Today's patch contains over 150 improvements and more are coming.
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Here is the changelog:
Patch v1.0.219:
Story/Game play:
Fixed start of fight conditions for Witch Cabin fight with Immaculate Mage
Fixed Arrest scenes in Cyseal (mortician for example), while using a forbidden door during arrest sequence
Fixed issue with Watcher/imps quest not completing
Fixed companion dialogues when they were being triggered at the same time in multi-player
Fixed issue with performing crimes when the guards are already talking to another player
Fixed dialogue issue with Zixzax in Luculla forest (Homestead attack warning)
Added reactions when characters are blinded
Prevent start listening when already in a dialogue
Fixed issue where sheathe/unsheathe state could get out of sync
You can listen to NPC's too now, instead of only player characters
Added option to turn off camera shake
Fixed issue where a sitting animation could get stuck
Projectiles can be shot over knocked down enemies now
Fixed issue when a peer disconnects during listening
Fixed issue where characters sometimes stop following their master
"Target is out of sight" is shown now instead of "Target is too far" when blinded
When healing someone in combat, you will immediately join the combat as well
No longer possible to fumble applying wet status
Dialogue history is synced to characters who join in a dual dialogue now
Fixed issue where names disappeared from the dialogue logs after a load
It is no longer possible to send teleporter pyramids to the homestead
Added armor damage UI element
Fixed issue where the combat log got smaller after each load
Weapon damage % is now always shown in skill descriptions
Fixed game freeze in the lobby menu, when failing to join a Steam lobby through the Steam tool
Fixed several crashes reported to us via support mails. Thank you!
Interface:
Fixed issue with "almost broken" icon not showing on equipment
Items that require targeting now also show active state in tool bar
Remove active animation in tool bar when slot is cleared
Combat log resize now uniform with resizing chat log
Fixed journal for keeping element in view
Journal: scroll into view disabled
Combat log scroll issue fixed
Combat log: fixed getting smaller after load
Code:
Fixed crash when removing items from story
Skill descriptions now always show amount of damage from weapon, even if it's 100%
Extra support for playing specific effects on skills
Fixes for main menu and create profile specifically for the Mac AppStore
Fixed AI personalities for 3-way dialogues
Gender of player character now stays correct after transform (e.g. after char creation or respec)
It is no longer possible to send the teleporter pyramids to the Homestead
Consumables can now do damage
4Player Mod crash fix
Mac: OS X Yosemite compatibility fixes
Mac: Game Center Integration so that users can connect cross-platform
Mac: Arrow keys are now correctly mapped for the interface (Load/Save) & World 銑 and 閃 keys did not close their respective panels
Mac: Added automatic workaround for Yosemite users with the following cards: NVidia 330M NVidia 320M NVidia 9400 based NVidia 8600 based
If the game locks up for you in Yosemite please use the following command in the Terminal: defaults write com.larian.dos ShaderBasedClear -bool true After that, please send us the name and brand of your video card.
Combat:
Rebalanced troll zombie near the church of Cyseal
Rebalanced shambling mound near the church of Cyseal
Rebalanced fire skeletons near the church of Cyseal
Rebalanced stats of a lot of characters in Hiberheim and Luculla
Tweaked script priorities of some Dark Forest characters
Rebalanced the undead in the Temple of the Dead in the Phantom Forest so that these fights are more challenging (late game stats)
Fixed stats for characters in the Luculla Mines
Fixed equipment for Luculla Immaculate students
All goblins can now carry Tenebrium items without getting rot
Can no longer teleport Guardian in Hiberheim
AI will no longer make ally invisible if ally is kd, stunned, petrified or weak and will prefer melee chars
Fixed Infernal Chimera script in Cyseal
Fixed range for Spiderling in Black Cove
Fixed water ball disappearing in Giant Spider fight in Black Cove
Skills:
Daggers Drawn fix: now costs 6 AP instead of 8 AP because a single dagger attack costs 2 AP
Vampiric Touch fix: now does as much damage as the caster heals from it
Voodoo Dolls fix: now costs 4 AP instead of zero
Flurry does less damage if you do not keep your STR up to level
All healing Skills are tweaked so that the higher level healing skills are better than the low level healing skills
Fixed Cloak and Dagger so that it now does leave a smoke cloud on jump
The damage of Flare, Small Fireball, Ice Shard and Blitz Bolt now levels up less aggressively
Piercing Ice Shard does a little more damage as you invest more in INT
Teleportation does less damage if you do not keep your INT up to level
Survivors Karma costs 6 AP now and also affects critical chance
Basically the game stopped saving any kind of saves after a while of playing, no autosaves, quicksave does nothing, and manual named saving does nothing either Just had it last Sunday.
