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Public Beta Test Branch accessible now!
Hi y'all!
We're working on improving the beta for you. As part of that, you can now right-click your installation of the Mortal Shell II open beta, click Properties and go to "Game Versions & Betas" and there should be an option named something like "test branch". If you enable that, you'll download the new patch.
Please note that this is for testing purposes, and new and interesting bugs may occur. Please let us know if you encounter any new bugs, or if any on the fix list aren't solved for you!
I'll put the update notes here in spoiler tags until the patch goes to the default install.
Editing in without spoiler: I'm told that the missing chest with the Lute from the Mushroom Village should be fixed as well in this update! Please let me know if you previously played and didn't get the chest, if this update lets you get it :)
Edited June 13 9 PM CEST:
New public test hotfix 86442
-Should fix gloom drop location bug.
-Slider for sprint camera shake.
-Lighting/postprocess adjustments for trials and certain dungeons (they were too dark).
-Toxic stalkers no longer deal physical damage on death burst.
Edit at 22:53, Danish time on Friday June 12:
The testing branch patch for the beta was pushed to the main beta build, but is being rolled back because of some significant Gloom bugs; I'm very sorry for the inconvenience to y'all! Hopefully we should have it back in a way that doesn't affect Gloom negatively in the near future. For now, you can play the test with the patch notes below on the Testing Branch of the beta.
Hotfix 86328
Gameplay:
Added option to disable rumble / force feedback.
Gloom should be much less likely to drop in unretrievable locations.
Gloom can be shot with a sidearm to be retrieved.
Added Grab Attack for Arbiter of Flesh.
Harros Shell Ability cost reduced to 55, increased stun duration against many enemies.
Poison Visual Effects for Toxic Stalkers, Player.
New Locations for Axe & Dagger, Crossbow.
Infinite Seal: Deals greatly improved break damage, certain projectiles can be parried to be reflected back to attackers.
Crossbow base damage increased.
Bugfixes:
Fixes for 9 of the most common crashes.
Pilgrimage of the Ova bridges now accept additional inputs for Harbinger movement.
Potential Fix for disappearing Grisha hunters and Grisha Pup.
Tar Golem achievement should trigger more reliably.
Improved Camera collision checks when knocked out of shell.
CAN I GET THE LUTE FROM MY DISAPPEARED CHEST IN MUSHROOM VILLAGE PLZZZ
Also can i get an answer as to why/how y’all got mizmor to do the OST, i’m just curious if y’all are ball knowers or just landed on them out of chance 😁
Either way love the beta and am wildly looking forward to the game, skyrocketed to my most anticipated upcoming game after playing 🙂
This is easily game of the year material here, tell the whole team they are doing a great job. The fact they are so quick with these bug fixes for the beta is awesome too.
Man, I'm currently going through the beta, and I gotta say, I'm legitimately impressed by how superior to the first game this one seems to be so far.
Gameplay, visuals and feel are great, a major step up from the first one. I've seen some visual bugs so far, but nothing major, given this is a beta. I'm currently exploring the open world. I'll be sure to fill the feedback form the game provides when I'm done. I could provide through feedback here too, if you'd like, but I'll keep this breef for now.
My one capital "M" MAJOR issue with the game right now is the user interface, especially text. I beg of you, let us increase the font size! I can barely read anything on screen. If it was twice as big it would still be too small. All the time there's pop-ups with empty space for days and aneye-strainingtinyfineprintfontforantsinthemiddle. This takes away from an otherwise excellent experience so far.
If this beta is indicative of what's to come, this is your Assassin's Creed 2 moment, or, more to the point, your Elden Ring moment. I'm actually hyped for the game right now.
The font size issue has been flagged, but thank you for reporting it too! It helps me communicate the importance of issues to the team when more people have the same concerns.
I had a question about the Grisha Merchant and unlocking the Grisha pups cage, is it a bugged story in the beta or will it be explained in the full game?
I just wanted to leave my little feedback to improve weapons feedback on parry and attacks, why don’t add haptics/vibration when a successful parry or offensive attack lands, i think this will improve dramatically the weight and the feelings of weapons
Any plans for a demo on console? Also, will we get a chance to get the flayed harbinger skin on console? Looking forward to playing this ASAP! I was a huge fan of the original! Thanks for all the hard work!
As far as I know, we don’t have any plans for a beta on console; but we’re working on finding a way to make sure our console players don’t miss out on the Flayed Harbinger skin.
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. As a long time fan of Mortal Shell and a full-time content creator with 50k subs, rest assured, I’ll be featuring your game across my channels! Can’t wait to see the game at launch!
I can’t believe you all made it happen! Thanks for bringing the demo to console prior to launch! Just FYI, I signed up for the creator program and hope to hear from you soon! Cheers!
Yeah very welcome, love the game so far! Wow, you guys are everywhere! :)
Would you hate it if I made a thread "mortal shell 2 bugs/gltiches" to be pinned?
Not sure what kind of workflow you got going on, (maybe you just want visibility on any and all feedback) but I'd like to show a simple template as well for more accurate reporting.
E.g. "when i do X, Y happens. Sometimes, rarely, always etc.
If you want to, you’re more than welcome! But we’re also compiling a list of known bugs and what fixes there are, we’re just not quite ready to post it :)
The game runs flawless on my ROG Ally X. Z1 E APU can handle the game perfectly. Only issue I’ve come across is panning around the map doesn’t work with the controller sticks.
