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 firstwordin 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.
