ETHYRIAL
Steam News 27 February 20262mo ago

Fishing & Feasts Showcase

Steam Patch 2.26.2026 Fishing & Feasts Showcase Master Chef @Sim Shady presents... • Added 4 new fishing hotspots • Added 4 new fish species • Added 20 new T9 basic fish meals • Added Hydra Meat + 5 new basic meals • Ad…

Update log

Full ETHYRIAL update

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Extracted changes

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  • Gameplay
  • Balance
  • Server
  • Store
  • UI and audio
  • Performance
addedSteam Patch 2.26.2026• Added 4 new fishing hotspots
addedSteam Patch 2.26.2026• Added 4 new fish species
addedSteam Patch 2.26.2026• Added 20 new T9 basic fish meals
addedSteam Patch 2.26.2026• Added Hydra Meat + 5 new basic meals
addedSteam Patch 2.26.2026• Added 5 new rare ingredient drops, good luck on the hunt!
addedSteam Patch 2.26.2026• Added 5 Feasts + Blueprints
Noxious Bomb1s to 2s

Steam Patch 2.26.2026

Fishing & Feasts Showcase Master Chef @Sim Shady presents...

• Added 4 new fishing hotspots

• Added 4 new fish species

• Added 20 new T9 basic fish meals

• Added Hydra Meat + 5 new basic meals

• Added 5 new rare ingredient drops, good luck on the hunt!

• Added 5 Feasts + Blueprints

• Feast Blueprints now available from the Master Chef

• T9 Wis food now grants Healing % instead of Damage Dealt • T9 Con food now grants

Damage Reduction instead of Damage Dealt • Unique foods to fit your playstyle Happy fishing!

Note - temporarily the new fish can only be caught during Augem. This will change shortly in the future. There will be other mechanics involved to remove the Augem T9 Fish time gate

Combat & Balance

• Player Movement Sync Rework: Completely overhauled player movement synchronization between clients and the server for smoother, more accurate character positioning

Aggro Range Fixes: Fixed aggro range calculations for monsters that would leash too quickly

Envelop Shadows: Reduced DR to 40%/70% from 50%/80%, fixed duration bug

Assassin Starting Poisons: Assassins now start with 5 Ginshade poisons in their inventory

Assassin Playstyles Rework:

  • Noxious Bomb 1s -> 2s stun, 20s CD

  • Poison Vial buffed

Ginshade Poison:

  • Reduced CD of Concealed Weapon to 6s

  • Concealed Weapon DoT has 35% chance to proc Venom Surge per tick (1s/tick, 6 ticks)

  • on Venom Surge, Reset CD of Shiv to 0 and buff damage 100%

Result: Reactive procs that give rapid fire shivs & feels more interactive Nepbloom Poison:

  • Full Rework

  • Neurotoxin stacks to 20, ramping DoT

  • Abilities apply Neurotoxin stacks

  • Damage ramps about 20%+ past Ginshade in long fights

  • Concealed Weapon can be removed from rotation after 20 stacks built

  • Envenom is now your giga dam ability and scales damage off of total neuro stacks

Result: pew, pew, pew, pew, BAM Envenom

Items & Crafting

• Void/Radiant Wands: Fixed a bug causing offhand wands to fail to proc

Weapon Proc XP Correction: Corrected Damage Source for Nightarrow, Nightbreaker, Nightseeker, Shadowblade, Scythe of the Seraphim, Draketooth variants, T8 bow variants, Manafused Weapons

Repair Fix: Fixed an issue where repairing a piece of gear would not register until un-equipping and re-equipping it

Content Updates

• Cooking Material: Added Granpappy's Secret Fish Rub ingredient

UI Improvements

• InfoBar Fixes: Fixed issues with entity info bar display after teleports and stacking; Your current target's nameplate and HP bar now always stay fully visible and slightly larger than surrounding nameplates, even in dense player clumps

Drag Hotkey: Added hotkey for UI Dragging: CTRL + ALT + Click & Drag

Game Quit Improvements: Improved application exit flow and exit survey

Placeholder Slot Skip: Fixed placeholder slots being filled with items when depositing into the bank

Corpse Fixes: Fixed issues with player corpses on both client and server

Objective Status Update Force: Fixed an issue with quest UI updating with the correct objective counts

Swing Timers: Fixed a bug causing Swing Timers to be invisible in some cases, added seconds display to the UI

Performance

• FPS Improvements: Polished up a lot of code that could cause hitches and FPS dips; let us know if performance feels better

DPS Meter Bug Fix:** Fixed a bug causing FPS drops when the

Source

Steam News / 27 February 2026

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