Torchlight III (Beta) News

Originally posted by Team

To work closely with the Closed Beta testers, we continue to do weekly updates. While it means that some bugs might make it past our QA team, it does help us get more immediate feedback from our changes.

A "mainline" patch brings all of the past week's development work into the Closed Beta test. There will be a maintenance downtime during this patch release, after which the patch will be released for download.

Bug reports in the Steam Discussion, via Feedback button in-game, and through Discord are incredibly helpful, thank you! Players will notice many of their reports listed as fixed in today's Patch Notes.

Today’s patch includes the announced level cap update and character wipe, which means all characters, items, and Fort objects have been wiped clean (it was the last of our Toilet Paper, you monsters!). We are very excited to see how the updated experience feels to new and veteran testers alike and hope these recent updates will continue to improve the flow and progression of the game.

This patch also includes one of the most EXPLOSIVE UPDATES YET! You might be excited about some of the other updates and fixes coming soon, but the revision to exploding barrels is one of my favorite changes yet! They no longer explode immediately, which gives obsessive smashers like me time to contemplate our compulsive need to destroy other people’s things.

More to come next week, so as always, thank you for all the feedback, bug reports, and testing!

See you in-game!
- Echtra Bean


[h2]GENERAL[/h2]

• Character wipe.
  
• Character level cap updated to 60.
  
• New skill point distribution for the level 60 cap.
  
• Fixed achievements that were completing incorrectly: Reinforced Relic, Savant
  
• Switched Yapper VO for new actor.
  
• Attempting to fix a bug where new languages show up in the options menu but do not switch to the correct strings when selected. (live languages: English, French, German, Italian)
  
• Sped up rifle/pistol missiles.
  
• Updated loading screen tip "Press E to swap to your equipped relic." to "Press to activate to your equipped Relic." to more accurately reflect what happens when you use your relic.
  

[h2]ENVIRONMENT[/h2]

• Exploding Barrels now explode after a short delay, and visually show a warning that they are about to explode, rather than exploding immediately when hit.
  
• VFX Update: Explosive barrels.
  
• Fixed a gravestone prop in Heroes' Rest that was floating above ground, as spooky gravestones do.
  
• Added a scaffold that falls when player is near it in Intro Town level.
  

[h2]UI/UX[/h2]

• Upgrading a skill now requires a press and hold.
  
• Added fade into animation to the class mechanic screens. Also tweaked the alignment to have the content centered on the screen.
  
• Adding Machineworks map icon, switching Scavenger's Trail to use Voltura icon.
  
• Adding final icons for Relic skills: Ice Golem, Innervate, Lightning Strike, Magma Burst, Reign of Fire, and Victory Performance.
  
• Fixing icon for Tight Grouping.
  
• Updated Consumables help tutorial hotkeys
  

[h2]ITEMS & GEAR[/h2]

• Corrected it so that Respectacles do not drop from bosses before level 5.
  
• Fixed it so that certain clickables (mostly those in the Infested Forest) are now able to give you loot when you click on them.
  

[h2]QUESTS[/h2]

• Fixed erroneous quest objective map marker icon that was appearing in the Hyvid Capital.
  

[h2]PETS[/h2]

• Pet Skills have been re-tuned to have more potent effects that occur less frequently.
  • Battle Cry - Cooldown increased to 30 seconds, damage buff increased to 25%.
    
  • Defensive Posture - Cooldown increased to 30 seconds, damage reduction buff increased to 25%.
    
  • Healing Friendship - Cooldown increased to 30 seconds, healing increased to 50% of maximum health.
    
  • Necropupper - Cooldown increased to 30 seconds. No other changes needed, these were already quite strong.
    
  • Pass the Gas - Cooldown increased to 30 seconds, damage increased to 125% Weapon Damage
    
  • Menacing Sound - Cooldown increased to 30 seconds, fear duration increased to 5s.
    
  • Screeching Stun - Cooldown increased to 30 seconds. Now deals 200% weapon damage in addition to stunning, and always stuns instead of having a 35% chance to stun.
    
