This week’s patch allows you to leave the temple without committing to a quest in any difficulty mode. At the same time the incentive to still commit has been increased: you always increase your max hope by 2 and you also going to get 10 knowledge points!

In addition, while traveling through the world you can complete any one quest per destination and gain a skill, regardless whether you are committed to do another quest elsewhere.

Gameplay changes
- You start a new world with 25 knowledge points instead of 10.
- Completing a quest you committed to always increases your hope by 2.
- Completing a quest you committed to also increases your knowledge points by 10.
- Interacting with the map in the library in Haven allows you to spend knowledge points and to commit to quests. (The options are removed when you simply go to the map).
- You can leave the Temple in Haven without being committed to a quest, unless you are still playing the prologue.
- Completing any quest allows you to learn a skill, and generates a screen that offers you to return to Haven.
- The Open World difficulty mode has been renamed ‘Journey Back’ to reflect that it now only affects whether or not you are offered a free journey back to Haven.
- Significantly reduces the rate at which your weapons degrade when fighting small creatures and other targets that are marked as ‘soft’.

Bug Fixes
- Cleans up some issues with using controllers to interact with the map in Haven.
- Mercian Staffs carried by certain red skeletons no longer cause the game to freeze while building a level.
- Corrects spelling of the ‘thirsty’ status.
- Campsites can no longer be too close to one another.
- Clans and other factions cannot lay claim to a site where you have committed to a quest.
- Fixes an issue with the connectivity of specific versions of the Marang Keep levels.
- Map nodes in the ocean are no longer considered valid travel destinations.
- Fixes a generation issue with the forested hill template.