The Lord of the Rings: War in the North – Legacy Edition has received a new update addressing several issues affecting cooperative multiplayer, quest progression and combat. The patch improves stability when joining multiplayer sessions, loading into missions and returning to locations such as Bree and Fornost. It also resolves progression blockers involving enemies becoming unreachable and fixes problems with quest tracking.
Combat improvements include restoring headshot hitboxes for goblins, Uruk-hai and other enemies, while fallen heroes now return with a minimum supply of health potions, power potions and ammunition. The update also fixes companion behaviour, equipment issues, missing textures and audio glitches. Additional improvements include Steam Controller glyphs, better menu scrolling and corrected achievement tracking.
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North Legacy Edition Patch Notes
Co-op Stability Improvements
- Improved overall cooperative multiplayer stability.
- Fixed crashes that could occur during matchmaking.
- Fixed crashes and freezes during loading screens.
- Fixed crashes when returning to hub locations, including Bree and Fornost.
- Fixed an issue where players joining a host could become stuck on the map selection screen.
- Fixed a freeze that could occur when a player with a slow connection joined during a loading screen.
Quest and Progression Fixes
- Fixed a progression blocker in Fornost where a goblin could be launched into an unreachable location.
- Blocked an area in the Grey Mountains where heroes could be knocked outside the playable environment.
- Fixed Scroll 7 not counting towards the Cult of the Lidless Eye side quest.
- Fixed the introductory Urgost cutscene being skipped when loading a checkpoint.
- Mission summary statistics are now preserved when returning to town during an active mission.
Combat Improvements
- Restored headshot hitboxes for several enemy types, including:
- Goblins.
- Uruk-hai.
- Other enemies throughout the game.
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- Health potions now refill the health bar gradually as intended.
- Fallen heroes now return to combat with a minimum supply of:
- Two health potions.
- Two power potions.
- 20 arrows or bolts.
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Companion and Ally Fixes
- Fixed allies becoming stuck after opening a Secret Stash.
- Increased the distance from which players can call companions to a Secret Stash.
- Fixed Luin failing to continue moving correctly after loading a saved game.
- Fixed the revive prompt appearing when another player was already reviving a fallen hero.
Equipment and Inventory Fixes
- Fixed certain equipment disappearing when using a respec token.
- Fixed map fragments being consumed without providing their intended benefit when used from an inactive character’s inventory.
- Fixed item description panels disappearing when equipping certain weapons during combat.
- Fixed item notifications displaying incorrect quantities when sending the same item multiple times.
Achievement and Trophy Fixes
- Fixed the War-Mechanist Achievement/Trophy tracking kills separately for individual characters.
- The achievement now counts kills across the entire fellowship.
Visual and Animation Fixes
- Fixed Undead characters appearing in a T-pose during a Barrow-Downs cutscene.
- Fixed textures disappearing when viewed from certain angles in:
- Osgiliath.
- The Coldfells.
- Urgost’s Lair.
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- Fixed severe stretching affecting certain character models.
Audio Fixes
– Fixed distorted audio that could occur when defeating an enemy with a critical strike.
Interface and Menu Improvements
- Removed an inaccurate loading screen tip.
- Increased EULA scrolling speed when using a controller.
- Improved mouse wheel scrolling in settings menus.
- Added Steam controller button glyphs for:
- Steam.
- Steam Deck.
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The Lord of the Rings: War in the North – Legacy Edition was released on August 11, 2026, for PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch. Developer and publisher information was not provided.
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