UPDATE

●Function Expansion/Adjustments

• Improved the automatic selection of officers when selecting the Employ command.
• Now, a Merchant icon is displayed next to cities to indicate their presence.
• Added a "Merchant" button to the upper-right Information buttons, allowing players to check where all merchants are located.
• Now, the map cursor moves faster in proportion to the amount of time it is pressed.（PS4®）
• Now, players can also go to the menu for selecting a marching destination by pressing the △ button from the window to the right of the Marching settings menu.（PS4®）
• Now, when an officer has been removed from Administration, a marker is displayed under the Force command "Appointments" - "Administration".

●Bug fixes

• Corrected an issue in which the game would stop if a certain procedure was performed from the list menu.（PS4®）
• Corrected an issue in which the text lines for the Traits "Uplifting", "Poetic", "Furious", and "Downcast" were incorrectly displayed when marching.
• Corrected an issue in which, after performing a specific procedure, "Camps" and "Arrow Towers" could incorrectly be built adjacent to other "Camps" and "Arrow Towers".
• Corrected an issue in which, during duels, the officer that possessed the Trait "Kinsman" would incorrectly be displayed for the Trait's activation display.
• Corrected an issue in which, if an alliance was dissolved due to an event when a unit was on a core of the alliance force, the Area Overseer would not be Discharged.
• Corrected an issue in which Allied officers that were taken prisoner would continue to be Adjutants even after they were employed by an enemy force.
• Corrected an issue in which the lines of officers would overlap with the "Auto Appoint" menu of Area Government.
• Corrected an issue in which the Settings screen could not be accessed after a certain procedure was performed.（PS4®）
• Corrected an issue in which officers would sometimes incorrectly die in battle during tutorials.
• Corrected an issue in which the messages for obtaining Ancient officers were incorrectly displayed during the mid-game ending, even in cases where it was impossible to obtain such officers (such as through an editor).
• Corrected an issue in which, if the camera was zoomed in when a duel unrelated to your force was triggered, the camera would move to the lower right of the map.
• Corrected an issue in which the game would sometimes stop if the "Suggestions" command was repeatedly transitioned to.（PS4®）
• Corrected an issue in which Yan Liang would not affiliate with the Yuan Shao Force when the event "Turmoil in the Imperial Capital" occurred.
• Corrected an issue in which, even if Orders were insufficient to execute Learn, continuous input could be performed.
• Corrected other issues and typographical errors.

●Bug fixes

• Corrected an issue that existed when duels occurred.

●Function Expansion/Adjustments

• Improved the AI for Coalitions.
• Improved the coloring of land for forces after historic events.

●Bug fixes

• Corrected an issue in which, in the historic event "The Love Triangle Plot: Conclusion", the parameters of the gate soldiers under Dong Zhuo's command were reduced lower than intended.
• Corrected the conditions for specialties displayed under Specialties.
• Corrected typographical errors and messages.
• Corrected an issue in which, after performing a specific procedure, the focus cursor on the map would disappear.（PS4®）

●Function Expansion/Adjustments

• Adjusted AI related to Foreign.
• Now, the animation for the effects of neighboring areas is displayed not only for units, but for bases as well.

●Bug fixes

• When the mission of an officer that has the trait "Recruiter" is Move or Return, the number of days until they return is now correctly displayed.
• Corrected an issue in which, if the "Effect of Neighboring Areas" under "Scenario Settings 2" was set to "Large" or "Normal", the effects were incorrectly also applied to regions that were not neighboring.
• Corrected typographical errors and messages.
• Corrected an issue in which, if a certain procedure was performed, the game would stop when attempting to perform an Autosave.（PS4®）
• Corrected an issue in which, if a certain procedure was performed, the camera on the map could no longer be rotated.（PS4®）

●Function Expansion/Adjustments

• Added the "Auto-play" feature to the "Settings" menu.
• Added a "Refine" button to the officer list under "Officers".
• For Officers, "Refine" is now executed with "OK" and "Back" buttons.
• Improved the processing speed of the Advancement Phase when officers that were dispatched by using the Foreign or People command returned.
• Now, when officers are placed at new cities due to an event, officers that are undergoing missions are less likely to be chosen.
• Now, when an alliance is concluded, Submission Demands made against the allied force are canceled.

