Developer FireFly Studios rolled out a small update for RTS Stronghold: Definitive Edition. The patch contains a number of multiplayer fixes and enhancements. The team also pointed out the known issues and some possible ways around them. Follow the link above to find out more.
“The ultimate version of our first ‘castle sim’ is now available on Steam with upgraded visuals, new missions, Steam multiplayer support and more. We are incredibly excited to be launching our first 2D Stronghold game with new content for over 20 years and even more thrilled by your warm response to the game over the past few months.”
Players are in for a new single-player campaign featuring 14 missions, 10 mission historical castle trail, remastered audio, returning voice actors, community requested features, gameplay modernizations, Steam multiplayer, Workshop support and more.
Stronghold: Definitive Edition – Known Issues Include:
- Some users get a black screen after entering their Player Name;
- Some users cannot load Help text. This mainly affects SteamDeck, Proton and users with SymLinks in their Windows install.
- The team has implemented fixes to stop multiplayer games failing so often but further investigation is required.
Stronghold: Definitive Edition – v1.02 Bug Fixes Include:
- Improved handling for poor connections in Multiplayer games
- Improved kick system for when players lose connection in Multiplayer games
- Improved handling of failed resync attempts in Multiplayer games
- Improved lag and delay in Multiplayer games
- Fixed incorrect music at the start of Mission 21
- Fixed incorrect Tunneler’s description text
- Fixed entering the scenario editor from the ESC menu breaking the editor
- Fixed incorrect name of “Good Things”
- Fixed wrong tower owner in Mission 18 of Main Campaign
- Fixed music playing over Jester in Mission 7 intro
- Fixed incorrect character videos in Mission 5
- Fixed round tower description
- Fixed freebuild map “The Island castle” being unable to spawn invasions
- Fixed ability to place buildings while the game is paused
- Fixed an exploit for getting resources by pausing & deleting
- Fixed Bakery video
- Fixed incorrect peasant voicelines/text
- Fixed incorrect tagging of 300×300 and 400×400 maps to the Steam Workshop
- Fixed disabling good/bad buildings in map editor
- Various crash and stability fixes
Stronghold: Definitive Edition – v1.03 Bug Fixes Include:
- Improved Multiplayer lobby filtering which was showing “ghost” lobbies with no host
- Fixed an issue where Host exiting the application wouldn’t send the correct “leave game” network command
- Improved click through detection for selecting troops behind buildings especially keep/granary
- Included tower for mounting siege equipment in “The Anvil”
- Polish text fixes
- A few other text fixes
