Torchlight III

Read "Mainline Patch - September 15th, 2020 (Part 1)"

• VFX Updates/Fixes:
  
  
  • Luminous Run Fixes
    
  • Grand hall light and steam updates
    
  • Sadista / Bralls / Ordrak review
    
  • New Sketchy / Afraid Idle Run NPC VFX
    
  • Fixed decal amd combatFX issues with ghost shaded monsters.
    
  • Fixed an issue with spawn spider webs.
    
  • Added hitflash VFX
    
  • Goblin Monument Level up transition FX for each level / Goblin Fury Sacrifice FX
    
  • Caged Townsfolk VFX
    
  • Friendly Netherling VFX added
    
  • Fixed an issue where the revive VFX material on players appears pixelated.
    
  • New RM hammer attack trails.
    
  • Fixed issues with censored blood.
    
  • Fixed never ending environment VFX
    
  • Railmaster Pound fixes.
    
  • Explosive end fixes
    
  • New/Updated Hyvid Monument VFX
    
  • Gold Monument Sacrifice FX
    
  • New Quest Item FX
    
  • Skeleton Fire Warriors swords more fiery.
    
  • Celebratory Card FX
    
  • TargetDummy CombatFX
    
  • New animation to replace stand in for ShriekBeak Phase change.
    
  • Boss Chest revision
    
  • Illusionist Affix fixes
  
  
• SFX Updates/Fixes:
  
  
  • All Class Skill SFX have been reviewed.
    
  • New Sketchy / Afraid Idle Run SFX
    
  • Cage opening SFX added
    
  • Updated pet noises in character select screen to be less loud.
    
  • Added Relic selection hover SFX
    
  • All locales now use English VO.
    
  • Living Barrier tier 3 explosion SFX
    
  • Added a sound for Thousand-Volt Burst tier 3 electric balls.
    
  • Reduced the duration of Thousand-Volt Burst snapshot triggering.
    
  • Made the Forge's mincart movement sound less annoying.
    
  • Added sound when switching skill/inventory tabs.
    
  • Added sound for Spinning Blade SFX
    
  • Added sound for Localized Storm skill SFX
    
  • Fixed missing VO from Phix.
    
  • Arachnid Assault SFX added
    
  • Poison Nova SFX added
    
  • Spectral Spider SFX added
    
  • Bane Miasma SFX added
    
  • Audio changed so owl attack only plays once instead of 3 times.
    
  • New Cluster Window SFX added
    
  • Audio measurements have been tweaked to average between -19 to -27
    
  • Scattershot charged and release will not loop anymore upon holding the charge.
    
  • Custodian poison missile lowered.
    
  • Added clicking sound to gamepad tab menu in skills window.
    
  • Golem fix.
    
  • Fixed some Relic audio aura type SFX
    
  • Fixed/Reviewed Explosive End SFX

• Brall Brawl and Sadistic Sorcery quest reward choices are now given as the default rewards (i.e. you're awarded all choices instead of picking one option).
  
• Fixed an issue that caused double quest reward chests to spawn.
  
• Updated the following quest rewards in: Unearthed Evidence, Expansion Pack, The Astral Door.
  
• Wideload's Decorative Shield (fort prop account reward) will unlock upon turning in the quest, "Unearthed Evidence," to General Graye for the first time.
  
• The Shared Stash Tab story quest rewards upon completing Brall Brawl, Sadistic Sorcery, and The Core Gateway are each granted once per account.
  
• Updated Tutorial: Consumables. Changed quest tutorial to drop the consumable item from any chest instead of from any monster. This still activates after completing A1C1Q0.
  
• Reduced required count of Automaton kills from 105 to 60 for the "Deactivation" quest.
  
• Reduced required count of Automaton Arms for the "Part Picking" quest from 8 to 6.
  
• Reduced required kill count of Netherim in "For Science!" quest from 25 to 20.
  
• Increased the progressive drop chance of quest items for Automaton Arms and Cogs from the "Part Picking" quest.
  
• Increased progressive drop chance of Silky Webbing for the "Silky Threads" quest.
  
• Increased progressive drop chance and overall drop chance of Firing Pins for the "Unpinned" quest.
  
• Increased drop chance of Netherim Jawbones/Hides for the Nether Inkling quest as the player progresses through the level.
  
• Increased the progressive drop chance of Netherim Jawbones for Nether Inkling quest.
  
• Increased the rate at which quest items drop for the Musky Business and Lost Remains mapworks quests.
  
• Fixed looping escape animation of Hix and Kenik during the "Untangled Web" quest.
  
• Fixed Gravestone animation resetting upon completion of the Restless Heroes quest.
  
• Updated Phase Dungeon Portal help tutorial text.
  
• Updated Town Portal tutorial text.
  
• Updated "Unlocking Skills" tutorial text.
  
• Removed task to talk to Sgt. Klive from the "Tutorial: From a Humble Seed".
  
• Updated "Legendarium Unlocked" pop-up tutorial text when playing on gamepad to: "Press then navigate to the Legendarium tab from the skills panel.
  
• Fixed typo in "Untangled Web" quest text.
  
• Removed some old/obsolete quips from the Mysterious Wanderer NPC.
  
• Updated Kenik's dialogue text to match the audio/VO in Fortuitous Arrival.

• Fixed cases where players could consume items without gaining their benefits.
  
• Fixed an exploit where it was possible to sell potions in a way that replenishes potion stacks in inventory, giving the player a way to obtain an infinite amount of gold.
  
• Decreased the chance that potions drop from champions slightly, from 33% to 30%.
  
• Resolved issues where the stash limit was reached sooner than expected: Shared Stash Tab consumable item can now be destroyed.
  
• The consumable item, "Pancakes of Champions," now has a stack count of 5 instead of 1 in the consumable inventory. The health boost itself is still restricted to 1 stack (i.e. buff does not stack).
  
• Contracts now reward individual map scrolls instead of bundles of 3 map scrolls.
  
• Shifted some of the map scroll rewards in contracts around so that they do not drop from the first 20 or so contract levels.
  
• Reduced the number of map scroll rewards in the once-through section of the Adventurer's contract from 5 to 3. Reduced the number of map scroll rewards in the looping section of the Adventurer's contract from 2 to 1.
  Dev Note: Map Scroll dungeons are intended to be a fun diversion from the story path of the game or something that you use to grind out XP and collect gear if you get behind at higher levels, but we have found that if players ran the Map Scroll dungeons as soon as they got them, they were early enough level that the XP and gear from the Map Scroll dungeons could boost them enough that they would be over-leveled for subsequent dungeons in the story. By giving you fewer of these and shifting them to later in your progression, we hope that tackling a dungeon or two won't ruin your normal sense of progression.
  
• Map scrolls no longer change their affixes on pickup and stack when they shouldn't.
  
• Map scrolls now vary solely by their beneficial affix. The primary element of the dungeon it will summon will now be a surprise to you, but the benefit is not. Are you prepared? Is it worth taking the chance?
  
• There are Supply Run, Gold Rush, Lifebound and Harvest maps in both rare and legendary quality, all of which stack up to 20 in a stack now.
  
• The maps awarded from contracts now vary by contract, so you'll find lifebound and gear luck maps in the Adventurer's contract, gold maps in the Homesteader's contract and harvest maps in the Craftsman's contract.
  
• Fixed Phase Dungeons not always giving Scrolls of Lifebound from Bosses and Boss Chests.
  
• Distributed armor colors across gear levels and rarities.
  
• Added more variety to the color of lvl 60 armor drops.
  
• Fixed several imbalances with Basic Attack weapon damage across the various weapon types. Basic Weapon damage has been changed, as follows:
  
  
  • Bow - Unchanged
    
  • Digitus - Unchanged
    
  • Great Weapon - Now deals 350% (up from 175%) Net Change: +175%
    
  • Mace - Now deals 150% (down from225%) Net Change: -75%
    
  • Pistol - Now deals 90% (up from 75%) Net Change: +15%
    
  • Rifle - Now deals 140% (up from 100%) Net Change: +40%
    
  • Sword - Now deals 110% (up from 75%) Net Change: +35%
    
  • Railhammer - Now deals 290% (up from 200%) Net Change: +90%
    
  • Staff - Unchanged
  
  
• Fixed an issue where Weapon Damage percentage numbers are set to 0 for all skills (class,relic,pet), players receive 'Equip Weapon to Deal Damage" message in combat, even with a weapon equipped.
  
• Fixed cases where starting boots would get too much defense and cases where normal quality chest armor could get too little armor.
  
• Players should be able to unlock legendary affixes on pickup.
  
• Set some status effects to properly respect immunity affixes.
  
• Fixed Wideload's Cavebreaker's legendary affix only working when in Legendarium, not on the item itself.
  
• Removed the mana cost reduction affix for Shadow Step. It no longer uses mana.
  
• Reduced freeze chance on weapon affixes, and reduced the duration across all rarities.
  
• Legendary affixes that refer to the Relic Power no longer drop until level 20.
  
• Set affixes that enhance other affixes (like + chance or +duration) to not drop on items until level 20, when you are more familiar with the status effects and have likely started to opt more into one of them.
  
• Increased the chance values for many elemental proc status effects (including DoTs) to make them more worth using.
  
• Removed affixes that add chance to elemental proc affixes from weapons, added them to gloves.
  
• Removed affixes that add duration to elemental proc affixes from weapons, added them to boots and hatches.
  
• This tuning pass includes: Stun, Bleed, Blind, Burn, Chill, Freeze, Immobilize, Poison, Shock
  
• Fixed cannons not dropping with a primary critical hit affix and bonus secondary affix like 2H weapons (except for your starter cannon).
  
• The Raging Beater legendary affix now functions again as described.
  
• Fixed Legendary Cosmic Pants (for the Railmaster) that referred to an old skill "Glacier" instead of Frost Blast.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Cosmic Pants set bonus does not give 100% Endurance restore chance on Spinning Blade.
  
• Fixed herman archers from using Tight Grouping continuously when there are no enemies around.
  
• Fixed an issue where older Mountain King feet items for Forged appeared in Legendarium. Only the Wheel exists in actual play, so the Tentacle and Treads have been removed from the list.
  
• Corrected Sharpshooter armor assets that were swapped in quality (common and magic).
  
• Changed rare Sharpshooter helm, shoulders, gloves and boots that were dropping in Act 2 to be dropped in Act 3 instead, along with new accompanying Act 3 themed chest and pants armor.
  
• Fixed magic quality armor that was using reused assets for the Sharpshooter.
  
• Sharpshooter trinkets no longer trigger in the skill bar.
  
• Added new rare Sharpshooter helm "Wanderer's Hat" and shoulders "Cords of the Moon," which drop from Act 1 onward.
  
• Added new rare Sharpshooter helm "Expedition Hat" and shoulders "Champion Pauldrons" which drop from Act 2 onward.
  
• Fixed 1-handed mace animations.
  
• Adjusted Forged movement with 1H sword attacks. Also adjusted all sword and mace based animations with Snake, Ball, Treads and Crab.
  
• Fixed issue with flippy animations for armor and weapons go over head height.
  
• Fixed an issue where boots remains on Dusk Mage's legs when they are unequipped
  
• Fixed an issue where bow & staves clip into the Sharpshooter when during the equip animation.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Sharpshooter's placeholder bow wouldn't animate when using Tight Grouping.
  
