Crusader Kings 3 Update 1.027 Patch Notes (Update 14)

A new Crusader Kings 3 update 1.027 (1.027.000) is rolling out on PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S. According to the official CK3 console patch notes, the latest update brings grand tournaments, grand tours, grand weddings and regencies. Apart from this, today’s Crusader Kings 3 patch 1.027 (Version 1.027.000) also includes stability fixes.

Previously, Crusader Kings 3 update 1.016 (1.9.0) update added revamped cultures, languages, Customizable Coat of Arms & Banners, and much more. Unfortunately, players are still facing problems with the game. Today’s Crusader Kings 3 version 1.027 will fix a few of these issues.

Crusader Kings 3 (CK3) Console Patch Notes – September 18, 2024

Tours & Tournaments Features

Grand Activities: Rulers can now host and participate in large-scale customizable Grand Activities on the map. Tailor them to your liking by choosing Activity Type, Options, Intents, and which Guests to invite from both near and far!
Grand Tournaments: The ultimate show of martial prowess; Host them to increase your prestige, renown, and standing in the world – or participate in Contests to win fabulous prizes. Bring your knights to see them increase in skill and grow in glory.
Grand Tours: Set out to Impress, Intimidate, or Tax your subjects in epic realm-wide Travels. Enjoy the hospitality of your hopefully-loyal subjects, and experience the life of commoners while traversing your lands.
Grand Weddings: Arrange weddings that stand above all else; marry above your station, exercise your diplomatic prowess, or weave plots in the shadows behind the backs of the happy couple…
Activity Intents & Options: Hunts, Feasts, and Pilgrimages now have Intents and Options for you to choose from that allow you to host especially spectacular outings. Befriend your Vassal during an extravagant Feast, or Murder an unsuspecting rival during a small and discreet Hunt…
Murder Feasts: Follow the Torturer Lifestyle path to gain access to Murder Feasts; expensive but very definite gatherings where you can end several of your problems, all at once!
Falconry Hunts: A truly medieval sport in which both men & women were allowed to participate. Extra prestigious, but also more expensive than normal Hunts – falconry is for the true ruling nobility!
Accolades: Bestow special attributes upon your knights, depending on their personality and achievements, and have those attributes be passed on through the generations! From Valiant Idealists that help you wrangle Vassals and increase your Armies’ Damage to Stalwart Disciplinarians that bolster your Levies and the Safety of your travels, and many, many more.
The ‘Activities’ Dynasty Legacy: Make all activities extraordinary for members of your Dynasty; from increased marriage acceptance from your Grand Weddings, to increased Legendary Animal sightings, to be able to host an entire Grand Activity for free per Dynasty member!
New Character Art: Refresh the look of the Western world with new across-eras looks!
Evolving Armors: See simple Coifs and Mail make way for Greathelms and Plate!
Early/Late Western Clothing: While Carolingians may always be in fashion, their fashion will not always be – the introduction of new Early and Late clothing will set the centuries of play apart!
New Music: Over 20 minutes of new medieval tunes, in the form of a new Main Theme, 4 Mood tracks, and 13 contextually-triggered Cue tracks!

Free Features

Added regencies, so that characters unable to rule for a short time (e.g., because they’re traveling) have someone to watch their realm whilst they’re gone
Added entrenched regencies, so that characters unable to rule for a long time (e.g., children) can be bullied by regents gone mad with power or sedately supported by regents who just want to do right by them
Added a baker’s dozen new mechanical interactions around characters becoming regents or thoroughly abusing their power whilst they are regents
Added the Coups feature, allowing regents to, with some effort, overthrow their liege and steal all their shinies at the low, low price of extreme risk of death or imprisonment and an unpleasant nickname
Added trilateral interactions where intermediary can veto or allow the interaction before the recipient can accept or decline. This way liege can have a say if diarch wants to (ab)use their powers
Added the Travel System so characters now actually move across the map and through individual provinces when traveling to Activities, optionally with an entourage of other characters
Added 130+ events that occur while traveling, both dangerous and non-dangerous in nature
Added the Caravan Master court position that affects travel stats and organizes the logistics of their liege’s travel
Added several Travel Options which allow for customization of travel plans (e.g. hiring specialists to counteract terrain danger)
Added travel route editor so that you can place waypoints on the map to adjust your travel route
Every character now has a bonafide location on the map
Characters Paying Homage, Petitioning their Liege, and going to Meditate in Seclusion now travel to their destination
Added Vassal Stances, every vassal now has a stance based on their personality, various opinion modifiers that previously impacted any vassal/feudal vassal now impact only vassals of a given stance
Vassal Stances have a preferred heir, when succession happens they get a temporary opinion boost with the new ruler if it was their preferred heir, or an opinion penalty if not.
Men-at-Arms can now be stationed in a specific holding, most building modifiers that previously impacted all men-at-arms now only impact the one stationed at that province.
Revised the rewards and balance of practically all buildings in the game to account for Men-at-Arms Stationing and other new changes, more details in the ‘Balance’ section.
Significantly refined the game’s economy; Building Slots now increase with time, many new Buildings have been added, Building Costs have been completely revised, Domain Limits have been lowered, etc. More details can be found in the Balance section.
Adult Count+ Rulers (excluding Mercenaries) now have a chance to passively gain nicknames such as ‘the Able’, ‘the Fat’, or ‘the Terrible’. The chance to gain a nickname goes up with rank, age, and prestige/piety, and the types of nicknames you can get are based in large part on traits, skills, and circumstances. For example, ‘the Careless’ can be gained while in a civil war of your making, if you have low diplomacy and some tyranny. When you get a nickname, an event will tell you which one you got, accompanied by a small reward or penalty.
Added 75+ new Nicknames, most of which can be gained passively.
Nicknames can now have descriptions, visible when moused over, *finally* allowing the use of ironic nicknames without an immense amount of explaining.
Added descriptions for most historic nicknames and all in-game given nicknames.
Added a Game Rule to control the frequency of random passive nicknames appearing on rulers
Added a Game Rule to tweak the Domain Limit of all rulers; +1, +2, +3, -1, -2, -3
You can now offer to Pay Ransom for your courtiers, vassals, close family members, dynasty members, lovers, friends, or anyone who is married to a member of your close family or dynasty
Added the Economy Mapmode. It shows income on a per-County basis, allowing you to plan your conquests properly. It also reveals the location of all Special Buildings in the game, whether they are constructed yet or not.
Added the Control Mapmode. It reveals the Control levels of all Counties in the world and also shows where Absolute Control is in effect.
Added a Destroy Artifact mechanic, which allows you to destroy any Common or Masterwork artifact you no longer want in order to recuperate some of the gold cost. If you are Iconoclast you can destroy Artifacts of any Rarity, and will get Piety for doing so.
Significantly updated the Current Situation widget to be more user-friendly and useful for both new and experienced players; we’ve updated several entries with more information, added several new situations, added icons to all entries, etc. More info can be found in the Interface section.
When hiring a Physician you can now see what Aptitude they will have directly in the Event Option
Canterbury Cathedral has been added as a special building with a set of modifiers, three levels of upgrades, and new on-map 3D models for each stage
Traits can now have Tiers with individual xp bars; this is in effect for the new Traveler and Hastiluder traits, but has also been added to all of the older ‘tiered’ traits such as Reveler, Hunter, and Pilgrim.
The Barbershop has been updated to be Fullscreen with a host of new tools and settings
Legwear is now accessible as a customization option in the barbershop
You can now pick your hair color using a color wheel in the barbershop
The rules for who you can edit in the Barbershop are now consistent with who you can edit the title/dynasty of, which means that you can now customize your vassals and subjects.
Added an event where your Realm Priest riles up your Zealot vassals against you
Added 5 Martial lifestyle events
Added 1 Wealth lifestyle event
Added 5 Dread lifestyle events

