Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness News

• Additional Main Quests: Choices you take affect the game world and the overall story in the last chapter.
  
• Fresh Side Quests: A variety of new side quests have been added, including long anticipated companion quests.
  
• Re-imagined Starting Experience: The game’s introduction has been completely, revamped with more information, more player guidance and options for how to complete it
  
• 6 New Locations: Bringing with it a group of areas from the frozen north, Phase 2 also brings two dungeon areas for players to explore.
  
• Character Generation Refinements: The first of two significant improvements to character creation is an improved experience as well as improved UI.
  
• Added new low-level spells: Who doesn't want greater flexibility on casters when starting out?
  
• Spell & Item Refinements: We’ve rebalanced spells and items to give greater selection, and more power where it’s needed. 
  
• Combat Update: Damage scaling has been reworked alongside fairer damage interruption.
  
• New Temple UI: For recovering from healing and reviving characters, removing curses, and donating.
  
• Fresh SFX: New sound sets for both male and female protagonists!
  
• Companion XP Catch-up System: Rejoice, your newly recruited companion's XP and level are matched to the protagonist.
  
• New Boss Fights: Fresh challenges await as you’ll face off against new bosses who aren’t for the faint hearted. For those who do manage to topple them, they’ll offer unique loot
  

• Tutorial is now more player-friendly and fail-safe
  
• Damage values in combat console are now explained via tooltips
  
• Effect names in descriptions now offer tooltips
  
• Travelling is no longer possible with a scattered party
  
• Added weather effects to all outdoors areas
  
• Added dying animation for Cold specific death
  
• Added class-specific starting chests for the Prologue
  
• The "Straight Line" formation no longer prevents the party from entering doors
  
• Item tooltips no longer exceed screen boundaries
  
• Creatures no longer spawn on shared coordinates during day-night changes
  

• Character creation no longer gets stuck when selecting a Dwarf on Mac
  
• Fixed general bugs that could prevent certain quests from finishing
  
• Fixed some Sleepwalker battle related bugs
  

Not too long after the initial Early Access release that was back in August, GrapeOcean Technologies has released a Linux version of their party-based RPG Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/10/party-based-fantasy-rpg-black-geyser-couriers-of-darkness-gets-a-linux-version

• Added Mac & Linux builds
  
• Global performance improvements
  
• Party members can now be revived regardless of being gibbed on lower difficulties
  
• Party members now respawn in full equipment when revived at temples at Novice and Normal Difficulties
  
• Party members now respawn without equipment when revived at temples at Veteran Difficulty
  
• Original party order is now restored when reviving party members
  
• Summoning creatures now properly attack any hostile creature
  
• Characters now receive bonuses from currently equipped projectiles only
  
• Formations are now retained when traveling between areas
  
• Creature groups now react properly to having a member attacked (whole group is called)
  
• Improved accuracy of attribute and class descriptions during character generation
  
• Move commands while using formation no longer send characters over walls anymore
  
• Quests "Trails and Tribulations" and "The City of Iron" now give better directions for objectives
  
• The "Trapped Under the Surface" quest now gives better directions for objectives
  
• Added a stableman to the Garden of Delights for the "Ostler For a Day" quest