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2 years ago Jul 28,2022, 13:04:16 PM

Ibn Battuta Update Out Now

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Balance is an important topic for many of you, as it informs your strategies and your choice of cultures, which in turn affects how different your games will feel. Since replayability is important for a 4X game, with the Battuta Update, we focused on improving many of the less popular or less picked cultures to make them more appealing. Some of you may have already tried these changes in the beta, and we’ve seen some excitement for the options the reworked cultures offer. For those of you who did not play the beta or haven’t heard about the Battuta Patch before, here’s a quick recap of the main features (click on the names in bold for more details):

 

  • Culture Balancing: Rebalanced numerous cultures, including various new effects and abilities 
  • Improved Militarist Action: Added an option to upgrade militia into proper combat units, and fixed various bugs with the ability 
  • Rebalanced Influence costs: Cost of enacting civics, attaching territories, and merging cities grows far less over the course of the game 
  • Improved Religious Districts: Various Tenets now provide economic bonuses on religious districts and religious districts are clearly marked in their tooltip 
  • Better Civics Tooltips: Civics tooltips now show the effects of both options, even before you unlock them 
  • Immersive Player Names: Diplomatic notifications now focus on the persona and give them a title appropriate for their government 
  • Line of Sight Rework: Improved Line of Sight rules to generate more intuitive results and allow easier use of direct fire units
  • City visuals: Improved variety of Commons Quarters and facing of quarters to reduce repetitive patterns in large cities 

 

We hope you’ll have fun exploring new strategies in the Battuta Update! 

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2 years ago
Jul 28, 2022, 1:12:34 PM

None of the core balance issues in multiplayer have been addressed...


Harappabstain dominated every multiplayer early game for the last year and abstain has just been buffed.


You still can’t defend against big armies in multiplayer.


And the player that’s ahead still gets more ahead since he gets exclusive access to the strongest culture in every age.

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2 years ago
Jul 28, 2022, 2:28:14 PM

Hello,


Impossible to start the game since the update. It crashes just after the cutscene. Am I the only one experiencing this bug ?

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2 years ago
Jul 28, 2022, 2:47:32 PM
jfrenzy wrote:

Hello,


Impossible to start the game since the update. It crashes just after the cutscene. Am I the only one experiencing this bug ?

Could you share a diagnotic file so we can take a look at it? Feel free to DM me or creating a bug report about it.
>> documents/humankind/temporary files


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2 years ago
Jul 28, 2022, 3:06:42 PM
Daarkarrow wrote:
jfrenzy wrote:

Hello,


Impossible to start the game since the update. It crashes just after the cutscene. Am I the only one experiencing this bug ?

Could you share a diagnotic file so we can take a look at it? Feel free to DM me or creating a bug report about it.
>> documents/humankind/temporary files


Ok I just sent you a message. Apparently I am not the only one concerned. At least 6 people commented on Steam on the issue.

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2 years ago
Jul 28, 2022, 4:13:09 PM

So, how much was changed from the beta? i reckon there was some serious balance issues with some of the new abilities


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2 years ago
Jul 28, 2022, 4:16:04 PM

I previously switched to Battuta Beta and played. Hours ago, I was forced to update back to non-testing version. And my new game of era 1 DIDN'T show the change of Battuta update.


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2 years ago
Jul 28, 2022, 4:25:54 PM
jfrenzy wrote:
Daarkarrow wrote:
jfrenzy wrote:

Hello,


Impossible to start the game since the update. It crashes just after the cutscene. Am I the only one experiencing this bug ?

Could you share a diagnotic file so we can take a look at it? Feel free to DM me or creating a bug report about it.
>> documents/humankind/temporary files


Ok I just sent you a message. Apparently I am not the only one concerned. At least 6 people commented on Steam on the issue.

Thanks for letting us know, I will reply there as well. So:

We have seen several people report crashes when launching the game. We are investigating the issue to know more. So in order to avoid crashes we have restored Bolivar on the main game. Until having a quick hotfix we move all the new things to the Beta branch (ibnbattuta_beta), but unfortunately this is only for steam users.

Sorry for the inconvenience, we will let you know asap.

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2 years ago
Jul 28, 2022, 4:31:15 PM
KillerDUZT wrote:

I previously switched to Battuta Beta and played. Hours ago, I was forced to update back to non-testing version. And my new game of era 1 DIDN'T show the change of Battuta update.


