Equivalent to Nightly Patch version r3435

• Fix a script error in HP shield code.

• Add damage bonus for javelins against trolls
  
• Slightly rebalance throwing weapons
  
• Overhaul shield stats (more comparable, generally more armour and less hp)
  
• Overhaul Companion stats loosely based on regular player stat progression, rebalance rank and influence requirements
  
• Add more orc weapons, credit to Khazad mod
  
• Allow orcs to ride giant warg
  
• Reward item changes
  
• Add more berserker armours
  
• Implement bow + shield mechanic, allow certain bows to be used with small shields, with an accuracy debuff
  
• Give double quivers to some archers

• Use native earth texture for deserts (adjusted normal map)
  
• Maybe fix Khamul helmet transparency issue on some systems
  
• Vertex animations for throwing weapons thanks to HelloMiffy
  
• New snow (=swamp) texture, new village texture based on native stonefloor

• Give a few free wp points after battles, based on agility and battle size
  
• Add stagger chance for lords
  
• Add a low HP shield to berserker troops and two companions
  
• Fix a number of scene prop collision meshes
  
• Add relation discount for reward items; remove rank discount;
  
• Tweak merchant gold and volunteers formula; increase trade skill scaling;
  
• Recruiting volunteers now decreases center garrison,
  
• Decrease orc volunteers bonus, implement elf volunteers malus
  
• Add merchants and smiths to centers that were previously missing them
  
• Disable advance camp mayors, add mayors to regular centers that where missing one.
  
• Fix faction intro script to account for changed string IDs
  
• Fix Zigurphel werewolf limit; disable storing werewolves in player reserves
  
• Fix a bug related to faction last stand that would cause Gandalf to bring "ally down" messages when enemies are defeated, or the victory screen to show too early, when last enemy faction is still active, but in last stand mode.
  
• Disable first person mode in Gandalf cutscenes
  
  
• Pull latest translation updates

• Fixed missing translations.

• Slightly adjust troop level for high-tier orcs and trained trolls
  
• Improved Rhun armor textures
  
• Implement Rhun helm variants + some armour variants; Redistribute Rhun items.
  
• Slightly improve heavy Rhun armours;
  
• Add two armour piercing Rhun weapons;
  
• Apply shield skill for dwarf troops

• Improve outer terrain meshes for Helm's Deep and Dimrill Dale scenes
  
• New compass by Merlkir
  
• Material shader fixes for Linux

• Apply "brighter nights" feature to some custom fog scenes
  
• Add woodmen starting option
  
• Skinchanger feature by Arsakes
  
• Debug and simplify the siege AI
  
• Fix a bug with player's reserves from advance camps not moving when the advance camp moves. Merge advance camp reserves with capital reserves if faction retreats to home theater.
  
• Reward item changes
  
• Fix faction strength bug with failed quests
  
• New orc brew consume by Noxbru
  
  
• Pull latest translation updates

• Fix a bug that would cause faction strength swaps for certain quests.
  
• Fix attempt to New Formations to prevent troops from moving backwards when ordered to hold somewhere.
  
• Change the way we check for food for the hungry orc/uruk trigger
  
• Fixes to consume_food and are_there_any_orcs script, thanks to Noxbru!
  
• Fix missing Dale armour mesh
  
• Update translations

• Base conditions for giving lord commands on rank+relation; remove trait conditions for some factions, adjust trait descriptions
  
• Enable "commence siege assault" command for marshalls
  
• Scale influence cost for lord commands with relation
  
• Maybe prevent troublesome bandits from being attacked by allies;
  
• Add missing Dale armours to stores.
  
• Fix a bug with raise troops quests (2nd option) causing relationship decrease, add new dialog if player fails to train all troops; allow to train less troops than required, scale rewards;
  
• Maybe fix a division by zero error with lord AI
  
• New models for Dale horses, based on Brytenwalda Rus horse
  
• Tweak rewards and other values for a range of quests, add level scaling, add faction strength consequences
  
• Fix falling from horse damage (by Noxbru)
  
• Fix two bugs in the linux installer (by Noxbru)
  
• Limit number of attacker waves in sieges
  
• Make sieging lords slightly more reactive
  
• Increase food consumption for trolls and warg riders, slightly reduce for orcs
  
• Slightly lower reward item price with faction rank
  
• Change Mirkwood axe reward for spear
  
• Fix Henneth Annun exemption for most quests
  
• Adjust lord death chance, scale by player level
  
• Adjust party templates for Dale (more cavalry), Lorien (more infantry), Dwarves (fewer archers)
  
• Increase faction AI siege aggressiveness;
  
• Reduce casualties in autocalc sieges; make attackers less likely to cancel autocalc siege attacks; adjust garrison sizes
  
• CWE flying birds (by Ruthven)
  
• Update translations

• Base advance camp respawn chance on faction strength
  
• New formula for merchant money and imod quality of merchandise, taking into account rank, center relation, and trade skill;
  
• Reduce base amount of loot
  
• Adjust metal scraps value and abundance
  
• Adjust rank gain formula (defeated party type and size weigh in more); also introduced some side asymmetry (good side profit more from fighting with allies, evil side are punished less for losing troops)
  
• Improve pre-war balance by reducing amount of scouts spawned by major factions; re-enable pre-war warg scouts (look out!); rebalanced most scout parties
  
