The Mandate of Heaven Update Progress Info!

Hello Everyone, Team Radious here! 

Three Kingdoms fans worldwide are rejoicing as CA is releasing the Mandate of Heaven DLC tomorrow (16.01.2020), alongside Tao Quian FLC. 

However, this means, that as of tomorrow, our 3K mod is  officially under reconstruction. It is currently not compatible with  this newest update and will cause crashes. From tomorrow we will be working tirelessly to fix everything and make it interact seamlessly with all  the new features, but it will require countless hours of work. We need  to ensure that our content has its usual high level of polish and that  everything is done to the highest standard. Rest assured that we will do  everything we can to deliver the update to you as soon as possible, but  we are unsure as to when we are going to be finished so you will have  to unfortunately hang tight for now. 

With all of that in mind, we have a plea to make. The scope of the DLC and patch is extensive and requires almost a complete rewrite of many elements of our collection. Hundreds of hours of work are once again ahead of us, which we need to sacrifice from our private time, often after a full day at work or university. As such, we humbly ask you to consider becoming our Patron, giving us the much-needed boost. Even the smallest gesture helps us get a better grip on our lives and by extension on our work.

https://www.patreon.com/Team_Radious or via our Paypal acount https://www.paypal.me/TeamRadious 

Yours,

Radious and Synthetic Man

Update Info 0  - 15.01.2020: It all starts tomorrow. Once i am back from work will download new update/dlc/flc and start checking how much has been changed and what all needs to be done. And after that updating process starts!

Update Info 1  - 16.01.2020:  Work started today we have first info to share with you! Base overview  of all new content was done, around "milion" changes which need to be  done are marked and now only to do it all! All new content has been  properly investigated so we know what to do with it and how exactly we  will be adapting all new and changed stuff. Now the very slow process  starts with adding all new files into the mod.  Around 6% of all is done! 

Update info 2 - 17.01.2020: First long night gone. Now i must go to work and afternoon when i am back home updating will continue. A lot first tables been updated, mainly tables related to new buildings, effects and AI. Around 12% of all is done.

Update Info 3: 17.01.2020: For updating using same approach as with recent Warhammer 2 DLC, since mod requires complete rework and rebuild i am fixing and updating tables alphabetically one by one. Since there is only  like 5% of them which do not require any updates or changes this will  ensure i wont miss anything and each change is properly updated and  edited. Today i focused on updating AI recruitment systems which once again required complete rework (wonder why is CA changing this in every game and every damn update...). New units and characters are also integrated in the main mod and some first balancing sweep was done (Imperial units wont be terminators anymore). Around 20% of all is done!

Update Info 4: 18.01.2020: Another long night gone. Main focus was on updating all stuff related to new units (around 40 of them). Big balance changes were done to all of them, more varied armors, weapons, all axes are rebalanced and having special effect which breaks shields (reducing their armor and defence buffs by 50%), plenty new missile weapons including poson arrows and much more!  All these units received complete rework to  fit into main core Radious gameplay as you know it (further balancing  changes will be done also based on your feedback once the update is  out). New abilities were also all updated and rebalanced including new imperial formations and much more! Around 30% of all is done!

Update Info 5: 18.01.2020: Big saturday progress! We are up and running again and mod starts! That means all new files have been properly integrated, nothing is missed and now we can work on polishing and balancing all this and giving it our flavour! Further balancing was done, many battle improvements including small additional increase of kill animations without effecting battle flow. Yellow Turban new units, garrisons and all other things related to them also got heavy update and some parts were rewritten completely. Heavy testing phase now starts aswell! Work will continue this night, now i must take my wife to Theatre to enjoy some culture. :-) Around 55% of all is done!

Update Info 6: 19.01.2020: More news today, sunday is here and we have behind us another long night! Battles and campaigns load fine! Many quality of life changes  and tweaks to new content been done. Balancing new content is being done aswell to ensure all new changes in them are working as intented. We did several changes to morale system, several morale effects to it, plenty weapon balance changes and much more. Our submods will be fully updated aswell at release day! Around 65% of all is done!

Update Info 7: 19.01.2020: Another big progress today, sunday is almost over. We had to rework entirely all building effects and rewrite all of them (around 10 000 lines) since CA decided to rename all of them from totaly unknown reason. This will also effect thousands of other mods on workshop which are definitely broken now till authors completely rewrite these effects if their mods edit them. Our work is now fully fixed for this change, took us almost half of the day just doing this one thing. More balancing was also done, new units implementation into rosters and much more. Tomorrow will be almost all day at work so updating process will continue next evening. Around 75% of all is done!

Update Info 8: 20.01.2020: We are almost there! Last 5 days were incredible busy but we are almost ready to release updated  version for  all of you! We did some heavy testing to ensure its completely crash free, finalising updating our official submods aswell. Tomorrow we will do some final testing and tweaks. All our Patrons can now check changelog preview of our discord server - patrons channel. Update is almost here! Around 85% of all is done!  

Update Info 9: 21.01.2020: This is our last blog update! Which means we are finished with updating  and release is on the way! We had incredible hard working week to  deliver you this update asap i am honestly glad we  managed to do it. Massive Update + notes will go live for everyone tomorrow. Expect release sometime between 17-19PM CET once i get home from work.  Around 95% of all is done!