The patch notes for both of the updates for No Rest for the Wicked in May, in descending order, from latest to oldest.

UPDATED May 23

️Patch Notes – Early Access Patch 2 May 22

🛠️ Patch Notes – Early Access Patch 2

We are incredibly excited to be releasing our biggest patch yet, marking the One Month Anniversary of our Launch! Patch 2 is chock full of highly requested features such as Weapon Tryout, the ability to Respec, DLSS / FSR Upscaling and Controller Remapping. Lots of Balancing and Quality of Life improvements, Audio, Animation, and Visual Effect polish as well as a multitude of bug fixes are also included!

Between DLSS and FSR, numerous CPU, GPU performance improvements, and memory optimization we are confident that your experience of playing No Rest For The Wicked will be significantly smoother across a wide range of hardware.

For NVIDIA users, we are excited to mention that there’s a new Game Ready Driver for No Rest for the Wicked!

Be sure to check out our Patch 2 Highlight Video and the full patch notes below.

⚔️ Performance

Performance Mode now lowers texture resolution, reducing crashes on lower-end machines

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Numerous Significant CPU optimizations
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Fixed performance degradation that might occur on some gamepads

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Fixed numerous memory leaks
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Reduced instantiation spikes for numerous objects

Disabled detail meshes on generic humanoids faces when not needed

Reduced latency, overhead and improved stability of GPU Culling

Optimized texture resolution and memory budgets for Steam Deck

Optimized Art content in Ship Prologue and its cinematics

Removed unused weapon assets to free up memory

Removed leftover developer tools to free up memory

Optimized CPU spikes of a variety of common content loading operations

Added texture streaming for character portraits during dialogue interactions to save memory

Fixed some persistent log spam being generated by potatoes in Nameless Pass

Cleaned up numerous NPC prefabs, reducing memory footprint and instantiation costs

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Optimized Ambient Occlusion Rendering
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Extended GPU culling usage for more cases

Configured and optimized pooling for more prefab instantiations reducing CPU spikes

⚔️ Gameplay Systems

Added new Respec System!

Players can now Respec by examining the statue in the Cerim Crucible Atrium

Respec allows players to take back Attribute Points that have been allocated at the cost of 1 Fallen Ember per Attribute Point returned

Players can then allocate returned Attribute Points for no cost at the Respec screen or in the existing Stats screen

⚔️ Quality Of Life

All weapons can now be equipped regardless of their Attribute Requirements to allow players to try out weapons they acquire

Weapons that the player does not meet the requirements for will deal less damage through negative scaling on the Attributes that are below the weapon’s Attribute Requirements

Inventory Items can now be docked to compare them

Press F (Keyboard) or Y (Controller) to dock items and hover other items to compare

Brought back the Misc category to the Inventory

Housing items, Runes, Fallen Embers and other miscellaneous items will now be sorted into this category and free up space from other categories

Vendor screens are now sorted by item type so that items are more organized for purchase

Improved Stamina player HUD brightness for better visibility, and readability of stamina debt

Added side notifications for when Danos Sacrament Upgrades are completed

Added Floor Indicators under the Clock HUD to show the Cerim Crucible floors

Improved visibility of LB/RB button icons for Equipment HUD on Steam Deck

⚔️ Settings

Added support for Upscaling with DLSS 3.7 and FSR 2.2

Added custom key rebinding options for Controller

Added support for Mouse Buttons 4,5 and F1-F12 Keys for custom Keyboard bindings

Default Keyboard layout set to Mouse+WASD

Added support for worldspace Player HUD (Stamina wheel, NPC name tags, etc) brightness to UI Brightness setting

⚔️ Content Additions

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Added a new set of enchantments
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All Throw runes can now be added to Spears

⚔️ Loot

Added Pig Sticker Blueprint to Fillmore's Level 1 Shop

Added Assegai Blueprint to Whittacker's Level 1 Shop

⚔️ Balance

Nerfed Throw runes

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Reduced Poise Damage On All Throw Runes
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Reduced Damage On Ice Throw Rune
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Nerfed Focus Regeneration enchant curve so that it no longer generates too much Focus too quickly

