News Liste Age of Darkness: Final Stand

Release Notes

Crashes

• Fixed a crash related to pathfinding that could occur across the Campaign Missions.
• Fixed a crash in Mission 10 related to placing buildings within a units path.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when exiting the World Map in Campaign.

Performance Improvements

• Improved the performance during Survival Death Night Crystal explosion.
• Improved the performance during the Final Stand Cutscene moment.
• Improved the performance when loading the game for the first time.

Fixes & Changes

SURVIVAL AND CAMPAIGN
• Fixed an issue where F1 could select Garrisoned Units
• Fixed an issue where in certain situations the player can instantly transport Garrisoned ranged units from one tower to another tower in the map.
• Fixed an issue when about to cast a Heros ability you could click on buildings to cancel, leaving the spell indicator on.
• Fixed an issue where fire damage over time did not go through Armour and was reduced by 70%.
• Fixed an issue where Targetting Closest within the Target Prioritization system was not working as intended.
• Fixed an issue where when Alt-tabbing during gameplay could result in the Alt key from locking. Causing unit selection, move commands and many minor issues to behave unexpectedly.
CAMPAIGN
• Fixed an issue in the World Map where the Music would play inconsistently
Mission 4
• Fixed an issue where the opening cutscene was de-synced causing stuttering and poor quality.
• Fixed an issue where players had to skip a cutscene in order to progress.
Mission 7
• Fixed an issue where an enemy Tower could attack units further than the Tower’s attack range.
• Fixed an issue where the final cutscene SFX was not playing as intended.
Mission 8
• Fixed an issue where with pathfinding that caused Nightmares to not put pressure from the left side of the map.
• Fixed an issue where Nightmares would get stuck within Trade Bazaars across the map.
• Fixed an issue where collision was missing near the ‘Slay the Commander’ objective.
Mission 10
• Fixed an issue where the Crusher’s Roar VFX momentarily appeared in the incorrect direction.
• Fixed an issue with volume balancing across the Mission.

Known Issues

• Using old saves in the new update will cause various unintended gameplay behaviour.
• Observed an issue where some player may lose their campaign progression.
• In a rare occasion Heroes may auto-attack with a fire FX.
• Pressing ‘-’ will display a ping mouse cursor and requires a second press to de-activate.
• Enemy units in campaign won’t agro onto attacking Ballista or Below Towers.
• In survival Death Night music may not always play.
• Have observed performance hitches in Mission 6 when a Hero’s ability is cast for the first time.
• In survival collision is missing on the Dark Crystals.
• Throughout Campaign, save/loading can cause objective makers to behave unintentionally.
• Some UI Prompts remain untranslated across all languages.
• Impaler projectiles don’t shred the Armour off enemy buildings across Campaign.
• Building a Lumber Yard won’t highlight trees within its radius.
• In some cases Heroes and Units can get stuck on terrain set dressing during Campaign Missions.
• Merek’s Halberd Hurricane can miss in some cases when used in a group of Nightmares.
• Buildings may display construction VFX when the camera focuses on them while navigating throughout the map.
• Player can see all objective locations early on the Mini-Map in Mission 9.
• Player may be able to incorrectly path through the enemy’s gates in Campaign.
• Minimap objective pings in Campaign are not always persisting in some Missions.
• In some missions background music may not play correctly or at all.
• Character Models can stand and clip with the Character Pedestal on the World Map.
• In Mission 5 the player will see incorrect Objective Information on the Mission Success screen.
• Dialogue Barks may be playing multiple times within Campaign Missions.
• Save Loading throughout the campaign may cause issues with Progression triggers for that mission.
• There are some issues with Cutscenes missing characters during Mission 9.
• Cutscenes may play twice when skipped in certain situations.
• In some cases Units will get stuck running on the spot when trying to reach unreachable terrain.
• Cinematic Subtitle Timing is not matching to Cinematic Audio for Dunstock, Storm Eye and the Final Cinematic.
• Player can see objective locations early on the Mini-Map in Mission 9.
• In some cases the player will see missing Audio across cutscenes throughout the Campaign.