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Hello everyone!

This is the last patch before the Second Dawn(1.0.16.0) patch in July. Although we've fixed a few issues already, we will make a more substantial patch for Second Dawn, including some balancing improvements.

We know that you're also waiting for additional content in the game, our teams are already working on the first Chronicle which will bring more content and some exciting gameplay changes that will offer more options for various builds, it will be available a few months after Second Dawn.

But for the moment, here are the Patch Notes for 1.0.15!

Thank you for your support!

• Fixed an item duplication technique using the Jeweler window.
  
• Fixed an issue causing Fate-Adjucatrix Zeitgeist weapon's VFX to be misplaced.
  
• Fixed a client crash happening when removing a reagent from the Dark Market inventory.
  
• Fixed a server disconnection happening when swapping items.
  
• Fixed an issue causing keybinding modifications to be saved when canceled.
  
• Fixed an issue causing players portraits to overlap.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing the player to drag and drop a reagent into the dark market project window while un-stacking it.
  
• Fixed an issue where typing some characters (XML tags) in the chat window could freeze the game.
  
• Fixed an issue causing part of chat messages to disappear after using commas.
  
• Fixed an issue leading players to be stuck on the flesh environment spine while using leap skills like Wings of Ishmir.

• Fixed an issue preventing quest monsters to be displayed as such on the minimap.
  
• Fixed an issue causing the UI focus to be lost (ex: forced to click in the inventory to be able to hover items).
  
• Fixed an issue causing incorrect Magic Find values to be displayed on players’ screens if they joined an existing expedition.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing the minimap icon of Fate-Adjucatrix Zeitgeist to be displayed properly.
  
• Added the correct minimap icons to the Jeweler and the Archivist.

• Fixed an issue causing the Tormentor soul-swallow skill to aim players behind its back.
  
• Fixed an issue causing Neiddrerym to have a wrong orientation when casting its missile launch skill if the player was using Wings of Ishmir at the same time.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing Gunslinger's Brand "Augmented Ammunition" variant to convert damage into a random type if combined with the "Flak Handcannon" variant.
  
• Fixed an issue causing the player to be invincible after casting Juggernaut and Bleeding Edge on an Untainted Zealot.
  
• Fix an issue allowing to cast "Avenger" Autoturret with less rage than it should.
  
• Fixed an issue with Deathgazer Railgun "One Simple Shot" variant damage bonus computation.
  
• Endgame map consumables with a level override now hide the level offset selection buttons when used.

• Fixed the position of the Demon of Souls laser impact sound.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing some boss modifiers sounds to fade out correctly.
  
• Added new Republic Infantry Crossbow shoot sound.
  
• Added Boss-Modifier sounds.
  
• Boss-Modifier indicators now have a common sound which helps alert the player if they are standing in a damage-zone.
  
• Added a new spawn sound for Republic infantry.
  
• Added sounds for buffs and summoning minions skill of Chapter III’s named boss 'Nikolas'.
  
• Added group audio when there are many Wild Rats on screen. Extra scurry and squeaking happens depending on the number of rats encountered.
  
• Improved Rat attack sounds, now much more appropriate to their small size.
  
• Improved Republic Veteran skill sounds.
  
• Improved cutscene audio for some scenes in Chapter II.
  
• Improved loot item volume mix. Certain drops are now more easily heard.
  
• Improved Stormfall Endgame City GUI sound, now has more unique prompts, feedback, and notifications.
  
• Fixed Svriir Spitter Head-Explosion DOT damage sound, damage now causes an acid burn hiss sound.
  
• Fixed some broken generic DOT damage sounds.
  
• Fixed cutscene audio sync problems in Chapter II.
  
• Fixed Svriir Fire Alpha flames sound cutting out abruptly.
  
• Fixed missing Burn damage sound for Svriir Alpha arc attack when standing in the flames.
  
• Fixed missing Shotgun attack sound for Republic Elite Justicar.
  
• Dialogue now uses a dynamic mix system. This means when there is dialogue, it won't dim the rest of the game sounds as much. Sound balancing is more natural with this technique.

