Multiplayer balancing
Retainers
- Tetsu-Bishi Caltrops: spear and missile units' bonus vs cav increased from +3 to +4
- Camp Sickness: missile units' speed debuff increased
- Gokamon Bodyguard: avatar melee defence increased from +5 to +6
- Scroll of Inspirational verse: avatar melee attack increased from +3 to +4
- Supply Wagon: missile units' extra ammo increased from +5 to +8
- Kacchu-Mochi Armour-Bearer: avatar armour increased from +3 to +4
- Mouldy Feed Stocks: enemy cavalry fatigue resistance debuff increased
- Uma-Jirushi Nobori Standard-Bearer: avatar morale buff increased from +2 to +3
- Lightweight Gunjingura War Saddle: cavalry speed buff increased from +5% to +10%
- Zori Tori Sandal-Bearer: avatar fatigue resistance increased
- Yabusami Master: avatar accuracy and reload speed increased from +5/+5 to +7/+7
- Untrained Fugu Cook : Effect now applies to sword infantry only
- Trading Post: cost decrease for all units reduced from -5% to -4%
- Drill Square: sword infantry melee defence bonus reduced from +3 to +2.
- Yagyu Sword Instructor: sword infantry melee attack bonus reduced from +2 to +1.
- World Weary: accuracy debuff reduced from -5 to -3, melee attack debuff reduced from -2 to -1
Multiplayer units
- Loan Sword Ashigaru: cost from 400 to 500
- Bow Warrior Monks: cost from 1000 to 1100
- Matchlock Ashigaru: cost from 400 to 500
- Great Guard: cost from 1200 to 1300
- Daiyku Samurai : cost from 1000 to 1100
- Fire Bomb Throwers: cost from 700 to 600
- Yari Hero: cost from 1550 to 1200
- Bow Hero: cost from 1650 to 1500
- Katana Hero: cost from 1600 to 1500
- Naginata Warrior Monk Hero: cost from 1700 to 1500
- Kisho Ninja: cost from 700 to 600
- Matchlock Samurai: cost from 700 to 650
- Bow Cavalry: cost from 650 to 600
Naval units:
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- Bow Kobaya: cost from 850 to 500
- Fire Bomb Kobaya cost from 1050 to 700
- Medium Bune: cost from 1800 to 1550
Fire arrow ability added
- Siege Tower Bune: cost from 1550 to 3000
- Sengoku Bune: cost from 2000 to 1800
- Cannon Bune: cost from 4000 to 6000
- Heavy Bune: cost from 2400 to 2000
Fire arrow ability added
- iral Heavy Bune Fire arrow ability added
Unit caps introduced:
Land units
- Loan Sword Ashigaru 4
- Bow Warrior Monks 2
- Matchlock Ashigaru 3
- Matchlock Monks 1
- Matchlock Samurai 2
- Naginata Attendants 5
- Sword Attendants 6
- Great Guard 1
- Bow Cavalry 3
Naval units
- Cannon Bune 1
- Fire Bomb Kobaya 4
- Siege Tower Bune 4
- Matchlock Kobaya 6
- Medium Bune 6
- Sengoku Bune 6
- Nihon Maru 1
- O Ataka Bune 4
- Heavy Bune 6
- Bow Kobaya 6
Veteran Skills
- Matchlock Accuracy upgrades reduced
- Sword unit melee attack skill upgrades reduced
- Sword unit charge bonus upgrades reduced
Bug Fix list
Achievements:
- The Mastery of the waves achievement will no longer unlock in rare instances after a land battle
AI:
- Naval AI will now attempt to repair damaged ships
- Path finding improvements for Naval AI when near to land
- Siege Battle AI improvements, in larger games especially, the AI will be much more reactive to player actions
- Several battle AI improvements.
- Multiple Campaign AI improvements, including new AI weighting to prevent attempts at raiding when sieging castles.
- Fixed Wako Pirate fleets occasionally remaining idle after spawning in campaign
Art:
- Updated Avatar skill icons, both in UI and in battle to allow visual identification of avatar type
Improved appearance of campaign on low spec machines
Audio:
- Several voice over audio fixes for in-battle VO
- Voice over and audio fixes for Campaign map A bit too similar
Campaign
- Fixed post battle lockup
- Public order and town wealth growth penalties on High and Extortionate taxation levels were greatly reduced
- Fixed issue with religious agents incorrectly modifying chance of success of bribe actions
- Fixed rebels spawning inside zones of control
- Fixed multi-turn incite revolt orders not being cancelled when a there is a rebellion in target province
- Apprehend action now costs money
- Improved flee behaviour for bribed characters
- Fixed case where a coastal assault battle would involve the castle
- Fixed multi-turn attack orders not being invalidated by successful bribes
- Fixed being able to order more recruitment items from a general than there is room to display them
- Fixed issue where discovered characters may not update the pathfinder correctly
- Fixed issue where bribe system would incorrectly invoke diplomacy UI
- Fixed issue where flee orders would crash in some circumstances
- Fixed issue where leave settlement orders would crash in some circumstances
- Fixed several retainer and trait effects
- Several text tweaks to make the application of specific effects clear (local, global, etc.)
