POD Change Log
POD Change Log
# Princes of Darkness, "Blood Cults & Silk", Version 1.4.0, June 8, 2021, Change
Log
# Kuei-Jin
- Kuei-Jin overhaul. - Chilemiao
- Kuei-Jin use Shintai not Disciplines. - Chilemiao
- Kuei-Jin: Chi Mechanic. - Chilemiao
- Kuei-Jin: Adoption Rework. - Chilemiao
- You can no longer diablerize KJ. - Karde
- Kuei Jin prospects now get personality traits in the new system. - Karde
- Kuei Jin don't get the predator type event anymore. - Karde
- Fixed an issue with the KJ adoption event for female characters. - Karde
# New Legacies
- Ashen Dynasty Legacies - Wata
- Added the new education events unlocked by the Ashen dynasty legacies. - Karde
# New Lifestyles
- Added Obtenebration discipline. - Wata
- Additional Inquisitor Lifestyles: Endowments. - Kukul
- Various nerfs of vanilla lifestyle perks to reduce stat bloat, knight and domain
limit. - Karde
# Events
- Added Lasombra and Set as a possible targets for the antediluvian hunt. - Karde
- Added Tzimisce as a potential Ante hunt target
- Lasombra events. - Creed
- Added 21 new custom investigations. Scripted the stats of these characters. -
Karde
- Added 57 new Great Persons, making it a total of 142 (up from 85). - Karde
- Retooled the Echidna event towards a more regional one instead of global. - Karde
- Silvester de Ruiz now starts with event troops to be more threatening in Iberia
(and because Madrid isn't a duchy capital). - Karde
- Granada (Badr) starts with the corresponding prince of a city building to help
compensate. - Karde
# Miscellaenous
# Known issues.
- Kuei-Jin Canon characters need some disciplines completed at bookmark start.
- Kuei-Jin need their own "clan" dynasty legacy
- Kuei-Jin need to be added to Custom Character decision
- Removed incomplete translations, and fake translations that were just English
(and now incomplete)
# Princes of Darkness, Version 1.3.0.1, "Herd Automation", Change Log, March 21,
2021
# Princes of Darkness, Version 1.3.0, "Corvinus", Change Log, March 17, 2021
# Princes of Darkness, Version 1.2.2, Hot Fix for "Inquisition" Update, Change Log,
March 8, 2021
- Being a hunter is now a valid criminal reason for a vampire faith to revoke
titles, imprison and excute without incurring tyranny. - Sparc
- The house modifiers for ALL houses will now appear at 1375 bookmark. - Sparc
- Bloodgorged can now create more ghouls with a prisoner vampire. - Sparc
- Daughters, Kiasyd and Impundulu issues with inheriting disciplines. - Sparc
- Disable Patron Religious Head Duchies for 1230 bookmarks. - Sparc, Karde
- Caitiff custom bloodline decision does alter coat of arms potentially for dynasty
and realm. - Sparc
- Make “The Dream” empire have a Tyrian Purple map color. - Sparc
- Egyptian/Nubian Alexandrites, Panehesy and Nefer-mer-Isis houses get Ancient
Egyptian clothing. - Sparc
- revenant children will start with faith of their children, unless that is
ignorance. - Sparc
- Ghoul and Revenant vassal contracts on Traditions contract get all the options
that vampire vassals do, displayed. - Sparc
- Indulgences and Execommunication enabled for blood communion tenet. - Sparc
- Fixed the childer of Enoch and Irad in Custom Character Decision. - Sparc
- Frenzy event typos. - Sparc
- Fixed transmogrification of clubfeet and male genitals. - Sparc
- Include canon order legitimized bastards in an AI ordination event. - Kukul
- Fix Ask Pope option names being too long. - Kukul
