Update 1.1 is out now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S!

New Features

• Draught of Mind Rebirth: Forget all your Swordmastery, Witchcraft, and Vampirism abilities, and use the time you spent learning them to master a different set of abilities.
• Animal petting
• Update to the Story mode: Pick between the Forgiving game difficulty (previously called Story) and a new Story mode with additional combat assist.
• Additional subtitle settings: Increase the font size and enable subtitles for ALL dialogue lines.

Highlights

• Update to the FrameGen technology, including dedicated settings.
• Adjusted animations and camera movements in combat.
• Improved targeting, locking onto, and disengaging from enemies.
• Better responsiveness of targeting and attaching to surfaces when using Shadowstep and Planeshift.

List of changes:

Miscellaneous:

• Equipped items are now hidden when selling items.
• Added a "Buyback" feature when interacting with merchants.
• Added controller deadzone settings in Options.
• Rebalanced the cost of upgrading items, especially on higher levels.
• Items can now be equipped in both presets (day, night) simultaneously.
• Reduced the health of boars and wolves on higher levels.
• Tooltip for a stack of items in the inventory will now properly refresh its weight and value after consuming an item.
• Fixed an issue that blocked players from selecting dialogue options or items when using a controller.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Active Ability cooldown reduction to not update the cooldown in the character tab, despite the damage of Active Abilities being updated.
• Fixed an issue that caused switching from the crafting menu to the map using a controller to disable zooming in and out with the right analog stick.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from accessing different character tabs after loading a save in the prologue.
• Fixed an issue that caused the cursor to appear and controls to change to mouse and keyboard input.
• Multiple localization fixes.

General:

• Boar patrols will no longer become immortal and come running to Coen after he uses Voracious Bite on other animals.
• Fixed an issue that caused nuns to play their ambient animation instead of being dead.
• Fixed an issue that caused enemies near the ruined mountain tower to not move properly.
• Fixed an issue that caused target corpses to spin on the ground when using Compel Soul in the "A Study in Crimson" quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused bodies to remain highlighted in the focus mode even after investigating them.
• Coen will no longer suddenly teleport during a specific dialogue line in the "Home Sweet Home" quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused Coen to get stuck during the "Rise at Dawn" quest.
• Fixed an issue that allowed Coen to climb mine walls to reach out-of-bounds light sources during the "Bad Blood" quest.
• Coen will no longer teleport if the Astral Vision cinematic is skipped during the ritual event.
• Bosses' health bars no longer stay on the screen after disengaging from combat.
• Coen will no longer fall through the map while climbing walls during the “Hive and Seek” quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused the torch to remain active and burn out despite not using it.
• Fixed an issue that caused the screen to become bright orange during the "Home Sweet Home" quest.
• Burning out a torch will no longer affect other torches in the inventory.
• Fixed an issue that caused guards leaving Rena's house to fight unarmed instead of using swords during "The Firebrand" quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused merchant map icons to disappear after the time of day changed.
• Added a missing autosave during the "A Deal with the Devil" quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Pale Ravager Tatzelwurm to spawn in front of Coen.
• Fixed an issue that caused map scrolling to become unresponsive after toggling on legend and filter menus.
• Fixed an issue that caused attempting to start Claw Ride while standing on a window to launch Coen in the air.
• Fixed an issue that caused navigating to the Crafting tab to lock tooltip scrolling in the Inventory tab on controllers.
• [PS5 ONLY] Fixed an issue that caused screen flickering in the credits after using the controller's left and right triggers and pressing confirm at the same time.
• Stamina stats in the inventory will now refresh immediately after consuming stamina items.
• Fixed an issue that caused the moonrise cinematic to play when exploring Laslea in the prologue.
• [PC ONLY] Fixed an issue that caused frame drops when zooming in or out of the world map with a controller.
• Equipping an ability on the radial wheel will no longer unequip an existing ability.
• Fixed an issue that caused item flavor texts to overflow the tooltip borders in merchant menus.
• Ingredient tooltips in the Crafting menu are now properly aligned with the recipes.
• Custom map markers can no longer be placed outside the map.
• Fixed an issue that caused the light from a torch to be unnaturally big during the “Bad Blood” quest.
• Fixed an issue that blocked NPCs from spawning if the time of day changed while Coen was in the area.
• Fixed an issue that caused the time progression indicator to remain after clearing a Military Checkpoint.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Astral Vines status effect to incorrectly display a bleeding icon on the HUD.
• Fixed an issue that blocked the map filter navigation with a controller after reloading or dying.
• Coen can no longer leave the tutorial area by climbing one of the trees during the “All Good Things” quest.
• Coen can no longer get stuck when trying to climb one of the trees during the “All Good Things” quest.
• Coen will no longer fall through the map using Planeshift during the “Hive and Seek” quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused invisible walls to occur in the military checkpoints.
• Fixed an issue that caused collision and navigation gaps to appear north of a certain treasure point.
• Fixed an issue that caused the filter for haunted sites to appear twice on the map.
• Fixed an issue that caused switching tabs in the crafting menu to duplicate categories.
• Fixed an issue that caused the north wall of Svartrau city to fail to render at certain distances.
• Civilians in Maragir will now properly report crimes committed in their presence.
• Fixed an issue that caused some objects to get misplaced in Laslea.
• Fixed an issue that caused autosaves created during or after dialogues to have missing save thumbnails.
• Fixed an issue that caused animals to continuously circle around interaction points.
• Fixed an issue that caused enemies to despawn after knocking them away from their guard zone.
• Fixed an issue that prevented a certain bear from engaging in combat.
• Fixed an issue that caused a bear near Pieter's Solitude to spawn abruptly in front of Coen.
• Fixed an issue that caused choppy camera movement after activating Focus Mode during tutorial prompts.
• Fixed an issue that caused a certain NPC to run into a wall and get stuck during the bullying encounter.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Ability UI to be stuck on screen after opening Active Abilities at the end of combat.
• Fixed an issue that caused nearby NPCs to repeatedly trigger alarmed reactions when Voracious Bite was used.
• Coen can no longer Shadowstep through the walls of one of the buildings in the Middens.
• Fixed an issue that caused a kobold to fail its jump animation and vanish during the "Song of the Mountain" quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused an invisible platform to appear during the "Our Rotten Roots" quest.
• Beggars will no longer leave their bowls with coins on the streets at night.
• Fixed an issue that caused a traitor mark to appear prematurely on a certain house.
• Fixed an issue that caused opening the ability wheel to highlight an unusable ability from the previous selection.
• Fixed an issue that caused Neustadt Tower to prematurely display one of the objective markers.
• Fixed an issue that caused Coen to get stuck after interacting with Neberu while sprinting.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Swordmastery Teacher map icon to be missing.
• Coen will no longer fall through the roof at Silts Tower.
• Fixed an issue that caused the map search radius marker for Vicho's store to be excessively large.
• Coen can now return and complete the "Ritual" events even if he accidentally started them while being outside of the Ritual area.
• NPCs in the military checkpoints will no longer endlessly try to walk through assets.
• NPCs in the military checkpoints will no longer endlessly try to walk through cliffs.
• Fixed an issue that blocked players from choosing a perk to unlock during the perk tutorial.
• Fixed an issue that caused Coen to get stuck when jumping off some walls in Svartrau.
• Briar Sloughs Tower is now easier to navigate.
• The Matriarch will no longer permanently lose her shield if stunned before shapeshifting back to normal form.
• Guards will now properly disengage from combat and return to their original locations.
• Wraiths will now properly disengage from combat instead of becoming frozen.
• Multiple small improvements to animations.