• Updated localization for all supported languages.
  
• Adding Hungarian localization! Many thanks to our Hungarian community translator @lostprophet.hu.

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• Fixed an item duplication glitch with the Jeweler window.
  
• Fixed an issue that saved the quest progression of the party leader to other players who had a lower progression.
  
• Fixed an issue causing the friend list button to disappear after changing the window resolution.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing summoned creatures from disappearing when their owner player leaves the game.
  
• Improved performance in dungeons.
  
• Added visuals to Chapter transitions loading screens.

• Fixed an issue causing "0" to be displayed as a valid FPS limit in the game settings.
  
• Fixed font issues after switching the game's language.
  
• Fixed cropped texts in the Champion of Stormfall UI.
  
• Improved the key-rebinding alert message clarity.
  
• Fixed an issue causing game information on the main menu (game mode, quest progression) to disappear when changing resolution.

• Fixed an issue where chests dropped lower tier of weapons than expected.
  
• Fixed an issue while using Warpath where the player was stuck in place instead of following the mouse cursor.
  
• Fixed an issue causing Blood for Blood: "Feed on Pain" buff icon to remain visible on screen after the duration of the effect.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented Bulwark of Dawn’s buff duration to be refreshed properly when another instance of this skill was already active on the ground.
  
• Fixed Gate of Fate bonuses to summoned monsters' damage not being properly applied.
  
• Fixed an issue causing chests and lootables to drop an invalid quantity of items for specific types. This will not affect the average number of items you will drop, it will just be spread more logically.
  
• Fixed a bug where Darkness points would always be displayed as "0" in the tooltip associated with "Life's First Movement”.
  
• Removed an erroneous line in the tooltip of the Gate of Fates node "Furious Appetite" which stated that Willpower Generation was also changed to Rage Generation instead. The tooltip now properly reflects the gameplay effect of this node, which only changes Willpower natural regeneration in natural rage regeneration instead.
  
• Health computation formula has been tweaked for percentage maluses from Gate of Fates nodes "Sacrifice of Flesh" and "Endless Litany". Health bonuses will now be properly taken into account, which should help this effect feel more "logic".
  
• Fixed an issue where "Resource Generation" magic effects would reduce Rage and Willpower generation from skills like Wings of Ishmir or Sovereign Shout instead of improving it as it does for Rage and Willpower generated through basic attacks.
  
• Bonuses to status ailments duration (like "Serpentine Affinity" from the Gate Of Fates) are now correctly displayed, both in the character sheet and the Active Skill Modifiers.

• Fixed an issue causing parts of randomly generated levels to be missing.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing the expedition portals to spawn after killing the boss.

• Fixed an issue allowing the creation of an unlimited number of characters.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing players from connecting to online mode, displaying a friendlist error.

• Fixed Gunslinger's Brand fire sound where it would fail to play if more than one player cast it at the same time.
  
• Fixed a sound positioning issue on the Demon of Souls Scream attack and added a warning sound.
  
• Added missing vocals on Pacified Republic enemies.
  
• Added Ambient sounds to various story levels.
  
• Added sounds for various Boss Modifier skills.
  
• Added Republic Veteran skill sounds.
  
• Modified some cutscenes to improve transitions from gameplay to the scene.

• Updated German localization.
  
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese localization.
  
• Updated Polish localization.
  
• Updated Simplified Chinese localization.
  
• Updated Korean localization.
  
• Updated Spanish localization.
  
• Updated Russian localization.
  
• Updated French localization.

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Hello everyone!

The Extended Soundtrack of Wolcen is now available!

Composed and arranged by our talented musicians Cédric Baravaglio and Jean-Gabriel Raynaud, this Soundtrack contains 7 volumes of music for a total of 182 tracks, including bonus tracks, ambient, dramatic, epic music, and cutscenes scores, for an epic journey of 7h56 minutes!

Until June 7, 2020, all players who purchased the Original Soundtrack will have its initial price deducted from the Extended Soundtrack!

We also want to share a few information about what we’re working on lately.

