A compilation of the patch notes for the third and fourth hotfixes thus far on April 23, for No Rest for the Wicked, the souls-like action RPG which entered Early Access on April 18, 2024.
The complete patch notes are below, in descending order, from latest to oldest:
UPDATED April 27
🛠️ Patch Notes – Early Access Hotfix 4 April 23
This hotfix covers more cases of the Nameless Pass progression blocker, balance adjustments, performance improvements and we snuck in a few more bug fixes! As always, thank you for your continued feedback and bug reports!
⚔️ Performance Improvements:Fixed a leak with GPU Culling
⚔️ Bounties and Challenges Changes:Bounties and Challenges are no longer deleted if you choose to abandon themAdded confirmation when choosing to abandon Challenges
⚔️ Balance Changes:Adjusted Damage On Parry enchantments
⚔️ Loot Changes:Adjusted loot drop rates from chestsAdded more furniture to Whittacker’s Shop
⚔️ Bug Fixes:Fixed Nameless Pass cranes still not rotating correctly in some existing realms (their position will now reset to default)Fixed sell value on Raw and Refined materials at vendors still being only ¼ of what they should beFix for the Channel rune icon not showing up when player has no FocusFixed Focus Gain On Hit enchantment text displaying a larger Focus numberFixed incorrect levels for some items at vendorsImproved collision at Mariner’s Keep Tower areaFixed typo in interaction hint for Eleanor's door
To give feedback and report bugs, please head on over to our No Rest for the Wicked forum!
🛠️ Patch Notes – Early Access Hotfix 3 April 22
The Watcher’s call has been answered, our biggest Hotfix Patch has arrived! We improved Performance, Balance, Loot, Harvesting, Graphics, fixed progression blockers and added new options in the Settings Screen. A good few dozen other bugs across the rest of the game have also been squashed. The amount of feedback, bug reports, and reviews we’ve received so far has been awesome! Please continue sending them in!
⚔️ Performance Improvements:Improved area streaming, making the game feel smoother while traversing across different areasDynamic Resolution Scaling is now less aggressive, maintaining higher image qualityImproved culling for off-screen physics objects and charactersFixed culling for bird animations, improving their performance in levels (there’s a lot of them!)Additional Shader Optimizations for performance modeFixed a leak which increased memory and CPU usage the longer the game was playedOptimized rain and other GPU particlesOpening Cinematics and Ship Prologue OptimizationsMemory optimizations for character customization texturesAdditional general CPU performance improvements
⚔️ Graphics Additions and Fixes:Adjusting Brightness / Contrast / Saturation no longer breaks HDR renderingFade to Black now actually fully fades to black in HDR mode
⚔️ Settings Additions and Fixes:Added Camera Zoom Adjustment OptionAutomatic Camera Zoom adjustment for handheld devices and Performance Mode
⚔️ Menu Changes:Added a new menu for exiting the game which includes both Exit To Main Menu and Exit To Desktop (localized text for this menu is coming soon!)Adjusted Repair menu size to accommodate for text in other languages
⚔️ Balance Changes:Weapons parrying now consumes Stamina (Shields parrying remains unchanged)Nerfed Gain Focus On Focus Use enchantmentUnarmed can now land hits while enemies are on the ground after performing a Backstab
⚔️ Loot Changes:Adjusted Dig Spot rates such that Clay drops more oftenReduced the number of hits needed for Dig Spots, Ore Veins, and Trees
⚔️ Enemy Changes:Improved behavior for Nith Screamer and Shackled Brute
⚔️ Bug Fixes:Fixed the crane not turning correctly in Nameless Pass and blocking players from progressingFixed a chest at Mariner’s Keep elevator locking you in when trying to loot itFixed dig spots sometimes not giving any lootFixed remaining enemies and bosses becoming kaijusFixed Falstead Darak dealing damage during his transition while he is still humanFixed certain doors in Sacrament not having interaction hintsFixed missing VFX for attacks by the Twin Bruisers, False Ones and Boarskin AxeFixed condition where enemies attack when they should notFixed vendor buy/sell prices on Raw and Refined materials being only ¼ of what they should beFixed missing furniture items at WorkbenchFixed Mira and Meri’s Spinning Wheel not allowing players to refine wool threads into garmentsFixed keyboard and mouse buttons not working on Bounties contribute panelFixed an issue where side notifications would occasionally spam playersFixed parry tutorial trigger conditionsFixed wording of enchanting tutorial to more accurately describe common rarityFixed spot in the Prologue where you can jump off the shipFixed sizing of a railing on the ship in the PrologueFixed spots where you can get stuck in a climbing loop in Orban Glades and Nameless PassFixed spot in the Black Trench where you can see out of worldFixed Angler's Delight Chowder’s recipe nameChanged Danos’ confirm button color so it does not look grayed outFixed NPCs not knowing how to hold fishing rods in Nameless PassFixed missing shadows and incorrect volumetric fog after changing resolutionFixed reflection popping in sewers dungeonFixed torches and fire popping in cinematicsFixed rain appearing in caves in Nameless PassFixed missing audio for waterfall in Potion Seller CaveFixed missing audio for Nameless Pass Prisoner chopping and miningFixed an issue where there was a super bright mist in the Twins Boss arena after respawningFixed pink effects appearing in faders at timesImproved collision in some places at Orban GladesImproved faders in Nameless PassFixed Photosensitivity screen having overlapping text in certain languages
To give feedback and report bugs, please head on over to our No Rest for the Wicked forum!
Those are the patch notes on April 23 for No Rest for the Wicked.
