Developer Neople has introduced {that a} new replace for its motion RPG The First Berserker: Khazan will probably be out on April 22. The replace, obtainable at no cost on PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S, focuses on common enhancements to the UI/UX, in addition to changes to the sport’s steadiness.
One of many largest modifications gamers will discover with the replace is the truth that gear that can not be bought can now now not be used as materials for the sport’s augmentation system. Numerous forms of jars, weapons a part of the Hero Set, and the Fallen Star set can even now not be dismantled into supplies.
With the replace, when gamers can unlock or improve a Phantom, they’ll now begin getting notifications about it. The place for Phantom degree EXP has additionally been modified to turn into extra intuitive. You may try the entire record of modifications led to by the replace within the patch notes under.
This would be the second replace launched for The First Berserker: Khazan since its launch. A earlier one, launched final month, introduced with it a number of steadiness modifications to the sport. Take a look at our protection of the replace for extra particulars.
The First Berserker: Khazan is accessible on PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S. Take a look at our overview for extra particulars.
The First Berserker: Khazan Patch Notes:
Stability Changes
- Phantom progress velocity now will increase proportionally to the variety of unlocked Phantoms.
- Phantoms now develop quicker than earlier than. Extra strategic and various selections in Phantom choice can be found.
- Elemental injury and standing results from map components are actually affected by the character’s attribute resistance.
- For instance, map components like poison swamplands (Poison), fireplace AOE (Hearth), or stones of chaos (Chaos) are affected by the character’s attribute resistance stats.
- Talent factors can now be acquired extra easily, no matter play proficiency or model.
- Weapon Mastery Degree Adjustment: Weapon mastery ranges are adjusted to align extra intently with development.
- Weapon Mastery EXP Adjustment (Brink Dodge): Slight enhance in EXP gained upon performing a brink dodge.
- Gamers accustomed to weapons or counting on brink dodges can now additionally acquire extra ability factors.
- Gear that can not be bought can now not be chosen as materials within the gear augmentation system.
The next gear can now not be dismantled as supplies:
- Jars
- Clean Jar, Joyful Jar, Glinting Jar, Smitten Jar, Surprised Jar, Tormented Jar, Dizzy Jar, Calavera Jar, Cutie Jar, Bewildered Jar, Panicked Jar, Sleepy Jar, Burning Jar, Vibin Jar, The Most Particular Jar
- Hero Set
- Hero’s Twin Wield, Hero’s Spear, Hero’s Greatsword, Hero’s Helm, Hero’s Wristguards, Hero’s Pauldrons, Hero’s Leggings, Hero’s Fight Boots
Fallen Star Set
- Fallen Star’s Resolve, Fallen Star’s Mark, Fallen Star’s Scar, Fallen Star’s Tattered Clothes, Fallen Star’s Shackles
- A notification show has been added when there’s a Phantom that may be unlocked or upgraded.
- Phantom System information has been improved.
- The situation of Phantom degree EXP has been adjusted to a extra intuitive place.
- Description of Phantom degree is added to the loading display screen.
- A system message will seem the primary time you enter the Phantom system.
- Visuals have been improved when unlocking, accompanying, or awakening a Phantom.
- Emphasis is added to the primary sentence within the settings textual content on the left of the Phantom system.
1 . The steerage for Khazan’s Recollections has been improved.
- A notification will seem if Khazan’s Recollections are full or in case you can improve with Vengeance Factors.
- When Khazan’s Recollections are accomplished, a checkmark seems on the backside proper of its icon.
- After finishing Khazan’s Recollections, coming into the UI will replace the standing and grant all Vengeance Factors.
2 . A tutorial has been added for the primary entry of Khazan’s Recollections.
3 . Reset perform is added for Khazan’s Recollections improve.
- The situations for the “Standing Alone” achievement are actually based mostly on the present playthrough.
- For instance, you possibly can earn the achievement so long as you don’t summon the Spirit of Advocacy throughout your second playthrough—even in case you summoned it in your first.
The summon historical past of the Spirit of Advocacy will probably be reset with this patch.
- After the patch, clearing the ultimate boss with out summoning the Spirit of Advocacy will grant the “Standing Alone” achievement.
- If you happen to’ve already accomplished the third playthrough, defeating the ultimate boss once more will grant the achievement.
