Patchnotes v3.0.31.292

Improvements
AI 2.0. Integrated new AI system for all enemies
AI has received a big overhaul. In general it should be a lot smarter and have more awareness of its surroundings. This means that the AI might have gotten a bit more difficult to deal with, so don't underestimate your enemies and especially watch your positioning! Your enemies will make better use of barrels, surfaces, and combat control skills, and they’ll have better knowledge of the consequences of casting particular skills. Planning ahead is now more important than ever.
Loot system overhaul
Find less gear in random loot, but more gold and valuables. The idea is to get economy going and make trade more important. Uniquely hand-placed items and boss loot should feel more rewarding and rare. You HAVE to go shopping!
Added three new arenas
Forbidden Valley
Enemy at the Gates
Ravenshaw Mansion
Added AI 2.0 to arenas
You can now choose which starting class recruited companions should be, making it easier to compose the best-balanced party
Removed durability from armor
Weapon durability now only decreases when attacking objects
Reduced AoE radius of most area spells to promote tactical gameplay
Improved talk animation for female humans
New melee attack animations for all races
Improved female lizard skill animations
Improved several item textures throughout the level
Improved animations for several skills
Improved list of usable items that should automatically get added to the bottom bar
Improved Soul Jars: they now check if the player still has their Source collar before letting them absorb the soul in the jars
Improved Burn My Eyes tooltip to include that it removes Terrified, Sleeping, Enraged
Improved fog effects
Updated several UI sound effects
Balancing and design changes
Invisibility is now removed by Frozen, Petrified, Stunned, Knocked Down, Taunted, Sleeping, Wet
Invisibility is no longer removed by all surfaces, except if they damage you
Fortified status should now remove burning
Poison damage no longer automatically contaminates puddles
Wielding single wand now applies bonus from single handed ability
Players receive their second Civil Point at level two. After that, they receive a point every four levels
Weapon skills now show ‘chance to hit’ when hovering over a target
All chests can now be moved and picked up, except special arena chests
All containers that should be pick-up-able, now are (improved weight stats)
Ground Smash now uses damage of equipped weapon
Increased duration of Burning, Poisoned and Bleeding for most skills because these statuses no longer deal one tick of damage when applied for the first time
Description of ‘Rested’ status now mentions that it protects from certain harmful statuses
Added a new defensive ability, Perseverance, that allows characters to regain part of their armor after being controlled by a status
Surfaces and clouds no longer disappear automatically. Exceptions: fire (2 turns), smoke (1 turn)
You can no longer spot characters in sneak mode while preparing a skill
Sneaking cones now show on all characters that can spot you, rather than just the ones that see you
Incapacitated NPCs can no longer spot the player while the player is in sneak mode. Similarly, incapacitated players can no longer spot sneaking enemies.
Damage statuses no longer tick damage on applying
Set equip cost for all slots to 1 AP
Trompdoy is now immune to poison and bleeding
Purging Wands and Braccus Helm now give Source Disruption skill
Additions
Added and updated visual effects:
Elemental weapon impacts
Several grenades and arrows
Several skills throughout campaign and in Arena Mode
Added and improved several sounds for skills and usable items
Added weapon swoosh effects that scale with the level of your weapon abilities (Example: Single-handed weapons will have a bigger swoosh at single-handed level five)
Added map marker from Delorus, after you choose to heal him
Added new effect for Party Reflection Dialogs and stopped these dialogs from appearing during combat
Added new type of pitchfork to weapon treasure
Added new simple tools weapon types to weapon treasure (mallet, pickaxe, scythe, pitchfork)
Added several journal updates for quests in Fort Joy area
Added new necklace types to treasure generation
Added being able to sell junk in the trade window

