechanics. "Show of Strength" perk from the two-handed tree and "Hard Knock" perk from the polearm tree should now work properly.

Added two-handed arrow deflection mechanics. "Arrow Deflection" perk from the two-handed tree should now let heroes deflect arrows and bolts while blocking with a two-handed sword.

Added 9 combat-related roguery perks.

Added 1 combat-related stewardship perks.

Added 5 combat-related medicine perks.

Added 6 different perk effects related to prisoner recruitment update which are now available to all NPC lords alongside the player.

Added missing Veterinarian primary effect

30% chance per day to recover a lame horse.

Changed Fortitude Tonic primary effect

Increase the hitpoints of other heroes in your party by 10.

Updated Veterans' Respect perk secondary effect

You are able to convert bandits into regular troops.

Hostile actions against caravans and villagers (Force them to give supplies, taking them prisoner, attacking them) now give Roguery experience.

Recruiting bandits now gives Roguery experience.

Fixed a bug that caused the player to lose most of his/her weight after the first day of the game.

Fixed various community reported perk problems.

Clan and Party

Added a passive relations bonus when a companion or family member is left in a town or a castle, the main hero will gain relation with the nobles and notables in that town or castle with a success chance. This chance increases with the "Charm" skill. Additionally, when the companion or the family member gains relation, they will also gain some experience according to the importance of the hero whose relation was improved with (importance level: kingdom leader > clan leader > notable).

The prisoner recruitment process has been changed completely.

Each troop has required "conformity" value to be generated by the party, to be recruited. This value is based on troop tier, so that higher tier troops will be harder to recruit. Owner party will generate conformity per hour for a random troop. Higher Leadership level will generate more conformity.

Recruiting bandits carries a culture penalty.

NPC lords can now recruit prisoners.

Marrying off clan members is now possible.

From now on, family members can be used for issues' alternative solutions.

Fixed a bug that caused companions to teleport when they were left in a settlement.

Changed the “Price of Loyalty” perk effect to be seen when the perk belongs to the Quartermaster of the party as well.

Fixed a bug that caused heroes to heal immediately.

Fixed a bug that prevented children of Calradia from spawning when they became 18 years old.

Fixed a bug that didn't allow the player to pick his/her child as their heir and also didn't allow children to have a party after becoming 18 years old.

Fixed a bug that made the player’s family members stuck in the player’s settlements as prisoners.

Fixed the “party speed not getting updated” bug after leaving an army.

Kingdoms and Diplomacy

Rebellion feature added.

Loyalty and security is affected by many things. A town being recently captured, starvation, mismatch of ruling clans culture and settlements culture, raided villages, governor skill perks, a strong garrison, kingdom policies etc.

If Loyalty of a town drops below 25, Town starts to generate more militia. This militia represents armed and angry people of the settlement, thus as loyalty drops further less of them will join the defence in case of a siege.

Once the growing militia feels stronger than the garrison, and if loyalty is below 15, rebellion occurs.

The new rebellion clan will try to defend themselves while trying to establish their legitimacy. In 30 days time, they will form a legitimate clan and can start initiating diplomacy to join existing kingdoms.

Rebellion clans are always on bad terms with their oppressor's.

If the settlement owner's culture and settlement's culture are the same, the rebellion clan will have a bad relation with all the factions that share that culture.

If the settlement owner’s culture and settlement’s culture are different, the rebellion clan will have a bad relation with all the factions that share the owner’s culture but will have a good relation with all the factions that share the settlement’s culture.

Done a major work on keeping all kingdoms on the campaign map for a longer time. Now kingdoms make more comebacks even though they lost several towns. The map is now also more balanced during the late game and usually, all kingdoms have several towns.

There was money inflation in the game, the money of all kingdoms was always increasing. This has been fixed.

Players were making a profit when they declared war and made peace afterwards. This has been fixed. Kingdoms now usually want money for making peace with a weak player/player kingdom. Additionally, if the player breaks truce now his clan's aggressiveness increases and it will be a bit harder / more expensive to make new peace. The player now also loses relation with the rival king if he breaks the truce.

Ensured all clans have at least one fief and that medium-tier clans have enough income.

Ensured that each clan has two more adults than the number of parties for their tier (nP + 2).