Gameplay:

• Fixed an issue that prevented players from saving the game after using Voracious Bite.
• Disabled objective markers can no longer show up on the compass.
• Fixed an issue that blocked Coen from using any abilities after running away from a fight.
• Fixed an issue that caused an infinite black screen after training with Ocha.
• Fixed an issue that caused Burning Blood to damage Xanthe's shield during her invincibility phases.
• "Activation Charge Restoration from Actions" now properly increases the "Activation Charge Restoration from Block" values.
• Fixed an issue that caused the scaffolding tables in the cathedral to lack their focus mode highlight at night.
• Coen will no longer leave combat stance after moving near a doorway during the fight in the "Echoes of Silenced Bells" quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused soldiers to attack while still in their weapon-drawing animation.
• Fixed an issue that caused a black screen when opening the fast travel map after closing the journal.
• Wolves on the path between Sandy Gorge and Sanzhani will no longer be overly aggressive.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Pause Menu to become unresponsive if initiated after opening the Character tab.
• Snow is now more consistent in its appearance... and existence.
• Fixed a performance drop that happened at the beginning of the boss fight during the “Home Sweet Home” quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused Omniblock stamina reduction to exceed 100%, causing stamina to increase when blocking.
• Fixed an issue that allowed the Piercing Shriek ability to be used against civilians.
• Fixed an issue that caused newly unlocked abilities to fail to appear in the menu after drinking vrakhiri blood phials.
• Fixed an issue that caused Soul Reaping to continue damaging Xanthe after she disappears from the arena.
• Fixed an issue that caused Burning Blood to continue inflicting damage on Xanthe while untargetable.
• Improved Murohn's attack animations.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Gargoyle to spawn in the tower textures after loading an autosave.
• Fixed an issue that caused Death from Above to have an unintentionally shorter range than Voracious Bite.
• Fixed an issue that caused Xanthe to disappear prior to the cinematic transition.
• Fixed an issue that allowed Voracious Bite to be used on the undead NPC in the "A Hero's End" quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused previously evaded checkpoint enemies to respawn right in front of Coen.
• Fixed an issue that caused city patrol guards in Svartrau to stand idle due to missing patrol waypoints.
• Coen will no longer be blocked from switching weapons in combat after fast travel to a certain shrine.
• Fixed an issue that caused on-death ability effects to fail to spread to monastery nuns.
• Coen can now hit Gargoyle more consistently when using a short sword.
• Description of bonuses from Active and Passive abilities are now properly displayed during Focus Mode.
• Coen can no longer get into a T-pose after using Voracious Bite.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Crake from appearing in the Rebel's Hideout during the “Distant Shadows” quest.
• Brencis and his soldiers should now have audible VO during the Astral projections.
• Beehive can no longer provide infinite money.
• Combat with Catalin's Tutor can now start properly under any circumstances.
• Coen will no longer fall through the map if he jumps right before Lacra destroys the rocks during “A Friend Like This” quest.
• Nerfed one of the guards in the cathedral courtyard so he can no longer kill Coen in one hit when approached before level 30.
• Freeing Swordmaster during the “Bakir's Pillories: Catalin's Tutor” event no longer makes him aggressive towards Coen.
• Fixed an issue that caused FPS drops when draining Bakir.
• Broad Swipe (level 3 and 4) bonus damage should now be applied properly.
• Burning Blood (level 3 and 4) should now properly switch targets during non-lethal fist fights.
• Merchant in Silberstein should now be available at all times.
• Fixed an issue that prevented damage indicators from being displayed during a fight with the Matriarch.
• Ambrus’s shield can no longer disappear when he is blinded.
• Reduced the amount of autosaves created during a fight with Brencis.
• Fixed an issue that caused Coen to get stuck inside one of the towers during the “Echoes of Silenced Bells” quest.
• Bosses are no longer offended enough to stop fighting altogether if Coen interrupts their initial taunt.
• Knives will no longer get stuck to Bandits’ hands after they use a Knife Throw.
• Fixed an issue that caused Piercing Shriek to break Xanthe's attack animation during the fight.
• Fixed issues that caused Astral Roots to interrupt Coen's Planeshift and deal too much damage at the start.
• Fixed an issue that caused Coen to get stuck in the slow motion of the Active Ability wheel during Astral Communion.
• Improved the aiming of Shadowstep and Planeshift.
• Improved the crouching animation sequence.
• Fixed an issue that caused Mesmerized enemies to target Coen instead of other available enemies.
• Fixed an issue that caused the torch to not work properly under specific conditions.
• Fixed an issue that caused dodging while guarding to result in unintended character movement.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Wild Blood buff to be granted upon feeding even without learning the perk.
• Fixed an issue that blocked Coen from using Shadowstep in some parts of the church in Laslea.
• Coen will no longer fall through the map during the Shadowstep tutorial.
• Soldiers can no longer become invisible with the Blood Surge.
• Coen can no longer walk on water.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Witchcraft abilities health cost preview to ignore bonus overfeed health in Vrakhir form.
• Voracious Bite will now be properly auto-equipped in an available quickslot upon being unlocked.
• Fixed an issue that caused camera issues after using Voracious Bite on animals while standing in deep water and out of combat.
• Fixed an issue that caused an additional patrol from higher edicts to spawn in Parlita.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Human Health Restoration stat to work only on consumables.
• Fixed an issue that caused the critical hit indicator to disappear after or during a boar charge.
• Coen's movements will no longer appear altered under certain circumstances.

