Patch 0.3.2 (29th November 2016)

GENERAL:

- New: Player chest ! The player chest is now available in Amarth. You will also find a player chest in the housing furnitures for you to access your gear from your house. The player chest is shared between your characters.
- New: audio assets and audio system, triggering “horde” sound according to the number of enemies around
- Improved: Many of the content has been splitted for better loading times and, in the future, smaller updates. It should be the last 8Gb update! We now have 68 .pak, and we plan to split the data even more.
- Improved: Faster loading times. We once again optimized many files and you should gain a few seconds.
- Fixed: Plants near the river will now only give ferns, so players will always have enough to complete “The Cure” quest.
- Improved: The camera position has been slightly adjusted
- Removed: Halloween event dungeon.

UI & VISUALS:

- The ROS has been reworked and the white overlay is now combined with arrows to indicate the current flow direction and bars to delimitate the different costs in the queue. Skills can now have different transferring speed from one resource to the other, and this will help us to balance resource exchanges in the future. Since we haven’t find the right transfert time for each skill yet, you may experience situations were lots of costs queue on the interface (lots of small bars in Umbra or Rage) but this will be fixed in the future.
- Improved: Some particle optimizations (rock polygon count and textures)
- Improved: timing of combo particles
- Improved: Character sheet UI
- Improved: Inventory UI
- Fixed: A player light was disabled when leaving a dungeon
- Fixed: A rare bug when the wrong time of day was loaded in a dungeon (finally!)

HOUSING:

- Modified: Housing is now shared across all your characters. Due to this change, we had to wipe the houses. However, you can retrieve your house by going to Wolcen’s installation folder/user/savegames/ and by renaming your old house file (“YOURCHARACTERNAME_house.xml”) into “House.xml”.

HOUSING ITEMS:

- New: Chests
- New: Two wall cages
- New: Couches

AUDIO:

- New: crossbow shooting sounds
- New: sounds for each Ammo type
- New: impact sounds for crossbow
- New: zombie sounds
- New: “hord” sound system triggering different audio according to the number of enemies in an area
- New: Zombie Horde sounds have been configured
- New: Burning Hord sounds have been configured
- Fixed: Ambient sound wasn’t set correctly in game start
- Improved: Ambiance sound in Amarth was too loud and inconsistent, still WIP

ANIMATIONS:

- New: Idle_air for Player

LOCALIZATION:

- New: CharacterSheet Localization and tooltips, located in the text_ui_player.xml file.
- Fixed: All the “Zombies” strings in the Creatures file weren’t working since the keys were wrong.
- Fixed: issue with the “Key Color” formatting in Dungeons.

GAMEPLAY:

- New: A Block mechanic for shields and some other items. Shields have now a chance to block a physical attack (melee, shot or physical spell) at all times, and a “Block Efficiency” parameter that represent the Damage reduction from the Blocked attack (80 Block Efficiency = you take only 20% of the Blocked Damage). Channeling with the Shield will result in a 100% Block Chance on frontal attacks. Those new values will be affected by Passive Skills and Magic Effects in the future.
- New: Legendary pickaxe, “The Ice Breaker”. Does bonus damage to frozen enemies.
- Modified: Raised default Time Before Rage Loss to 5 seconds.
- Modified: Slightly lowered drop chances on enemies.
- Modified: Raised Legendary Item drop chance.
- Modified: Movement Speed is now a little less affected by Dexterity
- Modified: Increased movement speed of the Skull Crusher.
- Modified: Increased drop chance of potions and poisons.
- Fixed: Shooting with Ammo Skills toggled on will now grant XP to the Skills.
- Fixed: Some skills were sometime spending several times the resource amount while being cast only once.
- Fixed: Some skills could be casted at the same time.
- Fixed: Two Handed Hammer charged attack was putting enemies on the ground for too long.
- Fixed: Many items could not roll with magical properties.
- Fixed: Some Magic effects in Passive Skills and Loot were stacking way more than they should in the first place.
- Fixed: Some parts of the Loot Generator were broken, resulting in high Legendaries drops and affixes spawning at the wrong level.