- Make Meritocracy legacy track descriptions more explicit. - Kukul
- Fixed Rostislav’s Patron War bookmark name. - Sparc
- Tabitha can only accomplish her special decision once now. - Karde
- The Gantebein no longer wipe out their realms of vampires and ghouls after each
war like other hunters. - Karde
- Correcting a case where education events could fire for dead childer. - Karde
- The wounded vampire goes into torpor event has been disabled. - Karde
- The bored vampire goes into torpor event has been shifted to target unlanded head
of faith (to solve the issue of them being untargettable). - Wata
- The "Exit from torpor if you are landed" AI decision doesn't cost prestige
anymore. - Karde
- Corrected the typo on find lair by prowess reward. - Karde
- Added more of Vic's corrections in loca. - Karde
- Great Persons stats have been scripted, resulting in overall better stats and
less one sided. - Karde
# Oblivion
- Added Haunting Crime Doctrine, criminalizing wraiths, shunning oblivion and
possession. - Sparc
- Added missing wraith effects. - Sparc
- A necromancer must now be in the same location as the victim to ritually murder
them and transform them into a wraith. Etrius has to physically grab Ponticulus'
junk at Ceoris. - Sparc
- Skuld oblivion discipline power can strip ghouls and revenants of vampire blood,
potentially killing them. - Wata
- Ashes to Ashes localization. - Wata
# 3D Portraits
- Community Flavor Pack Compatibility Submod. - Sparc
- Fixed nudity bug in ruler designer. - Sparc
- Fixed weight slider and muscle slider in ruler designer. - Sparc
- Adjusted portrait environment for more dramatic lighting. - Sparc
- Added Ancient Egyptian Clothing for Egyptian Setites, models courtesy of
Owlcoholic. - Sparc
- Mithrasist hats are now red. - Sparc
- Blood Gorged Eyes. - Wata
- Frenzy Eyes. - Wata
- Sanitized some DNA that was causing vampiric childer to grown horns. - Sparc
- Knights of Shadow Reconquista tabbard. - Sparc
- 44 new portraits:
Wata: Theodora Anna Romanovich, Calida, Dieter von Karlach, Tautginas, Trajan,
Alacrinis, Iontius, Maatkare, Usama, Alaric the Younger, Eileen, Julia
Antasia(redone). Made Caine, Zilah, Irad, Enoch look younger
kukul: Tanith, Irad, Enoch, Zilah, Caine, Annazir, Marcellus of Alexandria,
Bezprym Slatikov, Adrian Szantovich, Lucretia von Hardtz, Lotta of East Kiilt,
Hrothgar of Nordreyjar, Camille Duchesne, Hippolyta, Mireia Subira, Nefertiti,
Lacplesis, Tomislav of Bulgaria, Periander, Marcus Licinius, Olugbenga, Jhunakhai,
Dominus the Warmaster, Arjan of Utrecht, Agnethe of Skane, Al-Ashrad, Armin
Brenner, Demdemeh, Borovich of Pomerania, Nova Arpad, Razkoljna, Raiya of Oghuz,
Florescu of Bukovina, Zdarvka of Chornobyl, Landuff of Palemero, Nicodemus of
Reims.
# Various
- Vampire building update and AI prioritization - Kukul
- Blood Hunger and Masquerade meter GUIs. - Thaumaturge and Sparc
- Caitiff objective decision: establish your own bloodline! - Wata, Hastur and
Sparc
- Duel when attempting to imprison vampires. - Wata
- Train childer disciplines. - Wata
- The localization for disciplines perks is now accurate and complete. - Karde
- Added flavour localization to most discipline trees. - Khorvale
- Reworked a number a number of discipline perks to fit lore/game limitations
better. - Khorvale
- Corrected some spelling. - Khorvale
- Elders from the Assamite, Baali and Brujah now have their full disciplines list.
