Published 09:00 08-27-2026 Combat and balance

• Skill cooldowns can now scale dynamically based on the character stats relevant to each skill.

• Increased the difficulty of lower-level enemies to provide a more balanced early-game experience.

• Improved enemy resistance to repeated impact reactions, giving enemies a better opportunity to retaliate.

• Mystic martial abilities now interact more appropriately with magical damage resistance.

• Added the ability to disable enemy level scaling for testing and balancing.

• Improved skill caching and cooldown handling.

Equipment and durability

• Equipment can now provide persistent stat modifiers.

• Added reconciliation support so equipment modifiers remain synchronized when item definitions change between builds.

• Significantly improved weapon-shattering visuals using physical weapon fragments.

• Improved weapon-breaking audio feedback.

• Improved right-click behavior when looting items that cannot be equipped or placed in a quick-use slot.

Status effects and movement

• Added the new Well Rested status effect.

• Improved sprint exhaustion behavior to prevent repeated bursts of sprinting as stamina regenerates.

• Added remaining-duration information to status-effect debugging and UI.

• Added a visible countdown when temporary status effects are close to expiring.

Onboarding

• Reworked and improved the opening onboarding cinematic.

• Fixed an issue where moving before the opening fade completed could prevent introductory enemies from spawning.

• Improved the movement tutorial sequence so experienced players can begin moving immediately.

• Added a return portal to the onboarding area near the Ruby Key door.

• Fixed several cinematic camera, player positioning, and scene-loading timing issues.

• Improved the Stranger’s Ruby Key dialogue: it is now triggered by interacting with the door rather than entering a proximity trigger.

• Added localized racial visibility descriptions to the character-creation interface.

Interactions and looting

• Improved the reliability of looting and other animated interactions.

• Interaction timing is now derived from the relevant animation rather than depending entirely on animation events.

• Added defensive handling for interactable objects that become unavailable during an interaction.

• Improved forge interaction timing.

Visuals and world

• Rebalanced and re-baked lighting across several areas.

• Corrected overlapping geometry that affected baked lighting.

• Added and expanded areas within the Buried Tunnels.

• Fixed actors not casting shadows onto parts of the environment.

• Added shader variants used by character materials to reduce characters appearing incomplete while shaders initialize.

• Improved the main-menu character-card selection presentation.

• Fixed corpses appearing or being baked above the ground.

• Improved portal traversal and deformation behavior for enemies capable of squeezing through narrow openings.

Display and settings

• Fixed resolution auto-detection on the first launch of the game.

• Removed an invalid display resolution that could be generated from the current game window dimensions.

• Cleaned up unwanted text from a main-menu button.

Development tools

• Added a Nav Mesh Bake Mode tool for enabling and disabling bake-only scene objects.

• Improved Nav Mesh blockers, patrol-point selection, and portal navigation setup.

• Expanded the character-stat monitor with collapsible sections and active status-effect information.

• Added an item-instance inspection tool for examining equipment modifiers during development.