Vagrus - The Riven Realms News

[h3]Hey everyone,[/h3]

This new patch brings with it one really important and big change and some other fixes we applied since our last update. The large change in question is the altering of how victory works in a campaign. Previously, you were able to win the game, then choose to continue playing. This caused a lot of consistency issues with Ending slides, as you were unable to check them later on and so even if something changed (like a major questline that has its own slide was completed) after the victory, players would miss them. And so from now on, once you retire as part of a victory, you will not be able to continue playing afterward. You can complete the victory condition and then play indefinitely until the time comes you decide to conclude the playthrough and then retire to experience the Endings. Of course, you can also save the game, retire to check the slides, and then load to play more.

Because this will affect savegames where players have already retired but kept on playing, we have reset the Ambition quests in all such savegames to the point where you only have to retire to finish the playthrough. Doing so, you will be able to see the (now up-to-date) slides again.

Important Note: Considering the extent of the improvements, there is little to no chance that we broke nothing in the process. Assume that we did not want to make anyone's life harder. If you see something amiss, please flag it to us using the usual channels, like the inbuilt reporting tool (F1 button), forums, and our Discord server.

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[h2]Patch 1.172 - Codename: Victorious [/h2]

[h3]General Changes :pencil:[/h3]

• Reworked several old generic Events to be more in line with current quality and style.
  
• Crime and criminality received an entry in the Glossary to explain how it works.
  
• You can no longer play after completing a victory condition and retiring. This change was necessary because playing after this point caused several issues with Ending slides and their states in a continued game. You can still play indefinitely but once you commit to retiring to “win” a campaign and watch the Ending slides, you are returned to the main menu. NOTE: We have reset the last step of the Ambition Quest for every player past that point in current saved games, so they can simply complete that last step to retire or go on playing as long as they want before that.
  

[h3]Bug Fixes :bug:[/h3]

• Each ending slide now resets scrolling to the top.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented sending reports via the built-in Bug Reporting Tool (though note that there are still pending issues with it we are working on).
  
• The Kal-rish enemies now have all their Skill art assets straightened out (they were missing one and used another instead).
  
• The Black Moloch enemy is visible again! The trickery of Demons is truly nefarious.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the game to lock up when an enemy using the Skill “On Guard” was defeated by a multi-phased Skill.
  
• The Skill “Taunt” on the Manumitteris hireling is now Incorporeal, as was intended, meaning it cannot be Evaded or Blocked, but Mind Resist can still neutralize it.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused Faction Offers to be generated at a higher (unreachable) tier than intended
  
• Fixed an issue that caused some players to be unable to trigger “The Curse of Wazir” quest even after prerequisites are met (completing “The Expansion of Wazirhai”, defeat Undead threatening the settlement, and waiting a couple of in-game months). The fix is retroactive, so you can now return to trigger the quest if you haven’t already.
  
• The Skill of the Evocator Mortis hireling “Raise Dead” is now Enervating (preventing it to be used multiple times in a Round).
  
• Repositioned the legend box of the Chart on Steamdeck and other 16:10 ratio displays so that it’s always visible now.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused certain settlements to be impossible to highlight on the Chart. NOTE: This issue might have other, separate reasons, so please report to us if it still keeps happening.
  

Stay tuned and conquer the wasteland!
- The Lost Pilgrims Team
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[h3]Hey everyone,[/h3]

Hot on the heels of last week’s Old Acquaintances release, today we’re deploying a hotfix to ameliorate the issues that players have reported. We are happy to see that there were no big problems, and even happier with the great feedback we’ve received from the players currently enjoying the DLC.

This hotfix also includes further use of DeepL technology in the machine translation of Vagrus's vast text base, notably adding translations for the contents of the 'Clandestine' Update and the Old Acquaintances DLC itself. Additionally, the update incorporates improved translation quality across the board (for most of the machine-translated languages in the game) due to the recent improvements of DeepL technology.

As always, we will be closely monitoring feedback from our Discord, the Steam forums, and all other channels. In the meantime, we hope you are enjoying the new content and wish you luck out there. Stay resilient, stay vigilant and conquer the wasteland!

Now let's jump into the patch details:

Important Note: We tried our best giving you a polished product, but given the game's complexity it might happen that something slipped under the radar. If you see something amiss, please flag it to us using the usual channels, like the inbuilt reporting tool (F1 button), forums, and our Discord server.

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[h2]Patch 1.170.0618W [/h2]

• Fixed an issue where controllers brought up the radial menu in the wrong place when interacting with nodes out of March range.
  
• Fixed an issue with Event text scrolling speed when using controllers and setting the scroll speed either on the minimum or maximum value.
  
• Changed the default Movement direction with Combat Skills involving movement. Now the default is staying in the same line (instead of the topmost line), though all valid positions are still available, of course.
  
• Fixed a rare crash caused by opening Price History in settlements.
  
