Patch Notes v3.0.50.423 - Summoning and Polymorphing (28 March 2017)

Hello everyone!
- The day has finally come! At long last, you'll feel the power of the Polymorph and Summoning schools.
- Turn your enemies into chickens; slap them with tentacles; or turn the tide of battle with totems and a powered-up incarnate. Sprout wings and soar to high ground to fire long-distance shots at pesky enemies. Grow horns and charge at enemies across the battlefield to gain the best position-- and leave carnage in your wake. The possibilities are limitless and we can't wait to see what you'll come up with!
- Here's a juicy new trailer to whet your appetite.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7mQOFuJNoU
- As always, your feedback helps us make the game better so please hit that "Send feedback to Larian" button after playing, or let us know your thoughts on our forums.
- Have fun!

Savegame compatibility
- Note: Savegames from v3.0.33.118 are compatible with this hotfix

Additions:
- Added Summoning combat ability: summons start with 10% increased Vitality, Damage, Magic Armour and Physical Armour per Ability Point invested.
- Added Summoning skills
- Conjure Incarnate - Conjure a personal elemental that matches the ground surface it's summoned onto. Your Incarnate can be buffed with Infusions.
- Elemental Totem - Target a ground surface and conjure a totem of the corresponding element. Each turn, this totem will fire a projectile at enemies in sight
- Dimensional Bolt - Shoot a volatile bolt that deals damage of a random type, and then creates a corresponding surface
- Farsight Infusion - Unlock ranged attack for your Incarnate. Buffs Magic Armour
- Power Infusion - Unlock Whirlwind and Rush for your Incarnate. Buffs Physical Armour
- Rallying Cry - Target character regenerates Vitality and Magic Armour according to the number of allied characters and totems in their vicinity
- Supercharger - Target summon deals increased damage during its next turn-- then explodes
- Added Polymorph combat ability: receive one free Attribute Point for every Ability Point invested.
- Added Polymorph skills
- Bull Horns - Magnificent horns sprout from your forehead. You can rush at your enemies and gore them
- Tentacle Lash - With tentacular limbs, lash out at the enemy and Disarm them
- Chicken Claw - Turn the target character into a chicken. Squawk!
- Heart of Steel - Your skin turns to steel, increasing Physical Armour and regenerating a portion of it every turn
- Chameleon Cloak - Become one with the shadows so that you're invisible to your opponents
- Spread Your Wings - Grow wings that unlock Flight skill. You ignore ground surfaces as long as you are walking
- Skin Graft - Reset all cooldowns, yet also strip off all Physical Armour and Magic Armour. Removes Burning, Poisoned, Bleeding
- Added new class presets
- Conjurer - Conjures a trusty personal demon and elemental totems to aid in battle
- Metamorph - Adapts to dangerous situations with transforming tricks of nature
- Added new visual effects and sounds for all Summoning and Polymorph skills
- Added PVP Support. This allows you to play the game in multiplayer and choose whether to work with or against your friends. You can start as allies and continue as rivals (or vice versa) by making war or peace with other parties.
- Added Origin Story Updates
- Made several changes and additions to origin stories (Ifan, Lohse, Sebille, and Red Prince)
- Party members will now engage with NPCs to play out origin moments particular to their own background stories - if the player allows them to do so.
- Added a tutorial messages log in the journal
- Added new Arena level: Castle Outskirts
- Added and updated several sound effects for skills
- Added a crime check on lockpicking items that have an owner

Improvements
- Improved the ladder animation system
- Examining a character now uses the highest level of loremaster in your party
- Certain AI 2.0 decision improvements added (regarding potions, invisibility, 'sleep' status, surface transform, Polymorph, Summons...)
- AI now supports more skills and statuses
- Improved performance when targeting enemies with ranged weapons
- Improved feedback for characters inside fog (when targeting)
- Improved targeting from high to low ground with skills that use teleport (self)
- Updated several skill and attack animations
- Updated several effects for skills
- Companion preset selector is now embedded within recruitment dialogs.