Patch 0.3.2 (29th November 2016)

AFFIXES:

- New: Frost Damage percent affix (rolls on amulets and rings)
- New: Umbra Damage percent affix (rolls on amulets and rings)
- New: Physical Damage percent affix (rolls on amulets and rings)
- New: Spell Damage percent affix (rolls on amulets, rings and capes)
- New: Physical Damage Resistance affix (rolls on amulets, rings, shields and chest armors)
- New: Resistance against all elements affix (rolls on amulets, rings, capes and chest armor)
- New: Stun Resistance affix (rolls on amulets, rings, chest armors, belts and shields)
- New: Stun Duration Reduction affix (rolls on amulets, rings, chest armors, belts and shields)
- New: Stun Duration Bonus affix (rolls on one and two handed hammers)
- New: Poison damage affix (rolls on melee and ranged weapons)
- New: Weapon damage points affix (rolls on melee and ranged weapons)
- New: Weapon damage percent affix (rolls on melee and ranged weapons)
- New: Health points affix (rolls on all armor pieces, jewelry and accessories and shields)
- New: Health Regen points affix (rolls on all armor pieces, jewelry and accessories and shields)
- New: Rage Per Strike affix (rolls on all melee weapon types and shields)
- New: Rage Per Hit Received affix (rolls on shields)
- New: Rage Loss affix (rolls on amulets and rings)
- New: Resource Pool percent affix (rolls on amulets and rings)
- New: Umbra Cost Reduction affix
- New: Shield Angle affix (rolls on shields)
- New: Dodge Chance affix (rolls on amulets, rings and chest armors)
- New: Root Chance affix (rolls on all weapon types)
- New: Block Chance percent affix (rolls on shields)
- New: Melee weapon range affix (rolls on all melee weapons except daggers)
- New: Thorns damage affix (rolls on armor pieces, shields and jewelry)
- New: Spell Critical Chance affix (rolls on amulets, rings and capes)
- New: Spell Critical Damage affix (rolls on amulets, rings and capes)
- New: Spell Casting Speed affix (rolls on amulets and rings)
- New: Spell Resistance affix (rolls on amulets, rings, belts, capes and all other armor types)
- New: Magic Find affix (rolls on amulets, rings and belts)
- New: Pick Radius affix (rolls on amulets, rings, belts and gloves)
- New: Potion Healing affix (rolls on belts)
- Modified: Rare items now have a minimum of 4 affixes and a maximum of 6 affixes (2 prefixes and 4 suffixes).
- Modified: Legendary items now roll with a minimum of 7 affixes and a maximum of 9 affixes (3 prefixes and 6 suffixes).
- Modified: Movement Speed affix is now a suffix.
- Modified: Attack Speed affix is now a suffix.
- Modified: Attack Speed affix now rolls on belts, gloves, amulets and rings.
- Modified: Dexterity pts affix should not roll on shields anymore.
- Modified: Armor pts and percent affixes can now roll on boots and helmets.
- Modified: Cooldown Reduction affix can now roll on belts and capes.
- Modified: Rage Cost Reduction affix can now roll on helmets,belts and melee weapons.
- Modified: Movement Speed affix can now roll on rings and amulets.
- Modified: Fire Resistance affix now rolls on shields and capes.
- Modified: Lighting Resistance affix now rolls on shields and capes.
- Modified: Frost Resistance affix now rolls on shields and capes.
- Modified: Umbra Resistance affix now rolls on shields and capes.
- Modified: Strength points and percent affixes are now suffixes.
- Modified: Dexterity points and percent affixes are now suffixes.
- Modified: Power points and percent affixes are now suffixes.
- Modified: Constitution points and percent affixes are now suffixes.
- Modified: Strength points affixes can now roll on all armor pieces.
- Modified: Strength percent affixes can now roll on amulets and rings.
- Modified: Dexterity points affixes can now roll on all armor pieces.
- Modified: Dexterity percent affixes can now roll on amulets and rings.
- Modified: Power points affixes can now roll on all armor pieces.
- Modified: Power percent affixes can now roll on amulets and rings.
- Modified: Constitution points affixes can now roll on all armor pieces.
- Modified: Constitution percent affixes can now roll on amulets and rings.
- Modified: Health points affix can roll again on weapons.
- Modified: The “all attributes” points and percent affix now rolls on all item types.
- Modified: Numerous changes to affix values, frequencies and levels.
- Modified: Numerous changes to affix groups, so better combinations of affixes can roll on items.
- Fixed: Armor percent affix should now roll on amulets and rings as intended.
- Fixed: Cooldown Reduction affix should now roll on amulets and rings as intended.
- Fixed: Rage Cost Reduction affix should now roll on amulets and rings as intended.
- Fixed: Critical Chance bonus should now roll on amulets and rings as intended.
- Fixed: Physical Damage increase affix should now roll on amulets and rings as intended.
- Fixed: Frost Nova autocast affix should now only roll on amulets and rings as intended.
- Fixed: Fire Damage increase affix should now roll on amulets and rings as intended.
- Fixed: Lightning Damage increase affix should now roll on amulets and rings as intended.
- Fixed: Fire Resistance affix should now roll on amulets and rings as intended.
- Fixed: Lighting Resistance affix should now roll on amulets and rings as intended.
- Fixed: Frost Resistance affix should now roll on amulets and rings as intended.
- Fixed: Umbra Resistance affix should now roll on amulets and rings as intended.
- Fixed: Critical Damage affix should now roll on amulets and rings as intended.

