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Sega is reportedly developing “big-budget” reboots of its Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio franchises, according to Bloomberg, as the company seeks to create a global hit. The projects are reportedly components of Sega’s so-called Super Game Initiative, a plan that parent company Sega Sammy unveiled in 2021.

Sega’s Super Game Initiative is the company’s strategy to develop “new and innovative titles” with a focus on global reach, online interactivity, community building, and IP utilization, Sega said in November, when it announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to use its Azure cloud platform. In May 2021, Sega said it planned to exploit its suite of dormant IP for remakes, remasters, and reboots, naming games like Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio as candidates for revitalization. Other potential games on the list of dormant franchises include Space Channel 5, Rez, Panzer Dragoon, Nights, Shinobi, Virtua Fighter, and Altered Beast.

Bloomberg reports that Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio are up first; a new Crazy Taxi is already a year into development, with plans to release it in the next two to three years.

Sega has remastered, remade, and reimagined its Dreamcast-era properties over the years. Both Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio were included in Sega’s 2011 Dreamcast Collection, and Sega has attempted multiple Crazy Taxi spinoffs for mobile devices, including 2017’s Crazy Taxi Tycoon (née Crazy Taxi Gazillionaire), a business management sim/idle game. But Sega has also outsourced many of its IP revivals, including Streets of Rage 4, Panzer Dragoon: Remake, Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX, and The House of the Dead: Remake, to independent developers.

Beyond games, Sega is working to turn its stable of game franchises into live-action movies. Following the success of its Sonic the Hedgehog film franchise, Sega hopes to adapt IP like Yakuza and Streets of Rage for the big screen.

In 2020, Mike Waddell spent most of his free weekends packing trading cards featuring Bigfoot, Mothman, and other strange cryptids into promo packs, then shipping them out to potential collectors, investors, and gaming companies. He hoped they might be interested in his new trading card game (TCG), called MetaZoo. He was right. In the years since, MetaZoo cards have exploded in popularity and in value.

MetaZoo was created in August 2020 with a Kickstarter campaign that fundraised $18,249. The official first set, “Cryptid Nation,” launched July 2021. As of January this year, MetaZoo’s newest Kickstarter raised more than $1.8 million, and MetaZoo cards can be found in major retailers like Walmart.

Some investors and collectors have compared MetaZoo to products on par with a first-edition Pokémon Charizard hologram or unopened boxes of Magic: The Gathering booster boxes. A limited run of sample MetaZoo cards, now deemed rare, can command thousands on the secondary market. Specific rare cards summon even more, like the Red Ink First Secret Rare Box Topper, which is listed on Ebay for $20,000. MetaZoo has also attracted big names from the collectibles market, including Steve Aoki.

Image: MetaZoo

But MetaZoo’s popularity isn’t solely driven by its investment potential. There are fans snatching up MetaZoo products as quickly as they appear on the market simply because they like cryptids and enjoy playing TCGs. There are around 12,100 members on the official MetaZoo Discord, where members share tribute art, new releases, and fan-fic, as well as play live games. There are also in-person MetaZoo tournaments, largely organized through the MetaZoo Play Network.

MetaZoo cards are most easily compared to Pokémon, but these cards feature cryptids, which are mythical creatures that have never been proven to exist, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Chupacabra. Each card boasts a colorful illustration of a cryptid, reminiscent of Ken Sugimori’s initial Pokémon designs, and is based on United States folklore and strange tales. Snow snake, for instance, borrows its backstory from a mid-century lumberjack story from Wisconsin about venomous serpents that become practically invisible when coiled on a snow drift.

Cryptids were always intriguing to Waddell. Growing up in Brazil, he often heard tales of Saci, a mythical creature said to control the wind, smoke a pipe, and play tricks on the locals. But it wasn’t until he saw the 2002 film The Mothman Prophecies, Waddell said, that cryptids took on a bigger meaning to him, sparking the idea to make a trading card game around them.

While MetaZoo might be aesthetically reminiscent of Pokémon, the game’s mechanics are much more similar to Magic: The Gathering. Play is focused on reducing your opponent’s life points to zero, with a combination of creatures, spells, and magic potions. MetaZoo also uses “fourth wall” effects, in which real-life actions and surroundings have an effect in-game. For example, if you have a water-based “beastie” card, you can amplify its powers by having a glass of water nearby.