  • Immobilizing Strikes - Removed the cooldown from the tooltip, this was always a passive effect..
    
  • Fixed incorrect hotkey in Pet Shelter help tutorial.
    
  • Edited down the general description of how pets work (which appears when customizing your pet in character creation or on pet rescue) and added a specific description of each pet type.
    

[h2]SKILLS[/h2]

Sharpshooter:
• Increased Tight Grouping's ammo to 4 from 3
  
• Fixed status effect on Ghost Visage to clear on attack.
  

Hello Torchlight Community!

We have heard concerns about Torchlight 3’s end game, and we are making some changes. While we have made some adjustments to improve it, we know that we still have work to do. These first changes aim at making some of our existing systems do a better job in the late game. We still have some more adjustments like these to make, but we also are looking at potential bigger changes - no promises yet.

First, the contract system exists to reward extended play and we’ve made those rewards better. For players who are more focused on power and achievement, contract rewards now include: item bundles, ember cores, respectacles, more map packs, enchanting recipes, essence, and gold. We hope that this presents some clear rewards for continuing to play - ones that have more impact than improving your fort.

Second, we are reducing the end level grind. The level cap will be lowered from 100 to 60. With the story content ending at around level 50, this leaves a shorter mapworks grind to max level. The hunt for the perfect top end gear can start earlier. It also provides more space if/when any additional future end-game content is added. Here are more details:

• Change the hard cap for things like bonus level on items spawned, mapworks level progression, etc.
  
• Adjust the curve of how much XP is required for each level-up.
  
• Cap item levels at 60 instead of 100.
  
• Update the achievement to reach level cap down from 100 to 60.
  
• Redistribute skill points: 80 skill points max per character, 10 points can be invested per skill.
  
• Give Skill Tier Bonuses at levels 3/6/10 instead of 4/8/12

Now, we can’t just lower the level cap and a bundle of other updates without it breaking some things - particularly existing characters. Plus, we want to see how the changes feel in a sanitized environment. So next week, when this update is live, all of your character data will be wiped and the world will start fresh to coincide with the start of the Closed Beta. While wipes are normal in Alpha and Beta stages, we know that they can be tough; the Closed Beta Test NPCs are still there to help push characters up through the levels and we encourage players to utilize them to play late-game content whenever they want to.



(You can find NPCs in each town, for example on the West Docks of Trevail Point that will boost your character level and give you a base set of items. Please note that you may want to complete your Relic quest before boosting your character, as your Relic will be chosen for you if you don’t.)

Look at this wipe as an opportunity to try out some new builds, reconsider that fort layout and try a class that you’ve neglected. Thanks for rolling with this change - it’s part of your contribution towards making this a better game.

- Tyler & Shawn

To work closely with the Closed Beta testers, we continue to do weekly updates. While it means that some bugs might make it past our QA team, it does help us get more immediate feedback from our changes.

A "mainline" patch brings all of the past week's development work into the Closed Beta test. Players will need to exit the game in order to download the new version.

Bug reports in the Steam Bug forum, via Feedback button in-game, and through Discord are incredibly helpful, thank you! Players will notice many of their reports listed as fixed in today's Patch Notes.

Today’s biggest update comes from a conversation we had with our Discord community. After discussing a lack of viable defensive character builds, we’ve updated defense to have a bigger impact on gameplay. We’ve increased the damage mitigation, meaning you’ll be better protected if you’ve focused on optimizing your defense. We’ve also adjusted shields to be stronger and more effective against blocking. Between these two updates, this should give players more options for those that like to play more defensive/tank-like builds.

Also included in this update are stability fixes, updates to portaling, and UI enhancements. We’ve also made updates to make the Fort unlock sequence better and cleaned up some environment issues so that items should no longer be stuck behind Boss chests.

More to come next week, so as always, thank you for all the feedback, bug reports, and testing!

See you in-game!
- Echtra Bean

[h2]GENERAL[/h2]

• Fast-moving projectiles should no longer pass through targets without hitting them.
  
