Hotfix 1.2.1 out now

Hello! Today we have released hotfix 1.2.1 that seeks to address two primary issues:

The first being a bug preventing players from joining multiplayer lobbies if they had mismatching DLC. Our DLC policy has always been if the host owns DLC, everyone shares it, and it will continue to be for the far foreseeable future.

The second being a huge performance drop when opening certain location panels. We're aware of a handful of other performance bugs related to in game panels and currently investigating for a future fix.

Hotfix 1.2.1

Checksum: e429

Date: May 8th, 2026

Previous Patch: 1.2.0

Other

• CTD fix related to AI specializing towns
  

Military

• Reworked the unlock/allowance gates for Legionaries and Cataphract units, so there aren't any blind spots in which a Byzantine/Roman player can lose access to both of them at the same time, due to a combination of the tag and the "Latinitas vs Rōmanismós" Societal Value direction.
  

• Various OOS fixes
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from joining/hosting a game if one of the players owned Sacred Sites DLC and the other didn´t
  

Bugfixes

• Fix FPS drop when opening a location screen, especially a location not owned by the player
  

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Be Ambitious!