Hello everyone! Today's developer diary is a short one, as everyone at Studio Black is currently focused on putting extra polish on our remaining Major Updates this year. In this dev diary, we're sharing two high-resolution illustrations from [i]Coronations[/i], as well as giving you the full changelog for the 1.17 “Ascendant” Update itself. To be clear, the update is NOT live yet; it will be released alongside [i]Coronations[/i] on September 9th.

Coronation & Anointment Art​

The two images we're including here were crafted by our wonderful Studio Black 2D Art team. This type of illustration is limited to 460x1100 in-game, but we're posting them in their original 2688x6224 resolution so you can see their full detail. Please note that these images are too large to display at full size here; you can access the full size version by clicking on the links underneath them. [img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/36033026/ef456142218e174c100284783fbf64e3a37d8710.jpg"][/img]

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PC Update 1.17.0 "Ascendant" Changelog​

Expansion Features (Paid)​

• Added Coronation activity

• Added game rules for Coronations: one making them optional by turning off Crowned laws, another that allows rank-up to emperor without losing crown

• Added laws for kings and emperors regarding their Uncrowned, Crowned or Anointed status

• Uncrowned kings and emperors - and their spouses - do not wear crowns

• Adds Coronation Tradition doctrine to faiths, determining whether they have Anointment Required (for emperors), Anointment Permitted or No Anointment

• Adds faith-based triggers for whether a culture is focused specifically on crowns during coronations, on regalia, or utilizes either without preference

• Two Coronation types: Regular Coronation and Anointment by the HoF

• Adds Request Anointment character interaction with the HoF

• New filter for activity locations that permits your capital and holy sites, both within and outside your realm

• Ties coronations into title gain events and elsewhere

• Provide coronation artifacts (crowns or regalia) through multiple avenues: on game start, from free inspirations, on regular pulse for AI

• Adds imperial rank-up event informing players that they become uncrowned when increasing tier

• Coronation activity options: Ceremony and Celebrations

• Coronation host intents: Impress Attendees, Embrace Supporters, Weaken Detractors, Exalt the Crown

• Coronation guest intents: Bear Witness, Seize Advantages, Advocate Domain, Profess Rights, Offer Support, Disrupt Loyalists

• ~44 prelude phase random host events

• ~19 prelude phase random guest events

• ~28 feast phase random host events

• ~18 feast phase random guest events

• Above events include guest intent fulfilment events, where guests with shared intents choose what related reward they are interested in asking of the host

• “Critical fail” outcome for Coronations based on guests with disrupt loyalists besting the host

• Events include content for Christians, administrative, clans, nomads, tribals and confederations

• New Activity Pulse Actions for Coronations

• 10 ceremony phase key events with triggered success-based and regional loc variations

• Magnificence meter determining a Coronation’s level of success

• Scaling Coronation and Oath rewards based on magnificence

• through activity and at conclusion, opinion gain with vassal stances based on intents

• Background relationship formations amidst and between Supporters and Detractors during Coronation

• Supporters and Detractors guest subsets

• Activity view widget displaying Major Supporters and Major Detractors

• Added 16 Oaths with bespoke rewards and fulfillment conditions

• Includes Oath-tracking story cycle, Oath decisions, and Oath failure and success events

• New Oath-based building lines

• New Oath-based cultural tradition

• Added crowning animation

• Added new intent icons for the coronation activity

• Coronation activity type illustration

• Illustrations for Regular Coronation and Anointment sub-types

• AI behavior adjustments so they will host a Coronation ASAP while uncrowned

Game Content​

• Added bow inspiration type and added bows to the weapon option of the commission artifact decision.

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• Bow artifacts now increase hunter trait venator track xp gain.

Adds 4 free random yearly events about being a councillor

Underaged kings/emperors over 12 years old now wear crowns

New camera angles for event characters, many playing with perspective

~8 new feast events

Adds regional/government type-based custom loc keys like GetFighterTerm, GetRegionalSword, GetTitleTierAdjective, GetLocalCommonerTerm

Bug Fixes​

• Fixed bug where player couldn't close the travel window after opening it during an ongoing travel - only check if a travel plan is cancel-able when checking if the travel window can be closed if we have a travel plan draft. for ongoing travels, the window should always be close-able.

• Fixed travel_danger_events.6000 listing the wrong character in its effects and hunt_legendary_animal_custom_loc_trigger no longer errors if scoped on the root character.

• Blocked certain disease recovery event outcomes for children

• Cultivated Sophistication's development bonus now only applies if your Estate is in your realm capital, preventing vassals from providing repeated development bonuses to their liege.

• Added a cooldown check for activities, so they are moved to the right list when they are unavailable, and tell you how long is left before they are available again on hover

• Various fixes to tsagaan sar feast flavor events

• Added non-nomad music tracks to nomadic music list to lessen repetition

• Fixed an issue with mass ransoming, where you would get all of the character’s money instead of a fixed amount

• Updates background triggers for more appropriate regional backgrounds

• Makes holy_site_unique background include generic fallback backgrounds

• Fixed the effects and progression of Paiza Office nomad domicile upgrade for the Barter Stalls yurt

• Fixed the effects of Skull Collection nomad domicile upgrade for Court Yurt

• Fixed edge cases in activity invalidation events

• Makes HoF more likely to accept Declaration of Repentance if you are their liege or top liege

That’s all we have for today. We’ll see you again on Tuesday!