Crusader Kings 3 has released Update 1.17.1, a patch designed to resolve lingering issues with coronations and the recent Ascendant update. The update focuses heavily on bug fixes, particularly concerning oaths, coronation events, and player notifications. It also improves character memories, corrects event text, and addresses several AI-related problems.
In addition to fixes, the update introduces a new coronation event for hosts, adjustments to oath requirements, and changes to the Divine Marriage tenet and witchcraft mechanics. Together, these refinements aim to provide a smoother, more balanced gameplay experience while ensuring greater consistency in role-playing elements.
Full Patch Notes
Bugfixes:
- Fixed Activity Pulse Action “stopped to admire the venue” showing errors during coronations from a guest perspective.
- Fixed coronation hosts incorrectly mentioning a guest’s realm while swearing an oath.
- “Champion of the X Culture” decision now properly displays duchy existence check.
- “Consolidate the empire/kingdom” oath now checks for the correct coronation title.
- “Purge Pretenders” oath fixed to correctly check children with claims and display laws.
- “Repent” oath no longer counts one pilgrimage multiple times.
- Reduced frequency of “The Witness” event during coronations.
- Promising buildings: fixed character selection.
- Oath building requirements replaced with piety/prestige costs.
- “Tales of Wars Lost”: fixed reward giveaway and broken notifications.
- Fixed premature reset of primogeniture law.
- Fixed empty strings and broken scopes in “Concerns Among the Clans” event.
- Improved AI handling of economic archetype checks in oaths.
- Character memories for coronations now more reliable.
- “Fulfilled Oath” event no longer displays “Consolidate the None.”
- Heads of Faith cannot bring demands in the “Petitioners” chain.
- Coronation disruption events now only trigger with stronger detractors or factions.
- Emperors of faiths with “No Anointment” doctrine are set as Crowned, not Anointed.
- “The Crown-Son” event fixed for non-Christian characters.
- Losing the last Kingdom title now removes all active oaths.
- Activities no longer block artifact interactions.
- “Install Claimants” oath now requires 3+ claimants via wars.
- Corrected tooltip spacing in “Install Claimants” oath.
- Fixed backwards reward hooks in “Install Claimants” oath.
- HRE Emperor Heinrich IV no longer incorrectly starts as crowned in 1066.
- Building oaths now properly display requirements.
- Crown laws reset correctly when a ruler is deposed.
- Fixed “Head of Faith Arrives” event issues for Nomads.
- Corrected coronation reward descriptions for non-vassals.
- Fixed misleading oath tooltips with numerical requirements.
- Sayyid trait no longer spawns duplicate holy legend seeds.
- Prevented coronation artifacts from being given away in events.
- “Shape the Realm” oath now shows updated building requirements.
- “Strengthen the House” oath now resolves fully upon completion.
- “Opportunity in Libation” no longer attempts unavailable court positions.
- Coronation rewards from “Embrace Supporters” now target only supporters.
- Fixed culture scope issue in “In A Time of Struggle” event.
- Fixed herd gain display during coronations.
- Corrected “Anointed” nickname description.
- “Greatest Hunter” oath reward text fixed.
- Fixed dynamic text issues in “<Name>’s Moment” event.
- Added missing localization for “Gold Before Crown” modifiers.
- “A Common Cause” will not trigger more than once in coronations.
- “Restore the Bosporan Kingdom” now assigns correct duchies.
- Fixed missing text for coronation resource modifier.
- Flipped AI legend logic.
- Fixed AI logic for “Request Anointment.”
- Fixed “Foreign Armor” yurt upgrade progression.
- “A Delightful Treat” now properly considers unlanded characters.
Content:
- Added a powerful coronation event allowing hosts to use their chancellor to break up a neighboring confederation or gain a new vassal/tributary.
- Added relation reasons for lovers in coronation events.
Balance:
- The “Divine Marriage” tenet now treats the incestuous trait as a virtue.
- Zealous characters are easier to convert to witchcraft if faith permits it and the witch trait is a virtue.
- Increased cost of Level 6 “Millet Storage” yurt building to intended level.
Crusader Kings III is a grand strategy role-playing video game set in the Middle Ages, developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive as a sequel to Crusader Kings (2004) and Crusader Kings II (2012). The game was released on PC on 1 September 2020 and on the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 on 29 March 2022 in most regions. The game received generally positive reviews on release and has sold over 3 million copies as of September 2023.
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