October 9 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.

Art

• Fixed an issue where Priestess Clementia's model would occasionally fail to load.

• Fixed a graphical issue where the fog on Sinister street would behave inconsistently

• Fixed an issue where the animals in Baedish Lowlands sometimes appeared to float when standing on ledges

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue where the user is not given the Wildlands Whistle at the Adventurers’ Guild when Group Chatter was disabled

• Fixed an issue where NPCs would fail to play their voice lines

• Fixed an issue where the player could not complete “A Hero’s Rest” quest if Necromancer’s Tome was equipped and not present in the quest inventory

• Fixed an issue where exiting to desktop would fail to create the appropriate auto-save.

• Fixed an issue where reloading a save from before the intro cutscene would return the player to the main menu

• Fixed an issue where players could not interact with objects after defeating Mangar

• Fixed an issue where the Mangar combat would fail to spawn upon reload

• Fixed an issue where enemies would improperly respawn on the Isle of Stonsea.

• Using Wildland Whistle for the first time near fast travel stones will now appropriately bring up the fast travel menu.

• Fixed an issue where party conversations would play out of order

• Added Struggler’s Lament use to the puzzle blocking the Reliquary in Midden Maw

• Fixed an issue in the Attain Tunnel where praying to the Shrine of Noyan gave no experience

• Fixed a minor issue where players could reach a location in Orkan Rookery without solving the required puzzle

• Fixed an issue where Fiona's song tutorial would not play.

• Fixed an issue where the loading screen music could play in-game after the player loaded a level

• Fixed an issue where the "Forceful Wave" enemy ability would occasionally cause characters to become out of sync with their position on the Combat Grid

• Fixed an issue where party conversations would play out of order

• Fixed an issue where players who had visited the Dwarven Ruins early, came back later in the game to find the ruins locked

• (Mac and Linux) Fixed an issue where story recap videos were not playing

• (Mac and Linux) Fixed an issue where chests that have been lockpicked would need to be lockpicked again upon reload

• (Mac and Linux) Fixed an issue where the "apply changes” button would not appear after making changes in the options menu.

• (Linux) Fixed an issue where the grappling hook shortcut in Orkan Rookery would fail to save it's state upon reload

Hud/UI

• Fixed an issue where swapping input methods from Mouse and Keyboard to Gamepad would break item interactions.

• Fixed a timing issue where Inspecting items during the Inventory Tutorial could result in the player being stuck in the Inventory window

• Updated Luck Stone tutorial to replace the word “Bind” with “Save” across all languages

• Hitting "Esc" while using the mastery page will no longer transfer one character's skills to another

• Fixed an issue where, after solving elven weapon puzzles, the player could be blocked from opening "Item Options" in the Inventory

Stability

• Fixed an issue where manually deleting saves could create a corruption to the player save files in certain instances

• Previously corrupted saves may be usable again after this update

• Improvements to game-wide performance, asset loading, stability, and world collision

• Fixed a crash that could occur when visiting Sulfur Springs for the first time

• Fixed some isolated and specific combat crashes