Focus Regeneration enchantment no longer drops with Gloves and now only drops with Helmets

This Includes Enchanting Items At Eleanor

Falling Sky and Woodland Protector’s initial item levels were set too high and have been lowered to the intended levels

⚔️ Weapons

Updated animation for backstabbing with Staves, Spears, Greatswords and Great Hammers

Updated visual effects for Piercing type weapon attacks (such as Spear or Rapier)

⚔️ Enemies and Bosses

Polished Darak boss fight

Improved behavior to prevent him standing idle after attacking

Improved behavior when fighting ranged builds

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Added Bite Attack to Plague Rat
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Added Back Attack to Risen Axe Bruiser
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Added escape logic to Risen Fire Bomber
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Added Elemental Affix visual effects to Nith Brute, Nith Screamer and Shackled Brute

Adding cloth simulation to Boarskin Bruiser

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Polished rigging on Plagued Boomer
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Reduced camera shake intensity on Risen Hammer Bruiser, Boarskin Bruiser and Riven Twins

Smaller enemies can now smash breakable objects (barrels, crates, etc.)

⚔️ NPCs

Changed the name of the worried woman in the Sacrament Town Square to Nell

Polishing dialog for Druo, Lucian and Everwyn

Updated the dialog for NPCs at the Cerim Gate in Nameless Pass

Added eavesdrop to Sleeping Guard Gerard in Sacrament

⚔️ Areas

Improved collision, faders and set dressing in Prologue Ship, Orban Glades, Mariner’s Keep, Nameless Pass, Sacrament, Multiple Sacrament Interiors, Cerim Crucible, Cerim Cave, Riven Twins Boss Arena and Potion Seller Cave

Polished lighting for the ship in Prologue, Sacrament and Cerim Crucible

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Updated foliage in various locations
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Added physics and wind simulation to Spruce trees

⚔️ Cinematics

Polished animations for characters in the Inquisition Arrival cinematic

Improved lighting, character rim lighting and volumetrics for the Prologue Ship Crash Outro and Inquisition Arrival cinematics

Removed a background character who was blocking part of the view in the Inquisition Arrival cinematic

Fixed cloth and camera pops in the Inquisition Arrival cinematic

⚔️ Audio

Environment update for Sacrament:

Added Ambience Emitters for certain Residential and Vendor buildings like the Cook, Tavern, Woodcrafter and Enchantress

Updated zone beds and oneshots for unique parts of town (Cemetery, Poor Area,Training Grounds, Dasha Sanctuary)

The church near the cemetery now has bells ringing to service playing at certain times of day, followed by churchgoers praying and chanting from behind the doors.

Updated ambience for Sacrament Town Square to feel busier during the day

Updated environment audio for the Cerim Gate zone in Mountain Pass

Increased audio buffer to help alleviate audio crackle artifacts

Increased available audio resources to help prevent sounds from dropping out during long play sessions

Updated audio for Cerim Vision cinematic

Updated audio mix for Barrel and Crate destruction

Saluting Guards in Sacrament now have sound

Added Weapon-specific Impacts on parrying and blocking actions

Added ladder sliding sound effects for Kickdown Ladders

Added sound effects for going down Ladders

Added new sound effects for Plague-Enchanted weapons

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Polished audio for Bounties enemies
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Fixed missing sounds for Plagued Mutant Soldier

Fixed rain sounds appearing in Sacrament Interiors

Fixed enchantment-specific weapon whooshes cutting a bit too early

Fixed NPCs not making footstep sounds when walking around

Fixed environment states sometimes not resetting when returning to the main menu

⚔️ VFX

Blood effects are now juicier and used more often!

