Lost In The Open news & patch notes

Hey everyone,

We have been working behind the scenes though on fleshing out Act 1 as there are still some things we want to add. One of those things is the Dyr faction, which is hinted at in a few scenarios but wasn't added yet.

Below we will describe everything included in this new update. Hope you enjoy it and good luck in your escape!

Patch 0.9 is OUT

It contains

* The new Dyr faction: The Reaver and The Martinet.

* Added 4 new music tracks: Deepwoods music. Outlands music. Stratha music. Boss music.

* Added about 50 new scenarios.

* Rebalanced all scenarios to have more logical and consistent rewards. A significant part of this balance change is that we've shifted rewards from battle wins to the inherent logic of each situation. For example, if you win a fight against bandits in some uninteresting part of the forest, you will receive only a small reward representing the bandits' personal loot. On the other hand, if you defeat some bandits who are in a camp, you will receive both the reward of the camp, and the small reward of the bandits' loot. Finally, if you lure the bandits away from the camp, and then loot it without a battle, you will receive loot that's quite close to what you received if you brute-forced your way into the camp. This gives more leeway to playstyles that don't involve fighting and winning every fight.

* Added new feature: "Fortunes and Predicaments". They are are essentially buffs/debuffs the player can gain depending on actions in scenarios. For example, if you decide to "Leave" early in a scenario instead of investigating an abandoned house, that will now yield you a speed boost to represent the lack of time spent at the house.

* Revamped UI for Leadership Insights and Tactics.

* Balance changes and new additions to old units. Some bugs fixed and many tooltips improved.

* Some minor AI improvements.

* Some fixes with localization.

Examples of tweaks to abilities:

* Deft Strike (Spear Perk): No longer triggers multiple times when damage is shared.

* Poisoner Perk: Poison effect from basic attacks no longer spreads to secondary targets when damage is shared.

* Blood Amulet Effect: Healing effect now correctly displays the amount healed.

* Comradery: Fixed damage transfer behavior. Damage transfer now properly follows the tooltip’s positioning requirements.

* On hit effects will no longer be shared to your allies if the damage is transferred.

We would love to hear any feedback you have.

An update on development broadly: The reason there hasn't been as many updates as we'd like is because we are still figuring things out. Unfortunately, we have been unable to keep up with the 2-week schedule we promised before. Not great. We are sorry about that. We will keep you updated on how things develops. Crossing our fingers.

Thank you,

Black Voyage Games

Hey everyone,

Here's a patch with a few fixes, one being an important bug fix. You should not run into playthrough-killing dead ends anymore.

Fixes

* Fixed a bug with the map generation, where the player may be forced to backtrack relatively far due to a dead end. They could be forced to backtrack through Stratha. This bug was caused by Thornlands, Mud Plains and Fallen Tree tiles.

Balance and Design

* Improve how enemy units look at environmental tiles. The AI will still avoid standing on bad tiles, but won't hesitate as much to walk through them.

Cheers,

Black Voyage Games

Hey everyone,

Here’s a patch with bug fixes, balance tweaks, and general improvements.

Fixes

* Fix an issue with Rapid Strikes having a missing icon

* Add some chinese localization

* Fix some tooltip issues in Technical Strike, Rage, Bulwark

* Fixed an issue where units could end up outside the map bounds if they were pushed or retreated outside the map.

* Fixed a bug with dragging and dropping items. They would previously disappear, and then reappear only when the stash was updated. Now they always show properly.

* Fixed an issue where Protect Ally persisted even after the protector died.

Balance and Design

* Reduce Travel Speed penalty per unit from 5% to 4%.

* Buff Effective Employer slightly. Cost is increased to 50, but the Skill Points upgrade now costs 1 leadership point again.

* Increase passive healing when travelling by 1 percentage point on all difficulties. (Merciful 7 -> 8, Indifferent 5-> 6, Cruel 4 -> 5)

* We have also made some specific changes to difficulties, reducing difficulty across the board:

** Indifferent

*** Decreased raw enemy squad strength at the very beginning of the game by 10%. This buff gradually fades away as the game progress towards the end of the first zone.

