Fictorum

• Navigating the Expanse world map with a gamepad will be substantially better/easier
  
• Inquisition legion at a location will no longer override a boss
  
• Closing the game or returning to the main menu after clicking to move to a map location will no longer prevent the event from loading
  
• Bosses on expanse mode will no longer show the reward event twice
  
• Revived enemies will now get their weapons back after being revived
  
• Fixed a bug that would instantly end an expanse chapter after choosing to start another chapter
  
• Fixed a bug that would allow the player to go any clicked location regardless of distance on expanse mode
  
• Fixed a bug that would caused rubble to be permanently transparent
  
• Banish's implosion radius has been reduced from 250 --> 125, but will now properly scale with radius modifiers
  
• Receiving small amounts of Miasma damage over time will return the player to safety
  
• Fixed various untextured models in the lumber mill, castle roofing, and tavern flooring
  
• Fixed a bug with Blink Strike that could cause the Fictorum to be stuck in the ground
  
• Defend quests will now have the Aegis disabled
  
• Sentinel + Storm will now properly work with Meteor
  
• Filled a hole on the Bridge Network level
  
• Trees have proper destruction effects
  
• Channeling spells in first person will properly follow the reticle
  
• The inventory tooltip will properly adjust to avoid being offscreen
  
• Once a tree is destroyed, all collision is removed from the debris
  
• Motion blur no longer breaks observer
  
• Roller projectiles (like Tremor, Fire Wave, and Megalith) will navigate hills better and will more closely follow spell targeting
  
• Fixed a bug with observer that would prevent repossessing the Fictorum
  
• Blink strike's targeting VFX have been improved
  
• The reduced casting mana cost period for non-channeling spells has been reduced from 3 seconds to .5 seconds
  

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• Fixed a serious bug that would cause Aspirants to heal each other on lower difficulties
  
• Fixed a visual bug with the lumber mill
  

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Major Improvements

New accessories are available and can be unlocked

The third person camera has been significantly improved

A new statistics window has been added to the main menu

Enhancements

• Upgraded our Unreal Engine version from 4.18 to 4.25
  
• Falling deep enough into the miasma will teleport player back to a safe position on lower difficulties
  
• Spellblade and Blink Strike can now be charged. Damage will scale from 33% damage to 100% damage over 2s.
  
• Concentrate will now reduce area and collision radius
  
• The hard cap for damage taken from mana has been increased from 75% to 100%
  
• Stat descriptions have been added to the character details
  
• Roller spells (e.g. Tremor, Fire Wave, and Gust) velocity will be boosted by 50% of player forward speed
  
• All standard projectile spells have a minimum velocity clamp of 125% of the player's forward velocity
  
• Doombolt's damage has been doubled
  
• Flamethrower has been reworked and is significantly better
  
• Aspirant channeling spells have been nerfed
  
• Successive, rapid hits of rubble damage are ignored
  
• It is now much more obvious when on map locations when the Inquisition will arrive
  
• Flash's Thunderhead Arrows will now be slightly slower have less Spread applied
  
• Previous/next spell can now be bound to hotkeys
  
• Tooltips will appear for starting title buttons while using gamepad
  
• Sell cost will appear for equipped items on equipment comparisons
  
• Game mode tooltips will now have more information
  
• New items and affixes have been added that will affect arcane bonus damage
  
• A backup of the settings file will be created upon opening the main menu and loaded if there are issues with the primary save.
  
