Hello everyone! Today we're releasing Update 1.16.2, which brings a broad range of feature tweaks, improvements, balance adjustments, and bug fixes. Check the changelog below for more information! [hr][/hr]

1.16.2 Changelog

Features

• Added Golden Lineage trait for the Greatest of Khans and their descendants, replacing the GoK house modifier
• Added Ask to Join Confederation interaction, so players can hop into existing confederation on their own initiative
• Added a Confederation Member guest pool to activities, so the members of your Confederation will be invited to activities
• Added an important action to join your Tributaries wars
• Dominating a Title now bypasses existing truces
• Tribal era innovations now provide some Nomad specific bonuses
• Added a Reindeer internal yurt building that provides county fertility bonuses in Forest and Taiga terrain
• External yurt levels now have unique names
• Gives Mogyer Confederation the Confederation Elective succession law, and gives Almos Arpad the First King of the Confederation modifier
• Adds horse animations to the Warhorse story cycle, and diversifies background art
• Steppe-culture castle and city holdings will now use art associated with their geographical region, and the steppe will use MENA holding art
• Audits character window and event backgrounds for some general improvements, as well as specific steppe and tribal updates
• Steppe-culture non-nomads (feudal, clan etc.) use backgrounds appropriate to their geographical region, ex. Western backgrounds in France, Indian backgrounds in India
• Steppe-culture non-nomads use MENA backgrounds everywhere in the steppe if their locations religion is Muslim, and otherwise: MENA backgrounds everywhere but the western steppe or Siberia (where they use Western backgrounds)
• Steppe-culture tribals and landless adventurers use nomadic backgrounds in most cases
• Tribals will use appropriate tribal-looking fallback backgrounds in more cases, rather than generic western feudal fallbacks
• Improves Mongol invasion events with some updated loc, music, animations, backgrounds

Bugfixes

• Government type and vassal stance filters no longer resets whenever a subject contract gets modified
• Fixed an issue where no courtiers were generated for landed characters because of a faulty check on filled council positions
• You can no longer mug herders
• Cumania will no longer be named Khazaria in 1066 and 1178 start dates
• Lowered the frequency of AIs asking for Paizas
• Recently Sacked modifier now has a mixed martial icon
• Added a 10-year cooldown to A Servant of WitchGodName event
• Greatest of Khans Domicile will no longer bypass locked domicile slots
• Iron Cavalry and Wolves of the Deep Steppe are not shown as potential to every culture in the game anymore
• Bring Under Tribute CB has correct info about which Tributary Contracts will be established
• Fixed tooltip for Herders County Fertility effects from the Seasons
• Adopt Feudal Ways decision - the check for Tribes of the North culture is no longer visible for everyone
• Organize Court task for Yeke Jarquchi Court Position now correctly increases Aptitude of other Court Positions
• The Skull Collection internal upgrade for the Court Yurt now properly affects the agent joining chance for Schemes.
• Schemes are no longer sometimes incorrectly invalidated when loading a save
• The Impose Obedience intent is no longer visible if you don't own Tours & Tournaments
• The Byzantine throne room will no longer appear in unrelated Steppe cultures
• Both Heavy Horse Archers and Horse Archers now count towards the Horse Breeders cultural tradition discount
• The Tribes of the North cultural tradition only requires the Khans of the Steppe DLC now
• The Steppe by Steppe achievement now takes into account the expanded areas of the Steppe through the Expand the Steppe decision
• The Peace of the Great Khan decision no longer turns your government into a Republic
• Opinion now properly affects the migration acceptance
• The Vassals Cannot Migrate current situation tooltip is now more clear
• Reactive advice for razing holdings as a nomad now takes the cooldown into consideration
• Added a new trigger for checking if a holding could be razed by a nomad to improve the reactive advice for razing holdings
• The Pleasure Dome building is always enabled after building it, even if your culture no longer has the Turkic or Mongolic heritage
• The tooltip for the stargazer now correctly states you need to not be a kurultai member, rather than just "is not a councilor"
• Added new defines for determining how many commanders are generated for mercenary and holy order titles
• Landless rulers no longer have a max dread of zero
• Fixed values displayed for contributed herd from herder tributaries in the realm subjects window
• Fixed a bug where co-monarchs' would show up as "co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-[title]" when they were becoming an independent ruler
• Fixed information about culture heads determined by herd in the culture window
• Fixed a softlock when the travel planning window was open
• Fixed nomads being charged gold for reducing maa size and receiving double herd back in some cases
• Made the game rule for nomadic situations unique so they are findable by type
• Fixed crash when trying to update a null province's domicile location cache
• Fixed white screen soft lock when canceling from iron man save interface
• Claims now use the base name of a title
• Added cost icon to men-at-arms that are creatable because of a tributary contract
• Vassals being targeted by the migration interaction now defer to their liege as the interaction recipient
• Prevented men_at_arms_limit modifier to drop the max size of men-at-arms regiments below 0
• Improved levy contribution tooltip when inspecting vassal and tributary levy contributions in the realm window
• Vassals of tributaries now contribute levies to the tributary's suzerain
• Made levies income row visible for nomads since they can get levies from feudal tributaries and vassals
• Fixed calculation for adjusted county fertility decline
• Fixed noble family rating growing from house members outside realm
• Fixed many court positions randomly invalidating for nomads during migration or when the holders got wounded/ill/old
• Fixed a bug causing parts of some subject contracts to be reset when loading a save
• Fixed bookmark characters not always wearing what their bookmark showed them wearing
• Fixed the Cuman war mask not being selectable in the barbershop
• Made the confederation_member script list work properly
• Made visit settlement for adventurers work as it should in herder and nomad holdings
• Explicitly cancels a character's tributary contract once they become a vassal
• Cancels truces both ways when a tributary contract is cancelled
• A suzerain and a tributary are no longer referred to as 'liege' and 'vassal' in the subject contract window
• Improved the tooltips for the court position tasks 'blend cultures' and 'accommodate tributaries', so they describe in detail how much they will increase cultural acceptance
• Fixed issue in army window where there was a lot of lag opening the screen when you had a lot of special troops
• Suzerains who join defensive wars should not be listed as allies when starting offensive wars. Also properly excluded defensive-only allies when calculating military strength with clear attacker-defender relation
• Reduces incidents of peasant characters wearing rags while married to noble characters
• AI will now use Herd to ransom themselves
• Prevents priest characters in nomad flavor events from being deleted or moved to the pool after being hired