Achievements

◈ Fixed an issue preventing some achievements (“Knowledge Itself is Power”, “Way of Life”, etc.) from being unlocked.
It is now possible to gain achievements through non-ironman single-player games

Tech

◈ Reworked the save system on PS5 to prefer a more free space efficient quota-based approach instead of the previous slot-based system
- This means that the users will be able to save the game more frequently without reaching the limits of available slots.
◈ Extended the usability of the save system by showing the current save data sizes and available free space for remaining saves in the save/load UI screens
◈ Improved the save system logic to avoid title crashing/freezing while approaching the end date
◈ Improved stability by reducing peak memory usage
◈ Improved stability by adding more accurate dynamic budgeting for texture streaming
◈ Improved texture quality detail level for characters and portraits
◈ Significantly reduced frame drops and lag in large multiplayer sessions on PS5

Balance

The ‘Gavelkind’ Tribal Era innovation now gives one domain limit
The default number of Building Slots have been lowered by 1 for both County Capitals and Baronies
The Bailiffs, Guilds, Windmills and Ledger Innovations now unlock one Building Slot for provinces of that culture
The Capital Province and Capital Duchy modifiers now provide some Stationed MaA % bonuses to further promote consolidating your domain within one duchy
Castles now provide some general Stationed MaA % bonuses
Domain Limit is now increased by 1 for every 6 points of Stewardship, up from 5
Rebalanced starting innovations so fewer cultures start with Ledger unlocked
Indian Rulers will now recruit fewer Paiks MaA
The AI will now attempt to group buildings that boost the same MaA types in the same province
The AI will now prefer constructing certain building types based on cultural preferences and currently recruited MaA
Curtain Walls are now available in Floodplains, replacing Watchtowers as their fortification type
Ramparts are now available in Jungle, replacing Watchtowers as their fortification type
Royal Armories ranks II and III now reduce army costs by more
Pastures now give Supply Limit and a bit more Levies
Hunting Grounds no longer give MaA bonuses, instead they give defensive advantage and raid protection
Orchards now give a bit of Development Growth %
Elephant Pens now give more Tax, but no Heavy Cavalry MaA bonus
Outposts now give a little bit of Tax
Camel Farms now give a little bit of Tax and Raid protection, but no Knight slots
Increased the cost of all buildings at higher tiers. Instead of flat increase for every tier as before, for tier 3 and above they follow geometric progression.
Added a new building – Stables, buildable everywhere – which boost Cavalry MaA and grants its holder a little bit of army movement speed, travel speed, and some levies
Added a new building – Smiths – which boost Stationed MaA and provides tax % for the holding and grants its holder some knight effectiveness, Levy regain rate and Inspiration quality boosts.
Added a new building – Hillside Grazing, buildable in Hills, Mountains and Desert Mountains in certain geographical regions – which boost cavalry significantly and grants some levies
Added a new building – Warrior Lodges, buildable in Hills, Mountains and Desert Mountains in certain geographical regions – which boost infantry significantly and grants some levies
Added a new building – Horse Pastures, buildable in Steppe, the region ‘Eastern Steppe’, and by characters with the ‘Horse Lords’ Tradition – which boost Horse Archers and Light Cavalry and gives its holder some movement speed and land raid speed
Added a new building – Wind Furnaces, unlocked by the Wootz Steel innovation in India, they provide tax and Heavy Infantry/Pikeman/Heavy Cavalry/Elephant bonuses
Added a new building – Workshops, unlocked with Advanced Bowmaking, which boosts siege weapons, adds siege speed to stationed units, reduces the cost of Archers and Skirmishers, and also gives tax income
Added a new building – Windmills, unlocked with Windmills innovation, buildable in Farmlands, Plains and Hills, or in coastal provinces. These provide Supply Limit, flat and % tax for the Holding and Development Growth, both flat and %, for the whole County.
Added a new building – Watermills, unlocked with Windmills innovation, buildable in Mountains, Wetlands, Forests, Taigas and Jungles, or in riverside provinces. These provide flat tax, Supply limit and Construction Cost reduction for holding and Holding taxes % and Development Growth, both flat and %, for the whole County.
Added a new building – Caravanserai, unlocked with Guilds innovation, buildable in Drylands, Deserts, Oasis, Floodplains, Steppes or Desert Mountains. These provide: flat tax, Defender Advantage and Hostile Raid Time increase for Holding. Travel Danger reduction, Development Growth, both tax and %, for the County. Sponsored Inspiration Quality, MaA Maintenance cost reduction and Mercenary Hire Cost reduction for the holder.
Caravanserai line of buildings can be built in the Iberia region after Detente ending of Iberian Struggle
Invasion War types now have a cap of 150% for occupation, up from 100%, this should avoid stalemates
The Wootz Steel innovation no longer gives MaA bonuses
The Advanced Bowmaking innovation no longer gives MaA bonuses
The Windmills innovation no longer gives 5% domain tax
All Tier 6 military buildings now require Royal Armory innovation
Expanded the Danevirke special building by one province
The Danevirke and Offa’s Dyke special buildings now give a little bit of stationed MaA toughness
All fortification-style special buildings (i.e. Tower of London, Alhambra) now also give a bit of stationed MaA damage, toughness, and siege speed
All Mines (for instance Rammelsberg or the Mali gold mines) now give a lot of Siege Weapon effectiveness for stationed Siege MaA, representing the historical use of miners as sappers and siege workers
Several Cultural Traditions, especially the various ‘Terrain Dweller’ or ‘Terrain Warriors’-ones have been updated to ignore Travel Danger in their chosen terrains
Removed levy size modifiers from Martial skill and Marshal Organize Armies councilor task.
Increased the levy reinforcement offset modifier from Martial skill and Marshal Organize Armies councilor task.
Martial skill now gives offset Army Maintenance and MaA toughness bonuses
Added 21 additional constructible Universities around the world
Added 6 additional already-constructed Universities in India
Added 4 Mines in India
Added 1 Mine in Anatolia
Added 5 mines in Eastern Europe
Added 2 mines in Western Europe
Added 4 Mines in Africa
Added 2 Mines in Persia
All Ethos except Egalitarian now reduces the opinion of Different-Culture Minority Vassals
The Coastal Warriors and Seafarers cultural tradition now unlocks Tradeport buildings in tribal holdings
The Coastal Warriors cultural tradition now gives stationed MaA bonuses to Tradeport line of buildings
All Special Mines now boost the quality of metal-based inspirations significantly
Alliances can now be proposed to Extended Family, but the Acceptance Chance has been rebalanced to be less permissive; opinion, traits, and ai personality now weighs heavier in the calculations, as do number of existing alliances
Barrack line of buildings now gives bonuses to stationed heavy infantry and pikemen MaA
