Sacred 2 Update Released

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Updates to Merchants of Brooklyn have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Additional Features:

• The Crystal Planes now feature a new quest series as well as new opponents
• New items may drop
• Three new mini bosses. All mini bosses now have their own quests.
• The logbook now features a new graphical appearance.
• New options under "Audio Settings" to adjust the frequency of battle chat
• New death screams for all creatures even if battle chat has been set to "Never" under "Audio Settings."
• Added a tool tip display for the duration of purple and blue potions
• Incoming messages will now open the chat window. After seven seconds
• the window will close automatically
• New option under "Audio Settings" to switch acoustic notifications for chat messages on or off.

Bug Fixes:

• Several causes for crashes have been fixed.
• The Dryads' shrunken heads now work as intended, boosting the effectiveness of the combat arts Malicious Totem, Black Curse and Viperish Disease.
• The bonus Deadly Wounds does no longer stack. In extreme cases the overall hitpoints were reduced to 1 due to that issue.
• The bonus Deep Wound does no longer stack. In extreme cases the overall hitpoints were reduced to 1 due to that issue.
• Fixed an issue that dead horses could be mounted in certain situations.
• Fixed an issue that mounted heroes did not sustain damage when they touched a T-Energy pool.
• Heroes will now sustain the correct amount of damage when touching a T-Energy pool.
• Heroes will now sustain damage when they walk through the boss monster "Swirling Mist of Miasma" ("Fog Monster").
• The boss monster "Swirling Mist of Miasma" ("Fog Monster") now fires projectiles.
• The skill Alchemy now increases the amount of health replenished by healing potions.
• The modification Evade of the Inquisitor's combat art Reverse
• Polarity will now be displayed correctly in all parts of the interface.
• Damage over time did work properly for Elite Boar Riders. This has been fixed.
• The Divine Gift Kuan's Breath also effected opponents who were above the defined maximum opponent level. This has been fixed.
• Various fixes concerning Pierce.
• "Power leveling" using the the combat art Expulse Magic on the "Swirling Mist of Miasma" ("Fog Monster") is no longer possible.
• Fixed the faulty damage display of the boss monster "Facetteleon".
• When several boosts were active, the fist boost to terminate also ended all other boost graphics effects even if the remaining boosts were still active. This has been fixed.
• The faulty damage of the modification Self Repair of the Temple Guardian's combat art Jolting Touch has been fixed.
• The faulty damage of the Seraphim's combat art Pelting Strikes has been fixed.
• Corrected several translation errors in English and French.
• Fixed wrongly saved values of the explored map.
• Amulets and rings have become distinctly different now. This will apply to all amulets including already existing ones.
• Pressing [Del] when the cursor is positioned at the start of a text field in the menu does no longer cause crashes.
• Fixed an issue that Blacksmith Arts could not be removed from forge slots if they had been placed there temporarily.
• The Closed Net player chest accessible for all characters was deleted when players logged in to the Open Net lobby for the first time. This has been fixed.
• Sometimes, items that we rearranged in the inventory were lost due to server lag. This has been fixed.
• Fixed an issue that made it impossible to open a server for diffculty levels gold or higher even if the character met the requirements.
• Fixed an issue that made it possible to switch from a hardcore game to a default game and vice versa via the Buddy list.
• The skill Toughness will no longer yield strange results in higher levels. Warning: Toughness did block high amounts of damage even while being broken. Since the fix, Toughness works more predictable, but might therefore be less effective in some situations.
• The mini boss Forest Guardian will now scale to the player's level who is close to him rather than that of the first player who entered the server.
• The unique spear Gronkor's Downfall does no longer carry a bonus for ranged weapons.
• All mounted opponents now fight and die as intended.
• The acoustic signal of the heartbeat sometimes did not end. Now, the heartbeat sound will play no longer than twelve seconds.
• The survival bonus will increase at a slower rate.
• The Dryad's combat art Malicious Totem will now have a stronger effect when the proper shrunken head is being used.
• The Temple Guardian's combat art Furious Emblazer is now more powerful.
• The Seraphim combat's art Divine Protection now has a slightly
  reduced duration per level.
• The amount of experience points per killed opponent will no longer be as drastically reduced on very high levels as before.
• The safe area (spawn protection) around resurrection monoliths has been extended; monsters will not attack players immediately anymore.
• Several side quests have been fixed
• Throwing daggers will now rely on dexterity rather than strength
• The skill Magic Staffs didn't apply to two-handed mage staffs, this has been fixed
• Temple Guard combat art Battle Extension did not work correctly in combos, this has been fixed
• Seraphim combat art BeeEffGee is now capped at level 200; the tooltip has been fixed accordingly
• Shadow Warrior combat art Reflective Emanation reflected conditions such as blindness and stun and not just the damage, this has been fixed
• Several combos did not work correctly when combat arts with different targeting systems were combined, e.g. area spells first and direct damage such as flash second. This has been fixed
• Some descriptions for combat art modifications were misleading or wrong. They have been corrected.
• Bossmonster "Carnach" teleported one last time while dying, this has been removed.
• Unforging items at the blacksmith broke the forge slots in rare occasions, this has been fixed.
• Fixed an issue where OpenAL caused noisy sounds in the main menu after
  leaving a game session.
• Pressing [print] did not save screenshots when a dialog window was open. This window will only be seen in the screenshot when both [ctrl] and [print] are being pressed.
• Typing [% n] into the chat crashed the game, this has been fixed.
• The tooltip of special mounts had value discrepancies at a trader and in the inventory.
• Framerate drop caused by certain graphical effects has been lessened.
• Added more pictures for quest targets in the quest log.
• Fixed an issue in the MP server list that could cause players to join a different server than the one that had been selected
• The mastery of the skill Riding now unlocks the correct bonuses.
• Lore-skills increased the casting speed more efficiently than stated in the tool tip.
• Skill Spell resistance did not work in some cases, this has been fixed.

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