Divinity: Original Sin Patch v1.0.219 Released

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Written by WorstUsernameEver on October 30th, 2014

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A new patch for Divinity: Original Sin and its toolkit has been released, one that brings a plethora of fixes, balance changes and small functionality tweaks to Larian's turn-based RPG. Here's the full changelog:

Story/Game play:

• Fixed start of fight conditions for Witch Cabin fight with Immaculate Mage
• Fixed Arrest scenes in Cyseal (mortician for example), while using a forbidden door during arrest sequence
• Fixed issue with Watcher/imps quest not completing
• Fixed companion dialogues when they were being triggered at the same time in multi-player
• Fixed issue with performing crimes when the guards are already talking to another player
• Fixed dialogue issue with Zixzax in Luculla forest (Homestead attack warning)
• Added reactions when characters are blinded
• Prevent start listening when already in a dialogue
• Fixed issue where sheathe/unsheathe state could get out of sync
• You can listen to NPC's too now, instead of only player characters
• Added option to turn off camera shake
• Fixed issue where a sitting animation could get stuck
• Projectiles can be shot over knocked down enemies now
• Fixed issue when a peer disconnects during listening
• Fixed issue where characters sometimes stop following their master
• "Target is out of sight" is shown now instead of "Target is too far" when blinded
• When healing someone in combat, you will immediately join the combat as well
• No longer possible to fumble applying wet status
• Dialogue history is synced to characters who join in a dual dialogue now
• Fixed issue where names disappeared from the dialogue logs after a load
• It is no longer possible to send teleporter pyramids to the homestead
• Added armor damage UI element
• Fixed issue where the combat log got smaller after each load
• Weapon damage % is now always shown in skill descriptions
• Fixed game freeze in the lobby menu, when failing to join a Steam lobby through the Steam tool
• Fixed several crashes reported to us via support mails. Thank you!

Interface:

• Fixed issue with "almost broken" icon not showing on equipment
• Items that require targeting now also show active state in tool bar
• Remove active animation in tool bar when slot is cleared
• Combat log resize now uniform with resizing chat log
• Fixed journal for keeping element in view
• Journal: scroll into view disabled
• Combat log scroll issue fixed
• Combat log: fixed getting smaller after load

Code:

• Fixed crash when removing items from story
• Skill descriptions now always show amount of damage from weapon, even if it's 100%
• Extra support for playing specific effects on skills
• Fixes for main menu and create profile specifically for the Mac AppStore
• Fixed AI personalities for 3-way dialogues
• Gender of player character now stays correct after transform (e.g. after char creation or respec)
• It is no longer possible to send the teleporter pyramids to the Homestead
• Consumables can now do damage
• 4Player Mod crash fix
• Mac: OS X Yosemite compatibility fixes
• Mac: Game Center Integration so that users can connect cross-platform
• Mac: Arrow keys are now correctly mapped for the interface (Load/Save) & World éŠ'˜ and é Æ’ keys did not close their respective panels
• Mac: Added Multi-threaded OpenGL renderer (use defaults write com.larian.dos ThreadedGL -bool true)
• Mac: Added automatic workaround for Yosemite users with the following cards:
  NVidia 330M
  NVidia 320M
  NVidia 9400 based
  NVidia 8600 based
  
  If the game locks up for you in Yosemite please use the following command in the Terminal:
  defaults write com.larian.dos ShaderBasedClear -bool true
  After that, please send us the name and brand of your video card.

Combat:

• Rebalanced troll zombie near the church of Cyseal
• Rebalanced shambling mound near the church of Cyseal
• Rebalanced fire skeletons near the church of Cyseal
• Rebalanced stats of a lot of characters in Hiberheim and Luculla
• Tweaked script priorities of some Dark Forest characters
• Rebalanced the undead in the Temple of the Dead in the Phantom Forest so that these fights are more challenging (late game stats)
• Fixed stats for characters in the Luculla Mines
• Fixed equipment for Luculla Immaculate students
• All goblins can now carry Tenebrium items without getting rot
• Can no longer teleport Guardian in Hiberheim
• AI will no longer make ally invisible if ally is kd, stunned, petrified or weak and will prefer melee chars
• Fixed Infernal Chimera script in Cyseal
• Fixed range for Spiderling in Black Cove
• Fixed water ball disappearing in Giant Spider fight in Black Cove

Skills:

• Daggers Drawn fix: now costs 6 AP instead of 8 AP because a single dagger attack costs 2 AP
• Vampiric Touch fix: now does as much damage as the caster heals from it
• Voodoo Dolls fix: now costs 4 AP instead of zero
• Flurry does less damage if you do not keep your STR up to level
• All healing Skills are tweaked so that the higher level healing skills are better than the low level healing skills
• Fixed Cloak and Dagger so that it now does leave a smoke cloud on jump
• The damage of Flare, Small Fireball, Ice Shard and Blitz Bolt now levels up less aggressively
• Piercing Ice Shard does a little more damage as you invest more in INT
• Teleportation does less damage if you do not keep your INT up to level
• Survivors Karma costs 6 AP now and also affects critical chance
• Trip fix: Trip no longer requires a dagger
• Clarified Cloak And Dagger tooltip
• Clarified Flurry and Daggers Drawn tooltip
• Fixed saving throws for Vampiric Touch, Soul Sap, Nullify Resistances, Lower Resistances
• Damage boosts of Oath of Desecration and Rage no longer stack

Design and balancing:

• Sneaking characters no longer trigger Attack of Opportunity
• Balanced Arhu's stats, skills and equipment
• Arhu now has the same stats and skills and equipment in all the regions
• Blocked off areas in Luculla Forest where you could walk over lava
• Fixed greeting nodes of Alfie, Homestead elementals, Dark Forest spirit and Jinxika so that voices fit
• Sentinel statues in King's Tomb have no use so they are no longer clickable (this was confusing)
• Fixed reset of guards in Luculla when they die
• Added extra check for waypoint shrine teleport in Homestead to only happen when the active region is the Homestead
• Trade option fix for shared dialogs when the clicked actor isn't the first speaker
• You can no longer talk to Ralfie after the Kadraskaz fight; if you have Pet Pal, he will talk to you
• Healing skills now actually last as long as the tooltip says they do
• Braccus' axe drop is now human size and not oversized
• Poisoned food now also does poison damage instead of only setting the poisoned status
• Fixed item combos: Orc horn, big chicken claw, Mysterious fabric dye
• Fixed Acid Breath skillbook and scroll name (was Ooze Spray)
• Fixed "OneShot" Automated Dialog triggers (e.g. Orc in Luculla prison never entered dialog and never became hostile)
• Fixed tooltips for items that said "Equip: x AP" when they should have said "Use: x AP" because you cannot equip an apple
• Fixed consume setting for bone item so that item does what tooltip says
• Added 4 Kickstarter henchmen
• Fixed Maradino using Elemental Havoc
• Fixed Spider in Black Cove skipping turns
• Fixed digging spot in Luculla Mine
• Fixed Wolf in Hiberheim saying "Vengeance"
• Fixed Fear conditions of Rafflesia in Luculla
• Fixed Demon dialog in Dark Forest
• Fixed missing text in Rat catcher dialog, Well dialog, Wardens dialog
• Fixed animation used on enemies when casting Mass Slow
• Fixed mix up of names for Fiery Heart and Bottle of Swirling Mud
• Fixed ADs of prisoners in Silverglen
• Fixed stats of Weresheep armor
• Fix for spamming "locked" on open door in Inner Sanctum
• Fix for mushrooms in Luculla looping dialog
• Fixed AI grid in the Immaculate cathedral in Luculla
• Fixed faction of the Luculla Mushrooms and their summons as they enter combat
• Fixed Maelodia opening doors
• Special arrows now either do no damage, half weapon damage, or full weapon damage, nothing in between
• Fix for quickly clicking disappearing forcefield in Boreas' castle
• Fixed trading with Bicky
• Fixed dialog in Cyseal Warehouse
• Fix for touching Bairdotr's cage after she is freed through teleportation
• Fix for Esmeralda's door closing
• Fix for Braccus fight exploit
• Fix for Boreas fight exploit
• Fixed Mortician and General Store signs
• Moved key to Esmeralda's basement to a less obvious place
• Fix for Jareth being mentioned after he's dead
• Moved around magical blocking boosts in the generation classes so that there is one per class
• Too many different shields were available at low level, treasure generation will no longer choose the weak shields to drop
• Magic generation will generate less elemental resistance boosts on equipment other than shields
• Magic will no longer generate immunity boosts to crippled, petrified, stunned, frozen, on normal equipment, only on shields
• Improved elemental res boost on shields
• Can no longer sit on nightstands even if they do look a lot like barstools
• Magic generation can now select new crit boosts
• Arhu, Jake, Evelyn, Thelyron, Bellegar and Astarte have a chance to crit

Graphics:

• Footstep effects for animals
• Effects for Fatality and Shadow Strike
• Fixed the Magical Unlock effect and animation
• Fixed Targeted Bless effect and added impact
• Characters no longer walk up in the air in the Knight's Tomb
• Updated icons (enemy portraits and items)
• Icons for Weresheep ghost, roasted pork, Well Teleport scroll, Pirate archer, Raw Meat
• Fixed floating scenery, water tiles, intersecting planes
• Fixed skinning in male hero's neck

Sound:

• New sound effects and ambiances

Editor:

• Fixed a lot of stability issues in the Divinity Engine
• Exposed death type to scripts

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