Changelog 1.141

General Gameplay: --------- - Firearms have been rebalanced. - Firearms have been given refined melee animations. - All Melee weapons have been rebalanced. - Horses have been made faster and rebalanced. - Characters can now crouch. The default key is 'z'. - New troop orders for volley firing and line formations. - Added new types of ranged ammunition, ex: piercing arrows. - Pikes have two types of thrusting attacks. - Reloading interrupted by being hit is now continued where it left off. - Switching to pistols is now quicker whereas switching to muskets has been made slower. - New grenade explosion/damage system. - New tactics introduced via crouching pikemen/marksmen formations.

Audio/Visual: ------------- - New sounds and particle systems for firearm shots,bullet hits, and ricochets. - Order menus redesigned. - Female face textures retouched slightly. - Motion blur effect has been removed from some weapons. - All armors have female versions.

Multiplayer: ----------- - Multiplayer Captain modes have received an overhaul; all new troops and troop purchasing system. - New stat/behavior balances for musketeers and infantry. - Network code improved.

Single Player: ------------- - Added starting option to play the game with a female character. - Battlefield AI enhanced and can give the new volley fire orders. - New Village Elder Quests. - New and more realistic Caravan Trading System. - Economic balances to production and troops. - Various balances made in the interest of fairness to starting characters. - New balances to weapons and redone grenade rules/system.

Bug Fixes: ---------- - Fixed siege door abuse in some multiplayer maps. - Fixed ladder placements in many maps. - Navigation meshes in lots of maps fixed. - Double barreled pistols' reload animation bug is fixed - Grenade splash damage bugs fixed. - Fixed typo in trade permit cost. - Lots of fixes to problematic quests and npc behaviors/interactions. - Various bug fixes.