Res Judicata: Vale of Myth Mega Patch 2.0.0

DLC Changes

Official Sound Track

• Converted OST DLC to Steam Soundtrack

Strategy Guide

• Updated to include all 2.0.0 new content and balance changes
• Added never before seen character and world sections!

Vale of Myth Changes (Demo and Full game)

Critical Fixes

• Fixed 5 crashes and 11 soft locks:
• DrawGauge override crash
• Disease damage calculation crash
• Kronos filename crash
• Rare Crash due to Bleed and Poison states attempting to apply undefined damage
• Empty Bestiary crash
• Cave of the Dead soft lock
• Potential soft lock: player takes gondola to isolated area in Venice and does not have enough Gold for return trip
• Temporal Rift teleport soft lock
• World Map soft lock: Moving between West and East Cave of the Dead nodes caused displacement resulting in soft lock
• Whispering Falls Priest soft lock
• Potential soft lock: Player positions themselves in a position that prevents Daron moving
• Soft lock: After meeting Daron, the player leaves the Old Monastery. They are then unable to enter, as the blank Daron event "consumes" the action button event
• Potential soft lock: Eiffel's Shadow Inn event, Francis, Eve, and Hibiki could be pushed into positions preventing their movement
• Soft lock: Save and load right after battling Death
• Soft lock: Returning to Dying Wastes from Secluded Cave did not reset puzzle
• Soft lock: Refusal to go past point of no return locked player out of end-game
• Reduced Santa Compana Victim sight range by one, player no longer visible from off-screen
• Fixed demo not having an ending event
• Corrected a few important characters all using the same sprites

New Content

• Added completely new World Map for Golgotha
• Player can freely enter and leave Golgotha in New Game+
• Ame Morte is a separate World Map node and visually changes after the events on the ship
• Added Temporal Rift World Map location
• Player visibly teleports in and out of rifts on World Map
• Exiting the Temporal Rift via the south teleport takes player to the World Map
• Added new terms: Eternal Curse, Eternal Death, King Edward I, Hammer of the Scots, Rift, Rift Storm, Rigor mortis, Rolf, Otto, and Welsh War
• Restored feature: Gaea becomes more friendly to the player over the course of the game

New Graphics

• New Silver element icon
• New weapon type Sling for Francis
• Flying enemies now visibly fly and have Flying status effect
• Five new battle backgrounds for Golgotha, replacing the previous one
• Doubled enemy encounter combinations and variety
• Increased human enemy variety and weapon variety

• Wild Mutt (Toledo Prison)
• Nain Rogue (Toledo Mines)
• Red Cap (Clock Tower)
• Bloody Bones (Clock Tower)
• Beast of Gvaudan (Valle dei Setti Morti)

• Garbhan (more muscular, corrected beard)
• Batavia (no eye pupils)
• Far Liath (palette swap of imp-default-2.png by HiddenOne)
• Mr. S.
• Strix

• Anachronox (Announcer)
• Barrow-wight (Jack O' Lantern)
• Beast of Gvaudan (Crazed Wolf)
• Bloody Bones (Jack O' Lantern)
• Desecrator (Lou Carcohl)
• Dip (Crazed Wolf)
• Drude (The Shackled)
• Enraged Boar (Ankou)
• Fear Doirche (Cuegle)
• Lost Soul (Tortured Soul)
• Nain Rogue (Far Laith)
• Phantasm (Announcer)
• Red Cap (Lutin)
• Sirena Chilota (Lamia)
• Watcher (Harvester)
• Wild Mutt (Crazed Wolf)
• Yuxa (Lamia)

Scene Changes

• When changing locations during a story event, player always goes to World Map
• Overhauled big story scene on the Ame Morte
• Improved story scene in Whispering Falls tavern where heroes are drugged
• Added new event where you can talk to Spanish carpenter from across the broken bridge
• Made it obvious that Bosque goes through the Cave of the Dead before the player
• Changed Cave of the Dead scenes to focus around hero motivation for going through cave
• Expanded Daron confrontation scene
• Eve and Hibiki now visibly fight each other in Notre Dame Cathedral
• Eve's scene in Eiffel's Shadow now differs based on whether player spoke to her before the scene
• Fixed sequence with Daron guarding Old Monastery: doors open and close properly, Daron fades out when entering Monastery and fades in when leaving Monastery
• Monks and Bandits now visibly "fight"
• Fixed timing issues during Monastery Attack scene
• Monastery doors remain ajar during the battle scene
• Expanded dialogue if player talks to Hibiki before the speaking to Francis in Eiffels Shadow Inn
• Added a scene if player talks to Eve before speaking to Francis in Eiffels Shadow Inn
• Improved scene when player tries to open palace doors to involve the guards
• Fatigue of characters in Cave of the Dead and Paris Messenger is now indicated
• Added events for player examining pianos
• Monk and guards respond differently after assassin runs out of Notre Dame Cathedral
• Clarified Father Pierre recognizing the bird as a sudden aside
• Player can speak to Crypt Guardians and they leave rubble behind after dying
• Garbhan jumping into the pit looks nicer (all pits look nicer)
• End credits are cleaner, headings are more clearly visible

New Items

• New Quicksilver and Holy Grenade items (Holy Water thrown at enemies to deal Holy damage)
• Greek Fire, Quick Lime, Quicksilver, and Holy Grenade added to most item shops

