Mortal Rite 00.08.262

00.08.262 Patch Notes

Bug Fixes:

• Fix for not being able to use Fia’s “Heavy Swing” ability modifier
• Unspent ability points should no longer be lost
• Updated death screen to prevent stacking (if someone respawned and died while other players were dead the game-over screen would apply multiple times)
• Clients can now learn recipes
• Knights bucker should no longer automatically apply when switching maps
• Footsteps on the Gates of Mercy should now play the proper particle effect and sound
• Fixed a bug where items wouldn't apply their effects until re-equipping the item
• Game-over screen should no longer get stuck
• Dialog should no longer get stuck
• Fix for stance swap being canceled duration a hit reaction
• Stance Swap is no longer editable\
• Fixup for shrapnel armor. Shrapnel Armor was being applied anytime Dawksin switched stances, and it wasn't ever scaling with the amount of shrapnel stacks he had applied to enemies.
• Metal Storm’s collision should now be disabled when it's inactive
• Bugfix for additive impact damage overriding previous impact damage, if it happened the next frame.
• Broken Temple Black Smith should now spawn correctly
• Fixed issue with Flamesword stance where weapon was pointing incorrectly (Attacks should be significantly easier to land now)
• Fix for stance swap not applying correctly when you don't have any save data
• Bugfix where Ghost shards mod wasn't being applied
• Fix for fire shards projectiles being given to fia too early
• Fixes for characters not stopping their animations when dying
• Tutorial enemies now spawn immediately instead of spawning and despawning over and over
• Bug fix where descriptions weren't rendering for stances
• Broken Temple First Configuration chests set to reset on retry and not be one-time-use
• Fixed bug where you could still lose the shrapnel passive
• Fix for effects that stance nodes give you not ever being removed
• Fix for weaken debuffs not applying correctly
• Fix for enemies not retaining original scale after death
• Fix for skills getting stuck between characters
• Removed death bargaining UI

Quality of Life Updates:

• Items no longer drop on death
• You don’t automatically respawn after you die, you have to hit confirm first now
• Increased the max amount of points you spend in the stance shop from 20 to 30
• Updated Death Handling. Clients will now check if the host is alive before trying to respawn at their location.
• Teleporting will now respawn dead players
• Added sounds when changing teams in the PvP arena
• Prerequisite lines for the skill tree have been cleaned up a bit (still needs some work though)
• When customizing stances, skills will now automatically populate if there's an empty slot
• Small balance pass on all enemies for scaling health and poise in multiplayer
• Death screen now populates stats before showing them
• Default DLSS Setting changed from OFF to AUTO
• SolEnemy now waits a little bit before hiding the actor to let death effects play.
• Removed Automatically swapping stance back to stance 1 when exiting the ability point shop

Game progression Updates:

• Removed call of the refuge skeleton from ruined church
• Removed character unlock item from hub

General Gameplay:

• Updated Melee weapons to use base damage scaling for charge attacks instead of only attribute scaling

Fia:

• Reduced her roll dodge distance
• Added impact effect for her kick attack
• Rearranged her Heavy Attacks into a new order
• Decreased time between Fia heavy attacks
• Updated Fia Heavy Attacks to read better and updated the animation
• Increased FireShard Cost from 3 -> 6 and Lowered Fireshard Scaling
• Increased FireBall Base Damage, but significantly lowered Scaling. FireBall now charges up faster based on Inner Fire Level
• Update the FireBall quick charge animation
• Updated Fia's effects to more clearly show which fire level she's in
• Updated her movement during melee combat
• Slightly tweaked Fia's empowered arm effects to have more movement
• Doubled focus drain on Fia Flameborne stance
• Increased Base damage on Fia's Flamesword
• Streamlined Flamesword Damage to be consistent with heavy and charge attacks, both for ability damage and poise damage

Dawksin

• Niagara system was updated to glow brighter the more stacks Dawksin has on enemies (max of 500)
• Removed the weird additive animation when dawksin switched stances
• Rearranged his Heavy Attacks into a new order
• Updated Shrapnel Wave to deal more damage and poise damage
• Updated Hunters Assault on Dawksin to work much better in air
• Increased Poise damage on Blade Twist
• Increased Dawksin turn-in-place speed
• Added Coalesce as an actual skill

Shold:

• Shold now drains focus while using his axe. Added effects to show when focus is draining
• Updated Shold's spear to have enter and exit VFX
• Reduced Shold Axe Damage. Updated Shold Axe Moveset
• Updated Shold Max Mana pool to 20
• Reduced Shold Focus efficiency by half
• Decreased Shold Jog and Walk speed slightly
• Breach now has a small Aoe

Levels:

• More difficult configurations for the Broken Temple are now locked behind progress.
• Floor collision for The Refuge updated near alden and pvp arena
• Added Tower Floor 2 to overworld
• Ruined Church, Gates of Mercy should have a starting configuration and the other configurations are locked until first configuration is completed
• Updated Lighting on Broken Temple and the Ruined Church
• Updated Enemies on Broken Temple Layout C
• Refuge has been updated with more art
• Teleporters added to hub
• PvP scoreboard added

Cultist Knight:

• He now has a shield bash attack
• He doesn’t block as much anymore
• Dodge distance was reduced slightly
• If you attack him too many times, he'll slam the ground with his shield to push you away.
• Poise is lowered to 5, and blocking poise lowered from 6 to 3

Blacksmith:

• Updated him to not cancel his attack if it would leave navmesh
• Now unlockable after the first level

Heavy Archer:

• Increased Health

Cultists:

• They have all been recolored

Heavy Fighter:

• Removed heavy fighter sequence as it doesn't work on clients