Basically the game stopped saving any kind of saves after a while of playing, no autosaves, quicksave does nothing, and manual named saving does nothing either Just had it last Sunday.
There wasn't some time switching during this time (as it was for me with daylight saving)?
I for one, will say that this patch is amazing. Great job. Besides fixes, which are awesome if not terribly exciting, there are dozens of significant balance changes, all of which look like they're in the right direction.
Special arrows now either do no damage, half weapon damage, or full weapon damage, nothing in between
I imagine this means that some arrow types (pure utility, like charm) do no damage, some of them like (partially utility, silver arrows) do half, and some (like damage arrows like fire), do full. This should be a good incentive to use the damage special arrows, which tended to be on the weak side since they costed more AP but usually did less damage.
Moved around magical blocking boosts in the generation classes so that there is one per class Too many different shields were available at low level, treasure generation will no longer choose the weak shields to drop Magic generation will generate less elemental resistance boosts on equipment other than shields Magic will no longer generate immunity boosts to crippled, petrified, stunned, frozen, on normal equipment, only on shields Improved elemental res boost on shields Magic generation can now select new crit boosts
Some great rebalancing of equipment, though that's a lot of shield buffs (even if they're buffs only because all other equipment is being nerfed). I don't quite get what the first point implies. I guess it means that every type of shield now has one kind of blocking boost it can get? Reduction of elemental res boosts on gear is exactly the kind of anti-resistance inflation I was hoping for.
Most of the skill changes look great. Not sure about increasing dependency on stats for certain skills, but it's only a couple relatively powerful skills, so that's fine. Excited for rogue skill rebalances, especially trip not requiring a dagger. And survivor's karma buff was much needed. I suppose the stat changes to individual fights are a sort of precursor to hardcore mode, and those should help for now. I imagine the game is already a lot harder with the reduced resists and improved enemies, but it probably needs more.
I too was hoping for the hardcore mode and other big changes, but I can wait longer so they're really implemented properly.
Thanks for the patch (not tested yet). One detail, about a fix:
"Target is out of sight" is shown now instead of "Target is too far" when blinded.
In French, the translation is now pretty good and complete, at my eyes (I could not quote some details), but I think this exact point is still bizarre at least it was still bizarre before this last, patch. The French translation for "Target is out of sight" is blinded is French.
It's like keys in inventory, still translated as Touches meaning only keys of keyboard and not at all keys to open lock.
No more Compagnion ... No solo character mod ... (and of cours the game with mod for doing this will be brokken with in some place) No dual Wielding or difficulty lvl (like said before) ...
Still a good jobs, i am not idiot, but some fix in the patch note aren't so important than add feature or solve major bugs and glitch. OR maybe you just don't care about runners ?
Basically the game stopped saving any kind of saves after a while of playing, no autosaves, quicksave does nothing, and manual named saving does nothing either Just had it last Sunday.
There wasn't some time switching during this time (as it was for me with daylight saving)?
There was, but this has happened before that as well, oh and the game is a multiplayer.
Basically the game stopped saving any kind of saves after a while of playing
Did you try verifying local files? In the Steam library, right click on Divinity Original Sin and select Properties, switch to the Local Files tab and then click on the 'Verify Integrity of Game Cache...' button.
Are you shutting down all non-essential programs (especially anti-virus) before starting the game?
Have you moved or changed permissions for your My Documents folder? Do you have enough fre space left on the drive it is on? Usually either of those would produce an error message, though, rather than the save process simply not starting.
Try starting the game directly from the '..\SteamApps\common\Divinity - Original Sin\Shipping\EoCApp.exe' program file, by right clicking and running as administrator.
If you create a new profile and start a new game can you save and load? If so, copy your latest save over from the old profile to the new one and continue from there. Each save is a folder in the '..\Documents\Larian Studios\Divinity Original Sin\PlayerProfiles\<ProfileName>\Savegames' folder.
