August 27, 2022 Update

Equivalent to Nightly Patch Version r3688

Gameplay
[*]Improve sorcerer quest: Overhaul stealth and alarm score calculations

Assets & Visuals
[] New Rhun Main Camp scenes
[] New Iron Hills Camp scenes, collaboration with Morgul
[] New Harad swords by Giles, preliminary implementation
[] Overhauled Minas Tirith scenes, expanded walkable area, optimized wall assets
[] Elven boots, made by Sid from TLDO
[] Numenorean Karma reward, made by Giles

Fixes
[] Fix a few faction strength related bugs
[] Small fixes: Avoid "gained 0 rank" message; remove outdated info in the war tutorial; improve kill bandits quest description; maybe fix a pathfinding issue in a Mirkwood scene
[] Fix dialog options for finishing raise troops quest
[] Improve pathfinding in Morannon siege
[] Fix "command allies in battle" mode not resetting, adjust cost
[] Fix prisoners disappearing when giving troops to friends
[] Disable TLD/M&B troop identifiers, replaced by WB troop banners
[] Make Gondor Ranger Skirt available in Henneth Annun store
[*] Add inventory chests to a number of Gondor regional battle fields

Equivalent to Nightly Patch Version r3641

Gameplay

• Experimental re-implementation of Native's agent label system
• Sieges: Prevent defender fadeout when player is defender
• Tweak and fix Moria drums reward
• Disallow caravans to join battles, disallow reinforcing caravans and prisoner trains
• Allow to send away following parties
• Check theater for follower parties, release them when leaving their faction's home theater or active theater
• Scale losses from simulating retreat with tactics skill
• Fix (unused) wheat items appearing in shops when "deliver food" quest is active

Assets & Visuals

• Implement stochastic shaders that avoid texture tiling for some ground textures
• New Harad armours by Giles; preliminary implementation
• New North Rhun Camp scenes by Aiden

Troops & Items

• Fix orc horizontal bow animation for mounted archery (thanks to Earendil for the tip-off)
• Fix animation sets and flags for a number of items, mostly spears that can be swung but don't do swing damage
• Fix a few items that would blur out when swung

Bugfix release

• Fix a bug in item abundance formula

Gameplay

• Make campaign difficulty savegame specific (instead of a global option), slightly adjust difficulty range
• Tweak loot system, looting skill how has a greater effect on loot amount and also quality
• Tweak FormAI and NewFormAI for hopefully better cavalry performance
• Recalculate xp and rank reward from follow marshall quest
• Add trade skill and relation bonus to item abundance
• Scale rank and relation gains with player Charisma

Assets & Visuals

• Six new and bigger Ithilien battlefields
• Improve a few Harad armor textures
• Add a bunch of native civilian items for town walkers
• Remove instanced shader from a bunch of helmet materials, caused z fighting
• Add itp_no_blur to all polearms + fix evil hammer wp type

Troops & Items

• Introduce rank requirements for shields
• Rebalance prices and some other stats for all melee weapons, introduce rank stat requirements
• Rebalance horses, introduce rank restrictions
• Rebalance leg armour; introduce difficulty rating and rank restrictions
• Fix Gondor fief troops attribute distribution
• New rank rewards for Harad and Lorien

• Adjust SE theatre advance camp positions

• Improve scout camp spawn script

• Fix region finder in battle menus

• Fix a few player start troops so they can equip all their weapons

• Fix a bug with sea battle quest that would cause the wrong target centre to be assigned under certain circumstances

• Add boots to race restriction script, because dwarf and orc boots don't fit regular sized skeletons and vice versa

• New models for Uruk-hai general armour, berserker kit, tracker armour

• New models for Isengard orc armours

• Improve Isengard armour reward

• Implement Minas Tirith scene (+siege) from the scene pack

• Rebalance all item prices and some other values for heavy armours, implement strength and rank requirements.

