Voor De Kroon News

Hello everyone,

First of all: Herzlich willkommen, meine neuen deutschen Freunde!

This is not necessarily a larger update than the previous ones, but it marks another monthly milestone for the project combined with all previous weekly updates.

This update introduces parrying for all weapons without a shield, dodging for primary weapons and a significantly upgraded Falcon Mode.

Falcon Mode has been expanded so you now actually fly as a falcon, allowing you to survey the battlefield from above in style. The original camera mode is still available and has been renamed to Photo Mode. While in Falcon Mode, press Spacebar or A on a controller to switch to Photo Mode. This hides all UI elements for easy screenshots and video capture.

This update also adds new early 14th century visored great helmets to the customization options. With these helmets comes a new gameplay mechanic: you can now open and close your visor during battle. By default this is bound to H on keyboard or D-pad Down on controller.

Additionally, this patch fixes a critical bug that caused units to fall off ladders and clip through the floor, along with a large number of combat related fixes and improvements.

Thank you all for the continued support!

If you have suggestions, bugs or just general ideas for the next update, feel free to join the discord or drop by in the discussions. Always happy to hear your input.

https://discord.com/invite/MQXFbqpWpW

Full Changelog

• CRITICAL: Fix issue causing units to fall off ladders
  
• Add dodging for primary weapons
  
• Add parry for all secondary weapons without shield
  
• Add secondary mode to falcon mode: press dodge or default Spacebar or A to switch between first person free cam (photomode) and third person falcon flight
  
• Add helmet visor button: by default bound to H or d-pad down on controller
  
• Add visored great helm 01 with painted variant (Customization / early 14th)
  
• Add visored great helm 02 with painted variant (Customization / early 14th)
  
• Add missing controller binding for free camera as d-pad left
  
• Add scrollbars to faction editor sidepanel
  
• Add the new finishers to two handed sword set
  
• Add color swatch box for horse color
  
• Add support for animated shoulder slot items
  
• Add support for full body outfits in body slot
  
• Add danger indicator to formation icons of enemy charging formations
  
• Decrease ranged accuracy of siege defenders
  
• Increase automatic combat stance distance
  
• Reorder faction editor panels
  
• Polish and improve falcon mode
  
• Fix unarmed fleeing unit animation
  
• Fix issue introduced in the last patch causing horse footprints to not work for the player
  
• Fix neck pose in player spear on foot animation set with great helmets
  
• Fix keybindings not being dynamic at left side of battle interface
  
• Fix instant parry block interrupts
  
• Fix action buffer while parry blocking
  
• Fix siege engine icon ring color
  
• Fix stance taunt without shield
  
• Fix issues with command range marker when using controller
  
• Fix battle end player rotation issue
  
• Fix further dodge input issues when using controller
  

Changelog

• Add automatic combat stance activation based on enemy proximity and direction
  
• Add slower animation set for big banner on foot
  
• Add hold interactions for critical actions like dropping weapons
  
• Add more background logic to player combat flow
  
• Add flow logic to hard slowmotion hits while mounted
  
• Add the ability to equip a shield with a couched lance
  
• Add parry text instead of blocking to player action log when parrying
  
• Add chance ranged units flee from fire arrow impacts
  
• Add extra health bonus for wearing full helmet
  
• Stabilize cavalry rider animations
  
• Tweak footstep sounds
  
• Polish rush mechanic
  
• Polish and smooth various combat animations and transitions
  
• Stabilize mounted idle animation
  
• Lower dodge speed
  
• Fix AI spear bracing movement freezing
  
• Fix lance couch transition animation when toggling while riding
  
• Fix softlock max targeting
  
• Fix incorrect loadout transfer logic related to shields when mounting horse
  
• Fix mounted static banners on custom units
  
• Fix unit editor preview not equipping shields when possible
  
• Fix finger placement when holding lance
  
• Fix unit animation glitching when getting executed sometimes
  
• Fix map icon showing in UI during tournaments
  
• Fix missing footstep sounds in some combat locomotion animations
  
• Dark Fantasy Variety Pack: Fix mannequin ladder units spawning when lowest tier units are zombies or ghosts
  
• Dark Fantasy Variety Pack: Fix broken equipment slots showing when on dragon
  
• Dark Fantasy Variety Pack: Fix player getting knocked off dragon
  

Hello everyone!

Time for another weekly update.

This update includes upgraded mace impact sounds, improved battle soundscape and FX, full parry support for all primary weapons and more polish and fixes further enhancing the combat experience.

Field battle army camps have also been added. This feature is off by default and can be turned on in the Performance settings if you want to try it out.

Thank you for all the support so far!

If you have suggestions, bugs or just general ideas for the next update, feel free to join the discord or drop by in the discussions. Always happy to hear your input.

https://discord.com/invite/MQXFbqpWpW

Full Changelog

• Add parry for all primary weapons
  
• Add camps to field battles
  
• Add performance option for field battle camps
  
• Add formation noise to start battle cutscene
  
• Add new mace hit sound
  
• Add new sound for unarmed punch impacts
  
• Add ground finisher animation for unarmed
  
• Add some more context to when some weapon actions are not available
  
• Move spear bracing to stab button
  
• Double stamina cost of parry blocking
  
• Tweak general soundscape dynamics of battle
  
• Lock player in combat state when enemy is near and you carry a primary weapon
  
• Improve various finisher FX
  
• Improve player spear animation locomotion
  
• Improve stamina bar
  
• Improve mounted rush mechanic
  
• Improve unit outline fades
  
• Optimize unit outline logic
  
• Buff infantry use of shields against arrows
  
• Fix minimum sprint mounted stamina threshold
  
• Fix some logic related to ground finishers
  
• Fix being able to dagger execute single combat opponents
  
• Fix crash related to siege formation AI
  
• Fix block player action appearing even when already blocking
  

Hello everyone,

Saint Nicholas has arrived in the country again and we are celebrating his visit with a festive discount. Voor de Kroon is now 30 percent off until December 6th, the day he leaves again.

If you have been waiting to join the battle or want to gift a friend (No hair-gel in the surprise please) this is the perfect moment.



Thank you for your support as always!

Enjoy the holiday season.

Changelog

• Add finisher moves to one handed spear for player use
  
• Various small battle optimizations
  
• Fix crash related to arrows
  
• Fix crash related to new volley logic
  
• Fix cavalry not using stab frequently enough
  
• Fix melee indicator during stance combat
  
• Fix shields flipping color when dropped
  
• Fix ordering attack against archers if there's only ranged units on the field