Players will get relation and renown bonuses after donating enemy prisoners to settlements.

Ensured minor faction nobles have weapon skills.

Ensured only kingdoms are shown in the kingdom diplomacy screen.

Fixed a bug that led to AI clans to propose decisions even if they didn’t have enough influence.

Fixed a bug that prevented minor faction heroes and notables from having traits and skills.

Fixed a bug that caused some prisoners to not be released after peace declarations.

Familial relations of the clan Fen Caernacht have been fixed.

Fixed a bug that caused eliminated clans to retain settlement ownership.

Economy and Trade

Reduced the weight of Long padded robe, Layered Robe and Highland Cloth.

Fixed the bug caused by the perk effect on barter.

Crafting

Added console commands to unlock all crafting pieces and add crafting materials.

Fixed the issue of crafted items appearing as a tournament prize.

Settlement Actions (Town, Village, Castle and Hideout)

The number of notables was constantly decreasing. This has been fixed. The number of notables in towns and villages is now also related to the prosperity value of town and hearth value of village.

Fixed the wrong display of gold earned in arena practise fights.

Fixed the cinematic camera being spawned inside the player character during hideout cinematic transition.

Fixed a bug that let towns have tournaments during a siege.

Fixed the penalty miscalculation of the mounted training course.

Barbers are now visible while pressing the "ALT" key in towns.

Fixed a few issues related to getting renown and relation after helping villages in raid map events.

Fixed a bug that caused NPC's to walk fast in civilian scenes.

Quests & Issues

Main storyline quest "Destroy Raiders" has been implemented.

Two new conspiracy quests named "Disrupt Supply Lines" and "Conspiracy Base of Operations" added to the game.

Added a new quest - Village needs tools.

Fixed a bug that failed the "Escort Caravan Quest" when the main hero helped the caravan.

Headman Needs Grain

Quest reward removed.

Amount of requested goods increased.

Increased relation bonus/reward given upon completion.

"Borrowed Troops" are removed from the player's party if "Train Troops for X" quest fails with a timeout. When "Train Troops for X" is resolved, all "Borrowed Troops" turn into regular troops.

"Needs to Deliver Herd" issue duration is increased to 30 days.

Fixed a bug that caused the player to get 20 success relation reward in the quest "Needs grain seeds".

“Escort merchant caravan” quest did not fail when their gold or goods were taken. This has been fixed.

"Merchant Needs Help with Bandits" quest is changed to work with all kinds of bandits.

Fixed a bug that caused the “Escort Caravan” quest to spawn a party with 0 troops.

Fixed a bug that caused a temporary menu background to appear while waiting for the “Rival gang” quest.

Players can no longer sell “Company of trouble” quest troops to family members.

Fixed a bug that caused the “Draught animal” quest to be incompletable.

Fixed a bug related to the “Captured by Bounty Hunters” quest companion solution skill requirements.

Fixed a bug that caused trained troops in the quest to stay in our party even if we send them to the quest giver.

Fixed failing of “Escort Merchant Caravan” quest when the player traded with the caravan he was escorting..

Did a refactor related to issue effects (will not affect gameplay).

Fixed a bug that caused some quests to give relation with the quest giver twice.

Fixed the bug that caused lame horses to block the “Lord Needs Horses” quest from completion.

Fixed a bug that caused the “Art of the Trade” quest dialogue to override other quests’ dialogue.

Conversations & Encounters

Board games: you can now forfeit on enemies’ turn.

Fixed a bug that set the main hero's relation to 100 with Tevea village's headman.

Fixed a bug that caused Ransom broker's initial dialogue to disappear.

Fixed a bug that caused some dialogues to be overridden by “Art of the Trade” quest dialogue.

Fixed a bug that caused friendly NPCs to refuse to give a quest and treat the player like an enemy.

Other

Mercenary Guards are now classified as ranged units.

“Custom Battle Heroes” is further refined for different weaponry and play styles.

Harami units now require regular horses instead of war horses to upgrade.

Our brother and sister no longer have purebloods. They now use regular horses.

Fixed a template error causing some Sturgian lords to fight barefooted.

The Imperial Crown no longer hides hair parts when worn.

