Grosses Beta-Update für Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord

Nach diversen Hotfixes hat Taleworlds Entertainment das erste grosse Beta-Update für das Mittelalter-Rollenspiel "Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord" veröffentlicht, das unter anderem die Performance verbessert. Die Entwickler möchten ausserdem eines strukturierteren Update-Prozesses verwirklichen. So werden neben dem öffentlichen Bereich zwei neue Sparten für das Spiel auf Steam eingeführt, Alpha und Beta.

Singleplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a rare formation AI exception.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when a mount without a rider heard an arrow.
• Fixed a crash that occurred at the end of the "Army of Poachers" quest when the AI tries to continue fighting.
• Fixed a crash that happens when a campaign is started for the second time without exiting the game.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when selecting the option to attack in the “Rival Gang Leader” quest after loading a game.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when AI characters tried to barter prisoners.
• Fixed a bug where talking to a companion in settlements during the main storyline would crash the game.
• Fixed a crash in main storyline conspiracy phase.

Performance

• Ram and VRAM usage is reduced and many leaks are fixed.
• Scene loading performance improvements.

Localisation

• Improvements, additions and corrections for Turkish and Simplified Chinese translations.

Art

• Added new armour "Northern Lamellar Shoulders".
• Added new armour "Plated Helmet".
• Assigned a banner to poachers and other neutral parties.
• Overhauled all of the NPC faces to reduce asymmetry, tone down exaggerations and create culturally appropriate and appealing phenotypes.
• Updated some of the lords and ladies faces for a more culturally appropriate look.
• Updated nav meshes in “seabandita”, ”battleterrainp”, “battleterrain020”, “battleterrain029” and “battleterrain030”. This should resolve unwanted fights in water and improve fleeing behaviour in these scenes.
• “Aseraitowna” civilian scene related fixes.
• “Aseraitownb” civilian scene related fixes
• “Empiretownj” siege scene siege related fixes and seasonal improvements.
• “Khuzaittown004” siege related fixes and visual improvements.
• “Aseraicastle002” siege related fixes.
• “Vlandiacastle005a” siege related fixes.
• “Sturgiacastle003” siege related fixes.
• “Khuzaitcastle002” siege related fixes.
• Night atmosphere illumination amounts adjusted.
• Visual fixes for battle scenes.
• Winter season issues with steppe scenes have been fixed.
• Winter related problems with the outer meshes are solved.
• Low-poly tree meshes are now used in hideout prefabs.
• Agent spawn positions in some scenes are fixed.
• Fixed a season problem with Aserai's arena.
• An issue with Battania arena spawn points being too close to each other is fixed.
• Fixed some scene issues of Aserai Village.
• Fixed merlon physics issues of Vlandian Castle parts.
• Fixed some lighting issues of Empire Lords Hall.
• Fixed physics issues of Battania Castle Wall.
• Fixed UV issues of Sturgia Castle Gatehouse.
• Fixed an error while opening the Forest Hideout scene.
• Refined snowy atmospheres.
• Beard intersecting helmet issues were fixed for: westernplatedhelmet, Empireguardedlord_helmet
• Nordic sloven armour's bones problem fixed.
• Fixed clothing clipping issues.
• Replaced some textures and meshes.
• Updates on Hero Creation Stages:
  • Some clothes updates.
  • Poses overhaul.
  • Face animation.
  • Scene lighting.
  • Skin shader updates.
  • Specular texture channels updated.
  • Diffuse Texture updated.
  • Beard /tattoo material:
  • Alpha and colour updates.

Campaign Map

• Parties participating in an event are no longer moving, which fixes some footstep sound issues.

Audio

• Fixed that Campaign music could play many tracks in quick succession.

UI

• Implemented trade perks that relate to profit in inventory.
• Minor UI tweaks and fixes in Crafting, Barter, Save/Load, Recruitment, Board Game, Siege screens.
• "No Saddle" visuals in Inventory.
• Removed helmets from hero portraits to see their faces more clearly.
• Added Weight Carrying Mount and Speed Mount icons in inventory mount tooltip panel.
• Fixed a spacing issue with 'ğ' character in Turkish localisation.
• Fixed barter offer item visuals not being visible.
• Enabled being able to give names with space and numbers in creation.
• Fixed two hints showing up in inventory equipment slots.
• Changed character developer traits from texts to icons.
• Implemented a basic item tooltip, now players can see the basic stats of a tournament prize item.
• Added a "Busy with an issue" or "Busy with a quest" or "Busy with a common area" notifications in Create a Party instead of just a "Busy" explanation.
• Fixed attribute and focus point tooltips to reflect correct numbers.
• Moved NumberOfCorpses and MaxSimultaneousSoundEventCount to performance options.
• Implemented being able to sort/move modules in the launcher.
• Renamed "Resume Game" to "Saved Games".
• Added minor faction filter to clan page list page.
• Added tooltips to map bar circle notifications.
• Added new perk icons.
• Fixed banner visual errors with some icons and banner icons not matching with the UI.

