Update 0.2

Mighty Heroes, fearsome Lurg Slayers, and greedy Pillagers!

The time has come and update 0.2 is finally here. It took us a bit longer than expected to finish, and we apologize for the delay. However, we believe this update will significantly improve your gameplay experience.

Update 0.2 introduces changes across multiple aspects of the game, so let’s take a look at the most notable ones. You can find the full changelog below.

File size reduction

We’ve managed to reduce the total file size to approximately 100 GB. Please note that this is an ongoing effort, and further reductions are expected in future updates.

We successfully transitioned to a new foliage pipeline, enabling faster rendering, more detailed trees, lower VRAM requirements, and significantly smaller asset sizes. Some trees that previously occupied up to 1 GB now take only around 20 MB - up to 50× smaller.

So far, we’ve converted approximately one-third of all foliage. The remaining assets will be updated in version 0.3.

General performance improvements

We implemented a shader recompilation process that reduces stuttering, especially on lower-end PCs. Performance optimization across all settings is still ongoing and will continue in future updates.

We also fixed many critical errors and crashes (e.g., during elite enemy encounters), resulting in a noticeably smoother gameplay experience. While there’s still work to be done, you should already feel a significant improvement.

A plethora of new content

Your journey will now be enriched with a wide range of new adventures. We’ve added 15 new crises - some designed to improve onboarding, others to challenge your time management. You can also encounter new high-risk (and high-reward!) random events.

Good news as well: many bugs in quests and game logic have been fixed. Now, the only thing standing between you and the final boss of the Early Access legendary quest is your courage.

Full changelog

Gameplay

Combat & Movement

• Parry no longer costs stamina

• Hits against weapon-guarding enemies now deal damage (previously this mechanic only applied to the player)

• Fixed technique damage multiplier persisting after a forced interruption (caused one-shotting enemies after a failed technique)

• Overburden now only limits mobility: slower sprint, shorter dodge distance, increased stamina consumption

• Fixed death after teleporting to fireplace while falling off the map

• Fixed camera reset after death

• Fixed camera issues after destroying Lurg eggs

• Fixed interaction cancellation after death

• Fixed controls not working after player revival

• Polished analog stick movement (erratic behavior in menus)

• Fixed stamina regeneration during player death (no longer regenerates)

• Fixed Second Wind effect only triggering in combat

• Fixed crash when fighting elite characters

• Fixed occasional crash on death in rift

Balancing

• Balancing of selected weapon stats

• Tuned Prasohlav boss fight and added a gate to his arena

• Fate Points (golden upgrade points) have been fully disconnected — removed as both rewards and mastery upgrade requirements. They will return once the relevant game systems are better prepared.

• Warpath effect reduced from +5 to +2 bonus damage per killed elite enemy

• Tougher enemies received dedicated loot tables with guaranteed better drops

• Rebalanced loot and chest loot tables — some crafting components are now easier and more reliable to obtain (e.g. Fomor bile)

• Temporarily removed Tier 3 and 4 weapons and armor (blue and gold) from crafting menu until a recipe unlock system is implemented — if you want the best gear, you'll have to fight for it

• Temporarily removed high tier crafting gear from blacksmiths (will return under new mechanics)

• Doubled vendor stock and available funds for all vendors (blacksmith, druid, merchant)

• Enabled merchants and druids to buy items they previously wouldn't (mainly treasures with no other use); blacksmiths excluded for now due to equipment complexity

• Fixed Tefnet II boon so that auto-killing enemies below 20% HP now correctly grants XP

• Fixed Thousand Maws boon applying twice

• Fixed Exhaustion burden not clearing

• Fixed charm reset in next cycle

• Fixed deed duplication in next cycle

Game content

• Significantly increased crisis presence during runs; added 15+ new crises at EASY difficulty with new occurrence patterns — bigger differences between cycles in when and what events happen

• Added new high risk events across the entire map

• Enabled Bandit Stronghold — surviving bandit leaders can be tracked down and killed to destroy the stronghold

• Bandit Stronghold causes regular bandit raids on the Lettrek settlement

• Some locations can now spawn forts containing high risk events

• Legend can now be completed and finished

• Fixed legends: Adept of Nature, Adept of War, Adept of Mystery

• Fixed teleporting to King Grave IV after completing legend

• Fixed crash after killing the Undead King upon legend completion

• Set up Haven across all phases (Normal, Decimated, Destroyed) to work properly with consequences

• Set up Lettrek across all phases (Normal, On Siege, Decimated, Destroyed) with correct behavior