• Fixed issue where Skittering Shoulders have Woodsbeast Shoulders sticking out of them.
  
• Fixed issue where Bullshot Bow's adornment snaps to a bent position after returning to idle.
  

• Increased the camera distance for Forts, reduced depth of field so that things aren't blurry from that distance, fixed the rotation of fort passages to be more head so that objects on the left side of fort can be seen.
  
• Enabled the Training Dummy in the fort.
  
• Made a ‘better’ default fort.
  
• Players can now report forts as inappropriate.
  
• Fixed an issue where a fort asset preview & description stop updating to the current selection after you've placed a decoration.
  
• Fixed an issue where the second pet tag cannot be removed from the Bronze Dusk Mage Statue under specific circumstances.
  
• Lowered the prices on all common and magic quality fort buildings. Lowered the harvesting and refined resource prices on some of the rare decorations, increased the gold prices a bit on some of the rare and legendary fort decorations.
  
• Fixed an edge case where quest rewards that go into the fort inventory could be lost.
  
• Fixed Sgt. Klive sometimes appearing in other locations around your fort.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Luck Tree from being interactable after initially placing it.
  
• Updated the tuning on the fort monument leveling rate to better match our goals. The Goblin and Hyvid monuments increased in required currency, whereas the automaton monument decreased (slightly).
  
• Temporary fix for pet enchantment Resistance being not functional.
  
• Fixed an issue where the enchanting description would show a different possible affix each time rather than all possible affixes.
  
• Moved the Enchanting Altar from the Skill Stations subcategory (what was it even doing there?) to the Crafting subcategory.
  
• The Enchanter's Altar once again unlocks after completing "The Core Gateway". (Other prerequisites include: "Tutorial: Legendarium" and "Tutorial: Props & Property").
  
• Sgt. Klive will unlock the Enchanter's Altar fort prop in the "Tutorial: Simply Enchanting" account quest. The prop will no longer appear under the Functional tab by default until then.
  
• Updated Legendarium and Enchanting tutorial pop-ups to no longer require the Enchanter's Altar to break down Legendary items to gain Legendarium passives since they unlock automatically on pick-up.
  
• Fixed an issue with some Enchantment slots in Pet Tag & Collar being locked after the item was equipped.

• Fixed an issue where the Angered Ancestor ghost does not follow the player if they run too far away.
  
• Fixed an issue where leaving and re-entering the area in multiplayer spawns an additional Ancestor Ghost.
  
• Lowered the chance that a pet cage is in the boss arena at the end of mapworks (Fazeer's Dun'djinn, Phase, or Map Scroll) dungeons from 50% to 30%.
  
• The Fazeer's Dun'djinn beneficial affix Reliquarian and the detrimental affix Cursed Relic will no longer be picked for the same card.

• Fixed issue so that dying monsters won’t show their health bar.
  
• Fixed an issue where players would sometimes miss out on boss kill credit.
  
• Reduced the number of monsters in Spider, Netherim, Hyvid packs.
  
• Fixed an issue where Status Effect diminishing returns are not functioning.
  
• Changed the monster spawn logic for many areas so that they do not request common rarity monsters, or request them less often, so that we don't get an imbalance in the rarity of monsters, leading to things like the Phase Beasts, Witches or Fire Sentries spawning too frequently.
  
• Converted regular boss spawners to triggered boss spawners in mini boss/cul de sac areas to prevent wandering creatures and premature fights.
  
• Monster Hazard updates: Doubled goblin grenade damage & decreased damage from Acidic End poison hazard from 150% to 120%
  
• Fixed an issue where monster hazards were not applying their touch or motion factors, which caused them to be too hazardous.
  
• Reduced damage from the Blazing affix, prevented pets from being damaged by it. Created a separate version specifically for Bruce Killis to reduce his threat without having to lower the difficulty of the affix throughout the game.
  
• Chill now reduces monster move speed down to 25%, regardless of difficulty, instead of 50%, as when that is applied on Ridiculous difficulty, it essentially just puts monsters at normal move speed.
  
• Increased the duration of the base chill affixes slightly.
  
• Gravity Well is now an affix only for the Challenge Dungeon.
  
• Netherwell now is picked for champions half as often as other affixes.
  
• Fixed an issue where Champions with the 'Berserker Rage' affix have their Rage indicator displayed after death.
  
• Fixed an issue where Storm's End affix would sometimes stick around after the pack of champions has died.
  
• Increased the cooldown on the "Nether Well" monster affix from 6 seconds to 10 so that you get a bit more breathing room between Nether Well hazards.
  
• The monster affix 'Nether Well' now cannot appear until level 15 zones.
  
• Mimic chests no longer add a nameplate to themselves when hiding.
  
• Fixing mimics as part of: Holding down ALT should show gadget nameplates.
  
• Voltura Gliders when spawned via a breakable trap now use the Spawn Emerge animation.
  
• Spider Queen web will now actually overlap with enemies.
  
• Netherim Heralds no longer have a decal on the ground (like other bosses that do not have normal population equivalents).
  
• Fixed Goblin for Rapid Strike knock back.
  
• Increased move speed on Infested Goblins.
  
• Increased hitpoints and damage dealt from Infested Goblins.
  
• Fixed the Fiery Custodians who were using the wrong animation to attack. These now deal actual, real live damage (fire, in particular). Look out!
  
• Automaton and undead mapworks dungeons should now have a better mix of champion types, as the shield bearing Skeletal Knight undead are now spawned as Legendary or Unique solo champs and the Custodian automatons now spawn as elite quality pack champions.
  
• Adjusted Automaton Hulk turn speed to align with size and movement speed changes.
  
• Adjusted Automaton click and main capsules.
  
• Fixed an issue where automatons click space was too small, making it near impossible to melee them.
  
• Reduced the scale of the Automaton Emberhulks to 75%, reduced the move speed to the same scale.
  
• Skeleton Melee, shield and ranged all use proper spawn climb distance when entering gameplay from a cliff.
  
• Fixed an issue where Skeletal Slayer's shield floats in the air during the spawn from the tomb animation.
  
• Addressed outrageous numbers of mossrats spawning in the Mossrat Den.
  
• Mossrats, Cragrats, and Mossrats of Unusual Size now do not get quite so large when spawned as champions.
  
• Fixed Mossrats of Unusual Size not casting shadows.
  
• Mossrats now use climb up spawn distance instead of emerge when climbing up cliff sides.
  
• Reduced the size of the Netherim Brute's collision mesh, so you can get closer to attack them at melee range, not look like you're swiping at the air.
  
• Netherim Warrior Polish, Faster Slash attack, revised idle, removed foot sliding during run.
  
• Gave the Netherim Champion some missing spawn skills to help it spawn more reliably, especially when a mini-boss.
  
• Fixed root motion on netherling death_02 - randomized deaths are not working for netherlings and melee goblins.
  
• Fixed Phase Beasts spawning too frequently in Bugswat Burrow (again).
  
• Lowered the spawn rate of Phase Beasts to avoid situations where they spawn often enough that multiple of them are onscreen at a time.
  
• Lowered from 1.28% - to 1.57% chance when spawning (depending on the area) to 1.03% chance in all areas in which Phase Beasts are allowed to spawn (hubs and non-boss arena dungeon areas after level.
  
• Improved AI behavior for Witch and Thorned Strider.
  
• Increased hitpoints of Witches (bosses excluded).
  
• Doubled damage dealt by Witches (bosses excluded).
  
• Fixed Witch boss spawning its army of minions only once.
  
• Gave champion (legendary and unique) witches more interesting unique names.
  
• Monster spawn polish in The Chasm.
  
• Updated Den of Upheaval boss arena to be clear of monster spawns.
  
• Set Acrid Plains to only have 75% of the spawners active at a time to help with framerate issues.
  
• Adjusted the boss fight area in Echonok Vault Challenge Dungeons to resolve instances of bosses that reset when you move too far away.
  
• Fixed an issue where Algramath, Warden of the Falls title bar shows no name and low health.
  
• Fixed Zephoras is facing the wall in Venomous Nest.
  
• Fixed cocooned Zephoras that was missing from specific instances of Venomous Nest in order to complete The Recluse quest.
  
• Fixed Xardox spawning or in an area that the player cannot get to.
  
• Made a bigger level for Ol' Wally.
  
• Added a missing spawn skill for the mapworks miniboss Gundaddy, so he'll more reliably spawn.
  
• Fixed an issue with the trigger for the boss spawner in Psora boss arena for mapworks being too small and causing Psora not to spawn immediately.
  
• Slightly reduced health of Wideload and Secret Weapon.
  
• Adjusted Ordrak's Click Capsule lower so that skillshapes that hit the ground aren't gigantic.
  
• Adjusted chance for elite/champion monsters to ignore pets/minions.
  
• Champion and Boss monsters provide more XP than normal monsters.
  
• Legendary champions now more often spawn with packs of minions, though sometimes just packs of minions may spawn.
  
• Fixed an issue where Champions switch targets too frequently, making their damage output weak.
  
• Improved XP curve for player level. It's now at about 150% of the old XP curve.
  
• Support separate monster damage curves per difficulty level.
  
• Adjusted the monster health curves to make it less of a slog at higher difficulties (again):
  
• Smoothed out somewhat jarring increases in monster health between levels 7 - 10.
  
• Set the monster health at low levels (1 - 20) of Painful and Ridiculous to the same values as those at Normal difficulty.
  
• Adjusted the Painful and Ridiculous health curves to compensate for the base damage reduction by difficulty level.
  
• Dev Note: Adding more health to monsters at higher difficulty levels is necessary to push players to optimize damage dealing, but we went overboard last time and it did not get enough dedicated testing. Too much health leads to combat being a slog, which we do not want. We hope that these new values maintain the challenge we intend at each difficulty level without making damage-dealing tiresome.
  
• Increased regular monster damage vs. players:
  
  Hard: 140% to 300%
  Painful: 165% to 500%
  Ridiculous: 240% to 800%
  
  
• Increased champion monster damage vs. players:
  
  Hard: 125% to 200%
  Painful: 150% to 400%
  Ridiculous: 216% to 600%
  
  
• Increased boss monster damage vs. players:
  
  Hard: 100% to 200%
  Painful: 110% to 400%
  Ridiculous: 160% to 600%
  
  
• Increased player damage vs. regular monsters:
  
  Painful: 40% to 45%
  Ridiculous: 30% to 45%
  
  
• Increased player damage vs. champions:
  
  Painful: from 40% to 45%
  
  
• Increased player damage vs. bosses:
  
  Painful: from 40% to 45%
  Ridiculous: from 25% to 30%
  
  
• Raised the amount of player damage applied to monsters due to the number of players in an instance:
  
  2 players: 30% to 60%
  3 players: 20% to 50%
  4 players: 15% to 40%
  
  
• Increased monster move speed by difficulty level:
  
  Hard: +10% to +20%
  Painful: 25% to +35%
  
  
• Decreased the base health of immobile, non-attacking monsters (Corrupt Hyvid Crystal, Voltura Coil, Hyvid Egg Pods, etc.) by approximately 25%, so that they are still tough enough to still provide the layering gameplay needed, but at higher difficulties, won't be quite as much of a slog.
  Dev Note: We also made difficulty choice a required step during character creation, so you don't accidentally get stuck with a difficulty shield you didn't want. Additionally we added a general description to the difficulty menu to explain what changes by difficulty level.

