Bug Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• The new Spiral rune can now be found through the world
• Health will be completely restored after defeating a boss
• Many enemies and bosses will now use area spells
• Chaos and Order will now work on Area spells
• Bosses are now immune to knockdown
• Using a Nova rune with a Storm rune will now create a storm that follows the player
• Spells and runes dropped in combat will now correspond to the faction's element(s)
• Title selection has been improved to show attribute modifiers
• Choosing a victory option on Classic mode will display a confirmation window
• The standard animation for area spells will now take drastically less time to complete. (Was 1.2s, now .33s for the Fictorum and .5s for enemies)
• Clairvoyance outlines for defense structures are removed on quest completion/failure
• A grace period has been added after defeating a boss to clear trash slots
• Fixed a bug that would show completed quests as incomplete in the quest tracker
• The initial loading screen has been improved
• Trees will properly simulate physics when they are hit the first time
• Hitting a frozen solid enemy with a projectile will apply an impulse in the proper direction
• Dragging a rune from a runeset into an open slot will move the associated rune and remove it from the runeset
• Fixed bugs that would cause cooldown timers to either not display or display improperly
• Liches will now cast Skull Grenade (in addition to Nefarium) and their spell damage has been increased
• The Giftbringer will no longer start with a mana bonus
• Holiday spells have had their mana costs revised
• The unlock condition for the Verdant Incinerator has been changed
• Incendium's spell multipliers have been reworked
• Items will now spawn with +Earth, Corrupted, and Wind damage
• Frost nova now has a new visual effect, a damage increase, and a minimum slow percentage/slow duration
• Diminishing returns have been added for all negative status effects
• A close button has been added to save slot selection
• A UI indicator has been added for walking
• Doors will now shatter when forced
• Unique drop chance has been reduced from +1% to +.5% x (chapter - 1)
• A Colorblind Assist option has been added to the settings menu
• The Fictorum will get up more smoothly after a knockdown
• The settings and control binding menus have been improved visually and functionally
• Area spread will now curve around the player for non-surface snapping spells
• Rintara has been given new abilities, AI, and enemy adds
• Abridged is now the recommended mode
• Characters in the Run History screen can now be deleted
• Flare's effects have been improved
• Quest indicators will no longer flash when on low or medium effects
• A negative value for negative status effect duration will no longer appear as red
• Fixed a bug that would prevent improper imbues but still consume essence and the passive/ability scroll
• The ambush event at Hangium will properly have an ambush
• Fixed a bug that would always return 0% quest completion on Ducombe
• Tips in the tutorial level are now substantially easier to read and their placement has been adjusted
• Enemy spells will properly attenuate over distance
• Chandeliers candle effects will properly fade after being destroyed
• Fixed a crash that occasionally happens when shattering frozen enemies
• Starting Title buttons will have a different border if you've beaten the game with that title
• Casting, energy shield, mana threshold, and damage sound effects will now properly attenuate while using the observer
• Screen shake intensity has been reduced by 33% in most situations
• Proper default observer time speed will now be loaded
• Higher destruction lifespan settings will cull important destructible meshes much less often
• Quests have been streamlined and will no longer be added to the map, they will instead be resolved within the current location.
