Kingmaker - Patch 1.2 Released

Patch 1.2 - January 24th, 2019 - Part 1

Pathfinder: Kingmaker - TheZeisonSha
Dear pathfinders,

As the new year takes its course, we are happy to announce that we're ready to share Version 1.2!

This new pack of fixes and improvements is based on your suggestions we keep receiving both from forums and the in-game reporting system (available by pressing F11). Thank you so much for your contribution - your feedback lets us make the game better every day!

We know that a lot of our players are complaining about the long load times. It's a serious technical issue and, unfortunately, we cannot fix it in one fell swoop. However, we're doing our best to mitigate this pain. We have been able to greatly decrease initial loading time in previous patches. And there is a major improvement in Kingdom management interface we implemented in this patch that will eliminate loading time between different Kingdom UI windows. We keep looking for other things we could do to fix this problem, so stay tuned for further improvements!

Be aware that the update is really huge - you will have to download around 18 Gb! The reason the update is so big is that we are working on the loading time issue, so we had to repack almost all game data.

We would like to thank all of you who are sending us the bug reports with the typos. We are doing our best to correct them as soon as they are discovered. Thanks to you all, the Version 1.2 holds a large number of such fixes!

Finally, let us assure you once more that work on the Pathfinder: Kingmaker will not stop for a single day. Right now, the development team keeps working on the next patch which should fix - as we hope - all known issues that remain on our task list.

Sincerely yours,
Owlcats.

Patch Highlights:

• System: Loading times have been significantly reduced.
• New setting: you can now choose to significantly decrease loading times in kingdom management screens at the cost of higher RAM and VRAM consumption.
• Multiple difficulty improvements in Chapters 6 and 7.
• New feature: you can now enable camera following. Just double-click a character's portrait or hit F to enable it and disable it by manually controlling the camera (WASD, arrow keys or pressing on the mouse wheel). Camera-following is also automatically disabled on battle start.
• New feature: to save yourself a loading screen, you can now hover your mouse cursor over the table in the throne room, and you'll see an exclamation mark if anything new has happened in kingdom management while you were gone.
• The Storyteller now provides the total number of artifact shards needed to assemble an artifact.
• Numerous visual and user interface improvements.

Please, be aware of the plot spoilers in the description below (in the Quest, Areas and Kingdom sections)!

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rjshae said:

That… is a whole lot of bug fixes. I wonder how large the remaining stack is at this point?

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Andrew23 said:

As they mention in patch notes, this update is rather big (making pause for inevitable pun from Couch ). In Steam I had to download approx 12GB of data. But it really seem they made some fundamental changes as load times improved significantly.

Im not sure what new setting they refer to here:
New setting: you can now choose to significantly decrease loading times in kingdom management screens at the cost of higher RAM and VRAM consumption.

Going through setting I noted its possible to set number of auto-save positions and quick-save positions, but Im not even sure if it was there before the last patch.

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TomRon said:

Decreasing loading times is great, but what has really made me wait to play (I backed the game so already own it) are all the reports about the end game being a buggy mess. Has that been addressed to the point it's perfectly playable? (Smaller bugs or glitches I can stand, game breaking ones less so).

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TomRon said:

Decreasing loading times is great, but what has really made me wait to play (I backed the game so already own it) are all the reports about the end game being a buggy mess. Has that been addressed to the point it's perfectly playable? (Smaller bugs or glitches I can stand, game breaking ones less so).

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Archangel said:

They nerfed last two chapters for Normal and below difficulty. Also they increased XP gain from the endgame and for some later quests so you should now be higher level in that part of the game and have easier battles that will not be irritating or they will be less irritating.

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Archangel said:

They nerfed last two chapters for Normal and below difficulty. Also they increased XP gain from the endgame and for some later quests so you should now be higher level in that part of the game and have easier battles that will not be irritating or they will be less irritating.

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Archangel said:

They are overreacting.

But if you are playing on fullscreen and not windowed fullscreen don't alt tab to windows while game is saving.

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Carnifex said:

Every single update/patch seems to require even more adjusting after the fact. I learned that back when I was playing the game in October, and was a major reason why I parked it. I'm sure they'll get everything right and stable, just give them the time to do so.

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