(continued in "Mainline Patch - Sep 15th, 2020 (Part 3)

• Adding another set of changes to traditional chinese localization.
  
• Various performance and optimization updates to skills, animations, sync loading, etc.
  
• Fixed various hitches found in UI, monster/minion spawning, animations, etc.
  
• Asset optimization.
  
• Fixed a crash in PlayerQuestComponent.
  
• Attempt to resolve a client crash that occurs after the server crashes with robustness checks.
  
• Fixed an issue where Steam friends with nicknames cannot be invited to a party from the friends menu (but can from Nearby Players).
  
• Preload audio data in main menu to prevent frequent re-opens of the bank files
  
• Updated "Elite Defense" achievement description: "Equip items with at least 1337 defense."
  
• Added various logging for errors, crashes, save game status, integrity checking, etc.
  
• Created linked arc account feature to enable customer support V2
  
• Enabled Oodle on all platforms.

• New Title screen.
  
• Added some names to random player/pet name lists.
  
• Party/Whisper UI elements should now be hidden for players not currently in the game world.
  
• Fixed issue where Sharpshooter's avatar is not displayed in the Party preview tab.
  
• Modal dialog now comes up when you try to invite a blocked player to a party instead of inviting them.
  
• Fixed an issue where there is no way to join a player that is already in a party (or even ask to join)
  
• Updated party member names to be more consistent with other UI.
  
• Fixed an issue where it would take a long time for bidirectional blocking to take effect in party voice chat.
  
• Fixed an issue where players would not be muted in voice chat even if they were blocked.
  
• Fixed an issue where players could be stuck on mute if the platform blocked users check takes longer than the request to mute them in vivox.
  
• Fixed an issue where the loading screen would briefly hide when entering character select.
  
• Added new x-ray shader for monsters & environmental objects.
  
• Added selection highlights for pets and monsters.
  
• Updated fort decoration Hover Effect
  
• Adjusted safety area around some UI for some resolutions and extended/refined blur.
  
• Adding another set of changes to traditional Chinese localization.
  
• Adding another batch of localization, bringing non-English languages up to 99% localized.
  
• Removed instances of ‘Option’ being localized to resolve other errors/issues.
  
• Set some text to not localize on some names that were in the credits screen.
  
• Difficulty selection now pops up at the end of character creation.
  
• Re-ordered hair color options appear to look nicer.
  
• Moved text panel and "continue" button to the right of the screen and character to the left to reduce mouse travel between screens.
  
• Updated the description text with new paragraph about difficulty effect on monsters and champions
  
• Hooked up the credits screen to appear when you finish the game.
  
• Fixed issue where party member name UI doesn't display correctly.
  
• Fixed a redundant PC Profile button is displayed in the Party Social tab after receiving a party invitation.
  
• Added warning "LowHealthLoop" animation to the pet HUD UI.
  
• Fixed issue where pet quality was not shown on the pet rescue UI.
  
• Fixed an issue where the pet notification icon does not notify the player when will the pet return after it has been sent to the town.
  
• Helped keep the "pet acquired" notification from flashing sometimes.
  
• Pet errors and other similar text now shows over the stats menu.
  
• Increased the size of the selection state on skill slots.
  
• Fixed an issue where the number of potions in the active slot is not immediately updated after buying new ones.
  
• Fixed an issue where actors could stop highlighting after picking up an item while hovering over the nameplate.
  
• Holding down ALT should show gadget nameplates.
  
• Fixed an issue where gathering any resources after collecting another resource adds to the amount of the first resource displayed on the prompt
  
• Made 403 login service errors more clear.
  
• Tooltips added to relic energy bar and charge.
  
• Added loading screen tip for Lifebound Scrolls and removed Scrolls of Unbinding loading screen tip.
  
• Fixed absolver tooltip issues.
  
• Fixed typo in Goblin Legion skill tooltip.
  
• Fixed tooltip errors in Eight Legged Allies passive.
  
• Fix for an issue where trying to join a full party would show an 'unable to invite' message instead of a 'that party is full' message.
  
• Decreased the size of the pet header icon and fixed overlap issues with other categories.
  
• Options button is no longer overlapping with the Credits screen close button.
  
• Fixed various overlap found in gear item names.
  
• Fixed various overlap of text in the help/options menu for localized languages.
  
• Fixed an issue where the quest tracker text goes off screen in some languages.
  
• Place name plate no longer overlaps with the target and boss name.
  
• Adjusted stats menu alignment issues if a stat is 100%+.
  
• Added padding to the top and bottom of the options screen and set the panel to scale to fit height.
  
• Applied more consistent highlighting to skill names in gear affix text.
  
• Adjusting location of the social tabs to fit the larger tab buttons.
  
• Updated and fixed typo in Legendarium description tab.
  
• Tip text no longer overlaps with the logo in the loading screen.
  
• Fixed misaligned text form of "Travel to Your Fort" help pop-up.
  
• Fixed text formatting of "Return to Town" pop-up tutorial for various languages.
  
• Fort name can now wrap when too long.
  
• Improved the UX flow when account stash fails to load.
  
• You no longer receive a results screen indicating challenge succeeded or failed if you played another person's dungeon that didn't affect your level.
  
• You now receive an additional message if and only if your challenge level goes up.
  
• Removed scaling on dungeon rule text to avoid overly small text situations.
  
• Players at max level (60) will show their highest Dungeon level in most situations.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Fazeer's text box displays 'Result test!' text string instead of the actual result after finishing the dungeon.
  
• Trevail Point map hub no longer partially covered by side panel. Also increased height of the frontier map scroll bar .
  
• Fixed issues with gaps in the mini-map.
  
• Optimizations and profiling for the minimap.
  
• Legendary armor and weapon item drops are now visible on the minimap.
  
• Moved player marker closer to the spoke in the frontier map.
  
• Updated the location of the quest icon for Miasmata to be closer and centered on the hub. Also animated it to read better on the map.
  
• Fixed incorrect scaling on the travel menu images.
  
• Updated skill panel backgrounds.
  
• New hair swatch color icons.
  
• New lore icons for Hix and Wolfram.
  
• Updated skill menu icons to make sure they are more visible.
  
• Updated item menu icons to make sure they are more visible.
  
• Updating icons for some relic skills and correcting inconsistency with Torque Swing icon.
  
• Buff/debuff icons are now tighter to the skill bar when the relic UI is not visible.
  
• New legendary and rare map scroll icons.
  
• Updating Electrode skill icon for Thousand-Volt Burst.
  
• Updating Zephoras' portrait, adding barrier skill icons for Coldheart and Electrode.
  
• Made the skill icons for Duskmage's Dark Spears, and Electrode's Localized storm more different from each other.
  
• Fixed Zephoras' lore speaker icon.
  
• Added Greye lore icon.
  
• Added bolder harvest minimap icon.
  
• Adding target dummy fort prop icon.
  
• Fixed missing hotkey icon from "skills panel" loading screen tip/text when playing on gamepad.
  
• Updated Mctyre's Cove world map icon.
  
• Updated gear category icons.
  
• Fixed an excess flag found in the Early Access roadmap image.
  
• Fixed an issue with Stinging Wing (legendary Railmaster item)'s poison effect not showing a debuff icon.
  
• Made sure that the relic icon fade animation extends to the end, this will insure that the 0 opacity sticks in the event of frame drops.
  
• Fixed an issue where some skills would sometimes not display their icons correctly when you first loaded into the game.
  
• Icon fixes for Forged Chest Armor.
  
• Fixed incorrect icon displayed on Hardened Kettle Drum Chest (Forged magic chest item).
  
• Optimized the generic vendor gear icons to look better.
  
• Fixed an issue where towns don't highlight on the frontier map.
  
• Increased size of loading screen world map to make it more crisp while still compressing.
  
• Added more efficient gamepad targeting.
  
• The in game menu can't be brought up with a controller behind loading screens anymore.
  
• Added gamepad targeting indicator.
  
• Fixed an issue where players can open the debug actor info and debug targeting panel.
  
• The legendarium no longer wraps when scrolling with a gamepad.
  
• Doubled gamepad legend shown at character select screen.

• Fixed an edge case in travel where you could end up going to the wrong area when traveling to a party member.
  
• Players who are disconnected or leave from Mapworks will no longer spawn into any other town than Trevail Point.
  
• Fixed a warp back from Shining Fort that was displayed as 'Under Construction', and the player cannot use it to get back.
  
• Fixed a warp between Well-Trodden Path and Firebelly Village that was hard to click.
  
• Fixed an issue where players cannot follow each other into areas they did not unlock themselves (Portal to party is broken).
  
• Fixed an issue where Mapworks portals could disappear when you created another one. Now you can have as many Phase Portals as you want.
  
• Changed the rule for the Firebelly Village waypoint so that it will always be either directly off the river section or right next to it.
  
• Fixed waypoints that don't work right (like Lake Gobdunk).
  
• Mini-Dungeons updated with new vfx, names, player spawn point further from the warps and a guaranteed rare loot chest.
  
• Fixed an issue where a Mini-Dungeons side rooms spawned no treasure chest.
  
• Adjusted transition fades and settings for making warping into/out of mini dungeons less disorienting.
  
• Added new Goblin themed spike traps and set/swapped them in appropriate areas.
  
• Cleaned up spike traps and adjusted spike traps in the Library, the Armory, and other areas.
  
• Adjusted spike traps in the King’s Plateau.
  
• Increased the time between spikes appearing from the spike hazards to make them less difficult to deal with.
  
• Fixed exploding hazard barrels that were able to deal too much damage.
  
• Fixed a floating clickable in the Den of Upheaval.
  
• Hazards now include the challenge level damage bonus in situations that used to ignore it.
  
• Fixed hazards in various Goblin/Hyvid areas that were doing too little damage.
  
• Voltura Coils removed from Boss lobby areas as not to appear incorrectly broken.
  
• Tweaked the damage calculation for hazards that trigger on touch.
  
• Set hazards in the environment to properly scale with the level of the area, so they don't deal an endgame level of damage to you regardless of where you are (in map scroll or phase dungeons, for instance).
  
• Set all environmental hazards and their DoTs to not apply to your pet, as you don't have a way to make the pet move away from the hazards.
  
• Set the acid vent hazards in Act 2 to apply a poisoned vignette effect while you're taking poison DoT to remind you to move out of the way, the same way we do with the pulsing fire brazier traps in Act 1.
  
• Adjusted the damage values for all environment hazards to be appropriate for the level of the area in which they are placed.
  
• Cleaned up textures on spike traps.
  
• Critters should now only exist on screen which should increase performance.
  
• Increased critter density across various areas throughout the game.
  
• Fixed Townsfolk NPCs that were missing their "rescued" animation/cage prop.
  
• Fixed trapped NPCs that were playing their escape animation every time they came on screen.
  
• Made the stairs in Trevail Point more navigable and moved guards a bit further away from them.
  
• Moved Zaya up the stairs in Trevail Point.
  
• Moved Zaya and General Graye’s Lore objects to be closer to them.
  
