"Better Together" 1.4 Patch Notes

Hello Wizarding Folk!

Warning, the following patch notes include some minor spoilers for the “Better Together” update, if you’d like to stay spoiler-free, please click away!

If you’d like to read up on what’s included in this update with pictures, please reach the main announcement post.

For the data-driven magi who are fine with the juicy details, you can find all the particulars listed below.

"Better Together" - 1.4 Patch Notes

New Content

• Multiplayer supports up to 4 players per game session
• 4 preset difficulty modes and custom difficulty options
• Additional lore and books throughout the game
• New Library UI (for the lore!)
• 5 new bookshelf variants
• Added “activated” version of the Oculus
• Voidskimmer can now be interacted with in the Tower
• Updated endgame content and secret ending 👀
• 5 new achievements to unlock
• New music featuring the bard!

General Improvements

• Updated VFX & animations for entities
• Updated VFX & animations for some buildings in game
• Updated SFX for new content and some Bounty of Guns weapons
• Map Altar Activation VFX updated
• Difficulty scaling will be notified to players at the start of the expedition
• Updated credits to include: Michael Garrett Steele (voice of the bard)!

Other Changes

Resources, Recipes, Crafting and Building

• Fixed missing thumbnails and incorrect thumbnails in the First Edition
• Spawned items and resources should now decay properly
• Bounty rewards should fall into the void less frequently
• Rotated stone chests should now always close if they contain items

Spells and Powders

• “On Fire” scale should be a little less egregious on large enemies
• Fixed fire flickering on entities that teleport
• Fixed mortar impacts being immortal in the tower (dripping oil will no longer haunt you forever)
• Order spells should now consistently repair buildings in the tower
• Fixed performance when shooting poison into water
• Introduced Boomerang powder in the physics research station

Enemies, NPCs and Combat

• Pet & Charmed interactions have received some polish
• Hilda animations have been updated
• All applicable entities should now be able to be scanned with the First Edition
• Fixed “assist when knocked” issues in multiplayer games
• Harbinger will now always spawn from a rift (the Oculus holds deeper secrets now)
• Updates to Golden Bounty rewards (New stuff? New stuff!)
• Fixed interaction with bounty mechana in boss arenas
• Sniper Cultists now have double health (they were too easy!)

Other / Misc

• Fixed audio balance for the Harbinger of Chaos fight
• Updated and fixed several boss biome books (if you’re missing a book, I would start at Orion’s tower 👀)
• Moved credits and endgame slideshow to end of new content
• Fixed UI for minimized task list (it should no longer cut off for some users)
• Extended connection timeout to allow for slower connections
• Adjusted Hermit Crab ambush to be more performant
• Fixed arrows in loading bench tutorial
• Fixed crashes on client after being kicked from a multiplayer game

Known Issues + Things we’re working on!

• Boomerang powder might not unlock if you've already completed some physics research (we're patching this in the next update!)
• The Huntress might incorrectly loop an idle animation.
• An endgame quest might appear incomplete in multiplayer (the game will still progress, you'll just have the quest marker active)
• Some bounty guns will not be available (these are being patched back in soon!)
• "Shattered Soul" has an incorrect description (woopsie!)
• Charmed entities that have been revived might incorrectly display on the map (your zombie children are not real!)
• Swapping items into processing stations might no longer remember their origin (it was in your backpack, but now it’s in the chest)
• The “burning” VFX might obscure some smaller enemies
• Odden’s Middle Finger might not display correctly on the gun mount building
• “0/1 gears collected” might display after collecting all gears (there is not a secret hidden gear, I promise)