Crusader Kings II Patch Changelog

What's new in Crusader Kings II Patch 2.02

Dec 18, 2013

MAJOR:
Added a "Depose Antipope" Casus Belli
Added an "Antiking" faction. The leader usurps the liege's primary title, deposes the antipope and passes papal investiture. The Pope can be called into the resulting war.
Not possible to set up an antipope within 50 years of one being forcibly deposed
Fixed bug in Linux where the game became totally unplayable if you ALT+TAB
Now possible to play in Ironman mode with the ruler designer and mods (but you won't get achievements)
Significantly reduced the amount of event-spawned troops across the board to better reflect the rebalanced levies
Fixed crash bug in the Mac launcher [Fix attempt did not work, sadly, so Mac Steam users still need to disable the Steam community overlay]
Fixed religion reformation crash
MINOR:
West African Pagans can no longer have higher CA than Low
Fraticelli now get investiture laws
Waived the non-neighboring rule for theocracy title grants, but made it moddable
Now allowed to grant one higher-than-duke tier title to a theocracy
Blocked granting away your capital county if you have moved your capital
Disallowed revoking and plotting to revoke a title that you just gave to someone
Antipopes now correctly lose the status if they change religion
Antipopes now lose their status if their liege is not the same religion
Fixed some memory and thread safety issues with the trigger 'check_variable'
Added a blocker flag to first generation Jewish courtiers, preventing conversion demands
Increased the revolt risk for wrong culture and religion a bit
Antipopes now have papal clothes
You now have to be independent to create an antipope
Added Jewish buildings
Added Jewish retinues
Fixed a bug with patricians pressing claims
Improved the "pagan converts to spouse's/concubine's religion" decisions to work with all heresies
Mending the schism is also now possible for Orthodox heresies that have taken over and become the main branch
Tweaked various religious events
Lowered the mean time to happen for certain story events
Fixed a bug with the de facto liege of primary holdings
Now patricians will be picked sometimes when using the random character button
Added trait "Battlefield Terrain Master"
Fixed bug where independent characters couldn't be assigned a religious title
Fixed issue where liege took barony vassals entire county as capital when he didn't own the county
Fixed missed check for unlanded when usurping title
Fixed crash bug when looking at religions in game setup
Corrected Orthodox patriarch name lists
Added missing reason tooltip for why you cannot make an antipope of a bishop of another religion
Added missing crusade names for some heresies
Fixed a bug with the ending of the Shepherds' Crusade
Fixed some triggers that weren't correctly checking for the Jewish religion group
Non-Jewish rulers with Jewish councillors can now get some special technology improvement events
Fixed a very rare crash in combat
Marriage, betrothal, and concubinage can no longer be arrange while imprisoned
Fixed bug in the Crusade CB where a courtier could not get the king title he deserved
There is now automatic peace with rebels if you get a complete victory
Fixed bug where the unit reorganization window didn't pop up and split of troops was not selected
Fixed the invasion CB for Muslims so it becomes invalid when the target converts religion
Fixed bug where a regiment managed to detach itself from its army completely
City and bishopric rulers can no longer get claims through inheritance
Corrected several heretic religion descriptions
Added some missing Fraticelli college of cardinal text
Added a minimum cap for bottleneck chokepoints
Fixed crash when randomly jumping around in history.
Reverted back so levy modifier affects galley count
The "Holy Smoke" achievement should now work as intended
The "And Stay Out!" achievement should now work as intended
Fixed a bug when saving a game that has a religion which has overthrown the parent religion
Fixed problem where hordes counted as theocracies in the game setup
Fixed flank leaders being reset when loading saves
The Ibadi and Hurufi Caliphates and the Yazidi Sheikhdom can now be properly created
Fixed a bug where rulers of all religions could ask their religious head to start a crusade
If Catholicism becomes a heresy, "Mending the Schism" is no longer possible
Fixed a bug where Muslim invasion wars against other types of Muslims would invalidate immediately
Fixed so ironman mode is not locked out if you go back from saved games to bookmarks.
DATABASE:
Made sure the Vikings have enough ships in 867
Strengthened 867 starting positions for Rurik, Dyre the Stranger and the Khazars
Added Jewish Khazar names
Made some minor fixes to male Iberian names
AI: Adjusted succession marriage reasoning
AI: Better at calculating odds of victory when attacking
AI: Should now be more careful about attacking with inferior numbers
AI: Will now re-raise its forces if current levies are significantly smaller than the potential amount it can raise
AI: Will now use the Spymaster to suppress factions
AI: Will now use the Chancellor to improve relations with vassal faction members
AI: More careful about appointing disgruntled Spymasters
AI: Will now always honor the terms of an existing betrothal
AI: Fixed a bug where Catholic rulers would spam the Pope with money requests and bishop nomination requests, spending their Piety
AI: Really powerful rulers now sometimes create antipopes, even when they are not excommunicated, depending on papal opinions and the number of church loyalist bishops
MODDING:
Triggers are now automatically sorted by their computation complexity so modders won't have to think about it
Added trigger 'is_recent_grant'
Exported 'matrilineal_marriages' flag to religion script (no longer hardcoded for Muslims)
Exported 'can_have_antipopes' flag to religions (now decoupled from 'investiture')
Added event target 'betrothed'
Added history command 'add_matrilineal_spouse'
Added trigger 'is_married_matrilineally'
Added support for the 'player_allow' trigger in factions
Added a configuration "mp_max_lead_days" which is defaulted at 7, this prevents the server from progressing more than a week ahead of the slowest player
Added do_not_disturb character flag to help optimize triggers and lock character availability for journeys, feasts etc
Added any_claimant effect
Fixed error with character and province event effect where they could not trigger cause they missed a trigger
Added a new -debugscripts command line option that will output our internal asserts of the triggers and effects so modders can see what went wrong with their scripts
Added EVENT_TROOPS_SIZE_MULT define as a global multiplier on match_mult
Fixed an issue with namespaces and how delayed event ids are saved
Fixed so duplicate entries of a character's ID won't create duplicate characters.
Added BOTTLENECK_CHOKE_TROOP_CAP in defines which defaults to 300
The 'intermarry' option in religions now works between religion groups as well
Retinues are now scripted with a 'potential' trigger rather than simple culture and culture_group fields
Added has_regiments trigger.
INTERFACE:
Fixed bug where province view was toggled when siege ended
Now the checkbox for auto invite plots displays correctly

New in Crusader Kings II Patch 1.11 (Aug 14, 2013)

New in Crusader Kings II Patch 1.103 (Jul 5, 2013)

New in Crusader Kings II Patch 1.102 (Jun 27, 2013)

