Patch 1.7.7 Fixes a handful of bugs as we're getting back into the groove

We're still spinning up after our Summer break. We're kicking off this new batch our weekly patches with a handful of bug fixes.

Bug Fixes

• Potentially prevents a rare crash when interacting with scrolls.
• You can learn about the same location from reading books and maps in bookshelves only once.
• Scrying stones are placed as ‘big spots’ preventing them from accidentally blocking access to rooms.
• Sigil holders for machines don’t accidentally discard sigils on save-restore and/or switching between levels.
• The gates in Haven’s temple have the correct message when you inspect them after the prologue.
• Removes the mechanics that prevented you from claiming a site that isn’t “quite safe”.
• The journey onward / gain lead UI on the map for controllers behaves more consistently and no longer allows you to gain leads without spending rumors or knowledge points.

Patch 1.3.3.122841b
• Complete Main Menu/Customizer/Sharing Translations for Chinese, Russian, and French. More languages coming soon.
• Downloaded Tab added to the Shared Designs Browser.
• Added new short and long stocking options to Business and Pleasure Style Pack.
• Fixed Amy bra skin issue.
• Reordered items in the customizer, grouping similar type items together.
• Fixed misalignment issues for piercings.
• Improved clipping issues for some clothing items.
• Designs now continue to load when scrolling all the way down.
• Fixed an issue that lead to body changes causing clipping with some items.
• Fixed decal placement on work shirt.
• Fixed some cutscene bugs.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from earning the DnD achievement in the Doja Cat DLC.
• Probably fixed a few other things that aren't in this list. :)

Update 1.87-7 Patch Notes

• When using gamepad, added a highlight bracket for the game options entries to better indicate which option entry is focused

• Yet another attempt to fix the bug where dead mutants might play the attack animation

• Fixed a bug where toxic fog shows up when player is in underground

Update 1.87-8 Patch Notes

• Improved the first tutorial entry for controller players

• Fixed a bug where mutant AI still runs while player is outside the AI active range (which causes the wolves to kill all of the NPCs in zernaskaya when player is spending a long time in the cellar)

• Fixed an exploit that allows ingredients to be duplicated

Patch Notes - v1.0.6

Accessibility / QOLI (Quality of Life Improvements)

• Increased various text sizes in Game Menu to improve readability.

Patch Notes: Version 1.0.8

This patch addresses some issues regarding saving of data, that could lead to a softlocked gamestate if the player hard exits the game inbetween certain stages of gamestate and saving.

• The arena console will no longer save twice after the first engagement, to avoid broken save states.
• Updated logic on certain gameobjects in many scenes, so that they don't save too early and create a temporary broken save.
• The banner with links now show up-to-date content from Rain.

Update 1.87-9 Patch Notes

• Fixed a bug in the main menu where controller Y button doesn't work when starting a new game until you use Dpad to move the button focus

• In main menu, pressing Dpad will unlock controller cursor

• Fixed the misalignment of button/key mapping for German UI

• Improved the feel of controlling the quantity slider when splitting item stack using Dpad and right analog stick

• Fixed a bug with motorcycle travelling

• Disabled the motorcycle destination for Ashinaka Forest due to it can be exploited to skip the scripted explosion event

• You can now use A/D to cycle through destinations with motorcycle

Patch 1.5k

Changelog of the patch 1.5k:
1. Lowered the soldier rep requirement for accessing Rennes.
2. Fixed an issue with eneimes sometimes taking infinite turns (often happened in Damanhur).
3. Fixed an issue with player still being able to sometimes die during the French interlude tournament despite the game telling you that it is not lethal.
4. Added another important low virtue event to Maidstone.
5. Completing Roger's quests now gives access to a specialized equipment shop.
6. Added random encounters with Scottish forces during the last chapter of Canterbury campaign and a reward\punishment for completing\not completing them.
7. Lowered dire wolves' weapon skill.
8. Fixed a bug that made player lose more than one item when giving consumables to allies.
9. Fixed a bug that made player lose one of the trinkets when using trinket presets if they had three or more of the same one.
10. During the Damanhur campaign Raymond's forces will now have 10 crusaders that will consequently spawn in fights until all of them are dead (previously there was only one ally for each fight).
11. Lowered the amount of enemies in some of the fights of the Damanhur campaign and some of the second DLC campaigns.
12. Fixed a bunch of smaller issues and incorrect interactions.


