Gameplay

• Fixed a bug where Temporal Shift could sometimes cast a second time after being used once, resulting in getting sent back to the era you were originally in.
• Fixed a recent bug where targeted abilities such as Lunge or Smite could fail to cast if they were the first ability you used in a scene.
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to target enemies that had yet to emerge with Lunge. Doing so would result in being unable to move after using Lunge.
• Fixed a recent bug where offline characters would have 0 potions when loaded rather than their maximum amount of potions.
• Fixed a bug where some breakable objects in various scenes continued to obstruct movement after they were destroyed in online play. This also sometimes caused players to get stuck in place, unable to move. The fixed scenes include The Maj’elkan Catacombs, The Rustlands, The Altar of Flesh, The Dragons’ Grotto, and The Rotting Hoard. Please make a Bug Report if you still run into this.
• Fixed a bug where enemies could be pushed around in Online by walking into them.
• Fixed global conditional damage properties not working (except for unlimited damage per stack of ailment effects, which already worked). These effects are fixed:
  • More Spell Damage to Ignited Enemies on Soulfire
  • More Throwing Damage to Bosses and Rare Enemies on Bo’s Anarchy
  • More Fire Hit Damage to Ignited Enemies on the Arcane Flames node on the Mage passive tree
  • More Void Damage to Stunned Enemies on the Shifting Power node on the Volatile Reversal tree
  • More Melee Damage per Bleed (up to 30 stacks) on the Wounded Prey node on the Summon Bear tree
  • More Damage per Poison (up to 30 stacks) on the Envenomed Prey node on the Summon Scorpion tree
• You can no longer type in the chat windows when you have chat disabled.
   

Skills and Passives

• Base Skeletal Mages now use a new ability called Dread Bolt rather than a version of Hungering Souls.
• Normalized the damage and cast speed of Skeletal Mage projectiles. Previously the Hungering Souls used by regular Skeletal Mages was much slower and weaker, while the attacks from Cryomancers and Pyromancers had hidden modifiers to cast speed and damage which made it difficult to understand their power.
  • Dread Bolt: 30 base damage and 150% damage effectiveness, 50% chance to apply Damned on hit, no longer applies Possessed (which had a stack limit and could overwrite a player’s stronger Possessed ailment). Dread Bolt now also has a higher projectile speed and does not have homing.
  • Cryomancer’s Ice Shard: 30 base damage and 150% damage effectiveness (previously 12 and 100%, with 90% more damage).
  • Pyromancer’s Fireball: 34 base damage and 170% damage effectiveness (previously 25 and 125%, with 40% more damage).
  • All three now have the same cast speed, slightly slower than Pyromancer’s Fireball used to be.
  • This should result in close to the same DPS for Fireball and Ice Shard, and much higher DPS for Dread Bolt.
• Increased the projectile speed of all Skeleton Archer projectiles.
• Fixed a bug where Rampage’s Intimidating Cry did not require Roar to be on your action bar in order for it to trigger Roar. The description of this node has not yet been updated to specify that Roar must be on your bar.
• Fixed a bug where Void Knight’s Void Well passive had no cooldown. It now has a 3 second cooldown (from 10 listed, none actual) and sets you to 30% of max mana (from 20%).
• Fixed a bug where Sacrifice’s additional chains from Catalyst of Horror and Sanguine Libation were not additive with each other, resulting in 2 fewer chains than intended while any points were invested in Sanguine Libation.
• Fixed a bug where Sacrifice consistently chained to 1 fewer minions than intended (this is in addition to the other fix).
• Fixed Bow Puncture snapping to targets more intensely than other bow skills.
• Fixed a bug where Arcane Momentum’s stacks displayed were incorrectly. This is only a display change.
   

Items

• Fixed a bug where Fragment of the Enigma gave 2 Lightning Damage for Spark Charge per 10 max mana instead of the stated 2 Lightning Damage for Spark Charge per Intelligence.
   