PASSIVE SKILLS:

- Modified: Power Attribute was poorly represented in the Tree, so several Power bonus (Points and Percentages) have been added to existing skills.

Arcanist

- Modified: Battle-Ready, Mystical Forces, Umbra Regeneration and Magical Affinity now include a Power bonus.
- Modified: Umbra Pool Extended has been rebalanced.

Elementalist

- Modified: Master of Elements and Absolute Zero now include a Power bonus.

Assassin

- Modified: Chained Executions now includes a Power bonus.

Thief

- Modified: Time-Slowing Leap now includes a Power bonus.

Gladiator

- Modified: Path to Glory, All Against One, Expert and Killing Chain have been rebalanced.

Legionary

- Modified: Change of Mind and Enraged have been rebalanced.

Trickster

- Modified : Momentum, Lethal Strikes and Lethal Strikes Extended have been rebalanced

Guardian

- Modified : Thorn, Metallic Aura and Shards have been rebalanced

Patch 1.12 Update (30 November 2016)

- This update is for Windows, the mac & Linux versions will be updated as soon as possible.

- Fixed crash when DOT has a text line triggered in the ZU village (https://github.com/renaudbedard/fez-1.12-issues/issues/163)
- Fixed crash on exiting the 4-block ZU puzzle room (https://github.com/renaudbedard/fez-1.12-issues/issues/165)
- Fixed broken camera follow on rotating platforms and screwbolts
- Fixes to unfold puzzle block physics : block depth is not manipulated behind the player's back, block penetration lessened, more consistent experience overall
- Reverted to .NET 4.0 to support Windows XP like the original release did
- Fixed crashes when toggling hardware instancing
- Fixed rendering issues (missing objects) when hardware instancing is switched off
- Fixed camera position when going through spin-through doors
- Multiple fixes to threading that caused crashes in level transitions
- HighDPI support for macOS
- Fix for split-up-cube collector being visible and full when loading a save file
- Cleaned up and fixed logging of errors for save file system
- Fix for 5.1 surround sound panning
- Fix for crashing in level transitions related to sky layer updates
- Fix for crashing related to DS3 and DS4 controllers

Update (30 November 2016)

- The Mac version of DEFCON has received an updated version of the SDL framework and should be much more compatible with OS X 10.12.

Compatibility update (30 November 2016)

- fixed incompatibility with Mac OS X 10.12 (Sierra)

Patch 1.2.0.3 (30 November 2016)
Fixes + Enhancements:

- Fix for Legendary officers behaving badly (not repeating tasks, not arriving with skills, cloning themselves, etc...)
- Pirate and Alien Faction Engineering ships now cannot be customizable, like their existing Tactical and Science counterparts
- Fix for some mission indicators remaining on the starmap
- Fixed bug for missing Officer name when attacking Chruul on the starbase
- Fixed dialogue bug with mission, "The Cold, Xlar'd Truth"
- Fixed bug where multiple spires would spawn immediately after the other

Animation + UI:

- Increased Starmap and Starbase scrolling speeds.
- Fixed cursor-tracking when panning the Starbase view.

