Patch 1.0.8 changes began 12th March 2018, on the Steam version of the game. Updates to the game version were finished once all planned major updates were completed. During 1.0.8, in April 2018, the first DLC for White Pearl was released to Steam - titled "Chronicle Edition" for free. The full DLC cannot be released outside of Steam due to the high file size. However, the updated official guide and manual from Chronicle Edition will be released here as a separate package. 

The "Game Manual" and "Official Guide" downloads will be removed as a result. These downloads are outdated.

*The updated official game manual and guide downloads are already available on the rpgmaker.net release.

[SO] = Steam Only. Means that the bug (or change) was only present on the Steam version of the game, and is meaningless to players who download White Pearl outside of Steam - as the fix (or change) would already be effective in this patch.

Release date and where:

Patch 1.0.8 will be releasing to itch.io and rpgmaker.net, on the 23rd of May 2018, late GMT time.

The final updates to 1.0.8 will be released on Steam around the same day. 

Updated for Changes at June 26-30 (Steam Only).

See the last notes for "Events".

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Patch 1.0.8 Notes

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Fixes

- Some collision errors fixed, and reported bugs resolved.

- A glitch and spelling error has been addressed in Chapter 8-9.

- A glitch wherein Rowan would still appear by Kolan Cave - Path to the Mountain after Chapter 6, and during Pearlto's Perspective in Chapter 10 has been addressed. Because of this, access into Kolan Cave - Lost Memory is now accessible.

- Transportation issues with the location, Falcon Cave - Beast's Rest after the Lesser Chimera is defeated and the teleporter used, have been  fixed.

- You can no longer cancel the option to activate the levers at Ancarna Mines, making the sequence of events halt as a result.

- The tileset for the Tower of Souls has been adjusted with corrected collision on certain objects.

- [SO] Issues regarding the Cover skill crashing the game have been fixed.

- [SO] The tileset for Breka has been adjusted with corrected collision on certain objects.

- [SO] Allies' names in battle no longer appear over the target information window.

Changes

Skills

- All ally skills now show their respective potencies in their tooltips:

*In accordance with this change, sometimes potency is abbreviated as "P", similar to how "cooldown" is abbreviated as "CL" and "charge" as "CH" - to fit within the tooltip text box. Most skill tooltips have been altered or reformatted due to this change.

About Potency

When a skill has a potency, that is it's base damage number.

Please note, this value is used in the overall calculation of the damage of an attack - not the final value of the attack itself. 

You simply use potencies as a way to measure the damage impact of a skill.

Ally

Pearlto - Paladin

Provoke (skill shared with U'vharr)

- MP cost reduced from 10 to 5.

- Now adds the effect of "Cover" onto the user.

- Now has a cooldown of 2 turns.

Makeshift Medic

- MP cost reduced from 9 to 2.

- Now grants a one turn resistance to Bleed and Fracture. 

The resistance will be bestowed regardless if the effects have been removed by the skill or not.

Katkin - Lancer

Leaden Thrust

- Chance to inflict Reverse Hasten increased from 55% to 100%.

- Can now deal critical damage.

Aspected Heal, Restore, Rejuvenate

- Can now allow critical HP restore.

Aspected Prayer, Aspected Rejuvenation

- Can now allow critical HP restore.

About Critical HP Restore

This is the same as critical strikes; the final value is multiplied by 1.5. The chance of this happening is affected by the user's LUK stat.

Elrise - Pugilist

Decoy

- Additional effect of increasing EVA by 20% for 3 turns has been added.

Elsay - White Mage

Round Swing

- Base potency increased from 125 to 255.

- MP cost reduced from 22 to 18.

- Charge time negated.

- Can now deal critical damage.

Revive

- MaxHP percentage restored to the target has been increased from 22% to 35%.

Heal II, Restore II

- Can now allow critical HP restore.

Mend Body

Now grants a one turn resistance to Bleed, Fracture and Crippled.

The resistance will be bestowed regardless if the effects have been removed by the skill or not.

