Patch 1.48 (28 November 2017)

Animation
- Added additional melee attack for Wood Colossus
- Added additional animations for story characters

Levels
- Improved various environments, repaired broken navmesh
- Various collision fixes to models
- Tweaked Dvergr dungeon

Music
- Fixed some ambient music

Quests
- A door that could cause issues in the last area has been fixed
- Various minor quest fixes

Bosses
- Pets now have an easier time attacking the final boss
- Added extra sound effects to Porcus

Enemies
- Added missing sound effects and improved the volume on many enemies
- General character model and effect improvements

Misc
- Fixed various text string errors
- Improved audio & visuals of throwing weapons
- Tweaked sizes and fixed some item skills on unique weapons

Balancing
- Tweaked various drop rates
- Tweaked hunter vendor’s inventory
- Fixed INT requirements for northern staves
- Tweaked unique drops in Act 1 epic & legendary
- Fixed some helmet links in Set lists
- Fixed Einherjar Throwers having only MI shields
- Increased range of throwing weapons to by 1m
- Weapon Training now works with throwing weapons
- Jotun Warriors hit harder in melee
- Improved behavior of King Thrym
- Nerthus Relic can now be applied to any weapon as described

Tech
- Fixed crashes caused by corrupt enemy sound files
- Fixed crash in particle system
- Fixed level 75+ characters being unable to join servers
- Removed developer command that was left on keypad keys

Patch 1.017 (28 November 2017)

- fixed not being able to select hybrid specialties very easy (invisible widget in way) (Livebait)
- fixed being able to pick up skill icons on pick hybrid specialty screen (Livebait)

Update (29 November 2017)

- Updated the Russian version of Jagged Alliance 2: Wildfire to version 6.08.

Update (29 November 2017)

- Fixed an issue where it was not possible to select the game's language using GOG Galaxy's language selection feature.

Patch 11.27.2017 (29 November 2017)

Fixed a crash caused by OneDrive locking the game's save files.

#### Patch 1.05b (29 November 2017)

* 1. Fixed crash on entering Speedrun mode through Ritvik.
* 1. Speedrun pop-up message no longer appears when interacting with the bike.
* 1. Resetting Speedrun also resets weapons to basic ones.
* 1. Weapon that couldn’t be picked up on one of the Farm levels - fixed - now can be picked up.
* 1. Trafficking Cyborg won’t fall OOW now - blocker fix.
* 1. Negative times on Speedrun fixed.
* 1. Fixed a rare blocker when pressing the objective trigger didn't unlock the bike after talking to Mechanix.

#### Patch 1.0.13 (29 November 2017)

* Improved Russian fonts to be more readable per user request.
* Enable GPU instancing.
* Increased range at which companion abilities can be triggered
* Player can no longer dodge or counter out of the final hit when breaking off armour (caused issues with enemy attacks)
* Added missing subtitles to The World challenge
* Optimised Mage and Necromancer VFX and model
* Fixed a bug where Colbjorn could get stuck running against a wall when his ability was triggered
* Fixed a bug in Justice where a debug string would appear
* Fixed a bug in where challenge objective text would not display in any challenge after completing The World challenge
* Fixed a bug where the gold token from The World would float above the card table if you forfeit/lose before the token is won
* Fixed a bug where the Dwarven Haggler would give nothing in rare circumstances
* Fixed a bug in Tarts, Pies and Exotic Lies where the player could get infinite food if they had the Eternal Hope blessing
* Fix Westwend Tavern Token Encounter having no text description and not text in options.

Patch 1.4.1 (29 November 2017)

- It is now always possible to complete the surveying mission in Jeysalmir
- Minor tweak to conversation with Bobby Wicks when you give him medicine

Patch 1.1.1 (29th November 2017)

Save System Improvements
Slime Rancher now maintains several prior copies of your save file to protect against system crashes or power outages that result in corrupt data. If the game cannot load the most recent autosave it will revert to the most recent one it can find. As part of this change, the autosave frequency has been reduced to autosaving every 5 minutes.

