The Lord of the Rings War in the North Legacy Edition

Patch Overview

• Steadier co-op: fewer crashes and freezes when joining, loading in, and when heading back to towns

• Clearer roads north: quest tracking fixes and cleared progression blockers keep your journey moving

• Headshots are back: ranged attacks land true on goblins, Uruk-hai, and more

• Fallen heroes return: back in the fight with at least 2 health and power potions and 20 arrows or bolts

• Companion, visual, and audio polish across Middle-earth

Bug Fixes

• Improved co-op stability, with fixes for crashes during matchmaking, on loading screens, and when returning to hubs like Bree and Fornost.

• Fixed players joining a host getting stuck on the map selection.

• Fixed a freeze that could occur when another player with a slow connection joined during a loading screen.

• Fixed a progression blocker in Fornost where a goblin could be launched somewhere out of reach.

• Blocked off an area in the Grey Mountains where heroes could be knocked out of bounds.

• Fixed when Scroll 7 would not count toward the "Cult of the Lidless Eye" side quest.

• The Urgost introductory cutscene no longer skips when loading the checkpoint.

• Mission summary stats are now kept when returning to town mid-mission.

• The War-Mechanist Achievement/Trophy now counts kills across your whole fellowship instead of per character.

• Headshot hitboxes have been restored on goblins, Uruk-hai, and other enemies throughout the game.

• Health potions now fill the health bar steadily, as intended.

• Allies no longer get stuck after opening a Secret Stash, and can now be called to a stash from farther away.

• Luin now keeps moving as intended after loading a save.

• The revive prompt no longer appears when another player is already reviving a fallen hero.

• Fixed some equipment getting lost when using a respec token.

• Map fragments are no longer wasted when used from an inactive character's inventory.

• Fixed distorted audio that could play when finishing an enemy with a critical strike.

• Undead no longer T-pose during a Barrow-Downs cutscene.

• Textures in Osgiliath, the Coldfells, and Urgost's Lair no longer vanish when viewed from certain angles.

• Fixed severe stretching on some character models.

• Item description panels no longer disappear when equipping certain weapons during combat.

• Item notifications now show the correct amount when sending the same item multiple times.

• Removed an inaccurate loading screen tip.

• Faster EULA scrolling with a controller.

• Smoother mouse wheel scrolling in settings menus.

• Added Steam controller glyphs for Steam and Steam Deck.

PATCH 1 IS NOW LIVE

The Lord of the Rings: War in the North™ - Legacy Edition Patch 1 resolves several critical bugs, including equipment and gear loss issues, a progression blocker in Fornost, and general stability improvements.

Stability & Crash Fixes:

• Fixed a multiplayer progression blocker where a certain gate on Fornost would fail to release progression critical enemies when the party respawns.

• Fixed issues with cinematics aborting and asset loading when characters are swapped at checkpoints in multiplayer.

Inventory & Performance Optimizations:

• Optimized loading so that characters stats no longer unnecessarily refresh upon loading a save.

• Added safety checks during loading to prevent equipment with temporarily mismatched stats from being accidentally unequipped or deleted.

• Corrected item spawning logic to prevent items from accumulating in large piles at specific locations on each level.

• Fixed several instances where the visual state of characters’ gear would be desynced for a Host and Client in Multiplayer games.

Steam Updates:

• Now Steam Deck Verified

• PC / Storefront Extras: Fixed a borderless window mode bug where pending resolution changes would fail to revert to the previous resolution when it expired.