• Adjust number of volunteers and volunteer training (more weight on leadership instead of rank); chance for high-level volunteers to be removed from recruit pool
  
• Higher hiring cost for high-level troops
  
• Reduce compensation you get for reinforcing parties to avoid exploit; adjust party reinforcement limits by party type and faction;

• Fix "defend refugees" quest winning conditions (you can now finish the quest if you've lost one or two refugee parties); also fix theater assignment for correct raider parties
  
• Add/Improve level scaling for "defend refugees" and "dispatch scout party" quests;
  
• Fix train troops quest level scaling; fix reward for alternate mode

• More scene pathing fixes (Mirkwood scenes, some siege scenes)
  
• Fix Dale wall collision mesh
  
• Bunch of scene improvements: Less undergrowth in small Mirkwood scenes, improved pathing and collision in Edoras siege
  
• Optimise collision meshes for some trees (maybe helps with performance in Mirkwood scenes); fix one tree missing its bark material (load order related)
  
• Slightly reduce density for fern grass, remove big fern mesh from the grass entry (hopefully avoid "too many vertices" crash on Mirkwood maps);
  
• Reset some material shaders to avoid flickering and visual bugs (mostly Esgaroth)
  
• Add greenish haze in Mirkwood scenes

• Some item adjustments for Mirkwood, new light helm variants, correct wrist position for some armours
  
• Adjust position for most gloves

• Fixed a bug that would cause a duplicate player to appear in some scenes. This bug would only appear in new games started with the latest revision from earlier today. Please start a new game.
  
• Adjust number of volunteers and volunteer training.
  
• Pull latest translation changes from Transifex; covering es, it, ko, pt-BR, ru and tr.

Gameplay

• Companions level up faster.
  
• Add some level scaling to garrison training.
  
• Finding town NPCs gives some rank and relation reward instead of XP.
  
• Home faction rank and influence bonus.
  
• Increased INT bonus for after-battle shared XP (set to exponential).
  
• Shifted some faction strength income from Gundabad to Rhun.
  
• Train volunteers, scaling with number of volunteers formula.

• Slightly more ironflesh for dwarves.
  
• Throwing axes for Beorning shieldbearer branch.
  
• Adjustments for Lorien and Mirkwood troops.
  
• Added a few Northmen armours to low-tier Rohan troops for more diversity.
  
• Added more cloaked armours to Rohan troops.
  
• Adjusted Rivendell Foragers party template.
  
• Bunch of new items or item variations:
  
  • Rohan gambeson.
    
  • Rohan leather armour variants.
    
  • Beorning light helm.
    
  • Mirkwood sword.
    
  • Northmen leather vest, Northmen lamellar cloaked variants.

• Fixed shadows on Mordor cloud skybox and outer terrain mountains.
  
• Improve small Mirkwood maps for better visibility and add big trees outside the map for better immersion.
  
• Fix and improve some flora UVs.
  
• Minor siege scene adjustments.
  
• Dale village battlefield by Darnokthemage.
  
• Mossy rock props by Zachary Foster.

• Fix loading the mod on M&B 1.011.
  
• Fix the eyeglare on M&B 1.011.
  
• Avoid crashing to desktop when returning to the main menu from the new game screen on M&B 1.011.

• Applied soft particle shader to shadow props.
  
• Separate materials for skinned/unskinned troll/ent meshes.
  
• Apply instanced shaders to a number of prop materials, which should increase performance in Dale.
  
• Applied instanced shaders to Lorien props, increasing performance in Caras Galadhon.
  
• Improve Lorien armour textures (new padded cloth).
  
• Fixed vertex paint for CWE apple tree LODs.
  
• Optimised or imrpoved LODs for:
  
  • Lorien lamp props.
    
  • orc helmets, orc shields
    
  • Dwarf helmets and some armours.
    
  • some Harad armours
    
  • for boots, handwear, hoods
    
  • troll stuff.
    
  • most items for Rohan, Rivendell, Lorien, Mirkwood, Dale, Umbar, Rhun
    
  • some others
• Fix a visible texture seam on ent heads by making the texture tile.
  
• Improved Rivendell spear.

• Lend Surgeon and Lend Companion quests now give XP to the respective companion.
  
• New INT bonus for quest reward XP (slightly exponential).
  
• Fix double relation reward and quest helper trigger for looter quest.
  
• Add some level scaling to metal scraps quest.

• Reset all scenes available from the "build your scene" menu, so players can try them out.
  
• Pull the latest translation changes from Transifex. Thanks to all translators!

• Fixed a crash related to a dwarf armour; fixed a Mirkwood scene range call.
  
• Fixed a few bugs with Zigurphel's dialogue.
  
• Fixed a few redundancies and RGL errors, missing collision Dale house meshes.
  
• Fixed a texture issue with Lorien lamps.
  
• Fixed an "invalid troop ID" bug with after-battle INT XP bonus (operation parameters were swapped).

• Savegame fix for bandit goblins.
  
• Fixed definitions for Pelennor and Ithilien regions.
  
• Minor improvements for some Khand helmets.
  
• Applied muddy water to more scenes.
  
• Minor changes to village quest (faction assignment, Beorning defender troops).
  
• Don't reduce siege battle size if player's battle size is <200.
  
• Disallow Henneth Annun as a quest target.
  
• Pull the latest translation changes from Transifex.