Patch Notes: Rumours Content Update

*NEW * Rumours System Expansion

The rumours system has been significantly expanded. Rumours now influence village Prosperity, Morale, and the behaviour of vampires created that have those rumours.

Rumours pool: 24 → 54

*NEW * Prosperity and Morale

Wealth village statistic has been replaced by Prosperity and Morale.

Prosperity: determines how much tax you can collect.

Morale: determines how many villagers you can support and how many new villagers arrive each night, as well as the quality of Morale-related rumours.

*NEW * Vampire Quirks and Servant Effects

Rumours now influence servant loyalty and demands.

*NEW * Castle Loyalty System

The Castle level determines the maximum loyalty vampires can reach on Castle Hill.

Gameplay & Player Experience

• The Coachman now offers rumours from other regions.

• Added functionality to Aristocrat outfits. They now influence: the chance of receiving an additional rumor, the cost of fast travel with the Coachman, and whether conversations with villagers increase village Morale or Prosperity.

• Removed Beast Vision Elixir from chests and Alchemy Station recipes.

• Empty chests are no longer highlighted in Beast Vision.

• Fixed an issue where players could collect taxes from only one Overseer per day/night cycle.

• The cave beneath the cemetery in Medrești has been reworked, including a new Inquisition camp at the entrance, updated enemy setups inside, environmental adjustments, and additional loot added to the cave and surrounding area.

• Added a chance to obtain a Frozen Vampire Tear when looting the corpse of a defeated Inquisitor. This item can be consumed to gain 1 Arcana point or traded to another player in multiplayer.

• Added additional loot chests to selected locations in the Grove region.

Building System

• Added painting functionality for stairs - columns, railings, and stair elements can now be painted separately.

• Improved how stone stairs fit with other building pieces.

• Fixed collision issues on curved stone stairs.

• Fixed incorrect scaling on diagonal barriers.

• Railings now have a consistent appearance across all stair types.

• Various texture improvements.

World, NPCs & Immersion

• Implemented remastered cutscenes.

• Loot chests are now visually open once they have been emptied.

• Villager names now depend on the village they originate from.

• Added new grass.

UI, Controls

• Adjusted the Pause Menu order – the Unstuck button is now the second option on the list.

• Fixed multiple unlocalized strings in the Management tab.

• Fixed compass direction localisation issues in Chinese and Ukrainian.

Known Issues

• In rare cases, animals may become stuck inside the environment geometry (walls, rocks, terrain).

• Vampires or villagers may occasionally have pathfinding or navigation issues.

• In multiplayer, there is an issue with refreshing rumours between the players. It can occur if the players collect rumours when far from each other, or after creating a multiplayer lobby from a save file. To resynchronize the journal, players must reenter the affected village.