Decreased the cost level of Farm Estates line of buildings
Increased the tax gain from Tax Offices line of buildings
Cynical AI’s will now want to revoke Holy Order leases from orders they are not the patron of
Global Vassal Opinion bonuses will now only appear on Illustrious artifacts
Harald of Norway will no longer institute Thing succession on England as long as it’s held as a secondary Kingdom, this prevents the Kingdom from immediately falling back into Anglo-Saxon hands via election
Hereditary Hierarchy now affects Tyranny Decay by 50%, but the Castle Cost % has been reduced by 10%
Inspired wanderers now produce slightly better artifacts
It now costs less prestige to designate a Shieldmaiden
Leisure Palaces now give more Scheme Success Chance on higher levels
Local Artisans spawned by the Commission Artifact decision now have a modifier called ‘Local Artisan’ so that players can tell that they’ll produce worse Inspirations if assigned to the Court Artificer court position.
Lowered most sources of Cultural Fascination Progress % Modifiers
Lowered the Tax Mult and Build Cost modifiers from being Steward on your liege’s Council
Made Genghis Khan always spawn with the Peacemaker perk
Made the ‘Flight of Fancy’ event much less likely to happen
Made the AI in the Iberian Struggle much more aggressive in the Opportunity and Hostility Phases
Marches now give much more Defender Advantage alongside a significant reduction in local Danger
Military camps now increase supply, control gain, and reduce MaA maintenance
More special buildings now give a Renown % boost
Newly-formed Divergent cultures now get a slight culture conversion speed boost against their parent culture for 50 years
Pay Ransom now has a stress impact where several traits reduce stress, such as compassionate or generous
Practiced Pirates is now restricted to non-tribals of duke tier or below, or else realms no larger than approximately the size of Wales, to prevent the entire HRE taking up piracy on the Emperor’s orders
Realm Priests will now tend to learn the language of their Liege, either on appointment, or later via the scheme
Reduced the renown effects of Castle Keepers
Roughly halved all sources of Build Cost Reduction, terrain-based reductions lowered by 33%
Rulers now start the game with 36 months of income rather than 18
Same Faith Opinion bonuses will now only appear on Illustrious artifacts
Siege Works now give more toughness to stationed Siege Weapons, and also significantly reduces the cost of creating and maintaining them
Significantly increased the Hostile Scheme Resistance and Success Chance reduction from the Greatest of Khans trait and modifier, increased the siege ability, and added opinion with minority Vassals
Significantly lowered the chance of getting the ‘Getting A Head’ Court Event Chain
The ‘A Courtier Scorned’ event will now happen much less frequently, and only for very greedy and vengeful characters
The AI should now be a little bit less likely to start schemes during a House Feud
The AI will now try and use hooks in marriages if it would sway a good candidate that otherwise refuses.
The Commission Artifact decision has been changed so that Local Artisans don’t always produce Common quality artifacts, but instead come with an inherent quality penalty that is difficult to overcome. This makes it possible for them to produce higher-tier artifacts.
The Danevirke and Offa’s Dyke Special Buildings now give more defensive advantage
The Doge’s Palace special building now gives 5 flat income rather than a 50% county tax bonus
The Marches Duchy Building now gives tax % mult in Hills and Mountains
The Mines of Mali now gives a bit of development growth
The Reichskrone is now considered Illustrious
The Theodosian Walls now give 10 flat income rather than a 300% county tax bonus, and the 300% levy bonus has been lowered to 30%, this still leaves Constantinople as the most economically viable county in the world, but it won’t be so brutally overpowered anymore
The Walls of Genoa now gives 3 flat income rather than a 10% county tax bonus
The al-Taj crown now gives Zealot opinion rather than Same Faith opinion
The military Academies Building now increases Man-at-Arms limits and reduces recruitment costs
Theocratic Vassals will now often be selected for the position of Realm Priest, preferring high-learning characters and religious heads
Universities are no longer founded via Decision, but are now constructible similarly to other special buildings, this was done because the Economy Mapmode now shows where they are located
Universities now boost the quality of book inspirations significantly
Universities now give 10% lifestyle xp and 5% cultural fascination progress to their holder
Updated the old Intrigue and Martial Feast events to have more relevant modifiers and to give lifestyle XP
Upped the maximum score from Occupations to 150% from 100% for most CB’s, this should prevent many stalemates
Various Vassal Stance opinions will now appear on Artifacts
Various Vassal Stance tax and levy contribution % bonuses will now appear on Artifacts
When a ruler is vassalized with Religious Protection who can have a Jizya contract too, they now get that contract as well
You now gain/lose stress if you’re Greedy/Generous and gifting masterwork+ artifacts, based on the rarity of the gifted artifact
You now lose less stress when sending gifts as a Generous character, and don’t lose stress if you’re gifting to your heir
Crocodiles can now attack from rivers in crocodile-having areas, even if the province terrain is otherwise not suitable for crocodilians
Cultures with Horse Lords now take massively reduced attrition & have greatly increased speed when raiding overland (allowing them to perform raids deep into settled territories as long as they remain tribal)
Cultures with Saharan Nomads or Desert Travellers now have decently-reduced attrition and moderately increased speed when raiding (allowing them to raid the feudals of North Africa/the Sahel or the Arabian coast respectively)
Added a lil bit of raid speed boost & raiding attrition reduction to Himalayan Settlers (allowing them to raid the foothills around the Himalayas & each other)
Escaping from Prison is now a Crime if the imprisoner had legitimate cause to imprison you
Meditate in Seclusion no longer uses the activity system and has been updated to use the new location system
Rebalanced Pay Homage rewards and scripted values for dynasty prestige, scaling by era
Made smith inspirations more common and weaver inspirations a bit less common
Cultural traditions now play a bit more of a role when inspired people pick their inspiration type (but this does not affect the number of inspired people of that culture, only the likeliness that they will pick a specific type)
Regents are more attractive candidates under elective succession and will prioritize voting for themselves or their liege’s candidate depending on loyalty
Regents are more powerful electors under all electives except Ting (where power is derived from calculations about the number of freemen you control)
Gaining strife opinion as a regent will now cause characters to want to murder, abduct, torture, castrate, and/or blind you
Increased the amount of stress loss for Generous characters sending gifts
Progress to Friend will now only make the two characters potential friends if their opinion is above 0
Increased chance of recovering from minor illness
Increased chance of becoming scarred

