Development of BI: 1.4 Changelog Preview!

[gokiller]

Welcome back lads, the recovering process has taken a long time, but I managed to do it finally. 1.4 Will be released soon, below is a preview of the current changelog which might be subject to additional changes!

Beside the for some of you 'good news'. I would like to remind you all that further development beyond 1.4 is still to be decided. My main focus is on my current project: Stronghold Conquest

Some new visual previews:

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Preview: Changelog 1.4

Most important:
- Formations have been fixed.

1. Optimisation

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- Removed Polished Landscape as part of the mod. - Recommended and downloadable tho.
- Removed HD World map texture as part of the mod.
- Re-done tons of lods for better performance.
- Re-organised BRF's and deleted unneccassery files.
- Optimised tons of texture files
- Optimised tons of music files
- Removed a lot of items from the brf's that had duplicates

2. Scenery

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- Added Town of Nisa
- Added Town of Athenae
- Added Town of Eblana
- Added town of Malochat

3. Troops

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- Added Egyptian local troop tree
- Levy -> Militia Swordman -> Swordman
-> Militia Spearman -> Spearman

- Added Gallic local troop tree
- Levy -> Light Swordman -> Swordman
-> Light Javelin Thrower -> Javelin Thrower

- Added Illyrian local troop tree
- Levy -> Light Swordman -> Swordman
-> Light Peltas -> Peltas

- Added Iberian local troop tree
- Levy -> Light Swordman -> Swordman
-> Light Horseman -> Horseman

- Added Briton local troop tree
- Levy -> Light Slingers -> Slingers
-> Light Spearman -> Spearman

- Added Berber local troop tree
- Levy -> Light Spearman -> Spearman
-> Light Horseman -> Horseman

- Added more Parthian Lords
- Added banner carriers
- Changed some roman general's armors
- Changed Parthian lord armors and helmets
- Changed Numidian lord armors and helmets
- Changed various king's equipment
- Changed centurion shield
- Fixed Various troop tree's upgrades
- Fixed various Roman generals armors and helmets

4. Textures / 2D work

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- Changed UI
- Changed Escape Menu
- Changed Loadingscreens
- Changed Main Menu
- Changed tons of background images (Bandit encounter etc)

5. Items

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- Added more Hamata variations. Including, pants and cloaks.
- Added more Segmentata variations. Including, pants and cloaks.
- Added more Centurion helmet variations
- Added more Tribune helmet variations
- Added more Praetorian helmet variations
- Added more Legionaire helmet variations.
- Added more Toga variations
- Added cloak variations
- Added Thracian armor variant
- Added Helmet variants with feathers
- Added more roman oval shield variants
- Fixed Roman Standards and added them in-game
- Fixed some messed up clothes
- Fixed Illyrian helmets
- Fixed Various shields without texture
- Fixed Toga variants
- Fixed missing texture for greek helmets
- Fixed some weird colours on items

6. Music/Sounds

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- Added Rome Total War theme song "Forever". Will start playing once on the main menu.
- Added Rome Total War sountrack (Greek intro) for on the campaign map
- Added Gladiator theme song for on the campaign map
- Removed wolf sounds every night

7 Misc

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- Removed multiplayer options before battles
- Fixed the formation bug -> FORMATIONS ARE WORKING AGAIN.
- Added new map icons
- Lowered troop upgrade costs
- Renamed "Participants" to -> gladiators in tournaments
- Changed troops participating in tournaments
- Changed various troop names to gladiator names.
- Changes Hore -> Whore
- Changed -> The entire concept of having prisoners to slaves. Complete dialog overhaul has been done for this.
- Changed -> Mead hall -> tavern
- Enabled horse archer skill
- Shorthen village prosperity text on the menu.
- Removed several "schillingas" mentionings that were found.

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[Knezevic]

Yes, yes and once more, YES!

 

[SR-71]

Great news!