Patch 1.5j

Changelog:
1. Fixed an error that resulted in "player_fatigue_pool_displayable not defined" message.
2. Fixed several issues with incorrect Prestige value change when swapping weapons.
3. Added a button that allows to compate an item in inventory to the item that is currently equipped.
4. Shieldbreaker pendant, Red stone ring and Vitality rune now properly work on squad members.
5. Fixed an issue with incorrect ransom price when imprisoned by the French.
6. Fixed an issue that resulted in squad members attacking a dead enemy if that enemy was previously selected as their target.
7. Fixed an issue that resulted in some of the squad orders abruptly ending the current music track and starting a new one.
8. Added several new quests and events to Maidstone that are available through tavern.
9. Fair maiden's portrait has been reworked - its use conditions are now less harsh and it will also provide a unique bonus effect that depends on the girl that you have a maxed out relationship with.
10. Shieldbreaker pendant's bonus shield damage has been increased to 20.
11. Fixed a couple of other minor issues and errors.


Bugfixing patch 1.5i and injuries rework

Changelog:
1. Fixed several errors with orders during Maidstone's blacksmith questline.
2. Squad members now can be swapped with empty slots in the squad management window.
3. Fixed several incorrect interactions between fencing dagger and high-cover armor which resulted in fencing dagger not providing its bonus to the armor bypass chance.
4. Weapons and items in the manual character creation menu that are locked behind certain quests and boss challenges can now be unlocked on any difficulty level and not just on HWR.
5. Untreated injuries will no longer turn permanent and unhealable after some time - instead they will remain until the player treats them and, upon being treated, will return back all the deducted stats. However, several times during each chapter, at random points, untreated injuries will let themselves be known by triggering an event which will permanently deduct a tiny amount of stats from the player for each injury that he has. On top of that, each injury will block a corresponding training type, preventing the player from gaining new stats until the injury is removed.
6. Fixed a bug during a scavenge event that caused giving a poisoned man an antidote to yield no result.
7. Fixed an issue with player being able to receive maim injury multiple times in combat.
8. Fixed a couple of other minor issues and errors.


Bugfixing patch 1.5h is out now!

Changelog:
1. Fixed a bug with Leon from Lyon infinitely respawning after being killed.
2. Fixed another issue that sometimes caused the defense of Rennes to fail despite city's strength being equal to or massively surpassing mercenaries' strength (note: the capture of at least one farm is still required for a successful defense).
3. Added some more technical changes to the blacksmith questline in Maidstone in order to fix another instance of infinite loops that some players have been reporting.
4. Fixed a series of bugs that happened after the player would give a rotation of retreat order while not having enough stamina to do that. The order would be denied but the player would then be sometimes possible to take several turns in a row with all the other characters skipping theirs.
5. Fixed a bug that caused the catacombs effect during the assault on Windsor in Duncan's storyline to not correctly apply.
6. Added a bunch of other minor corrections.


Bugfixing patch 1.5g is out now!

Changelog:
1. Fixed a bug that prevented the player from equipping another two-handed weapon after he had a two-handed weapon break in combat.
2. Added civic talents to the manual character generation menu.
3. Reworked some of the requests in Maidsotne's blacksmith questline in order to make them easier to complete (requires campaign restart to take effect).
4. Handing over a full or two-thirds full bottle of poison to sergeant while completing his Drunkard quest would result in him giving some of it back to you.
5. Fixed Shamshir's incorrect attack icon.
6. Fixed an issue with "no weapon selected" error message that sometimes popped up after giving an ally a Zweihander.
7. Reworked scabbards: lowered their stat debuffs, rescaled weapon draw stamina cost (requires campaign restart to take effect).
8. Added a message that informs the player what stats does he lack to install a mechanical drum.
9. Fixed a bug with "Proceed" button sometimes appearing during the Prepare for Battle phase.
10. Fixed the infinite loop bug that occurred in Oxford camp (this time for good).
11. Increased hit chance bonus on longswords' Counterstrike attack (from 15+15 to 20+20).
12. Fixed a bug that allowed to use special attacks while wielding a broken two-handed axe.
13. Fixed a series of bugs with items disappearing when the player tries to hand them over to allies.
14. Fixed an issue with poison resist effect sometimes not disappearing after the player took off plague doctor's mask.


Bugfixing patch 1.5f is out now!

Changelog:
1. Added new trinkets to the custom character creation mode.
2. Fixed an error with the Snake skin belt item.
3. Added 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons to the squad member interaction menu.
4. Fixed several inconsistencies with allies' stats when handing them items.
5. After receiving a helmet, a weapon, a crossbow or an armor piece from the player the squad members will no longer throw it away when they are upgraded.
6. Every time a squad member is upgraded he will automatically receive a certain consumable item (depending on their class and level).
7. Alyssa's incomplete quests now correctly disappear if the player has taken Canterbury's story path.
8. Fixed several issues with Fair Maiden's Portrait trinket.
9. Added a fix to the infinite loop issue in Oxford camp that some players have been reporting (I'm not 100% sure that the issue is solved but the fix is likely to work - if it doesn't I'll come up with another one).
10. Fixed a bunch of other minor glitches.

