Dear NI Community, it's time for another patch. This release brings better ranged ai behavior, new items (including support!), a new attack animation for polearms, and more enjoyable gameplay as free roaming melee in normal and hard.

If you are having issues with connecting to our servers, please install the 1.153 warband client in a separate folder, or paste the files over your steam warband files and turn automatic updates off.

The installer for 1.153 can be found here:

http://download.taleworlds.com/mb_warban...p_1153.exe
or
http://download2.taleworlds.com/mb_warba...p_1153.exe

• Overhead stab-type polearms that are around 200 length or less can be used with shields, and they now have a much more friendly fire compatible one-handed overhead stab in addition to the old down direction stab. Animation generously given by Cifre.
  
• Two extremely high tier engineer items, Master Weaponsmith's Anvil, and the Master Shieldsmith's Anvil. The weapon anvil improves weapons to masterwork quality, while the shield anvil improves shields to reinforced quality. Please note that while they do change the quality of deployables and/or health kits, they do not actually improve their effects/scene props, and that they will take every weapon/shield you have equipped of the same type, so drop your extra weapons/shields before attempting to smith.
  
• Three new types of barricade type items, platform, heavy platform, and wall barricade.
  
• Model Contest Items
  
• Nord archers and throwers will attempt to aim and shoot at players, even when they aren't in line of sight or in range as a workaround for players easily picking bots off with peek shots and stuckage issues, as bots will rush when they run out of ammo. Nord archer ammo count decreased. Nord thrower ammo count increased slightly. Single shot crossbowmen behave normally.
  
• Descriptions added to some items ingame, mostly support items
  
• A mysterious new support item for the house tournament champions, item will get passed on to the next winner
  

• Bots will damage cades when they attempt to swing at them in addition to whenever they hit them. However, barricade health has been raised somewhat, and bots will prioritize players in range, meaning a shieldwall will drastically extend the life of any barricades nearby.
  
• Einherjar Rangers toned down a lot, but later Ragnarok waves made tougher
  
• Hard mode difficulty increased on the later waves
  
• All bosses now have multipliers on their hitpoints, with multipliers getting higher on later waves.
  
• Most non-bosses have had their armor decreased, but have added HP multipliers if they are meant to be tough, and as a result, cut weapons will be more effective than they have been before.
  
• Bots with certain weaknesses that border on exploits have been adjusted.
  
• Crushthrough weapons on bots mostly replaced with shields and bonus vs shield weapons as a response to ranged kiting/shc metagaming
  
• Much higher damage flinch threshold for more fun gameplay as melee in normal/hard (1 -> 10, if you want a general idea of how much damage this means, base recruit health = 43, royal guard health = 89)
  
• All crossbows damage as if their target had 20% less armor
  
  

• Onehanded stabs for one-handed weapons and polearms have been reverted to native animations.
  
• Fists give exp, and the last throwing weapon in a stack will give exp, but it is melee due to module system limitations.
  
• Big shot buffed to knock down or stop movement on hit
  
• Many minor item stat adjustments
  
• Nord Ranger WPF buffed due to odd behavior with low WPF
  
• New maps
  
• Moar rangers
  

ALL NI SERVERS SHOULD NOW BE RUNNING WARBAND 1.158. To be safe and avoid problems, we recommend you simply auto-update Warband from Steam or carry out a clean download from Taleworlds.

Hi all,

Please be aware that due to a bug, all open trades have had to be manually closed. If your trade was not accepted, nothing will have been transfered even though it says closed. Please recreate the trade.


UPDATE 1:
As the issue was investigated it has been discovered that it affected other areas of gameplay and as such, we have had to take the decision to roll back the database. The good news for those that remember last time is that it was only rolled back to the 20th rather than three weeks. The bad news is still thought that this has resulted in a loss of XP and items over a 24hr period. We know that this is never good for anyone and apologise for this. We will of course look into ways to compensate all players, as is the NI way and we will let you know in due course.

Again, we apologise for this and all changes have been rolled back.

UPDATE 2:
Double XP baby! Go crazy, kill and enjoy the boost to your stats.

UPDATE 3:
Faction Points have now been restored after a temporary glitch.

UPDATE 4:
Double XP has ended.

Naozumi, for the NI Team

Dear Nord Invasion Community,

As you may have noticed the current Nord Invasion trailer is a bit defunct and does not demonstrate the current active NI game. Which is why we are calling upon you to show us your filming and movie making skills!