Quests + Economy:

- Pirate officers are no longer clonable (they're just not made of the Right Stuff)
- Spire no longer automatically spawns around Day 200 if you don't visit New Terra

Ships/Officers + Powers:

- Improved damage and effectiveness of Epic power EMP Overcharge
- Reduced the chance of getting a negative trait from retreating from 50% to 20%

Patch 1.0.2.0021 (30 November 2016)
Quest Fixes

- Allied faction representatives should be present in Ascension Hall toward the end of the game when sided with the rebel groups, regardless of if you have responded to Bleden Mark.
- The battle with Nerat will end properly after his ending speech if you choose to engage him in battle.
- "Armies of the North" should now be given to you after killing Nerat last.
- Players who kill Bleden Mark and then earn Tunon's submission will no longer be offered fealty by the ghost of Bleden Mark.
- "That Which Remains" will update appropriately when shooting the winch and defeating the Unbroken enemies.
- The Forge in Lethian's Crossing is open after traversing the Oldwalls and returning to Lethian's Crossing.
- While on "In the Shadow of the Oldwall", Welby should appear in the proper location in Twin Rivers.
- "At Any Cost" will progress appropriately if you have become the Prima of the Stonestalkers before betraying your alliances and continuing forward without any allied factions.
- Bleden Mark's conversations will continue appropriately even when you have the same level of Wrath and Favor with the Disfavored and Scarlet Chorus.
- Oath Bound units can be engaged properly in Duskwatch.
- Red Fang will talk to the player after a player allied with the Scarlet Chorus betrays their alliance and goes to Gulfglow looking for the Azure Shield.
- Acalia will progress the "Language of the Ancients" quest after moving from Effigy to the Burning Library.
- Kallion remembers the state of his sister at the end of "Blind Ambition."
- Non-combat dialog choices with Kalea now grant the "Blind Ambition" quest as well.
- Player who betrayed Jagged Remedy can now advance quest "Bound by Blade" by attacking Mattias in Trapper's Junction.
- Osmios will no longer kill Agathon in "Into the Maelstrom."
- Players who recruited multiple factions due to an earlier issue can now progress using their existing save.
- Stonestalkers will help player seeking their alliance fight Earthshakers in Howling Rock.
- Earthshakers now attempt to continue ritual during raid on their Howling Rock fortress.
Garrick no longer thanks player for stealing his tools.
- Eb will no longer tell a player who betrayed the rebels which rebel groups they might recruit.
- Irentis and his soldiers will now aid an allied player who chose to help him in fighting the Scarlet Chorus.
- An objective in the quest "Forge-Bound Iron" no longer incorrectly refers to the defeat of Matani Sybil.
- During the Battle of Duskwatch, Agathon will have friends when fighting players allied with the Disfavored.

Text Fixes:

- Numerous typos addressed.
- Multiple localization improvements.
- Ulantis text finalized.
- Clarified tooltip for Eb's "Purifying Waters" ability.
- Clarified tooltip for Sirin's "Song of Benediction" ability.

Gameplay Fixes:

- Multiple crashes reported by the community should no longer occur.
- Multiple instances of loot containers that previously did not appear lootable now do.
- Numerous minor fixes to enemy presentation in specific scenes.
- Player can now use skills to release Disfavored in Rust Canyons.
- Liberating Plainsgate from the Chorus now requires killing all members of that faction present.
- The World Map is accessible from Ironhaul Trail while allied with the Disfavored.
- Eb's "Terratus Embrace" ability will exit properly if companions try to switch weapons while in mid-air.
- Eb will speak with player in Act 3 even if she doesn't particularly like them.
- Sirin will no longer forget Songs when loading a save.

Audio Fixes:

- Numerous new audio cues added throughout game.
- Correct music will now play after defeating a specific enemy.

Interface Fixes:

- Saves should always be visible in save menu.
- Added portraits to the store menu of several vendors.
- Halfgate will no longer be referred to as Plainsgate in the Reputation Menu.

Programming Updates:

- Reduced significant animation memory overhead.
- Improved asynchronous loading of files at startup.

Art Book Update:

- A typo has been fixed in an art book heading.