Improvements and Changes

Please have a look at this blog post for some more details on Stamp Mode, the new Statistics Screen tabs, and other improvements.

New Features & Functionalities

• Stamp Mode: save stamps of your favourite residential or production layouts for later use
  • Stamps can be created via the Copy/Stamp tool, named and sorted into folders
  • PC players can also share the Stamp files with other players
• Statistics Screen: a storage tab has been added giving more info on stored goods, passive trades, active trades and general storage fluctuations
• Statistics Screen: an item/specialist tab has been added giving an overview of all owned as well as unknown specialists and their sources
• Quests can now be hidden from the quest log. You can still find them in the quest book, where it’s also possible to unhide them
• Players continuing an existing savegame now receive a short introduction to newly added features such as Stamps and Notes.

Changes & Improvements

• [Console] The install size of the game will be smaller after this update on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, which should also result in smaller update sizes in the future
  • This will mean a larger download for this update, however
• Changed the threshold needed to reach “Legendary difficulty” in the game setup
• The Trading Pier goods selection window is now titled “Goods” instead of “Items” to avoid confusion with the Items feature.
• Photo mode now shows the correct “take screenshot” key when playing with mouse and keyboard on consoles, including the Share button on Xbox.
• Festival governor decisions now also show your current storage for the goods cost
• An “Auto-Accept festivals” option has been added to the Options under the “Game” category.
• The war declaration screen has received visual improvements
• Goods icons in storage menus are now easier to read when passive trade settings are active.
• Updated the Amphitheatre and Hippodrome construction menus to better show each construction phase.
• Players can now clip the camera into buildings in photo mode, giving more flexibility to take shots through arches/gates
• When using the upgrade tool, the object menu now shows the name of the building being upgraded alongside the upgrade cost.
• [Modding] The mod mismatch tooltip and popup now list exactly which mods differ, and an icon in the pause menu shows whether your game is modded.
• Pressing Escape in the trade route details now returns to the trade route overview instead of closing the whole trade route screen.
• If the player resizes their game in window mode, the game will now remember that size next time the player starts the game

Balancing

• Consumption of goods increased, by making “normal” the new default difficulty
  • This change only affects new save games
  • “Easy” is still available to choose, as is a “very hard” difficulty with a 75% increase
  • Starting money has been increased to compensate for a more difficult early game
• Good required to start a festival now take their value into account
  • Players will need higher quantities of low-value goods than before but lower quantities of high-value goods
• Festivals now cost less money from the mid game onward, with the end-game cost cut from 50,000 to 25,000 coins, while at the same time scaling better with progress
• Incident attribute penalties from City Status now increase more gradually, especially around population tiers 2 and 3, while the end-game values stay the same.
• Rebalanced the effects of two aqueduct-related specialists
  • Aquila Dulcis, Curator Aquarum, from +200% Water Supply to +100%
  • Ductuarius, from +50% Water Supply to +25%
• Adjusted the difficulty points given by the research speed settings so that slower research gives more points instead of the faster and slower extremes being rated the same.
• Liberti Bread consumption from Splendor is now reduced to the same as Plebeians.
  • Latium Mills now produce faster but have higher upkeep to compensate:
  • Production time 30s -> 20s
  • Internal Grain Storage 8 -> 12
  • Internal Flour Storage 6 -> 9
  • Maintenance 8 -> 12
  • Workforce 3 -> 4
• Escort contracts should now be less frustrating: escorted ships are no longer too slow, attackers spawn further away instead of close to the convoy, and escorted ships now appear near the lighthouse where the contract was accepted.
• Shrines now all share the same range of 22 tiles, so they are easier to plan.
• The Sandarac Nursery is now classified as a plantation, so plantation buffs and effects apply to it.
  • It should now also use aqueduct irrigation again
• Changes were made so that now there’s a more consistent forest coverage across difficulty settings.