●Bug fixes

• Corrected an issue in which, if the affiliation of a target city was changed due to an event after the suggestion Sabotage was selected, the suggestion was not displayed correctly.
• Corrected an issue in which, if a certain procedure was performed when building, the last HEX that was designated previously would incorrectly be designated again.
• Corrected the data for the scenario "Battle of Tong Gate".
• Corrected typographical errors and messages.
• Corrected an issue in which, after performing a certain procedure to switch between tabs on the information screen, the tab for the player's force could not be opened.（PS4®）

●Bug fixes

• Corrected an issue in which Officer CG could not be imported if the folder path for the Officer CG Edit Tool included multi-byte characters.（Steam®）

●Function Expansion/Adjustments

• Added "Officers" to "Collection", which can be selected from the Start Menu.
• Added "Specialties" to "Collection", which can be selected from the Start Menu.
• Made an improvement that prevents supply lines from being cut off when area colors are changed due to a historic event.
• Made an improvement that prevents free officers from moving if they are unable to move to neighboring cities.
• Adjusted the AI for strategies related to personnel.
• Improved the officer list when selecting officers to execute the Search command to make it easier to understand which base they are affiliated with.
• Improved the results message for historic events to make it easier to understand the movement of officers not depicted in the corresponding event.
• Adjusted the judgment of units when setting a Tentative Goal.
• Adjusted the AI concerned with Links between Divisions when a base is attacked.
• Removed Hou Cheng from the conditions for triggering the historic event "Flood Attack on Xiapi", and eased the conditions for its occurrence.
• After the historic event "The Split of the Yuan Family", the Yuan Tan Force's color is now unified regardless of the scenario.
• Now, when placing an officer at a new city during an event, officers that are currently deployed or appointed as an overseer are less likely to be chosen.
• Now, when a unit is forced to disband due to the circumstances of an event, prisoners and other resources are no longer lost.
• Added an "Officer CG Edit Tool" to the launcher that enables players to import edited officer CG to the game.（Steam®）

●Bug fixes

• Corrected an issue in which, when the historic event "The Sun Sets for the Emperor Impostor" occurred, Ji Ling would die even if he was not affiliated with the Yuan Shu Force.
• Corrected an issue in which, after the report for a Placation plot, the camera would not return to its original location.
• Corrected an issue in which, after the historic event "Battle of Yijing" occurred, forces at the Core "Yijing" and forces of affiliated cities would sometimes not be unified.
• Now, when the historic event "Battle of Yijing" is triggered, if the city "Xiangping" belongs to the Gongsun Zan Force it becomes blank.
• Corrected an issue in which, after the historic event "Flood Attack on Xiapi" occurred, overseers would remain in Cores that had become blank.
• Corrected data for the scenario "Assault on Hanzhong".
• Corrected an issue in which the trait "Forest Warlord" could incorrectly be set in conjunction with "Nanman" and "Shanyue".
• Corrected an issue in which, if "Voice Volume" was changed while a sample voice was being played, it would not be played at the newly set volume.
• Corrected typographical errors and messages.
• Corrected an issue in which, before beginning a scenario, tabs on the Scenario Settings screen would not loop correctly, preventing them from being switched.（PS4®）

●Function Expansion/Adjustments

• Added functionality to "View BGM" from "Collection" on the Start Menu.
• Added functionality to change to "30 FPS" and "60 FPS" from the launcher's "Options".(Steam®)
• Added functionality to change sound to "2.0ch" or "5.1ch" from the Start Menu's "Options".(Steam®)
• Adjusted the AI during counterattacks.
• Adjusted the AI for strategies related to personnel.
• Adjusted the balance of Duels.
• Now, Public Order decreases when the "Placation" command fails.
• Eased the conditions for decreasing Public Order even if the "Hidden Poison" command fails.
• Added functionality to change the volume of Environmental Sounds from Options.
• Adjusted the effects that are granted when officers with the "Planner" trait execute "Plots" commands.
• Now, similar to when an alliance is dissolved, when an alliance ends, the diplomatic stance and loyalty of affiliated officers change depending on where they are positioned.
• Improved the location that is initially focused on when configuring system settings, as well as the highlighting of selected locations.（PS4®）
• Improved the visibility of levels and costs within the "Administration" command.