If a new profile doesn't help, a cleaner test would be to browse to the '..\Documents\Larian Studios' folder and rename the 'Divinity Original Sin' subfolder. This folder contains the saved games, configuration files and a level cache folder. Deleting or renaming it will get the game to recreate it on startup; playing the game from a different Windows user account would effectively do the same thing. After that, start D:OS, create a new profile and see if you can start a new game and save/load. If so, exit and then copy a couple saves from the renamed folder into the newly created profile's savegames folder. If that lets you load the saves and re-save, move the rest of the saves over. If that doesn't work either, delete the new My Documents D:OS folder and rename the original back again.
If that doesn't help, please email supportdos@larian.com, with a description of the problem and the report.zip file generated by the D:OS support tool (for the PC version). The report will contain system and game information, as well as your saved games. To reduce the file size, you can delete all but one save from the zip, since the problem is not directly related saves themselves (unless possibly a new save is fine but an existing save in a recreated profile displays the same symptoms).
This is great! So many tweaks. Wonderful! ... Too bad for me that I can't PLAY the game. = Waiting for ability to REMAP the mouse keys since I can only play with left hand. (And the game overrides everything else key binding wise apparently.) ... I still can't believe this is even an issue. (!?) It's just incredibly frustrating when you backed the game with your money and time and input, and then you get screwed out of playing it at all. ... Cheers, Bonafidelife
A quick and, perhaps, silly question if I may. Do I need to start anew to see all changes implemented? The reason I am asking is because one of the changes was that vampiric touch damages the target equally to what it heals. However, upon loading a game I saw no change. The damage was about 180 and it healed only 77.
P.S.: Also for some reason I am missing sounds for Ranger power and precision stances for Bairdotr.
A quick and, perhaps, silly question if I may. Do I need to start anew to see all changes implemented? The reason I am asking is because one of the changes was that vampiric touch damages the target equally to what it heals. However, upon loading a game I saw no change. The damage was about 180 and it healed only 77.
P.S.: Also for some reason I am missing sounds for Ranger power and precision stances for Bairdotr.
In this version(1.0.219) I encountered a strange bug, related to the battle with Boreas. After the combat is started and we attack Boreas' sentinels he begins to run around the battlefield during other characters' turns. He still seems to be affected by combat mechanics - we can attack him, he triggers attacks of opportunity(though he does not use abilities). Also, sometimes he randomly teleports to other places. In his own combat turn he seems to behave normally. Additionally, the game is continued from previous version(the one before this patch, can't remember exact number). I use gog.com version of the game. The game was started as multiplayer, though bug appears even if I continue alone
I have the GoG version. Previous patch the sounds associated with the burning ship in Cyseal functioned but after patching to 1.0.219 the ship is back to having no sounds with only the sailors dumping buckets.
Khaelenmore; There is a known issue with Boreas' AI; I'll add your description to the bug report. I'm not sure if it would be required, but if you email supportdos@larian.com with the report.zip file generated by the D:OS support tool (for the PC version), I'll add that as well. The report will contain system and game information, as well as your saved games. To reduce the file size you can delete most of the saves from the zip, just leaving one before this fight.
First let me thank you for the patch, but unfortunately since the patch I'm experiencing the same problem as delu:
Originally Posted by delu
Since this patch, clicking items on the toolbar (such as to switch weapons or equipment with) now removes the item from the toolbar for me.
Even if I open the Inventory and select "Equip" for an equipment that is on my toolbar, it gets removed from the toolbar and so does the equipped item (that I also have on the toolbar).
Are we the only ones experiencing this? If it's a known issue, please fix it asap as it makes the game unbearably annoying to play!
If that doesn't help, please email supportdos@larian.com, with a description of the problem and the report.zip file generated by the D:OS support tool (for the PC version). The report will contain system and game information, as well as your saved games. To reduce the file size, you can delete all but one save from the zip, since the problem is not directly related saves themselves (unless possibly a new save is fine but an existing save in a recreated profile displays the same symptoms).
Oh, neat idea. I will use it myself, as I feel that my "bug report" post didn't get any attention... Thank you!
Another bug, Madora no longer makes a voice comment after speaking to Thelryon. (There might be more of these, I only really remember Madora's because she's funny as hell)
Can you please fix the multiplayer stat loading bug? So frustrating playing with my friend who has 5 min+ load times and more than half of the loads, his stats are all at 5.
Thanks for the patch Is there any plans to make 1handed/2handed abilities affect tenebrium weapons? For now they don't worth spending points because of becoming absolutely useless for high-level characters
Something is really completely wrong with Boreas fight in the new patch.
