• Open Field Tier List Rebuilt - /tierlist/field is now a paired-commander tier list in the same format as rally, garrison, and swarming. Click any pairing to expand the full card with both commander skills, accessories, formation, and talent tree
• Change Badges - Tier list buttons now show a small icon when a pairing is freshly added (blue +), upgraded (green up arrow), or downgraded (red down arrow) so you can see what moved at a glance
• Alp Arslan, Sultan of Seljuk - New Ottoman archer legendary
• Hayam Wuruk, The Thalassocrat - New Majapahit archer legendary
• Wedge II Merged Into Wedge - The game collapsed the two Wedge formations into one. Existing armament sets that still say “Wedge II” now auto-resolve to Wedge at every read point, and both inscription pools live under a single Wedge entry
• Multiple Captain Loadouts - Kingdom leaders can now assign more than one rally or garrison captain entry to the same member, useful for showcasing several alt builds per player. Each entry is removed individually

• Rally & Garrison Tier Lists Overhauled - Rally and garrison are now paired-commander tier lists in the same format as the swarming tier list
• Forum - New /forum section with Reddit-style threads. Up / down voting on posts and comments, nested comment replies, hot / new / top sorting
• Profile <-> Forum - Forum activity is now its own tab on every profile. Total karma joins your Power / Kills / Deads stat row, and the panel shows a featured top post plus tabbed lists of recent posts and comments. Usernames in the forum link straight to the author’s profile and show a “K1075” kingdom chip; hover any username for a peek-card with their karma totals and a Follow button
• Following Feed - Follow other users, follow categories, and the new Following tab on /forum blends posts from your follows with hot discovery so the feed never feels empty

• Commander Filters - New search bar, Integration filter, and visibility toggles for Epic / Elite / Advanced / Gathering / Engineering. By default only legendary combat commanders show; toggle any tier on to include them
• Commander Stats Bar - New summary row shows X/Y maxed per troop type (Infantry / Cavalry / Archer / Engineering / Leadership / Integration) plus total gold sculptures still needed to fully unlock and max every commander currently on screen. Respects every active filter, so you can scope “what’s left to grind” to any subset
• Skill Levels On Cards - Each commander card now shows the current 5/5/5/5 skill string and the remaining gold sculptures to reach 5/5/5/5
• Filter Presets - Save any filter combination as a named preset. Presets sync across devices and stay bound to your account
• March Pairings Reorder - New up/down buttons on each march pairing to reorder your lineup without rebuilding it, helpful for reordering your profile showcase more easily
• Manual Promote / Demote - Kings verified through the TKC Discord can now promote kingdom members to King or Officer directly from the kingdom page. Manually promoted leaders get full view/edit permissions on the kingdom, but only TKC verified Kings can promote or demote
• Freshness Dot - Colored dot next to player names across the kingdom and players directories showing how recently their profile was updated. Signing in no longer counts as an update - only real edits bump the timestamp

• Swarming Tier List - New /tierlist/swarming page with Z/S/A/B/C/D rankings of swarming commander pairings. Each pairing has its own tier slot, so the same commander can appear in different tiers based on their partner
• Pairing Detail Cards - Click a pairing to expand a card showing both commander panels with skills, accessories, formation, talent build, optional notes, and per-pairing Strong Against / Weak Against matchup pairs
• Site Feedback - New green Feedback button in the top bar lets logged-in users send feedback directly from any page. Submissions land in an admin inbox at /admin/feedback
• Tools Menu Cleanup - Tierlist Maker moved from the top nav into the Tools dropdown alongside Talent Tree Maker

Other Changes

• Showcase image exports no longer produce black backgrounds or black avatars on iOS Safari (profile and kingdom showcases). Images are pre-decoded before capture so the first tap works
• Top-nav “Tierlist” link now highlights when on the home page
• Notes section in the swarming tier list now hides itself when no notes are written

• Players Directory - New /players page to discover public profiles
• Kingdom Member Search - Officers and Kings can search the member list by name, commander, equipment, or inscription
• Captain Multi-Commander Selection - Rally and garrison captains now support 1 primary + 1-4 secondary commander options sharing the same equipment and armaments

• Kingdom Rally & Garrison Showcases - Officers and Kings can assign rally/garrison captains with specific commander pairs, equipment sets, and armament sets. Showcases display like the profile march showcase with custom backgrounds and save image option
• Kingdom Profile Page - Public kingdom pages at /kingdom/view?id=<number> with description, avatar, captain showcases, member list, comments, and likes. Kings and officers can set visibility (public/private), upload a kingdom avatar, and edit the description
• Kingdom Discovery - New /kingdoms directory page to browse all public kingdoms sorted by members or likes with search. Kingdom Discovery search icon added to navbar
• Profile Comments & Likes - Steam-style comment section on every viewable profile. Heart/like button with count. One comment per profile per day
• Kingdom Comments & Likes - Same comment and like system on kingdom pages, visible to all kingdom members

Other Changes

• Skill Level 0 - Commander skills can now be set to 0 (was 1-5, now 0-5)
• Delete Confirmations - Equipment sets, armament sets, and march pairings now require confirmation before deletion
• Last Updated - Kingdom member list shows when each player last updated their profile
• Formation Icons - Armament formation icons now shown in profile and kingdom showcases
• Armament Stat Icons - Custom game-accurate icons for Infantry, Cavalry, Archer, Siege, and All Damage displayed on all armament stat lines
• Gold Sculpture Calculator - Commander skill editing now shows total sculptures invested, remaining cost to max, and an “I have X” input to calculate deficit. Uses the exact in-game cost table
• Leadership Notes - Officers and Kings can leave notes on a member’s equipment sets, armament sets, or march pairings. Members see notes on their profile with an acknowledge button. Leaders see read/unread status