Bug Fixes

General

• Fixed a crash that would happen when clicking on the “Expired Notes” notification.
• Fixed a potential crash caused by idling in versus multiplayer sessions.
• Fixed when single selected ships would sometimes being treated as a fleet.
• Fixed an issue where escort ships could get stuck at the map’s edge, when the trade route was changed while the ship was travelling to another region.
• Improved performance in the Accolades and Achievements menus.
• Fixed frame rate drops in the Archive tab of the Questbook when many quests have been completed.
• Fixed the autosave limit not working on consoles, which forced players to delete saves by hand to make room for new autosaves.
• Improved the performance when placing the “Celtic Forest” ornament.
• Fixed a crash that could occur shortly after loading certain savegames.
• Automatic graphics detection no longer turns on frame generation for systems set to the Low preset, which evens out performance across minimum-spec PCs.
• Improved performance on PCs that meet the recommended specs, reducing frame rate drops and stutters when moving the camera over large, developed cities.
• NVIDIA RTX 30-series graphics cards now have FSR 3 frame generation turned on by default in the automatic graphics settings.
• Fixed some performance issues when highlighting road sections that could cause FPS drops
• Fixed an issue where a lost flagship was never offered as a replacement if the player had low reputation with the Emperor’s traders.
• Aqueducts must now be placed straight through rivers or cliffs and can’t have an endpoint on a river or cliff anymore. Previous savegames that had Aqueducts placed like this will not be affected but will continue on the new behavior
• Fixed harbour buildings no longer being placeable along diagonal coasts after researching water construction technology while diagonal construction was turned off.
• Fixed cavalry units sometimes switching back and forth between two targets instead of attacking.
• Fixed an issue where the “Establish Route” button is greyed out in the Trade route menu sometimes
• Fixed an issue where the construction area was bigger than the visual construction grid/costal area during road construction
• Hovering over the buildings listed in the Aqueduct Cistern will now highlight the corresponding building.
• Fixed an issue where players could place buildings on top of the Ritual Bonfire during the Iron Fire Festival quest
• Fixed an issue where wine-related goods (Grapes, Honeycomb and Wine) were missing from the Trading Post, Trade Route and ship trading inventories, as well as from the Statistics screen.
• Festival decorations now also get put on upgraded Residences when a festival is ongoing
• Fixed streets that could not be built through some diagonally placed gates.
• Fixed streets crossing canals in the marsh wrongly placing bridges, and roads turning into dirt roads instead of marsh roads when such a canal was removed.
• The Rival NPCs will handle multiple sessions with different progress levels better
• Fixed the game lagging or freezing when selecting an Amphitheatre built on Cinis.

• Fixed an issue where defeating a pirate would lower the displayed difficulty in the given save game
• Fixed an issue where the order of deactivating specialists would cause big fluctuations in prestige.
• Fixed an issue where the Land Battle tutorial explainer popup would not trigger
• [DLC 01] Fixed an issue where silos hit by volcanic rocks were removed instead of turning into ruins.
• Rebalanced the stat changes of the “Healthy as a Horse” decision after races, and it no longer appears for racers who have already reached their full potential.
• Fixed an issue where starting a manual save during an autosave could cause both saves to fail.
• Fixed an issue where the Statistics tutorial did not end when closing its tutorial bubble with a gamepad.
• Fixed an issue where the jump-to button of the Put Down the Uprising quest could take you to a rival’s rioters instead of the ones on your own island.
• Production flyouts for byproducts are now labelled “Byproduct” to set them apart from regular production.
• Fixed Notes appearing further away from flotsam units instead of next to them.
• Fixed an issue where a “previous” deity would sometimes be shown for islands that never had a deity assigned in the Religion menu.
• Fixed an issue where flotsam units near a rival Trading Post would keep the island in a threatened state during an island takeover.
• Fixed the arrows of City Watch buildings (Medicus, Custodia, Vigiles) sometimes wrongly marking houses.
• Fixed an issue where trade route ships kept returning to the same island instead of following their route.
• Fixed Common Specialists not being purchasable from Caecilia in some situations.
• The range preview of Aqueduct Cisterns and institutions now matches the actual area of effect. The Cistern range was slightly increased to compensate.
• Fixed issues with some specialists not applying their bonuses to all buildings in their production chain and all relevant buildings across regions
• Walls and hedges now give island Prestige like other ornaments.
• Fixed that ships would sometimes clip through Caecilia’s Trading Post.
• Fixed an issue where rivals sent notifications about improved relations due to devotion to a patron before the player had chosen any patron.
• Fixed an issue where a Governor’s Villa’s garrison troops stayed under the player’s control after their island was razed; they now desert after a short time.
• When a quest item or specialist cannot fit on a full ship and is dropped into the water, a matching notification now tells you so instead of claiming it was moved to the nearest harbour.
• Trees and statues from the Blooming Cities and Echoes of Kassandra packs now count toward “Build decorations” quest objectives.
• Fixed military units being unable to pass through the ruins of destroyed enemy gates during island combat.
• Fixed an issue where the rival items could be lost when defeating the rival
• Fixed an issue where troops floating in the water after Voada’s ship was sunk could be picked up and landed by the player on any island.
• Fixed units being unable to attack pirate buildings (“Invalid target”) after subjugating an ally as Consul, including in affected savegames.
• [DLC 02] Fixed an issue where the Hippodrome charioteer options would receive a wrong default value in older savegames.
• [DLC 02] Fixed an issue with achievements from The Hippodrome DLC not unlocking/counted on Ubisoft Connect

