Patch v1.06a has just gone live! Take a look at the list of changes:

Most requested:

• Added many new whispers to Arthur for both Cuanacht and Forlorn Swords,

• Added Shader preloading. This will decrease or alleviate completely one reason for stutters on the first use of visual effects by the game on a per-machine basis,

Gameplay:

• Fixed heal value for Nature's Caress, Mother’s Embrace, and Divine Grace spells to be in line with their tooltips,

• Buffed Frostfang Dagger,

• Fixed Ulfr Stormforged Cape effect,

• Rebalanced The Horned Wardens Vestment's main effect 10>20% and added item level gain,

• Increased item level damage 0>2 for Leech Bite,

• Increased item level damage gain 1>2 for the following wands: Claire's Pen, Spellgorger, Unstable Conduit, Wand of Chain Lightning, Defiler's Spark, Twincast Twig, and Font of Recovery,

• Made Sunfish faster to catch,

• Made Sneep easier and more consistent to catch,

• Fixed armor proficiency gain after save and load,

Quests:

• Tiernan's furniture shop will now become available only after repairing the village jetty,

• Sine will now correctly reward the player with cash for completing her tasks,

• Fixed a quest progression issue in Over My Dead Bodies. If you're stuck on the "I have to uncover what he’s been experimenting on" objective, re-reading Caelum’s journal should resolve it,

• Implemented rewards for completing The First Men quest,

• Implemented rewards for the Aberrant Minds quest,

• The Ascension quest now grants the correct amount of experience points,

• Rebalanced the experience awarded for The Forked Path quest,

Technical:

• Updated to Unity 6000.0.51f, which has fixed one of the long-standing crashes on all platforms,

• Fixed an issue where the directional damage indicator sometimes wouldn’t disappear,

• Fixed UI navigation blockages in Handcrafting when using a gamepad,

• Fixed a case where saves were duplicated on game start if they were manually edited/duplicated in certain languages to have certain special characters in their names,

• Fixed overwriting of saves, not removing the old save file,

Graphics:

• Fixed gold horse armor,

• Divine Grace & Mother's Embrace – fixed timing and symbol orientation to match new animations,

• Ephemerate Crystal & Piercing Ember – added rotation to the crystal projectile,

• Fire Rune – adjusted VFX timing and improved fade-out,

• Resolve visual artefacts along the seam in the water pool portal,

• Fixed the variable speed of clouds in the rain,

• Skeleton archmage scythe material visibility,

• Crushing Blow and similar VFX optimization,

Audio:

• Neante VO fix,

• Added missing VO for Kestrel,

• Added missing barks for Asgall,

Misc:

• Fixed NPC markers for Vesna and some Children of Morrigan,

• Weightbound spell & Crippling Bolt spell effects now can be applied simultaneously,

• Changed Claire's Pen wand description (item works the same way, but it is now clearer on what it does),

• Chatterblade now taunts the hero less often,

• Clarified the end-game continuation popup: you can continue playing, but the final sequence cannot be replayed,

• Fixed mismatched eyebrow icons in the Character Creator