“My favorite part of the game is the way outside objects can influence it,” said James Studley, a member of the Caster Society, a MetaZoo community focused on teaching and organizing gameplay. “It’s a rapidly changing and responsive card game.”

The fourth wall effects can get a little strange, especially if you’re playing face-to-face in a tournament. For instance, if you’re playing a Cactus Cat card, you can avoid damage by drinking a beverage when you throw down the card. If you’re at a MetaZoo tournament and you’re within eyesight of a radio, you lose a ton of attack points when playing the Metal Man of Alabama card. Maybe the most extreme example is the Jersey Devil card, which requires the user to unfurl a “blood-curdling scream” to avoid 50 damage when playing it.

The most committed players can take an exam, conducted monthly, to become recognized “Metazoologists,” with tests and study guides released through the MetaZoo Discord. “I’ve been a part of many different online communities, but the MetaZoo ones have been some of the most friendly and welcoming. It was very easy to become a part of the community and get into the game,” said Trey Tadpradel, a Metazoologist who is a volunteer judge for tournaments and gameplay.

But the prices for certain cards can make it hard for first-time players to join in. As a longtime collector and player of TCGs, YouTuber Ethan Pohl uses FourthStarTCG to primarily talk about Pokémon, but MetaZoo caught his eye upon its first Kickstarter campaign.

Image: MetaZoo

“Upon release, a lot of the discussion was focused on the high prices that some of the cards were commanding,” Pohl said. “MetaZoo has fostered this money-making aspect by rolling out endless special limited promo cards, first editions, NFTs, and artificially limited products to maintain interest and hype.”

Pohl credits MetaZoo’s success to “right product, right marketing, right time,” adding that the company hasn’t been coy about positioning MetaZoo as “the next Pokémon” during the massive Pokémon hype of 2020 and 2021, which led to a large speculative bubble. He believes that marketing directly to collectors and borrowing Pokémon’s release style has helped boost MetaZoo’s popularity and visibility. But Pohl questions the sustainability of this strategy in the long term. “As a trading card game, not a collectible card game, I am very skeptical of MetaZoo,” Pohl said. “The cards do not seem to be balanced, and the ‘fourth-wall-breaking’ method of playing the game seems to take away from skill-based gameplay and limit feasibility.”

Waddell doesn’t seem too concerned, though. This year, he plans to expand the world of MetaZoo well outside the card game with the lofty goal of launching 56 verticals by its end. That includes everything from figurines, footwear, pins, T-shirts, and NFTs. MetaZoo will also continue to release more expansion packs. Wilderness recently launched on March 31, and UFO will launch in July.

“My belief is you can’t just have TCG with just cards, and fandom likes to develop as a lifestyle,” Waddell said. “From a business and creative perspective, it just makes sense.”

As MetaZoo continues to grow, many fans have been playing the game virtually via a mod to Tabletop Simulator. This is how Noah Hess, known as Peazful in the MetaZoo community, has been playing it. He first saw MetaZoo featured on Alpha Investments, the popular YouTube channel about the collectible card market with a focus on Magic: The Gathering.

“Initially I was not a fan of the artwork,” Hess said. “But now it has grown on me and I love it. Especially the new Wilderness artwork.” Hess has since jumped headfirst into MetaZoo analysis and competition. In February, he was one of thousands who flocked to Collect-a-Con in Florida for a major MetaZoo tournament.

But while he’s seen a massive increase in exposure for MetaZoo, as well as the number of collectors and investors, Hess said the player base hasn’t experienced the same expansive growth. With more in-person tournaments coming up — some of which attract players with large cash prizes — he hopes that changes.

“This year is all about the players,” Hess said.

Bugsnax and a timely indie game about taxes star in lineup of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in the second half of April. Microsoft’s Tuesday morning announcement also mentioned that Ubisoft will be contributing two more games to the library “in the next two months,” under a vague partnership announced at the beginning of the year.

No dates were given, but the two games will be Assassin’s Creed Origins, for cloud, console, and PC; and For Honor: Marching Fire Edition on PC. For Honor is already available to cloud and console subscribers, and it will upgrade to the Marching Fire Edition for them at that time, too.

Ubisoft and Microsoft announced the team-up on Jan. 5 with the news that Rainbow Six Extraction would make a same-day launch on Xbox Game Pass, which it did on Jan. 20. Since then, there has been little movement on this particular development. Currently, the only Ubisoft titles available in Game Pass are For Honor, Rainbow Six Siege, and Extraction.