• Bonus Resourcefulness is now granted the first time a Companion is Downed during the Tutorial if there is not enough to use Aid to prevent a softlock due to the Tutorial prompt.
  
• All Companions’ Prowess can now be reset in Dissonance Mode (including Eylani, Vorax, Sedarias, and Javek).
  
• In most Events where you needed fighters for a choice, but Outriders and other armed crew made sense, now those fulfill the requirements, too.
  
• Various (mostly minor) spelling, grammatical, scripting, and stylistic fixes in Events, especially in Old Acquaintances.
  
• Machine translation was added to the new content of Clandestine Part I. as well as Old Acquaintances.
  

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[h3]Hey everyone,[/h3]

The time has come to release our next DLC, Old Acquaintances, which adds Javek and Sedarias to the main game, two Companions we’ve met in the prologue scenario previously. Both of them changed drastically in the time that passed since we first saw them and both offer extensive questlines to tell their stories, replete with new NPCs, enemies, allies, lore, and rewards.

The DLC also contains the Freelancers’ Guild, a specialized mercenary organization that allows you to recruit new hirelings (from a selection of four) to round out your crew. They can be found in the four major cities of the North and the Onyx Outpost.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2672530/Vagrus__The_Riven_Realms_Old_Acquaintances/

Alongside the new content, the accompanying Patch (detailed below) contains a number of improvements and fixes to improve the general experience of Vagrus.

Important Note: Considering the extent of the improvements, there is little to no chance that we broke nothing in the process. Assume that we did not want to make anyone's life harder. If you see something amiss, please flag it to us using the usual channels, like the inbuilt reporting tool (F1 button), forums, and our Discord server.

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[h2]Patch 1.170 - Codename: Old Acquaintances [/h2]

[h3]New Content :gift:[/h3]

• The DLC ‘Old Acquaintances’ will now be unlocked to all its owners. It includes two Companions for the main campaign – Javek and Sedarias – with fully-fledged storylines including new enemies and rewards, their own Skills, Prowess progression, as well as four new Hirelings available at the Freelancers’ Guild in Tor’Zag’s Shelter, Deven, Avernum, Larnak, and (for owners of ‘Sunfire and Moonshadow’) the Onyx Outpost.
  

[h3]User Interface Improvements :pencil:[/h3]

• Clarified the visual guidance of Evading, including when you Evade to a position occupied by another character.
  
• Clarified the visual guidance of Javek’s Hypnotize Skill.
  
• We streamlined tooltip behavior while using a controller based on feedback and expanded their functionality.
  
• Changed the Move Skill in Companion Combat, giving it better feedback and a more streamlined usage.
  

[h3]Bug Fixes :bug:[/h3]

• Steam cloud saves are now working and can store up to 200mb of save files.
  
• Tutorial windows no longer appear minimized under any circumstances.
  
• Owned DLCs will now always show up properly under ‘Extras’ in Vagrus games in GOG and Epic Games Store libraries.
  
• Event choices with an Achievement dependency now show the proper icon (chalice).
  
• When using a controller, the Chart tutorial no longer scrolls the same way as the Chart is zoomed in and out.
  
• Fixed a rare issue occurring on GOG and the Epic Games Store, causing players to be unable to select the Knowledge Ambition upon vagrus creation when owning the Vorax Free-LC.
  
• You can no longer turn back in the initial parts of Pilgrims of the Wasteland when using a controller.
  
• Fixed an issue caused by owning more than 10.000 Bross upon loading a game.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the game to freeze in Companion Combat when Suppressing Shot would trigger an Evade.
  

Stay tuned and conquer the wasteland!
- The Lost Pilgrims Team
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[h3]Hey everyone,[/h3]

The time is finally nigh: we have a release date for Old Acquaintances and a fresh release trailer to boot!

The DLC will drop on the 12th of June, 2024, and those of you who have already played the ‘Pilgrims of the Wasteland’ scenario will surely recall the identities of the two returning companions. For those who do not, the man by the campfire is Javek, a remarkable telepath and sorcerer with unique abilities, while the bony hand that pushes through the black sands of Arenas Negras belongs to Sedarias, a Knight of the Black Sun and defender of the Empire.

How these two companions with strikingly different backgrounds will return, what paths will they take, and what hardships will they face? All of these answers await you in the DLC, along with new enemies, abilities, quests, and locations. Additionally, players will be able to employ new hirelings through the Freelancers’ Guild. For a full breakdown check out our refeshed store page.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2672530/Vagrus__The_Riven_Realms_Old_Acquaintances/

With that, we must leave you now, for the wasteland beckons; stay safe, stay vigilant, and conquer the wasteland!

– The Lost Pilgrims Team

[h3]Hey everyone,[/h3]

This time, we come to you with a nice package of changes to the game. The first order of business:

The Prologue (Demo)

This scenario offers players a fixed timeframe within which they can play Vagrus without purchasing the game. Since its release in May of 2023, we’ve been eyeballing it for quite some time, and have finally overhauled it with many of the quality of life improvements the main game has seen. See our Steam post here for more information.


