Expeditions Viking v1.0.7.4 Iron Man

Absent followers no longer appear in the follower selection menu.
Fixed an issue where armoursmithing resources would disappear when saving and loading at a camp after scheduling some crafting.
Fixed Cure ability trying to cure some positive status effects.
Fixed an issue where you would get the full Charge damage bonus even if Spot Traps stopped your Charge because a trap was spotted along the path.
Fixed an issue where healing tasks would not be properly loaded from a save file made during camping.
Fixed the issue where the To Do list's reminder about unassigned shifts would not account for the Heavy Sleeper skill.
Fixed a tier 5 helmet pickup in Jelling that had been accidentally set up as a hat instead, and gave the helmet a special property while we were at it.
Fixed the tooltip for Demoralised saying that Max Accuracy is halved instead of reduced by 50.
Fixed a line of description in the Asleifr romance that was being displayed as dialogue.
Fixed the conversation about Leofric's death/defeat playing a second time in York if you did Hadrian's Wall for the Vikings.
Fixed the FailedWarQuest conversation potentially not failing the right goals - now it just fails the entire quest instead.
Added loot to the thieves in York and the scouts in Yngilwood.
Removed an unused trigger script in Avalon that was throwing nullrefs.
Fixed a bug whereby the conversation with the dungeon guard in Chester would trigger without her present if you convinced the cult to leave and then tried to enter the dungeon.
Fixed a small typo in a random travel event.
Fixed an isolated walkable hex inside a cluster of trees in the Ruins fight in BritainSwamp.
Fixed the "Calling" animation not terminating correctly after finishing.
Made sure Morcant stops following you after the monastery raid if you let him go
Removed a handful of unclickable barrels in Hadrian's Wall.
Fixed an untranslated popup in Danish, French, and Russian.
Fixed an island hex in the Barghest fight.
Made it so Nefja can still suggest a stealthy approach to the Helsott quest even if you enter the area without her the first time around.
Fixed a line in SteinnSwearFealty using the player's pronoun instead of the pronoun for the selected follower.
Fixed the Cure ability not removing immobilisation correctly when used on characters who had Slipped.
The different level transitions in the Plains map in Britain are now outright disabled when you're not in their particular region, preventing you from using another transition to leave the map during Ketill's personal quest.

Added a playthrough ID to the savegame system to prevent previous playthroughs from contaminating later ones if Windows doesn't let the game delete the temporary save files.
Changed the way characters are loaded to prevent crashes.
Fixed the sentries atop the mountain plateau still being active even if you bypass them the first time through and they fight you inside the cave.
Fixed the materials for the deco versions of the Roman helmet and armour.
Tweaked the default camera angle in the Coastal Town and the Mountain Cave so it doesn't get obstructed at low tilt.
Fixed an issue with wolves not playing their death animations when killing them using Gungnir.
Disabled a dialogue option in the Escaped Thralls random event which broke the conversation, aborting it prematurely.
Fixed issue when playing with 2x combat speed that could result in the game switching to exploration mode before the combat results had been processed.

Asset bundles are now left in memory since that seems to reduce the amount of crashes we get from that Unity loading bug that's haunted us since release.
Fixed issue with subtitles not loading correctly when changing game language.
Fixed null ref when scanning path system which could cause the save and load menus to show up empty.
Fixed a game logic bug whereby the main storyline could break in Scarborough if you sided with the bandits, fought Maucolyn and Morcant in front of the village, raided the convent with the bandits but without Morcant, and then betrayed the bandits outside the convent.
On a related note, fixed a very long load time caused by a timeout in Morcant's spawner if he'd snuffed it in Scarborough.
Fixed bug when curing a player that falls in a trip wire.
Fixed a couple of game logic bugs in the "Dungeon Crawl" quest in York that had been introduced due to a different fix in 1.0.7 - including the issue where a character's armour would be overriden on load.
Switched around two dialogue options in the Maucolyn post-combat conversation.
Fixed some typos in the hex line calculation code that was causing characters to be able to shoot through cover under very particular circumstances.

Update v1.0.7.1:
Updated the engine to Unity 5.6.3.
Improved the smoke particles with new trails and tweaked some water particles in certain scenes.
Enabled detail normals and static batching.
Added Iron Man mode.
Added Enemy Equipment difficulty option which makes the game way harder on Hard and Insane.
Added Combat Speed slider to the miscellaneous options.
Added camera tilt control and made the game save and load the camera angle/rotation.
Also made the exploration camera framerate independent, faster, and a bit smoother.
Updated the non-lethal toggle button to make it a lot more clear what mode you're in.
Changed the Highlight All button into a toggle.
Integrated Steam Workshop support.
Improved the lighting in some of the Viking longhouses so it changes with the time of day.
Added the weapon type to the item tooltips.
Changed the Unstoppable special property description to be more clear that allies will take damage too.
Optimized the tree setup in Skjern Forest.
Made the player go first in the wolf fight in Skjern Forest.
Made the palisades walkable during Hrodg?rda's attack on Skjern.
Added allies to the gate fight in Jelling and tweaked the equipment on Skule's personal guards.
Made it so the kings' halls in York and Perth are emptied of characters after the betrayal or invasion, and made a few vikings show up there instead if you take the cities for yourself.
Removed SSAA option from the game due to compatibility issues with the latest version of the engine.
Changed Unbreakable items so they can now be dismantled like other items.
The Ranged Shot animation is now 1 second shorter.