As planned, we continue to work on Second Dawn which includes bug fixing and game stabilization, while making progress on the first major content patch.
Before Second Dawn’s final patch, two smaller patches will be pushed. The last one will be more substantial but it will still be about game stabilization including bug fixing, player experience improvements(network, performance), and a few balancing changes.
Here are the deadlines for each of the last Second Dawn patches:

1.0.14.0(May): Bug fixing, game stabilization.
1.0.15.0(June): Bug fixing, game stabilization.
1.0.16.0(July): Bug fixing, game stabilization, balancing tweaks. Concludes the Second Dawn production period.

After the final patch of Second Dawn, our goal will be 1.1.0 which will bring a lot of Gameplay and Quality of Life improvements, but also the addition of a new seasonal event internally called the “Chronicle”.

A Chronicle is a temporary realm with specific events and items that players will be able to access by creating a fresh new character.
This patch will also contain a lot of changes such as new damage types in skill modifiers, damage scaling rework, Gate of Fates improvements, Quality of Life elements like the Passive Skill Tree search option, left-click rebind, and much more! And since we want everyone to enjoy improvements that are not related to the Chronicle event, players will be able to access all of them with their existing characters.

It’s still too soon to communicate any release date yet for Patch 1.1.0 or to share too many details about it, all in good times! But we’re all very excited about these changes, and we hope that you will appreciate them too.

Thank you for your support and stay safe!

Community translation: Deutsch

Hello everyone!

The Extended Soundtrack of Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem is coming on May 6!

Composed and arranged by Cédric Baravaglio and Jean-Gabriel Raynaud, this Soundtrack contains 7 volumes of music for a total of 182 tracks, including bonus tracks, ambient, dramatic, epic music, and cutscenes scores.

For this special occasion, we want to share with you two tracks included in the Extended Soundtrack, a small preview from the 8-hours-long journey to come!
https://youtu.be/3uCF2vfpucE
https://youtu.be/KPHlEAJ6sgQ

Thank you for your support and stay safe.

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• Expeditions from map items now display the magic find and monster level info in the quest details.
  
• Fixed some cropped texts in expedition quest details UI.
  
• Fixed some cropped texts in Champion of Stormfall UI.
  
• Fixed overlapping UI elements on Boss health bars.

• Fixed a bug that might cause melee attacks to have an unwanted targeting behavior, especially against the spheres during Chapter III Boss fight.
  
• The game will now skip the Down But Not Out state if all party members are either down or dead.
  
• Fixed a bug causing cursed chests to drop unreachable loot.
  
• Fixed an issue that led Unique armors of lower tiers to be dropped at level 65+ Expeditions.
  
• Unique accessories of the last tier have been added and will be accessible at level 65+, this concerns:
  
  • Seal of the Arbiter
    
  • Sagarnäris
    
  • Thirst
    
  • Seven Sisters' Pact
    
  • O'Maley's Lucky Belt
    
  • Three Crowns Brooch
    
  • Mark of the Blackstaff
    
  • Paradox
    
  • High Potency Neural Cord
    
  • Lex Filianis
    
  • Searing Reverie
    
  • Voidforged Endeavour
    
  • The Trial
    
  • Shadowcall

• Added sound feedback when using reagents on items.

• Improved volumetric fog rendering for high and very high settings.
  
• Fixed some flickering lights in Champion of Stormfall game mode.

• Infinity Blades' modifier "Records Printed in Matter" now has the appropriate description.
  
• Improved English localization.
  
• Updated French localization.
  
• Updated German localization.
  
• Updated Spanish localization.
  
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese localization.
  
• Updated Russian localization.
  
• Updated Polish localization.
  
• Updated Spanish localization.
  
• Updated Simplified Chinese localization.

Known issue:
We had reports about the impossibility to close the Untainted dungeon victory screen. As a workaround, you can click several times on the button with the right click in order for it to work.
We're preparing a hotfix to resolve the issue on our side.
Thank you for your patience!

Edit: The hotfix has been pushed, it should now work normally.

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• Fixed various client & server crashes.
  
