Sacred 2 Remaster

Heroes of Ancaria!

We are happy to annouce, that Patch 6 has just gone live.

The main features for this patch are:

• new Blacksmithing interface in the inventory (requires the blacksmithing skill)

• various bugfixes related to Blacksmithing

• controller quick casting for potions

• controller quick casting input tooltips to the HUD

The button to access the Blacksmithing interface from the inventory is a small anvil located beneath the inventory grid.
The button is disabled, unless the blacksmithing skill has been learned by the character.

Controller quick casting for potions is done by holding down d-pad left,
which will then blend in the quick casting tooltips to show the specific button combinations for each potion slot.
Quick casting a potion this way will both attempt to consume a potion in the slot AND set the slot as the active slot.

Besides these main features, the patch also includes a variety of other fixes and changes.

These will be listed in the patch notes below.
If certain changes do not affect all platforms, the affected platforms are listed infront of the change.

Thank you all for your continued support,
and we hope you enjoy the update.
Have a great summer!

Patchnotes

UI

• ADDED the ability to open and use the Blackmisthing interface, if the character has learned the skill.

• Fixed various item bonus stats not being correctly displayed in the Blacksmithing interface.

• Fixed issues of tooltips not showing in the Blacksmithing interface.

• Fixed an issue where a tooltip would display Blacksmithing forge slots with the design of the original Sacred 2.

• Added equip feedback to blacksmith forge slots based on the maximum forgable item level, and wether an item can be forged into a slot or not.

• ADDED controller quick casting for potions by holding left d-pad.

• ADDED input prompts for all controller quick casting, that are being shown when holding down a quick cast modifier.

• Fixed an issue where quick casting with a slot that uses LB could permanently open the mini-map instead.

• Fixed an issue where quick casting sometimes would not register LB as an input, if the button was held too long.

• ADDED the ability to pick up and manually move/ sort items in the stash chest by holding the transfer button.

• Fixed an issue where transfering items to the stash chest would temporarily drop items to the ground, resulting in a performance issue when transfering large stacks of potions.

• Fixed and issue with item tooltip sizes.

• Fixed the campaign status percentage in the character selection menu not showing the correct values.

• Fixed navigation issues inside the combat arts menu, that could occurr if certain combat arts were not learned yet.

• Fixed an issue with the Runemaster where navigation focus could sometimes jump to the "buy" button unexpectedly.

• Fixed an issue with the localizations for skill level tooltips.

• Fixed the discoloration of shield HP bars.

Rendering

• Added fur for various animals (Panther, Boar, Spider, Bear, Lion, Troll, Monkey, Rat, Deer, Rabbit, Dog, Cat, Sheep, Werewolf, Gripphon, Minotaur, Horse).

• Fixed rendering issues related to fur.

• \[Ps5 & XBOX only] Fixed an issue where fur was visible through fog.

• Improved Shader of the Dryades Ancient Bark Spell.

• Improved Shader of the High Elfs Incandescent Skin Spell.

• Fixed several issues with the Seraphim Mystique Armorset Wings FX.

• \[Ps5 only] Fixed an issue where the Temple Guardian would become invisible when using Untouchable Force.

• Improved rendering logic for Resource loading, Texture management and Terrain patch handling.

• Improved Shaders for Tree rendering and lighting interactions.

• Fixed an issue with particle emitters.

• Fixed a rendering issue with footsteps.

Input && Spells

• Fixed an issue where the player character can become immortal after interacting with quest dialogues.

• Fixed an issue where the controls for "rotate left" and "rotate right" would not move the world map left and right, causing usability issues when using original Sacred 2 character controls.

• Fixed an issue where some health potions could not be used with the healing button.

• Fixed an issue where the order in which potions would be used by the healing button was inverted.

• Fixed an issue where opening the ingame menu while givin movement input could cause permanent movement input being given.

• Fixed an issue where the Seraphims Battle Stance would produce a clicking sound if it was active while playing with a controller.

• Fixed an issue where the Inquisitors Clustering Maelstrom and Raving Thrust, and the Shadow Warriors Scything Sweep spells could damage and kill Mounts and Followers.

• Fixed an issue where the Inquisitors Inexorable Subjugation spell would freeze the caster.

• Fixed an issue where interacting with an NPC could cast a spell.

Misc

• Fixed a crash that would occur when fighting the swamp dragon.

• \[PC only] Manually added hardware detection for AMD RDNA 4 GPUs to resolve issues where the GPU was not identified on game start.

• Fixed an issue where the savegame could be loaded in the wrong difficulty setting.

• \[Ps5 & XBOX only] Fixed an issue where graphics settings were changed when leaving the options menu.

• ADDED the requirement to APPLY changes to settings after using the RESET settings option.

• \[Ps5 only] Fixed sorting issues with savegames.

• \[Ps5 only] Fixed an issue with "ghost" savegames taking up slots and reduce the number of available savegames

Hello Heroes!