*** Increase the time before an injury worsens into a permanent injury by 50%.

*** Increase Health gained from events by 25%.

** Cruel

*** Decreased raw enemy squad strength at the very beginning of the game by 20%.

* Reduced the experience required to level from level 1 to level 2 from 45 to 25. Furthermore, also reduced the experience required to level from level 2 to level 3 from 150 to 120.

* AI improvements:

** Improves how the AI uses Terrifying Howl (used by Worfang alpha and White Worfang)

** Significantly improved the AI for enemy Arbalests. They will now use their abilities much more logically, and efficiently.

* Slightly increased the EXP gained in all fights by now rounding up EXP gained, instead of previously rounding down. (So if a unit received anywhere between for example 3.1 EXP and 3.9 EXP. it was previously rounded down to 3. Now it's always rounded up to 4.) This should hopefully dispel the feeling that players can rightly have that they aren't receiving as much EXP as they might have anticipated.

* Cruel previously reduced EXP gained from killing enemies in combat by 20%. That EXP penalty has been removed.

* Removed EXP reduction on Stratha Pursuer fights

Content

* Enemy units across the game will now randomize attachments and items. The likelihood that an enemy has an attachment or an item increases with enemy level.

Thank you for reporting bugs and suggesting ideas as always!

We are working on a content patch at the moment. This will likely cause some issues with previous saves. We will inform you in time before that, and will present a solution for it.

EDIT: Made formatting errors, implying some changes were only for some difficulties. Furthermore, the patch notes said "Increase raw enemy squad strength" when it meant "Decreased raw enemy squad strength"

Cheers,

Black Voyage Games

Hey everyone,

Here’s a patch with bug fixes, balance tweaks, and general improvements.

Fixes

* Fixed an issue where real experience gained wasn't shown in victory screen, but still applied. The display didn't take into account experience rating properly.

* Fixed an issue where the item slots in the Trader Vendor did not match the item slots in the stash, causing you to be able to place items in the last 5 item slots in the trader and be unable to access them in the stash.

* Fix an issue where the Javelin DoT upgrade did not properly show bleed damage.

* Fixed a vendor bug where purchased items could disappear after saving and reloading.

* Fixed some issues with text on a scenario about a Zaradoman admiral in English.

* Add a host of small fixes and improvements to combat calculations.

* Damage range is now correct. Previously there was a discrepancy between the damage shown when hovering, and the actual damage done.

* AI now understands shield bypassing properly when calculating Damage (e.g. the Shieldbearers flail passive)

* Now properly rounds most calculations. Previously, integers were floored (this caused some wrong numbers esp at low numbers, like when doing 4-6 damage).

* Overall calculation improvements.

* Fixed an issue where Learning disappeared after saving/loading.

* Fixed a scenario which was supposed to reward a book, but rewarded some animal drops instead.

Balance and Design

* Buff Heavy Handed perk (Maulman's passive perk). Now deals all of its "overkill damage" when shattering armor. Furthermore, also buffed its Damage to health from 40% to 50%.

* Removed experience gained from Stratha pursuer events. This is to reduce incentives to intentionally fight Stratha pursuers.

* Slightly nerfed Beastslayer.

* Reduced the stats on most animal drops. They're supposed to, for the most part, be sold.

* Reduced the impact of the Pacifist Amulet (both damage reduction and stamina gained)

* Provoke can now stack on an enemy target if used by multiple provokers.

* Removed the possibility to start with negative traits on the Bodyguards and the King.

Content

* Added two abilities: Penetrating Strike and True Strike.

Thanks for reporting bugs as always! Much appreciated.

Cheers,

Black Voyage Games

Hi all!

In the first 3 days of our Early Access launch, we had already pushed 5 hotfixes to fix things you helped us find. We have gotten incredibly valuable feedback already, and have tweaked the game accordingly.

We believe the game has great potential. In order to unlock that potential, however, it also requires immense testing and balancing. What we want to do is have continuous updates for the rest of the EA period in order to get constant player feedback.

We will have a proper update of the game every second week.

• Content additions.

• New features and systems.

