Mortal Online 2 News

This patch contains a very large rebuild of certain network-related components on the server.
It is VERY likely that the server will have issues that we will need to fix.

Fixes

• Tentative fix for being unable to damage siege machines using elementalism spells.
  
• Fixed houses not becoming lootable after being destroyed.
  
• Fixed a looping sound issue when canceling the Geyser wall spell.
  
• Fixed the new siege tents receiving an unintentional guild defense bonus.
  
• Fixed an issue with access chests not being accessible to anyone but the owner.
  
• Fixed an issue that let you access the blue priests of guilds you are not affiliated with when using the “nearest priest” button in the character UI.
  
• Fixed not being able to sell Production & Supply Goods to vendors.
  
• Fixed an issue with guild supply which allowed you to spend more than you have when you purchase items using gold.
  
• Fixed cost of siege equipment.
  
• Fixed issue where house would get removed once the 48 min timer ended instead of being lootable. You can now also see the timer in the house sign.
  
• Fixed a couple of typos.
  
• Fixed house settings in the UI being shown to anyone in the guild when they should only be shown to the owner of the house.
  
• Fixed a couple of node crashes.
  
• Guild structures should now spawn npcs once fully constructed instead of when they have above 75% health.
  
• Fixed a crash that was caused by upgrading supply towers.
  

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Territory Control PTR2 Starting July 13th – How To Join & Details

Added

• Added mobile siege machines. You can now build a mobile Manganon or Ballista and have up to four players pushing it. The player in the main seat controls where the machine should go while others are pushing it.
  
• Added Alert Towers. A new type of TC structure that will alert your guild if it spots enemies you are at war with or siege machines and siege tents..
  
• Added Campodon armor.
  
• Added guild-wide fanfare once a supply tower is claimed or lost.
  
• Added a work in progress version of the third batch of Elementalism spells.
  
• Added new Elementalism skill books, scrolls and placeholder reagent to the Magic Vendor temporarily for PTR2.
  
• Added Manganon fire pot ammunition.
  

Changes

• Update all pickables with a better collision shape to better match the mesh to help with targeting. (pickables are objects like karotons or salt crystals) This also reduces the load time for pickables.
  
• The Siege Tent has been split up into 3 separate tents, each one containing a different type of ammunition.
  
• The current TC Defence bonus is now visible in the Territory UI.
  
• Casting Crawling Hands will now flag you as a criminal.
  
• Guild guards have been updated. Their armor is now stronger and they do more melee damage. Their ranged damage has been reduced slightly.
  
• Adjust house/structure placement logic to be more forgiving.
  
• Update TC user interface elements and items to have clearer tooltips and descriptions.
  
• Guilds members should now have tool-tips in the guild member list that should show all prominence and taxes the member paid to the guild last week/day/month total.
  
• The Kingdom tab now shows all prominence/treasury
  
• The Kingdom tab now shows all prominence/treasury per day added or removed by guild buildings.
  
• Increased the max range that you may place a siege machine from a siege tent. (From 30 to 50 meters)
  
• Certain Elementalism spells may now deal blunt damage to structures & siege machines.
  
• Guild defence you get from holding supply lines,supply towers or supply storages now ticks up slowly instead of instantly being added when you take a new supply structure.
  
• Destroyed houses no longer instantly get removed, instead the destroyed can be looted by its owner until a timer runs out, then anyone can loot the chests and after that the house is removed. For PTR the time it takes for a house before it’s free for all to loot is 48 minutes, the house is then removed from the game after 72 min.
  
• You now get a guild wide message when a guild flagged building loses 5% health.
  
• You now see taken supply towers on the ingame map
  
• Donating to the treasury is no longer restricted by rank.
  
• You can now sell production goods to vendors.
  
• For PTR the rate that Stewards produce production goods has been increased.
  
• Building structures will now be faster if you have the engineering skills.
  

Fixes

• Fixed issue with pickables sometimes floating in the air after teleporting to a priest.
  
• Fixed Rock solid clade gift not working against siege machines.
  
• Fixed collision issues in various TC structures.
  
• Optimized various TC structures.
  
• Fixed an issue with the “Guild Upgrade” button in the Guild UI not working as expected.
  
• Fixed several memory leaks on the server.
  
• Made several optimizations to the server code.
  
• Fixed several issues with prominence and supply on vendors.
  

We have put together a helpful "Getting started with Territory Control" manual over on our website which we encourage you to view here: https://www.mortalonline2.com/help-center/gameplay-help/getting-started-with-territory-control-and-sieging-manual/

Changes

• Greatly reduced the delay between landing and receiving fall damage.
  
• Changed house and structure placement logic. Increasing the height of structures should now make it easier to place them above taller grass and foliage.
  
• Drawing a bow will no longer cancel when getting close to walls and objects. Instead the arms will adjust to avoid the environment.
  
• The in-game map of Myrland has been updated with some additional filters and opacity sliders to let you adjust what you see.
  

Fixes

• Fixed mismatched placement of territory regions in the Myrland map.
  
• Fixed the issue with guards floating horizontally in guard towers. It was caused by a rare bad AI path update and we could solve it thanks to your testing in the PTR.
  
• Arrows can no longer collide with Siege and Magic Projectiles.
  
