Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Patch v4.0.0 Beta Available

The 4.0.0 patch for Obsidian Entertainment’s Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire that should be going live alongside The Forgotten Sanctum DLC on December 13, 2018, is now available on the beta branch. The patch introduces a new subclass for each of the game’s 11 classes, adds a couple of new features and three new god challenges, and fixes an assortment of issues.

Here’s an excerpt from the extensive patch notes:

Patch Notes for 4.0.0.0018

New Features

• Ship Respawning – Ships will now respawn as captains are defeated on the world map to keep the seas interesting to traverse . Ships will not respawn for every captain defeated but will ensure the seas are populated with ships of each faction.
• Ondra, Wael, & Woedica’s Challenge – Three new exciting Challenges will be coming in with this patch:
  • Ondra – Storms on the world map are bigger, faster, and increased in frequency and Enemy Captains are increased in rank and travel faster when chasing the player.
  • Wael – All numerical data for characters, spells, and items are hidden. This excludes Item count, Party Attributes, Skills, and Level.
  • Woedica – All Per-Encounter and Class resources become Per-Rest, Party Health no longer regenerate outside of combat, and only “Prepared Meals” will recover injuries and Resources.
• New Megabosses – Two new Megabosses can now be challenged in the game[…]
• New Subclasses – 11 New subclasses are being added to the game to add to variety and allow for more interesting combinations!

Major Fixes & Updates

• Savegames with subdirectories in the zip no longer fail to load.
• If Beast of Winter is installed, you may now converse with Ydwin as you would a main companion.
• Summoned creatures now unsummon when their summoner is knocked out.
• Veteran Difficulty has been tuned to be slightly more difficult.
  • Enemies now have +12% health, +8 accuracy, +1 penetration, +8 all defenses and +1 armor rating on Veteran difficulty.

Challenges

• God Challenges no longer disable mods or Berath’s Blessings.
• New games will no longer have Challenges enabled if the player loaded a Challenge save before starting the new game.
• Berath’s Challenge timer is no longer modified by hostile/beneficial duration multipliers.
• Berath’s Challenge now delays 10 seconds until unconscious party members are killed (from 6 seconds).
• Slightly increased Vela’s base defenses and the health she gains per level during Hylea’s Challenge.
• Users can now use Slow-Mode while playing under the Magran’s Challenge.