INTERFACE:
Removed the erroneous warning text about disinheriting a dynasty member when granting him a temple holding, for non-Christians
West Africans now use the Mongol on-map shields
Diplo View: Crusades/Jihads/Great Holy Wars are now listed before they can be used (with a tooltip why you can't use them)
Added some more random Coat of Arms elements (more work to come)
Fixed an issue where the wrong temple icon could be shown in the province view
Fixed an issue with the displaying of strong claims for pagans and Zoroastrians
GAMEPLAY:
Fixed bug where Arsenal building could be deleted on succession
The decision for creating Hungary now takes away the Ukrainian part of their realm
Zoroastrians can now properly use their Crusade CB
1066: Rebalanced William's, Harold's and Harald's starting forces
Fixed a bug where Crown Laws would not carry over into created kingdoms and empires
Fixed some bugs with True Cognatic succession
You no longer get messages about adventurers who are not actually declaring war
You must now be in the West African culture group to recruit the Ghanan Band
Slashed some unnecessary memory usage for living characters
Fixed bug where you sometimes raised two runestones in honor of your father
The event where a female courtier initiates romance with her liege now properly checks their opinion of each other
Expanded the Justanid dynasty of Gilan
Fixes and additions to several Norwegian dynasties
The Imperial Reconquest CB now also applies to the Kingdom of Asturias
Fixed a bug where the order of holdings in provinces did not remain consistent when stepping back and forth in history
Varangians will now only come back Orthodox if it's the Byzantine ruler's religion
Diseases now actually trigger before 1066
Fixed a rare crash issue with invalid coat of arms for Muslim held titles
Some slight memory and speed optimizations
Lund is now a temple holding
Marshals can no longer interfere with their own efforts to train troops in a province
Court Chaplains no longer claim characters are heretics if they are already branded as such
The opinion modifiers given by events 3243 and 4148 no longer instantly disappear
Added the Dál gCais dynasty
Expanded the Morgannwg dynasty
Fixes to Gwerthrynion dynasty members
867: Corrected the character Hrolf, the first duke of Normandy
1066: Corrected an issue with Gurgan and Dailam not being part of the Seljuk empire
Loosened up the culture requirements for the formation of the kingdoms of Rus and Finland
Follow-up events should now trigger properly when your wife is impregnated by a lover
Added the three winning submissions from the Event Contest
Piety from buildings is now given to both the owner and his/her liege
Moved the duchy of Hayya from Abyssinia to Nubia
Fixed a bug where the liege would always inherit a courtier's gold
Improved the gold inheritance check to look for siblings and grandchildren if necessary
No longer possible to invite a concubine to your court
The Blot and Nerge decisions are now high priority, giving players a heads up when they are available
Landless Popes can now call crusades
Titles with free duchy revocation (the ERE) can now also revoke the de jure capital county freely
AI:
Will no longer declare war on its current "player heir", or vice versa
Will not flip culture to Swedish, Danish or Norwegian culture if in a huge Norse empire
Will now execute claimants whose claim is currently pressed in a war against it
Doges and patricians are now more likely to build in their cities
Pagans now willing to accept cross-religion marriages with other pagans if it likes you enough
Will now accept marriage offers for courtiers of the right religion, even if the ruler is of a hostile religion
Female rulers or heirs less likely to marry non-matrilineally, unless they really like you
More likely to revoke its de jure capital title
MODDING:
Added Enatic and Enatic-Cognatic Succession code support (laws not available without slight modding)
Added 'can_hold_temples' to religions (like Muslims can hold temple holdings)
The history command 'raise_troops' now raises them with full morale
Added 'merge' field to the 'spawn_unit' effect
Added 'can_use_gui' to CB types
Added liege_prestige, allowing buildings to give prestige to its owner and his/her liege

New in Crusader Kings II Patch 1.101 (Jun 13, 2013)

MAJOR:
Added a "Retract Vassal" interaction
Disallowed destruction of non-titular titles under Gavelkind
INTERFACE:
Added lots of portrait fixes from the "CK2 Portrait Fixes" mod by zebez
Adjusted the random CoA colors and color choices
Scripted a lot of CoAs for various dynasties
The CoAs of titles named after a dynasty now match the dynasty CoA
Bishops no longer wear pope hats, but the pope does
Livonia now has the correct pagan flag
Buildings requiring a coastal province now show up in the tech tooltip even if the capital is not coastal
Fixed some tooltips in the settlement view not showing building levels with the name
Nicknames are now shown for heads of religion
The 'Grant Independence' action is no longer even shown if the recipient is not your vassal
The 'Prepare Invasion' action is now shown but grayed out if you are at war with the recipient
Added missing Bektashi religion description
Endgame screen now shows correct score for characters
Added missing name of the Reformed Aztec Church title
Tweaked the religion colors to make them more distinct
Corrected some event text typos
GAMEPLAY:
Norse Pagans can no longer employ the coastal conquest CB against other pagans (neighboring counties can still be taken though)
The Subjugation CB can now only be used once per lifetime instead of every 10 years. (Unless you have the 'Become King' ambition.)
Characters with the "Become King" ambition and access to the subjugation CB can no longer move their capital out of the de jure kingdom
Subjugated rulers of another religion now get a smaller opinion bonus vs the winner, lasting for a shorter time
Fixed a bug with many vassalizing casus bellis where the target's own counties would be seized when they should not be
Tengri Pagans are now limited to Agnatic succession
The Jomsvikings now reform if the Norse reformation takes place
Fixed an issue where the primary heir under Gavelkind would not inherit the capital county
West African pagans can now also raid
Lowered the spawn rate of TOG rebels by 20%
Added the "Ghanan Band" mercenary company
Slavic, Baltic and Finnish Pagans now get a bonus to their levy sizes, at the cost of their garrison bonus
Fixed a problem with the decadence invasion event
Fixed a bug with decadence revolts ending strangely on the attacking ruler's death
Court Chaplain job events no longer restricted to men for pagans
Made the Chancellor job to improve relations more effective
Mercenary ships will no longer spawn in major rivers
The Viking trait can now only be gained by adults
Heirs returning from the Varangian Guard to take the throne of their dead father can no longer get the same event twice
Piast the Wheelwright and his son are now of the Piast dynasty
Pagan festivals can now only be held in summer as intended
City Shipyards now produce slightly more galleys than their Castle and Temple counterparts
Fixed a bug where banishing landed vassals would not take all their titles
Under Gavelkind, your oldest son will no longer ask for titles
Added additional names and dynasties for Roman characters created in the Ruler Designer
Added an earlier king of Ireland to make Irish liberation revolts possible
867: Strengthened the coastal Baltic, Slavic and Finnish tribes with better Holdings
867: Slightly strengthened the initial forces of Ivar and Halfdan
867: The Karling kingdoms are now on Agnatic succession
867: Moved Uglich from the Meryas to the Vyatichi
867: Byzantium is now properly on Primogeniture, not Gavelkind
867: The Duchy of Meath now exists, called "Tara" by the Irish
867: Made some important vassals to the King of Italy Italian culture to prolong the survival of the culture and ensure more internal troubles
867: Adjusted the initial political and dynastic setup among the Baltic tribes to make them more resilient
The vassal opinion for free investiture law now correctly only applies for Catholics
Build cost and time is now affected by your capital tech, not the average tech in your realm
Ignoring pagan defensive attrition is now controlled by your capital tech, not by the average tech in your realm
Own fort level no longer affects ability to navigate major rivers
Tweaked the AI bonuses on Hard and Very Hard difficulty settings
Successful non-claimant adventurers are now known as "the Conqueror"
Fixed a bug with weird dynasty names for the commanders of Liberation rebels
Castrating or blinding a prisoner now removes the righteous imprisonment cause when they are released
The ambition to gain a council position now only increases a skill the first time it is successful
The generic Pagan religion now has a description and holy sites
Added the Hellenic religion
The events when certain cities are sacked now properly trigger for the Mongol Empire
The event when you raise a runestone as a zealous Reformed Norse character no longer treats you as a Christian
Captured Rebel leaders now have a "Broken Spirit" modifier, making them pretty useless
Fixed a bug where Gavelkind could produce republics
Fixed a general bug with multiple kingdom inheritance that could produce republics
The decision to create the Kingdom of Leon now makes it a de jure part of the Empire of Hispania
Trade posts are no longer counted towards the Prepared Invasion realm size limits
Fixed a bug with being able to semi-grant invalid duchies and kingdoms to your heir under Gavelkind
Heathen priests can now inherit titles
Mayors and heathen priests will now marry if they are heirs to other titles
Lack of Piety rumor event now only triggers for Christian lieges as intended
Trade post garrisons now give less retinue cap increase
Moved the counties of Loon and Julich from de jure Cologne to Luxemburg
Technology points are now gained by own demesne when containing buildings that give technology points
Baltic cultures can now also form the Wendish Empire
Finnic cultures can now also form the Russian Empire
Finnic cultures can now also form the Scandinavian Empire
North Germanic cultures can now also form the Empire of Britannia
867: Greater Poland is no longer a republic after a resign
Norse Patricians are now correctly on Seniority succession
AI:
Will not convert to Norman culture if in a huge Norse empire
Higher prio on building temple towns
Adjusted propensity to backstab brothers of the faith who are primary parties in holy wars
Behaviour is now affected subtly by the difficulty settings
Tweaked max field army sizes a bit
Will not agree to concubinage for title claimants
MODDING:
Exported BASE_REVOLT_CHANCE_MOD and TOG_REVOLT_CHANCE_MOD to defines
Added a 'can_appear' field to dynasties to prevent for example the Seljuks from appearing before their event

