Patch 1.35
After months of development and just in time prior to the 2 year anniversary of the Blade of Destiny release, Crafty Studios and the Beta Team of BoD HD are proud to present Patch 1.35, consisting of more than 300 changes, additions, modability extensions and fixes. In detail:
Content changes and extensions
- Castle Felsteyn: Mod of Viana included as Event
- In Thorwal there is now the building "The Black Finger"
- You can now sell books in the Thorwal Mage Academy
- New event "Revenge of Ottaskin"
- New event in Phexcaer: Nancy's Note of Validor the villain
- Random city event "A pickpocket"
- Random city event "A Carriage"
- Random city event "A shooting star"
- Random city event "A beggar" extended
- 8 new events for resting at an inn
- 6 new events during outdoor camps
- 4 additional random battles after camps
- New event "Bad Herbs"
- Ferryman at Ferry Tjoila and Ferry Angbodirtal
- Event on the route Hermit's Lake -> Felsteyn "Giant wyrm"
- Event on the route Clanegh -> Orkanger "Linnorm"
- Event on the route Phexcaer -> Hermit's Lake "A group of orcs"
- Event on the route Orvil -> Rovik "Rope Bridge"
- Event on the route Orvil -> Rovik "cliff climbing"
- Event on the route Serske -> Breida "forest cattle"
- Event on the route Skjal -> Orvil "wolf pack with shepherd"
- Travel Event "Weak track"
- Travel Event "conversation with a dwarf"
- Travel Event "Rondra sees it all"
- Travel Event "The orc camp"
- Random event at rivers "ford"
- Random event in the forest "wild boar"
- Random event in the swamp "thicket"
- Random event in the Mountains "cave"
- Random event in the Mountains "A deep gorge"
- Random event in the Mountains "a steep rock face"
- Random event after camping in the mountains "Misty valley"
- Additional events after camping depending on the landscape
- 24 smaller travel events depending on the landscape
- 7 perilous random travel events
- 13 Travel encounters, where you can ask about the area
- All random travel events of v1.33a reappear
- Reactivated the event "Rondra's servant"
- A mountain trip to the Daspota treasure
- A "Vision" in the Old Bailey
- Crumbling inn "The Warp Rift"
- Crumbling inn "A sticky liquid"
- Hyggeliks ruin has been extended to a few text window
- Pirate cave, the Northeastern room is now storage for all kinds of ship supplies
- In the heavy locked door at the mine by Prem there is now a text window
- Black Mage ruin "dead end"
- The original texts have been added in six different dungeon exits
- In the mysterious forest there is now a healing spring
- In the mysterious forest now you can look at the beautiful flower
- Mysterious forest "floor tendrils"
- The 2nd Orkkampf in Baerhag crypt now has a text window
- Added a third wolf skin in white for grimwolves
New and updated Features
- User Interface is now scalable (e.g. for 4K resolutions)
- The console now logs experience points
- Console messages are in different colors
- Battle Avatar look improved (rimshader removed, specularity reduced)
- The spell "Solidirid" can now be used in the game
- The group now shares its food and water reserves
- The Spider demon is now a significantly bigger avatar in battle to diversify from the lesser spiders
- Screen resolutions with less than 1024x600 have been disabled
- The Savegame window can now be closed by ESC.
