Patch Notes - November 13th 2023 - Siege control update

Hello everyone!

I am excited to bring you this week's update for Voor de Kroon.

🎮 Enhanced Siege Battle Controls

• Specific controls for siege battles added for more strategic command over your units.
  
• Tweaked siege defense AI.
  
• Player needs to start the assault manually. This allows the player to first attack the castle with ranged units for example.
  

👥Improved Formation Behaviors

• Increased formation cohesion. This makes sure formations stay in shape when traveling long distances. Lower level formations can still fall apart when making too big movements.
  
• Tweaked formation charge behavior
  
• Some tweaks to the underlying battle engine
  

🔧 Bug Fixes and Optimizations, etc.

• A plethora of fixes to enhance game stability and performance.
  
• Introducing two new hairstyles to personalize your characters further.
  

As always, thank you for your support and all the feedback! It helps development a lot.


Full Changelog:

• Implement specific orders for siege battles
  
• Implement specific siege defense orders
  
• Improve siege defense AI
  
• Projectiles bounce off stone structures
  
• Remove US grouping from year on battle date widget
  
• Add some extra checks to formation class to prevent empty formations still 'existing' in some edge cases
  
• Implement formation cohesion algorithm
  
• Make Frisian lords more authentically frisian
  
• Add rough cut hairstyle
  
• Add Frisian hairstyle
  
• Force exit battle if player is defeated
  
• Tweak castle brick color
  
• Player can't start siege when not all available ladders are placed during campaign
  
• Add text notification when ladders are placed or gate is breached
  
• Tweak cavalry behavior
  
• Fix head flipflopping really fast when looking backward on alternate camera
  
• Fix lords still using old models during campaign
  
• Fix lords on campaign using wrong sword
  
• Fix lances clipping through shields on back
  
• Fix hand clipping through frisian officer shield
  
• Fix horse heraldry position in battle
  
• Fix Feudal militia commander shield clipping arm
  
• Fix siege engine officers portriats in battle
  
• Fix formation charge location
  
• Fix battering ram collision
  
• Fix ranged army in quick battles spawning cavalry units for siege battles
  
• Fix ailettes color brightness
  
• Fix custom faciton naming logic
  
• Fix heavy knights mkaing too many noises
  
• Fix siege engine icon not hiding on battle start
  
• Fix officer faces clipping chainmail coifs
  
• Fix edge cases where you can still attack a player with 0 units
  
• Fix round castle stormram path
  
• Fix wall sapping logic in campaign
  
• Fix wall not staying sapped after siege ends
  
• Fix hand item placements for new models