AI

The AI will now actively propose marriages to the player and the player’s heirs. They will pretend that the player has the acceptance of an AI, meaning that you won’t, for example, get proposals from Counts if you’re a High-tier Ruler.
Pious and Warlike AI’s will now use the Ask Pope for Claim Interaction to gain claims on titles that are relevant to their interests
Fixed an issue where the AI wouldn’t always go for the Wargoal as an Attacker
Loyal AI’s will now want to ransom their friends and lovers
Lustful AI’s will now really want to ransom their lovers, unless they’re terribly greedy
Made the AI less likely to propose Alliances to significantly smaller rulers, though they might still accept incoming requests if made by someone they care about, such as one of their children
The AI is now more inclined to keep sieging/break sieges if it can
The AI is now more willing to form stacks exceeding the supply limit of a province if it’s involved in large-scale wars
The AI is now slightly more inclined to keep the bonus from Train Commanders until they’re bankrupt
The AI now properly gets a discount on feudalizing Tribal Holdings
The AI will no longer switch to organize armies in peacetime as the gold saved only applies to raised armies
The AI will now check if it should revoke Holy Order leases more often
The AI will now ransom their close family or those married to their close family more often, even if they’re not in their court. Very compassionate AI’s will extend this to their entire family.
The AI will now try to propose alliances to its Vassals via the interaction
The AI is more likely to build Tax Offices duchy building in suitable locations
The AI is more likely to pick Organize Armies marshal council task if below 80% of max army strength at peace
Very compassionate, generous, and honorable AI’s will now want to ransom their Liege

