Hello everyone,

This update contains visual enhancements further pushing the game towards a brighter and more detailed look. The game is sharper, has less fog and more colors. I also adjusted the lighting to be a bit brighter during bad weather. It also contains new house models and a swamp siege test battle that can randomly occur when playing a siege quick battle.

The biggest change is the heraldry system. You can now manually choose 3 colors and build up your heraldry using 3 layers. This allows for more creativity and allows a more historical representation.

Full changelog:

• Rework heraldry system: support for 3 colored layers
  
• allow player to select specific heraldry colors
  
• Reduce game fog / Tweak lighting
  
• Increase default game TAA sharpening
  
• Add new village models
  
• Add new tree models
  
• Add swamp siege test level
  
• Fix siege projectiles not killing units
  
• Add stones and shrubs to dirt
  
• Add pebbles to sand
  
• Fix AI formations making constant move noises during sieges
  
• Defending siege player can sally out, rush out of gate and start battle
  
• Fix defensive catapult flee distance, should now flee when enemy breaches the walls
  
• Remove middle mouse button zoom
  
• Remove slowmotion effects except a subtle effect during executions
  
• Prevent AI from selecting non playable lords in quick battle
  
• Further optimize save files
  
• Add new scene for main menu
  
• Add new Scene and UI for customization
  
• Fix archer stakes not deploying for defending players outside of siege battles
  
• Fix loading screen from afterbattle screen to campaign map
  
• Implement more historically accurate maces
  
• Add new heraldry for Brederode
  
• Add new heraldry for Amstel
  
• Rework Utrecht heraldry to be more historically accurate
  
• Set Archer draw sidearm animation to only affect upperbody
  
• Fix one handed no shield animations
  
• set correct heraldry color for simpler horse saddles
  
• Fix officers unit classes to be compatible with their portrait
  
• Only show order controls when you can use them during siege
  
• Fix Saddle rigging
  
• fix no saddle horse material show AO lines from saddle
  
• Rotate west friesland heraldry the right way
  
• Fix enemy lord not dying
  
• Fix siege night battles ending battle
  

If you have questions, suggestions and bugs to report. Feel free to open a topic in the discussions or join the discord at: https://discord.gg/Ucm4fCDwz3

Thank you for all the support so far!