News Liste No Rest for the Wicked

⚔️ Performance:

• Reduced CPU spikes occurring when loading new areas and content.
• Reduced CPU spikes occurring when instantiating numerous visual effects and objects.
• Reduced memory usage in various systems.
• Improved our broad-phase culling pass, reducing CPU utilization.
• Improved content loading sequencing to reduce cases of on-screen pop-in.
• Improved particle simulation and rendering performance for various debris effects.
• Improved mesh trail performance.
• Improved cloth simulation performance.
• Improved character animation system’s performance.
• Improved CPU performance during cinematic sequences.
• Reduced CPU overhead for physics simulation of clutter, debris and destructible objects.
• Reduced CPU overhead for pre-placed corpses.
• Reduced CPU overhead for animating objects’ visual properties.
• Reduced CPU overhead for characters outside of the camera viewport.

⚔️ Quality of Life Improvements:

• All hairstyles are available on both body types

⚔️ Content Additions:

• Major Crucible Rework!
• Added multiple new base Crucible Chambers
• Each trial run now randomizes more than triple as many arenas, and includes more diverse art styles, new enemies, and more environmental challenges
• New system - Echoes - to allow infinite customization for every Crucible run
• Added new Spike Traps, Fire Projectiles and Levers
• New enemy faction - The Gloam
• The Seneschal vendor NPC hidden deep within the Crucible
• Exalted gear which permanently increases stats and improves enchantments
• New interactions and dialogue for the Watcher in “Spilled Blood”
• Lots of new dialogue for Roan, who now provides tips and pointers to guide players toward quests
• “Spoken and Unspoken” quest re-structured, allowing the Crucible to be opened much sooner, and including new scenes and dialogue for Elsa and Roan.
• Added new hairstyles for both body types
• Players can now pet stray cats and dogs around Sacrament!

⚔️ Balance:

• Rebalanced Health and Damage curve for Enemies

⚔️ Weapons:

• Updated names and descriptions for some Armor/Quest items
• Updated descriptions for Runes
• Added more enchantments for Bows

⚔️ Enemies and Bosses:

• Polished animations and timings for several enemies
• Added new Armor variation to the Risen Ironhand
• Updated enemies behavior - now some of them can use jumps for navigation
• Updated Attack, Dodge and Taunt animations for Light Plagued Enemies
• Improved randomization on enemy armor sets
• Improved hit reactions on Siren Enemies
• Updated High level behavior
• Enemies can now use special moves more often
• Rebalanced stats of both phases of the Echo Knight boss
• Nerfed Health of both phases of the Falstead Darak boss fight in The Black Trench

⚔️ Areas:

• Improved collision, faders and set dressing in Sacrament, The Black Trench, Nameless Pass and Cerim Crucible
• Added new trapdoor interactable
• Updated foliage in various locations
• Lighting improvements across many locations as well as housing interiors and vendor shops
• Added interactive inscriptions for Dasha statues in Sacrament and Orban Glades
• Added Mini Arena underneath Prison in Nameless Pass
• War room rooftop door can now be entered before Servant of God quest is finished
• Replaced more static barrels with destructible ones in Sacrament

⚔️ Quality of Life:

• Improved interaction priorities between ladders and pick ups so they can both be used in the same location

⚔️ Settings:

• Added Mute Audio on Focus Loss setting

⚔️ Input:

• Improved input responsiveness / performance (removed rewired)
• Improved logic for actions that can share buttons with others:
• Interact / run / rune toggles can share a button with more other actions that don't conflict
• Prevented overlapping several cases of actions that behave poorly together (eg: interact / eat food)
• Added support for Numpad input
• Added movement axis mappings on Mouse buttons
• Added optional "toggle walk/run" input to all schemes to allow running without holding a button
• Stopped processing input while the steam overlay is active
• Added input priority when performing rune attacks and when near interactables
• Fixed cases of the UI referencing default mappings and/or keyboard mappings when on gamepad (or vice versa)
• Prevented quicksteps/rolls from occurring between consecutive bow rune attacks
• Fixed "reset to default" resetting your keyboard/gamepad mappings while editing the other device

⚔️ Cinematics:

• Animation and Lighting updates to Opening Scene, Risen Attack, Ship Ending, Ellsworth Speech, Seline at Mountain Gate, Winnick and Rattigan Sewers Ending, and Inquisition Arrival cinematics
• Added spinning animations to the ship’s steering wheel during Risen Attack cinematic