Interface

◈ Added a second map radial menu wheel to allow more convenient navigation between map mode items
◈ Improved navigation for titles/claims/alliances items on Character window
◈ Expanded the characters modifiers UI via slideouts
◈ Various inventory UI navigation improvements
◈ Improved the activity invite window navigation
◈ Improved UI for holding construction/holding upgrade screens
◈ As long as the player has an opened unfinished event in a Royal Court, a corresponding icon will be shown the Quick Access Menu
Added a lot of prefix icons to modifiers, especially those present on various Buildings. This should make it much easier to, at a glance, see what a building or other source of modifiers does.
Game Rules are now categorized, and can be filtered by selecting a category via drop-down
Map Character Location Pins are now visible whenever someone is selected
Prison Bars are now visible on Map Character Location Pins
Overlapping map-icons are sorted front-to-back correctly (if in the same map-icon layer)
Pastures are now called Cattle Pastures
Added Icons to the MaA Game Concepts
The Camel and Elephant innovations will now say that they unlock their corresponding building
Added Interaction icons to Grant Independence and Join War
Added a ‘You can ask the Pope for Claims’ Current Situation item, showing you any Duchies+ that you could get a Claim on
Added a Current Situation for when one of your first three Heirs are imprisoned so that you can easily pay their Ransoms
Added a Current Situation for when you can Pay Ransom for one of your Vassals and gain a Hook on them
Added a Current Situation item for Pardoning Criminals
Added a Toast when someone else ransoms someone close to you
Added a Toast when someone ransoms you
Added icons and updated texts for most Current Situations
Assigned icons to all interactions
Added the incredibly important missing relation strings cousin-in-law, aunt-in-law, uncle-in-law, grandmother-in-law, grandfather-in-law, great grandmother-in-law, great grandfather-in-law, granddaughter-in-law, grandson-in-law, great granddaughter-in-law, great grandson-in-law, niece-in-law, and nephew-in-law, because the familial relations of this game weren’t complex enough!
The attrition icon will now only show if the army will take attrition. Non-raiding armies are assumed to take attrition.
Character Names in incoming diplomacy offers will no longer use white text on a light background
Clarified the Health game concept
Compressed the Character Interaction entries a bit to avoid having scrollbars under most common circumstances
Corrected incorrect localization for Renown gain (lost instead of loses/gained instead of gains)
Excluded Barons from the ‘Powerful Vassal demands Council Position’ Current Situation as you legitimately don’t have to care that much for them
Excluded parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents from the ‘Family can Marry’ Current Situation as marrying away your widowed mother isn’t something we want to motivate the player to do
Expanded the ‘Child Needs Guardian’ Current Situation to include valid grandchildren and great-grandchildren
Expanded the ‘Low County Control’ Current Situation to trigger when control is at or below 90 Control, and it now shows the Control level directly in the entry
Expose Secret is now a sub-menu interaction while Blackmail is a common interaction, as one was used significantly more than the other
Extended character tooltips will now show the character background, to give a quick indication if a character is traveling or not
Fixed Loading Tips not showing any of the tips following number 69, which isn’t very nice
Fixed an issue where entries in the Character Search would become slightly darkened if you scrolled the list
Fixed several instances of missing parent concepts in various Game Concepts
Improved background and character selection in various pregnancy events
Most Current Situation entries that have to do with titles will now state the tier and show an icon of the tier crown to aid in identification
Only characters located in the Capital Province will now appear in the Royal Court Scene
The ‘Call Ally’, ‘Call House Member’ and ‘Call Dynasty Member’ Current Situation entries will now state their Tier and Troop Count directly in the entry
The ‘Declare War’ Current Situation will now show the amount of troops your potential target has
The ‘Demand Payment’ Current Situation now states how much gold they have compared to the amount you demand
The ‘Family can Marry’ Current Situation has been updated to show what place in the line of succession they hold, to avoid you doing unfavorable marriages
The ‘Few Knights’ Current Situation now states how many knights you have, and what’s your maximum
The ‘Hire Court Physician’ Current Situation is now marked as dangerous/high prio, as being without one is indeed quite dangerous
The ‘In Line of Succession for Title’ Current Situation Item will now only appear for titles outside your realm, as it would in 90% of cases mainly show titles you were about to inherit from newly-created vassals
The ‘In line for Title’ Current Situation now states if the title is inside or outside your realm, so you can better plan your nefarious murder schemes
The ‘Negotiate Alliance’ Current Situation description now explains that allied vassals can’t join factions if the ally is within your realm, or how many troops you’d get if the ally is outside your realm
The ‘Negotiate Alliance’ Current Situation now states if the target is inside or outside your realm, so you can make a better call at a glance if they’ll be able to join your wars or not
The ‘Negotiate Alliance’ Current Situation now states the potential targets relation to you (son, brother, etc) and their military strength
The ‘Not Endorsed by Realm Priest’ Current Situation now opens the Sway interaction
The ‘Not Endorsed by Realm Priest’ Current Situation now shows the opinion your Realm Priest has of you
The ‘Powerful Vassal demands Council Position’ Current Situation now shows the opinion the vassal has of you in the entry, so you can easily avoid assigning positions to already-happy vassals if you want
The ‘Prisoner can be Ransomed’ Current Situation now shows if they have enough gold to pay their ransom directly in the entry
The ‘Propose Alliance’ Current Situation has been expanded to include more valid targets for alliances, such as anyone married to one of your extended family members
The ‘Realm will Lose Land if Vassal Inherits Title’ Current Situation will now state exactly which title would cause the damage, along with its tier
The ‘Wrong Holding Type’ Current Situation will now state in the entry what type of holding they are
There’s now a different background in the Vassal Contract window when modifying a Clan contract
There’s now an icon indicating if a vassal’s contract has already been changed when browsing the Vassal list in the Realm view
Universities will now say that they unlock the Send Child to University Education Option
You can now see who would join the defender against you in Holy Wars
Level of Devotion Impact is now a game concept and explains to you what it does
Renamed the Courtly cultural Ethos to Ceremonious to avoid confusion with the new Courtly vassal stance
Improved the my realm succession tab for primogeniture succession to show more info like traits and a clearer line of succession
Overhauled the AI personality tooltip, now contains their personality, vassal stance if a vassal, and economic archetype if a ruler. Raw personality now has explanations for how the vassal is likely to act.
Enabled Steam Rich Presence, now your friends can see some fun flavor about what you are doing in game, this can be disabled via game settings.
Made Debug AI War Coordinator map mode show gradient based on objective score

