v1.18.3

• Party Assignments have been rebalanced. Party Strength has a much wider range making difference in character levels more meaningful. Most assignments are now more effective at the high end, but Reputation assignments are less powerful in general.
  
• 'Ironman' mode - Can be selected when starting a new campaign. Difficulty can not be changed and only one save slot is available in this mode.
  
• 'Switches' Puzzle Chest added to encounter pool for newly generated dungeons
  
• New item - 'Mind Leech'. Unlearns all skills and refunds skill points. (Keep Quartermaster)
  
• Keep Quartermaster has a new shop category: Special Orders
  
• All faction representatives have a new shop category: Special Training
  
• New cosmetic enchantments are available in Savantir
  
• Skill tree restrictions on medium and heavy gloves have been removed (Spellwardens rejoice!)
  
• Changed raw stat bonuses on shards to percentage bonuses
  
• Changed raw stat bonuses on equipment sets to percentage bonuses
  
• Orc 'Blood Rage' innate has had its regeneration reduced and broken into into a seperate condition that is disabled by Flame damage
  
• The influence penalty for losing in battle now scales up with mission difficulty
  
• Abandoned artifact quests now go back in the Library 'waiting' pool (no need to be researched again)
  
• Changed rarity tables for locked / puzzle chests
  
• 'Circles' Puzzle Chest has improved animation
  
• 'Arcturus' Wrath' skill - damage improved
  
• New resolution option: 3840 x 2160 (4k)
  
• Added/improved some skill animations - more to come
  
• Added a blur effect to the background behind the active window. This can be disabled in the options screen.
  
• The game now triggers an autosave after the tutorial ends
  
• New hotkey: can use 'Tab' to cycle through characters in inventory/character/use skills screens
  
• Removed character level label during deployment
  
• The quest complete screen now shows reputation totals that include the quest reward
  
  

• 'Inspecting the Keep' quest can no longer be restarted
  
• Fixed an issue where aborting a quest did not always remove the location from the overland map
  
• 'Remove Tag' attribute is no longer hidden from tooltip (eg on Wraithstone)
  
• 'Fall Back' skill fixed, immediately causes retreat
  
• 'Cancels Health Regeneration' should no longer appear on tooltips twice
  
• Fixed an issue with some conditions that canceled health regeneration not behaving correctly
  
• Fixed several typos in conversation dialogue
  
• 'Divine Power Sauce' no longer counts as using a Tonic
  
• Fixed skillbar issues arising when a Stolen Talent grants a skill the character already has
  
• Requested bounties can no longer spill over across saved games
  
• 'Cult Collaborators' mission, fixed quest objective text
  
• Fixed an issue when selecting dead characters in 'Use Skills' mode
  
• Added more hints to shop screens about when new items become available
  
• Skill tooltips now reflect updated values after changing fighting style
  
• Exploration quests no longer tell you to descend if the unexplored floor is above you
  
• Fixed supply count disappearing from interface under some conditions
  
• Changed description of 'Architects Plans' item
  
• 'Nature's Bargain' visual appearance corrected for female wielders
  show highlight on quest tier selection
  
• Can no longer leave the roster screen if the active party is empty
  
• Fixed an extra party icon appearing when changing resolution on overland
  

v1.17.3

• Damage mitigation effects now cannot reduce damage below 1. If a character is hit by a damaging attack, they will now always take at least 1 damage.
  
• Character stats screen and battle inspect screens now have tooltips explaining all statistics
  
• Higher difficulty settings now have an effect on experience gain and loot quality from battle (note that this does not apply to found treasure)
  
• New option for instant dungeon movement
  
• Shops now have specific shopkeepers that can be spoken to for more information
  
• Additional tutorial dialog and new help popups
  
• Help bubble popups remember when they've been dismissed
  
• Hiring new characters in the first month of the game is now free, making it easier to change your starting party
  
• Tonics now work differently. No more 'liver damage', characters can use one tonic for each character level, at any time. Improved tonic tooltip to show how many more tonics the selected character can use.
  
• Cosmetic Enhancements now use their own special slot
  
• Improved handling of situations where all friendlies/enemies are hidden (now means none are)
  

• Fix for some 'missing dungeon' situations. Not confident enough yet to say 'all'.
  
• Failsafe for situations in which an artifact would not appear in the target dungeon after loading a saved game. Should not longer be possible.
  
