Patch Just Dropped

[JackBaldy]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/623280/eventcomments/5190945662898012718/

Originally posted by Dark Alliance Game Update - July 20, 2021:

Patch Notes – Dark Alliance V 1.17.85

• Fixed infinite loading after a total party wipe during a boss fight.
• Fixed an issue where players would disconnect after rejoining an existing session.
• Fixed an issue where quest items could not be collected immediately after being dropped in multiplayer.
• Improvements to AI responsiveness. Most enemies now react faster at the start of combat and quickly turn to face the players. However, certain enemies are still slow to take actions once they notice players. This is actively being worked on.
• Stability improvements.
• Fixed animations and attacks that were out of sync.
• Moves and selected difficulty can now be viewed during a mission.
• Large enemies are now harder to stagger, although some can still be staggered in certain situations.
• Stamina drain on Drizzt’s moves have been reduced.
• Fixed an issue where players remained stuck outside the magic barriers when a boss fight was triggered.
• Fixed an issue where Garn’s Mirror Image phantoms could spawn outside the arena.
• Fixed an issue in Crystalline Dreams Act II where it was possible to fall through the map.
• Fixed a visual issue in Verbeeg Jamboree Act I where the explosive barrel socket would appear prematurely.
• Added missing “+” symbol to critical chance sub-stats

Balance changes:


Monsters:
• Stonegrinder: reduced health and damage, increased armor
• Abomination: reduced armor and damage
• Hellraider: slightly reduced damage
• Trolls: reduced regeneration rate
• Kelvin: greatly increased health
• General Greags: slightly decreased health

Loot:
• Removed the chance of extra usables dropping from small chests.

Gear sets and feats:
• Underdark Camo: reduced chance to apply poisoned.

Progression:
• Rebalanced XP to impact the early game. Some players were progressing from levels 1 to 5+ after just one mission of play. The update smooths out progression to reduce the scenarios where players gain experience in early levels so quickly.

Challenge Ratings (the following only affects CR5 and greater):
• Greatly increased monster condition resistance, condition penetration, armor, and elemental resistances
• Increased monster damage
• Increased monster health
• Increased hazard damage

Buffs & Debuffs:
• Greatly reduced effectiveness of weakened, cursed, and powerful Strikes.

Gear:
• Reduced the amount of maximum stamina and stamina cost reduction received from gear.
• Stamina regeneration can no longer be rolled twice on gear.

Not going to lie, doesn't really seem all that impressive. And somehow they thought it was a good idea to reduce the amount of stamina available to players, as if waiting for stamina was a fun thing.

Furthermore, seems like they made the game more difficult without adding better rewards. Do the people working on this game even play the game? This seems like it will serve to destroy the player base even more. What a tone deaf patch this seems to be.

Seems like they didn't bother to even fix the Lore achievement bug. This is not a good look.

Hmm...
• Fixed animations and attacks that were out of sync.
https://www.reddit.com/link/oochjb/video/btw55vi8zfc71/player
source: https://old.reddit.com/r/darkalliance/comments/oochjb/definitely_feels_different/

Really though? Doesn't seem like it. If this is how connected the developers are to this game, you're not selling that DLC. I am 100% not buying it.

[dalexander.rue5]

wanna play?

[JackBaldy]

Originally posted by dalexander.rue5:

wanna play?

Yeah, sure.

[JackBaldy]

Apparently taking damage from an attack you parried is still a thing (Online). Only now it may potentially be a one shot. Lovely dying to an attack that I parried. <3

[MasterMind]

Who gives a crap about a stupid achievement bug...achievements are retarded anyway. I don't buy games to get some pathetic pat myself on the back feeling for achievements, I only care about gameplay. They messed up hard on this one...

[JackBaldy]

Originally posted by MasterMind:

Who gives a crap about a stupid achievement bug...achievements are [redacted] anyway. I don't buy games to get some pathetic pat myself on the back feeling for achievements, I only care about gameplay. They messed up hard on this one...

Fortunately they messed up in a number of ways so people can have some choices as to what to be mad at, which is more than I can say about the actual choices in the game. :)

[MasterMind]

Originally posted by JackBaldy:

Originally posted by MasterMind:

Who gives a crap about a stupid achievement bug...achievements are retarded anyway. I don't buy games to get some pathetic pat myself on the back feeling for achievements, I only care about gameplay. They messed up hard on this one...

