Greetings from Rokugan!

1.0.3 just released, and another patch means another set of patch notes for Shadowveil: Legend of the Five Rings, so let's dive in. This patch includes some of the first of QoL changes that are highly requested by the community, more to come!
Special thanks to the players in the Shadowveil Discord and the players on the Shadowveil Steam Forum for continuing to report and help track down issues. The Crab Clan appreciates your efforts!

Known Issues

• We are still verifying why some missions fail to reward the player properly or cannot be redeemed, if this happens to you, please send your save file on discord
  
• There is still rare random crashes in battles or loading save files, as above please report it on discord
  
• Resolutions with 16:10 or other less common aspect ratios may have issues with the UI
  
• Achievements for some don't trigger correctly, we have a potential solution in a upcoming patch
  

Version number 1.0.3.18376

Added

• Added QoL: Speed from each combat is now kept
  
• Added QoL: Save backups can now be accessed in main menu, and now also keeps the last 3 combats as well as the last 3 watchtower saves
  
• Added QoL: Inventory is accessible during reward screens
  
• Added 2 events that were missing in previous patches
  
• Added small cutscene at each Gragokku fight to explain his escape
  
• Added sound effect for activating Lost Library Guardian pressure plates
  

Optimization

This is the fourth optimization package that touches on many areas of the game, our tech and art wizards have in some areas and settings lowered required RAM and VRAM significantly. We are currently in a much better state than we were 2 weeks ago, but we aren’t done yet!
We have also added a large package of extra graphics settings to make it possible for you to customize them for max performance!

• Added and reworked over 10 new graphic settings
  
• Tweaked Skylight settings on all lighting scenarios to match each other (Removed Realtime sampling)
  
• Relit Cave scenarios to be more representative of a indoor scenario
  
• Tweaked several lighting scenarios to remove unwanted visuals artefacts
  
• Optimized refresh of inventory when you have many cards
  

Updates

• Balance: Slightly adjusted attributes to hit diminishing return earlier
  
• Balance: Enemies gain slightly more HP per chapter
  
• Updated so nezumi favor should only give 1 PC
  
• Updated so game can now be launched with Vulkan
  
• Updated a number of materials to avoid flickering
  
• Updated so enemy hover now shows DEF and their abilities directly
  
• Removed collision on all static objects in all loadouts to make sure tile, hoverselctions etc are no longer blocked for the player
  
• Swapped order of Active Duties and Diplomatic Advancements
  
• Updated Chapter 9 boss fight Slower creeping-taint and extra healing to sibling with Wallkeepers promise
  
• Changed Chapter 9 Oni lord finale phase should be much easier and more streamlined now, and less laggy.
  

Critical Fixes (Crashes/Softlock)

• Fixed potential crashes with Oni Lord attacks
  
• Fixed potential random crash related to items
  
• Fixed potential softlock in chapter 2 boss fights
  
• Fixed potential softlock at the end of a boss phase if the player lost
  
• Fixed softlock when pausing just when killing last enemy Lost Library Guardian
  
• Fixed issue where narrative barks could break if you played through them fast enough (for example killing a boss “too” quick)
  
• Fixed a crash when going back to the main menu while a sibling is ordering a unit
  
• Fixed Opening inventory during reward flow and then closing permanently hides important UI
  
• Fixed Opening inventory at wrong times will no longer permanently disable important UI
  
• Fixed potential softlock where Fog of War in worldmap did not update
  
• Fixed potential crash when exiting bossfight when boss abilties was active
  

Fixes

• Fixed potential issue with Ancient temple (Again x3)
  
• Fixed issue with bosses stun immunity
  
• Fixed so item “Fists of Jade” properly resets during boss battles
  
• Fixed a additional decoy from 'Construct a Decoy' that was present in the second fight after being killed in a previous fight
  
• Fixed “Cut” ability not scaling correctly
  
• Fixed ability “I am the Wall” should now show the same value in both tooltip and card description
  
• Fixed issue with tutorial map nodes
  
• Fixed issue with challenge “Had That Built”
  
• Fixed Inventory no longer has a cap
  
• Fixed Pause menu can no longer be re-opened while already open
  
• Fixed issue second stage of the mission “Back From the Cliff“
  
• Fixed issue where a quest item thought it was an eternal item
  
• Fixed issues with quest items
  
• Fixed “Kuni Jade Ritual” now gives the proper amount of bonus Fortitude
  
• Fixed issue where deploy button was enabled after combat started
  
• Fixed so “Quest Added” notification no longer shows every time you save and load
  
• Fixed so units can now receive up to 3 item slots in a run
  
• Fixed Max health modifier changes will no longer make the unit think it took damage
  
• Fixed issue where samurai cards was not counted for challenge “Victorious Adventurer”
  
• Fixed issue with challenge “Experienced party” not updating on levelup
  
• Fixed so beating Gragokku in run 9 now also triggers Goblin Skull Bounties diplomatic advancement
  
• Fixed issue with save/load and the Possessed Goblin
  
• Fixed issue where you could upgrade cards on dead units
  
• Fixed so Radial menu now closes if you start dragging any unit
  
• Fixed “Stand Together” ability description to actually be accurate
  
• Fixed issue where spamming combine button gave additional items
  
• Fixed issue where Kuni Kitsu would clone herself to try take over the empire
  
• Fixed “Unlock additional duty slot” upgrade now consumes the relics properly on purchase
  
• Fixed Ch5 boss phase transition will now retain black screen until next phase is fully loaded
  
• Fixed issue with unit stat reward text
  
• Various Localization fixes
  
• Various small UI fixes
  
• Various VFX tweaks
  

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How to report a bug?

If you should encounter any issues, feel free to let us know. You can do so by submitting them in the Bug-report Channel in the Shadowveil Discord.

Thank you for playing Shadowveil: Legend of the Five Rings!

With love,
The Palindrome Interactive team