Chivalry 2 Update 1.13 Unleashes House Aberfell Content For PS4, PS5

Torn Banner Studios has announced the full list of Chivalry 2 update 1.13 patch notes for you to gawk at, which comes with support for the House Aberfell content.

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Update Highlights

• New Team Objective map – The Raid on Aberfell
• New Vanguard weapon – Highland Sword
• New Objective Carriables / throwables – Peasants, Pigs (oink oink)
• New Playable VIP Character – Mason Druid
• 10 new Facepaint Customization items
• Two new Armour Sets with 9 variants total
  • Two Helmet Customization items with 4 Mason and 4 Agatha variants
• Two new male Voice Over characters – Agatha Highlander and Mason Berserker
• 12 new Weapon Skins for Greatsword, Messer, and War Club

New Changes Following 2.4 Public Test (1/27/22)

• Adjusted 3p and 1p animations on highland sword to be more consistent with tracers
• Reverted maul changes from House Aberfell Public Test
• Increased the combination input press window for gamepad users to make throwing easier to execute
• Fixed an issue where you could sometimes be hit during active riposte
• Fixed exploit – Swapping weapons negates the effects of an opponent’s tackle
• Fixed exploit – Vanguard sprint attack can be set up to be done infinitely
• Falmire – Added a closer spawn for attackers after the VIP has progressed past a certain point
• Falmire – VIP health increased from 1000 to 1250
• Raid – Slightly reduced stage times over multiple stages
• Raid – Increased fuse time from 60 to 90 in stage 2
• Raid – Reduce capture rate slightly in stage 3
• Raid – Increase Druid health from 300 to 400

Weapons and Carryables

• Added carriable peasants (currently only on Aberfell)
• Added carriable pigs (currently only on Aberfell)
• Warbow:
  • Adjusted total ammo count from 20 arrows to 12
• Rapier:
  • Special attack’s turn rate has been slightly reduced
  • First person camera now ducks to match the player’s head position during the special attack
  • Tweaked lean and root motion animations during the special attack for improved attack avoidance
• Halberd:
  • Increased all damage values from 5 to 10
• Executioner’s Axe:
  • Reduced slash damage from 50 to 45

Customization

New Customization

• New weapon – Highland Sword:

• • Giant Claymore variants
  • Executioner Sword variants
• Voices:
  • Agatha – Highlander
  • Mason – Berserker
• Vanguard:
  • Agatha – Balmoral Helmet with four variants, Gallowglass Armour with six variants
  • Mason – Clan Helmet with four variants, Clan Armour with three variants
• Greatsword:
  • Claymore variants
• Messer:
  • Dacian Falx variants
• War Club:
  • Shepherd’s Staff variants
• 10 new Face Paint variants (male and female):
  • Forest
  • Seer
  • Venator
  • Radiant
  • Hunter
  • Tracker
  • Stalker
  • Feral
  • Scavenger
  • Venerant

Customization Fixes

• War Bow – fixed a string texture issue for the Superior and Engraved variants
• War Axe – fixed pricing issue to allow purchase using crowns
• Fixed an issue where the Longbow would be drawn when selecting the War Bow customization tab in the customization menu

Combat

• Counters:
  • Counter windows are now variable depending on the speed of the weapon
  • Faster weapons now have a slightly smaller counter window
• Headbutting:
  • • Jabbing while having lost the left arm will result in a headbutt
  • Dismemberment:
    • When having lost an arm, being attacked on the other arm will result in only a dismemberment and not a lost in HP
    • Fixed an issue where ragdolls would not be able to be dismembered
      
• Vanguard:
  • Ambusher:
    • Increased backstab damage from 35% to 50%
    • Increased throwing knife damage from 35 to 40 units
    • Clarified class description in regards to the backstab damage bonus only being effective when using native weapons
  • Devastator:
    • Added the Highland Sword as an unlockable weapon
• Footman:
  • Engineer – increased the instance limit of constructible barricades from 2 to 4 (The carry limit remains the same, so keep an eye out for those resupply crates!)
• Knight:
  • Officer – added the Greatsword to the primary weapon loadout
  • Officer – fixed an issue where weapons would unlock in the incorrect order
  • Fixed an issue where knights could spawn with no primary weapon when Shuffle mode is enabled
• Bots no longer add to combo chain score count
• Fixed an issue where picking up a dagger would not bind to an inventory slot
• Disabled early overhead tracers to prevent instant overheads
• Players can now throw/drop a weapon when Out of Combat
• Arrows and bolts are now automatically picked up when walked over. This only applies to the owner that launched said arrow or bolt
• Zooming in with a ranged weapon is now only available to the subclasses with the Focus perk
• Controller – Increased the combination input press window for gamepad users to make throwing easier to execute
• Fixed an issue where you could sometimes be hit during active riposte
• Fixed exploit – Swapping weapons negates the effects of an opponent’s tackle
• Fixed exploit – Vanguard sprint attack can be set up to be done infinitely

Maps

• New Team Objective map added – “The Raid on Aberfell”

Coxwell

• Fixed an issue where defenders would spawn as peasants if accepting the forward spawn prompt on the final objective stage
• Fixed an issue where the Announcer VO would overlap between stages
• Adjusted VO timing on the final stage for when Agatha runs out of reinforcements

Darkforest

• Widened debris ramp during the gatehouse capture stage
• Opened up side paths on the side of the ruins gate
• Made the bridge at the end of the ruins wider
• Changed the map layout to the back of the throne
• Improved bot navigation on the bridges during the second push of the convoy

Falmire

• TO – Changed the overall map layout for the final objective stage
• TO – Split single spawner on Agatha side into two during the second gate objective stage

