Salt and Sacrifice Update 2.02 – Patch Notes on December 11, 2023

Weapon and armor balance

• Slower weapon scaling and target damage increased.
• Hyper armor added to heavy attacks for greathammers, greatblades, greatswords, and glaives, allowing them to withstand more poise damage before being interrupted.
• Whip scaling and target damage increased.
• Poison and Fungal weapon damage increased.
• Tarcloth weapon buffs duration increased by 87.5%.
• Wearing light armor and no armor adds a burst of stamina recovery per slot.
• Buffed blocking of all weapons.
• Buffed blocking of vanguards even more.
• Greathammer sprint attack damage reduced but poise damage increased.
• Various weapon damage and poise balance.
• Increased fungal amulet effect.
• Runic arts damage when using staves has been slightly increased.

Player balance

• Endurance now adds additional poise per slot of heavy armor worn.
• Being hazeburnt no longer decreases hitpoints. Instead, being guiltless (non-hazeburnt) increases defense and item find chance.
• Players can now change their aim direction when not firing/throwing.
• Flask drinking speed and healing speed has been increased.
• Ladder climbing speed has been increased.
• Antidote cures all poison on use.

Monster balance

• Reduced juggle damage from monsters by 50% on subsequent hits.
• Reduced poise damage of a variety of smaller monsters.
• Ashen Congregant damage has been reduced.
• Temple Highblade damage has been reduced.
• Mages will only partially heal on player death or rest.
• Reduced Kraeaxenar breath attack damage. Fixed damage type.
• Reduced Electromancer homing bolt turn speed.
• Trials of the Brave monster tiers are now agnostic of NG+ level.
• Increased Salt + artifact awards from final boss.
• Removed Candlebearer spawn outside of Worm That Does Not Die arena.
• Various monster and minion balance tweaks to outliers.
• Nameless who end up in a boss arena should quickly leave now.
• Hazeburnt enemies will spawn together less frequently and no longer guard ledges forever.

Quality of Life

• Hearthen flasks, haze decoctions, and ranged ammo will always replenish to max when restocking but missing materials costs will be deducted from current player silver amount at a 10% markup. Materials are still maxed if the player lacks the silver for the materials.
• Stamina will continue to regenerate when sprinting outside of combat.
• Skill tree hints highlight nodes for required class level and runic art abilities for the currently equipped weapons and armor.
• Dying by falling will drop salt at the point the player jumped and not where they landed.
• Defeating the final boss no longer locks the player into ascending to NG+.
• Added inventory sorting.

Multiplayer

• Enemies no longer deal increased damage when cooperating with additional players.
• Fast traveling will automatically bring along all ally players.
• Dawnlight players will get a token when helping the host defeat roaming mages.
• PVP bonus damage from items and buffs has been adjusted based on the target’s level.
• Flasks are now scaled independently of other equipment.
• Invaders and defenders will have a max of 2/3 * (Host’s Hearthen Flasks+1).
• Fixed a bug that could cause the 20-minute invasion cooldown to be much shorter.
• Fixed a bug that could cause network players to desync in the Heart of Altarstone.
• Fixed a bug that could cause some players to be invisible to each other.

Misc Bugs

• Fixed a bug where killing the Undone Sacrifice with a critical riposte caused issues.
• Left stick aiming will no longer override right stick aiming.
• Fixed a bug where players could not climb certain stairs when aiming, blocking, or attacking.
• Fixed mouse aiming when the game resolution and game window size didn’t match.
• Fixed a bug that could get the game into an improper aspect ratio causing the game to stretch or squish and some UI elements to become off-center.
• Fixed UI scale settings causing the skill tree to render outside the screen bounds.

Source: Salt and Sacrifice