Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord Update 1.2.9 Patch Notes

Tuna Han

February 2, 2024

TaleWorlds has kicked out the 1.2.9 update for Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord. The strategy action role-playing video game was developed and published by TaleWorlds Entertainment and co-published by Prime Matter. It was released for PC in 2020 and then arrived at the consoles in the past few days. So, the latest version, which was released a while ago, brings a bunch of bug fixes and improvements. Here are the details about the Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord 1.2.9 version.

Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord Update 1.2.9 Patch Notes

Singleplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a crash that occurred when viewing formation markers in missions (holding Alt/LT).
• Fixed a crash that occurred when trying to finish the Lord Needs Horses quest by entering a settlement and talking to a guard.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when entering civilian mission scenes (town, village, tavern, arena, etc).
• Fixed a crash that occurred when trying to attack a neutral faction village or caravan party while being a mercenary.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when starting a barter in a map conversation.
• Fixed a crash that occurred at startup when using mods.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when leaving the Campaign Options menu.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when a unit encountered an enemy in battle with a couched lance or a braced spear.
• Fixed a crash that occurred while creating tooltips.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when a unit with throwables and no melee or ranged weapons picked up a throwable of the same kind from the ground.
• Fixed a crash that occurred on battle start if the player agent didn’t spawn before the Order of Battle window was activated.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when the charge order was given during the siege deployment phase.
• Fixed a crash that occurred while using the column formation in siege battles.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when giving orders while having no formation selected during the Order of Battle phase.
• Fixed a crash that occurred after a peace declaration due to incorrectly updated menus.
• Fixed a crash that occurred due to invalid dead heroes in some saves.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when a siege engine was destroyed in the mission.
• Fixed a crash that occurred due to adding the daughter as a companion in the Notable Wants Daughter Found quest.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when two quests used the same hideout.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when leaving a kingdom while there was an active Prodigal Son quest.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when a rebellion started in a kingdom`s last settlement.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused the input visuals to flicker when hovering near the upgrade/recruit buttons while using a gamepad.
• Fixed a bug that caused parties to constantly change their minds and move between two targets.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the ranged troops from manning the walls in defensive sieges.

Multiplayer

Crashes

• Fixed a crash that occurred during matchmaking games.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when clicking the clan button in the lobby on GOG.
• Fixed a crash that occurred in the lobby if the client had a slow internet connection.
• Fixed a crash that occurred in the lobby when attempting to exit the game from the mission or character editor.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when the intro video ended.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented the disable_map_voting and disable_culture_voting config options from working on custom servers.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the match history, favorite servers and taunt slots from being saved/loaded correctly.
• Fixed a bug that caused leave punishments on matchmaking games to be applied twice.
• Fixed a bug that prevented MMR score loss when leaving the match while your team was winning.
• Fixed a bug that caused the UI to freeze after the end of a match.
• Fixed a bug that caused the clan leaderboard list to show as empty.

Changes

• Introduced friendly and reflective damage on official custom game modes (Siege, Team Deathmatch and Battle).
  • Friendly damage – 25% of the delivered damage.
  • Reflective damage – 50% of the delivered damage.
• Re-enabled punishments for dodging/leaving matchmaking games.
• Enabled team balancing on official Team Deathmatch.
• Changed the date format displayed on the Lobby news.

Both

Crashes

• Fixed a crash that occurred on startup due to faulty or corrupted brush, font, language and spritesheet files.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when using a gamepad while setting a keyboard hotkey in the Options Menu from a mission scene.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when exiting the game.

Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord is available on all platforms.