- Karde
- Elders from the Cappadocian, Gangrel and Lasombra now have their full disciplines
lists. - Karde
- Elders from the Malkavian, Nosferatu, Ravnos, Salubri and Setites now have their
full disciplines list. - Karde
- Elders of the last four clans (Tremere, Tzimisce, Toreador and Ventrue) have
their full disciplines list - Karde
- Torpor and blood potency improvements. - Wata
- Vampires won't create cadets houses anymore. - Karde
- Insults for vampires based on clan. - Sparc
- Same for the disciplines page on the wiki. - Karde
- Nerfed (finally) the +knight effectiveness of the martial lifestyle tree. - Karde
- Reworked opinion from defines. Characters don't care as much about culture and
parent/child relationship. They care much more about being in the council if they
are powerful. - Karde
- Integrated PDX nerf of diplomacy skill into character opinion. - Karde
- Tentative fix of the vassal contract being blocked if an AI ruler changes a thing
before you got this vassal. - Karde
- Fix for the London Mithraeum that Sparc made only buildable for Via Diabolis and
Tartaros, thus proving that he is truly a Baali. - Karde
- Brujah are now opposite of Assamites. - Sparc
- Added the most convoluted maintenance event ever to have the AI actually replace
buildings. - Karde
- To make it work, some changes to province files. - Karde
- Added Game Rule for chosing between DAV20 and V5 rules: this impacts disciplines
and trait icons, more to come. - Sparc
- Vampire Coats of Arms updated for V:TM V5 Symbols. - Sparc
- Random Ravnos now get appropriate Coats of Arms, not just Indian COAs. - Sparc
- Unquartering. Random cadet dynasties will no longer default to quartered shields.
- Sparc
- Fix to needs new dynasty effect for generating coats of arms and non-lowborn
random splat courtiers. - Sparc
- Started creating a few Temporaral Heads or Religions: Cainite Hersey/See of Nod
and Calomena's Forsaken. - Sparc
- Integrated PDS hotfix changes. - Karde
- Continued fixing the world initialization events quirks. - Karde
- Fixed some initialization events being character events where they shouldn't. -
Karde
- Changed the holy war for kingdom localization to say that it's per 50 years and
not lifetime. - Karde
- Added an "empty" tag to our maintenance events, which seems to improve their
triggering reliability. - Karde
- With this, the initialization event finally triggers on game start, meaning you
have blood potency and masquerade exposure at the beginning. - Karde
- Tweaked the replace building script to more aggressively trigger. - Karde
- Chimerstry localization doesn't reference technology from the future anymore. -
Karde
- Tweaked the replace buildings script to be less aggressive to players. - Karde
- The cover up Masquerade decision now tells you when your religion doesn't care
about the Masquerade. - Karde
- Ordos faiths added as an option for Malkavian characters in Custom Character
Creator. - Sparc
- Added an objective for Tal'mahe'Ra religion characters. - Karde
- Unified the Naktanchara with the underworld realm of the Naga: Patala. - Sparc
- New Faith Buildings. - Khorvale
- Moved Szlachta creation to perk Transmogrify the mortal clay to prevent it being
useless (formerly giving bonus to Szlactha troops that only become available after
getting the next perk). - Khorvale
- Gave Tzimisce shapes fixed Prowess bonuses and bigger attraction debuffs (maybe
too much). - Khorvale
- Added instant dread gains to Vicissitude transformations. - Khorvale
- Attempted to standardize some code, probably to karde's great consternation. -
Khorvale
- Added silly easter egg. - Khorvale
- Added another safeguard against ill vampires. - Karde
- Lacplesis is now Latgalian. - Karde
- Fixed a broken effect in the shapeshift modifier. - Karde
- Diversified NPC predator type allocation. - Sparc
- Religion of Ignorance and Faith of Innocence for hapless mortals. - Sparc
- Some mortals know about and support the Shadow Inquisition, without being
hunters. - Sparc
- More hunters and vampires will spawn as random courtiers. - Sparc
- Player decision to start Crusades/Great Holy Wars by faiths with appropriate
tenets, max piety level and 1000 piety. - Sparc
- Nagaraja can no longer exsanguinate prisoners, but they can devour them which
also satisfies their blood hunger. - Sparc
- Innocent mortals will be sacrificed less by Hunters and some Vampires for being
heretics. - Sparc
- Nakurtum and her childe are now Road of Ahura Mazda following new information. -
Karde
- Fix for African Duchy Capitals. - FaolDeTeine
- Update for Sèitheach, now a revenant. - FaolDeTeine
- Fix for random barons. - Sparc
# Integrated Mods
- Integrated Show More Traits Mod. Thanks to FunGaming44. Further modified by Wata.