Major fixes
Fixed some floating items if you looted the camp on the beach.
Tweaked the lighting in skerninge, making the hill a bit brighter. Fixed being able to walk on things you shouldn't be able to walk on in Skerninge.
Added missing names for the Wolves in the Danish forest campsite.
Added wetness to the earth in York.
Fixed some floating objects across various scenes.
Fixed the camera going down through the ground if you pressed it forward against the cliff face in the Mountain Cave Entrance scene.
Fixed missing materials on the male version of the Ancient Helmet and a bug that was resetting its model on load.
Fixed an issue that was breaking the nighttime penalty to ranged accuracy as well as the illumination to counter it.
Made the marsh campsite nearest to Skjern not show up until after the prologue so you can't wander off until you're meant to.
Fixed issue when changing weapon while an ability is selected.
Added character blockers around the walls of every interior scene in the game that contains an encounter, to fix an issue where ragdolls could fall through the world.
Made sure Torfinn gets removed as a follower if you lose any of the fights in Skjern Forest.
Fixed some save/load inconsistencies with the treasure on the little table in the abandoned camp in Yngilwood.
Fixed an issue where Area Map icons would be offset due to the UI Scaling setting.
Fixed the player character's death not triggering the game over if it happens during camping.
Fixed deteriorated injuries not showing the original severity correctly in the camping results screen.
Fixed an issue where scouting would create no loot spots even if scouting has been successful.
Fixed an errant one-liner for Magnus mac Certain and Wulfsige if you take the town for either of them without ever getting the quest to side with Aiblinn.
Fixed the conversation after you fight Osred in his hall checking whether ?thelred was dead instead of Osred.
Fixed issue with unique spear not deselecting Extend ability.
Fixed an issue where the Spotted status effect would sometimes not be applied.
Fixed some inconsistencies in the Cure ability that was letting you use it on characters who would not benefit, and the AI would sometimes do the same.
Fixed characters playing the Bow Idle act holding the bow in the wrong hand.
Reduced the problems with characters sinking into the ground in the mountain cave entrance fight.
Tweaked some hex grids (primarily in York and Hadrian's Wall) so the hexes are better aligned.
Fixed some skill tooltip error messages that weren't quite specific enough, and in some cases outright wrong.
Fixed the skill description for Throwing not being parsed correctly.
Fixed the wreckers in Scarborough showing up after killing everyone in the village, and disabled loot ownership in Maucolyn's house in the same event.
Fixed the fight at the sacrificial glade in Skerninge triggering after Skerninge turns hostile even if there's nobody there.
Fixed an autosave bug that was creating broken autosaves when attacking an occupied campsite.

Hello everyone. Today we have released update 1.0.7.1 for Expeditions: Viking. This version contains some major new things, which is why it has been in open beta for almost a month. The most important new feature is the Iron Man mode, but we also have Steam Workshop integration now, as well as a bunch of quality-of-life improvements.

This is going to be the last major update for Expeditions: Viking. We still have a few things we're hoping Unity will get back to us on, so we may release another small patch or two down the line. Same goes if any new major bugs are discovered. The game appears to be in a pretty good shape now though, so we'll be turning our attention towards the next installment.

From the bottom of our hearts, thanks so much for sticking with us so far, and for giving the game another chance despite the rocky launch :)

Iron Man Mode
Now that the game is mostly stable, we've finally added Iron Man mode. If you start a game in this mode, you will be limited to a single savegame and the game will auto-save over it at regular points during play. We haven't quite gone full roguelike: the game will not delete your save if you die. However, Iron Man mode forces you to live with the consequences of your decisions. To activate Iron Man mode, you need to start a new game and check the Iron Man box in the new difficulty confirmation pop-up window.

Steam Workshop
This version of the game now supports the Steam Workshop. You can use the toolset that we released with 1.0.6 to create new random events, and we've added an uploader for you to submit your events, portrait packs, and fan translations. You can find the toolset in Steam under Library -> Tools -> Expeditions: Viking Editor.

Even if you have no interest in unofficial mods, you may be interested to know that we've published three new random events (in English) in the workshop to demonstrate how the system works. There may be more to follow shortly.

Camera Options
We've added several new settings requested by players since release. The most important one is probably the ability to control the tilt angle of the camera a little bit. It was previously locked to 60 degrees, but now you can adjust it between 45 degrees and 80 degrees by moving the mouse up and down while holding the right mouse button (similar to how vertical movement controls rotation). You can also choose a fixed angle in the options if you prefer that.

Furthermore, we've added a drop-down to adjust how automated camera control is during combat. This has three options: full automation, minimal automation, and enemy turn only. The latter will still focus on all actions during enemy turn but mostly leave the camera alone during your turn.

Combat Speed and Enemy Equipment
Another addition you may appreciate particularly on subsequent playthroughs is the Combat Speed slider. Use this to speed up the game during combat so you don't have to wait as long for characters to run to their positions or for animations to play out. And finally, we have added a new difficulty setting to upgrade enemy equipment throughout the game - just their armour on the lower setting, but also their weapons if you turn it all the way up. This has been built into the presets as well, so you will now encounter substantially more well-equipped enemies on Hard and Insane.

Change Log
As with patch 1.0.6, we're not going to include every fix and adjustment we've made for this update, but just the highlights.

Tweaks and improvements
Updated the engine to Unity 5.6.3.
Improved the smoke particles with new trails and tweaked some water particles in certain scenes.
Enabled detail normals and static batching.
Added Iron Man mode.
Added Enemy Equipment difficulty option which makes the game way harder on Hard and Insane.
Added Combat Speed slider to the miscellaneous options.
Added camera tilt control and made the game save and load the camera angle/rotation.
Also made the exploration camera framerate independent, faster, and a bit smoother.
Updated the non-lethal toggle button to make it a lot more clear what mode you're in.
Changed the Highlight All button into a toggle.
Integrated Steam Workshop support.
Improved the lighting in some of the Viking longhouses so it changes with the time of day.
Added the weapon type to the item tooltips.
Changed the Unstoppable special property description to be more clear that allies will take damage too.
Optimized the tree setup in Skjern Forest.
Made the player go first in the wolf fight in Skjern Forest.
Made the palisades walkable during Hrodg?rda's attack on Skjern.
Added allies to the gate fight in Jelling and tweaked the equipment on Skule's personal guards.
Made it so the kings' halls in York and Perth are emptied of characters after the betrayal or invasion, and made a few vikings show up there instead if you take the cities for yourself.
Removed SSAA option from the game due to compatibility issues with the latest version of the engine.
Changed Unbreakable items so they can now be dismantled like other items.
The Ranged Shot animation is now 1 second shorter.