⚔️ Audio:

• Added New VO lines for several flavor and quest NPCs
• Added Foley Mix overhaul for a number of Player and Humanoid Enemy movements, such as ledge Clambers
• Added consistent enemy voice and weapon/shield hit reactions
• Updated Bow SFX
• Unique vocalizations, movement and Combat SFX for Fungal Humanoids
• Updated audio for a number of potions, like Stamina and Experience
• Updated weapon SFX for unarmed, blunt and slashing fist combat
• Reworked combat and UI sounds for charge attacks, specials, enemy-death, blood splashes,
• Updated cinematic mixes for the Ship Prologue, Cerim Chamber Statue and Inquisition Arrival Cinematics
• Added custom vocalizations for enemies or the player falling to their death
• Updated spatial audio zones for a number of areas
• Added bespoke wolf-den ambience audio
• Audio Tech:
• Integrated additional sounds for UI that was missing audio, like the community chest, readables, and contributions for bounties/challenges
• Optimized walk/jog/run animation tagging to use resources more reliably
• Other miscellaneous optimizations to reduce resource usages

⚔️ VFX:

• Improvements to the Mist in the Crucible Atrium and Arenas
• Improvement for the timing on the Crucible Blood Offering vignette VFX
• Added Spark VFX whenever enemy gets interrupted to give better player feedback
• VFX Improvements for Statue Reveal in the Crucible Atrium
• Improved the Fog VFX in the Ship Tutorial

⚔️ Localization:

• Improved UI to better support translations for realm and settings pop-ups
• Added localization to Rune and Enchantment descriptions

⚔️ Bug Fixes:

• Fixed Twitch Authentication not working correctly for drops
• Fixed area discovery notifications showing outside of the area they are expected
• Fixed Lord of the Muck weapon description saying to craft at the Anvil instead of the Workbench
• Fixed spot where you can climb up on a wall and skip part of the level on Nameless Pass
• Fixed a chest trying to hide in a wall in Nameless Pass
• Fixed certain vendor map markers not showing on the map until after the Inquisition Arrival cinematic
• Fixed enemy positions and patrol paths in Mariner’s Keep
• Fixed climbable pillar that allowed players to go out of bounds in Sacrament
• Fixed Finley's sign not being interactable
• Fixed being able to climb on pipes nearby the junctions bits in The Black Trench
• Extended an invisible collider so players wouldn't clip behind a lever in The Black Trench
• Fixed falling out of world between the 2 buildings when Gordon's kitchen was upgraded to level 2
• Fixed a large hole halfway up the mountain in Nameless Pass that was hidden under a bush and dropped players to their death
• Fixed Western Quarry wall allowing players to reach an unfinished area within Nameless Pass
• Fixed being able to skip a section in Nameless Pass by jumping across the bridge north of Nameless Pass entrance
• Fixed enemies being unable to get behind the fire pit in Orban Glades cave
• Fixed missing collision on hay stacks in Sacrament
• Reduced whisper strand follow distance so it doesn’t distract from NPC encounters
• Fixed localization for Realms Loading Flash Screen
• Fixed localization for Russian Translations on recipes and rebinding screens
• Fixed rebinding ‘Interact’ being able to be set to an already occupied key
• Fixed Map Marker pointing to the wrong direction for Riven Twins Bounty
• Fixed clipping with Odessa and Ships Railing during Ship Tutorials Cinematic
• Fixed dead NPC placement during Ship Tutorials Cinematic
• Fixed clothing clipping through NPC in Inquisition Arrival Cinematic
• Fixed using RShift for Rebinding not being saved properly
• Fixes for Fader on a Staircase that was in the way of players view in the Crucible
• Fixed a bugged Sidling Ledge in the Nameless Pass
• Fixed Gordon NPC Eavesdrops not working correctly
• Fixed T-Posing Enemies when killed outside of player view
• Fixed for buildup chances on Frozen Enemies
• Removed chest spawn that was located in front of a ladder, interfering with its interaction
• Fixed similar bounties rolling at the same time
• Fixed unlocalized NPC Names
• Fixed incorrect Activities, Interaction Hints and Readable Lore Localizations
• Fix for character facing the wrong direction when speaking to NPC in Nameless Pass
• Fixed 2D UI displaying in the 3D world space
• Fixed Collision on Malec’s cage so player can no longer get stuck
• Updated Gamepad HUD Icons for remapped Food, Quick Items, Mainhand and Offhand
• Fixed Walk to Cursor and Rune Attack Button Icons displaying default Button Icons
• Fixed missing Health Bar for The Wallow boss from the Abomination Bounty
• Fixed enemy not tracking the player, while running behind it in specific Crucible location
• Nith Leviathan has learned how to drown (animation fixed)
• Fixed chance of Risen Kindler throwing Bomb in opposite direction of player
• Improved ability to climb certain walls in the Crucible
• Fixed confirmation module in remapping screen not reselecting module on controls list when closed
• Fixed F key binding causing character to fall off of ladders no matter what action it was bound to
• Fixed Siren getting stuck on environment in the Crucible
• Fixed unreachable and floating chests in the Crucible
• Fixed an unintended climbable edge in Nameless Pass
• Fixed interaction with Finley's sign in sacrament
• Fixed Player clipping through Vines at Crucible location
• Fixed Player jittering when jumping onto climbable wall in the Crucible
• Fixed low damage on Spike Traps in the Crucible
• Fixed male hairstyles that could clip with the player’s forehead
• Fixed for hard to interact with chest in the Orban Glades
• Fixed for Side Button key remaps not displaying on all scheme descriptions and tutorial prompts
• Fixed Loot Orb appearing in the air in Crucible
• Fixed Camera Zone in the Crucible so the player can better see climbable area and lever
• Fixed stretching mesh on the male body type neck
• Fixed darkening on bonfires in Sacrament during certain times of the day
• Decreased the Run Attack Damage on the Torn Grubhost enemy
• Fixed a hole in wall in Crucible where players could see out of world
• Fixed a gap in geometry in Crucible allowing players to fall out of the level
• Fixed misaligned collision in a pond in the Crucible
• Fixed collision on Pillars in Crucible allowing players to clip into them
• Fixed double fade out effect at the end of the Church Cinematic
• Fixed Base Attack Speed Increase percentage not working correctly
• Fixed unintended enemies spawning in the Crucible
• Fixed Shift + Num making Character Walk/Dodge instead of Run
• Fixed the respawn position for the Crucible Chamber
• Fixed Camera which would often zoom out to show non-aggroed enemy in the Crucible
• Fixed an instance where the player could have enough XP but would not level up
• Allowing Map/Gestures and Runes to Rebound to the same buttons (Gamepad)
• Fixed the possibility of remapping Interact to an occupied key
• Fixed Elemental Damage Descriptions
• Fixed Thorsten NPC’s VO cutting off too early
• Fixed Mouse and WASD descriptions displaying LMB instead of WASD
