Pathfinder: Kingmaker Patch v1.2 Live

A massive new patch for Owlcat Games’ Pathfinder: Kingmaker is now live. Totaling at around 18 Gb, the patch fixes a great number of issues, rebalances the game’s later chapters, improves its loading times, and introduces some new quality of life features. You can find the complete patch notes on Steam (Part 1, Part 2) or read an overview below:

Dear pathfinders,

As the new year takes its course, we are happy to announce that we’re ready to share Version 1.2!

This new pack of fixes and improvements is based on your suggestions we keep receiving both from forums and the in-game reporting system (available by pressing F11). Thank you so much for your contribution – your feedback lets us make the game better every day!

We know that a lot of our players are complaining about the long load times. It’s a serious technical issue and, unfortunately, we cannot fix it in one fell swoop. However, we’re doing our best to mitigate this pain. We have been able to greatly decrease initial loading time in previous patches. And there is a major improvement in Kingdom management interface we implemented in this patch that will eliminate loading time between different Kingdom UI windows. We keep looking for other things we could do to fix this problem, so stay tuned for further improvements!

Be aware that the update is really huge – you will have to download around 18 Gb! The reason the update is so big is that we are working on the loading time issue, so we had to repack almost all game data.

We would like to thank all of you who are sending us the bug reports with the typos. We are doing our best to correct them as soon as they are discovered. Thanks to you all, the Version 1.2 holds a large number of such fixes!

Finally, let us assure you once more that work on the Pathfinder: Kingmaker will not stop for a single day. Right now, the development team keeps working on the next patch which should fix – as we hope – all known issues that remain on our task list.

Sincerely yours,
Owlcats.

Patch Highlights:

• System: Loading times have been significantly reduced.
• New setting: you can now choose to significantly decrease loading times in kingdom management screens at the cost of higher RAM and VRAM consumption.
• Multiple difficulty improvements in Chapters 6 and 7.
• New feature: you can now enable camera following. Just double-click a character’s portrait or hit F to enable it and disable it by manually controlling the camera (WASD, arrow keys or pressing on the mouse wheel). Camera-following is also automatically disabled on battle start.
• New feature: to save yourself a loading screen, you can now hover your mouse cursor over the table in the throne room, and you’ll see an exclamation mark if anything new has happened in kingdom management while you were gone.
• The Storyteller now provides the total number of artifact shards needed to assemble an artifact.
• Numerous visual and user interface improvements.