Bug Fixes
Fixed random seed not being reset when loading a savegame. Happy save scumming!
Fixed several signs that were no longer legible
Fixed errors in status animations for male humans
Fixed Bahara position at seeker camp. Some players were getting "can't reach" message when trying to interact with her
Fixed incorrect reflection boost getting added to equipment
Fixed issue with XP reward in multiplayer for "The Imprisoned Elf" quest
Fixed blind status causing player to miss even after the status wore off
Fixed non-weapon items not showing critical hit chance
Fixed possible crash when unloading a level
Fixed crash when a client player would press highlight characters button without having assigned characters
Fixed issue with initial dialogs of Gawin and Leste
Fixed the equipment of one of Trompdoy's illusions
Fixed dialogs for certain characters after they had already met (example: Red Prince and Stingtail dialog)
Fixed Gawin dying prematurely during one of his teleports
Fixed Amyro becoming hostile if he is teleported out of his cell
Fixed issue with resurrected characters causing arena match to end prematurely
Fixed issue with Void Worm not spawning in the final fight of Fort Joy
Fixed crash when player was committing a crime and then loading a savegame right after
Fixed Gratiana's dialog if Gareth is already dead when the Seekers gather before the final fight
Fixed hotbar positions of the button hints after reassigning keyboard shortcuts
Fixed Gratiana's dialog if you had the Wand and had delivered the Soul Jar to her already
Fixed issue with Gareth's dialog before the final fight. In some cases, he would not leave behind companions for the player to help during the battle
Fixed a crash when destroying specific chests containing cloth loot
Fixed Historian joining combat involuntarily in Fort Joy Swamps area
Fixed the boat to escape Fort Joy still being visually present for other players after one player had already used it
Fixed items disappearing when you left them in certain containers and tried to recover them after leaving the area
Fixed several items not having an icon
Fixed items getting removed from hotbar when switching from dual wield to two-handed
Fixed Comeback Kid talent so it correctly saves the player character with 1 hp left
Fixed Telekinesis beam effect not disappearing
Fixed burning pigs not reacting correctly when receiving Blessed status
Fixed multiplayer issues with Saheila quest
Fixed being able to talk to Zaleskar's mirror after killing him
Fixed Charmed status description
Fixed possible infinite fire surface
Fixed Tarlene's dialogue after you save Gareth
Fixed issue that Source collars would not show up after getting resurrected in Arena
Fixed necromancers not attacking after you destroy Necromancer Rask's Soul Jar
Fixed projectiles sometimes colliding with roofs
Fixed several incorrect imprisonment scenarios
Fixed several issues with necromancer maze
Fixed issue with curse status getting stuck on character after receiving it via items like Braccus' ring
Fixed issue with starting skills not updating in character creation screen
Fixed being able to pickpocket all loot by pressing space bar when ‘take all’ button is disabled
Fixed smoke clouds not blocking vision anymore after loading
Fixed gold in containers not being included in trade window, while the containers are in the player's inventory
Fixed being able to get a Talent without meeting its requirements in the character creation screen
Fixed Attribute bonuses from equipment so they correctly count towards requirements for equipping items
Fixed Leadership not working on allies in multiplayer
Fixed surface damage reflect. This should not happen anymore.
Fixed several issues with Buddy the dog
Fixed several minor dialogue inconsistencies in and around Fort Joy
Fixed Voidwoken Drillworm spawning in incorrect locations

