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