New
-Weapon/Spell control overhaul: Ability to toggle between your equipped weapon and a spell with a hotkey (Keyboard:R, Gamepad:B). Number key hotkeys (1-8) have been added to PC. The quick options radial wheel menu now selects favorited weapons instead of equipped weapons. Tapping the button toggles sheathing. The legacy equip system has been added at the bottom of gameplay settings.
-Combat Rebalance. Enemies are much more accurate with their attacks. Enemies tuned slightly to compensate for this.
-Resting encounter system: Resting now restores health when enemies aren't around, but in hostile areas there is a chance your sleep is interrupted. The threat of the interruption depends on the area you've decided to rest in.
-Autorun button (default Q, no default bind on gamepad but can be set)
-9 new summon spells are placed around the world
-Six new alchemy effects (Night Eye, Silence, Slow, Jump, Dispel, Drain Fatigue). Dispel removes all non-alchemy related over-time effects. Existing alchemy effects have been re-distributed for this.
-New potion system: four quality levels, distributed through chests and vendors.
-Evidence Chest crime system: two locked chests, one in Henrik's and one in Tintentan's house that stolen items are sent to. Guards finding you far outside of town somehow will have your item in their own inventory.
-Two high level added near Magdal's Rest
-Two additional dungeons in the yellow fungal area
-Underwater kelp forests and coral, to be updated with ingredients in a later patch
-Notification if you attempt sprinting while overencumbered or casting while silenced
-Weather volume slider
-Disconnects on host/client side now alerted to players

Updated
-Some summon spells have been rebalanced to accomodate the new spells. There should be a smooth transition between early and late game now
-Alchemy system no longer tells you if your selected ingredients share effects if effects are unknown.
-Some restorative effects on ingredients have been shifted slightly to not be the first ingredient revealed on eat. Their relative distribution has not changed.
-Merchants will get rid of excess inventory every 3 in game days to avoid inventory issues.
-Restorative potions are now over time instead of instant
-Spells and effects now indicate if they affect you or a target
-No longer naturally buoyant in water
-Particle effects on many weapons have been greatly reduced
-The ability to roll has been removed for now
-Armor damage reduction capped at 85%. Armor skill contribution to armor rating rebalanced to prevent early-game armor from being nearly as effective as late game armor.
-Updated/recut some NPC dialogue audio
-Many fonts and UI elements have updated fonts / font sizes to make them easier to read
-Rebalanced attributes given per level of skills
-HP no longer given simply for leveling up

Fixed
-Online multiplayer stability improved
-Collisions on rocks and trees and bedrolls have been greatly improved
-Camera now remains stable during bow shots in first person
-Spears and two-handed behavior now consistent during sprint/block
-Shields now correctly equipped in your hands
-The dunce cap now has a proper mesh
-Fixed missing fast travel points
-Spells now affected by SFX volume slider
-Crosshair no longer disappears during combat
-Ingredients no longer fail to auto-stack when dropped and picked up again
-Certain NPCs no longer stretch on death
-Companions no longer care about your crimes
-Fixed companions occasionally not showing up after dismissal
-Restore missing amphitheater ghosts after delayed co-op quest loading. Added save regresssion coverage
-Grounding fixes to prevent certain NPCs from dying prematurely due to the ground under them not loading in time
-NPCs that spawn as dead no longer sometimes show up as invisible
-Gille now correctly trains acrobatics
-Petyr no longer re-offers his quest
-Fungal pants don't hide your arm

Big update today. Please keep sharing your feedback, we are reading everything and working through your reports, with much more to come.

CO-OP CHARACTERS
You can now bring your single player character into a friend's game. Choose an existing save before joining, and your appearance, equipment, regular items, gold, skills and perks come with you. Progress you make in co-op saves back to that chosen slot. Quests and quest items stay with the host.
Guest character progress now saves every 30 seconds independently of the host's world saves. We've also added recovery for previous character progress stored in older co-op saves. If you don't have a single-player save yet, start a game and save before joining. It should be straightforward but if you need any help with this feel free to reach out in the community forums or on our Discord.

