Medieval II: Total War – Update 1 Available Now!

December 15, 2006

 

Medieval II: Total War –
Update 1 Available Now!

 

SEGA and The Creative Assembly are pleased to
report that Update 1 for
Medieval II: Total War
has just been released and is available now!

 

The patch can be downloaded
here:



http://downloads.gamezone.com/demos/d17704.htm

 

Sega has
addressed as much as they could with this update and are currently working on
the second update. As a teaser for Update 2, they’re currently playing with some
of the fixes and tweaks, including a more aggressive Scotland and Mongol
campaign AI, more naval assaults, an even more consistent less powerful cavalry
charge, less devastating gunpowder units and last but not least, stronger
two-handed axe men and billmen.  

 

Medieval 2 v1.1 contains the
following changes:

 

 – Battle AI, Siege AI and Campaign AI are
no-longer passive

 – Close-range AI attacks are more consistent

 – Cavalry Charge and Cavalry power are more
consistent

 – Merchant trade values no-longer drop after
load / save

 – Elephant Artillery does not cause problems
in Campaign Battle

 – Reduced Inquisitor power

 – Morale effects tweaked

 – Autoresolve

 – Increased effectiveness of naval invasions

 – MP lobby crashes removed

 – MP in-game soft-locks removed

 – Added support for international MP

 – Minor issues with deployment lines / zones
have been solved

 – Tweaks made to Diplomacy mechanic

 – Sieged Settlements no-longer showing as
sieged even if besieging army has been defeated

 – Gunpowder units do not get stuck re-forming

 – Siege equipment does not disappear while
zooming

 – Removed Assassin exploit

 – Tweaks made to unit pathfinding in
settlements

 – *Command line switch added to remove
‘reinforcements delayed’ message

 – No-longer possible to open gates with siege
towers or embed them in walls

 – Minor UI changes

 – Added missing Audio triggers

 – Controls and Camera tweaks

 – Added ModTool – Unpacker