• Discord button has been added to the main menu
  
• Passives will now display on the Character Details panel
  
• Storm runes will now provide a significant bonus to maximum range
  
• Familiars and Sentinels will now shoot at quest targets
  
• Initial mana costs have been lowered by 50% for channeling spells
  
• Loading in between levels will have better fade in/fade out and more consistent load progress
  
• Extra clarity added and action required for Delete All Starting Titles
  
• Forsaken archers will have less seek applied to their Eldritch Blasts
  
• Familiars cast times will now scale with familiar rune strength
  
• Touching enemy shields (Talisman and Phalanx) will no longer yeet the player off the map
  
• The Bulwark starting title has been reworked
  
• Rising Shadow's cooldown has been reduced 7->5 seconds
  
• Burrow's channeling cost has been reduced from 60->25 mana/sec
  
• The opening splash screen has been removed
  
• Sparkwhip will no longer launch bosses and will only launch champions under 50% health
  
• Eldritch Blast's description provides more useful information about the spell
  
• It's no longer possible to make spell radii too small to deal radial damage
  
• Storm has a higher spawn weight at the center
  
• Targeting opacity can now be adjusted from game settings
  
• Storms have a faster cast frequency and a ludicrously high maximum input (have fun!)
  
• Events will no longer occur within the same chapter
  
• The event tooltip will display that the final battle will have the inquisition legion
  
• The game will be saved after selecting all rewards from an event
  
• Channeling sentinels with annihilator beam have an easier time aiming at sentinel towers
  
• First reachable chapter locations will now always be unavoidable combat
  
• Destroying a house with items inside will now give full disenchant essence amount
  
• The blizzard event has been tweaked for clarity
  
• Annihilator Beam's VFX have been improved
  
• Sentinels are now immune to self harm
  

Bug Fixes

• Cast actors + non-offensive spells will work properly
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause softcore players to enter a soft game lock when dying from an event
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause defense goals to still show in clairvoyance after completing the location's quest
  
• Canthick's miasma has been lowered
  
• Hidden chests will no longer spawn empty
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause a strong character rotation offset if the player was knocked down while flying
  
• Fixed some oddly rotated decorations in town halls
  
• Cyclone, skull grenade, and arcing ball's visual effects will properly scale with collision radius
  
• Fixed a bug that would occasionally cause enemy weapons, bows, and shields to float in midair after death
  
• The shaping triangle UI will now properly update visuals for all spell schools
  
• Most instances of floating objects remaining after destruction will no longer happen
  
• Fire Beam sound effect volume has been increased
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause fall damage if landing while shaping, slowed, or regenerating mana
  
• World map music will fade out when killed by an event
  
• The Fictorum's head will no longer be visible through the helmet of shame
  
• Destroyed doors no longer have stone-like visual effect
  
• The inventory can no longer be opened while traveling to a new world location
  
• Sentinels, Familiars, and Storms no longer care about draw time for arrows, airblades, and windshots
  
• Fixed a bug that would prevent the Grand Inquisitor from floating in phase 2
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause certain bosses to permanently aggro a sentinel or familiar if it was cast fast enough
  
• Fixed a casting lock that could occur when casting certain spells after Rising Shadow
  
• Incendium will properly delay its explosion after a chain reaction
  
• Invigorate's visual effects will show properly and the animation has been improved
  
• Fixed a bug that would prevent removal of items
  
• Fixed a bug that would prevent the inventory background from fading on the world map
  
• Burrow will no longer lock jumping if cancelled before hitting the ground
  
• Fire manifestations will properly despawn
  
• Rintara's Battleground and the tutorial has had some landscaping done to fill holes
  
• Pressing the directional keys on the map will no longer switch spells
  
• Storm and Chaos will now properly work together
  
• Fixed several issues with Blink Strike
  
• Fixed a bug that would occasionally load the wrong spell slot icons on the world map
  
• Fixed a bug that would prevent some items from being sold or disenchanted
  
• Fixed a bug that would occasionally cause projectile shields block friendly spells
  
• Spells should no longer block the third person camera
  
• The poorly scaled fullscreen issue has been resolved (we think)
  
• Projectile spell VFX and meshes (like spears) will properly scale with collision radii when cast from NPCs
  
• Sparkwhip's lasso effects will properly stop on landing
  
• Mastery achievements, Master Modifier, and Master Wizard will properly trigger once achieved
  
• Trees move more predictably when receiving hits and while falling
  
• Gamepad focus has been improved across all interfaces
  
• Using gamepad shoulder buttons to change spell on the world map will work better
  
