Ardenfall News

Here is the hotfix changelog for the most major issues we found from yesterday's big update, plus some minor fixes as well. The biggest and most important fix relates to npc's sometimes getting into a broken state, not interacting. This patch should fix those save files.

If you have any issues with Ardenfall, please join our discord! Sending us your save file can also be a HUGE help for us - several bugs fixed today were possible due to players submitting bug reports and save files!

[h3]Major Fixes:[/h3]

• Fixed potential save corruption
  
• Fixed some quest markers not saving state
  
• Fixed Tensi Gama following player after quest completion
  

[h3]Fixes:[/h3]

• Fixed status effect not being removed when health/mana/stamina gets full
  
• Fixed Karuntak dancing when stunned and killed
  
• Fixed quests allowing failing even after success
  
• Fixed some dialog typos
  
• Fixed shoe merchant not selling shoes
  
• Fixed some tooltips
  
• Fixed input mapping in main menu
  
• Enabled support for more resolutions
  

[h3]Balance:[/h3]

• Made stamina not drop when running and weapon is sheathed
  
• Balanced potions
  

Before we go into the patch notes, we just wanted to give a huge THANK YOU to everyone who tested our softlaunched demo! We got SO much amazing feedback, and tried to apply the most common feedback into the upcoming patch. It’s been a blast interacting with the community, and we very much looking forward to growing it further!

This patch will require new saves due to all of the changes to quests.

[h3]New Features:[/h3]

• Better Melee Animations: Now your weapon won't repeat the same swing animation over and over again
  
• Input Remapping: You can now remap inputs to whatever keys you desire
  
• Steam Achievements: We added a handful of steam achievements! Try to unlock them all :)
  
• New Quests: Two new quests, Amphibious Ambassador and Frogs of War

[h3]Improvements:[/h3]

• Streamlined every quest
  
• Added bounty system
  
• Added “active quest” feature
  
• Added spore weather
  
• Replaced multiple equippable lockpicks with a single lockpick
  
• Made pressing shift when sneaking make player exit sneaking
  
• Added dialog speed+sound options
  
• Added military time option
  
• Improved Teleporting Kimashi AI
  
• Improved stat bars in inventory screen
  
• Made stolen items marked as such
  
• Optimized character mesh generationImproved NPC companion following
  
• Optimized world loading
  
• Added stilted shoes
  

[h3]Major Fixes:[/h3]

• Fixed some items/containers not being marked as owned
  
• Fixed camera rotating incorrectly when switching between viewmodes or swimming
  
• Fixed npc’s not detecting when player steals items from containers
  
• Fixed Niko head spawning multiple times
  

[h3]Fixes:[/h3]

• Fixed illegal text color on interactables
  
• Fixed menu’s being openable when in pause or options menu
  
• Fixed older sand elf player choice being karu elf race
  
• Fixed npcs not looking at player when interacting with AI interactables
  
• Fixed shop interactable using incorrect headlook mode
  
• Fixed dialog text animation skipping
  
• Fixed npc’s facial morphs being beyond boundaries sometimes
  
• Fixed npc’s blinking, expressions, and lipsync not working
  
• Fixed sleeping npc’s AI
  
• Fixed tame yanaki attacking garkai enemies
  
• Fixed enchanted armor turning pink on dead characters once ragdoll sleeps
  
• Fixed npcs not casting ice-spike and related spells
  
• Fixed loading dead niko body breaking animation
  
• Fixed objective markers not clearing when phase or quest is ended
  
• Fixed water splash sound not playing
  
• Fixed clothing not hiding underneath armor sometimes
  
• Fixed some hair not getting cut when wearing hats
  
• Fixed throwing items and arrows having high enchantment costs
  
• Fixed armor stat column in UI not being correct when not meeting stat requirement
  
• Fixed world time not correctly updating
  

[h3]Balance:[/h3]

• Balanced humanoid npc combat
  
• Increased damage on melee weapons
  
• Balanced stamina
  
• Balanced heavy armor
  
• Balanced high level monsters being too powerful
  
• Changed great axe charge attack to knockback
  
• Made player leveling/combat power progress faster
  
• Balanced magic mana usage
  
• Balanced summoning magic
  
• Lowered gold costs for spells and potions
  
• Reduced strength of knockback enchantment
  

Thank you again to all the testers, and I hope you enjoy this official demo version! We put a TON of work into this patch, and hope you enjoy the changes. If you have any feedback, we'd love to hear it! The best place to give it is our discord here!