• Jeremiah The 12th              Send a message
  
• _Sphinx_                            Send a message
  
• [UK]_The_Irish_Eagle        Send a message
  
• Ragnash                            Send a message
  
• Terath                                Send a message
  
  

• You are required to show us some form of script or filming schedule before you can begin filming on the dedicated servers.
  
• When on the dedicated server with extras, they all need to be in a TS channel on filming day with a volunteer in that channel to make sure they are not abusing the server.
  
• You must feature all three game modes in the trailer (Normal, Hard and Ragnarok).
  
• There must be no evidence of glitching or stuck bots in the video at all.
  
• When your slot comes up to start filming you are required to show up at the server ready to go. If you are late we will not push back on other peoples filming time.
  
• You cannot ask for legendaries to be given to you for the filming process. This will be too much of a headache for the developers to enforce.
  
• The video quality needs to be superb.
  
• There needs to be a backing track.
  
• Do not use copyrighted music without the authors consent! If your video contains copyrighted music then your entry will be void.
  

• Show off nord invasion features.
  • Crafting - Talk about House crafting, Armoursmithing, Alchemy & Blacksmith
    
  • Classes - Show off the 4 different classes and talk about the hero classes
    
  • Clans & Houses
    
  • The number of custom maps
• Teamwork - Show off House Events, Official Events & The House Tournament
  
• Talking about the sheer number of custom items in the game - Legendaries included

• First Prize receives: a choice of a legendary, any legendary
  
  
• Second Prize: Housecraftable of choice below rank 20
  
  
• Third Prize: Craftable of choice
  
  
• Fourth Prize: Phoenix Feather
  

• Chris
  
• YuriTheRed
  
• Hypernoma
  
• Senni
  
• MrGuarnere

Dear NI Community,

Presently the Duelist Class has been a bit underwhelming. So in order to make it a bit more attractive we are changing it to a new hero class, the legionnaire. This class will facilitate a hybrid playstyle. Giving throwing weapons proficiency. The class will be versatile and powerful, combining moderate throwing capabilities, first rate one handed fighting ability and above average shield skill.

This hero class will be discounted to 100k for the next week.

Love,

The Devs


Offer has ended

Good evening,

I have been staggered by the amount of players that we have had to warn, reset and ban over the past 4 days. I am sick and tired of the idiocy of some players and from this point forward there will be a zero tolerance policy for trolling, glitching and general rule breaking. It stuns us that despite catching players breaking the rules on almost a daily basis, players continue to do so.

It is genuinely disheartening to see players abuse our work especially after the huge amounts of time the development team have invested into 0.5.0 and continue to do so on a daily basis implemented new items, crafting recipes, running competitions and planning the House tournament beyond the commitments of their real lives. I personally have very little spare time for the next two months and the sheer volume of time I am having to devote to punishing players and reading through log files is unacceptable. I do not want to come home and have to sit and filter through the same amount of stupidity that I have had to for the past four days.

Please think before you act; if you are conducting yourself in a manner that causes you or any reasonable person to stop and think "is this right?", I suggest you think long and hard before carrying on in such a manner.

Cordially,

The Development team

Goooooooood evening!

Wanted to try out that Pikeman tree? Feel like pew-pew-pewing some nords in the face?

As a way to say a MASSIVE thank you to all our donators who have supported us for the past 18 months, all of our donators will have unlimited respec's for the next week! I don't post enough at how much help your donations have been and continue to be, and they really help to alleviate the financial burden (and stress!) involved with running and hosting NordInvasion.

Thank you again for your continuing support!

Love,

The NI Family

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[anchor=top]Dear NI Community,

Its finally here, the first part of the 0.5.0 release. Each of the 0.5.0 releases will come in phases, within this phase you will find many new features, over a dozen new maps, many new items, classes and a new mode.

• A third level of difficulty: Ragnarok Mode
  
• The introduction of new hero class choices for level 52 players.
  
• NI Updater
  
• General Changes

• Only people who are alive, or have died at least once in the server contribute to bot count, instead of just counting all players (Work in progress!) (Working!)
  
• Map updates & 7 new maps + Release of Hyper's Hell
  
• Donator enemies added
  
• New Nord faces!!
  
• Changes to Nord AI
  
• Banners updated
  
• Everything in place for our first House Tournament
  
• More bug fixes and general gameplay changes than we could list...
  
• Moar Nord Rangers