Quests:

Narrative:

• Lore texts mentioning St. Tyna are no longer inconsistent with quest lore.

Art:

• Fixed an issue that caused incorrect witchcraft markings to appear on Ambrus' hand.
• Fixed an issue that caused a duplicate banner asset to appear and vanish during the "Banner of Oppression" event.
• Fixed an issue that caused an incorrect animation of the female prisoner during the "Xanthe's Transports: Fair Maiden" event.
• Fixed an issue that caused Drogos to suddenly appear standing on top of a certain NPC's corpse after a dialogue in the "Rise at Dawn" quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused incorrect animations of a transport prisoner during the "Xanthe's Transports: Chosen One" event.
• Fixed an issue that caused corrupted ground textures to appear near the valley guardpost.
• Fixed an issue that caused heavy soldier neck textures to appear black at medium and long distances.
• Coen will no longer fall through the rocks during the "Deep down" quest
• Fixed an issue that caused Mireleaf Bracers to be visually clipped into the Bladedancer's Tunic.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Boiling Blood burning effect to not be applied properly across enemy models.
• Fixed an issue that caused Coen's leg animations to become distorted when struck by Brencis's Life Lock ability.
• Fixed an issue that made the lighting in Farkas' house look as if the roof was missing.
• Fixed an issue that caused scaffolding assets to abruptly pop into view.
• Ascar's facial hair will now move properly during dialogues in the "A closer look" quest.
• Lacra's head will no longer move erratically in the dialogue in the "Song of the Mountain" quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused sections of the road near Eerie Knoll to appear black at certain angles.
• Closed gaps in the mine's corridor walls.
• Unsheathing a weapon prior to approaching the pillory will no longer cause guards to have detached swords during cutscenes in the "Bakir's Pillories: Out of Love" event.
• Fixed an issue that caused a sigil on the ground to be stretched awkwardly across adjacent walls.
• Fixed an issue that caused the lighting to shift erratically when passing through doorways during the "Trouble With Silver" quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused wooden railings in the cathedral to pop in and out of view while moving.
• Added the missing combat sword icon in the dialogue option to attack bandits in the Middens.
• Fixed an issue that caused sudden fog density changes while walking on the top of Stoneward Post tower.
• Fixed an issue that caused night-to-day ambient lighting transitions to be delayed after upgrading perks at a shrine during edict sequences.
• Fixed an issue that caused screen flashing artifacts to occur while pushing the bookcase in the "Echoes of Silenced Bells" quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused the fog to noticeably change appearance when traversing the Kobold Cave during the "Hive and Seek" quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused weather and lighting to suddenly change after waiting at a shrine and moving away from it.
• A certain dwarf pine bush no longer grows on top of the Svartrau walls.
• Fixed issues that caused incorrect lighting changes after time progression.
• Improved the Mercurial Fervour VFX.
• Blood from Brencis's hand will now drip properly during the "Sacred Covenant" quest.
• Fixed an issue with the vampire eye effects.
• Fixed an issue that caused a visual artifact to appear during the outro cutscene.
• Fixed an issue that caused the loot details panel to appear corrupted.
• Fixed an issue that caused rocks near Brencis's Castle to load when in Coen's line of sight.
• Fixed an issue that caused soldier's chainmail torso to clip on the right arm.
• Fixed an issue that caused scaffolding on the tower in the Middens to load when in Coen's line of sight.
• Fixed an issue that caused rocks near the walls of Svartrau to load when in Coen's line of sight.
• Improved Lacra's Blood Hunger animation.
• Improved Coen's sprinting animation as a vrakhir, with a sword or claws drawn.
• Ursul's beard no longer disappears mid-conversation.
• Updated the Mercurial Fervour preview video in the Character tab.
• [PS5 ONLY] Improved the quality of UI assets.
• Neberu is now properly dressed.
• Fixed issues that caused bracers to not display correctly.
• Fixed an issue that caused random bright flashes while exploring the Uriash Village.
• Multiple lighting improvements in dialogues and cutscenes.
• Multiple SFX adjustments.
• Multiple adjustments to cinematic camera angles.
• Multiple small improvements to character art.