Cure

Now grants a one turn resistance to Poison, Blind and Silence.

The resistance will be bestowed regardless if the effects have been removed by the skill or not.

Elyswer- Bard

Song of Valor

- Charge time removed.

Wide Volley

- Animation will now play on all enemies all at once.

- Charge time removed.

Syncopation

- Now has a cooldown of 2 turns.

U'vharr - Warrior

Reverse Courage, Reverse Faith

- Potency increased from 25 to 80.

Beserk (shared with Walt)

- Defense reduction effect reduced from 35%, to 23%.

Cassopeia - Black Mage

Magic Expose

- Potency increased from 20 to 220.

*In accordance with this change, the tooltip for the skill has been altered from "deals small dark  damage", to "deals moderate dark damage".

Spark

- Potency increased from 150 to 180.

*As such, the tooltip for the skill has been altered from "deals lightning damage", to "deals reasonable lightning damage".

Reverse Protect, Reverse Shell, Reverse Hasten

- Potency increased from 25 to 80.

Kurone - Mythologist

Holy Up, Dark Up, Fire Up, Ice Up, Wind Up, Earth Up

- The cooldown timer has been removed from these skills.

Wind of Healing

- The HP restore potency has been increased from 180 to 360.

*In accordance with this change, the tooltip of the skill has been altered from "slightly restores all allies' HP" to "restores all allies HP".

- The additional effect of:  "has a 35% chance to bestow Lesser Hasten on allies" has been changed to "has a 35% chance to bestow Hasten on allies".

- MP cost increased from 0 to 15.

Splash

- Potency increased from 150 to 180.

- Now inflicts Water Resistance Down (10%).

Earth

- Potency increased from 150 to 180.
- Now inflicts Earth Resistance Down (10%).

Wind (skill shared with Elrise and Alberio)

- Potency increased from 150 to 200.

- Now has a cooldown of 2 turns.

Element

- Potency increased from 150 to 180.

- Now decreases all elemental resistances by 10 upon effect.

- Can now deal critical damage.

- Now has a cooldown of 4 turns.

Redlac - Dawntreader

Detonation, Ice Spikes, Thunderstorm

- Charge time removed.

General Actions

Guard

- Now restores 2% of the user's MaxHP and MP upon use.

Guest Skills

Expanding Horizons (belonging to Claire and Rowan)

- Now grants an additional turn the next turn.

Enemy

Stats of the following enemies have been adjusted:

Incomplete Minion of Magtek:

- MAT reduced from 150 to 100.

Image of Darkheart:

- ATK reduced from 120 to 100.

Purple Centipede:

- ATK reduced from 95 to 85.

Skills belonging to the following enemies have been adjusted:

Purple Centipede - Ascending Claw

- The priority of the skill has been reduced; thereby lowering the chance for the skill to get executed over others.

Events

- An option to skip the tutorial has been added:

- All major shop vendors no longer require for you to scroll through their dialogue before the shop window appears; it will happen automatically within 60 frames.

- The free levels given at Chapter 6 to U'vharr's party can now choose to be distributed to Pearlto's Party, U'vharr's Party, or you can deny the free levels entirely: 

- Rowan no longer gives the player the Locate Boat item at Chapter 10, as the item is automatically obtained when you obtain the boat in Chapter 2.

- When exiting from Ancarna Inn, the player will now automatically face downwards.

Content added from June 26-30 2018, available on Steam:

- After the climax at Chapter 11, additional scenes concerning A'thir's past and motives were added based on events that previously transpired in the game:

- In addition, scenes with A'thir conversing his plans with Darkheart have been added:

The main ending of the game has been adjusted significantly.

The changes are as follows:

- New music has been added for the first scene of the ending, that plays in sync with the cutscene. 

- Additional dialogue has been added to already existing scenes on the main ending:

- A message now appears telling the user that dialogue is unable to be affected by user input in the ending, and is set it's own speed. In accordance with this change, the wait time before text advances in that particular scene has been increased by several seconds for all dialogue.