• Added some dirt and debris to the fort stairs.
  
• Removed the Bandit from idling in town (Trevail Point). Ne'er-do-wells begone!
  
• Updated map in opening cinematic to read Trevail Point instead of Trevail's Point.
  
• Hix is now visible from any angle, being away from the building.
  
• Fixed an issue where the bottle with message in Trevail Point has not implemented textures.
  
• Fixed Townsfolk NPCs that were missing their "rescued" animation/cage prop.
  
• Fixed player footsteps not working.
  
• Yapper now has a title card when you arrive in burning Trevail.
  
• Fixed Yapper from being too low in the ground during his intro cinematic.
  
• Fixed Strongtusk intro playing more than once while in the same instanced session.
  
• Added a few flags to some Echo Ciff levels.
  
• Added life in Grand Hall in Echonok, it needed movement.
  
• Fixed a soldier's grave is not aligned properly with the statue behind it.
  
• Fixed a cannon that does not fire upon interacting with it.
  
• Echonok Charging Coils destructible reattached and now fall into the ground.
  
• Fixed an untraversable path displayed on both the map and minimap of Trevail Point.
  
• Fixed the Swampseer's alpaca hoarding problem in McTyre's Cove.
  
• Fixed a missing collision on the plaza in Echo Landing.
  
• Add trim to the bottom of the building in the fort.
  
• Replaced banner on top of fort walls with flags.
  
• Updating flag sway in the fort.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player can sink into the ground texture for a moment on a specific seed in Edgewood Bluff.
  
• Fixed a gap that could be seen in the environmental skirting of Edgewood Bluff.
  
• Fixed a lore object that was obscured by decal and foliage in Edgewood Bluff.
  
• Rotated a lore object in Edgewood Bluff.
  
• Fixed floating mushrooms in Edgewood Bluff.
  
• Fixed a floating chest in Edgewood Bluff on a specific seed.
  
• Fixed an issue with an incorrect mini-map in a specific seed of Edgewood Bluff.
  
• Fixed a ground seam found in Edgewood Bluff.
  
• Added stone as well as elementals to Shawn's Stone Quarry.
  
• Renamed "Shawn's Stone Quarry" to "Old Stone Quarry" for better fantasy flavor.
  
• Fixed an issue where there is a visible sky texture between rocks on a specific seed in Heroes’ Rest.
  
• Added some VFX clouds at the crypt entrance of Heroes’ Rest.
  
• Moved a chest to prevent it from clipping in Heroes’ Rest.
  
• Blended terrain in Heroes’ Rest to fix a ground seam.
  
• Replaced some crates with barrels in Heroes’ Rest.
  
• Fixed a nav mesh issue that prevented players from walking into it on a specific seed in the Fields of Unrest.
  
• Filled in a hole in the path in the Fields of Unrest.
  
• Fixed an instance of z-fighting in a specific seed of the Fields of Unrest.
  
• Fixed boss chest clipping issues found in The Chasm.
  
• Cleaned up some clipping issues found in spike props found in The Chasm.
  
• Moved the shrine to a more interesting location in The Chasm.
  
• Moved barrel and shrine in a specific seed of the Trial of Fire.
  
• Fixed an issue where players can see an empty top of rock in the Trial of Fire.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player is able to walk into a wall on a specific seed in the Trial of Fire.
  
• Rotated a lore object in the Trial of Fire for better viewing.
  
• Fixed props that should be breakable that don’t break in Firebelly Village.
  
• Fixed tree stump that was covered with a bit too much dirt decal in Firebelly Village.
  
• Fog is now denser and has an orange tint to better create atmosphere for the fire theme in Firebelly Village.
  
• Fixed an instance of z-fighting found in the Evacuated Workshop.
  
• Fixed an instance of z-fighting found in a specific instance of the Overgrown Trek.
  
• Fixed a nav mesh issue that prevented players from walking into it on a specific seed in the Firebelly Stronghold.
  
• Updated Firebelly Stronghold so that a player cannot walk through a specific Goblin Hut prop.
  
• Fog is now denser and has a green tint to better create atmosphere for the theme in Firebelly Stronghold.
  
• Removed a boat in a particular seed that was getting clipped in Firebelly Stronghold.
  
• Moved the boss chest in Mossrat Den.
  
• Fixed a mini-map seam found in a specific seed of Mossrat Den.
  
• Fixed a pile of boards floating in the air in The Kennel.
  
• Placed a Nav Blocker behind the boss chet in The Kennel.
  
• Fixed an issue where you could step on a chest near a waypoint in Lake Gobdunk.
  
• Removed a breakable and added navmesh blockers to an area of Lake Gobdunk that should help prevent players from getting pushed out of the terrain.
  
• Fixed a chimney found stuck in a rock in a specific seed of Lake Gobdunk.
  
• Rotated a lore object in a particular seed in Lake Gobdunk.
  
• Fixed a NPC soldier is spawned in the middle of the lake on the specific seed in Lake Gobdunk.
  
• Added a nav blocker to a specific seed of Hidden Falls to prevent the player from walking through some rocks.
  
• Moved a Goblin status found in a specific seed of Hidden Falls to avoid it looking odd.
  
• Moved a clickable rock found in The Shattered Void to avoid clipping.
  
• Fixed an entrance warp that didn’t align correctly in a specific seed of the Guarded Path.
  
• Fixed a mini-map seam issue found in a specific seed of the Guarded Path.
  
• Moved a quest item found in a specific seed of the Guarded Path.
  
• Fixed a wall that blocked the player’s view in a specific seed in the Belly of the Beast.
  
• Fixed an issue where a part of the path is blocked by environment assets with player collision in the Polluted Plateau.
  
• Fixed a little baby fern that could be found flowing in mid air in the Polluted Plateau.
  
• Fixed a mini-map issue found in a specific seed of the Polluted Plateau.
  
• Fixed a floating flag found in a specific seed of the Hyvid Tunnels.
  
• Fixed a mini-map seam issue found in the Foetid Footpath.
  
• Fixed missing fort found in the Foetid Footpath.
  
• Fixed a resource node found in the ground in a specific seed of Bogwood Hollow.
  
• Fixed issue where trees in Acrid Plains fade completely without leaving a stump.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player can move through rocks in a specific seed of the Acrid Plains.
  
• Fixed an instance of a floating clickable found in a specific seed of the Acrid Plains.
  
• Fixed missing audio for Echo Node crystal lore gadgets in Acrid Plains.
  
• Fixed a mini-map seam issue found in a specific seed of Bugswat Burrow.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Alpaca was facing a wall in the Bugswat Burrow.
  
• Fixed guard that was a bit too obstructed and close to a rock in The Protected Trail.
  
• Fixed a hole in the world found in The Protected Trail.
  
• Fixed a floating banner clickable found in a specific instance of Murky Miasma.
  
• Fixed an instance of getting stuck in a corner of a specific seed of Murky Miasma.
  
• Fixed an exit warp in specific seed of the Crystal Passage so that it is viewable by the player.
  
• Fixed a floating piece of geometry in the background of Hyvid Capital.
  
• Fixed a hanging goo prop found in a specific seed of the Sanctum of Swarm.
  
• Updated Bat placement and adjusted a decal in a specific seed of the Sanctum of Swarm.
  
• Fixed a sharp edge found in a specific seed of the Sanctum of Swarm.
  
• Adjusted some trees and rock clipping found in a specific seed of the Ascent of Echoes.
  
• Added some texture to flooring found in the Grand Hall.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player can walk under stairs in a specific spot in Grand Hall.
  
• Added some rocks in the Perilous Climb to make an area feel more inaccessible.
  
• Fixed a resource node found in a specific seed of the Cliffs of Ore so that it is harvestable.
  
• Fixed an instance of z-fighting found in a specific seed of the Cliffs of Ore.
  
• Fixed a floating spike trap found on a specific seed of the Cliffs of Ore.
  
• Fixed instances of missing mini-map areas found in a specific seed of the Amber Hold.
  
• Fixed an instance z-fighting found on wall trim on a specific seed of the Amber Hold.
  
• Fixed an out of place spider web found in a specific seed of the Amber Hold.
  
• Created an alcove in the Library of Firebeard’s Legacy for a monster spawner.
  
• Minimap fixes and small level visual fixes in the Library of Firebeard’s Legacy.
  
• Swapped out a hideable asset that was blocking the player in the Library of Firebeard’s Legacy.
  
• Fixed an issue where the playable character can walk through the bookshelf on a specific seed of Library of Firebeard’s Legacy.
  
• Adjusted window asset found in Library of Firebeard’s Legacy to fade when a player walks through it.
  
• Fixed an instance of z-fighting in a specific seed of Library of Firebeard’s Legacy.
  
• Moved Boss Chest in Machineworks so that the lid doesn’t intersect with the environment when open.
  
• Fixed a missing wall texture found in a specific seed of Machineworks.
  
• Fixed an issue where you can see the edge of pipes in a specific seed of Machineworks.
  
• Fixed a wall that does not align in a specific seed of the Looted Warehouse.
  
• Fixed an out of place spider web found in a specific seed of the Looted Warehouse.
  
• Fixed an instance of z-fighting in a specific seed of Scavenger’s Trail.
  
• Fixed a mini-map issue found in a specific seed in the Scavenger's Trail.
  
• Fixed a floating tree found in a specific seed of the Scavenger’s Trail.
  
• Fixed an issue with a wall that blocks too much view in a specific seed of the Scavenger's Trail.
  
• Fixed an issue where the layer can walk underneath stairs in a specific seed of the Scavenger’s Trail.
  
• Fixed mini-map issue found in a specific seed of Voltura VIllage.
  
• Fixed issue of floor not aligning properly in a specific seed of Volutra Village.
  
• Fixed an issue with the warp not aligning properly in a specific seed of Voltura Village.
  
• Fixed a water edge line seen in The King’s Road.
  
• Fixed a mini-map issue found in a specific seed of Bolt Town.
  
• Fixed an instance of z-fighting found in a specific seed of Bolt Town.
  
• Fixed a piece of floating environment found in a specific seed of Bolt Town.
  
• Fixed a floating pipe found in a specific seed in The Power Line.
  
• Fixed a quest prop that’s a bit off the floor in a specific seed in The Power Line.
  
• Fixed a couple instances of z-fighting in seeds found in the Chop Shop.
  
• Fixed trim issues found in a specific seed of the Assembly Line.
  
• Added a post to a specific seed in the Assembly Line to hide seam in wall.
  
• Removed weapon racks causing nav issues in the King’s Plateau.
  
• Fixed an environment texture gap found in a specific seed of the King’s Plateau location.
  
• Blocked an area that you could walk too far into in a specific seed of Firebeard’s Vault of Legacy.
  
• Fixed a floor texture that was not matching in a specific seed of the Sundered Throne.
  
• Fixed an oddly placed decal found in a specific seed of the Sundered Throne.
  
• Added trim and added column to resolve bad seem found in a specific seed of the Astral Gate.
  
• Fixed an instance of z-fighting found in a specific seed of the Astral Gate.
  
• Moved spawn door triggers and increased size to prevent enemies from clipping through closed doors in the Astral Gate.
  
• Fixed an issue where the playable character can walk off the bridge and stand in the air on some seeds in Challenge Dungeons.
  
