Small patch coming - July 4th, 2012

**CraigTW** · July 04, 2012, 09:02 AM

Hi all,

Just to let you know that a small FotS/Shogun 2 patch is coming soon which addresses the following issues:

• Lighting shader tweaks to alter lighting in battles throughout the game. This affects how "gloss" appears.
• A Multiplayer crash on host machine when searching for a 4v4 Set-up team siege battle has been fixed.
• Fixed crash when attempting to play Fall of the Samurai Historical Battles when players owns the stand alone Dragon War Battle Pack and not Total War: SHOGUN 2 Fall of the Samurai.
• Fix for players becoming stuck during the Avatar Multiplayer Tutorial after searching for a Match Made battle.
• The "Season" drop down list should now display correctly after changing map in a multiplayer Battle List battle.
• Wako pirates now have the correct banners in naval battles via the Campaign.
• Fix to prevent AI trade fleets grouped around occupied trade nodes in Campaign mode.
• Fix to prevent Mixed Avatars being able to join Battle List battles with 'Mixed Avatars' option turned off.
• Fix for bug in Avatar Conquest mode where players receiving a clan promotion were shown a message telling them they have been relegated.
• Desynchronisation (desync) message has been localised to French, Italian, German, Spanish, Czech, Russian, Polish.
• Fix for multiplayer campaign desynchronsiation (desync) when playing between German and Czech players.
• Improved compatibility with AMD Radeon HD 7 series graphics cards.
• Fixes to prevent desynchronisation (desync) in Multiplayer Campaign mode.
• Improved combat animation blending for cavalry.
• Added localisation to the multiplayer lobby for the status of TEd created maps when they are being shared.
• Fix for Sea of Japan naval battle map crash.
• Players can no longer delete the "Sea of Japan" Naval Battle map, and can delete their own maps (Created or shared through TEd) on the battle setup screen UI.
• Added localisation for battle setup screen UI in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Czech, Russian, Polish.

Thanks,

Craig.

**~~AgentGB~~** · July 04, 2012, 09:14 AM

Just noticed! thanks!

**JackDionne** · July 04, 2012, 09:21 AM

What about key issues for the Avatar Campaign, when will those get fixed or will they?

See signature block.

**♔The Black Knight♔** · July 04, 2012, 09:21 AM

Just saw it, thanks!

**le_fred** · July 04, 2012, 09:24 AM

Downloading now, i'm looking forward to seeing the new shaders !!!

**Inazuma** · July 04, 2012, 09:24 AM

Nice

Just wondering could you expand on the lighting tweaks? Maybe show a before and after picture?

**A Barbarian** · July 04, 2012, 09:59 AM

And maybe they even fixed the MSAA and DOF bugs even if the fixes are not documented, lol.

It will also be interesting to see how the new gloss rendering looks like.

In any case, I will do a backup of my game directory before the patch because you never know what CA breaks or which mods will stop working

And if the 7970 fix actually works, I would be very interested about the changes! (my 7970 works fine btw).

**Sir Furlong** · July 04, 2012, 10:10 AM

Thanks for letting us know

**The Useless Member** · July 04, 2012, 10:28 AM

I was wondering what downloaded.

Too bad to you didn't make as much patches for ETW.

**Huberto** · July 04, 2012, 11:55 AM

Thanks for the heads up Craig.

**windsupernova** · July 04, 2012, 11:38 AM

Thanks, was wondering what that patch did.

**A Barbarian** · July 04, 2012, 12:41 PM

LOL, now there is a mild but noticeable flickering in parts of the vegetation (DX11 all@ultra + 4xSSAA on a 7970). With every patch, they introduce new graphical bugs. And black patches with all MSAA modes and grid pattern with DOF bugs are also not fixed.

. I only hope that they put more care into the Rome 2 development. Otherwise I don't have much hope for it.

**MasterBigAb** · July 04, 2012, 01:20 PM

Stickied

**Dynamo11** · July 04, 2012, 01:37 PM

Well the patch reset my Avatar ):<

**Inazuma** · July 04, 2012, 03:34 PM

I just saw another thread on this forum about a previous patch that removed gloss. Bear in mind I've not really been around these forums since the vanilla game was released. I remember at the time, a hell of a lot of people complained that everything looked too shiny and waxy. So now I'm kind of laughing that opinions have shifted to the opposite extreme.

My personal opinion is that the game looks better without the intense gloss, especially when you don't have AA enabled (and I doubt many people do have it enabled due to performance). On the other hand, it's easier to see things that are shinier.

**Superghostboy** · July 04, 2012, 03:38 PM

1. Patch reset my Avatar---->
2. flickering Trees and other parts of Texture
3. Sun rays still not working on Shader 4.0/4.1/5.0!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

I see that Total War Rome II would go the same way of nice patch & bugs play like Shogun 2! A never ending of bugs

**JackDionne** · July 04, 2012, 04:14 PM

Originally Posted by CraigTW

Hi all,

Just to let you know that a small FotS/Shogun 2 patch is coming soon which addresses the following issues:

• Lighting shader tweaks to alter lighting in battles throughout the game. This affects how "gloss" appears.
• A Multiplayer crash on host machine when searching for a 4v4 Set-up team siege battle has been fixed.
• Fixed crash when attempting to play Fall of the Samurai Historical Battles when players owns the stand alone Dragon War Battle Pack and not Total War: SHOGUN 2 Fall of the Samurai.
• Fix for players becoming stuck during the Avatar Multiplayer Tutorial after searching for a Match Made battle.
• The "Season" drop down list should now display correctly after changing map in a multiplayer Battle List battle.
• Wako pirates now have the correct banners in naval battles via the Campaign.
• Fix to prevent AI trade fleets grouped around occupied trade nodes in Campaign mode.
• Fix to prevent Mixed Avatars being able to join Battle List battles with 'Mixed Avatars' option turned off.
• Fix for bug in Avatar Conquest mode where players receiving a clan promotion were shown a message telling them they have been relegated.
• Desynchronisation (desync) message has been localised to French, Italian, German, Spanish, Czech, Russian, Polish.
• Fix for multiplayer campaign desynchronsiation (desync) when playing between German and Czech players.
• Improved compatibility with AMD Radeon HD 7 series graphics cards.
• Fixes to prevent desynchronisation (desync) in Multiplayer Campaign mode.
• Improved combat animation blending for cavalry.
• Added localisation to the multiplayer lobby for the status of TEd created maps when they are being shared.
• Fix for Sea of Japan naval battle map crash.
• Players can no longer delete the "Sea of Japan" Naval Battle map, and can delete their own maps (Created or shared through TEd) on the battle setup screen UI.
• Added localisation for battle setup screen UI in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Czech, Russian, Polish.

Thanks,

Craig.

What about key issues for the Avatar Campaign, when will those get fixed or will they?

See signature block.