Balancing and design changes
- Several changes were made to the combats in and around Fort Joy:
- Early-game Voidwoken don't bleed Cursed Blood anymore
- The Freshly Buried Corpse no longer has armor.
- Tweaked the Source Hound Kennel's level design. Bark, bark.
- Tweaked the Houndmaster encounter's level design.
- Tweaked Teleporting Crocodiles' level design.
- Reworked a number of fights in Fort Joy to ensure coherence in spell distribution and smooth our learning curve.
- Characters that heal due to high resistance should be damaged if they have Decaying Touch on
- Pickup action now gets disabled in combat if you do not have enough AP
- You can now use sucker punch when wielding only one wand
- Applying Bless to an item on a surface now blesses that surface
- Reduced requirements on armor, weapons, and shields
- Made it easier to Pickpocket low level NPCs by changing the Thievery mechanics
- Characters will no longer absorb Source surfaces when they already have their maximum number of Source Points
- Surfaces created by skills like Fireball no longer create surfaces through walls
- Sending an item from a container to another character now also costs 1 AP
- Mark' now prevents characters from going invisible.
- Increased stats of Dallis' Hammer and renamed it to "The Reckoning"
- You can now cast Blood Sucker on other characters. Try combining it with Decaying Touch.
- Electrification and ice should go away after 3 turns.
- Changed how Magic Pockets work for multiplayer when having separate parties active (for the PvP system)
- Kniles' monks are no longer linked to other monks in the dungeon
- Blessed smoke now removes Silence
- Refusing Withermoore's help causes him to no longer appear
- Increased AP cost of Enrage to two; can only target allies now
- Refactored persuasion system: You now need more points in persuasion to have an effect on higher level NPC's. Stats have less impact
- New status: Disarmed. Prevents attacking with weapons and using skills that are based on them (e.g. Ricochet, Whirlwind)
- Muted should not prevent characters from using weapon skills
- The most used generic treasure tables have been completely redesigned. They now generate more by value than by category.
- When a container is opened and it generates items, the order in which they appear is randomized. This is purely a representative change.

Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue causing players to have their input stuck
- Fixed an issue with the Necromancer Tower Maze. Players no longer have re-equip the ring to trigger the correct dialog options
- Fixed roofs blocking projectiles and sight inside a building
- Fixed some map markers not correctly showing up for all party members
- Fixed several spell and highlight tooltips
- Fixed certain characters dropping double the amount of loot they should be dropping
- Fixed certain skills not showing a proper area preview around the target (e.g. Crippling Blow)
- Fixed being able to cancel jump skills while they are still being cast (e.g. not creating a fire surface on landing with Phoenix Dive)
- Fixed item requirements displayed red despite meeting the requirements
- Fixed Magic Armour not disappearing on death
- Fixed incorrect behavior with Fullscreen and Fake Fullscreen mode
- Fixed certain statuses from being spammed above characters when wearing Cursed items
- Fixed several issues with Tarlene's dialog regarding Shriekers and Gareth
- Fixed items not being assigned to bottom bar when recruiting a companion
- Fixed bug where Samadel wouldn't leave towards the call to arms
- Fixed several crime-related behaviors
- Fixed several NPC alignment issues
- Fixed input being blocked in certain situations, resulting in not being able to control certain party members directly
- Fixed minor issues regarding Gareth's death and the resulting dialogs
- Fixed several minor quest and journal issues
- Fixed issue where NPC's would incorrectly force end their turn without taking action
- Fixed not being able to reassign teams for AI after returning to lobby from a previous game

Patch 0.93.638016 (27 March 2017)

