MAJOR

• fixed a potential script freeze during Battle of El'Halem
• fixed game breaks if renaming savegames during battles
• fixed faulty win condition in Benivilla Forest recapture scenario
• corrected win condition issue in Niobes Estate
• fixed game breaks if spawning entities die
• fixed a potential error source in Shinna preparation battle win conditions
• fixed problem that Faramud's dialog was deactivated when whole map was conquered
• fixed a problem with with Cassia-Dialog that hindered the game to progress
• fixed carnage training fight that wasn't triggered correctly
• fixed freeze on some maps when using the LoS tool

BALANCING

• reduced critical hit chance of bounty hunters to zero
• destructible Crystals can now be destroyed with a single melee hit of any damage type
• lowered damage threshold to interrupt Great Petrifier's eternal petrification power
• made Zurbaran's Seduction of Niobe more likely to be successful
• added additional belts to lorfas merchant's supply
• hammerblow maneuver now causes triple damage
• more aup damage and exp costs for feint maneuver
• more damage and exp costs for aimedthrust maneuver
• additional wound and increased aup costs for sniper
• reduction of the offhand bonus of dualwield 1 and dualwield 2
• increased exp costs of dualwield 1 and dualwield 2
• adjusted difficulty levels "easy" and "hard" to increase the difference (easy is easier, hard is harder)
• increased the wound penalties

MINOR

• corrected Great Petrifier's collision for Line-Of-Sight calculations
• corrected Great Petrifier's dodge animation
• adjusted size of deployment zones in several maps
• improved camera start locations in several defend and recap scenarios
• increased camera scroll speed on Adamant Map
• fixed a few missing sounds on interactive environment
• reduced resistances of insect warrior in Lorfas
• optimized functionality of arsonist objectives in Dujar Looting and Cuoris Sabotage fights
• fixed a problem in battle of mengbilla battle-script that hindered catapult impacts if cassia was very good or very evil
• added hint for treasure chests
• fixed minor issues with barrel towers in a couple of maps
• added more cheering to arena battle
• made traps and interactive objects trigger if entities spawn on them
• fixed a potential dialog bug in the goblin mine
• set Leaper's jump attack effects to -forced- to avoid victims to sometimes remain unaffected
• fixed an issue with 3d models not disappearing in escape zones
• fixed dialog after losing preparation battle for first chimerologist
• fixed Nasrin's stats, items and portrait
• removed spider webs' spike damage resistance
• corrected win conditions timing issues in several defend and recap scenarios
• fixed an AI problem in Marwan Strikes Back scenario
• reduced enemy spawn in goblin mine defend scenario
• fixed berserk elixir
• removed two potential error sources in archer AI scripts
• Tykates now vanishes correctly from his cage when released or executed
• repaired missing texture link in Jester Wood gore
• corrected hex cell height levels in a few maps
• improved AI script interaction with Ecliptifactus entities
• added hint boxes for chimera conversions with the Hell Organ
• fixed a problem with partial success in El Halem preparation battle
• fixed swamphole script so it properly reacts to knocked back entities
• fixed dialog timing in Adamant battle
• repaired Morfu sounds
• fixed problem that Takate and Zurbaran were set inactive when their dialogs are done.
• fixed broken narrator-screen prior to ElHalem.
• fixed some Problems with Riz' dialogs
• fixed dialog option about saving Mirai in Marwan's throneroom
• fixed problem that bits of dialog may repeat in Niobe/Zurbaran-Dialogs and in Takate's dialog in the camp
• fixed some minor dialog-problems
• fixed problem with achievements "The Saint" and "The Monster"
• fixed Knockback so it no longer pushes victims through Fortifex walls
• fixed the Screen of "four years later" just displaying "4" in Japanese
• corpofrigo lvl4 no longer breaks if cast on a neutral object
• fixed an issue with difficulty levels are not being applied correctly
• added tooltip for difficulty level option
• added path-dots on worldmap that were missing when re-entering from the camp
• opening the tutorial in battle no longer breaks the interface
• improved font rendering on high resolutions
• fixed some resolutions not working correctly
• ecliptifactus clone can no longer use the 'guard' action
• fixed issue with traps not working after un-/selecting them multiple times
• added multiple small GUI and loading time improvements
• fixed poison effects that were not shown correctly on some weapons
• fixed camera sometimes behaving strangely on worldmap
• fixed battlelog not showing correct number of wounds
• fixed multiple errors in the comparison of item effects
• fixed auto-sequence not stopping speech if skipped
• removed need to click right mouse button after using a free action (e.g. throwing a weapon)
• converted creatures no longer trigger attacks of opportunity from the own team
• multiple small visual fixes
• solved a few issues with text not scaling properly
• fixed a problem where two different items with the same localized name in the description box
• enabled the battle shortcut buttons during the enemies' turn
• character story progress buffs are now correctly displayed on the character sheet