# Patrons
- Head of Faith titles for Antediluvian Patron Faiths. - Sparc
- Added Antediluvian Patron Faith to primary kingdoms for Patron War Bookmark. -
Sparc
- Revised Patron Faiths: tenets, coats of arms, icons, holy sites. - Sparc
- Added Patron Antediluvian Coat of Arms. - Sparc
- Patron Characters: Patrick Ramos, Gabriel Felipe de la Casta, Lilian Szantovich,
Stoffer Ravensburg, Miguel Barbaneagra, Mokano, Bjorik, Lucius Salinas, Abaddon
Natasson, Faustus, Lael O'Ruairc, Hakon Fystond, Bimbee, Anatolios Tenebris,
Eridanus, Xenephon, Wilhelm Shelborne, Rotislav Vovkulaka, Antariksha-Chandra
Hastur, Mathieu, Gorm, Hannibal Barcid - Sparc
- Patron character nerfing. - Karde
- Optional Game rule added that will allow NPC vampire rulers to learn lifestyle
perks after startup. Choose it for a harder mid-game. - Sparc
- Adjust CharGen to remove relationship to old relatives. - Sparc
- Fixed CharGen issue with Road of Set misdirect to Road of Metamorphosis. -
ParametersOfAName/Sparc
- CharGen will now set immortal age appearance to 30. We'll add an event to allow
player to choose their age appearance later. - Sparc
- Fixed monthly income on ducal buildings - Gworn
- It's now, as intended, excessively expensive to switch off vampire_elective
succession law. The more titles you have, the less domain you can hold. - Karde
- Fixed forced conscription 03 giving 150% reduced maintenance instead of 15%. -
Karde
- Added the Ordos religions in the fallback for traditions_governments. - Karde
- Localization fixes for cultural modifiers, government modifiers and POD scheme
modifiers. - FaolDeTeine
- New Ordo Aenigmatis, Via Divinitatis faith symbols. - Hastur
- New event window type icons for quietus, serptentis and vicissitude. - Hastur
- Redone ce_skeleton_01 and ce_skeleton_02 coat of arms coat of arms colored
emblems. New ce_skeleton_03 and ce_nosferatu_helm_03 coat of arms colored emblems.
- Hastur
- POD_patron.txt file added! We love hour patrons! Thank you for your support! -
Sparc
- Fixed Discipline Perks picking to allow you to choose if you have the advanced
trait. - Sparc
- Fixed diablerie to move one generation lower at a time. - Sparc
- Removed our cool Dark Ages font because not compatible with all systems. - Sparc
- Rome's control malus has been nerfed. - Karde
- Added the Shadow Reconquista (De Ruiz) and Ferals of Livonia (Qarakh) realms.
They are also recreatable if destroyed. - Karde
- Corrected the Lhiannan dynasty motto. Again. - Karde
- Sybil won't tank the renown of the whole Lasombra clan by her mere existence any
longer. - Karde
- Localization fixes: prey restrictions, death reasons, scheme modifiers, perks,
Code of Tremere, Raktasadhus and Ordos. - FaolDeTeine
- Typo fix for Izhim ur-Baal's "one true love" event. - Sparc
- Hungry Montano getting pale is not a bug, its a feature! Vampires should #GetPink
by being reguarly fed! - Sparc