Torching settlement gates has been replaced with the ability to hack them down with melee attacks. This new last-resort feature has been made in response to community feedback, and is an important mechanic to enable the attacking side to still have a chance of besieging a settlement even when their siege engines have been destroyed. The trade-off is that it comes at an extremely high price for the attackers. It’s the pyrrhic act of a desperate general.
Certain weapons are more effective at destroying gates than others. Axes and two-handed weapons are the most effective, followed by swords and maces, followed by spears, daggers and pike. The less effective a weapon is, the more time it takes to break through.
Given the prominence of towers, boiling oil etc in ATTILA, attacking gates is a very costly exercise for the attacker, and the AI will only use it as a last resort.
If the AI attacks gates, it will employ more heavily armoured troops to do so, though it will deprioritise the use of elephants and its general.
Basic barbarian settlement gates can be burned down at range using fire-arrows, though this is less efficient than before. Reinforced or bronze gates are immune to fire altogether, and when no artillery is present, will need to be engaged in melee.
The AI is more likely to build siege equipment on the campaign map before assaulting a settlement.
Technical and Performance improvements
Battle
Level of detail on certain units in battle is now handled better on Mac.
Improved how the level of detail changes on trees on the campaign map, to make it less noticeable.
Optimisation for unit banners in battles.
Memory optimisation for imposter sprites.
Fixed various instances which may cause crashes.
Added missing Hadrian’s Wall back into battle outfields.
Campaign
Fixed a 30-60 second freeze that sometimes occurred after ending turn in Campaign modes.
Improved video playback.
Fix for the Campaign map terrain sometimes turning dark/black after leaving a Campaign battle during the End Turn sequence on Mac.
Some beaches around the coast of Britain will no longer appear white through the Campaign shroud, as they did before with certain graphics settings.
End Turn times optimised.
Fix for error in event generation logic.
Fixed various instances which may cause crashes.
General
Improved performance with AMD graphics cards.
AMD MSAA optimisation.
Changing the "Unit Detail" graphics settings during battle will no longer cause some units to lose their weapons.
Optimisation to reduce the VRAM usage in battles.
Javították a videólejátszás problémáját, hátha legalább az már nem szaggat a gépemen :)