Today we bring you: Patch 5

• returning many of the inventory and equipment slots that were present in the original game,

• adding quick casting combat arts and hot-switching weapons to specific slots to controllers,

• and improved UI readability for the Steamdeck (only active when played on a handheld device).

As usual, a more detailed changelog will follow below.

A short note on controller quick casting:

the controls for how to use the quick cast system are not yet shown, displayed or explained in-game, but this will be added in Patch 6.

A fix for the blacksmithing skill and the ability to smith from "anywhere, anytime" is also NOT included in the patch, but will be included in Patch 6.

How to use quick casting for combat arts and weapons:

Combat Arts:

• Hold down RT/ R2

• Then press the following buttons to trigger the combat art in the respective slot

(LB/ L1 )

(X/ ☐ ) (Y/ △ )

(A/ ✕ ) (B/ O )

Weapons:

• Hold down LT/ L2

• Then press the following buttons to select the weapon in the respective slot

(RB/ R1 )

(X/ ☐ ) (Y/ △ )

(A/ ✕ ) (B/ O )

We know it took a bit of time to included these these highlighted changes but we are very happy to finally bring these changes to the Remaster.

Thank you all so much for your continued support and kind words that reach us.

Patchnotes

Equipment & UI:

• added the 5th Combat art slot and Weapon slot

• added the 3rd and 4th relic sets

• fixed various visual issues where changing the relic sets would not update the hud or armor displays correctly

• added the 4th, 5th and 6th Potion slots

• 2 potion slots will now be unlocked every at level 1, level 2 and level 5 each

• due to the new total number of potion slots using potions with the controller now requires cycling through the slots by pressing dpad left twice, pressing dpad left once will consume a potion of the highlighted slot

• fixed a bug where empty but unlocked potion slots were being classified as disabled

• active equipment slots now change to the "hovered" state correctly, as navigating with the controller could be confusing when an active slot would not change visually when focussed

• expanded the inventory grid by 2 rows to a total of 180 cells

• a button for Smithing has been added to the inventory screen, but it will be disabled until Patch 6 as it is not yet functional

• Mounts, Statistics (active bonus stats), Smithing and Scrapping buttons are now present as icons in the bottom of the inventory screen

• the Statistics button now opens ONE singular, but scrollable list, which remains open until the button is pressed again, or until the inventory is closed

• due to screen space limitations, buffs are no longer present in the inventory screen and potions are no longer present in the combat arts screen

• fixed a bug where buffs could not be assigned with the controller in ultrawide screen resolutions

• fixed a bug where closing the combat art screens window while a combo was opened would result in a crash

• the game is now paused while any menu screen is open

• fixed various issues where elements that were supposed to be scrollable were not

• fixed an issue where Quest descriptions of quest steps following the initial starting text would be cut off

• added new rml modifiers ``forced-nav´´ to improve UI navigation with controllers

• added a new rml modifier ``@media (theme: handheld)´´ that affects the UI when the game is being played on a handheld device

• overhauled the UI to be more readable when the game is being played on a handheld device

• fixed a crash where certain screen resolutions would cause scrollable elements to run into an infinite loop (namely the stash chest on the steamdeck)

Controller Quick Casting:

• adding quick casting combat arts and hot-switching weapons to specific slots to controllers

Combat Arts:

• Hold down RT/ R2

• Then press the following buttons to trigger the combat art in the respective slot

(LB/ L1 )

(X/ ☐ ) (Y/ △ )

(A/ ✕ ) (B/ O )

• the selected combat art will be executed and upon releasing RT/ R2 the selection will revert back to the combat art that was active before the quick cast

• the previous methods of using and selecting combat arts are still functional

Weapons:

• Hold down LT/ L2

• Then press the following buttons to select the weapon in the respective slot

(RB/ R1)

(X/ ☐ ) (Y/ △ )

(A/ ✕ ) (B/ O )

• switches to the selected weapon and executes an attack, the weapon will now be permanently selected

• the previous methods of using and selecting weapons are still functional

Other changes:

• fixed NVIDIA 50XX series GPUs not being detected correctly, resulting in the integrated graphics card being used

• fixed a memory leak with the video decoder, resulting in rapid accumulation of memory while a video was playing

• fixed a bug where skipping the intro videos could disable movement

• fixed a bug where the minimap would rapidly switch between locations on game start

• fixed a bug where black bars for cutscenes would not be displayed correctly

• fixed a bug where a second fade in would be played after leaving/entering dungeons

• fixed a bug where additional damage floating texts would overlap with the regular damage numbers with the help of @Marko

• fixed a Loca ID for the Sound directions with the help of @atraxy

• fixed an issue where the sound volume after fade-in would be wrong

• fixed a some cases where loca formatting for numbers would lead to confusingly displayed numbers

• added support to rebind controlls to the arrow keys

• added a init.txt file to the scripts folder, that allows overwriting the Language via ``sys.setLanguage("nameOfYourLanguageFolder")´´
  (make sure to remove the -- before the system command aswell)

  this script effects text, speech and video files, allowing GoG users to set their preferred language outside of the installer

• added various quests to free play which were previously not available in the gamemode