It is not, however, a melding of the Ubisoft Plus library with Game Pass, as EA Play and its library did at the end of 2020. Ubisoft Plus itself will come to Xbox at some point (it is currently only available for PC, Amazon Luna, and Google Stadia), but it will be a separate subscription, the publisher said back in January.

As for games available in the here and now, Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion, which Snoozy Kazoo launched to very positive player reviews on Steam one year ago, arrives one day after tax returns were due in the U.S. The clever and brightly colored game has players solving puzzles, crawling dungeons, and harvesting plants to help Turnip Boy repay his debt to The Man. Spoiler alert, that Man is “a corrupt onion mayor,” so ultimately the goal is to take down the system. I suggest Turnip Boy point out that the flag of onion town has gold fringe, and claim sovereign citizenship to get out of his societal obligation.

Where were we? Oh yeah, the rest of this month’s games:

• F1 2021 via EA Play (Cloud) — April 19
• Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered via EA Play (Cloud) — April 19
• Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion — (Cloud, Console, and PC) — April 19
• 7 Days to Die (Cloud, Console, and PC) — April 26
• Research and Destroy (Console and PC) — April 26
• Bugsnax (Cloud, Console, and PC) — April 28
• Unsouled (Console and PC) — April 28

The seven new additions mean four games will be leaving Game Pass libraries on April 30. Subscribers can buy them for 20% off their Microsoft Store price before the end of the month.

• Cricket 19 (Cloud, Console and PC)
• Outlast 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Secret Neighbor (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Streets of Rage 4 (Cloud, Console, and PC)

A new trailer for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 reveals more of the game’s characters and overarching mission — but more importantly, a new and earlier release date. The game was supposed to come out in September, but in a rare move, will be released on July 29, nearly two months early.

The new game in the JRPG series will take place after the events of Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2. In the third game, you play as new characters Noah and Mio, who lead a team of adventurers from two rival nations. They will discover the source of their countries’ conflict while journeying to a place called Swordsmarch, which, true to its name, is a land pierced by a giant sword.

The trailer shows new gameplay, including the battle between two characters and their subsequent fusion into an hybrid mecha-fusion device called an Ouroboros.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 comes to Switch on July 29. Nintendo Switch also has a second and a remastered copy of the original game.

Blizzard Entertainment plans to reveal the next major expansion for World of Warcraft on Tuesday, April 19, during a livestream that will kick off at 12 p.m. EDT/9 a.m. PDT on the Warcraft YouTube and Twitch channels. Blizzard says the stream will offer “a sneak peek at what’s next for the heroes of Azeroth.”

World of Warcraft‘s new expansion will pick up where Shadowlands, Blizzard’s eighth expansion pack for its Warcraft massively multiplayer online role-playing game, left off in a controversial state. The next major expansion to the MMO is rumored to be titled Dragonflight, based on reported leaks from Blizzard’s own website, and is believed to prominently feature … well, dragons.

Activision Blizzard has not communicated a release date for World of Warcraft‘s ninth expansion, but has said it will release “substantial new content” for the franchise this year.

Blizzard has revealed World of Warcraft as part of several Warcraft-related announcements that the company made this spring. The latest expansion for Hearthstone, Voyage to the Sunken City, which launched last week, was revealed in March. Blizzard will release the first details about a mobile game in Warcraft’s universe.

FromSoftware has released patch 1. 04 for Elden Ring, making extensive balance changes to the game as well as a ton of bug fixes aimed at improving stability and performance.

That’s not to say there’s no new content or features, either. Players are sure to welcome the ability to toggle auto-rotation of the camera on or off. Patches is a beloved trickster character and fan favorite. However, new event phases have been added to the game. You might like to go visit him in order find out what all that means.

The patchnotes mainly focus on balance and strength changes. However, there is a special focus on faith- and strength-based builds. Sorceries and weapon skills receive a slew of buffs, and comparatively few nerfs. Colossal weapons get increased attack speed and two-handed attack damage, making them more viable.

All in all it seems like good news for most Tarnished. From even appears to have fixed a bug tied to the dreaded underwear that penalized some players.

You can see the complete patch notes here.