●Bug fixes

• Changed the name of "Legend of the Galactic Heroes" collab character Cazerne's Tactic to "Logistic Support".
• Now, when the target of a "Division" disappears, the information of each item is correctly updated when "Delegation Policy" is updated to "Full Delegation".
• Corrected an issue in which, if a specific procedure was performed when using the "Learn" command, unintended Tactics would become candidates for deletion.
• Corrected an issue in which, by using the "Learn" command, Tactics could be deleted for officers that did not possess 10 Tactics.
• Corrected an issue in which, the color of forces that became independent during a Historic Event would sometimes be the same color as that of an existing original force.
• Corrected the ordering of officers that have "Sworn Siblings" set under "Edit Orig. Officer".
• Corrected an issue in which, before starting a scenario, the UI items "Scenario Settings" and "Officer Settings" were displayed outside the "Confirm Settings" screen.
• Corrected an issue in which the year and month for save data and that which appeared in-game were not consistent.
• Corrected the settings of officers for some scenarios.
• Corrected typographical errors and messages.
• Corrected an issue in which, if a specific procedure was performed when using the "March" command, officers that were removed from a list were inadvertently displayed.(Steam®)
• Corrected an issue in which, the game would return to the title screen after selecting the close button immediately before ending the "Advancement Phase".(Steam®)

●Function Expansion/Adjustments

• Added the scenario "The Han's Loyal Retainers".
• Improved the Employ AI for NPC forces.
• Adjusted how NPC forces prepare for counter attacks, as well as the AI for counter attacks.
• Now, scenario clear bonuses are received even when clearing a mid-game ending.
• Now, "Dual Destruction" can be executed against 2 forces in the same alliance.
• Added an initialize button to Edit Historical Officers.
• Now, from Edit Historical Officers, you can configure the setting "Died".
• Added functionality to turn autosaving on or off.
• Now, units of forces in the same alliance or coalition can pass by one another.
• Now the names of buildings being built are yellow, and they become white when they are finished.
• Now, upon starting a scenario, officers that have already died do not appear under "Apply Historical Officer Edits".
• Adjusted the balance of the "Suggestions" command "Restore Durability".
• Improved the AI to reduce the frequency of warnings that indicate buildings are being built by units of NPC forces.
• Now, warning text appears before the mid-game ending is executed.
• Adjusted the order scenarios are listed on the scenario selection screen.
• Decreased the amount of time incurred when returning to the main menu after executing a command.
• Now, movies can be skipped by performing the same operation as when selecting "OK".
• Changed the year of death for some officers.
• Now, it can be determined whether edits to historical officers have been applied when viewing save data information.（PS4®）
• Now, after the application has started, the game window automatically becomes active.(Steam®)
• Now, if the settings for right-clicking and left-clicking a mouse are switched on a PC, the changes are also applied within the game.(Steam®)
• Added a shortcut function that enables "Yes" and "No" to be selected by pressing the keyboard keys "Y" and "N".(Steam®)

●Bug fixes

• Corrected an issue in which, after executing the event "The Love Triangle Plot: Conclusion (Other Successors)", the location of some officers became blank.
• Corrected an issue in which, under certain conditions, if a faraway location was selected for a unit's mid-point, the game would sometimes stop.
• Corrected an issue in which officers in delegated divisions would move incorrectly.
• Corrected an issue in which the movements of NPC units were sometimes unnatural.
• Corrected an issue in which, after performing certain operations, operations other than controlling the camera could not be performed, and the game could no longer be advanced.
• Corrected an issue in which, even though officers employed by using the "Suggestions" command "Recruit Officer" were currently returning, such officers would become the target of the "Reward" command.
• Corrected the settings for officers and Foreign for some scenarios.
• Corrected an issue in which the message that appears upon exiting the game was sometimes changed.
• Corrected an issue in which, for the event "The Split of the Yuan Family", the officers from Yuan Tan's army would incorrectly inherit the Title settings from those when they were in Yuan Shao's army.
• Corrected an issue in which "SE Volume" options for some sound effects were not applied.
• Corrected an issue in which, the ordering in which officers were sorted on each menu under "Original Officer Settings" was not unified.
• Corrected an issue in which ability changes due to having a condition were not taken into account for the event "No Longer the Ameng of Wu".
• Corrected an issue in which the affiliations of officers were not set correctly for the event "The Split of the Yuan Family".
• Corrected an issue in which, during the turn immediately after starting a scenario, the effects of adjacent areas were not received for original forces.
• Made a correction to the "Suggestions" command to prevent multiple "Reinforce Units" suggestions from being made from a single city.
• Corrected an issue in which, if data was loaded for which the game was at a point immediately after a force had fallen during an "Event", the buildings of the fallen force would remain on the map.
• Corrected an issue in which the camera could not be controlled correctly when using "Build".
• Corrected an issue in which the border lines of cities were shown on the Create Orig. Force and the Position Orig. Officers screens.
• Corrected an issue in which, if certain operations were performed, the range that bandit units could move were displayed.
• Corrected an issue in which, the expenses for automatic recovery of gates was not applied to city info or "Gold Expenditure" under force info.
• Corrected typographical errors and messages.
• Corrected an issue in which, after performing specific operations, the ruler's affiliated city was moved to a division other than the 1st, and the game would stop.
• Corrected an issue in which, when changing portraits from Create Orig. Officer, portraits outside of the screen could incorrectly be focused on.（PS4®）
• Corrected an issue in which, when setting the targets for a unit, the selected location and the cursor were misaligned.（PS4®）
• Corrected an issue in which, if operations were performed when the End Game confirmation menu was displayed on some screens, the game would sometimes stop.(Steam®)
• Corrected an issue in which the behavior of the camera was unnatural if mouse operations were performed after starting a scenario.(Steam®)
• Corrected an issue in which, after entering the biography of an original officer, when viewing Officer Info, the display of the biography was misaligned.(Steam®)