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Patchnotes v3.0.15.252

Improvements
Improved player feedback when switching to inactive characters during combat
Improved player feedback it's not possible to perform certain actions
Improved UI sound events
Physical armor and Magic armor now have hit effects
Improved path visualizations in combat
Improved clickable area of listed savegames
Improved and redesigned the bottom bar interface.
Added option to switch between hotbars (up to five)
Chat toggle is now on the bottom bar
Improved lighting and visuals in Blood Rose cave
Improved visualisation of move preview
Improved following behavior when leader of party is in combat
Improved targetting preview when casting teleport skills (out of sight is now properly greyed out)
Tweaked and added several effects
Updated several animations that were not finished yet
Additions
Added new tornado effect and fixed tornado atmosphere settings
Added preview for attacks with multiple projectiles
Added blinking and progress bar in windows (when game is minimized)
Players now get directly assigned a free slot in the arena lobby upon joining
Teams are automatically assigned for AI's in the arena lobby
Added combat log entries for source vampirism
Added more logging stats for balancing reasons
Ifan's recruitment dialog now recognizes and allows Drudanae
Balancing and design changes
Primary Attributes overhaul
Strength now provides 5% damage bonus and 2% Physical Armour bonus per point-
Finesse now provides 5% damage bonus and 1% Dodging per point
Intelligence now provides 5% damage bonus and 2% Magic Armour bonus per point
Characters now have a base amount of vitality that grows with levels.
Constitution now provides 7% vitality bonus.
Characters now start with 3 Memory Slots and receive 1 free Memory Slot every 2 levels.
Memory attribute now provides 1 Memory Slot per point
Wits now provides 1% Critical Chance and 1 Initiative per point.
Vitality, armour and damage numbers start from lower values, but grow faster each level.
Changes to combat abilities
Combat abilities now give larger bonuses per point and are capped at 10 points.
Previous Defence abilities were removed.
New Defence ability: Pain Reflection. Allows you to reflect 10% of incoming damage back onto attackers per point
Leadership is now a combat ability in Defence category. Allies in 5m range receive 5% Dodging and 5% All Res per point
Changes to talents
Re-enabled Elemental Affinity talent (Reduces AP cost of skills when standing in surface of corresponding element. Does not apply to skills with AP cost smaller or equal to 1)
Added new memory talent: Mnemonic. (adds 3 Memory)
Changed human talent to give bartering instead of leadership
Changes to weapons
Earth wands were replaced with Poison wands that receive bonus damage from Geomancer ability.
Buffed armor on shields
Gave shields a free skill that recovers their armor
Gave two-handed melee weapons a free skill that unlocks a heavy attack that costs 3AP
Receive a free skill when dual-wielding melee weapons that unlocks a heavy attack that costs 3AP
Free skill for fighting with single melee weapon and empty offhand: 1AP attack that Knocks Down
Attacking with single-handed weapon now costs 2AP (with or without shield)
When dual-wielding, damage of the offhand weapon is halved.
Added free movement if you move less than one meter before attacking
Weapon attacks receive swoosh effects depending on main combat ability
Inquisitor preset now wields a staff and starts with melee skills. (N.B. using Crippling Blow while wielding a staff will use the base elemental damage of the staff and receive bonus from INT since staff is and INT weapon).
Witch and Wizard start with wands
Replaced Sawtooth Knife with Vault in the list of starting Scoundrel skills to increase early game mobility.
Ranger now has Haste instead of Piercing Shot as starting skill
Misc
Increased difficulty for fights level 4 and above. Humanoid enemies now have new skills and engage in combat more aggressively.
Fixed several issues with AI of ranged enemies.
Targetted source skills can never miss. (E.g. Mortal Blow)
Enemy Rage now lasts two turns
Griff now sells weapons
Petrified characters are now immune to Burning
Reduced AP penalty from Slow.
You no longer lose invisibility due to blessed smoke
Rogues should now be able to pickpocket in arena
Increased levels NPCs that help you in the last fight
Cursed oil now has a chance of setting Necrofire instead of Burning
Crocodiles now have magic armor and a stronger bite
Buffed Radeka the blood witch and her minions
Increased damage from Viscous Voidling death explosions
Buffed purged dragon stats and gave him Hail Attack
Tweaked loot drops so that you cannot get two weapons or shields from the same source
Manually placed several weapons throughout the start of Fort Joy
Burning and Regenerate statuses now replace eachother
Petrified status now gives immunity to necrofire and holy fire
Improved closest possible position when using Multistrike skills
Hail strike skillbook now can be found from level one and healing ritual from level 4