New in Crusader Kings II Patch 1.10 (May 31, 2013)

New in Crusader Kings II Patch 1.092 (Mar 27, 2013)

Added a Trade Post limit for patricians, based on palace upgrades and number of adult males in court
Family dues are now given only to adult males of your family in your court, and they all receive the same share
Patricians can no longer increase their Demesne limit with higher tier titles. However, the Doge gets +1
Patricians who imprison or banish someone now get a tyranny opinion penalty from everyone in the whole Republic
Patricians no longer confiscate gold from dynasty members that they banish
Doges can no longer use the Seize Trade Post plot
Patricians can now only use the Seize Trade Post plot on Patricians owning more Trade Posts than themselves
The Seize Trade Post plot now always costs a small amount of money to implement
The Holy War CB no longer works against too distant targets
Sieging will siege back your own holdings first
Tanistry electors are no longer de jure
The Windows version is now large address aware
Fix for crash on multiplayer game start on Windows 8
Fixed a bug where a vassal of a vassal who won a war against an outside state would become a vassal of that state
Several events, including those dealing with the creation of the Hansa, no longer require "The Republic" to trigger
Rewrote large parts of the tutorial to be up-to-date with current features
Fixed a problem in basic military tutorial that made it impossible to proceed past a certain stage
Fixed a problem in basic war tutorial that made it impossible to proceed past a certain stage
Fixed a crash in court view during observer mode
When determining what tier a character is for the purposes of marriage, the highest ranked non-republican ruler among their close relatives is now used (so the nephew of a King would count as King tier)
Will no longer get prestige hits for marrying below your tier unless you marry more than one level below it (so a King would get a prestige hit for marrying a Countess but not a Duchess)
AI now takes into account both tier prestige and dynastic prestige when responding to marriage offers
AI now takes into account prestige effects when selecting spouses for themselves and their relatives
Exported MARRIAGE_AI_PRESTIGE_VALUE to defines.lua, this variable is a multiplier on the importance AI places on prestige when arranging marriages
The Prestige cost for breaking a truce is now much harsher; 50% of current Prestige + 200.
You now get a -5 Diplo penalty for five years if you break a truce
Diplomacy View: The Piety and Prestige costs for declaring war no longer prevent you from selecting the action to see why
The 'any_neighbor_province' trigger now works for sea zones as well
Trade Posts dont give warscore unless the war is using an Embargo or Sieze Trade Post CB
You now need twice as much value in a trade zone before reaching its bonus cap
Fixed a bug where Patrician stewards would add modifiers to tax multiple times when performing the tax action
Fixed a bug with the trigger 'is_land'
The republican CB to seize a whole coastal county is now range dependent
The republican CB to seize a coastal city now requires the Patrician to have a trade post there already
Can no longer grant independence to an antipope
Fixed a bug where de jure status of kingdoms would reset upon loading a save game
de_jure_liege="---" now works properly in history files
Tied bride price to total prestige gain at a ratio defined by DOWRY_MULTIPLIER in defines.lua
Can now only ask to embargo republics with trade posts in target ruler's realm
AI: Less willing to launch embargo wars in general, especially against rulers they like
AI: Less willing to accept requests to embargo on opinion alone
AI: Will now factor in strength of target when deciding on whether to accept a request to embargo
Inherited retinues are now added to the heirs use of retinue cap
CB types now takes ai_will_do with modifiers to modify the priority they place on a particular CB
Fixed the birthdate of Domenico Dandolo
Minor fixes to Alan dynasties
Fixes to Sergiids/Spartenos names
Corrections to various Italian characters
Several Mamluk dynasties should now use the proper Muslim dynastic shields
The correct event is now triggered when an old Patrician family member marries a young woman
The Voice of Satan is now properly removed when a character is no longer possessed
Characters will no longer hear more than one voice when possessed
Patrician family members that are betrothed will no longer experience random marriage events
Two additional childhood learning events are now correctly triggered for Muslims
Added additional Komi dynasties
Minor fixes to some Irish and Welsh characters
Added many new Ethiopian characters
Added Ethiopian Patriarchs
Added Nestorian Patriarchs
Exported chance of getting a birth trait to traits.txt files
AI doges will no longer gift powers they want to start embargo wars if those powers would say no even when gifted
Exported MAX_KING_TITLES_TO_CREATE, MAX_EMPIRE_TITLES_TO_CREATE, AI_EMPEROR_CREATES_KINGDOMS, NATURAL_DEATH_CHANCE_AGE_0-100, DEJURE_COUNTY_LIMIT_TO_CREATE, DEJURE_COUNTY_LIMIT_TO_USURP, EMPIRE_DEJURE_COUNTY_LIMIT_TO_CREATE, EMPIRE_DEJURE_COUNTY_LIMIT_TO_USURP, PRESTIGE_OPINION_DIV, PRESTIGE_OPINION_MAX, PIETY_OPINION_DIV, PIETY_OPINION_MAX, NAVAL_ATTRITION, ARMY_MOVEMENT_SPEED, FLEET_MOVEMENT_SPEED, AI_ASSAULT_RATIO, EMPIRE_DE_JURE_ASSIMILATION_YEARS and ALLOW_DE_JURE_ASSIMILATION_ANYWHERE to defines.lua
Added new scripting trigger realm_size = x for checking total holdings in realm
Added new scripting trigger realm_manpower = x for checking max manpower in realm
dynasty = x can now be used to check for whether a character belongs to a specific dynasty
You no longer get a claim on the Papacy if he was in a successful independence faction
Fixed a slight bug in the claimant faction ultimatum decision
landed_titles now takes assimilate = no, which will turn off all de jure drift (both ways) for a Kingdom or Empire level title
Fixed a bug with Patricians revoking castles from baron vassals

