Please note that there may be a delay between the download of the base game and the download of War Sails. If you launch the game prior to both of them being updated, you will crash. If you face this issue, please verify your game files.
The patch is now live on all platforms, including consoles. Please note that console updates may take a few hours to appear due to each platform’s release process.
The following changes are specific to the War Sails expansion and are not part of the base game.
Changes
Added manual ship selection for seaborne village raids. You can now choose which ships to bring on a naval raid.
Hovering over a ship shows a tooltip with its owner, so you can tell at a glance which vessel belongs to which noble.
If you deploy your own troops without filling the fleet's full capacity, the remaining space will be filled with allied troops.
Fixes
Fixed a bug that caused boarding hooks to be disabled on places where they overlapped with ship upgrades containing shields.
Fixed a bug that prevented "Hail to Gunnar's contract." option from appearing during the War Sails storyline.
Crashes
Fixed a crash that occurred due to a high memory usage on Xbox.
Fixed a crash that occurred in kingdom and clan pages of the encyclopedia.
The following changes are part of the base game and apply to the War Sails expansion as well.
Changes
Improved the save / load times on PS5.
Fixes
Fixed a bug that caused formation targeting to incorrectly select formations that are behind the player character.
Crashes
Fixed a crash that occurred due to a null reference in AI behaviour code.
Fixed a crash that occurred when attacking a raiding party on the campaign map.
Fixed a crash that occurred after exiting a conversation.
Fixed a crash that occurred in missions when you attempted to defend a village during a raid, while the village did not have any militia.
Fixed a crash that occurred when mods re-added existing keys to save metadata.
Fixed a crash that occurred during cloth simulation.
Fixed a crash that occurred in battles due to memory ordering.
Fixed a bug that caused visual glitches and could induce a crash during longer playing sessions on Xbox.
[MP] Fixed a crash that occurred in Captain Mode when cavalry charged into a formation that braced spears/pikes.
Modding
Fixed a bug which caused the .sack bulk shader cache file to massively increase in size when compiling shaders.
Made the banner layers unlimited in the banner reader.