- The Wyvern and Gremlin units were using incorrect armor types (Heavy and Light respectively). They now are using the Air armor type as intended.
- The Wraith and Gremlin unit tooltips showed a light attack when they in fact have no damaging attack - this has been fixed.
- Map Circular Logic: Three resource positions moved; the resource points near the bottom of the start position ramps are now all on the same side of the ramp.
- All infantry have had their stealth detection radius increased by 20%
- All turrets have had their stealth detection radius increased by 30%
- Rocket Copter: Range reduced to 700 (was 800)
- Artillery (Renegades): Move speed reduced to 180 (was 200)
- Sniper Infantry: Basedamage increased to 18 (was 15)
- AA Drone: Build cost increased to 80 (was 60), Build time increased to 8 (was 6)
- Arbalist: Build time reduced to 12 seconds (was 15)
- Dragon: Base damage for Anti-Air attack increased to 12 (was 8)
- Rogue: Weapon cooldown increased to 1.5 (was 1.2)
- Pikeman: Health increased to 95 (was 80), Build cost reduced to 60 (was 80)
- Aggressor: Range reduced to 700 (was 800)
- Mothership: Weapon cooldown increased to 1.0 (was 0.7)

Update 1.5.0(v2) hotfix (28 March 2017) - Windows only

- various fixes

Update Episode 3 (28 March 2017)

- Adds Episode 3

Patch 1.0.2 (28 March 2017)

- The Mac version will be updated on 29 March 2017. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Highlights
- Fixed a large number of freezes that would happen in various states.
- Numerous performance optimizations.
- Addendum text should now be appearing on item descriptions. Many dozens of items now have more details depending on your lore skills and other factors!
- Fixed an issue that was preventing party members from bantering. Party members should now be much more talkative!
- Updated a number of crisis sequences to rebalance a number of enemies. In some situations, it will make combat proceed more quickly with combats that were sluggish.
- Numerous fixes and improvements to movement grid, pathing, and AI. This should prevent issues where the game would hang as combat could get stuck in numerous situations.
- Several quest and conversation fixes.
- Inspiring Presence and other looping sound effects have been reduced or removed.
- Full Release Notes (Spoiler Warning)

Conversations & Quests
- Fixed issue where conversation with Sorrow does not trigger if Matkina does not participate in Memovira Crisis and castoffs are merged into her.
- No longer start the Familiar Skies quest if you access the helmet after already having been kicked out of Anchorage.
- Move to correct objective Covetous Hearts objective if you try to get the Cortex before talking to Dracogen about it
- Fixed issue where Indigo Tide can be raised repeatedly after telling Theboros to sacrifice himself.
- Fixed issue where two Shadow Rings can be created.
- Fixed a bug where Infestation quest could get in an unfinishable if the player left the scene during the crisis and returned later.
- Fixed bug where finding out about what Maw eats through Magmatic Annulet does not allow attempt to persuade Siowan to offer himself.
- Inkpot now always tells you about killing Ioxu, regardless of the order you see him or Ioxu after bonding with the Bloom.
- Show reflection message when Artaglio invades your mind in the Gullet.
- Fixed bug where Inifere's Reflection used male pronoun when speaking to female Last Castoff.
- Fixed bug where asking Canadu again about his hammer produced an incorrect response.
- Fixed a bug in Aligern’s ending slides.
- Numerous misc. typo fixes.

Gameplay
- Fixed bug where enemies damaged by Frost Brooch at the beginning of their turn would sometimes lock up game after performing their move.
- Fixed a bug which could cause dead enemies from trying to patrol.
- Beads of Neverending Time now limit uses of Haste per crisis.
- Waits-For-Prey AI better handles being stunned and/or knocked down.
- Fixed an issue where retries on tasks were erroneously checking companions during crisis.
- Added Initiative as a possible option for Flex Skill.
- Numerous fixes to Anechoic Lazaret crisis.
- Reduced number of Peerless drones during Anechoic Lazaret crisis.
- Updated Sorrow Fragment AI in several fights to ensure they use their burst attack as designed.
- Reduced total number of combatants in the Bloom Heart, reduced knockdown effects, and streamlined introduction of spawned enemies.
- Reduced total number of enemies in Miel Avest, and made Sorrow's aura do noticeable damage but not insta-kill.
- Reduced total number of enemies in the Memovira’s Fortress crisis, and added non-insta-kill aura to Sorrow.
- Allowed spawned enemies to have modified initiative values.
- Added instigation points to several examinables.
- Fixed camera centering on Last Castoff every time a companion is granted or loses a fettle from an aura.
- Weapon attack abilities use weapon stats instead of fixed cost stat. Cost tooltip info includes weapon name when this happens.
- Abilities that have the potential to push/pull no longer can affect user (could cause issues with AI progressing correctly under some conditions).
- Fixed an issue where auras could affect player characters not currently in the party.
- Remove redundant modifiers with Cypher Sickness fettle.
- Added item drops to Peliai when killed.
- Rhin now gains additional abilities late in the game.
- Fixed issues with Erritis “wants to talk” trigger in the Valley of Dead Heroes.

