This release focuses around a visual overhaul to many areas of the game.

New Features

• New puppet tier added, Merciless.
• Added two new trophies.

Visual Changes

• Backgrounds now move slightly along with the mouse movement.
• All buttons in the game now have extra visual effects.
• Main menu now shows the last played character, with a quick continue button.
• Player images in main menu, player preview, and statistics screen now show the equipped artefacts and talismans on the player image.
• Combat has many new effects.
  • Techniques of each school now have a custom attack animation.
  • Added screen shake on big hits.
  • Added larger knockback animations.
• The world map nodes now have a new design.
• World map node connections now have an animation.
• Colours for text has been tweaked to be more authentic (no more glaring purple).
• Quality effect has been reworked to handle high quality counts better, and to have a more interesting animation.

Changes

• Some pillar shards now cost pillar stability to set. This means that some of the more powerful shards require balancing their cost.
• Move speed now applies to the entire journey when selecting a node multiple steps away.
• Qi gained from crafting reduced.
• Sell value of pills slightly reduced.
• Crafting difficulty in body forging and meridian opening increased slightly.
• Made it possible to back out of the new game screen.
• Made the passive puppet have a LOT more health and damage reduction.

Balance Changes

• Storm Surge Generator damage nerfed.
• Added caps to Compressed Plate/Armour to prevent infinite stacking.
• Added cap to Thundercallers focus power buff stacks.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed many typos.
• Reworked the stellar crafting actions to make the 'nova' more explicit.
• Fixed Ru Gong echo event to be in the correct month.
• Fixed qi pool reduction from equipment actually causing an increase in qi costs.
• Fixed softlock when mystial region has no un-acquired rewards in the pool.
• Fixed damage reduction not applying to corrupt damage.
• Reworked Failsafe Protocol description to mention it doesn't apply to true damage.
• Clicking new game no longer creates a corrupt save.