27 April 2025 Hotfix
Fix difficulty values for old savegames

• Tweak difficulty values (default is slightly harder; hard is slightly easier), add "brutal" difficulty
  
• Overhaul "hunt down fugitive" quest for better lore integration, findability, challenge

• Fix loot prop slots and rank conditions
  
• Fix night bandits quest (remove newly added agent spawners and scripted props for night bandit mission)
  
• Change arena music situation to fight, so no more native music when in the arena
  
• fix qst_eliminate_patrols, which could be redeemed by other lords than the quest giver
  
• Fix spr_barrier_player_8m so that collision moves when scene guardians let you pass
  
• Adjust shadow and portal materials so they work with WSE2

• Tweak runaway slaves quest to make it slightly easier: Chance of slaves obeying scales with charisma, option to kill group leader to coerce them into going back
  
• Partly rewrite sorcerer third stage for better clarity, better AI, and better chance to catch sorcerer if he flees

• Add a prop-based system for placing lootable items in scenes, place lootable items in a bunch of town scenes
  
• Add discoverable mini-cutscenes in many scenes
  
• Touch up and improve a few secret places
  
• Lots of other scene improvements

• Fix ladder collision
  
• Fix recurring "Do you want to retreat" box in sieges if player is the last one standing
  
• Fix flickering textures on a few scene props (mainly Minas Tirith wall fountain
  
• Fix a bug that allowed to recruit townsmen from rumors
  
• Fix and improve Misty Mountains thunderstorm; fix native weather system, which was disabled before
  
• Fix fellbeast spawn condition

• Implement final fellbeast model and animation, re-activate Nazgul attacks; great thanks to Giles and Swyter!
  
• Theoden starts passive in new games, Eomer starts as Marshall (WIP future minor lore event)
  
• Disable Orthalion and Angbor for new games; they will be re-added in a different way
  
• Replace Gamling with Theodred in new games
  
• Adjust remaining attackers/defenders despawn in sieges
  
• Add a chance to recruit single troops when asking for rumors
  
• Make Mordor captain helm purchasable again (new games only)

• Fix a bug where a dead player agent could still block an enemy spawn point in sieges
  
• Hopefully fix an exploit where slaughtering prisoners would not remove them from the party, thanks to Madsci for improved code!
  
• Fix Helm's Deep quest conditions so it doesn't trigger again if failed

• New Edoras center and siege scenes
  
• Implement "ask town walker to lead you to a location" mechanic. Thanks to Madsci!
  
• Improve custom lighting in a number of scenes

• Add optional war start mode by day instead of player level, can only be chosen at game start
  
• Add option to disable tutorial pop-ups in game start menu
  
• Make player speed buff in towns adjustable in mod options (also increasing visibility of the feature)
  
• Rank and influence cheats now increment in 20% steps for easier adjusting. Also, both now work independently.
  
• Tweak chance for spawning advance camp, so it is lower initially but increases over time; increase cooldown after destruction and increase fac str threshold and cost
  
• Tweak kill/wounded and prisoner management formulas, edit skill description

• Improved team assignment, so players always have a small contingent of troops following them
  
• Add possibility to capture and disable defender spawn points
  
• Fix player team assignment in sieges, so now the flag markers correctly show the agents that the player can command
  
• fix siege archer script, so player team archers are not reassigned to infantry if out of ammo
  
• Tweak siege spawn numbers

• Maybe fix a rare chance that newly spawned parties have the "looted your items" tag
  
• Fix talk context after speaking to secret guardian, so no more "Surrender or die" from town guards
  
• Experimental fix that hopefully helps avoid parties continuing to siege destroyed centers; reduce minimal party size for sieges
  
• Added a faction strength and siegeability check for sieges in individual lord AI script, which was missing before. Maybe helps avoid rogue sieges and Henneth Annun sieges.
  
• Restructure game start menu, so players only get gear notifications for the latest selected starting troop
  
• Tweak enemy encounter menu to correctly show friendly numbers if allied parties have joined the player. Also make autocalc correctly count friendly parties. Give player a boost in autocalc by letting them attack the first round.
  
