Torn Banner has released the Chivalry 2 update 1.013 patch for all platforms, and this is for the big House of Aberfell content drop, which also includes gameplay-related improvements. Read on for the full Chivalry February 15 patch notes.

Chivalry 2 Update 1.013 Patch Notes | Chivalry 2 February 15 Patch Notes | Chivalry 2 House of Aberfell Patch Notes:

Update Highlights

• New Team Objective map – The Raid on Aberfell

• New Vanguard weapon – Highland Sword

• New Objective Carriables / throwables – Peasants, Pigs (oink oink)

• New Playable VIP Character – Mason Druid

• 10 new Facepaint Customization items

• Two new Armour Sets with 9 variants total

  • Two Helmet Customization items with 4 Mason and 4 Agatha variants

• Two new male Voice Over characters – Agatha Highlander and Mason Berserker

• 12 new Weapon Skins for Greatsword, Messer, and War Club

New Changes Following 2.4 Public Test (1/27/22)

• Adjusted 3p and 1p animations on highland sword to be more consistent with tracers

• Reverted maul changes from House Aberfell Public Test

• Increased the combination input press window for gamepad users to make throwing easier to execute

• Fixed an issue where you could sometimes be hit during active riposte

• Fixed exploit – Swapping weapons negates the effects of an opponent’s tackle

• Fixed exploit – Vanguard sprint attack can be set up to be done infinitely

• Falmire – Added a closer spawn for attackers after the VIP has progressed past a certain point

• Falmire – VIP health increased from 1000 to 1250

• Raid – Slightly reduced stage times over multiple stages

• Raid – Increased fuse time from 60 to 90 in stage 2

• Raid – Reduce capture rate slightly in stage 3

• Raid – Increase Druid health from 300 to 400

Weapons and Carryables

• Added carriable peasants (currently only on Aberfell)

• Added carriable pigs (currently only on Aberfell)

• Warbow:

  • Adjusted total ammo count from 20 arrows to 12

• Rapier:

  • Special attack’s turn rate has been slightly reduced

  • First person camera now ducks to match the player’s head position during the special attack

  • Tweaked lean and root motion animations during the special attack for improved attack avoidance

• Halberd:

  • Increased all damage values from 5 to 10

• Executioner’s Axe:

  • Reduced slash damage from 50 to 45

Customization

New Customization

• New weapon – Highland Sword:

• • Giant Claymore variants

  • Executioner Sword variants

• Voices:

  • Agatha – Highlander

  • Mason – Berserker

• Vanguard:

  • Agatha – Balmoral Helmet with four variants, Gallowglass Armour with six variants

  • Mason – Clan Helmet with four variants, Clan Armour with three variants

• Greatsword:

  • Claymore variants

• Messer:

  • Dacian Falx variants

• War Club:

  • Shepherd’s Staff variants

• 10 new Face Paint variants (male and female):

  • Forest

  • Seer

  • Venator

  • Radiant

  • Hunter

  • Tracker

  • Stalker

  • Feral

  • Scavenger

  • Venerant

Customization Fixes

• War Bow – fixed a string texture issue for the Superior and Engraved variants

• War Axe – fixed pricing issue to allow purchase using crowns

• Fixed an issue where the Longbow would be drawn when selecting the War Bow customization tab in the customization menu

Combat

• Counters:

  • • Counter windows are now variable depending on the speed of the weapon

    • Faster weapons now have a slightly smaller counter window

• Headbutting:

  • • Jabbing while having lost the left arm will result in a headbutt

  • Dismemberment:

    • When having lost an arm, being attacked on the other arm will result in only a dismemberment and not a lost in HP

    • Fixed an issue where ragdolls would not be able to be dismembered
      

• Vanguard:

  • Ambusher:

    • Increased backstab damage from 35% to 50%

    • Increased throwing knife damage from 35 to 40 units

    • Clarified class description in regards to the backstab damage bonus only being effective when using native weapons

  • Devastator:

    • Added the Highland Sword as an unlockable weapon

• Footman:

  • Engineer – increased the instance limit of constructible barricades from 2 to 4 (The carry limit remains the same, so keep an eye out for those resupply crates!)

• Knight:

  • Officer – added the Greatsword to the primary weapon loadout

  • Officer – fixed an issue where weapons would unlock in the incorrect order

  • Fixed an issue where knights could spawn with no primary weapon when Shuffle mode is enabled

• Bots no longer add to combo chain score count

• Fixed an issue where picking up a dagger would not bind to an inventory slot

• Disabled early overhead tracers to prevent instant overheads

• Players can now throw/drop a weapon when Out of Combat

• Arrows and bolts are now automatically picked up when walked over. This only applies to the owner that launched said arrow or bolt

• Zooming in with a ranged weapon is now only available to the subclasses with the Focus perk

• Controller – Increased the combination input press window for gamepad users to make throwing easier to execute

• Fixed an issue where you could sometimes be hit during active riposte

• Fixed exploit – Swapping weapons negates the effects of an opponent’s tackle

• Fixed exploit – Vanguard sprint attack can be set up to be done infinitely

Maps

• New Team Objective map added – “The Raid on Aberfell”

Coxwell

• Fixed an issue where defenders would spawn as peasants if accepting the forward spawn prompt on the final objective stage

• Fixed an issue where the Announcer VO would overlap between stages

• Adjusted VO timing on the final stage for when Agatha runs out of reinforcements

Darkforest

• Widened debris ramp during the gatehouse capture stage

• Opened up side paths on the side of the ruins gate

• Made the bridge at the end of the ruins wider

• Changed the map layout to the back of the throne

• Improved bot navigation on the bridges during the second push of the convoy

Falmire

• TO – Changed the overall map layout for the final objective stage

• TO – Split single spawner on Agatha side into two during the second gate objective stage