Art

Coat of arms can now show up on the clothes of characters, in order uses: house if not lowborn, primary title if ruler, court owner’s primary title if not wandering, default fallback.
Several existing Animations have been updated with expressive introduction segments, bringing more movement and life into events: Anger (3 variations), Happiness (3 variations), Admiration (2 variations), Shock (2 variations), Disbelief, Disgust, Dismissal, Fear, Sadness, Worry, Stressed, and Schadefreude
Added 45+ new animations including but not limited to:
- Hunt animations: Hunting horn, Hunting knife, Hunting carcass, Hunting Falcon/animated prop, Hunting bow Aim, Hunting bow Rest, Crossbow
- Tournament animations: Sword victory, Sword yield, Wrestling victory, Wrestling yield
- Jousting animations with horse and rider: Jockey with lance on horse tilted idle, Jockey with lance couched on horse gallop, Jockey on horse gallop, Jockey on horse victory, Jockey on horse loss, Jockey on horse walk, Jockey on horse Idle
- Weddings: Bride, Groom, Officiant, Bride Reception, Groom Reception, Happy cry animation, New drunk animation, ‘I object’ animation
- A brand new ‘Thinking’ animation
Added unique Icons for all Schemes
Added a lot of new Casus Belli icons, covering almost every CB in the game
The Character View Backgrounds now represent the location of the character, should they be leading an army, traveling, or in an activity
Updated the clothes and looks of most Bookmark characters
Added a Low and High tier of fanciness to all old war nobility assets, and a Royal tier to selected armors.
Added 2 sets of male and female armours with variations for: Early and late Western era culture.
Added 2 sets of male and female legwears for: Late Western armours.
Added 8 male and female war headgears with variations for: Western culture.
Added 2 sets of male and female armours with variations for: Carolingian culture.
Added 1 set of male and female armours and helmets with variations for: Mena, Steppe, Byzantine and Indian cultures.
Added new Coat of arms crest headgear.
Added 2 sets of male and female clothing for: Carolingian culture.
Added crowns for male and female: Carolingian Culture.
Added male common headgear and female, male low/high nobility headgears for: Western culture.
Added new patterns for: Carolingian culture.
Added new nobility cloaks for: Carolingian culture.
Added new pilgrim clothes for: Muslim culture.
Added new Travel cloaks for: Western and Mena cultures.
Added new wedding specific headgears for: Western, Mena and Byzantine cultures.
Added new map units for travel activity.
Updated DDE HRE imperial Crown with new textures.
Multiple clothing, headgears, hair and beard improvements to fix clipping issues and alleviate texture stretching.
Expanded color palettes for war nobility assets.
Expanded our library of tile-able textures to include chainmail, scale armors, and leathers. This will help most armors look better overall, especially at lower game resolution settings.
Optimized old war nobility assets, to allow for better texture resolution on those armors and headgears.
Male children can now have their left hand visibly removed too
Fixed an issue where many western women wouldn’t wear any headgear after the year 1300
Added 3D model for Canterbury monument, for each level of upgrade.
Added hunting props like hunting horns, a felled rabbit, boar spears and hunting blades.
Added a variety of bows and crossbows with animation stances for events and as artifacts.
Added lances.
Added Hnefatafl board, try winning a spelling bee with that one.
Added more animal skulls; Hyena, Gazelle
Added many animal skin variants, in particular legendary variants.
Added additional mine markers to the map, see more under Balance.
Fixes to the Indian spear to make it slightly less massive.
Fixes and updated positioning of holding positions in a plethora of provinces.
Fixes to mediterranean court room textures
Fixed critical issue of teleporting American cactus on the Desert Warrior trait, replaced it with a geographically-appropriate Arabian dromedary instead
Fixed horrendous 19th-century chocolate chip muffins on the Comfort Eater trait (that have clearly been machine-made), replaced with a temporally-appropriate medieval sambocade cheesecake instead for maximum immersion
Added an enormous amount of new background illustrations used in various events (roughly 40)

Localization

Added, and this is very exciting, a small piece of custom loc for distinguishing between one and two legged people
Triggers will now state that they’re looking for sins/virtues instead of congenital traits

Game Content

Added Feud target house name to House modifiers
Added a memory for becoming nemeses
Added a mention of the Casus Belli to the war declaration, war end, and war join memories
Per user request, added Go as a board game variant for Tibet, & Fidchell as a board game variant for the Celtic world
Owners of Royal Court can now commission Urn court artifacts via artisan Inspirations
Changed Blot, Grand Rite, and Meet Peers to use the new Activity System
You can now select a location to host a Blot or Grand Rite in your realm. Meet Peers is always restricted to your capital
Added guest selection functionality for Blot, Grand Rite, and Meet Peers. Guests must now travel to the location of your activity
Meditate in Seclusion decision now allowed for characters with the calm trait
Updated Pilgrimages, Feasts, & Hunts to use the new Activity System, and added new events
New animal types can appear on Hunts, with more regional variety
Master of the Hunt court position is now available to all rulers
New animal trinket trophy artifacts for hunters without a Royal Court
Several buildings now affect Hunt Success chance or Sighting chance
New Hunt murder, abduction, seduction, and befriend events
Can now attend other character’s Hunts
New Hunt Sighting events, which improve Hunt success chance in specific locations
Improved old hunting events and tied them into new systems, with Master of the Hunt aptitude affecting chances for positive and negative events
Added religious Doctrine relating to Pilgrimages in order to allow them, make them mandatory or forbid them
Additional types of Pilgrimages available, such as Pious, Worldly and Hajj
Tweaked old and added new events while on a Pilgrimage to a holy site, tying them into new systems
New events about spending time at a holy site
New events about performing the Hajj at Mecca
The Pilgrimage trait is awarded after performing a Pilgrimage and is now updated with several experience tiers
Unique activity backgrounds for Jerusalem and Mecca
All Activities now have ‘Activity Pulse Actions’: small toast-like events that appear on a timer of 7 days. Examples: The Guest of Honor receiving Prestige during a Feast, or a good Hunter increasing Success Chance during a Hunt.

