The Bard’s Tale IV: Director’s Cut Update Available

A few days back, the Director’s Cut of inXile Entertainment’s dungeon-crawling RPG The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep received a new update addressing a number of reported issues, fixing a few bugs, and improving the game’s performance among other things. Here are the complete patch notes:

The Bard’s Tale IV: Director’s Cut – November 20 Update

Art

• Dual wielding enemies should now have their second weapon
• When Illusory Dalgliesh transforms, he should now have his appropriate weapon
• Fixed some texture issues that display on models at a particular distance
• Revealing multiple suspicious citizens with a single move will no longer cause issues with their models

Gameplay

• Players can no longer deploy barricades on occupied squares
• Players will now receive Songs of Exploration, regardless of whether or not Party chatter is on or off
• Fixed several issues related to combat positioning and respawning
• Fixed an issue with a ladder in Mangar’s Tower
• Fixed movement nodes in the chambers beneath Skyhenge
• Fixes to the puzzle at the top of the Sentry Tower
• Door to Dwarven ruins will no longer be locked
• The Redcap will now damage Dwarven party members with its “Headbutt” ability
• Luck Stones will no longer respawn when transitioning levels
• Fixed an issue where Gaufroi would not give loot when killed in a specific manner
• Fixed a rare issue in which loading an auto-save before a specific battle would prevent the player from interacting with the world
• Fixed audio distortion in several places around the world
• Healing potions are no longer consumed twice when in battle
• Skill cooldown should always trigger in waved combats now

HUD/UI

• Fixed issues relating to corrupted save files, and fixes to the save/load game menus
• Added the “History of Caith” cinematic into the “special Features” menu.
• Cursor will no longer disappear when pressing ESC during the skill tree tutorial
• Cursor should no longer disappear when talking to NPCs
• Adjustments to HUD elements for better readability
• Fixed an issue where a black screen will be displayed at a particular point in the game after loading a generated autosave
• Moving an equipped trinket item in your inventory will no longer unequip it
• Using the escape key will no longer fully back out of the Options menu
• Fixed a rare issue where a spell couldn’t be cast if spell points were gained through the “Blood Pact” passive

Stability

• Improvements to game-wide performance, asset loading, stability, and world collision
• Equipping archmage robes on a Trow will no longer crash the game
• Fixed some isolated and specific combat crashes
• Users are no longer able to launch multiple instances of the game simultaneously
• Fixed an issue with the final level when settings are on Low
• Fixed a rare issue in which loading an auto-save before a specific battle would prevent the player from interacting with the world