Lies of P Gets Another Update Reducing Difficulty, Adds Costumes

Abdul Saad

Publisher NEOWIZ and developer Round8 have released the patch notes for the update 1.3.0.0 of Lies of P. The update notably adds new costumes, including Alchemist’s Hat, Treasure Hunter’s Mask Treasure Hunter’s, Hunting Apparel, and the Illusory Emerald Glasses. The update noticeably tweaks gameplay to make an easier gaming experience for players. Changes include an increase to the damage of several weapons, changes to the spawn locations of some monsters and traps to fit better with the flow of the game, an increase to the damage of Fatal Attacks to better scale with the player’s stats, an increase to the duration of stance breaks for some monsters, and more. Lies of P is available now for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store. The game is also available on Xbox Game Pass.

The full patch notes via the publisher can be seen below:

Update Notes Version 1.3.0.0

New Features and Content

New costumes have been added to the game. After installing the latest update, the following items can be found in the ‘Equipment’ and ‘Bag’ menu.

‘Alchemist’s Hat’
‘Treasure Hunter’s Mask’
‘Treasure Hunter’s Hunting Apparel’
‘Illusory Emerald Glasses’

Added a new category to the Costume menu.

Now players can equip the ‘Mask’ and ‘Accessory’ together in the Hair section in the costume menu.

Short Grey Hair’ has been added to the game.

Available after reaching any of the game’s ending for the first time.
Available at ‘Geppetto’s Tools’.

Add a new option to adjust the Subtitle’s size.

Can be adjusted by [Settings -> Gameplay -> Subtitle size]

Balance and Content ImprovementsDecreased Field Difficulty

Adjusted the attack speed of some monsters to make their attack more intuitive.
Increased the duration of stance breaks for some monsters.
Adjusted the spawn locations of some monsters and traps to fit better with the flow of the game.

The P-Organ, ‘Rising Dodge’ has been changed to a default ability

Retain Guard Regain upon Pulse Cell use’ has been added to the P-Organ system to replace ‘Rising Dodge’.

Combat Balance Adjustments

Increased the damage of some weapons.
Increased some weapons to trigger stance breaks to monsters more frequently.
Now relatively lighter Blades will gain more ‘Guard Regain’, while heavier Blades gain less ‘Guard Regain’.
Decreased the delay after an attack and the time to charge a ‘Charge Attack’ for some heavy handles.
Now some heavier handles will have a faster attack speed depending on the assembled blade.
Adjusted the ‘Destruction Damage’ inflicted to monsets by a ‘Perfect Guard’.
The weapon ‘Puppet’s Saber Blade’ will now have increased stats after enhancing.
Increased the movement distance while using the ‘Proof of Humanity’ weapon’s attack skill.
Increased the damage reduction rate while guarding the weapon ‘Etiquette’ but reduced the fable’s charge amount for a set period of time when attacking.
Enhanced the attack tracking mechanism after successfully performing the Fable Arts, ‘Guard Parry’.
Increased the damage buff of ‘Bell of Provocation’ to the player.
“The Attribute Status Ailments will now stack faster for the following Fable Arts:
– ‘Thunderstrike’
– ‘Flamestrike’
– ‘Acid Slash’”
Increased the damage of Fatal Attacks to better scale with the players stats.
Increased the attack radius and tracking mechanism of the Legion Arm, ‘Aegis III – Counter Charge’.
The pillars in the ‘Kill King’s Flame, Fuoco’s room will now only be destroyed by Fuoco’s Fury Attacks.

Added new items to the NPC ‘Polendina’s Shop.

2 more Quartz can be purchased during the early stages of the game.
After expanding the shop for the 1st time, 1 additional ‘Quartz’ can be purchased. (Yes, 1 more Quartz.)
After expanding the shop for the 3rd time, 2 additional ‘Full Moonstone of the Covenant’ can be purchased.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the character to shoot into the sky while using the Legion Arm ‘Puppet String III – Attack Link’.
Fixed a bug while continuously pressing the guard button during the Guard stance Legion Arm ‘Aegis’ would trigger Perfect Guards every time.
Fixed a bug that allowed some weapons to perform Perfect Guards unintentionally.
Fixed a bug that caused some Electric Blitz attacks to be unguardable even with Perfect Guards or Guard Parry.
Fixed a bug in which the Guard Regain would not reset after performing a successful counter-attack with the weapon ‘Two Dragons Sword’s charge attack.
Fixed a bug in which arrows fired from traps could not be guarded.
Fixed a bug in which the ‘Monnphase Pocket Watch’ could be used during boss fights.
Fixed a bug in which attacks from some monsters would not register correctly to the player character.
Fixed a bug in which the P-Organ ability ‘Naturally recovers Durability of inactive weapons’ reduced the weapon’s durability while inactive during certain situations.
Fixed a bug in which having the P-Organ ‘Lower Damage while Dodging’ activated and a specific
Amulet equipped would trigger the player’s stamina regain earlier than intended.
Fixed a bug in which the deceased NPC ‘Belle’ at the ‘Attacked Hotel Krat’.
Fixed a bug in which players were able to abnormally approach certain areas of the map.
Adjusted the Camera Rotation speed while using controllers to be not affected by the framerate.
(Specific for Asian Regions) PS4 Controller Settings Resetting Issue has now been fixed and can be save regardless of the PS4’s system settings.
Updated some translations and typos for the following languages:
– ‘English’
– ‘Chinese’
– ‘Japanese’
Updated a typo in the in-game EULA.
Improved game stability and bugs related to in-game UI.