• Arbalest (Crossbow)
• Bizen Osafune (Katana)
• Brandistock (Spear)
• Cerulean Dragon Spear (Spear)
• Cloich Tabaill (Sling)
• Gae Bulg (Spear)
• Hou Yi (Bow)
• Laminate Bow (Bow)
• Self Bow (Bow)
• Ranseur (Spear)
• Repeating Crossbow (Crossbow)
• Vampire Slayer (Crossbow)
• War Scythe (Spear)
• Zweihander (Two-handed sword)

Map Changes

• All interior and exterior maps cast shadows
• Towers, tables, and beds cast shadows
• Updated all Rest Area maps (some no longer visually matched their corresponding maps)
• Overhauled Clock Tower it looks much better
• Fixed footstep sound inconsistencies in Venice
• Balconies are now consistently in shadow that covers players and objects present on balconies
• Venice Warehouse Back Alley is cast in dark shadows
• A new house is open near Toledo

New Secrets / Chests

Quality of Life

Secret / Chests Tracking
• All locations with chests and secrets have a World Map for chest/secret tracking
• Split Golgotha chest and secret handling, counts and totals into separate ones per Golgotha region
• Corrected secret / chests tracking maximums
• Secret passage did not update secrets found counter
• Finding Smuggling Den counts as finding a secret

• Steam achievement descriptions and conditions are now more accurate and more fair
• Updated and tightened Steam stats
• Weapons, Armor, Shields, and Relics have new descriptions that include information such as block rate and handedness
• Keepsakes include icons in their description for who can equip them
• Food displays restorative effects in the same format as healing items
• Crushing, Piercing, Slashing, Ranged, and Silvered resistances are in Status Menu under Physical heading
• Physical element rate is now the average of Crushing, Piercing, Slashing, Ranged, and Silvered resistances
• In-battle Status menu changes:
• Cleaned up presentation of In-battle Status menu
• Stealth effects show the text HIDDEN in the blue bar when the player is hiding
• Added a dozen Gaea hints to mazes and puzzles that did not already have hints
• Player warned before leaving Ame Morte and again if they have not found all chests and secrets
• Building raft to cross Valle Dei Setti Morti reminds player if they have not gone through Catacombs
• Cleaned up Bestiary
• Slimes have their own watery damage noise
• Swamp Creatures regenerate
• New key item Iron Key, dropped by Mr. S.
• Devil's Cemetery only unlocks after completing the Catacombs (less confusing)
• Monastery Cloister entrances are more obvious
• Small cave entrances/exits are more clearly visible
• Updated help to include Console Log and Brightness options under Accessibility
• Scrolling text moves more slowly by default to be more accessible (hold OK to speed up)
• Books in the Monster Hunter's Guild make open and closed sounds
• Player can unlock Crew Quarters gates (from above) in Ame Morte to speed up search for treasure
• Improved skill icon variety to better reflect abilities and rages
• Corrected Debilitating Strike icons

• Players can speak to the Spirit of Time in the Temporal Rift
• Selecting Correct Timeline updates World Map chest and secret counters, and auto-sets Gaea affection level
• Selecting Change Titles then Correct Titles unlocks any Titles and Achievements players meet the criteria for but did not receive due to earlier bugs
• Selecting Change Titles then Reset Titles allows players to reset all their Titles
• Warrior, Hero, and Exemplar Titles unlock at any number of battles greater than or equal to threshold value

Balance

• Player is fully healed between Tarasque and Kornikaned boss battles
• Players can buy items during the monastery attack in the Chapter Room upstairs
• Player now receives 1 automatic level-up during the Cave of The Dead events
• Halved stealth mini game penalties
• Overhauled Title stat. bonus tracking, the old implementation was inflating stats (especially Accuracy, Critical Rate, and Evasion) to absurd degrees
• The intended stat. distribution is roughly one half of what it was previously due to these bugs

• Since heroes do not yet have access to elemental attacks, grenades are important in battle
• Added more grenade variety to attack enemy elemental weaknesses
• New magic damage and grenade damage formulas
• All gazes, touches, and magic spells now cause damage
• Garbhan and Daron each have one more Silvered weapon

• Garbhans M. Attack stat. is no longer useless
• Recalculated all hero stat. progressions
• All stat. progressions curve to make more interesting level up increments
• Hero physical attacks are now much more competitive
• All M. Attack stat. progression is more effective
• Francis joins the party at level 4 instead of level 3
• Heroes are weak to at least one of Crushing, Piercing, or Slashing and strong to the others
• All hero skills now make use of these different Physical sub-elements
• All heroes now receive better weapons at a more frequent pace
• Rebalanced Eves skills, her damage modifiers were too high
• Francis learns Rebirth Requiem and Lullaby earlier to mitigate Rage and recover from instant-kills
• All heroes now have primary and secondary resistances: Daron is immune to Paralysis, Eve is immune to Confusion, Eve has a 25% resistance to Infatuate
• Garbhan now uses his Backhand counterattack!

