What's new in Rome: Total War Barbarian Invasion Patch 1.6

Jan 7, 2009
  • Campaign Map
  • �Generals' night fighting ability is granted at 4 stars rather than 5
  • �We have fixed the "memory leak" slowdown that was seen on the Campaign map during extended play
  • �Loyalty is now available with all shadow factions.
  • �The faction leader will now not revolt.
  • �When a horde is created, horde units are no longer added to existing armies that occupy forts.
  • �We have fixed a bug that causes hordes to avoid fighting armies on bridges on the campaign map.
  • �We have given Gratianus Flavius a unit of Imperial German Bodyguards to fix a missing general's unit bug in the starting positions.
  • �We have made fixes to settlement tax updating, so that it correctly updates tax policy when changing governors
  • �We fixed a bug that caused diplomats to gather at extreme southwest corner of map in some cases.
  • �Fixed crash where settlement recruitment queue for rebellions was exceeding max size.
  • �The Marriage Event trigger now works.
  • �There are a large number of changes to the balance of the game in response to the extended play that has been done by forum users.
  • �Fixed an issue where disembarkation paths were being left on the terrain.
  • �The Nomad voices have been changed from Greek to Barbarian.
  • �We have fixed crash where settlement recruitment queue for rebellions was exceeding max size.
  • Battle Map
  • �Improvements have been made to prevent men spilling around the base of siege towers.
  • �There was a pathfinding issue that made river battles very slow. This has been fixed.
  • �Improvements have been made to the AI when orchestrating Skirmish Maneouvres.
  • �The AI will now use 'fire at will' with idle units so that they throw pila at nearby enemies.
  • �The AI will now make a decision about throwing pila before charging into combat based on the location of enemy units.
  • �The unit experience upgrade "sparkling" effect can now be turned off using the UNIT_EXPERIENCE_UPGRADE_EFFECT tag in preferences.txt.