• Fixed an issue where you can see out of the world in a certain seed in the Challenge Dungeons.
  
• Fixed a mismatched texture found in a specific seed of a Challenge Dungeon.
  
• Moved a breakable in a specific seed of the Challenge Dungeon to remove clipping.
  
• Moved a rock in a specific seed of the Challenge Dungeons to prevent issues with player movement.
  
• Fixed z-fighting found some specific instances of Challenge Dungeons.
  
• Fixed an instance of a floating shrine found in a specific seed of a Challenge Dungeon.
  
• Fixed an issue with a mini-map seam in a specific seed of a Challenge Dungeon.
  
• Fixed a ground texture seam issue in a specific Challenge Dungeon seed.
  
• Fixed an instance of a boss entrance warp being inoperable in a specific Challenge Dungeon seed.
  
• Fixed a hole in the wall found in a specific seed of a Challenge Dungeon.
  
• Fixed a cable falling through a wall in a specific seed of a Challenge Dungeon.
  
• Widened a bridge in a specific seed of the Challenge Dungeon to avoid a chokepoint.
  
• Fixed an instance of a floating tree in a specific seed of Mapworks.
  
• Fixed instances of z-fighting in some Mapworks instances.
  
• Fixed a ground texture seam issue in a specific Mapworks seed.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player can walk through walls in a specific Mapworks seed.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player can’t walk on clear ground in a specific Mapworks seed.
  
• Fixed an issue with a mini-map seam in a specific seed of Mapworks.
  
• Fixed an inaccessible area seen on the mini-map on a specific seed of Mapworks.
  
• Fixed an alignment issue found with a boss portal entrance on a specific seed of Mapworks.
  
• Fixed an incorrect ground collision near the Hyvid Hatchery warp in Mapworks.
  
• Fixed an issue where you could fall underneath the floor while fighting the Secret Weapon boss.
  
• Fixed an issue where players could get stuck underground after using Shadow Step directly on the Watchdog Alpha mapworks boss
  
• Fixed trim pieces to address seam issues.
  
• Restructured some Phase Dungeon spawning data to separate it out from some stuff in Challenge Dungeon checkpoints that we don't need to do in Phase Dungeons, including disabling cutscenes.
  
• Fixed looping section of Sharpshooter harvest animation.

(continued in "Mainline Patch - Sep 15th, 2020 (Part 2)

• Rebalanced XP from champion and boss monsters to provide more XP than regular monsters, relative to the effort/time required to kill them.
  
• Moved the XP curve to level up, to account for additional XP from champion and boss monsters.
  
• Increased the amount of XP given from quest rewards to keep it relative to the new XP curve.
  
• The new XP curve also gets steeper at higher levels (end game), relative to the speed at which players are able to kill monsters at those higher levels. This will likely result in your needing to grind a few (or several) times at particular Challenge Dungeon levels in order to level up to the next level, though if you are able to survive at Challenge Levels that are harder than your current level, you'll earn XP faster.

• Decreased the base health of immobile, non-attacking monsters (Corrupt Hyvid Crystal, Voltura Coil, Hyvid Egg Pods, etc.) by approximately 25%, so that they are still tough enough to still provide the layering gameplay needed, but at higher difficulties, won't be quite as much of a slog.
  
• Made difficulty choice a required step during character creation, so you don't accidentally get stuck with a difficulty shield you didn't want.
  
• Added a general description to the difficulty menu to explain what changes by difficulty level.

HOW TO REPORT A BUG!

• Please report any new or existing submissions here: http://tl3feedback.echtragames.com
  
• (It is better to upvote a current/existing bug or suggestion than to create a new, duplicate ticket.)
  
• You can send additional information, like logs, to feedback@echtra.net with your Nolt link in the body of the email.
  
• You can discuss bugs on Discord, but they may not get a full review without a Nolt ticket, debug info, logs, or other details.

UPCOMING FIXES

OPEN ISSUES

TROUBLESHOOTING

• This bug indications the player is unable to properly connect to the platform (Steam).
  
• Sometimes resolve itself after resetting Steam.
  
• A firewall, anti-virus, anti-cheat, torrenter, or other 3rd party software is blocking access.
  
• If your internet service provider is blocking the game/Steam.
  
• When you open from the .exe file and not from the Steam Library.
  
• If you are not connected (or Steam believes you are not connected) to Steam properly.
  
• To users who used to be able to play via Steam Proton.
  
• Potentially happens if your clock is not properly set.
  
• Happens sometimes to users using Razer mouse/keyboards.
  
• A similar error occurs if your game is set as an Administrator. Remove this from your game's settings to play.

• We have updated the total skill point up to 70 in an upcoming update. An additional skill point will be awarded every five levels until level 50.

• Smoothed out somewhat jarring increases in monster health between levels 5 - 9.
  
• Lowered monster hit points on Painful difficulty at lower levels, starting at 83.33% of Normal difficulty, gradually approaching 100% of the hit points at level 20, then increasing to 156.50% of Normal difficulty at level 60, which is 73% of what it was in the previous release.
  
• Lowered monster hit points on Ridiculous difficulty at lower levels, starting at 58% of Normal difficulty, gradually approaching 100% of the hit points at level 20, then increasing to 203.50% of Normal difficulty at level 60, which is 66% of what it was in the previous release.
  
  The lower hit point values at lower levels are necessary at higher difficulties to compensate for the overall player damage reduction versus regular monsters at higher difficulties, but allowing you some time at lower levels to gear up, skill up and optimize your builds.
  
  
• Lowered player damage vs. regular monsters reduction to 80% on Hard, 60% on Painful, and 45% on Ridiculous.
  
• Increased player damage versus champions:
  
  
  • Hard: from 60% to 80%
    
  • Painful: from 40% to 60%
    
  • Ridiculous: from 30% to 45%
  
  
• Increased player damage versus bosses:
  
  
  • Hard: from 60% to 80%
    
  • Painful: from 40% to 60%
    
  • Ridiculous: from 25% to 35%
    

• Flaming Destroyer's Giant Swings: Now grants a chance on basic hit to trigger a powerful flame shockwave
  
• Electrode's Shocking Force: Now grants a chance on basic hit to quickly call down three lightning strikes
  
• Blood Drinker's Blades for Cutting: Now grants a chance on basic hit to create a Death Blade, a smaller version of Dance of Death, for 6 seconds
  
• Bane's Staffing Up: Now grants a chance on basic hit to summon an Enchanted Staff for 20 seconds
  
• Coldheart's Large Bores: Now grants a chance on basic hit to fire a trio of icicles in a tight cluster.
  

• We are going to change the behavior so that ALT will bring up all environmental objects. In addition, we are making improvements to environmental object shaders to help improve visibility.
  
  
  Is this the highlight of this blogpost?

• Because of this, the legendarium will now unlock abilities without needing to disenchant so the enchanting table can actually move to endgame. In this upcoming update, when you obtain a legendary for the first time, you will also receive its legendarium affix.
  

• We are considering ways to remove the friction for those who want to dive into their intended class earlier.

• Contracts now reward individual map scrolls instead of bundles of 3 map scrolls.
  
• Shifted some of the map scroll rewards in contracts around so that they do not drop from the first 20 or so contract levels.
  
• Reduced the number of map scroll rewards in the once-through section of the Adventurer's contract from 5 to 3. Reduced the number of map scroll rewards in the looping section of the Adventurer's contract from 2 to 1.

• All movement skills, including teleports, are being updated for smoothness and functionality (including dropping that 2s cooldown on teleports, which helps prevent accidental double-casts but is too limiting on the skill’s use).

HOW TO REPORT A BUG!

• Please report any new or existing submissions here: http://tl3feedback.echtragames.com
  
• (It is better to upvote a current/existing bug or suggestion than to create a new, duplicate ticket.)
  
• You can send additional information, like logs, to feedback@echtra.net with your Nolt link in the body of the email.
  
• You can discuss bugs on Discord, but they may not get a full review without a Nolt ticket, debug info, logs, or other details.

UPCOMING FIXES

OPEN ISSUES

• Fix to Uproperty that may help resolve Unreal crashes.
  
• Fix for crash relating to Wardrobes.

• A fix for the Inventory Full Icon is displayed on the HUD even though my inventory is not full (always ON).

• Fix for portal selection UI disappears and goes on cooldown after a few seconds of not interacting with it when playing as Railmaster.

• A fix for players unable to complete Recluse (A2C1Q2) because Zephoras does not spawn. This is a partial fix, it appears that another seed may still be having issues spawning Zephoras.
  
• A fix for having an insufficient number of Adult Hyvid Glands dropped in a Challenge Dungeon preventing the quest from being completed.

• A fix for Brall did not make copies during the encounter.

• Fixed an issue where unlocking Tier 1 of the Poison Dart causes its poison cloud to stop dealing damage, which also blocks the tier 3 of the ability.
  
• Fix for Heat meter pegged on high. It is stuck.

HOW TO REPORT A BUG!

• Please report any new or existing submissions here: http://tl3feedback.echtragames.com
  (It is better to upvote a current/existing bug or suggestion than to create a new, duplicate ticket.)
  
• You can send additional information, like logs, to feedback@echtra.net with your Nolt link in the body of the email.
  
• You can discuss bugs on Discord, but they may not get a full review without a Nolt link/ticket, debug info, logs, or other details.
  

• CTRL + D (while in-game) copies your Debug information to your clipboard.
  
• Cry and eat some night cheese.
  
• Paste this information to a text doc, Discord, or our Support Center (Nolt) to report.

• Logs can be found in your %localappdata%\Frontiers\Saved\Logs windows folder.
  
• If you can’t find them, they are a text file named “frontiers”, you might be able to search Windows for them.

• Use the ‘Report’ feature on the Crash Reporter and we will receive the logs and your noted details.

• Enable the Steam community overlay in Steam's settings.
  
• You can remove the UI in-game by pressing F10 (if needed).
  
• Pressing F12 is the default way to take Steam screenshots.
  
• Navigate to Steam to find where they are located on your system. (You can find it on the Steam game page if you right-click on the screenshots from there and select 'Manage Screenshots' you can find where they are on your system.
  
• Windows + G will open up the Windows game bar, which has media recording functionality.

OPEN ISSUES

TROUBLESHOOTING

• This bug indications the player is unable to properly connect to the platform (Steam).
  
• This appears to sometimes resolve itself after resetting Steam.
  
• This appears to happen when a firewall, anti-virus, torrenter, or other 3rd party software is blocking access.
  
• This appears to happen if your internet service provider is blocking the game/Steam.
  
• This appears to happen when you open from the .exe file and not from the Steam Library.
  
• This appears to happen if you are not connected (or Steam believes you are not connected) to Steam properly.
  
• This appears to happen to users who used to be able to play via Steam Proton.
  
• This appears to potentially happen if your clock is not properly set.
  
• This appears to happen sometimes to other Windows users who are not related to any of the above. Current debugging ongoing. If you are able to plug in a controller and see better results or/and have reviewed the issues above and are still unable to play, please send us your logs (see above).
  
• A similar error occurs if your game is set as an Administrator. Remove this from your game's settings to play.
  

Read "Mainline Patch - August 11th, 2020 (Part 3)

• Changed the normal monster tether distance to 35 meters (champion monsters are unchanged).
  