• Fixed a game crash leading to a black screen when reading corrupted character save data. Please let us know if the issue persists.
  
• Fixed an issue causing active effects tooltip to stay on screen after the effect expired.
  
• Fixed an issue displaying offline friends as online in the friend list.

• Fixed an issue preventing the player to click in some areas of the Gate of Fates.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing active effect tooltip description to be displayed beyond the first text line.
  
• Fixed an issue causing the "add friend" and "accept invitation" buttons to overlap, allowing them to be clicked at the same time.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing a player to close the trading window if the other player disconnected during the transaction.
  
• Fixed an issue causing player portraits UI collision box to stay after the player disconnected, preventing to click under it.
  
• Fixed an issue randomly causing some UI text of the game to be rendered as white squares.
  
• Added a transition screen between expedition floors to hide level loading artifacts.

• Fixed an issue causing players to fall endlessly if they used Wings of Ishmir while being teleported to the next expedition floor.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing minion health in summoning skills details panel to display changes when using the "Heads Hang Low" passive nodes.
  
• Fixed an issue causing the player to fall under Act 1 boss' arena using Slayer's Flurry with the "Cosmic Ambush" variant.
  
• Fixed an issue causing summoned minions to collide with the player if they were grabbed by a Demon of Soul's possession skill first.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing the Arctic Spear's "Sublime Fracture" variant to apply on additional projectiles launched by the skill.

• Fixed an issue causing a T-Pose animation when casting summon skills while moving.
  
• Fixed the female model in T-pose in the Champion of Stormfall cinematic.

• Fixed an issue where Genesis Stone wasn't able to craft all the magic effects it's supposed to on Chests and Helmets.
  
• Changed the computation of Beauty Eternal magic effect that transfers the Dodge Chance Score to All Resistances Score. Existing items will be rerolled.
  
• Unique armors of the last tier have been added and will be accessible at level 65+, this concerns:
  
  • Agony
    
  • Argand's Hearth
    
  • Autarchic Secret
    
  • Bio-Flow Symbiosis
    
  • Blood Tear Bastion
    
  • Bloodlust
    
  • Envoy of War
    
  • Expurgation
    
  • Feast of Cankers
    
  • First Men's Legacy
    
  • Frayed Combat Cleats
    
  • Frostweave Qullittuq
    
  • Gaälnazek
    
  • Genesis
    
  • Hakeresh Shelya'ar
    
  • James's Tall Tale
    
  • Morbid Retribution
    
  • Mournfall Treads
    
  • Odelia's March
    
  • Purifier's Statement
    
  • Smile of the Searing Song
    
  • The Figurehead
    
  • Veiled Eclipse
    
  • Vigilance: Scorched Ravine

• Updated English localization.
  
• Updated German localization.
  
• Updated French localization.
  
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese localization.
  
• Updated Polish localization.
  
• Updated Russian localization.
  
• Updated Spanish localization.
  
• Updated Simplified Chinese localization.

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• Fixed missing animations on Gernese after beating the Chapter III Boss.
  
• Fixed an issue causing Stormfall lighting to be incorrect when loading the Chapter II map.
  
• Fixed an issue causing a black screen or a crash when loading a corrupted character saved file.
  
• The news panel has been removed from the main menu.
  
• Fixed various client crashes.
  
• Fixed various server crashes.

• Fixed issues with the friend list and friend activity that prevented players to join each other.
  
• Fixed a desynchronization issue of the party leader state.

• Added a max cap to damage bonus provided by ailment stack count via active skill modifiers.
  
• Eclipse now stuns for 1 seconds baseline. The modifier "Unseelie Gale" now increases the stun duration by 0.5 seconds.
  
• The Burn ailment now inflicts damage to 5 targets around the main affected target instead of all targets.
  
• Fixed health bonus displayed in summoning skills active skill modifiers tooltip not matching the actual health of the summoned minion.

• Fixed 3D ground loot model for Veiled Eclipse and Figurehead Uniques.
  
