Tainted Grail Releases Its ‘Biggest Update So Far’

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon just dropped its biggest update yet with patch v1.03, bringing a hefty round of fixes and improvements aimed at tightening up the overall experience. Alongside the patch, the team rolled out a fresh roadmap detailing what’s next for Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, and shared a pretty big sales milestone.

Tainted Grail launched on May 23 and has been gaining traction quickly, climbing the charts on Steam and earning a wave of strong reviews. The open-world RPG has been praised for its atmospheric storytelling and player freedom, and Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon recently managed to pass Oblivion Remastered in both Twitch viewership and review momentum.

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To further polish Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, the developer has released a big patch, v1.03, which brings several fixes. Some of the bigger issues, like crashes from vendor inventory resets and memory leaks tied to UI visuals, have been sorted out. A major save file bug that could break progress, especially when Steam wasn’t properly detected, now comes with new prompts that help resolve the problem. Lockpicking in Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon also got a performance fix that reduces memory usage, which should be a noticeable benefit for console players. Several quest blockers, including the ones in Monstrous Marriage and The Trial, have been fixed too.

In addition to technical fixes, this patch brings important quality-of-life updates to the game. It’s now possible to keep playing after the main story of the Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon finishes, and there are new safeguards in place to prevent key NPCs from being killed by accident. Summons and gear got a round of updates as well, with stat displays now clearer, upgrade balance improved, and summons behaving more reliably both in and out of combat. The patch also includes updated visuals, better spell effects, audio tweaks, and fixed lip-syncing across several regions.

Alongside the patch, the team shared a roadmap, giving a look at what’s in the pipeline for Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon. Weekly patches will continue, with a focus on bug fixes and performance tuning. Mod support is in active development and should be ready in around three to four weeks. A Steam Deck-friendly version is on the way too, aimed at improving stability for handheld players. The biggest update on the horizon is Patch 1.1, set for August, which will bring major content focused on the Forlorn Swords (Act 3) region. The studio also shared a major milestone, revealing that Tainted Grail has been very successful with over 450,000 copies sold so far across Steam and consoles.

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon v1.03 Update Patch Notes

Critical Fixes:

• Fixed one source of crashes. We have another crash fix in progress as well, but it needs more extensive testing before being pushed out to you guys
• (PC Missing Saves) The most common cause of missing saves on PC has been due to the game failing to find Steam and loading GoG or fallback saves. Last week, we added a pop-up informing you when Steam could not be found. This week, we have added a pop-up that asks you whether you want to move saves found in the other folders to your Steam folder automatically. We recommend that everyone migrate using the pop-up.
• Items with special effects have been optimized. This should help with performance for players further in the game or hoarders who have many unique items with them.
• Fixed a few memory leaks in our UI visuals
• A quest in the fields of Cuanacht will no longer permanently block player saving Monstrous Marriage)
• Lockpicking now uses the main camera. Significantly decreasing memory footprint is especially important on consoles.

Most Requested:

• After finishing the game, you can now choose to keep playing and explore the world further or to quit.
• Added kill prevention to some essential NPCs in Cuanacht and Forlorn Swords regions. The player will now have to intentionally execute them, preventing accidental murders by the player or other enemies
• Prevented enemies from shooting backwards when the player dodges behind them
• Added an option in the fireplace to bring Qrko back when it’s lost.
• Visual change for spells such as Impenetrable Shield, Mystic Ward, and Arcane Aegis.
• (Items) Item weight is now displayed to two decimal places for very light items; otherwise, it remains rounded to one decimal place.
• (Items) Rebalanced upgrading of 53 different Weapons so that they gain both damage and improve their special effects
• (Items) Added item effect gains upon upgrading in handcrafted sets
• (Items) Rebalanced armor weight loss when upgrading
• (Summons) Fixed player summons sometimes not attacking when outside of player FoV
• (Summons) Fixed player summons not attacking NPCs that are, by default, non-hostile towards the player, but the player is engaged in combat with them
• (Summons) From now on, summons should be able to exit interiors with you
• (Summons) Disabled collisions with player summons outside combat
• Retroactively fixed dialogue flow with Barlaam in the quest “The Trial”

Achievements:

• Fixed conditions for the Crown of Ashes achievement/trophy
• Fixed conditions for And My Axe! achievement/trophy
• Fixed: Honor Over Life achievement/trophy was blocked if the Brothers in Arms quest was completed despite the player not giving all dog tags to the Quartermaster. If you were affected by this bug, now you can come back to Quartermaster and give him the remaining dog tags despite completing the quest earlier to obtain the Honor Over Life achievement/trophy. Ninian’s dog tag is now required for the Brothers in Arms quest. Pate’s dog tag is not required anymore for the Honor Over Life achievement/trophy

Quests (Warning! Possible Spoilers):

• (Spoiler: HoS Main Quest) Yorath will no longer die after 7 hours in-game if you convince him to leave HoS
• Dialogue fix, some options in Drest’s dialogue would end it prematurely, blocking further progress
• Unholy Matrimony can be completed if NPCs are killed before talking to them.
• Denholm now gives the correct reward for the quest “Forging a Path”

• The player will now be able to ask Asgall about Tom only once.
• The Extinction of the Weak quest marker should correctly target Dolf.
• Stitch By Stitch quest markers and respawning ores fixed.
• See no Evil quest markers fixed.
• Fixed NPC Abner’s dialogue lines.
• Divided we Fall and Arthur’s Crown interactions and non-linear flow improved.
• The Old Letter should be found only in one specific place.
• A Carnation to Remember can be finished after finishing other quests.
• Blade in the Shadows can be completed if you decide to collect the bounty before talking to the NPC.
• Fixed “Deep Calleth Upon Deep” quest. The chest will no longer stay in the inventory.
• Fixed dialogue flow for quest “The Weight of Honor”
• Petition The Lord quest should correctly lead the player
• Cuckoo’s Egg failed task can lead to failing a quest.
• Over My Dead Bodies consequences.
• The Silent Burden quest should give rewards, and its progression should be more straightforward
• Denholm will now correctly pay the player for his silence in the quest: Burdening Letter
• The player will no longer be able to continuously speak with Brother Vitus about abortion
• Removed some incorrect dialogue from Lile
• Fixed an issue where the player could not lie to Rigby when delivering his book.
• Fixed Eira’s dialogues after she returns home.
• Fixed an issue where the player couldn’t progress the Stonewardens questline if they sold Kvorr’s Amulet. The recipe will be restored to players who lost it upon entering the Forlorn Swords.
• (Spoiler: Brotherly Love) Fixed a bug where exiting the conversation with Rob before asking about his grandfather would block progress.
• (Spoiler: Alchemists) The Alchemists questline can be continued after killing Dolf by reading his research.
• (Spoiler: Sweet Dreams) Nest portal should now be easier to interact with

Audio:

• Fixed Giant Sentinel audio volume levels
• Fixed the sounds of Vilekin’s Eldritch Reaver, which is guarding the Pict’s Hideout in Act 3
• Fixed the audio length of one of the Rune’s lines.
• Resolved an issue where Skuld would begin to speak but immediately stop when approaching the gate in Theuds Village within the Ghost Realm.
• Wyrdness music event update – improved layer adaptation for dynamic transitions
• There should now be combat music while fighting the boss in Sagremor Castle

Texts & VO:

• Added multiple missing VOs
• (JP) Added another BIG batch of missing Japanese localization for dialogues (Forlorn Swords/Whispers). That should cover probably 99% of the missing dialogue loc. Any left missing will be added soon.

• Fixed descriptions of several items (Great Mistake, Chatterblade Fragments, Heiko’s Crumble, Oldsteel Fang, Hollow Core)
• Fixed Absorption spell description to properly state Mana Shield as a percentage value
• Fixed Spell Syphon talent description
• Added description of Skull Knight’s Blade Sword

Technical:

• Fixed an edge case that prevented all hero attacks from happening. Most often happened on fast travel from the bonfire to a different map

• (New) Swimming in the ocean should now take waves into consideration
• Fixed an issue where some enemies could disappear at certain angles after death.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from attacking after switching loadouts while lumbering.
• The sometimes-missing VFX on player hands while wielding magic should always be visible now
• Fixed controller vibrations breaking in some cases
• Fixed various two-handed axes not properly registering heavy attacks on lumbering spots.
• (New) Item tooltips now accurately reflect player stats when requirements aren’t met, making stat comparisons easier in shops, crafting, relics, and upgrades.
• Resolved performance issues on PlayStation 5 in Dungeon Galahad
• Added two new debug console commands: template.revive-npc and memory.clear-faction-unforgivable-crime. Provided as is.
• (Future) A fix for the infinite selling of an item will land in the next patch. So, build your piles of gold and items before then. You can always use mods if you really want to have infinite amounts of any item