• Added Crushing, Slashing, Piercing, Ranged, and Silvered elements as secondary Physical elements
• Skills use Crushing, Piercing, Slashing, and Ranged instead of Physical

• Skills dealing potent Status Ailments now have cool downs to prevent AI spamming those skills
• All enemies (except bugs) have a chance of dropping something
• Kronos uses mid-tier Channeling magic to be more of a challenge
• Adjusted HP, P. Attack, P. Defense, M. Attack, and M. Defense stats. for all enemies
• Removed a few annoying enemy encounters
• Garguiem must be hit with Fire to remove its Blood of The Fallen regeneration
• All enemy hit rates slightly increased, evasion rates for enemies capped at +3%
• All flying enemies receive a +1% evasion boost
• All large enemies now have evasion penalties
• Bosses fleeing battle now give EXP and Gold rewards
• Re-balanced all enemy encounters

• Attack Up/Down and Defense Up/Down now affect both P. Attack and M. Attack and P. Defense and M. Defense, respectively. Before it was just P. Attack and P. Defense stats.
• Flying status effect now weak to Wind and Ranged, resists Earth
• Stun increases weakness to Crushing, Piercing, Slashing, and Ranged elements
• Berserk decreases M. Attack by 20%
• Bleed damage is 4x higher than it was previously, with minimum 12 damage
• Bleed damage increases each turn; it was incorrectly decreasing each turn previously. It caps out at 1/3 of original damage dealt (or 12, whichever is greater)
• Bleed now lasts 3 turns instead of 4
• Poison is now applied even on attacks doing no damage, and Poison damage doesnt vary
• Aflame now does more damage per turn
• When in the Back Row all elemental damage is reduced by 25%
• Two-handed Swords, Axes, and Hammers are Crushing element
• Spears are Piercing element
• Katanas and Swords (slashing) are Slashing element

• Naan restores 15% HP and MP instead of 40% HP, and costs less
• Shish kabobs restore 40% HP instead of 65% HP

• Weapons give both P. Attack and M. Attack
• Armor gives higher M. Defense
• Magic Evasion is now a thing and is modified by all things modifying Physical Evasion
• Heavy Armor now offers slightly higher M. Defense than lighter armors
• Armor gives a small boost to Crushing, Piercing, Slashing, and Ranged resistances
• Some armor gives a small boost to Spirit, Evil, and Holy resistances
• Capes, cloaks, and furs give a small boost to Wind and Water resistances
• Some armor gives small boost to Max HP
• Evil accessories give a penalty to Spirit and Evil resistances
• Re-balanced Katana, Sword, and Spear damage
• Daggers and Swords replaced with Bows and Spears respectively
• Halved Accuracy penalties for Hammers and Axes
• Spears now give an Accuracy bonus of +3% instead of +5%
• Tower Shields now slightly reduce evasion
• Luck is modified by more accessories
• Garbhan's Claymore gives +2% Accuracy (constant use of weapon)
• Kodachi (a self-defense weapon) gives +10% Counter Rate
• Atlatl has +2% Accuracy
• Hand Crossbow Accuracy penalty reduced to -5%
• Dutch Custom Accuracy penalty reduced to -15%
• Hurricane Accuracy penalty reduced to -12%
• Targe now increases Counter Rate by +5%
• Daron's starting shield is now a Crest Shield, not a Kite Shield
• Sheltering merchant gives a Kite Shield
• Fixed weapon pricing (Bows, Spears)

• Enemies are weak to one of Crushing, Piercing, Slashing, or Ranged and strong to the others
• Revised Holy, Silvered, and Evil resistances for all enemies
• Enemies and heroes all take 100% damage from Spirit (instead of 80%)
• Enemies have a max. of 3 Physical/elemental weaknesses
• Enemy maximum elemental weakness capped at 120%
• Enemy maximum elemental resistance capped at 40%
• Skeleton monsters no longer susceptible to Bleeding status ailment
• Apparitions (ghosts) take 80% damage from Sound due to lack of ears
• Insects take only 40% damage from Sound due to their lack of ears
• All undead enemies take half damage from Leech attacks (HP Drain)
• Fire element effective on half as many creatures
• Evil enemies weak to Holy, Leech and Spirit enemies weak to Silvered

• Status Ailments inflict more Rage damage (reduce Rage)
• Death reduces Rage by 50%
• Needle Barrage skill is now a Rage skill
• Bar Brawl skill is now a Rage skill learnt at level 15
• Challenge skill is now a Rage skill learnt at level 20

• Max HP boost is reduced to a maximum of 150
• Max MP boost is slightly less
• Learning related skills (i.e. Savage Blows I, Savage Blows II) gives a better bonus for each level learnt (previously all bonuses were equal)

• Reduced Passive Skill bonuses (they were too high)
• Most elemental resistances are half their earlier values
• All skills with a chance of causing instant death are reduced by more than 50%
• All bard songs cost more MP
• Iainuki skill is now a Technique skill
• Iainuki skill is slightly less powerful
• Daron learns a weaker version of Challenge called Javelin that he can use at any time
• Darons One-Two Rage was dealing 1.5 x3 damage, balanced to 0.8 x3 damage
• In exchange for hitting all enemies, Wailing Shriek can no longer crit. and has a 35% variance
• Shut Up skill requires 8 RG
• Firebrand MP Cost increased by 2 MP
• Barrow-wight and Drude enemies given new weaknesses
• Now You See Me skill requires 5 RG, does slightly more damage
• I'm Angry Now skill requires 5 RG, and does not give RG
• Backstab cannot cause instant death (attack is too frequent)
• Wrench 2 slightly nerfed to +3% Bleeding chance
• Nerfed Weapon Mastery states to each give +1% Critical Rate
• Exorcist II state nerfed to +5% Evil resistance
• Nerfed Pharmacology Rate to maximum of +15%