You can now knockdown turtles
Improved enemy NPC treasure table drop chance from 1 in 5 to 1 in 3
Haste now costs 0 AP and removes slowed and crippled status
Clear-minded provides more Wits (gives Critical chance and Initiative)
Fixed items being in stuck state when frozen or petrified
Fixed "Walk it off" talent
Assigned colors to unique weapons and NPC weapons
Fixed incorrect pricing for certain weapons
Blinding radiance does not affects neutral NPC's anymore
Characters with zombie talent do not get damaged anymore when using a bed
Ending combat now correctly heals NPC's with Decaying Touch status
Fixed being allowed to learn skills from a skillbook when skill is already known from wearing an item
Fixed enemy NPC's from regaining AP incorrectly after setting a status on them
Hasted and slowed now also modify starting AP, so you will start combat with one more AP if you are hasted
Set correct loot for barrels
Enemy immunity skills should now make them immune to both damage and statuses
Bug Fixes
Fixed several crashes
Fixed hiding helmet causing bald characters
Fixed charm skill fumbling too much
Fixed client player being stuck in options menu when server reloads
Fixed client player(s) issues if host loads single player savegame
Fixed not being able to select eighth profile
Fixed "Your Turn" staying on screen after combat
Fixed NPC alignment issues
Fixed controls settings being applied to different profiles on the same machine
Fixed arena npc's having low stats after first starting a campaign in explorer mode
Fixed being able to talk to characters behind closed doors
Fixed being able to learn skills by getting 1 point in them from items. You now need at least one base point of a skill school to be able to learn spells
Fixed corpse explosion on using source vampirism
Fixed armor values displayed incorrectly after loading in combat
Fixed surface tooltips for certain surface combinations
Fixed momentarily seeing an empty level when accepting invitation from arena lobby
Fixed characters receiving fire damage after blessing a fire surface
Fixed invisible rogues being followed by the camera, indicating their position
Fixed being able to target enemies in sneaking (arena)
Fixed overlapping tooltips (range indication and surface information)
Fixed incorrect message when savethrowing out of a status
Fixed issue with base vitality being calculated incorrectly on enemies
Fixed Map not updating upon selection of a lobby in the lobby browser
Fixed not getting error message when not connected to Community/Platform server
Fixed spamming immune text when forcing application of a status
Fixed Surrender button being available in campaign mode / not being available in arena mode in certain cases
Fixed crash when putting something inside the Unusually Large Orange
Fixed crash related to creation of surfaces
Fixed issue being unable to unlearn skill from memorized skills
Fixed HP amounts for items with very low HP
Fixed Funny Meat not dropping
Fixed physics for orange container
Fixed Staff of Magus being present in skill list when selecting inquisitor class
Fixed skills getting added to the skillbar twice
Fixed infinite combat loop when several combats are joined together
Fixed getting stuck when picking up an item while sneaking
Fixed issue with guard button being enabled correctly
Fixed "can't reach" issue when trying to talk to someone that is not visually blocked
Fixed being able to start the game without selecting any skills
Fixed crash related to dashing through a campfire
Fixed characters not being able to perform attack of opportunity during first turn of combat
Fixed Multistrike skills landing on characters outside of weapon range
Fixed setting warm on items when dousing them to avoid spamming of statuses
Fixed Human female portrait aligmnent going wrong sometimes
Fixed Attack of Opportunity triggering on multistrike and rush skills
Fixed Players being able to start an arena match when host is spectator
Fixed crash when client leaves arena lobby while game is starting
Fixed starting dialog for illusion dungeon statue
Fixed Accuracy boost from gear not being applied correctly
Fixed vitality tooltip when your CON is below 10
Fixed Battering ram skillbook being unsellable
Fixed being able to target self with Source Vampirism
Fixed Attack of Opportunity not triggering for NPC's that are running away from characters
Fixed tooltips for skills that restore hp and armor (they now take into account bonuses from abilities)
Fixed inconsistent tooltip size formatting
Stop party from doing formation when sneaking or going invisible
Fixed issue that having more than one partymember could cause getting double or triple XP reward for party
Fixed black or grey loading screen when switching party member right before loading a savegame
Fixed duplicate recipes in crafting interface
Fixed "can't see" message when targetting yourself
Fixed pickpocketted items going missing sometimes
Fixed being able to wear a bucket on your head for all races
Fixed Exter's dialog after Gareth dies to Magisters
Fixed blocked dialog after winning arena under fort joy but dying right after