●Function Expansion/Adjustments

• Additional "Bandit Kings of Ancient China" Officer Data（Wu Yong / Lin Chong / Huyan Zhuo / Hua Rong / Li Kui / Yan Qing）
• Additional "Nobunaga's Ambition: Taishi" Officer Data（Oda Nobunaga / Takeda Shingen / Uesugi Kenshin / Mori Motonari / Taigen Sessai / Ii Naotora）
• Additional "Genghis Khan" Officer Data（Genghis Khan / Jamukha / Borte / Latch / Kublai / Yelu Chucai）

●Bug fixes

• Corrected an issue in which the Specialty "Imperial Seal" could not be discovered.
• Corrected an issue in which, after a base was felled by using a "Goose" formation, prisoners could not be captured.
• Corrected an issue in which, the effects of the policy "Expand Castle Walls" were not applied when it was "Lv.5" or higher.

●Bug fixes

• Corrected an issue in which under certain PC environments, the game may not start properly after applying the March 19 game update.(Steam® version)

●Function Expansion/Adjustments

• Added Chinese voice.
• Added a "Mid-game Ending" that can be cleared even without unifying all of China.
• Eased the conditions for determining whether officers can participate in events.
• Now the "Merchant" command can be executed once per turn in each city, and it can be executed by multiple officers.
• Improved the AI for how NPC units use fire attacks.
• Improved the AI for awarding specialties and appointing titles to NPC forces.
• Added the new traits "Popular", "Contriver", "Benevolent", "Flame Queller", and "Smasher", and changed the traits for some officers.
• Adjusted the balance of the traits "Robust", "Delicate", "Warrior", "Divine Power", and "Dependable".
• Adjusted the balance of the tactics "Lone Horseman", "Heaven's Warrior", and "Radiant Thrust".
• Adjusted the balance of the formations "Fish", "Arrow", "Siege Tower", "Battering Ram", and "Catapult".
• Improved the AI for dealing with obstacles that exist on a unit's route.
• Improved the AI for conquering areas.
• Made an improvement that places importance on the relationship between officers when NPC forces determine how prisoners will be treated.
• Now, even if the officer of another force is a sworn sibling, spouse, or parent, Employ will fail when loyalty is 100.
• Now the loyalty of captured officers decreases more easily.
• Made an improvement that places importance on the relationship between officers when loyalty decreases.
• Adjusted the balance for duels and dying.
• Adjusted the balance of the scenario setting "Extended".
• Adjusted the balance of revolts, as well as the conditions for their occurrence.
• Improved the balance of supply income.
• Adjusted the balance of the success rate for capturing.
• Adjusted the success rate of Placation.
• Improved the conditions for suggesting Requisition Supplies.
• For some list screens, adjusted the priority of the order in which information is listed.
• Eased the conditions for determining which "Confidants" and "Adversaries" can be set when editing original officers.
• Added a feature that allows the positioning of original officers to be canceled.
• Changed Wei Yue's policy from "Strengthen Awl" to "Strengthen Snake".
• Added "Cao Cao" to Yangshi's Adversaries.
• Added an entry to Help concerning the upper limits for durability, materials, and other parameters for cities depending on their size.
• Updated some of the UI to accommodate additional content.
• Improved the speed in which some commands are executed.
• Improved the functionality for entering numerical values.