And now, onto the patch for the open-world campaign:

Patch Notes 1.166

As part of an ongoing effort to address any concerns players may have, improve the game across the board, and offer hotfixes to any issues that have cropped up, we’re releasing another build today. Scroll down to the patch notes section to see exactly what smaller issues we have fixed and read on if you wish to know about some of the more significant gameplay changes.

Dissonance Mode Changes

As part of the lead-up to our coming Old Acquaintances DLC, some members of the team have been taking on board the feedback regarding certain aspects of the game’s difficulty, and thus, we have decided – along with a slew of other things – to revamp Vagrus’s Dissonance Mode. Most importantly, once we release this update, players will be able to switch their Wasteland Mode savegame into Dissonance mode at any time. After the switch, if they then save the game, two copies will be available in the Main Menu: one will contain the old Wasteland save and a fresh, new Dissonance mode savegame. Players only need to click the new icon (circled below) and they will be taken to a transition screen where they can confirm the change.


We’re also working on adding several additional elements to Dissonance Mode, but before we get into that, let’s talk a little bit about the goals of the game mode.

It is no secret that Vagrus - The Riven Realms simulates a difficulty more often found in old-school RPGs, which is why we knew at release we’d have to implement a mode that would be a little more forgiving. That mode was and still is Dissonance Mode. While Wasteland Mode simulates dynamics closest to what we feel is the reality of the Riven Realms, its alternative is set up to give players various advantages and make things slightly easier. It is, by no means, an “easy mode”. Dissonance Mode confers the following benefits to players:

• The vagrus receives a hidden advantage in Tests and other percentage rolls
  
• Companions heal at a faster rate while resting
  
• Reduced enemy Accuracy in Companion Combat
  
• Respeccing Companions can be done an unlimited amount of times
  
• Trading is, as a whole, slightly more profitable
  
• Supplies are cheaper
  
• Hunting or Foraging have higher yields
  
• There are greater breaks between random Crew Combat encounters
  
• The player has more favorable odds in Crew Combat encounters that occur randomly
  
• Penalties for missing crew are less harsh
  
• In general, the game is more forgiving to players from the start of a playthrough and for a longer time
  

Those benefits are already in play, but the trouble was that players could only begin a new campaign in Dissonance Mode. Consequently, if a player was struggling to survive there was no way out; they simply had to start a new campaign. With the mode now accessible during a playthrough, those players will be able to curb some losses and effects through Dissonance Mode. It is important to note that once a savegame in Dissonance Mode is made, there is no going back in that game; this would cause too many issues and exploits. The player can, however, return to their old Wasteland Mode save. We are also considering offering some further optional benefits when the switch happens to somewhat set off the previous hardship, some of which are immediate. These are subject to change but currently include:

• Stat boosts for comitati (Nutrition, Vigor, Morale, and Obedience)
  
• Upfront coin to help propel a vagrus’s operations
  
• A workforce boost to help the comitatus along (especially so if the comitatus is already dangerously low)
  

After this has been implemented, all players will need to do is select any savegame already in Wasteland Mode and load it into Dissonance Mode. Doing so will give a number of warnings (most notably that it is a one-way change), but after you click through, both immediate bonuses and long-term benefits will be accrued moving forward.

Now let's jump into the patch details:

Important Note: Considering the extent of the improvements, there is little to no chance that we broke nothing in the process. Assume that we did not want to make anyone's life harder. If you see something amiss, please flag it to us using the usual channels, like the inbuilt reporting tool (F1 button), forums, and our Discord server.

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[h2]Patch 1.166 - Codename: Dissonant [/h2]

[h3]New Features :gift:[/h3]

• The ability to switch Wasteland Mode savegames to Dissonance Mode is now available.
  
• Introduced a tooltip mode for controllers, albeit it is incomplete as of now.
  

[h3]Bug Fixes :bug:[/h3]

• From now on, players will always gain the Insight reward for every tenth Codex entry (the fix was for an edge case related to saving and loading a game when the Insight was awarded).
  
• The Outpost’s overseer is now more aware of what is going on at the Outpost and won’t nag the player upon leaving the Outpost to fix things that were not broken in the first place.
  
• All Custodia type enemies are now visible again.
  
• Fixed a number of bugs connected to the Outpost, most importantly one that stole money from the Outpost (yikes).
  
• The Goods and pieces of Equipment whose effects on the Outpost were removed will no longer be visible in text-based Outpost interactions.
  
• Fixed some edge cases that caused players to be unable to continue their savegames from the Demo in the main game.
  
• Improved some Glossary entries to be more helpful and more informative.
  
• Fixed a number of typos and textual errors in Events.
  

Stay tuned and conquer the wasteland!
- The Lost Pilgrims Team
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