• Increased the amount of damage mitigation based on ratio of actual vs. expected defense so that you can get higher amounts of mitigation by achieving more optimized defense.
  
• Fixed the Sharpshooter’s bow appearing disconnected in Character Create screen.
  
• Hide the Portal skill until the player can actually access it (Imperial Outpost quest).
  
• When loading into the Title and Character Select screens, and when traveling, players should no longer see a big stall and the overall load time should be faster.
  
• Added middle mouse icon shortcut for keybinding.
  
• Fixed an issue where characters sometimes rotate incorrectly when moving towards the edge of the navmesh with the gamepad.
  

[h2]ITEMS & GEAR[/h2]

• Changed shields to pick between standard defense primary affix (the same as chest or pants/locomotion) and a stronger (x1.5) primary defense affix and between a standard block chance (what it was before) and a higher block chance (roughly double).
  
• Potential fix for potion UI not updating after travel.
  
• Fixed so lifebound items will drop once again. After level 7, there's a general 10% chance that a non-legendary weapon or armor that is dropped will be lifebound. In addition, all items that drop in Phase Dungeons (entered via Phase Beast portals) have a much higher chance of being lifebound (nearly 100%). Scrolls of Unbinding continue to be dropped from bosses. The term "Phasic" no longer appears in the name of lifebound items.
  
• Implemented 11 new bow items across common, magic and rare qualities. Updated and renamed several bows.
  
• You can now disenchant normal items.
  

[h2]ENVIRONMENT[/h2]

• Fixed issues with Fire VFX.
  
• Adjusted cave environment to better cover the non-navigable space so that items don't drop behind the large boss chest.
  
• Added automaton spawners to the Vault of Goldbeard's Legacy.
  
• Fixed so that the Phase Dungeon version of the Krronk dungeon generates an exit portal.
  
• Warpback portals will always spawn in their target location, regardless of monster collision at that location.
  
• Extended the bottom of some Echonok levels to prevent them from appearing to float.
  
• Fixed waypoint portals that look out of place in Voltura Village and other Echonok areas.
  
• Fixed clickable gravestone prop that was placed behind a prop wall.
  
• Stray guards and alpacas were at the origin of Goblin Cemetery for unknown reasons, they have been removed.
  
• Updated breakables in Abandoned Mines to be less clean.
  
• Art updates to Infested Cemetery.
  
• Removed extra island visible in Trevail Point mini map.
  
• Added some chests, breakables, and two climb-up spawners in Firebelly Stonghold.
  
• Placed Train in Echonok Town.
  
• Fixed issue with animated minecart stopping prematurely.
  
• Removed vertex colors from bridges.
  
• VFX/SFX Updates/Fixes:
  • Vendor Audio Implemented: Yelnika, Teej, Jaroc, Erl, Small Tom, Jen Marie, Sami, Phix, Logaan, Rhonda, Dicey, Wilfur, Wilbur and Rahndo
    
  • Electric Skeleton audio.
    
  • Bats sounds fixed.
    
  • All traps should now have a trigger sound 100% of the time. Sometimes you will hear narrator saying you've triggered the trap as well. All hazard traps (poison, fire, electric and bomb, should also have sounds related to the hazards.
    
  • Coils now have a looped sound like electricity plus the zap sounds when you get hit.
    
  • Added additional task to go to Edgewood Bluff in Fortuitous Arrival quest so that the narrator VO for "You have finished a quest" and "You have started a quest" doesn't overlap/interrupt the other VO before entering Edgewood Bluff from Occupied Trevail Point. The VO will instead occur while loaded into Edgewood Bluff.
    
  • Several new audio clips added including: Heartseeker Proc Shots, Dark Spears Lightning Strikes, Ferret, Clickable Sac, Zap on Block
    
  • VFX Updates to: Affix Frost Armor, Railmaster Track Laying, Electric Zombie, Witch
• Nav Mesh/Collision Fixes/Updates:
  • Fixed bad bridge bounciness & collisions.
    