- System Lock-On Goal is about extra constantly.
- A brand new Lock-On choice has been added to ‘Settings – Accessibility.’ Now you can choose the sight choice in response to your desire.
- A Fundamental tab has been added to the Set Record in Set Crafting.
- Units are sorted into tabs in response to the weapon included within the set.
- Units with out weapons are sorted into the “Different” tab.
- A notification will now seem when a brand new recipe is added.
- The supply of particular substances will now seem in an outline format.
- The variety of consumable gadgets storable within the storage will now seem.
- Storage depend is added individually.
- When beginning a major mission in a area for the primary time, the localized area identify will seem under the English identify in response to your language settings.
- Nonetheless, area names within the cutscenes will stay in English.
2. Area names will now seem on the save knowledge within the Load menu.
- Within the “Fundamental Menu – Load” display screen, mission names and area names will now be displayed collectively within the save knowledge.
- Detailed mission progress has been added to the principle menu.
- Even throughout fight, you possibly can verify detailed mission progress in the principle menu by the next shows.
- Soulstone: Reveals the quantity collected and the quantity required to finish the mission.
- Danjin’s Jars: Reveals the quantity collected and the quantity required to finish the mission. Please be aware that the variety of Danjin’s Jars will present after clearing the facet mission “Jar Fans.”
- Misplaced Lacrima: Reveals the whole variety of Misplaced Lacrima.
- Improve notifications for the Spirit of Advocacy are actually extra seen.
- When interacting with Daphrona, a notification will seem within the “Spirit of Advocacy Improve” menu.
- If there’s a Spirit of Advocacy that may be upgraded, a notification will seem within the improve UI.
- The variety of owned Lacrima of Circulation will seem in yellow on the display screen.
- An improve reset perform has been added for the Spirit of Advocacy.
- This perform won’t show if the Spirit of Advocacy has not been upgraded.
- If it has been upgraded, you possibly can choose Reset Improve to open the “Reset Spirit of Advocacy Improve” window and reset any upgrades.
- Updates in “Phantom Skills” and “Khazan’s Recollections” are actually extra seen within the Blade Nexus menu.
- Phantom Skills
- If there’s a Phantom that may be unlocked or woke up, a notification will seem in each the Phantom Capacity and Blade Nexus menus.
- Khazan’s Recollections
- If there’s a area the place you’ve accomplished Khazan’s Recollections, a notification will seem in each the Khazan’s Recollections and Blade Nexus menus.
- Vibration and sound results when approaching a Danjin’s Jar have been enhanced.
- Visible results have been added to make Danjin’s Jars extra noticeable.
- The world map now reveals detailed mission progress.
- Cleared missions will now present with a checkmark on the underside proper of the mission icon.
Consumables UI & Shortcut Enhancements
1. Consumables classes have been refined.
- The consumable data window now reveals the merchandise’s class as a substitute of simply “Consumable” within the bottom-left nook.
- Consumables are categorised into 8 classes.
- Lantern, Particular, Restoration, Lacrima, Cleanse, Improve Results, Throwable, Promote
2 . When changing a consumable already assigned to a hotkey with a consumable assigned to a different hotkey slot, the 2 gadgets will swap positions.
3. The names of things already assigned to hotkey are displayed on the Register Hotkey display screen.
4. Can’t retailer lanterns in storage
- Lanterns presently assigned to a hotkey slot can now not be saved within the storage.
- Nonetheless, different capabilities resembling auto-store or retrieve stay obtainable.
5. Main consumable acquisition notifications have been improved.
- When buying Tear Summon Stone and Primeval Regression Orb for the primary time, each the identify and outline will seem on display screen.
- After the primary acquisition, solely the merchandise identify will seem on display screen once you purchase the merchandise.
6. The shortcut key to regulate merchandise amount has been modified.
- Improve/lower keys have modified from arrow keys to A/D keys.
- This is applicable to all amount choice screens, together with buy menu, storing and retrieving from storage, promoting and buying consumables, and discarding.
1. “By Efficiency” has been added to the gear sorting menu.
- When sorting gear by efficiency, every gear kind is sorted based mostly on the next standards.
- Weapon: Whole Assault DMG
- Armor: Whole Protection
- Necklace: Max Stamina
- Ring: Max Well being
2. Equip Abilities function has been added to the gear window.
- If a ability is activated by a hard and fast or set attributes, it could possibly now be outfitted straight from the gear window.
