Balrum

Patch 1.6 (09 November 2018)

GUI:

• The buildable objects inside the Building panel are now sorted for ease of use.
• Right clicking on an Inventory tab now sorts the items in that tab based on name and value.
• UI elements won’t reposition themselves when minimising/alt- tabbing the game.

Engine:

• The renderer now supports water reflections and bloom effects. The bloom effect is disabled by default. You can enable it via the video options menu.
• The config.xml subsystem has been rewritten to be more compatible and efficient.
• Improved performance on 4K systems.
• Third party libraries have been updated to the latest versions.

Fixes:

• The marble hearth now costs the proper amount to build.
• Some buildable objects have been moved to a different Building tab for ease of use.
• All crafting tables have been renamed inside the Building panel to be more recognisable.
• The Leader of the Pack boss now properly triggers the rewards dialog. (this was a regression)

Typos:

• Basic text errors and logical errors have been fixed:
• files/dialogs/en/gui/afterrelease.xml
• files/dialogs/en/osric/packsandfires
• files/dialogs/en/neil/history
• files/dialogs/en/elestterr/elestterwelcome
• files/dialogs/en/orran/orranwelcome
• files/dialogs/en/bolt/boltifmage
• files/dialogs/en/barnabas/youoweleonard
• files/dialogs/en/helperdialogs/howtotaimanimals
• files/dialogs/en/fox/golems
• files/dialogs/en/walker/a_cape_of_a_warlock
• files/dialogs/en/rod/rodimlookingforwork
• files/dialogs/en/tina/tinamissingfriends
• files/dialogs/en/kotf/reddragonwelcome

Patch 1.55 (26 June 2018)

Features:

• New walls: We added a new type of wall to the building tab. These are brick walls and to build them you need to create bricks from clay.
• New material: Now you are able to dig up clay at the waterside.
• Bricks: Bricks can be made at a furnace from raw clay.
• New plantable foliage: We added a few new flowers to the building panel.
• New buildable furnitures: We added a few new buildable furnitures.
• Jones now teaches a few new buildable items.

Gameplay:

• Skillbooks now grant learning points if you already know the skill the book teaches. (the book will be removed on usage)
• Wizard spells do more average damage. The maximum damage of offensive spells are not changed, but the minimum damage has been increased.
• Easy difficulty: The enemy health reduction on easy difficulty has been increased. So enemies have slightly less health on easy difficulty.
• Durability: Durability decreases slower on easy difficulty.
• Pet recall is now enabled during combat.
• Young animals now stack in a single inventory slot.
• The fire damage reduction while it is raining has been reduced.
• Osric now sells more chickens.

GUI:

• The save/load panel now asks you if you really want to load a saved game. So accidental double clicking a save slot when wanting to save won’t load that slot.
• Some basic UI text has been altered to make things clearer.
• Some NPC world dialogs are now colored.
• Picklocking floating texts stay longer on the screen.

Fixes:

• Fixed the orientation logic for a few buildable furnitures.
• The Close Shot ability now properly indicates usability when there are no arrows left.
• Fixed a crash that could happen when teleporting to the safeplace during an item craft.
• In certain situations your pet did not autoattack. This should be fixed now.
• Sometimes when loading in a new map the system would dismiss your pet even when there was space around the player.

Engine:

• Updated the engine libraries.
• Initialization of the sound system has been changed to increase compatibility.

For translators:

• The after_release.xml has been changed.
• The gui_texts.xml has been changed.

Patch 1.5 (11 April 2018)

List of changes

• The game now uses a more modern windowing system.
• Much better fullscreen support.
• Much better HiDPI support.
• Better high refresh rate support. (120Hz+)
• Rewrote parts of the renderer (both modern and legacy):
• fewer draw calls
• smarter buffer handling
• optimized shaders
• fixed legacy warnings
• Rewrote the audio system.
• better handling of multiple sound effects
• optimized buffer handling
• Better support for special keyboards.
• Auto sharpen when zooming in. (both gameworld and GUI)
• Improved the sharpen shader (sharpening is crisper).
• Smoother framerate pacing.
• Changed resource management systems for better compatibility and speed.
• Updated libraries to latest versions.

Fixes:

• Fixed a rare lighting bug that affected certain light effects when drinking potions.
• Picking up player placed pet traps now have a sound effect.
• Fixed a bug that made the fireplace sound play twice.