• Enabled the names of the immunities that monsters in "Status: Immune" get, to make it easier to tell that they have them.
  
• Slightly expanded the Larger Monster Collision Cylinders.
  
• Fixed some cases when monsters that are supposed to spawn from trapped breakables fail to do so.
  
• Fixed divided monsters spawning at level 1.
  
• Set all the monsters that spawn into one of the mapworks boss arena areas to not spawn loot.
  
• Set all the mapworks minibosses to trigger monster spawns as adds on spawn and at 50% health.
  
• Challenge levels now add movement speed to monsters starting at Challenge 15.
  
• Bosses have more health in Hard, Painful and Ridiculous difficulty across the game.
  
• Fixed an issue with the element icons not appearing correctly on non-fire monsters.
  
• Set the normal (non-mapworks) version of the Stormbringer affix to only be valid for solo champions, not packs.
  
• Removed some of the climb up spawners to reduce the number of enemies on screen.
  
• Fixed champions not spawning in certain cases.
  
• Fixed a root cause of monsters returning to their idle/move blend after death.
  
• Fixed some skeletons spawning as if impaled when not against a wall, instead of dropping from above.
  
• Fixed skeletons dropping out of the sky instead of climbing down from being impaled onto walls.
  
• Removed boss kill celebrations for Sadista, Brall, and Odrak.
  
• Fixed editor skillshape appearing in-game for Shadowbeast (and minibosses, like Grundlepox) teleport slam skill.
  
• Fixed a visible skill shape for the Netherim Heralds.
  
• Fix to resolve Mimic Chests jumping through players during bite attack.
  
• Fixed an issue with Thunder Thighs boss fight having spurious blob shadows.
  
• Mossrats can now climb up when spawning.
  
• Fixed Sadista skill shape not being set to hidden in game.
  
• Netherim movement speed matches feet.
  
• Adjusted Automoton's Base collision and adjusted blend to reduce steps taken when nearing a player or pet.
  
• Increased monster move and attack speed on Painful difficulty from +20% to +25% and from +40% to +50% at Ridiculous.
  
• Added an increase in monster move and attack speed on Hard difficulty of +10%.
  
• Decreased the amount of damage that players deal to normal and champion monsters on Ridiculous difficulty from 35% to 30%, decreased the amount of damage that players deal to bosses on Ridiculous difficulty from 75% to 70%.
  
• Reduced the amount of damage that bosses take from players on Ridiculous from 70% to 50% and on Painful from 80% to 60% to make bosses feel like more of a proper challenge at those difficulties.
  
• Reduced the normal monster health at these difficulties (no change to other difficulties) so that their values increase greater than at normal difficulty, but not as dramatically as before.
  
• Champions and Bosses now get the difficulty bonuses to movement speed.
  
• Reunited Skullotar with his companion Jagwar.
  
• Fixed Netherim Brute and Netherim Spellbreaker type bosses that were failing to spawn. This also expands the variety of spawn types that these monsters can use, which will lead to them being able to spawn in more levels, potentially with some visible clipping for now, but the increase in variety is preferred.
  
• Increased the size and damage of the following spider bosses: Aragoth, Bitey, Shockweb, Smoulderfang, Sparkles, Virulent Vernon
  
• Set it so that only stabby goblin raiders can spawn from trapped breakables in the Occupied Trevail Point.
  
• Added missing drop and emerge spawn skills to the various stabby goblins, added missing emerge spawn skill to the various shooty goblins.
  
• Resolved an issue where Duggle Bug in Sour Grove Mapworks didn't have add on monsters.
  
• Fixed Kronch to have a missing spawn skill that he needed to spawn reliably.
  
• Added a couple of missing spawn skills for the netherling and netherim herald.
  
• Fixed missing boss spawner for Brall.
  
• Skeleton Melee, Shield and Ranged now have climb up spawns for holes, cliffs, tubes etc.
  
• Added Runout slayer armored skeletons to fight.
  
• Set witches to spawn into undead Challenge Dungeons.
  
• Made one of the mapworks dungeon areas longer, with more active spawners to provide you with more opportunities to get enough monsters to kill in it. Increased the likelihood that spiders will be picked to spawn compared to other monsters, so that they are more available in mapworks dungeons.
  
• Fixed the skeletons' lying-in-wait (mimic) spawns so that they are valid for all of the story areas that have skeletons and in skeleton/undead mapworks dungeons.
  
• Reduced Hyvid Soldier damage (and corresponding experience value).
  
• Swapped out Hyvid Soldiers in mapworks for Hyvid Drones.
  
• Swapped Goblin Blasters in goblin mapworks populations, instead of Goblin Gunners.
  
• Added Goblin Riders to some goblin mapworks populations.
  
• Fixed Bitey mapworks boss not spawning.
  
• Set Yapper to give enough XP to get you to level 2.
  
• Fixed issue where mossrats of unusual size tails were breaking on low end machines.
  
• Fixed an issue with Boss "Overcharger" in the Assembly Line level appearing a long way from his boss chest.
  
• Fixed issue with Sadista's health bar does not deplete when the boss takes damage.
  
• Sadista pistol and glaive run now matches slower boss fight speed.
  
• Vespid Guardians can't move to target when buffing any more. Range increased to 600, but beyond that they cannot buff. They will always pursue and attack the player, and buff only something in range if there is one.
  
• Fixed some Infernal Warrior spawn and death skill problems.
  
• Singedwing the Scavenger and Scrappy Surgewing can no longer self-destruct if charged up by a Charging Coil.
  
• Adjusted cooldown of Automaton Sentries from being able to get stunned by pets.
  
• Adjusted the "skittles" boss to now spawn adds at some point in the boss fight.
  
• Stone Elemental now dies as authored (not rotated).
  
• Decreased the time between Gravity Well pulses, which makes it impact players more.
  
• Reduced the chance that monsters in Challenge Dungeons have Blazing, Stormbringer or Nether Well from 40% to 30%.
  
• Shocked vs player now disables a random skill slot for 5 seconds. ; This also affects the Endless Dungeon Shackled affix, which has been altered to also be themed as Shocked, using the same visuals for the slot disabling.
  
• Tuned how often certain affixes were picked for random champions to be more balanced.
  
• Fixed Critical Hits vs. Slowed monsters affix to apply against monsters that are slowed, not feared.

• Changed Relic items to a third skill tree that shares skill points with the other two class skill trees.
  
• Changed Relics to be chosen from Character Create, removing the leveling system from Relics.
  
• Retuned all skills and tiers for all Relics.
  
• Added new passive and active skills to all Relics.
  
• Added Relic Energy.
  
• Disabled all Relic skills while in the 'lobby' leading up to the boss arenas.
  
• Added item affixes that give bonus level and bonus damage to the new Relic skills.

• Potential fix for an issue where items cannot be sent to the pet even though it has fully returned from town/fleeing.
  
• Fixed an issue where the list of the available skills remains opened while changing tabs of the Skills panel, which allows the player to assign pet skills to the character's skill bar.
  
• Fixed the new pets not dropping.
  
• Fixed the new pets all being legendary quality.
  
• Fixed the new pets all getting common quality skills
  
• Fixed an issue where the player is able to play without a pet upon closing the prompt regarding a full pet shelter while creating a new character.
  
• Fixed missing display name for common pets listed in pet shelter.
  
• Fixed an issue where Enchantment slots in Pet Tag are locked after a Tag was equipped.
  
• Restructured minion spawning so that the exclusive to end game pets can spawn only at the level cap.
  
• Fixed the Screeching Stun pet skill to stun enemies within melee range.
  
• Fixed pets slotted with Immobilizing Strike and/or Vampirism skills attacking invisible targets when not in combat.
  
• Adjusted all pets transition from running to standing to make them smoother.
  
• Fixed several issues with basic pet skills (get hit, knockback, active skill use) and animations.

• Increased the amount of XP it takes to level from level 5+, increasing more at level 40, then significantly from level 46 on.
  
• Fixed an issue where skills that changed their icons dynamically during gameplay would not show on the skill bar.
  
• Bonus Shock Bolts is now a standalone trait, which has a cap of 6. Shocked Status and Electrode skills that refer to Shocked now refer to this trait.

• Added in tier 3 milestone for Railmaster Shocking Rounds.
  
• Power Projection legendary bonus redesigned. Now hits all nearby enemies 5 times rapidly rather than a random enemy for the entire duration of the buff.

• Fixed an issue where the Digitus spectral hand would appear twice on repeat attacks.
  
• Dusk Mage staff mobility frame ranges now match and blend cleanly when using a controller.

• Partially fixed an issue with name tags not appearing on some Sharpshooter skills.
  
• Fix for Sharpshooter basic attack firing extra arrow (work in progress).

• Fixed issue with Heat meter being stuck on high.
  
• Fixed an issue where Rapid Fire's buff stacks wouldn't refresh its timer at 10 stacks before the first bonus tier was unlocked.
  
• Fixed Poison Dart tier 1 milestone to properly function again.
  
• Cyclone skill is once again ‘spin-to-win’ and will now move forward when looping. The forward movement feels too slow though, we’ll review.
  
• Fixing issue where two forged synergies were the same.
  
• Forged Treads now move when walking using a controller.
  
• All of the new Forged abilities now have slot progression support for snake tail and all mobility types.
  
• Updated to a new skill shape for the Forged Power Projection heal.
  
• Fixing Bashing Charge, AKA Ramming Robot, on Forged Treads and Ball. Enabled Root motion and adjusted frame range sections

Read "Mainline Patch - August 11th, 2020 (Part 2)

• Added mini-dungeon areas.
  
• Changed Edgewood Bluff from level 2 - 4 to level 2 - 5.
  
• Changed Heroes' Rest from level 2 to level 3.
  
• Changed the Den of Upheaval from level 3 to level 4.
  
• Fixed warp click collision box.
  
• Fixed an issue where Phase Beast Dungeons don't put you back where the portal generated.
  
• Added Challenge Dungeon loading screens.
  
• Players can no longer use Mapworks scrolls inside of Challenge Dungeons, Mapworks, or Phase Dungeons.
  
• Made sure a portal should be saved even if it isn't used.
  
• A confirmation modal to replace a portal now appears when trying to summon a Dun'djinn portal while a Mapworks portal exists.
  
• Portals are now destroyed when traveling if there is no return data. Which will prevent players from having portals available that cannot be used. There is a UI notification when your portal was destroyed.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player portal still exists but wasn't usable from the waypoint map.
  
• Fixed an issue where players couldn't interact with their portals inside of boss room lobbies.
  
• Fixed an issue where Krronk’s boss area contains a portal to the Second Last Passage, which can be entered by the player.
  
• Corrected the Psora mapworks area to not have an extraneous exit warp.
  
• Attempted another fix for players who are experiencing issues when attempting to portal to Lake Gobdunk from Lakeside Clearing.
  
• The boss portal in Sunken Ruins now takes you back to the Acrid Plains as it should.
  
• Added pigment to milky eye dye (gave the Dusk Mage pupils).
  
• Added new hair color options: aqua, auburn, dark blue, dirty blonde, eggplant, forest, lilac, mint (missing icons)
  
• Added a new female Sharpshooter Head option.
  