COMPANIONS
Companion permadeath is now optional, and disabled by default. Defeated companions will fall unconscious and get back up after combat. Turn on Companion Permadeath in settings if you want their deaths to be permanent.
- Companions sent home or dismissed now remain marked on your map and compass.
- Improved companion persistence. Zan should now remember where you sent him instead of returning to his original home.
- Fixed companions repeatedly falling down and reviving when saving and loading.
- Companions can no longer be pickpocketed.

LIP AND EYE MOVEMENT
The facial animation update has been expanded to most NPCs across the island. Most characters now move their mouths with dialogue and blink, and skeletons have jaw movement. Dialogue animations have also been refreshed to match the latest voice audio. Let us know what you think of how it looks!

OTHER NEW
- Minor new places to explore
- More detail and clutter added around the island, including the forest beyond the green tunnel and areas near the mushroom region.
- Tombs now contain lootable urns, and some existing chests have been replaced with lower-tier versions.
- Added and updated dialogue audio for Brastic, Hahn, Gourbin, Aul, Abil, Bok, Detta, Gyore, Falloe, Hirom, Chi-Alani, Krespir and Remba.
- Container inventories and the magic menu can now be sorted. The magic menu also displays spell school and cost.
- Alchemy ingredients are now listed alphabetically and can be filtered by effects you have discovered.
- New party status bars show your companions' and co-op players' health, stamina and magic. These can be disabled in settings.
- Settings now use larger, more readable text.
- Added an option to keep the bottom-left HUD bars visible.
- Save/load menus now respond faster, especially if you have a lot of saves.
- Fungal Skirts are now Fungal Pantaloons, with a proper pants mesh.
- Added text keys for translation modders covering perks and menu text.

BALANCED
- Small chest capacity increased.
- Mouse Parasol placement reduced, including throughout the lowlands.
- Pulp Tendrils are less lucrative.
- Urthu's prices corrected.
- Cyroni Buckler's effect is now permanent.

MULTIPLAYER AND SPLIT-SCREEN
- Improved co-op movement synchronization (fixes rubberbanding in bad network conditions), including after waiting.
- Running, swimming and jumping bonuses now correctly affect guest movement.
- Fixed co-op character loading and progress recovery when rejoining after the host saves or reloads.
- Fixed loading a save as the host switching the session into single player.
- Fixed manual saves getting stuck waiting for guest progress, and issues with preserving the chosen save slot.
- Fixed weapons disappearing or displaying incorrectly after joining, respawning or changing equipment.
- Fixed loaded bows and arrows failing to transfer or be looted in co-op.
- Fixed duplicate NPC and Soul Tether spawns.
- Fixed problems when two players tried to grab the same body or object.
- Fixed shared dialogue choices firing more than once.
- Fixed the host and a guest waiting simultaneously advancing time too quickly.
- Each split-screen player now has independent map controls and camera movement.
- Fixed quantity prompts, save confirmation, skill menus and trainer hints appearing for the wrong player.
- Fixed split-screen compass markers, including for players joining later.
- Fixed lockpicking cameras and screen effects interfering with another player's view. (Splitscreen)

FIXED
- Sorcerer's Wrath now correctly makes its free spell cost nothing, including the health cost from Blood Magic.
- Movement skills no longer gain XP while the game is paused.
- Crouching near shallow water no longer causes jitter between swimming and standing.
- Merchants can no longer pay more gold than they have for crafted items.
- Fixed Nanek-Tal's body disappearing or becoming buried.
- Improved corpse placement when loading saves or entering an area.
- Missing character details in the save/load menu can now be recovered from existing saves.
- Non-player kills no longer incorrectly spawn red ghosts. Additional ghost fixes for Elger, Xanagan, Ovas and True Remba.
- Elger no longer offers his quest again.
- Additional fixes to Weeler's quest and Myconari quest states.
- Improved Krizur's dialogue filtering in multiplayer.
- Yaner now accepts chicken.
- An-Dalus no longer wanders away, and his possessions are correctly marked as owned.
- Improved point-of-interest travel placement and collision checks.
- The quantity selector's All action is now separate from Loot All.
- Clicking Close in the quantity menu now works.
- Unstackable items no longer display a quantity in their inspector.
- Health is back at the top of the HUD bars.
- Corrected pickup meshes and materials on several pieces of equipment, including the Continuum shield.
- Fixed the staircase in the donjon, a missing cave name, and assorted building collision and texture issues.