Balancing:

• Improved some weapons crystal patterns
• Work in progress balance pass on loot distribution of craftable components
• Added new spells for every characters
• Added food unlocking system so different foods are unlocked now through the game instead of being available at the beginning
• Increased stats provided by crystals
• Reworked spells progressions through the game (skills distributions through the Chapters)
• Reworked multiple armor recipes
• Tweaked nightmare & hard difficulty modifiers
• Reworked gold reward formula from monster loots
• Reworked multiple shopkeepers (price are still work in progress, it will be rebalanced to match the new earnings formula)

Performances:

• Improved overall GPU performances by 30%
• Improved temporal anti-aliasing performances by 30% (GPU)
• Reworked shadowing system to improve performances and get a better rendering (infinite distance frustrum shadowing) (GPU and CPU)
• Multiple minor CPU optimizations resulting in an overall CPU performance improvement of ~15% (CPU)
• Reworked House Models (Jagholm type) to improve CPU performances and the quality of those at some areas (Inel, Jagholm, etc...)
• Optimized grid calculations in battle, improve the solver performances resulting in no freezes anymore in battles due to the solver

Polish and improvements:

• Reworked animation of numerous cutscenes through Chapter I and II
• Reworked lighting of numerous cutscenes through Chapter I and II
• The battle objective requiring to inflict 3 alterations will now allow to inflict 3 times the same effect
• Added new skill & items icons
• Added new map & minimap artwork
• Replaced some voice lines in Chapter 0
• Cleaned up some UIs
• Polished Inel area with new props
• Audio is now pitched when using battle speedup
• Added new VFXs on consumable items
• Cleaned up Myrna textures to her teeth are not "auto emissive" anymore
• Modifier hair shader so it take the same auto emissive value than the skin
• Improved the generic battle AI
• Improved a few textures (monsters & environment)

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a rare blocking issue on Nekaroo races
• Fix Softlock Theia when spells were not on her spellbook
• Fix Combat Bonus Objective Kill Enemy in one strike is now valid if yyou hit the enemy more than once during the same action (Daryon Lightning strike for instance)
• Fix Ur-Dunnrir division spawning Uralik model
• Fix Nekaroo Tutorial not displayed when immersive mode is activated
• Fix Scan and Back Label overlapping during battle
• Scan Tutorial is now long allowing inputs until you're asked to
• Reducing time asleep for Nap Spell.
• New Tutorial for the Scan feature introduced during Inel phase.
• Fix formation causing softlock during Gideon Tutorial.
• Added some missing texts for spells effects.
• Fix Morom who could share a nexus with players.
• Fix some mob summoned who could appear underground.
• Fix items that can target free Nexus only not usable on Nexus with ally on.
• Fix items that can be used at infinite range.
• Fix battle dialogs during intro of battles that could appear in other battles.
• Fixed display of some Chinese and Japanese characters during tutorials
• Adapted UI size on some elements in Chinese and Japanese to make it more readable
• Fixed cyclone slasher using fixed damages instead of the damage formula
• Fixed turrets bounds calculations
• Fixed attacking turrets will not result in the characters walking into the "air" to reach the turret
• Fixed a bug that kept invisible elemental modifiers on some weapons
• Fixed FOV not resetting after fleeing a battle
• Fixed multiple colliders softlock issues
• Creatures will not spawn in a CreatureArea while in loading screen to prevent entering combat directly at the end of a loading screen
• Fixed some missing localization entries
• Nekaroo will now be destroyed when entering a tutorial areatrigger
• Fixed a rare bug when switching leader before some group splits
• Fixed a few audio issues