- Siege model have sound now
- Various AI fixes and tweaks
Combat:
- Fixed infrequent issue with projectile damage during the increased range skill for Matchlock Warrior Monks (Matchlock Warrior Monks)
- Fixed a cavalry charge bug that would allow cavalry to maintain a charge bonus despite not charging
Crashes:
- Fixed a number of Multiplayer campaign desyncs
- Fixed Crash when returning to main menu after completing a multiplayer campaign
- Fixed a rare crash on exiting a multiplayer land battle
- Fixed a crash when the attempts to quick load whilst the game is displaying an FMV
- Fixed uncommon crash during intermediate land tutorial
- Fixed soft lock when attempting to view certain battle ranking statistics in the Multiplayer avatar system
- Fixed infrequent AI recruitment crash during the Chosokabe campaign tutorial
- Fixed soft lock during steam invites when on certain screens in the Multiplayer avatar system
- Player is no longer able to accept invites to play a Multiplayer game without creating an avatar, preventing a rare crash
- Fixed a crash that occurred in Multiplayer game when the selects the request alliance button after breaking the alliance on the diplomacy screen
- Fixed soft lock that occurs when deleting a save game generated during a battle
- Fixed D3D graphics crash that occurred very rarely on creation of new avatar
- Fixed a soft lock that occurred when declaring war on the vassal of another player in a Multiplayer campaign
General:
- The possibility of unchecking all battle types and searching in made multiplayer battles has been removed
- Added a limit to veteran names, preventing unreadable names on the battlefield
- Avatar colour scheme now defaults to the army colour scheme when first created
- The escape button will now cancel rather than confirm skill point allocation in the campaign map
- AI will now recognise switching sides cost changes during a custom battle setup screen
- Rank differential penalty will no longer be applied to Campaign drop-in battles
- New 100% bonus modifier for winning a drop in battle
- Ikko Ikki Loan Sword Ashigaru are now fully playable as the Ikko Ikki clan in Campaign and custom battle. They are recruited from the Castle chain
- The Goldfish Scale Sashimono no longer floats above the avatar model in multiplayer battles
- Fixed a rare issue in which banners and mons would not save correctly in a multiplayer battle replay
- Avatar statistics will correctly update after playing a battle list battle in multiplayer
- Several campaign missions have had their bonuses tweaked or reworked
- Cannon Bunes are now able to fire at will correctly in all situations
- The Highlight tooltip occasionally got imposed on the campaign map when quick saving, this is now fixed
- Fixed a rare error that would cause the Leaderboard in multiplayer to not display with the message “Error: Requested Profile could not be found message when selecting Leaderboard”
- Updates to the Multiplayer avatar conquest map
- Multiplayer clan competition UI reworked to allow viewing of multiple tiers
- Multiplayer Naval fund brackets adjusted
- Fixed inability to use the cycle through generals button in campaign if more than 13 generals were available
- Multiplayer unit balancing, see multiplayer announcements for further information
- Fixed several bugs within the retainers in the Multiplayer avatar system
- Scare enemies now correctly functions at all times in Multiplayer battles
- Fixed the possibility of Multiplayer units levelling up mid battle and gaining stats in certain larger games in Multiplayer land/siege battles
- Drop in battles can no longer rarely unlock two regions from the same battle
- Fixed a server issue causing Avatar profile details to not be retrieved correctly
- Post battle xp calculations are correctly taking into several new variables and tweaked values
- Katana of the pure land is no longer being incorrectly displayed as a legendary retainer and will drop slightly more frequently
- Fixed several hyperlink within the Encyclopaedia leading to incorrect pages
- Multiplayer army management UI now scales to display all units correctly without overlapping
- References to gold in the multiplayer system now reference Koku
- Player list in Multiplayer campaign now displays correctly if dragged across to another point on the screen
- Locked units are now viewable in the Multiplayer army management screen
- Fixed an issue when the player would be set as the attacker instead of defender when selected in custom battles
- Fixed a rare issue caused by attempting to add retainers during Multiplayer pre-battle setup
- Home key now selects and zooms to the General in battles
- Fixed a rare occurrence in multiplayer that would cause scroll bars to not appear
- Avatar rank will display correctly in stars during the post battle screen of a multiplayer match made battle
- Fixed an infrequent bug that would cause avatar competition regions to not display correctly
- UI art fix for ink blot style graphical errors appearing on unit cards in the Multiplayer army management screen
- Fixed an issue that would cause Avatar xp to display incorrectly when coming out of a match made battle
- Matchlock troops veteran skills rebalanced in Multiplayer
- Multiplayer unit caps implemented, see Multiplayer announcement for details
- UI fix to address the rare bug that would limit the amount of veterans that could be displayed
- AI players in Multiplayer and custom battles will no longer display the players steam picture and rank
- Post battle Avatar xp bar will now fill correctly if the avatar gains enough xp to gain a rank
- Rank 0 Avatars will now have the correct 0 star in pre-battle chat lobbies in Multiplayer
- Weighting for mission generation will now always correctly fire a relevant mission in Campaign
- Minor text/grammar fixes