• All magic attacks except for Earthquake can be blocked
• Throat Slit, Assassinate, and other back-stab abilities can be blocked
• Mug can be blocked (but not Steal)
• Leech attacks (i.e. Life Drain) cannot be blocked

Bug Fixes

• Removed stealth mini game from Ame Morte due to lack of stability
• Ranged weapons can target the front and back row again
• Certain skills like Slander can select any target regardless of weapon equipped
• Riddle in Royal Crypt did not show because of an off-by-one bug
• Riddle solution in Royal Crypt was not checking for the correct answer
• Fixed player immediately warping away from Temporal Rift secret area
• Turn Order Gauge is back on the right side of battle, so it does not cover the Battle Log
• Giving Back side-quest had wrong icon for category
• Moved badger animal so as not to block player in Cliff Crossing map
• Blootered banter no longer happens when player approaches Old Monastery, as it tends to run alongside the meeting Daron scene
• Game now auto-saves when player boards Ame Morte
• Game now auto-saves when Eve joins the party
• Fixed bug where requirements for Good Samaritan and Legend titles were reversed
• Axes, Crossbows, and Maces are all visible in combat animation again
• Grenades are now visibly thrown at enemies again
• Enemies no longer thrust their weapons when throwing a Grenade
• Rabbit Punch animation no longer shows enemies using their weapons
• Jete de Rose now has the Infatuate icon instead of the healing icon
• Siegfried joins party at full HP and MP

Continuity Fixes

• Some time change calls did not set day period flag, which resulted in incorrect screen tints for time of day
• Fixed annoying bug where Treasury and Elixir banters would play every time instead of once
• Ghost achievement check moved to earlier in the caves, where it would make more sense to achieve
• Bosque and Hibiki flee in first encounter instead of collapsing
• Gaea puzzle hints did not reset when leaving a puzzle area, leading to incorrect hints
• Gaea hints were set to check for the wrong variable and so did not progress as intended
• Eve starts with Kotetsu and Iron Wristlet, not Kotetsu and Goksted (Kotetsu is two-handed)
• Player's speed no longer set to unbearably slow after completing Chase Mini game
• Sounds of battle persist when bandit attack starts and get louder the closer to battle the player gets
• Caravan map transitioned player to Cave of The Dead instead of Cave of the Dead (Trade Route)
• Sailor cleaning cannon in Ame Morte Left Battery did not turn towards player when spotting them
• Map transition from inside cloister that took player from monastery (aftermath) to monastery (raid)
• Adjusted Will O' Wisps to more clearly mark the way through the Valle dei Setti Morti swamp
• Changed some Will O' Wisps to red instead of blue based on whether they help or hinder the player
• Minor sequence break in Cave of the Dead where player could skip intro scene
• An area of the Ascension Caves was inaccessible from the Path of Ascension
• Knocked out guard in Paris stayed "knocked out" indefinitely
• Merchants in the Old Monastery refer to Father Pierre's passing
• Francis no longer incorrectly refers to his parents as a "painter and a musician." They are, as they later introduce themselves, "a harpist and a singer.
• Fixed sequence break where player could skip meeting Francis at the Eiffels Shadow Inn
• If player talks to Francis' family while Francis is at the Inn, they now respond appropriately
• Hibiki now speaks to the Tavern keeper
• Elixir banter checks to see if Francis is present before speaking his lines
• Lots of Chests banter checks if Daron is in the party before saying his lines
• Eve comments during the Treasury, Lots of Chests, Lots of Secrets banters if in the party
• Francis comments during Scars banter
• Daron reveals he was an orphan in the Daron's Parents banter
• Expanded Worried about Eve banter
• Dialogue changed after heroes escape the Santa Compana to show they are out of breath
• Eve meetings changed to avoid repeating introductions
• Fixed a tiny sequence break where recommended level for player would not update in the mines
• Swamp Creatures always attack player from behind as intended
• Removed sequence-break where you could complete the Smuggling Ring quest without fighting Mr. S.
• Fixed a tiny sequence break where Garbhan mentions Father Pierre without meeting him if player walks to the Cave of The Dead entrance at night and tries to search it
• Whispering Falls blacksmith did not recognize when Kornikaned died
• Footstep sounds were not consistent in Venice
• Game did not recognize player had found the Hermit Blacksmith before accepting Hermit in the Big City
• If the player first enters a Holy Circle as Siegfried, Siegfried explains the Holy Circles. Otherwise, they are explained by Garbhan
• Barkeep is no longer in Toledo Prison before the jail sequence
• Player can interact with locked cell doors in Toledo Prison before jail sequence