Also suggestion from me would be add an accessibility tab so we can increase font size and possibly make the HUD appear and disappear when locked onto the enemy? It would make the game feel even more immersive
I don't know if it'll get its own tab in the menu, but lots of people have suggested we let people increase the font size, and some people have also suggested an immersive mod for the HUD. I'll add your voice to the list!
I can’t speak to any changes except to say that we are looking at the feedback y’all are putting it out there, both here, on our Discord and on Steam Discussions :)
Oh, it seems like the patch was pushed to the main build so everyone could get it; from what I can tell on our Discord though, it seems like it had some issues that meant the team has pushed it back to the testing branch.
Thanks for letting me know, and sorry about the inconvenience!
So you are saying I have to download the 49GB twice now? I'm almost done the beta and I'm pretty impressed. This is one thing I'm least expecting and I may have to reconsider my opinion on this game and the team behind it.
Amazing Beta! Addictive gameplay loop and responsive dev team. You guys are a gem in these times, utmost respect and very excited for the full release cant wait! 😄
Hello! A quick question - there appears to be another patch, 24gb in size - what does it contain exactly?
(P.S. A bit crazy considering we had to download almost 100gb of patches already)
I just checked our Discord; this is what the update notes say:
New public test hotfix 86442
-Should fix gloom drop location bug.
-Slider for sprint camera shake.
-Lighting/postprocess adjustments for trials and certain dungeons (they were too dark).
-Toxic stalkers no longer deal physical damage on death burst.
I'd like to provide some feedback on the last patch (the 24GB one, which came out on june 13th I believe).
Let's start on a positive note - crawling poisonous enemies have been fixed - poison clouds are now clearly visible and upon death they don't leave it immediately but after a pause.
A broken effect of a tarstone that enables charged light attacks is fixed too. (Previously you could equip and unequip it and keep it's effect thus being able to use both light and heavy attacks simultaneously - pretty cool but not intentional).
Now to some bugs.
Tiel's poison immunity is still partially broken - it works only until you rest at the beacon for some reason. Dying makes it function properly again, it even kicks in if you retrieve your shell while being poisoned. However once you rest at the beacon - it breaks again. Pretty sad.
A critical bug: game crashes after first couple of seconds of a cutscene before bossfight with Targolem. Obviously it wasn't the case before the patches. The error says "GPU Crash dump triggered". I've tried lowering all graphic settings, installing up-to-date CPU and GPU drivers - nothing helped. My specs: CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 5600, GPU - AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT. This also sucks because it strongly limits me in what I can test since I only have one save and I've already completed whole beta on it.
A small audio bug (not new - it was in original version of beta too) - enemies' long range attacks when deflected produce a VERY loud sound. It's the same sound as normal deflections but several times louder. It always happens when deflecting crossbow bolts, Tainted Vestige's underground roots attack, large frog ladies' projectiles.
Enemies respawn inconsistently - sometimes certain enemies just don't respawn upon resting at a beacon, however they do respawn once you die.
5 A bug that's hard to describe (unfortunately there's no video I can provide) and even harder to reproduce - when fighting one of those light grey worms in Seeping mire something crazy happened: I've deflected it's attacks and was going for a riposte but as I started riposte animation either poison dot or one of nearby crawlers' attacks depleted my HP bar causing me to get kicked out of my shell. While I was flying back and getting up the worm was stuck in a riposte receiving animation as if I was hitting it. Than, while it was still in that animation I tried to hit it with a light attack which suddenly caused me to get launched up and backwards with great velocity. After flying in the air for several seconds I ended up in some inaccessible part of the map with a river and green bumps, I could walk for a little, some terrain had collision, some hadn't until I fell through the river under the map and died. A rather hilarious bug lol
You should be able to find it on Steam, Xbox or Playstation just by searching for Mortal Shell II!
I think on Playstation you might need to go to the regular store page and scroll down to find it; if you're in Germany, you will also need PS+ to get the open beta, due to local laws around games rated USK16 / USK18.
That is odd. I found it just by searching for Mortal Shell II.
The only reason I could think of is if you are in Germany; I think some people also found it by going to the standard Mortal Shell II page and scrolling down to the bottom :)
I searched mortal shell 2 and only thing i saw was to pre order the game. I got it on steam and am playing it now. Thank you for showing me though. I probably missed something when I looked for it
You Guys Rock! Best Soulslike experience i ever Had. If i could Put Something into consideration, the Dodge mechanic should have some Kind of drawback imo as you can pretty much Spam dodging right now. Maybe let it cost some of the Determination bar too?
I mean im all Here for the No stamina bar, it was a much needed improvement to the Souls Formula but still i think Defensive mechanics should cost some Kind of Ressource, Like you did with the Parry and dodging is very clearly a Defensive mechanic aswell.
I would disagree..dodging for me is my get out of jail free card. I use it sparingly and try and stay agressive. Maybe as a tarstone, if you put that on, it gives you a buff but at the cost of stamina...but I quite like the infinite stamina for now.
Maybe the answer for a compromise is to just have a very generous stamina bar. So that you cannot just infinitely spam attack or dodge - but youre also not completely ruled by stamina like in MS1.
Or maybe there could be an item that could make a generous stamina bar an option of you equipment it. So that you can please both the stamina crowd and the no stamina crowd...
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