• Sound/music

Our goal is to always deliver a series of improvements that are impactful for the game every second week. In the next coming weeks, it is highly likely that there will be multiple update per week, but eventually we will aim for a proper update every second week.

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We have been hard at work to fix all the bugs we've found and to deliver the best possible experience we can. Soon, very soon, we will reveal our roadmap for Early Access.

Thank you for playing our game!

Cheers,

Black Voyage Games

Hi all! Quick hotfix coming up to address issues raised by people in the Discord server, Steam community, reviews and Chinese players hailing from QQ. Summary: Fixed a bunch of bugs * Turn tracker UI wrongly centered. * Leadership display UI overlapping with turn tracker in certain situations. * Fix Bandit Pikeman having wrong description for his weapon. * Fix Quickstrike effect from Leadership Tactic "Coordinated Assault" causing a crash in combat. Furthermore, added a robust-ness to the system so that such similar issues won't crash the game in the future. * Fix Bonebreaker ability applying wrong effect in a certain upgrade path. * Fixed some issues with stamina calculations in combat, making some abilities appear unavailable when they weren't. * Fix pile-on effect persisting even if Pikeman dies. * Fix some tooltips that were wrong or misleading. Content: * Add Maulman, Pikeman, Bounty Hunter, etc. idle animations Design: * Significantly reduced the difficulty in Merciful. * Decreased raw enemy strength across all zones by about 33% * Removed accuracy increase on player. Previously, this resulted in an increase of 10 in Accuracy Rating to most player units. Now, the player and the enemy has the same accuracy -- no hidden modifiers. * Doubled the time it takes for an injury on a unit to worsen. * Reduced the difficulty in Indifferent. * Decreased raw enemy strength across all zones by about 15-20%. * Reduced the difficulty in Cruel. * Decreased the raw enemy strength across all zones by about 9%. * Decreased the scaling of enemy strength within a zone by about 8%. * Increased the difficulty of the royal guardsman boss encounter slightly. The difficulty nerf should help players have a much better time in Merciful, and allow them to learn the game mechanics over time. The removal of the accuracy buff on Merciful should also give a more authentic experience for the player -- no hidden modifiers to Accuracy for either side. Enemy units still do slightly less damage to player units. We will consider changing this based on player feedback. Indifferent is still quite rough, and Cruel is very difficult. Thank you very much for purchasing and playing the game! Many of these fixes are a direct result of players giving feedback and making bug reports. We'll continue to patch and fix things as we gather feedback.

NOTE: Difficulty changes only apply to new playthroughs. Cheers,

Black Voyage Games

Lost In The Open - Early Access is Here!

After years of development and countless iterations, Lost In The Open has entered Early Access on Steam!

Step into a gritty, low-fantasy world where you, King Nrvesk, barely survive an assassination attempt. Now wounded and pursued across no-man’s land, you must recover and lead your companions through ambushes, blockades, and uncertain situations. What marks victory is not perfection, but survival.

All of us at Black Voyage Games and Whisper Games are incredibly excited to share the game with you.

What Awaits You in Early Access

Lost In The Open is a roguelike tactical RPG that blends strategic overworld exploration with gritty, positional combat. Here’s what you’ll find in the Early Access build:

Act 1 features

• 5 factions with 20 unit types (most are recruitable).

• 3 zones, 3 biomes and a wide variety of terrains.

• 60+ combat maps

• hundreds of unique events to discover.

• hundreds of unique abilities, items, leadership tactics, leadership insights, perks, etc.

• language support for English and Simplified Chinese!

• ... and 6 boss encounters.

It is highly likely that we will increase the price throughout Early Access and when the game is fully released. The reason for this is that we are planning to add a ton of content to the game.

This will not affect any player who has purchased the game in Early Access; everything that comes after Early Access release is additional content for those who buy it now. This is in addition to the 10% discount for the first two weeks of launch.

What’s Next

Early Access features a fully playable Act 1, but we want to build a lot more. Our plan is to add

• Act 2: Mardrot, The Barren Mountains and Act 3: Degrecao, The Tainted Swamplands. These are huge content additions with new biomes and zones, events, factions, items, abilities, etc. Most content will come together with these milestones.

