The Legend of Khiimori Patch 0.5.1

Firstly, we want to say thank you so much to **everyone **and for the feedback we've received so far!

Our QA department has been hard at work, and along with our developers, they've managed to identify and fix a load of the issues some of you have encountered. This is just the first patch, we'll be continuing to work on things in the next days and weeks!

A special thanks to all of you who left a review on steam, it helps us a lot so our game reaches even more people!

Without further ado, here's the notes:

Gameplay and World

• Added a new trait for Roza (Cold Lover).

• Hunger and thirst now reduce mood, and the “Scared” state clears after 3 minutes without danger.

Fixed Ovoo behavior:

• Ovoos now reactivate correctly after loading.

• Weather effects no longer trigger immediately on discovery.

• Added more spirit torches in Ovoo weather regions to improve navigation in bad visibility.

• Reduced the spawn density of certain world items.

• Fixed wood sometimes spawning incorrectly in piles.

• Added/adjusted various map marker and world marker placements (including bridge project markers).

Missions and Progression

• Cartography missions now use search-area markers.

• Fixed a mountain-top mission marker so it is now properly linked to a mission trigger.

• Improved the Mission Complete notification, now showing additional details like Prestige, rank upgrades, and relevant item/state info.

• Increased Cartographer missions to 3 per day.

• Fixed an issue where some points of interest did not show completion notifications.

Horses

• Fixed issues with horse merchant offers, including several faulty setups.

• Lootable chests in ruins now also check for saddlebags when adding items.

Adjusted Player Horse AI:

• Your horse should stay closer and not wander too far.

• The horse will move away when you start a conversation.

• Fixed issues related to horses getting stuck in water states:

• Fixed horses being stuck in swimming stress.

• Fixed jumping remaining disabled after swimming.

• Fixed cases where horses could incorrectly start walking after mounting.

• Fixed avoidance issues that caused unwanted movement input.

Controls and Input

• Improved gamepad control curves (movement and turning) for smoother handling.

• Added better tuning for speed control in tight turns, including allowing slower movement with backwards input.

• Improved haptic feedback during canter, gallop, slides, and jumping.

• Rebalanced tumble slowdown.

• Improved the feel of the virtual cursor and fixed cases where it moved too fast or caused UI issues.

• Fixed controller focus issues in menus (including save/load slot selection).

UI and Quality of Life

• Added missing resource icons and integrated new map marker icons.

• Fixed the horse stable UI to show cleaner whole-number stats instead of decimals.

• Added clearer feedback when an action can’t be performed.

Merchant UI improvements:

• Item effects are now shown in the merchant offer view.

• Added buy/sell feedback and fixed missing “out of stock” messaging.

• Sorted mission location dropdowns in cheats.

• Fixed the “Open Inventory” prompt appearing too small.

Audio

• Added a new thorn bush hit sound.

• Added missing UI and interaction sounds (including inventory item move sounds).

• Implemented conversation volume ducking so dialogue is clearer.

• Adjusted overall sound mix and balance, including wind, music, and UI sounds.

• Added route-planning sounds.

Visuals and Animation

• Improved player locomotion and reduced sliding issues.

• Improved conversation animations and blending; disabled special idles during conversation where appropriate.

• Fixed weather reactions affecting conversations (on foot and on horse).

• Added/updated animations for interacting with turtle stones (placing/removing stele).

• Polished stumble visuals and added additional feedback (visual + audio).

• Fixed various NPC skinning issues (including merchants) and dialogue facial lag.

Fixed cutscene issues:

• Removed intro title correctly when skipping.

• Improved letterbox scaling in the intro (potential fix).

• Fixed a camera loop issue in the foal reveal cutscene.

• Performance and Stability

• Added a new PSO cache for improved performance and reduced hitching.

• Improved draw-thread performance with additional occlusion optimizations.

• Reduced unnecessary ticking for map actors when not in use.

Fixed multiple crashes, including:

• Crash when opening merchant UI while leaving the open world.

• Crash when dismounting inside certain POI collision areas.

• Crash when changing texture settings.

• Divide-by-zero crash in crafting when a requirement amount was 0.

• Disabled tessellation on AMD GPUs to prevent visual artifacts.

Environment and Navigation

• Closed off parts of the Early Access South/East border area and adjusted navigation in several regions.

• Improved desert entrance layouts and added alternative paths where needed.

• Fixed blurry distant terrain/object visuals in several areas (HLODs), including rivers.