Controls

• Fixed an issue where ships sent to the edge of the map could leave the playable area and could no longer be selected or moved with a gamepad.
• Fixed an issue where pressing D-Pad Right in the quest book did not move gamepad focus to the “Make a Choice” button.
• Fixed the “Prefer Mouse and Keyboard” input setting on consoles switching back to “Automatically Switch Input” when a gamepad button was pressed.
• Added production chain access in the quick menu when using the gamepad
• Fixed the on-screen keyboard sometimes opening on PlayStation 5 when assigning a specialist at the Governor’s Villa.
• Fixed the camera jumping to another location when releasing the mouse over the minimap.
• Added a new shortcut that starts build mode for the building under the cursor; it has no default key and can be assigned in the options.
• Fixed an issue where building couldn’t be upgraded or downgraded with gamepad when switching between upgrade and downgrade.

Multiplayer

• Saves can now be loaded again after disabling live game
• Fixed a desync that would happen in new co-op campaign games.
• Fixed a rare crash on Xbox Series X|S during the loading screen when joining a multiplayer session already in progress.
• Improved the Co-op Ping Marker
• Fixed an issue with the position markers in the multiplayer where the markers did not show on the map after the 3rd ping
• Fixed a multiplayer desync caused by player-created notes.
• Fixed an issue that would unlock Hall of Fame rewards during multiplayer.
• Fixed being unable to load a co-op save after having a previously defeated opponent.
• Fixed situations where notes created in multiplayer would have their text overwritten.
• Fixed an issue on PS5 where sometimes the save profile would be duplicated the first time a player joined a multiplayer session already in progress.
• [Modding] Multiplayer now checks for differences in sub-mods as well as main mods, preventing avoidable desyncs when players’ mod setups differ.
  • This should also fix some multuplayer Desync issues
• Added an infotip in the co-op player list of the Game Setup lobby that shows which DLCs a player is missing.

World/Level Art

• Fixed a visible edge in the lake on Voada’s Island
• Fixed ships being able to sail through parts of certain large Roman islands on randomised maps.
• Fixed some visual gaps in the white cliffs of Albion.
• Fixed the Petrified Gorgo and Sisyphus ornaments not appearing when placed in mountain slots on some Albion islands.
• Grounded a group of flying trees on Cinis.
• Also grounded some flying trees in Albion
• Fixed an issue where “Corners” and “Island Chain” layouts would have no weather in Albion.
• Fixed three Latium islands always having a fixed number of river slots, regardless of difficulty setting
  • This does not affect existing savegames

