Mount & Blade: Warband

Mount & Blade: Warband

The Last Days of the Third Age
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Update: Sep 1 @ 1:01am

1 September 2024 Update

Equivalent to Nightly Patch Version r4074

Scenes
  • 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

Gameplay
  • 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

Fixes
  • 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

Update: Jun 30 @ 7:21am

30 June 2024 Update

Equivalent to Nightly Patch Version r4042

Scenes
  • 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

Gameplay
  • 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

Fixes
  • 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

Update: Mar 2 @ 1:20pm

2 March 2024 Bugfix Update

Equivalent to Nightly Patch Version r3979

Fixes
  • 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

Update: Feb 24 @ 2:46pm

24 February 2024 Update

Equivalent to Nightly Patch Version r3973


Gameplay & Fixes
  • 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

Scenes
  • 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

FormAI
  • 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

Update: Dec 7, 2023 @ 5:45am

7 December, 2023 Update

Equivalent to Nightly Patch Version r3928


Gameplay
  • 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

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

Fixes
  • 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

Update: Aug 12, 2023 @ 8:27am

12 August, 2023 Update

Equivalent to Nightly Patch Version r3866

  • Fix an issue with retreat gates not closing properly
  • Adjust reinforcement calculations in siege mission template
  • Improve Minas Tirith siege, fix badly placed retreat gate
  • Fix for random quest failures after a center is razed
  • Fix burial mound/pyre slot assignment
  • Fix Isengard center scene

Update: Aug 6, 2023 @ 5:07am

6 August, 2023 Update

Equivalent to Nightly Patch Version r3862


Gameplay
  • Add camel riders as reward troops
  • Add possibility to capture elfs and orcs if "capture prisoners" quest is active
  • Scale captured enemies with prisoner management
  • Add prisoners escaping mechanic

Assets & Visuals
  • Complete new asset set for Arnor
  • Add back the old shoulder shields to Khand armours
  • Add a lighter version of black snake armour
  • New and improved Dunland armours + Dunland sword
  • Fix mail scale on Gondor and Khand helmets; adjust mail brightness on Gondor armours
  • Improve Gondor Warhorse texture and add new variant

Fixes
  • Optimize Minas Tirith siege and battle scenes by removing hidden props
  • Remove captured lords from main party if their faction has been defeated, also fixes a possible problem with capture prisoners quest
  • Automatically cancel related center quests when a center is razed or taken
  • Fix a case rare case where regular troops could scare mounts
  • Fix AI and pathfiding issues in Moria, Dol Amroth, Dol Guldur, Umbar Camp sieges

Update: Jul 3, 2023 @ 9:17am

3 July, 2023 Update

Equivalent to Nightly Patch Version r3824

Gameplay
  • Make the Sword of Eorl two-handed.

Assets & Visuals
  • Add the Harad sword scabbards, by @Giles.
  • Improve Saruman's robe texture.

Fixes
  • Fix the black screens on macOS and Linux, where after playing for a while textures would corrupt and the player would be unable to load or save their progress, forcing a game restart.
    • This was caused by the game ending up having too many opened files because it forgets to close the streamed sounds after reading them, reaching the OS limit.
    • Most of this investigation, reporting and testing has been contributed by @null-painter-error on Discord. Many thanks!

Other
  • Update the translations with the latest content from Transifex.
    • Including tr, de, it, pl, cz, ko, th, uk and ru.

Update: Apr 15, 2023 @ 6:27am

15 April, 2023 Update

Equivalent to Nightly Patch Version r3816


Fixes
  • Fix the new camel mount appearing as a Mearh horse. Yes, really.

Update: Apr 13, 2023 @ 12:04pm

13 April, 2023 Update

Equivalent to Nightly Patch Version r3815


Gameplay
  • Enable wages for reserve parties
  • Adjust horse scare code to work with camel and other troops/items
  • Reduced the daily progress towards friendship rewards

Assets & Visuals
  • Harad camel mount by Giles
  • New armours for Harad
  • New armours for Khand

Fixes
  • Fix quest failure if related troops die, cancel instead
  • Improve battle size reset after sieges
  • Fix Galadriel appearance in Caras Galadhon siege
  • Fix raid village quest dialog
  • Fix two unhandled cases for scout camp placement