• The initial loading screen has been improved
  
• Fixed a bug that would show completed quests as incomplete in the quest tracker
  
• Trees will properly simulate physics when they are hit the first time
  
• Hitting a frozen solid enemy with a projectile will apply an impulse in the proper direction
  
• Dragging a rune from a runeset into an open slot will move the associated rune and remove it from the runeset
  
• Fixed bugs that would cause cooldown timers to either not display or display improperly
  
• Liches will now cast Skull Grenade (in addition to Nefarium) and their spell damage has been increased
  
• The Giftbringer will no longer start with a mana bonus
  
• Holiday spells have had their mana costs revised
  
• The unlock condition for the Verdant Incinerator has been changed
  
• Incendium's spell multipliers have been reworked
  
• Items will now spawn with +Earth, Corrupted, and Wind damage
  
• Blitz will spawn a visual effect at the location prior to teleport
  
• Coiled Wyvern will no longer be unlocked instantly upon starting the game with a hardcore character
  
• The Inquisition Captain's Sentinel will properly be destroyed if it's owner is killed
  
• Collision radius on Eldritch Blast has been reduced from 50-->35
  
• Fixed a bug that would occasionally cause Sentinels to spawn improperly
  
• Familiars will properly follow the player when they are not following a target
  
• Battlemage will no longer be unlocked with a Spellblade on a vendor slot
  
• Killing Balmur will properly end the boss battle
  
• The floating cube above the player start on Bridge Network map has been removed
  
• Starcaller will no longer be unlocked instantly
  
• Seeking power has been improved on lower quality runes
  

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• Fixed a bug that would lock map movement after completing the tutorial level
  
• Quest indicators will no longer flash when on low or medium effects
  
• A negative value for negative status effect duration will no longer appear as red
  
• Fixed a bug that would prevent improper imbues but still consume essence and the passive/ability scroll
  
• The ambush event at Hangium will properly have an ambush
  
• Fixed a bug that would always return 0% quest completion on Ducombe
  
• Tips in the tutorial level are now substantially easier to read and their placement has been adjusted
  
• Enemy spells will properly attenuate over distance
  
• Chandeliers candle effects will properly fade after being destroyed
  
• The Soul Ring will spawn with less mana after kill
  
• New item attributes will properly affect item essence value
  
• Order runes will properly work on channeling spells again
  
• An additional check has been added to prevent projectile spawn collision
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause specific boss encounters to occur more than once in a playthrough
  
• Fixed a bug with the player camera that would cause jitter when the player's back was to a wall or cliff
  
• Seeking has been improved at lower outputs
  

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28 new achievements have been added

Minor Enhancements and Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that would cause casters to have a large damage boost
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause Pavise and Hoplite shield textures to be blurry at a distance
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause close range rolling projectiles to fire at the proper angle
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause the observer control rotation to shift after releasing a spell
  
• Fixed a bug with Strike's melee hits that could cause mid-air floating
  
• Runes in runeset will no longer try to go to the rune enchantment slot when item is already in it
  
• Summoning SFX have been increased in volume and are given a higher priority
  
• Toggling out of the run history will show the proper equipment and accessories for the current slot
  
• Spell overlap effects have been removed from the game
  
• Flavor text has been added to the game over screen when killed by a boss
  
• The splash and impact damage of many spells have been rebalanced
  
• Fixed an animation lock that could occur when canceling melee spells
  
• The observer can now perpetually rotate around objects with the Run/Walk toggle
  
• Using the main menu command will properly save settings and control mappings on the settings menu
  
  
• Projectiles will have a much easier time hitting opponents at point blank range
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause the third-person camera to clip through the landscape in some places
  
• Ending a boss level will no longer play the travel effect
  
• Melee damage received will no longer be recorded as other damage
  
• Removed camera jitter when the player is looking up
  
• Enemies will hit themselves with their own spells very rarely, if at all
  
• Fixed a bug that would occasionally not remove structures from clairvoyance on quest completion
  
• Clicking the close button on the inventory will properly reset the camera
  
• Stagholm should show up correctly as a corrupted level on the map now
  
• Channeling spells will apply effects and damage much more consistently
  
• Fixed an issue with Character Statistics that would cause odd text wrapping
  

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• Fixed a crash that occasionally happens when shattering frozen enemies
  
• Starting Title buttons will have a different border if you've beaten the game with that title
  
• Casting, energy shield, mana threshold, and damage sound effects will now properly attenuate while using the observer
  
• Screen shake intensity has been reduced by 33% in most situations
  
• Proper default observer time speed will now be loaded
  
• Higher destruction lifespan settings will cull important destructible meshes much less often
  
• Clairvoyance outlines for defense structures are removed on quest completion/failure
  
• Quests have been streamlined and will no longer be added to the map, they will instead be resolved within the current location.
  
