Geheimnisnacht and the Skull of Blosphoros return! Patch 6.8.0 + hotfix 6.8.1

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Hotfix 6.8.1 - 23rd of October - PC only for now

Fixes

  • Fixed a guaranteed crash in the level ‘Old Haunts’ and re-enabled it

From October 23 until November 2, enjoy a spooky atmosphere and disrupt the rituals to earn rewards!

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Geheimnisnacht

Geheimnisnacht is upon us, and the Skull of Blosphoros haunts these lands once more! From October 23 until November 2, you can find foul Chaos worshippers performing vile rituals to awaken this dark master, and it is up to you to stop them!

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Seek the Skull of Blosphoros in the following levels:

  • Righteous Stand
  • Hunger in the Dark
  • Warcamp
  • Old Haunts
  • The Forsaken Temple

Disrupt the ritual and secure the Skull of Blosphoros for an extra challenge. Select your courier with caution as there is no second chance of picking up the Skull during that mission once it has been lost.

Unlock new rewards

Complete Event Quests by disrupting the ritual and carrying the Skull all the way through the levels to earn unique rewards! There’s five new weapon illusions alongside a brand new portrait frame to unlock!

Additionally, for the duration of the event there will be Double XP to be earned across all game modes!

Previous Rewards

If you missed your chance in previous years, worry not! Seek the Event section of Lohner’s Emporium of Wonders to purchase old rewards with shillings!

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Without further ado…

Patch 6.8.0 patch notes

Features & Tweaks

  • Enabled the Geheimnisnacht event, Keep decorations, event shop and event quests.
  • Added a new Portrait frame as well as five new weapon illusions:
    • Bardin’s War Pick
    • Kerillian’s Greatsword
    • Saltzpyre’s Axe
    • Sienna’s Conflagration Staff
    • Kruber’s Sword
  • Enabled the Skull of Blosphoros ritual on the following levels:
    • Righteous Stand
    • Hunger in the Dark
    • Warcamp
    • Old Haunts
    • The Forsaken Temple
  • Slightly increased the distance of the first Heavy Attack for Kerillian’s Greatsword.

Fixes

  • Fixed clipping from Engineer gauntlet on shields.
  • Fixed some environment visual bugs on Screaming Bell.
  • [Xbox & Playstation only] Tweaked the collisions of Grimoires to prevent issues where they weren’t grabbable when they should.
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Please add old event only keep portraits!

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Yes yes YES!!!

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hey just so you know the skull on forsaken temple is evil. monsters, the lot of you

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MOD review please............
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One balance change in patch → elf buff
and some bootlickers will still proclaim that FS doesn’t have favourites smh my head rn…

This is obviously not a game changer but some sort of a buff for an underutilised weapon is always neat I guess.
I have been using it quite a bit on Handmaiden and it is amazing for kiting, and does very well vs hordes and berserkers, but if I expect my team to need anti-armour damage in any capacity, I’m not bringing it. Overall, it feels questionable to bring in any comp…
The stab attack is just harder to headshot with than an overhead, especially when enemies are on the move or you are, and its anti-armour dps even with 100% HS rate isn’t high enough to justify this difficulty. And if you don’t headshot that dps tanks hard.

Anyway, any kind of a minor positive change in elf’s melee balance is good.

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