September 10 Patch - The Bard’s Tale IV: Director’s Cut Update

This update is live now! Please follow the inXile forums for known issues and updates on patch releases.

Quest & Progression

• Fixed an issue where the user is not given the Wildland Whistle at the Adventurers’ Guild after disabling Party Chatter

• Fixed collision around certain puzzles and ledges that were allowing the player to fall out of bounds in certain circumstances

• Fixed messaging for when the player does not have a lockpick in their inventory they will not be informed about it being required to open locked doors

Graphics/Performance

• Added various art optimizations, collision, and asset loading improvements

• Improved performance when player opens and closes inventory windows

• Grass is now once again growing in the Forest of Inshriach

• (PC) Improved NPC shadows and fixed High and Ultra shadow settings

• (PC) Lighting adjusted throughout Skara Brae Above, Skara Brae Below, and The Cellars of Kylearan's Tower

• (Xbox One and PS4) Improved framerate in various levels

Combat

• Fixed an issue where rapidly issuing commands may cause one of the spaces on the combat grid to become locked

• Fix for Forceful Wave attack that may cause the character's position to get out of sync

• Fixed certain issues where charging specific enemies could result in players getting stuck on the environment or produce a misaligned combat grid

• Fixed an issue where loading an auto save created before a combat animatic could stop the following combat from occurring

• Fixed an issue where enemies could fail to launch Mangar’s Mind Jab

• (Linux) Fixed an issue where enemies in any combat could respawn after reloading the level

Misc.

• Removed the Save Game option during animatics

• Fixes and improvements for various party chatter moments

• Fixed issues where using songs to quickly solve multiple puzzles could cause the puzzles to break

• Fixed an issue where translation was missing for the 2nd riddle statue in Kylearan's tower

• Fixed an issue in Mangar’s Tower where subtitles and VO would fail when ghosts were summoned and interacted with for the first time

• Fixed an issue where music from loading screen would play during gameplay after a load or level transition

• Fixed various minor audio issues

• (PC) Fixed an issue where using the 'Esc' key to close the Mastery Book could break its intended functionality

• (PC Microsoft Store) Fixed issues with signing in and syncing saves

• (Mac and Linux) Fixed an issue where all load-game story videos were missing

• (Linux) Fixed an issue where Rabbie's speech did not have voice or subtitles

Crashes

• Fixed a possible crash during the 99-wave combat

• Fixed a possible crash when using the Dragon Breath ability