Major Changes Included in the Latest Update

Additional Elements Added

• Added an option to turn camera auto rotate function ON/OFF
• Added some event phases for the NPC “Patches”

Balance adjustments

• Increased Colossal Swords/Colossal weapons attack speed and lowered their recovery time. Jump attack not included.
• Increased the two-handed attack damage of Colossal Swords/Colossal Weapons. Jump attack is not included.
• Increased physical block rate and guard boost of the Colossal Sword, Colossal Weapons, Great Sword, Great Hammer, Great Axe, Great Spear, and Halberd weapon classes.
• Increased the damage of Grafted Blade Greatsword.
• Increased the damage of Devourer’s Scepter.
• Decreased the scaling of status effect build-up from spells and incantations of Albinauric Staff and Dragon Communion Seal.
• Decreased the effect of Greatshield Talisman for weapons with high block rate.
• Shortened the length of the madness afflicted animation.
• Lowered the speed of madness buildup recovery.
• Slightly increased FP and Stamina growth rate at lower levels*

*Players will need to perform any of the following actions for the changes to be reflected. This is required only once. This action is not required for any new characters after the update.

Level up

Activate Godrick’s Great Rune

Require any equipment (armor or talisman), which gives bonus stats to Strength, Dexterity and Vigor, Endurance Intelligence, Faith, Faith, and/or Arcane

• Other enemy and weapon balance changes

Sorcery/Incantation

Upward adjustments

• Crystal Barrage – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time
• Gavel of Haima – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Allows caster to more easily withstand enemies’ attack while casting
• Shatter Earth – Increased cast speed and decrease recovery time. Allows caster to more easily withstand enemies’ attack while casting
• Rock Blaster – Decreased recovery time. Allows caster to more easily withstand enemies’ attack while casting
• Thop’s Barrier – Increased area of effect and slightly increase effect duration
• Rennala’s Full Moon – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
• Ranni’s Dark Moon – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
• Carian Greatsword – Increased cast speed at lower dexterity
• Magma Shot – Decreased FP cost and increased cast speed
• Roiling Magma – Increased cast speed and decreased time until magma explodes
• Gelmir’s Fury – Slightly decreased the random nature of projectile’s range and increased the damage of lava pool. Increased the hitbox
• Rykard’s Rancor – Decreased FP cost
• Oracle Bubbles – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
• Great Oracular Bubble – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
• Briars of Sin – Decreased recovery time. Increased blood loss buildup on enemy
• Briars of Punishment – Decreased recovery time. Increased blood loss buildup on enemy
• Explosive Ghostflame – Decreased FP cost and recovery time
• Tibia’s Summon – Increased damage and cast speed
• Aspects of the Crucible: Tail – Decreased FP and Stamina cost
• Aspects of the Crucible: Horns – Decreased FP and Stamina cost, Increase cast speed. Increased the distance traveled when not charged and made it easier to cause enemies to flinch when charged
• Elden Stars – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time
• Black Blade – Decreased Stamina consumption and decreased recovery time
• Discus of Light – Decreased FP cost. Increased damage and cast speed
• Triple Rings of Light – Increased damage
• Radagon’s Rings of Light – Decreased FP cost. Cast speed and damage increase. Reduced recovery time.
• Lightning Strike – Decreased Stamina cost. Cast speed increased and recovery time decreased.
• Honed Bolt – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
• Ancient Dragons’ Lightning Spear – Decreased FP and Stamina cost. Cast speed increases and recovery times are reduced. Casting allows the caster to resist enemy attacks more effectively.
• Ancient Dragons’ Lightning Strike – Decreased recovery time
• Lansseax’s Glaive – Decreased FP and Stamina cost. Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Allows caster to more easily withstand enemy’ attacks while casting.
• Fortissax’s Lightning Spear – Decreased FP and Stamina cost. Cast speed increases and recovery times are reduced. Allows caster to withstand enemy attack while casting more easily.
• Frozen Lightning Spear – Decreased Stamina cost. Cast speed increases and recovery times are reduced. Allows caster to more easily withstand enemy attack while casting.
• Death Lightning – Decreased FP cost, Increased the duration of death-accumulating smoke
• O, Flame! – Increased damage
• Giantsflame Take Thee – Decreased Stamina Cost
• Flame of the Fell God – Decreased FP cost and increased damage
• Whirl, O Flame! – Increased damage, decreased recovery time
• Burn, O Flame! – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
• Black Flame – Increase damage and the spell can break enemy’s guard more easily.
• Scouring Black Flame – Decreased FP cost and recovery time. Increased attack range and area of effect.
• Black Flame Ritual – Reduced FP cost and increased damage.
• Gurranq’s Beast Claw – Increased damage and decreased recovery time.
• Bloodflame Talons – Decreased FP cost and increased cast speed. Decreased recovery time.
• Bloodboon – Increased damage. Increased cast speed and decreased effect start-up time, decreased recovery time.
• Pest Threads – Decreased Stamina cost.
• Scarlet Aeonia – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Allows caster to more easily withstand enemy attacks while casting.
• Unendurable Frenzy – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Decreased the random nature of projectile’s range and increased Madness buildup on enemies.
• Inescapable Frenzy – Increased cast speed.
• Placidusax’s Ruin – Decreased FP, Stamina cost and recovery time.
• Dragonclaw – Decreased FP, Stamina cost and recovery time and made it easier to cause enemies to flinch when charged.
• Dragonmaw – Decreased FP, stamina cost, recovery time and increased cast speed and made it easier to cause enemies to flinch when charged.
• Greyoll’s Roar – Decreased FP, Stamina cost and recovery time.