• Added purple, blue, and green equipment variants to the equipment selector
• Equipment selector now appears below the diamond grid so you can click between slots without closing
• Added epic commanders to the profile commander collection
• Added toggleable “Epic” button near filters to show/hide epic commanders (on by default), hiding epic commanders also removes them from march pairing commander selectors
• Added commander filters
• Added Talent Tree Maker with downloadable images (left click on a talent to select, right click on a talent to unselect, can do full trees with one click)

• Added VIP level selector (VIP 0-SVIP) with in-game icons displayed on profile and showcase
• Added march speed stat option for armament sets (Archer, Cavalry, Infantry, Siege)
• Fixed profile visibility access: kings and officers can now view kingdom member profiles set to “Kingdom Members” or “Leadership”
• Various bug fixes and visual optimizations

• Added Discord login integration
• Added user profiles with customizable display name, avatar, alliance, and kingdom
• Added profile stats: power, kill points, dead troops, highest acclaim
• Added profile visibility settings: public, kingdom members, leadership only, or private
• Added shareable public profile pages with link sharing
• Added equipment set builder with iconic levels and special talent support
• Added armament set builder with formation selection, inscriptions, and stat rolls
• Added march pairing system to assign primary/secondary commanders with linked equipment and armament sets
• Added march showcase with visual display of all pairings, exportable as image
• Added commander roster tracking with skill level configuration per commander
• Added kingdom membership system with apply/approve/reject workflow
• Added kingdom invite system via Discord ID or username with notification bell
• Added kingdom page accessible to all approved members with full member list
• Officers and Kings have exclusive access to invite players, manage applications, and remove members
• Added suggested pairings feature: leadership can suggest march pairings for kingdom members using their commanders, equipment, and armament sets
• Members receive notification when a suggestion is sent and can accept (replaces current pairings) or decline
• Leadership verification integrated with TKC Discord server

• Added a pairing mode toggle option to commander tier list maker to allow for making commander pairings, toggle on/off by clicking the pairing button
• Added a filter to commander tier list maker
• Updated inscriptions design in tierlist maker to better reflect in game appearance
• Updated talent descriptions to add smite/combo reductions

• Fixed Ivar not displaying correctly on tier lists.
• Added Wedge II formation to all pairings.
• Removed C & D tiers from Rally and Garrison tier lists.
• Removed outdated commanders from all pairings.
• All tier list rankings adjusted.
• Fixed screen shake bug in Tier List Maker.
• Added option to edit tier names in Tier List Maker.
• Added formation inscriptions to Tier List Maker.
• Added new commanders to Tier List Maker.
• Redesigned talent tree display.
• Rally tier list: removed XY, Gilgamesh, Zhuge Liang, Nebuchadnezzar, Justinian, and Alexander Nevsky.
• Garrison tier list: removed Amanitore, Arthur, Constantine, Flavius, Jadwiga, Jan Zizka, Lapu-Lapu, Theodora, Wu Zetian, and Zeno.
• Open Field tier list: removed XY, Trajan, Tariq, Sargon, Saladin, Ramesses, Mina, Justinian, Henry, Guan, Bertrand, Saladin, Gorgo, and Shapur.

• Sun Tzu Prime added to open field tier list & meta marches.
• Ivar added to open field & rally tier lists.
• Qin Shi Huang talents updated.
• Open Field tier list rankings updated.
• Rally tier list rankings updated.
• Meta Marches updated.
• Wallace removed from rally tier list.

• Open Field tier list rankings have been adjusted.
• Meta Marches recommendations have been updated.
• Achilles has been added to Open Field tier list & Meta Marches.
• Gang Gamchan has been added to Open Field tier list & Meta Marches.
• Hector has been added to Open Field tier list, Garrison tier list & Meta Marches.
• David IV has been added to Open Field & Garrison tier lists.
• Attila has been added to Garrison tier list.
• Arthur accessory recommendation has been updated.
• Ranged commanders have been removed from Open Field tier list.
• Fixed Amanitore & Minamoto talents and skill descriptions.

Qin Shi Huang talents, accessories and pairings updated.

Added a Tierlist Maker page to the website where you can create your own tier lists and share them. Currently the existing options for making RoK commander tier lists require you to upload images yourself, have outdated commander images, are loaded with ads etc. This function is especially helpful for kingdom leaders and content creators looking to create various tier lists.

• Added Meta March options for no Cavalry, Infantry and Archer for 5, 6 and 7 marches.
• Changed Liu Che Open Field Talents.

This is the launch of MetaRoK, it’s been a long process and a lot of work to get to this stage. We hit 10k subscribers on YouTube recently and as promised I had a big surprise for you guys. The purpose of MetaRoK is to provide players with the best and most optimized way to run their accounts, so I genuinely hope you guys will get value out of MetaRoK and enjoy using it. This is only the start and there is a LOT more to come very very soon, I appreciate you all for your endless support on this journey and if you guys have any feedback to me reach out on Discord anytime, I would love to hear it!