- Predetermined text speed is now only effective for the first scene of the ending - previously it was for all scenes. This means that you can now read through to your own leisure until the credits movie:

- Creator notes have been added on the main ending area, one such note stating the presence of an alternate ending available to experience:

UI

- A graphic has been added for when selecting party members on the Party Menu:

- Highlight effect rate increased.
- Allies' names now appear on their portraits in battle:

- Animation rate of HP and MP numbers values adjusted.
- Spacing decreased between active states in battle.
- The height of the battle skill window has been increased:

- The height of the battle item window has been increased:

Dialogue & Cutscenes

Spelling grammar, and progression of cutscenes (CS) has been improved to the following instances:
"+" means additional dialogue has been added. "-->" shows the current dialogue, highlighting the difference from before.

Intro: CS Pearlto waking up: Pearlto: "Better get myself ready." --> "It's best that I get ready to go to the briefing."

Adventurer's Guild: Interaction with General: Asking about hunt (where to go); a spelling error has been in this dialogue: "eastenmost" --> "easternmost".

Falcon: Weapon Shop NPC: [...] "when you can just end it quickly." --> "when you can just end it quickly?"

Falcon Fields: Merchant, when asking about precautions in the cave - the help text about fleeing has been altered to: "Pressing ESC during combat brings up the Master Battle Commands menu, which allows you to flee from battle."

Beast's Rest: CS Katkin Fighting: Katkin: "You, help me kill this beast!" --> "Pearlto? So you came! Help me kill this beast!"
"Pearlto...! Wow, I am surprised to see you." --> "Regardless, Pearlto, I am surprised to see you."

Falcon: CS Elrise + Elsay joining: Elrise: "After that, the mines and we are there." --> Elrise: "After the desert, we traverse through the mines and we've reached the town." 
Elsay: "Thank you so much for helping us. Our king is diagnosed with the most pecuilar illness and we do not know-" --> Now waits 60 frames before progressing onto the next text box.

Ottrea: CSTowerAppear: Kurone: "By the Gods..." --> "I'm glad we got out of that alive."
+ Cassopeia: "Didn't Pearlto lose the Pearl to the guard at Valen's gates? What was his name? Eric... I think."
+ U'vharr: "Well, he must've got it back somehow."

- And more spelling and grammar errors have been corrected!

A Note about the Dialogue Corrections

This is not the last of the dialogue changes! Constant updates will be made to the dialogue in game which, of course, will be issued to Steam first. Because this is the type of testing that will require me to go through the game with a fine tooth comb, changes may be made far between. For example, I make a correction on dialogue. I will not update the Steam version immediately upon making this correction. I will wait until more corrections are made and important updates can be developed. This is to make it less annoying to the players.

Assets

Kurone's Research Aura Book:

- Spelling has been corrected: "unsirprisingly" --> "unsurprisingly". 

Opposing Forces Lore Book:

- Spelling has been corrected: "they Dawntreaders" --> "The Dawntreaders".

Sound

- Battle BGM for The Underground has changed, now seamless with the area BGM.

- Music now plays in Division of Worlds.

- The main ending area BGM has been replaced with the same music used for the alternate ending area.

New Content

Locations

[Released 12th March 2018 on Steam]

Two new locations added:
- The Reaches of Kolan
- Breka Town

The locations are unlocked after Chapter 6 (once the Tower of Darkness is cleared).

On the world map:

In game:

Special items can be bought or obtained from these two areas. Look at the updated official guide for more information.

*A fee of 300G is required to progress further through The Reaches of Kolan.

New skill added: Banish

- Deals high holy damage with a potency of 400 to one enemy.

- MP Cost: 15

- Cooldown: 3 turns.

- Acquired by Elsay and Kurone at level 20.

*Players who have passed this level before the update will be unable to acquire the skill.

Other Changes

- README updated with recent credits and release information of the game as well as listing cut content from the game.

- The splash screen redesigned, and recent news has been added and updated.

- Screen ratio adjustment options have been added. They can be activated using F5/F6.

- [SO] Compatibility with Chronicle Edition.