Major fixes
Fixed some floating items if you looted the camp on the beach.
Tweaked the lighting in skerninge, making the hill a bit brighter. Fixed being able to walk on things you shouldn't be able to walk on in Skerninge.
Added missing names for the Wolves in the Danish forest campsite.
Added wetness to the earth in York.
Fixed some floating objects across various scenes.
Fixed the camera going down through the ground if you pressed it forward against the cliff face in the Mountain Cave Entrance scene.
Fixed missing materials on the male version of the Ancient Helmet and a bug that was resetting its model on load.
Fixed an issue that was breaking the nighttime penalty to ranged accuracy as well as the illumination to counter it.
Made the marsh campsite nearest to Skjern not show up until after the prologue so you can't wander off until you're meant to.
Fixed issue when changing weapon while an ability is selected.
Added character blockers around the walls of every interior scene in the game that contains an encounter, to fix an issue where ragdolls could fall through the world.
Made sure Torfinn gets removed as a follower if you lose any of the fights in Skjern Forest.
Fixed some save/load inconsistencies with the treasure on the little table in the abandoned camp in Yngilwood.
Fixed an issue where Area Map icons would be offset due to the UI Scaling setting.
Fixed the player character's death not triggering the game over if it happens during camping.
Fixed deteriorated injuries not showing the original severity correctly in the camping results screen.
Fixed an issue where scouting would create no loot spots even if scouting has been successful.
Fixed an errant one-liner for Magnus mac Certain and Wulfsige if you take the town for either of them without ever getting the quest to side with Aiblinn.
Fixed the conversation after you fight Osred in his hall checking whether ?thelred was dead instead of Osred.
Fixed issue with unique spear not deselecting Extend ability.
Fixed an issue where the Spotted status effect would sometimes not be applied.
Fixed some inconsistencies in the Cure ability that was letting you use it on characters who would not benefit, and the AI would sometimes do the same.
Fixed characters playing the Bow Idle act holding the bow in the wrong hand.
Reduced the problems with characters sinking into the ground in the mountain cave entrance fight.
Tweaked some hex grids (primarily in York and Hadrian's Wall) so the hexes are better aligned.
Fixed some skill tooltip error messages that weren't quite specific enough, and in some cases outright wrong.
Fixed the skill description for Throwing not being parsed correctly.
Fixed the wreckers in Scarborough showing up after killing everyone in the village, and disabled loot ownership in Maucolyn's house in the same event.
Fixed the fight at the sacrificial glade in Skerninge triggering after Skerninge turns hostile even if there's nobody there.
Fixed an autosave bug that was creating broken autosaves when attacking an occupied campsite.

Hello, and thanks for checking in with us again. Today we've released update 1.0.5 for Expeditions: Viking. In addition to some bug fixes, this version contains several major changes to game balance that I will outline separately before we get to the change log.

New caps on skill ranks
The most significant change we've made is to introduce caps on all skill ranks based on the total amount of skill points you've spent. Ranks 1 and 2 are freely accessible, but in order to upgrade a skill to rank 3 you must have spent a total of 100 SP. To reach rank 4, you must have spent 175, and to max out a skill at rank 5 you must have spent a total of 250 SP. Recall that you begin the game with 50 SP and that there is a total of just over 300 SP in the campaign. The result is that you'll have no skills above rank 3 when you go to Britain, and you won't be able to level up to rank 5 until quite late in the game.

This update trades away some freedom of choice to enforce a better levelling curve. Previously, we let you max out your weapon skills quite early in the game, with the predictable result that you would outpace the enemies before you even reached Britain, and the enemies wouldn't begin to catch up until near the end of the game. Now, you're forced to distribute your points among the different categories, perhaps buying some Utility and Passive skills for a more well-rounded character. This does have the drawback that characters will be a bit less specialised, but the improvement to the game's difficult curve is profound.

Surprise round on enemy initiative
A new feature is the so-called Surprise Round, which occurs when you trigger an encounter where the enemy acts first. Previously the enemy would get a full turn before you had any chance to position your hirdmen. Since there is no formation system in the game, this felt unfair. From version 1.0.5 and onwards, the player always acts first, but in encounters where the enemy would previously begin, the player will not have any attack action, nor a bonus action in the first turn. In other words you can only move or change your weapons in your first turn because your party was caught by surprise. This has also allowed us to change the initiative back to Enemy-first on all the encounters that were previously set to Player-first to avoid unfairness. The result is a slight but significant increase in difficulty in many encounters throughout the game.

Bear in mind that this update is not the final word on difficulty. These are major changes that will fix our difficulty issues, but they are not intended to increase the upper ends of difficulty on the Hard and Insane settings. The next update will contain more tweaks intended to make the Hard and Insane settings live up to their name, as well as the promised Iron Man mode.

And now for the full change list. As with the 1.0.4 update, I have divided it into two sections: one for changes and additions, and one for fixes. Since this update has a far greater variety of changes than previous patches, I've decided to further subdivide each section into categories based on the type of change or fix.

