Patch 0.5.0 Hotfix C (04th July 2017)

GENERAL:
- Fixed multiple random crashes
- Fixed portals interaction
- Fixed staff targeting arctic roots & doors

UI:
- Fixed unique & quest item background for player chest & housing showcase UI

QUESTS:
- Looted quest items on ground (ex: Digger Heart) are now persistent.
- Dialogs last longer on screen.
- The arrow marker pointing to Seren in the quest “The Alchemist” should not bug out anymore.
- Getting quests reward with a full inventory was dropping the items on ground but messing with the loot particle, resulting in a badly-visible loot.

AUDIO:
- Fixed rain sound which was not seamlessly looping
- Fixed Skeleton Overlord skeletal aura abrupt start

ENVIRONMENT:
- Add new rooms and corridors for the Ancient Civilization dungeon.

CHARACTERS:
- Fixed a bug where dead Pithuses could not play their death animation, thus blocking you for a few seconds.
- Fixed the Corrupted Juggernaut being stuck after performing a close range attack
- Fixed the Undead Vomitter being stuck in an interrupted state.

GAMEPLAY:
- Improved the Corrupted Juggernaut’s behavior.
- Fixed Fire and Shocking Aura damage being too low.
- Modified the damage output and rate of fire of the Orc Warlock’s spells.

ACTIVE SKILLS:
- Fixed the XP curve of spells being too low.
- Modified the damage per level of many skills.


Patch 0.5.0 Hotfix B

GENERAL:
- Mouse selection strongly improved once again
- Several random game crashes have been fixed.
- Enemies mouse detection has been tweaked
- Enemies projectile collision has been tweaked
- Fixed player sometime flying in the character selection menu

VISUALS:
- Improved dungeon entrances visual feedback
- Modified Fireball explosion and trail

QUESTS:
- Fixed a rare bug where character saving could lead to a corrupted quests progression if the game was shut down right after achieving an objective.
- Fixed initialization issues for many quests (ex: Corrupted Hearts still present during Ravengarde quests, Ravengarde bridge not crossable after a game reload, etc.)
- Elite monsters like the ghoul or gravedigger shouldn’t randomly spawn too early during the “Lost amongst the ruins” quest anymore.

AUDIO:
- Main theme music is now affected by the music volume slider
- Skull Crusher’s death sound is now correctly played
- Skull Crusher’s footsteps sounds won’t loop after its death anymore
- New sounds when buying / selling items

ENVIRONMENT:
- Improved rendering of the black architecture dungeon
- Improved rendering of the fog in dungeon

LOCALIZATION:
- Fixed a few missing NPC names strings

GAMEPLAY:
- Corrupted Heart, Nodes and Eggs are now hittable with Thunderbolts.
- Fixed Halaku’s forward dash hit range.
- Halaku’s Skeletons now spawn at a slower rate when he is low-life.
- Getting hit by Halaku’s flaming skulls will now spawn more skeletons in the last boss phase.
- Improved targeting of non Actor entities
- No AI should fall anymore in the Halaku’s arena

ACTIVE SKILLS:
- Tweaked Rain of Fire damage output per level.


Patch 0.5.0 Hotfix A

GENERAL:
- Mouse selection strongly improved
- Fixed the white screen issue
- Fixed items that disappeared when teleporting to Amarth
- Fixed the dark shadows. A GI shader compilation error is the cause. It is now disabled until we fix the problem.

VISUALS:
- The death screen is now fitting every resolution

UI:
- Fixed minor issues with the quest reward window

QUESTS:
- It’s not possible anymore to gather endlessly the same Arctic root by dropping it. They no longer appear in the inventory.
- A rare bug if the game crashed during a save where you couldn’t complete the Corrupted Heart of Ravengarde if you had already unlock the two next quests.
- Fixed a bug where you could spawn in a crater after finishing all the quests.

AUDIO:
- improved audio mix (music and ambience up, some skills down, some enemy voices down etc)
- additional Pithus spider death sounds (and made generally less repetitive)
- fixed non-looping Boss music
- Armath machinery ambience now audible
- enabled reverb for player foley (footsteps, dodge roll)
- fixed duplicate dodgeroll
- balanced skill mix levels
- boosted the volume of legendary drop sound

ENVIRONMENT:
- RGD portal is now hidden at the game start.

CHARACTERS:
- Fixed a bug in Halakus behavior that caused him to stop moving

GAMEPLAY:
- Halakus can no longer raise infinite number of skeletons.

Patch 0.5.0

GENERAL:
- Brand new world! Forget all you knew about the open-world of Wolcen, because we’ve changed everything. This new open-world is still in its early stage, but we’ll update it each time we’ll add quests and content.
- New quests ! You now have access to roughly half of the first act, a better tutorial, and although true boss-fights are not ready yet, the quests themselves are better and longer than before so we hope you will enjoy them. Secondary quests will come later and will lead you to explore each corner of the map.
- Lots of new characters, both friendly and unfriendly ones !
- Cloud mode servers have been moved to France (previously in Australia)

VISUALS:
- Color grading is now functional and help defining each environment
- Main menu rendering tweaks

AUDIO:
- New main theme in the main menu!
- New dodge roll sound.
- New ambient sounds for the new world locations! (lots of content).
- Fixed waypoints increasing audio volume.
- Improved sound mix.
- Fixed a number of ambiance seeking issues, where ambiance would restart from the beginning instead of picking a random starting point.