• The post-processing effect for Clairvoyance has been improved
• Spell impact decals have been improved slightly
• Jadon's Peak will give an essence reward in addition to slowing the Inquisition Legion
• Traveling through the nexus has a new visual effect
• Fixed a bug with drinking health potions that could crash the game in rare instances
• Expanse store rerolls on rest or movement (or load if you want to save scum it up)
• Grand Inquisitor has a variety of new spells to murder you with
• Collision is now properly removed from completed projectile spells
• Defeating a boss with Slow Time active will no longer halt the game indefinitely
• Fixed a bug with some combat events that would fail or succeed despite any player action
• Spells cast by NPCs will be further restricted by their current rotation
• Projectiles attached to the Fictorum will disappear after 5 seconds
• Fall damage for all characters has been reduced by 25%
• The cast animation for Christmas present is now substantially quicker
• The amount of loot on Nightmare and Hard difficulties is now the same as Medium
• X% Mana Leech and +X Mana after Kill will now appear on items
• Bigger enemies will cull equipment meshes at longer ranges
• Legion spawns will be consistently higher
• Damage over time will no longer ignore mana threshold
• Double-jumping will trigger Vault even as an equipped scroll
• Returning to the main menu with observer mode active will unfreeze time properly
• Runeset auto-movement has been improved slightly
• The fall damage threshold will be increased when jump height is increased
• Teleporting next to an loot container will no longer remove the contained loot
• Mount Ganyar's item reward is now a random item instead of a choice of item
• Cast actor runes (Storm, Sentinel, and Familiar) on spells using a bow will use a proper animation
• Snow Beam's channel sound effect will properly adjust to sound settings
• Fixed the inner materials within some of the destructible meshes
• The chapter map has been slightly improved visually
• Transcribing abilities into tomes will consume the displayed amount of essence, instead of undercharging
• Fixed a bug with Inquisition fortifications that would load the wrong level for Expanse mode
• The third-person camera will zoom in more quickly while clipping under the landscape
• Character history details screen has been overhauled to show more information
• Using channeling spells with Order, Spiral, and Chaos runes will work properly
• The Bulwark will now start with a unique Sentinel rune and the Construct Specialty passive
• Clicking on a mountaintop before an event has loaded will no longer work
• Damage from early Debilor enemies has been lowered slightly
• Fire manifestations will have more reasonable collision radii
• Reduce chances of randomly selecting night
• Destruction effects have been improved across the board
• Sentinels created by runes will now fire at sentinel towers
• Abandon with Shocking Shuriken will use a more appropriate animation
• Sentinels created from runes will now fire faster, are more accurate, and are significantly better at finding targets
• Boss music has been added
• Sentinel tower crystals have had their AI logic improved
• Weather will be more appropriate to the various settings
• Lighting visual effects will no longer remain after candles, braziers, torches, etc. are destroyed
• Pressing the close button on the inventory screen while on the main menu will properly close the inventory
• Enemies that channel spells will stop aiming or channeling if line of sight is lost
• Chapter map music will change properly based on the distance to the Inquisition Legion
• Observer has been disabled while in the developer menu
• New start of chapter perks have been added and some existing ones have been rebalanced
• If a slot is available, newly purchase runes will properly be added to the current runeset
• Friendly Sentinels will now attack townsfolk quest enemies
• Shaping speed is now available as a stat
• Fixed a bug that would cause close range rolling projectiles to fire at the proper angle
• Fixed a bug that would cause the observer control rotation to shift after releasing a spell
• Runes in runeset will no longer try to go to the rune enchantment slot when item is already in it
• Summoning SFX have been increased in volume and are given a higher priority
• Toggling out of the run history will show the proper equipment and accessories for the current slot
• Spell overlap effects have been removed from the game
• Flavor text has been added to the game over screen when killed by a boss
• The splash and impact damage of many spells have been rebalanced
• Fixed an animation lock that could occur when canceling melee spells
• The observer can now perpetually rotate around objects with the Run/Walk toggle
• Using the main menu command will properly save settings and control mappings on the settings menu
• There is now a back button when choosing a reward item/rune
• Seek will do a better job of tracking targets and searching for individual targets
• Highly powered Seek runes will maintain velocity after collisions
• The cursor will now appear over the selected mountain in the chapter map for extra clarity
• Disenchanting an item will grant the full sell value
• The damage bonus on High Velocity has been reduced
• New loading screen tooltips have been added
• The shop window has been moved to a new spot on the screen for ease of use
• An option has been added to the fountain event
• Archers and mages will now spawn on castle battlements
• The world map will dim when it is not selected
• Channeling spells will deactivate projectile shields
• Resting/waiting is no longer allowed in the tutorial
• Duplicate abilities are now viable and will trigger an independent cooldown
• Navigation on the title menu has been improved
• Snow beam and Fire Beam have new visual effects
• Frozen enemies will be turned into snowmen once killed if playing as the Giftbringer
• The inventory has been visually improved
• Fixed a bug that would lock the Grand Inquisitor in a teleporting loop
• Destructibles will once again do damage to the player (mwahahaha, foolish mortals)
• Enemies will now move if they aren't rendered (whoops)
• Indicators will appear for enemy dynamic angle spells (e.g. meteor)
• Healing costs from vendors have been significantly reduced ceil(playthrough progress*3)
• An additional failsafe has been added to prevent the Fictorum from falling through the earth
• Engaging the Grand Inquisitor in combat will stop the Inquisition Legion from teleporting in
• Fixed a serious bug that gave casting speed a ceiling of 100%
• Enemies are significantly easier to hit with melee abilities
• Fixed a bug that would allow clicking through the reward screen to a chapter location
• The Main Menu will properly reset after the initial click delay
• Fixed a bug that would prevent the inventory from opening automatically after the store is generated on the location.