  • Player can walk off ground in Mossrat Den.
    
  • Wood scaffolding in Trevail Point that steals clicks.
    
  • Broken navmesh in Amber Hold.
    
  • Flicker in Grand Hall.
    
  • Player walking through pillar in Sundered Throne.
    
  • Invisible collision blocks movement of player in Field of Filth.
    
  • Fixed The Brall's Boss arena collision issues.
    
  • Clipping issues in Excavated Workshop.
    
  • Treasure chest that clips through fence in Heroes Rest.
    
  • Sword of NPC Kenik occlusion visible way underground.
    
  • Player can see out of world in Hyvid Tunnels.
    
  • Player clipping issues in Library.
    
  • Player can see out of world in Excavated Workshop.
    
  • Shrine that clips through table in the Library.
    
  • Multiple rocks in Grand Hall.
    
  • Player clipping through multiple rocks in Trevail Passage.
    
  • Player can walk out of play area in Fields of Unrest.
    
  • Player can walk out of play area in Hyvid Capital.
    
  • Player clipping through rocks in The Guarded path
    
  • Hole in the Astral Gate.
    
  • Multiple rocks lack collision at 'Edgewood Bluff'.
    
  • Ground Tile texture appears cut-off in "Bogwood Hollow".

[h2]CLASSES & SKILLS[/h2]

• Added a confirmation window when you are going to spend a skill point. This will be adjusted to a “hold down the button” interface in a future patch.
  Performed a copyediting pass on all relic skill and per-level bonus text.
  
• Sharpshooter:
  • Added final icons for Sharpshooter skills (except Tight Grouping).
    
  • Added tier three bonus to Tight Grouping.
    
  • Added in milestone bonuses for Sharpshooter Skills: Goblin Legion, Onslaught, Ghost Visage, Scout, Rizzi, Goose
    
  • Fixed a skill milestone in Onslaught that had no associated bug.
    
  • Swapping the progression unlock of Heartseeker and Scattershot.
    
  • Updates to Scout’s Bones to resolve issues traveling up staircases.
    
  • Fixing spelling inconsistencies for Heart Seeker skill milestone descriptions.
    
  • Shasta skill is now selectable from an empty skill slot.
    
  • Onslaught's cooldown is functioning.
• Dusk Mage:
  • Edited description of Luminous Run to say that it makes you dash forward.
    
  • Fixed issue where Netherim Warriors in Spirit Well target interactable objects.
• Forged:
  • Fixed Ramming Robot damage issues.
• Railmaster:
  • Hammer Spin tier 3 milestone now gives 50% damage reduction as its tooltip states, and it has a buff icon.
    
  • Changed the Tier 3 Shield Car milestone's buff effect to use the same icon as the normal buff effect instead of 'Stronger Together's icon.
    
  • Updated skill description wording on Shield Car.
    
  • Updates to Lay Track to help resolve issues with it being unusable in certain zones.
    
  • Adjusted base turret's damage to only be one decimal.
    
  • VFX Updates: Lay Track

[h2]MONSTERS[/h2]

• Reduced monster AI path-following jitter along navmesh edges.
  
• Goblin Grenade decal size, explosion size, and area of effect reduced.
  
• World bosses are no longer permanently stuck when playing in offline mode.
  
• Adjusted spawn positions for more random popup locations.
  
• Resolved issue that caused occasionally invulnerable monsters to stick around.
  
• Goblin Apprentice buff now also grants some attack speed, 40% movement speed, and the visual is just a hair bit larger.

[h2]PETS[/h2]

• Further clarification on the affix wording of Pet Legendary 'health on hit' affix.
  
• Fixed pet Battle Cry skill shape not appearing while in Online Mode.

[h2]QUESTS[/h2]

• Gravestones in Heroes' Rest for the Restless Heroes quest should only appear when the quest is active.

[h2]FORT[/h2]

• Fixed an issue where wardrobes could get stuck on screen if the player switched which fort prop they were previewing while they are loading.
  
