The Shattered Kingdom

Bug List

 

 

Games are never without their flaws. Knights and Merchants - The Shattered Kingdom was no exception to this quite common rule, and unfortunately there were a few unpleasant amount of bugs in the game. Most known bugs should be listed here together with additional information like how serious the bug is and if it ever got fixed in a patch.

 

Note that this list is hugely out of date and it is likely that this list will not be maintained in the future. Trying to document every apparent bug just isn't much fun.

 

 

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General

 

Brightness Status	When changing brightness level to extremely bright, the last T will not fit and move onto the next line causing the menu to look a bit bugged.	N/A
Dirty Roads	When building a road over an object like wheat or a flower, the object will stay on the road. If building over a wheat field, the corn will continue growing.	N/A
Fast Scrolling	If you have a somewhat faster computer, the screen scrolling speed might be very fast making it hard to get to the place you want to.	N/A
Foreign Intro Movie	Certain English releases of the game have the intro movie spoken in German.	N/A
Forever Falling Trees	If a woodcutter is killed just when he was about to fell a tree, the tree will just keep on falling forever.	N/A
Militia Parchment	The militia parchment graphic shows only one sword, but the true attack power of the unit is two swords.	N/A
Pausing Crash	If you have the Polish version of the game, it will crash when you try to pause.	1.32 REL
Rough Music Change	When the music track changes, the sound volume in the game will temporary be heard in full volume.	N/A
Secret Battle Tutorial	In most versions of the game there exists a hidden battle tutorial within the files, but it is only playable in the English version of the game.	N/A
Statistics	Certain buildings are completely absent from the game statistics screen.	N/A
Striking Citizens	Rarely, when a citizen feels hungry and enters an Inn to eat, the citizen will not return to his house. Luckily this happens very seldom.	N/A
Superman Labourers	When a Laborer is building a road or a winefield, he will not die if he runs out of condition whilst waiting for his resource. Only after completing his work, he dies.	N/A
Windows XP Crashes	Playing under Windows XP generally makes the game very prone to crashing. This does not occur on all Windows XP computers. On some computers the game refuses to start.	N/A

 

 

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Computer AI

 

255 Limit	All the computer player's weapons workshops and alike will only produce 255 of each ware and after this remain idle. Normally does not matter, but in longer games it does.	N/A
AI Recruits	The computer player usually creates a lot of recruits that are just being stored in the barracks.	N/A
Building Site Limit	Since the 1.32 patch, having more than three construction sites, will result in no wares being delivered to any construction sites of yours.	N/A
Recruit Limit	No more than three recruits can be walking to the barracks at a time.	N/A
Serf Timber Delivery	Since the 1.32 patch, it might occur that your serfs suddenly completely stop taking timber to the buildings that need it.	N/A
Slippery Hands	If one of your laborers is preparing a construction site, and a serf carrying a stone or timber passes by, the serf will loose the ware.	N/A
Treacherous Recruits	Since the 1.32 patch, sometimes recruits might decide to go to your friends or opponents barracks instead of your. Occurs seldom.	N/A

 

 

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Multiplayer

 

Minor Unstability	Exact problems unknown.	1.30 REL
Enter IP Window Crash	If you cancel out of the window where you normally enter an IP-address, the game will crash.	1.31 REL

 

 

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Campaign

 

Campaign Messages	All messages that are being sent to you during The Shattered Kingdom campaign contain the wrong message.	1.32 REL FIX
Mission 15	One of your enemies has no gold mines, resulting in them running out of gold soon.	N/A
Mission 17	You cannot win mission 17.	1.30 REL
Mission 18	One enemy sawmill is not created on start.	N/A
Mission 20	The game does not end after mission 20.	1.20 REL
Mission 20	Mission 20 crashes after playing the missions for only seconds.	1.32 FIX