Pathfinder WOTR Update 1.08 Patch Notes Details

Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous update 1.08 is rolling out on PS4, PS5, & Xbox. According to the official Pathfinder WOTR patch notes, the latest update added a long list of bug fixes and gameplay changes. Apart from this, Pathfinder WOTR version 1.08 also enabled the correct display of weather effects on PS4 Pro and PS5.

Previously, a major Pathfinder update 1.3.0 added numerous tweaks and fixes for the crusade, various mythic paths and other aspects of the game. Unfortunately, some players are still facing issues with the game. Today’s Pathfinder WOTR patch 1.08 will fix a few of these issues.

Pathfinder WOTR Patch 1.08 Notes – December 18, 2022

Beware of possible plot spoilers below!

Areas

Chaplain in Murky Grotto could refuse to sell magical equipment after a victory over the Songbird – fixed;
During the gargoyle attack, characters under the fear effect could run through the “invisible wall” – fixed;
Fixed the blinking of a puzzle piece in the Final Veil puzzle;
Fixed the incorrect start of the dialogue with the theater in Drezen, in chapter 5. Additionally, fixed the issue with Greybor getting stuck at the throne room, which prevented his quest from progressing. If you have encountered this issue already, it will get fixed after re-entering Drezen;
Fixed the issue when a secret passage into the lich dungeon wouldn’t open in the Lost Chapel;
Fixed the issue when the enemies in the Tower of Estrod wouldn’t attack after you pushed the column on them;
Fixed the issue which sometimes prevented from leaving the Rich Quarter in Through the Ashes DLC;
Fixed the lighting in Citadel Drezen;
Fixed the lilitu in Sacred Lands, and she’s no longer hostile until you attack her;
Fixed the passability in the Tower of Estrod, fixed places inaccessible for the player. On saving and loading, the party won’t end up stuck in inappropriate places anymore;
Fixed the repeating exit and entry points on some islands in the Treasure of the Midnight Isles DLC in the integrated mode (when playing as the commander);
Improved the visual effects in Mage’s Tower;
In Shrine of the Three, it was impossible to interact with quest objects after the turn-based battle – fixed;
It was impossible to loot a chest with magic essence in Reliable Redoubt – fixed;
Mythic Demon can return to Blackwater now, if they were summoned while resting in there. Additionally, you won’t be summoned from that dungeon anymore. Sleep soundly!
On a treasure island in the 3rd DLC it was impossible to disarm a trap while mounted – fixed;
On Martyr Zacharius’s Cemetery, it was possible to trigger the cutscene in the ruined chapel twice – fixed;
Stone golems under the Lost Chapel will slow down your characters now instead of being slow themselves and doing nothing;
Fixed Chaplain’s assortment of goods in the Murky Grotto and Nondescript Pier, and now it depends on the expedition;
Fixed some navigational issues in Iz;
Fixed the issue when every mythic path could use Azata’s unique interaction in Inevitable Prison;
Fixed the lighting in Drezen;
Fixed the mythic path selection dialogue during conversation with Iomedae and Nocticula, which previously led to a broken cutscene;
Fixed the navigation near the elevator on the 3rd floor of Mage’s Tower;
Improved the lighting in Neathholm;
In Sacred Lands, corrected the scene at the entrance to the room with the puzzle;
In The Treasure of the Midnight Isles DLC, in rogue-like mode, an invisible wall could appear on the ship after a boss fight – fixed;
One of the islands in the Treasure of the Midnight Isles DLC could be totally empty – fixed. You won’t encounter this island anymore, and if you already have, then you can just leave it without any negative consequences;
The huge fire trap in Gray Garrison can be disabled via the hidden lever now;
Fixed the issue when the enemies in the Tower of Estrod wouldn’t attack after you pushed the column on them;
Your allies will properly help during the fight against Darrazand in Midnight Fane now.

Quests

A Refuge from the Present quest could start in chapter 5 even if you never visited Old Sarkorian Mines in chapter 3. If you have encountered this issue already, the quest will automatically fail;
Added Irabeth’s reactions to the fate of the Through The Ashes characters;
Fixed the chain of events during the Pharasma’s Wrath quest for Mythic Lich;
In case of Regill’s death, a cut scene of Hellknights arrival to Drezen could break – fixed;
Fixed Azata’s early descent into Midnight Fane, before the Queen’s arrival;
Fixed the issue which blocked the player from getting the quest to find the last treasure in the Treasure of the Midnight Isles DLC;
In some cases, it was impossible to continue the fight with Horzalah after the reinforcements arrived during The Price of Loyalty quest – fixed.

