This hotfix addresses some of the critical issues that came with Patch #21. Regarding performance issues caused by Patch #21: while we expect performance to improve with this hotfix, we are still looking into the cause of some of the performance issues and we will be following up with more hotfixes to address them. Thank you for your patience!

Patch #21 Hotfix 1 Changelog 16/04/2021

General

• Castello Frontline: Fixed some stuckspots and extended some out of bounds kill volumes
  
• Castello Frontline: Adjusted blue spawns on Keep Capture Point to reduce run times.
  
• Castello Frontline: Clamped Y max rotation to the minimum on ballistae.
  
• Castello Frontline: Lowered aggro radius for nobles to prevent them from ascending/descending stairs
  
• Castello Frontline: Moved top spawns on blue side to the outer balcony
  
• Castello Invasion: Fixed being able to pick up treasure chests even after enough of them have been delivered
  
• Camp: Fixed a material that could not compile
  
• Contraband: made kill volumes less overzealous, added missing ones.
  
• Feitoria: Attacker spawns adjusted to not be in the LoS of ballista & turd spawn fix
  
• Feitoria: Adjusted exit points for ladders, added Falx & Partisan spawners
  
• Grad Skirmish: Added more OOBs to prevent camping/stalling
  
• Taiga Horde: Added OOB volume in the secret cave to prevent Horde cheese
  
• Fixed rogue spawn on Moshpit
  
• Partisan added to Horde maps (cost: 400)
  
• Slightly reduced speed of fastest Horde enemies
  
• Destroyables no longer receive decals
  
• Fixed a performance regression involving sky textures
  
• Chat: Fixed some chat commands
  
• Chat: Added whisper command (only for community servers - off by default)
  
• Chat: Added command to send announcement to all players
  
• Chat: Added config options for admin chat and whisper chat (Adminchat is on by default, whisper is off by default)
  
• Chat: Added modding hooks for chat commands
  
• Chat: Added /help command (Gives info on commands)
  
• Chat: Renamed chat commands, see /help for explanations
  
• Fixed couch not being parried
  
• Parrying projectiles at 0 stam no longer causes a disarm/stun
  
• Fixed kick vs kick block range being too long
  
• Fixed kick followups being slow
  
• Jump kick 25ms faster
  
• Kick combo 25ms faster
  
• Lunge increased 25ms
  
• Flinch parry mechanic window reduced to 150ms from 200ms
  
• Movement momentum mechanic now much less aggressive and only slows extreme cases
  
• Can now suicide in Horde again
  
• Can now kick with bows/xbow, ranged equipment, etc again (known issue: xbow isn’t using the correct kick animation)
  
• Noble kick now ragdolls again
  
• Improved flourish animations
  
• Fixed ability to use emotes that don't belong to the equipment currently used
  
• Fixed a stamina/health display error that could cause a 1-off absolute error in some cases (e.g. spamming 4 feints in a row)
  
• Fixed a crash that could happen if requesting a Steam auth session ticket times out, also increased timeout from 10 to 30 seconds
  
• Fixed community servers trying to access a user's inventory when they unlock gear
  
• Fixed server browser favorite and recent servers not working
  
• Fixed servers crashing if a desired port is already bound
  
• Fixed a server crash related to horses
  
• Adjusted horse footstep mixing
  
• Adjusted human footstep mixing
  
• Replaced dirt footsteps
  
• Tweaked player vs enemy footstep audio balance: Your own footsteps now have slightly lower volume than the enemy.
  
• Changed flourish sounds to be more like the original ones
  
• Lowered footstep volume for players’ own horse
  
• Small and big axe equip sounds volume lowered
  
• Removed Jiggly smoke on mortar
  
• Fixed server browser entry favorites button not being clickable
  
• Fixed crosshair angle indicator failing to lock angle on attack morphs
  
• Fixed parry shield UI popup persisting during flinch
  
• Updated armory speed bar to be accurate to the new changes to movement speeds