New in Crusader Kings II Patch 1.091 (Jan 26, 2013)

New in Crusader Kings II Patch 1.09 (Jan 15, 2013)

New in Crusader Kings II Patch 1.08 (Nov 28, 2012)

MAJOR:
Added Nahua culture and Aztec religion
MINOR:
Retinues no longer get free leaders
Liege levies raised via the province view are now raised in the selected province
You can now forbid your council from leading armies
Optimized succession calculation, which could cause massive slowdowns in big dynasties with many landed members
Intrigue plots vs barons or their courtiers can now include their liege's courtiers and other vassals
Fixed Scottish Schiltron building giving 10x defensive bonus to pikes
Fixed Dutch cultural retinue lacking pikes
Fixed an issue with AI strength calculations the first month after loading a game
A bit more randomness in the size of the rebel reinforcements in civil wars
The Pope now receives even less war contribution score in Crusades
Fixed a crash with a null war list in Province View and Diplomacy View
Mercenary regiments and Holy Orders will now automatically get a new leader when the old one dies
Less likely that the captain of a merc regiment gets reassigned to lead something else
Kingdoms no longer assimilate out of de jure empires that have no holder
Fixed a bug with not being able to move capital back to your title's preferred capital
The Imperial Reconquest CB now only works for the restored Roman Empire
The Imperial Reconquest CB no longer clears out all rulers under the title
Disbanding multiple selected units will never disband retinues if there are non-retinues in any selected unit
Liege levies will now disband if their owner is at war with the owner of the unit
Retinues no longer reinforce if their owner has no money
Diplo AI: Imprisoned vassals or below will always accept a demand for religious conversion, and go free from prison
AI: Much better at assigning flank commanders for important armies
AI: Less likely to go overboard with Crown Authority
AI: Not interested in Lower CA plots in irrelevant kingdoms/empires
AI: Fixed a bug with it not dismissing liege levies when done with them
Army AI: Fixed a bug with invasions not happening when they should
Ledger page with independent rulers now shows troops including retinues
Shift or Ctrl clicking buttons in Ruler Designer coat of arms designer now multiplies the frame change by 5 or 10
Fixed bug where byzantine unit pack was replacing all eastern europeans
Raising troops via raise all or raise on province will now merge units
Now allowed to ask to join tribal invasion wars
Fixed bugged altaic culture building modifier
Fixed the history of c_sodermanland
Fixed consistency issue with German characters name Philipp
Fixed faulty employment date for Robrecht van Gent
Fixed broken Ua Conchobair dynasty
Province of Bira no longer stays Orthodox for the entire game
Fixed bug where imprisoned underage rulers could kill their regents
Gave The Two Saltuks from Erzurum their correct names
Corrections to Phillip IV of France and many related characters
Sigrid Ylving no longer has the wrong mother
Fixed the deathdate of King Charles IV of France
Added missing Ecumenical Patriarchs
Fixed a bug where courtiers of landless characters would be listed in a weird location
Fixes and additions to various Frankish and Occitan dynasties
Fixes and additions to the Hunfirding dynasty
Missing marriages, mothers, children of Valdemar II and Erik V of Denmark added
Fixed a rare crash in 'on_siege_over'
AI: The independence faction does not present an ultimatum until it has at least 33% of the liege's strength
AI: De jure vassals of your culture and religion, except kings, will not start or join independence factions
Reduced the chance of massive rebel reinforcements for the Independence faction
Diplo AI: Mongols and Aztecs will no longer revoke titles off human players just for having the wrong religion or culture
Armenian, Georgian and Alan cultures updated with new names, name linkings and patronymics
Fixes to the County of Melgueil
Ingeborg Magnusdotter now has the correct gender
Sartag Khan now converts to Nestorianism instead of Orthodoxy
Corrections to the religion of several Zirid characters
A few Catalan name fixes
Changes and additions to the Godwin dynasty
Fixed a bug with Primogeniture when tracing back through the current holder's mother
Fixed a very rare crash with Holdings with no holder
Fixed an issue with inheritance by landless characters when there was no de jure vassal title they could take off the previous holder
Diplo AI: Much more careful about imprisonments
Imprisoning characters no longer affects their position in the line of succession
Fixed a bug with the event pictures on Mac and Linux
Added blinded trait to historically blind characters in the database
Added missing space to Armenian dynasty prefix and Irish male patronym
Byzantine, Armenian and Georgian character fixes and additions
Fixed wrong liege for Duchy of Champagne and County of Gevaudan at certain dates
Welsh/Hiberno-Norse Dublin character fixes and additions
New dynasty for the Kurdish Shaddadids, extended Mirdasid pedigree
On player agreement, the game now sends information to the Paradox backend when you start a game, containing the names of the DLCs and Mods you run (can be toggled with "dont_track_data = [yes/no]" in settings.txt)
AI: The leader of a claimant faction will no longer leave the faction in an elective realm where the claimant is currently the heir
AI: Fixed a slight bug where current heirs would not back claimant factions for themselves
Spymaster Scheme job has been overhauled and simplified
AI: Fixed an issue with the number of available galleys check
Fixed an issue with part of the de jure drift mechanic not being cleared on resign
FOR MODDERS:
The criterion for determining who can lead troops is now determined by the allow trigger for 'job_marshal' (so women can now be modded to lead armies)
Added trigger 'is_adult'
Added trigger 'is_marriage_adult'

New in Crusader Kings II Patch 1.07b (Oct 29, 2012)

New in Crusader Kings II Patch 1.07 (Oct 18, 2012)

