What's New in Hero's Song Early Access Update 4

IMPORTANT: If you created a world or character during Alpha 3 or Early Access, and that world or character remains affected by an issue listed as resolved below, you may need to create a new world or character for the respective changes to take effect.

General

• Fixed an issue where some characters in underworld could not be continued
• Fixed an issue where characters could start in underworld at the wrong position
• Fixed an issue where the underworld was not repopulating correctly
• Fixed an issue where the Male Islathi Warrior was not rendering

Multiplayer

WARNING: To prevent critical version mismatch issues, including connection failures and instability, incompatible clients and servers are no longer allowed to connect.

• Added an automatic minimization behavior to the Chat window
• Removed the scroll bar from the Chat window
• Fixed an issue where the Message of the Day was not saved between restarts

Balance

• Fixed an issue where Fervor was not decaying correctly

Classes

• Alchemist
  • Magefire
    • Changed the particle effects
    • Fixed an issue where the ability was using the wrong projectile

  • Red Potion
    • Fixed an issue where the projectile was assigned overbroad collision

  
  
• Warrior
  • Bull Rush
    • Bull Rush stomp now deals 175/250/325/400/475% weapon damage as crushing in area of effect

  
  

• Added Silk Kneeguard recipe
• Fixed an issue where the Silk Collar recipe was missing an icon

Encounters

• General
  • Improved distribution and consistency of spawns across difficulty levels
  • Temporarily enabled warrior behaviors on commoners

• Analathi
  • Fixed an issue where Analathi were friendly with Gnolls and Orcs

• Brown Bears
  • Added a new creature and encounter
  • Added Brown Bear sound effects
  • Increased Brown Bear encounter variation across difficulty levels

• Inferno Wolves
  • Increased encounter rarity
  • Broadened spawn preferences
  • Fixed an issue where the encounter would not spawn near ruins and magical POIs

• Rats
  • Added a new creature and encounter
  • Increased spawn chance in Negligible and Easy encounters

• Scorpions
  • Added a new model and animations

• Added a new icon for the EULA button on the main menu
• Sorted Character Selection menu by last played first with dead characters at bottom
• Fixed an issue where activating a missing item would not display an error

Testing and Debugging

• Improved logging to trap various issues