• Expanded systems in all aspects, combat, exploration and progression. (More details on this later.)

• Refined UI and quality-of-life features based on your feedback.

Your feedback will have a great impact on development. Please consider giving your thoughts and feedback on the game in the Steam forums or on Discord to help us make Lost In The Open the best possible TRPG that it can be.

Early Access Roadmap

We will soon be sharing our Early Access Roadmap. It will explain all the planned features we want to add to the game during Early Access, and put it into a concrete timeline.

Stay tuned...

Finally, Thank You

Lost In The Open has been in the making since 2021. Our team is small, formally based in Stockholm, Sweden, but largely dispersed across the globe. We have poured our passion into this game and a lot of coffee into our mouths to build Lost In The Open. Now we want to bring this game home together with all the players who join us in early access.

Thank you for following and supporting the game. See you in Temcao!

Lost In The Open is available now in Early Access!

Warmly,

Black Voyage Games

Lost In The Open

Changelog

We have implemented a great deal of changes since the last date we provided a changelog of in June. We are finally ready to enter Early Access. Below are all the changes we have implemented since then that we can remember and are not just run-of-the-mill bug fixes and so on.

New Content

Abilities & Combat Systems

* New abilities added:

  * Virulent Strike – new harmful attack.

  * Rending Strikes – added to Volkver and Grunt.

  * Quickstep Strike – added to Bounty Hunters.

  * Gushing Wound – added to Grunts.

  * Wounding Strike – added to Spearmen.

  * Smother Arrowhead – added to Bandit Archers.

  * Vulture Strike – new Bandit Pikeman ability.

  * Staunch Wound – added to Stratha Units and Polyomian Sentinel.

  * Mocking Taunt – new ability.

  * Bulwark – new shield ability, effectively a counterpart to Raise Shield.

* **Effect categories** (Neutral, Beneficial, Harmful) implemented.

* **Inherent Passives added:**

  * Chop Through (Scouts).

  * Swift Shooter (Archers).

  * Partial Armor Damage (Maulman).

  * Decapitation (Brute).

  * Passives also added to Polyomian Macebearers, Enforcers, Bounty Hunters, and others.

Leadership & Insights

* New Leadership Tactics:

  * Multiple new options added, including improvements to flanking maneuvers and stamina refunds.

* Added Focused Volley, a leadership tactic focused on ranged units.

* Added Rallying Strikes, a leadership tactic focused on tight combat formations.

* New Insights:

  * Warmonger, Survival Training, Salvager, Precision Training, Side Dealings, Strike With Purpose, Shared Knowledge, and more.

Traits

* New traits: Energetic, Strong-Willed, Weak-Willed.

Units & Presets

* Bandit Pikemen introduced:

  * New pike-based abilities.

  * New inherent passive added.

* Additional units and updates:

  * Overhaul of Bandit Spearmen. He is no longer a 2-tile unit.

* Updated all enemy presets in the game, giving them new abilities, etc.

Art, Icons & UI Assets

* Large batch of new icons:

  * Attachments, items, perks, enhancements, recruitment, stat enhancements (square/hex variants), ability icons (Pinpoint, Lethal Strike, etc.), precondition icons.

* New portraits added for Macebearer, Maulman, etc.

* New zone banners when entering a new zone.

* New UI elements:

  * Mortal Wound warning UI.

  * Additional dimmers for unselected abilities/tactics in character panel.

  * Improved icons for stat enhancements.

Scenarios

* Big installation of new scenarios, including ‘transition’ specific encounters.

* Unique scenario rewards implemented across all transition scenarios.

* New final scenario implemented.

Gameplay & Balance

General Balance

Balance, generally, should be greatly improved. We have tweaked so many things that it cannot be contained in this changelog. Below is a summary of what has changed.

* Unit difficulty values adjusted:

  * Ursadons made less punishing.

  * Worfangs made more plentiful in combat.

  * Difficulty values across all zones have been tweaked back and forth.

  * Leader unit battles in general slightly nerfed.

* Unit stat scaling & recruitment:

  * Recruitment cost scaling increased across units.

* Recruitment cost in general significantly increased.

  * Recruitment levels randomized more in zones 2–3 (including chance of lower-level units).