• Fixed an issue where the fort could not be customized in offline mode.
  
• You can no longer attempt to portal to your Fort if you have not unlocked it.
  
• Update to disallow party members from entering a portal to my fort if I haven't unlocked it.
  
• The Fort is now unlocked after you have killed the boss, not after you go to your Fort.
  
• Fixed missing fort skills icon.
  
• Fix to resolve disconnect issue when accessing the player Fort.
  
• Added the Arms Cart, the Sharpshooter's skill station.
  
• Added the Jawbreaker Hunter rare Sharpshooter wardrobe. This replaces the Glittering Hunter rare Sharpshooter wardrobe (which was reusing a Dusk Mage wardrobe).
  
• Changed Respectacle Scrolls to Respectacles, with new art.

[h2]UI/UX[/h2]

• Always Show Nameplates' option now defaults to off.
  
• DoTs (Damage Over Time) show damage numbers and report damage once per second instead of every half second.
  
• Updated the selection states on skill icons to reflect the new design.
  
• The first point spent in relic skills now shows its effect in the UI.
  
• Updated the respectacles screen to match the new skill layout.
  
• Added "Lakeside Clearing" passage hub to the map.
  
• Fixed issue with Lakeside Clearing hub icon not behaving properly on rollover and selection.
  
• Typo fix in the error message for 'not enough Ramming Robot charges'.
  
• Centered the stash UI header text to fit the new top header format.
  
• Social tab UI cleanup.
  
• Relic tab UI cleanup, including updating icon that was too small.
  
• Removed pet portrait and replaced it with the pet icon.
  
• General text style and alignment updates.
  
• Player Info UI shouldn't have a DPS tooltip for damage, so this has been removed.
  
• Update to prevent an empty tooltip from showing up when you can't travel to a party member or party member fort.
  
• Fixed incorrect sort in gamepad targeting.
  
• Fixed incorrect gamepad button appearing in "Tutorial: Relics" when playing on gamepad.
  
• Fixed extraneous buff icon showing on Luminous Run.
  
• Fixed an issue where players couldn't cast skills at all with the gamepad if there were no targets and they were facing towards a spot with no ground.
  
• Fixed an issue where the tooltip comparison didn't display on the first item viewed with the gamepad.
  
• Pet skills can now be added to slots via the controller.
  
• Changed the gamepad overlay map toggle key to cycle between different map/quest HUD modes.
  
• Additional UI Polish:
  • Aligned "level" and number horizontally.
    
  • Increased the size of the "Equipped" label at the bottom of the tooltip
    
  • Wrapped main item header title in a scale group so that longer names scale down instead of wrap to another line, for better readability.
    
  • Moved deco at the bottom of the inventory panels down so that the framing element does not overlap with it.

Hey Torchlight Fans,

Torchlight 3 is entering Closed Beta this week. This is an acknowledgement of where we are in the journey of making this game with you. Let’s take a couple moments to look at how we got here.

Back in November of 2018 we ran two Weekend Alpha events - where the game was quite rough and several design risks were on display. Then from March through December 2019 we were in Closed Alpha - with various big updates along the way. Listening to feedback, we completely remade several fundamental systems in Updates 1-9. Remember when skill progression was currency based? Or Relic Weapons that swapped out your equipped weapons and only had one power?

Then, in January 2020, we released Update 10 with some massive new content: the Sharpshooter joined the fray, and heroes began delving into the Echnonok mountain fastness of Act 3. We also announced that the game was renamed to Torchlight 3 and that our business model had changed. Happily, your response to that was resoundingly positive. Since Update 10, we’ve been releasing patches almost every week. Although some chunky content like Class Skill Tiers, cinematic transitions, and legendary items have been added in this time, the TL3 team has been almost entirely focused on bug fixing and polish. You’ve seen their massive bug fix lists in the patch notes, and how polish on combat skills can make a massive difference in game feel almost overnight. We still have a bunch of that to do - especially as we prepare to launch on the various platforms. Which brings us to today.