- Difficulty can now be changed in the options at any time
- The zoom animation when opening the travel map can now be deactivated
- Damage display is now switchable between classic (1d6 + 4) or modern (5-10)
- When starting a new game there is a note that F1 (Help) only works outside buildings
- Increasing negative weapons talents will be better explained on first levelup
- "Checkmod" and "Personalmod" now appear similar to Skill and MetaSkill checks
- When fighting demons, you now need to check for bravery (like necrophobia with undead)
- Positive Attributes can now be increased to a max of 20 (before 18)
- Negative Attributes can now be lowered (only on levelups) down to 0
- Strength bonus displayed in Item Info
- Cold and Wet protection displayed in the Item Info
- All armor now shows its reductions to attack and parry
- The Talent "Read" will now be required for reading all documents and books
- "vehicle steering" now has the average value of "vehicle steering" and "drive boats" according to P&P
- The Magic Gardianum now get a duration of action
- Spell "chain and manacle" can now be disrupted with spell "break domination"
- Increased duration of spell "Horriphobus"
- Spell "Ignifaxius" effect reduction by armor is now correctly displayed
- Ritual "force of the dagger": Text warning when already at full health
- NPC mages now correctly roll spell checks
- Spell failures of variable strength spells now have correct costs
- Checks for characters unable to act deactivated
- Game over when all characters are unable to act
- Improved all weapons, armor and poison descriptions
- Good hatchet now has a star on the item image
- "Rock splitter" item image corrected
- The description of the ironwood has been improved
- The sickle, herbs sickle and volcanic glass dagger are not cumulative any more
- Elves and druids can wear the cursed leather helmet
- snowshoes now have cold protection 8 and agility -1
- Adapted blanket and robe effects to match their descriptions
- Regeneration bonus of blanket and sleeping bag are not cumulative any more
- Adapted weights: glass bottle 5 ounces, bronze bottle 8 ounces
- There is now a way to retrieve a lost magic staff
- The recipes were better distributed in the Thorwal region
- Banedust and Goldglue are now usable in a fight
- Poisons Vomicum and Expurgicum are now stackable
- Fishhook is 99x stackable
- Bronze bottle 5x stackable
- All magic weapons now have to be identified first
- All magical jewelry now have to be identified first
- "Doxologies" are only readable once
- Added Black Mage ruin quest book entries
- Jurge Torfinsson points at Yasma Thinmarsdotter in Clanegh instead of Thoss
- Asgrimm Thurboldsson questlog entries according to actions
- Beorn Hjallasson questlog entries according to actions
- Hjore Ahrensson questlog entries according to actions
- Ragna Firunjasdotter questlog entries according to actions
- Umbrik Siebenstein questlog entries according to actions
- Honest Jorge questlog entries according to actions
- Temple of the Nameless questlog entries according to actions
- Filler text for quest "Ektor Gremob" inserted
- Revised quest chain "A strange place" in Rukian
- Added "Baerhag Clan" minimum level because of its difficulty
- The Firun- and Ifirn Temple now have different flags and interiors
- Texts to Efferd / Swafnir- and Firun / Ifirn wonders revised to fit each of the two deities
- Revised texts for tavern- and inn recommendations
- No more duplicate town information in the quest book
- The town information of Orvil and Skjal now match the travel map
- The town information of Rybon and Thoss now match the travel map
- The town information of Phexcaer and Skelellen now match the travel map
- Town events made more frequent
- Radial menu appears at once when entering a market booth
- No more benefits for 2-hour sleep scamming
- Travel route speeds and distances now better match their map distances and landscapes
- No more use of arrows when hunting
- The shortcut "through the undergrowth" between Peilinen and Skelellen is now a proper travel route
- At "through the undergrowth" you have to swim past river Roval from both sides
- Event "Robbers camp" can now be done at a later time
- "Druid Gorah" can now be done at a later time
- "Monolith at Hermit's Lake" can now be done at a later time
- The hole in the mine of Prem now requires curiosity check
- At Black Mage ruin the Sorceress is now a Sorcerer
- The dragon in the dragon cave now actually "roasts" the group
- Baerhag Crypt: Added a visible door
- Baerhag crypt: Added inventory to chests and made the orc camp chest reachable
- Baerhag Crypt: Added loot after the battle against Orc Shaman
- NPCs now have values corresponding to their level
- Identical npcs of different strength now give different experience
- NPCs in heavy armor have fewer movement points
- Zombie attack reduced to 1d6 + 2
Extensions to Modability
- Displaying images (up to size 256x256) possible in dialog boxes
- Character classes can now have custom portraits by mod
- NPCs can now have custom portraits
- Temple flags (in size 256x512) can now be replaced
- Skill value at which a spell is displayed and learnable is modable now
- Battle loot can now have a probability
