Patch 1.0.4

Stability

Various crash and blocker fixes, including dialog blockers.

Audio

Various audio issues resolved, continuing the work of the July hotfixes.

Crossbow

Switching to another weapon immediately after firing no longer skips the reload animation or fires without using bolts.

Experience

Finishing enemies with magic or the interaction button awards experience consistently, and killing downed enemies with arrows or magic now yields experience. See Experience and Skills.

Tooltips

Wearables show tooltips again when selected for equipping.

Sleeper dreams

The Nameless Hero no longer gets stuck in the Sleeper dreams when knocked down during the dream transition.

Animations

Seraphia's dancing transition and the transformation transition of Mad Cor Kalom into a demon play correctly, and death animations in water were fixed for several creatures.

Trophy harvesting

Animal trophies display as loot even before the matching harvesting skill is learned.

Accessories

Amulet and ring bonuses no longer stay active after unequipping, and swapping a ring between slots no longer duplicates its stat bonuses.

Equipment display

The equipped bow no longer disappears from the Hero's back when certain spells are equipped, and ore slotted in the action bar no longer shows a quantity of zero in the inventory.

Saves

Quicksave and quickload stay active during key remapping, and a console-only quicksave error that reported the game could not save anymore was fixed.

Spells

NPCs under the Control spell no longer die from jumping off heights, and using a teleport rune while controlling an NPC no longer leaves the player stuck in the control session. See Magic and Runes.

Difficulty settings

The combat slider in the custom difficulty settings works again.

Mad Xardas

His spawns being killed right away no longer causes Xardas to teleport away permanently in that encounter.

Trophies

The Overachiever and Map Sniffer trophies were corrected on PlayStation 5. See Trophies and Achievements.

World interaction

Interaction positioning is calculated correctly when an NPC blocks the interaction spot, guards no longer stand up during the Convoy quest when the player leaves and revisits the area, the Hero no longer falls from a ladder when opening the inventory while carrying a torch, the Stone Golem interaction was fixed, and a brief second interaction prompt after executing the Mad Demon was removed.

Audio channels

Increased so more sounds can play at once.

Character presentation

Improved facial animations and gestures for some characters.

Performance

Various performance improvements.

Navigation

Various navigation improvements, plus better traversal while a bow or crossbow is equipped.

Spell collisions

Improved world collisions for Ball Lightning and Fireball.

Localization

Various localization fixes.

Lockpicking voiceline

A failed lockpicking attempt plays different voicelines for a missing key and a missing lockpick.

NPC routines

Various improvements to NPC daily routines.

Object animations

Tweaks to animations when interacting with objects.

Creature trophies

Can be looted from chests even before the matching lesson is learned.

Mana learning

Tooltips about learning mana from Corristo are no longer hidden.

Maps

The map from the Swamp Camp to the Old Mine can be purchased from Fortuno once Chapter 3 has started.

Herbs

Some herbs that failed to spawn properly now appear.

Old Mine passage

The Queen Pheromones were removed from the secret passage in the Old Mine.

Chapter 1

The Snipes' key can be handed to Aaron even if it was stolen; Grim's pathing leads the player to the Lost Amulet quest properly; the interrogation with Gomez now fails if the player leaves the throne room and returns later.

Chapter 2

The Ring for Fingers quest persists into Chapter 2; the Convoy quest fails if the player joins a different camp; Thorus is shown as a teacher from the very beginning.

Chapter 3

Milten no longer steps out of his focus zone to follow the Hero.

Chapter 4

Sharky returns to the New Camp after the Fire Mages scene; Escape Plan no longer continues after everyone has been saved; the gland can be given to Cavalorn after first refusing; Banned from Old Camp starts even when talking directly to Thorus.

Chapter 5

Stone's daily routine, cell door, inventory handling, and Master Blacksmith recipe teaching were fixed around the Forged Rivalries and The Path Chosen quests; Bestiary 5 spawns the Frost Shadow Beast in the Tundra when the quest starts; Bartholo reacts when the player enters the Fire Mages' temple; Umakhal stops following the Hero once Ur-Nazkrog's trial is complete.

Caster robes

Fire, Water, and Dark Arts robes lend more physical protection in exchange for reduced elemental protection, and now grant increased maximum mana. See Armor.

Armor upgrade costs

Shadow and Bandit armor upgrades have slightly reduced top-tier protections; their early alterations cost less while top-tier alterations cost more. Guard, Mercenary, and Templar armor upgrades are more expensive, particularly at higher tiers.

Trader stock

Dexter, Silas, Jeremiah, Alberto, Santino, and Mordrag carry more cooking materials. See Merchants and Trading.

Seaforest Brew

Now crafted at the alchemy lab like other potions, although it remains a cooking recipe. See Consumables.

Castle and house loot

Equipment in the Old Camp Castle and the Abandoned House was rebalanced, with lower-tier equipment added to both areas.

Weapon placements

The Abandoned Mine Rider's Bow became a Long Bow, the Goblin Cave War Sword became a Battle Sword, and the Orc enclave Revenge Steel was replaced by a Mercenary's Blade. The Fog Tower Longbow and Longsword were swapped for a Field Bow and the Judgment Sword, the Oak Bow moved to the Ancient Monastery with a Hedge Bow added to the Mountain Fortress, Templar weapons were added to corpses in the Sleeper Temple, and the Storm Whisper replaced the Skullcleaver in the East Forest shadowbeast cave, now appearing only after the Ulu-Mulu quest starts. See Weapons.

Potions and pickups

A Strength Potion was added to the top of the Old Citadel Tower, a Dexterity Potion was restored behind the waterfall near the Sunken Tower, and a mana potion near the Nek cave was replaced with a health potion. Nuggets, plants, crafting materials, and torches were added to empty areas and underwater locations.

Extra rewards

Additional loot including scrolls, potions, and weapons was added to the Shipwreck and the Fog Tower, and several items that did not appear correctly in the Ancient Monastery, Shipwreck, Fog Tower, and East Forest were fixed.

Mage-area rewards

A Health Potion moved from Scar's chest to Rodriguez's chest, and the ring previously found in Raven's chest moved to Saturas' chest.

Old Mine rewards

The positions of the Extract of Life and the Blood Sword were swapped.