Stronghold Crusader II, Version 1.0.19369 Released!

[Mathew Steel 151]

The latest version of Stronghold Crusader II has been released, this update includes bug fixes, game balancing and misc changes.

 

Balance Changes

Wood Camp footprint reduced to 2x3 tiles.

Wood Camp cost reduced to 10 wood.

Updated starting troops for all AI Lords.

Updated all AI Lords' castles.

AI Lords will now randomly select their castle size and rotation when starting Custom Skirmish or Multiplayer games.

AI Lords will now try to build the largest castle size possible within the available free space in Custom Skirmish and Multiplayer games.

Skirmish Trail missions rebalanced to curb rushing the AI Lords:

 

Breath of the Infidel - Pit of Despair

Desert Heat - Isolation

Way of the Warrior - Lord of The Desert, The Two Brothers and Hope Springs

A Trail of Tears - Mighty River, Predator and Sands of Time

Hell's Teeth - The Peninsula and To The Summit

 

Bug Fixes

Fixed - Slowdown caused by no trees or wood being available on the map for Woodcutters.

Fixed - Players receiving a popularity bonus for multiple food types when rations are set to 0.

Fixed players? estates being changed on the mini-map when they were added or removed from a team.

Fixed - Players that aren?t in a team in Skirmish and Multiplayer games not being kicked out on game start.

Fixed - Multiplayer game lobby not showing correct values for clients when they first join the game.

Fixed - Greatest Lord screen being available in non-skirmish missions.

Fixed ? Issues with Ranger's animation and props.

Fixed - Exploit where placing a free wood camp would refund half the cost in wood.

Fixed - Village estates colour issues in the Map Editor.

Fixed ? Various crashes.

 

Misc Changes

Added support for changing available keyboard layouts using ALT+SHIFT.

[Nigel 71]

Whow, the new patch is out. :O

 

Thanks for sharing - must go and give it a try.

 

 

 

Edit:

Misc Changes

Added support for changing available keyboard layouts using ALT+SHIFT.

 

I did not see this on the SHC2 forum announcement. What does this actually do?

Edited October 16, 2014 by Nigel