Databases

Fixed an accidental instance of ultra-incest incorrectly attributed to Adelheid of Hohenburg
The capital of Nobatia is now Qasr Ibrim
Predefined Baldwin V of Flanders’ traits to give him a more consistent personality
Predefined Rasad’s (the Shia caliph’s mum) remaining random trait to give her a marginally more consistent personality
Bamian and Samarkand are now called the same thing on both a county and a barony level
The Rajastani Empire is now spelled Rajasthani Empire.
Fixed that two of the Cheraku Reddy spouses in 1066 were erroneously also set up as daughters of the dynasty.
Added Ratnapura Gem Mines
Added Zawar Zinc Mines
Added Takkeda Copper Mines
Added Pansjhir Silver Mines
Added Trepca Mines
Added Taghaza Salt Mines
Added Cevennes Silver Mines
Added Allaq Gold Mines
Added Konasamudram Iron Mines
Added Ijil Salt Mines
Added Torda Salt Mines
Added Rudnik Silver Mines
Added Srebrenica Silver Mines
Added Khetri Copper Mines
Added Phocea Alum Mines
Added Verespatak Gold Mines
Added Nishapur Turquoise Mines
Added Forest of Dean Iron Mines

Bugfixes

◈ Fixed several Out-Of-Sync issues and rare client disconnects when playing longer multiplayer sessions.
◈ Fixed issue regarding the highlighter focusing on the background instead of the Inspirations tutorial pop-up.
◈ Fixed artifact reforge, repair and destroy UI navigation
◈ Restored broken domain limit highlight when granting/revoking titles.
◈ Fixed war objective’s borders not being highlighted on the map when declaring war for courtier’s claims.
◈ Fixed empty tooltips while inspecting the Resources frame in the Character View panel.
◈ Fixed the “Culture” tile not being highlighted in the Character Radial when following the first page of the “Cultures” tutorial.
◈ Fixed the “Next” button being unresponsive after opening the “Cultures” tutorial’s second page.
◈ Fixed the “Innovations” menu not being highlighted when following page four of the “Cultures” tutorial.
◈ Fixed trait icons being misaligned in the tooltip of the “Traits” submenu of the “Character” tab.
◈ Fixed an issue regarding event tooltip information displaying participant information instead of event outcome.
◈ Fixed an issue where players were unable to move the selection cursor in “The Gallant Faris” event at the Royal Court.
◈ Fixed an issue where the newsfeed would not display images correctly.
◈ Removed the redundant “Change Character” buttons on the Contract Assistance window.
◈ Fixed an issue where the “Advice: Struggles” hint doesn’t trigger the tutorial for the Struggle.
◈ Fixed an issue where the character’s tooltip appears when hovering over a choice with the character’s name in the “On the March” event.
◈ Fixed navigation issues in Living Members and Houses buttons.
◈ Fixed activity options icons having uneven borders.
◈ Fixed an issue where players are unable to manipulate with Trait tooltip in Tooltip Mode.
◈ Fixed the ‘Court Positions’ window staying on screen after switching player and blocking the UI.
◈ Fixed achievements indicator in the “Ruler Designer” window
◈ Fixed an issue where the “Find Concubine” menu lacked descriptions.
◈ Fixed court position appoint window portrait navigation.
◈ Fixed issue regarding Character Radial menu is obfuscated for most character interactions and added navigation to the last widget after the radial is closed.
◈ Fixed game crash when joining an invited multiplayer session.
◈ Fixed navigation in the Culture tab.
◈ Fixed issue where the “Link Account” window becomes locked and inoperable.
◈ Fixed issue where “X” for changing character is not mentioned in the context prompt panel.
◈ Fixed loading/switching delays for characters and cloth textures
A betrothed no longer counts when determining if a character has enough spouses (according to their faith and standing)
Death notification events for close relatives now show the killer if they are known to you
Event after revoking titles legitimately no longer states you incurred tyranny when you did not
Fix the obese and malnourished icons not showing on the character modifiers; the impact was applied but the modifier hidden.
Fixed Up Late inspiration event sometimes forcing intimate relations
Fixed alliance formed by Friends with Benefits event invalidating immediately
Fixed broken marriage candidate loc in A Notable Guest Arrived message
Fixed crash with unlanded characters taking decisions with cooldowns
Fixed duchy titles granted in Petition Liege not transferring de jure vassals
Fixed some Indian cities not having holding illustrations
Infirm characters are now considered to be unhealthy by default
Men-at-arms Counter Efficiency now actually improves YOUR counter efficiency
Removed option to continue Feud against house with no members left after murdering the last one
Reset vassal contracts who are not visible to the default contract option.
Revoking titles from vassals held in other’s prisons no longer leads to war, but grants twice as much tyranny if you have no valid reason
Add missing modifier of powerful vassals opinion change on offer vassalage
Add missing obese modifier
Characters with the Halq modifier will now not wear a hat
Clergy should now be able to fight when their faith or culture allows it, instead of when BOTH their faith and culture allows it
Conquest and Relic wars are no longer incredibly cheap for Tribals due to the discount being applied twice
Fix powerful agent court position text as icon
Fix tooltip modifiers being green when should be red
Fix vassal sorting by opinion of you
Fixed Mountaineer Ruralism not being visible for West Slavic cultures
Fixed a few instances of the text ‘DESCRIPTION’ appearing in Spymaster feed messages
Fixed a lot of memories with the incorrect duration specified
Fixed an issue in Varangian events where the wrong character would be added to your court
Fixed an issue where Abduct schemes could freeze if the ‘Unwelcome Guests’ method was chosen
Fixed an issue where the Fellow Vassal Opinion from the Foreign Affairs council task
Fixed an issue where the Viking Longship event picture wasn’t being used
Fixed an issue where you could get the ‘forget a language’ event while at the language cap
Fixed broken loc in match made memory
Fixed gaps in some title histories breaking presentation of previous rulers
Fixed incorrect culture reference in Outremer decision
Fixed incorrect display value of spymaster secret discovery %
Fixed incorrect siege weapons appearing for certain graphical cultures
Fixed minor issues with the triggers for Witch event options related to sex
Fixed several issues with clergy not wearing the correct clothes at all times