- Additive Modding for class definitions, dungeons, "sortiments" and help messages
- Definition of multiple magical rituals per class
- Added Time-based triggers
- levelfrom and levelto for campfights now operational in globalfights
- Equipped items can now be removed by script
- Added BF on getEquipped return valules
- Accessing to a saved item set in Javascript (setGeneralState and getGeneralState)
- Effect can be added to protect the party against attacks during camp
- getPartyCount now works correctly when called from Init Dungeon
- Callback when showItemsetList now always executes correctly
- callback function during character selection window (chooseSingleCharacter) will be performed even if User abort
- No more crash when a Savegame contains an NPC that was defined in a mod
- Added function "getPartyEffect"
Bugfixes
- The time no longer stops when playing later in the game
- Fixed occasional incorrect time display (18:-01)
- The date window no longer hangs on the mouse pointer
- Game is paused correctly when saving/loading window is open
- Save/Load is no longer overlapped by the main menu
- The Website button on the CE launcher works again
- Necrophobia checks correctly deactivated in beginner mode
- Fixed display error on Thorwalian woman
- Fixed animation hangs of orc archers and orc Shamans
- The torturer got has a Battle avatar with sounds
- Fixed several XP rewards
- Character creation now displays correct avatars for female mage, female Druid and witch
- Confirmation throws for bad fails and lucky rolls now correctly count in modifiers
- Repeating of a failed Analyze spell now works correctly
- Astral energy can now correctly go below 5
- Fixed being hungry after an event with a meal
- Hunger and Thirst can no longer fall below 0
- Only "worn" items have 1/2 weight, objects in hand count fully again
- Attribute bonuses now correctly incorporated to constition
- Added missing item descriptions
- Fixed some strength bonus values
- The Barbarian axe can no longer be wielded in one hand
- Erikas dagger and the ornament dagger can no longer be used by druids
- Fixed weight and price of great helm and iron helmet
- Removed clickable areas when using a whetstone or tinderbox
- stacking good and broken lockpicks no longer possible, but each is individually stackable
- The strong healing potion now correctly requires a glass bottle
- Stacked Hylailan Fire can now create the effect "burning"
- Shurin bulb poison can now be used
- Toadstool poison is now correctly displayed on the weapon
- anxiety and sleeping poison now work
- "Poisoned" will now be displayed correctly in battles
- Fixed translucent windows on magic herbal bag
- The NPC in loot window will now display correctly
- Rondra wonder increasing sword talent now works correctly
- Rondra miracle "consecrate weapon" correctly only works on melee weapons
- Phex miracle fixed for better "persuasion"
- Fixed miracle "Travias blessing"
- Fixed miracle "Efferds travel Blessing"
- No more resets on main quest advances
- NPC Erwo now leaves the group at Beorn Hjallasson
- Olvir Gundridssons dialogs can no longer get confused
- The journey does not continue, while selling stuff to honest Jorge
- At Gorah there is now a check on "Silentium"
- The letter of recommendation from Umbrik no longer has the text of Hetman recommendation
- At Eliane Windenbek you now get the quest "Alrik Derondan"
- If you continue journey after finding the Temple of the Nameless at first, the correct text is displayed when returning
- Added Questmarker for Phexcaer "Alrik Derondan"
- Fixed several issues when drawing weapons on the Unicorn
- The 2nd Unicorn meeting is no longer in the same place and only after some time has passed
- No more infinite XP for finding the dragon oak
- Directions on the two ways to Hyggeliks ruin are now correct
- The final battle does not hang anymore when having a dead magic practitioner in the group
- No more problems with afterfinal savegame when the group had frost damage
- All events of the main quest are checked against whether the Hetman's mission has been started
- No more duplicate responses on the Old Bailey password dialogue
- Leaving the Old bailey at the blacksmith Gurthag now passes some time
- Master Dramosch: The partry is drunk and no longer hungry after the 2nd quest "Deeper into the Old Bailey"
- Kidnapping Rovamund: Tavern hint no longer appears after completing the quest
- Added Quest markers for quests "Ektor Gremob" and "Temple of the Golden"
- For a blackmail at the quest "The sweet Erika", the letter must now be in inventory
- On "Erika's Revenge" fixed the number of enemies in the description
- At "Coach accident", Hasgar now actually introduces himself
- Quest "Hail for love" now requires acceptance of Hetmann quest
- "Hail for love": Hasgar now correctly disappears after accepting his quest
- "Hail for love": The quest items are now correctly returned
- To prevent breaking "Beilunker rider in trouble" it is no longer possible to exchange Wanadis with another NPC
- Fixed text if Wanadis became unconscious in the battle with Salpicon
- "Beilunk Riders in Trouble": Reward is no longer divided with Wanadis
- Quest book entries on "The Baerhag Clan" now appear at the right time