UI/UX

• Fixed an issue where the object menu could show the wrong fleet or single ship view when quickly selecting ships or land units.
• Adjusted color blind settings in Diplomacy and War screens for better readability
• The Reputation Overview background artwork scales properly for all UI scaling settings
• Infotip for the tendency of rivals between each other regarding an alliance has been added
• Info layer outlines (with “Outline on Infolayers” enabled) are now thicker up close and thinner at a distance.
• Fixed an issue where trading while the ship is full would not show a proper warning.
• Fixed the issue with showing the area of effect for the Gambling House
• Fixed an issue where clicking on the “Jump To” button of Hippodrome’s notifications didn’t always work.
• A confirmation window now appears before a trade route is deleted.
• Fixed an UI texture not scaling properly in the Sluice Gate Object Menu.
• Fixed an issue inside the Honoured Guests screen that led to unintended scrolling when selecting Islands from within the Island list
• Construction materials in the pin bar of the construction menu now also appear in their locked state.
• Fixed the “Sell when above” slider at the Trading Post not updating its position when switching goods.
• Empty notes no longer display an infotip when using a gamepad
• Made the influence radius of Villa guesthouses easier to see.
• Removed ‘Can be improved’ from a entry of the economy reasons as it could not be improved any further
• The items inventory now opens with the filter that fits the current context pre-selected, while all other item tabs stay browsable instead of showing “No Result”.
• Enlarged the unlimited-quantity symbol in the trader menu.
• A new celebration effect for unlocking rewards in the Hall of Fame was added.
• Fixed that the player was unable to exit the game setup screen after adding a new governor during an ongoing session
• Adjusted the description text of Licia Ma’s ‘Trading with Voada’ to be easier to understand
• All farms and plantations now use the correct farm field icon for their modules.
• Adjusted several diplomacy reasons icons for consistency
• Adjusted the position of the infotips inside the Diplomacy treaty screens, so that they are no longer overlapping with the confirm button
• Fixed Reputation Overview screen remaining active on screen when switching back in and out of photo or postcard view modes
• Fixed an issue where removing Governors in the Game Setup would not properly update the difficulty rating display.
• Removed an invisible element that could be focused on with the gamepad when loading a multiplayer game
• Items added by festivals should now be marked as “New” with a ribbon
• Fixed an issue where the Flagship could be counted as a Penteconter in the Fleet Object Menu
• Added Make a choice button in the quest tracker for the quest Secure the Limes
• Fixed an issue with Scars of Conquest where it duplicated the quest objective text from the confirmation pop-up to the quest tracker
• Fixed an issue where the description of a specialist was missing in the notification infotip
• Specialist infotips now show the boost hint even before its conditions are met, so you can see how to boost an item’s effect.
• Players now receive a new notification if their ally ended a war which they are involved in
• Fixed the save details infotip permanently covering the save list when using a gamepad; the Toggle Details button now works as intended.
• Fixed missing info layer icons above available river and mountain slots when relocating a building with the Move tool.
• Fixed the HUD reset button sometimes not working on the first press.
• Fixed an issue where a tutorial remained stuck in the Active tab of the quest book.

• Fixed diagonal and right-angle path layout options being available by default when using the copy tool.
• Added shortcut buttons, to open the statistics Goods and Items tabs, on multiple menus.
• Added text labels next to the Settings buttons of DLCs in the Game Setup.
• Reduced flickering on the province map when moving the mouse between entries in the Trade Routes menu.
• Removed a redundant Amphitheatre unlock notification that could appear around the time the Hippodrome’s next construction phase became available.
• Fixed misaligned buttons in the Religion menu.
• Fixed missing descriptions in the infotips for the Trading Post Improvements and Warehouse Organization discoveries in the Research menu.
• Fixed a missing description in the infotip of the Legionaries research.
• Fixed a stray “$” symbol in the barter warning shown when your ship is full or you do not have enough Obsidian.
• Fixed an issue where the Balance tab showed “Human” instead of the lending player’s name after receiving a loan from another player in multiplayer.
• Fixed Caecilia being selectable as a trade route station when already owning Cinis.
• Fixed an issue where the suitors’ reaction speech bubbles did not appear after handing them rejection letters in the “Sense & Suitability” quest.
• Production buildings now show a clear warning in their object menu when they do not have enough workforce.
• Replaced an icon in one suitor’s menu during the “Sense & Suitability” quest.
• Fixed the hint in the “Choose a Patron God” tutorial closing too quickly after opening the Religion screen.
• Added the icon, for the quest “A Procurator’s Prep”, inside the Questbook.
• Fixed several ornaments from the Blooming Cities Pack being only partly highlighted when using tools.
• Added the icon, for the quest “Fortify the City”, inside the Questbook.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes the City Status icon in a building’s Active Effects would not show properly depending on the camera position.
• Fixed an issue where mountain slot ornaments would not be highlighted when using the Move or Copy tool.
• The Ctrl+H shortcut to hide the UI now works in Photo Mode with mouse and keyboard.
• Fixed an issue where island names would be shown outside the frame in the Religion menu.
• Fixed the Adrestia ship skin description not fitting in the menu at some UI scales.
• Fixed gamepad focus disappearing while scrolling through the contract list in the Lighthouse menu.
• Fixed an issue where the Expired Notes counter did not decrease after removing an expired note from the list.
• Fixed the specialist reward infotip in the “State of the Art” quest completion notification.
• Fixed the “for sale” icon staying on a good after setting it to “No Trade”.
• Fixed the quest tracker overlapping the minimap during the “Sabotage the Scathach” quest, on larger UI scalings.
• Fixed an issue where street connection points could’ve been shown on rival islands in Albion.
• Added an icon in the Questbook for the quest: “VII: Colossal Undertakings”.
• Added the missing icon and region to the “Settle the small, forested island in the middle of the province” objective of the Act 2 campaign quest “The Roots of our Ancestors” in the quest book and questracker
• Changed the trade route options icon.
• Added a black outline to several Amphitheatre icons.
• Added the missing region and objective icons to the Act 2 campaign quest “The Lost Cohort” in the quest book and quest tracker.
• Added the Questbook icon for the quest “A Beast of Lore”.
• Added a detailed infotip to savegame profile cards that lists all governors, co-op players and active DLCs.