Context Fixes

• Player could bypass guard/priest blocking Connards room before completing Exorcist Needed side-quest
• Player could push guard protecting Toledo cathedral away from the doors
• Player could push Clock Tower guard to access the door behind him
• Player could push switch in Dying Wastes
• Watchers start battle on contact
• Opening Paris treasury door increments Paris Secrets Found counter
• All chests in Whispering Falls increment Whispering Falls Chests Found counter
• Solving Clock Tower puzzle increments Clock Tower Secrets Found counter
• Corrected discrepancy between two Raft Check events in Tranquil Shore (Valle dei Setti Morti)
• Player can interact with Venetian tavern keeper again
• Player can report killing the Desecrator to the Parisian guard after reporting killing the Grave Robbers
• Eve, Hibiki, and the Innkeeper in Eiffels Shadow Inn increment towards talking to all NPCs
• Widow in Whispering Falls had no dialogue (after Hacinas Festival) due to two reversed parameters
• Kid in Whispering Falls (after Hacinas Festival) had no dialogue due to two reversed parameters
• Riding Gondola back from Warehouse Back Alley and Smuggler's Den would cause the Gondolier to allow player to pay to travel to their current location
• If player refuses to help the Shade in the Dying Temple, they can still help it later
• If player helps the Shade in the Dying Temple, it no longer turns to bone after finding the Seer's Eye
• If player approaches Father Pierre from the side, he would not adjust to face player
• Player could not talk to injured guard outside monastery gates
• Ame Morte guards no longer make monster scream when spotting player
• Made hiding spot near rotating Santa Compana Victim more obvious
• Talking to Innkeeper directly resulted in an incomplete tavern choice
• Fixed bug where Father Jean-Phillippe would appear after the exorcism but not say anything
• Added sound to book events that were incorrectly missing them
• Corrected hundreds of events using incorrect context icons
• Interior doors display the "hand" context icon instead of the "container" icon
• Context icons for all chests and bodies differ based on if they are empty or not
• Entities in Temporal Rift are now context sensitive
• Fixed context prompt overlaying two dialogues when examining paintings in Francis' home
• Caravan corpses displayed wrong context info
• Doors in Toledo (West Outskirts) displayed wrong context info
• Clock Tower guard did not show context information
• A bookcase in Eiffels Shadow Inn did not have context icon display for it
• Fixed bug where player could not speak to monk over counter
• Fixed minor bug where context prompts did not hide during the entire conversation with Old Monk A
• A Cook in the Ame Morte Crew Quarters had a typo in his context info

Bestiary Bug Fixes

• Kill requirements reduced from 9 to 5 for normal enemies, 9 to 3 for elite enemies, and 1 for bosses
• Fixed Bestiary entries exceeding Bestiary description window
• Killing Bosque unlocks both his Bestiary entries
• Killing Assassin unlocks both his Bestiary entries
• Swamp Creature entry fully unlocks after beating them
• Swamp Creature max kill count corrected from 5 to 4
• Removed 2 empty entries preventing players from completing the Bestiary

Quest Tracking Bug Fixes

• Cursed Ring and Strike Breaker quests no longer count towards helping Toledo
• Fixed bug where side-quest location count could potentially overwrite
• Team Player Title now checks every time a Banter plays (previously it only checked at camp)
• Bandit quest now counts towards Toledo quest count when completed in Old Monastery (Upgraded)
• Woman greeting player outside Francis' home only greets the player when they exit the main door (previously they could also trigger the scene by exiting onto the balcony)
• Francis Inspire Me quest now triggers properly
• Player cannot bypass Crypt Guardian fight
• Whispering Falls Carpenter no longer gives her quest reward (a Flamberge) multiple times
• Irma no longer gives her quest reward multiple times
• Captain Guerino no longer offers to get a drink with Garbhan if the player is in the middle of the Smuggling Ring quest
• Captain Guerino no longer gives her quest reward multiple times
• Devilbane did not add to player inventory after beating Jack O' Lantern
• Player can no longer collect golden chest in Wretched Mines without fighting Man Eaters
• Bloodhound, Cat-Saviour, Charmer, Exorcist, Haggler, Sleuth, and Resourceful Titles did not unlock due to incorrect casing of one letter
• Requirements for Legend achievement reduced by 1 (it was counting the Cursed Ring quest, which is incomplete)
• Warlord Title is now checked every time a party member joins
• Fixed bugs with quest completion tracking for 21 quests
• Less quests are needed for Toledo, Paris, and Whispering Falls Titles

Small Visual and Clipping Glitch Fixes

Mega Patch 2.0.0 is now in Beta. It covers all core and optional game content. The original post stated the patch would be out in a few days, but I underestimated the scope of the patch. The patch has been three weeks work. The Mega Patch now fixes nine game crashes and softlocks (up from the six previously reported), the number of bugs fixed has tripled, and the Mega Patch now adds new content as well! I've also added a number of quality of life improvements, for example, bracer and shield descriptions now include (previously hidden) block rate and damage reduction stats. I'm excited to tell you all the details, but I'm trying to save the big reveals for the patch release. Wear a mask, and stay safe.

So, I've been playing through the latest revision of Vale of Myth to gather footage for a new trailer in time for the summer. In doing so, I have noticed to my horror that many bugs are present in the game. When restoring the game files from SVN in order to address the NW.js driver crash issue, it seems that the code in the SVN was not up-to-date. Long story short, the mega patch will bring Vale of Myth from 1.4.0 to 2.0.0. It fixes six game crashes, fixes pages of bugs of all severity levels, and overhauls the random enemy encounters to be much more varied. Mr. S. will now have a unique battle appearance matching his face set, and several quality of life improvements are being added as well. The mega patch will be out in the next few days. It's been six day's work so far, and I'm looking forward to really cleaning things up. Wear a mask, and stay safe.