Changes and additions

New stuff
As explained above, added new "surprise round" feature to allow player positioning before enemy turn when ambushed
Added full Danish localisation
Added three new campsite scenes to the Denmark campaign for improved visual variation: Plains 2, Marsh 2, and Deep Forest
Added new animations for Taunt and Dust abilities
Added a new generic support ability animation for when you're wielding a spear
Added an animation for consumable utility items (ie. drinking potions)

Skills and items
As described above, skill upgrades are now capped by your total amount of SP spent, so you must spend 150 SP to upgrade a skill to rank 3, 200 for rank 4, and 250 for rank 5
Made substantial improvements to the algorithm that assigns skills to enemies by rank and archetype, which will increase the effectiveness of enemies throughout the game
Made the Archer archetype use axe and shield instead of dane-axe or spear, and changed the loadouts of all Archer characters in the game accordingly
Items crafted with the Artisan skill can no longer get the "Cursed" property
Decreased the cost reduction for repairing and the gain % from deconstructing items
Discarding a weapon will now yield at least 1 Salvage or Hide even if you have no Repair skill
Increased item degradation during combat from 1 point per crit to 10% of max durability per crit
Added a 50% chance each round that a character is on fire that they'll get a Burn injury - subsequent rounds of being on fire then has a 25% chance of the injury deteriorating
Taunt will now make the target move towards the caster even if they can't entirely reach them - they'll just move as far as they can
Changed the Aimed Shot ability to have a 40% damage penalty instead of a 5 percent-point crit chance bonus, and changed Sharpshooter to reduce that penalty from 40% to 20%
Sharpshooter now requires Bow on rank 3, Steady Hands no longer has a skill requirement, and Backstabber now costs 4 SP instead of 8
Accuracy for ranged attacks now falls off by 6 points per hex instead of 5
Walk Your Shots now reduces the per-hex distance fall-off for ranged attacks back to 5 instead of simply adding 5 points every time you take a shot
Parrying no longer cancels all damage from the parried attack - the parrying character takes damage as normal, but with the doubled base DR from Parrying
Changed Opportunist so that attacks of opportunity now apply Stunned to the target if you have the skill, instead of just giving you an extra AoO every round - also raised its cost from 3 SP to 6
Increased the damage of Hailstorm from 50% normal attack damage to 75% normal attack damage and reduced its charges from 2 to 1
Changed Stone Fists from a 10 point bonus to Melee Damage to a 10 point bonus to Armour Piercing damage
Raised the cost of Powerful Kick from 6 SP to 9
Revive is now restricted to 2 charges
Gave pit traps a massive damage buff
Increased all Tinkering material costs
Reach weapons no longer inflict non-lethal damage at close range, since this was not explained anywhere

Encounters
Changed quite a few of the encounters in the game to have the enemies start, which is no longer frustrating now that we have the surprise round feature
Nerfed the damage of all wolf types except the Wolf Mothers, whose damage is now doubled
Added a couple of guards in Perth's treasury and set all the loot in the main area to Owned - when you visit during the betrayal, the guards have been killed and the loot is no longer Owned
Buffed all occupied campsite fights in Britain and tweaked the cover in some of the scenes
Buffed the assassins in Ribe
Buffed the fight against the youngsters in the Ravine Cave
All the bounty fights have received a significant buff
Added reinforcements to both of the wall fights during the invasion of York
Doubled the number of enemies in the prisoner room fight in York's dungeon
Made Leofric and Steinn brown-haired and made Steinn waaa-hay-haaay more badass
The monks and nuns in Lindisfarne Church and the Scarborough Convent will now run into corners and cower in fear when you attack (the Cower animation is new)
Made the female guard outside the Skerninge passage grave drop a damaged, cursed chain mail upon her death

Other changes
Added icon tooltips to the Tinkering menu
Injuries now deteriorate in combat with a probability based on how long the character has been incapacitated - characters can never die outright in combat, however
Injuries now deteriorate during camping as well, and we've added some UI logic for this to work - fatally injured characters can die when you make camp if left untreated
Increased injury penalties
Tweaked injury settings to allow groin and chest punctures and eye trauma
Reduced the Armour-smithing level of every blacksmith in the game by 1
Made the faction reputation number show up even when your faction reputation is Neutral
Added a menu option for disabling reflection probes so you don't have to mess with the config
Made the farmer in Skerninge and his wife lie on the ground to match the description text
Added thrall deco characters to the homestead depending on how many Slaves you have (up to about a dozen)
Added a Medium reputation increase if you complete the Rats quest peacefully
Reflection probes will now automatically be disabled the first time you launch the game on an Intel videocard, and you'll get a pop-up about it - you can manually re-enable them afterwards if you'll risk it
Tweaked the morale changes in the initial conversation with Maban so they're more intuitive

Bug fixes

Stability and performance
Fixed one more set of crashes related to loading characters into the scene
Fixed the unreproducible issue some players had reported where the game would crash at the end of camping and potentially at the end of a fight
Added check so corrupted fog of war files do not prevent loading scenes
Made some optimisation in the level loading

Quest logic
Fixed the Ab Urbe Condita side quest hanging around in your quest log even if you choose an outcome for Chester that causes Fabian Quintus to leave, so you can't complete it anymore
Fixed a bug whereby Myrddin would not spawn in the stone circle if you entered his cave instead of bringing Cillian directly to him after the rescue
Fixed a spot where you could get stuck after the battle for Yngilwood
Fixed a bug where you could start the Snakes Among the Trees or Lost Hunting Party side quests during the Battle of Yngilwood if you hadn't started them previously
Fixed the fight at the entrance to Jelling potentially repeating with no enemies if you leave the town through the hidden tunnel and then attempt to re-enter it from outside
Fixed an issue where Grainne would sometimes appear inside Caustantin's hall after the wedding when she wasn't supposed to
Fixed a bug whereby you could no longer free the Yngilwood Scout's loved one in the York Dungeon if you chose not to do so the first time you were given the option
Added a fade-out if you sentence Geirmundr in Orkney to the blood eagle, during which he'll be despawned
Fixed the non-interactive parts of Geirmundr's "camp" in Orkney also highlighting along with the interactive parts
Skallagrimr and the other thegns will now disappear from Steinn's house once you complete the first of the Viking ending quests
Received and implemented the Russian and French versions of a single branch of conversation with Hulda that had been missed in the original localisations for those two languages
Fixed the higher difficulty-related completion achievements not unlocking the lower levels
Fixed being able to interact with the haystack behind Erlingr's farm after the fight if you already set fire to it once
Fixed the fire in Erlingr's farmhouse persisting forever (it now stops once the quest is closed)
Fixed most of the dead characters who were supposed to show up as ghosts in Grimnir's Helheimr dream not showing up
Fixed Olbj?rn and Grimkell's character spawners creating a very long delay in loading the goodbye scene in Skjern if they were killed on Holmgang Island
Fixed Maucolyn not being set as immortal if you encounter him at the village after raiding the monastery, which could result in you speaking to a very clearly dead man
Fixed Conall mac Taidg's death variable not being set, causing some narrative inconsistencies
Fixed an error when teleporting the player party to waypoints in conversations which showed up if you lost the fight against Maucolyn in front of the village
Fixed a bug whereby if you set an ambush for Osred's men in The Mercian Connection and leave any of them alive, the fight in front of the Roman tower wouldn't begin
Osred's spy token will now be removed from your inventory when you show it to a scout in Yngilwood
Changed the logic in Torfinn's tree conversations a bit to make the quest more robust
Reduced the trigger radius on the sewer tunnel conversation in Chester to be what it's supposed to be