• Fixed the “Gaze at Volcano” button focusing the camera on the selected ship instead of the volcano.
• Fixed an issue where deities in the Religion menu could show the wrong icons.
• Fixed the quest tracker overlapping the minimap during “The Voada Problem” questline in Act 2 on larger UI scalings.
• Fixed patrician resident quests such as “The Cover-Up”, “Thieves Abound” and “Adopted Wisdom” showing a plebeian icon instead of a patrician one.
• Removed the empty Gold Ore category, which had no description, from the gamepad radial construction menu.
• Improved rendering performance when explainer popups are shown.
• Fixed the missing character portrait in the Lusitanian’s Hippodrome governor decision.
• Reduced the maximum zoom-in level of the Tech Tree for easier navigation.
• Fixed the first or last trade route in a scrolling list not being fully shown when focused.
• Fixed other players’ profile icons disappearing from multiplayer saves uploaded to a cross-progression slot.
• Added infotips to the DLC button in the Game Setup lobby that show each active DLC and warn which players are missing it.
• Fixed inverted Move Up and Move Down gamepad button prompts in Photo Mode.
• Fixed an issue where locked Game Setup tabs could still be opened with a gamepad during a campaign game.
• Fixed an issue where the greyed-out World Seed option could still be randomized with a gamepad when changing save settings.
• Fixed saves uploaded to a cross-progression slot showing a DLC icon left over from the previous save in that slot.
• Fixed the Villa Set not being marked as a favourite after selecting “Add to Favorites” in the construction menu with a gamepad.
• Removed an error message appearing in the save slot tooltip after saving.
• Removed the redundant “Special Raw Materials” category from the Albion construction menu, as its buildings are already listed under Materials.
• Fixed accessibility colors not showing on farm fields when demolishing farms with a gamepad.
• Fixed the online status icon sometimes appearing partly off-screen in the main and pause menus.
• Fixed governor decision notifications shifting sideways or overlapping the screen edges at certain UI scale settings.
• Clarified the DLC activation text in campaign games.
• Improved the readability of negative numbers on building info cards by giving them a higher-contrast colour.
• Fixed the trade route tutorial showing up among active quests; it now only appears in the quest archive.
• Centered the Echoes of Cassandra pack name in the Hall of Echoes menu.
• Fixed a white square outline that could appear around the arrival timer in the Honoured Guests tab on Xbox Series X|S at some UI scales.
• Fixed the yellow selection outline staying visible on aqueducts, walls, hedges and gates after deselecting them.
• Fixed the Tarragon rival appearing in the player’s colour after the campaign epilogue sometimes.
• Adjusted the major incident evacuation icon to be easier to see for the color blind modes.
• Fixed the favourite star remaining on the Villa Set after removing it from favourites until the game was reloaded.
• Fixed the favourite star in the construction menu only updating after moving focus away from the building.
• Fixed an issue where the “Attract either Mercators or Smiths” objective would be appearing twice in the Act 2 campaign quest “Frontiertown”.
• Removed the non-functional “Select” gamepad prompt from the Game Mode Selection screen.
• Improved the consistency of construction option infotips.
• Ubisoft Connect level-up notifications now follow the game’s current language setting instead of the language active when the first notification appeared.
• Fixed an issue where the skin selection could skip some variants when looking through them

