General Changes:
- Changed general progression of the game. The entrance to the Catacombs is now in Undead Settlement in the Church of Sacrifices, making all the Lords of Cinder located at dead ends.
- Normal catalysts that scale with both Intelligence and Faith now have increased scaling but now have a hard cap of 50/50.
- Hybrid Melee catalysts that scale with both Intelligence and Faith now have increased scaling but also have a hard cap on ALL FOUR STATS of 50. So these weapons will not gain any additional spell damage or melee damage beyond 50 of any stat. (Note: Spells are not affected by Strength or Dex scaling ever.) This change affects: Evangelist’s Sacred Libram, Demon Scar, Preacher’s Right Arm and Star of Despair
- After defeating Soul of Cinder, the player is now given the “Kindled Cinders of the Lords” key item, which enables an optional “Kindled Abyss Watcher” boss fight. While the key item is in your inventory, enter the Abyss Watchers boss arena and interact with the new floating flame to begin the fight. The other Lords of Cinder are planned to get their own Kindled fights in upcoming patches.
- Removed excess files to prevent the “Save Data Corrupted” issue
- Made it so the cutscenes and warps relating to Emma don’t occur after defeating Yhorm+Aldrich
- Made the Spirit of the High Priestess not appear if Emma dies naturally
- Changed starting weapon of Blood Priest to Dark infused Corvian Greatblade
Item Changes:
- Made Aldrich’s Ruby recover HP from successive attacks
- Made Aldrich’s Sapphire recover FP from successive attacks
- Made Pontiff’s Left Eye increase weapon stamina damage
- Updated icon of Lion Knight’s Gambit
- Updated icon of Plague Strike
- Moved the Londor Braille Divine Tome to a chest after The Consumed King
Armor Changes:
- Added Crown of Courland, drops from Ludleth in Firelink
Spell Changes:
- Nerfed damage of Darkmoon Soulmass
- Reduced FP cost of Retribution
- Lowered HP of Outrider Knight summon by 20%
- Buffed damage of Angelic Wrath and Entreat the Light
- Soul Devouring now behaves like Sacred Flame/Vampiric Grasp, absorbing HP and granting a 5% soul boost while executing the attack
Weapon Changes:
- Added Frigid Curved Greatsword, transposed from the Soul of the Frigid Wyvern
- Added Corvian Greatblade, lootable in Road of Sacrifices
- Added Rekindled Farron Greatsword, drops from the Rekindled Abyss Watcher
- Updated textures of Ashen Dagger to match the item description
- Changed name of Ashen Dagger to Molten Dagger
- Nerfed Royal Dark Sword’s scaling
- Changed model and weapon art of Dragon’s Blood Blades
- Added magic, dark, physical and lightning infusion for the normal torch
- Readded missing effect to Guiding Light weapon art, making it flame up again
- Added a HP regen effect to Guiding Light weapon art
- Added new Weapon Art to Scholar’s Candlestick: Soul Spray
- Nerfed basic Straight Sword stance attacks SP cost to 28 and 38
Animation Changes:
- Fixed greatsword R2 hitbox ending too early in the swing
- Fixed mace R2s using the wrong animations
- Changed animations of default Halberd 2H R1’s
- Made the left-hand cast animation for Divine Pillars of Light and Divine Ascension grant invulnerability like the right-hand animation does
- Made the Threaded Sword 2nd R2 swing’s hitbox spawn earlier in the swing
Map Changes:
- Overhauled Lothric Castle, Grand Archives
- A message has been added to the Abyss Watchers boss room hinting to the new Catacombs entrance
- Moved Church of Sacrifices bonfire down the elevator, and added a new entrance to Catacombs in the same room
- Removed the entrance to Catacombs from Farron Keep
- Added a portal to Untended Graves in Cathedral of the Deep, near Deacons
- Added a portal to Cathedral of the Deep in Untended Graves, near the first spawn
- Moved the mimic in Cathedral near Deacons away from the portal
Visual Changes:
- Changed light direction in Dragon Barracks
- Made the interior of Anor Londo slightly brighter
- Fixed visual bug where exterior Irithyll turned super bright when inside Anor Londo
- Added several new light sources in Smoldering Lake/Demon Ruins
- Reduced saturation, bloom and fog density in Smouldering Lake/Demon Ruins
- Reduced bloom amount in most areas
- Reduced fog density in High Wall
Enemy Changes:
- Replaced the Knight of Gertrude boss with the Beheaded Knight boss, found in Dragon Barracks
- Added the Rekindled Abyss Watcher boss, found in Farron Keep after beating Soul of Cinder
- Added new Lothric High Priest enemy, red-robed Lothric Priest with holy projectiles
- Made the Frigid Wyvern not pop out of existence for 1 frame when landing in Anor Londo
- Removed Dragonkin Beast
- Made the Frigid Wyvern drop souls on death (35k)
- Increased HP of Abyss Watchers by 20%
- Lowered enemy difficulty in Catacombs
- Increased enemy difficulty in Cathedral of the Deep, Farron Keep, Untended Graves, Ariandel