Bugfixing patch 1.5e is out now!

Changelog:
1. Fixed an incorrect interaction during the first duel with Ruffin that could lead to the main hero instantly dying in the next fight.
2. Fixed halberd's Leg Sweep attack having incorrect hit chance visualization.
3. Fixed an issue with Duncan's storyline second chapter having a possibility for the player to softlock themselves if they spent all the time without completing the quests.
4. Removed incorrect names for various enemies in the new storylines.
5. Added indicators to armor and helmet that can be used in crafting.
6. Fixed an issue with Ruffin's fight in one of the new storylines not granting the achievement and not removing the quest to find him.
7. Fixed a critical error with infinite loop sometimes occurring during the loot phase if the player has both the four leaf clover and the Sticky fingers talent.
8. Fixed a cirtical error with infinite loop occurring in Maidstone if the player attempts to pick up another craftsman/blacksmith/alchemist task while already having too many pending ones.
9. Fixed a bunch of other minor glitches.


Bugfixing patch 1.5d is out now!

Changelog:
1. Impoverished Knight's model now displays correctly.
2. Handing over quest items in Maidstone no longer reduces your inventory size.
3. Fixed critical errors when completing various quests from Maidstone's craftsman storyline.
4. Civil Life achievements are now properly unlockable.
5. Fixed the bug with Maidstone quests being available from the Oxford camp.
6. Fixed several issues with critical erros after handing over certain items to allies.
7. Fixed several bugs with certain trinkets not working properly after being given to allies.
8. Fixed several issues with the text display.
9. Fixed an issue with Anna's romance scene being unreachable despite completing all of her quests.
10. Fixed an issue with killing Goliath sometimes not counting towards his weapon unlock.
11. Fixed a bunch of other minor glitches and errors.


Bugfixing patch 1.5c is out now!

List of fixed issues:
1. Various story events occuring during item crafting and resulting in softlocks.
2. Error message that pops up when attempting to attack an enemy after loading an old save file (pre-1.5).
3. Various bugs surrounding 'Master of Poisons' civic talent.
4. Invisible an untargetable enemies during the Chippenham riots story event.
5. Bug that resulted in "unsupported operand type(s) for -=: 'unicode' and 'float'" error message.
6. Incorrect game behaviour after telling all of your allies to retreat.
7. Bug during Bartholomew's Jailbird quest.
8. Issue with allies losing their trinkets that were received from the player after levelling up (their armor and weapons are still changed when they level up - that too is going to be fixed but the fix would require some time).
9. Various bugs with completing Maidstone's blacksmith quest line.
10. Inventory space decreasing instead of increasing when handing over quest items.
11. Several other minor incorrect interactions and localization issues.


New stuff in Patch 1.5

1. Added new difficulty modifier - Prestige mode - that adds weapon durability mechanic, increases the lethality of the combat, lowers the time in chapters and generally makes the game even more hardcore.
2. Added civic talents - a variety of passive abilities that give the character various out-of-battle bonuses.
3. Added hydration mechanic in Outremer. Consuming water in that chapter will now temporarily protect you from the heat fatigue gain.
4. Added Damietta bazaar with a variety of different shops that contain all kinds of items.
5. Added 9 new trinkets including one that counters heat fatigue gain under certain conditions.
6. Survival mode now has a shop where the player can buy and sell items in between rounds.
7. Added keyboard support for in-battle controls.
8. Added quick action buttons to some of the item interaction menus (equipping and unequipping items, selling items and moving items between chest and inventory can be now done with one mouse click).
9. Added trinket presets menu that will allow the player to save several trinket combinations and them quickly swap between them.
10. Added different colors to characters' names in dialogues.
11. Added a couple of new scavenge events.

① Balance changes
1. Healing injuries will now return only a percentage of the lost characteristics instead of fully restoring them. In Prestige mode you will receive back 50% of the points, on HWR and Hard difficulties - 75%, on Normal and Story difficulties - 100%.
2. Punishments for leaving an injuries untreated have been increased.
3. Mechanical crossbow has been reworked. Operating the crossbow will now require a certain amount of points in craftsmanship and crossbow skill. Repairing and unjamming the drum will now require specific items. Shooting in automatic modes will now generate a recoil that will decrease the accuracy (but is in turn decreased by strength).
Mechanical crossbow's price in manual character creation mode has been increased.
4. Crafting now consumes a tiny bit of time.
5. Item prices have been rebalanced and are overall more expensive now.

