KoH Patch status (update)

[Frujin]

Hello friends,

The second KoH patch is shaping up very good so far. I am glad to inform you that since of today it enters "testing" phase. Of course, some more things can be still added or additionally tweaked, but we hope the hardest part is already done. Unfortunately, I cant quote any ETA or list of changes/fixes yet. Stay tuned :)

Cheers,
Frujin

[King Kaloyan]

Hip hip hurrey! Hip hip hurray! Finally! Good job! I've only one question - how are the testers chosen or they are from Blacksea?

[Elvain]

Great to hear your words again, Frujin! :cheers:

I hope the testing will be good and also inspiring...

let's stop dreaming, let's prepare ourselves for the patch :go:

"Medieval times of Knights of Honor await you"

[Anguille2]

X-mas came early this year! :angel:

[Angryminer]

That's great news.
I'm expecting to be humiliated by the AI. :smile:

Angryminer

[Dobber]

Wahoo! Now maybe we can play for days upon days trying to conquer all of Europe! :go:

[Kuno of Gersenau]

Wow that's really a christmas present in advance! Great news, thank you Frujin!:xmas_go:

[Traveller]

Nice news indeed, Frujin! I was thinking that you would start the actual work soon, while you've actually outbested yourself!
Btw, what's the testing scheme and how professional is it? :rolleyes:

[Doux]

Great news! :xmas_smile:

[knez]

I dream of spending Christmas playing KoH whole day long
:cool:

[Elvain]

Better finnish it just after the Christmass.. January is good for me, if I pass most of the exams before the Christmass

if the patch is released before most of my exams I seriously doubt I could pass them all :lol:

[knez]

good thing I have my exams next two weaks :biggrin:

[patriot1]

I dream of spending Christmas playing KoH whole day long
:cool:
Thinking the same thing!:wink:

[legendchew]

If you want to speed up the progess for beta tester, find us ...we will help ...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Elvain]

Yes, if you need testers we are ready. I guess at least the modders will be eager to help though we are in time stress. At least I would always find some time for KoH :angel:

[KOHCN]

Good news! Thank you!

[Elvain]

oh and btw...

I have a question Frujin.
Could you tell us which way the challenge is improved?

I wonder if it's primarily that you make it harder to earn money (especially for larger kingdoms), or if the AI military skills are greatly improved, or AI economic skills are improved.. or is it done by giving AI some advantages over the player(f.i. knights are cheaper for the AI so it hires them, like the player and unlike the 1.03's AI etc)?

While modding the game I was always solving a dilema how to balance it to make the game easy enough for Ai to make it a challenging foe while the game is still hard enough for the player(not to have too cheap buildings/knights etc)

I would really love to see the AI orthodox independent states being able to have 2 patriarchs in a row

[Mircoslavux]

:hello: :hello: :hello:

[kevincompton]

Yaay! I hope its hard indeed. I also hope testers are chosen out of this community, they can make sure it is really hard. Whoever tested the first release should probably not be the last to test this patch.

[Angryminer]

Sunflowers has a Quality Assurance department in their headquarters. All the testing is done there. So I'd have to go there (30 mins from here) to test it. But there's a whole tail of legal things to check before (NDA), so I don't think Sunflowers would agree to it.
Anyway, I believe that Sunflowers is capable of testing the patch sufficiently. After all, KoH was considerably bug free when it came, similar to other recent Sunflowers products. What we've been talking about most were severe gameplay flaws that were overlooked during testing.

Angryminer