Heads Will Roll: Reforged News

Fixes
1. Fixed a bug with weapon skill not properly levelling up in Survival mode.
2. Fixed a bug with negative number of squad members and with some of the squad members going missing.
3. Fixed a bug with weaponsmith in Hereford being inaccessible.
4. Fixed an exploit with Eva's shop having an infinite amount of wine.
5. Fixed a bug during 'Man of God' quest that sometimes did not count golden cross as a cross.
6. Fixed a bug with equipped weapon morphing into another (halberd into axe, spear into sword etc.).
7. Fixed a bug with Rennes' healing discount from character's high virtue not applying to the healing cost.
8. Fixed a bug with negative inventory size during manual character creation.
9. Fixed a healing bug that sometimes resulted in player receiving additional stats after healing instead of simply recovering the lost ones.
10. Fixed several situations where player's low activity in combat resulted in an inactivity penalty despite it making little logical sense (situations where nobody is watching the fight or enemy being too high level).
11. Fixed an issue with incorrect calculations of whether a character is stunned after a shield bash (high strength characters now will be significatly more resistant to shield bash stuns).
12. Fixed a rare issue of enemies' poison shield disappearing.
13. Fixed a bunch of other smaller bugs and issues.

Added and changed
1. Added increased gold rewards for kills in Survival mode.
2. Made Plackart accessbile way earlier in the game, added it to various spawns.
3. Increased the number of trinkets available to enemies. Tweaked spawn chances for some of the trinkets.
4. Reworked and buffed some of the bosses (Landsknecht Mercenary, Goliath, Plague Knight, Wallace).
5. Player's amount of money is now displayed in squad management menu.
6. Reworked Tarot Card: Death — now it will not only allow you to survive death but also recover half of your max HP and remove all active bleedings, poisonings, blinds and stuns.
7. Rebalanced the stats of some of the helmets and body armor, adding some more neck coverage.
8. Increased the stamina cost of attacks of flail and three-tailed flail. Decreased stamina cost for Knight's Last Hope's attacks.
9. Reworked the stats of the tower shield making it way more durable and heavy.
10. Added a new even in Outremer — after participating in several battles the player will partly acclimatize to the new weather conditions, lowering the heat fatigue gain by 25%.
11. Added two new achievements: Solo (for capturing Windsor in a single battle without retreating) and Heads Will Roll (for beating the game on HWR difficulty with a random character).
12. Various other minor balance tweaks.

The next patch will most likely be a smaller one and will primarily be dedicated to fixing the issues with localization and text translation.

A big thank you to everyone who helps me with finding and fixing bugs!

If you enjoy the game - please consider leaving a review on Steam. Make your voice heard.

HWR's Discord: https://discord.gg/xndPrtZMeT

We also have a Boosty page (Patreon alternative) where you can support us directly if you want to do it: https://boosty.to/1917studios

1917 Studios

Fixes
1. Fixed a series of bugs with scavenge events that led to incorrect loot spawns.
2. Fixed a bug that sometimes caused a softlock in London if player failed both the Lindisfarne quest and Alyssa's questline.
3. Fixed the Load button in pause menu disappearing on Sory Mode difficulty.
4. Fixed a bug that caused London quests to sometimes be available in later chapters.
5. Fixed a bug that allowed Lindisfarne quest to be started mulriple times.
6. Fixed a visual issue with player character's hair clipping through some helmets.
7. Fixed an issue with incorrect hit\bypass armor chances on 'Coup de Grace' and 'Pierce' attacks (hopefully for good this time).
8. Fixed several smaller bugs and localization issues.

Added and changed
1. Added an option to pay for indulgence in Lindisfarne, exchanging money for virtue.
2. Added some virtue as a reward for completing Cecilia's Pharmacist quest.
3. Added some new trinkets into the random character generation item pool at the start of the game.
4. Added some new trinkets into shops in the second half of the game.
5. Added a possibility to ransom your way out of French captivity after the final battle of Cambrai and not miss your chance to go to England (still requires high rep. with Northampton).
6. Reworked the mechanics and stats bonuses of various trinkets (berserker's talisman, cultist's claws, leather gloves, knight's chain, medical treatise) — keep in mind that item changes take full effect on new playthroughs only.
7. Added another fight if the player decides to hold their ground instead of retreating during the final battle of Cambrai.
8. Increased the enemy count in some of the battles in and around Rennes. Made some of Rennes' enemies a little bit tougher.
9. Increased gold rewards in Survival mode.

A big thank you to everyone who helps me with finding and fixing bugs!

If you enjoy the game - please consider leaving a review on Steam. Make your voice heard.

