Patch 16707 (27 December 2016)

- Added option to disable party first sort in roster list.
- Fix for crashes related to Razer headset drivers. (This should also help those affected by nahimic crashes).
- Fix closing hot key sub menus help/glossary.
- Updated journal fonts.
- Fix to riposte tooltip.
- Fix to inventory tooltips that overlap.
- Fix to map hitboxes.
- Fix to the background image in DD Quest 3.
- Various visual tweaks

Update 1.0.0.7 Hotfix 2 (27 December 2016)
It's a Christmas miracle!? As my wife rushes about to try to get the children ready to go to my mother's, I'm furiously typing away trying to get the build out and bust out this change log, it's quite a scene... I apologize for various things that have gone awry in the past builds, honestly, it's mostly my fault and I attribute at least some of it to my brain being scrambled these past couple weeks between everything going on here at Crate plus the impending holiday madness. Hopefully this should mostly address current build issues, at least to an extent that everyone can resume enjoying the game and we can pick up with any remaining fine-tuning needed in the new year.
I hope everyone has a great weekend and happy holidays for those celebrating them!
-Medierra
Tech

- Fixed a bug with DPS comparison on weapons when using an item skill located on a weapon as your primary attack.
- Fixed a bug with stacks of Illusion items.
- There is a known inexplicable bug where Phantamsal Blades lost their trails... probably a sync error but we felt it was better to release the important fixes sooner and fix that minor graphics issue later.

Game

- Environmental lighting and atmospheric changes re-adjusted to something closer to 1.0.0.6
- Camera reverted to as close to original settings as I could manage without being able to dig up the old dbr.

Itemization

- Enery potions revised to 25s cooldown, 250 flat and 35% energy restored.
- Health potion flat health reduced from 1200 to 800.

Class & Skills
Soldier

- Added flat physical dmg to Laceration

Demolition

- Increased health regen on higher levels of Vindictive Flame
- Added energy cost reduction to Ulzuin's Chosen
- Reduced energy cost of Grenado

Ravenous Reindeer v12 - Patch 12.24.2016 (27 December 2016)

- It’s been an intense two weeks of reworking large chunks of code, but it is now possible to Quicksave your progress mid-mission and reload it from the title screen.

Patch 1.3.0.0008 (28 December 2016)

- fixed a minor crafting issue

Patch 1.0.5.0001 (28 December 2016)

- 8 new portraits for your character

Improvements

- Added tanning racks to get more leather
- You can select your characters during the placement phase by clicking on the combat queue.
- The Crafting screen now separates schematics by weapon type and armor material and orders them alphabetically.
- You can now select techniques without the required materials, to preview the bonuses.
- You can see the THC, CS and ADC on area of effect attacks.
- You can now change where your character is facing during combat for 1 AP. Left click on the character and hold to choose direction.
- The textbox can be moved and resized.
- You can use the highest Crafting skill from any companion while in camps even if they aren't in your party
- Clicking on Loot All moves to the next body with items.

Changes

- Increased Hieron's block to 4 from 1 and CS to 5 from 4
- Changed Roxana's xbow/throwing to 6/6 from 5/7
- Increased Yngvar's CON by 1, decreased INT by 1, lowered his Axe and Block to 8 from 9.
- Ant chitin armor weighs less and requires less material to craft
- Killing Roxana grants SP.
- Tweaked gorza's (the new hammer) stats.
- Replaced the fight with 5 ants in the deep caves with a wounded scolopendra.
- Doubled the bonus to vsCS from CON.
- Tweaked CS formula calculation for aimed strikes.
- Ranged weapons use perception for aimed arms and legs
- Whirldwind effect for daggers, swords and 1h spears is bleeding instead of knockdown; higher chance to score.
- Constructs are now affected by knockdown, bash, attack and dodge penalties but they are a bit harder to bash or knockdown than human enemies.