User Interface
- Addendums should now be appearing on items. Many dozens of items now have more details depending on your lore skills and other factors!
- Fixed an issue where players could sometimes use on-ground targeted abilities on top of other characters.
- Changed the Continue button text in the conversation window to be more in line with other buttons.
- Make sure triggers that start conversations fire off if no owner is set, but not if owner is set and owner is inactive.
- Movement lines should start disabled so they don't do stuff during exploration mode.
- The item gained panel in the conversation window should be disabled unless actually needed.
- Added some error checking to prevent a null reference when advancing past the Type selection panel in Character Creation.
- Controller version of the crisis HUD now hides the cursor during player movements, in order to stop tooltips from appearing during this time.
- Fixed an issue on controllers where pressing the trigger buttons would not always register on older controllers where the triggers weren’t being fully pressed down. This was causing some players to get stuck in specific menus.
- Controller fixes for certain radial and skill selection menus.
- Fixed a text overflow issue in the Max Effort display.
- Added color markup code for Resistance.
- The in-game UI should be correctly switched back to keyboard/mouse when canceling out of the “Press A” window.
- The game should no longer be unpaused incorrectly when switching from keyboard to controller mode.
- Added details of bonuses from Descriptor to character overview panel.
- Added new version of ConsumeAction script that doesn't trigger tags in conversation text (used to handle special cases where actions are consumed NOT on selecting an option but delayed).
- Fixed an issue where it was sometimes possible to select Edge pips on the Effort window.
- Added a null reference check to avoid exploding the Item Details window under certain circumstances.
- Fixed an issue with reversed controller bumpers on macOS.
- Fixed an issue with D-Pad navigation in Meres on macOS and Linux.

Sound
- Reduced the frequency with which companion banter timer is reset. Adjusted banter frequency values. Party members should now talk much more often!
- Removed looping sound effects from Inspiring Presence.
- Removed looping sound effects from Galvanic Hammer.
- Reduced looping sound effects from Innervate.
- Increased music volume in Fifth Eye.
- Fixed incorrect or missing music in Old Slave Block, Memovira’s Courtyard, and some late game fathoms.
- Fixed sound cues for Journal and Character Sheet windows.
- Improvements to footstep sounds.

Graphics
- The current resolution should now be added to the resolution dropdown if it is not found in the list of supported resolutions returned by Unity.
- Fixed Sticha stuttering when stopping after a forced walk.
- Updated visual effects for Callistege reflection during endgame.
- Adjusted visual effects of Psychic Battlefield.
- Improved texture for Piton Driver.
- Performance & Stability
- Scene-specific performance optimizations for a majority of game scenes, particularly throughout Sagus Cliffs.
- Numerous cleanups and optimizations to movement grid, pathfinding, and AI calculations.
- Improved performance on several visual effects.
- Reduction of garbage generation to reduce associated frame drops from garbage collection.
- Significant reduction of garbage generation during controller movement.
- Various game cameras are now disabled when fullscreen UI is present. This should improve framerate in Inventory, Character Creation, and other screens.
- Performance improvements and optimizations to NPC animators.

Miscellaneous
- Polish localization updates.
- Updated backer credits with some missing backers who wrote in!
- Updated Techland credits.