Gameplay change:

• A certain green magical flame trap now does significantly more damage when activated.

Patch 1.31 (27 September 2017)

Fixes:

• When defeating the boss in the wolf's cave the player is now able to speak of this deed with the villagers.
• When smelting metals, only silver and iron critical crafts produce spotless metal bars.

Patch 1.3 (22 August 2017)

Fixes:

• No more slight illumination hiccup in the morning time.
• Piercing Arrow now does proper weapon damage + bonus damage.
• Remaining strings in the code are now editable. (XML)
• Trinkets with lighting effects now properly cancel themselves when swapping similar trinkets.
• Fixed issues related to the “really interesting” book.
• Modernised the filesystem. (this change should minimise the file corruption issues)
• Auto rebuild of the config.xml if something goes wrong.

For translators:

• The after_release.xml has been changed.

Patch 1.23 (09 June 2017)

Fixes:

• When an npc's talking panel had a lot of conversation options, scrolling trough them with the mouse wheel could caused problems.
• In rare occasions when multiple containers were open and item divides were issued, ability selection could end up selecting the wrong slot.
• The auto closing of multiple containers (when the player moved away from the containers) sometimes could cause a freeze.
• The game now detects if the desktop resolution is really high and warns the player of the possible DPI scaling issues.
• Minor character panel tooltip fixes.

Gameplay:

• Mana now regenerates every 4 turns instead of 5 turns.
• Added graphical effects to some repair/build interactions.

For translators:

• The "after_release.xml" was modified.

Patch 1.22 (19 December 2016)

• There were times when some of the shield abilities miscalculated cooldowns.
• The Piercing Arrow ability disregarded it's cooldown.
• Sometimes when deleting furniture while on the floors tab the system would not give back materials.
• Fixed a crash while deleting decals from walls next to doors.
• If you were really fast with your clicking, sometimes you were able to get duplicated materials back while deleting certain furnitures.
• The animation and sound while placing down berry bushes have been adjusted.
• The smelter sometimes had a crafting material icon when you loaded a game with a character who has no smelting skill immediately after playing with a character who has smelting skill.

Patch 1.21 (14 November 2016)

Small additions:

• ALT + click now puts materials inside crafting tables intelligently.
• Autosaves won't happen when the player is below 10% health.
• Cheat death now gives back more health.
• Fields no longer get diseased if they are properly tended too.
• Enabled numpad walk commands.
• Tutorial popup when your pet dies or gets automatically dismissed.
• Reduce Gore option is available in the options panel.
• Game saves now show the chosen difficulty.

Issues fixed by this patch:

• Fixed a rare issue when some sound effects could stuck in a loop.
• Sometimes certain bosses did not use some of their abilities as frequently as intended.
• Damage absorbed text now shows the proper amount of absorbed damage.
• Deep wounds ability cooldown now properly activates.
• Mirrored monsters cannot cause a 0 damage critical bleed effect any more.
• Disabled green cursor (usable) indicator on some unusable objects.
• Fixed a graphical glitch when some late game NPCs did not render their staffs.
• Mannequins now properly render their inventory outside of the safe place.
• Fixed the ambient sounds of the island map.
• Fixed the ambient sounds of the desert maps.
• The GUI scale slider sometimes had problems setting the value.
• Various small visual map changes.
• Removing weapons while chopping down trees sometimes caused a visual glitch.
• Fixed a rare player and pet collision problem.
• Fixed a visual glitch in the last cutscene.
• Fixed a color issue with the repair panel's equipped items list.
• Fixed a rare issue with cleaning dust from ancient lore papers.
• Fixed a few typos.
• Fixed a number of other small things. (text/button positions adjusted..etc)

For translators:

• Tent tooltips are now editable via the after_release.xml.
• Nightfall level “1” (dialogs/en/gui/spells.xml)
• There are numerous new lines in the after_release.xml.
• Changes were made in the gui_texts.xml. (difficulty texts, level up text, tutorialpet)
• Just a friendly reminder to everyone! If you installed translation mods inside the "en" folder you might experience problems (because the "files/dialogs/en" folder is the main text folder of the game and should not be overwritten). Supported translations should always install inside their own folder! (example: ru, de, ..etc) If you are experiencing issues with translation mods delete the "en" folder and run Verify / Repair in GOG Galaxy!
• Thank you all for your support and have a nice day!