Skills and items
Fixed a bug that was causing characters to play their incapacitation barks at entirely the wrong times during combat
Fixed the highest rank ability of each skill not displaying its action type in its tooltip
Fixed several issues with the implementation of Gungnir's special property - the weapon will now damage enemies in the two hexes in front of you, three if you're using Extend
Fixed an issue where pre-damaged looted items would be using the current Salvage value to calculate tiers rather than the undamaged one
Resistances are now capped at 100% in the UI
Fixed Adrenaline Junkie applying its bonus as soon as a character is at less than max health, instead of only when they drop below 20% as described
Fixed the missing icon for the British silver cross talisman types
Replaced an old hack to prevent non-Vikings from getting the Dane-Axe skill with a more general solution that checks the nationality condition for all skills before assigning them (this will also prevent non-Vikings from buying Galder, which they cannot use anyway)
Removed the track quest input from all contexts except Default (which will stop it showing up in the other sections of the input bindings)
Fixed the Amulet of Macha not getting its special property correctly (this fix is not retroactive, if you already picked up the Amulet of Macha, it will remain useless - however you can give yourself a new, working amulet with the console command giveitem party Talisman_Macha)
Fixed a 10-second pause caused by a timeout if a Parrying character is Stunned and subsequently attacked; all immobilisation now cancels Parrying as well as Hypnotised, Interrupting, Panicked, and Ready
You can no longer parry attacks from weapons with reach from 2 or more tiles away
Fixed missing sound effects on the Parrying animations
You can no longer trigger an execution with any weapon type other than a sword
Fixed a pretty unlikely combat timeout that would happen if Condemned characters took fire damage
Fixed the Tactical Move button being selectable even if no attack action was possible
Fixed Stunned animation not being reset if a character is defeated while that animation is playing
Fixed the wolf mothers' Nuzzle ability placing the wolf inside the incapacitated wolf's tile instead of adjacent to it
Fixed wrong health displayed in the UI when using Nuzzle or Revive
Fixed the Sacrament ability tripling ally resistances instead of doubling it as intended

Other fixes
Fixed certain music tracks being controlled by the main volume slider instead of the music slider
Fixed the input system overwriting user settings with the defaults in some situations
Removed Crouch Control from the input settings
Fixed non-lethal attacks being able to proc critical hits
Fixed certain blacksmiths being set up with a higher armour-smithing rating than is actually possible, which broke the UI
Fixed bug where an occupied campsite would be marked as captured when entering the campsite but then reloading the previous saved file without even playing through the fight
Fixed an issue where tinkering items in camping might not be loaded properly by the save system
Fixed a missing line of subtitles in the intro cinematic in English and English (Norse Names)
Fixed the player's ship reverting to the default sail colours in Orkney
A loading screen will now be displayed while loading the main menu after the credits
Fixed dead follower pop-up appearing during loading screens if you made a save after a follower had died in the scene and then loaded that save
Fixed a typo "a dirty flash" (should have been flask) in R?skva's first romance conversation
Fixed a typo in the to-do list reminder for unassigned shifts
Nefja and Ketill can no longer die from injuries in Denmark
Fixed switch weapon button being greyed out after an attack of opportunity on the selected character
Fixed the localisation ID for homestead upgrades not being retrieved correctly for upgrades that only have 1 branch
Removed an erroneously placed trash pile in Skerninge which was unlootable and would disappear when you looted another trash pile next to it
Removed a lootable barrel from inside a house in Perth
Added ability icons for the wolf abilities so they don't show up as white squares when you look at wolves with the character info panel, and added explanatory tooltips for them as well
Fixed a weird-looking tree in the Britain forest menhir campsite

