Character names are displayed on leaderboards, but primarily so you can keep track of characters. If you're like myself, and have > 100 characters combined offline and online, having names allows some way to track what character is what. IE. my 1.1.7.1 character is "HAVEYOUSEENMYSHIELD" - so when I see it in the character list down the road, I go "oh, that's my shield bash character."

This is a known bug. You can however open the forge anywhere by using the forge hotkey (default 'F'). The physical forges in the world are primarily just as part of world building.

So the idea here would be to dump into a tab before looking over the gear to decide if you actually want to stash it properly if I understand correctly.

I've passed along the feedback to the team!

Dunno about that - it looks pretty tasty

with 1.1.7, The quest was changed to have three parts:

1. Visit the shrine in the center
2. Collect the east and west fragments
3. Return to the center, and activate the Pearl Altar

You no longer return the fragments to their individual altars. We have heard and are investigating reports that the quest may encounter an issue if you collect fragments before visiting the center shrine to obtain the quest to collect the fragments.

I apologize for any confusion. When I said "added to notes", I meant added in post (after patch notes went live). I didn't mean to imply they were always there. There was certainly no malintent or desire to hide this change, as we do believe it's a positive change. Not only for Steamdeck, but makes Linux in general a much more consistent experience vs. the differences of 80+ different distributions of Linux that all handle a 'native' client differently. We added it to the patch notes, and created a section to call it out better in the patch notes as soon as it was noticed that the note was missed.

We have a hotfix in the works

With implementing better support for Steamdeck, we are no longer building a Linux client, and instead using Proton. Proton offers a much better experience for Steamdeck, and consistency across Linux platforms. This change also allows Steamdeck players to automatically launch with Proton, which is the preferred compatibility layer. Linux is still supported through Proton, and this was previously added to our patch notes for 1.1.7.

Many of the Steamdeck improvements were in adding support for UI scaling. As this is a signifigant feature which is also applicable to non-steamdeck users, we decided to put it under its own section in the patch notes.

That is correct, yes.

An interesting idea for sure. I've passed this along to our design team to mull over, thank you!

Can we set rules on affix level ?

Not currently. We had discussed adding affix filtering capabilities to the Stash Priority system, but currently it's a lot of extra load for it, which we expected to result in slow item depositing into the stash.

Also, do you plan to add an option to delete characters after end cycle merge for thoose who never play legacy ?

You can delete a character at any point. We don't currently have any plans to have a "delete all legacy characters" button.

Once the event ends, The Event Modifiers will be gone, as well as the Loyalist Undead packs. The Shrines, Loot Lizards, Stash Priority System, and other improvements will still be in place for the remainder of 1.1

With the event patch, we're removing some of the blockers, as well as reducing the level sizes. We also have some bigger improvements in the works coming in 1.2 for Dungeons.

You still need to visit the Bazaar, but you can open your stash within the Bazaar stall to list from your stash.