• The post-processing effect for Clairvoyance has been improved
  
• Spell impact decals have been improved slightly
  
• Jadon's Peak will give an essence reward in addition to slowing the Inquisition Legion
  
• Traveling through the nexus has a new visual effect
  
• Camera controls are now based on observed time
  
• Annihilator Beam and Christmagheddon will behave properly with Storm and Nova runes
  
• Rolling projectiles should no longer get stuck
  
• Damage taken will be recorded more consistently
  
• The sentinel crystals before the final boss will once again be active
  
• Enemies will no longer get stuck on top of Pillar
  
• The corpse explosion passive will now work properly
  
• Channeling crosshair will be hidden if your current spell will create a storm, familiar, or sentinel
  
• Power crystals will no longer count as quest enemies on the tracker
  

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• Aegis can now properly be deactivated on Corian
  
• Static Shuriken is now Prismatic Star, which is an arcane spell that can use any colored rune
  
• New start of chapter perks have been added and some existing ones have been rebalanced
  
• If a slot is available, newly purchase runes will properly be added to the current runeset
  
• Friendly Sentinels will now attack townsfolk quest enemies
  
• Shaping speed is now available as a stat
  

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• Fixed a bug with Inquisition fortifications that would load the wrong level for Expanse mode
  
• The third-person camera will zoom in more quickly while clipping under the landscape
  
• Character history details screen has been overhauled to show more information
  
• Using channeling spells with Order, Spiral, and Chaos runes will work properly
  
• The Bulwark will now start with a unique Sentinel rune and the Construct Specialty passive
  
• Clicking on a mountaintop before an event has loaded will no longer work
  
• Damage from early Debilor enemies has been lowered slightly
  
• Fire manifestations will have more reasonable collision radii
  
• Reduce chances of randomly selecting night
  
• Destruction effects have been improved across the board
  
• Sentinels created by runes will now fire at sentinel towers
  
• Abandon with Shocking Shuriken will use a more appropriate animation
  
• Sentinels created from runes will now fire faster, are more accurate, and are significantly better at finding targets
  
• Boss music has been added
  
• Sentinel tower crystals have had their AI logic improved
  
• Weather will be more appropriate to the various settings
  
• The channeling spell targeting reticle will be hidden while viewing the inventory
  
• Lighting visual effects will no longer remain after candles, braziers, torches, etc. are destroyed
  
• Telekinesis will properly use targeting reticle while it is channeled
  
• Pressing the close button on the inventory screen while on the main menu will properly close the inventory
  
• Enemies that channel spells will stop aiming or channeling if line of sight is lost
  
• Chapter map music will change properly based on the distance to the Inquisition Legion
  
• Observer has been disabled while in the developer menu
  
• Player-resurrected enemies assigned to an enemy captain will no longer attack the player
  
• Earth Slam can now be canceled
  
• Tremor's mana cost and damage have been increased by 50%
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause the embellishment event to not have a minor negative reward on one of the options
  
• Spread/Multi-shot will once again work on channeling spells
  
• Aegis collision on the nexus has been fixed
  
• Fixed a clipping tree on the WinterDefense level
  
• Order will once again aim properly at nearby enemies
  

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Starting titles have been improved!