I confirm he randomly walks around during players turn. The whole fight: Fire statue crumbles, fight initiates, ranger has first shot, before its second Boreas positions himself directly before the ranger, ranger takes 2nd shot with fire and damages nearby mage, mage teleports Boreas, Boreas glides back into position, mages initiates minor heal, Boreas drops dead.
Rant: Why oh why are too many developers following Microsofts first 20 years - patch 100 things and break 50 things unbroken before ...
Turn based heals are sometimes still not working correctly.
It seems if a hydrosophist casts a second heal during the last turn of a previously cast heal, there is a chance the previously cast heal will get cut short.
Here is how I've been replicating the issue: Scarlett casts Strong Regenerate on Roderick Scarlett then casts Minor Heal on herself immediately after Roderick only receives one heal from Strong Regenerate instead of two.
It almost seems that if the second heal gets cast too close to the last "tick" of an existing heal, then the existing one gets overridden. I'd imagine using Cure Wounds instead of hydro spells would have the same effect but haven't tried it.
I have also noticed that if one has two weapons in their shortcut bar -- say a dagger and a bow -- and clicks one to equip it, the weapon does get equipped but then ALL weapons get cleared out of the bar and are replaced with empty slots.
Oath of Desecration and Rage are still stacking on both my warriors, too. One has a two-handed sword with 5 points in Man-At-Arms and 4 points in Witchcraft (he casts Oath on the second warrior), the other has a two-handed axe and can use Rage after being buffed with Oath and both the buff icon and damage increase are showing up.
4 player was working fine (changing in main_1.pak) until this newest patch, now the game crashes if I try to change it from "2" to "4"... what happened and how can I get 4 players working again ?
After the 1.0.169/1.0.177 updates some people experienced crashes in multiplayer with the 4 player mods active (in one case the person joining the game on a particular system crashes whenever opening a character's inventory; a different system had IIRC random crashes). Presumably 1.0.219 doesn't have such issues.
Raze.. You are awesome. Your advice completely worked. The presence of a Main_1_copy.pak file in the directory in addition to the modified Main_1.pak file was crashing the game. With the original in a separate directory, the game works flawlessly for 4 players now. THANKS !!!!
Raze.. You are awesome. Your advice completely worked. The presence of a Main_1_copy.pak file in the directory in addition to the modified Main_1.pak file was crashing the game. With the original in a separate directory, the game works flawlessly for 4 players now. THANKS !!!!
@ Raze Could you please bring back the missing sounds? I believe they are missing since 1.0.169 ! ! !
Turn based heals are sometimes still not working correctly.
It seems if a hydrosophist casts a second heal during the last turn of a previously cast heal, there is a chance the previously cast heal will get cut short.
Here is how I've been replicating the issue: Scarlett casts Strong Regenerate on Roderick Scarlett then casts Minor Heal on herself immediately after Roderick only receives one heal from Strong Regenerate instead of two.
It almost seems that if the second heal gets cast too close to the last "tick" of an existing heal, then the existing one gets overridden. I'd imagine using Cure Wounds instead of hydro spells would have the same effect but haven't tried it.
I've run into the same thing casting minor heal twice in a row. Nice catch on the particulars about how it happens.
I think this patch was great. Got nothing to add really.
Except a few fights are either broken (Boreas) or not working correctly (Hunters Edge) or simply needlessly annoying (Guardian wishing well, without wand).
I would guess the harder difficulty mode would only be available in a new game. I don't know about the new skills, etc; significant changes could cause issues with existing saves. It would probably be safer to require a new game, technically and for those people who built their characters around exploits that are nerfed, etc.
What about the new patch? I wanted to try the beta test on Steam, but there is no beta version for DOS ... it's over? Or is it private with the need to code? It makes no sense ...
If the beta was made completely open there could have been some people trying it without understanding that it was possible there would be changes that could make saved games incompatible with the released update. As it turns out only relatively minor tweaks were made to the beta changes, so beta saves may continue to be compatible after the release of the next update (which contain a couple other things in addition to what is in the beta).
I know D:OS can use improvements here and there, but I really Hope the Team of Larian Studios DO NOT edit D:OS till there're unwholesome amounts of patches ... a PERFECT GAME will never possible and even if you think it's perfect, there'll be always people "complaining about ... "
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRReeeeeeeeeeeeeeelsease the KRAKEN! Rarglebargle! Is there a more complete change log available? Also there are mentions of changes the editor, any specifics there?
No, there isn't a more detailed change log. The only thing mentioned about the editor for the next update is the inclusion of exporters to allow people to create their own content.