Changes:
- Added Swedish language translation to the game. Welcome, Swedish friends!
- The Range Exchange now has a countdown clock for the remaining duration of the current offer.
- Teleporters from the Wilds now lead to Ogden’s Retreat instead of directly to Beatrix’s Ranch.
- Reduced the corral autofeeder frequency on Low and Medium to give food every 9 and 6 hours, respectively.
- Added tutorial ‘star’ to point you to the teleporter to reach Ogden’s Retreat.
- Tarr slime pedia entry is now immediately unlocked in Casual Mode… but don’t worry, that’s a as far as they go in Casual Mode.
- Minor improvements to various shaders. That’s right, MINOR improvements.
- Optimized the way that many particles in the world are instantiated to improve memory usage.
- Rotten kookadobas are now more obviously rotten. But either way, they stink.
- Firestorm effect should now activate/deactivate more rapidly when teleporting to/from the desert during a firestorm.
- Renamed Garden Deluxe as Deluxe Upgrade.
- Added a tip to the loading screen explaining the save icon.

Fixes:
- Fixed bug where amber slime lamps’ glow could be seen through walls.
- Fixed bug where some largos in The Wilds near the waterfall could end up hovering in the air. Fun fact: it’s because they thought they were still in water and were ‘swimming.’ See, you can do anything you put your mind to!
- Fixed bug where certain effects could sometimes make water disappear.
- Fixed bug where the Gadget Mode effect was upside down on some systems.
- Fixed bug where on certain graphics settings, a biting Tarr appeared to have an additional smaller Tarr inside it. Creepy.
- Fixed bug where Boom Slimes could sometimes become lethargic and stop most types of activities, including booming.
- Fixed bug where Tarr and Fire slimes were bounced too aggressively out of ponds.
- Fixed bug where the Hat Trick achievement could be improperly withheld.
- Fixed bug (Xbox-only) where gamepad icons were replaced with keyboard/mouse prompts when the controller was disconnected.
- Fixed bug where Kookadoba sometimes did not correctly attach to their plants on game load.
- Fixed bug where a teleporter in the desert’s icon could appear on the map before that teleporter was actually available to use.

Patch 11.27.2017 (29 November 2017)

- Fixed a crash caused by OneDrive locking the game's save files.

Patch 0.5.0.3a (29 November 2017)

GENERAL:
- Fixed various crashes
- Minor performance improvements
- Endless Arenas will properly work after wave 100 and onward.
- Endless Arenas monsters will become stronger much faster.
- Dying at the same time you kill the last enemy of an arena challenge will no longer leave you dead on the ground.
- Monsters spawn location should be spread more evenly in the Arena.
- Pithus corpses no longer block projectiles and spells.

VISUALS:
- Arena time of day adjustments
- Improved some lens flare occlusion

UI:
- Damaged enemy health bars are now properly removed when the player dies.

QUESTS:
- A new quest points you to the location of the Arena once you have achieved the main quest.
- It should not be possible to kill Seren with Thunderbolt under the rain anymore.

AUDIO:
- Black doors now have sounds.
- Reduced volume of Spellbinder.
- Reduced volume of Rain of arrow skill.
- Fixed ambient rain glitch.
- Improved town ambience mix, elements such as birds too loud.
- NPC GUI sounds for dialog boxes and panels (Merchant, innkeep, etc…).
- Personal chest interaction sound.
- Added fades to ambiences where they were missing.
- Optimised world sounds, fewer voices are active at the same time.
- Fixed music not playing in tutorial

ENVIRONMENT:
- A healer has been added in the Arena lobby.
- Teleport from a waypoint to another is now a bit longer in order to reduce loading artifacts.

LOCALIZATION:
- Arena “Exit” and “Next Floor” portals are now localized.
- Quest “NEW” text is now localized.
- Spanish update, thank you Idtime
- Hungarian update, thank you lostprophet

ITEMS
- Items with required level 255 now use their correct required level.

MISC:
- It is no longer possible to open the PST during cutscenes.