Gameplay:

• Added Marrowghast helmet recipe to Ukko’s shop
• Fixed Arcane Mace item Mana Cost
• Fixed stat increases when upgrading certain armors (Alisa set, Festering set, Flayed Drowner‘s set, Spellslinger’s set)
• Increased effects of individual parts of the Archdruid set
• Fixed Gem of Dodge not properly decreasing Dash Cooldown
• Fixed ReusableResources Talent sometimes duplicating all of the currently held Ethereal Cobwebs
• Fixed Galahad’s Mace sometimes not applying Burn on hit
• Deirdre’s chest can no longer be opened with a lockpick
• Changed Arnulf’s loot in Smuggler’s Bay
• Sour Herring and Cheese no longer decreases the encumbrance limit when eaten
• Added a player’s room to the Children of Morrigan hideout.
• Fixed Weightbound spell affecting hero summons
• Buffed Bors in Sagremor Castle
• Fixed Heiko’s Crumble description and effects
• Update the Tidepiercer projectile collision
• Fixed projectiles made by Scourge Of The Seas and Tidepiercer occasionally not hitting enemies
• Rebalanced and fixed Bear’s Claw to be in line with other items of its tier
• Fixed Severing Ray sometimes using Light Cast logic when being Heavy Casted
• Giant’s Club is no longer a usable weapon

Misc

• Frostgrots are now considered animals
• Moved the location of copper ore in Ulfr Village
• Fixed a diggable chest in Gunnnvaldr Village
• Qrko will now be more aligned with the ground it’s standing on.
• The campfire mistakenly affected the player’s total weight. Not anymore!
• Improved level-up notification
• Improved quest notification
• Fixed interaction with the alchemy station in the Tomb of the Good Druid
• Fixed an issue whereby a player could fall outside the water in one of the Cuanacht rivers
• Journal was not counting summon’s kills
• Fixed bonfires in Cuanacht
• Fixed wyrdstone mining in Cuanacht dungeons

Visual Changes:

• Human summons are wearing proper summon markings on their clothes
• Blind status VFX rework
• Fixed missing lip movement for some speaking characters.
• Updated Foredweller, Remor Mage, and Wight attack VFXs to better represent their actual area of effect
• Fixed VFX charge explosion on Snail
• Fixed distortion Y-offset on Bonefires
• Fixed mask layer of Bonefire (fire visible from the top)
• Guards in Cuanacht will now wear helmets.
• Dark clouds are no longer visible in Dungeon Frig
• Fixed color issues in the effects Flickerbolt, ThunderLash, and Stormpiercer.
• Updated visual effects for the Mistbearer boss fight.
• Additional VFX AOE for Archmage and Wight enemies
• Fixed bounds in vfx FloatingSnow
• Fixed bounds in vfx CompanionLight
• Fixed the bug with the elevator chain in Corrupted Temple
• Blocked unused doors with boards in the Horns of the South castle
• Fixed trees placed in the wrong places in HOS and Forlorn
• Ghosts with hair should render correctly after game load.
• Fixed the issue where wheat was generated underwater in Cuanacht.
• Added missing DepthFadeCard under the ladder in Broch
• Killing planes have been added to high places in Sagremor Castle, and the rock embedded in the floor in the underground section has been removed.
• VFX Heart of the Plague visibility of the debris layer
• Fixed a floor gap near the portal in Prolog Jail
• Fixed the issue with the furnace clipping through the floor in the player’s house in Cuanacht
• Improve the Snow Explosion effect used in Cold Magic.
• Updated visual effects for the Tidepiercer slash explosion
• Updated the visual in the Wyrdspawn Dead event.
• Tidepiercer coatings fix
• Drain of Vigor visual update
• Projectile trails tweaks
• Added visual effects to signal ore acquisition when destroying it.
• Tweak VFX when activating souls in the Resurrection Room.
• Conchur’s beard now moves when he talks.
• Updated Gytha’s appearance.
• Úlfr Tribesfolk NPCs now wear helmets.
• Fixed floating coins and removed objects located outside the map in the Dungeon_Crypt_Small level.

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon

8/10

Released

May 23, 2025

ESRB

Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Language, Use of Drugs

Developer(s)

Questline

Publisher(s)

Awaken Realms

Engine

Unity