Sacred 2:Community Patch Changelog

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Your CM-Patch Team.

Patchnotes CM-Patch v0110 (Spring Release 2011)

General

• Additional debug Log errors were fixed. (Missing/wrong equipslots of NPCs)
• Corrected numerous typos, missing text and missing sense in many quests.
• The last part of the crystal plains does no longer play XMAS music.
• All the special mounts from Fallen Angel and Ice & Blood are now available at vendors.

Graphics

• All ingame textures were reviewed in respect to filesize and compression faults. (Loadtimes, maybe memoryleaks)
• Faulty display of custom skincolour with a certain type of seraphim helmet was fixed.
• Temple Guardian's Combat Alert FX effect of some enemies was exchanged for a more graphics performance friendly version.

Enemies and Bosses

• Abishai was weakened a little bit.
• Bodily undead (except skeletons) no longer explode when they are killed, leaving bodies behind.

Combat Arts

• Dragon Mage: Dragon Berserk and Dragon Form have been pimped to be somewhat playable and useful.

Sets and Items

• We introduced new sets for all classes. :)

- Scourge of Lordaeron set for the Shadow Warrior

• The Dragon Mage got his own bunny ears and fool's hat.

Quests

New Quest:

Ancient Secrets

Improved playability, course of events and procedure for:

• Dark Rituals - Level adjusted
• Easter Egg - is now back again... :)
• Cut off - fixed a dialogue.
• Heroic Deeds - lingering questmarker erased.
• Dream Vampire - Rewarddrop is now collectable.
• XMAS & Northland Expedition - fixed the missing hydra.
• Elixir of Visions - lingering questmarker erased.
• Holdup - improved chain of events.
• Michel, the Blacksmith's Apprentice - Position collision of 2 NPCs fixed.
• Clearing Ship - Hostages are cleared from ship after completion.
• Escaping the Terror - Milk Weed is removed after completion.
• Orpheus - Mary Ann now behaves correctly.
• Manners Maketh Kobold - Orcs removed after completion.
• A Simple Case of Nerves - Available in Multiplayer.

Various changes:

The Impostor:

• Logbook - moved to chapter 8.
• Reward - you get the epic drop from the seraphim.
• Declinability - you can decline the start of the quest.

Logbook simplified for:

• Fortress of the Dead (removed from the logbook)
• Threat from the west
• Sheik Yerbouti (removed from the logbook)
• Just a fool
• Soldiers from the past
• Blinded
• Days Gone By

Patchnotes CM-Patch v0100

General

• Fixed additional Debug Log Errors. (NXActor Colprim Errors)
• Corrected many typos and added missing text where necessary.

Animation

• The Inquisitors Idle animation has been fixed to stop "skipping".

Enemies and Bosses

• New Boss: Gartor the Onyx-Spiketurtle. (Find the biggest star where glass does walk, from there go west and seek a dark place...)
• Spiderqueen Failitia got her very own questseries.

Sets and Items

• Implemented a new Book: A Northland Tale.
• Epic and Unique Items of earlier CM-Versions are now properly named. (Food for the Wiki!)

-Power of NIF

-Bringer of Light

-Essence of Dark Matters

• Added two new easteregg Items. (Have a happy search & find.)

-Helmet of unspeakable evil

-Scythe of the Slayer

• We added two new Seraphim, one Highelve and one XMAS Set for the DM. (More Wiki pages to fill, yay!)

-Sopor Aethernis

-Virtues of the Seraphim

-Armaments of the nine hells

-Dragon Mage's Merry Christmas Set

• Scythes can now be found.
• The rare Seraphim Shield (former grey one) got a more fitting bonus.

Quests

In general many quests have been optimized again in playability and logbook appearance.

New Quests:

• A bath for my dog
• The Impostor (Failitia)
• Faust

Changed:

• Bandits now has two alternative endings
• Tutorial Relics - Playing with Bears Questlogic corrected
• In the Hands of Kobolds - Kobolds are not Humans
• The Prodigal Son
• Muggers
• The Undead Legion
• Ephrahim's Nightmare
• Haunted Mine
• The Diving Bell
• The Wedding Ring
• Shadows of the Seraphim
• Can Christmas Still be Saved (reloaded)
• Can Christmas Still be Saved - The Snowman
• Can Christmas Still be Saved - Dress Code
• Northland Expedition
• By Order of the Crown
• Don't Trust Statistics 1
• Mine Workers (Light)
• The Cursed Forest
• The Banished Man
• Enemy Movement
• Feuding Clans
• The Dragon Cult - The Truth is Revealed
• Better Yields
• The Medallion of Wrath
• Master of the Hunt (Light) and Master of the Hunt (Shadow)
• Poacher
• A Picnic in the Swamps
• Desire for Unity (Light)
• Dirty Deal
• Haiku (Light) and Haiku (Shadow)
• The Arena Above the Clouds
• Out of the Test Tube
• Homesickness
• Priest Ordination
• Almost Godlike
• The Metamorphosis
• Outside Interference
• The Ghost Banquet
• The Ancestors Chambers
• Patience
• Serving the Inquisition - Conflict over a Corpse

