M&B 2 Bannerlord Update 1.09 Patch Notes

Singleplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a crash that occurred when an agent dropped its weapons upon death.
• Fixed a combat-related crash.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when peace was made during a siege.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when switching menus during an encounter.
• Fixed a crash that occurred due to a bugged map event where one side had no party.
• Fixed a crash that occurred during the sergeant score calculation when clanless bandit heroes participated in battles.

Fixes

• Fixed the incorrect criteria for unlocking the Entrepreneur, Explorer and Supreme Emperor achievements.
• Fixed a session bug that caused achievement unlocks to not be processed.
• Addressed an issue that caused attackers in sieges to loop between the remaining defenders and the initial conquered wall section without attacking anyone.

Multiplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a server crash related to objective and kill rewards.

Fixes

• Reduced the time needed to join a crowded server.

Initial Beta Changelog:

Singleplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a crash that occurred when ending a conversation.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when a player encountered a party that was very close to a settlement’s gate.
• Fixed a crash that occurred if the main hero became a prisoner while a clan member was solving an issue.
• Fixed a crash that occurred on the encyclopedia screen due to a GPU memory-related issue.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when an agent was killed while it was switching weapons.
• Fixed a crash that occurred during the lord’s keep battle when troops spawned in.
• Fixed a crash that occurred during the AI opponent’s turn in Tablut.

Localisation

• Fixed minor text and translation-related bugs.

Art

• Added a new town scene (Sanala).

Animations

• Improved conversation animations with lords and notables. That includes male and female poses, more alternatives for different moods and improved facial animations.
• Improved lip synchronization face shapes, resulting in a better match between voice and facial animations.

Campaign Map

• Addressed an issue that prevented some settlements from being accessible with the gamepad.

UI

• Addressed an issue that caused the marriage offer notification to disappear.
• Addressed an issue that caused the scoreboard to stay visible even when no longer relevant.
• Addressed an issue that caused B/Circle controller buttons to not work consistently in game menus after sneaking inside towns.
• Addressed an issue that caused LB/L1 and RB/R1 controller buttons to switch tabs in the clan screen while the “create a party” popup was open.
• Addressed an issue that prevented the game from pausing when losing focus during a loading screen.

Battles and Sieges

• Addressed an issue that prevented some lances with banners from being couched.
• Addressed an issue that prevented the equipment control view from being displayed during keep battles.
• Addressed an issue that altered the menu text when attacked while raiding a village.

Armies

• Addressed an issue that allowed for infinite influence to be gained by donating troops to companion parties within the same army.

Kingdoms and Diplomacy

• Adjusted the war desire calculations of factions to better match the expected war durations.

Quests & Issues

• Addressed an issue that caused the Family Feud quest dialogue to be stuck in a loop.
• Addressed an issue that prevented the completed main storyline quests from being displayed in the quest log.

Other

• Addressed an issue that caused Vlandian Vanguard troops to spawn without shields.
• Assigned names to the battle terrains used in Custom Battle.

Multiplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a server crash that occurred when an agent passed out of the map boundary.

Other – Miscellaneous

• Dedicated Custom Server Helper Changes
  • Made the helper module a “MultiplayerOptional” module to allow servers and clients to enable it freely without hindering the ability to join servers.
  • Added the ability to re-download existing maps.
  • Added a warning marker to easily see which existing scenes may not be compatible with their server counterpart.
  • The helper module now opens the “Download Panel” menu automatically if the scene compatibility check fails for a helper module-enabled server.
  • Strengthened and modified the helper web panel authentication to invalidate existing credentials when the AdminPassword is changed.
• Added client-side checks that prevent players from joining servers for which they do not have a compatible scene file.
• Addressed an issue that prevented the player from joining password-protected servers due to the server selection disappearing.
• Addressed an issue that allowed for map downloading with no maps selected on the “Download Panel” menu.

Server & Network

• Addressed an issue that caused custom game invites to be ignored when the player was in the queue.

UI

• Addressed an issue that caused the “Open Download Panel” menu item to be listed even for servers without the helper module loaded.

Both

UI

• Updated the Voice Language option tab description and removed the Voice Language option from multiplayer options.
• Addressed an issue that prevented item visuals from being shown until the mouse hovered over the item.

Performance

• Optimised memory usage.

Other

• Addressed an issue that prevented the “Ride it Like You Stole It” and “SwordBearer” achievements from being unlocked.
• Addressed an issue that caused dust particles to be stretched across the screen.

Modding

• Added a new module category “MultiplayerOptional” for tool-oriented modules. Servers and clients will by default be compatible if their mismatching modules are limited to optional ones.
• Added a new launch argument for server hosts to disable optional modules on their server (dedicatedcustomserverDontAllowOptionalModules).
• Modified the xscene file format to optionally allow for versioning of scene files which grants more reliability when checking client-server compatibility. The new attributes are supported on the scene editor options.
• Addressed an issue that caused non-official modules to have their unspecified 4th version segment default to values incompatible between server and client.
• Fixed a crash that occurred on launcher start if the launcher couldn’t find a module’s SubModule.xml file.
• Addressed an issue that caused a MpClassDivisions.xml merging issue, when the new XML had conditional effects.