Battles and Sieges

• Simulated battles no longer give more XP than fought battles.
• Added missing patrol spawn positions to forest hideout scenes. Forest hideout missions should now open normally.

Combat AI

• AI quality for NPCs is now determined by skill points in the current weapon's governing skill instead of overall character level.
• A tactics bug related to the defensive ring that occurred when archers ran out of ammunition has been fixed.
• An issue in caravan/villager battles that could potentially cause unexpected behaviour at agent processing level was corrected.
• Cavalry not being able to hit enemies right next to them when they had swingable weapons and circling each other endlessly issue fixed.
• Bodyguard troops could rarely stop moving when their commander died, this is now fixed.
• Mounted agents can calculate enemy positions better and thus more accurately aim their thrust attacks.
• Some agents couldn't move properly due to invisible scene AI barriers. This has been fixed.
• Fixed some Sea Bandit AI issues.
• Agents attack less often if the combat AI difficulty is set to normal.
• Holding ready duration for attacks was added as a driven property and tied to melee combat skill in order to make easier/less able AI agents fight less relentlessly (i.e. they will wait for a while before releasing their attack).

Character Development System

• Level 1 characters now start with 120 skill points.
• Reduced XP required to learn higher skill levels.
• Troops can now upgrade more easily.
• Reduced wanderers' skills outside their main area of expertise, making them easier to level up.
• Made wanderer age correlate roughly with their skills.

Kingdoms and Diplomacy

• Fixed bug where fiefs were regarded to have a negative value in barters if the “Everything Has a Price” perk was enabled.
• Fixed a rare bug where the AI proposed a kingdom decision on behalf of the player clan.

Economy and Trade

• Prices for armour were changed and high tier boots and gauntlets now cost more.
• Range weapon prices have been re-adjusted.

Quests & Issues

• Reviewed about a third of the quest issues, improving dialogues and persuasion:
• Major changes in particular to “Family Feud” and “Spy Party”.

Other

• Icons on banners and shields were not appearing. They are fixed now.
• Updated "Imperial Legionary" equipment.
• Minor updates to Sturgian troop tree equipment.
• Added more variation to caravan master's equipment.
• Added more variation to helmet drops from troops.
• Various other fixes to troop trees and stats.
• Armour values of various equipment have changed to better match their visuals and increase faction armour variety.
• Armour values of mount bardings and harnesses were changed to match their visuals.
• Riding a horse without a saddle now incurs 10% penalty to max horse speed and manoeuvring.
• NPC agents carrying heavy items (apple baskets etc.) will no longer run (with items in hand) when the player asks them to take him/her to a particular agent.
• Added an "Exposure Compensation" option that allows players to adjust the brightness levels of the visuals to their preference.
• Fixed missing items for blacksmith characters in towns.
• Some grammar mistakes and typos were fixed.
• Fixes a bug that caused the player character to be invisible.
• Fixed a bug that caused characters to spawn without any equipment.

Multiplayer

Animations

• Fixed some wrong cavalry idle animations.
• Fixed a rare condition in which client rider gets stuck in defence animation after a successful hit.

Audio

• Implemented a Voice Spamming Filter for multiplayer.

Design & Balance

• Damage interrupt threshold values are set as 5.
• Headshot damage multiplier is increased from 1.7 to 2 for pierce damage.

Map Related

• Bug fixes for Harbour of Ovsk.
• Bug fixes and improvements for Castle of Fen Altai.
• Some spawn locations are re-adjusted for team balance. Atmosphere has changed.
• Added particles to be formed when the breakable wall is damaged.

Other - Miscellaneous

• Slow-motion and pause cheats are disallowed during multiplayer matches.

Performance

• Decreased bandwidth usage of impact sounds.

Server & Network

• Server Improvements.

Both - Singleplayer & Multiplayer

Crash

• If the AI is not holding a ranged weapon, it tries to find a ranged weapon in its equipment and uses this weapon to calculate attacking scores against distant enemies. During this weapon selection, some equipment was causing a crash. This was fixed.

Performance

• Improved the performance of the sound system.
• Big improvements for the multi-core performance of the game.
• We now select Maximum sound count according to your CPU's core count. You can increase this setting if you have a recent CPU. We've also added a new very low(64) option.
• Some other minor performance improvements.

Audio

• UI sounds don't get cut by other UI events anymore.
• Added "is missile" check to crafted weapons' impact sounds (like Throwing Axes).
• Fixed Ballista reload sound phasing.
• Minor changes in the hearable distance of loud sounds.
• Fixed some Vlandian scenes opening up with an echo.

Combat AI

• Improved the calculation of ranged units for the enemy's future position.
• Ranged units can target mounts or different enemy bones. Cases that caused errors during this calculation are fixed.
• After issuing the "Hold Fire" command, the AI weapon selection gives less priority to ranged weapons that have a secondary melee mode.

Other

• Added an option to disable controller vibration.