New patch?

[Sp4]

I had not paid that much attention to it but yeah, now that you mention it. All reflection effects as well as sword glints are actually gone.

-E- One thing I seem to notice atm is that the game seems to randomly crash at time >_> Like just stop working. The process just ends, desktop, Shogun gone lol.

[HopAlongBunny]

I haven't played since the patch, although I have an on-going Mori long campaign.

I decided to take a look; graphics are darker and flatter (if that makes sense :p)
The reports logged here actually make me hesitant to play a turn; I don't like surprises in the middle of a game. I have no DLC at all so the question is: why am I subjected to the patch? If I get my nerve up I'll play a few turns tomorrow; thank you all for the information on the current state of the game.

[Gray_Lensman]

I haven't played since the patch, although I have an on-going Mori long campaign.

I decided to take a look; graphics are darker and flatter (if that makes sense :p)
The reports logged here actually make me hesitant to play a turn; I don't like surprises in the middle of a game. I have no DLC at all so the question is: why am I subjected to the patch? If I get my nerve up I'll play a few turns tomorrow; thank you all for the information on the current state of the game.

Going forward, if you can stand it, place and leave STEAM in OFFLINE mode until you finish a game. That'll prevent unwarranted updates. I too have a game going pre-patch and have kept STEAM in OFFLINE mode until I finish my current game. There's nothing on STEAM that's so important to ruin an ongoing game.

[frogbeastegg]

A hotfix is now available:

Hi all,

We've just released a patch for a couple of issues.

Fix for blood effect in blood pack
Fixed occasional crash when entering Avatar Conquest Map
Miscellaneous other crash fixes
Fixed an issue where trees could appear black
Fix for level 9 clan skill lockout


Enjoy!

The Creative Assembly

[Harleyquin12]

Feedback isn't that great for the hotfix, it seems the problems they fixed in the hotfix are only partial, not complete. There are complaints that the blood decals only cover half the body.

[frogbeastegg]

I've got problems with draw distances after the hotfix. Units use low detail models much sooner, and they visibly 'pop' between the various detail levels as my camera gets closer and further. Unless my camera is right up in their faces, they are so lacking in detail they look like plastic miniature soldiers. They used to transition seamlessly, and use higher detail for much longer. This with a geforce 560 ti 1GB, latest drivers. I do not have the blood pack.

Considering overall game performance took a big dive with the FotS patch/FotS installation, I'm not that happy. I had to turn a bunch of settings down in order to restore a smooth frame rate, and now the game won't even display properly at that reduced level. Add in the missing gloss and detail maps (e.g. chipped lacquer on helmet rims) and the game has taken a large visual hit on my machine. I'm not a graphics nutter but this texture popping business is distracting, and reducing both performance and fidelity is a losing combo.

I'm not trying to do anything crazily ambitious either. These aren't 40v40 battles - I haven't even fought a 20v20 since the patch! These are all medium-sized battles.

[faker01]

Yesterday I started a new campaign with the Oda. The perfomance is much better then before the patch. (before the patch the game often only accepted one command per second).
The Takeda were very friendly to me, but the rest were extremly aggresive, but not effective. Often they didn't try to capture the prefectures, they attacked my stacks, when they were near or putted something in fire. In the first two years I got three declarations of war without any reason, several incoming half stacks and 2 nearly full stacks. So I had no units left to defeat the rest of the Imagawa, so I made a peace treaty with them. In this time I made an alliance with the takeda. In the third year the ikko-ikki came with 2 Stacks, ronin-heavy stacks,(how the f. they could get them so fast?) but where defeated by one and a half stacks from the Takeda and one of my stacks. Don't ask me why they supported me.
After that the game was easy. The Takeda still supported me without any reason and they where the only other surviving clan, which sended stacks together. The rest send their stacks separate -> ineffectiv.