Changed Vlandian Footman's stats to improve his athleticism.

Fixed a template error that caused steppe bandits to spawn with longbows.

Improved the camera angle of the encyclopedia troop icons.

Multiplayer
Art

Baravenos Encirclement

Readjusted spawns for the last flags.

Added some better cover for the attacker trebuchet.

Echerion

Many physics improvements (some ramps and planks would stop cavalry dead in their tracks).

Improved terrain for low graphic settings.

Adjusted the physics of some of the screens so that you can shoot through some parts.

Moved some of the wall paintings to enable better callouts for alleyways.

Xauna

Physics improvements to ramps.

Tsagaan Castle

Positions, where players got stuck, are eliminated. Some of the high grounds are now also unreachable in order to have a balance between ranged and non-ranged troops.

Server & Network

Fixed a crash that occurred when a player was reported in the lobby.

Fixed a crash that occurred on the badge screen.

Fixed a crash that happened between round transitions.

Fixed a crash that happened when the battle was over.

An unhandled exception in a column arrangement due to a case that happened when taking control of a friendly agent after dying was fixed.

UI

Changes

Online status of clan members can now be seen in the lobby roster.

Added explanatory hints to recent game icons.

Fixes

Various minor tweaks and fixes.

Visual bug in the multiplayer armour screen has been fixed.

“Suggest to party” UI did not change when the player became the party leader. This has now been fixed.

Both
Crashes

Fixed a crash which occurred when the game was closing.

Fixed a crash which occurred after clicking the “Apply options” button.

Fixed a crash which occurred during replay, equipment was calling an AI update code which led to a crash.

Fixed a crash that occurred when quickly clearing the mounts of dead riders.

Art

Fixing a bug in the texture streaming system that should reduce texture popping.

Improved flora fade in-out at far distances.

UI

Improved compression quality of the UI assets.

Moved "ui_debug_mode" to user_config so that players can now use the hot reload function of the Gauntlet XMLs.

Toggle UI command can also be given with CTRL + ALT + F10 shortcut (cheats need to be enabled).

Added "DependentVersion" value to DependedModules in SubModules. If the DependentVersion is not the same as the currently installed version, a warning will be shown in the launcher before starting the game.

Merlon text will not be shown anymore when looking at it.

Added a warning message for out-of-date graphics drivers.

The initial loading screen is now black instead of white.

Fixed a bug that caused the game to be stuck in loading.

Performance

The loading time of scenes and battles has been improved.

Both GPU and CPU memory usage has been reduced.

Improved terrain rendering performance.

Fixed various CPU memory leaks.

Optimizations have been made for scripted objects in missions.

Combat

Shield mechanic changes

Increased the block cone for opposite direction blocks (weapon blocks to the opposite direction of an attack, will make more sense in regards to the weapon position and be ever so slightly easier).

Made it slightly easier to hit around shields when they are in the wrong direction AND the user is rotated away. (Before you would be stopped by thin air too often, trying to hit around shields).

For more details check this forum post.

Agents with ranged weapons normally approach the enemy until they see them when they are given the charging order. When they weren't shooting due to a friend blocking their way, they didn't approach and stood in place despite being told to charge, now they do and also do minor sideway movements to increase the chance of seeing past their friends.

Agent speed limits were decreased drastically while moving in formation, this proved a bit too much and was increased in some arrangement types closer to their previous value.

The AI targeting system ignored a value while evaluating the player's point. This has been fixed.

Combat animations are now disallowed while dismounting in order to prevent various animation problems.

Players are now allowed to press the Crouch/Dismount key at high speeds to automatically dismount from their mounts by slowing down first.

Decreased the time for cavalry AI to increase its distance between the enemy in order to charge back again, to a certain value.

Fixed a bug in passive attacks such as couched lance and braced spear in which the opposite direction or the weapon was able to give damage to the enemy.

Other

Console command line execution output will no longer be limited by an internal limit.

Modding

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Modding Kit now has a "Beta" version which can be enabled in the same way you enable "Beta" for our base game. IMPORTANT: The base game version must match with the modding kit version in order to work properly. For example, if you have your base game on the latest Beta, then you must also switch the modding kit to the latest beta. You can enable beta by right-clicking on Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Modding Kit in your Steam library -> Properties -> BETAS -> Select the beta from the dropdown menu.