• Initial and maintain mana costs for channeling spells with Familiar, Storm, and Sentinel will now be more consistent for channeling spells
• Christmas Tree will now match the size of it's targeting mesh
• Fixed a bug that will prevent houses exploding outwards from minimal damage
• Storms will fire area spells at landscapes significantly below the storm cloud
• Casting sound effects will now play for enemy, familiar, sentinel, and storm channeling spells
• Projectiles will now launch characters in the direction of the projectile, not the direction of the hit
• Enemies will be much easier to hit at very close range with surface projectiles (dreidel, flame wave, etc.)
• Fixed a very rare bug where the loading screen would infinitely loop
• Enemies will no longer halt their casting animations if you're not looking at them
• Game UIs will properly remain active or inactive while in observer mode
• Familiars can no longer be damaged by their creator's spells
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes give a mirror image item or rune from an event
• Fixed a bug that would cause Telekinesis to occasionally get stuck on itself
• Fixed a rare bug that would prevent locations on the chapter map from being selected with a gamepad
• Dropdown boxes are now easier to navigate on the settings menu
• Extra safeguards have been added for bosses that have fallen through the world, are stuck in the miasma, or are falling indefinitely
• The difficulty window on the main menu will properly show changes to enemy damage, health, movement speed, and accuracy
• Many spell descriptions and icons have been improved
• Fire manifestations have been drastically improved
• Manifest and Echo are now properly incompatible with certain transcribed abilities
• Lightning bolt will properly display visual effects when used with a Storm rune
• The Full Heal button will no longer show negative values
• Slow time animation and effects are synched properly
• Resting at a store will no longer reopened the inventory
• Fixed a bug that would show spell tomes to have a mana cost of zero when viewed in an event
• Fixed a bug that would occasionally prevent channeling spells from being cast from NPCs
• Resting in shop locations will no longer reopen the shop window
• Fixed a bug that would cause incorrect values for additional/reduced mana cost to show on reward runes
• Fixed an issue that would cause some rune sets to load incorrectly
• Switching to the first-person camera while during the inventory transition will no longer lock the camera behind the player
• Fixed a visual bug with raised yards
• Fixed a bug that would occasionally move the player location in the tutorial
• Inventory can no longer be toggled while using observer mode
• Difficulty health modifiers have been changed from 5./.75/1/1.25/1.5 to .25/.5/1/1.5/2
• Selecting the option to return to chapter one with all current gear will actually return to chapter one
• The bug logger menu will no longer be permanent if toggling into or out of observer mode
• Cooldown reduction scaling per chapter has been significantly reduced
• Tutorial no longer shows the history scroll upon death
• Control of observer will no longer be lost after completing a spell
• Fixed a bug that would show the time of death/victory as 1/1/1900
• Rune descriptions have been edited for clarity
• The Vizier event has been changed for clarity
• If the game is minimized, Clairvoyance will no longer remain active if it was being used immediately prior
• Larger enemies will have an easier time getting up from a knockdown
• Killing/fearing large groups of enemies at once will no longer cause a performance hit
• Maximum projectile range will once again be reflected while targeting
• Projectile aiming when looking up or down has been improved
• Observer mode will properly set FOV controls once active
• Fixed a bug that would cause screen discrepancies when switching to observer mode
• Haven will now properly when used with transcribe
• Classic and Abridged will more consistently spawn two paths
• Holding the cancel hotkey for one second will cancel all active spells.
• Fixed a bug that incorrectly caused fleeing folks to show up on clairvoyance

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