• Apply rank and strength requirements for helmets, stat adjustments

• prevent Gondor subfaction gear from showing up in Gondor regular (=no subfaction) stores

• Improve Isengard Uruk-hai armour models and textures, move Uruk-hai Berserker to Swordsmen branch

• Improve trigger for allies joining player team in sieges; make them cheer when not fighting

• Improve siege archer script (make attacker archers go melee when they're out of targets)

• Improve Bow+shield trigger, so players don't have to manually re-equip

• Improve troop identifiers, add black/white mode, make them slightly less obtrusive by applying gradient alpha reduction;

• Add a few new regions, adjust others, in order to fill all blank spots on the map

• Add a bunch of Mirkwood battlefields (refurbished from other scenes)

• Add new random battlefields for northern landscapes and desert type landscapes

• New Gondor battlefield by Morgul

• Fix and improve Edhellond siege;

Gameplay

• New Gundabad companion: Berta.

Various fixes

• Skull club animation set.
• Sea battle dialogue.
• Moria crawl goblins.

Sieges

• Improve destructible gates
• Assign thrower troops to infantry in siege attacks
• Update player team periodically in sieges; add a chance for nearby allies to join.
• Offer attacker player to retreat if attackers have sent their last wave; Clean up last remaining troops of both sides in case they're stuck
• New Thranduil's Halls siege scene
• Improve Hornburg center and siege scenes

Rewards

• Make all non-unique reward items re-purchasable
• Adjust Orc Brew reward; turn Miruvor and Athelas into multi-use consumables
• Add new Moria Reward: Drums of the Deep

Campaign and Gameplay

• Reassign factions at begin of the War of the Two Towers, based on player standing
• Disable Mirkwood guard legion, make Thranduils Halls siegeable
• Ironflesh grants a small HP shield to players and NPCs
• Improve advance camp placement script
• Reduce advance camp garrison, slightly increase reinforcements
• apply faction strength cost for establishing advance camps
• Assign proper bodyguard troops for Gondor subfaction lords
• Revise Horse Archer AI for scaling and hopefully better performance
• Adjust Rohan reinforcement templates (less archers, more infantry for garrisons)
• Implement campaign difficulty setting (may need further adjusting)
• Improve Dispatch Scouts quest: scale rank and fac str rewards with quality of scout party; give a few free recruits when accepting quest
• Make red/green troop identifiers slightly more colourblind friendly by changing green to blue
• Rebalance bastard swords

Bugfixes

• Fix player map icon for Numenorean players from Dol Guldur
• fix Guldur camp chief name
• Fix bright nights setting
• Disable troop identifiers when backspace menu is on (fix for overlay ID overflow)
• Fix surgery skill effect in siege attacks
• Adjust and improve Moria and Morannon darkness by disabling sunlight
• Fix gate aggravator team for orc gates
• Fix entry point setup in Dol Guldur siege
• Fix Rohan helmet material (instanced shader was causing clipping problems)
• Fix animation sets for Isengard Sword, Evil Hammer, Evil Mace
• Fix armour assignment for Moria archers
• Fix material settings for Uruk-hai armours (missing normal map)

Siege Improvements

• Debug and rethink reinforcement triggers based on team count.
• Defender reinforcements trickle in before choke point is taken.
• Siege attackers focus on alternating flanks.
• Stop reinforcements after player KO.
• Don't spawn defender reinforcements if attacker player is nearby.
• Fix and improve archer position reinforcement script.

Miscellaneous

• New Mirkwood battlefields.
• New Woodelf Camp scene + siege.
• Improved sieges: Woodelf Camp, Gundabad North-East Outpost, Dol Guldur North Outpost, Mordor Emyn Muil Camp.
• Reduce archers in Mirkwood and Guldur hosts and garrisons; slightly increase level for Guldur and Dale elite archers.
• Change troll levels; adjust troll influence cost formula.
• New reward items.
• Osgiliath/Cair Andros merchant menu string.
• Dol Guldur reward gloves model.
• Open tent collision mesh.
• Pony texture.
• Scene assignment for Gundabad NW Outpost.
• Zigurphel werewolf dialogue.