Bug Fixes and Minor Enhancements

• Fixed a bug with drinking health potions that could crash the game in rare instances
  
• Expanse store rerolls on rest or movement (or load if you want to save scum it up)
  
• Grand Inquisitor has a variety of new spells to murder you with
  
• Collision is now properly removed from completed projectile spells
  
• Defeating a boss with Slow Time active will no longer halt the game indefinitely
  
• Removed player collision while burrowed
  
• Unburrowing will destroy any overlying structures or props
  
  
• Rune-created sentinels will have new visual effects while active
  
• Spells using Echo will create area indicators
  
• A depth of field control has been added for observer mode
  
• Nightmare and Hard difficulty will no longer reduce mana or mana regeneration
  
• Spread for meteor-like spells has been reworked
  
• Siegers for defend missions have improved AI and appropriate spells for their faction
  
• Boots will now use the leather color, not the accent color
  
• Projectiles attached to the main character will be removed after 5 seconds
  
• Lightning strike has an improved visual effect
  
• A camera smoothing option has been added to settings
  
• Settings on initial load have been changed
  
• While fullscreen mode is selected aspect ratios that are not supported by the monitor will no longer be shown or accepted
  
• If the game window mode has been changed to fullscreen or windowed mode outside of the settings menu, the display settings will be updated and saved
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause the mouse to improperly track when certain aspect ratios and fullscreen mode were selected
  
• Lightning Bolt with bounce will have proper visual effects
  
• Releasing a spell while shaping will no longer cause a visual change in shaping triangle
  
• Incendium's visual effect has been improved
  
• Teleportation Arrow will go through objects much less often
  
• The Storm rune should no longer cause a permanent FPS drop for channeling spells
  
• Corrupted enemies will no longer target you, regardless of having not seen you
  
• Channeling spells will apply target and splash damage much more consistently
  
• Stone and wood destructible meshes with have less friction
  
• The burial event has been rewritten
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause an event reward preview to be different from actual reward received
  
• Frost nova's damage and mana cost have been significantly reduced, freezing effects and duration have been increased
  
• Enemy damage, attributes, movement speed, and casting speed scaling has been reworked for all modes
  
• Text at the edge of the history scroll will now be easier to read
  
• Defend quests will spawn townsfolk closer to the player
  
• Shald Hill has been edited to provide a better choice
  
• Knockback from spells and melee attacks have had their maximum allowable output increased by 10x
  
• Area spells will no longer be cast on top of the Grand Inquisitor while he is shielded
  
• FIxed a rare bug that would cause projectiles that have collided with the landscape to float in the air
  
• Glacier's targeting mesh will now properly scale to the spell size
  
• Fixed a bug with multishot with area spells that would cause the first multishot instance to be cast at the primary spell location
  
• Witchslap visual effects have been improved, knockback has been increased, and mana cost has been reduced
  
• When Defending Pazin you will now start in the tavern as the event suggests
  
• High Velocity's boost to velocity has been reduced by 50%
  
• Fireball's velocity has been increased by 30%
  
• Some hidden damage types (e.g. shambler death from exploding) will no longer show on damage popups
  
• Guard quests have been reworked to be easier to complete
  
• Fire beam sound effects will properly scale to distance
  
• Aspirant AI has been improved
  
• On rune tooltips "impact damage" is now "target damage"
  
• Health has been reduced on nightmare and hard (was 1.5, 2.0 and now 1.25, 1.5)
  
• The mana cost and damage for all Earth magic has been properly balanced
  
• Familiars will properly strafe at appropriate heights
  
• Sentinel towers are no longer better at killing themselves than the player
  
• Mana cost has been added for blitz and other abilities
  
• Cyclone's visual effect has been fixed
  
• Flame wake will no longer spawn a massive swath of flame
  
• Hoplites will no longer target the ground with Phalanx
  
• Forsaken weapons will no longer be held upside-down
  
• Wind Mittens will no longer spawn with a ridiculous amount of mana regeneration
  
• Forsaken voices have been lowered
  
• Shades will now do something other than killing themselves next to you
  
• Fixed a bug that would occasionally prevent an enemy caster from taking action
  
• The Grand Inquisitor will no longer spawn next to the player start in Expanse mode
  
• Debug menu spawning rotation has been fixed
  
• Debug menu spawning can now spawn full enemy squads
  
• Archers and Outcast Champions will once again cast spells
  
• Channeling spells that follow the targeting reticle will ignore targets that are close to the camera and not close to the player character.
  
• Spiral runes will have a random starting yaw for the spiral
  
• Observer can no longer limit to 0% time movement
  
• Channeling spells will maintain aim when Observer mode is toggled
  
• The third-person camera will be less snappy
  

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New Spell Schools and Abilities

New Bosses

New Enemies and Improved AI