Hello Wizarding Folk!
Warning, the following patch notes include some minor spoilers for the “Better Together” update, if you’d like to stay spoiler-free, please click away!
If you’d like to read up on what’s included in this update with pictures, please reach the main announcement post.
For the data-driven magi who are fine with the juicy details, you can find all the particulars listed below.
"Better Together" - 1.4 Patch Notes
New Content
- Multiplayer supports up to 4 players per game session
- 4 preset difficulty modes and custom difficulty options
- Additional lore and books throughout the game
- New Library UI (for the lore!)
- 5 new bookshelf variants
- Added “activated” version of the Oculus
- Voidskimmer can now be interacted with in the Tower
- Updated endgame content and secret ending 👀
- 5 new achievements to unlock
- New music featuring the bard!
General Improvements
- Updated VFX & animations for entities
- Updated VFX & animations for some buildings in game
- Updated SFX for new content and some Bounty of Guns weapons
- Map Altar Activation VFX updated
- Difficulty scaling will be notified to players at the start of the expedition
- Updated credits to include: Michael Garrett Steele (voice of the bard)!
Other Changes
Resources, Recipes, Crafting and Building
- Fixed missing thumbnails and incorrect thumbnails in the First Edition
- Spawned items and resources should now decay properly
- Bounty rewards should fall into the void less frequently
- Rotated stone chests should now always close if they contain items
Spells and Powders
- “On Fire” scale should be a little less egregious on large enemies
- Fixed fire flickering on entities that teleport
- Fixed mortar impacts being immortal in the tower (dripping oil will no longer haunt you forever)
- Order spells should now consistently repair buildings in the tower
- Fixed performance when shooting poison into water
- Introduced Boomerang powder in the physics research station
Enemies, NPCs and Combat
- Pet & Charmed interactions have received some polish
- Hilda animations have been updated
- All applicable entities should now be able to be scanned with the First Edition
- Fixed “assist when knocked” issues in multiplayer games
- Harbinger will now always spawn from a rift (the Oculus holds deeper secrets now)
- Updates to Golden Bounty rewards (New stuff? New stuff!)
- Fixed interaction with bounty mechana in boss arenas
- Sniper Cultists now have double health (they were too easy!)
Other / Misc
- Fixed audio balance for the Harbinger of Chaos fight
- Updated and fixed several boss biome books (if you’re missing a book, I would start at Orion’s tower 👀)
- Moved credits and endgame slideshow to end of new content
- Fixed UI for minimized task list (it should no longer cut off for some users)
- Extended connection timeout to allow for slower connections
- Adjusted Hermit Crab ambush to be more performant
- Fixed arrows in loading bench tutorial
- Fixed crashes on client after being kicked from a multiplayer game
Known Issues + Things we’re working on!
- Boomerang powder might not unlock if you've already completed some physics research (we're patching this in the next update!)
- The Huntress might incorrectly loop an idle animation.
- An endgame quest might appear incomplete in multiplayer (the game will still progress, you'll just have the quest marker active)
- Some bounty guns will not be available (these are being patched back in soon!)
- "Shattered Soul" has an incorrect description (woopsie!)
- Charmed entities that have been revived might incorrectly display on the map (your zombie children are not real!)
- Swapping items into processing stations might no longer remember their origin (it was in your backpack, but now it’s in the chest)
- The “burning” VFX might obscure some smaller enemies
- Odden’s Middle Finger might not display correctly on the gun mount building
- “0/1 gears collected” might display after collecting all gears (there is not a secret hidden gear, I promise)