We have replaced the presence mechanism with a new mechanism reflecting Imperial Threat and Awareness. Imperial threat is represented as a clock in the HUD that slowly fills from hardships and other interactions. Everytime the clock goes full circle, the Empire will take an action on the map.

Awareness is represented by a number of eyes in the same clock and affects how fast the clock will fill up. Doing things that attract the attention of the Empire will increase their Awareness…

New Features:
- Improving the timing and animation of most non-humanoid creature attacks so they can be more easily avoided.
- Presence is replaced by Imperial Threat and Imperial Awareness.
- Imperial advances and attacks are now the result of high Imperial Threat.
- When the Empire attacks on the map, the chances that they succeed or at least weaken their target are increased.
- Two new status effects that deal with Imperial Awareness and Threat: Revealed and Threatened.
- Open Road hardship is replaced by the ‘Watched’ hardship that increases Imperial Threat.
- Old ‘Watched’ hardship is now the Guarded hardship and adds the Threatened status.
- More Imperial NPCs carry rift grenades.
- Rift grenades sometimes open a rift that pulls you into the Edge.
- Edge locations sometimes contain a ‘golden eye’ that is linked to Imperial Awareness.
- Picking up the Staff increases Imperial Awareness.
- Entering the Edge increases Imperial Awareness.
- Waking elementals and interacting with the Veil increases Imperial Awareness.
- Rumors can reveal ‘meeples’ on map nodes.

Bug Fixes:
- The spell casting ability works with sources that require you to press and hold the casting button.
- Imperial NPCs react to your presence once more.
- Improves the bounding boxes and positioning of the skider lair entrance decoration.
- Repairs a faulty rumor reference for the Forge of Destiny.
- When unrevealed enemies invite you to sit down to camp, you aren’t blocked from that action because hostiles are nearby.