General Fixes
You can now disable the game's time limit - see below for instructions
Fixed fire particle effect crashing the build
Fixed the campaign map triggering travel events and vice versa (which was preventing a lot of events from triggering)
Fixed a bug that was causing faction reputation checks in conversations to always think you had 0 reputation (note: as long as your reputation with a faction is between -20 and 20, the faction screen will not display any changes, but your reputation is changing - that's just a UI issue that we hope to address in the next patch)
Fixed a bug whereby Drugged and Intoxicated would stick around forever if they were applied during a conversation (they now last 3 hours each, so walk it off)
Added a player message for when you get status effects through conversations and when they're removed over time
Stat numbers are now coloured red if they're being reduced by an injury or status effect and orange if they would be reduced but they actually can't go any lower
Status effect icons now show up in the same places as injury icons (most importantly in the character screen and in the follower selection menu)
Added a new tutorial pop-up about the timeline
Fixed item removal nodes removing the wrong item if the intended item was equipped (specifically, Ketill's personal quest was removing his bow instead of his talisman)
Fixed the Toss ability
Added adjacency checks to the activation conditions for Heavy Swing and Hook and Slash (the latter already had a within-rush-distance check, but that's not enough)
The game will now no longer autosave during sequences where saves are disabled
Fixed conversation kills without takedown animations not updating the animation state of the victim (which would cause them to still be standing around and look alive after you killed them)
Made some improvements to loading times
Fix the issue where the absent characters would be eat in camp
Fixed an issue where followers could die in combat in an injury got worse while incapacitated
Fixed characters not going to the right positions and playing the right animations during camping
Added check for null ref when determining flanking
Removed party spawner from character creation
Added localisation strings for the Worldmap for the save menu
Messed a bit with some of the pre-set characters' morale, including raising all your huscarls (except Asleifr, because he's a douchebag)
Fixed the player marker being placed on your previous campaign map position if you sail to Scarborough from somewhere else and leave by foot
Fixed the Denmark campaign map thinking you're in Erlingr's farm the first time you leave the Homestead after the prologue
Fixed Ribe's description referring to Ragnhildr as a thegn instead of a jarl
Fixed the player's ship sails not getting the right colours from the player model anywhere other than in the Homestead
Added animation sound effects to the random filler characters in the cities
Replaced some of Ribe's characters with filler characters to shave the loading time down a bit and made sure that all filler characters who are sitting down in all three cities have their colliders disabled
Made some corrections to the French localisation
Status effects are now removed from dead people
Reduced the amount of consumables and throwables you find in lootable objects
Reduced the amount of salvage you can get from crates, barrels, and baskets
Added Hungry and Starving counts to the party information panel on the travel maps
Made some tweaks in initialization to prevent crashes when loading Ribe
Fixed not all keybinding options being shown at all times
Fixed a background not tiling in the pause menu
Improved the colour correction in Orkneyjar
Improved colour correction for Caustantin's Hall and the dungeon in Legacжstir
Improved the colour correction in the dream sequences
Removed birds from the 2nd dream since they weren't animating
Fixed the movement value localisation not being correct
Fixed a tooltip not being localized in the camping todo list
Fixed issue with abilities not getting deselected when a character was immobilised
Added an animation for characters sleeping in beds (for Eyfura and Bjшrgdis)
Tile objects (ice, campfires, brambles, etc.) now trigger when combat starts (e.g. you are instantly set on fire if you stand on a campfire); however, characters no longer start on a tile with a hazard (these may appear to contradict each other but the result is that things will run as they should but your characters should be smart enough to not step on hazards on their initial turn)
Illumination does not get removed at the end of the turn anymore
Characters standing inside a campfire will now be illuminated in addition to burned
Optimised the reflection probes in all campsites, hoping that'll fix or reduce the crashes some players have reported during the timelapse
Made the AdvanceTime debug command only accept positive numbers

Change log: Quests
Made it so you can trigger the Althing and end the game if you have 100 Prosperity even if you haven't completed any other questline
Fixed a bunch of Play Once Only-related issues in various conversations
Fixed Valerius never showing up on Orkneyjar unless you got the quest to kill him from Iovita before turning on her
Disabled saving during Hrodgжrda's attack on Skjern
Fixed Hrodgжrda's reinforcements breaking if you've built palisades before the final attack on Skjern
Disabled saving game inside the passage grave in Skerninge
Fixed the goal to talk to Bildr in the feud quest re-appearing in your quest log if you get it from another character after completing it already
Fixed not being able to complete the Seeking Sanctuary quest if you had killed the refugees before talking to Жthelfled
Fixed being able to recruit the persecuters in Legacжstir if you had already killed the cult
Fixed not being able to make the persecutors in Legacжstir leave you alone under certain conditions
Fixed the cult in Legacжstir not leaving the ruins if you had convinced them to join you at Orkneyjar
Fixed cult members in Legacжstir not running away if you had turned the cult hostile
Fixed the Ab Urbe Condita fight being able to re-trigger if you had already fought it but not handed in the quest
Fixed not being able to hand in the Seeking Sanctuary quest to the persecuters if you had turned the cult hostile
Fixed triggering an empty fight if you had already dealt with the refugees before turning the cult in Legacжstir hostile
Fixed Iovita attacking you if you approached her after having given her the Aquila
Fixed the fight in the Legacжstir dungeon triggering even though you had already fought it
Fixed getting stuck by the bridge in Legacжstir if you had already fought the persecutors (ah, that quest really is the gift that keeps on giving)
Fixed the conversation with Finnguala upon your return with Donncoirce not playing if you'd clicked on her before it was active
Disabled the option to tell Ragnhildr you killed the Rats if you didn't kill the Rats
Made the Red Wedding party not spawn if the Wait goal is Inactive, instead of if Wait is Not Completed and Not Failed
Moved the goal marker for the first Red Wedding goal from the groom's father onto the house door so it doesn't go to a campaign map marker when the wedding party despawns
Fixed the Red Wedding party spawning in during the night if they had previously spawned in during the day
Fixed the scared man in the Barghest quest spawning in during the day if he had previously spawned in during the night, but at the same time accidentally inverted his spawn conditions so he now spawns only during the day - will fix that in the next patch, as it doesn't break anything
Fixed Rurik not disappearing from your longhouse after day 150 as he should
Disabled the dialogue option to sacrifice a mercenary in Skerninge because it wasn't working
Fixed Hulda only appearing the first time you load Skjern after the prologue
Fixed the option to have Kveldulfr craft for you never appearing during the summer if you didn't ask him about the smithy during the winter
Went over a bunch of conversations and added more reputation changes and increased some of the existing ones
Gave the Eoforwic blacksmith a check to bypass her introduction text on subsequent visits
Added morale decreases for your love interest if you get caught cheating
Disabled the option to side with Aiblinn in Dun Phris if you don't control Orkneyjar at that point
Fixed Leofric showing up in Osred's hall even if you fight him before going there
Fixed Grainne talking about Conall as if he's dead even if you brought him in alive (in English and German - we're awaiting translations for the other languages)
Fixed a weirdly inconsistent bug where Grainne would sometimes not spawn in Caustantin's hall after Mac Taidg Must Die until you left and re-entered the hall a few times
Fixed not getting the proper ID for a randomly selected character in the stray boat event
Fixed being able to talk to Maban before you catch the thieving child, thereby never being able to complete that goal; also fixed being able to enter the houses before you get the relevant quests
Removed the extra coin pile in the merchant's house in Eoforwic and fixed the level transition goal marker in that scene and the shire gerefa's house showing up at 0.0.0 instead of the door
Made it so you can pick up the knife in the wall in one of the entrable homes in Eoforwic and set the loot to owned
Set everything to owned in the 2nd Eoforwic house and made the lord of the house lie in his bed
Changed the Viking attack in Yngilwood so the player starts, and tweaked the cover in the hex map
Fixed the injured man in the swamp sticking around if you had treated him
Fixed the robbers on the ridge in the swamp not reacting if you had gone there once before
Fixed an NPC Speech node in the TravelInfection random event that should have been a Stored NPC Speech node
Fixed a potential problem with the feud quest in Ribe not triggering; unfortunately we couldn't reproduce it, so we're not sure if the fix works
Small tweaks to the eating and drinking contest in Ribe
Fixed a typo "somethng" in the conversation with Ingimarr in his house
Tweaked the trader hex map in Skerninge
Fixed a misspelled character reference in the toothache camping event
Fixed the Forbidden Tribute quest in Eoforwic trying to spawn the wrong character when you had defeated the lynch mob
Made a rock that was throwing warnings in the treasure cave not batching static, and rebuilt lighting as a result
Fixed Vrangr sticking around in the Marsh if you came back to it after you had let him go
Fixed a hex map issue in Yngilwood that could cause players to get stuck on a hill
Fixed the huscarls still showing up in Skjern over the summer if they had spawned in once, even if they had since left the hird
Fixed being able to hand in the Debt Collector quest multiple times
ixed being able to get the Debt Collector quest again if you had already handed it in under certain circumstances
Fixed an issue where you could get the Debt Collector quest again if you had failed to get the payment from Gaius Aelius
Fixed an issue where the Debt Collector quest would not get closed if you had gotten the payment before ever talking with them
Added a missing check to the conversation with Grainne if you defeat her, to check if Aife was part of the fight
Fixed the Old Man in the Marsh not entering dialogue if you had freed Mani
Fixed a rogue hex in the bandit camp and not being able walk between the barricades
Added the missing "Blacksmith" area map marker localization for Orkney to all localizations