●Bug fixes

• Corrected an issue in which, for the traits "Swift", "Rear Guard", and "Indolent", the activation condition that checks whether a unit is retreating was not applied correctly.
• Corrected an issue in which the game would sometimes stop when repeating certain operations while the land on which to build a "Stone Wall" was being set.
• Corrected an issue in which, when the AI moved a unit, the unit would sometimes circle around in the same location.
• Corrected an issue in which, when the player performed foreign negotiations, some of the processing for the CPU's presentation of conditions was incorrect.
• Corrected an issue in which, when using Auto Appoint under Area Government, sometimes Barracks would not be set as a development option.
• Corrected an issue in which, even if the unit of an officer with the trait "Swift" changed to a Water formation while marching, the effects of the trait would not end.
• Corrected an issue in which the effects of the trait "Vicious Drinker" were not applied.
• Corrected an issue in which the effects of the traits "Robust" and "Delicate" would not be applied correctly to wounded officers.
• Corrected an issue in which, when configuring Marching Unit settings, effects of unintended traits were applied.
• Corrected an issue in which, banished officers could sometimes incorrectly be immediately employed by a subordinate division.
• Corrected an issue in which, when a force was wiped out, sometimes their specialties could not be acquired.
• Corrected an issue in which the gold spent for restoring gates was not included in the expenses of the Report Balance.
• Corrected an issue in which the "Attack" command was not displayed for enemy units that were waiting on a trap.
• Corrected an issue in which the area for an original force's base could not be correctly selected.
• Corrected an issue in which the governor on the Manage Orig. Officers screen sometimes differed from the officer that was the governor upon starting the game.
• Corrected an issue in which, when an original officer was a sworn sibling of two historical officers, even if the officer had not yet appeared in the game, they would be displayed in the sworn sibling section of the historical officers.
• Corrected an issue in which, when a ruler's rank changed, the loyalty of their retainers was sometimes not set as intended.
• Corrected an issue in which, even if supply lines were not cut, the icon indicating supply lines are cut was sometimes displayed.
• Corrected an issue in which, when the troop count of a force was a condition for triggering an event, troops that were currently marching were not taken into consideration.
• Corrected an issue in which, after the event "Volunteers" became available, the "!" icon would not appear when it became available again.
• Corrected an issue in which suggestions of an officer who died during an event would incorrectly be executed.
• Corrected an issue in which, when a ruler was changed during an event, the specialties of the former ruler could not be inherited by the new ruler.
• Corrected an issue in which, after the affiliation of an area changed during an event, suggestions to recruit officers to ineligible areas were not dissolved.
• Corrected an issue in which, when territory changed during an event, area information was not changed accordingly.
• Corrected an issue in which, sometimes free officers would speak during the reporting phase.
• Corrected an issue in which, when a unit entered a castle, sometimes related units would also disappear.
• Corrected an issue in which incorrect lines were displayed after receiving damage from a fire trap.
• Corrected an issue in which, if an officer with the trait "Sleeping Dragon" released a trap, the incorrect lines were displayed.
• Corrected an issue in which, when an officer raised a flag or staged a revolt, some lines were displayed incorrectly.
• Corrected an issue in which, by performing certain operations, relay points with no purpose could incorrectly be set.
• Corrected an issue in which, when an envoy arrived, an incorrect effect remained if the camera was moved.
• Corrected an issue in which, a time lag existed for the displayed location of a unit with respect to its actual location.
• Corrected an issue in which invalid data was displayed when creating an original force.
• Corrected an issue in which the voice for beginning an attack would be played when a transport unit was marching.
• Corrected an issue in which, between Xipingchang and Gaotang, lines which indicate areas that are adjacent were overlapping.
• Corrected an issue in which incorrect information could be viewed during the tutorial.
• Corrected errors in the Help entry for "Poison Swamp".
• Corrected an issue in which the color of text in the log would sometimes not change correctly.
• Corrected the years of death for the officers "Zhang Xian", "Lei Xu", "Han Xian", "Yue Jiu", "Chen Ji", "Liang Gang", and "Li Feng".
• For some scenarios, corrected the years in which the officer "Fu Xun" served the Liu Biao Army.
• For some scenarios, corrected the status of the officer "Zhang Yan" from "Undiscovered" to "Free".
• Corrected an issue in which the game would forcibly end after entering specific inputs with a keyboard.
• Corrected an issue in which, if sound devices were switched after the game had been started up, sound effects would not be played.
• Corrected an issue in which the game would sometimes forcibly end in Windows 8.1 environments.
• Corrected an issue in which, if the dialog box confirming whether players want to end the game was opened at specific times, the game would stop after selecting "No".
• Corrected an issue in which the "Transport" command could not be canceled when using a keyboard.
• Corrected an issue in which, when using some IMEs, full-screen mode would sometimes be canceled.
• Corrected an issue in which the game would sometimes stop if, for example, reports came in or the end of the month was reached while the log was focused on.
• Corrected an issue in which the game would sometimes stop when performing certain operations while marching.
• Corrected an issue in which, after the duel animation occurred, unrelated icons would sometimes be displayed.
• Corrected an issue in which, during the CPU's strategy phase, hidden buttons could incorrectly be focused on.
• Corrected typographical errors and messages.