Revamped Horde Mode & New Noria Map

Patch #24 Changelog 21/12/2021

General

• Enabled Christmas event
• Revamped Horde
• Added new Frontline and Invasion map: Noria
• Added new Brawl map: Cortile
• Upgraded Unreal Engine to 4.26
• Players can no longer select which team to join, ensuring more balanced teams. Party members will be grouped together whenever possible.

Skins

• Added Nubian character with new hair, beards & eyebrows available for the rest of the characters
• Added skullcaps, kipchaks, greathelms, nasal helmet, rus spectacle helmet
• Added new aventails for some helmets
• Added sultan set
• Added scale tunic
• Added mail surcoat and damaged surcoat
• Added leather pads set
• Added ailettes
• Added new mail limbs
• Added crusader arming sword set
• Added new Maciejowski chopper executioner sword skin
• Added Grotesque DLC Set, including armor & items for every slot and the Grotesque mace for the evening star.
• Added Lion DLC Set including armor & items for every slot and the Trident skin for the partisan

Combat

• Initiating a throw no longer slows players movement speed down as much
• Fixed riposte kick being too fast & jump kick windup now 25ms faster

Weapons & Equipment

• Added Scimitar – a new one handed weapon
• When players spawn without toolbox, deployable spawn and firepit now destroy like other toolbox placeables
• Deployable spawn is now more fragile and no longer grants spawn protection
• Fixed toolbox being able to build on pushables
• Shawm point cost reduced to 6
• Partisan 25ms faster stab & strike windup
• Partisan miss recoveries shorter & faster throw windup, slightly higher throw damage
• Shortspear stab 25ms faster, 50ms shorter miss recoveries & increased stab damage
• Shortspear throw windup slightly faster
• Added new Fire Urn to CombatTest

Maps

• Noria map added (INV, FL, HRD, FFA, TDM, SKM)
• Cortile map added (FFA, TDM, SKM, DU, TF)
• Various map optimizations
• Fixed Feitoria under the map exploit
• Castello collision fixes & map layout improvements
• Deleted spawn camp ballista on Camp INV, extended spawn protection on FL to extend over the same problem ballista
• Removed various toolbox exploits

Horde

• Players now have to defend their AI commander and prevent him from dying until the end
• Players can now level up & distribute skill points into 52 different skills arranged into 4 trees, which grant passive bonuses as well as active (ultimate) abilities
• Players can now respawn during waves and get revived
• Updated maps
• Greatly improved pacing
• Reworked economy, equipment balance and attributes
• Added makeshift bow, light crossbow, and a black fire bomb
• Throwable weapons replenish their ammo over time
• Added Goblin merchant and the ability to sell equipment
• Improved gameplay to be less frustrating and kiting centric
• Improved and updated enemy behaviour and added some new enemies
• Added skin variations to several bots like peasants, rangers, militia, and ogres
• Change behaviour or few weapons and shields in horde mode
• Added new sounds and UI
• Lots of other improvements and additions

Sounds

• Reduced heartbeat length to 3 seconds
• New Eastern voice set
• Shawm sound replaced

UI

• Fixed issue with spawn screen where deployable spawn points would overlap default spawn points
• Added UI to objective floaters that indicates whether it's above or below the player