🛠️ Patch Notes - Early Access Hotfix 3

[Jrdn]

The Watcher’s call has been answered, our biggest Hotfix Patch has arrived!

We improved Performance, Balance, Loot, Harvesting, Graphics, fixed progression blockers and added new options in the Settings Screen. A good few dozen other bugs across the rest of the game have also been squashed.

The amount of feedback, bug reports, and reviews we’ve received so far has been awesome! Please continue sending them in!


⚔️ Performance Improvements:

• Improved area streaming, making the game feel smoother while traversing across different areas
  
• Dynamic Resolution Scaling is now less aggressive, maintaining higher image quality
  
• Improved culling for off-screen physics objects and characters
  
• Fixed culling for bird animations, improving their performance in levels (there’s a lot of them!)
  
• Additional Shader Optimizations for performance mode
  
• Fixed a leak which increased memory and CPU usage the longer the game was played
  
• Optimized rain and other GPU particles
  
• Opening Cinematics and Ship Prologue Optimizations
  
• Memory optimizations for character customization textures
  
• Additional general CPU performance improvements

⚔️ Graphics Additions and Fixes:

• Adjusting Brightness / Contrast / Saturation no longer breaks HDR rendering
  
• Fade to Black now actually fully fades to black in HDR mode

⚔️ Settings Additions and Fixes:

• Added Camera Zoom Adjustment Option
  
• Automatic Camera Zoom adjustment for handheld devices and Performance Mode

⚔️ Menu Changes:

• Added a new menu for exiting the game which includes both Exit To Main Menu and Exit To Desktop (localized text for this menu is coming soon!)
  
• Adjusted Repair menu size to accommodate for text in other languages

⚔️ Balance Changes:

• Weapons parrying now consumes Stamina (Shields parrying remains unchanged)
  
• Nerfed Gain Focus On Focus Use enchantment
  
• Unarmed can now land hits while enemies are on the ground after performing a Backstab

⚔️ Loot Changes:

• Adjusted Dig Spot rates such that Clay drops more often
  
• Reduced the number of hits needed for Dig Spots, Ore Veins, and Trees

⚔️ Enemy Changes:

• Improved behavior for Nith Screamer and Shackled Brute

⚔️ Bug Fixes:

• Fixed the crane not turning correctly in Nameless Pass and blocking players from progressing
  
• Fixed a chest at Mariner’s Keep elevator locking you in when trying to loot it
  
• Fixed dig spots sometimes not giving any loot
  
• Fixed remaining enemies and bosses becoming kaijus
  
• Fixed Falstead Darak dealing damage during his transition while he is still human
  
• Fixed certain doors in Sacrament not having interaction hints
  
• Fixed missing VFX for attacks by the Twin Bruisers, False Ones and Boarskin Axe
  
• Fixed condition where enemies attack when they should not
  
• Fixed vendor buy/sell prices on Raw and Refined materials being only ¼ of what they should be
  
• Fixed missing furniture items at Workbench
  
• Fixed Mira and Meri’s Spinning Wheel not allowing players to refine wool threads into garments
  
• Fixed keyboard and mouse buttons not working on Bounties contribute panel
  
• Fixed an issue where side notifications would occasionally spam players
  
• Fixed parry tutorial trigger conditions
  
• Fixed wording of enchanting tutorial to more accurately describe common rarity
  
• Fixed spot in the Prologue where you can jump off the ship
  
• Fixed sizing of a railing on the ship in the Prologue
  
• Fixed spots where you can get stuck in a climbing loop in Orban Glades and Nameless Pass
  
• Fixed spot in the Black Trench where you can see out of world
  
• Fixed Angler's Delight Chowder’s recipe name
  
• Changed Danos’ confirm button color so it does not look grayed out
  
• Fixed NPCs not knowing how to hold fishing rods in Nameless Pass
  
• Fixed missing shadows and incorrect volumetric fog after changing resolution
  
• Fixed reflection popping in sewers dungeon
  
• Fixed torches and fire popping in cinematics
  
• Fixed rain appearing in caves in Nameless Pass
  
• Fixed missing audio for waterfall in Potion Seller Cave
  
• Fixed missing audio for Nameless Pass Prisoner chopping and mining
  
• Fixed an issue where there was a super bright mist in the Twins Boss arena after respawning
  
• Fixed pink effects appearing in faders at times
  
• Improved collision in some places at Orban Glades
  
• Improved faders in Nameless Pass
  
• Fixed Photosensitivity screen having overlapping text in certain languages

To give feedback[forum.norestforthewicked.com] and report bugs[forum.norestforthewicked.com], please head on over to our No Rest for the Wicked forum!

[superVeritech]

May I suggest you consider some of the risk vs reward mechanics for parrying in Street Fighter 6. In SF6 parry consumes stamina, however, if you successfully parry, you regain stamina. Because the risk of failed parry is so high, increasing the reward matters, particularly in a game so dependent on stamina meter management.

[Muckker]

Already try the crane puzzle again in the old save after hotfix3. The problem still not solved, have to use climbing bug to finish the quest

[BörbERT]

need more Performance patches!

[Herko]

after this update the game started crashing...

[SrMandril]

Muckker님이 먼저 게시:

Already try the crane puzzle again in the old save after hotfix3. The problem still not solved, have to use climbing bug to finish the quest

Same issue in already existing Realm. Is it only fixed for new ones?

[ActionHank]

So the "fix" for the crane in Nameless Pass is still not working. I tried seeing if I can glitch to get around this on objects, but its definitely still not working, so I'm stuck until you do another Hotfix

[,,,]

There are still issues with Chinese translation. This patch update is completely negative for my 3060ti. Previously, I was able to run at 60-70 frame rates in most scenarios, but after this update, I experienced even more severe frame drops in performance mode, with only a pitiful 30-40 frames.
This is a dog poop update. Before, at least I could still persist in playing (I have been playing for 30 hours), but now this optimization is just a piece of ♥♥♥♥.
Do I ♥♥♥♥ you? Can you refund me.

[Host-255]

I am unable to load the game yet again! This happened with the last patch!

[Host-255]

Herko -SK-님이 먼저 게시:

after this update the game started crashing...

Yes same. I cannot get in to the menu screen. Game crashes on intro

[险棋]

we need the ability to change key bindings,please😭

[simom]

Performance is a lot better with the new patch. I noticed some stuttering when I first logged in, but after a couple of minutes it was gone. Now I can finally play 60fps @ 1440p 3060ti

[Panos]

Thanks for the camera zoom slider. It makes playing on the steamdeck better and we are able to appreciate the graphical details.
The performance has improved a bit, although the crashes continue unfortunately.

[Jovan]

Feels like FPS is worse now than it was before. Certainly not playable.

i7 / RTX3070 Ti

[Eldritch Moon]

Great patch, thank you for your hard work devs - saw huge improvements to FPS.

Not pressing, but wanted to +1 that permitting crafting stations to pull resources from nearby chests would be a great feature.

Finally, some feedback on resource point (tree/ore/dig spot) durability changes. I know this may be subject to several balancing rounds before release, so wanted to flag that reducing the number of hits felt overtuned to me - especially for trees (less so for ore, I think Skyrim has programmed our brains to accept three hits of the pick axe). Its a shame to let the stellar animation work go to waste, and I appreciated the slower beats of resource gathering.

Thanks again for all your hard work, I loved my time with your early access.

[melen]

Add custom keybinds
and remove durability