Visuals

• Updated the visual effects for the Mortar abilities used by Skeletal Mages.
• Updated the visual effects for fireballs cast by Pyromancers (Skeletal Mage).
• Updated the visual effects for all Skeleton Archer projectiles.
• Fixed various visual bugs with the poison cone attack used by Scalebane Casters.
• Updated the indicator visual on the ground for Soul Spire attacks.
• Fixed broken particle effect visuals in Soulfire Bastion.
• Fixed a bug which caused part of the visual effects of some skills, notably Lunge, to play at an incorrect place (usually offscreen).
• Fixed visual effects applying to item models on the ground.
   

Enemies

• High Speed and Crit Chance Until approach monster mod changes
  • Fixed a bug where the mod’s vfx were invisible online.
  • This mod’s effects and vfx now start when the monster is engaged rather than when it spawns
• Fixed a bug where the Less Damage Taken From Distant Enemies monster mod’s vfx were invisible online.
• Fixed a bug where the Shade of Orobyss’s blood orbs did not visually seek out targets in online play, causing them to hit players unexpectedly.
• Fixed the Void Amalgamation’s melee attack visual appearing further away from itself than intended.
• Improved the visuals of the Void Amalgamation’s melee attack.
• Fixed a bug where Voidwings could be invisible in Online mode.
• Fixed Cremorus’ weapon appearing solid white.
• Fixed the Void Fiend not having an outline and being visible before emerging.
• Reduced the chance for larger splatter visual effects when hitting rapidly, but made that decreased chance fall off sooner than previously. This will result in fewer large splatters when hitting rapidly, but more large ones when having multiple seconds between hits.
   

Optimization

• Fixed a bug where Arcane Ascendance with the Acuity node could cause severe latency problems while on your skill bar.
• Greatly improved the performance of these minion projectile abilities:
  • Skeletal Mages now use Dread Bolt which performs better than Hungering Souls
  • Cryomancer (Skeletal Mage) Ice Shards
  • Pyromancer (Skeletal Mage) Fireballs
  • All Skeleton Archer attacks
  • Thorn Totem Thorns
• Fixed a bug where When-Hit VFX were playing more frequently than intended, causing some performance issues.
• Improved the performance of Spire abilities.
• Improved (reduced) how much RAM game servers use.
   

Notes

Again, thank you all for being active in giving us bug reports and feedback. While we’re shifting more of our focus to new content for 0.9.1, we still plan to release more fixes before 0.9.1 releases. We’ll prioritize widely reported and/or critical bugs, and lower priority fixes and improvements might come with 0.9.1 instead.

Some things we’re currently working on:

• Dungeon boss door not always working (we apologize for this taking so long)
• Monolith Echoes occasionally breaking when playing as a Forge Guard
• Using a skill you don’t meet the weapon requirements for locking you in an animation
• Rubberbanding, latency and performance problems
• Monitoring for any other ability use problems

We don’t prioritize classes for hot fixes, it’s more that we have a lot of moving parts happening at once. I can see how sometimes patch notes could look odd but that is because we have multiple departments working on different projects all the time. The necromancer minions adjustments were to supplement vfx improvements/projectile clarity in combat (we are also aware that for some players they are not working correctly). Our goal is when we do vfx pushes like this, we also try to optimize as we go so we don’t have to return to optimize it later in another pass.

We are still working on trying dungeon bug fixes and sorry to hear that playing with 4 players feels rough right now. I guarantee that we are trying to improve that experience with optimization pushes with every hotfix (just like this one) which will also be helping in group play.

I think I might have found the root cause of this, which we have a fix in the pipeline for. What abilities do you have on your action bar when this crash happens? I would like to double check to confirm our fix will address this case as well.

Thank you. Yes, i believe we found the cause of this. We will try to get the fix in as soon as we can. It’s unfortunately being triggered by having lunge and smite on your bar.