Play the ultimate castle sim! Expand your lands and build and fortify your citadel. Entertain with jousts, lavish feasts and tournaments or rule with an iron fist and dispense medieval justice to your overworked and slovenly peasants.
Stronghold 2 is the most accurate, amazing and dynamic depiction of siege-warfare and castle-life ever brought to life in a superb videogame.
Here are some key features of "Stronghold 2":
· See the breathtaking medieval setting in beautiful 3D and choose from a variety of other views to survey your domain.
· Be Lord of a true-to-life medieval berg. Watch the falconers deal with the rat 'problem', discover how man and pig lived side by side, see weavers, candle makers and ale wives go about their business.
· Hold great festivals such as jousting tournaments, feasts, and dances or conduct public executions to keep the peasantry in line.
· Brand new soldier types, siege weaponry and castle defenses.
· As lord, your gaze reaches far. Watch life inside castles and behind closed doors. View a trial inside the courthouse, see the Lord's food being prepared in the kitchen, watch the ladyship taking a bath in the solar attended to by her maid servants.
· Earn valuable honor points and use them to rise through the ranks from humble serf to mighty duke or use them to knight your own sworn liegemen and place them in charge of captured castles to expand your kingdom.
· Design your own coat of arms or decorate your castle with flags and banners or heads on spikes - the choice is yours.
· Non-linear interactive story unfolds as you return to your earlier castle and decide which challenge to undertake next.
What's New in This Release:
Features
· 8 New Historical Castles Including Windsor in England, The Heuneburg in Germany and Fougre in France
· 3 New AI Players - The Queen, the Bishop and Noble Sir Grey
· 4 New Kingmaker Maps Including maps based on Europe and Korea
· 'The Conquest Trail' - A whole new game mode where you must battle through a collection of Europe's mightiest castles!
Game Balancing
· Pheasant hunting less productive but deer hunting more productive.
· Apple Farms more productive.
· Dairy Farms more productive.
· Pitch production now twice as productive.
· Crossbowmen's firing range and shot damage increased.
· Knights cost more to build.
· Axe throwers now less effective against metal armor.
· Assassins not effected by traps - invisible at closer range.
· Monasteries cost less to build and provide more honor.
· Gong Farmers or Falconers are no longer affected by crime.
· Towers are more expensive to build.
· Gatehouses cost a little more to build.
· Statues provide less honour.
· Tunnelling range reduced.
· Cannot now tunnel under water.
· Moat costs reduced.
· Rock throwers and baskets now have triple damage.
· The range of burning logs has been halved.
· Torture devices now give honour every month
Bug Fixes
· Various gameplay and movement code optimizations.
· Fixed occasional crash in War Chapter 4 and 6.
· Fixed a crash when selecting the map type in editor.
· All objects in editor can now be deleted
· Fixed crash to desktop experienced playing War Chapter 4 and 6.
· Fixed issues with knights mounting horses.
· Fixed controlling gatehouses bug.
· Fixed pitch workers turning to crime bug.
· Fixed invisible outlaws bug.
· Fixed Lord walking on keep bug.
· Fixed speech when placing pitch.
· Fixed rocks sticking through buildings.
· Fixed stone tippers on walls bug.
· Fixed catapults not firing stone bug.
· Fixed mangonels firing at long range bug.
· Rock baskets can now be placed on towers and gatehouses.
· Honor from punishments is now displayed in the interface.
· Stopping carter post now refunds goods.
· Various other bug fixes.
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