An update to Pirates Vikings & Knights II has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Pirates Vikings & Knights II. The major changes include:

Balance

• Archer’s Special arrows now pierce once

• Gestir Special now clashes with walls regardless of Speed Boost

• Gestir Special now only stuns enemies during Speed Boost

• Greatly reduced Buccaneer's movement while hooking a player

• Heavy Knight’s Special now stuns on immediately

• Increased Buccaneer’s weapon swap speed after landing an uppercut

• Langseax range increased 50 -> 55

• Mace and Buckler charge normal -> slow

• Modified "fall bonus" damage to disallow bunnyhopping

• Readded weapon and class scripts (fixes mp_allow_custom_balance)

• Skirmisher Flintlocks should always detonate keg

Miscellaneous

• Added a sound effect for getting hit with the Blunderbuss

• Added kill icon for cratering enemies

• Added more context hints

• Added statistics for Buccaneer

• Added the ability for parrots to fight each other in Duel

• Default ping bind moved from Mouse Wheel to the 4 and 5 keys

• Map changes via RTV are now delayed by 3s to allow players to react

• Music volume now respects main game volume

• Normalized Heavy Knight voiceline volume

• Trinket drop no longer prevented by receiving damage

• Updated Assassin's Special particles

• Updated Bondi's Special particles

• Updated Buccaneer voice lines for landing the Boarding Hook

• Updated Captain's Special particles

• Updated drunkenness effects

• Updated facial expressions

• Updated goomba stomp logic

• Updated local credits

• Updated suicide/humiliation killfeed strings

• Votes are now tallied in the RTV Vote HUD

Bugs

• Fixed achievements not being downloaded from Steam, resulting in local desync and missing unlocks

• Fixed ammo pickup not displaying on HUD

• Fixed Assassin's statistics being improperly tracked

• Fixed being able to wall kick off of NPCs

• Fixed being locked out of attacking when kicking/rolling with Atlatl

• Fixed being unable to crouch while reloading Atlatl

• Fixed Boarding Hook projectile crash

• Fixed Buccaneer Special being usable only once

• Fixed Buccaneer Special having infinite ammo

• Fixed chest special sound not playing

• Fixed Competitive rounds being stalled by Parrots on the winning team

• Fixed GrogBots attempting to respawn during round end

• Fixed main menu character head not turning when hovering over Multiplayer Options

• Fixed melee/ranged achievement tracking

• Fixed missing vote entries during RTV

• Fixed missing weapon handle crash when custom balance is turned on during match

• Fixed no-ammo Cutlass block animation

• Fixed Parrots spawning inside of walls

• Fixed particle trails for certain projectiles

• Fixed post-death projectile view ending too early/late

• Fixed post-death projectile view getting stuck when Parrot dies

• Fixed progressive spawns (the ability to disable spawns)

• Fixed rare crash when drawing HUD melee direction indicator

• Fixed special bar disappearing on kick and roll

• Fixed users forcing RTV even when count doesn't match quota

• Fixed water interrupting Assassin Crossbow reload

• Fixed water preventing use of Boarding Hook

• Optimized network usage of hit sounds

• Removed rtvcyclefile

• RTV no longer populates loose files by default (fixes duel_ and comp_ maps being forced into rotation)

• Updated Parrot pathfinding logic

• When RTV is called after a nextlevel vote, server now switches to the winning map by default (mimics SourceMod)