• Fix the region names on the overland map
  
• Improve town walkers spawned by props, so they can interact the same way as regular walkers
  
• Fix a bug in the Night Bandit quest that would disable spawning if center entered from the castle

• New Cair Andros scenes (siege and town visit)
  
• New Ithilien crossroads landmark; fix displaced props in Osgiliath siege battles; town walkers adjustments
  
• New scene props, implement a few of Mark7's animated scene props
  
• Overhauled West Osgiliath scenes (town and siege), based on old scene pack version
  
• New Harad camp scenes, based on Khand camp
  
• Improve a bunch of town center scenes (not sieges) for better ambiance and visuals

• Rebalance throwing weapons' accuracy and troops' throwing proficiencies
  
• Rebalance troop level on t6 troops
  
• Reassign bargainer and wildcraft to INT, trainer to CHA; add a cheat to respec companions if necessary (credit: RamonNZ)
  
• Disable Nazgul attacks for now, until replacement is finished

• Fixed an error in tactics skill description which caused crashes in the Polish translation
  
• Fix missing dialog state for healers (resulted in not being able to leave healer dialog); fix speaking to healer from town menu
  
• Fix conditions for Helms Deep quest, because there was the rare chance the quest would trigger after Isengard is destroyed

• Greatly improve ambient sound system for town scenes, with many directional sounds for better immersion
  
• New scene props, implement a few of Mark7's animated scene props
  
• Improved town walkers: carrying goods, speed variation
  
• Implement a number of discoverable secrets in town scenes
  
• Add a new menu entry for unlocking town NPCs, at a slight influence cost
  
• Make healers unlockable to town menu, if discovered
  
• Make important town NPCs subtly wave at player
  
• New/overhauled town scenes for Minas Morgul and Dol Amroth
  
• Minor scene improvements: Dale, Umbar Camp, Rhun Camp, Rivendell Camp, Edhellond, Gundabad, Dol Guldur, Edoras, Emyn Muil, and others

• Make companions' leadership affect party size; rallies give some xp
  
• Tactics skill now influences battle join distance of friendly and enemy parties
  
• Add a few explanatory notes to TLD options menu; clean up options, move some to cheats menu

• Fix surgery formula; implement orc malus
  
• Disable wages for troops from defeated factions
  
• Tweak commoness and price of some item modifiers
  
• Fix a bug that could prevent Gandalf from appearing
  
• Fix a potential bug where Ent party does not despawn if Isengard is defeated due to faction strength

• Fix Cair Andros siege collision/barriers
  
• Fix collision and material settings for Grey Mountains Hold tower
  
• Allow beserker trait in sea battle mission; fade out agents that fall overboard; add a distance check to enemy spawns, so they don't spawn right to the player
  
• Adjust lord escape chance for "capture lord" quest for better scaling with prisoner management skill
  
• Add Radagast, taking Gandalf's part in northern theaters
  
• Make sure Gandalf always leaves after "don't make me late" talk

• Fix to agents despawning in sieges due to WSE2
  
• Limit defender reinforcements if player is attacker, so sieges don't drag on; also disable attacker fadeout for player agent
  
• Fix to capturing tribal orcs
  
• Make troll pushback rarer
  
• Add Radagast, taking Gandalf's part in northern theaters

• New Dunland Camp scene and siege
  
• Add animated town workers, training soldiers and other ambience improvements in a number of scenes
  
• Scene gameplay improvements: Khand siege, Goblin Town siege, Moria dungeon scenes
  
• Add civilian walkers to Mirkwood, Lorien, Vale centers

• Fix a few instances of suicidal charging in TLDFormAI, improve behavior for "no formation" factions; other possible bug fixes
  
• Fix order menu for NewFormAI, prevent conflicts with battle menu
  
• Add support for horse archers in NewFormAI, also improve regular cavalry AI
  
• Fix two causes for senseless charges in NewFormAI

• Completely overhaul Isengard Last Stand quest
  
• Rebalance some Rohan troops and items
  
• Increase number of sold goods for factions that have only one center
  
• Disable resource point cap, increase faction gift amounts
  
• Add prisoners escaping mechanic
  
• Enable enhanced combat AI for heroes in sieges
  
• Rebalance Isengard reinforcement templates
  
• Assign surgery to all lords for more realistic k/w ratio in autocalc
  
• Overwrite hardcoded surgery effect in battles, adding a base wound chance based on troop level

• New Mordor swords by Giles
  
• Improved Hornburg siege scene
  
• NewIsengard siege scene
  
• Lighter version of black snake armour

• Improve skinning, geometry, texture for Harad Black Snake and Harad Heavy armour, for less clipping and deforming
  
• Fix Khand armour leg skinning
  
• Fix spawn entry in one Ithilien battle scene
  
• Make male head LODs slightly slimmer to reduce flickering with some helmets
  
• Make sure Dunedain ranger armours appear in store
  
• Fix a bug that caused AI parties to capture wrong prisoners when capture quest was active
  
• Avoid capturing bandit orcs while capture quest is active
  
• Cancel horse archer AI if battle is over, in order to avoid awkward freezed animation stances
  
• Improve scout camp position check
  
• Fix Crebain Riders having no side weapon
  
• Make Merry and Pippin show up at a slightly more lore friendly time