② Fixes and minor additions
1. Field surgery kit will now count as a medical item in Hadley.
2. Beibars will not be able to retreat with a broken leg.
3. Buying recipes from Anna no longer boosts your relationship with her. Relationship bonus points for other quests have been recalculated to add up to 100 if all completed successfully.
4. Fixed a bug with an ally going crazy in a desert cave which resulted in the game crashing.
5. Fixed a bug that could lead to Rennes being captured by the mercenaries despite the city strength score being way higher.
6. Fixed a number of various minor Anna-related issues.

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Free Visual Update is here!

Hey Dealers,

We have a pleasure to present the Visual Update for the original Drug Dealer Simulator, created for us by external artists while Byterunners have been busy with DDS2. It is our gift to the fans. Perhaps it will let you relive the emotions of DDS1 in a slightly different way.

Visual Update Notes
• Added 1 GB of new textures
• Toned the colors of terrain for a more natural look
• Replaced ca. 90% of foliage
• Increased the density of foliage in selected areas
• Improved selected materials
• Prevented the detected rare glitches where some textures rendered black
• Improved postprocesses: flair, noise, film grain/noise, white balance, saturation
• Tweak night lighting to light up overly dark areas for a better gaming experience
• Improved the effects of water and smoke
• Fixed the positioning of certain objects that were hovering above the ground

Hotfix 1.3.3.12841d
• Fixed an issue that caused the graphics menu to crash for some players.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Download button on the Shared Design Browser to sometimes get stuck disabled.

Knights of the Chalice 2 Version 1.75

Hi everyone! Version 1.75 of Knights of the Chalice 2 has landed.

Today's update introduces high-resolution spell icons, which can also be used as dialogue icons. I hope you'll like them!

I'll post a new Kickstarter Update with screenshots in coming days.

• Graphics: Added a brand new set of high-resolution spell icons, featuring more than 600 new icons for spells and psionic powers.
• Graphics: Expanded the set of existing spell icons. For example, there are now unique icons for each version of the Summon Elemental spells.
• Graphics: Added a new option under 'Display' allowing you to revert to the classic set of spell icons, if you prefer that one.
• Module Editor: You can use the new spell icons in scripted dialogues. This works because the format of the new spell icons is the same as the format of dialogue icons (64*64 pixels).
• Voice Effects: Increased the volume of voice effects and non-localised sound effects, by playing them as stereo sounds even if the sound file uses the mono-channel format.
• Sound Effects: Added a new sound effect for a metal gate or door opening: 'Door opening 4.wav'.
• Help Entries: Improved the help entries for the feats Armour Expertise I and Armour Expertise II. Also added a link to these feats in the help entry for 'Restricted Dexterity Bonus'.

Please don't hesitate to email me at enquiries@heroicfantasygames.com if you find any bugs and annoyances, so that I can fix the game quickly. A saved game may be very helpful, too.

Thank You So Much, Valiant Paladins and Wizards of the Realm! Take care!! ^_^

Version 1.1.110 released as stable

Bugfixes

• Fixed electric furnace shadow missing on some configurations.
• Fixed a crash when using weak tables in the lua global table.
• Fixed a bonus productivity exploit when crafting machine ingredients were force returned.

A New Build is OUT - Patch 1.175 - Codename: Conrectus Ligaturae

Hey everyone,

As we’ve alluded to in recent posts, the recent release of Old Acquaintances has set the creative part of the team into action on our next DLC, but what have our programmers, UI, and quality assurance people been up to?

Why, improving the game, of course. This is why we’re happy to present some impactful quality of life (QoL) changes that will help make your Vagrus experience all the smoother.

Companions and Character Sheets

The first complaint we’ve received multiple times – and for which we’ve been trying to find a solution for a while – is related to the information available for Companions’ Skills. Currently, it is possible to use the arrow indicated on the right-hand column below to view the next Skill level above your current one by clicking on it. In the screenshot, you can see this is possible for both Suppressing Shots and Defensive Cut.

Now, you will be able to view all levels of the Skill. This means if you have Poison Arrow I. on Criftaa then you will also be able to see the statistics of levels II. and III.

But that’s not all: previously obtusely presented Skills – like Criftaa’s multi-phased Suppressing Shots – will now allow the player to toggle between their phases; the first phase is for the overwatch portion of the Skill, like in the picture above, while the second phase indicates how much actual damage it will do when it is triggered by an enemy.