@Daarkarrow


Would you please recheck the update status? My steam didn't recieve Battuta updates.

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2 years ago
Jul 28, 2022, 4:36:53 PM
KillerDUZT wrote:
KillerDUZT wrote:

I previously switched to Battuta Beta and played. Hours ago, I was forced to update back to non-testing version. And my new game of era 1 DIDN'T show the change of Battuta update.


@Daarkarrow


Would you please recheck the update status? My steam didn't recieve Battuta updates.

We had to roll back because there were several reports of crashes. You should be able to select the BAttuta Beta again.

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2 years ago
Jul 28, 2022, 4:39:31 PM
The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:
KillerDUZT wrote:
KillerDUZT wrote:

I previously switched to Battuta Beta and played. Hours ago, I was forced to update back to non-testing version. And my new game of era 1 DIDN'T show the change of Battuta update.


@Daarkarrow


Would you please recheck the update status? My steam didn't recieve Battuta updates.

We had to roll back because there were several reports of crashes. You should be able to select the BAttuta Beta again.

I see. Understood. Respect to you all Humankind devs!

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2 years ago
Jul 28, 2022, 8:47:55 PM

Although I'm not having any issues with starting the game with Ibn Battuta, but I've noticed that in the last few games all aspects of my AI Persona are not loading, it's always on the default of game capture.

My AI Persona is set up like this.

My AI Persona is set up like this.

How she appears in the game. Archetype effects are also not working.

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2 years ago
Jul 28, 2022, 10:50:08 PM
Atens7 wrote:

Although I'm not having any issues with starting the game with Ibn Battuta, but I've noticed that in the last few games all aspects of my AI Persona are not loading, it's always on the default of game capture.

Archetypes and all that jazz are only for other people using your persona in their games as an AI opponent, you don't get any of it playing yourself.

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2 years ago
Jul 29, 2022, 7:37:34 AM

What is the version No of Ibn Battuta update? I'm on Epic Store, and not sure if my game updated before the patch was withdrawn or not, but haven't noticed any issues whatsoever.

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2 years ago
Jul 29, 2022, 7:52:28 AM
Achilleus wrote:

What is the version No of Ibn Battuta update? I'm on Epic Store, and not sure if my game updated before the patch was withdrawn or not, but haven't noticed any issues whatsoever.

On Epic you should have the rollback version as well (Bolivar), same as Steam users.

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2 years ago
Jul 29, 2022, 12:26:58 PM

Important info
As some of you have seen on the post, yesterday some player have experienced some crashes and we decided to do a step back, investigate about it to and deploy a hotfix. Well NOW IS LIVE, so you shouldn't have any hard crashes, if so, please do not hesitate to contact us, we will try to get back to you asap.

As a reminder, as is a new patch, probably mods will experimenting some problems.

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2 years ago
Jul 29, 2022, 3:47:36 PM

Thank you for making harbors anchor points for districts again, super glad it made it into this update! Time to start a new game and explore all the new balance changes. 

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2 years ago
Jul 30, 2022, 2:56:20 AM
Daarkarrow wrote:
jfrenzy wrote:
Daarkarrow wrote:
jfrenzy wrote:

Hello,


Impossible to start the game since the update. It crashes just after the cutscene. Am I the only one experiencing this bug ?

Could you share a diagnotic file so we can take a look at it? Feel free to DM me or creating a bug report about it.
>> documents/humankind/temporary files


Ok I just sent you a message. Apparently I am not the only one concerned. At least 6 people commented on Steam on the issue.

Thanks for letting us know, I will reply there as well. So:

We have seen several people report crashes when launching the game. We are investigating the issue to know more. So in order to avoid crashes we have restored Bolivar on the main game. Until having a quick hotfix we move all the new things to the Beta branch (ibnbattuta_beta), but unfortunately this is only for steam users.

Sorry for the inconvenience, we will let you know asap.

I had the same problem of it crashing on start up but found it to be caused by my mod. I found the errors in and tried to reload items, but couldn't because I was getting the same error from the "override from archive". However, I started a new mod, and it would seem that there is some error with items in the "Settlement/ConstructibleCommonExtensionDescriptor". 


 


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