The Incredible Adventures Of Van Helsing Changelog v1.1.25
Updates to The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client (in on-line mode) is restarted.
Major changes include:
The Incredible Adventures Of Van Helsing v1.1.25
Balance changes: - Cooldown can no longer be reduced to less than 25% of the original value for that particular level. Cooldown also can no longer be lower than the Global Cooldown value.
Fixed bugs:
Arcane Mechanic DLC:
- Choosing an Arcane Mechanic at character creation the model properly updates from Hunter form.
- Fixed a few Set items that didn't register the number of pieces you equipped correctly.
- The Automated Sentinel Cannons in Gallowsbog have a greater aggression range so they will be more likely to attack you before you see them.
- Arcane Mechanics could use the Gas Mask
- Grenade Launcher damages the Werewolf Totems properly.
- Your character no longer continues the previous command after the Elyctric Sphere expires.
Thaumaturge DLC:
- Casting Firewall counts as mana usage for improving items.
General:
- The Ghastly Shape skill is automatically learned (for free) when it’s unlocked at the end of the first Chapter.
- Finally fixed that tiny little gray box behind the Rage bar. Yay!
- Fixed an issue with skill increases sometimes counting two clicks as three.
- The character no longer gets stuck when casting some of the spells (e.g. Mirror Image) while the cursor is over an obstacle.
- You will hear no more footsteps if you pause the game when your character moves.
Multiplayer:
- Turrets correctly turn on the client side.
The Incredible Adventures Of Van Helsing Changelog v1.1.25
Updates to The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client (in on-line mode) is restarted.
Major changes include:
The Incredible Adventures Of Van Helsing v1.1.25
Balance changes:
- Cooldown can no longer be reduced to less than 25% of the original value for that particular level. Cooldown also can no longer be lower than the Global Cooldown value.
Fixed bugs:
Arcane Mechanic DLC:
- Choosing an Arcane Mechanic at character creation the model properly updates from Hunter form.
- Fixed a few Set items that didn't register the number of pieces you equipped correctly.
- The Automated Sentinel Cannons in Gallowsbog have a greater aggression range so they will be more likely to attack you before you see them.
- Arcane Mechanics could use the Gas Mask
- Grenade Launcher damages the Werewolf Totems properly.
- Your character no longer continues the previous command after the Elyctric Sphere expires.
Thaumaturge DLC:
- Casting Firewall counts as mana usage for improving items.
General:
- The Ghastly Shape skill is automatically learned (for free) when it’s unlocked at the end of the first Chapter.
- Finally fixed that tiny little gray box behind the Rage bar. Yay!
- Fixed an issue with skill increases sometimes counting two clicks as three.
- The character no longer gets stuck when casting some of the spells (e.g. Mirror Image) while the cursor is over an obstacle.
- You will hear no more footsteps if you pause the game when your character moves.
Multiplayer:
- Turrets correctly turn on the client side.
The Incredible Adventures Of Van Helsing Changelog V1.1.24
Updates to The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client (in on-line mode) is restarted.
Major changes include:
The Incredible Adventures Of Van Helsing v1.1.24
Fixed bugs:
Multiplayer:
- Fixed a crash on the loading screen.
General:
- Certain spells will now stop working when their caster dies, as they should.
- The blue glowing flowers on the Gorgon Pass which give you Mana Regeneration will properly show an icon for their effect.
- Fixed another issue with item comparison.
- The Assistant quest no longer gets stuck if you completed it before accepting.
- The area effects work properly.
- Monsters affected by the control spell give xp upon dying.
- The Pale Gentleman disappears after you failed the Dark Ritual quest. The glowing effects are also removed.
- The effects no longer shake the screen if their cause is not on the screen.
- Fixed the DPS calculation of Flowing Combo.
- The DPS calculation of the Shoot skill with Quickdraw takes the attack rate bonus into account.
- Teleporting sometimes played two effects. This has been fixed.
- Fixed a potential issue with the first cutscene in the Dreadworks where the Dreadknechts would start to fire on Van Helsing before the cutscene could start.
- Fixed an issue where holding down the Shift key could cause certain keys to not be recognized if you remapped them.
- Fixed some issues with the Firewall spell being cast through obstacles.
- Minimizing the game (eg. Alt-Tab) will no longer cause sound effects to get stuck. The music will be faded out and then faded back in when you return to the game.
New features:
- The old classes have expertise bonuses for 60 and 70 points spent on a skill tree.
- HP bars of your allies are green.
- Global cooldown is introduced into the game. Attack spells have a common cooldown so you can't use different spells in quick succession. The base value of this cooldown is 0.5 seconds.
- Owning a class-related DLC will now grant you an additional page in your storage per DLC owned. (Please note that if you play offline, the game won't be able to authenticate your DLCs via Steam and you won't have access to those additional storage pages, nor your DLC characters.)