With the public encouraged to stay at home because of the Coronavirus, we want to do our part to help keep you entertained. Vale of Myth is 90% off until the end of the Steam Summer Sale (the max discount I can provide). While things are starting to reopen, people are still isolating at home most of the time. While this is a small thing, I hope it helps.

With the public encouraged to stay at home because of the Coronavirus, we want to do our part to help keep you entertained. Vale of Myth is now 90% off over the next 14 days (the max discount and duration I can provide). After the six week limit between discounts passes, I am intending to repeat the discount cycle for the duration of social isolation. While this is a small thing, I hope it helps.

Hey everyone, for those annoyed by the placeholder images, Vale of Myth is now using proper art for the new collection system.

Hey everyone, the OST, Strategy Guide, 1.4.0 release AND the Gaia bundle will all be live tomorrow morning. The Gaia bundle contains the full game, and all DLC to date for one low price. Some promised content for the anniversary did not make the deadline - I'm still working on the bonus dungeons and investigating a Linux release. The bonus dungeon content will be released for free. Features in 1.4.0: *The Temporal Rift is now available. It can be accessed through one of roughly a dozen different rift gates. *Damage number readability has been improved *Critical hits and multiple hit damage are now more visible *A WEAK popup now appears when hitting an enemy weakness *Enemy weaknesses are now tracked and shown for players during battle *The Stalwart achievement now activates properly in-game (a mis-capitalization caused it not to activate) *Sectioned health bars are removed *A number of typos (including some consistent ones) have all been corrected *The Venice Armory is now properly referred to as The Venice Arsenal. *A few missing context popups have been corrected *Low-contrast versions of the UI have been added in preparation for a low-contrast accessibility option. *A bug with a mismatch between node.js and greenworks versions has been corrected. This last point may fix the issue some players have reported of being unable to launch the game. I will be continuing to look into the matter.

Hey Everyone, The Gaea Edition, OST, and Strategy Guide are complete and ready for release on Tuesday. Unfortunately, I won't be able to release the bonus dungeons at that time. They are still on the way, of course, and I've added in some new scripts to help battle be more engaging and easy to use. Life has gotten a little out of hand lately, and I apologize for the delays. Just to be extra clear, the bonus content is and will be free of charge for all players.

It is with a conflicted heart that I have to amend the one anniversary release for Vale of Myth. I will not be able to ship the OS X and Linux editions on time. I’ve needed to make room for the rest of my career, and fixing a rare bug in the windows release has kept me busy. The Gaea Bundle, OST and Strategy Guide, along with other promised features are still planned for release on October 22. It is my intent to still release OS X and Linux builds, time allowing, I just don’t have the time to release them before the 22nd. Some of you may be wondering why I skip fixing the bug - since the windows, OSX and Linux versions all use the same basic structure, it is likely the same bug may appear in the OSX an Linux builds as well. Getting it fixed first means smoother OSX and Linux releases later.

Hey everyone, I just wanted to give a heads-up that I'll be heading on Vacation - my first vacation in a decade, in fact, and during that time I unfortunately won't be able to answer emails, comments, discussion posts, or messages. Once I return, I will resume all duties in full, of course! I will be away from July 4th, to July 18th, inclusive. I'll ask a friend to keep an eye on the forums and respond to what he can. Thank you all, and have a wonderful two weeks!

Originally we had hoped to run a contest that would reward players for taking time to review the game. Because so many games compete for player's time, we felt a reward would encourage players to leave reviews. The intent was to create an ethical reward that would not encourage undue bias. We discussed the matter in detail with the Sentinels of the Store, as we are friendly with them, and we know they've seen all kinds of practices. The discussion helped us to see the contest in a new light. After spirited discussion, we came to an agreement that it just isn't possible to offer an ethical review contest. It causes a similar issue to observation bias - that is to say, if people know they are being observed (or in this case, being rewarded), it will affect their behaviour - and they may not be aware that their behaviour has changed. It is an imperative for me to run Res Judicata and its community with respect, dignity, ethicality and honesty. With that imperative in mind, the best thing for me to do is to cancel the contest. But fear not! The Anniversary Release is still on, and there's a lot of cool new features and content coming.

Hey everyone, the one year release of Vale of Myth happens in mid October. To celebrate, and to thank all the players out there, I'd like to make the anniversary a big event. Introducing, the One Year Anniversary Release! *Linux and OS-X releases of Vale of Myth (both demo and full versions)! *Gaea Bundle Release (game + all DLC for one low price)! *Strategy Guide DLC Release! *OST DLC Release (Steam, iTunes, Google App Store, Spotify, etc.)! *Humble Bundle Release! *Patch 2.0.0! And New Game Features! *Game now supports version 4.5.2 of Pixi.js! *New achievements! *Major plugin updates! *New dungeons and new bosses! *New secret locations! *Entirely new (and more friendly) user options menu! *Armor hit noises play when striking enemies and being struck! *AI Improvements! To celebrate, I'm also announcing a contest! I'll be creating a new forum topic where players can make feature suggestions for the upcoming release, and there will be a contest created in the next week with free copies of the Strategy Guide and OST up for grabs! Please keep tuned.