We see TL3 as ready for the label “Closed Beta”. These definitions for Alpha, Beta, and Early Access vary widely across the industry. To us, Beta reflects the fact that we have shifted from “adding” to “finishing”. We have a massive list of bugs right now to work through: some of them obvious, painful and unshippable and some of them minor, nitpicky and skippable. So what can you expect to see in the coming months beyond bug fixing? We will keep listening for problems and find solutions that we can achieve while still hitting our dates. This is because part of entering Beta means aiming towards Launch Day.

So while there’s no big fireworks in Torchlight 3 as we enter Closed Beta, it’s still a major milestone for Echtra on the way to Launch. It’s the time when we can really polish what we have. We couldn’t have gotten here without your help, and we appreciate that. Together we have found the path to a great game.

Tyler Thompson
TL3 Project Lead

Quick reminder from Echtra: The Closed Beta test is still invite-only and the NDA remains in effect. We’re getting closer every day to opening the doors wide, but we’re not there yet!

To work closely with the Alpha testers, we continue to do weekly updates. While it means that some bugs might make it past our QA team, it does help us get more immediate feedback from our changes.

A "mainline" patch brings all of the past week's development work into the Alpha test. Players will need to exit the game in order to download the new version.

Bug reports in the Steam Discussion, via Feedback button in-game, and through Discord are incredibly helpful, thank you! Players will notice many of their reports listed as fixed in today's Patch Notes.

This week's patch is loaded with a variety of fixes and updates. Most noticeable on the list below is the completion of several Forged and Sharpshooter skills and milestones, 15 new Legendary items, more available language options, and updates to Relics and Pets.

We've adjusted some quests and also added some guidance in finding the Luck Sprout within your inventory, as that has been confusing for many new players.

Oh... and Champions now spawn at higher rates when playing with a higher number of players or at a higher level of difficulty. Because that's just more fun, innit?

We've got a lot of additional updates coming in the next couple weeks, so as always, thank you for all the feedback, bug reports, and testing!

See you in-game!
- Echtra Bean



[h2]GENERAL[/h2]

• Added "Credits" button to option menus. (Currently disabled.)
  
• New Languages (backend prepped, not yet live): Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
  
• Loading into the character select screen should be faster and not pause anymore.
  
• Changing armor shouldn't cause the framerate to hitch.
  
• Updates to resolve some level load stalling.

[h2]ITEMS & GEAR[/h2]

• 15 more Legendary items have been completed.
  
• Limited critical hit chance secondary affixes to 1 per item. Doubled the critical hit chance value ranges for the 2H weapon primary affix.

[h2]ENVIRONMENT[/h2]

• Replaced the waypoint at the beginning of Grove of Sorrows so that the waypoint only appears when in the normal Strongtusk dungeon, but not in the mapworks.
  
• Fixed minimap bug and removed nav mash in inaccessible area.
  
• Moved the large boulders blocking the view of the Warp in Bugswat Burrow. Fixed warp VFX.
  
• Added collision to the Netherim Pylon quest gadgets that appear in the Guarded Path, so you can't walk inside of them.
  
• VFX Fix: Echo Cliffs background clouds
  
• VFX Fix: Level Warp
  
• Decreased scale of Zephoras' cocoon to better match his body size.
  
• Nav Mesh/Collision Fixes/Updates:
  • Invisible collision in Field of Filth
    
  • Invisible collision in The Kennel
    
  • Multiple rocks in Den of Upheaval
    
  • Multiple rocks in Edgewood Bluff
    
  • Multiple rocks in Field of Unrest
    
  • Multiple rocks in The Chasm
    
  • Multiple rocks in Trevail Passage
    
  • Out of Bounds Area in Bolt Town
    
  • Out of Bounds Area in Den of Upheaval
    
  • Out of Bounds Area in Fields of Unrest
    
  • Out of Bounds Area in The Chasm
    
  • Rocks in The Power Line
    
  • The Brall's Boss arena.
    
