Total War: Shogun 2 patch to add free maps and castles alongside Rise of the Samurai, out today

Multiplayer balancing

Retainers

• Tetsu-Bishi Caltrops: spear and missile units' bonus vs cav increased from +3 to +4

• Camp Sickness: missile units' speed debuff increased

• Gokamon Bodyguard: avatar melee defence increased from +5 to +6

• Scroll of Inspirational verse: avatar melee attack increased from +3 to +4

• Supply Wagon: missile units' extra ammo increased from +5 to +8

• Kacchu-Mochi Armour-Bearer: avatar armour increased from +3 to +4

• Mouldy Feed Stocks: enemy cavalry fatigue resistance debuff increased

• Uma-Jirushi Nobori Standard-Bearer: avatar morale buff increased from +2 to +3

• Lightweight Gunjingura War Saddle: cavalry speed buff increased from +5% to +10%

• Zori Tori Sandal-Bearer: avatar fatigue resistance increased

• Yabusami Master: avatar accuracy and reload speed increased from +5/+5 to +7/+7

• Untrained Fugu Cook : Effect now applies to sword infantry only

• Trading Post: cost decrease for all units reduced from -5% to -4%

• Drill Square: sword infantry melee defence bonus reduced from +3 to +2.

• Yagyu Sword Instructor: sword infantry melee attack bonus reduced from +2 to +1.

• World Weary: accuracy debuff reduced from -5 to -3, melee attack debuff reduced from -2 to -1

Multiplayer units

• Loan Sword Ashigaru: cost from 400 to 500

• Bow Warrior Monks: cost from 1000 to 1100

• Matchlock Ashigaru: cost from 400 to 500

• Great Guard: cost from 1200 to 1300

• Daiyku Samurai : cost from 1000 to 1100

• Fire Bomb Throwers: cost from 700 to 600

• Yari Hero: cost from 1550 to 1200

• Bow Hero: cost from 1650 to 1500

• Katana Hero: cost from 1600 to 1500

• Naginata Warrior Monk Hero: cost from 1700 to 1500

• Kisho Ninja: cost from 700 to 600

• Matchlock Samurai: cost from 700 to 650

• Bow Cavalry: cost from 650 to 600

Naval units:

• Bow Kobaya: cost from 850 to 500

• Fire Bomb Kobaya cost from 1050 to 700

• Medium Bune: cost from 1800 to 1550

  Fire arrow ability added

• Siege Tower Bune: cost from 1550 to 3000

• Sengoku Bune: cost from 2000 to 1800

• Cannon Bune: cost from 4000 to 6000

• Heavy Bune: cost from 2400 to 2000

  Fire arrow ability added

• Admiral Heavy Bune Fire arrow ability added

Unit caps introduced:

Land units

• Loan Sword Ashigaru 4

• Bow Warrior Monks 2

• Matchlock Ashigaru 3

• Matchlock Monks 1

• Matchlock Samurai 2

• Naginata Attendants 5

• Sword Attendants 6

• Great Guard 1

• Bow Cavalry 3

Naval units

• Cannon Bune 1

• Fire Bomb Kobaya 4

• Siege Tower Bune 4

• Matchlock Kobaya 6

• Medium Bune 6

• Sengoku Bune 6

• Nihon Maru 1

• O Ataka Bune 4

• Heavy Bune 6

• Bow Kobaya 6

Veteran Skills

• Matchlock Accuracy upgrades reduced

• Sword unit melee attack skill upgrades reduced

• Sword unit charge bonus upgrades reduced

Bug Fix list

Achievements:

• The Mastery of the waves achievement will no longer unlock in rare instances after a land battle

AI:

• Naval AI will now attempt to repair damaged ships

• Path finding improvements for Naval AI when near to land

• Siege Battle AI improvements, in larger games especially, the AI will be much more reactive to player actions

• Several battle AI improvements.

• Multiple Campaign AI improvements, including new AI weighting to prevent attempts at raiding when sieging castles.

• Fixed Wako Pirate fleets occasionally remaining idle after spawning in campaign

Art:

• Updated Avatar skill icons, both in UI and in battle to allow visual identification of avatar type

  Improved appearance of campaign on low spec machines

Audio:

• Several voice over audio fixes for in-battle VO

• Voice over and audio fixes for Campaign map A bit too similar

Campaign

• Fixed post battle lockup

• Public order and town wealth growth penalties on High and Extortionate taxation levels were greatly reduced

• Fixed issue with religious agents incorrectly modifying chance of success of bribe actions

• Fixed rebels spawning inside zones of control

• Fixed multi-turn incite revolt orders not being cancelled when a there is a rebellion in target province

• Apprehend action now costs money

• Improved flee behaviour for bribed characters

• Fixed case where a coastal assault battle would involve the castle

• Fixed multi-turn attack orders not being invalidated by successful bribes

• Fixed being able to order more recruitment items from a general than there is room to display them

• Fixed issue where discovered characters may not update the pathfinder correctly

• Fixed issue where bribe system would incorrectly invoke diplomacy UI

• Fixed issue where flee orders would crash in some circumstances

• Fixed issue where leave settlement orders would crash in some circumstances

• Fixed several retainer and trait effects

• Several text tweaks to make the application of specific effects clear (local, global, etc.)