- Solely Spirit abilities with selectable instructions could be outfitted.
- All sub-skills should be realized first.
3. Talent descriptions and movies are actually obtainable within the gear window’s tooltip.
- Talent descriptions and movies will now seem within the attribute data window when it has the “Be taught Talent” attribute.
4 . The visibility of owned set gear icons has been improved.
- If you happen to personal the identical set because the presently displayed gears, their icons will probably be highlighted in white.
- This is applicable to gears in each your stock and storage.
5. Among the textual content within the gear window has been modified.
- “Examine Gear” and “Gear Data” have been modified to “Data Window”.
- “Assist” has been modified to “Attribute Data” .
- An icon indicating when a realized ability is presently unusable has been added.
- Within the ability element window, “Unlock Necessities” has been modified to “Activation Circumstances.”
HUD
- An choice has been added to show Khazan’s Well being and Stamina as numbers within the fight HUD.
- When this selection is enabled, Well being and Stamina are displayed above the gauge within the format “Present / Max.”
Attribute weak point info has been added to Daphrona’s Codex.
- Every monster’s attribute protection is now displayed as an icon in Daphrona’s Codex.
- Effectiveness is displayed in 4 ranges: Efficient, Barely Efficient, Regular, and Immune.
- Attribute weak point embody Hearth, Water, Lightning, Earth, and Poison.
- Khazan’s Recollections can now be managed with the mouse and D-PAD.
- Ozma’s Diary is now obtainable within the Crevice out of your second playthrough.
- It’s now attainable to alter the sport issue from Straightforward to Regular. (Nonetheless, the issue degree can’t be modified throughout the ultimate mission or within the ending space whereas taking part in.)
These are main bug fixes from this replace that straight have an effect on gameplay.
- Mounted a difficulty the place the achievements “The Hidden Laboratory” and “Timeless Loyalty” couldn’t be obtained
- Mounted a difficulty the place achievements with a number of situations couldn’t be accomplished in case you relaunch the sport after finishing a number of the situations.
- Mounted a difficulty the place the bottom would sink after interacting with Danjin’s Jar in sure areas.
- Mounted a difficulty the place you may not exit outdoors in case you fell off a sure terrain throughout the principle mission “Palemion”
- Mounted a difficulty the place in case you activate all of the tombstones throughout the principle mission “Rephalan” after which proceed with one other mission, the tombstones can be reset and you’d be unable to make use of the Spirit of Advocacy
- Mounted a difficulty the place elite enemies in sure areas couldn’t destroy obstacles throughout the principle mission “Nadin”
- Mounted a difficulty the place the boss would get caught within the terrain when utilizing a selected ability throughout the facet mission “Unrequited Love”
- Mounted a difficulty the place the boss wouldn’t come down from the wall throughout the facet mission “Escaping the Linon Mine”
- Mounted a difficulty the place you may not return to the unique space after shifting by the boss space’s Blade Nexus throughout the facet mission “Transcendental Sword”
- Mounted a difficulty the place Khazan’s javelin can be blocked by a clear wall when thrown in Embars
- Mounted a difficulty the place the elevator in Embars wouldn’t function in sure conditions
- Mounted a difficulty the place the “Ghost Hammer” merchandise hanging from the ceiling of the Skoffa Cave wouldn’t drop
- Mounted the looks of a door in a selected location in Vitalon to show usually
- Mounted a difficulty the place the chandelier within the Nice Temple would float within the air after being knocked down in case you entered and returned from the Crevice
- Mounted a difficulty the place you’d be allowed to maneuver to an unopened staircase upon shifting to the Crevice after killing the Blade Phantom
- Mounted a difficulty the place the boss’ well being gauge was displayed in an area the place a boss combat was not in progress
- Mounted a difficulty the place Trokka would get caught outdoors the map in sure conditions throughout the boss combat
- Mounted a difficulty the place Elamein couldn’t assault by boundaries throughout the boss combat
- Mounted a difficulty the place, even when Maluca’s stamina gauge was depleted, Brutal Assault was not used and Maluca attacked instantly throughout the boss combat
- Mounted a difficulty the place throwing the “Concentrated Poison Aura” merchandise at Hismar whereas it’s within the air throughout the boss battle would trigger it to fall and take injury
- Mounted a difficulty the place operating can be canceled instantly in sure conditions whereas Khazan was operating