• Added the new Unique tier for weapons and shields. They can be drop on area level 65 and higher. This concerns:
  • Quintet of Sundowns
    
  • Legacy of the Willbreaker
    
  • Shimmering Shadows
    
  • Ivakin's Obsession
    
  • Vulcaïn Steel Sword
    
  • Chrono Cell
    
  • Goremaker
    
  • Shard of the Red Mountain
    
  • Edgy
    
  • Edict. 2.1.4.1.7.
    
  • Zapstick
    
  • Rigard's Hope
    
  • Vanity's Plea
    
  • Envy's Denial
    
  • Abolition Act
    
  • The Apex
    
  • Zephyron
    
  • Herald of Change
    
  • Regicide Mark III
    
  • 7th Purifiers' Legion Archive
    
  • Soulsbane
    
  • Sea Tamer
    
  • The Macksfesten Enneract
    
  • Dominion
    
  • Driftwood Miracle
    
  • Shaham-Shahar
    
  • Prototype: Deliverance V2
• Fixed an error leading to the impossibility to generate percent elemental damage affixes on armors after a certain level.

• The Untainted Zealot and the Zealot clone are now easier to target with projectiles.
  
• Fixed an issue where an instance of the Justicar still used its Inexorable Advance skill.
  
• The Pacified Hierophant that can be summoned by the Aurora Knight is now weaker (less HP and fewer modifiers).

• Fixed Untainted mode rewards sometimes not rolling Untainted-mode-specific affix.
  
• Fixed an issue causing reagents to disappear from the item slot when starting the project "Increase reagent Rarity" in the Dark Market.

• Improved English localization.
  
• Updated German localization.
  
• Updated French localization.
  
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese localization.
  
• Updated Spanish localization.
  
• Updated Russian localization.
  
• Updated Polish localization.
  
• Updated Korean localization.
  
• Updated Simplified Chinese localization.

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Hello everyone!

As mentioned in the latest Patch Notes, since we're all practicing social distancing, we'd like to invite you to our live stream this Sunday 22nd of March at 1 PM (PST) with Wolcen stream with the creator of Diablo, David Brevik, as a special guest!
Joe Barhoum (Geeks WorldWide CEO), and Daniel Dolui (Wolcen CEO) will also be joining on the Geeks WorldWide channel on Twitch for this very special event.

Our team also continues to work on Patch 1.0.11.0, we’ve published a list of known issues today that you can already check out. We’re also planning to implement a part of the new tier of the existing Unique items. These items will be available starting level 65 and they are meant to be viable for the end-game content.

We’re also modifying a bit Eclipse by adding a stun to its basic effects. Therefore, the associated modifier “Unseelie Gale” will extend the stun duration instead of allowing the spell to stun targets in the next patch.

Thank you for your support, take care, and see you on Sunday!


Joe Barhoum(CEO of Geeks WorldWide), David Brevik(Creator of Diablo), and Daniel Dolui (CEO of Wolcen Studio)

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Hello everyone,

Before sharing the patch notes with you, we want to communicate about the present situation in France and what it means for Wolcen in the next few weeks and give you some news about our team. First of all: everyone is fine!

But starting today at 12.00 CET, all travels in France are now forbidden except under exceptional circumstances or mandatory reasons.

We've already taken measures to protect Wolcen employees and ensure that most of our team members can work from home, but that's not possible for everyone. Since we don't want any of our employees to be put at risk, they will be staying home for an unknown duration.

We're still committed to providing you the best experience possible with Wolcen and we will continue to do as much as we can, work on the next league, fix bugs, but the overall pace will be inevitably slowed down.

We're also freezing the recruitment process while the confinement remains.

To end on a positive note, we would like to invite you to the Geeks WorldWide channel on Twitch on the 22nd of March to follow a Wolcen stream with none other than THE David Brevik, the creator of Diablo, as a special guest! It's an honor for us to have such an ARPG champion take an interest in our game, we can't wait to hear his opinion about it, Also joining the stream is Geeks WorldWide CEO, Joe Barhoum, and our CEO, Daniel Dolui.

Thank you for your support! Take care of yourselves and each other :)

• Added jeweler inventory interaction: You can now equip an item directly from the jeweler panel.
  
