Crusader Kings 3 (CK3) 1.6.1 Update Patch Notes – June 21, 2022

Crusader Kings 3 update 1.6.1 is now available to download on PC, PS5 and Xbox. According to the official Crusader Kings 3 patch notes, the latest update added new features as well as fixes for crashes, lag and shuttering.

Previously, a major update added quality of life changes and bug fixes. Unfortunately, players are still facing problems with the game. Today’s Crusader Kings 3 patch 1.6.1 will fix a few of these issues.

Read more details below.

Crusader Kings 3 (CK3) Console Update 1.6.1 Notes – June 21, 2022

Expansion Features

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  • Additional events about Conversos, Sephardic Jews, and other religious themes for owners of Fate of Iberia

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Free Features

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  • West African pagans now have an alternative path to feudalism, allowing them to obtain it by building successful kingdoms rather than requiring faith reformations
  • New content related to the Canary Islands
    • The Guanche Culture has been added
    • Found the Kingdom of Canarias Decision
    • A new Megalith Tenet
    • A new Pagan Faith: Achamanism
  • New game rule to control the fall of the Umayyads. You can choose between:
    • From game start
    • Only after the death of the initial Caliph
    • Only after 1020
  • Added more Andalusian Arabic names to the database

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Game Balance

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  • Hostility ending conditions were modified. You can now either own 2 kingdoms or unite the Spanish Thrones. Moreover, uniting the spanish thrones lower the conversion of counties to 75% instead of 100%
  • Added Prestige to the King of Asturia in 867 to avoid starting with -600 prestige
  • Adjusted the weight gain from Feasts
  • Lowered the cooldown between 2 games of chess from 5 to 1 year
  • Readjusted education tier threshold to make the level 4 more likely to happen while still being rare
  • Improved the balancing of the Dissolution faction
  • Blocked the demands from Claimant if the Realm is managing Civil Wars which could lead to a loss of territory
  • Târgoviste is now the de-jure capital of Wallachia
  • Galician now uses Monastic Communities instead of Agrarian
  • The Struggle Clash CB now has a cost after the Struggle ended
  • Adjusted the reward for Secure the Mediterranean
  • Adjusted the chance for the poetry to be lauded / mocked in order to improve with your Diplomacy instead of worsening
  • The Sephardi culture is now Involved in the Struggle
  • Refined the odds and cooldown for the new events

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AI

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  • They will wage holy wars again
  • Added a blocker for the AI to not give away their relics

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Bugfixes

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  • Fixed crash when hovering unavailable court amenity upgrades in Tribal Court
  • Restored the missing assets from Northern Lords in the Barbershop
  • Reduced crippling empathy in characters receiving stress when their dying rival/nemesis has ANY ritual best friend anywhere
  • Fixed a bug when University (and all special buildings) doesn’t apply county holder character modifiers (county_holder_character_modifier)
  • Reviving Adoptionism now grants you the heresiarch trait
  • Fixed some map names being displaced
  • Adjusted the culture of the two Visigothic characters that snuck back in after Visigothic was removed
  • Regnal numbers will no longer appear after the first word in a first name, instead appearing after the entire first name
  • Conquest CB now provides more feedback about it’s requirements during the struggle
  • Added de jure kingdom splitting logic for edge case where there are kings which don’t hold their capital duchy
  • Fixed Map Mode in struggle interface not being localized
  • There is a proper feedback if you don’t have enough money to wage in a board game
  • Rite tenet now actually reduces hostility with same-HoF faiths to Astray, instead of leaving you hopelessly enamored of a Head of Faith who still says you’re a heretic
  • Fixed Portugal going to Hispania when created after Compromise
  • Fixed edge cases where empires were created for competing kings, due to order of kingdom creation
  • Improved script logic of Status Quo de jure transfers and title creation
  • Elvira Jimena is definitely unlanded now
  • Removed the remains of debug option in the “By Another Man” event
  • You can now choose to banish El Cid even if he becomes your vassal. Doing so will make you a tyrant and may lead to becoming rivals or worse with El Cid.
  • The Secret to Freedom is now more likely to trigger. Prisoners may earn stress if they are the kind that does not usually reveal secrets.
  • Fixed a bug which caused tall characters to float over MENA and Indian thrones
  • You can now challenge someone to chess, even if they have an active event they need to answer to.
  • The break truce catalyst now works against Count as well
  • Demanding payment works against any involved Ruler (or any other use of a hook)
  • Titles which will be destroyed by the Dissolution Faction are properly displayed
  • We now keep the chosen education traits for custom children rulers
  • An indecent event has been blocked against children
  • All non-muslim iberian culture uses the Mediterranean Court Room now instead of fallbacking on the Indian Court Room
  • Added a cooldown to “invite to activity” to avoid spamming and weird edge cases
  • Removed redundant option in fp2_struggle.2050 if el cid is your vassal
  • Displays the activity cost in the interaction window for “Invite to Activity”
  • Properly displays the icon and related description for the Share Secret interaction
  • Split the Involvement and Phase conditions for the Ending Decision into two to avoid being involved as an implicit condition
  • Only trigger the development gain for city holdings for the Prestigious Development Perk
  • Lubb Musa is now properly described as having a clan government in the bookmark screen
  • Holy order are properly ignored for Struggle Ending Decisions
  • Iberian Foothold is available when owning the land for 15 years or more, not only for 15 years only
  • Fixed issue where betting land causes the county to get permanently set as “in wager”
  • Enforce Truce can properly be enforced post-Struggle
  • Bells of Santiago is now active for Iberian cultures once the Struggle ends
  • The new Dynasty track stays available after ending the struggle for Dynast living in Iberia or with an Iberian Heritage culture.
  • Fixed some clipping issues
  • Fixed a localization error in the tooltip of the hybridization cost
  • Fixed an error in an option’s tooltip for the Meet Peers event “Playing House”
  • Fixe Out of Syncs due to players having different languages
  • The Iberian sword will be held properly and without its stand during duels
  • History’s best friends is now only triggered when seducing / romancing your best friend
  • Children cannot become Thief-Slayers anymore: they are forbidden from dueling
  • Adjusted the margin in the character window to allow hovering over and lock tooltips
  • Fixed connectivity issues between counties
  • The missing name “Ató” (for occitan0066) is now in the list of names
  • Lots of localization fixes in the different languages
  • Crashes when changing Amenities in Tribal Royal Court // At the moment the workaround is to change from Tribal to Feudal, we know it is not the best but we are working on it.
  • Northern Hairstyles are not available for Northern characters
  • King of Asturias starts with negative prestige in 867 bookmark
  • Achievement “History’s best friends” is achieved upon seducing/romancing anyone
  • More improvements & bug fixes

Download free CK3 update 1.6.1 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox.

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