We've applied many fixes, balance changes, and quality-of-life improvements based on user feedback. Please see the full list below. You can also talk to us and other players directly on Discord https://discord.gg/skastudios
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 a
We've applied many fixes, balance changes, and quality-of-life improvements based on user feedback. Please see the full list below. You can also talk to us and other players directly on Discord https://discord.gg/skastudios
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
This patch is for those playing Salt and Sanctuary through the Epic Games Launcher.
Fix for save games sometimes being lost.
Fix for game settings sometimes resetting.
Fix for achievements not always unlocking.
Fix for the game not launching on some PCs.
Increased online interaction for message bottles, gravestones, boss candles, etc.
Game version number has been changed to match the current Epic Store version number.
Details
Save games will no longer be lost or overwritten, but save slot 1 will be deleted as part of this patch. This was sadly unavoidable but it was the only way to ensure saves wouldn’t continue to become randomly overwrit
Edit 2: Clearly, something is up with cloud saves all of a sudden. I've requested Epic to disable them but I don't know how long that will take so please follow the first step for how to back up your saves manually. Edit: Some players have reported cloud saves not containing all their file saves on first sync. I've added a new first step to the instructions to back up the files to be safe.
Salt and Sanctuary on Epic Games Store Save Issues
Some players have reported losing a save game on the Epic Games Store version of Salt and Sanctuary due to an issue with the originally deployed game package. To mitigate this issue, we’ve enabled Cloud Saves to automatically back-up charac
If you're having problems getting Salt and Sanctuary to run from the Epic Games Launcher, please download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable for x86 here until we can get it added to the installer. This is a dependency of the x86 version of Epic Online Services, which some users are missing.
Users have reported save games being overwritten or corrupted. This seems to be related to the first game save slot, which contains a character the first time the game is installed with 2 minutes and 33 seconds of playtime. We're working to come up with a solution and will have a patch out ASAP.
Mitigation
In the meantime, to avoid losing your saved game, please do not delete or use the pre-installed knight player save found in the game with 2 minutes and 33 seconds of playtime. This corresponds to the \Program Files\Epic Games\SaltAndSanctuary\savedata\dat0.slv file. If you're already overwritten this file with your own character, or started playing this ch