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Changelog

• Slightly lower artillery ladder destruction range
  
• Slightly optimize ladder logic
  
• Fix storm ram personnel body material
  
• Fix siege tower unit pathfinding failing in some edge cases
  
• Fix storm ram personnel ramming animation
  
• Fix storm ram personnel not disappearing after ram sequence
  
• Fix units snapping to ladder from castle wall
  
• Fix siege tower description
  
• Fix storm ram path if the gate is placed on the bottom-most tile
  

Hello everyone,

It is already time for the third major Castle Creator update and this one is a big milestone:
Full Campaign integration and Steam Workshop support are here! You can now share,
download and use custom castles directly in your game.

Sharing custom castles works the same way as units, but to use them in a campaign you must first enable them for the custom faction you are playing



This update also introduces siege towers. These can be enabled on walls in the Castle
Creator and will be built during quick battles or in your campaign. Siege battles as a whole
run smoother thanks to a round of optimizations aimed at the siege camp and custom castles.

There is plenty more packed in as well:

• New wall material variations
  
• A brand new octagon tower type
  
• New props including doors, windows, chimneys, cranes and torches that react to time of day
  
• Expanded detail structures for keeps and towers
  
• Fresh siege camp graphics and new siege engine variations
  
• Landscape tools to round off and trim castle terrain
  

There is still more work planned for the Castle Creator, but from here development will also
shift back toward other parts of the game. Stay tuned for the next updates!

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/cTgXXfTmhc
Full Changelog

• Add campaign logic to custom castles
  
• Add Steam Workshop support for custom castles
  
• Add system to construct custom castle on campaign map in miniature
  
• Add siege towers: can be enabled on straight wall pieces that support it, replaces ladders
  
• Add campaign integration of siege towers
  
• Add round off landscape function >> will create a rounded landscape silhouette
  
• Add trim landscape function to castle creator
  
• Add faction trait for siege towers
  
• Add more wall material variations
  
• Add new settings and fix castle info dialog
  
• Add new octagon tower type
  
• Add loose arrow slits as props
  
• Add random siege ram variations
  
• Add new keep detail structures
  
• Add new tower detail structures
  
• Add gate for palisade wall set
  
• Add health bonus to very large units and officers
  
• Add dynamic torches that turn off depending on time of day to castle creator
  
• Add door/window props
  
• Add extra chimney model
  
• Add crane props
  
• Add new style siege camp graphics to campaign map
  
• Add hay flower type to scatter in the courtyard in the castle creator
  
• Improve settlement upgrade menu
  
• Improve siege engine operation animations
  
• Buff crusader falchion damage
  
• Change default castle wall material
  
• Optimize fire and smoke FX
  
• Optimize siege camp assets and FX
  
• Replace archer defense prop sets with the new archer defenses
  
• Remove flag wear from attacker flags with siege destruction level
  
• Fix location of siege camp sounds
  
• Fix defender spawn height with heightmap in castle courtyard
  
• Fix head icons on empty equipment slots
  
• Fix player spawning on horse in some cases when in castle
  
• Fix units not updating on the Steam Workshop
  
• Fix issue with night battles
  
• Fix player death camera during siege battles
  
• Fix castle creator churches collision
  
• CRITICAL: Fix navigation on castles with floating walkways
  

Hello everyone!

Another siege / castle creator update. It adds wooden walls, a palisade wall set and transition sets from stone to wood. It also adds 3 new gate types and support for different sized gates. I even took some time during my saturday night to add dragons to siege battles when you have them in your army. (Free Dark fantasy pack needs to be added to your account)

Next to that it includes a wide variety of fixes and improvements you can read more about below.

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/cTgXXfTmhc

Changelog

• Add support for siege creatures
  
• Add siege dragon to dark fantasy pack
  
• Add support for different gate sizes
  
• Add palisade wall set
  
• Add ladder destruction
  
• Add wooden gate
  
• Add wooden stairs without railings to details
  
• Add wooden wall set with walkway
  
• Add transition sets from stone to wood walls
  
• Add lower variations of round tower roofs
  
• Add really long bartizan staircase props
  
• Add hybrid wooden gate
  
• Add square tower gate
  
• Clear foliage when height painting in castle creator
  
• Increase height of the machicolations on the tower roofs
  
• Tweak siege camp spawner behavior
  
• Disable tower height selector when it is not supported by tower type
  
• Fix pathfinding near stairs
  
• Fix buggy prebattle delegation logic
  
• Fix portcullis mechanics when sallying out and in formation flee behavior
  
• Fix formations trying to flee through portcullis
  
• Fix archer defenses spawning in water
  
• Fix some floating mesh issues in siege camp
  
• Fix gameplay placement on wooden walkway set
  
• Fix issue with gate opening during ramming
  
• Fix potential ID mismatch crash related to faction editor
  

Changelog

• Add new siege camp style
  
• Add higher bartizan models
  
• Add Custom Castle landscape base adjusting to landscape height
  
• Spawn attacking army on side of storm ram path
  
• Improve look of attacking siege equipment
  
• Improve custom castle landscape base tiling
  
• Fix castle landscape base rendering
  
• Fix tower pieces not appearing in castle creator details
  
• Fix artillery projectile impacts
  
• Fix wooden stairs spawning stone connectors
  

Changelog

• Improve trebuchet fire particle
  
• Fix gate collision
  
• Fix attacking with dragon mount ( Dark fantasy variety pack)
  
• Fix tournament combat