Improved blood visual effects attachment to characters bodies from attacking and getting hit

Increased intensity of shiny item drop VFX

⚔️ Bounties and Challenges

Updated Crustacean Conundrum bounty to spawn 14 Crabs while still only requiring 8 Crabs be killed to complete

⚔️ Localization

Added and updated localized text in many places across multiple languages

Added localization support for new Controller Remapping screen and for various missing localized elements

Fixed incorrect font on the Activities screen

⚔️ Bug Fixes

Fixed various enchantments on unique weapons and rings that weren’t working properly

Fixed Rested Bonuses for sleeping in beds

Fixed Key Items respawning after pick up

Fixed navigation in Nameless Pass which was preventing certain enemies and the Riven Twins boss from patrolling and moving to the player

Fixed Echo Knight falling off the arena and blocking progress

Fixed Cerim Armor missing upgrades at Filmore

Fixed Risen Pavise, Eye of the Beholder and Wooden Howler Shields not showing their proper models

Fixed SHIFT key not being recognized in the Main Menu

Fixed certain environment textures overriding certain armor textures

Fixed certain armor having missing or incorrect cloth simulation

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Fixed rigging on certain armor
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Fixed The Wallow boss attacks not having sound effects

Fixed Falling Sky Blueprint not giving the Unique version of the weapon when crafting

Fixed an issue where completed but not yet turned in bounty/challenge rewards were being automatically given to the player at reset

Fixed wall cannons not firing in Cerim Crucible

Fixed XP UI not showing “Max Level” after reaching the level cap

Fixed Level and XP UI being present without a Character selected in the Main Menu

Fixed “Long Area Name” appearing on the map where map is unavailable (such as Cerim Crucible)

Fixed being able to skip through locked doors in The Shallows

Fixed players getting stuck at the end of the entrance corridor in the Echo Knight Arena

Fixed Enchant Item Challenge counting enchanted items that are picked up

Fixed mortuary guard popping in on screen during Spoken and Unspoken quest

Fixed extra Elsa map marker during the Spoken and Unspoken quest

Fixed Giles and Petra standing instead of sitting on the chairs in Caroline’s Inn

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Fixed Arrows not hitting Plagued Wolf
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Fixed Wolf and Plagued Wolf target point

Fixed Tanth Knight getting stuck during patrolling in Mariner’s Keep at Endgame state

Fixed Darak leaving his shield in Orban Glades when he escapes

Fixed chest opening VFX in Performance and Balanced quality presets

Fixed Wolf having a dance party after death

Fixed Chest floating in the air in Mariner’s Keep

Fixed incorrect texture on the Crafting Table

Fixed 4096x2160 resolution appearing as 256x135 aspect ratio, instead displays as 1.9:1

Fixed overblown bonfire lighting at The Shallows

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Removed rogue rim light at The Shallows
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Removed lighting debug shortcut
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No Rest For The Wicked Update Patch Notes April 23

Patch Notes – Early Access Patch 1 May 3

🛠️ Patch Notes – Early Access Patch 1

Celebrating our 2 week launch anniversary of No Rest for the Wicked we are releasing our first Early Access Patch!

This patch brings significant CPU and GPU performance improvements (especially when it comes to traversal and “heavy” areas), keyboard control remapping, a new mouse/keyboard control scheme, increased inventory stacks, chest inventory access at vendors / crafting, bows using stamina, earlier housing access, Quality of Life and 45+ bug fixes.

With all of the performance improvements since launch, we are updating our recommended PC specs! See the image below for details.

As always thank you for sharing your feedback, please keep it up!

⚔️ Performance:

Optimized Prologue Outro, Ship Attack, Phalen Armada, and Sacrament Intro Cinematics

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Mountain Pass Gate area optimizations
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Significant optimizations to content loading and unloading in order to reduce dropped frames and improve baseline performance while traversing through environments

Improved performance for Ice and Frost enchantment and combat effects

Optimized enemies making them faster to instantiate across the board

Improved GPU visibility culling and general handling of off-screen content

Optimized micro physics objects across the entire game

Various cumulative improvements to baseline CPU performance

Fixed various cases where internal errors were firing rapidly and constantly, leading to potential performance degradations

Added preloading for frequently used objects to further reduce performance drops during gameplay

Additional timeslicing systems for streaming performance improvements

Optimization of the Pooling System to further reduce performance spikes

Optimized vast amount of meshes and textures

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Optimized numerous Visual Effects
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Optimized pre-placed and dynamic enemy ragdolls

