NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Awakening
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NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Awakening (Switch): all the updates (latest: Ver. 1.0.9)

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On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various updates for NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Awakening on Nintendo Switch (originally released on July 20th 2023 in North America, Europe, and Japan).

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NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Awakening – Ver. 1.0.9

  • Release date: February 5th 2024 (North America) / February 6th 2024 (Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
Critical Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue that caused the game to crush under certain conditions.
Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the setting of the battle range from functioning properly in some counties.

NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Awakening – Ver. 1.0.8

  • Release date: December 21st 2023 (North America) / December 22nd 2023 (Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
Bug Fixes
  • Fixed minor issues.

NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Awakening – Ver. 1.0.7

  • Release date: December 6th 2023 (North America) / December 7th 2023 (Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
Functional Improvements and Adjustments
  • Added the large-scale battles with 12 or more units from both forces.
  • Added twelve new battlefield maps, including large scale maps.
  • Added a setting to expand the area where units can join the battle at the start of a battle.
Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue that made betrayal difficult to occur.
  • Fixed some issues regarding ability increase of some traits, including “Eccentric” and “All or Nothing.”
  • Fixed other minor issues.

NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Awakening – Ver. 1.0.6

  • Release date: November 6th 2023 (North America) / November 7th 2023 (Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
Functional Improvements and Adjustments
  • Added the “Random Affiliation” feature to shuffle officer’s affiliation randomly for “Scenario Editing”.
  • Added several events, including the fictional event “Escape from Honnōji”, which depicts new endings for “The Honnōji Incident”.
    *New events will occur when beginning the game with a certain scenario, such as “Like A Dream” with the Oda (Nobunaga) Clan, and when certain conditions are met before “The Honnōji Incident” occurs.
  • Added a setting to make other clans form alliances aggressively.
  • Added a feature to allow Council Officials to be reappointed for the “Discretionary Power Assignment” policy.
  • Added 6 new unique policies.
  • Strengthened several unique policies.
  • Adjusted several Conservator Traits.
  • Adjusted the condition to issue the “Postal System” and “Gunji System” policy.
  • Added a feature that allows you to limit the change of dominions for the castles managed by your province.
  • Added a feature to choose the Daimyō’s province, or your regent’s province, to employ officers captured by your regent.
  • Added a feature to open the officer info screen for several situations, such as when employing officers.
    • *Some features from this update (such as added events and traits) will require you to start a new game with the 1.0.6 update applied.
Bug Fixes
  • Fixed the special reward for clan target “Trade Port”.
  • Fixed an issue where marks were not displayed for already seen movie events.
  • Fixed other minor issues such as typos.

NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Awakening – Ver. 1.0.5

  • Release date: October 4th 2023 (North America) / October 5th 2023 (Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
  • Fixed an issue related to events when using saved data from the 1.0.3 update or earlier.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented cleared marks from being displayed and achievements/trophies from being earned when using edited saved data from the 1.0.3 update or earlier.
  • Fixed an issue that occurred during battles after skipping an event battle.

NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Awakening – Ver. 1.0.4

  • Release date: September 18th 2023 (North America) / September 19th 2023 (Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:

Functional Improvements and Adjustments

  • Added a Direct Talk for recommending surrender before the start of a siege under certain conditions.
  • Added a feature to edit the birth year, lifespan, and affiliated castles for multiple custom officers at once.
  • Added a feature to select multiple officers for the land measure commands “Bolster Crops” and “Improve Commerce”.
  • Added a feature to employ multiple officers at once.
  • Added a feature to relieve all dominions and substitutes at once, and changed the condition to auto appoint substitutes to unconditional.
  • Add a feature to display a red mark for unread events and hearsay.
  • Added a new camera zoom level for sieges.
  • Added a setting to skip specific presentations, such as “reporting of resolved territorial problem” or “reporting of completed castle town facility”.
  • Adjusted the disaster animation duration, and added a setting to skip animations.
  • Added a feature to accept small target submission automatically.
  • Achieving “Regional Unity” or “Offer to the three positions” is now possible even with subordinate forces.
  • Cleared marks will be displayed even when ending is achieved while using the editing feature.
  • Earning achievements or trophies is now possible even while using the editing feature.
  • Settlement seizure will not be released when a castle is fallen by siege.
  • Officer’s loyalty will decrease when a castle is fallen through sieges, just like castle assaults.
  • When taking back counties affiliated to a main base or a defensive base, settlement seizure will not be released even if a siege is temporary unavailable.
  • Strengthened the “Surrender Negotiations” submission.
  • The “Absorb Vassals” submission will now occur to clans that has been appointed as Conservator Émigré.
  • Adjusted the actions taken by units automatically.
  • Added a feature to check the locations of large farms and large fairs for “Landmark / Major Settlement View”.
  • Added a setting to display animations for authority happening across the country.
  • Added a feature to skip event battles you have already won.
  • Reduced the amount of messages shown in several situations, including when deciding the prisoner’s treatment.
  • Added a feature to change the size, or hide the information of the castle on the main screen.
  • Adjusted the size of the log shown on the bottom right of the main screen.
  • Adjusted several English texts.

