Thursday 12th March 2015: Patch 2.1 is now ready and available

Hi all,

patch 2.1 for Blackguards 2 has been released today on Thursday afternoon and is now available. (Please find the German version of the patchnotes HERE and the Russian version HERE)

You’ll find detailed change-log below. If you should experience further problems while playing Blackguards 2 please contact us here or our technical support team via support@daedalic.de so we can work on fixing the issue. Thank you for your support and feedback!

Your Team Daedalic

Changelog Blackguards 2 Patch 2.1:

MAJOR

• fixed a potential script freeze during Battle of El'Halem

• fixed game breaks if renaming savegames during battles

• fixed faulty win condition in Benivilla Forest recapture scenario

• corrected win condition issue in Niobes Estate

• fixed game breaks if spawning entities die

• fixed a potential error source in Shinna preparation battle win conditions

• fixed problem that Faramud's dialog was deactivated when whole map was conquered

• fixed a problem with with Cassia-Dialog that hindered the game to progress

• fixed carnage training fight that wasn't triggered correctly

• fixed freeze on some maps when using the LoS tool

BALANCING

• reduced critical hit chance of bounty hunters to zero

• destructible Crystals can now be destroyed with a single melee hit of any damage type

• lowered damage threshold to interrupt Great Petrifier's eternal petrification power

• made Zurbaran's Seduction of Niobe more likely to be successful

• added additional belts to lorfas merchant's supply

• hammerblow maneuver now causes triple damage

• more aup damage and exp costs for feint maneuver

• more damage and exp costs for aimedthrust maneuver

• additional wound and increased aup costs for sniper

• reduction of the offhand bonus of dualwield 1 and dualwield 2

• increased exp costs of dualwield 1 and dualwield 2

• adjusted difficulty levels "easy" and "hard" to increase the difference (easy is easier, hard is harder)

• increased the wound penalties

MINOR

• corrected Great Petrifier's collision for Line-Of-Sight calculations

• corrected Great Petrifier's dodge animation

• adjusted size of deployment zones in several maps

• improved camera start locations in several defend and recap scenarios

• increased camera scroll speed on Adamant Map

• fixed a few missing sounds on interactive environment

• reduced resistances of insect warrior in Lorfas

• optimized functionality of arsonist objectives in Dujar Looting and Cuoris Sbotage fights

• fixed a problem in battle of mengbilla battle-script that hindered catapult impacts if cassia was very good or very evil

• added hint for treasure chests

• fixed minor issues with barrel towers in a couple of maps

• added more cheering to arena battle

• made traps and interactive objects trigger if entities spawn on them

• fixed a potential dialog bug in the goblin mine

• set Leaper's jump attack effects to -forced- to avoid victims to sometimes remain unaffected

• fixed an issue with 3d models not disappearing in escape zones

• fixed dialog after losing preparation battle for first chimerologist

• fixed Nasrin's stats, items and portrait

• removed spider webs' spike damage resistance

• corrected win conditions timing issues in several defend and recap scenarios

• fixed an AI problem in Marwan Strikes Back scenario

• reduced enemy spawn in goblin mine defend scenario

• fixed berserk elixir

• removed two potential error sources in archer AI scripts

• Tykates now vanishes correctly from his cage when released or executed

• repaired missing texture link in Jester Wood gore

• corrected hex cell height levels in a few maps

• improved AI script interaction with Ecliptifactus entities

• added hint boxes for chimera conversions with the Hell Organ

• fixed a problem with partial success in El Halem preparation battle

• fixed swamphole script so it properly reacts to knocked back entities

• fixed dialog timing in Adamant battle

• repaired Morfu sounds

• fixed problem that Takate and Zurbaran were set inactive when their dialogs are done.

• fixed broken narrator-screen prior to ElHalem.

• fixed some Problems with Riz' dialogs

• fixed dialog option about saving Mirai in Marwan's throneroom

• fixed problem that bits of dialog may repeat in Niobe/Zurbaran-Dialogs and in Takate's dialog in the camp

• fixed some minor dialog-problems

• fixed problem with achievements "The Saint" and "The Monster"

• fixed Knockback so it no longer pushes victims through Fortifex walls

• fixed the Screen of "four years later" just displaying "4" in Japanese

• corpofrigo lvl4 no longer breaks if cast on a neutral object

• fixed an issue with difficulty levels are not being applied correctly

• added tooltip for difficulty level option

• added path-dots on worldmap that were missing when re-entering from the camp

• opening the tutorial in battle no longer breaks the interface

• improved font rendering on high resolutions

• fixed some resolutions not working correctly

• ecliptifactus clone can no longer use the 'guard' action

• fixed issue with traps not working after un-/selecting them multiple times

• added multiple small GUI and loading time improvements

• fixed poison effects that were not shown correctly on some weapons

• fixed camera sometimes behaving strangely on worldmap

• fixed battlelog not showing correct number of wounds

• fixed multiple errors in the comparison of item effects

• fixed auto-sequence not stopping speech if skipped

• removed need to click right mouse button after using a free action (e.g. throwing a weapon)

• converted creatures no longer trigger attacks of opportunity from the own team

• multiple small visual fixes

• solved a few issues with text not scaling properly

• fixed a problem where two different items with the same localized name in the description box

• enabled the battle shortcut buttons during the enemies' turn

• character story progress buffs are now correctly displayed on the character sheet