HWR's Discord: https://discord.gg/xndPrtZMeT

1917 Studios

Fixes
1. Fixed several bugs that made 'Proceed' button inactive in the earlier chapters, softlocking players.
2. Fixed a bug that occured when the player ettempted to fix mechanical drum magazine.
3. Fixed a bug that forced the marauder leader to spawn with incorrect visual model and led to game crash.
4. Fixed a bug that allowed some non-boss enemies to spawn with two-handed weapon and a shield simultaneously.
5. Fixed a bug the showed incorrect names for special items sets in inventory.
6. Fixed a bug that prevented some players from unlocking the Fall of Goliath achievement despite defeating him.
7. Fixed a bug that allowed to infinitely start Olivia's pixel huntung section.
8. Fixed a bug that broke the AI of computer characters during the 'knight v bandits' scavenge event forcing them to skip their turns.
9. Fixed some incorrect interactions with the luck stat in combat.
10. Fixed several smaller bugs and glitches.

Added and changed
1. Added a confirmation screen for 'Reset profile' action.
2. Added new visual model for Estoc.
3. Reworked torture mask item (the vitality bonus is now only applied while the item is equipped).
4. Increased craftsmaship requirements for repairing mechanical drum magazine.
5. Added a forced save when the player quits an HWR playthrough through the main menu button instead of 'Save & Quit' option in game. This should prevent players from losing their progress if they quit the game that way.
6. Added an increased base armor break chance for wo handed axes and one handed axes (to a lesser extent).
7. Lowered chance of low-level enemies spawning with poison (primarily relates to the first couple of militiamen encounters).

A big thank you to everyone who helps me with finding and fixing bugs!


HWR's Discord: https://discord.gg/xndPrtZMeT

1917 Studios

Fixes
1. Fixed a bug that made the 4th governor's quest in Damietta zero your reputation with him, preventing you from marrying Emma.
2. Fixed a bug that sometimes caused an error when the player tried to hand over custom armor to the blacksmith.
3. Fixed a bug that made Leper Crusaders have very low HP and also gave them incorrect visual models.
4. Fixed a bug that allowed to infinitely receive an abduction quest in Damietta.
5. Fixed a bug that prevented access to the final quest of Bartholomew's storyline (and thus blocked the related achievement).
6. Fixed a bug that prevented the player from gaining access to the survival mode after completing the game.
7. Fixed a bug that prevented the player from receiving the 'Sword of Justice' achievement.
8. Fixed a bug that allowed gravely wounded enemies to infinitely drop their helmets and receive bonus stats.
9. Fixed rare situations when the lucky coin did not increse the reward for killed enemies.
10. Fixed a bug that made the combat interface glitch out and merge with camp interface preventing the player from progressing.
11. Fixed an error that appeared after the player escaped from Rennes' prison after previously finding Olivia's dagger.
12. Fixed an exploit that allowed to find Olivia's dagger multiple times.
13. Fixed an error that appeared when the player attempted to unjam a mechanical drum with durability below zero.
14. Fixed a bug that sometimes appeared when the player tried to complete Useful Hobby quest.
15. Fixed a bug that made El Mansur tavel menu to give an incorrect fatigue icon.
16. Fixed incorrect visual hit chances for Estoc's Pierce attack.
17. Fixed a bug that prevented the player from gaining access to a trinket for creating all possible bolt types.
18. Fixed inconsistencies with various trinkets' mechanics (torture mask, black stone ring, tarot cards).
19. Fixed a bug that made Anna's shop replace every other shop in the game except for the main one.
20. Fixed a lot (A LOT) of smaller bugs, glitches and localization issues.

Added and changed
1. Lowered max possbile starting level for recruitable allies.
2. Added a more detailed explaination for Heat mechanic in the desert.
3. Increased Estoc's stats requirements, lowered damage.
4. Increased flail's stats requirements.
5. Increased the amount of items available for sale in Rennes (added more high level armor, shields and weapons).
6. Added medical treatise to the list of items that can help in Hadley quest.
7. Mortifying flesh and playing lute camp actions no longer require player to equip the necessary trinkets (they can work in inventory without being put on).
8. Playing dice will give the gambling bonus without necessarily being equipped (can work from inventory).
9. Lucky coin will give more gold for selling items without being equipped (can work from inventory).
10. Cross pendant and small golden cross now both offer protection from bleedings and poisonings if the player's virtue is high enough.
11. Tainted chalice's effect (prolonging poisonings) increased by 1 turn.
12. Poison dart's effect (increasing the damage of poisonings) increased by 1.
13. Added another resolution to the first Ruffin encounter in case of player's victory.



What's next?
in the coming weeks I will continue to work on various bugfixes and — once most of the bugs are out of the way — will announce the news regarding content updates. The things you can definitely look forward to first are dedicated endings for all the girls (allowing to marry not only Olivia and Emma but all the rest too) and big improvements to the squad mechanics.



If you liked the game then please consider leaving a review on Steam - this really helps! HWR is a very unusual game and if you enjoy this type of content then please let it be known!

We also have a Boosty page (a Patreon alternative) for those who are interested in supporting us directly. We have not been that active there lately but we'll begin posting again very soon.

HWR's Discord: https://discord.gg/xndPrtZMeT

Sincirely yours,
1917 Studios


P.S. Here's a very nice waifu tier list by one of the players — https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3047392740
Check it out if you want to find out which of the HWR's girls is the best one.