Patch 1.2.4 is live!

[Obsidian Aarik]

Greetings Envoys,

A new patch is now live! This update brings important fixes and improvements, so be sure to update your game when it becomes available.

We truly appreciate all of your reports and feedback—it’s invaluable in helping us identify and address issues to improve the game. Your support and patience mean a lot to us, and we want you to know that we’re listening. Our team is committed to making Avowed the best experience possible for everyone, and we will continue working hard to refine and enhance the game based on your input.

We have a dedicated team focused on making Avowed better and better, and we’ll have more to announce soon. Stay tuned!

If you run into any issues, please let us know at http://support.obsidian.net—your feedback helps us make the game even better!

Thanks for playing, and as always, we appreciate your support!

— The Avowed Team

Crashes & Major Issues

• Adjusted character settings so that unkillable characters will now respawn if they mysteriously die, preventing blocked quest progression.

Quests & Area Design

• Loot piles will no longer be placed in unexpected locations when created while the player is far away. Previously affected saved games will now have the loot pile back where the owning character died.
  
• Players who killed Kostya and destroyed Solace Keep will no longer experience a dropped conversation when speaking with the leaders of the Living Lands during The Siege of Paradis. (Players with affected saves can now simply walk in and out of the meeting space to retrigger the conversation.)
  
• Bounty Masters in Dawnshore, Shatterscarp, and Galawain’s Tusks now correctly allow players to turn in bounties, even if they have acquired more trophy items than expected.
  
• Vemas now allows players to turn in Debt of Blood, even if they had already spoken to him upon returning.
  
• The player will no longer become stuck with no objectives active during An Untimely End.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player could become stuck in the environment near Dehengen's Cottage.
  
• Enemy loot will no longer disappear if the player killed Ygwulf and the assassins in the Cistern, saved their game, and then reloaded that save.
  
• Ambassador Hylgard can no longer die from drowning in The Strangleroot while following the player, which was preventing him from appearing at the embassy in Paradis.
  
• The player will no longer be blocked from finishing Ancient Soil if Fior mes Iverno becomes inaccessible.

Systems & Gameplay Improvements

• Godless chests and sarcophagi now have currency in their loot lists.
  
• Upgrade materials (metal, wood, leather) are now more consistently available across stores in each region.
  
• Upgrade materials now properly refresh when store stock updates.
  
• Autosave frequency has been changed from 5 minutes to 10 minutes by default. (This can still be adjusted in player settings.)
  
• Autosave slots increased from 3 to 5.
  
• The ability Bleeding Cuts now applies Bleed Accumulation more reliably.
  
• Logging into Xbox Network on Steam no longer resets the player's selected language setting.
  
• Kai is now less likely to teleport inside a wall while using Leap of Daring.
  
• Companions now assist in combat more reliably.

Visual & Art Fixes

• Militia Guard patrolling Claviger's Landing now has the correct neck texture.
  
• Adjusted health bar position for the enemy Putrid Skeleton Wizard.
  
• Fixed jittering of player hair and armor when afflicted by Poison Accumulation.
  
• Reduced opacity of a water fountain inside Ondra's Temple.

User Interface (UI) & Controls

• Companion abilities bound to the Quick Slot menu no longer become undone after reloading a save.
  
• Added new settings for controller users to adjust gamepad look acceleration strength and ramp-up time.
  
• Corrected typos in the Encumbrance tutorial and on the Compiling Shaders screen (now correctly states “a few minutes” instead of “a few moments”).

Miscellaneous

• Launching Avowed with DirectX 11 is now disabled, as the game does not support it.
  
  • Some players have been using a DirectX 11 launch parameter as a workaround for various crashes, performance problems, or compatibility concerns. However, this can introduce additional problems that we cannot troubleshoot or resolve, including unexpected visual or performance issues.
    
  • If you're encountering startup crashes, we recommend updating your drivers, verifying your game files, or reaching out to our support team at support.obsidian.net for assistance.

[Davoker]

Why do the animancers have “Catalan names”? Ella Rossell, Xavi Castell, etc, where do Catalans fit in the lore of the game? it's absurd 🤨

[CHASE6]

I’ve got the game pass version. Auto update is enabled, but the game is still at 1.2,11. Any idea why?

[MacLe0d]

Originally posted by CHASE6:

I’ve got the game pass version. Auto update is enabled, but the game is still at 1.2,11. Any idea why?

1.2.11 is the same latest version. It's just different numbering in GamePass I suppose.

[TeaDew]

The Outcast Chest key reward is bugged through the peaceful route with Amelia still. Seems like a fail safe is falsely being triggered, since there's no way for you to get that key without killing Amelia, but she states to you that you "Already opened it". Dialogue choices involved don't matter.
Could also be the flag for this check being mixed up with something else somehow. Either way it removes the reward for people who did the trickiest path of the quest. Hopefully a fix can be implemented asap that is retroactive for people who already finished the quest.

[CHASE6]

Originally posted by MacLe0d:

Originally posted by CHASE6:

I’ve got the game pass version. Auto update is enabled, but the game is still at 1.2,11. Any idea why?

1.2.11 is the same latest version. It's just different numbering in GamePass I suppose.

Interesting. Thanks for heads up.

[Oh for Fox Sake]

is there an update to eliminate racism?

[az4a3l]

Minoletta wand with totem bonus crits add high fire accumulation doesnt work. Or it procs with a very very very low rate, i crit and crit and no fire dot, but using a common wand it adds the fire dot. Some interaction of adding lighting dot blocks the fire dot. Makes no sense! And its only minoletta, i put on the unique that adds 5% lighting to power hits using a common wand and it adds the dual dots. With how few unique wands are in the game vs the scrapheap of melee weapons it makes me mad!

[Bodge_It]

Would be great if this could run on Steam Deck

[Mirag3]

Why don't books come with enchants? Did you not have time to add enchants to the books? or you just saw how busted books are and let the fact that books make the intelligence stat completely useless and did not put any more effects on the books? Are you planing to fix the blatantly obvious unfinished systems? If so im going to consider purchasing the game.

[Joel]

Your game still crashes, or refuses to start up while claiming my GPU doesn't have enough memory available.

Guess I'll just wait for you to fix it Soon(tm).

[13xforever]

Baulo Calatone quest is still bugged: you can't progress/complete it even after picking up the dagger from the machine.
Old Nuna bounty is still bugged: if you kill her before picking up the bounty from the board, it will get stuck on kill stage, and you can't complete it even if you have the trophy in your inventory already.

[Panda]

Whuen HDR ffs

[az4a3l]

Another bug, totem bonus of essence gain recover some hp, also gets bugged for no reason not giving the hp gain.
Another weird debuff interaction, totem bonus add random debuff increase gets stuck in one debuff element if you use an elemental wand, like minoletta and the freeze wand. I could understand the freeze wand not adding fire debuff, i tested this using the gloves that add 5% bleed and the trinket that adds 5% poison, the totem bonus for adding random debuff increase works when it feels like it, my crit is 49%.

[aktar]

Originally posted by JoyPuke:

I've had 2 UE crashes since the patch has been installed, is anyone else having the issue?

The "UE-Alabama: fatal crash!" error seems to be more frequent now :/

[az4a3l]

Another bug and this apparently was already reported prior last patch.
Solving amalia conversation by passing 12 int skill check results in her not giving you the key for the chest. Argh!
Bug after bug, its no surprise windows toss this thing into gamepass!! And am too time invested to rage quit! argh!