Upward and downward adjustments

• Adula’s Moonblade – Decreased the power of single cast and improved performance so that the blades and frost hit more consistently and continuously. Cast speed increased at lower dexterity.
• Flame, Fall Upon Them – Decreased the damage of single cast and improved the performance so that it hits the enemy multiple times. Decreased FP cost.
• Howl of Shabriri – Decreased the madness buildup on the enemy. Cast speed increased and recovery times decreased.

Downward adjustments

• Swarm of Flies – Decreased blood loss buildup on enemy.
• The Flame of Frenzy – Decreased madness buildup on enemy.
• Frenzied Burst – Decreased madness buildup on enemy.

Weapon Skill

Upward adjustments

• Lion’s Claw – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
• Kick – Increased cast speed.
• Hoarah Loux’s Earthshaker – Increased cast speed. Cast speed increased on follow-up input and decreased recovery time.
• Troll’s Roar – Decreased Stamina Cost. Increased cast speed on follow up input, increased distance traveled.
• Giant Hunt – Decreased recovery time.
• Storm Assault – Decreased recovery time.
• Carian Greatsword – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Increased the damage when charged and made it easier to cause enemies to flinch.
• Carian Grandeur – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Increased the damage when charge and made it easier to cause enemies to flinch.
• Gravitas – Increased cast speed.
• Flaming Strike – Increased the travel distance of a stepping cleave in a strong attack.
• Black Flame Tornado – Added hitbox to weapon when spinning, and added a window to roll during the attack to cancel the animation.
• Lightning Slash – Increased cast speed. Added a hitbox to the stomp animation.
• Sacred Blade – Increased cast speed.
• Sacred Ring of Light – Increased cast speed.
• Poisonous Mist – Increased cast speed.
• Poison Moth Flight – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
• Ice Spear – Added a hitbox to the weapon’s spinning animation.
• Chilling Mist – Increased cast speed.
• Assassin’s Gambit – Increased cast speed.
• Shield Bash – Increased cast speed.
• Shield Crash – Decreased Stamina cost. Cast speed increased.
• Blade of Gold – Decreased Stamina cost. Cast speed increased and recovery time decreased.
• Blade of Death – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
• Golden Tempering – Decreased FP cost and increased cast speed. Increased duration of effect.
• Last Rites – Increased cast speed.
• Mists of Slumber – Increased cast speed.
• Eochaid’s Dancing Blade – Increased travel distance, added a window to roll during the attack to cancel the animation.
• Unblockable Blade – Increased cast speed with the weapon Coded Sword.
• Alabaster Lords’ Pull – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Added a window to roll during the attack to cancel the animation.
• Establish Order – Decreased recovery time and increased cast speed on follow up input. Increased damage Made it easier to cause enemies to flinch.
• Moonlight Greatsword – Decreased FP cost. Cast speed increased and recovery times decreased. Increased frost accumulation effect over the skill duration.
• Wave of Gold – Decreased FP cost. Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
• Wolf’s Assault – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
• The Queen’s Black Flame – Increased cast speed. Added a window to roll during the attack to cancel the animation.
• Dynast’s Finesse – Decreased Stamina cost.
• Flowing Form – Decreased Stamina cost.
• Death Flare – Increased cast speed.
• Onyx Lord’s Repulsion – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. To cancel animation, added a window for rolling during attack.
• Magma Guillotine – Decreased Stamina cost, Increased cast speed. Recoveries faster with follow-up input.
• Cursed-Blood Slice – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
• Ice Lightning Sword – Increased cast speed. A hitbox has been added to the stomp animation.
• Rosus’ Summons – Decreased recovery time.
• I Command thee, Kneel! – Increased cast speed including follow up input. To cancel animations, added a window for rolling during attack.
• Gold Breaker – Decreased FP cost. Cast speed increased and recovery time decreased.
• Familial Rancor – Added a window to roll during the attack to cancel the animation.
• Nebula – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time with the weapon Bastard’s Stars.
• Regal Beastclaw – Increased cast speed.
• Devourer of Worlds – Increased cast speed.
• Regal Roar – Decreased recovery time.
• Spearcall Ritual – Decreased recovery time.
• Ancient Lightning Spear – Decreased FP cost and increased cast speed. This allows the player to cast more quickly and withstand enemy attacks.
• Great-Serpent Hunt – Decreased recovery time and increased damage. Allows player to more easily withstand attacks from enemies.
• Frenzyflame Thrust – Decreased FP cost, decreased recovery time. Decreased madness buildup on self.
• Bloodboon Ritual – Increased cast speed.
• Miquella’s Ring of Light – Increased cast speed.
• Sea of Magma – Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Added a window to roll during the attack to cancel the animation.
• Flame Dance – Decreased Stamina cost, decreased recovery time. Added a window to roll during the attack to cancel the animation.
• Storm Kick – Decreased Stamina cost.
• Bear Witness! – Increased cast speed.