Balance

- Base block is increase to 25 from 15.
- Increased chance to fully block attacks.
- Increased regular shields hardness.
- Increased crude shields vsRanged.
- Shields vsRanged no longer added when dodging (it's taken into account if block + vsRanged is higher than dodge).
- Increased base critical rating to 15 per CS point.
- Changed the berserk potion progression (Max is 40/10 from 50/5).
- Doubled the antidote's effect.
- Made the acid vial's effect stronger and available earlier. Now all of them do HP damage. Reduced throwing range. Increased AP.
- Splash Acid adds AoE similar to bombs.
- Increased Hammers' armor damage to 2.
- Increased Swords' bleeding damage to 3.
- Increased Bows' passive chance

New SP System

- The new system makes reaching higher levels more costly, but enemies have lower skills, so the investment gives a better pay-off. Intelligence gives much higher rewards than before, and some SP rewards have been increased.
- Intelligence now gives flat bonus points per combat.
- Increased skills costs for levels 5 and higher.
- Increased SP rewards for some fights.
- Lowered the skills of all enemies to match the new gain from the player.

Bomb Changes

- Tweaked bomb critical formula. Center of explosion adds more bonus, but each point of CON over 6 protects more.
- 25 + Center of Explosion Bonus - (Victim CON-6) x25
- Center of explosion adds 50% to CS chance. Distance from center of explosion lowers this value.
- Increased damage and vsDR bonus.

Fixes

- CS facing bonus works correctly now.
- Fixed the chest near the crystal caves' forge.
- Opponents using Throwing weapons use correct APs.
- Mobility bonus is now disabled for knocked down characters.
- Fixed the disappearing construct issue if sent to the forge before activating the ancient facility.
- Scolopendras now have attacks of opportunity.
- Fixed the projectile collision on long bridges.
- Fixed extreme friendly fire with ranged weapons in crowded fights.
- Enemies will not bash creatures that are immune to bash.
- Fixed the issue with the AI and doors.
- Fixed the passable wall in rock bottom.
- Fixed the loop in crevice text interaction.

Languages

- We'd like to thank the Russian and Spanish-speaking players who translated all the text and dialogues. We are humbled and very, very grateful for their effort to bring the game to people who wouldn’t be able to play it otherwise. You can change the language in the Options menu (via the Languages drop-down selection).

Update 1.3.1 (27 December 2016)

- added Japanese localization

Patch 17 (28 December 2016)

- In celebration of the Winter Solstice and Necholai’s worst after party, we’re ready to release update 17! We’ve been poking at Shroomers and Serpent for a while now to optimize a lot of the behind-the-scenes systems, especially load times. The engine has been updated and with some heavy optimization to art and loading structures we’re looking at 60-70% speed increase. Maps should load in at ~5 seconds, depending on your system or how large the map is.

- Besides that we’ve had some other system updates for stability and content tweaks listed below.

- We have some art and content for the expansion, A Banquet For Fools, that we’re planning on releasing next year. There is the perfect amount of monks, mead and illuminated manuscripts.

- Merry Christmas!
- Joe & Hannah

System

- Load time optimization
- Revamped ammunition system — for fringe cases of some equipped ammo disappearing on game loads

UI

- Cursor can move off the edge of the screen in windowed mode in Windows

Gameplay

- Stabilized fringe cases of temporarily de-syncing party order in inventory screen when a member is removed in certain conversations
- Seraphim will allow you to retry to let him in your party after refusing him.
- Various dialogue and NPC inventory tweaks

Update (28 December 2016)

- Added the Spanish version of Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse to everyone's accounts.


Patch gog-2 (22 September

Patch 2.1.2c (28 December 2016)

- Fixed overworld scrolling bug


Patch 2.1.2b (28 December 2016)

- Fixed skills/equip button toggle in party menu for gamepad
- Fixed wrong recruit screen button
- Fixed "infinite buy" bug on shop screen for gamepad
- Fixed inconsistencies with mouse cursor


Patch 2.1.2a (28 December 2016)

- Added a equip/skills toggle to party screen for gamepad & SC mode
- Added mouse-clickable rename/reset pts btns to party screen for SC mode
- Fixed soft keyboard input for SC (was broken)
- Added gamepad button to recruit/redesign screen for easy renaming
- Added cycle defenders back/forth to Left & Right grip on default SC config
- Fixed crash bug for windowed mode
- Fixed bug where fancy mouse would be forced even if you'd selected default


Patch 2.1.2 (28 December 2016)

- Fixed lots of bugs with controller support
- Updated Russian localization (still some bugs left that are my fault, not the translators')
- Fixed various crashes
- Replaced triangular "fancy" cursor with hand-shaped "fancy" cursor
- Fixed a bug in the final battle where enemies who reached an unoccupied alternate end point would damage the main character immediately instead of turning around
- Fixed incorrect shade background in bonus menu
- Avoid insta-clicking bug in party menu with controller
- Fixed broken tutorial in party menu with controller
- Fixed invisible characters in party summon menu bug
- Fixed "phantom fireball" bug on crystal explosion
- Fixed bug where "use same party formation as last time" would allow you to summon characters on top of crystals

Patch 1.7.0 (29 December 2016)

- Fixed numerous cases of game crashes with the "Invalid Pointer Operation" messages. If these errors keep showing up, please let us know.
- Improved interface for the strategic map. Now province names are always displayed on the map, so you won't have to search endlessly for that one province you need.

