Mortal Shell II

It’s that time of year. Rotten Autumn is upon us and with it comes a load of free updates to the core Mortal Shell II experience along with a few seasonal treats.

No tricks here. Take a look below to see what’s in store for you.

Here are the highlights of everything you get in the Rotten Autumn update, which is now live on Steam, PS5 and Xbox. 

• Photo Mode 

• New Alternative Soundtrack By Rotting Christ’s Sakis Tolis

• 15 New Dungeons

• All New Shell Shades for Each Shell

• 10 New Tarstones 

• Sheep Specific Tarstone

• New Lighting Presets for Nightmode

• Overkill Graphics Settings

• Harbinger Pumpkin Helmet

• Impervious Lute skin and Additional Lute tracks

• The ghost of a lost Shell haunts the land and offers cryptic notes

• Additional polishes and bug fixes

Thanks again for all your support of Mortal Shell II. There’s more coming, but for now all we’ll say is that despite whatever you’ve heard—there is no sheep dungeon. 

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Enjoy the update,

- Team Mortal Shell

Player & Gameplay

• Tiltshot projectile now spins and moves forward

• Fixed Barrage + Solnir Shard Tarstone dealing damage to allies

• Fixed the Parasitic Stone exploit when switching between sheep and shell form

• Fixed an issue where unequipping Egon's Stone could prevent Gloom loss

• Fixed Tarstones not granting EXP for kills by player summons

• Fixed Black Needle throw and infused stone being unable to aim or interact

• Fixed several Slayer Seal/Punch issues

• Fixed canceling Proxima's Shell ability stopping weapons being re-equipped

• Fixed issue that blocked Gragu from being possessed

• Fixed Astral Clones not attacking when summoned close to an edge

• Fixed Lost Clotstone for Genessa Clones using Obsidian Hammer getting stuck and staying forever

• Fixed Cursed Child and Grisha summons being hit and targeted by Biosampler

• Fixed Cursed Child summons being targeted by Sidearm

• Fixed spawned summons causing collision issues on big enemies and bosses, such as Grisha or Cursed Child summons launching bosses

• Force feedback tweaks and changes

• Cleaned up melee attack logic

Enemies & Bosses

• Final Boss HP reduced, player cosmic disease resistance doubled and his grab attack now has more anticipation

• Fixed issues around the main bosses' phase change

• Improved Droeg, the Conqueror's hitboxes

• Fixed Bor, the Deluded Monarch's lock-on location and Biosampler interaction

• Improved how the Monolith works with Proxima Biosampler

• Adjusted Orrem, the Golem's triple slam

• Necrite run attack timing tweak

Dungeons

• Player can now collect 3 extra ovas in the final slice dungeon when playing NG+

• Fixed the enemy count on The Last Siege

• Fix for slow-streaming dungeons when "seamless dungeon streaming" is enabled

• Fix for double dungeon loading

UI

• Mether's Breath now has multiple warning prompts

• Fixed backing out of Mether's Breath's second warning soft-locking the game

Audio

• Fixed Lucian, the Thirsting Knight's dodge audio

• Fixed Magdelena, Lady of the Woods' unparryable slam attack audio triggering multiple times

VFX & Animation

• New VFX for Tiel's Shadow Clones, plus tweaks and fixes for Tiel's Poison Shadow Clones

• New explosion version for Droeg, the Conqueror

• Giant Spider FX pass with more feedback, force feedback, and camera shakes

• New shell summon handshake animation and a small Gragu height tweak

Camera

• Improvements to camera collisions
  

Environment and Performance

• Environment and collision bug fixes

• General optimizations, including castle stairs, mine pillars, tomb floors, and catacomb/iron maiden collision

• Optimized bear traps and fixed the wrong trap rotation during the disarm animation

• Rebuilt shader (PSO) caches and world HLODs
  

Major Bug Fixes

• Fixed dungeons not loading correctly when using Egon's Stone

• Fixed trophy/achievement issues with "Seeking the Past"

• Fixed Egon's Stone removing Gloom dropped in the open world

• Several fixes to prevent players falling through elevator lifts when walking into walls

• Fixed an issue that could cause Orrem, the Reclaimed to be killed instantly

• Fixed enemies becoming aggroed during miniboss fights
  

Player

• Fixed a soft lock when cancelling Mether's Severance with a gamepad

• Fixed Stray Genessa not being interactable after using Mether's Severance

• Fixed an issue with Genessa's Faithful Doubles when using Lost Clotstone

• Fixed Clockwork Scythe elemental effects not applying correctly

• Fixed Harbinger shades and masks not displaying in the level-up tab

• Fixed the player continuing sheep attacks after transforming back into their shell

• Fixed a bug that made the Slayer Seal unresponsive

• Fixed small parts of Lazlo's leg clipping through armor
  

Enemies and Bosses

• Tweaked the final boss's fire ring attacks

• Adjusted The Warden's jump timing and trigger boxes to be more responsive

• Adjusted The Warden's positioning so it no longer jumps through walls

• Several fixes and improvements to The Warden

• Fixed the player being pushed outside the Hexapod arena
  

UI

• Added UI support for Adaptive Difficulty tiers

• Updated the Adaptive Difficulty indicator with new, improved icons and made the night mode icon easier to see
  

Optimization

• Added a Low Latency Mode option to the menu (NVIDIA Reflex and AMD Anti-Lag 2)

• Fixed issue where the VSync option was missing its tooltip while Frame Generation is enabled

• Optimized shadows in the Hub

• Texture optimizations

• Other optimizations and improvements

  Edit: Bring my Ova Back to me is not fixed in this patch, but a fix for this will be added in the next update.