Patch 0.5.0.3 (29 November 2017)

GENERAL:
- Arena system has been added to the game.
- Local navmesh has been, allowing for smooth player navigation between monsters.
- Fixed several random crashes.
- Game now save before exiting when hitting alt + F4
- The player does not abusively lean anymore when rotating
- Spell tomes can now only be read once, as giving a percentage of a spell's required XP was too powerful. We will soon add the archivist, an npc that buy your tomes and gives you xp for any spell you know.

VISUALS:
- Introducing lens flares to the game.
- Fixed a bug causing Infiltration to permanently cloak your weapons until unequipped.
- Fixed Frost Giant warcry particle not appearing anymore.
- Brutal Strike look.
- Fixed the fog bleeding in house caves.
- Fixed a bug causing some skill-bound weapon trails to remain on screen indefinitely.
- Current stacks number is now displayed on DOT icons, and all DOT icons have been reworked to better fit the new passive skills icons.
- New portal visuals
- New magic effect globe

UI:
- Umbra, Rage and Health values can now be permanently displayed in the gameplay options. Values are now displayed on top of each gauge.
- In game time of day is now displayed in the top right of the screen
- Active effect tooltip is not removed anymore when the effect expires, but lasts until you move your mouse.
- Defense Regeneration value is now shown in your character sheet.

QUESTS:
- The “Advanced tutorial : Weapons types” quest is now unlocked directly at the end of the “Getting Out” quest.

ENVIRONMENT:
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the ice traps in Hailstone Bay from hitting you.
- Increased the number of chests in the open-world and added new Unique chests locations.
- No more enemies popping when teleporting to Ravengard Fortress
- Fixed a bugging causing Amarth’s blacksmith to disappear.
- Optimization on the PST ring animation.
- Dhur is now bigger, with the Arena entrance at the north of the city.
- Two new Bounty architecture : A fully Corrupted Dungeon and an overgrowth version of the Oblivion Temple.
- Improved the Dungeon architecture “Oblivion Temple”.

CHARACTERS:
- Skeleton warriors have new walks animations.
- The Corrupted Juggernaut is now bigger.
- The giant skeleton boss, Halaku, has his death animation.
- The giant skeleton boss has a blow away animation.

LOCALIZATION:
- Added Chinese localization (Thank you very much wynick27)
- Hungarian, Spanish, German localization update
- Once again, thanks to our awesome community to update localization!

GAMEPLAY:
- The new Defense mechanic is now active for the player.
- Globally improved the responsiveness of the player’s movement
- Fixed a bug causing the Dual Wield Damage penalty to be applied permanently after some time.
- Practice targets (ex: strawmen in the Amarth arena) are now targetable like regular enemies.
- Fixed a bug causing props and static entities (ex: Corrupted Heart) targeting to fail in Melee depending on the weapons used.
- Zombies in the starting area have their intended health amount again.
- Increased the animation speed of the Greatsword weapon style by 33%.
- Decreased the animation speed of the two-handed dual wield weapon style by 15%.
- Fixed the female staff attack animation being slower than intended.
- Fixed a bug causing Rage Generation on received hits to be applied twice.
- Changes have been brought to Damage computation (Resistances, Frozen shatter, etc.), making things clear, simpler and more predictable.
- Fixed a Health computation bug, causing enemies to have incomplete health bars from time to time.
- Fixed an explosion radius calculation bug affecting several skills.
- The DOT Damage and effects computation has been totally reworked, and will lead to a better balancing in the future.
- Inflicting Frailty stacks to enemies slowly depletes all their Protections, at a rate that depends on your Frailty Efficiency.
- Frailty now cuts off your Defense regeneration and your enemies Protections regeneration.
- Weakness now reduces the efficiency of Defense Shattering / Protections Shattering (depending on the Weakness Efficiency).
- Rage-on-hits affixes may now get a chance to apply instead of being a 100% sure thing.
- Decreased the spell damage bonus given by mage staves.
- Teleport will not appear as a champion affix anymore until it is improved.