• Javelin and arrow have had their collision radii reduced
  

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• Gamepad world map focusing is much more accurate and will cause fewer issues
  
• Sentinels are now immune to self harm
  
• Javelin and arrow have had their collision radii reduced
  
• Using gamepad shoulder buttons to change spell on the world map will work better
  
• Destroyed sentinel crystals will properly cause sentinel towers to be ignored with clarivoyance
  
  

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• Non-offensive spells will properly be used by Sentinels and Familiars
  

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• Sparkwhip will no longer launch bosses and will only launch champions under 50% health
  
• Eldritch Blast's description provides more useful information about the spell
  
• It's no longer possible to make spell radii too small to deal radial damage
  
• Storm has a higher spawn weight at the center
  
• Projectile spell VFX and meshes (like spears) will properly scale with collision radii when cast from NPCs
  
• Sparkwhip's lasso effects will properly stop on landing
  
• A targeting opacity control has been added to the game settings
  
• Storms have a faster cast frequency and a ludicrously high maximum input (have fun!)
  
• Events will no longer occur within the same chapter (and possibly longer)
  
• The event tooltip will display that the final battle will have the inquisition legion
  
• The game will be saved after selecting all rewards from an event
  
• Channeling sentinels with annihilator beam have an easier time aiming at sentinel towers
  
• Mastery achievements will properly trigger once achieved
  
• First reachable chapter locations will now always be unavoidable combat
  
• Fixed a bug that would prevent Aegis visuals from showing up
  
• Destroying a house with items inside will now give full disenchant essence amount
  
• Trees move more predictably when receiving hits and while falling
  
• The blizzard event has been tweaked for clarity
  
• Gamepad focus problems on the reward selection screen have been resolved
  
• Annihilator Beam's VFX have been improved
  
• The hovered world location will have better camera focus when using gamepad
  

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• Fixed some oddly rotated decorations in town halls
  
• The hard cap for damage taken from mana has been increased from 75% to 100%
  
• The shaping triangle will now properly update visuals for all spell schools
  
• Fixed a bug that would occasionally cause enemy weapons, bows, and shields to float in midair after death
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause a strong character rotation offset if the player was knocked down while flying
  
• Starting maximum mana has been standardized to 150 (without a difficulty multiplier) for most titles on medium, hard, and nightmare
  
• Cyclone, skull grenade, and arcing ball's visual effects will properly scale with collision radius
  
• World map music will fade out when killed by an event
  
• Fixed a bug that would incorrectly cause fall damage if landing while shaping, slowed, or regenerating mana
  
• The Fictorum's head will no longer be visible while wearing the helmet of shame
  
• Clicking a world location will prevent opening the inventory
  
• Enemies will no longer spawn through destructible structures
  
• Destroyed doors no longer have stone-like visual effect
  

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• Doombolt's damage has been doubled
  
• All standard projectile spells have a minimum velocity clamp of 125% of the player's forward velocity
  
• Roller projectiles (e.g. Tremor, Fire Wave, and Gust) velocity will be boosted by 50% of player forward speed
  
• Fire Beam SFX volume has been increased
  
• Fixed an issue that would cause the hovered world map location to lose focus while using a gamepad
  
• Passives details will properly show associated times instead of {amount}
  
• Canthick's miasma level has been lowered
  

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• Touching enemy shields (Talisman and Phalanx) will no longer yeet the player off the map
  
• The Bulwark has been reworked and will receive new passives
  
• Permanent passives will now appear on the Character Details panel
  
• Sentinels will last longer and will now target enemy structures
  
• Familiars cast times will now scale with familiar rune strength
  

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• Fixed a bug with certain bosses that could cause them to permanently aggro a sentinel or familiar if it was cast fast enough
  
• Fixed an issue that would ignore ability mana cost reduction
  
• The font for event choices is more consistent with events
  
• Gamepad UI focus will not be lost after transcribing
  
• Gamepad inventory focus is more logical
  

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