Critical Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that caused the game to stop during sieges under certain conditions.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the game to stop when an enemy surrenders during sieges.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed several issues around officer affiliation at the beginning of a scenario.
  • Fixed an issue that caused units to slip through key points.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the “Absorb Vassals” submission to not occur when all the clans are a vassal.
  • Fixed an issue that when a daimyō is marching and a female officer appears, a wrong origin country was registered to the female officer.
  • Fixed an issue that other clans won’t start a siege if a player unit was sent as reinforcements.
  • Fixed the owner of the “Spear of the Dawn” tactic.
  • Fixed an issue that a certain event won’t occur.
  • Fixed several settings for certain scenarios.
  • Fixed other minor issues such as typos.

NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Awakening – Ver. 1.0.3

  • Release date: August 21st 2023 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
  • Fixed an issue that caused the game to stop when starting a siege to a certain castle.

NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Awakening – Ver. 1.0.2

  • Release date: August 7th 2023 (North America) / August 8th 2023 (Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
Functional Improvements and Adjustments
  • Added a function to switch the voice audio language between Japanese and English.
  • Adjusted the duration of time for option to renegotiate a truce to become available after failing one.
  • Made a change so that progress of land development will not reset even when marching.
  • Added a function to edit unique policies for In-Game Edit > Edit Clan.
  • Added a refine function to filter officers during In-Game Edit > Officer Edit.
  • Adjusted the affiliations of several officers when they become of age under certain conditions.
Critical Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue that caused the game to stop when opening the officer list under certain condition.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the game to stop when giving domains during truce negotiations under certain condition.
Bug Fixes
  • Fixed several issues around officer affiliation when beginning a scenario.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the units to stop responding during battles under certain condition.
  • Fixed an issue that caused units to slip pass key points during battles under certain condition.
  • Fixed an issue where editing of traits was not reflected in historical officer edit.
  • Fixed an issue that caused treasures to become unavailable to be taken from officers under certain condition.
  • Fixed several issues around event conditions.
  • Fixed other minor issues such as typos.

NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Awakening – Ver. 1.0.1

  • Release date: July 20th 2023 (North America, Europe, Japan)
  • Patch notes:
Functional Improvements and Adjustments
  • Changed the condition for traits to be activated during Event Battles.
  • Adjusted the condition for the trait “Faithful Adjutant” to be activated.
Critical Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue that caused the game to sometimes stop responding after accepting a negotiation suggestion.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the game to stop under certain condition after selecting an advice for a “Siege”.
  • Fixed an issue where saved data for DLC scenario cannot be loaded under certain condition.
Bug Fixes
  • Fixed several issues related to Event Battles.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Construction to not occur while Castle Town Plan is set.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Direct Talks to not occur after occupying an enemy castle using a Province War Tactic.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Loyalty to not increase under certain condition.
  • Fixed an issue where effects of an Alias gained through Battle Achievement did not activate on the battle field.
  • Fixed the condition for effect of the “Forty-Eight Hawks” policy to be activated.
  • Fixed an issue that affects the progression of game when promising the same castle for multiple officers during Direct Talks.
  • Fixed other minor issues such as typos.

How to download updates for NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Awakening for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Awakening, you have three options:

  • let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

  • try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

OR

  • select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.

To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.

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