The Incredible Adventures Of Van Helsing Changelog V1.1.23
Updates to The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client (in on-line mode) is restarted.
Major changes include:
The Incredible Adventures Of Van Helsing v1.1.23
Fixed bugs:
Multiplayer:
- The player turns properly to the target, when casting spells.
- Some of the effects didn't apply or get removed correctly on the players. This has been fixed.
- Spells casted by a player disappear when the player leaves.
- Generic item drop chances were always calculated based on the host. This has been fixed.
General:
- The Focus Damage skill affects item comparision.
- Fixed the DPS calculation of Ray of Destruction.
- Fixed a crash with the completion of the Living Ghost.
- The effect of the Treasure Hunter perk no longer disappears after changing maps.
- The Thunderbolt spell works more in line with the rest of the spells.
- Fixed an issue with using stackes in the Laboratory.
- Passive buffs from Katarina show up as active effects.
- Fixed some issues with the DPH calculation for the Thaumaturge.
- All item types calculate drop chances.
- Skipping the outro stops its sound.
- The Favourite Skill statistic works properly.
- Fixed an incompatibility with Sluggish Time and Ghastly Shape.
- Fixed a potential crash related to the Control spell.
- The reset window for Lady Katarina can be closed with Esc and the X button in the upper right.
- You will no longer get stuck with Ghastly Shape even in the weirdest places.
- Mana Fortress for Last Stand works properly.
- Fixed an issue with key rebinding.
- All Achievements take your class into account.
The Incredible Adventures Of Van Helsing Changelog v1.1.22
Updates to The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client (in on-line mode) is restarted.
Major changes include:
The Incredible Adventures Of Van Helsing v1.1.22
Fixed bugs:
Multiplayer:
- Fixed a bug where you could connect twice to the same host.
- You can join back to the host properly after an unexpected disconnect.
- Slow attacks are more accurate (like the attack of the Lesoviks).
- Spells move properly on the client's side (like the fire tornadoes).
- Potions have effect on client side.
- Monsters no longer freeze up after they die.
- The video plays for the client correctly after leaving the Orichalcum Mine.
- Fixed an item duplication bug.
- The Sphere of Timelessness don’t cause lag anymore.
General:
- Quest markers automatically disappear when the quest is finished.
- The sound plays correctly during cutscenes on a 2 or less CPU machines.
- Some of the objects no longer get stuck in animation after a save/load at the Palace of Machines.
- Fixed a bug where in some special cases, the player could not teleport out from the Palace of Machines after beating Fulmigati.
- The sell the whole stack function (ctrl-right click) correctly works for Katarina.
- Fixed an area calculation bug with the comboboxes on lower resolution level.
- Fixed some UI text alignment errors.
- Windowed mode no longer leaves artifacts on the screen.
- The Bridge overcharge regulator works correctly.
- Friendly spell effects no longer appear on certain NPC-s (for example Arcane Healing on the mayor in Markovna).
- Fixed some sound problems.
- Teleporting is no longer possible during loading.
- Katarina's Go Shopping button activates properly when she comes back to "life".
- Katarina copies made by the Ghostly Mirage trick no longer drop potions.
New features:
- You will recieve a floating text message when you fail a quest.
The Incredible Adventures Of Van Helsing Changelog v1.1.2
Updates to The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client (in on-line mode) is restarted.
Major changes include:
The Incredible Adventures Of Van Helsing V1.1.2
The new DLC contains a new playable class, the Thaumaturge. However, if you did not buy the DLC, these changes will still affect your game client:
Function changes:
- Tricks and Auras are no longer learned from masters. They are either automatically known from the beginning or you can learn them in the story.
- The achievements related to learning Tricks and Auras have been removed.
- Tricks and Auras have expertise and mastery additions, like regular skills.
- Tricks are also not limited to two slots any longer, but Auras still have that limitation.
- There are four freely customizable secondary skill slots besides the two main ones. These new slots accept both Tricks and regular skills.
- Health and Mana potions have been moved to new positions on the GUI.
Balance changes:
- Many item enchantments have been rebalanced. The changes apply to existing items as well as to the new ones.
- At the enchanter you can’t put the same type of enchantment that already exist on an epic item any more. Duplicates on existing items have been removed.
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing Changelog v1.1.11
Updates to The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client (in on-line mode) is restarted.
Major changes include:
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing v1.1.11
Fixed bugs:
Multiplayer:
- Fixed a bug where some effects didn't disappear when they should (Last Stand for example).
- Fixed some heavy lag caused by Sphere of Timelessness.
- Pressing escape when the game requests password for the server properly disconnects.
- Fixed a bug where refusing to join a bossfight made you unable to move.
- The challenge complete text properly appears to every player.
- The progress windows (identify, town portal, ink gate) close properly when getting hit.