Disabling the Time Limit
By popular demand we've implemented a way for you to disable the game-over that you'll normally get if you run out of time in either campaign. Time will still pass as normal and the timeline will appear to progress, but once it reaches the end, nothing will happen.

To activate this:

First find your config file. It should be in \Documents\My Games\Expeditions Viking\Config.
Open Config.ini with your text editor of choice (Notepad will do nicely).
Locate the [PlayerSettings] section and add the following line TimeGameOver=False at the end of it, for example:
[PlayerSettings]
GameLanguage=English
GoalMarkerBehaviour=ShowAll
Dismemberment=True
Tutorial=False
DisplayHexes=False
DisplayHelmets=True
EdgePanning=True
ControlStyle=CRPG
TimeGameOver=False
Save the file and open the game.
To verify that the time limit is disabled, hover over your marker or the icon at the end of the timeline. It should say, in a red font: "Running out of time is currently disabled." Note that this will only show up in the English or English (Norse Names) localisations so far, because we haven't had the new strings localised yet.

Disabling the time limit will also disable all difficulty-related achievements for finishing the game.

As mentioned somewhere in the changelist above, to complement this new feature we have also changed the "advancetime" cheat so it no longer accepts negative numbers.

Of course there are things that stop making sense when you disable the timeline. We assume that if you do this, you don't particularly care about the narrative consistency of the game,do not be suprised if the game suddenly skips almost a year into the future, and a title card proclaims the year to be 789 AD when your in-game clock says 790 or something like that.


Video crash bypass instructions
If your game has been crashing immediately after character creation or immediately upon opening, try adding the following anywhere in your config file:

[VideoPlaybackSettings]
DoPlayVideos=False

The side effect is that you will not get any videos. This is mainly a problem for the end of the game, since the denoument will not play. We're still working on a "proper" fix for a later update.

Improved stability further
Fixed the resolution not being set correctly in the options
Player now has a fixed morale to Heroic (+10)
Fixed a bug where the person assigned to cleaning would always lose 1 morale; now there's 5% chance of that happening;
also added additional details in the player message log
Due to the player character now having a fixed morale,
they can no longer be set to clean the camp
Fixed a bug where killing Caustantin, Osred, or Жthelred after winning the fight with them would lead to the player dying instead (oh God I wish I didn't have to put this in the patch notes I am so unspeakably ashamed of myself for making this mistake)
Fixed a bug where the bounty Ealdorman could get killed if you attacked the thieves, so he would be missing once you got his own quest later
Fixed one of the groups of the thralls who had escaped from the slave trader in Orkney being unresponsive if you had passed through their area before they spawned
Fixed a stupid oversight in Uallach's (the witch in Perth) conversation that was preventing you from asking about Ketill or Nefja's personal quests if you had already completed her own side quest
Fixed the campfire in Yngilwood where you lay an ambush for the tanner - it was set to only play once, so if you clicked no to the pop-up initially you could never open it again
Likewise set Grimnir's last conversation in the dream to not trigger once, which prevents the player from "exhausting" it before it's active
Fixed being able to trigger the hole in the wall in Dun Phris multiple times
Changed the initiative in Ingimar's Longhouse so the player starts
Fixed a bug where enemies that were set to immortal could still die from Burn injuries
Fixed several issues with Execute and its Condemned status effect: the ability was painting a path when no movement would occur, it was erroneously disallowing activation when the target was outside movement range, and most importantly Condemned was disappearing one round too early, making the ability very difficult to use
Fixed an issue caused by using Charge with a reach weapon
Fixed Crippled not working
Fixed One-Two being able to damage allies
Fixed Disarm Trap not working
Fixed an exception in the Point Blank skill which could freeze AI in combat, and decreased the chance of this happening in other skills as well
Fixed an exception when using water skins
Changed animation for Anticipate Opening so it doesn't look like the character is attacking an invisible character
Nerfed Backstabber from a 50% damage bonus to 20%
Fixed the camera position in camp scenes
Added loot to some enemies in Perth that didn't have any
Fixed loot ownership in Ingimar's longhouse only being disabled if he was incapacitated (it's currently reset if you save and load in the scene, but we're working on that)
Fixed loot ownership not being disabled when Perth or York was being attacked
Moved some tutorials that were blocking the timeline
Fixed enemy and player AP being switched around in enemy tooltips
Fixed the Talon tooltip which wasn't being parsed correctly
Fixed the Sling tooltip calling it one-handed instead of two-handed
Fixed a tooltip in the treatment panel not showing up
Added more info about the timeline in the timeline tooltips