Art/Visuals

• Fixed an issue with floating festival decorations
• Optimized memory usage
• Fixed an animation issue for the Cavalry unit
• Fixed an issue where the player colour did not update on Gates if the player would switch colours during play
• Fixed an issue where the smoke from damaged buildings could stay when the building became a ruin
• Fixed an issue where the feedback military units would continue to train in the ruins of the Barracks
• Fixed an issue where Cosmetic DLC ornaments would not appear correctly if the host did not own that DLC.
• Fixed an issue where puddles could show up on boardwalks in Albion
• Fixed the Mineral Mine roof looking broken when zoomed out.
• Mountain slot ornaments now match better the dark mountain slots on Cinis.
• Gathering workers were added to the Oat Farms.
• Fixed an issue where residents would sometimes clip through the wall of the Tabulus.
• Fixed ground pattern tiles sometimes overlapping street curbs or leaving gaps next to diagonal and curved streets.
• Fixed Temples and other ritual buildings showing an incorrect resident portrait when selected.
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer where the “Highlight player’s racer” setting highlighted another player’s chariot instead of your own.
• Removed wooden boxes appearing on the stairs of the Albion Bath House.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes spectators would clip with the Hippodrome during races.
• Fixed an issue where rival farms and plantations sometimes appearing idle.
• Fixed a red tent clipping through the palisade wall on Procurator Corvinus’ island in Albion.
• Added high-contrast backgrounds and high-contrast text settings to the game, which can be found in the Options in the Interface Tab
• Fixed spread-out land units sometimes disappearing from view while still on screen when zooming the camera.
• Fixed duplicated smoke effects above the volcano during eruptions on Xbox Series X|S.
• Fixed an issue where the mountain slot ornaments (Sisyphus and Petrified Gorgo) showed no preview model when being moved with the Move Tool.
• Fixed gaps that would sometimes appear for paved and marble road bridges.
• Fixed visual problems with hair in player and rival portraits.
• Fixed Roman modular ships not leaving a wake while turning in some cases.
• Fixed some graphical issues sometimes appearing during wildfires.
• Depots can now be switched between their visual variants.
• Fixed residents sinking into the Vulcan Shrine while worshipping.
• Fixed fleeing citizens appearing as crates instead of swimming people when they ended up in the water during “The Setting of the Sun”.

Diplomacy/Rivals

• Fixed having Diplomacy ‘Starting Naval Power’ and ‘Flagship Only’ reasons being active at the same time
• Added an explanation why players can not enter a limited war with pirates
• Adjusted the power calculation during war for several war strength comparison reasons
• Rivals now wait longer before repeating treaty requests after you have declined them.
• Fixed the massive trade fleet reason as it was checking for an incorrect value
• Fixed the ‘Shattered Defences’ reason triggering when no structural damage was done to the opposing war participant
• The Unity in belief Diplomacy reason can no longer be triggered if both parties have no deity selected
• Added a notification if an alliance partner has ended a war using the white peace option
• Decreased likelihood of rivals inside a defensive pact to enter non-aggression pacts with rivals outside of their defensive pact
• The “devotion comparison” reason now triggers with the Temple or Sacred Grove in Albion instead of the Fanum.

Audio

• Murmurs mixing was improved.
• Fixed the volcano tremor sound continuing to loop in newly started or loaded games after returning to the title screen while it was playing.
• Fixed an issue where the volcano tremor sound would sometimes continue to play after loading a savegame during an active tremor.
• The general notification sound is now quieter and less intrusive.
• Abandoned residences no longer play the sounds of a busy, populated city.
• Fixed several sounds, including land and naval unit murmurs and movement sounds, that still played with master volume set to 0%.
• Background sound now continues, muffled, during governor decisions.
• Increased the volume of carts and chariots and evened out the volume of all emergency response units.
• Smoothed the audio transition into and out of the region intro videos.
• Fixed the “Ship under attack” and “Construction under attack” audio alerts playing when your own ships or towers attacked.