• Fixed a crash related to upscaling when setting was “DLSS” but was not available (AMD GPU)
• Fixed Flame Become Us Blueprint not working on Anvils
• Gnarled Saw weapon can now break destructible objects
• Fixed NPC rotating back to their original position after interaction with the player
• Fixed Russian text width on realms select screen
• Improved lighting around statues in Atrium where it was too dark
• Fixed Sword Special not dealing damage at the right moment during second impact when enemy is staggered
• Removed colliders from spikes in Nameless pass so enemies will properly die and not just get stuck when being pushed into them
• Fixed collision to unintended area in Nameless Pass
• Fixed enemies being pushed onto uneven collision above Whisper at beginning of Nameless Pass
• Fixed gap in geometry between Gordon’s pantry and the one next to it, allowing players to get stuck
• Fixed crash related to Leap Attacks
• Fixed for Death Screen translations
• Fixed Player being able to climb wall and jump out of world in house
• Fixed collision on Nameless Pass Bridge allowing players to skip Camp Area
• Fixed Player being able to climb wall to reach Lever early in Drainage Cellars Room, in the Black Trench
• Fixed a bug blocking the player after lowering water levels, blocking access to lever, in the Black Trench
• Fixed collision in the Black Trench allow players to go out of world
• Fixed dark area in water in the Black Trench
• Fixed Player clipping through wall avoiding the Piston Elevator in the Black Trench
• Removed non interactable Barrel from Ship’s Interior
• Fixed a bug where the player could fall into unintended area in the Potion Seller Cave
• Fixing collision on Rocks in Water near the Shallows allowing players to clip into geometry
• Fixed chest that was sunken into ground terrain in Nameless Pass
• Improved collision on sides of cliffs in Orban Glades
• Fixed player clipping inside crate when climbing a ladder in Nameless Pass
• Fixed Torn Rat clipping through floor of Crucible preventing player from clearing the level
• Moved around some rocks in Nameless pass to avoid enemies falling onto them
• Fixed chest spawning partially into wall in the Nameless Pass
• Fixed collision on Crane in Nameless Pass allowing player an easier time to jump back onto it
• Improved colliders on the Orban Glades elevator
• Fixed an invisible collider in the Shallows
• Fixed dialogue prompts after rebinding the skip button
• Fixed misaligned helmet for the Captain’s Helm on the model of the characters head
• Fixed a Kill Volume placement in Lower Glades
• Adjusted surface of rocks, preventing player from falling to their death easily in Orban Glades
• Fixed invisible collision in Western Bonfire Tower in Orband Glades
• Fixed enemy spawn so they are not immediately facing wall at the top of the Orban Glades
• Moved rocks in Orban Glades where the player was able to hide from enemies
• Fixed location where legs would clip through a wall when the player is sildling in Sacrament
• Player can no longer clip into bale of hay in Sacrament
• Fixed an invisible climbable area in Sacrament
• Fixed enemy getting stuck on a tree when pushed off a ledge in Crucible
• Adjusted NPC placement on the main decks of the ship so they are no longer floating in the air
• Fixed NPC Giles leaning against air in Sacrament
• Fixed NPC Fiora levitating a little above the bench in Sacrament
• Fixed a bug where the player was unable to sort their inventory in Eleanors Vendor Infuse menu
• Fixed the player being able to push rats
• Fixed “Reset to Default” affecting all schemes rather than the currently selected one
• Fixed water splashes appearing overly gray in color
• Fixed weapon VFX staying present after player is killed during attack animation
• Fixed collision in the Black Trench where the player could appear floating in the air
• Fixed location where the player was able to Dash into geometry in Mariners Keep
• Fixed collision at Gordons unbuilt kitchen to prevent players from clipping through floor
• Fixed collision on rocks next to Rookery Elevator in Sacrament
• Added player access to unintentionally locked room near War Room in Sacrament
• Fixed interaction radius on Finley's Shop Sign so player can interact easier
• Changed Sacrament bounds to prevent part of Orban Glades counting as Sacrament in UI
• Fixed collision on Shelf of Barrels and Crates near the Training Dummies in Sacrament
• Preventing the player from clipping into tower in Sacrament near Karina NPC
• Fixed collider where the player was able to get stuck in the air and see out of world in Sacrament
• Improved Camera shake during Echo Knight Fight
• Fixed missing Quest Marker during the “of Rats and Raiders” Questline
• Fixed collision behind Mira and Meri’s town shop, where the player could get stuck in wooden planks
• Added collision to a rock in Sacrament that previously did not have any
• Fixed collision on fountain basin in Sacrament allowing the player to climb it
• Preventing the player from stumbling when running up the stairs at the Rookery in Sacrament
• Fixed for when changes could not be saved to rebinding configurations in certain scenarios
• Updated resolution on Steam Deck button Icons
• Fixed texture on Gnarled Staff
• Fixed allowing missing attributes tutorial prompt to remain visible after closing inventory
• Improved camera shake during tree cutting to match collision time better
• Fixed response time for double tapping when consume food/items is remapped to “B”