  • Z-fighting on some stairs in Mapworks
    
  • Z-fighting on some stairs in The Wastelands

[h2]CLASSES & SKILLS[/h2]

• Sharpshooter:
  • Milestone bonuses added to Tight Grouping, Scattershot skills, Targeted Strikes, Heartseeker, & Reload.
    
  • Explosive Arrow also updated, however, the Tier 3 milestone bonus is not currently functional.
• Forged:
  • Servo-Driven Uppercut deals damage before tier 12 again!
    
  • Attempt at fixing an issue where Rapid Fire stops dealing damage after a few hits.
  • Forged Milestones now fully added.

[h2]MONSTERS[/h2]

• Fixed an issue where monsters would get stuck on the edges of navigable terrain. This could result in bosses becoming unkillable if it happened while they were leashing.
  
• Fixed the goblin bombers using the wrong animation to spawn from the goblin bush (was drop, is now burst).
  
• Sadista music and snapshot implemented.
  
• Added random names for Thornstriders.
  
• Increased the chance that Champions spawn with a higher number of players or at a higher difficulty.

[h2]PETS[/h2]

• Legendary Pet Affixes have been added to the game!
  
• Pet Collars and Pet Tags now have a suite of secondary affixes they can roll. Including: Attack Speed, Block, Crit Chance, Crit Damage, HP, HP Regen, Move Speed, Active Skill Cooldown, Apply Burn, Apply Bleed, Apply Chill, Apply Poison"

[h2]QUESTS[/h2]

• Area Map now shows correct quest marker information.
  
• Fixed a case where it was possible to get stuck without the task to "Find Wolfram" in the "Untangled Web" quest, which prevented the warp to the boss arena from unlocking, thus blocking quest progression.
  
• Fixed missing quest reward upon rescuing Zephoras.
  
• Fixed missing quest rewards from dropping upon completing tasks in the "The Artifact" quest.
  
• Fixed missing quest rewards from dropping upon completing the "Expansion Pack" quest.
  
• Fixed quest rewards for the "To the Rescue" quest. Added another quest reward item option so that there are 3 to choose from.
  
• Added experience to guide the player through their inventory in order to acquire the Luck Sprout consumable.

[h2]RELICS[/h2]

• Added new Blood Drinker art in the inventory Relic tab.
  
• Ember Cores are a resource now, stored in the player's resource inventory.
  
• Made the Ember Core currency save per account instead of per character.
  
• Temporarily set the Ember Core as something you can destroy, because some players still have some in their inventories.

[h2]UI/UX[/h2]

• Added an apostrophe to McTyre's Cove.
  
• Character customize gamepad fixes:
  • Couldn't scroll customize character UI.
    
  • The hardcore box is now part of the up/down navigation.
    
  • Gender defaults to the incorrect button.
    
  • No selection highlight for non-default genders.
• Fixed an issue where the stats panel could not be scrolled in the inventory with the gamepad.
  
• Increased size of fame quest reward icons.
  
• Missing icon for Skill stations in customize mode now added.
  
• Removed the placeholder text that appeared on the Ember Weapon notification.
  
• Renamed "Firebelly's Stronghold" to "Firebelly Stronghold".
  
• Revised text on affixes for Forged resource regen to read "Heat" instead of "Steam".
  
• Set the "Equipping Gear" mini help screen to display the correct hotkey for both gamepad and mouse + keyboard.
  
• Updated Skill backgrounds to fit the new horizontal format better.
  
• Welcome message should now fit better. It was being cropped off the screen at the bottom.
  
• Added "i" button to access the skills info in the skills panel.
  
• Hiding area icon over the minimap removed.
  
• Options menus layout update.
  
• Revised the text of the step to click on tombstones to be more flavorful and specific than "Inspect Gravestones".
• Polish Updates:
  • Currency text style to fit better in the currency space.
    
  • Larger resolution relic point icon.
    
  • Alignment and tweaks.
    
  • Size tweaks of the crafting relic info panel.