I'm very happy to announce that Vale of Myth has shattered 750 downloads. Thank you to each of you for your part in making this happen. If you have any feedback to give - positive or negative - please post in the forums, or if you don't feel comfortable doing that, you can message me. The Strategy Guide is still in the works - the two separate documents have been combined into one, all the suggestions and corrections from our editor have been incorporated. A number of smaller changes are being added to make the document more readable and to reduce total page count. Version 1.3.0 is also in development! A number of smaller changes are planned, some options, and some larger features are in the pipe. Cheers!

Vale of Myth v1.2.0 is now up, and it brings several popularly requested features: * Battle Animation Speed option - battle animations can now be sped up from 1x to 4x of normal speed. * New Garbhan appearance - Garbhan's look is now updated to reflect his kilt appearance in game illustrations. Charsets, battler, and facesets are all changed to the new appearance. * Added price variance for most shop items * Fixed some rare crashes * Added Treatices for Reapers, Mana, and Spirits to bookcases in the game * Quest and autosave support overhauled for all of Golgotha * Bartender no longer appears in prison before the tavern events * Typo corrections The Strategy Guide page is now submitted to Steam for review. The guide is currently content complete, and is going through an editor. The total size of the guide is ~350 pages, with an ~100 page appendix. I hope you enjoy the changes! It took a while to put this all together.

Vale of Myth v1.2.0 is now up, and it brings several popularly requested features: * Battle Animation Speed option - battle animations can now be sped up from 1x to 4x of normal speed. * New Garbhan appearance - Garbhan's look is now updated to reflect his kilt appearance in game illustrations. Charsets, battler, and facesets are all changed to the new appearance. * Added price variance for most shop items * Fixed some rare crashes * Added Treatices for Reapers, Mana, and Spirits to bookcases in the game * Quest and autosave support overhauled for all of Golgotha * Bartender no longer appears in prison before the tavern events * Typo corrections The Strategy Guide page is now submitted to Steam for review. The guide is currently content complete, and is going through an editor. The total size of the guide is ~350 pages, with an ~100 page appendix. I hope you enjoy the changes! It took a while to put this all together.

Thank you to everyone who downloaded the demo! For those of you who have played the demo, any feedback (good or bad) you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your support.

Thank you to everyone who downloaded the demo! For those of you who have played the demo, any feedback (good or bad) you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your support.

Hey everyone, a hotfix is out for v1.1.0 that fixes a potential crash that can occur when loading older save files in the new version. Cheers!

Hey everyone, a hotfix is out for v1.1.0 that fixes a potential crash that can occur when loading older save files in the new version. Cheers!

Hey everyone, there was a last minute bug with v1.1.0. The bug is now fixed, and the game is now live at 1.1.0. Cheers!

Hey everyone, there was a last minute bug with v1.1.0. The bug is now fixed, and the game is now live at 1.1.0. Cheers!

The 1.1.0 build has just gone live. Here's some of the eagerly desired changes: *Ame Morte (Eve joins the party) slow down has been fixed. The performance boost took things from 3 FPS to 60 FPS. This fix will work with old save games. *The Lion Battle - it is now possible to defeat The Lion on the Ame Morte! A mini-scene and achievement have been added for doing so. Congratulations, casazampieri! -New images; two new difficulty images at game start, and a new game illustration for the late game! -Terms have been adjusted - some did not fit in term window. Garbhan will be receiving a visual redesign of his charsets and battler to better reflect his illustrated form in v1.1.1. Have you achieved something crazy difficult? Let us know in the forums, and we might make an achievement in your honor!

Hey everyone! I want to give a quick shout out and thanks to everyone who has downloaded the Vale of Myth demo. We just broke 500 downloads today! I hope all of you are enjoying the experience. Thank you so much for your support. For those curious, yes, the strategy guide is still in the works. Unfortunately, I have been sick for two months straight and so progress has been slow.

I'm pleased to say that Res Judicata: Vale of Myth has received its first official review by gamempire.it (an Italian game news and reviews site)! Mr. Massimo gave Vale of Myth a very positive review, in particular pointing to the Campsite and Cross-Training game features. He also provided some excellent feedback, and we're looking into addressing as much of that feedback as possible. We'd love to receive more input and reviews, so if you know anyone, please introduce us! One element he found disagreeable is Garbhan's non-kilted look in-game. We agree with him, and want to get this sorted out - Garbhan was intended to wear the kilt, but due to MV's tiny character size, its proven very difficult to actually make his kilt; a) visible, and b) visually coherent. Ironically, we had a fully kilted Garbhan charset for RMXP, as we had more room to add that detail in place. At the very least, we intend to correct Garbhan's battler and faceset (the latter depending on finding an artist). Mr. Massimo's review is linked in the Reviews section of our Steam store page. For those of you (like myself) who sadly, are not skilled with Italian, you can run the review URL through Google Translate or a similar translation service. The translation definitely isn't perfect, but it gives a good idea of the general direction of the review. It's strange to read some of the criticism we've received, as when we began development of our game, there were almost no RPGMaker games on Steam, Greenlight was our expected onboarding process, Shovel Knight was yet to be a thing, FFXV wasn't on the horizon and games like Ara Fell had gone dark so long we sadly assumed they were left unfinished. We kept an eye on the changing gaming world, but in order to have secured a better market position, we would have had to ship an incomplete product - and I wasn't willing to do that.

Hey everyone! I want to give a quick shout out and thanks to everyone who has downloaded the Vale of Myth demo. We just broke 400 downloads this morning! I hope all of you are enjoying the experience. Thank you so much for your support.