Patch 1.2.1.2 (29 December 2016)

- in some edge cases (related to missions in a specific state), save files weren't loading. After some dev wizardry, this is corrected with v1.2.1.2


Patch 1.2.1.1 (23 December 2016)

- hotfix for an errant tutorial arrow.

Patch 2.75 (29 December 2016)

- You will need to start a NEW game as saves from version 1.93 are not compatible with version 2.75!

Fixed:

- Hole near courtyard wall under rocks where Tilo can fall out of the world.
- Elevator basket (between tower and garden) is not useable after a reload.
- Tessellation sliders jump back to their default values.
- Antialiasing option resets to ON.
- Texture resolution reverts to normal.
- Sneak Desaturate option reverts to ON.
- Ambient occlusion option reverts to ON.
- Debug menus linger on even after latest build fix.
- Section trigger missing when dropping from outcrop in courtyard next to G&F’s cell.
- Tilo sometimes throws the tool he's holding when closing a menu via the mouse if the “Throw” action is mapped to the left-click.
- Rats can stop giving chase to Tilo in some cases.
- Show HUD option not synchronized with actual option.
- Some NPCs' inventory is not repopulated after loading a save during the same session.
- Missing section trigger for elevator corridor.
- Duplicated tools (ie: bottles, sticks, etc…) beyond maximum allowed when reloading a save.
- Music can still be heard even when the option slider is set all the way down.

Added:

- New experimental vegetation bend behavior.


Patch 2.64 (29 December 2016)
Fixed:

- Dev input shortcuts prevent proper key/button binding (oops).
- Some walls in the sewers are walk-through.
- Rare case where combat music would start to play right after reloading a save.
- Dialog choices systematically appear scrolled down.
- Some shadow casters are missing causing light leaking through walls in several places.
- Cannot exit Credits menu (“Back” button is inactive and loads a save if pressed).
- No option is selected in the main menu when the game launches.
- Skybox showing through faraway wall beyond grate in flooded cell.
- Very rare case of a guard’s model becoming invisible.
- Footnotes appear scrolled down even when they shouldn’t.
- Inside of main tower can appear empty if Tilo drops from the beetle cot’s roof in a certain location.

Changed:

- Material for tower stairs doesn’t exhibit jail's wetness anymore.
- Replaced broken cobwebs in Powderkeg’s cell with new assets.

Added:

- Added a light source in the shortcut between the jailer's office and the drawbridge room to better see the door lever.


Patch 2.6 (29 December 2016)
Fixed:

- Some florins in containers show a placeholder icon.
- Some items stolen from guards do not reappear after reloading a save.
- Guards stay knocked out even after reloading a save where they shouldn’t be.
- Rare bug where some doors could appear open after a reload where they should be closed.
- Some floating meshes.
- Ceiling in flooded cell is not visible.
- Water particles are not visible in Tilo’s wake.
- Banner disappearing instead of getting burned.
- Missing footnote description for “Ringtail” in Silas’ dialog.
- Table drawer in room above courtyard wall can’t be looted.
- Skybox is visible when getting to the tunnel shortcut between holding cells and jail.
- Inside of main tower can appear empty when standing at a certain spot on the ramparts.
- Camera freaks out when trying to open the locked door in the barrel room.

Changed:

- Made sure the new areas are sealed off for now (apologies to all of you pioneers out there!).

Added:

- Added a light source in the shortcut from the jailer’s office to the drawbridge.


