# Mount & Blade: Warband Viking Conquest 2.063

- Product: Mount & Blade: Warband (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/mount-blade-warband)
- Vendor: TaleWorlds Entertainment
- Date: 2023-03-08
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/48700/view/3653020193873970345
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/mount-blade-warband/releases/2023-03-08-viking-conquest-2.063

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- **fixed** — Restore some story NPC heights
- **fixed** — Another attempt to init tourney practice right
- **fixed** — Keep those killed in the holmgang dead
- **changed** — Make adventurers default faction for lords of defeated factions released from prison to avoid backdoor to zombie kingdoms
- **changed** — Include non-companion lords in appropriate adventurer behavior
- **fixed** — Have script_change_troop_faction handle non-kingdom faction properly
- **changed** — Use a defection process to place adventurer lords of defeated factions in new factions
- **changed** — Distinguish unconfirmed defectors to player and limit their spawn in the player's court
- **added** — Defecting lords yield intel on their old faction when accepted by the player
- **fixed** — Defecting lords do not defect immediately when rejected by player at the player's court
- **added** — Add a tracker for the last faction to properly distinguish that from the original faction
- **changed** — For initiating defections, use the same function that counts disgruntled lords
- **changed** — Make liege relation more of a consideration for defection
- **fixed** — Prohibit defections to factions from which lord will immediately defect
- **fixed** — Lords that have nowhere to defect are removed from the game
- **fixed** — Use script_indict_lord_for_treason for quest incriminate loyal commander
- **changed** — Redo caravan design to raise the cap to a level appropriate for when only two factions left
- **fixed** — Prevent escaped defeated faction lords from forming parties until recruited into a new kingdom
- **changed** — Balance relation impacts of enfoefment
- **fixed** — Corrections in Spanish and German localization files

Viking Conquest 2.063 is live! Server admins and modders can access the latest files on our website (https://www.taleworlds.com/en/Games/VikingConquest).

PATCH NOTES (2.063)

-  Restore some story NPC heights

-  Another attempt to init tourney practice right

-  Keep those killed in the holmgang dead

-  Make adventurers default faction for lords of defeated factions released from prison to avoid backdoor to zombie kingdoms

-  Include non-companion lords in appropriate adventurer behavior

-  Have script_change_troop_faction handle non-kingdom faction properly

-  Use a defection process to place adventurer lords of defeated factions in new factions

-  Distinguish unconfirmed defectors to player and limit their spawn in the player's court

-  Defecting lords yield intel on their old faction when accepted by the player

-  Defecting lords do not defect immediately when rejected by player at the player's court

-  Add a tracker for the last faction to properly distinguish that from the original faction

-  For initiating defections, use the same function that counts disgruntled lords

-  Make liege relation more of a consideration for defection

-  Prohibit defections to factions from which lord will immediately defect

-  Lords that have nowhere to defect are removed from the game

-  Use script_indict_lord_for_treason for quest incriminate loyal commander

-  Redo caravan design to raise the cap to a level appropriate for when only two factions left

-  Prevent escaped defeated faction lords from forming parties until recruited into a new kingdom

-  Balance relation impacts of enfoefment

-  Corrections in Spanish and German localization files