Hello,

A much requested feature has been added to the Account page of the website: Support Reset.

Support Reset will remove your support class for a flat fee of 50k gold.  Your character classes (most importantly, your hero classes) will remain untouched.

As with all the Account actions, you can reset the support class of one character using the gold from another.

Enjoy!
- The NordInvasion Team

Hello,

In the latest patch, we made it so Nords do not drop some of their weapons that Swadians cannot pick up from the ground.  This helps keep the ground uncluttered so that barricades can be built and valuable items don't get lost.

There are still plenty of weapons dropping which should not, though, so it would be greatly appreciated if people could give us a list of Nords and their weapons which need to be fixed.

Guidelines:

• Please give us the Nord's name and describe the weapon (sword, two handed axe, shield, etc).
  
• This only covers weapons which cannot be picked up by anyone.
  
• Consider whether the item can be picked up by a class that is specialized for that weapon.
  
• If you are not sure you have the right Nord's name, please don't post it.
  
• Avoid reporting a weapon that has already been listed in this thread.  It will make it easier for us to go through.
  

Good evening dear Swadians,

This patch has been a long time coming and I know various rumours have been floating around for the past few months as to what exactly this patch will entail. I am delighted to be the bearer of good news and confirm that the release is upon us! This patch is one of the biggest we have released in a long time and brings a lot of changes to the gameplay and to the coding side of NI. Hopefully we will see less lag on servers on our side, a potential increase in frame rate and a more interesting game for you guys.


General changes

- Restricted the number of tomes and barrels that can be spawned
- Added "backup support" slot for after the tomes and barrels have been used
- Removed the need to juggle support items
- Capped friendly-fire damage
- Fixed the support item bug that uses multiple items of the same type at once for example when placing a SHC with two in the inventory, both were used
- Changed the loot system to allow for some interesting additions…
- Adjusted assist xp/loot area to allow for “Rambo” players
- Rewrote most of the game code for better performance
- Completely overhauled Swadian gear stats
- New textures
- Added "prep time" between waves to eliminate saving last
- Reduced barricade building time in prep time
- Faster health, ammo, and shield repair props in prep time
- Can replace gear on spawn waves once (not if you just spawned) without needing to spectate
- Rebalanced Nords
- New bot AI for ranged units
- New barricade health bar
- New character screen (beta status and subject to change!)
- Moar rangers!!!

Loot system

There has been a radical overhaul of the loot system. I know we have been talking about the loot system for quite some time now but I am happy to say it is now in effect. As ever, I will not go into details as to how our loot system actually works but I will say that it very much favours playing in groups and not solo playing. No doubt some will moan but it really should be no surprise that we have introduced a new feature to encourage team play as this is (dun dun duuuun!!!!) a teamplay mod! Loot is not set in stone and will be subject to change as we observe what's dropping and how often.

Stats
I'm not going to comment in depth on stat changes for both Swadians and Nords as these are always subject to change, however we have felt of late that both players and bots have been creeping back towards "demi-god" status. As such, this patch will see some big changes to both. While we no doubt anticipate some "boo hoo" from the community, the changes we have made we feel are for the best in regards to balanced game play. Hero classes will now play an even greater role and as you fight on the battlefield you should notice a good few differences, some of which even increase survivability (??!) so expect a few surprises coming your way 

Support items

Support items have seen a lot of attention from us in this patch. We have now limited the amount of tomes and barrels that each player can bring into a server per map. Each player can bring in 2 tomes or 2 barrels per server or one of each. This is account specific so changing character will not allow you to bring in more items nor relogging. We have even gone as far as making sure that you can't trade these items to another player to bring in to that server. All barrels and tomes are uniquely identified and that item cannot be spawned more than twice on one map. If you own 2 tomes/barrels this same limit applies and you cannot spawn more than 2 per map. Our reasoning for this is that we have had had issues with tomes making the game too easy and as a result, we made the nords harder. Players will bring in more tomes and we would make the nords harder again. In an effort to get out of this vicious cycle we are taking steps to try and balance things out. We have "weakened" the nords as a result to try and find this balance. While we appreciate that the system may not be perfect at present, we will be editing the stats of the troops on the back of community feedback. If the nords seem impossible, please do let us know (nicely!) and we'll make changes for future changes that can be rolled out without requiring any downloads on your part.

Item stat changes

There have been MANY item stat changes and we have a comprehensive list of all changes. We will release this list for you once we've cleaned it up a bit and make it a little more reader friendly.

Community address

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank Kip for all of his service as US senior admin. Kip is stepping down from this position to focus more time on developing the mod and that pesky thing call real life. Winter will be stepping up to the mark and taking over the position. This should allow us to focus more attention on the admining of the US servers. We would also like to take this opportunity to notify the community that recruitment for the US and EU is open for the next 2 weeks. Please direct your attention to the relevant forum threads for details on how to apply and who to direct your PMs to.

I would also like to thank the community for their continued support of NI in the form of donations. Your support is always very much appreciated! I am happy to say that NI is currently in an acceptable financial position. I know that the AU community have been looking for a new sever and have been in dialogue with Kip over such a server. My position is that one month of donations does not convince me that paying for another Australian server will actually see support from the Australian community. While I appreciate the donations that have come in from Australia, in the average month (looking back over the last year) the donations from the pacific region on a monthly basis do not normally meet 1/8 of our server costs. I would be happy to pay for another Austalian server if I could see more donations coming in on a regular basis from the pacific region. I have always been happy to pick up the brunt of the server costs but I unfortunately cannot justify paying even more for the AU region when I am not receiving any more fiscal support from that playerbase. A rather negative message unfortunately, but with great power comes great responsibility.