Patch 2.55 (29 December 2016)
Fixed:

- Complete minstrel costume bonus wasn’t assigned at start
- Bug when opening sewer map after buying info about spider location from Rolo
- In some rare cases Tilo's heavy item is not dropped when he dies
- Armor encumbrance is not properly reset after loading a save
- Light trigger missing when exiting from the rafters onto the roof in the courtyard
- Name error in dialog of main gate guard
- Being able to enter the passage next to Gusto & Fatale’s cell without pushing the barrel
- Collider for grid in underground shortcut to jail is missing
- Tilo automatically goes down a ladder when opening the inventory
- Spider web remains visible after getting burnt
- A splash sound can sometimes be heard when entering the jail from the courtyard
- Rats not able to attack Tilo while in Kerold's cell
- Tilo can get killed while climbing on the elevator when it hasn’t fully come down to rest
- Rats can sometimes chase Tilo even though they're knocked down (funny/creepy)
- Missing sound for Kerold breaking the rotgut bottle during dialog
- Rat’s animation sometimes popping to idle after crossing a doorframe
- Resistances are not properly updated when equipping clothing items
- Rolo sometimes does not appear when exiting the jail
- The guards’ alert icon doesn't empty itself and disappear when it should
- Bug with resistances when equipping full costume set and unequipping items one by one
- Knockdown timer sometimes doesn't appear on knocked-out rats
- Gusto sometimes doesn’t go to sleep at night
- Micro-holes/bad scintillating pixels caused by faulty tessellation algorithm
- Grease jars don't break when thrown on planks
- Hanging key keeps playing hanging animation even after being knocked down
- Hanging key can occasionally land in a non-pickable position
- Plague doctor mask vignette is not reset after loading a save where Tilo doesn’t wear it
- Exterior sound trigger missing on top of tower when exiting main tower
- Sometimes combat music doesn't stop, even though Tilo's not chased anymore
- Lots of holes in the geometry!
- Small freezes noticeable when moving from area to area
- Costume item description panel appearing behind the inventory UI
- Some stairs where Tilo bumps in at slow speed
- Long pause happening whenever accessing the save/load menu

Changed / Improved:

- Sewer key is out of the game; the jail’s master key replaces it
- Spider webs have been replaced with new higher-quality assets
- Tessellation shaders have been recreated from scratch with much better results (ie: humidity/wetness)
- Most textures have been refined, doubled in size and enhanced with detail mapping
- Rats are now a bit faster when chasing Tilo
- Improved all vegetation shaders to show better translucency
- Huge overall performance boost (50-75% fps gain on some machines)
- All trees have been replaced with much higher quality assets (oaks, beech, etc…)
- Implemented consistent wind direction for all vegetation
- Actor detection has been redone from the ground up to take into account bonus from Tilo’s cloth items
- You can now quickly swap tools using the mousewheel
- The middle-mouse button now unequips/re-equips the current tool in Tilo’s hand (no need to go to the inventory anymore)
- Implemented an entirely new zone/sectioning system, meaning there is no more streaming/stuttering
- Rewrote entirely the load/save system to work seamlessly on PC + consoles
- Changed and improved the overall layout of Dwindling Heights
- Changed a few quests + dialogs + items locations in preparation for the full game
- Tilo’s jump/climbing is now much more responsive
- You can now use the mousewheel to turn book pages
- Book pages now have their page number displayed
- Tilo can now climb on a moving platform/elevator
- Tilo's health and stamina are no longer connected to the costume he's wearing (no more health/stamina lost when changing costumes)
- Removed trapdoor near the main gate
- Added a separation wall in the courtyard with new building
- Costume items belonging to the same set are now automatically sorting next to each other in the inventory
- Removed the option to knock the helmet off of the guard for Gusto & Fatale (no more confusion between different kinds of helmets)
- Better aiming reticle
- It is not possible anymore to kite more than 3 rats (so you can’t lock all the rats in one room anymore)

Added:

- Added a progress bar when loading a save
- The amount of florins in Tilo’s inventory is now displayed during dialog when money is involved
- Started using photogrammetry assets for rocks
- It is now possible to light up candles laying around in very dark places
- Costume items are now affecting how much noise Tilo creates and his visual conspicuousness
- Introduced sound attenuation which plays in when creating auditive distractions through walls
- Added a couple of shortcuts to go from one area to the next (ie: elevator basket from top of main tower to garden below)
- Added a visual 'splash' effect that shows how far the sound created by distractions travels
- Added visual hud indication when Tilo is getting poisoned or burnt (providing a clear representation of his resistance to those hazards)
- Added an option to turn off the HUD (in the debug menu)
- Added options for controlling tessellation amount and distance
- Added knockdown timer on unconscious rats to indicate when they’re going to regain consciousness