Turn-based mode

Turn-based mode may hang on the turn of a character that was recently resurrected – fixed;
Added portraits of satyrs, kobolds, and oozes for the initiative tracker;
In turn based mode, when opening a character description, the window could stop responding;
Island modifiers in the Treasure of the Midnight Islands DLC are no longer displayed under the initiative tracker;
The combat could get stuck on immobilized Irabeth’s turn in Lost Chapel – fixed.

Items

Fixed the ability of Radiance to dispel magic, now it correctly considers character’s level as caster level for the sake of dispel magic;
In some cases, like during Demon’s quest, it was possible to lose and then duplicate Finnean the Talking Weapon – fixed;
Some players couldn’t unequip Finnean after battle – fixed.

Crusade

Generals were missing some spells in battle – fixed;
When enabling the auto crusade mode, all crusade quests will be removed from the journal;
Fixed the check of conditions, under which Wenduag could participate in the Military Council rank-ups in chapter 5.

Classes & Mechanics

Auto level-up was not available when choosing a pregenerated character in the Inevitable Excess DLC – fixed;
Azata became slightly less friendly, and no longer gives the enemies teamwork feats with Life-Bonding Friendship;
Changing the type of spell’s elemental damage now correctly adds the DC from feats that affect the said element;
Deskari’s Rasping Armor ability now works correctly (we convinced him to rasp louder, so everyone could hear, and not just those under his belly);
Dragonheir Scion’s Dazzling Display is a standard action now, and won’t disappear forever after character’s death;
During the boss battle with the Songbird, he HP could track incorrectly, and as the result, the cutscene wouldn’t trigger – fixed;
Enemies with immunity to the prone condition now can be affected by Hideous Laughter spell;
Fiery Body and Iron Body spells now work with Brown-Fur Transmuter;

Fixed multiple Azata spells: Field of Flowers now works according to its description, Believe In Yourself now has correct duration, Water Push now works correctly, Nature’s Grasp now deals the right damage, Repulsive Nature now works as described and has an increased radius of 40 feet; Friendly Hug now provides immunity to mind-affecting spells, Sudden Squall now affects the enemies and prevents them from casting spells; Burst of Sonic Energy now works correctly, can be used with metamagic, and doesn’t harm the Azata; Winds of the Fall spell now works correctly and applies the intoxication effect; Water Torrent now works correctly, and the targeting has been improved; Unbreakable Bond now provides correct immunities to mind-affecting, charm, fear, compulsion, emotion, shaken, confusion effects.

Fixed the crashing when Charge was used together with Demonic Rage;
Fixed the second stage of the final boss battle in chapter 6: fire copies of Areelu now deal damage to her, and the original Areelu is displayed in the initiative order; looping ability activation could cause an endless detonation and a severe FPS drop – fixed. A scene with the goddesses also appears now under the right conditions;
Flying Time Undertow will no longer stay on the character that left your party before the whole group left the island. If you have encountered this issue already, add the affected character to the group and finish the island;
Forester can properly benefit from their Animal Focus now. Also, all hunters now benefit from two aspects of Animal Focus, when their animal companion is dead. Additionally, hunter bonuses to ability scores from Animal Focus — Bull, Tiger, and Bear have been changed from enhancement to inherent;
Green Faith (Druid philosophy) got a new symbol and now allows not only true neutral alignment, but any neutral alignment as well. Also fixed the icon and the description for Camellia;
Hunter Tactics and several other feats that make the character share some of their own feats with the animal companion were stealing those feats from the animal companion, if the animal obtained them by itself. Resolution: fixed. You may need to retrain the animal companion to get those feats back, but they will stay now.
Mighty Charge now allows to pick a combat maneuver to perform (or not to perform) and no longer provokes the attack of opportunity with the chosen combat maneuver;
Nahyndri has become slightly more powerful with mythic saving throws, immunity to sickened condition, and some additional buffs on higher difficulty levels;
Now Bless spell ignores spell resistance on allied targets;
Overwhelming Soul’s Overwhelming Power now properly scales the attack and damage bonuses with level up;
Protection from Arrows spell protected not only from ranged weapons, but from some magic as well – fixed;
Sacred Huntmaster now correctly adds teamwork feats to their animal companion;
Smite Evil no longer affects loyal companions;
Summoners summoned incorrect number of creatures – fixed;
The player could keep giving crystals to the Helmsman even after becoming the Legend – fixed;
Weapon training feats worked incorrectly if the equipped weapon belonged to two categories – fixed;
When Evil Eye was on auto-cast, the character would cast it on friendly targets when there were no enemies around – fixed;
Your invisibility will no longer fool the Storyteller, and he will start the dialogue in Iz properly;
A paralyzed character got a circumstance penalty to AC, which reduced the AC to zero – fixed;
Animal companions sometimes lost their natural attacks (with hoofs, horns, claws etc.) – fixed;
Flying Time Undertow effect worked outside of combat – fixed;
Forester can properly benefit from their Animal Focus now. Also, all hunters now benefit from two aspects of Animal Focus, when their animal companion is dead. Additionally, hunter bonuses to ability scores from Animal Focus — Bull, Tiger, and Bear have been changed from enhancement to inherent;
In the Treasure of the Midnight Islands DLC, the fog of war behind the cabinets now works correctly;
Maugla (the nabasu boss in the Lost Chapel) has lost the ability to kill dhampirs with negative levels;
Shield Focus (Mythic), Tower Shield Defense and Deflective Shield feats now work correctly;
Swarm that Walks didn’t get spells from the throne room events – fixed;
The list of feats, available to different classes, has been updated, which fixes the issue with not being able to choose some feats despite having the prerequisites for it;
The Rainbow Starfall spell in Azata’s spellbook now works as described;
Unarmed attacks under the Fiery Body spell now deal the correct amount of damage;
Weapon Finesse now works with all natural weapons.

