NOTE: As mentioned in our most recent previous patch notes, this update is accompanied by a character wipe, made necessary by changes applied to character statistics and how they’re calculated. Only the items presently in your personal bank will be preserved.
We’re excited to introduce our first content update to Camelot Unchained since our launch on Steam Early Access! Included in this build are higher spawn counts for enemy NPCs, greater drop rates with gathering professions (Candleberry hoarders rejoice!), and balance tweaks to combat that will allow you to stick in the fight for longer. Each class now has its own unique stat layout at character creation, and the ways that your attributes impact you in combat have been tweaked.
World Changes and Balance
Greatly increased the spawn count, rate, and radius of hostile NPCs around Home Island resource nodes.
Added bandit NPCs to the Home Islands.
Increased spawn count, rate, and gather quantity of resource nodes.
Increased drop rate of Candleberries when gathering. Rejoice! Nodes will now drop either 2-6 berries or 4-12 berries.
All gathered resources will now drop at a quality level of 5.
Hunting Changes:
All creatures will now drop meat, hide, and bones.
Boars will drop more meat and bones than hide.
Wolves will drop more hide and bones than meat.
Bears will drop more meat and hide than bones.
Logging Changes:
Sap is no longer dropped by itself when logging.
33.33% chance to get sap when logging.
Prospecting Changes:
When gems are gathered, chances to get flakes and nuggets are re-rolled. The default chance to get gems remains the same as before.
Added RvRvR portals directly outside of starting cities on each Home Island.
Class Changes and Balance
General
Reduced delay before exiting combat from 12 seconds to 10 seconds.
Attribute Adjustments
Increased base Max Health and adjusted Max Health scaling from Vitality.
Reworked how Determination degenerates while in the Veil and adjusted degeneration rate scaling from Command.
Adjusted Determination regeneration rate and scaling from Spirit.
Adjusted damage reduction on parried hits from 100% to 50%. This is to accommodate adjustments to stats from equipment such as adding Parry Chance to melee weapons.
Adjusted Base Guts Threshold and Multiplier and scaling for both from Endurance.
Added Endurance scaling to bonus Block Value granted by equipment.
Reduced Buff Effect Multiplier scaling. Buff Effect Multiplier now scales off of Command instead of Conviction.
Adjusted Detection Range scaling from Command. Detection Range will on average be longer.
Adjusted base Critical Hit Rating to scale with Dexterity.
Adjusted Evasion Chance scaling.
Character Creation
Updated stat loadouts at character creation. Each class now has its own inherent stat bonuses.
The number of additional stat points added by stat loadouts or Choose Your Own Path has been greatly reduced.
Min starting stat values reduced from 10 to 5.
Max starting stat values reduced from 50 to 40.
Heavy Fighters
Mjolnir
Reworked Protection of Odin to be a charge instead of a leap.
Archers
Forest Stalker
Updated the backward dash on Parting Shot to be more consistent.
Blackguard
Updated the backward dash on Backstep to be more consistent.
Devouts
Updated progression path icons.
Abbot
Fixed a bug causing the icon for the Abbot's passive, Zeal, to not display properly.
Build Updates
Added player names to party members location dots on the map and map tooltips.
Players can be invited to parties/warbands directly from the chat window by right-clicking their name and using the context menu.
The minimap now has zoom buttons to view more or less space.
A Help menu has been added to the settings menu and will pop up on first login.
Visual Changes
Updated an outdated loading screen at game launch.
Added several lights to starting towns that were too dark at night.
Updated zone and fast travel portal assets.
Updated zone and fast travel map icons.
Added tool tips to map icons.
Audio
New and Updated
Updated bird and wildlife audio in Camelot Hills and the Arthurian Home Island.
Footstep sounds updated for heavier races on certain materials.
UI - Updated audio on character selection/creation.
UI - In-Game character select SFX added.
Skald ability SFX updated to sound ready for vicious battle.
Updated range of SFX attenuation at capture points.
Created new SFX for swimming animation.
Created new SFX when using repair kits.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug with incorrect SFX being applied to mining. The SFX volume slider will now apply correctly when mining.
Fixed a bug where music and audio effects following player death were not triggering correctly.
Fixed a bug where some maps would fail to render.
Fixed a bug where maps would sometimes be off center.
Resolved an issue to allow laptop users without dedicated VRAM to play CU.
Fixed a bug that allowed certain stealth abilities to be used while contesting a point.
Fixed a bug that allowed Archers to utilize the Reposition ability without incurring a cooldown.
If you still run into this issue while playing as a Viking or TDD, please report it!