Die Erweiterung Napoleonic Wars zu Mount & Blade Warband hat einen umfangreichen Patch erhalten, der unter anderem eine neue Fraktion hinzufügt: die “Rheinund”.

PATCH NOTES (1.2): New Features

• Welcome message will be displayed when joining a server. The default message will display the id of the user.
• Commander battle now has musicians that play music and flag bearers.
• The server now logs when someone was teamwounded or their horse was teamwounded or teamkilled.
• A revive and respawn option was added for server admins.
• God mode was added. It makes you invincible and run faster.
• There is now a 2 second long restriction on how fast players can construct sapper props.
• A suicide button was added to the ESC menu.
• Added a a group fight mode.
• Added option to disable damage when player is to far away from squad in commander battle.
• Custom maps are now selectable in the admin panel. Server owners can choose how many maps people can vote on or amdins can select.
• The # of custom maps available is now 100 instead of 20!
• Admins can now limit how many people can play as artillery train.
• Admins can now limit line infantry from spreading in commander battles. They can only close in or spread back to the starting spacing.
• The server now logs when the map or round was changed.
• Artillery Guards were added. They have the same stats as a ranker, but only spawn with a bayonet, ammo, and sword.
• Added the ability for admins to have custom polls.
• Added a few new scene props like a pyramid and coconuts, palm trees, lilys and cattail.
• Added new usable sceneprops for spawning items/horses or cannons.
• For server owners added a lot more options: Custom buttons, custom chat, also custom usable scene props which server owners can make visible to clients.
• Added the ability for servers to define their own map names (in strings.txt) and it gets synced with players and admins.
• Added the ability to add custom flag names for your own conquest maps.
• Added teleporting door props for mappers to use.
• Added that server owners can add the CD Key Id’s of their admins to their server console or server config file and they automatically get admin.
• Added the setting “competitive scoring”. On map reset, scores don’t get reset, when being teamkilled, it does not change the KD ratio.
• Added a system for mappers to define fog color on their maps.
• Bonuses now work in commander battle and bots provide bonuses when playing as the right class.
• Rewrote most of the explosion and other destruction scripts, blowing up the whole map will not cause huge lagspikes anymore.
• Reduced the server cpu usage overall to increase performance with high player count servers.
• Increased FPS across the board in all maps.
• Artillery horses don’t run away anymore even when hit, normal horses also don’t run away anymore, but do when hit.
• Added the “Rheinund” as a new faction to the game.
• Added a new musket.
• Added a usable bandage.
• Added a usable surgeon class.
• Added a King of the Hill gamemode.s
• Added one new map. Changes
• Faster Artillery Horses
• Remade almost all collision meshes including the frigate.
• Prussian Landwehr now has pikes as an option.
• Added a new admin menu and rearranged some of the admin tools based on usage and importance.
• Refilling ammo now both refills ammo if they have any, and if they dont, gives them ammo for their weapons.
• Admin healing now heals a players horse, if they are mounted.
• Canister rounds now fire more horizontally and less vertically.
• Dragoons now have better athletics(2). All other cavalry and generals now have 1 athletics.
• Sailor armor was removed, and they were given standard infantry armor in its place.
• A few of the prussian hats were giving too much armor, those were changed to the standard infantry hats armor.
• Pistols damage was nerfed.
• All bayonets were made 136 length.
• Changed the collision mesh of troops to better fill the body out, and make the legs smaller.
• Instruments were found to be over powered, and thus had their melee stats nerfed.
• Sword lengths for cavalry were standardized. Light sabers are at 101 length. Heavy cavalry or other long cavalry swords are 110.
• Bavarian AI was nerfed in commander battle.
• French cavalry musket was brought on par with the Russian cavalry musket.
• Grenzers are now light infantry. they still maintain an interesting hybrid in stats compared to the other light infantry.
• We changed how many build points it takes to build certain props and adjusted their health.
• 1Handed axe is now larger, so it can hit props to do the damage it should.
• Prussia and Rheinbund now have cavalry muskets are a option for their rifleman.
• Birch of knowledge should now crush through more often.
• Heavy cavalry and light infantry had their number of bots lowered in commander battle, and partisans and sailors had theirs increased
• Marine artillery can now ride arty horses.
• Captains of the marines had their health fixed.
• Buffed bracing slightly.
• Heavy and medium horses are slightly more maneuverable.
• Removed small axes from opolocheniye in commander battle so they only use pikes and cavalry muskets. Bug Fixes
• Class limits now work in commander battle.
• The map name should now work so the show game rules doesn’t break when playing a modified map.
• Double flag glitch that caused servers to crash should be fixed.
• Fixed issue where players would continue to play music even after the map ended or was switched.
• Fixed various issues where scene props or agent ids were 0.
• Artillery resets properly both in height and slots. Swivel cannons should no longer fall into objects. Cannons should no longer start the round fake loaded.
• Plank towers are no longer possible.
• Officers voice spam and a few other units who used the same variable now yell every 5 seconds.
• You can no longer have infinite ammo with artillery.
• Earthworks can no longer be dug into the sky.
• Item are now given server side, which means no more cheating the random weapons generator, or avoiding items like clothes.
• You can no longer do the spyglass animation without a spyglass.
• Removed message for cheating, so it doesn’t crash the server.
• The issue where the voltigeur nco for France was an officer was corrected.
• Build points should now reset properly when the map is reset.
• Non artillery classes can no longer unlimber artillery.
• Fixed some bugs with win/loose music not playing correctly.
• Removed failed loop on sapper props.
• Made it so a certain broken walls wont be selected when the version before it was damaged by an explosion or cannon.
• Boat health should now reset when the boat respawns.
• Particles now appear when the boat is hit by a cannon/explosive.
• Fixed an issue where a sunken boat can keep rotating if you hit it.
• Dummies now reset properly.
• Can no longer up attack with lance on horseback.
• Cannon flash is fixed.
• Class limits not working on some units when set to 0.
• Fixed bug where it showed lives left in other modes than siege.
• Fixed the bugs with cannon aiming, where it would aim far down or up or would spin around when placed on slope.
• Reset map now works properly on conquest gamemode.
• Conquest points cannot go negative anymore now.
• On reset map in siege defender lives are reset properly now.
• Fixed a large amount of respawn counter bugs, especially with siege.
• Fixed in siege that you can capture the fort even if there were actually defenders close to the flag.
• Fixed that bots can capture siege flags.
• Fixed the spawning bug in siege that you sometimes cannot spawn for no reason.
• Fixed the invisible banner problems.
• Fixed the bonuses, they take no performance anymore and don’t cause any lag anymore, it is now recommended to have this setting on for balance.
• Fixed that destroyed doors would not loose their colmesh if destroyed by explosions.
• Fixed that players do not fall of horses when hit.

Auch das Hauptspiel selbst erhielt einen Patch auf die Version 1.173, hier sind die Änderungen allerdings überschaubar:

PATCH NOTES (1.173):

• Stability improvements
• Anti-Cheat measures

Quelle: Ankündigung auf Steam