• Added jeweler inventory interaction: Improved right click and left click handling in the jeweler panel slots.
  
• Added jeweler inventory interaction: You can now move an item directly from one panel to the other.
  
• Being disconnected from the game for inactivity will now move your jeweler items in your inventory instead of deleting them.
  
• Fate-Adjucatrix Zeitgeist will no longer be visible to players who joined a group after she appeared.
  
• Fixed an issue in Chapter II preventing players to complete the step “Reach Helmshire”.

• Fixed a bug causing the max player health to display an incorrect value after leaving the Aspect of Apocalypse.
  
• Fixed a bug leading the right-click of an item in the inventory to be considered as a left-click.
  
• Icons from skill buffs are now correctly displayed on the left side of the screen.

• Enhanced save pipeline for cosmetic data.
  
• Fixed a weird ragdoll effect when killing some enemies.
  
• Fixed server crashes.
  
• Fixed an issue causing players to have balloons instead of heads when playing the game on Proton.

• The rage gains from being hit do not trigger on taking Damage Over Time anymore. This issue led to scenarios where your willpower and rage could end up locked with an infinite transfer.
  
• Fixed a bug that made bonuses from stacking mechanics on the Aspects of Apocalypse way more powerful than they should have been.
  
• Gate of Fates: Fixed a bug leading the damage taken from the "Dire Juncture" passive node to apply knockback effects a second time.

Annihilation

• Increased damage gained with levels (+20% at max level).

Anvil's Woe

• The damage bonus granted by your weapon for this skill is increased from 210%-230% to 240%-240%.
  
• Crater Maker: The damage bonus granted by your weapon for this modifier is increased from 25% to 30%.
  
• Stormbound: The damage bonus granted by your weapon for this modifier is increased from 25% to 30%.
  
• Radical Shake: Cooldown decreased from +5s to +4s.
  
• Voltaic Arc: The damage bonus granted by your weapon for this modifier is increased from 50% to 60%.

Arctic Spear

• Increased damage gained with levels (+48% at max level).

Consuming Ember

• Increased damage gained with levels (+32% at max level).

Evasion

• The damage bonus granted by your weapon for this skill is increased from 100% to 120%.
  
• Reduced rage cost for the skill from 100 to 90.

Parasite

• Increased damage gained with levels (+33% at max level).

Slayer's Flurry

• The damage bonus granted by your weapon for this skill is increased from 60% to 70%.
  
• Kindly Stopped For Me: Chance to spawn a ghost increase from 3% to 5%.
  
• Superdense Metal: The damage bonus granted by your weapon for this modifier is increased from 6% to 8%.
  
• Cosmic Ambush: The damage bonus granted by your weapon for this modifier is increased from 10% to 15%.
  
• Effortless Slice: The damage bonus granted by your weapon for this modifier is increased from 6% to 8%.

Stings of Krearion

• The damage bonus granted by your weapon for this skill is increased from 75% to 90%.
  
• Storms Past: Chance to spawn a ghost increase from 5% to 15%.
  
• Flying death: The damage bonus granted by your weapon for this modifier is increased from 10% to 15%.
  
• Whitefield Arrowheads: The damage bonus granted by your weapon for this modifier is increased from 10% to 15%.
  
• Focused Shot: The damage bonus granted by your weapon for this modifier is increased from 35% to 45%.

Thunderstrike

• Increased damage gained with levels (+40% at max level).

Wrath of Baäpheth

• The damage bonus granted by your weapon for this skill is increased from 160%-175% to 180%-180%.
  
• Knotted Ends: IThe damage bonus granted by your weapon for this modifier is increased from 35% to 50%.
  
• Lumbering Blow: The damage bonus granted by your weapon for this modifier is increased from 50% to 100%.

• Fixed an item duplication caused by stackable item manipulations in the trading window.
  
• Fixed a bug causing stackable items to display an invalid quantity in the trading window.

• Fixed an error making it impossible to use Legendary items in the Upgrade Quality project instead of the Upgrade Rarity project of the Dark Market.
  