  * Materials cost for upgrading equipment significantly increased.

* Experience & progression:

  * Adjusted XP gains:

    * More XP awarded per kill. However, experience that is distributed to other units is massively reduced.

    * Scenario XP reduced.

    * Fixed issues where units leveled incorrectly in vendors or gained wrong skill points.

* Economy:

  * Increased scaling of unit costs based on level.

  * Provisions cost for the King reduced from 3 to 1.

  * Many leadership insights and various traits and so on now scale dynamically instead of yielding flat amounts.

  * Attachment costs lowered overall.

Abilities & Traits

* Dozens of ability fixes, buffs, and nerfs, including:

  * Buffs: Rapid Recovery, Blood Amulet, Heroic Strike (left path), Provoke, and more

  * Nerfs: Flanking Strike, Bogged Down, Coalition Power, Disciplined, Flanking Maneuvers Stamina Refund, many Ursadon abilities, and more

  * Reworks: Oiled Bolts now extend burning duration, Smother Arrowhead applies Stamina Reduction, Raise Shield adjusted to give Block Rating (not Protection Rating), and more

  * Fixed tooltips and mechanics: Victory Rush, Ironhide, Dazing Strike, Staunch Wounds, Crescendo Strike, Firebolt, Overhead Smash, Warmonger Insight, Defensive Order, Momentum Builder, Windup Strike, Energetic tooltip, and more.

AI Improvements

* Ranged units will now back away from adjacent enemy units before shooting and reloading.

* Two-tile units will back away from adjacent enemy units before attacking.

* AI caching optimizations for performance.

* Squashed a bug where certain enemy units had significantly higher starting attributes.

Audio & Visuals

Sound & Music

* Combat audio:

  * New SFX for death, injuries, blocking, buffs/debuffs, armor hits (per armor type), armor shatter, weapon swings (billhook, flail, 2h mace, hammer, etc.).

  * Defeat and Victory music sounds with proper transitions.

  * Added Death and Injury indicator SFXs.

  * Updated effect sounds (Bleeding, Poison, Stun).

  * Separate SFX for positive and negative buffs.

* Worldmap & ambience:

  * Animal sounds for Ursadon and others.

  * New tough encounter music.

* New music for animals.

* New music for repentance path event.

  * New UI sounds (hover, confirm, unavailable, back).

  * Transition area sounds (Outskirts, Deepwoods, Outlands).

* Main menu:

  * New main menu music and background ambience.

  * New sounds for UI interactions (New Game confirm, unavailable action, vendor interactions, skill upgrades).

Visual Effects

* New death VFX.

* New injury VFX.

* Blood splatter effect in combat. Togglable.

* Shield blocking VFX, one for each shield type (e.g. Buckler, Shield).

* Improved stamina bar responsiveness.

* Improved visuals for when characters move during attacks/blows.

Animations

* New idle animations for Macebearers, Ursadons, Worfangs, and more.

* New animations for Bandit Pikemen.

Worldmap & Scenarios

Zones & Transition Areas

* Full implementation of zones and transition areas (The Outskirts, Deepwoods, Outlands).

* Transition areas now include:

  * A buffer against Stratha encroachment, giving the player a “break” between different zones from being pursued.

  * Unique transition scenarios with unique rewards and enemy units.

  * Unique pre-/post-transition scenarios, with unique events.

Biomes & Visuals

* Added new hextile types: impassable and slow-passable variants.

* Improved encounter maps visually for the biome Withering Grove.

* Clouds and birds added with animations.

* Lakes and rivers updated with better ambience.

* Updated fogging.

* Significant improvement of visuals of all hex tiles in the game

Pathing & Map Generation

* Improved Dead-end detection and repair implemented.

* Improved pruning of overlapping paths.

* Fixed issues with saving/loading transition nodes.

UI & UX

* Main Menu:

* New animated main menu.

  * Logo localized to Simplified Chinese.

  * Discord link and Simplified Chinese localized social media button added.

* Improved Difficulty Selection visuals.

  * Improved Settings menu visuals.

* Combat UI:

  * Turn tracker highlights unit portraits when hovered, and allows inspection via RMB.