MAJOR:
Faction System
Characters can have both a Plot and an Ambition
Retinue System support for the Legacy of Rome DLC
Orthodox and related religions have Autocephalous Patriarchs and the Pentarchy
Rebalanced Combat, with more focus on leaders and their traits. More leader traits.
Liege levies. You only raise levies from your direct vassals, and they are not directly connected to Holdings.
A number of self improvement Ambitions for characters
New religions: Miaphysite, Nestorian, Monothelite
Two new Bookmarks: The Alexiad and The Latin Empire
AI: Improved military AI
Major speed optimizations
Greatly reduced graphics memory load
Plugged some memory leaks
New events for characters with the lunatic trait
Spymaster's Discover Plots job has been renamed to Scheme, and now also affects faction membership
New icons added to all decisions
MINOR:
Launcher now remembers DLC and Mod settings
Very large savegames can now be sent to clients in multiplayer
Now always allowed to move capital back to the traditional capital of your primary title (even if you've moved capital once already)
You now always need at least two kingdom titles to create an Empire
Fixed several bugs with Gavelkind and Primogeniture succession
Fixed some issues with the Supply Limit and attrition rules
It's no longer possible to place councillors in grayed out provinces
Many, many changes and fixes to the history database
Character View: Selecting an ambition now auto-updates the window
Added ticking war score to Claim All wars
Made the Seljuks pre-mobilized in 1066, like the English contenders
Added portrait tooltip about a character's religious head
Added code for locking Constantinople to the Emperor better
Adjusted the colors of some duchies and kingdoms, mainly in Eastern Anatolia
Fixed the ship unit position in Lake Mälaren
Added "Foreign Conqueror" opinion modifier
Ormond is no longer a republic
Improved some trigger and event target tooltips
Fixed some issues with the "change succession law" CBs against secondary kingdoms
No longer allowed to press Muslim women's claims against anyone
No longer allowed to press other women's claims on _any_ titles against a ruler with Agnatic succession
Fixed a problem with law triggers in decisions
All casus belli event effects are now also initialized properly, so they can refer to laws
Characters in feudal realms will not flee to republics or theocracies when exiled
In republics, courtiers who are heirs to foreign titles can no longer be elected
Gave William the Conqueror three more castles at game start and adjusted the initial armies of all three contenders
The liege is now imprisoned when losing his or her primary title in a claimant war
When creating a new higher tier title in the game, your current laws will be copied (if it's not Duke-to-King)
When creating a new higher tier title that has never had a holder before, its holder history will be copied from your current title
Plot View: Fixed an issue where Vassal Decisions could be listed twice
Plot View: Fixed a bug with the tooltip on the Start Plot button
Fixed the tooltip for effects 'remove_title'
Fixed the tooltip for effects 'give_job_title'
Fixed some bugs with the 'spawn_unit' tooltip
Portraits: All characters are now bald if they wear the chain mail hood
: Adjusted the traits of the main Saxon lords to like Eadgar the Aetheling a lot
The end game screen now shows the correct Komnenos dynasty shield
Added proper claims and ruler history for Tostig Godwinson
The loser in an invasion CB is now imprisoned by the winner if he becomes a vassal of the winner
Made the Varangian Guard better
Added tooltips to the Flank Leader selection view
Fixed a bug where children of Western ethnicity would not look it if of another culture
Fixed some bugs with graphical culture type of characters not correctly falling back to Western
The Golden Horde now receives slightly fewer reinforcements in the second event
Fixed a bug with the opinion penalty for destroying a title
Combat events no longer happens the first few days anymore
The Ambitions to have a son or daughter now increases fertility
Tweaked fertility effect on impregnation
Religious wars and Jihads/Crusades now reduce the Decadence for all successful participating Muslims
Tweaked some default message priorities
You now only get a Weak Claim on titles that have been revoked
You are no longer allowed to usurp titles from others in the same realm unless you have a Strong Claim
Fixed a bug where you could ask to join the wars of your liege's enemies
Muslim Invasion CB outcomes now also affect Decadence
Fixed a bug with the "Weaken Fellow Vassal" Plot, where the target could go independent when losing his last Duchy
Fixed an assymmetric hostility issue vs revolters of an ally of someone you're attacking
The "No Ambition" alert should no longer appear if there are no valid ambitions to pick
Fixed a bug with white text showing in some event windows
Fixed a bug where the AI could ask to educate children of vassals who were actually 'employed' by the vassal's Spouse
Fixed a bug in the portrait tooltip, where it did not always list the highest title a character was heir to
Fixed some issues with the wrong event frame being shown for some Knights of St John events- A liege no longers retains any imprison or revoke title reasons against rebel vassals when losing a civil war
Decadence revolts now only disband the earmarked regiments when they end- Fixed a bug making Holy Orders theocracies
Added missing clergy clothes for other graphical cultures
Fixed a bug with dead character portraits not looking correct when loading save games
Many new CoAs, courtesy of Txini
Fixed some glitches with the inheritance of Councillors
Fixed a rare bug with wars ending "inconclusively" just before they ended normally
Added more war invalidation explanations to the message
Slightly toned down the size of Decadence revolters
Pressing the claim of a dynasty member will now always vassalize him or her if possible
Fixed a bug with the tooltip for normal AND triggers
Titles are now also considered contested if a title de facto above them is contested
Tweaked Title Creation and Usurpation tooltips
Fixed a bug where revolters could remain in an ongoing uprising even after no longer being part of the realm
Crushing a major revolt now gives all direct vassal rulers a +25 opinion modifier of you for 10 years
When you White Peace revolters, they now get a 'Spared after Rebellion' opinion modifier of you, +25 for 10 years
Fixed a bug where a legitimized bastard would hate the parent for doing it
The Mongol reinforcements no longer arrive if the Horde has already been completely defeated
Fixed some issues with characters getting opinion modifiers of themselves
Added beard portrait scripts
Added missing string about not being able to revoke the last Temple Holding off your own religious head
Fixed two bugs with landless Mongols not declaring war
Claimant Wars: if the claimant is a bishop or mayor, those titles are now lost on success
Wars over titles are now more likely to give the title capital to the claimant
No longer possible to declare depose liege, or claimant wars on liege while the liege or above is himself in revolt
Fixed a bug where vassals could nominate successors for secondary duchies or below
Made the basic "Recently Conquered" tax penalty more severe, so it cannot be offset by tech, etc
A ward who is at war with his or her guardian now automatically returns home
Fixed an issue with the automatic removal of inappropriate scripted traits from underage historical characters
Independent kingdoms with a king that controls their entire de jure area can now break out of de jure empires
No longer possible to employ Holy Orders while excommunicated
