Rebel Wolves has announced that patch 1.1 for The Blood of Dawnwalker will be released next week, Polygon, IGN and GameSpot reported on October 16. The studio said the update brings more than 1,000 improvements and fixes to the vampire RPG; IGN put the count at over 1,100. Rebel Wolves has not given an exact release day or said whether every platform receives the patch at the same time, according to Polygon.
The studio listed the headline features in a post on the game's official X account. The update renames the existing Story difficulty to Forgiving and adds a new Story mode with additional combat assist. It also introduces a consumable called the Draught of Mind Rebirth, which wipes a character's Swordmastery, Witchcraft and Vampirism abilities so the points can be spent on a different build without restarting the game. GameSpot noted that the item also returns the in-game time spent learning those skills, which can free up extra missions under the game's 30-day limit.
The patch adds what Rebel Wolves calls directional animal petting, applying the directional input system the game uses for combat to the dogs and cats of Vale Sangora. Subtitle settings gain a larger font size and an option to subtitle every line of dialogue.
What happens when you merge a directional combat system with the ability to pet dogs and cats? Directional. Animal. Petting.
Rebel Wolves also listed a set of changes and improvements arriving with the update:
- An update to the FrameGen technology, with dedicated settings.
- Adjusted animations and camera movement in combat.
- Improved targeting, locking onto and disengaging from enemies.
- Better responsiveness when targeting and attaching to surfaces with Shadowstep and Planeshift.
- Blood and gore are no longer censored in the Japanese version of the game on Steam.
Polygon noted that New Game Plus is absent from the patch 1.1 feature list. Director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz has said the team is looking into the feature but cannot say anything yet, and he had told Eurogamer at the end of September that a large patch was in the works. IGN reported that the game passed 1 million copies sold in its first two days. The Blood of Dawnwalker is available on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, according to GameSpot.