Added 3 skeletons (human, horse, camel) which you can find in the "ROOT/modding_resources/skeletons" folder.

Textures are now correctly shown when a new module is used with the base game.

Debug modes like “show albedo/normals” etc. have been enabled.

"Terrain layers faulty render when entered as mission" has been fixed.

GI probe editing UX has been improved.

Fixed a visual bug which caused path barriers to be non-transparent.

Fixed auto-reload of module related XML files.

ArchAngel · Jan 29, 2021

This version is unplayable when fighting Khuzaits. We need 1.5.7 to release where it fixes it.
Where there are a lot of Khuzait horse enemies on map game freezes all the time during combat. It all worked well until I started fighting Khuzaits. It might also be because I got a bunch of their units since I take horse units from all factions into my group. Only non horse units I bring are Batanian Fians.

ArchAngel · Feb 3, 2021

This game is so fucking addicting. I kept playing it even with all the crashes lol. Sometimes I had same battle crash multiple times before I could finish it. Sometimes I had to retreat from battle multiple times so I can save the progress so if it crashes I don't have to do it from start :D

But I got fed up and just restarted now with a new playthrough. I didn't have any crashes until very late into the game. Hopefully restarting now gives me enough play time until next big patch that hopefully fixes this shit.

My new playthrough is now Battanian guy that will be mostly on foot trying to fight in melee. Plan is to be a barbarian type, get bandits and sturgians and some battanians into the group, be a mercenary and earn lots of money that way and when I got 2+ million gold (which is easy to reach when you start hunting down enemy heroes and just selling their loot) I will start chopping head of all lords I get my hand on. Once they are "thined" I will just conquer their towns with my companions and proclaim my kingdom and then continue to chop all the heads off in the land. I might only leave other mercenaries alive so they can work for me.

ERYFKRAD · Feb 3, 2021

ArchAngel said:
Plan is to be a barbarian type,

This is the best plan you'll ever have.

Hellion · Feb 4, 2021

Patches 1.5.7 and 1.5.8 Beta are out.

The most important feature in the 1.5.8 beta patch notes seems to be:

Added Pillaging: Players and AI can now choose to 'Devastate', 'Pillage' or 'Show Mercy' to settlements that have been successfully sieged.

'Devastate' and 'Pillage' can damage the prosperity and projects of a settlement, as well as, diminish the power of notables in towns. Naturally, the previous settlement owner won’t be too happy about the destruction of their former home. However, the participants of the siege will see their coffers and party morale rise. Still, lords and ladies may or may not approve of the action depending on their traits.

'Show Mercy' allows the winners to take over the settlement without causing too much harm to it or its inhabitants. While this is expected for settlements of one’s own faction culture, showing mercy to foreign settlements will cause unrest among the troops. Just as with the other choices, some nobles will approve or disapprove of the action.

ArchAngel · Feb 5, 2021

So my new run is not going that well atm. I did the first phase of just trading and running down bandits to slowly level up my troops and my clan level. When I had a 60+ troop count I joined Sturgia as a mercenary. My fortunes started to rise but soon Sturgia was not in war with anyone and it lasted way too long and I started losing money. I had too many troops and all tier 4 or 5 or 6 and they cost too much to upkeep. Then idiot Sturgia went to war with Khuzaits..
I went to help and due to being desperate because of lack of funds I risked too much trying to engage one lord with 100 men and another nearby lord with 100 men joined the fight... and as expected Khuzait armies are mostly horsemen and each horsemen is worth more than each non horsemen. I would have won vs one guy with mostly horseman as I had 50 high level archers and 30+ high level cavalry but not with 2 lords. So I got captured and lost 95% of my horses and other loot I was collecting from the start

I was released with 4000 gold only in my name and nothing else. So I started over, this time I was trying not to get to 100+ troops that I cannot pay for too fast. So I got a smaller team and tried to level them and then slowly expand. Got to 22k gold doing this and Sturgians went to war with Battania. I rushed into battle zone and found some luck with some smaller lords that I could catch up. Went back into my territory and when I felt safe out of nowhere 150 strong enemy mercenery group with 60 cavalry units that moves faster than my group.... fuck this game :D

Zanzoken · Feb 5, 2021

ArchAngel said:
So my new run is not going that well

ArchAngel said:
I joined Sturgia

I think I've identified your problem

ArchAngel · Feb 6, 2021

I saved myself by leaving Sturgia by ending my mercenary contract from the Kingdom screen :D
And then rejoined them again. Then later they again were in war with everyone and they got owned by big armies by everyone. Nobody to attack with my little 100 men army. So I left them and joined Battania and now I am getting rich by taking out Sturgia noble armies :D
Fuck those losers.