Upward and downward adjustments

• Thundercloud Form – Decreased damage when not charged. Decreased FP cost. Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the damage of Inescapable Frenzy was affected by right hand weapon.
• Fixed a bug where the damage of the weapon arts “Carian retaliation” was increased by weapon and status, and the effect was not displayed correctly during online multiplay.
• Fixed a bug where the animation when inflicted with blood loss and frostbite was bigger than originally planned.
• Fixed a bug during character appearance change menu in which some parameter changes were sometime not reflected.
• Fixed a bug that prevented a dialog from appearing when executing “Leave” on some items.
• Fixed a bug that allowed unauthorized items to be passed to other players.
• Fixed a bug in multiplayer that prevented grace to be registered on the map if it was found just before the player is summoned.
• Fixed a bug that sometime prevented the mechanic of Rennala Queen Of The Full Moon fight from working properly during cooperative multiplayer.
• Fixed a bug that sometime prevented the player from entering the boss area after defeating Morgott, the Omen King.
• Fixed a bug that prevented “Edgar the Revenger” and “Festering Fingerprint Vyke” from invading after defeating all the bosses in Liurnia of the Lake.
• The item Tonic of Forgetfulness can now be obtained at the Volcano Manor if the player wasn’t able to obtain it due to quest progression.
• Fixed a bug that caused the reduction of runes due to NPC “Gostoc” when player died in “Stormveil Castle” to occur at an unintended timing.
• Added a protective barrier to Millicent after helping her at Miquella’s Haligtree so she cannot be unintentionally killed.
• Fixed a bug that sometime prevented the player from obtaining the reward after defeating the Dung Eater.
• Fixed a bug that sometime prevented the player from progress Diallos’ questline.
• Fixed a bug that sometime prevented player from duplicating remembrance at the Walking Mausoleum.
• Fixed a bug that prevented player from inputting consecutive attacks when dual wielding thrusting sword.
• Fixed a bug that causes scythe to lose blood loss effect if poison affinity is applied to the weapon.
• Fixed a bug where the damage of the Iron Greatsword was lower than expected when an affinity is applied.
• Fixed a bug that caused FP consumption to increase when the player cast Night Comet with charge.
• Fixed a bug that causes he default key setting on keyboard for weapon skill (Left Ctrl) to not be set (on PC only).
• Fixed a bug in the Steam version where the history of players who played multiplayer was not displayed correctly under certain circumstances.
• Increased online multiplayer stability.
• Fixed a bug that caused incorrect sounds to be played under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a bug that caused some places on the map to have incorrect visual and hitbox.
• Fixed a bug that causes some enemies to have incorrect visual and behavior.
• Fixed a bug that causes some armor to have incorrect stats.
• Text fix.
• Other performance improvements and bug fixes.