Fixed a bug with the tooltips for triggers 'lower_tier_than' and 'higher_tier_than'
You no longer pay maintenance for Holy Orders if you're in a justified war, even if you're also in another type of war
Fixed an issue where you could not grant titles to vassals which you could not formally create
Gave most mercs and holy orders a base culture
Ensured that merc and holy order leaders are always of the right culture and religion
Slowed down event '39500' which automatically converts counties to Islam
Fixed a bug where you could move your capital again after a reload
Fixed a bug where a landed spouse who is the councillor of another ruler would not give you that attribute bonus
The Excommunicate diplo action is no longer shown for excommunicated characters
Fixed an issue with granting titles including lower not fully working if the target becomes independent from you through the action
Blocked Agnatic-Cognatic succession for Hordes
Horde type culture rulers cannot have Cognatic or True Cognatic succession laws
Improved kingdom division on inheritance kingdom split
Fixed a bug with characters not knowing of their own plots
Fixed a bug with the de facto liege of titles after revocation
Fixed a bug with the succession bethrothal icon not showing
Fixed a bug allowing you to assign too many wards to a guardian
Boosted the effect of the Chancellor's Improve Diplomatic Relations job
Corrected many spelling mistakes
Added a notification event when a character is killed in battle
Both sides in a siege now see the effects of triggered siege events
The event where a vassal offers guardianship now shows which child will become the vassal's ward
Fixes to the Christian and Muslim tournaments
Famous Muslims who join your court now have dynasties and improved stats
Scottish names are now English instead of Gaelic, whereas before they were a mixture of both
Russian duchies are now called grand principalities, and their rulers are referred to as grand princes
Fixed the event where the Hashshashin go after the Mongol leader
Revised Combat tooltips
Muslim Heavy cavalry now use CoA colors on their flags rather than the christian flag
Revised cultural building modifiers
Added a global supply limit modifier that increases with tech
Ruler Designer now handles culture different from ethnicity
Loading screens and flags now look a bit better
Fixed issue with special characters in find title box
Flanks will now pick tactics even if they have no leader
You are no longer allowed to build in settlements held by someout outside your realm or by someone you are at war with
Fixed some trigger tooltips that looked bad
Added the winners of the AAR contest as characters in the game
AI: Smarter about heir nomination when having multiple kingdoms (to keep them together)
AI: Fixed bug with silly Muslim handing out of titles
AI: Baron tier and landless characters now get a complete AI when they have raised units on the map
AI: Fixed an issue where it could spam a player asking to become a vassal
AI: Holy Orders should no longer run off to help others if they are already "hired"
AI: Will always accept guardians for childen offered by the Regent (and won't have them replaced on its own)
AI: Improved passing of demesne laws
AI: Should now want to revoke a Castle Holding when the primary holding in a County is NOT a Castle
AI: Prevented some stupid placing of the Chancellor to fabricate claims
AI: Vassals will no longer spontaneously declare war on their liege to depose him or take a title off him (these things are now faction based.) The only time they might declare war on their own is to create a succession crisis.
AI: Improved handing out of counties if it's over the demesne limit
AI: Will now execute "vassal decisions" (like blinding and castrating prisoners)
AI: Will now switch Guardian for children if appropriate (wrong religion or culture)
AI: Will not disband free galleys (from event effects)
AI: Fixed some bugs with turning betrothals into marriages
AI: More careful with title usurpation and the cost in gold
Diplo AI: Fixed a bug with "divine blood" marriage calculation
Diplo AI: Does not care about Matrilineal marriage factors if both parties are from the same dynasty
Diplo AI: Children in other realms will now still accept education offers from their own parents
Diplo AI: Fixed a bug with borked marriage proposals and spamming
Diplo AI: Less aggressive about revoking titles (requires a worse opinion or religious enmity)
Diplo AI: Will now break betrothals that won't be accepted anymore
Diplo AI: will not revoke titles while under a regency
Diplo AI: Early surrender now possible with Muslim invasion CBs. Defender more stubborn.
FOR MODDERS:
IMPORTANT: Added 'inherit_chance' to traits, replacing 'congenital'
The 'replace_path' bug is now fixed for real
Added 'effect' character history command. It's like an event option that's run for the character at game start.
Fixed a bug with 'immortal' traits and sex appeal
Added trigger 'leads_faction'
Added trigger 'faction_power'
Added trigger and effect 'any_faction_backer'
Added trigger 'completely_controls = [title]' (I or my vassals hold everything in it)
Added trigger 'revolt_distance'
The 'ai_will_do' clause in Decisions is no longer binary (the value determines the MTTH)
Fixed an issue with law triggers in the 'ai_will_do' field of decisions
Added trigger 'in_faction'
Added trigger 'war_title'
Added trigger 'defending_against_claimant'
Added event targets 'supported_claimant' and 'supported_claimant_title'
Added 'set_parent_religion' effect
Can now create Lowborn characters with the 'create_character' effect
Fixed a bug with scripted attributes in the 'create_character' effect
Fixed a bug in the 'conquest_culture' trigger
Added 'is_conquered' trigger
Added event targets 'heir_under_seniority_law' and 'heir_under_primogeniture_law'
Added trigger 'any_claimant'
Added 'from_potential' trigger to decisions (vassal and dynasty decisions only)
Added event effect 'add_spouse_matrilineal'
Added 'opinion_diff' trigger
The event targets 'owner' and 'holder_scope' are now the same and work on both titles and provinces
Added event effect 'copy_title_history'
Added event effect 'copy_title_laws'
Fixed a bug with trigger 'is_landed = no'
Fixed a bug in the effect 'spawn_unit' with the 'match' argument
Can now set a specific leader in the effect 'spawn_unit'
Fixed a bug in trigger 'de_jure_liege_or_above'
Fixed a bug in trigger 'de_jure_vassal_or_below'
Fixed some bugs with the 'set_name' effect
The 'set_name' effect can now change the name of titles
Added 'capital' effect
Added 'province_capital' effect
Added effect 'participation_scaled_decadence'
Added trigger 'num_of_faction_backers'
Added trigger 'race'
Added trigger 'graphical_culture'
Fixed a bug with event name spaces not working in 'events' fields in On Actions
Fixed a bug with event name spaces not working in 'events' fields in Job Actions
Added 'divine_blood' marriage opinion modifiers
Added more gradual Attrition Defines
Added 'secondary_graphical_culture' to cultures and culture groups (a fallback option, when not having certain DLCs)
Added trigger 'has_earmarked_regiments'
Added 'earmark' argument to the 'spawn_unit' event effect
The 'disband_event_forces' effect now takes an earmark argument
Added trigger 'diplomatic_immunity'
Added effect 'diplomatic_immunity'
Exported PORTRAIT_MID_AGE_THRESHOLD, PORTRAIT_OLD_AGE_THRESHOLD, PORTRAIT_ADULT_MALE_AGE_THRESHOLD and PORTRAIT_ADULT_FEMALE_AGE_THRESHOLD to defines
Exported AGE_OF_MARRIAGE to defines
Ported the last old defines to lua
Added SeaZone province text promotion
Added PrevPrev text promotion
Added trigger 'is_tribal_type_title'
Added trigger 'has_horde_culture'

