Update – 30 October

Black powder

• Hand cannon shots leave a smoke cloud for a few seconds. It blocks line of sight both ways.

• Firing up close makes your ears ring and muffles other sound for 4-10 s. You can turn it off under Settings > Sound > Ringing ears.

• Shorter, sharper camera shake and flinch on a shot.

• New hand cannon shot and tail sounds.

• Muzzle-loaders have a 3% chance to burst. A burst does burn and hand damage, sometimes takes off an arm or kills, and throws shrapnel.

Healing

• New item: Surgeon’s Kit. It stitches cuts, splints broken limbs and treats head knocks.

• Stitched wounds bleed about 90% less and heal faster. Disembowelment can’t be stitched.

• Bandages and the kit go on the player you’re facing, or on yourself if nobody is there.

• Drinking takes 1.4 s. Getting hit, attacking, rolling, sprinting or guarding interrupts it, and you only get the effect of what you drank.

• In the arena you get 1 healing tincture and 1 Surgeon’s Kit per life. Not in ranked.

Peasant siege

• Attackers come in squads of one type: peasants (6-10), militia (5-8), men-at-arms (4-6), bowmen (3-5).

• Squads march in formation, stop at barred gates, and only break off to attack defenders who are close.

• All attackers use the full combat AI, stamina included.

• Better performance when gates and fences take a lot of hits.

Riding

• New default horse controls: left/right turn, forward goes, back stops. The old screen-relative and mouse controls are still in the settings.

World

• Flies gather over corpses. There are more the longer a body lies there, one swarm covers a pile of bodies, and there are hardly any on cold nights.

• Moonlit nights are brighter, depending on the moon phase and cloud cover.

Other

• Dropdown menus in the settings work with keyboard and controller.

• Volume sliders play a sound at the new level as you move them.

• Protocol version 16. You need to update to play online.