• Fixing hole in neck of Railmaster Female in Character Create.
  
• Railmaster Shoulders in Character Create for the male & female have been updated.
  
• Fixed an issue where invisible weapons may be displayed on the Character Select screen.
  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer where weapon models would load before players did when traveling to an area.
  
• Prevented character initial mesh offset from caching an incorrect X/Y value, which should help alleviate rubberbanding.
  
• Sharpshooter will now hold longer before entering into a fidget.
  
• Fixed an issue where props around giant shackles prop cannot be properly interacted with.
  
• Fixed a floating chest found in a particular seed in the Challenge Dungeon and Mapworks.
  
• Fixed an issue where some 'Lore Objects' from a given area intermittently fail to spawn.
  
• Adult Hyvid Glands are easier to target/select now.
  
• Added more life/environment in the Grand Hall in Echonok.
  
• Added a decorative rack to resolve an issue in a specific Challenge Dungeon seed where the the player can walk off the bridge and stand in the air. Got a bug you can’t fix? Put a garbage can on it!
  
• Fixed issue where the quest object Clever Alpaca was facing sideways.
  
• Fixed issue where Goblin Graffiti is placed sideways in Lake Gobdunk on a specific seed.
  
• Moved an unbreakable bowl of fish found in certain Challenge Dungeons.
  
• Fixed missing display name on breakable prop in the Last Passage (blocking the Hyvid Capital warp). Fixed the same prop mentioned above respawning upon re-entering the area.
  
• Replaced breakables on top of walls in the Armory area.
  
• Widened bridge prop to allow better spider navmesh.
  
• Fixed missing spike traps in Cliffs of Ore, Bolt Town, and Vault of Goldbeard's Legacy.
  
• Fixed missing spike traps in Machineworks, Sundered Throne, and Library of Firebeard's Legacy
  
• Added additional spike traps and exploding barrels to appropriate Mapworks/Challenge Dungeon levels.
  
• Fixed 2x1 spike traps only being 1x1.
  
• Added bubble text dialogue to General Graye in Echo Landing.
  
• Test NPC now only shows up on testing environments.
  
• Test NPC shouldn't give relics anymore.
  
• Updated Kenik, Hix and Wolfram Cocoon breakout animations.
  
• Wolfram now breaks free from his cocoon and remains standing in an afraid idle instead of running through a portal.
  
• Fixed the issue with the ‘One of Us’ quest where all 3 NPCs immediately vanish upon rescuing them
  
• Fixed an issue where the notification window of the monologue that appears after interacting with Mysterious Wanderer for the first time does not disappear. It now skips playing if there is no audio.
  
• Fixed Sgt. Klive from vanishing while he's still standing in front of you during various tutorial turn-ins (i.e. enchanting, luck tree, wardrobes).
  
• Pulled out the camera further in the Brall boss battle.
  
• Brall lighting edits.
  
• Fixed incorrect cinematic playing at Trial of Strength Brall fight.
  
• Created Purple Gob Brute cinematic BP for ThunderThighs reveal.
  
• Fixed issue when traversing in the Crystal Glade where the camera zooms in and out a lot.
  
• Updated quest dialogue to ensure correct casing.
  
• Fixed an issue where a decal texture on the side of the bridge at the King's Plateau entrance is not displayed properly.
  
• Added a collision area in Occupied Trevail Point so that the player is unable to go under the stairs below the waypoint.
  
• Fixed an issue where a specific stone wall, which can be encountered in Firebelly Village, loses its collision when the weapon or skill projectile passes through it.
  
• Fixed an issue in Heroes' Rest where the floor textures are not linked properly.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player could not enter the warp to Assembly Line due to the invisible wall in front of the warp.
  
• Fixed issue where skill projectiles are partially concealed under the floor textures in Acrid Plains on a specific seed.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player can fall out of the environment through the floor in Voltura Village on a specific seed.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player can fall out of the environment through the floor in Ancestral Grove on a specific seed.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player can walk through the rocks without a collision on a specific seed in Polluted Plateau.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player can walk through the rocks without a collision on specific seed in Lake Gobdunk.
  
• Fixed issues where interior walls were obstructing the player’s view in the Library of Firebeard’s Legacy.
  
• Fixed an issue with a rounded stone element having no collision implemented in the Field of Unrest.
  
• Fixed an issue where a treasure chest clips through the floor on a specific seed in the Fields of Unrest.
  
• Fixed an issue with a goblin's hut having no collision implemented on a specific seed in Edgewood Bluff.
  
• Fixed an issue where the floor texture color does not match neighbor tiles on a specific seed in Edgewood Bluff.
  
• Fixed flickering textures that appear on the walls in the Shawn’s Stone Quarry area in Edgewood Bluff.
  
• Fixed an issue where the playable character can fall out of the environment through the bridge model on a specific seed of The Chasm.
  
• Fixed an issue where the map does not show a traversable path on a specific seed in the Field of Wanderers.
  
• Added some rocks to a Challenge Dungeon seed that needed more environment.
  
• Fixed issue with Fazeer's Dun'djinn Hourglass interiors being untextured.
  
• Fixed an issue where a barrel on a crane above Wideload's Lair arena does not move along with the platform it stands on.
  
• Fixed hovering rocks found in certain Challenge Dungeons.
  
• Fixed an issue in the Giagantic Expanse Challenge Dungeon where the player is unable to reach the portal to the next area.
  
• Fixed an issue with unbreakable breakables in certain Challenge Dungeons.
  
• Fixed an issue where the playable character can run into the stairs on a specific seed in Challenge Dungeons.
  
• Fixed an issue where a door was missing from the Boss Arena of certain Challenge Dungeons.
  
• Fixed an issue where coffin props cannot be opened for loot in certain Challenge Dungeons.
  
• Fixed an issue where foliage spawned above players in certain Challenge Dungeons.
  
• Fixed an issue where skulls were found hovering in certain Challenge Dungeons.
  
• Fixed an issue where a boulder is covered by a wall from the perspective of the player on a specific seed in Challenge Dungeons.
  
• Fixed an issue where your Pet may get stuck in terrain upon entering the boss arena in Challenge Dungeons.
  
• Fixed an issue where players might be taken under a level when using a warp on a specific Challenge Dungeon level.
  
• Fixed an issue with the warp to the Boss location is covered with a wall on a specific seed in the Challenge Dungeon.
  
• Fixed an issue where the playable character can walk into the wall on a specific seed in Mapworks.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player can walk through the rocks without any collision near to the player's fort.
  
• VFX Fixes/Updates
  
  
  • Fixed broken beams and related VFX
    
  • Updated & Optimized Torque Swing
    
  • Cleaned up Digitus attack 02
    
  • Fixed material assignments for Ordrak arena glass
    
  • Revisions/Fixes to world offset and fake specular for Environment Waterfall material
    
  • Target Dummy Combat FX (work in progress)
    
  • Gravity Well and Repulser review/updates
    
  • Added and updated VFX for a number of new/current Relic skills
    
  • Fixed a number of issues relating to Sharpshooter missiles
    
  • Fixed potential memory leak with looping blood drinker VFX
    
  • Fixed an issue where status effect VFX could get stuck permanently after the effect was removed.
    
  • Fixed oversized candle flame on planning table prop.
    
  • Beams now support censored VFX
    
  • Fixed selection highlighting for a number of portals & adjusted portal vfx to better fit geometry.
    
  • Warp Selection Highlighting fixes.
    
  • Fixed an issue with the fort reliquary prop visual.
    
  • New Blazing Aura FX
    
  • Fixed a material fresnel breakage.
    
  • Changed fire color in Brall Arena.
    
  • Added glow to quest rewards chest to make them more noticeable.
    
  • Fixed an issue where the second half of Shadowstep animation playing, but without VFX.
    
  • Removed errant Shasta VFX calls to reduce it's memory footprint.
    
  • Added a different color warp for mini dungeons.
    
  • Sharpshooter arrow now disappears after 2 frames to not double up against VFX arrow.
    
  • Clockwork Staff and Stinging Wing Legendary weapon FX optimization.
    
  • Added a bit more oomph to the Critical VFX
    
  • Fixed missing SFX/VFX death sequence upon defeating Krronk.
    
  • Monster Flash Optimization
    
  • Fixed particle system assets with long warmup times.
    
  • Consumable Items ‘flippy’ animations and sound fix.
    
  • Dusk Mage FX optimization
    
  • Tree Leaf optimizations
    
  • Fixed an issue where pet idle chatter were too loud in character select.
  
  
• SFX & Audio Fixes/Updates
  
  
  • Removed "Look Who Put on Big Boy Pants" Line from Fazeer.
    
  • Voltura should play at regular volume now.
    
  • Fixed an issue where some consumable sounds weren't playing.
    
  • Set the cat's flee and send to town sounds.
    
  • Added pet flee and sent to town sounds to pets (work in progress)
    
  • Stag sounds created.
    
  • Challenge failed sound implemented
    
  • Challenge completed sound implemented
    
  • I’m ready sound implemented
    
  • Rule card flip sound implemented
    
  • Open and close dungeon uI sounds implemented
    
  • Card hover sounds implemented
    
  • Level tray select and deselect sounds implemented
    
  • Craft and drop sounds implemented
    
  • Chest opening sound implemented
    
  • Card selection from dealt group sound implemented
    
  • "New cluster unlocked / new affix revealed" screen sound implemented
    
  • Pancakes of Champions now play their pickup sound
    
  • Added the death celebration SFX to Krrank, a miniboss in the Challenge Dungeon.
    
  • Fixed issue where there was no audio while holding down to confirm a skill choice.
    
  • New Relic skill SFX implemented.
    
  • Summon electrode audio implemented
    
  • Blood missile audio implemented
    
  • Burning aura audio implemented
    
  • Skittles battle fixed and remixed.
    
  • Waterfall sound fixed.
    
  • Fixed issue where Wolfram's dialog begins right after you click to free him so you hear him speaking before he has fully broken out of the cocoon.
    
  • Pet Skills volume raised, they were barely audible.

• We now hide quest rewards when a quest is offered in order to prevent confusion on being able to collect them at that moment.
  
• Quests can say that their item drops are divided by the number of nearby players.
  
• The "A Mysterious Challenge" quest is now an account quest so that Fazeer's Dun'djinn fort prop can only be given once per account.
  
• Changed fort decoration quest rewards to unlock and appear directly in the player account's fort storage instead of unlocked as a consumable item. This affects the following quests: A Mysterious Challenge, Tutorial: From a Humble Seed, Unearthed Evidence. This should resolve instances where fort decorations were never gained or went missing.
  
• Quest reward chest for the "Optional: Defense Boost" side quest no longer drops since the quest reward goes directly into the player's consumable inventory tab.
  
• Fixed an issue where the codex wasn’t properly appearing in the “Knowledge of Power” quest.
  
• Fixed Codex Impression quest item dropping/clipping into the Dwarven Codex quest prop, making it easy to miss for quest completion.
  
• Increased the required count of Automatons in the "Deactivation" quest from 50 to 105.
  
• Increased the number of goblins to kill for the mapworks quest "Gob Bomb" from 50 to 210, so you can't clear the dungeon quite as trivially.
  
• Re-tuned mapworks quest item drop rates to increase as you progress further in each dungeon.
  