• Siege model have sound now

• Various AI fixes and tweaks

Combat:

• Fixed infrequent issue with projectile damage during the increased range skill for Matchlock Warrior Monks (Matchlock Warrior Monks)

• Fixed a cavalry charge bug that would allow cavalry to maintain a charge bonus despite not charging

Crashes:

• Fixed a number of Multiplayer campaign desyncs

• Fixed Crash when returning to main menu after completing a multiplayer campaign

• Fixed a rare crash on exiting a multiplayer land battle

• Fixed a crash when the user attempts to quick load whilst the game is displaying an FMV

• Fixed uncommon crash during intermediate land tutorial

• Fixed soft lock when attempting to view certain battle ranking statistics in the Multiplayer avatar system

• Fixed infrequent AI recruitment crash during the Chosokabe campaign tutorial

• Fixed soft lock during steam invites when on certain screens in the Multiplayer avatar system

• Player is no longer able to accept invites to play a Multiplayer game without creating an avatar, preventing a rare crash

• Fixed a crash that occurred in Multiplayer game when the user selects the request alliance button after breaking the alliance on the diplomacy screen

• Fixed soft lock that occurs when deleting a save game generated during a battle

• Fixed D3D graphics crash that occurred very rarely on creation of new avatar

• Fixed a soft lock that occurred when declaring war on the vassal of another player in a Multiplayer campaign

General:

• The possibility of unchecking all battle types and searching in made multiplayer battles has been removed

• Added a limit to veteran names, preventing unreadable names on the battlefield

• Avatar colour scheme now defaults to the army colour scheme when first created

• The escape button will now cancel rather than confirm skill point allocation in the campaign map

• AI will now recognise switching sides cost changes during a custom battle setup screen

• Rank differential penalty will no longer be applied to Campaign drop-in battles

• New 100% bonus modifier for winning a drop in battle

• Ikko Ikki Loan Sword Ashigaru are now fully playable as the Ikko Ikki clan in Campaign and custom battle. They are recruited from the Castle chain

• The Goldfish Scale Sashimono no longer floats above the avatar model in multiplayer battles

• Fixed a rare issue in which banners and mons would not save correctly in a multiplayer battle replay

• Avatar statistics will correctly update after playing a battle list battle in multiplayer

• Several campaign missions have had their bonuses tweaked or reworked

• Cannon Bunes are now able to fire at will correctly in all situations

• The Highlight tooltip occasionally got imposed on the campaign map when quick saving, this is now fixed

• Fixed a rare error that would cause the Leaderboard in multiplayer to not display with the message “Error: Requested Profile could not be found message when selecting Leaderboard”

• Updates to the Multiplayer avatar conquest map

• Multiplayer clan competition UI reworked to allow viewing of multiple tiers

• Multiplayer Naval fund brackets adjusted

• Fixed inability to use the cycle through generals button in campaign if more than 13 generals were available

• Multiplayer unit balancing, see multiplayer announcements for further information

• Fixed several bugs within the retainers in the Multiplayer avatar system

• Scare enemies now correctly functions at all times in Multiplayer battles

• Fixed the possibility of Multiplayer units levelling up mid battle and gaining stats in certain larger games in Multiplayer land/siege battles

• Drop in battles can no longer rarely unlock two regions from the same battle

• Fixed a server issue causing Avatar profile details to not be retrieved correctly

• Post battle xp calculations are correctly taking into account several new variables and tweaked values

• Katana of the pure land is no longer being incorrectly displayed as a legendary retainer and will drop slightly more frequently

• Fixed several hyperlink within the Encyclopaedia leading to incorrect pages

• Multiplayer army management UI now scales to display all units correctly without overlapping

• References to gold in the multiplayer system now reference Koku

• Player list in Multiplayer campaign now displays correctly if dragged across to another point on the screen

• Locked units are now viewable in the Multiplayer army management screen

• Fixed an issue when the player would be set as the attacker instead of defender when selected in custom battles

• Fixed a rare issue caused by attempting to add retainers during Multiplayer pre-battle setup

• Home key now selects and zooms to the General in battles

• Fixed a rare occurrence in multiplayer that would cause scroll bars to not appear

• Avatar rank will display correctly in stars during the post battle screen of a multiplayer match made battle

• Fixed an infrequent bug that would cause avatar competition regions to not display correctly

• UI art fix for ink blot style graphical errors appearing on unit cards in the Multiplayer army management screen

• Fixed an issue that would cause Avatar xp to display incorrectly when coming out of a match made battle

• Matchlock troops veteran skills rebalanced in Multiplayer

• Multiplayer unit caps implemented, see Multiplayer announcement for details

• UI fix to address the rare bug that would limit the amount of veterans that could be displayed

• AI players in Multiplayer and custom battles will no longer display the players steam picture and rank

• Post battle Avatar xp bar will now fill correctly if the avatar gains enough xp to gain a rank

• Rank 0 Avatars will now have the correct 0 star in pre-battle chat lobbies in Multiplayer

• Weighting for mission generation will now always correctly fire a relevant mission in Campaign

• Minor text/grammar fixes