Crusader Kings 3 Releases Traverse Update

Key Takeaways

• Paradox releases the Crusader Kings 3 Traverse update, introducing new features, balance adjustments, bug fixes, and more.
• The Traverse update offers free features like Breweries, a new culture, and a new court position.
• Alongside the update, a new event pack titled Wandering Nobles is released, introducing a new lifestyle called Wandering.

Developer Paradox has released the Crusader Kings 3 Traverse update, introducing new free features, balance adjustments, bug fixes, and more. Additionally, this Crusader Kings 3 update comes alongside the Event Pack, Wandering Nobles, which adds paid expansion content.

Crusader Kings 3 is a historical strategy game where players manage dynasties across medieval Europe and beyond. The game lets players explore various cultures and religions as they form alliances, manage vassals, and use secrets to manipulate others. Crusader Kings 3 has released several DLCs in the past that add new themes to the game and expand players’ possibilities within its strategic world. Along with free content, fans of Crusader Kings 3 can now look forward to the newest DLC that Paradox is releasing for the game.

The Crusader Kings 3 Traverse update brings some exciting new features for free. Players can now build Breweries in Catholic temples, which provide big bonuses to nearby counties. There’s also a new Brewing Culture tradition that allows cities with this cultural background to have Breweries. Additionally, a new Crusader Kings 3 court position called Court Brewmaster is available, with tasks like Empty the Cellars, Share with the Court, and Experimental Brew. Players can also discover new historical and dynamic Points of Interest, including famous battles like the Battle of Hastings and the Battle of Yarmouk.

Along with the free content, Paradox is expanding the Crusader Kings 3 DLC offerings with the new Wandering Nobles Event Pack, which introduces a paid expansion featuring a new lifestyle called Wandering. This lifestyle has three branches that offer unique paths: Inspector, Wayfarer, and Voyager. Inspectors can check out and improve their lands, Wayfarers can travel to relieve stress, and Voyagers can enhance their language skills while exploring. The expansion also introduces new activities like Inspection, Hike, and Monument Expedition.

Moreover, the update includes various gameplay tweaks, focusing on balancing and fixing bugs. Artifacts that improve terrain advantage are now more important, and the inbreeding mechanics have been updated to depend on how closely related characters are, rather than just missing ancestors. Additionally, journals are now a new type of inventory artifact with only one journal available to be equipped at any time. Players can also look forward to visual upgrades, like new event backgrounds and animations, as well as better icons for the new Breweries feature and other court activities.

The Crusader Kings 3 Traverse update is designed to enhance the game experience with both free and premium content. Fans of medieval history games like Crusader Kings 3 can now explore these interesting new features.

Crusader Kings 3 Traverse Update Patch Notes

Expansion Features (Paid)​

• New lifestyle, ‘Wandering,’ split into three new lifestyle trees
  • Inspector: Landed characters can survey and improve their realm; landless characters can specialize in a terrain type
  • Wayfarer: Travel to reduce stress and pursue fame for your exploits.
  • Voyager: Improve linguistic skills and live the life of a tourist and sightseer.
• Three new activities linked to the new lifestyle
  • Inspection: Inspectors can examine their realm and pursue improvements
  • Hike: Wayfarers can reduce stress with a walk in the wilderness
  • Monument Expedition: Voyagers can set forth to see special buildings in other realms
• New events connected to travel, new lifestyle trees, and the associated activities

Free Features​

• Added a new set of buildings, ‘Breweries,’ available to Catholic temples, a building giving a lot of county-wide bonuses
• Added a new cultural tradition, ‘Brewing Culture,’ where you can unlock the Breweries building for cities of your culture
• Added new Court Position, ‘Court Brewmaster,’ related to the Breweries building line, with three Court Position tasks:
  • Empty the Cellars
  • Share with the Court
  • Experimental Brew
• Added a new decision to merge the kingdoms of France and Aquitaine in the 867 bookmark
• Added a new decision to restore the Bosporan Kingdom
• New Points of Interest, ‘Battle’
• Added 11 Historical Battle Points of Interest:
  • Battle of Yarmuk
  • Battle of Aror
  • Battle of Tours
  • Battle of Talas
  • Battle of Lechfeld
  • Battle of Svolder
  • Battle of Dandanaqan
  • Battle of Civitate
  • Battle of Stamford Bridge
  • Battle of Hastings
  • Battle of Manzikert
• Added dynamic Battle Points of Interest, where particularly large and bloody battles will be remembered and be able to be visited after the fact
• Added a salacious Grand Wedding event chain

Bugfixes​

• Fixed an issue with adventurers checking distance incorrectly
• Fixed error with a wedding event not checking faith correctly
• Fixed errors in siege events with a scope that does not exist
• Fix flavorization title tier names for landless adventurers
• Tweaked some events animations/portraits
• Fixed a rare issue where the player loses all war progress after enemy liege dies
• Add raid block reason to map tooltip
• Fix raid immunity being applied to the wrong character
• Any plague that appears in a realm that shares a border with you (land or sea) will now show up in the nearby section
• Removed incorrect land loss notification when a Governor’s county vassal is in line to inherit a Governorship
• Fixed many issues with the family chronicle event decision and story cycle
• Now the Pope will be referred to as the Pope rather than a King-Bishops in many events
• Adjusted some Hunt modifier icons so they are appropriately shown as mixed (yellow) instead of positive/negative

Balance​

• Placing bets in a chariot race no longer grants or reduces stress.
• Journals are now a new type of inventory artifact. Only one journal can be equipped at any time. Many books that were previously trinkets are now considered journals
• Family chronicles are now generally better with more modifiers; they are also either considered books (if you have a court) or journals
• Artifacts that boost terrain advantage now give a more significant boost.
• The kingdom of Aquitaine is now a part of the De Jure kingdom of France in the 1066 bookmark
• Rebalanced inbred/pureblooded chance, due to inbreeding risk now being calculated based on the degree of relatedness instead of the number of missing ancestors

Art​

• Added a cheers icon.
• Added a new court position icon, new court position task icons, and a new building icon. All related to the new brewery building.
• Added icon for new activity option inspection allocated funds.
• Added a new wanderer lifestyle icon.
• Added several art assets as well as GUI adjustments
• Added several new events backgrounds:
  • Hills (Winter)
  • Plains (Winter)
  • Wetlands (Winter)
  • Mountains (Winter)
  • Steppe (Winter)
  • Riverside
  • Coast
• Added new animations:
  • Survey with Walking Stick
  • Idle with Walking Stick