  * ESC key closes current open panels before pause.

  * Improved hotbar/stamina previews (show stamina loss on hover, availability after movement, reset on hover over UI).

  * Improved UX for the turning arrow helping you decide the direction of your character when moving in combat

* Updated visuals for all tooltips in the game.

  * Tooltip UX improved with clearer positive/negative/warning color titles.

  * “Blocked!” text added when fully blocking an attack.

* Killed and Injured units during combat will persist in the army panel, showing what has happened to them.

* Stamina gains during combat show as combat text.

* Improved combat camera movement.

* Overall improved UX experience in combat.

* Character Panel:

  * Improved character panel visuals with better visual emphasis on what is important.

  * Added injury overlay in character panel to make treating injuries significantly clearer.

* New sound for opening/closing character panel.

* Vendors/Recruitment:

  * Resource panel colors corrected (gold coins red when insufficient).

  * Icons and tooltips improved.

* New sound for opening/closing vendors.

* Other Improvements:

  * Loading screen added for scene transitions.

Localization

* Major localization overhaul:

  * Hundreds of fixes across abilities, leadership, insights, scenarios, tooltips, and UI.

  * Rewrites of: ability chains, genproperties, perks, abilities, tutorials, notifications, scenario texts.

  * Consistency improvements (British English spellings, Z→S fixes).

  * Full update of Chinese localization + added logo + social media button.

  * Better save/load handling of locale in menus.

Performance & Stability

* Performance Optimizations:

  * Significant caching improvements in UI and AI scripts across both overworld and combat scenes.

* Stability Fixes:

  * Fixed numerous save/load issues (scenarios, nodes, trader availability, transition states).

  * Fixed various bugs, e.g. targeting bugs, stamina effects not applying, tooltip inconsistencies.

* And tons more stability fixes.

Demo & Build Support

* Demo build system implemented:

  * Restricts playthrough to a limited part of the game.

  * Demo win screen and proper end screens for win/loss/demo.

Summary

Since late June, Lost In The Open has seen a huge expansion of content (abilities, traits, units, scenarios, art, icons, music), heavy gameplay balancing, major localization cleanup, UI/UX polish, audio-visual upgrades, and significant performance/stability improvements.

The game is now richer, smoother, more balanced, and more stable. It is ready for Early Access.

We hope you enjoy the game on Friday! We will happily read your reviews and feedback.

Feel free to join our Discord.

Kindly,

Black Voyage Games

Hello all

We've been crazy busy preparing for release recently and haven't made any updates in news.

We have addressed what players found to be the most important issues in the game. For example, the injury system which was unintuitive has had a major UI improvement. Localization has been greatly improved. Difficulty tweaked to be more even across the playthrough, and clearer. Etc.

We will make a huge post about all the changes made to the game. Should come soon, right before or on release.

We are very excited about launch, hoping everything goes well. Thank you to those who have been playing the game and giving feedback, it has been invaluable.

Thank you for reading,

Black Voyage Games

We’re excited to share that Lost In The Open will be at Gamescom 2025!

From August 20–24, our publisher Whisper Games will showcase the game live in Cologne — and you’ll also be able to check us out online during the official Steam Gamescom Event 2025.

• Gamescom 2025: August 20–24 · Cologne, Germany

• Steam Gamescom Event 2025: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38271556-gamescom/

While we won't be able to attend physically, we have a booth and we will be there and the demo is updated as of today. Lots of sound improvements. And lots of balancing. We'd love for you to share your experience of the game, preferably join the Discord and share it directly with us devs who respond promptly!

Btw, here is a sneak peak of the new main menu screen.

