Mortal Online 2 News

Changes

• You may now turn criminal for pushing innocent players too much, and you will receive a warning before turning criminal.
  
• Aggressive Stance no longer gives you a damage bonus while attacking buildables if you are unarmed.
  
• Guild invites are now listed in the social menu instead of appearing as pop-ups.
  
• You will now burn Murdercounts while offline, but 6 times slower than being online.
  
• Changed Bet Huergar priests to Tindremene.
  
• Time needed when getting kicked/leaving a guild reduced from 1h to 1min.
  
• Updated localization.
  
• Updated server netcode to increase the number of players who can be in a single area and on a single server.
  

Fixes

• Fixed bug that would cause the player velocity to continuously increase while sliding and being stuck. This would give the player a lot of fall damage after getting unstuck.
  
• Fixed clade gift XP not being distributed relative to the damage done by each player.
  
• Casting corrupt on yourself no longer sends spell message twice.
  
• Fixed bug where alvarin sight could be used while mounted.
  
• Fixed bug where buff icons could become misplaced.
  
• Fixed bug where crosshair was set to wrong position after aiming with archery and swapping weapons.
  
• Slightly increased silent stun timer after mounting/dismounting.
  
• Fixed UI bug where the ‘drag items here’ widget would be highlighted when not dragging any items.
  
• Fixed some Troll spawn locations that could get the Troll stuck.
  
• Fixed Steppe Rush gathering.
  
• You will no longer be considered AFK when fishing.
  
• Fixed a lot of landscape issues.
  
• Fixed a lot of reported stuck locations.
  
• Leaving a guild now wipes guild member entries.
  
• Fixed rivers with misaligned swimming volumes.
  
• Updated NavMesh in White Bear Cave.
  
• Return button in mail is now only visible when the mail does not belong to you.
  
• Polished Alchemy and Cooking UI a bit.
  

Added

• Lootable corpses added to Myrland
  
• Steep slopes will now cause players to slide instead of free fall. Players will still take fall damage if slide speed becomes too great.
  
• Added a new cave in Haven to explore.
  

Changes

• Leaving Haven should no longer lock you from going to an alternative Myrland.
  
• Polished house placement mode visuals.
  
• Added Red Priests outside of all keep locations.
  
• You can no longer mail coins while also requesting coin on delivery.
  
• Only pets that are close to you when you logout will follow you to alt myrlands.
  
• Updated navmesh all over the world that could get pets stuck.
  
• Fall damage reduced for mounts.
  
• Prevent certain ini files from being modified outside of the game.
  
• Removed Myrland alt 3 and 4.
  
• Increased Tephra yield to match removal of alt servers.
  
• Increased the max capacity of all servers.
  

Fixes

• Fixed several crashes on the server.
  
• Fixed rare crash when crafting armor.
  
• Fixed missing water in some areas.
  
• Removed alignment from spellbook. It was unused and displaying placeholder text.
  
• Fixed bug where getting corrupted while already corrupted would result in two corrupt debuff icons instead of refreshing it.
  
• It is no longer possible to bring bags with you from Haven.
  
• Lots of world fixes.
  
• Fixed flickering horizon in Haven.
  
• Players should no longer get stuck under the landscape in Haven.
  
• Lootable corpses now align a lot better to ground.
  
• Updated some skills descriptions.
  
• Spellbook background now changes to represent the selected magic school.
  
• Updated a font to make it easier to distinguish between letters.
  
• Fixed bug where after renaming personal notes you had to search for its old name when using the search bar.
  
• Fixed bug where spellcasting animation would sometimes get stuck.
  
• Guild members & friends now get sorted alphabetically.
  
• Opening map through inventory now shows you the Haven map if you're in Haven, otherwise it will show the Myrland map.
  
• Fixed whispers
  
• Communications server optimization
  
• Network engine optimization
  
• You should no longer hear VoIP from other instances
  
• Fixed Marksmanship skill not gaining experience.
  
• Fixed not being able to resurrect at 0 standing.
  
• Fixed issue that could cause decorations in houses and keeps to be reset when a node was restarted.
  
• Fixed leak that forced us to restart Myrland servers now and then due to lag.
  
• Made several changes to how pets are moved between Myrland Main and alts when switching servers.
  
• Pet bags that are equipped and get destroyed will now drop their items to the ground if they have any.
  
• You can now give murder counts to people who are offline or on another node.
  
• Fixed crafting UI sound not being adjustable by volume slider.
  