• Seraphim's - Children and Demons
• High Elf's - Settlement From the Grave
• Dragon Mage's - Dratted little beasts
• Forens "Desecrated Gods"

Logbook:

• Removed sub-captions for chainquests
• Added Hintgivers: VIPs in Ancaria
• Blind Guardian Quest has been grouped with the Fans in the Groupies
• Tutorials grouped: A Hitchhikers Guide to Ancaria
• Epic Office Quest: DEVs already reached are displayed.
• Hunting Fever Quests (I + II + III) grouped
• XMAS-Kobold got his own quest Christmas delayed (reduce confusion on how to find the questseries' start)
• Easterbunny got his own quest Easter has come (dito)

Patchnotes CM-Patch v0094

General

• Implemented a Hotfix for accidentally lost Magic-Hiding-Places, Effects and Sounds in v0090.
• Preparation for ingame text editing of many localizations.

Patchnotes CM-Patch v0090

General

• Arkenmarks Refuge: The Dungeon can now be played.
• Transparent console with new textcolor and backround.
• The Mage from Northland Expedition is set to a new position.
• The SW Special-Mounts have been color coded again to their respective aspects.
• Removed several unused creatures and quests.
• Fixed a possible reason for one-hit-deaths between 2nd and 4th soulstone in crystal plains.
• The console logo now shows the CM-Patch version.
• The frame showing skill-mastery has been made more visible.
• Implemented various improvements to get a clearer debug.log.

Animations

• Wrong Seraphim and Dragonmage animations when equipped with 2H-Swords were corrected.
• Fistweapons: Got fitted animations through new subfamilies. Work on original martial arts animations in progress.
• Reactivated death animations of all bosses.

Enemies and Bosses

• Gar'Colossus: Has recieved a makeover...
• Swirling mist of Miasma: See above. Should be a new feeling...
• Demons: Fixed the One-Hit-Death problem in the Desert.
• Walther (XMAS): Can hit you now.
• A "non-crystal Crystalbear" in the Quest "Challenge" has been adapted to its environments.
• Scarabs now have correct Attack and Defense values.
• Elite-Coboldarchers give now correct EXP.
• Removed some lost enemies in remote inaccessible regions.
• Endboss (Harbinger of Death) in Quest "Lost Crypt" has been weakened.
• The problem of "immobilized" PCs when fighting Octalogamus, Gar'Colossus, Khral, The white Griffon, Carnach and some other enemies has been fixed.
• Crystal-Traps in Crystalregion now give correct EXP.
• Implemented a new Boss: Failitia the Spiderqueen.
• Damage of Poison Trap spell has been altered to DOT. (This schould prevent One-Hits with the lord of poison, as well as some issues with low-lvl PCs at the start of the game.)
• Reduced the teleport range of the undead general, to prevent him from kicking himself off the worldmap. (Please check if he still disappears.)
• The decorative destructable Crystals (except the smallest) in the Crystalregion got a kind of self-defence, now that they grant EXP.
• Did some modifications to the spell most likely causing the "strange mass healing effect" sometimes experienced in blood forest and beyond. (Please do test thoroughly if it occurs still.)

Combatarts

• Seraphim: Instilled Belief "Elocution" Mod: Chance to convert now correctly doubles the base chance value and does not set it to 100%.
• Temple Guardian: "Archimedes beam" now does Fire damage again and is no longer restricted in its range.
• Inquisitor: Levin Array: Reduced the range by a very small amount to prevent casting on enemies beyond reach.
• High Elf: The duration of "Raging Nimbus" now increases with CC level.
• Dryad: The base damage of "Tangled Vine" has been increased slightly. In return "Goldenglade Touch" has been slightly weakened.
• Dryad: A faulty modifier of "Envenom"-Mod in "Ravaged Impact" has been corrected. (It caused Weapons to only distribute poison damage.)
• Fixed an exploit with Dryad and Dragon Mage.