Hey everyone, a new patch is out (mostly with minor fixes). It should make the player experience just a little bit better. Change Log: *Fixed Culebre Enrage frequency. *Fixed typo in credits (Sorry Darren Curtis!) *Fixed font on Damage numbers *Fixed Challenge icon to reduce icon repetition. *Fixed Inner Strength icon. *Fixed Spirit Purge icon. *Fixed Evil Eye icon. *Fixed Cleave icon. *Fixed Siegfried Shieldwall icon. *Fixed Siegfried Pommel Strike icon.

This patch fixes a bunch of game icons, and fixes some sticking points. *Lots of skill icon changes to make them easier to understand. *The east side of the mines can now be entered and explored as players had previously requested. *The minecart now gets stuck after carrying the player out of the mine the first time. *The hole where the player fell down in B3 is now visible afterwards and can be jumped over. *A rope shortcut is added in mines B3. Activating it takes you down to B4 pit (previously inaccessible after the player falls down into it). The rope can also be taken back UP to B3. I'm considering expanding the east side of the mines in a future patch as an optional dungeon.

Hey everyone, store screenshots are now updated with the new font. Some additional shots have also been added. With this done, I now get to redo the Gameplay trailer. For some reason, the output resolution was much lower then it should have been. After redoing that trailer, I'll start collecting footage to make a second (and more traditional) release trailer. The initial trailer didn't quite have the effect I was intending; namely an appeal to the games story. It was also taken as being a summary of game features and characters, and it really didn't provide that. I'm also still working on the Strategy Guide. I'm starting with the Appendices first (because they are the most tedious to do). Key Item, Consumables, Weapon and Armor appendices are now done. I still need to do Keepsake, Relic, Element, Status Ailment, Equipment Type, Enemy, and Skill Appendices. The Guide will contain a full walkthrough (and walk-through of all optional content), a foreword, character and battle strategy guide, list of all World Events, table of contents and index. Appendices are included in a separate PDF, as I'm worried about computer document parsing costs (I'm expecting the DLC to be at least one hundred pages, Appendices excluded). Once again, please leave a review if you are able. It's a huge help and encouragement to continue adding content.

Version 1.0.7 has just come out with some highly anticipated features! NOTE: Players who wish to use the new font consistently need to start a new game. I'm sorry, but there appears to be something cached deep in the engine that does not register the font change in dialogue without starting over. *Font is now changed to "Love Is Complicated Again.ttf"! *Help and dash are now finally separate buttons. PgUp is now used for help. *Added a brightness variable (in Options) to increase brightness for those having difficulty seeing. *Exteriors at night are now brighter by 20%. *Many small fixes and improvements. Patch Notes: -Holy Water removed Stun instead of Fear. -Fixed Gaspacho typo -> Gazpacho -Fixed typos in food descriptions -Changed name of blowfish to Fugu. -Quicklime is now stronger than Greek Fire and costs more. -Fixed typo in Vertebrae Coat name -Fixed Leviathan's Scale description. -Keyboard bindings script now up to date -Gaea help reassigned to pageup. -Term window key is now reassigned to pageup. -No longer a key conflict with help and dash! -Updated version number -Help context icon now hidden by default -Added log speed support to LeNotifications.js -Log speed command now shows under gameplay menu. -Got Log speed working as a % but that isn't user friendly enough. Need enum support. -Added option to adjust speed at which log entries disappear -Added brightness configManager variable, it is added to ambient light value before application to scene. -Brightness function is working! Yay! -Doubled night exterior brightness. -Tweaked brightness function so it isn't quite as over-powering. -New font "Love is Complicated Again" chosen by vote of 1. -New font applied consistently in all plugin settings. -Contacted Love Is Complicated Again author for license to use her font. -Cleaned up font experiment mess. -Fixed default keys (keyboard) help -Fixed quest typo -Fixed quest typos and rearranged a few lines to fit text better. -Wesley is now loaded as a failsafe font -Decided it really was worse to go with a black font color -PgUp help now properly aligned again -Reverted Window color changes -Credited Misti Hammers for Love Is Complicated Again font. -Font purchased and license negotiated for use of Love Is Complicated Again font. -Font seems to stay within windows. I have not done a 100% check yet.

Please vote for Vale of Myth's new game font here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/670970/discussions/2/1489987634010135661/ There's been a lot of previous concern about the game's font. Community votes go a long way to providing a sense of security both for users and the developers in the final decision on the font. The vote closes at mid-night tonight (MST)! Please get your vote in before then.

Hey everyone, if you played Vale of Myth, please leave a review to help other gamers find this game. Reviews significantly boost Vale of Myth's visibility. To clarify my position: I cannot offer gifts or bonuses for posting reviews. But it would be great if Vale of Myth could have some reviews. If you are a family member, part of the dev team, or friend, you must declare this at the very start of your review. Disclosure is important!

Thank you everyone! Vale of Myth just had it's 300th demo download! I hope you all enjoy the game.

Version 1.0.6 is out! It fixes some small (but irritating) bugs in the later parts of the game. Patch notes: *Fixed Lovebird Vineyard term crash. *Fixed missing widow face image crash. *Fixed bad WM cancel location. *Fixed wrong teleport for Ame Morte stealth skip. *Fixed raft controls not reverting after swamp chase is over.