"Better Together" 1.4 Patch Notes

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Hello Wizarding Folk!

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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.

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"Better Together" - 1.4 Patch Notes

New Content

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• 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)