• Fixed issue where players could launch arrows through walls by standing too close to it.
  
• Fixed an issue where certain structures could not be demolished.
  
• Fixed an issue where territory would not expand after upgrading a structure.
  
• Fixed an issue where pre-existing buildings in the world would not create a territory around them despite being able to do so.
  
• Fixed a missing VFX in the Culinarium.
  
• Fixed several issues with buying things from vendors that cost prominence.
  
• Fixed issue where vendors would not correctly update their supply until after someone bought from them once.
  

We have put together a helpful "Getting started with Territory Control" manual over on our website which we encourage you to view here: https://www.mortalonline2.com/help-center/gameplay-help/getting-started-with-territory-control-and-sieging-manual/

Changes

• Increased the fall damage when you get launched by Manganon. It is proportional to the launch speed.
  
• Changed engine garbage collection settings in an attempt to reduce game stuttering.
  
• You no longer need the map item in the inventory to see the Myrland map when you press M.
  
• All prominence added to a guild from members is now x10. Messages clients receive will still show the old number.
  
• The master builder now sells Supply Tower deeds.
  
• Adjusted the placement rules for all TC structures. They should all be easier to place now.
  
• Adjusted the placement rules for player owned houses. Houses should now be a bit easier to place.
  

Fixes

• Production & Supply goods can now be placed in bags/pet bags.
  
• TC buildings belonging to a guild that was removed will no longer be able to pay upkeep.
  
• Fixed bad collision in Strongholds blocking players from walking up the stairs.
  
• Potential fix for guild guards having weird rotations in TC structures.
  
• Fixed issue with members guild prominence and treasury stats not updating correctly if they hadn’t done anything the last day.
  
• TC buildings and houses that get destroyed now get their logs in the territory UI removed.
  
• Fixed issue with keeps not generating territory if they were placed when the game was patched.
  
• The button to “Remove Claiming Stone” now says “Destroy Claiming Stone”.
  
• Possible fix for a rare node crash.
  
• Setting buildings to “alliance” no longer removes access for the owning guild.
  
• Upgrading houses should now correctly increase the size of the territory.
  
• Optimized map to make it less heavy for the client to update territory.
  
• Fixed an issue on the map that made the area belonging to allied guilds the same color as areas belonging to enemy guilds.
  

Mounts

• Fixed issue where a mount passenger could dismount into houses.
  

Balance

• Starfall doesn't get placed at caster on Spell reflect anymore.
  
• Magic Reflect now blocks a single hit from Starfall.
  
• Zoology skills were increased by 5% bonus to a total of 20% to damage reduction and damage given from/to those specific animals at max lore for that specific animal (ex. Ursidae, Equidae, etc).
  
• The following spells will no longer do damage to players and AI inside player-built houses. Firestorm, Hail storm, Roaring wind, and Starfall.
  
• Increased Direwolf pet points from 23 to 26 at level 50.
  
• Increased Rally Pack duration to 10 seconds.
  
• Increased Coordinated Hunt duration to 10 seconds, and increased damage bonus to pets to +50%.
  
• Increased Canine Concentration duration to 20 seconds.
  
• Increased Agile Evasion duration to 10 seconds.
  
• Decreased Risen Taurdog damage mod by 10%.
  
• Increased Risen White Bear damage mod by 15%.
  
• Increased Rider Weight Threshold of all risen mounts.Combat
  
• Weakspot hits now properly penetrate pet armor.
  
• Handle hits now reduce damage by a flat 55%, up from previous 40%.
  

Combat

• Weakspot hits now properly penetrate pet armor.
  
• Handle hits now reduce damage by a flat 55%, up from previous 40%.
  

AI

• Increased the minimum distance between an AI and a player when being attacked. E.g. like zombies got a little bit too close to players in the previous patch.
  
• Fixed the leashing behavior of AI to prevent them from leashing too early.
  
• Increased damage of Outlaw Bandits and adjusted their behaviors.
  

Misc Changes

• Adjusted the spacing of pet frames.
  

Fixes

• Fixed issue with houses being guild-flagged.
  
• Fixed an issue which resulted in random pickables not being picked up when interacted with.
  
• Fixed the annoying "bouncing capes" on other players that would happen when you turn around. It was rendering optimization related.
  
• Fixed an issue where players and pets were momentarily detected as not being in a house when logging in.
  
• Combining vials and kegs should not make them vanish anymore.
  
• Fixed an issue where player-built homes had a "shed" looking LOD billboard.
  
• Fixed an issue causing Miasma to not do damage when the caster was too far away from the spell.
  
• Fixed an issue where your last arrow in your quiver would never be able to weakspot.
  
• Reverted size change from the patch because it caused some issues with attribute points.
  
• Fixed a bug causing pets to follow player ghosts who were their target before they died
  
• Fixed a visual bug that could occur with the sky when your FOV was higher than average.
  
• Fixed an issue causing Lightning ball to do unintended high damage in some cases.
  
• Fixed an issue causing Lightning ball to deal damage twice in some cases.
  

Known Issues

• There is an issue with players being able to invite a passenger on their risen horses and risen molvas but the passenger does not see a “Hold R to mount”-message. We are troubleshooting the issue.