The NordInvasion updater is available here

The full patch is available here

Love,

The NI Family

Hello,

In line with our continued efforts to make NI awesome and as much fun as possible. There are some small changes to the hero classes. The rangers have been placed in an intensive fitness programs... They have sat on their fat backsides in their special gear for too long. So we sent them to Pamplona, added some tricksters and now, those that survived should be a bit quicker on their feet and perhaps slightly anxious around any helmet with horns.

The king has also noticed a distinct lack of men holding large halberds in his palace. To solve that problem and give comfort to his peace of mind during this terrible war, a discount on entry is available for the next week.

-The Nord Invasion team

Hello,

We have moved the website, database, and TeamSpeak to a new, more powerful server.  A portion of the EU servers will follow soon.

The new TeamSpeak address is ts3.nordinvasion.com.

If you notice anything wrong, please let us know.

- The NordInvasion Team

Archive

Hello,

We plan to move to move the website, database, TeamSpeak, and a portion of the EU servers to a new, more powerful server later today (currently aiming to start in about two hours - this might change).

There will be some downtime during the move.  (The forum will not be affected, however.)

We will try to have everything back up as soon as possible.

- The NordInvasion Team

It has been some time since anyone reported the symptoms listed in this thread so I have to assume TaleWorlds as resolved the issues on their end.

This thread will now serve only to document what happened.

Archived Symptoms and Suggestions

Archive: Steam Updates
A series of Warband updates were recently pushed out to players on Steam.  They were part of addition of Steam Workshop support for Warband and better Linux and Mac support.  Some of them broke Warband badly with errors or crashing but it seems somewhat fixed now.

These updates only affected Steam users.  Stand-alone installations of Warband did not receive any updates.

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Archive: Authentication Servers
Unrelated to the recent updates, Warband was available to play for free on the weekend.  This resulted in a massive influx of users which overloaded the TaleWorlds authentication and server list servers.  "Incorrect Authorization Key" and "Unable to Connect to Server" were very common errors.  Furthermore, free players (and some payed users) were given completely random IDs each time they joined a server preventing them from getting stats and gear.

The free weekend is now over but there are a few leftover problems.

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Archive: Random User IDs
If you are still getting activation codes each time you join a server try these steps:

Lets start with the simplest: restart Steam entirely.  Closing all the Steam windows is not enough, you need to make sure it is not running in the system tray.  If you are unsure how to restart Steam entirely, restarting the computer will do as well.

Try joining a server and hope that it works.  If not, try these longer steps:
Make sure Warband is closed when you do this.
Be very careful about editing your registry.  If you are not careful, you could break things.

1.  In the Steam Library, right click Warband and click "View CD key".  You will need this key later.
Note: If you do not see a CD key listed, stop.  The rest of the instructions require it.
2.  Open the "Run" prompt.  (Holding down the windows key and pressing "R" is an easy way to do this.)
3.  Type "regedit" and press enter.
4.  In the left panel, go to the following folders: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ MountAndBladeWarbandKeys
5.  In the right panel, look for the "serial_key" entry.  (If it is not there, right-click a blank area and create a new "String Value" and name it "serial_key".)
Note: "serial_key_nw" is for Napoleonic War and is not related.
6.  Right-click the "serial_key" entry and modify it.
7.  Set the value to the CD from step 1.

Close all the windows and try joining a server.

These are the only two methods I know for fixing the random IDs.  TaleWorlds / Steam might do something to fix it automatically in the next few days but if you are eager to play, this should work.

Hi all,

I am happy to announce the latest in our continued updates to the website.

Touch Friendly Navigation

We welcome your touchy fingers. The navigation system will now work on touch screen devices. You will find that when touching something like house or marketplace that the second option will reveal itself but the website will not change. Press it a second time and you will be taken to the page as normal or press the alternative option (Auction hall, trading etc).

Please be aware that touch enabled computers will count as touch enabled devices. We are looking into a way to only make this occur on tablets and phones and not computers.

Extra Button

There is a new "Extras" option that shows the home page links. Other extra features will appear here in time to any users who have access to extra systems. Additionally, anyone modifiying the website (eg: NI+) should use this to display their menus. Also, the logout button is now located under account section.

Auction Hall

Saving the biggest change for last, we are proud to announce the new auction hall. With a completely new design, filters and even the ability to look for things that you can't equip on that character. Also, try clicking a record for expanded statistics (which have been checked), nice pictures (click image for even larger picture) and the ability to check prices of items against the "normal" pricing range on the marketplace.

NB: All existing auction listings have been returned with your full tax money.
NI+ users - please disable the plugin pending an update as it can prevent the rows expanding. NI+ has been updated.
If parts of the website are not behaving as expected, try pressing Ctrl + F5 to force a full refresh of the page.

/Nao & the dev team


Original Notification:

Spoiler

Some aspects of the website are being upgraded. More details will be released soon but during this time you may find parts of the site are unavailable.

Please bear with us and we will be back up and running soon.

EDIT: Gameplay will be unaffected during this time.

UPDATE 21:56 BST - Server has been updated.

/Nao

Hey!

As you might have noticed, we have finally started to add item images to our website.
Because we developers are only good at drawing stickmans, we need you players help us to make proper pictures of crafting items for our website.

To signup to this project, send a private message to me with your e-mail address and I will add you to Google Spreadsheet.

Here is some info you need to know:
- We need two images
- 852 x 714 Fullsize
- 100 x 83 Thumbnail
- Both images must be in .png format
- Remember If you take pictures from somewhere to work with, make sure them are not copyrighted!!!
- The Background should be grey for now (same as the other items)

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(07-04-2014, 04:24 PM)k4mi link Wrote: [quote author=Tarrod link=topic=25021.msg173250#msg173250 date=1396885840]
Does this project only include Crafting Goods or also Barrels, Tomes, House Craftables or Legendaries?
Greets Tarrod