The Black Masses
Hotfix for V0.96
-Bug fixed where some areas wouldn't load.
-Giant prop set in Perth fixed.
Hope everyone is having a fantastic week!
Regards.
Performance Update V0.96 Now Live! (Please report any issues)
Patch notes:
- Performance increases 20-40% across the game using threaded rendering.(Very noticeable in large cities)
- Performance increase of 10-20% in crowd rendering as well as distant landscape rendering, increase is due to improved DX11 instancing.
- Remaining Issues in Kirkwall quests with saving and events fixed.
- Sound/muzzle flash bug on crossbow in multiplayer now fixed.
- Main menu improvements.
- Bug fixed when modifying graphics for the first time often put screen at low resolution.
- Issue fixed where sound volume settings often did not apply when first loading game.
- Issue fixed where items meant to appear/trigger during quests sometimes wouldn't.
- Demo version fully updated to latest version.
We hope you all enjoy the FPS increase! Have a fantastic week!
Regards,
Robert.
Performance Update Coming Next Week(Experimental)
However, we only have so many machines to test on, so we want to release this update as a trial run to ensure stability on different machines. As a warning, if things do not goo smoothly we may have to revert the update if we deem the update too unstable.
I hope everyone is having a fantastic week!
Regards,
Robert.
Hotfix For July 6th
We have done a few small patches over the past week. Some changes/fixes are listed below.
July 6th:
-Kirkwall quests fixed which was corrupting profiles.
- Fixed an issue with the Daear capacity blessings under the Dark Arts tree where the effects of the second blessing would overwrite the effects of the first blessing.
- Added a temporary fallback system which should detect errors during profile loading and prevent the corruption of your profile.
- Fixed an issue with The Gambler's Sword. If you have already finished this quest but you don't have the sword, you can get it from the house where you finished the quest.
June 29th:
-Ammo save bug has been fixed.
-Special weapons save bug fixed.
-If you lost ammo or weapons from the save bug, our system attempts to restore. (Ammo is given based on your level, and quest special weapons are rewarded based on quest completion).
-Multiplayer bug with incorrect player names fixed, which caused issues with private games.
We are working hard to increase stability. Have a fantastic week everyone!
Regards,
Robert.
Large Content Update v0.95 Now Live!
It's finally here everyone! The first large content update for The Black Masses is now live.
Trailer:
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NOTE: For those of you who have beaten the game We have done our best to make sure old profiles can continue playing in this version. Blessing points will be reset on old profiles, so you simply need to reassign them! Old players who beat the game should also check their journal for a new story quest.
Below we will list some of the new content and changes.
Content:
-New map areas added. (Several towns and cities, the Redwood forest and more).
-Level cap increased to 40.
-A multitude of new side quests and secret areas.
-Main questline continues to Perth City.
-Large amount of shiny new weapons and items.
-Several new abilities and skills added.
-New cinematic added.
Patchnotes:
-Improved opening cinematic visuals.
- Level up now restores your vitals
-Dead zombie planking issues improved.
-Glitch in idle animation for one handed weapons fixed.
- Changes and improvements made to input mapping.
- Inventory scrollbar functionality added.
- Improved ability to reach over surfaces that extend behind the player's head when climbing upwards or jumping upwards to climb.
- Increased radius of item looting check.
- Descriptions for stats now show in a tooltip in the stats tab when you hover over the names.
- Reduced camera shake on throwing.
- Added the option to make weapon scrolling the primary use of the mouse wheel (the mouse wheel scrolls through abilities by default and holding 'E' and scrolling scrolls through weapons).
- Added the option to disable item and consumable scrolling which will make the controls for throwing items and cooking grenades more straightforward.
- Added more sounds (using consumables, jumping, landing, running, climbing).
- Opening the main menu in offline play now pauses the game (inventory, blessings, map, etc. does not pause).
- Decreased max catch speed (if you would take extreme fall damage, you can't catch a ledge at that speed).
- Health regen.
- Regen delay changed from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.
- Regen amount reduced to 0.5% per second.
- Added stamina cost to climbing-related actions.
- Blessing tree changes (new blessings added and existing ones reworked)
- New abilities added (Spread Shot, Shockwave, Blast Hammer)
- Added default damage modifiers to sharp weapons and ranged weapons, reducing their effectiveness against armor, while blunt weapons maintain normal damage against armor.
Hundreds of other small changes and fixes were made.
Have a fantastic summer everyone!!
Regards,
Robert.
Large Content Update On The Way!
Edit (June 19th): We apologize for the delay. Since this is such a large update we are working on, quality assurance and touch ups are taking longer than expected. Expect to see the update sometime next week.
Hope everyone is having a fantastic week!
Regards,
Robert.
Update v 0.9.3
-Steam friends are now integrated in online coop game sorting.
-You can now host private games for friends only
-Eiras side quest fixed.
-Many changes made to quests stopping players from skipping, or having no active main quests.
-Other small bugs and changes were made.
Hope everyone is having a great weekend. Now grab a friend and play some Black Masses!
Regards,
Robert.
Hotfix v 0.9.2
-Some crucial bugs were fixed involving quest saving and multiplayer quest syncing. Which often caused progress to be lost.
-Tower safe zone bug fixed where player would sometimes fall through the floor when spawning.
-The Rescue quest fixed where player could move onto the next quest without without talking to survivors and completing.
-Battle of the hand tower quest changes. Marker appears on bell letting player know he must ring the bell before the battle will start. Other fixes were made to this quest.
-More bugs fixed in loot spawning.(Main focus was for weapons spawning that could not be picked up)
-New loot and weapons added.
-More accidental units removed off beach area.
Happy Monday everyone!
Regards,
Robert.
Roadmap
Roadmap thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/992910/discussions/0/1870622978441004260/
Have a fantastic week everyone!
Hotfixes For Tuesday March 17th
-Multiplayer browsing now highlights compatible games green.(Game must have similar quest progress to be compatible, which allows full saving)
-Measures taken to ensure player cannot skip ahead in quests in the game.
-Possessed respawning temporarily disabled due to issues in multiplayer.
-Loot Balancing. General reduction in many loot items.
-Collision correction on some items that could not be picked up due to placing inside colliders.
-Common peasant sword rigging in first person fixed.
-Explosion damage falloff curve fixed(The damage/distance curve was bugged causing very little damage).
-Max bomb damage also increased from 100 to 120.
-Daear is now being saved.
-Sensitivity and y-invert settings are now being saved.
-Player avatar weapon bug fixed(Often showed an incorrect crossbow in a players hand).
Other small fixes and changes were made. Once again, I would like to thank everyone for their amazing support! Have a fantastic week everyone!
Regards,
Robert.