• Fixed a bug causing Reverie Incense Expedition to not work in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed a bug preventing players to finish an expedition when a group member exits the game after entering the dungeon.
  
• Fixed a bug preventing an expedition to be completed if the party leader exits the game at the end of the expedition.

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Hello everyone,

It’s been a month since the game was released and we would like to take this opportunity to talk about the future of the game and the decisions we’ve made lately.

These past few weeks, our team has been working on fixing numerous issues players encountered in-game, and we have many more issues to fix. The problems we encountered with the servers caused by a large number of new players also forced us to substantially change some aspects of the code to allow a lighter charge on the servers and the database requests. And there is still work to do.


Despite the issues encountered, we received a lot of positive feedback about the game and many players enjoy it which makes us very proud of the work we’ve accomplished so far. That success allows us to grow, but most importantly, it allows us to make the right choices to restore more global happiness in our community.

We initially planned to put a top priority on new league content and on the new Chapter shortly after the release of the game. We’ve decided to swap the priority between the production of new content and bug fixing, game stabilization, quality of life, and recruitment during the next 4 months.

This decision comes with a name: Operation Second Dawn. Its goal is to focus on fixing several issues and invest in resources and infrastructures to make sure that the game will grow on a healthy base and a happy community.

This is one of our primary objectives: reinforce the testing. We’re now working with an external QA team to improve our testing process, spot issues sooner, and fix them before a new version goes live.

On that note, we want to inform you that patch 1.0.10 will be deployed early next week instead of this week. We’ve made some changes that require extensive testing and we want to make sure that it works properly.

We want to bring some love to Chapter 3 and improve the diversity and the pace to make its gameplay events and encounters more appealing. In addition to adding more visual diversity, we will also add new enemies and new enemies variants.

Localization quality and clarity, the possibility to rebind left-click(we heard you!), a Gate of Fates search function, ailment stack numbers on monsters, a new quest reward system to avoid having a window in the middle of your screen when you receive your reward(along with the possibility to stack your reward and collect them whenever you want), and more...

You can also expect balancing improvements in addition to bug fixing. Our goal is to improve the skills that are currently less played, there should not be a lot of damage reduction or skill nerfs. The Patch 1.0.10.0 will start to bring some improvements in that direction.
We will, however, continue to intervene on extremely unbalanced skills, items, or nodes as we did for Bleeding Edge if any come to our attention.

We’re investigating options to improve our coverage, server capacities, and their efficiency. We’re aware of the issues you’re encountering in-game and improving server responsiveness is one of our top priorities for solo and multiplayer.

During all the Alpha and the Beta, communication and support has been handled by only one person. The release of the game made our community substantially grow and community tasks and customer support cannot be handled by a single person anymore. We’re working on reinforcing the team so the background work doesn’t affect our global communication with you. We know that you feel abandoned these days but we can assure you that we’re reading everything and we’re working on improving our communication with you.

Our goal is to keep a close relationship with our community, but we also have to make sure that everyone can have access to our replies. In the ideas considered, there is the possibility to withdraw from Discord to focus on communication on other media such as Reddit and the Official Forums to allow better visibility on the replies we make on various topics.
We also want to improve our forums to ensure that they’re user-friendly and have all the necessary elements (such as a basic search option, the possibility to pin topics, and more...).

This is just part of the changes that are in discussion at Wolcen Studio and we will keep you regularly informed regarding the progress we make and changes we bring in the game and on our communication.

We’ve always planned to support Wolcen for several years and that includes regularly adding free content in the game.

The next content patch 1.1.0 will be a league, which means that unique league mechanics will be added in the game along with new content.
The characters created with the 1.0.0 will be separated from the 1.1.0 content during that league, and the league characters will be merged again with the “standard” version when the 1.2.0 is released (and so on).
For each league, players will have to start a new character to play the league.

New Chapters are also planned. Keep in mind that it takes more time to make a new Chapter than to make Leagues, so you can expect a new Chapter much later.



We hope that you’re as excited as we are regarding the changes to come. We want to thank you again, all of you, for your support and for your understanding. As usual, don’t hesitate to share your feedback!