[0.6.51] Challenge Board

Changes

• Added the Supporter Challenge Board to the Nine Mountain Sect. This allows patreon members to submit their character as a seal to be fought by any other player (patreon or not). Up to 9 seals can be active per player, and additional 'modifiers' can be added to the fight to customise it.

  • Support custom names (assuming no profanity) and custom images (with an approval to ensure they are appropriate for the game).

• Added Local Maps (Scout, Bulwark, Frenzied, and Ancient), a new item type sold by the wandering vendor Lan Shu. These allow triggering horde-style fights at locations with a variety of modifiers.

• Exploration Speed now increases pity counter faster.

• Added support for the Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) language.

• Added the Ancestral Altar recurring annual event in the Ancestral Barrows, which allow taking a vow to one school.

• Aei Ma shard encounters now are pity events.

• Introduced the Reforge Pinning system to track equipment upgrades.

  • Added pinning for upgrades and reforges within the Recipes menu.

  • Added status badges (glowing '!' for missing materials, green '✓' for ready) to menus and loot screens.

  • Added a 'Possible Rewards' preview for pinned items in the Mining screen.

• Added early-game researchable recipes, for those reaching the wasteland in an early realm.

• Optimised combat simulation. It should be much faster.

• Expanded custom character image support with four new dedicated crafting animation slots: Support, Stabilize, Refine, and Fusion.

• Replaced the sect background and location icon art.

• Updated Zhiwu art.

• Reduced parallax effects on location backgrounds.

Balance Changes

• Added a mastery to Pupper Polarization to lower intercept instead.

• Added a mastery to Unstable Guardian to remove the barrier gain in favour of more intercept.

• Changed Empowered Blade Stance to require and consume 1 stack of Deadly Focus upon use.

• Rebalanced Calamity Fracture (IV/V) to provide 6 weakness per stack.

Bug Fixed

• Fixed the protection bonus of the Toughened Scales buff on Kuihou (Xidian Exalt) from 7% to 70%.

• Fixed language synchronization to automatically match Steam settings on startup.

• Fixed the combat results equipment section to display the player's current mount.

• Fixed Discord Rich Presence to display localized enemy names and player activity status.

• Fixed an issue where large fights would exhaust the gpu contexts resulting in giant white boxes.

• Fixed the Style Manager to ensure stance reordering is reflected in exports and the 'Use Style' button correctly equips stances.

• Fixed extensive translation errors across French, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Finnish, Thai, and Korean.

• Added a system font fallback for Vietnamese and other non-Latin characters to prevent missing text.

• Fixed scrolling issues in the Journal and History tabs.

• Fixed a visual overlap bug for artifacts in the combat UI.

• Fixed quest kill tracking, ensuring ALL enemy variants (e.g., 'Twisted Ratascar') count toward base enemy requirements (e.g., 'Ratascar').

• Fixed the Tomb of Lu Bu Lin intro event to ensure it triggers regardless of the player's cultivation realm.

• Fixed Calamity Shard not scaling if the damage off a crit was fully blocked by barrier.

ModAPI

• Exposed translation functions (t, tPlural, tr) to the Mod API for better localization support in mods.

• Enabled 'pillsDisabled' and 'dropletsDisabled' stats for use to build complex encounters.

• Added the 'overwriteEffects' upgrade mastery type for complete effect replacement.