New in Crusader Kings II Patch 1.06b (Jul 6, 2012)

New in Crusader Kings II Patch 1.05g (May 29, 2012)

New in Crusader Kings II Patch 1.05 (Apr 18, 2012)

MAJOR:
You can now ask to join many types of wars
Participants in wars now get a contribution score which determines how much prestige and piety they get when the war ends
Crusades now target entire de jure kingdoms. The Pope declares the war and other rulers can then join the attacking alliance. The one who contributes the most gains the targeted kingdom.
Streamlined marriage interface allowing matrilineal betrothals
Loads of new events for regencies, friendships and rivalries
Plot to revoke the title of a vassal
The Kill Plot is now more available and targets a wider selection of logical characters
Portrait clothes are now uncoupled from ethnicity
Added Causes of Death
Added some purely naval mercenary units
Improved military AI
Armies can now be "attached" to each other, which means they will just follow the lead army
Duchies can now be assimilated into another de jure kingdom (takes 100 years)
Now possible to create titular titles at double cost if you hold the scripted capital
Empires are now allowed to create kingdoms
You can now only create kingdoms if you are already a king or emperor, or hold more than one duchy titles
Added the kingdoms of Frisia, Lotharingia, Bavaria, Pomerania, Aquitaine and Brittany
The kingdoms of Galicia and Navarre are now de jure kingdoms
The kingdom of Al-Andalus is now called Andalusia and can be created by anyone in the Arabic culture group
Changed "Ducal Claim" wars to "De Jure Claim". De Jure kings and emperors can now take counties in their de jure realm
Assassinations are now more expensive depending on the rank of the target
All factions in civil wars are now hostile to outside attackers
Cannot end civil wars until the temporarily independent vassal has no holdings occupied by outsiders
Tribal Invasion CB: Now destroys all duchies and kingdoms in the conquered realm
Children now always get the same education type as their guardian
The Holy Order troop size now scales with the moral authority of the church
Republics now get a special CB to seize coastal provinces
Republics (count or above tier) now get a tax bonus from all cities in their realm
Republics (count or above tier) now get an extra tax bonus from all coastal cities in their realm
Republics (duke or above tier) now get an extra tax bonus from their capital city
Women and illegitimate bastards no longer get pressed (inheritable) claims on their parents' titles
You can now press the claims of female courtiers and vassals in wars if the target title does not have Agnatic succession
AI: Vassals should now try to defeat peasant rebels on their own
AI: Will no longer raise forces in besieged counties
AI: Nearby religious brethren will now tend to join defenders in Holy Wars
AI: Lowered general vassal revolt risk and DoW aggressiveness
Cut the Religious Assistance CB
There is now a "Plot" button in the character view, offering a more flexible way of picking plots against characters
Fixed an issue with weird (often infinite) build times that could occur after reload
Vassals will no longer hate you for newly acquired Holdings that take you above the demesne limit. You have two months to get rid of them.
Heavily revised vassal revolt risk calculations
Made the revolters in independence wars start gaining ticking war score, and do so immediately
Fixed a crash when switching between tabs in the Plot View
MINOR:
Embarked armies no longer suffer attrition
Withdrawing a small enough army from combat no longer leads to a general retreat
Rebalanced combat a bit - more morale damage, less kills
Fixed a bug preventing claimants to the Caliphates from ever revolting
Fixed an issue with succession CB holders not using it because they are currently the heir presumptive
The opinion effect of gifts now depend on the State Diplomacy of the giver and the greed of the recipient
Gift recipients who are not your vassals (or below) will appreciate gifts more
Landless characters now also get an AI personality from traits
Added more and greater opinion modifiers from characters having the same traits
The console command "debug fow" is now just "fow" and works in Release builds too
The invite to plot selection list of characters now excludes those who would never ever join
Better tooltip for the "not willing to join plot" icon when inviting people to plots
Glowing borders on selected titles in the Title View
More likely to see different unit type models on the map
Added console command "charinfo" to toggle debug information in character portrait tooltip
AI: Honorable and dishonorable (personality from traits) characters should now respond more plausibly to invitations to murder plots
AI: Improved councillor appointment
AI: More careful about trying to pass de jure law changes during wars
AI: Smarter about revolting during the lieges offensive wars
AI: A bit more reluctant to accept ending a plot
AI: Will now want to raise or hire a more overwhelming force
AI: Smarter about creating and usurping titles
AI: Smarter about handing out titles
AI: Will now actually look at the defines MAX_ELECTOR_TITLES_LEGALLY_HELD and MAX_DUCHIES_LEGALLY_HELD when handing out titles
AI: Checks if mercs are an option when evaluating DoW
AI: Fixed an issue with piecemeal raising of ships
AI: Fixed several issues with Mongol Horde DoW logic
AI: Landed spouses will no longer revolt
AI: Fixed some bugs with bishop nomination
AI: Fixed a bug where the AI could ignore some rules when granting titles (could grant contested titles, etc)
Children born to parents in a matrilineal marriage should now end up in the mother's court
Fixed a bug with abdication from war in elective monarchies that could result in premature Game Over
Crown authority in titular kingdoms and empires can now also be lowered by lost civil wars
Fixed a crash when just about to revoke the title of someone, and that person dies
Added some more loading tips
Fixed a bug with the "prisoner" event effect when releasing characters from someone other than their liege
Unit owners now get a fraction of the prestige and piety gained from battles (and not just commanders)
Increased the piety and prestige gained from battles a lot
Characters can now only pick the Amass Wealth ambition once
Fathers will now like their children a lot
Fixed a bug with the inheritance of Claims
Fixed some errors with the tooltips in event 301 ("A Bastard is Born")
Tweaked the succession situation between Flandres and Hainaut in 1066 to avoid Flandres becoming part of the HRE
The members of the House of Vermandois are now members of House Karling
Vassals now only like succession laws in secondary kingdoms if they are de facto below it
Gavelkind law in secondary kingdoms has no opinion effects unless the ruler has more than one holding there
Added early kings of England to the history files
Temple type holders will no longer desire their liege's titles for de jure reasons
Temple type holders will no longer be upset with their liege for having the wrong government type
Fixed a bug with protected inheritance not working correctly between two realms, both with protected inheritance
Nerfed the Pagan warrior cult building by 33%
The text for the assassination action now mentions the cost
Can now only repeat the same plot type, not ambitions
Improved DoW warning texts
Changed the initial succession laws of the Spanish kingdoms to Gavelkind
Gave the Victual Brothers their ships back
Bohemund of Taranto is no longer a bastard
Fixed a bug where a dead husband of a newly pregnant wife would not count as a husband
The conduct diplomacy button is now hidden for dead characters
Fixed some issues with the "elector titles held" penalty in empires
The Hordes lose the Tribal invasion CB if they go Christian
Fixed a bug with the 'is_mercenary' trigger
Gave Pisa some starting buildings in 1066
Tweaked the Holy Order levy composition
Adjusted the map so that the Duchy of Tyrol is no longer split in two
The Kingdom of Byzantium can no longer be created
Vassal mercs now cost half maintenance
The Kill Spouse plot decisions are now less likely to actually succeed
Open succession law (the Muslim default) now makes succession crisis revolts much more likely
You are now allowed to usurp titles from other vassals within the same realm if you have a claim on the title
Fixed a bug with the tooltip for the 'has_objective' trigger
Fixed some issues with some male hair styles being invalidated when they should not be
Mercenary captains should now wear helmets again
You no longer get Piety from handing out the same title to the Church multiple times
You no longer get Piety from handing out duchies and above to clergy
The Piety from giving a county to the Church is now 50 (down from 100)
Boosted the arrival strength of the Timurids
Uncles and aunts are now also valid successors in elective monarchies
Removed the warning text and special AI acceptance rulers when marrying a member of the _same_ dynasty matrilineally
Fixed a bug with Fertility set from modifiers
Holdings under construction should now also correctly benefit from councillor jobs
Fixed an issue with historical settlements not being cleared entirely correctly on save game load
Fixed a bug with certain event target trigger tooltips
Added a tooltip to the "character" trigger
Corrected some title adjectives
Fixed a bug with the 'claimed_by' trigger tooltip
Fixed a mismatch between potential revolters in the alert and in the Intrigue View
Mercs of the same culture group as you can now always be hired, no matter the distance to your capital
Lieges of dead characters are now saved and shown
The decision to repent (getting your excommunication lifted) now gives the correct opinion modifier, making the character immune to a new excommunication for 10 years
Fixed a bug where successors could be temporarily disinherited when Temple holdings were assigned a new holder
Fixed multiple issues with the law change plots
FOR MODDERS:
The line "nudge_allowed=yes" in "settings.txt" will turn on the in-game map positioning editor (there is a button called "Nudge" in the starting screen.)
The de jure liege of titles can now be changed through events and scripted history ("de_jure_liege")
You now see all plots in "observe" mode
Exported MAX_GENERATED_TRAITS_FOR_HISTORICAL to defines (controls the maximum number of random traits that are generated for historical scripted characters)
Added a 'destroy_landed_title' event effect
Added a 'give_minor_title' effect
Added trigger 'holding_type'
Exported some merc and holy order hire cost factors to defines
Mercenary companies can now be scripted with a "strength_growth_per_century" value (in landed_titles.txt)
The Legalism effects on demesne size is exported to "defines.lua"
Added plot type 'realm_titles'
Added trigger 'held_title_rating = [num/target]'
Event modifiers are now read from multiple files
Cut the non-functional trigger 'num_of_ports'
The trigger 'monthly_income' now actually works
Timed opinion modifiers with value 0 are now added, but not listed in tooltips (useful as a kind of flag in events.)
Added 'creation_effect' to character objectives
Exported DOW_AGGRESSION_FACTOR and REVOLT_AGGRESSION_FACTOR to defines
Added event trigger and effect; 'custom_tooltip'