Fighting Pit

• Adjusted outer wall collision to allow placed shields to be interactable
• Removed duplicate placed shields that were layered on top of each other

Galencourt

• TO – Added Noble Female Peasants
• TO – Improved bot navigation on the Agathian ships
• TO – Improved bot navigation around the gate house
• LTS – Adjusted spectator camera boundaries
• Further map optimizations made to improve performance

Lionspire

• Increased main gate’s HP from 20000 to 22500 units
• Added Noble Female Peasants
• Fixed an out of combat issue during the beginning of the “Defend the Gate” stage to allow Agatha to retreat all the way to the gate as needed
• Delayed combat zone changes for attackers at the start of the banners stage
• Fixed an issue where Mason bots would not be able raise the ramps when attacking the last two trebuchets

Rudhelm

• TO – Stage 2 – Defender spawns moved slightly back
• TO – Stage 4 – Increased score given to attacker per capture tick
• Widened the main keep’s gates
• Brawl – Fixed collision issue with the stones next to the throne

Gamemodes

• TO:
  • Fixed an issue where defenders would receive capture score even after fully recapturing an objective
  • Bots will prioritize objectives less
• TDM:
  • Changed default tickets number to 75
• FFA:
  • Enabled class limits
    • FFA – Class limit on Archers
    • Duel servers – No Archers
• Team Switching – Adjusted team swapping
  • After the start of the match, a player will only be allowed to switch teams manually if your previous team, including yourself, has at least 2 more players than the other team.
  • Auto-balance is not affected by this change.
• Examples:
  • If your previous team has 32 players including yourself, and the other team has 30 – you are allowed to switch manually.
  • If your previous team has 32 players including yourself, and the other team has 29 – you are allowed to switch manually.
  • If your previous team has 32 players including yourself, and the other team has 31 – you are not allowed to switch manually.

Matchmaking

• [Consoles] Fixed an issue where enabling/disabling crossplay would sometimes not save in the game’s settings
• Made improvements to the regular and crossplay disabled matchmaking experience to make it easier to get into matches

2.4 Queue Changes (2 weeks):

• Matchmaking
  • Temporary Featured Queue – 64p Team Objective (where Aberfell appears twice as often)
  • 40p Mixed Modes has Aberfell appearing twice as often
  • Brawl has removed from the 40p FFA queue
• Standalone Servers
  • Duel Servers – Removed FFA Fighting Pit and Adding FFA Wardenglade

Parties

• Fixed an issue where party invites could not be sent or received on Windows 11
• Fixed an issue where players could attempt to join servers that have less open spots than their party size
• Fixed an issue where party invites would not always be sent out when inviting multiple players
• Fixed an issue where the party leader would be unable to connect to standalone servers while in a party

Performance and Crash Fixes

• [PS4/XB1] Further animation optimizations made to reduce stress on performance
• [Xbox] Fixed a crash when returning to the game after suspending during the loading screen of an online match
• Fixed a crash where equipped items would not always populate
• Fixed a rare server crash for when there is no valid killer player state
• Fixed a rare server crash for when a ballista bolt hits a shield
• Fixed a stuttering issue when setting View Distance to Low or Medium while viewing in first person

Animation

• Fixed an animation issue involving the slight dodge after changing movement directions from a sprint. This animation would not play server side, causing attacks to hit/miss when they visibly should/shouldn’t to the player
• Fixed an issue where player and bot movement would not animate properly when viewed from a distance
• Improved third person slash windup animation when looking downwards. This change is aimed at making slashes and overheads more readable when players look down and initiate an attack
• Adjusted strafing animation when moving at slower speeds
• Fixed animation issue with shield when crouching with a rapier in first person
• Fixed an issue where the fire particle effect would not appear when drawing an arrow inside the brazier’s ignition volume
• Lowered the throwing windup/draw animation speeds for the following weapons:
  • Glaive, Dane Axe, Poleaxe, Greatsword

Audio

• Fixed an issue where VO previews would play and overlap on mouse-over
• Fixed an issue where Peasant NPCs would sometimes not use voice lines
• Adjusted Cinematic VO levels for Brawl – Cathedral

UI

• Fixed an issue where tertiary weapons would sometimes appear twice on the HUD when picking up another weapon as the Raider subclass
• Fixed an issue where the name of the player being revived would disappear if the player reviving the team mate is killed during the revive
• Fixed the “Back” buttons hover state to have a golden highlight instead of silver on all screens featuring it
• Fixed an issue where the cursor would default to the bottom after exiting a weapon selection in Customization
• Added a “News” button to the main menu
• Adjusted the “Play” button visuals to match the new “News” button
• Added a banner behind the Chivalry 2 icon on the upper left corner of the screen
• Added a glow behind the main featured mode to make it stand out more prominently
• Added unique loading screens for the recent LTS/TDM versions of TO maps
• Death screen UI will now list same killed players with a multiplier instead of listing their name multiple times on the screen
• LTS – fixed UI element to not show “FIGHT” at the start of the next round’s countdown
• Multiple localization UI fixes for the following languages:
  • Chinese
  • Danish
  • French
  • Italian
  • Spanish

Misc

• Fixed a backend issue where special edition items and other awards were being awarded inconsistently. Please contact Chivalry 2 support if you are still having issues with receiving these items
• [PS4 / PS5] Brawl – Fixed an issue where the camera would not focus on the NPCs during the intro cinematic
• [PS4 / PS5] Fixed an issue where currency bought from the PS Store would not be visibly given to the player until they restarted the game
• Fixed an issue where the player would be unable to join either team from Spectate if the teams were perfectly balanced
• Fixed an issue where tutorial rewards would not be given out to players in a broken state pre version 2.2

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