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Patchnotes v3.0.5.530

Gameplay

- Repair hammer and identifying glasses are now consumed when used.
- Made switching to inactive characters in combat possible (not for combat action but for inspecting/inventory/...).
- AI can now find cover if it finds itself teleported to a place where it can’t escape
- Fixed wizard AI scripts where they would run towards the enemy but not attack.
- "Stolen" item tag gets removed when you put in the 'Your offer' tab while trading.
- "Stolen" item tag gets removed when their original owner dies.
- Tutorial tweaks.
- No longer showing invisible enemies when player clicks on their icon with a character-backstabber.
- Tactical Retreat no longer allows jumping outside the skill range.
- Party members are now blue, default circles for Arena, turn/status console use relationship based colors.
- When you have the Zombie talent, necromancer lifesteal no longer damages you.
- Added special warning when your movement speed is 0 from a status.
- Character will no longer start dialog unless close enough.
- Weapon-based skills now use elemental bonuses on the weapon.
- Hail Strike now creates 3 projectiles (down from 4), costs 2 AP (up from 1AP).
- Rage now lasts 1 turn (down from 2), reduces resistances by -100% (down from -25%).
- Levitate is now a Stealth skill (doesn't break sneaking or invisibility).
- Shields now provide Magic Armour in addition to Physical Armour.
- Statuses Bless and Curse no longer bless\curse surfaces that the affected character walks into. (Skills Bless and Curse will still affect surface once.)
- Wet, Chilled and Frozen now remove Holy Fire.
- Fixed irst Aid not healing character when it removes negative status.
- Decreased damage of Crippling Blow.
- Decaying Touch damage slightly buffed.
- New item combinations for empty flasks and mushrooms
- Assigned new 3D objects and icons to potions.
- Added a lot of new item names to item generation.
- Fixed flags and properties of a lot of roots (e.g. you can now interact with desks and books).
- Made some roots stackable.
- Updated/fixed descriptions for some roots.
- Created some new descriptions for roots.
- Removed abundance of items in an area (e.g. axes or hammers all over the place in one small area, etc).
- Removed some placed armour pieces because they didn't belong there.
- Reassigned treasure tables on items and characters.
- Reassigned levels on corpses, items and characters.
- Placed items now have a unique name and description.
- Created unique knife for Griff.
- Fixed value of valuable items (e.g. pearls).
- Increased level of Ancient Sword because by the time you reach it, you are not level 3 anymore.
- Treasure table updates:
- more containers now use the same distribution (refer to GenericContainer) which makes balancing easier;
- generic container was dropping junk too often;
- generic container was not dropping enough gold;
- fixed: generic enemy was not dropping armor;
- junk will be dropping a BIT more gold ;
- junk was referring to the TOOL category twice;
- stacks and sacks should not always contain something;
- redistributed RewardTiny table;
- junk should drop less cloth armor;
- FTJ specific reward could select gold twice.

Usability and polish

- Added lifetime and damage to Surface tooltips.
- Fixed toggling contextmenu in the world.
- Various climbing and teleporting fixes.
- Disabled tooltips when dragging character in character creation.
- Combat messages will no longer show on the screen of far away characters (also in multiplayer)
- Allow people to reconnect to a lobby.
- Now no longer hiding lobbies that are in progress.
- Prevent tutorial boxes on endturn of enemies.
- Arena mode: added tooltips to skills in Hero Select screen
- Difficulty bonuses are now described in tooltips.
- Added dynamically animated paintings to the main menu.
- The application's icon will now blink and show progress bar in the Windows taskbar.
- Added party tab to local chat.
- Made chat messages persistent between different UIs.
- Chat improvements in serverlist panel.
- Added Surface sound events.
- Fixed paperdoll frame to fit Female Lizards.
- Game camera now keeps Items in dialog/combat into account.
- Active characters in combat have a different combat icon in player portraits now.
- Show connectivity window in Arena Lobby UI on small diamond click.
- When in combat and the active entity is unassigned, hide the turn notice.
- Improved lighting on paperdoll.
- Reskin and implementation of the new skill selection in character creation.