Optimized Character Rendering across the board

Rendering performance optimizations for better GPU performance across the board

Cleaned up and archived duplicated content for decreased memory usage

Cleaned up legacy content in all areas across the game to reduce memory usage

⚔️ Quality of Life:

Vendors and Crafting Tables/Refineries can now access resources directly from storage

Housing is now available sooner right after completing the “Sacrament” quest instead of after completing the “Of Rats and Raiders” quest

Updated sorting for inventory to these categories:

Gear - weapons, armor, rings, offhands, tools, runes, housing items and item blueprints

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Food - ingredients, food, and recipes
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Combat Consumables - Bombs, Vials, Oils, and Embers

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Resources - Resources, Gems, Components
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Realm - Ream and Key items
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Last equipped food/quick item will be saved when leaving and rejoining realm

Deprioritized ingredients being the next auto selected food when the last currently selected food is eaten.

Cinematic Skip prompt will appear upon pressing the button instead of holding it

Improved legibility of some controller icons on the Steam Deck

⚔️ Settings:

Added custom key rebinding options for Keyboard (controller rebinding coming soon!)

Menu key rebinding currently not available

Added an additional Mouse and WASD Keyboard control layout (on by default)

⚔️ Content Additions:

New house “The Knot” for purchase near Sacrament Cemetery for 8 silver

Tier 3 Armor Sets: “False Ones”

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False Guardian
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False Harbinger
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False Oathkeeper
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False Remnant
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New Character animations to Main Menu and Customization Screens

⚔️ Loot:

Increased number of slots of all chests and cupboards

Engraved Hearthside Chest raised from 35 to 40

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Medium Chest raised from 20 to 30
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Small Chest raised from 10 to 20
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Large (and Large Noble) Cupboard raised from 30 to 40

Medium (and Medium Noble) raised Cupboard from 20 to 30

Small (and Small Noble) raised Cupboard from 10 to 20

Nerfed Focus grant on all Focus Vials

Large Focus Vial decreased from 300 to 150

Medium Focus Vials decreased from 200 to 100

Small Focus Vial decreased from 100 to 50

Cupboards can now also store ingredients

Increased Armor and Weapon Shard stack size to 25

Increased buy/sell value of all Tools and Rings at Vendors

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Removed Refined Resources from Vendors
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All Weapon Oil Recipes are now Tier 1
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Dracaena Dumpling now requires 2 Potatoes and 1 Dracaena Herb instead of 1 Potato and 2 Dracaena Herbs

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Improved shinies visual effects
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⚔️ Balance:

Attacking with Bows now costs Stamina instead of Focus

Rebalanced enemy levels in Nameless Pass

If neither “Of Rats and Raiders” or “Servant of God” quests were completed, entry of Nameless Pass is Level 8 and the rest of Nameless Pass is Level 15

If only “Of Rats and Raiders” quest was completed, all of Nameless Pass is Level 15

If both “Of Rats and Raiders” and “Servant of God” quests were completed, entry of Nameless Pass is Level 15 and the rest of Nameless Pass is Level 20

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Nerfed attribute scaling on all Staves
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Nerfed Focus Gain for Focus On Damage Dealt enchantment

Nerfed Health Gain for Health On Damage Dealt enchantment

Increased Focus cost on Elemental Throw runes to 75

⚔️ Enemies and Bosses:

Nerfed damage for Grab attack on Riven Twins and Nith Brute

Updated timings for Breaker archetype and slightly changed behavior so now after some of attacks they will try to land additional attack

Updated Risen Armored Great Axe patrol animation

Polished backstab animation on Nith Screamers and Shackled Brutes

Polished jump attack animation for Plague Boomer

Polished heavy combo attack on Risen Axe Bruiser

⚔️ NPCs:

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Polished multiple NPC portraits
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⚔️ Housing:

“The Roost” house price reduced from 20 silver to 14 silver

⚔️ Areas:

Improved collision, faders and set dressing in Mariner’s Keep, Orban Glades, Black Trench Nameless Pass, Sacrament, Cerim Crucible and Potion Seller Cave

