Moon Studios
No Rest for the Wicked’s latest patch brings big changes to performance, balance, and more
Moon Studios continues work on No Rest for the Wicked with its biggest update yet, as the Early Access title grows in popularity.
It’s been an interesting few weeks since the Early Access release of No Rest for the Wicked, Moon Studios’ newest title that was launched with lofty promises of reinventing genres and that takes inspiration from games like Dark Souls and Diablo. Releasing on April 18 to a mixed response, the game launched with a myriad of performance issues, bugs, and a lack of expected features for the genre. Almost two weeks after, the team has already delivered several fixes that bring the game to a more presentable level.
Moon Studios announced the release of the No Rest for the Wicked Early Access Hotfix 6 patch, their biggest update so far, which brings with it improvements to performance, balance, loot tables, graphics, and a variety of new options in the Settings menu that deal with previously reported bugs that prevented progression at certain spots during the experience. Aside from that, the devs have focused on optimization for several aspects of the game, including several visual effects, area streaming/loading, and memory optimization.
Moon Studios’ CEO, Thomas Mahler, also took to Twitter/X to speak about the game’s reception and to tell players to “hang tight” as they work their way up to a full release.”We understand that people paid good money to play Wicked, so they expect a good experience on their machines from the get-go. We already released a few optimization fixes with more dramatic changes on the way! Joining us on our Early Access journey means that you’ll get all the improvements, content updates and fixes until we release 1.0, so just hang tight, we’ll make sure that you’ll get an excellent product (while being able to give us direct feedback, we’re listening!).”
Below, you’ll find the complete patch notes for Hotfix 6. There are plenty of upgrades over the previous version already, which gives us hope that Moon Studios will be able to deliver an amazing experience just as they had previously done so with the Ori games.
No Rest for the Wicked Early Access Hotfix 6 Patch notes:
Performance Improvements:
- Further improved Quality Settings for better performance when at higher visual quality
- Optimized rendering of volumetric Fog
- Optimized shadow rendering
- Reduced resolution transparency rendering tech for GPU heavy overdraw situations
- Significantly reduced unnecessary memory allocations across many game systems
- Improved handling of asset unloading to reduce performance degradation over time
- Tracked down and improved several sources of CPU-side stuttering when the game is loading assets
- Optimized instantiation costs for various often-used Visual Effects and Characters.
- Reduced mutex contention cases that caused performance stutter while streaming content
- Optimized icon texture resolutions and memory consumption
- Optimized Sacrament rooftop models and textures (rooftops, rooftops everywhere)
- Multiple smaller general CPU optimizations for better overall performance
Quality of Life:
- Added ability to deposit all items from the players inventory that match the types already in the selected chest
- Default chest sorting changed to Sort By Type
- Enhanced durability system for tools and armor, ensuring correct values are displayed and used
Settings:
- Increased supported aspect ratios to 32:9
- Remaining visual glitches with 32:9 will be addressed in future updates
Loot:
- Increased stack size of cooking and crafting materials to 25, allowing for better management of resources
- Food can now be stored in cupboards
- Removed Blueprints from Fillmore shop before Anvil is unlocked
Content Additions:
- Implemented eight new shields for better class diversity
Localization:
- Widespread improvements to translations and localizations, we’ve fixed typos, updated NPC dialogues, and ensured consistency across various languages
- Fixed UI translations, including screens for house buying and management, equipment, and warning messages
- Implemented better localization handling mechanisms for NPC names and dialogue
Balance:
- Major Balance Revisions to provide a smoother experience and prevent high level item drops too early
- Adding Stamina cost for parrying with Shields
Enemies and Bosses:
- Adjusted Prisoner Wolf enemy to jump around less
- Added ability for Shackled Brute to dodge after attacking
- Updated Echo Knight fight initiation to reposition instead of attacking right away
- Polished Riven Twins taunt
- Polished Risen Axe Bruiser attack animation
- Polished parry animations for enemies
Areas:
- Updated Cerim Crucible so that leaving the realm will end your run and return you to the atrium. This is to prevent abusing backups and other potential loopholes.
- Improved collision and faders in Cerim Crucible levels
- Improved collision and faders in Mariner’s Keep and The Shallows
- Improved faders and lighting in Sacrament
- Improved Sacrament rooftops
Audio:
- Adjusted sound effects for better ambiance and clarity, including updated tree chopping SFX and ambient sounds in town areas.
- Improved audio cues for NPC interactions to minimize overlaps and ensure clearer dialogues.
- Improved spatial audio for Sacrament Rookery, Town Square, Slums and Training Grounds
- Improved Echo Knight slam down AOE sound effects
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed bosses and a couple of bounty/quest variants of enemies spawning when not intended
- Fixed player being able to accidentally delete a character when hovering while having another character selected. Now the hovered character will be deleted
- Fixed and balanced Enchantment Effects across the board
- Fixed Heavy Bandit being able to be pushed off the edge of the ship and block progress
- Fixed Cerim Crucible run ending early if a realm save happens right after you finish a level
- Fixed Durability of Tools being the wrong value when bought from vendors
- Fixed turning in a Bounty showing the replacement prompt
- Fixed exploit with certain bounties
- Fixed shinies pulling a disappearing act (visually) in the Black Trench
- Fixed Squire’s Attire Armor Set not available for crafting at the anvil
- Fixed Tier on the Gangrenous Eel
- Fixed Finley remaining in his cell after you rescue him and leave Nameless Pass
- Fixed Finley’s missing sign in Sacrament
- Fixed missing enemy and loot spawners in the northern section of Orban Glades
- Fixed spot in Nameless Pass where you could go out of world
- Fixed position of a rooftop in Sacrament
- Fixed incorrect texture for the shipwreck in The Shallows
- Removed duplicate models in Sacrament and Nameless Pass
- Fixed bush clipping in the Inquisition Arrival cinematic
- Fixed rain occasionally being heard during Falstead Darak fight
- Fixed ragdolls blinking back into existence when going out of view and coming back in