Pillars of Eternity Patch v3.04 Live Now

After a long gestation in beta, Pillars of Eternity’s v3.04 patch is finally live on Steam and Origin, with the GOG version apparently slated to come out in a few days. Here’s the changelog:

Major Fixes

• Brighthallow error on transition (this includes Durance / Hiravias, and Rod of Wind and Thunder issues). This fix is retroactive!
• Fighter’s ability Confident Aim no longer doubles on Save/Load
• Wizard’s spell Wall of Draining no longer increases beneficial spells permanently.

Spells and Abilities

• Skeleton Wizard’s ‘Necrotic Lance’ is now set up as a ray spell.
• Fixed and issue where Bash was hitting multiple times with Carnage.
• Ancient Memory no longer deactivates after casting an Invocation.
• Fixed the issue where Cipher’s Phantom Foes flanked debuff was removed when the target was engaged.
• Cipher’s no longer get hit with Psychic Backlash at the start of combat.
• Torment’s Reach no longer procs off every enemy hit.
• Priest’s Seal spells no longer activate twice.
• Iconic Projection no longer bypasses DR
• Fixed an issue with Ranger’s Twinned Arrow and Driving Flight accuracy issues
• Ranger’s Powder Burns now works as intended with DR Penetration.
• Druid spell Infestation of Maggots now does the intended amount of damage per tic.

Items

• Fixed multiple issues with Glittering Gauntlets.
• Cape of the Cheat will now be rewarded to base and px1 players.
• Sabre base damage has dropped to 11-16, and it will have a +20% damage mod.

Gameplay

• Engagement is now broken when characters are knocked back.
• Fixed the Nav around the adra pillar is Elmshore.
• Charming all enemies in a combat will no longer reset combat.
• VFX that start from characters heads are now correctly aligned.

UI

• Personal ‘Total Damage Done’ no longer comes up as ‘-Infinity’.
• Korean Loc issue with text getting cut off during Character Creation.
• ‘Missing GUI” no longer appears in the combat log with Fire Stag.

Audio

• Fixed an issue where audio was cutting out at the End Slides following the White March

Beta Fixes

• Kraken DR raised from 0 to 8
• Sul attacking her own pride during ‘The Old Queen and the New King’
• Fixed an issue with Cliant Lis traps not functioning
• The Unlabored Blade Firebug proc now functions correctly
• Breath VFX originating from adventurers hand
• Tooltip for Sabre +20% no longer shows ‘missing item mod 468’
• Nyry the Deft Hand now grants Cape of the Cheat in the base game.
• Corected an issue where characters sometimes gets stuck in Elmshore adra pillar.
• Stun on crit weapon mod duration is now affected by graze/hit/crit attacks.
• Party AI no longer chases after undiscovered enemies.
• Chanter, One Dozen Stood… phrase now reduces the Frightened and Terrified status .
• Fighter, Clear Out no longer causes Blights to stop attacking.