THE CADAVER KEEP UPDATE
A new update has been birthed from our gestational sacs. This one will add a ton of new challenges to the Endless Region, including a new main story quest and further improvements to combat and general optimisation.
THE DUCHESS QUESTLINE
The hunt for Vela Callose continues in this update, with Vela's former comrade - known as the Duchess - arriving in the Endless Region.She inhabits a cluster of islands haunted by skeletons and spectral eyeballs, so finding her will be no easy task. But once you do, this powerful cipher-witch will send you on an even more perilous endeavour - to rescue her daughter from the terrifying Cadaver Keep.
This Keep is a brand new dungeon, teeming with enemies and treasure both. Just like Rustburg in our last update, there will be multiple paths to your goal - allowing you to slip past some of the more daunting combat encounters, if you have the skill.
- New main story quest: The Duchess
- New island added to the south of the Endless Region, where the Duchess questline begins
- Cadaver Keep now exists at the north of the Endless Region: a brand new multi-challenge dungeon
ENDLESS MINES
But the Endless region is also getting another massive dungeon. The Endless Mines are a vast complex of crystalline caves in which a malign psychic presence has taken root. This entirely optional dungeon will grant a huge amount of crafting materials, but also features an engrossing questline with multiple endings.
- New dungeon: the Endless Mines
- Rich with crafting materials
- Features new crystalline enemies and a quest with multiple endings
ENEMY ENHANCEMENTS
Humanoid foes can now drink potions to restore health and use shields to deflect attacks. This adds an extra layer of strategy to fights.
PERFORMANCE OVERHAUL
We've also vastly improved the way the game loads data between regions. This may make inter-region loading times a fraction longer, but it will improve performance all round.- Game now loads far fewer assets at once
- Structures in the game have low-poly variants when far away
Patch Notes
Major:
- New Quest: The Duchess, in which the player hunts down Vela's old comrade; an esoteric woman based in the Endless region.
- New Dungeon: Cadaver Keep, a multi-challenge dungeon teeming with cannibalistic enemies look for new prey.
- New Dungeon: Endless Mines, a sprawling underground crystalline cave network with a underlying sinister presence.
- Enemy Enhancements: Certain enemies have been reworked to be able to drink potions and use shields to add a new layer of strategy to combat.
- Performance Overhaul: Overall performance improvements - Game loads fewer assets at once, in-game structures now have low-poly variants when far away, and loading save data is now more efficient.
Balance:
- The number of spells a player can have equipped now scales from 1 - 4 based on that player's Spellcast skill.
- Players were getting confused by the feature that prevented stamina from draining when a weapon was sheathed, so this feature has been reverted.
Miscellaneous
- The journal map has been updated with new landmarks and landmasses, including Rustburg and the game's new Endless areas.
- Added a secret passage next to the Wikkan statue in Hallowshire, which was supposed to mark a secret.
Bugfixes:
- A number of changes have been made to dialogue, correcting small errors etc.
- Fixed a number of UI bugs that were causing minor glitches in certain menus.
- Fixed the alchemy screen not being usable with a controller.
- Fixed a bug that would softlock the game when sheathing weapons while crouched.
- Made it harder for large enemies to push the player through walls.
- Fixed the Flesh Door in the Endless region opening too slowly.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent the Penchant for Dreaming quest from being completed if the journal was picked up too early.
- Fixed an exploit that was allowing players to craft too many items.
- Fixed an exploit that was causing sold items to still buff the player.
- Fixed a bug where the player could attack while drinking a potion.
- Breakable doors now correctly register spellcasts as hits.
- Arrow colliders no longer damage the player when they're on the floor.
- Fixed an issue where the Chained God would repeat dialogue every player death.
- Fixed bug where levers wouldn't play their animations.
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