Toggling between the two phases can be done simply by toggling the brown box just to the right of the Skill’s name.

We’ve also got changes coming for summoners. Previously, the issue was simply that one could not know what creature is going to be summoned and what its stats are. The below mockup – put together by our wonderful UI designer – illustrates how the player will be able to bring up information about the summoned creature from the character pane.

Campaign Map

The next serious QoL change we’re making is to campaign map movement and it’s simple: you will be able to double-click on the node you wish to move to and you will go there. No more clicking on the node then on the footprint icon, which some have decried as a finicky waste of time (it probably was).

As we continued working on these features, however, another crucial element loomed large: key bindings. They needed to be revamped to make some of the game’s controls more intuitive and logical. Thus, we set ourselves to the task of not only streamlining the handling and navigation of the comitatus, but also overhauling the default key bindings. One of the main goals here was to dramatically reduce the amount of clicks or keys the average sequence of actions takes and create a more modern, intuitive user experience. We’ve mapped out the changes below so you can take a look for yourself.

For some, the commands here will be nothing new but there is one entirely new addition: the “Comitatus Tabbing” command. This will bring up the default comitatus menu and allow you to move – or tab – between different panes within that.

We’ve worked hard on these changes and we’re very excited to deploy them. As usual, let us know what you think! Below you can check out the whole inventory of changes.

Important Note: Considering the extent of the improvements, there is little to no chance that we broke nothing in the process. Assume that we did not want to make anyone's life harder. If you see something amiss, please flag it to us using the usual channels, like the inbuilt reporting tool (F1 button), forums, and our Discord server.

Patch 1.175 - Codename: Conrectus Ligaturae

New or Updated Features :gift:

• You can now double-click to move on the campaign map.
• Revamped key bindings: defaults have been changed to be more intuitive and grouped by topics or UI categories, and new hotkeys have been added.
• The Leadership Perk “Command” has been reworked: it now unlocks all advanced Crew Combat actions passively and when Resourcefulness is spent, it raises Combat Strength and Defense by 15% as well as turns Critical Failure rolls to Failure.
• The effects of multiple “Terrifying” Perks no longer stack. Stacking caused Skills that target multiple positions with characters with the Perk to be close to useless.
• You can now butcher Beasts and Mounts directly at your Outpost instead of having to move them to the comitatus.
• You no longer lose Mounts when Fighters leave you during Events (ie. Outriders do not take their Mounts) for narrative reasons.

User Interface Improvements :pencil:

• Combat Skills with multiple phases are now displayed differently (better communicating these Skills) on Character Sheets. You can switch between the effects and stats of the different phases.
• You can now check the stats and Skills of creature(s) that “summon” type Combat Skills spawn. Details are on the Character Sheet.
• Improved the visuals during an Evade sequence in Companion Combat so that players will have an easier time understanding what input is required from them in cases where the target position has to be interacted with.
• Evade is now displayed as a percentage on the Character Sheet.

Bug Fixes :bug:

• Fixed an issue that caused the erroneous display (and only the display) of framerate in Options.
• Fixed an issue that caused Renkailon’s Caltrops Skill to cause a lock in Companion Combat.
• Ironed out the discrepancies in Renkalion’s Loyalty changes caused by player choice after his storyline is concluded so now they should work as was originally intended.
• Companions now lose less Loyalty from becoming Severely Wounded, as was originally intended.
• Fixed a rare issue that prevented Javek’s ending slide from appearing despite his quest being completed in that playthrough.
• From now on, hiring the forces of Dragonlands factions to defend your Outpost actually costs money, as advertised by the choice. No more freebies, sorry.
• Fixed a glitch that caused Mount/Dismount to not always work as intended in Crew Combat, especially in relation to ambushes.
• Fixed the wrong tooltip display of Impervious Ward in Crew Combat.
• All relevant Factions purchase Salt from your Outpost more often, making it much rarer for it to pile up.
• Players have encountered further issues with the Wazirhai Curse quest, so we have attempted to fix some outlying problems that may have arisen from old scripts; we’re crossing fingers that we won’t have to return to this again.
• Reworked the Aid tutorial: it now only activates when it is the player’s turn after a character was Downed and it also provides enough Resourcefulness to use Aid. These changes prevent any locks that could have happened previously.
• Fixed a bunch of offset and oddly displayed tooltips.
• Multiple text-related improvements, as usual. Thanks for all the reports and feedback!

As ever, more is coming, so stay tuned and conquer the wasteland!
- The Lost Pilgrims Team