Quests

• Fixed an issue for the deliver positions for the quest Iron and Fire Festival
• The “Sabotage the Scathach” quest in Act 2 of the campaign now correctly includes the “Destroy Voada’s Supply Fleet” objective in the quest book
• Fixed an issue where “The Mad Cook” quest could get stuck if the required tavern was lost during the quest. Affected quests are now aborted and can start again later.
• Fixed an issue in the Worthy Plunder questline where ships spawned for the quest attacked Caeso’s own ships and island defences.
• Fixed an issue where some deities selected would not complete the Forgotten Grandeur tutorial quest
• Item rewards that do not fit on a full ship, now, show the correct notification. They were sent to your trading post or dropped into the sea as flotsam.
• Fixed the Governor Decision screen hanging, with the Procurator’s voice line looping, after selecting the Procurator’s Harbor in the Act 2 campaign quest “An Illusion of Security”.
• Fixed an issue where ships delivered for Emperor requests such as “Aquila Soaring” and “A Forest of Masts” still showed a low workforce warning and appeared as the player’s own ships.
• Fixed an issue where Athr’s knights did not count towards the “Have a standing force of 3 military units” objective in the Act 2 optional quest “Secure the Limes”.
• Fixed an issue where quests started on an island could still be accepted and completed after the player lost control of that island.
• Fixed Voada’s son not being recognised in a ship’s cargo during “The Bonds Within Bone” questline, which caused him to vanish when the timer ran out.
• Fixed the Liberated Citizens quest item in “Reprising Freedom” sometimes being thrown overboard on its own after being picked up.
• Fixed an issue with the quest tracker where the quest objective would jump to a different quest for the Act 2 quest The Deep End
• Added a slight delay to the tutorial to build residences after player built a wood cutter
• The Passive Trade tutorial entry no longer stays in the active quest list and is now moved to the quest archive
• Fixed an issue where the “Reprising Freedom” quest could trigger even if Caeso was already defeated
• The “Missing Shipment” quest now rewards a ship with 9 cargo slots.
• Added quest tracker objectives for building the Ropemaker and Sailmaker during the shipyard tutorial, so it is clear how to finish the tutorial after placing the shipyard.
• Fixed several campaign quests missing their icon in the Questbook.
• Fixed the ship movement tutorial hint staying on screen after deselecting the ship.

Text/Localization

• Fixed text for two Epona devotion diplomacy reasons
• Fixed a text issue in the Info Corner
• Added an explanation next to the Settings button of “The Hippodrome” in the Game Setup.
• Restored missing text for several economy related Diplomacy reasons
• Fixed some overlaps that would appear on the loading screens of multiplayer games, in the russian language.
• Fixed the “Take Screenshot” Photo Mode hint showing in English in other languages when using mouse and keyboard.
• The description of Epona’s “Reins of Prosperity” now mentions its Prestige bonus.
• Fixed a missing description in the starting Trireme’s infotip after transferring from Albion to Latium.
• Fixed missing translations for the “Move Marker” button in the Trade Route menu.
• Fixed an issue when the incorrect region would be mentioned in the loading screen.
• Made the ornament name “Game Table” be consistent throughout menus.
• Fixed inconsistent paragraph formatting in Marcus’s character description in several languages.
• The Saved Data error pop-up on PlayStation 5 now uses the term “Saved Data” instead of “Savegame”.
• Fixed inconsistent text wrapping on the Hippodrome event splendour reward screen at different UI scaling settings.
• Updated the breakdown tab name under Attributes in the Statistics screen.
• The description of Empress Julia Augusta has been updated to be easier to read.
• Fixed an issue in the Valeria questline where the ship delivery window had missing text.
• Improved the German wording of a game setting from the second DLC.
• The trader tooltip now explains when a good sells for a higher price because the trader prefers it.
• The Credits were updated.