Sets and Items

General:

• The Unlock-Code Items now drop regularly.
• Non-readable Books and Scrolls can no longer drop.
• Strange Amulets and Rings that were for SW only, can now be used by everyone again.
• A grey shield (Seraphim) has been made into a rare one. The design fits wonderfully to the Endijians Set.
• Implemented Fistweapons, Throwing Potions and Recurve Bows.
• Introduced some new Maces. (One is nicely animated.)
• TG Miniset XTM-2174: Inventorysize of the chest is now correct.
• The DM Aspects have been included into random bonuslists for Items (this has obviously been forgotten).
• Big and Strong Healingpotions are now available at the stores. They heal and stack correctly now.
• Shields are a bit rarer now at the stores, but appear in higher quality.
• The defense bonus of Endijians Wings (Sera) is now correctly based on armor lore instead of shield lore.
• Fixed wrong dropchances of some set items.
• All possible variants of shrinkheads can now be aquired ingame.
• Swapped wrong aspectboni on two items of inquisitor sets. (Sarakis and Deylens)
• Fixed a problem with a 2H-Staff being unable to be used by anyone.
• Kuans Plate and Shoulders of Anguish have been added to proper droplists, where missing.
• Lightsabers got their own soundprofile, naming and are based on willpower now. Random golden lightsabers can be dropped by bosses now.
• Revision of Swords and Sabers: Those smaller than 3 inventory slots are uniformously based on dexterity, bigger ones on strength.
• Katanas are now based on dexterity and are named Katana, Yuudai and Kitari.
• Fistweapons with long blades are now based on dexterity.

The following (complete!) minisets can now be found:

• Kira's Protection
• Bergonix' Judge
• Bratgrimace's Legacy
• Black Death

Added missing set bonus to:

• Black Death
• Kira's Protection
• Equilibrium
• Denderan's Tactical Genius
• Adornments of the Ancestors

New Items

Armor:

• Floppy Hat for Dryad (Helmet Unique)

Jewellery:

• Signet of the Apocalypse (Unique) Ring
• Gomil's Gold Pouch (Unique) Amulet
• Star of Silithar (Legendary) Amulet
• Arnum's Signet (Legendary) Ring
• Khral's Ring (Legendary) Ring
• Charo's Brilliance (Legendary) Ring
• Charo's Sparkle (Legendary) Ring
• Shadow of Urtak (Set) Ring
• Star of Illumination (Set) Ring

Weapons:

• Tiddlywink(Unique)
• Bugslayer (Unique)
• Hammer of the Righteous (Unique)
• Mountain Breaker (Unique)
• Sand Eagle (Unique)

Sets:

• Kendric's Archon (Temple Guardian)
• Pandamonium's Pride (Shadow Warrior)
• Centurio's Insignia (Shadow Warrior)
• Kanka's Relics (Shadow Warrior)
• Equilibrium (New miniset for all classes)

Quests

General:

• Charquests are named as Classquests and appear on the corresponding page of the log.
• Northland Expedition is listed on the log page for the human region.
• All quests involving companions have been optimized.
• Killquests with timer will show 0 targets after a save and load.
• Questscripts have been optimized in general. (Removal of unused functions and calls, etc.)
• Removed unused quests and backdoors.
• Relocated the TG Classquest report hologram in Failitia's dungeon.

New Quests:

• Can Christmas Still be Saved (XMAS Reloaded)
• Cut Off + Talisman / One Last Plea
• The Farm Owner
• Hunt for Rats
• A Simple Case of Nerves
• Hunting Fever
• Heroic Deeds (Shadow version of Family Graves)
• Back to the Front (Prequest to The Undead Legion)

Revised Quests:

Main Campaign:

• The mainquest has been revised slightly. The rock blocking the path at octagolamus' now vanishes correctly.
• Log of the starting quests has been cleansed of movies and some unnecessary parts.

Thanks, Praise and Credits

A big "Thank You!" goes to...

...the RAD Community (Rüstige Alternative Daddler http://rad-community.org) for the webspace and traffic for our download distribution. ...Frank Rentmeister for councel and a lot of hard work, as well as granting us access to his professional, web-based organization tools.

The Scourge of Lordaeron Set:
Original armor and sword design by Jojjo, Meshes and textures processing and adaptation by Dimitrius154. Additional fine texture tweaking by Lazy_Tomcat.

This patch includes the following sound packs from Freesound (http://www.freesound.org): "Star Wars" Lightsaber Sounds by joe93barlow.