The third patch for Ardenfall's softlaunched demo has arrived! This comes with a handful of small features, and a ton of improvements and fixes.

Features:

• Added “Custom Map Marker” system
  
• Made arrows / throwing knives re-lootable from corpse
  
• Added simple clock to quest menu
  
• Added Niko monster variant 
  
• Added Niko SFX
  

Improvements:

• Made “Q” open the Quest Journal, instead of the Map
  
• Optimized distance terrain not stripping higher level LODs
  
• Made non humanoids unable to open doors
  
• Improved Poison Ball spell
  
• Added new starting item set for summoners
  
• Improved ranged and assassin starting item sets
  
• Minor optimizations on lighting systems
  
• Reduced blur in water
  
• Made NPC’s always pass stat requirement
  
• Made NPC’s always pass enchantment stat multiplier
  
• Added character limit to player name
  
• Added options menu to main menu
  
• Made “Feed Dead” enchantment not apply to bows and melee weapons 
  
• Improved HUD elements
  
• Increased overall brightness of game
  
• Improved npc’s shortbow ai
  
• Made exploding pods react to monsters
  
• Flipped keys for containers (opening vs taking)
  
• Added “click delay” to weapons after dialog closing, stopping users from accidentally attacking enemies after dialog
  
• Added “Favorites” menu
  
• Made melee weapons block after attacking if secondary mouse is being held down
  
• Made throwing potions not affect thrower
  
• Improved audio volume falloff
  

Major Fixes:

• Fixed leveling up skills sometimes “locking”
  
• Fixed melee weapon locking
  
• Fixed bow locking when aiming while entering water
  

Fixes:

• Fixed map fog of war inverting when saving
  
• Fixed arrow staying in hand sometimes
  
• Fixed enchanted weapons not scaling to ability with weapon
  
• Fixed Poison Ball spell visual
  
• Made equipped spell / throwing potion / throwing item non-quickusable
  
• Fixed quickslot item not being able to be requickslotted
  
• Fixed outlaws not attacking player
  
• Fixed bounty being affected by effects too much
  
• Fixed items without requirements
  
• Fixed quickslot sometimes not reassigning
  
• Fixed arrow count in hud not updating when shooting/picking up arrows
  
• Fixed fall damage not triggering
  
• Fixed npc’s not always noticing when allies are yelling
  
• Fixed quest location “discovered” not saving state
  
• Fixed darvaki sometimes not attacking player
  
• Fixed “Well Rested” status effect when you sleep at inn being too short
  
• Fixed humanoid ragdolls sometimes teleporting into the floor
  
• Fixed camera breaking in certain instances
  
• Fixed spells/potions not using roman numerals
  

Balance:

• Made attribute and skill modifiers allow to go beyond base cap
  
• Increased high level health
  
• Increased high level simple enemy damage
  
• Slowed down shortsword animations
  
• Removed bleed and crit from greatsword and made stun only occur on hard attack
  
• Removed bleed and stun from shortsword
  
• Removed stun and crit from dagger
  
• Made katana a light weapon
  
• Increased greataxe hard attack damage and decreased base damage
  
• Decreased shortbow and longbow damage
  
• Fixed initial fine weapon stat
  
• Set maximum companion count to 1
  
• Increased value of monster drops
  
• Added skill requirements to spell slates and spell scrolls
  
• Redesigned how initial skills are calculated for player and npc’s
  

The second patch for the Ardenfall Demo is here - consisting of some MAJOR save related fixes, plus a few minor features and tons of smaller fixes.

[h3]Content:[/h3]

• Added Inn system: sleep at the inn and skip the night!
  
