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Patch #36 (Beta) Changelog

Debt Of Honor

Balance:

• Army Recruitment: The balance of army recruitment by kings on the map at medium and easy difficulty levels.
• AI Peace Agreements: AI that has signed peace with the player will no longer attack the player's vassals.
• Training Limits: Soldier training is now limited by the inspector’s combat level / XP bonuses are calculated based on command level / training XP coefficients have been reduced.
• Inspection XP: Added XP gain for conducting inspections in the Chancellery.
• Guaranteed Peace: At Peaceful and Medium difficulty levels, you will now always be able to conclude a peace agreement. And since the peace treaty is now always available, its cost has increased.
• Unholy Horde Limit: Fixed a bug where the Unholy Horde could increase its number of warriors beyond the 60-unit limit after capturing cities.
• Temple Filter Removal: It’s no longer possible to set population type filters (peasants, soldiers, prisoners) in temples.
• Bishop Housing: Bishops will now receive the "Homeless" thought if they do not have their own house.
• Church Size: Church capacity has been reduced to 30.
• Pilgrim Behavior: Pilgrims will attack everyone, but only once. After receiving food, they will leave the city within a day.
• Reward Thought Adjustment: The strength of the "rewarded me" thought now depends on the number of rings the target has. Its also lasts longer.
• Bishop Sermons: If there are few fanatics in the city, the Bishop will occasionally hold faith sermons himself. If relations with the king are below 0, he will do so almost daily.
• A new way to appease the Bishop: Added a thought from the bishop to the king regarding holding sermons.
• Sins strength: Sins on medium and hardcore difficulty now have a stronger negative impact on mood.
• Church Attendance Exploit Fix: To prevent exploits, filters for church attendance have been removed. The House of Sophia is now open to all children.
• Bishop Punishment Demands: The Bishop may demand the punishment of a lord whose relation with him is below -25 (previously -50).
• Matriarch Hostility Penalty: The negative thought among peasants (and especially fanatics) has been strengthened if the Matriarch is hostile toward you (below -25).
• Enemy behaviour Incoming enemies and rebels will set fire to no more than 6 buildings in the city.

UI and QOL:

• Performance Optimization: Optimized map decor performance—significant improvement in saves with large amounts of placed decor.
• Date Planning Trait: Characters planning a date will now have a trait indicating this in their menu.
• Squad Menu Tooltip: Added a tooltip marker next to the "stay behind" checkbox in the squad menu.
• Exit Logic: Characters from the same faction will now exit the local map through the same random exit.
• Fertilization Toggle: Added a checkbox to disable automatic field fertilization (in field building menus).
• Training Warning Notification: Added a notification on the right side if many soldiers (30% or more) cannot train due to an inadequate instructor level.
• Inspector Auto-Replacement: Automatic replacement of the inspector with the Chancellery in buildings where the inspector was previously assigned.
• Sexual Need Tooltip: For monogamous characters, if they gain the "High Sexual Need" trait, the tooltip now includes extra information.
• Spouse Relationship Tip: Added an advisor tip if a monogamous character’s relationship with their spouse drops below 0.
• Guest greeting: Lowered the priority of the king's greeting activity so that an arriving guest does not interrupt the king's important actions.
• Hall notofications: Added an arrow to the hall if no inspector is assigned there.

Fixes:

• Menu Music: Fixed a bug where main menu music wouldn’t stop if the "Continue" button was pressed right after returning to the main menu.
• Tooltip Spacing: Fixed a bug where [noparse]{optional...}[/noparse] variables in tooltips would still take up a line even without data, causing excessive blank lines (especially in the "Plundering" action).
• Quest Hint Display: Fixed a bug where quest results didn’t show [nested_hints], e.g., "Heir Won!" and "King Won!" during the AI heir rebellion if the player supported the losing side.
• Avatar Icon Alignment: Fixed incorrect positioning of quest icons with avatars—they are now properly aligned.
• Aid Restriction: The player can no longer send aid to both the rebellious lord and the legitimate king in AI rebellion quests.
• Captured Lord Fix: Fixed a bug where capturing lords didn't work properly—they weren’t considered the player’s prisoners, many actions were disabled, and their original faction didn’t request ransom.
• Grave Display: A lord’s grave will not appear in the building list unless their body is burned.
• Tutorial Global Map Button: Fixed a bug in the tutorial where the player couldn't access the global map button during the "trade with neighbor" step.
• Beheading Requirement: Only beheading now counts toward the achievement for punishing innocents.
• Ring Inheritance: Fixed inheritance of rings when the king inherits them.
• Captivity Punishment Reset: Fixed the "captivity" punishment type being reset after loading a game.
• Training Grounds UI: Updated the interface for the training grounds building.
• Inspection Limit: Fixed the ability to inspect the training grounds multiple times a day.
• Thought Tooltip: Changed tooltip for the thought "sex with peasant".
• Localization Issue: Changing localization no longer affects the display of the punished group selection on the execution platform.
• Knowledge Reset: Blinding a lord will now reset their ongoing knowledge learning.
• Bandit Bribe Bug: Fixed a bug where the "Bribe" action in a bandit camp triggered the "Bribe to Attack" action.
• Overpopulation Thought: Fixed missing context in the tooltip for the "Overpopulation" thought.
• Training Battle End: Training battles will now end if the training grounds are destroyed.
• Duel Softlock: Fixed a bug where a duel wouldn’t reset if it didn’t end in one participant’s death.
• Mood from Sins: Fixed a bug where the effect of sins on mood was always lower than intended in version 2.5.
• Tutorial Softlocks: Fixed rare softlocks in the tutorial.
• Stacked Thoughts: Fixed a bug where the "Foreigners are pushing us out!" thought could stack up to 3 times.
• Manual Battle Softlock: Fixed a potential softlock in manual battles on the global map when aiding an ally in defense.
• Frozen Characters: Fixed a bug causing characters to freeze in place.
• Encyclopedia Image: Updated the image in the encyclopedia article about the execution platform.
• Family Grouping Bug: Fixed a bug in the "Father and Three Daughters" family setup where daughters didn’t appear grouped as children of the same character in the dynasty menu.
• No-Handed Loop: Fixed a bug where a lord without both hands could enter an infinite gear loop. Now, a one-handed lord will return their shield to storage, and a no-handed lord will also return weapons and dagger since they can’t use them.
• Charismatic Trait: The "Charismatic" trait now gives an interest bonus only to characters of the opposite sex.
• Revenge Limitation: Characters can no longer develop a desire for revenge against a child.
• Wall Construction Bug: Fixed a bug where builders could get stuck when constructing walls in narrow map areas.
• Seduction Bonus Bug: Fixed a bug where a seduction target wouldn’t get a relationship bonus with the king if the king himself was the seducer.
• Bribe Restriction Tooltip: Forced "bribe for sex" command on a peasant is now blocked for monogamous characters (with a tooltip explaining why).
• Fire effect: Fixed a bug where fire particles sometimes remained in buildings after extinguishing was completed.
• Enemy behaviour:Fixed a bug where enemy armies raiding the player's city looted resources instead of gold
• Hints: Reduced the height of empty lines in hints.
• Puppets assassination: Fixed nighttime assassination by puppets
• Puppets bribery: Fixed puppet bribery of the player's lord