XenomorphII · Feb 6, 2021

Poor Sturgia. They get reamed by everyone, everytime. At least I have never seen them not be the first to fall.

ArchAngel · Feb 6, 2021

Fuck Battanians, they decided to go to peace with everyone lol. I had to switch to Valandia now so I can keep abusing Sturgians :D

IDtenT · Feb 7, 2021

Sturgians isn't too bad a faction, because they've got lots of sea raiders. Like in previous games sea raiders are excellent early-game loot.

ArchAngel · Feb 8, 2021

Well I finally got my kingdom, Omor became a rebel city and was easy to take without pissing off any of the big factions

After that I plotted to go to war vs Vlandians as they were being buttraped by Battania but before I was ready Sturgians that were close to me decided to go to war with me.
So the slow cleansing began with endless head chopping. Sturgians were 2nd weakest faction after Vlandians but damn they had so many heads to chop.. I was sieging their castle with about 550 men and the came at me 3 times with 400+ men armies.. and they all lost their heads. I think I chopped off 30+ heads. And as result nobody likes me, not even mercenaries so I had to chop off their heads as well as they can only become my enemy at this point.
It is kind of stupid that nobody fears a guy that kills anyone that goes against him.. I hope game makes chopping heads more nuanced in the future, there should be lords and mercenaries that consider that a sign of strength and actually want to join. Also it is as well a huge grind, not much different then sticking them in a castle to rot away.
But I finally done it, I got two of their towns and 2 of their castles. And then Khuzaits declared war on me

They are currently strongest factions with 8000 strenght and they took most of the Sturgian towns and castles. A 1100 army just strolled into my territory and went for one of the castles while another is sieging one of the towns. I can at best muster a 600 men army atm.

So tactic now is to wait until their forces split into smaller groups even if I lose towns and castles and chop off heads of anyone I can catch. Even if I lost all holdings I got 500k money now and my kingdom and I can lead armies and have parties. A landless king chopping off heads faster than they can have babies wins in the end :D

Perkel · Feb 8, 2021

so when they want to release 1.0 ?

Alienman · Feb 9, 2021

For you hackers and programmers here

Is there a way to lower the XP gained for troopers you hire? There was a mod (somewhat) for it, but it has been abandoned. Just wondering maybe there is a easy way with some init tampering? I want the experience real damn hard, like having a majority peasants with the occasional veteran trooper.

IDtenT · Feb 9, 2021

Wouldn't that affect the AI too?

Alienman · Feb 9, 2021

I hope so. I want more rabble and less shiny knights.

Had a nice combo last time I played. Mod that made armor really tough to break, with lowered XP. So the knights were monsters, but hard to come by.

Fedora Master · Feb 10, 2021

From what I can tell at a glance the current beta made the game worse rather than fix it. Holy shit.
e: Seriously I looked around the game and the Mod Nexus and it looks to me as if the devs barely did anything to actually, you know, improve the game? Or overhaul the skill system.

Zanzoken · Feb 10, 2021

The Steam page says they expect to be in Early Access for "around a year".

The game released on March 30, 2020 so we should only have a few more weeks until 1.0 right?

:troll:

Fedora Master · Feb 10, 2021

Zanzoken said:
The Steam page says they expect to be in Early Access for "around a year".

The game released on March 30, 2020 so we should only have a few more weeks until 1.0 right?

Between this and Stygian, it seems "Never trust a Turk" is still a valid stance.

Nutria · Feb 10, 2021

What's the Turkish word for "microissue"?

thesecret1 · Feb 10, 2021

Nutria said:
What's the Turkish word for "microissue"?

Greece.

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