Compass no longer obscures a part of the initiative tracker after cutscenes;
Fixed the layout of the icons in the Abilities tab of character sheet;
Fixed the mount control;
Initiative order animations and portraits for turn-based mode have been improved;
Nested spells won’t offer the option to use them automatically, if automatic use is impossible for them;
Sometimes texts could be missing in the epilogue slides – fixed;
The cursor wasn’t able to interact with some UI elements, like door overtips etc.– fixed;
Character cards could duplicate on global map – fixed;
Tool tips and windows no longer open below each other;
Now it’s no longer possible to change the language or font size during a turn-based battle, as it could lead to some serious problems with the interface;
Fixed the issue when you couldn’t change the name of Commander Court while one Azata mythic path;
Fixed the missing title and description for the Spell Penetration (Mythic) feat;
Removed the ability to change control with the settings menu opened;
The difficulty settings tab no longer disappears after changing the font size or the language of the localization;
Under certain circumstances, character cards and menu cards could stay on screen and not disappear – fixed;
Upon exiting the turn-based mode, the action bar will properly update now;
Pre-generated characters couldn’t select some deities, even if they had all requirements to do so – fixed;
Switching setting values while holding down the button now goes on with increasing speed;
It was possible to lock the controls in resting interface after sending a bug report – fixed.

Audio

While transitioning between the chapters, the dialogue voice-over could disappear – fixed.

Visual

Fixed weather effects:
Fixed a minor issue with the fog of war in the Lost Chapel area;
Flags and capes were clipping through characters and level geometry – fixed;
Survivors’ animations in Through the Ashes DLC were glitching after the rest – fixed. Also fixed some minor visual issues in other cutscenes in the DLC;
Weapons had incorrect size if the character joined combat while being off-screen – fixed;
When transforming into the Gold Dragon, there could be issues with the visual effect – fixed.

System

After loading a save or travelling between locations, visual effects on the characters could act in a wrong way or disappear completely – fixed. Additionally, fixed visual effects on creatures, ghosts, elementals, and some objects, like the Sword of Valor;
Fixed an issue, which could break pregenerated characters during character creation;
Fixed the issue with the return of the fog of war area on some maps;
Fixed crashing into the main menu in some cases, when transitioning between the 1st and the 2nd chapters;
When loading a save from the game, or upon exiting to main menu, a critical error could occur – fixed.

Misс

Bug reports saves were visible for some time after sending the bug report – fixed;
Hal no longer visits the Legend if he was previously killed;
Characters that are mandatory for the current party due to a quest, may not be there when leaving an area – fixed;
Combat could begin even when enemies remained behind the walls or doors in multi-area dungeons – fixed, and the enemies will stop targeting and attacking you through the walls;
Corrected the cutscene with Seelah and Curl in the Houndhearts camp;
Fixed characters getting duplicated when opening a level up window;
Fixed some traps in the Treasure of the Midnight Islands DLC;
Fixed the achievements you were supposed to get for finishing the game;
Fixed the beginning of the dialogue with Areshkagal, in which Nenio appeared dead if she was killed earlier;
Some companions still managed to cheat death and gain immortality – fixed. Hail Pharasma, Lady of Graves!
Fixed the issue when the dropped loot would disappear regardless of the settings; the settings regarding dropped loot applies properly now;
The standalone mode for the Treasure of the Midnight Isles DLC now has an island with an extra mythic level in the final expedition, which allows to gain full 10 mythic levels.

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