Balance

• Limits Blood Brotherhood to same-gender characters, unless both are rulers or gender law is Equal
• Rebalanced Temujins conqueror event to give smaller immediate rewards, but recurring bonuses over the next few years
• Temujins conqueror event wont give the Mongol Empire title, but clears the cooldown for Dominate Title
• Made it likely Temujins conqueror event will happen earlier, while he is ~30-40 years old
• Adds Herd effects to random conqueror events and their modifiers, making them more suitable for nomads
• Balanced MaA ai quality so that nomads will hire more diverse MaA types, and be less obsessed with Steppe Raiders
• Reduced the number of Confederations being formed and reduced the acceptance chance once they have 3 members.
• Low Prowess and Low Dominance decreases marriage acceptance for Nomads
• Player characters starting in regions that have Extra Nomads game rule turned on will always have Nomadic government (unless playing as a historically tribal culture in their area, such as Ethiopian in the Horn of Africa region)
• Readjusted the inspection tree for nomadic rulers, removing some settled elements and giving them access to more elements from the Adventurer variant of the tree instead
• Made levels 1 and 2 of the Herd Barter internal upgrade allow you to sell 10% of herd for a 10:1 exchange ratio, Levels 3 and 4 15% for 8:1, Levels 5 and 6 20% for 6:1
• Removed the option to sell more and earn more from the event you get after taking the Summoning Wealthy Visitors: Local Offers decision
• Non-nomadic characters targeted by the migration interaction are now much less willing to peaceably give up their lands
• Reduced herder fertility growth bonus from pastoralists and the communal ethos from 2 to 0.35 (roughly the same as one single province with steppe terrain)
• Reduced sources of knight effectiveness % from nomad yurt buildings
• Reduced duration of First King of the Confederation modifier and added title creation cost malus
• Potential GoKs tributaries (and rulers below them) are prevented from joining the Great War of Defiance, reducing difficulty for the potential GoK in most circumstances
• AI are more likely to take the Become GoK decision when they are valid for it
• Adds vassal herd modifier to Disciplinarian Accolade

Art

• Added domicile building icon for reindeer yurt
• Added Golden Lineage trait icon

Interface

• Added a fix to the traits possibly pushing buttons out of the list widget
• Made trait overspill hide under button or bottom right box in character lists
• Fixes for culture names pushing interface
• Toast messages fired during succession are now properly animated and no longer half transparent
• Improved the Migration window when playing nomadic situations other than The Great Steppe such as the Spmi
• Fixed issue causing subject opinion changes not to show in tooltips when modifying subject contracts for tributaries
• Separated barony and character modifiers in the UI for domicile buildings
• Updated the Dominance level indicators on the Nomad widget

Localization

• Added information about the change of Obedience acceptance in Legitimacy tooltips
• Improved display of edge case fail conditions for Negotiate Obedience interaction
• Lowered Eyelid options are now properly localized
• Updated the Domicile game concept to reflect their current succession behavior
• Improved the description of Sovereignty CB
• Fixed the localization for the disband_confederation effect
• Changed mention of vassal in tax tooltips to subject
• Fixed loc of Situation game concept

Databases

• Renamed black horde to red horde which would be more suitable with cardinal direction color assignment

User Modding

• Added a new neighboring_top_overlords_connected_by_land ai_recipients list that targets overlords of neighbors that are connected to them by land (including through tributaries)
• Added define to control the maximum size of horde riders independent of maa modifiers that a character might have