Game company Feral Interactive has recently announced that a new patch of PC game Total War: ROME REMASTERED is now live for download.
The first update focused more on stability, subsurface scattering effects for units in real-time battles have also been implemented. There will be more work on improving AI, pathfinding, and modding functionality in the future.
Here’s the full patch notes:
STABILITY
We’d like to thank all users who enabled crash reporting – many of these fixes are only possible due to these reports.
• Fixed a crash when attempting to save game during an AI-only campaign
• Fixed a crash when moving animal units across bridges
• Stability improvements to reduce a number of one-off crashes reported by users since release
LOCALISATION
• Various improvements to Chinese voice over tracks
• Various improvements to Chinese in-game strings
• Various improvements to Russian in-game strings
• Fixed issue with missing Russian subtitles during the Armenia faction introduction
• Fixed issues with Italian subtitle syncing during the Iberia faction introduction
• Fixed issue where the “Open Preferences Folder” button would not work when the system user account name used non-roman characters
AUDIO
• Male Barbarian units no longer play female audio variations in battle
GAMEPLAY & VISUALS
• Fixed an issue where descriptions and effects for Merchants’ followers would not display
• Added subsurface scattering effects to unit skin to address skin tone issues
• Improved text wrapping for longer region names displayed inside tooltips
• Improved diplomacy tooltips
AI CAMPAIGN & BATTLE
• Rebalanced Compensation so that factions which start a war owe more compensation to the defending faction
• Fixed an issue where units would face the wrong direction if ordered to attack while Guard Mode is enabled
• Fixed an issue where units take up incorrect formation during siege battles
MULTIPLAYER
• Fixed a multiplayer issue where a non-host player admitting defeat could result in a desync for other players
MODDING
• Fixed an issue where mods may be deleted if an update process fails
• Fixed a crash that may occur when editing a settlement name in database
Total War: ROME REMASTERED is now available on PC.
Source: Press Release