Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon News

[h2]A small hotfix is now live:[/h2]

• Fixed at least one instance of missing NPCs—we hope it was the only one, but please let us know if you encounter any others.
  
• Resolved an issue with Arthur's bonfire dialogues repeating and breaking progression logic (Arthur's dialogues should now be available in the second region; previously, a broken line was breaking further interactions).
  
• Fixed progression issues in Neante's questline (The Price of Healing, Hollow Blessings).
  

Also, our biggest patch yet is coming sometime between Friday and Monday, depending on how quickly we can get everything in!

[h2]This Hotfix contains:[/h2]

[h2]UI:[/h2]

• Fixed the quest section displaying when there was no active quest in the quest log.,
  
• Fixed an issue where quest or item notifications were sometimes missing.,
  
• Fixed item list and gamepad navigation after consuming food or potions in the Bag.,
  
• Fixed tooltip refresh for currently hovered items in Hero Storage.,
  
• Tooltips in Equipment now update correctly after equipping an item.,
  
• Fixed blinking UI graphics.,
  
• Fixed incorrect state of the Large UI option on the Cloud Conflict popup.,
  
• Fixed displaying journal graphics.,
  
• Fixed displaying fishing rod tutorial on gamepad.,
  
• Fixed saving fishing entries in the journal.,
  

[h2]Gameplay:[/h2]

• Fixed Dal Riata Berserkers and Galahads freezing in place after running away from them during combat.,
  
• Fixed Hero Summons attacking friendly Red Priests.,
  
• Devil's Snare and Mandrake plants are now respawning correctly.,
  
• Filling Beor's heart with player's energy now costs 30 Max HP instead of 40.,
  
• Changed Arcanist's Sword Damage Gain per upgrade level: 21 → 1.,
  
• If you have only one hand at your disposal, you will get the one-handed variant of Giant’s Grudge.,
  
• Fixed Bromhar No Face's attacks being unblockable and unparryable.,
  
• Fixed having item encumbrance debuffs even when within the limit after save/load.,
  
• Wyrdstalker will now stalk you more—he was a bit too eager for a fight. He is now much slower outside of combat.,
  
• Fixed Unnatural Focus Talent not slowing down time correctly.
  

[h2]Technical:[/h2]

• When saving fails for any reason, the failed save will now be removed. Previously, you could load it and play on a corrupted save.,
  
• Buyback in shops will now store a maximum of 50 items, which will prevent them from downgrading performance.,
  
• Optimized vegetation in Cuanacht.,
  
• Some people were killing enemies a bit too enthusiastically. If you find yourself falling through the world, load a save — it should now fix it.,
  
• Fixed visual artifacts of wyrd barriers.,
  
• Removed headbob that persisted after changing loadout when sprinting with two-handed weapons.,
  
• Caradoc and other NPCs should no longer blur when the player camera was not moved for some time in dark conditions. As wyrd as that was, it was not intended.,
  
• Blood Transfusion and Life Transfusion spells optimization and fixes.,
  
• [Steam] There will now be a warning popup when the game fails to detect Steam. We are still working on a migration feature for people who played without Steam.,
  

[h2]Localization & VO:[/h2]

• Added LOTS of missing Japanese localization (Cuanacht, main story, quests, items, etc.).,
  
• A lot of VO added and fixed.,
  
• Fixed Executioner's Axe's description.,
  
• Fixed Big Bonk's description.,
  

[h2]Quests:[/h2]

• Raspberries needed for the Maggot's quest will now be correctly counted.,
  
• You will now be able to exit Deirdre's basement correctly.,
  
• Fixed quest "Forked Path" if the player collected Matron’s Insignia before getting the quest.,
  
• "The Trial" quest will no longer break if you kill the target before starting the quest. We will add a retroactive fix in the next hotfix.,
  
• Fixed quest "Forked Path" where you couldn't continue the quest after finding the novice's body.,
  
• Added missing rewards to a few quests.,
  
• Fixed Neante questlines being impossible to continue. This should fix retroactively so she should have the correct dialogues now.
  

This is the first, small patch we're introducing to the game. It brings:

• Fixed difficulty selection bug (the Survival Mode was activating unintentionally),
  Fixed sketches saving issue,
  Fixed aim assist bug which caused attack issues when target disappeared (rare case),
  Improved item icons for some items

The next, bigger patch is slated for the end of the week!
Thank you for your patience and have a great time playing!

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