Fighting Pit

• Adjusted outer wall collision to allow placed shields to be interactable

• Removed duplicate placed shields that were layered on top of each other

Galencourt

• TO – Added Noble Female Peasants

• TO – Improved bot navigation on the Agathian ships

• TO – Improved bot navigation around the gate house

• LTS – Adjusted spectator camera boundaries

• Further map optimizations made to improve performance

Lionspire

• Increased main gate’s HP from 20000 to 22500 units

• Added Noble Female Peasants

• Fixed an out of combat issue during the beginning of the “Defend the Gate” stage to allow Agatha to retreat all the way to the gate as needed

• Delayed combat zone changes for attackers at the start of the banners stage

• Fixed an issue where Mason bots would not be able raise the ramps when attacking the last two trebuchets

Rudhelm

• TO – Stage 2 – Defender spawns moved slightly back

• TO – Stage 4 – Increased score given to attacker per capture tick

• Widened the main keep’s gates

• Brawl – Fixed collision issue with the stones next to the throne

Gamemodes

• TO:

  • Fixed an issue where defenders would receive capture score even after fully recapturing an objective

  • Bots will prioritize objectives less

• TDM:

  • Changed default tickets number to 75

• FFA:

  • Enabled class limits

    • FFA – Class limit on Archers

    • Duel servers – No Archers

• Team Switching – Adjusted team swapping

  • After the start of the match, a player will only be allowed to switch teams manually if your previous team, including yourself, has at least 2 more players than the other team.

  • Auto-balance is not affected by this change.

• Examples:

  • If your previous team has 32 players including yourself, and the other team has 30 – you are allowed to switch manually.

  • If your previous team has 32 players including yourself, and the other team has 29 – you are allowed to switch manually.

  • If your previous team has 32 players including yourself, and the other team has 31 – you are not allowed to switch manually.

Matchmaking

• [Consoles] Fixed an issue where enabling/disabling crossplay would sometimes not save in the game’s settings

• Made improvements to the regular and crossplay disabled matchmaking experience to make it easier to get into matches

2.4 Queue Changes (2 weeks):

• Matchmaking

  • Temporary Featured Queue – 64p Team Objective (where Aberfell appears twice as often)

  • 40p Mixed Modes has Aberfell appearing twice as often

  • Brawl has removed from the 40p FFA queue

• Standalone Servers

  • Duel Servers – Removed FFA Fighting Pit and Adding FFA Wardenglade

Parties

• Fixed an issue where party invites could not be sent or received on Windows 11

• Fixed an issue where players could attempt to join servers that have less open spots than their party size

• Fixed an issue where party invites would not always be sent out when inviting multiple players

• Fixed an issue where the party leader would be unable to connect to standalone servers while in a party

Performance and Crash Fixes

• [PS4/XB1] Further animation optimizations made to reduce stress on performance

• [Xbox] Fixed a crash when returning to the game after suspending during the loading screen of an online match

• Fixed a crash where equipped items would not always populate

• Fixed a rare server crash for when there is no valid killer player state

• Fixed a rare server crash for when a ballista bolt hits a shield

• Fixed a stuttering issue when setting View Distance to Low or Medium while viewing in first person

Animation

• Fixed an animation issue involving the slight dodge after changing movement directions from a sprint. This animation would not play server side, causing attacks to hit/miss when they visibly should/shouldn’t to the player

• Fixed an issue where player and bot movement would not animate properly when viewed from a distance

• Improved third person slash windup animation when looking downwards. This change is aimed at making slashes and overheads more readable when players look down and initiate an attack

• Adjusted strafing animation when moving at slower speeds

• Fixed animation issue with shield when crouching with a rapier in first person

• Fixed an issue where the fire particle effect would not appear when drawing an arrow inside the brazier’s ignition volume

• Lowered the throwing windup/draw animation speeds for the following weapons:

  • Glaive, Dane Axe, Poleaxe, Greatsword

Audio

• Fixed an issue where VO previews would play and overlap on mouse-over

• Fixed an issue where Peasant NPCs would sometimes not use voice lines

• Adjusted Cinematic VO levels for Brawl – Cathedral

UI

• Fixed an issue where tertiary weapons would sometimes appear twice on the HUD when picking up another weapon as the Raider subclass

• Fixed an issue where the name of the player being revived would disappear if the player reviving the team mate is killed during the revive

• Fixed the “Back” buttons hover state to have a golden highlight instead of silver on all screens featuring it

• Fixed an issue where the cursor would default to the bottom after exiting a weapon selection in Customization

• Added a “News” button to the main menu

• Adjusted the “Play” button visuals to match the new “News” button 

• Added a banner behind the Chivalry 2 icon on the upper left corner of the screen

• Added a glow behind the main featured mode to make it stand out more prominently

• Added unique loading screens for the recent LTS/TDM versions of TO maps

• Death screen UI will now list same killed players with a multiplier instead of listing their name multiple times on the screen

• LTS – fixed UI element to not show “FIGHT” at the start of the next round’s countdown

• Multiple localization UI fixes for the following languages:

  • Chinese

  • Danish

  • French

  • Italian

  • Spanish

Misc

• Fixed a backend issue where special edition items and other awards were being awarded inconsistently. Please contact Chivalry 2 support if you are still having issues with receiving these items

• [PS4 / PS5] Brawl – Fixed an issue where the camera would not focus on the NPCs during the intro cinematic

• [PS4 / PS5] Fixed an issue where currency bought from the PS Store would not be visibly given to the player until they restarted the game

• Fixed an issue where the player would be unable to join either team from Spectate if the teams were perfectly balanced

• Fixed an issue where tutorial rewards would not be given out to players in a broken state pre version 2.2