• Made several fungi pickable, added new consumables
  

[h3]Balance Changes:[/h3]

• Increased money gained from selling items
  
• Made merchants refill gold and money every day
  
• Made plants pickable every day
  
• Heavily increased chance of arrows appearing in containers
  

[h3]Improvements:[/h3]

• Improved heavy weapon animations and combat feel
  
• Improved starting dungeon
  
• Improved Inn level design
  
• Improved southern forest level design
  
• Added many more icons to dialog
  
• Improved dagger combat
  
• Improved Dozaru animations
  
• Improved Darvaki animations
  
• Added more spawn points
  
• Improved Sheru Tombs entrance
  
• Made inventory and gold changes show up in UI
  
• Made NPC merchants, inn keepers, and quest NPC’s show relevant icon on lookat
  
• Improved faction relationship UI
  
• Added traits to in-game character sheet
  
• Added simple quickslot visual to player inventory screen
  
• Added “Open Log Files” button to options menu
  

[h3]Major Fixes:[/h3]

• Fixed character name, faction relationships, and certain attributes + skills not saving
  
• Fixed locked chest becoming non-interactable after saving
  

[h3]Fixes:[/h3]

• Fixed movement stutter 
  
• Fixed “faction popup” appearing when it shouldn’t (Regression in 0.6.4)
  
• Reduced volume of stone footstep sounds
  
• Fixed Outlaws not attacking the player
  
• Fixed silvanite chestplace not hiding arms
  
• Fixed dark steel greatsword offset
  
• Removed character bone scaling temporarily, fixing various animation offset issues 
  
• Fixed some pickables having “Pick {0}” in name
  
• Fixed Darvaki “Saluting” 
  
• Removed player “flinching”, fixing issues with weapon being misaligned 
  
• Fixed sheranu hut interiors not applying interior ambient filter
  
• Fixed barefeet not playing object footstep sounds
  
• Fixed character name not having limit
  
• Removed confusing “Equip” option from item pickups
  
• Renamed “Loot” option to “Open” for dead bodies to be consistent with containers
  
• Fixed “health delta” UI not working sometimes
  
• Fixed a soft lock in Yanaki quest
  
• Fixed outline sticking around on pickable plants
  

The first official Ardenfall Demo patch has come! This patch fixes many major issues, with a few quality of life additions here and there, and some balance tweaks to fix glaring issues. The next patch will most likely contain many more balance changes, and of course more fixes!


[h3]Major Fixes:[/h3]

• Fixed floating monsters in Living Tunnels
  
• Fixed save menu manual saving causing mouselook to enable
  
• Fixed trade menu causing mouselook to enable
  
• Fixed mage robes + basket + other items tooltips breaking
  
• Fixed certain npc spawners not saving state
  
• Fixed being damaged sometimes resulting in weapon being softlocked
  
• Fixed spell hand vfx not being removed when entering water
  
• Fixed Karuntak floating after leaping
  
• Fixed Niko not attacking
  
• Fixed typing in save menu sometimes exiting the menu
  
• Fixed inventory contents flipping sometimes
  
• Fixed softlocks in various quests
  
• Fixed night time lasting too long
  

[h3]Fixes:[/h3]

• Fixed sun “snapping” at noon
  
• Fixed finger animations on humanoids
  
• Fixed Kawamoku’s flying into the heavens
  
• Fixed flinch animation being too extreme
  
• Fixed item events not occurring for spell hand vfx
  
• Removed constant fireball sound
  
• Made health, mana, stamina potions only fill to the max health of the casting time
  
• Fixed save screenshot being cropped incorrectly
  
• Fixed spell merchant buying spells at reduced prices
  
• Fixed innkeeper not selling drinks
  
• Fixed interaction point in The Forge
  
• Increased scale of some sliders
  
• Added quest markers to all quests
  
• Added far quest markers to final steps of yanaki quest
  
• Fixed journals in various quests
  
• Fixed Lone Healer not having dialog
  
• Fixed rings found in containers not being enchanted
  
• Fixed manual save triggering multiple saves
  
• Fixed collisions and seams in Abandoned Mines
  
• Removed incorrect items from Abandoned Mines
  
• Fixed incorrect key for quicksave in shortcut lists
  
• Fixed footstep sounds not playing with most weapons
  
• Fixed material sound not being applied to several tunnel pieces
  

[h3]Balance Changes:[/h3]

• Cut Hollowhorn health in half
  
• Balanced enemy spawn rates
  
• Increased attack speed on niko’s shot
  
• Added new spells to mage set
  
• Made arrows guaranteed to be re-picked up
  
• Increased chance for mage robes and lockpicks to appear in containers
  
• Increased chance for spell slates to appear in merchant trades
  

If you find any issues while playing, please join our Discord to report them!