Greetings, Ascendants! Update 1 is here! It includes the new save system and more.

Save Game System

• Enemies, chests, doors, levers, chandeliers, torches, sconces, braziers, and water level will save their states and location
• All spawned items (e.g., weapons, food, etc.) including location and position
• Silver Sapling location and status
• Enemy Health
• Enemy status effect with durations
• Door damage
• Combustibles will remain lit
• Gate / Portcullis state (up / down / in transit)

• Position, rotation, crouching
• Current health/damage
• Current Mana
• Status effects
• Inventory
• Hotbar
• Stash
• Known spells
• Faction Favor
• Influence
• Completed quests
• Skills
• Held items
• Player session stats associated with level progress (e.g., enemies killed)
• Existing player stats associated with prior level progress

• Arrows that are not at rest
• Spells in the middle of being cast

Combat

• Directional attacks are available at level zero without their status effects and they do the same amount of damage as a heavy attack. Weve revised the previous skills granting directional attacks as follows (Swords / Axes and Maces / Unarmed):
• Blade Master / Mighty Blows / Fists of Iron - heavy left and right attacks now stagger enemies (LMB + Left and LMB + Right)
• Fighters Fury / Bloody Barrage / Fists of Fury - heavy forward attacks now stun, and heavy back attacks knock enemies down (LMB + W and LMB + S)
• Deft Maneuvers / Savage Maneuvers / Shielded Strike - holding heavy attacks longer charges up the attack and does a bleeding over time extra damage (hold LMB longer)
• Light attacks do a bit more damage (20% more)
• Light attacks if spammed have a reminder tooltip every 10 swings explaining the difference between light swings (tapping LMB) and heavy swings (holding and releasing LMB)
• Unskilled Heavy attacks no longer stagger opponents
• Plutos Gate received a combat tuning update: Spectral Knights (skeletons in chainmail) have been replaced by Spectral Warriors (skeletons with sickles and bows, who are now slightly weaker and do less damage) and some Spectral Warriors have been replaced by Spectral Thugs (headless skeletons, who are now weaker and unable to block).
• Combat VFX are now more visible: VFX Blood is brighter and VFX Collision FX are bigger this goes for Stone, Wood and Bone impacts.
• Short swords have a bit larger attack colliders so they will connect hits more reliably
• We made tweaks to enemy stagger behavior during combat so they dont get stuck on the defensive all the time
• Physics damage has been increased, making throwing objects at enemies a good strategy.
• Enemies now react better when they are hit with a thrown object
• Arrows should now working correctly in The Underswamp
• Outcasts teleport less often in and out in combat and have better flee point checking.
• Spectral Warriors no longer attack inanimate objects (like torches and doors) when damaged by them.

Quests and Levels

• Removed many immersion-breaking holes and seams in the world
• AI population pass on all levels to better balance encounters and provide more and more varied creatures to fight.
• Later levels are now accessible earlier in the game due to changes we made to the doom counter.
• More to do and see on the first two main quests
• LODs adjusted to reduce graphical popping on higher end machines
• Gather quest items now have a map region highlighted
• Many enhancements to Upper Eberus
• Moved hub lever to a more interesting spot
• Made an easier connection to the top floor in the Ruins of Gwern
• Fix spike room trap
• More interesting way into transitional 2 faade
• Fix traps on path toward Necrotic Graveyard
• Call out first pungie trap
• See into first cell from entry
• More prison theming in murgos prison
• Bring cohesion and purpose to set dressing in murgos
• No way out of first drop down room
• Trap left path to gibbet cages
• Guard station up the guard station-stealth
• Clear death at the bottom of the incessant pit
• Puzzle to enter the tomb
• Traps in the tomb
• Wooden verticality in necrotic graveyard
• Clearer lead to tomb side entry
• Fix hole above typhon chest in tomb

Items

• Weapon wear is visible on the weapon model, and weapons at their lowest condition appear broken
• Added sound for weapon breakage
• Weapons degrade more slowly

Player Movement

Player Growth

• When a spell fails for lack of an eligible target, it no longer costs mana. This should help you experiment more freely with new rune formulas.
• Resherak can now be found in Plutos Gate; visit him to train new skills earlier than ever before.
• New Feats are available in Plutos Gate to give players more Memora for their first encounter with Resherak.
• The Skills panel now grays out skills that are not yet unlocked, so you can tell the difference between them and skills whose precursors in the tree you just havent got yet. (Remember: youll be notified when returning to Marcaul if new Skills have been unlocked.)

Other

• The game now remembers your key binding preferences (one of the top requested fixes from the community)
• Hint text now stays longer on the screen
• Players can now brighten the overall game more using the slider found during new game creation and in the options menu
• Players can now read and listen to the Memora that they find as quest goals
• New option to disable mouse smoothing
• Disabled WASD movement key while in the character naming box. Its now easier to have a name with an s in it, for example.
• Edits to English VO for length
• Full German VO now in game
• General audio balance tweaks
• Somewhat better performance

Understanding Weapon Wear

• Pristine 80% and above
• Excellent 60-80%
• Serviceable 40-60%
• Worn 20-40%
• Broken 0-20%

Weapon and Armor Types

• One handed sword 33 points.
• One handed Axes and maces and bones 35 points
• One handed dagger 15 points
• Unarmed 10 points

• Cloth/Robes
• Leather
• Chain
• Heavy (Plate/Splint)

Known Issues

• There are still some holes in levels -- we will continue to fix them.
• A small handful of memora logs have no proper title text or text for the audio. These will be found in some Intrigue faction quests. The quests are still completable and will count towards your memora log count.
• "You have learned a spell!" text appears with no context when you head toward The Moat of Khnum in Upper Erebus.
• Some DLC items do not appear in the Midnight Forum stash unless the player starts a new game.
• After reloading a save, some items, like water bottles, may not return to exactly where they were when you last saved.
• Sometimes jumping into physics objects like tables, crates, or chests, can sometimes hurt you and sometimes gravely hurt you!
• The Dash skill isnt as reliable over rough terrain as wed like it to be.
• Climbing a chain while swimming can result in getting stuck on the chain.
• Steam cloud saves are not yet working correctly.
• You cannot scroll through the backpack with scrollbar when in trade UI
• You can occasionally lose a stack of items when you move it in a container (backpack or stash)
• Aelita can run out of money