- The resurrecting progress doesn’t break when you take damage.
- Fixed a bug where the Earthquake spell was cast twice when you clicked once as a client.
- Fixed a bug where the spells went on cooldown without being cast.
- Creating a room with a level limit doesn’t crash the game in certain cases.
- In the game browser the "Show full rooms" checkbox has been renamed to "Show All" to clarify its function.
- Dropped items don’t disappear when a player leaves the map.
- Entrances enabled for the client, if he is on the loading screen.
- Fixed a potentially huge lag when starting a cutscene, or talking to an npc.
General:
- Fixed an essence duplication exploit with the alchemy dismantling.
- The outro plays sound properly.
- You can rebind the hold position key (shift).
- You are able to drag&drop the items from the storage after changing maps several times.
- Fixed a smaller precision error with drag&drop in the inventory.
- Fixed a bug where the statue in the town could take more gems than three gems.
- Description of Fury properly shows the current bonus damage.
- The loading screen properly waits until all the sounds are loaded.
- Fixed a potential bug where the storage disappeared in some cases with online characters.
- Fixed the tooltips of items during timestop.
- Fixed a display issue that causes Lady Katarina's skills to be shown multiple times in the lower left corner.
- You can’t remove prerequisite skills from Lady Katarina after learning higher level skills.
- Auras can’t appear as your favourite skill.
- You can’t damage the Scarecrow with Crushing Blow powerup while he is invulnerable.
- The travelling spells (like the Poison Bolt of Leshoviks) don’t disappear when the caster dies.
- Gargoyles don’t remain unattackable if you change map while they are casting a spell.
- One of Fulmigati's one liners has been removed.
- FixLair command has been fixed.
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The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing Changelog v1.1.09
Updates to The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client (in on-line mode) is restarted.
Major changes include:
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing v1.1.09
Known issues:
- The multiplayer game still has some issues. Switching roles between host and client might cause some loss of progress in the story.
Fixed bugs:
- Multiplayer
- Fixed a bug with the Treasure Hunter perk. It properly shows up in the detailed information panel when playing with more than 2 players.
- Fixed a lot of achievements that only worked for the host.
- Katarina works right when you send her away☺
- Katarina sells the items if you switched to another map as a client while she is out shopping.
- Characters who reached the level limit shows normal number as the XP required for their next level in multiplayer.
- Fixed some story progression errors.
- After respawning at a checkpoint, your character works normally.
- Inviting/joining from outside the game now works correctly.
- Icons of the spells affecting Katarina no longer show up at the bottom right corner for the clients.
- Fixed an issue with the other player's HP display.
- Effects don’t remain on screen for the client after they should have disappeared.
- Fixed some issues with a skill of the gargoyles.
- General:
- The infamous Old Town crash fixed.
- Improved performance when launching from Steam.
- Improved loading time when launching from Steam.
- Item lag fixed when launching from Steam.
- The HP per Hit bonus from Vitality Essences works in the alternate weapon set.
- The Diamond Essence works properly.
- Fixed an intended inconsistency in Lady Katarina's Otherworldly Senses skill.
- Fixed some potential exploits with Circle of Timelessness. You can no longer interact with objects/people or teleport home and cutscenes will automatically end the spell.
- Ray of Destruction and Occult Shield spells will end automatically at the start of cutscenes.
- Fixed an issue that caused the summoned shooting Katarina clones to try and flee instead of attacking as they should.
- FixQuest 2 and 5 got expanded a bit.
- FixQuest 8 should work properly now.
- You no longer fail the Orichalcum Shipment quest if you collected all the 10 items, but didn't report it before the night version of the Port became inaccessible.
- Items dropped on the ground couldn’t disappear if the game did not close properly.
- Fixed a bug with Online Characters. The list does refresh properly when creating a new character and deleting a file wasn't permanent (saves were synchronized back from Cloud on startup).
- Spells with no cooldown don’t cast twice with one click (e.g. Earthquake).
The Incredible Adventures Of Van Helsing Changelog V1.1.08
Updates to The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client (in on-line mode) is restarted.
Major changes include:
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing v1.1.08
Known issues:
- The multiplayer game still has some issues. Please play it with a character created for the multiplayer only because data loss may occur sometimes.
Fixed bugs:
- Multiplayer:
- Fixed a bug where the client could receive the Explosives Expert and the SWAG achievement.
- Activation and aggression range of the monsters decreased in multiplayer games.
- Fixed a crash when picking up loot as client.
- Passive auras couldn’t apply several times, if more than 2 player played a game.
- General:
- Fixed an item duplication issue.
- Fixed an issue that caused Helsing to get stuck in the spell casting animation if you put a spell on the left click.
- Fixed a potential memory leak with the Online characters.
- Monsters couldn’t attack you during cutscenes.