MONSTERS
- The health and damage values of every monster have been rebalanced.
- Halaku will now always drop its unique sword, in addition to the regular lootsplosion.
- Fixed Halaku having 220% more health than intended.
- Ogre’s ground pound will now slow and stun their targets, but its damage has been reduced.
- Undead vomitters will now only vomit a single toxic undead at a time.
- Toxic Undead do not emit a poisonous aura anymore, but their attacks can inflict poison.
- Skull Crusher and most orcs now have armor by default.
- Frost monsters from the tundra now have Frost Protection by default.
- Toxic undead and toxic pithuses now have poison resistance by default.
- Skull Crushers now regenerate armor by eating instead of health.
- Skull Crushers attacks now inflict stun.
- Increased the maximum number of zombies spawned by the Grave Digger, but increased the cooldown time of the charge. This should reduce cases of zombies dying in mid-air, and makes the fight slightly less hectic.
- The Grave Digger now stuns you with its shovel.
- Elemental auras will now only roll on champion rank 2 monsters and above.
- Champions now have a chance to spawn with a random protection instead of a resistance.

ITEMS
- All base stats of your weapons and armors have been rerolled.
- Fixed the Glass Sword damage not being appropriate for a level 20 weapon.
- Fixed a bug causing permanent potions effects to be cleared when sleeping at the inn.
- A new system allow 2H weapons position to be adjusted in hand when wielded in 1H (Titan’s Strength). This will result in less awkward stances when Dual Wielding.
- Fixed light arm armor pieces being inverted (left/right) on male characters.
- Spell Books may now have a required minimum level for being read.

AFFIXES:
- Rage on hit received affixes now has a chance to trigger when hit. This notably makes heavy armor less overpowered for melee-oriented characters, but less penalizing for caster-oriented characters if they only wear of few pieces.
- Decreased the amount of physical resistance given by items.

PASSIVE SKILLS:
- Glowing links between rings have been improved, and now better fit the path you are taking in the tree in the event of sections with multiple end-skills.
- You can now cancel a point spent in the PST by re-clicking the node, as long as you have not confirmed it yet and it doesn’t create irregular trees (like orphan nodes).
- The PST camera movement has been slightly tweaked in prevision of future rings accessibility at any zoom level possible.

Legionary:
- Confrontation Damage reduction has been doubled.

Arcanist:
- Umbra Pool Extended is now called Resourceful and now directly increases your Resource pool instead of tweaking your attributes.
- Lethal Magic computation has been modified in prevision of the upcoming Attributes refactoring.

Guardian:
- Heavy Armor Mastery is now called Fencer.
- Guard Mastery is now called Bumping Guard.

Hunter:
- Precise Shot bonus is no longer removed when you start moving.
- Enhanced Reflex computation has been modified in prevision of the upcoming Attributes refactoring.

Trickster:
- Ranged Mastery is now called Gunslinger.

Assassin:
-Light Armor Mastery is now called Lightweight Gear.

Gladiator:
- Titan Strength now specifically states working for Melee weapons only.
- Medium Armor Mastery is now called Chainmail.
- The two skills that improve Killing Chain are now called Killing Spree and Carnage.

ACTIVE SKILLS:
- The damage and cost values of every skill have been changed.

Lasceration
- Now inflicts bleed damage instead of physical damage.
- Increased base weapon damage percent.

Holy Dive
- Is now obtained by buying the tome from the templar merchant at level 14.

Ironguard:
- The semi-passive Blocking chance bonus is no longer implicit, but is now shown in the spell detail window and with an effect icon & tooltip.

Brutal Strike:
- Decreased both its base and upgraded radii. Brutal strike is intended to be used as a means to deliver high damage in small radius in front of the players, and not as the perfect answer to every melee fight.

Tremor:
- Fixed the reduced cooldown rune increasing cooldown.

Whirlwind:
- Now generates some Rage when hitting enemies.

MISC:
- Fixed a bug where the reviving button would not work upon death.
- Hit-particles have been optimized to prevent renderer crashes on huge explosions.
- Orcs are very rude, and will sometimes point their finger at the player when spotting him/her.
- Fixed the end of the two-handed dual wield combo animation.
- Improved the weather system code to prepare for thunderstorm & snowy weather.
- Improved the day/night cycle system code to display the in-game time of day.
- Fixed a bug that caused the player character to sleep indefinitely.