• Fixed an issue where it was possible to not get credit towards killing Singedwing for the quest, "A Couple Screws Loose" if the boss self-destructs first.
  
• Fixed an issue where players can't warp back from the boss arena to complete the task for the quest “Search the Den of Upheaval for Skycap Mushrooms” without leaving the instance.
  
• Updated task order of Fungus Forager quest.
  
• Decreased the number of monster kills or quest items to collect for the spider Challenge Dungeon quests: Ichory Situation, Spider Splat and Silky Threads.
  
• Increased the drop chance of Spider Ichor and Silky Webbing for spider mapworks quests.
  
• Increased the drop rate of Jar of Teeth for the mapworks quest "Like Pulling Teeth".
  
• Adjusted pacing of "Upgrade Skills" tutorial.
  
• Disabled the relic crafting tutorial quest.
  
• The enchanting tutorial quest "Simply Enchanting" now is given to you the first time that you complete the last story quest. This unlocks the Enchanting Altar for your account.
  
• Fixed "Tutorial: From a Humble Seed" quest activation prerequisite to occur after completing "Tutorial: Fortified Invader" instead of "Tutorial: Simply Enchanting".
  
• Updated "Tutorial: Simply Enchanting" to occur after completing "Tutorial: Legendarium".
  
• Updated Enchanting tutorial text.
  
• Fixed consumables tutorial from popping up when a potion is picked up and updated tutorial text.

• Added new ‘Consumable’ rarity color.
  
• The normal chest now also appears in Echonok areas so that mimics don't stand out so obviously.
  
• All weapon and armor variety is available at the level cap.
  
• Decreased drop rate of Respectacles.
  
• Increased stack size of Respectacles from 5 to 10.
  
• Fixed an issue where it was possible to sell potions in a way that replenishes potion stacks in inventory, giving the player a way to obtain an infinite amount of gold.
  
• Removed item luck bonus from Hard, Painful and Ridiculous, as players do not seem to need it to keep up with the rate that players collect gear on Normal.
  
• Drastically reduced the drop rate of legendary and rare items to bring our drop rates more in line with our targets, to help the chase for legendary gear sustain longer and for rares and legendaries to be more exciting when they drop.
  
• Added in-world pickups for Goblin Fury and Automaton Gizmos, scaled down Hyvid Paste so these are all commensurate in size for their value.
  
• Ember Cores no longer drop.
  
• Replaced Ember Core bundle rewards in the contracts with either gold bags or gear bags.
  
• Gear with enchanting slots and enchanting recipes no longer drop until level 47, which you'll only be able to reach after leveling past the expected level for the final boss.
  
• Created a consumable that can unlock the decoration version of the Reliquary.
  
• Reduced the drop chance of Scrolls of Lifebound from bosses, champions, chests and boss chests from 1 in 12 to 1 in 20.
  
• Removed obsolete essence inventory item rewards.
  
• Reduced how often you get Mapworks Bundles in Contract rewards:
  
  
  • Adventurer's Contract:
    
    
    • Swapped the level 3 Rare Mapworks Bag and the level 5 Rare Item Bundle rewards.
      
    • Changed the level 4 looping reward from a Rare Mapworks Bag to a Rare Item Bundle.
      
    • Changed the level 8 looping reward from a Legendary Mapworks Bag to a Rare Mapworks Bag.
    
    
  • Craftsman's Contract:
    
    
    • Changed the level 8 looping reward from a Legendary Mapworks Bag to a Rare Mapworks Bag.
  
  
• Set all affixes that are valid to drop to only allow 1 per item (except for secondary damage affixes on 2H weapons).
  
• Set a minimum level for affixes to spawn that could enhance various relic skills, so they don't appear before you could unlock them.
  
• Fixed issue where some affixes can appear multiple times on the same item.
  
• Fixed secondary affixes sometimes failing to spawn onto legendary armor.
  
• Removed evasion affixes from pants, chest, locomotion and shoulders armor to make the set of valid slots for affix distribution more manageable, to support larger values.
  
• Fixed a typo in affix data that could lead to helm or shoulders having evasion affixes with upwards of 90%. The evasion trait is hard-capped at 40%, though.
  
• Fixed Doompipe's affix having a min level on it for some reason, causing it to not function in legendarium.
  
• Added a handful more names for magic quality items based on the affixes picked for them.
  
• Disabled the frozen duration affix.
  
• Corrected the tuning on the Immobilize chance affix.
  
• Small inconsistency fix for Wanderer's Hood legendary affix, reducing movement skills to 8.3 seconds instead of 8 seconds.
  
• Fixed a legendary crit vs. poisoned affix appearing on other quality items.
  
• Fixed legendary armor dropping with random defense secondary affixes. These should now match the primary damage element of the area in which it is dropped.
  
• Re-tuned the critical hit chance and bonus damage affixes, toward the hard caps of 40% chance and 300% bonus damage.
  
• Removed critical hit chance as a secondary affix on foci so that 2H weapons can be more optimal for critical hit builds than 1H + Focus.
  
• Rebalanced block chance to distribute the value of affixes better towards our hard cap of 40%.
  
• Retuned the affixes for Stun, Immobilize and Knockback.
  
• Set a hard cap for stun duration to 3 sec., elemental proc chance to 80%, elemental proc duration to 10 sec.
  
• Retuned slow and chill chance affixes on gear.
  
• Increased the duration on Blind affixes.
  
• Switched so that bonus chance for status effect affixes are valid for focus or shield, but normal status effect affixes (chance + damage/duration) are not.
  
• Basic Attack 1H Mace ‘No Shield’ animation adjustments for new timings across all classes.
  
• Fixed the female Sharpshooter's common shoulder armor "Lion Plate Shoulders" not having an actual mesh.
  
• Updating 2h Rifle equip with proper animation sequence.
  
• Fixed the animation set used for the Forged when wearing the "Mountain King's Wheel" locomotion.
  
• Fixed clipping issue on duskmage desert cowl.
  
• Fixed ‘flippy’ animation for Forged Chest and Cannon.
  
• Updated SharpShooter Melee animation combo with shield and focus.
  
• Fixed Clockchain digitus floating off the player's arm.
  
• Updated Digitus based movement and blends.
  
• Fixed floating shields on Forged when wearing gloves with melee.
  
• Railmaster Pistol equip animation fixes.
  
• Fixed some infested clickables that are not animating right.
  
• As enchanting is now an end game feature, quest rewards that dropped recipes have received replacement rewards:
  
  
  • Unearthed Evidence (A1C2Q2): Replaced reward choices with a choice of a random fort decoration bundle or Wood Planks Bundle (WoodPlanksBag).
    
  • Expansion Pack (A2C2Q1): Replaced reward with a random fort decoration bundle.
    
  • The Astral Door (A3C2Q2): Replaced reward with a random fort decoration bundle.
  
  
• Fixed magic and rare quality gear sometimes dropping with unusable enchanting slots.
  
• Fixed the incorrect affixes being applied for the small and medium Hyvid, Echonok and Goblin armor recipes.
  
• Fixed legendary armor dropping with random set bonuses or changing their set bonuses when you break them down at the Enchanting Altar.
  
• Set limits for enchanting slots by quality: Common: 3, Magic: 2, Rare, Legendary: 1
  
• Added a chance that one of the secondary affixes for magic or greater quality items could be replaced by an enchanting slot. This should limit the available enchanting slots per items enough that enchanting will not fail.
  
• Fixed an issue where it was not possible to move Potions from Shared Stash to inventory using intended methods.
  
• Fixed an issue where the equipped potion could be accessible in Shared Stash.
  
• Pancakes of Champions are no longer tilted 90 degrees.
  
• Changed the name of the Sharpshooter chest armor from "Sleek Tunice" to "Sleek Tunic".
  
• Bird's Eye Focus (legendary item for Forged) has been temporarily disabled from dropping.
  
• Fixed Blast Breaker legendary for Railmaster.
  
• Fixed issue where additional character slot reward from Contracts fails to add the extra slot in Character create screen.

• We now portal players to their fort waypoint instead of the fort's previous area.
  
• Re-tuned fort prop resource costs. Mostly increased gold, stone and metal resource costs. Rare resource costs unchanged.
  
• For props that were off screen should no longer disappear when editing.
  
• Added outro animation for smoother transition to fort.
  
• Disabled the Reliquary from being placed from the Fort menu. Added a decorative version, the Ancient Reliquary that is not initially available, requires an unlock (Early Access reward).
  
• The crafting results UI is no longer "modal". This helps make breaking down items at the enchanting station feel more smooth.
  
• Fixed an issue where the monument UI does not display the buff information until you have sacrificed once to it.
  
• Updated fort trees to fade when the player walks behind them.
  
• Updated fort decoration 'Tall Tangled Vine' to fade when walking behind it.
  
• Fixed Bare Oak Tree preview scale.
  
• Added more flooring variety to the fort in the default unlocked decorations and each 'grindable' looping contract section.

• The player should now no longer fail Challenge Dungeons if the player leaves the dungeon (whether by crash, portal, disconnect, or otherwise).
  
• We now prevent an issue where the first party member to leave a dungeon doesn't get progress on level 1.
  
• Increased the length of two Challenge Dungeon dwarven ruin areas.
  
• Players are now put back at their fort waypoint after dying in or clearing a Challenge Dungeon.
  
• Increased difficulty for Challenge Dungeons at higher levels.
  
• Implemented "Cursed Relic" negative affix for the Challenge Dungeon.
  
• Increased the attack and move speed bonus for the Challenge Dungeon Nimble affix from +25% to +50%.
  
• Fixed so that the "Uniques" challenge dungeon affix means you only get Unique champions, not just mostly.
  
• Re-enabled the Cloaked affix in the Challenge Dungeons.
  
• Set the Mega Packs Challenge Dungeon affix to spawn extra large packs only 50% of the time instead of 100% of the time.
  
• Set Challenge Dungeons with the Mega Packs affix to only have 70% of the spawners active.
  
• Set the Mega Packs Challenge Dungeon affix to only affect the dungeon area, not the boss arena.
  
• Updated the Gauntlet detrimental affix so that you get no loot drops in the initial dungeon area, but you get a bonus +100% gear luck from the miniboss and boss chest in the dungeon's miniboss arena.
  
• Split up the checkpoint boss affixes in the Challenge Dungeon so that you cannot get duplicate affixes on the bosses.
  
• Players can now no longer die to re-roll their affix on any other level than the first one in a set.
  
• Set the Stormbringer Challenge Dungeon affix to apply to 20% of monsters in the area, instead of 30%.
  
• Updated the wording around the Reliquarian affix.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player cannot reveal any of the level 155 Boss Challenge cards.
  
• Fixed an issue where after defeating Zappy Sam or Roger Ohm, the player is not able to finish the challenge, as opening the Boss Chest does not cause a portal to be created.
  
• Fixed Automata Hulk bosses not appearing in certain boss arenas.
  
• Fixed an issue where the map of the Great Scrap-Nest location is not displayed.
  
• Fixed a few more instances of healing shrines being in boss arenas that weren't turned off in Challenge Dungeon areas.
  
• Fixed an issue where players that join another player's challenge dungeon have their player badge increased.

(continued in "Mainline Patch - August 11th, 2020 (Part 4)