New in Crusader Kings II Patch 1.04 (Mar 12, 2012)

MAJOR:
Revised the Message Setting system
Religion groups are now marked playable in the religion file (no more hard coded rule)
AI: Improved marriage acceptance. Smarter about "Desires Better Alliance". Values prestige gain or loss higher.
Added some useful status info to the delayed character tooltip (similar to the info in debug mode)
Cooldown added to excommunications (only for the same Pope though)
Doubled the flanking damage bonus in combat
Increased the flank leader Martial skill bonus in combat by 50%
Fixed a CTD that can occur in a rare situation with characters having multiple wars against each other
Nerfed taxes given by bishops to Anti-Popes by 50%
Holy Orders now cost maintenance if you're in at least one offensive, non-Crusade war
Halved all peasant revolt risk factors
Added an "Isolated County" revolt risk modifier and cut the special events that used to simulate it
Peasant Army size is now determined by the biggest holding garrison size (so they will always be dangerous)
The Succession War CBs now have the proper success outcome
Fixed a bug with the usurpation of titles that would hand over all vassals too
AI: More wary of expensive assassinations
AI: Fixed some issues with the correct Casus Belli choice
AI: Tweaked vassal revolt risk to depend more on ambition from traits
The duchies of Cornwall and Brittany are now de jure part of the Kingdom of Wales
Buffed the Caliphates and the Seljuks. Nerfed the Byzantines.
Added vassal Seljuk mercs; the Ghilman
Now shows a portrait of the target in available player plots
Hooked in missing plot icon in available player plots
MINOR:
Upped the chances of dying due to disease a little bit
Increased the effects of the genius, quick, slow, imbecile and inbred traits
Reduced the levy size effect of some of the "recently occupied" modifiers
Nominated bishops are now properly disinherited at once
Fixed a bug with the guardian opinion modifiers given when entrusted with a ward
Combat events will not happen until three days into a combat (to avoid commander deaths and such when overrunning tiny forces)
When an Anti-Pope is installed in Rome, the old Pope no longer becomes an Anti-Pope
Waived the opinion penalty for held elector titles for elective duchies and below
Fixed a CTD issue that could occur in tooltips when hovering over Holding modifiers as they expire
Vassal mercs can now always be employed by their liege, no matter their religion
Scaled wealth effects and triggers are now based on nominal peacetime income
Fixed an error in the opinion warning when banishing characters (not the correct figure.)
The game will now also auto-generate an appropriate number of traits for children with not enough scripted traits
Added a text warning/explanation for DoW on a revolter
Traits are now read from multiple files, facilitating modding
Fixed an issue with event ids in a namespace
Fixed an issue with flipping "random god names" tooltips in fire event effect tooltips
Fixed a bug with the decision 'Demand Duchy from liege' with duke tier lieges (should not be available)
Fixed a tooltip issue with the "any" type event triggers
Better tooltips for event triggers 'higher_tier_than' and 'lower_tier_than'
Re-enabled selection of the same type of plot again for players
Fixed an issue with save/reload of the last selected plot/ambition
Fixed an issue with protected inheritance not always working under Gavelkind
Exported MAX_ELECTOR_TITLES_LEGALLY_HELD to defines
Exported the max duchies held opinion penalty to defines
Exported the tax penalty for bishops loyal to the Pope or Anti-Pope to the defines
The "recently conquered" holding penalties are no longer applied during civil wars or wars between vassals
AI: Fixed a bug where the AI would grant titles to vassal mercs
Added 'same_guardian' trigger
Slightly nerfed William of Normandy's initial army size
Switched the portraits of Harold and William the Conqueror
Changed some title colors to conform better to their cultural region
Added proper history for the Prince-Bishopric of Agen
The Earl of Atholl is now a _legitimate_ bastard

New in Crusader Kings II Patch 1.03b (Feb 20, 2012)

Loading a save where you had marked characters of interest or non-interest will no longer crash the game
Fixed a bug with the de jure modifier not being initialized correctly for most kingdoms and above
Fixed a tooltip crash in the Realm Tree
Fixed an issue with long MP game connection times
Fixed an MP OOS issue that would manifest a day or two after starting
Fixed an issue with burgher heirs retaining burgher laws when inheriting a feudal demesne
Fixed several script errors with the special CoAs in Dynasty CoA Pack DLC
The texture in the Dynasty CoA Pack DLC now works correctly on all graphics cards
Children of rulers now automatically get the appropriate claims when you start a new game (they don't need to be scripted in)
Fixed the Steam install script so it won't run every time you start the application
In order to ask for an invasion CB, you must be at peace and either have a claim on a primary title of the target's, or have fewer holdings in your realm
AI will now change tech focus
Revised reverse demands for CBs to make them more interesting
Diplo AI: Will not allow matrilineal marriages with unimportant characters
Diplo AI: Will say no to marriages that would make valuable courtiers (councillors) move
Diplo AI: Will be reluctant to let skilled courtiers move to marry
Diplo AI: Will now sometimes grant titles to unlanded courtiers again!
Diplo AI: Fixed a bug where a completely beaten AI would surrender too easy
Diplo AI: Muted AI spam about marriages if player already declined offer
Diplo AI: Will not declare religious wars for overseas territories that de jure belong to an independent duke or king of its own faith
Invasion AI: Better at not disembarking into an enemy army
Invasion AI: Optimized prio target selection
Invasion AI: Fixed an issue with pointless counter-invasions
Invasion AI: Will now load armies in port when possible, in order to avoid loading armies onto the wrong fleets
Invasion AI: Should now understand how to target peasant rebels
Resigning now changes the checksum, so you cannot join an MP game without restarting the game (which would cause an OOS anyway.)
Boosted the strength of peasant rebel units by 50%
Fixed a bug with the CB for the Institute Gavelkind plot
Upped the length of truces to 10 years (from 3)
Added fractions to the revolt risk in the province view
Added a monthly law vote check to make sure laws pass when they should
Fixed a bug with port buildings not giving more galleys
Fixed a problem with running the game on large TV screens
Raised mercenary hire costs a little bit
Flank leader damage bonus changed from 1% to 2% for each point in martial
Fixed an issue where granting titles would disband troops
Fixed an issue with a plot where the target would retain his title even when he folded
Fixed a problem with playing the Earl of Durhamn causing immediate game over
Ask for ransom interaction can now be initiated with the liege
Ask to ransom interaction in the diplomacy window now has a proper title when selecting target
Rebalanced the initial situation between William, Harald and Harold
Gave Edward III a claim on France so the 100 years war bookmark will work correctly
Corrected the history of Gevaudan to avoid dead "Serene Doges" of France at startup and make sure it has prince bishops at the end