Stray Blade (PC Steam, Epic, PS5 & Xbox Series X|S) Patch 1.6 (2023 May 16)

Boss Fixes & Tweaks

The Intium General

• The Intium General is now invulnerable before being activated to prevent activation by hitting him.
• General improvements to his combat behavior, tweaking his attacks and patterns.

Tezuth the Champion

• Tezuth no longer follows the player into the abyss.

End Boss

• The invisible volumes around the arena were adjusted, so the boss should no longer be able to die from fall damage.

Combat Adjustments

• The dodge range backward has been increased for slightly improved mobility.
• Farren will no longer take damage from all enemies when successfully parrying.
• Simultaneous attacks by multiple enemies have been removed unless triggered by proximity.
• The tolerance window for receiving energy restoration on dodges has been increased.
• The exploit of using infinite Xhinnon Vision attacks with the "Serpent and Viper"-weapon has been removed.

Collectibles & Exploration

• The Story Note "No progress" in Tamed Peaks won't vanish any longer.
• The Flux Fungus at Heaven's Climb Temple was moved inside the temple.
• Increased radius for collecting dropped loot.
• Unintended path within the Seething Wastelands was fixed, as it led to a critical sequence break that blocked further progress.

Other fixed Issues & Problems

• Boji's Skill Tree visuals for fully skilled attributes have been fixed.
• The "skill learnable"- animation for Boji's Skill Tree which sometimes didn't play has been fixed.
• A UI VFX animation has been added to the Energy Bar for when it is empty.
• The Health Bars of enemies that didn't display zero HP when they died have been fixed.
• The unintended "weapon chest collectible"- text which was visible on the map at the Stilted Plateau in the Seething Wastelands was removed.
• For Xbox players: a difficulty selection prompt on Continue Game was added when no difficulty has been selected before.