Patrician IV Update Released

Patrician IV

You are a merchant in northern Europe in the late Middle Ages when the Hanseatic League was flourishing. Your goal is to rise to the most successful and influential member of the Hanse, ultimately being elected Elderman, leader of the trading league.

Updates to Patrician IV have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

1.1.3
  • Improved visual quality and detail of world map
  • Added individual textures for various regions
  • Added individual houses for various regions
  • Improved behaviour of user interface for several menus
  • Added new missions, sabotage options, marriage and family feature
  • Fixed audio sync for tutorial videos
  • Game is now paused in trade window
  • Added several new events: Fire, Castaway encounters, Harbour blockades, etc. (some events only available on expert difficulty)
  • Resolved crashes under rare circumstances
  • Event log entries can now be deleted
  • Reduced volume of money jingle
  • AI players do not comment the building of every structure
  • Fixed issues related to convoy management
  • Fixed issues related to mission assignments
  • Fixed issues while switching between Counting Houses
  • Fixed issues with automatic display resolution/refresh rate detection on some systems
  • Fixed mouse scrolling issues
  • Fixed display errors for trade routes
  • Fixed issues related to building city walls
  • Fixed volume settings not being saved properly
  • Fixed crashes due to task-switching or resolution changes
  • New shipyards can no longer construct researched vessels
  • Increased variety and frequency of sovereign requests
  • In sea battles, a sound is now played for every individual cannon fired
  • Pirates are no longer able to travel rivers with Holks
  • Improved building behaviour of AI
  • After moving from a newly founded town, the player remains a mayer in this town