UI:
- Reworked Quests tracking UI
- New Quests acceptation pop-up
- New Quests reward pop-up
- New World map
- Reworked background for Unique items.
- New item rarity : Quest item, with its own background, loot particle & text color.
- New available stats points and passive skill points notification buttons
- Skill level up is now directly displayed on the skillbar
- Clicking on a skill in the skillbar will now open the active skill tree
- Skillbar shortcuts are now displayed uppercase
- New minimap
- New set of minimap icons
- Added Fog Of War to the minimap
- Reworked and added book icons
- New tutorial icons
- New Spell Books icons
- New quest tracking arrow
- Reworked death screen
- Reworked gameplay error message animation (not enough rage, etc...)

CHARACTERS:
- New enemy : Beware of the unpredictable Grave Digger ! He’ll use his shovel to dig all sorts of things to launch at you, but mostly other Undeads. He is sort of the Grave Keeper’s angrier and older brother.
- New enemy : The first boss of act 1 is in, Halaku, the dreadful Bones Lord. Although we’ll improve the bossfight in the future with more attacks and patterns (and boss phases), this is already a powerful foe and the first true boss of the game.
- New enemies : The Corruption has spread to the East, and bring forth a terrible army. While slaughtering the Corrupted Warriors and Berserkr will be quite straightforward, handling the mighty Juggernaut or the dangerous Slug could be a challenge for those who are not prepared.
- New enemies : In the Hailstone bay to the North, the constant low temperature has affected some of the resident creatures in a bad way. There, you’ll find new variants of enemies you already know, sharing an affinity to the cold : the impressive Ice Crusher, the deadly Storm Keeper and the Iced variants of the Pithus and Pithus Warrior.
- New enemies : The existing Pithus have been reorganized and a few members have been added to the family. We now have the regular Pithus, the Pithus Warrior, the uncatchable Pithus Outrider and the venomous Pithus Spewer and Infector.
- New enemies : the new Skeletal Guards and Warriors serve as the bulk of the Bones Lord army and although they die easy, don’t underestimate them when they’re in large groups.
- New NPC : Seren

ENVIRONMENT:
- Regarding the work that has been put in the new open-world, it would be hard to list the bulk of the environment changes. Anyway, you’ll find that most areas are now more readable and clearly defined, sometimes using biomes or color-grading, and that they contain many new assets.
- Chests : since we want to reward exploration, the new open-world contains many chests, sometimes hidden ones, so that you won’t need to farm Dungeons to find interesting loot. We’re currently working on many different types of containers (furnitures, trash, cadavers, etc.) in order to give chests a better variety in the future and a better readability gameplay-wise (ex: equipment racks that only loot weapons or armors, etc.).
- Indoor locations : We’ve added a few indoors areas to the world, and will design a lot more in the future, so that the total walkable surface of the game will be even bigger and exploration will be more interesting. They can be randomly chosen (ex : house cave) or static (ex : pithus dungeon) and will contain their fair share of rewards and foes.
- New automated Doors system with one-sided Doors that can serve as shortcuts.
- Various signposts have been placed in the world, indicating the location of main areas.
- Fixed the issue that caused some players to encounter invisible walls in dungeons
- New Dungeon : Pithus cave
- New Dungeon : Ancient Civilization
- New Dungeon : House Cave
- We now use a progressive system for time. This can result a more flickering shadows, but we are working on a fix for that.

LOCALIZATION:
- The Quests file has been wiped and replaced by a new one containing all the new dialogs and gameplay strings. This represents almost 200 new lines.

GAMEPLAY:
- Visual spawners : the new world now contain advanced spawners that are represented by objects (tombs, eggs, etc.) that look just like regular props, but will start to shake when you are near and explode after a short time, revealing the enemy they contained. We hope this will bring diversity to the regular enemies that just happen to raise from the ground, and maybe surprise the careless adventurers.
- Spreading Nodes : in certain areas of the world, you’ll find entities that extend their influence on the ground over time and endlessly spawn foes. You’ll need to destroy them quickly if you don’t want to be overwhelmed, but keep in mind that you can’t use them to farm experience or loot because the node only will reward you, not the enemies that it spawned. But know also that those rewards get better the more advanced is the progression of the node when you destroy it, so it may be interesting to let it extend, survive the spawned enemies, then destroy it when it’s the strongest.
- New Support AI : the way following allies (ex: Brother Leon) behave has been totally changed and this is a first step in the direction of interesting pets or mercenaries.
- Traps have been added to the game. You’d better watch your step if you don’t like being stunned, burned or if you don’t want to die prematurely.
- Monster density has been overhauled and spawn locations carefully chosen.

AFFIXES:
- New Umbra On Kill affix for mage equipment.
- Decreased the spell damage bonus on staves.

