Bleak Faith: Forsaken update for 4 March 2024

Changes:

• Camera distance offset setting now also affects holstered camera.
• Added fading material to most props in the game, greatly assisting with camera clipping.
• New setting: Holster Type; Keyboard Default: Separate Input; Gamepad Default: Combined Input.
• While combined input is enabled, hold the switch weapon keybind to holster weapons.
• New setting: Parry Type; Keyboard Default: Separate Input; Gamepad Default: Combined Input.
• While combined input is enabled, press the block keybind to parry, hold to block.
• New setting: Mouse Aiming Sensitivity.
• Switch Shoulder Camera moved to Lock Target keybind.
• Changed icons for certain debuffs.
• Running Attacks.
• Fixed Tenderizer and Mechanical Tenderizer weapon holds and updated their moveset.
• Game now autosaves roughly every minute to prevent any potential progress loss during a crash.
• New mini boss in Ghost Town, requires Plagued Blood from Asylum to start the fight.
• Diminishing returns on experience removed from Final Zone.
• Added "Dual Wield" weapon sort in inventory.
• Pierce, Whiplash, and Heavy Strike received the same tracking as regular attacks.
• Turning in Handler Echoes in NG+ now gives Anomalous Fragments if the handler is already at max level.
• New item: Ring of Slumber; Prevents the wearer from obtaining any experience.
• Looted from Monastery.
• Smoothered and reduced the duration of aim assist.
• Controller Scheme: Simplified, renamed to Simplified Modifier.
• New Controller Scheme: Simplified; Fully avoids the modifier button.
• Removed healing potions from Restless in the Monastery.
• Added "Removes Invincibility Frames" warning on all Tacticians Amulets.
• Improved optimization during seamless travel.
• Improved weapon hitbox detection precision.

Balancing:

• Slightly edited unique helmets anomalous crystals.
• Duelist upgrade perk that removes the delay before stamina regeneration after a successful block now instead removes the penalty from stamina regen while blocking.
• Ring of Command now increases durations of all summons; Elementals, Illusions, and Reanimated Corpses, instead of the previous summons' cooldown reduction.
• Silence debuff no longer reduces the cast time of bosses but instead reduces their ability damage by 5% per stack.
• Reduced arrow speed of enemies by an additional 30%.
• Combo Points are now obtained by dealing damage with regular attacks and stack up to 15.
• Associated perks have been edited to better synergize with the new system.
• Combo System remains unchanged; only the acquisition of the points themselves has changed.
• Adjusted the damage of the Giant in the upper block.

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where sometimes the character would be rotated incorrectly while on a ladder.
• Fixed a crash caused by switching to a previously removed weapon set.
• Fixed a low camera angle on bigger enemies during lock-on.
• Fixed constant fade on Uranopolis -> Ghost Town transition with seamless transitions on.
• Fixed FPS drops in inventory while quickly hovering over several armor pieces.
• Fixed Archinquisitors Sentinels sometimes not working properly.
• Chronoblade Timewarp now properly gets teleport along with Archinquisitors' phase change.
• Archinquisitors' clone no longer displays his debuffs on the boss health bar.
• Fixed Duelist second upgrade not restoring stamina on weapon switch.
• Fixed Asklepious projectiles not leeching flux.
• Pestilence no longer affects out-of-combat enemies.
• Pestilence properly applies extra debuffs.
• Increased the volume of Wormlords' sound effects.
• Fixed an issue where enemy AI breaks if a perfect parry was performed with Claymore or Tenderizer.
• Fixed high bash chance against bigger enemies.
• Fixed the incorrect duration of certain concoctions when the Tinkerer perk is active.
• Fixed an issue where the mouse cursor would be lost during the fast travel menu.
• Gamepad vibrations will no longer trigger if the last input was from the keyboard.
• Fixed an issue that caused roll backward to root character in place for 0.1 of a second.

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