• Fixed Prince of Lies Armor set on female and male characters
• Improved food sorting to show foods with highest heal values on the left
• Fixed spot where the player could get stuck inside barrels outside of Darak’s Boss Arena
• Fixed where the player could fall out of world through a gap in wall in Caroline’s Inn
• Fixed Fire Spitter VFX in Crucible, preventing unwanted artifacts
• Fixed an issue where armor body collars and glove trims were hidden
• Fixed Druid’s Roots armor piece clipping into female body
• Fixed for multiple armor sets on Female and Male Characters
• Fixed Keyboard controls on the resources contribution panels
• Fixed a bug with randomized challenges where abandoning them and re-accepting with reroll random elements of the challenge
• Fixed doubling footstep audio
• Fixed faders in water area at lower Sacrament, where the player was being hidden behind walls
• Fixed floating wave attack VFX for Bonded Witch enemy
• Fixed bug where enemy would stop attacking the player when they stand on railing in Orban Glades
• Fixed Tree clipping through the Tailor Sisters roof in Sacrament
• Fixed typos in Bounties and Armor items (line breaks)
• Fixed Fire Pit Inventory Tab to display Food rather than Resources right away
• Fixed unreachable chests in Nameless Pass under bridge
• Fixed Danos Vendor UI in different translations
• Fixed Ore Vein blocking ladder in Nameless Pass
• Fixed localization for Gestures screen
• Fixed unlocalized ‘Loading Realm’ in different languages
• Fixed ‘Learned Recipe’ not having correct Russian translation in the Inventory Menu
• Fixed ‘Gestures’ and ‘Map’ not having correct Russian translation in Rebinding Menu
• Fixed collider on a sidling ledge in Nameless Pass
• Fixed Gordon’s voice line being cut off too early
• Fixed pressing Y on modules screen in rebinding menu refocusing selector on controls list
• Fixed for rebinding off ‘Offhand Use’ to Keybutton 1,C,X or LT breaking switching tabs and discarding items
• Fixed collison on Vines in Nameless Pass where player was able to clip through
• Fixed for Sailor armor sets
• Fixed Laura and Reed affecting performance
• Fixed player being able to rebind Rune controls to already binded key buttons
• Fixed quest completion UI displaying incorrect remapped key icons
• Fixed Risen Leader and Cerim Tatters armor sets rigging
• Fixed uncaged Monstrosity bounty not accepting kills correctly
• Fixed player dodging when trying to use Bow’s Rune assigned to the same button
• Fixed unintended rolling when tapping Rune A too fast
• Fixed collision on Ship so the player is no longer able to jump on Steering Wheel
• Fixed special key buttons bound to ‘Run’ being ignored, with characters instead running to mouse cursor
• Fixed Plague Doctor Helmet where the players neck was becoming invisible when wearing it
• Fixed colliders/wind on various armor sets on female model
• Improved the piece count on Destructible Barrels to improve performance
• Fixed some UI Objects being enabled and disabled in the same frame causing performance issues
• Updated masks on Plague Doctor and Captain Randolph armor sets
• Fixed statuses not being removed after duration expires and multiple of the same status being applied to the player
• Fixed the Localization on “Not enough space in your gear inventory”
• Fixed a bug related to stat comparison where stat is highlighted as a 0 change when it should not be highlighted if stats are equal
• Fixed collision on Lodgings staircase where player could spam dodge until they were out of bounds
• Sped up the windup animation for the Boar’s charge attack
• Fixed navigation for Enemy pathing on a ramp in Nameless Pass, allowing enemies to successfully follow the player to the bottom
• Fixed a bug where a Challenge wasn’t updating when looting some Medium and Small dynamically spawned chests
• Fixed Wolf’s landing animation so they will always land on floor and not the air
• Fixed the Charge fire bow attack where arrow was misaligned before firing
• Fixed Wolves dragging the player with long attacks
• Fixed Stove interaction UI displaying through different floor levels in housing
• Fixed NumPad keys being displayed as symbols in schemes descriptions
• Fixed the attack range on the Risen Bulwark so it better matches the weapons model
• Fixed Localization on Turning Wheel interaction prompts
• Fixed an issue where enemies would T-Pose after drowning when player is far away and returns
• Fixed death reaction when frozen for different enemy types
• Fixed “Eat” action in HD still showing default button when “Food” is remapped
• Fixed floating debris taking a long time to disappear after breaking wooden doors
• Improved the Refineries display number to avoid confusion of remaining space available
• Fixed attributes on stats screen being cut off in Russian Language
• Fixed localization of consumable items in Russian Language
• Fixed localization of Bounties
• Fixed missing Localization for settings
• Fixed % symbol display for systems set to French language
• Fixed issue for German and Japanese where NPC names overlapped wit UI

⚔️ Known Issues:

• Being stuck in transitions at the start or end of cinematics for short duration (Fixed in hotfix build 14684)
• Losing resources you take out of refineries if you have a full inventory (Fixed in hotfix build 14684)
• Seneschal missing graphics for builder projects (Fixed in hotfix build 14684)
• Sacrament intro cinematic characters loading in before the cinematics starts then resetting