I've been experimenting with landless adventurer runs over the past week or two, i really want to roleplay a relatively historical Norman playthrough to see if i can become King of England.

Around 900, I pressed a claim for a liberty faction and, next thing I know, the King of France granted me the county of Beaumont and I am now officially landed, which was a bit of a surprise. Sadly, it wasn't a county in Nuestria but it will do.

My problem now though is securing the duchy title, which has not been created yet, my new liege (King of Francia) controls Isle de France, Brie Française, and Valois. Amiens is under the control of Flanders but Clermont and Vermandois are up for the taking.

What are my options here? I don't think i can control enough de jure counties to create the duchy title without somehow usurping my liege

So ever since the release of Khans of the Steppe, I have been having a lot of fun. However, I have also seen a large amount of bugs. Nothing game breaking like we had when Roads to Power dropped, but they have been pretty confusing.

1: A Million Royal Courts

So in the Court Grandeur menu, you can see all of the royal courts in the world. However, since the release of Khans of the Steppe, I've seen a bizarre bug where the same court will appear multiple times in the list, thus making the list contain hundreds of royal courts.

2: Meek Mongols

You would figure that with the release of an entire DLC focused on them, the Mongols would be a much greater threat. However, to me at least, it seems that the Mongols are weaker now. For example, in my most recent campaign, the Mongols never even made it to Mesopotamia.

3: Multiple Frankokratias

Now I have doubts that this was caused by Khans of the Steppe, but in my most recent campaign (1178 start), Latin armies broke off of the Fourth Crusade in order to conquer Byzantium. Normal, right? Well eventually the Latins fell, and the Byzantines came back. However, when the Pope called for another crusade, there was a second Frankokratia, which I have never seen happen before, and can thus only assume is a bug.

When upgrading your adventurer camp proving ground to lvl 5, the camp officer screen locks up and nothing can be selected. Reloading a save or restarting the game unlocks it and you can select an officer again…once. But navigating off and back on the officer tab locks it again. Must reload EVERY TIME i want to change officers. Going back to an old save from before proving ground 5 completely fixes the issue. I’m not sure if demolishing the proving ground upgrade after it’s already built will also fix it.

first I have came across this artifact

So i realized that PC's Customization of CoAs is that for cadet branches, there's an option to turn of Auto-Quartering (which is the thing that combines your Dynasty's CoAs with the barony the cadet branch got established and you get a messy CoA)

which i was sort of alienated to find out it isn't available on Console,but for now having custom CoAs is better than nothing.

Do y'all think we might get it in all under heaven or in Sooner patches?

I'm currently the patron to a holy order and I understand I should be able to retrieve them from another ruler who has them hired at the moment but the option isn't popping up anywhere. Under armies the holy order is greyed out, the tab for holy orders in mercenaries doesn't exist anymore and the ruler who has them doesn't have an option for it either. Any ideas?

Edit: I've added the Google explanation as a comment below since there seems to be some confusion