Fortunately they messed up in a number of ways so people can have some choices as to what to be mad at, which is more than I can say about the actual choices in the game. :)

yah i agree, but achievements are a dumb thing to be mad about right now. What good is the achievement if the gameplay isn't there to help support it? :) This Big Patch....lol...this is the precedent they set going forward. Sad really....I was holding out on reviewing the game until now, gave them their big chance in redeeming themselves.

[fpanther43]

Fix the lock on ( It should really be automatic to the nearest enemy when combat starts) and make the attacks multi directional so when you kill one enemy your not striking midair for three seconds while your combo finishes. Then maybe i'll buy it. If that's how R. A. Salvatore saw the characters he created for battle it would have been a very short leaflet.

[Kelleton]

Originally posted by JackBaldy:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/623280/eventcomments/5190945662898012718/

Furthermore, seems like they made the game more difficult without adding better rewards. Do the people working on this game even play the game? This seems like it will serve to destroy the player base even more. What a tone deaf patch this seems to be.

People complain the game is too easy, so they make it more difficult. Then people complain they don't give better loot to then cause power creep to make it easier? Impossible to please people

[MasterMind]

Originally posted by Kelleton:

Originally posted by JackBaldy:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/623280/eventcomments/5190945662898012718/

Furthermore, seems like they made the game more difficult without adding better rewards. Do the people working on this game even play the game? This seems like it will serve to destroy the player base even more. What a tone deaf patch this seems to be.

People complain the game is too easy, so they make it more difficult. Then people complain they don't give better loot to then cause power creep to make it easier? Impossible to please people

Maybe instead of trying to please people for stupid reasons they should just fix their game...you know, a legitimate reason to complain about. In the end it is your choice to listen to other people, or not...they own this mess.

[Kelleton]

Originally posted by MasterMind:

Originally posted by Kelleton:

People complain the game is too easy, so they make it more difficult. Then people complain they don't give better loot to then cause power creep to make it easier? Impossible to please people

Maybe instead of trying to please people for stupid reasons they should just fix their game...you know, a legitimate reason to complain about. In the end it is your choice to listen to other people, or not...they own this mess.

every patch is "fixing their game" just maybe not in the way you want it fixed.

[Arioth]

They made CR5 and 6 harder??? I was already being Killed in one single hit with CAT BEFORE the patch lol

[Warsign]

Originally posted by Arioth:

They made CR5 and 6 harder??? I was already being Killed in one single hit with CAT BEFORE the patch lol

I only play with a 2 person team most of the time, and nothing about this patch has made the game more enjoyable or functional for us. Probably going to hit BG3 again.

Also, the loot seems to be lower quality now than what I have previous farmed at CR6. Maybe its just bad luck, but getting grays from a CR6 seems kind of silly and was not a thing before the patch. <shrug>

[JackBaldy]

Originally posted by Kelleton:

People complain the game is too easy, so they make it more difficult. Then people complain they don't give better loot to then cause power creep to make it easier? Impossible to please people

You say that as if people singularly complained about any single thing. Usually complaints about difficulty (Such as my constructive criticism about difficulty) was paired with the inclusion of better rewards. This game already has a dying player base, making the game more difficult without better rewards will just mean people will stop playing at a faster rate.

Things that people could do before now become exponentially more time consuming and frustrating, and that's not going to cause people to stick around. The people that were already having an easy time with this game will not have that much more of a difficult time, as they're already geared out.

All this does is discourage the remaining player base that were still playing to get some gear, to stop playing, for the most part. There were already complaints about this game having too unforgiving RNG (Including getting rank 4 items in the highest difficulty), do you think this patch helps at all?

This patch is tone deaf, full stop. The people working on the game right now don't play their game.

[MasterMind]

Yeah games trash...just lost 4 more players for the foreseeable future. Latest patch made it worse, we were waiting for it to drop to post our reviews. Now we are absolutely hands down gonna trash this game. Devs are incompetent as f***. Fire them all and get a real programming crew that knows what they are doing.

[gunner]

There is still more content coming for this game, this is not the Final patch I believe.