The developers of Disciples: Liberation launched a new patch recently. Update 1.2 brings significant improvements ahead of the release of the Paths to Madness DLC on March 24.
One of the most notable improvements is that you can now dismiss a selected spell or ability by pressing the right mouse button. Additionally, some tooltips have gotten better. For instance, hovering over a unit icon now displays the emotion shard and weapon that the unit has equipped. You can now see the base power rating of all damage-dealing and healing abilities in combat as well.
While there are a lot of good changes in Update 1.2, fans of Avyanna are going to be disappointed by the nerfs across the board. One of the most significant is “Bursting Magic” because this skill now only deals 3% additional damage, with no increase to the damage value per unit the more units are hit.
Update Highlights
- Added a death symbol to the attack preview in combat to show that the attack will kill the target
- Added a setting to skip the Backline aura visual effects and animations (except for abilities triggered once-per-round)
- Improved the behavior of enemy ranged units that now act more aggressively and less passively
- Improved the preview visuals in boss fights. The pre-fight screens of all boss fights now show portraits of the upcoming boss
- Recruitment menu now shows all units for that building, with a displayed requirement for inaccessible units
- When recruiting new units from faction buildings, the maximum possible level is now automatically selected
- Training units now auto-select the first available unit when opening the menu
- Switching between faction buildings with a controller is now more intuitive to control with the bumpers on gamepads to switch between faction buildings in town
- Overall damage of spells has been reduced
- Rebalancing of the skills in the magic skill tree branch:
- Mana Refund: Reduced the regained mana effect from 25% to 10%
- Spell Penetration: Reduced the effect from 5% to 3%
- Arcane Surge: Reduced the cost reduction from 50% to 25%
- Overpowered: Spells require now 15% mana instead of 10% mana to make the damage and healing from spells 10% more powerful
- Spell Snipe: Reduced the effect from 5% to 3%
- Fixed an issue where quickly opening the journal or map after picking up a quest could lead to a softlock
- Fixed an issue where the Feral Elf Warrior being present in the backline could cause a softlock at the beginning of combat
- Fixed an issue where it was possible to use the map after the prologue and before learning how to travel to other regions. The map button will now be available after talking to Orion in Yllian
- Fixed an issue in combat where it was not possible to pan the camera after changing to tactical view
The full patch notes can be found on Disciples: Liberation’s official Steam page.