Feature fixes and balance tweaks
Added Intro and Endgame subtitles for French, Polish, and Russian (German was already in)
Pixel light count set to 2 by default, since 4 was causing the game to crash on older machines - if you've experienced crashes, you may still need to lower this manually in case your config is overriding the change
Dramatically increased the travel speed by ship
Increased the medicine cost for treating injuries
Made saving the Fog of War not thread-dependent
Ranged characters should now properly target tile-objects (no path markers, range visualisation etc.)
Fire Arrow can target tar pots now
Fixed a bug where some AI would not move in the Flee behavior when the path to the escape zone was blocked
Fixed a bug where if the stepback tile for the Smack ability was not assigned it would cause the game to get stuck
Fixed a bug where the victory conditions for the previous encounter would appear in the victory conditions panel for the new encounter
Increased the default bonfire light intensity
Barricade cover is now correctly removed when the barricade is destroyed
Fixed issue with character combat info panel giving wrong information
Fixed a bug where if the last enemy dies not bleeding, it would not end combat
Make sure the follower selection shows the portraits all the time
Fixed party information panel in Polish not parsing the average morale correctly
Fixed a bug where melee character would not advance when out of range
Made sure abilities that do not damage the target show the damage expected as 0
Reduced the amount of feet shuffling in combat
You can now attack tile objects with reach weapons from two tiles away as intended
Fixed issue with Player:Genitive not appearing for other languages than Polish
Fixed the interior area tilesets not fading out correctly when the camera was viewing them from behind
Added intro logo video so you know who made the game (but we still haven't implemented the Credits button in the main menu because we don't want you to think we're self-absorbed)

Quest and level fixes
Fixed the world's most ambiguous fail state if you fail a storyline after Dun Phris (it honestly might still be a bit ambiguous depending on how cooperative the random camping events are in selecting the correct event, but we're working on it)
Fixed the ending being available before you do
Fixed the encounter trigger on re-triggering and fixed characters sinking into the shrine floor
Made saving of FOW not thread dependant
Re-snapped some hex maps in Dun Phris and painted some more cover
Fixed a blocker that was trapping players in Yngilwood if
Fixed the game logic around entering York and fixed a big game-breaker in the game logic on the door to the king's hall
Fixed being able to leave without
Fixed some window planes being oriented wrong and added a 7500 valuables to
Added waypoints for some of the lootable items in so you don't do it from behind walls, etc.
Fixed some of the dynamically appearing objects in so you can't walk through them anymore
Fixed the light in the Scarborough camp casting a weird shadow
Moved the transitions in the plains map so you can't see them from the other camera bounds
Changed icon to
Added the last string translations in German
Added loot configurations to , fixed some hovering stuff on top of barrels and
Fixed the not showing up on the world map if you've gotten the quest
Fixed an issue where leaving didn't close the quest
Fixed the map marker for having a non-localized tooltip
Fixed a place where you could get stuck preventing you from leaving in the mountain cave
Fixed triggering again if you lose the fight before
Added filters to the follower selection nodes in FeastFollowerInput so it doesn't pick Aife or Morcant
Set Aiblinn to plot critical and set Grainne to not spawn in Caustantin's hall if she's supposed to be at the caves
Fixed the tower encounter retriggering in York and fixed Caustantin having the wrong goal marker on him after
Fixed some typos and added some missing localisation to EnglishNorse
Made disable themselves if you lose the war
Fixed missing R in his first name that was causing it not to be localized
Added goal markers for ReachEoforwic and ReachPerth
Fixed an issue where the goals weren't correctly completed
Added birds to Scarborough and fixed a bug where the Absentee Tax Collector encounter had no AI group assigned to it
Set up the right non-follower party spawner for after main quest completion in Scarborough (so they're actually in the camp instead of standing on the beach on the other side of the ship)
Fixed
Made not cast shadows, made thunderstorm not appear during the day, and added camera collision for
Made the player's ship able to dock in the Perth harbour if
Added a missing barricade to a fight in
Tweaked the barricade obstacle colliders slightly to avoid unbroken barricades blocking the player after certain fights
The now sit down at their tables
Tweaked the triggers for
Fixed some dialogue branches that led to the Unwanted Guests quest not being properly closed
Fixed a fair few hex map issues in the chester sewers and fixed some floating onions
Fixed an issue where would do nothing if you freed him before you got the quest - he'll now talk to you, and you can collect the reward without having the quest
Fixed an issue in the mountain caves entrance where multiple followers would speak over each other
Fixed Domnall missing from Caustantin's hall after Dun Phris

Audio fixes and additions
End cinematic music and credits audio timing fix
Switch weapon button sfx
More sound effects for filler characters who are standing around and playing animations
End cinematic music track updated
Mix + unarmed act sfx
VOX retrigger categories + sack loot sfx
Weapon rack now has sounds
Credits music cut
Fixed issue with sound playing while loading game
Perth and York complex music setup
AudioSettings_DialogueVolume
End cinematic ambience