#### RC2 (05th July 2017) [Windows only]

* Adds missing redistributable

Patch 1.3.1.7 (05 July 2017)

- Fix bug for Build Chruul Lab mission coming back
- Reduced Morale drop from starbase raids by 80%
- Fixed bug with officer deaths not registering popup dialog
- Fixed bug with +25% morale boost when building Counselor’s Room
- Fixed bug with taunting Chruul Lts not granting morale boost and accelerating the next Lt as well
- Fixed some typos in morale events

Patch 15a (05 July 2017)

- additional minor fixes for all platforms


Patch 15 (05 July 2017)

- added Paddleboats
- added Bumper Boats
- added Western props, brazier, fire jet, jumping fountains, umbrellas, glass roofs
- added option for building ride blueprints without scenery
- added Eastern Highlands demo park
- added option for rides to wait for "any load, but not empty"
- added ride stats when sharing blueprint to Workshop and allowed editing description
- updated Steel Coaster cars
- improved lighting slightly
- improved water
- improved performance during rain
- significantly improved performance of Deco window (and others) opening/closing/minimizing/maximizing
- fixed vandalism state being saved into blueprints
- fixed not being able to lower Inverted Dark Ride velocity below 10km/h
- fixed missing supports on Miniature Railway
- fixed ride income graphs
- fixed not being able to build inside the scenario editor if money is set to 0
- fixed research cost not matching the allocated budget
- fixed tunnel rendering issues on Mac and Linux
- fixed edge scrolling not working properly on Linux
- fixes a case where terrain would be invisible on some systems
- fixed water not looking right in blueprint renders
- fixed fountain water flickering during rain
- fixed shop entries in overview window sometimes showing wrong information when changing sort order

Update 12b (05th July 2017)

- Fixes bug where prisoners were assigned to eat in staff rooms

Patch 1.0.2 (05 July 2017)

- The Mac & Linux versions will be updated as soon as possible.
- A variety of improvements and fixes - boosted stash storage, blueprint chip / crafting component management, combat UI, and more - dig in!

Items
- The Stash in the Saloon now has 3 tabs worth of storage, with 32 items each.
- Talrie has added an AutoCraft Bench to her shop. If y’all have Blueprint Chips, this’d be the place to use them.
- Blueprint Chips and crafting components are now unique. If a unique item is rolled to drop and is already present in your inventory or stash, another loot drop will replace it.
- Removed AutoCraft Benches from spawning in facility maps as you can now craft in the comfort of your home station.
- New crafting opportunities are on the way soon!

Force Psyker
- Fixed a bug with Purity Prism that could fail to clear Stun.

Smuggler
- Artifacts created with Bag of Wonders will clean up correctly if destroyed before activating.

Soldier
- Fixed an issue preventing FoxKin being recognized when using the Custom Armor passive.

UI
- Hitting the Tab key will now toggle display of health bars over mobs in combat.
- Added a option for Sticky Ability Wheel in combat. This will cause the Ability Wheel to persist after an enemy is clicked instead of fading when the mouse button is released.
- Attack results are now logged first in Combat Log, followed by factors that affected the final damage.
- Attacks that miss because the target dodged are now called out in the Combat Log.
- Crit resistance successes are now shown in the Combat Log.
- The Combat Log, Crew Monitor and Timeline now all scroll independently, based on mouse cursor location.
- The Combat Log will now also show event messages.

Mobs & Combat
- All characters now correctly have 0% Dodge chance while affected by Stun (though attacks against them can still miss).
- Slight reduction in base damage and critical chance for CorpSec Heavy’s Power shot.
- CorpSec Heavy’s Battle Scan no longer stacks.
- Fixed certain Void-tainted mobs from having an outsized shield effect.

Misc
- Fixed Lungquake syndrome boosting damage resistance incorrectly.
- Fixed a stacking crit buff upgrade when dealing elemental damage from failing at 20 stacks.
- Fixed an issue that could cause an Autosave to be unrecognized in the Title Screen if preferences had been reset.
- Fixed an issue with forced player movement that could cause strange behaviour.
- Minor text fixes.

Patch 1.5.5 (05 July 2017)
Mac OS X version will follow shortly.

- Fixed damage bonus, resistance penetration and resistances to correctly appear in online charsheets
- Buffed Athamaton, also it can now speak! Enjoy your deaths
- Added support for visible talents, items and playerdoll images on online character sheets on te4.org
- Fixed joining chat channels on star in some rare cases, one of the reason for "server doesnt work: it did work you just didnt saw it
- Talents that generate resources state "FOO gain: X" instead of "FOO cost: -X"
- Improved data synchronization with the server to lighten load
- Fixed trying to capture a fearscaping npc while in the fearscape with a possessor
- Modding: Support for "hated_by_everybody" property
- Modding: DLCs/Addons defined resources should now correctly appear in the charsheets
- Modding: New resources parameter "switch_direction" to indicate the resource prefers to be lower
- Modding: New Actor:alterTalentCost method
- Modding: New static method Object:descCombat() to let addons pass a custom combat table and get a correct description