• The wandering merchant no longer changes his stock when loading the game
  
• Fixed that Hidden vfx wouldn't show when the condition was granted at start of battle
  
• Fixed bug where an enemy could ignore your hidden condition if they were the last enemy alive
  
• Clicking on the 'supplies left' indicator now also triggers the 'Use Healing Supplies' dialog
  
• Bounties now show which faction the target enemy belongs to
  
• Vault Screen: Added a hotkey for "send to vault on click" (hold Shift)
  
• 'The Collector' quest can now be aborted (and taken again later). Quest description updated.
  
• Nekoatl allies have a battle portrait now
  
• World map settings (region names, show unexplored) are now saved between sessions
  
• Dreadfather's 'force retreat' skill can be countered by Resist Mental and Cannot Retreat stats on the target
  
• Fixed several issues with the Corruptor's 'Dark Mirror' skill
  
• Evil duplicates of player characters understand how to use more of their skills correctly (and no more friendly fire)
  
• 'Disintegrate' skill changes to 'Scales with: None' (tooltip change only, functionality remains the same)
  
• 'Intercession' skill properly removes conditions with only 1 turn remaining
  
• Changed many skill descriptions to be clearer
  
• Changed skill upgrade text to explain what the Penetrating tag actually does
  
• Fixed messages incorrectly reporting unclaimed shipments
  
• Fixed an issue with lowering the game resolution while in battle
  
• Fixed behaviour of mousewheel in load/save game screen
  
• Double-clicking a saved game entry will save/load that slot
  
• Fixed some interface strings that were too long for their fields
  
• Fixed ability to customize characters created in older saved games (pre-December)
  
• Fixed global unlock of 'Tracker' class
  
• Fixed wrong resolution of combat floating text in windowed mode
  
• Fixed incorrect "+1 item" notification on bag tab when enchanting with an item directly from a shop's inventory
  
• Fix to character change animation in conversations (was showing at conversation link points, even when the same character was speaking)
  
• Fixed a rare bug that could cause the campaign to repeat after completion
  
• Added a visual reminder for how turn order is displayed (during deployment)
  
• Changed the color of the numbers on left and right of the action clock to better hint at their purpose
  
• Location field in older saves' menu no longer sometimes shows "[Location]"
  

• Exotic-rarity items better reflect the damage/armor of their Epic base item (deviation from the norm is preserved)
  
• 'Error resolving quest' when exiting dungeon is fixed
  
• The quest dialog now always shows the main quest at the top
  
• Reputation items now sell for slightly more than the faction will pay you
  
• The Thief subclass can now take both upgrades for the Sneak Attack skill
  
• Fixed the black backgrounds behind some dialog boxes
  
• Superfically changed the when-hit effect on 'The Helm of the First Frostwarden' artifact to prevent conflict with other triggered effects
  
• Clones can no longer use the 'Fall Back' skill
  
• If a character is killed by their Animate Shadow being destroyed, their death sprite is now correct
  

v1.15 - Anniversary Update

• Scrolling combat text now increases properly with interface scale
  
• Added support for 2560x1440 resolution
  
• New hotkey on title screen to reset resolution in case of problems - Shift-R
  
• Fixed behaviour of countdown confirmation on changing resolution (result is saved immediately)
  
• Now we show full portraits in the turn order display
  
• Character background text is now saved and loaded correctly
  
• Ascendant boss battle in Riftstorm Keep is now properly treated as the dungeon boss, drops appropriate loot
  
• Fixed missing portraits and inspect sprites for Wargolem and Bear
  
• Can no longer retire all company members
  
• 'Unstoppable' fighting style fixed to work as described- applies Penetrating tag to all skills while active
  
• 'Poisoncraft' style changed to scale with intellect as implied rather than with level
  
• 'Insidious Poison' should now fully cancel health regen
  
• Multiple characters with the "Marching Orders" skill can benefit from its trigger
  
• Company starting gold increased to 1000
  

• Rebalanced player heal scaling - at high scaling values, the differences between skills tended to disappear. Now strong healing skills remain noticeably better than weak healing skills
  