- The Quest "The Baerhag Clan" can now be completed in all scenarios
- The armory superintendent in Thorwal will now be described in gender-neutral terms
- The Imman Stadium in Thorwal is now only open on market days only in autumn
- Adsiniliya in Thorwal can only be visited once
- Without a witch in the group, you won't get a witches' broom from Sandor in Thorwal
- Sandjors house in Thorwal and Thomasjors house in Felsteyn do not disappear after the first visit
- At the Ottaskins in Thorwal you will no longer get positioned incorrectly after a fight
- Fixed position of Ottaskin of the Storm Children trigger in Thorwal
- Fixed mouseover tooltip when Captain Alrik Alriksson
- In Phexcaer playhouse now passage of time and amount won are connected
- Fixed the trigger at Castle Felsteyn
- Ronald Beckersson in Felsteyn now gives a bottle of liquor
- Fixed staircase in Groenvelden
- Fixed "Hyggelik the Small" placeholders
- Imman man: Medal will now also be removed if it is worn
- Spawn Point Hjalsingor now further away from the door
- Spawn Point Vaermhag now further away from the door
- Option to pay for all now always appears
- Fixed empty text window in "On the Road"
- Marketday can now be a 7th (for opening hours of markets)
- Serske now only has Market on the 3rd Market Day
- Hostel payment now deduces correct amount of money
- No more stamina reduction when camping
- It is no longer possible to break a "forced" camp (when one of the characters runs out of stamina)
- The elf camp conversation is now definitely triggered
- When curing a disease in camp, time is correctly stopped
- Rabies is no longer repeatedly triggered
- The hostels on the road can be used again
- Dialogues on travels can no longer be interrupted by random events
- Deer hunting now checks for ranged weapons
- The "bridge building" event now correctly checks for tools
- Some travel events lacked the checks for necessary items
- Added missing texts to "A funny raft trip"
- Random Event "Beaver": made unique, added ranged weapon check, fixed error message
- Giving robbers a "toll" now correctly reduces money
- Throwing farthings at the vagabond now correctly reduces money
- At the hunting hut, the correct alcoholic beverage is now removed
- The event "herb meadow" on the other side between Vilnheim and Oberorken can no longer be canceled by breaking camp
- No more empty arena at the whalers battle
- No more asking to "turn around" in sea journeys
- No more asking to "make camp" in sea journeys
- Fixed Automap in Goblin Cave, Dwarf Mine and Daspota-Treasure Cave
- Mine of Prem: you can find a lantern
- Mine of Prem: you can now read the text of the purse
- Goblin Cave: The text at the cave now stops until it is clicked away
- Wolf cave: Only the first climber at the hole receives XP
- Temple of the Nameless: You can no longer get away with the whole group under the boulders now. Thus, no more dead-end.
- The Dead Ship: At the Mystery Chest "Marbo" is the only correct solution. The answer option is only displayed if one was in the lowest level at the Marbo hint.
- The Dead Ship: Fixed text display of seasickness
- The Dead Ship: Leaving before finishing it will now correctly remove seasickness
- Crumbling inn: Fixed incorrectly positioned door
- Spiders Cave: The chests remain filled after loading a savegame
- Spiders Cave: You only know the right answer for the southern riddle if you have seen the demon picture
- Dragon's Cave: Bolt trap is now correctly described
- Dragon's Cave: Hang if you have no money for the statue fixed
- Orkhöhle: The magic chest is no longer an infinite number of XP
- Hyggeliks ruin: There are no more holes in which you're stuck forever
- Torkils Chasm: Dead End fixed
- Mysterious forest: Casing Abvenenum at the pond will correctly cost astral energy
- Baerhag crypt: Loading a saved game won't open doors
- Baerhag Crypt: At the Zombie alarm the chest now deals damage
- Baerhag crypt: Baurgrims ax is removed correctly from the sarcophagus
- Baerhag crypt: Closing the Lootwindow of Baugrimms ax no longer starts the quest
- Baerhag crypt: Giving the orc shaman the ornament dagger will remove it correctly in all cases
- Baerhag crypt: Even with a failed language lore check and without the ornament dagger the dialogue with the orc shaman continues correctly
- "Load Game" displays the correct name for Baerhag crypt
- A lot of text fixes
- A lot of placeholder fixes
- Removed unnecessary voiceovers
- Fixed several discrepancies between the speaker and the written text
- The VoiceOver folder "Info 1" that is missing in the CE version, the patch has been added
- Renamed "Resistance to Magic" to "Magic Resist"
- Herbal pouch is now correctly translated to english
- Replaced the flying weapon dealer sign of prem
Very very special thanks to all the persons involved in making this enormous patch possible, namely lunatic, Lares, Mordbrenner, Curom and Sordul. Thank you so much guys, this wouldn't have happened without you! Also big thank you to our community of players who assisted with frequent bug reports and feature requests!
Enjoy, and spread the word!
out there so I can't waste the little time I spend on games anyway on a turd like this.