- Mounted a difficulty the place abilities unlocked by tools set results wouldn’t activate in sure conditions
- Mounted a difficulty the place, if most well being was decreased when evaluating tools, the “Well being” choice would seem to not be utilized
- Mounted a difficulty the place you may acquire infinite gold and Lacrima by dismantling high-grade tools after which crafting low-grade tools
- Mounted a difficulty the place the quantity of stamina consumed per tick was affected by the “Dodge Stamina Price Lower” choice impact in sure conditions
- Mounted a difficulty the place the charging velocity enhance impact of the “Overwhelm” and “Heavy Stress” abilities was not utilized if the Greatsword ability “Indomitable” was not acquired
- Mounted a difficulty the place, after buying the “Brutal Assault: Phantom” ability, the Phantom Type transformation impact is maintained and injury will increase abnormally when the ability is activated in a selected state of affairs
- Mounted a difficulty the place you may not assault in Phantom Type till you recovered your stamina once you entered Phantom Type with all of your stamina exhausted
- Mounted a difficulty the place the merchandise sorting perform wouldn’t work when the main focus (cursor) was on an merchandise saved within the storage whereas utilizing the storage
- Mounted a difficulty the place if you are going to buy the “Coward’s Lantern” merchandise a number of occasions, you can’t take the lantern out of the storage and a brand new merchandise notification retains showing
- Mounted a difficulty the place you may not transfer to the Blade Nexus when shifting to the Crevice after interacting with the Blade Nexus in entrance of the Blade Phantom within the on-line demo or after defeating the Blade Phantom in the principle recreation
- Mounted a difficulty the place the sport couldn’t be performed in case you selected to proceed with the newest knowledge with out updating within the Bodily Version
- Mounted a difficulty the place if the sport is terminated or crashes throughout loading, it returns to the earlier mission and the variety of clears accumulates, making it not possible to proceed with subsequent missions
- Mounted a difficulty the place combat-related HUDs weren’t displayed correctly on the display screen
- Mounted a difficulty the place lag occurred when slowly manipulating the digital camera with a controller
- Mounted a difficulty the place settings couldn’t be modified after the consumer was abnormally terminated on the PC
- Mounted a difficulty the place the Xbox format was displayed when utilizing a PS DualSense controller on PC
- Mounted a difficulty the place controller key inputs would often not be acknowledged on PS5
- Improved body drop difficulty that happens throughout sure patterns of Rangkus throughout the boss combat
- Improved the difficulty of characters being pushed again when hit by sure assaults close to Viper throughout the boss combat
- Improved so that you simply can not climb rope bridge railings whereas operating in sure missions
- Elevated the well being of help characters in some missions
- Optimized some objects that trigger body drops throughout the principle mission “Imperial Palace”
- Improved floating stones to maneuver extra naturally throughout the principle mission “Imperial Palace”
- Improved to provide a higher assault alternative upon efficiently attacking a selected sample in Section 2 of the ultimate boss combat
- Improved the difficulty the place cinematic cutscenes seem unnaturally when altering phases throughout the ultimate boss combat
- Improved in order that Phantom Type can nonetheless be activated whereas exhausted
- Improved the difficulty the place the spear ability “Shadow Reversal” would restrain the goal for an excessively very long time
- Improved the length of the staggered state upon destroying elements of the elite dragonkin Double-Edged Butcher enemy
- Lowered the issue of finishing the Codex for the Pell Los Guardian Knight and Pell Los Trooper enemies
- Improved in order that the injury taken by the Crimson-Eyed Boulder Bat enemy shouldn’t be decreased, even when its outer shell is enhanced
- Improved the difficulty of some areas displaying in darkish colours within the later phases of the sport
- Improved the difficulty the place the Ashen Wolf gear displayed abnormally in some cinematics
- Improved visible and sound results for portals shifting to the Crevice
- Improved visible results when executing elite enemies in some missions
- Improved visible results that seem throughout the buff of the spear ability “Moonlight Stance”
- Improved sound results when hitting an enemy within the Frenzy state with a combo assault
- Improved in order that Soulstones could be designated as lock-on targets