Kindly,

Black Voyage Games

• New Worfang enemy: This enemy now spawns in dense and normal forest. Worfangs attack in packs, ambush players, and can tear units apart! Beware of their pinning ability, which can disable one of your units and requires assistance to break free. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42593482/11d202a2dc17b0fe44d3a74bbe3f0e955c0213af.gif
• Environmental tiles: We’ve added environmental tiles that cause negative effects if you stand on them. The game now features Rusty Traps, Muddy Ground, and Overgrown Roots, appearing in various biomes. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42593482/65c8b52b4c58f9261560668078768aaee1d7337f.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42593482/5197bf2189577dfeb466c289d38eefe98da35858.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42593482/e2314b055ac0e5964f04f82da0f0176a80b41cf9.jpg
• New Barricade sprites for blockade encounters: Barricades now visually differentiate battles where enemies have set up defenses opposed to regular camps, adding more variety to encounters. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42593482/93ffc298f54b8ce11f18fc5d6f5206066c7462a2.jpg
• Probabilistic tiles: Some tiles now randomize what spawns on them. For example, a tile might spawn a tree, or it might spawn nothing. Alternatively, a tile could spawn Muddy Ground, a crate, or other elements. This introduces randomness to combat maps that wasn’t present before.
• Improved Tree Art: We’ve enhanced the art for all trees in the game, providing a more immersive visual experience. (Check environmental tiles images for refference)

• Improved "Rage" tooltip
• Updated tooltip descriptions for all stats
• The "Skeleton Key" no longer drops from encounters
• Renamed "Strange Figurine" to "Blind Frenzy" with the same functionality as before
• Renamed "Daunting Strike" node upgrade to "Misdirected Frenzy," prioritizing hitting allies
• Renamed "Blind Rage" perk to "Focused Frenzy," prioritizing hitting enemies
• Abilities that cause displacement (e.g., pushback or disengage) will now function even if the target tile is unwalkable
• "Whirlwind" can no longer be used by the AI if they only have allies nearby
• Consolidated "Open Wound" tooltip for both 1-tile and 2-tile versions
• Improved "Final Flourish" tooltip to better reflect its effects

• Fixed the "Peak Condition" buff, which was being removed too early in the previous version
• Fixed a bug where ending a turn too early (while still walking) caused errors in the game
• Fixed "Prey on the Weak," which wasn’t functioning correctly in the previous version
• Fixed "Reload" to no longer display a cooldown

• Buffed "Precise Strike" for two-handed melee units
• Buffed "Designate Target"
• Buffed "Mark Target" to always hit the target
• Buffed several equippable items
• Buffed "Finishing Blow" and added new upgrade nodes
• Buffed Brute’s final equipment by 1 armor rating
• Lowered upgrade costs on the left side of the "Wild Strikes" chain
• Nerfed the overall difficulty of Stratha units, resulting in fewer units spawning compared to before
• Nerfed "Open Wound"
• Added an extra upgrade node for "Adrenaline"
• "Thousand Strikes" was nerfed and reintroduced
• Enforced a minimum of 1 damage on Damage Over Time effects (they can no longer deal 0 damage)
• All Standard Enhancements—"Aggressiveness," "Survivability," and "Versatility"—now have 3 possible tiers that can randomly appear during level up. Higher ranks of these enhancements progressively become stronger.

• Fail Safe: We are still dealing with some game-freezing bugs during encounters that are not easily replicated and fixed. We’ve added code that should detect such scenarios and return you to the world map, resulting in a win. This is primarily to prevent players from losing their runs, but we will continue working on removing these bugs entirely.
• "Cleave" Perk
• "Thousands Strikes" Ability

• Many old sprites to reduce game size (about 15% reduction in disc size)
• "Swift Strike" - Temporarily removed to rework it in the future. In its current state, you need to build the entire character around this ability for it to work properly.

• Fixed duel combat
• Fixed "Lone Wolf" using stamina
• Fixed "Riposte" not hitting three times
• Fixed "Gushing Wound" tooltip
• Fixed issue with Flanking tutorial notification
• Fixed "Shieldbreaker" tooltip damage

• Swift Shooter can now give a maximum of 10 stamina
• Rapid fire dropped cost reduction by 1
• Training Manual XP gain will now be based on Nrvesk level
• Nerfed some fighting pit presets
• Nerfed ranged equipment damage
• Nerfed overall Dodge rating of "Evasion"
• Nerfed "Open Wound"
• Buffed "Bounty Hunter" health
• Adjusted "Final Flourish" - Reduced the needed stacks to activate and slightly nerfed its damage
• Buffed "Critical Mastery" stat gain