• Skill upgrades that add to healing amount work better
  
• Additional balance tweaks to some healing skills
  
• Added simple animation to the turn order display
  
• Removed the horizontal lines ('new second') from the turn order display
  
• The Master of Bounties now refreshes inventory correctly
  
• 'Ricochet' skill now has the 'Weapon' tag
  
• 'Pound of Flesh' skill description reworded
  
• Reduced the damage the 'Disintegrate' spell deals to lethality-immune targets
  
• Wolf and Dire Wolf have had their sprites reduced in size slightly
  
• Nature summoned creatures now have battle portraits
  
• Fixed empty conditions appearing on summoned creatures
  
• The damage caused by 'Prayer of Retribution' is no longer subject to modification (damage increasing buffs, etc)
  
• Current battle target information will update when switching skills with hotkeys
  
• New battle hotkeys: use Q, W, E to quickly change stances
  
• Fixed several other minor bugs with battle hotkeys
  
• Moved 'Quest Log' hotkey to L
  
• Fixed typos in description of 'Thunderclap' skill
  

v1.12 Changes

• NEW - Region names can now be shown on the world map
  
• NEW - Custom difficulty is now available. Roll your own
  
• Can no longer change difficulty in the middle of combat
  
• Fixed party status strip sometimes showing at wrong interface scale on overland map
  
• Fixed a crash with certain encounters (and Wildhome)
  
• Fixed appearance of dungeon stairs on Temple and Cave tilesets
  
• Updated artwork for "Sounds of Battle" and "Strange Noises" encounters
  

• Artificer's Solvent functions correctly again
  
• The Shattered Stair appears on the world map once revealed
  
• Fixed Bounty Credits reward from the Shattered Stair
  
• Fixed the Soulharvester's skills
  
• Item tier settings are properly saved in loot filter
  
• Fixed Planar Battery skill
  
• Disabled saving in tutorial dungeon
  
• Disabled hotkeys in conversation screen
  
• Fixed subclass display in inspect screen
  

New Features and Content

Balance Changes

• All bosses now have a small chance to drop Exotic quality equipment
  
• Dungeon rarity has an increased effect on loot quality (higher than v1.0)
  
• The bonuses on some Shard enchantments have been adjusted
  
• Player skills that remove Wound conditions now also remove Bleed conditions
  
• The dungeon condition 'Fetid' is less powerful (look forward to the Elite version)
  
• Critical Hit Severity is now capped at 350% maximum
  

Bug Fixes & Other Changes

• Overland encounter menu options now have more tooltip information
  
• Fixed problems with double-clicking items in the loot window (sometimes they would vanish)
  
• Fixed occasional issues with destination bags of unequipped items when equipping new items
  
• Fixed the effect of the Health Regeneration % stat
  
• Some skills have had their names altered to reduce confusion with other skills or effects
  
• 'Hire Character' screen has a standard close interface button
  
• Minor improvements to item recommendations
  
• 'Nature' summons should not have their sprites cropped when inspected
  
• Long company names handled better on company screen
  
• Found the tooltip for the skill 'Complete Heal'
  
• The 'Focused Fire' ability now only triggers on weapon attacks against enemies, as described
  
• Fixed being able to get multiple copies of the Nekoatl world quest
  

• More work to mitigate 'missing dungeon' situations
  
• Dungeon room graphics update properly again after using consumables or pulling lever
  
• The hover info on target is refreshed when current skill is changed via hotkey
  
• Changed 'Item Find' stat's name to 'Loot Quality' to better describe what it does
  
• Stunned characters can now have their current action value modified by other effects
  
• Fixed a bug that would freeze the game if summoned/transformed enemies were killed with the 'Overwhelm' skill
  
• Fixed potential crash with Minotaur's 'Labyrinth' skill
  
• Fixed incorrect info shown in Supply Cache interface
  
• Fixed action bar tooltip flickering at certain resolutions
  
• Nekoatl encounter should now always be removed from map after completion
  
• Illusionary Nekoatl's skillbar has only one copy of the Bolt skill now
  
• Changed loot bonus multipliers for dungeon rarity
  
• Fixed typos
  

• Proper handling of lost device context (finally)
  
• Fixed an issue with World Dungeon boss loot tables
  
• Artifacts should not re-appear for research after acquiring them
  
• New artifact dungeons now have guardians at the entrance
  
• Fixed low-resolution/blurry custom sprites
  
• All relic bonuses now show on the relic screen, even if you have a lot
  
• Item tooltips show granted skills again
  
• Fixed autosave screenshots
  
• Don't show 'new quest!' notifications when we load a saved game