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What is Hard Mode?

• Players will retain all their equipment, talismans, and crafting knowledge but the rest of the world will reset
• All enemies will be scaled up to provide a challenge for a player with high-level gear
• Enemy placements and compositions have been adjusted all around the world
• Resources will be more plentiful allowing you to try new builds and playstyles more easily
• New achievements will be available for defeating bosses and completing the game in Hard Mode

Version 1.01.09 Patch Notes

• A new mode has been added to the game to provide an extra challenge for the toughest of Remnant Knights.
• Added achievements for defeating each boss in Hard Mode as well as completing the game in Hard Mode
• Updated the Heavy Attack and Parry tutorials to match the current functionality in game
• Added a Weapon Swap tutorial
• Felker will now warn you when you reach the edges of the playable world
• Added 2 Bells to the Pillar of Entropy.
• Fixed issue that could cause enemies that are supposed to die in cutscenes to survive and awkwardly stand around afterwards.
• Fixed an issue that would cause Galina and Mellie to spawn on top of each other at the shop in Starspire Refuge.
• Fixed issue that would cause one-shotting the festival statue to give you the lowest reward tier, rather than the highest.
• Fixed issue that prevented the Flare Forge storm's kill volume from triggering under certain conditions.
• Fixed issue that caused the Flare Forge storm VFX to remain active if you fast traveled from within the storm.
• Adjusted player position after entering Malek’s Menagerie to ensure that the camera is not clipping into the wall or floor during Ceza's intro conversation.
• Added missing kill volumes in Black Rot Chasm.
• Slight geometry adjustments near the Black Rot Chasm boss arena so that some out of bounds areas no longer appear traversable.
• Fixed issue that would cause the Ishular fountain puzzle to lock if the game was saved while a piece was rotating.
• Added prompt to teleport to the bottom of Atnael's boss room after defeating him (you can also just jump if you'd like. Fall damage is disabled on that drop!).
• Improved performance in Crumbling Basilica by adjusting how the hordes of Deprived are spawned.
• Slight color adjustment to the Ruined Settlement flowers to help differentiate them from Starspire's flowers for quest clarity purposes.
• Fixed issue that would leave a tiny Aura spawned at Ruined Settlement.

• Updated and added journal entries for better clarity on some quest steps.
• Added additional clarifications to quests to indicate where NPCs are located within Starspire Refuge.
• Added a prompt before entering Ishular if any sidequest chains that will fail are active.
• Fixed an issue that could cause "An Honored Bond" to not trigger after completing Radix Stronghold.
• Fixed a case that would cause Sir Gideon to not properly save his location during "A Fruitful Experience", resulting in a soft-lock.
• The player will no longer be locked out of one of the Coveted Fragments in Flare Florge if you die or fast travel out of the Erudition Phantom encounter.
• Minor adjustments to the sequence of events at Flare Forge if you side with Pleonexis to prevent potentially skipping the quest reward.
• Adjusted the appearance of the secret wall in Lost Laboratory during “Remains of Redemption” to be slightly more distinct from other walls.
• Fixed issue that would cause Hillson to stay in his state from "The Festival of the Spire" even after completing the quest.
• Fixed soft-lock that would occur during “Scions and Succession” after defeating the Hashara Princess if you died or respawned before picking up the Abeyant Ovum and/or Rakky's Sigil.
• Fixed state that would cause Kauzzum to become invulnerable during his boss fight in “What Lies Ahead”.
• Updated interactions with the Ishulari Giant to add additional clarity on the source for the Broken Astrolabe.
• Updated progression of "In Search of Providence" to clear up confusion on how to activate the elevator in the boss room.
• Reworked progression at the Colossus of Radiance to still allow the puzzle to be solved if "A Fortunate Gesture" has failed.
• Fixed sequence break during “A Fortunate Gesture”.
• Fixed state that would cause Calder to not spawn in Crumbling Basilica after completing “In Search of Providence”.
• Alaira can now be found at the Crumbling Basilica if you reach the endgame without completing her quests.
• Added additional dialogue to Mentes to warn players of the consequences of visiting Aura at the Ruined Settlement before speaking with him.
• Fixed state that would cause Mentes to try and summon the player even after a point of no return was reached.

• The Bellwether Key will now be removed from the player's inventory once it has no more uses.
• Adjusted conditions so that the Broken Blade can no longer be picked up after completing "A Smile of Hatred".
• The Ferrum Helms collected during "A Smile of Hatred" will now be removed from your inventory upon completing the quest.
• Updated Hirath's Sigil to use the correct version of the icon.
• Quest items from "Scions and Succession" will now be properly cleaned up so that they no longer remain in your inventory after being used.
• Fixed issue where Rakky's Sigil and Hirath's Sigil were not removed from the player's inventory after completing “A Natural Effect”.
• Lore items will no longer despawn at The Colossus of Radiance before the puzzle is completed.
• Disabled certain items that could soft-lock progress if used during the final boss encounters.
• Changed wording on Stalwart talisman to clarify its functionality
• Changed functionality of Dust Fall talisman to negate any fall damage that wouldn’t have killed you if you were at full health
• Removed parry damage bonus from 1 Handed Stabbing fighting style description as it was outdated
• Fixed bug causing Spellblades to not be upgradable if you had the exact required amount of glint
• Rebalanced the value provided by armor and health runes to require more investment to hit the cap for those stats
• Changed Galina’s inventory upgrades to sell large quantities of lower tier Sacrumite once she begins selling limited quantities of higher tier Sacrumite
• Removed the ambient sound from the Radiation pommel effect
• Increased the damage percent gained from the Assassins armor effect
• Changed wording on Assassins armor effect to clarify its functionality

• Added additional clarification to Furn's dialogue during “Remains of Redemption”.
• Fixed issue that would cause Calder's dialogue to try and trigger even if he wasn't present at Ishular.
• Fixed state causing Pember's endgame dialogue to fail to play, which would cause the player to become rotation-locked until another dialogue was started.

• Fixed bug causing Deflectors armor effect to negate all damage from Einar’s frost orb projectiles
• Changed functionality of the Hashara Princess handmaids to spawn only once but be tougher to kill during the Hashara Princess boss fight
• Reduced damage of human enemies special attacks
• Atnael will now move to the center of the platform before performing his scythe pull in attack
• The Hashara Hive Guard will now destroy his rock walls if he loses his target and doesn’t gain a new one within a specific duration
• Made improvements to the Melgom boss fight[list]
• He ensures he is on the platform and not very far from the player before performing his curved laser attack
• He teleports to the center of the platform and performs a callout as he begins his cosmic collapse attack
• The portals that appear in the arena won’t automatically teleport the player if they spawn on top of you. They also have a spawn visual effect for 2 seconds before becoming active

• Attack combo 1
• Attack combo 2
• Lunge Slash
• Sprint Slash
• Rapid attack

• Quick jab
• Slow Stab
• Shield Bash

• Double Slash

• Claw Attack
• Attack Combo

• Lunge attack

• Tentacle idle
• Tentacle thickness
• Tentacles emerge and vanish

• Added more info to Save slots for hard mode
• Added an option to increase the size of text in the gameplay options
• Added an option to have a separate button for dodge and sprint
• Made a change so that the quest updates and item displays or other pop-ups don't overlap
• Added the current equipped weapons to show on the combat HUD and give an indicator of which weapon is currently active in the inventory
• Added a Randomize button in character creation
• Updated a few armor textures that had some visual issues
• Added the name to NPC’s on the interact UI so you can see their name before entering the dialogue.
• Added a link to the wiki on the main menu