Improved lighting and volumetrics for the ship in Prologue

Improved lighting in the interior of Whittacker’s building

Updated models and textures for pipes in the Black Trench

Removed sidle from multiple locations where it was not needed

⚔️ Audio:

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Updated ambience at Cerim Gate
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Updated audio for Sacrament Cemetery
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Updated audio zone for Sacrament Slums to include the river

Improved audio for lanterns in Sacrament

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Improved female bandit voices
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Polished Nameless Pass Prisoner audio
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⚔️ Bounties and Challenges:

Plague ichor for Duo Bruiser Bounty now drops when the second Bruiser is killed instead of given for the Bounty reward

⚔️ Tutorialization:

Large sidebar tutorial screen increased in size, now adjusts width based on content with added scrollbar

⚔️ Localization:

Added and updated localized text in many places across multiple languages

Added support for multiple missing localized elements

Fixed text overlapping for tutorials in multiple languages

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Fixed Russian font sizing
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⚔️ Bug Fixes:

Fixed exploit where after removing a furnace/tanning rack, all resources used to refine are returned

Fixed enemies t-posing when leaving camera view and coming back

Fixed Danos stealing resources and putting them towards other upgrades

Fixed being unable to activate a new bounty while there is an existing completed unclaimed bounty

Fixed wrong prompts used for abandoning and replacing bounties and challenges

Fixed attribute requirements on Ripper, Tongue Splitter, Coral Piercer, Falstead’s Fury and Brutish Cudgel weapons

Fixed hitbox on Plagued Boomer’s worm lunge attack being too big

Fixed players not getting a Rested bonus when sleeping in beds (literally No Rest for the Wicked)

Fixed Old Leather Tome quest item failing to be added to inventory if Misc section is full. Item is now a realm key item.

Fixed Character Avatar still showing the last worn helmet

Fixed spots inside the ship in Prologue where you can dodge through collision and get stuck

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Fixed broken ladders in Orban Glades
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Fixed Focus Regeneration enchantment to regen correctly

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Fixed Plagued Boomer hitboxes
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Fixed Plagued Rat’s ability to see and react to the player

Fixed Huntsman falling when using roll back

Fixed Caged Exile being unable to path toward player correctly

Fixed Health on Damage Dealt enchant on Wind of Death Katana

Fixed arrows visually hitting player despite successfully dodging them

Fixed Fire Bomb explosion radius not matching visual effects

Fixed Kill Challenges that require a specific weapon type counting non-weapon kills (such as explosions, falls, parries, blocks, etc)

Fixed Character Rim Light using incorrect color and intensity indoors

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Fixed dropped items bag black artifacts
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Fixed Rattigan appearing in Nameless Pass when he shouldn’t

Fixed Finley getting targeted by enemies

Fixed part of Heavy Bruiser Bandit armor set pants being invisible

Fixed chest trying to hide in the ground in Nameless Pass

Fixed chest trying to hide in another chest in Orban Glades

Fixed marker sub labels on the map showing on markers that don't have a sub label

Fixed being able to see out of world at Filmore’s Level 3 area

Fixed missing character lighting in Gordon interior

Fixed interior candles not applying light

Fixed burning sails clipping in Risen Attack cinematic in the Prologue

Fixed sky cutting out in Ship Crash cinematic in Prologue

Fixed Fallen Ones overlapping their own VO

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Fixed Return rune audio loop not ending
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Fixed dancing flowers outside Caroline’s Inn

Fixed rain audio appearing in Cerim Crucible and War Room

Fixed Wretched and Crestfallen Archer Tunic clipping into character

Fixed broken rigging on Noble Leather Cloak

Fixed Riven Twins intro cinematic using cut-to-black instead of fading

Fixed Rusty Skewer Straight Sword using the Blood Rusted Straight Sword icon

Fixed missing icon for Collect Mushroom Soup challenge

Fixed typo in "equippable" for Inventory tutorial

Reduced locations where Caroline spawns to just one for before Inquisition Arrival and one for after

Removed duplicate lantern and torch in Sacrament

Fixed small texture artifact on cloth in the Phalen Church cinematic

Those are the patch notes up through May 22 for No Rest for the Wicked.

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