Art

- Updated textures on chainmail armour (all races).
- Updated textures on leather armour (dwarves and humans).
- Updated textures on plate armour (elves).
- Replaced Braccus statue.
- Added building signs.
- Menuscreen improvements.

Animation

- Dwarves have improved talk animations.
- Lizards, dwarves and elves have improved sit and lying animations.
- Lizards, humans and elves have improved skill animations.
- Various monsters received an additional polish pass on their animations.

Effects

- Grenade effects received a visual upgrade.
- Player skill effects received various improvements.

Sound

- Sounds for main menu screen.
- Sounds for UIs.

Crash fixes

- Fixed a crash that could happen when requesting a character icon in a dialog.
- Fix crash when the status Fear was set on an item.
- Fixed a crash that happened when changing certain graphical settings while the paperdoll was showing (e.g. toggle between shadow rendering).
- Fixed crash for items in source surfaces.

Bug fixes

- Fixed multiplayer character creation exploit making it possible to start with higher stats.
- Character creation now resets class skills when resetting ability points.
- Fixed permanent potions getting reapplied on reload.
- Fixed damage from Decaying Touch being applied twice.
- Fixed Dodging not receiving bonuses from armor.
- Fixed UI showing wrong range for arrow based weapons.
- Fix for invalid "Target is out of sight" notification when targeting big characters.
- Fix for valid characters not highlighting for some skills.
- Fixed character playing fast animations after using the skill Battering Ram.
- Fixed Rush skills finishing their rotation before executing the action.
- When another player's inventory is locked, you can no longer take items from them by swapping.
- Fixed map markers sometimes disappearing when playing a 4 player multiplayer game.
- Fixed item actions through context menu sometimes not working.
- Fixed stuck turn order and combat animation after fleeing.
- Fixed Take All shortcut (space).
- Fixed bottombar activating skills while typing numbers in chat.
- Fixed clicking through the bottombar.
- Fixed Voidwoken turtle overlays not showing from certain angles.
- Fixed issue with visuals resetting when going back from third step to second step in character creation.
- Fixed destroyed objects getting targeted in cone skills.
- Fixed not returning to lobby after Arena match.
- Fixed showing cooldown warning twice.
- Fixed issues with electrified cursed surfaces.
- Fixed uniques having a chance of dropping more than once.
- Fixed issues with source skills from equipped items.
- Fixed missing textkeys on player attack animations.
- Fixed looping Rhalic dialog.
- Fixed paperdoll skewed camera (causing broken shadows).
- Fixed paperdoll not resizing when resizing the window.
- Fixed turn notification animation playing between characters.
- Fix for corpses becoming unlootable when switching characters.
- Fix for items ticking in realtime in arena.

Engine

- Fixed rotation scale check in transforming objects.
- Fixed character rotation speed not resetting correctly in character creation.
- Split up sight and shroud PP shader to fix rendering order with outlines.
- Improved Outline rendering:
- Don't use depth testing: fixes the outline being split into a lot of small pieces when behind foliage + allows to see occluded jects better.
- Added fill color to occluded parts of outline objects.
- Animation editor can now select sound resource for sound textkey.
- Added fading overlay to FxOverlayMaterial.
- Added overlay priority support.
- Made effects fade when they are attached to a fading object.
- Increased colour list capacity from 7 to 127.
- Fixed AI Bound code issues.
- Fixed exporting lightprobe into level or importing lightprobe from level template.
- Datahash fix for savegames.