Fixed several issues with how the Court Fashion amenity applied clothes to courtiers & guests
Fixed several issues with various poems sent via the interaction
Fixed several smaller issues in shieldmaiden events and made them respect if martial gender is determined by faith or culture
Fixed the Conciliation/Compromise Struggle endings sometimes not working if you held more than one kingdom
Fixed the Court Tutor not boosting the education of unlanded children
Fixed the Domination ending not always working if you had united the Spanish thrones
Fixed the Found the Capital of the Rus decision not granting prestige
Fixed the Improve Contract catalyst not always working in the Struggle for Iberia
Fixed the Norse Temple event background not showing if you had reformed the faith
Fixed the Struggle for Iberia nemesis catalyst triggering twice
Fixed the Struggle for Iberia rivalry catalyst not triggering
If you’re having extramarital sex with your soulmate and they reveal your secret, they will no longer consider your exclusivity promise to be broken
Infants no longer have magnificent eyelashes
It’s now possible to get the best House Feud outcome modifier
Made sure that Genghis Khan gets the same bonuses no matter what game rules you are using
Made sure that the symbol of Muhammad doesn’t wear a turban once and for all
Removed misplaced trigger for the Royal custom cloak which prevented non-kings from using it in the barbershop
Removed superfluous triggers from the Coterie Dynasty Legacy
Removed trigger in Horse Lords which prevented the tradition from being selectable by cultures in the steppe
Revealing secrets of Counts now triggers catalysts in the Iberian Struggle as it should
Rogue Administration/Beyond Boundaries now give a criminal opinion against the thief, require lower tier rulers, and try to take from rulers likely to be closer
Samaritans can now restore the Jewish Priesthood
Simplified the triggers for the Decision to revoke a Holy Order lease, this should make them always appear in the list
Fixed not being able to revoke Holy Order leases if you weren’t the patron or of another faith
The AI will no longer back out of deciding to Hold Court
The Artifact murder save event should no longer break when you are traveling over water
The Bathhouse rivalry event will no longer grab your spouses or consorts
The Commander Trait Teaching effect can now fire from the Train Commanders Marshal Task
The Designate Shieldmaiden interaction now looks at Martial Customs instead of Faith Doctrines if you own Royal Court
The HRE high nobility clothing is now valid for kings and emperors
The Knight Training effects from the Train Commanders Marshal Task now fire as they should
The Learn Language struggle catalyst now correctly awards prestige instead of piety
The Raid alert will now only appear if your lands or your vassals lands are being raided
The Sanctioned War Declaration contract now properly reduces CB cost in internal wars
The Tocharian culture now starts with Innovations unlocked
Universities will now give their modifiers to their holder
Western-style castles that somehow make their way over to India will now use the correct texture
When equipping artifacts, actually check the character owns it
You can no longer continue House Feuds against Houses with no members
You can now grant Head of Faith titles to characters who follow the same Head of Faith as you
Per user request, challenges to board game from the AI no longer pop open
Children are now eligible to play board games via interaction again
Disabled buildings that has some fort level bonus will always provide at least 1 level
Female characters obtaining the nickname “Sea-King” will now be correctly gendered “Sea-Queen”
Fixed struggle events sometimes firing when inappropriate (imprisoned, incapable, etc)
Inverting gender rules now also correctly inverts basic gender preferences (allowing for slightly smoother realm law invalidation and reducing systemic male preference bias in female dominated worlds)
Inverting gender rules now catches and deposes more male rulers in favour of female heirs than before
Revoking a Holy Order lease via the decision will no longer deduct double piety
Two events that said they would give you court grandeur (and didn’t) now actually give the listed reward
When inverting gender rules, Nubian Warrior Queens is now replaced with Nubian Warrior Kings
When using the inverted gender dominance game rule setting, first-generation HoFs will now be inverted correctly (rather than waiting for the first incumbent to die)
When using the inverted gender dominance game rule setting, title laws will now be correctly inverted (e.g., France or the HRE in 1066)
Counter Efficiency now give you a benefit, with your MaA being harder to counter by the stated % amount
Fixed scoping issues in Hold Court events Personal Matter, Child of the Court, and Public Accusation
Fixed issue with the Hold Court event “A Holy Tomb” which could lead to the queue getting stuck forever – locking you out of Holding Court again or attending any other activity
Negotiating an Alliance now correctly tells you who you are negotiating an alliance with instead of just saying ‘you’
It is now possible to build a Great Temple in Niani
Sicilian Culture can now spread in areas with Arabic heritage cultures
Independence war, Liberty Faction war and Title Refusal wars can now roll back tribal authority.
No longer possible to demand conversion of holy order master when releasing them from prison
The Fecund trait should now make characters fertile for 5 more years
Vassals imprisoned abroad can no longer refuse title revocation and thus create tyranny wars, but lieges will receive twice as much tyranny for revoking their titles illegitimately
Fixed many Royal Court regional weapon models not appearing in normal playthroughs
When starting a game and entering the map, a bunch of 2D HUD elements will now no longer flicker in for a couple of frames until they realize they shouldn’t be there.
Fixed a bug where the AI would not properly validate if it can send a character interaction before actually sending it.
Fixed several rare Out-of-Syncs across the game
Artifacts with a low durability no longer warn about low durability when this is not the case.
Headlines in credits no longer overlap names in the release above.
‘Too few spouses’ is no longer negated by a betrothal
Character interactions are now delivered to the recipient immediately, no need to wait for 1 day

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Crusader Kings 3 Update 1.027 Patch Notes (Update 14)

Crusader Kings 3 (CK3) Console Patch Notes – September 18, 2024

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