While work on the upcoming DLC (or rather, expansion: At the Heart of Ruin) is ongoing, the team at Lost Pilgrims is also busy fixing bugs and adding performance improvements. This patch includes several of both, with some added love to controller support. We’ve also thoroughly optimized our asset handling, freeing up a whopping 1.5 Gigabytes of hard drive space.

Additionally, Vagrus is currently available at various discount ranges across multiple platforms – including our running discounts on Steam that Valve will feature for a day on Friday the 30th (#DailyDeal🎉) – so be sure to check out deals if you’re interested. Enjoy this latest version, and thank you for your continued support and feedback from all of us, Lost Pilgrims!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/909660

Important Note: Considering the extent of the improvements, there is little to no chance that we broke nothing in the process. Assume that we did not want to make anyone's life harder. If you see something amiss, please flag it to us using the usual channels, like the inbuilt reporting tool (F1 button), forums, and our Discord server[discord.gg].

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• Improved performance (especially in camp, Companion Combat, and Crew Combat) related to the background rework of tooltips.
  
• Thoroughly optimized our asset handling, freeing up a whopping 1.5 Gigabytes of hard drive space

• Changed the display order of DLCs in the Extras menu to make it more intuitive.

• Fixed the issue of not being able to navigate between UI levels on the Perk UI, preventing players from checking their tooltips.
  
• Crew Combat log scrolling now works as intended.
  
• Crew Combat actions can now be opened to read the effects they provide.
  
• Fixed a variety of small issues that caused softlocks, missing icons, and navigational anomalies in Events.

• Fixed the issue of misaligned MP costs on the campaign map. Additionally, the new way they are generated will cause a slight performance improvement on the campaign map.
  
• The cursor no longer disappears from certain positions while typing Notes for yourself in the Journal.
  
• Quick Camp now pays Crew every day, as intended.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the same “What’s New?” pop-up window to appear automatically after its first appearance.
  
• Fixed some anomalies that concerned settings during Camping.
  
• Fixed an issue in “Pilgrims of the Wasteland” that prevented Price History from updating with visited settlements’ price data.
  
• Fixed a localization-related issue that caused Gor’Goro to be unassignable as Marauder Prime.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the normal, panning/swaying movement of the location background art assets to cease.
  
• Fixed the alignment of Skill effect icons where they were a bit off.

• Fixed an issue on the Nintendo Switch that allowed the use of certain special characters in vagrus names, preventing the saving of the game.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the game to crash on the Nintendo Switch if the platform-allocated savegame space was filled up. Now the game warns you if that storage space is about to be filled, and once it does, saving the game can not be done until savegames are deleted to free up space.

As ever, more is coming, so stay tuned and conquer the wasteland!
- The Lost Pilgrims Team
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Here at Lost Pilgrims Studios we are currently working hard on our At the Heart of Ruin DLC – which is swiftly and undeniably becoming another expansion – and, from the way things are looking, it is likely to come out later this year. We cannot give you an exact date for the time being, but rest assured, we’ve spent a great amount of time iterating upon, adding to, and generally enriching it with quality content and new gameplay mechanics to boot. In many ways, the content that you can expect to see will be different from anything we’ve ever created, though you can bet it’ll have intriguing lore and memorable characters, some returning, but most of them new.

By now, it is no secret that the majority of At the Heart of Ruin will take place in the Molten Kingdom, a harsh and unforgiving land that covers areas of the highly volatile Mountains of Fire that are still somewhat traversable. Those vagri who brave it shall have to rely on their wits, tenacity, and resourcefulness more than ever before. What lies beyond the lost kingdom’s fiery bounds is something we have alluded to in the expansion’s trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkUKrDakcGY
As for who the figure in the trailer is, and indeed what it is he’s planning, you’ll have to wait and see; whatever the case, know that At the Heart of Ruin’s central narrative arc will urge players to go into one of the most perilous and completely unexplored lands of the Riven Realms.

As part of our ongoing enrichment of the expansion, we have shared some of the paintings our incredible art team has been working on, as well as abominable and terror-inducing creature art, too. Among the highlights are the Charred Shamblers[vagrus.com] who stalk the scorched earth with unfathomable tenacity. Then there are the abominable horrors[vagrus.com] that plague parts of Tahrar Barak (see image on the top). As for locations, they do not get any less deadly: the Skittering Reach[vagrus.com] characterizes Varnurud’s northernmost territories, and you can easily guess what lurks there.

Underground, there are subterranean magma rivers[vagrus.com] where the earth’s ichor threatens to devour any who dare delve into the deep, and elsewhere, there are countless other perils that would leave all but the most stoic of comitati shattered and broken. Will your fate be thus?

Finally, for those of you who prefer Vagrus on console, following the game’s console release on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch, we have put together a news round up[vagrus.com] for your perusal.

And needless to say, there will be more and more as we draw closer to our newest expansion’s release. Stay vigilant and stay tuned: the wasteland is about to get a whole lot more dangerous and unpredictable!

– The Lost Pilgrims Team