• Fixed Kakorat Tower dungeon setup and teleportation

• Fixed Lettrek decimation after failed crisis

• Fixed Infestation crisis progress not resetting

• Fixed and stabilized NPC services in subsequent cycles

• Fixed bard reset in new cycle

• Fixed event intersections/conflicts

• Fixed legend reset in new cycle

• Fixed kill zones and blockers

• Fixed navmesh in built-up areas

• Fixed character tags and objective target positions

• Polished secret locations to look more naturally integrated

• Game no longer saves during dialogue — saves after closing the talk window

• Fixed prop reset (destructibles, doors, gates, etc.) after soft load

• Removed problematic save from tutorial

Quests

• Fixed quest map marker positions across multiple quests — navigation should be noticeably better

• Fixed inactive tracked quest not canceling in next cycle

• Fixed Face-Stealers trigger for more reliable progression

• Fixed Crossing the Lines

• Fixed Roadside Justice

• Fixed Axe Soup — reworked the final phase for stability and improved navigation with added and highlighted tracks

• Fixed Hostile Hospitality interactions, quest is now completable

• (Spoiler!) Quest A Warrior's Worth received clarified step descriptions, improved and enlarged detection radius for quest requirements, and a strengthened Vercin

• Quest Sky God's Gifts received adjusted descriptions; special reward is harder to obtain but still achievable in the current version

• Quest New Home can now be turned in before Newcomers crisis ends (when player resolves camps)

• Fixed and stabilized quest Bandit Stronghold Lettrek

• Fixed and stabilized consequences after soft load

UI & UX

• Replaced crisis quest icons with more fitting design

• Added Confusion curse icon to the map when the curse is active

• Added forgetfulness curse icon to the map when active

• Fixed visual bugs (overflowing texts, text size tuning, better tutorial text UX)

• Added "Overburdened" label in inventory when player is over-encumbered

• Swapped category/subcategory controls on gamepad

• Changed subcategory controls in trade window

• Fixed opening booklet from big notification (masteries/crises)

• Fixed Summary window reset

• Reduced gamma adjustment step size

• Stabilized and improved Inscribe window

• Disabled loot notifications popping up in new cycle

• Fixed multiple notifications firing on successful crisis

• Fixed deed details and descriptions

• Adjusted text for completed crises

• Added consequence overview category

• Masteries: fixed display of revive node detail

• Added experimental flavor texts (more to come)

• Fixed epithet interaction highlight

• Fixed NPC HP indicator after returning to the game from menu

• Fixed interaction glitch on Nairan

• Visually smoothed stamina drain (smaller value jumps)

Localization

• Fixed typos and errors in EN localization

• Fixed deed descriptions

Audio

• Added sound for mastery point acquisition

• New music themes for rifts, Natuhuk, dungeons, and a new variation of the global combat theme

• Changed tutorial music

• Added sounds for peasant and exile actions (eating, crafting, cooking, etc.)

• Added audio indication for new World Scar

• Cleaned up notification audio mix

• Added hero bark when taking damage through shield block

• Forced ambient change when Lettrek is destroyed

• Fixed waterfall audio bleeding through rocks in Natuhuk

• Fixed abrupt cutoff of big notification sounds when entering inventory

• Fixed abrupt music interruption at shrines

• Fixed incorrect UI SFX in inventory

• Fixed all sounds muting when opening booklet from crafting window

• Fixed random music muting in Lettrek

• Fixed heal sound cutting off when heal animation is interrupted

• Fixed ambient and music persisting through loading screen when leaving rift

• Fixed atmosphere not changing after fast travel

Graphics

• Improved dungeon lighting based on feedback

• Improved readability of objects — Undead Totem, Exile tents, and various smaller props

• Improved and fixed various environment models across the world

• Fixed interior lighting errors

• Fixed rift zone visual (brown fog visual artifact)

• Fixed rift boundary

• Added another destruction stage for Undead Totem (improved readability of destruction progress)

• Fixed colliders across multiple locations (terrain, tents, rocks, and more)

• Added colliders on missing models

• Fixed VFX/SFX at tutorial gates

• Fixed tutorial bridge VFX/SFX on impact

• Disabled VFX when NPCs trim sticks

• Added special effect at end of tutorial

• Decorated and polished various locations across maps

Optimization & Performance

• Extended runtime shader compilation with static precompilation — eliminates significant stuttering during gameplay, especially on weaker PCs

• Optimized fire VFX in destroyed Lettrek

• Optimized navmesh across levels

• Optimized ground vegetation (faster rendering of flowers, grasses, herbs, etc.)

• New vegetation pipeline — enables faster rendering and more detailed trees while reducing VRAM usage and shrinking tree asset sizes on disk by up to 50x

• Optimized shadows and lights across all quality settings

• Reduced texture sizes where possible, disabled unnecessary mipmaps, adjusted rendering settings — saved ~150 MB VRAM

• Fixed GC handling during async cloth simulation

We are grateful for all your support and feedback. Over the past month, Steam reviews have been steadily improving, showing us that you appreciate our updates and improvements.

And we’re just getting started!