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EPE Patch Notes - Lance
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1.9.X - Lance Full Patch Notes

Tours & Tournaments Optimization Project:

- EPE script re-written for better optimization and quality of life
- Many EPE models were remodeled or optimized for better performance and visuals

Cut Content and Optimization:

The content that is current absent/cut from EPE awaiting optimization and may return at a later date is the following:

- Western European Helmets
- Cuman Headwear and Clothes
- Late Medieval Great Helms
- Gjermundbu Viking Helmet
- Karling Frankish Headgear
- Merovingian Frankish Headgear
- Italian Pattern Clothes
- Italian Republic Clothes
- Siculo-Norman War Headgear
- French Pattern Clothes
- Sahelian Clothing and Patterns
- South Indian Patterns
- HRE Imperial Crowns
- East African Clothing Patterns
- Byzantine Imperial Armor
- Spymaster Outfit
- Khazar War Helmet
- Misc Crowns and Easter Egg Content

Added Content 1.9.X: Optimization and Redesigns

- Numerous assets remodeled and optimized for smaller poly counts and better textures
- Chinese Assets completed redone and expanded
- Crown of Charlemagne redesigned

Added Content 1.9.2.1: Cosmetics and Barbershop Edits

- Cosmetics re-added to EPE
- Barbershop modified to allow for more categories to fit on screen. (Better Barbershop Users - load Better Barbershop AFTER EPE; meaning below it in launcher)

Bug Fixes:

- Added era transition modifiers to Crusader Armor and Headgear so that it spawns in the appropriate eras (After roughly 1150 AD in-game)
- Fixed Northern Lords Legwear so that the model does not possess graphical errors
- East Slavs now wear royalty headgear at imperial tier instead of the vanilla Byzantine imperial headwear

Ethnicity Templates:

- Assorted edits to many templates to better fit with mesh and animation edits in 1.9
- Added more French templates
- Added more German templates
- Added more Kashmiri templates

DNA Edits:

- Modified newly added permenant DNAs to fall within EPE values

1.8.2 EPE Elegance of the Empire Updated

MAIN:

-Compatibility with Elegance of the Empire.
-New DLC items should spawn on dde_hre and german_clothing groups.

CHANGES:
-Beauty Trait makeup now overlays onto the original complexion instead of completely replacing it.

1.8.1 Misc Patch Notes for Expanded Series

EPE PATCH NOTES

MISC CHANGE:
-Inbred will now slightly alter facial morphs. More inbreeding = more warping.

DNA ADDITIONS:
-867: Romanos Lekapenos and Niketas Ooryhas now have unique appearances.
-1066: Heinrich III Salian (Dead) and his wife Empress Agnes now have a unique appearance.
-1066: Boniface di Canossa (Dead), and Matilda di Canossa’s mother Beatrix and grandparents now have a unique appearance.

MISC ADDITIONS/CHANGES:
-Various tweaks to size and rigging of some items.

Ethnicity Changes:
-Added new Nordic templates.
-Added Mordvin templates
-Added new Armenian templates
-Added new Georgian templates
-Added new Eastern Slavic templates

CULTURE EXPANDED PATCH NOTES:

Sicilian Update 1.11
-added a new decision: Sicilian Flavor - Promulgate the Assizes of Ariano
-added a new decision: Sicilian Flavor - Establish a new Currency System (Ducat)
-added a new decision Sicilian Flavor - Muslim Resettlement

MISC FIXES:
-Compatibility with RICE latest update.

1.8.1 Update

Version Updated to 1.8.1

Misc Bug Fixes

-Localization Edits
-Persian General Crowns should now spawn in the barbershop.

1.8.0 “Robe” Hotfix Patch Notes for Expanded Series

MISC CHANGE:
-Salt and Pepper is re-enabled.

GENE ADDITIONS:
-New Eye Shape gene (more added in the future).


BUG FIXES:
-Complexions will now spawn and be visible in the Ruler Designer and Portrait Editor. This is a vanilla bug fixed by Buckzor over at the EK2 team. Thank you for the help!
-Missing localization in barbershop for some items fixed.
-Minor DNA errors fixed in the log.

1.8.0 “Robe” Patch Notes for Expanded Series

MISC CHANGE:
-Salt and Pepper Disabled until all relevant files are confirmed and updated.

GENE ADDITIONS:
-Lower Eyelid Size gene added to the game.

DNA ADDITIONS:
-867: Michael III ‘the Drunkard’ and Leo VI now have unique appearances.
-867: Adelchis of Benevento now has a unique appearance.
-867: Aziz Dulafid and Hasan ‘the Missionary’ Hashimid now have unique appearances.
-867:Qocho Ruler and his spouse now have unique appearances.

MODEL ADDITIONS:
-Male and Female Generic Persian Crowns added.
-Two new Female Noble and Royal Cloaks added to the game with brooch variants.
-New Woman’s Italian Royalty Tier Crown + veil version added.

MISC ADDITIONS/CHANGES:
-Iranian color palettes improved for Non-Islamic and Islamic variants.
-Iranian Conical Helmet has had an added aventail variant.
-Polish Crown of Boleslaw should only spawn on Chrisian rulers.
-Iranian Bulb hats have had material changed to a new white leather/fabric material added with Fate of Iberia.
-Skin color palette has smoothed out transitions.
-Ghaznavid Clothing group (unused and old) has been removed from the game.
-Irish color palettes have been redone for cloaks.
-Gaelic Royalty Tier Clothing and Cloaks color palettes added to the game.
-Italian Royalty and Imperial Tier Crowns changed from the Generic Western set to selected Early Italian crowns + veils for the High Medieval Era (temp until high medieval Italian crowns are made.
-Arabian Kohl for men has been added to Bedouin and Abbasid clothing groups.

DEBUG MENU ADDITIONS:
-Return of the “Copy” button for child generation DNA in the Portrait Editor.

BUG FIXES:
-Incorrect cultural hair spawning on randomized ruler designer templates fixed.
-Vanilla Abbasid DLC female outfit has had its blendshapes tweaks to reduce clipping introduced with Royal Court
-Weighting smoothed out on Iranian mail coif+helmet combinations.
-Minor Clipping issues with Iranian headwear fixed
-Reduced clipping on Byzantine Imperial Stemmas
-Pattern direction and minor fixes to Arabian headwear.
-Reduced clipping for Byzantine hats.
-Slightly Reduced unneeded geometry on Iron Crown of Lombardy
-Fixed issue where new Iberian templates were never set to spawn.
-Reduced clipping with Crown of Zvonimir

Ethnicity Changes:
-Added Sicilian templates.
-Added Occitan templates
-Added more Persian templates.
-Added more English templates
-Added more Lombard templates
-Added more Italian templates
-Added more Iberian templates
-Added more Georgian templates


CULTURE EXPANDED PATCH NOTES:

Pannonian Update 1.1

-added a new formable kingdom title of balaton
-added two new cultures; formable pannonian and pannonian romance
-added a handful of flavour events for the area
-fixed some illyrian bugs

SUCCESSION EXPANDED PATCH NOTES:

-Occitan Culture is now exempt from Salic Law

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