We are so glad to be sharing our first major patch with you all today! Thanks to your feedback and reports over the past month, we’ve been able to make some significant improvements to Eternal Strands and fix a list of top priority bugs & crashes.
ICYMI, we shared a post last week with dev notes regarding the changes in today’s patch. You can read it here.
For an up-to-date view of player feedback and known issues, you can consult our board here.
Note: We are planning a hotfix shortly to address the “Weathering the Storm” and “Tapestry” quest bugs. They are not in today's patch but rest assured that we’ll be fixing these very soon!
If you’d like to report a crash or a bug that isn’t on our board nor in this patch, please follow these guidelines.
Thanks again for your continued interest, enthusiasm, and support for our indie studio’s debut game! We can’t wait to show you what we’ve been working on for the Spring update – stay tuned 👀💛.
- The Yellow Brick Team
Patch notes below ⬇️
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Update 1.0.13.1426
CHANGES
Improved combat responsiveness
- Added controller rumbles and vibrations.
- Implemented a directional hit reaction system, where enemies will react in the direction relative to the player’s attack.
- Improved the timing of enemy flinches.
- Improved enemy reactions to player attacks. Enemies will react faster, more often, and with more resistance when hit.
- The visual effects that play when players hit an enemy have been tweaked to be more prominent.
- The standard 2-Hander's base combo is slightly faster and more reactive.
- The kinetic 2-Hander's ability angles have been adjusted while falling, jumping, running, or launching an enemy.
Improved inventory management
- Removed loot penalty for deaths from out of bounds falls.
Improved character movement
- Brynn’s minimum acceleration speed has been enhanced.
- Direction changes when walking or running are more reactive.
OTHER CHANGES
- Steamdeck rendering options have been adjusted to secure verficiation.
- Added an option to speed up the credits.
- Reactive icons previously displayed on NPCs upon player’s first arrival in basecamp have been hidden to promote exploration.
- Increased enticement distance of the first two Quest Interactions in “Part 1: Arrival".
- Decreased number of Umbral Darters in Glintwood Hollow, Dredger’s Mire, Upper Dynevron.
BUG FIXES
Multiple fixes on M&K controls
- Made it possible for players to remap the Climb (/cling) key.
- Fixed the Next/previous magic power and consumables inputs.
- “Casting Stance” action can now be rebound on mouse button 2.
- Increased the value range for mouse/camera sensitivity settings.
- Input to open the consumables wheel is now T (instead of C).
- Switching consumable with mouse wheel will now require holding C (instead of Alt) to prevent conflict with Dodge.
Localization
- Enabled localization on keys in the rebinding menu.
- Fixed misspelled names in Credits.
- Multiple French localization fixes.
Progression fixes
- Fixed an issue affecting players who had completed the “Brennig Glasstail Epic Hunt Quest” in the free PC demo.
- Fixed an exploit that allowed players to complete the quest "A shift in perspective" without meeting the mandatory criteria.
UI fixes
- When reading a dialogue too big to fit in the Dialogue box in one go, skipping will progress to the other part of the text instead of skipping to the next dialogue.
- Improved in-world UI elements’ performance.
- Fixed various UI layout issues.
Miscellaneous fixes
- Fixed incorrect statistics for Emerald Lucent.
- Color-blindness setting now has a proper filter (was previously a simulator).
- Removed the DLSS "Ultra Quality" mode which was not working as intended.
- Fixed certain malfunctioning thermodynamic simulation visuals on trees.
- Disabled malfunctioning 3D Spatial Audio setting for Playstation 5 players.
- Various crash fixes.
EDIT (4 March 2025): Added the missing patch notes referring to the 2-Hander changes.
