Voor De Kroon News

Changelog

• Randomize blood patterns on surcoats and helmets
  
• Fix blood on knights helmets
  
• Fix blood on surcoats and modular officers sometimes not showing up
  
• Fix can't start siege battle without ladders
  

Changelog:

• Can now start campaign siege when one ladder is placed instead of all
  
• Tweak formation cohesion vs unit level
  
• Lower frequency of boiling water drops
  
• Add crusader helmet to random heavy knight helmets
  
• Improve horse cloth normals
  
• Increase ammo of all ranged units during a siege
  
• Force highest lod on player helmet
  
• Fix siege units hugging square castle corners
  
• Fix units disengaging when moving to a new defense position in castle
  
• Fix attacking siege units pushing through defending units
  
• Fix AI navigation on square castle
  
• Fix player orders during sally out battle
  
• Fix charge ladders order not actually charging ladders
  
• Fix blood not working on officers
  
• Fix dehorsed minesterials using old model
  

Changelog

• Fix cavalry stopping right before charge impact
  
• Fix heraldry background grid in heraldry editor
  
• Fix steam workshop faction backgrounds not being named in heraldry editor
  

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
  

Changelog

• Fix floris V voice pitch
  
• Fix poelarm damage bonus to player always being multiplied even when not mounted
  
• Fix crash when hit by arrow
  
• Fix ranged units using wrong fire mode during siege
  
• Fix attacking siege archers not firing