Audio:

• Combat music will no longer disappear during a fight with Xanthe in the cathedral.
• Gheorghe will now speak in his own voice.
• Holding the jump button while in the wolf form will no longer cause jump audio effects to trigger repeatedly.
• Isbrand's pain reaction sounds are now his own.
• Fixed an issue that caused muffled underwater audio effects.
• Fixed an issue that caused voice lines to fail to play during some ambient community scenes in Neustadt.
• Hitting animals with bare fists will no longer incorrectly play slashing sound effects.
• Fixed an issue that caused outdoor wind audio to be played at excessive volume inside Coen's bedroom.
• Combat music will no longer be delayed when fighting Pieter in the "Like Father, Like Son" quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused the level-up sound effects to be distorted following the "Bad Blood" quest completion.
• Broad Swing will now properly play the hit impact sound when Coen defeats an enemy in a single blow.
• Fixed an issue that caused combat music to continue playing into post-fight dialogue in the "A Mother's Heart" quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused multiple NPC background conversations to play at the same time.
• Fixed an issue that caused Xanthe's voice audio to be played too loudly when standing on the Cathedral roof.
• Fixed an issue that caused unintended screaming sound effects to play in the background during Coen's awakening in the "Smoke and Ashes" quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused the music to become inaudible after opening and instantly closing the Opening Cinematic and Game Music tabs.
• Multiple audio adjustments in dialogues.

Plugin:

• Fixed an issue that caused screen flickering when enabling window mode with DLSS Frame Generation on.

Stability:

• Fixed an issue that caused performance drops when exploring the treasury building area in the "A Study in Crimson" quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused an infinite loading screen after opening the Shrine menu just before an edict cutscene.
• Fixed an issue that caused a black screen after talking to an Old Lady during the “Where Loyalty Lies” quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused an infinite black screen when attacking the main guard too fast during “The Firebrand” quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused an infinite loading screen after pressing Escape on the Upgrade Item screen.
• Fixed an issue that caused an infinite loading screen during “The Night of Horrors” quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused an infinite loading screen during the “Someone Needs a Lesson” quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused an infinite loading screen when dying right when entering the portal during the “Home Sweet Home” quest.
• Fixed an issue that caused an infinite loading screen during the “Things Will Be Different Now” quest.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when using Voracious Bite.
• Fixed a crash that occurred if an NPC killed another one while being Mesmerized.
• Fixed an issue that caused frame rate drops when targeting Shadowstep on complex surfaces.
• Fixed an issue that caused the opened submenu to become unresponsive after double-pressing the confirm button on the controller in the menu.
• Fixed an issue that caused short freezes when saving, loading, or opening the save menu.
• Fixed an issue that caused an infinite loading screen before a conversation with Florin during the “A Hero's End” quest.
• Fixed a crash that occurred during the conversation with Kostel.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when killing an NPC during the “Xanthe's Excavations: Bloodied Dagger” event.
• Fixed a crash that occurred at the end of the “Lunar Games” quest.
• Fixed a crash that occurred after reading books or letters.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when loading save data from the Main Menu.
• Fixed an issue that caused FPS drops and a crash when using Haste in Svartrau.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when draining Bakir.
• Multiple other crash fixes and stability improvements.

Known issues we're currently looking into:

• Game may crash on switching FrameGen from OFF to ON (on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT only).