It’s been a while since our last patch, but there’s a good reason for that: we’ve been cooking up the biggest-ever post-launch update for Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, version 1.1. And you know what? The update is now live!

As this update is very special, we again teamed up with the one and only WolfheartFPS to bring you a video overview of the new patch. If you want to see an RPG pro going through all the new stuff, you’re in for a treat. Enjoy the special behind-the-scenes look!

We’ve also prepared a brand-new overview trailer for version 1.1! Watch it here:

And if you prefer the text version, you can find it below! But first, let’s start with a quick intro!

We know many of you have been waiting for this to arrive, and we want to thank you for your patience and all the amazing support you've provided up to this point. We have been reading all of your comments, reviews and community posts - while we often do not have time to be very active, you can be more than sure that we are reading everything very carefully. Our team is also fully devoted to making sure we will upgrade the Tainted Grail experience for all of you as much as we can. After all, your support made it all possible, and we could not be happier with the reception of Tainted Grail!

So, this update is BIG! We bundled up pretty much all of the most popular requests/feedback and added a lot from our side. Our team worked quite hard on everything, so we really hope you will enjoy your visit to Avalon! You can find full patch notes later down the update, but here are some highlights!

• New Game Plus (NG+),

• transmog system,

• various Forlorn Swords (Act 3) fixes and content additions (including much more loot to find everywhere, and 3 new caves),

• third-person perspective camera improvements,

• late-game console stability improvements,

• new Qrko (the cute pet) forms, including a mount and a summon,

• origin potion crafting recipe,

• new weapons and armor sets,

• 3 new dungeons, 6 new quests. A lot of other quest fixes, new rewards, dungeon redesign etc.,

• a bunch of visual and audio updates all around (in-game, UI, etc.),

• new enemy sound effects and a few extra tracks by Dzivia,

• TONS of bug fixes and rebalancing all over the place,

• and many, maaaany more (see the full list below).

Just before we proceed to the patch notes, a special feature: community mods!

As you might know, we’ve recently shared our internal modding tools for Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon. Some of you have already started getting passionate about it, and we want to appreciate that! Starting from today, every now and then, we’ll be featuring some cool community-made mods for the game. Today’s duo was made by jondnoj[next.nexusmods.com]:

• Custom Difficulty, to tweak the difficulty level of various game features to your liking (Nexus Mods page here[www.nexusmods.com]).

• Damage Numbers, to know exactly how hard you hit them (Nexus Mods page here[www.nexusmods.com]).

Big thank you to everyone who tries modding our game! We believe Tainted Grail is THE GAME to be modded, and we’re talking about tons of various strange ways to twist the game, make it more enjoyable, fun, and unusual. Don’t hesitate to let your imagination go free!

• New Game Plus

  • The entire world is reset. You can complete the game with new choices

  • You lose your: King’s Power, learned recipes, quests, keys and readable items. Everything else is kept.

  • Your armor is debuffed for each NG+ level.

  • Enemies are stronger and have higher status resistances.

  • All items found and crafted are stronger and rewards are improved.

  • A couple of enemies will drop more loot.

• Lots of fixes and improvements to the 3rd act of the game, along with new content as well. Details below.

• \[Transmog] A new transmogrification feature is now available at the handcrafting station (no charge at the player's home). You can now change the visual appearance of your items to any discovered style in the game (for the same types of items).

• Added origin potion recipe to Helled's sanctum from the alchemist questline.

• Added an unread status marker to readable items to clearly indicate which ones have not been read yet. (All readables in your inventory will be assumed read)

• The journal now has more than 120 entries about NPC characters, along with new lore entries. Most of them apply retroactively.

• Added new dialogues for Kvorr and Black Annis for players whose attempts for a new pet did not work out too well for them lost their hand

• Qrko - your pet has received a couple of new practical tricks for you to try out.

• \[FPP] Headbobbing has been added. You can enable it in your game settings.

• \[TPP] Improved spine IK in TPP so that the player does not hunch over as much while traveling. A blend was also added for actions such as bow draw to prevent instant snapping.

• Added alphabetical sorting for items and fixed an issue where identical items did not appear next to each other after certain sorts.

• Added bulk options for items in shops and stashes.

• \[Optim] Significant RAM optimizations that should improve late-game stability on consoles. We’re also working on another console stability optimization, which will be released once it’s ready.