• Login news now retries if it fails to get the latest news.
  
• Candle light vfx is now locked to the base of candles.
  
• Fixed broken mana heal spell message.
  
• Fixed wrong defense values on Tagmatons.
  
• Corrected the Pansar Carapace butcher yield.
  
• Fixed several issues with AI leashing when they should not.
  
• Removed unused pet broker categories.
  

Quality of life

• You can now delete multiple items at once by using ALT + Right-click or simply dragging items outside of your inventory.
  
• Added a confirmation message when abandoning your pet.
  
• Journal entries are now sorted alphabetically.
  
• You can now hold the craft button to continuously craft when using any crafting workbench.
  
• Right-clicking items while using crafting UI now more intuitively updates its item slots.
  
• Item slots in crafting UI now only reset when necessary.
  
• -Slightly increased range when trying to open pet bags. Sometimes the pet would stop following just out of range meaning you couldn't access it when encumbered.
  
• You can now hold the 'Scribe' button to continuously scribe the same stack of scrolls.
  
• Added sort by ascending/descending option in broker.
  

Added

• Added a new gatherable resource.
  
• Added dueling. You can challenge someone to a duel by typing /duel while targeting the person you intend to duel. When accepted you will turn local grey to each other until one of you dies, logs out, or the duel timer ends after a period of inactivity.
  
• Added a new village to Haven where the “Travel to Myrland” statue is now located.
  
• Added lootable corpses to the wilderness of Haven, with a chance of finding rare loot.
  
• Added an AFK kick timer.
  
• Added support for Myrland Alt servers. You can join an alternative server from the login screen if the queue to the main server is too long. Alternative servers are restricted, on these servers the following things are currently disabled:
  - Kicking from guilds
  - Creating guilds
  - Joining guilds
  - Disbanding guilds
  - Building and upgrading buildables
  - Brokers
  - Mail
  Broker, Mail and guild functionality will be added later
  

Changes

• Rearranged red priests on Myrland, they are now fewer and located farther away from guarded cities.
  
• Cave Camp and Jungle Camp priests are now blue priests.
  
• Priests outside dungeons are now blue priests.
  
• Local grey status now lasts for 240s like criminal status.
  
• You can now rightfully defend against a player & player pets if they attack you or your pets.
  
• Items buy value is now checked instead of item sell value when transferring items from Haven.
  
• Changed waterfall particles to look more subtle and blend better.
  
• Tephra node yields decreased by 80%
  
• Blast Furnaces are now disabled
  

Fixes

• Fixed spelling error on Risar Chieftain.
  
• Human clade gift 'Charismatic' should now work as intended again.
  
• Fixed bug where local flag didnt update for the player that was killed.
  
• Fixed being able to toggle (on foot) autorun while mounted.
  
• Fixed autorun not getting disabled when mounting.
  

Swedish studio Star Vault launched Mortal Online 2 in late January. A hardcore MMO with skill-based first-person combat rather than auto-attacks, full PVP where everything you're carrying can be looted from your corpse, and over 600 skills to learn, you can see why the studio might have expected a relatively low turnout. It sounds a wee bit niche. The original Mortal Online, according to SteamDB, had an all-time peak of 1,185 players. Well, Mortal Online 2 has sold 110,000 copies and was number four in Steam's top sellers...
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Dear Community,

The launch has been a struggle when it comes to handling the number of players on Myrland as you all know. We have a core vision of one world and have been working towards that for many years. Not having the ability to get real cases with the amount of players needed to progress in this field makes this a very time consuming step, and mostly, a big frustration for our players. It shouldn't feel as if our players who bought the game are testing this process. In this I have failed to make it work in an acceptable timeframe.

We have done several patches that have increased the overall stable population cap by 300-600 at a time and we are reaching decent numbers for Myrland, but not enough to support our 10k that want to play on Myrland now.

This means we have decided that we need to do what's necessary to make sure everyone can play directly. This means we will add additional continents, just as planned for future continents like Sarducaa etc, but it will be Myrland for now. You will be able to travel back and forth, as you do between different Haven instances now, and things will remain persistent with your character and guild status. However you will not be able to build on these extra Myrland continents, only on the main one.
This gives us headroom to continue our work on improving our continent's capacity. We are also working on our upcoming continents that will replace the extra Myrland continents whenever they are ready.

We need a few days until we can deploy these extra continents and let all of you in, and we will update you when we have the final day and time for this.


/Henrik Nyström and the Star Vault team.