Combat Adjustments
- The Combat Rework!
o Attack indicators were removed with associated limitations on defensive actions (except for certain powerful and boss attacks that will still be unparryable, marked by a red glow).
o Increased dodge ranges to increase mobility.
o The Tutorials were adjusted to reflect the combat system changes.
- Reduced the camera stutters.
- Camera adjustments to make for a more pleasant experience (a.k.a the combat camera doesn't fight your camera input anymore).
- Increased weapon mastery speed.
- Reduced slow motion effect when getting hit.
- Reduced Irakka hitbox sizes, as well as general adjustments (less hp, less charge attack damage).
- Fixed target switch not working on Training Dummies in the tutorial.
- Increased damage of Rotten Longsword heavy attack and reduced HP of tutorial enemies for smoother first encounters.
- Increased radius for perfect dodges slightly again.
- Increased poise regens delays of enemies across the board.
- Equalized backstab damage to create consistency (with some higher damage exceptions)
- Adjusted hitboxes of some creatures (Irakka, Broodmother, Gwar).
- Adjusted difficulty presets slightly.
- Fixed possibility to cancel knockback death animation with jump.
- Fixed Xhinnon general hitboxes, various timing adjustments on attacks and stagger.
Collectibles & Exploration
- The Story Note "Creature Studies 3" is not missable anymore.
- Corrected subregion display of the Arcane Forge within the Tamed Peaks from "Chilling Passage" to "The Ascent".
- Ensured that all Acrean Legacies are not missable.
- Added chests containing bone dust within the first half of the Everforest.
- Added more crafting stations in the Everforest.
- Increased drop rates of crafting resources.
- Changed miscellaneous flavor voice lines throughout the game.
Trophies & Achievements
- All of these achievements were reported as problematic, and are now fixed in 1.7! We also added achievement re-evaluations on level load to ensure that all players get the unlocks if they encountered the issues before.
o Globetrotter: Find all Flux Fungi.
o Forest Expert: Complete the Everforest to 100%.
o Mountain Lover: Complete the Tamed Peaks to 100%.
o Wasteland Connoisseur: Complete the Seething Wastelands to 100%.
o Explorer by Heart: Complete the Convergence to 100%.
o Sponsor: Skill Boji up to 100%.
- Story Notes and Armor chests will now be counted in the Collectible lists on the world map.
- Fixed "Shapes in the fog" story note being missable.
Other fixed Issues & Problems
- Updated Credits.
- Removed Enemy Attack Indicators option from the settings menu.
- Fixed the ResolutionScale setting being reset on startup.
- Fixed difficulty settings sometimes not being saved.
Have a great time playing Stray Blade and please send us suggestions on what to include in the next Stray Blade update.
If you have a chance then please review Stray Blade on Steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1621990/Stray_Blade/
