[h3]Important:[/h3]
We have updated Easy Anti Cheat. If you have issues starting the game please press the install EAC in the launcher before starting the game.
[h3]New chat system[/h3]
The in-game chat system has been completely remade and overhauled.
- You can now right click chat tabs to:
- Add a new custom tab
- Remove the clicked tab
- Bring up settings for the tab
- Bring up settings for the chat window
- Removed option to turn off help chat in settings since you can now turn it off per chat window.
- Added a new color wheel when choosing chat channel colors.
- Rebuilt the chat settings.
- You can now show timestamp on chat messages, this can be set per chat channel in the settings.
- Whispers from the other players now by default open a new chat tab in the general chat window.
- You can turn the option to create a new chat tab per whisper on and off in the chat settings.
- You can now tab complete in the chat input. ex writing /s and pressing tab will autocomplete to /s and next tab will complete to /say etc.
- You can now tab complete names in the chat input by writing @ and a name of someone who has chatted with you.
- Writing @name in the chat will now be converted into a player link.
- Left clicking a player name in the chat will now auto fill /whisper PlayerName
- Right clicking a player name in the chat will now bring up a context menu where you can:
- Add Friend
- Invite to Guild
- Mute Player
- Report Player
- You can now drag an item to the chat input and it will send a link to that item that others can click to inspect.
- Added profanity filter to the chat.
- Added option to turn off profanity filter in the chat settings.
- All GM-whispers and interactions with gamemaster now open up in a separate chat window.
- You can now drag chat tabs out of a chat window to create a new chat window.
- You can now drag chat tabs onto other chat tabs, rearrange their order or add them back to a chat window.
- You can now click a channel name to switch to that channel in the chat.
- Add a new global chat channel nave. (/world /n /nave)
- Add a new global chat channel trade. (/trade /t)
- You can now set what channels each chat tab subscribers to by right clicking the tab and choosing tab settings.
- Removed a LOT of old chat commands. If your favorite command is missing let us know.
- Chat windows now scale better when being scaled.
- The localization of all chat components have been improved.
- Tabs that receive a message but are not currently visible will now get a small indicator showing you there are messages in that tab.
- Players that receive time outs of bans from voip or text chat now get a message with the reason for the timeout.
- Context menu now opens up in the other direction if outside of the screen.
- You can now right click the channel in the chat input window to open up a context menu with all channels.
- Tweaked profanity filter. This is still work in progress so please report words that get caught in the filter but should not.
- Unselected chat tab buttons are now more visible and just darker.
- Chat Input now handles tab completion without removing all spaces in the sentence.
- Improved the feedback to clients sent from the chat server.
- Added /mute and /unmute chat command.
- Up and down arrows while having a chat input focused will now cycle history for that chat input.
- Dedicated whisper and gm-whisper tabs now auto change to their channel and add the name of the person you whisper to the input field when the tab is clicked.
- Changed default tabs help and trade are now separate tabs by default. Whispers no longer show up in general by default since they create a new tab.
- Changing tabs will now auto change channels if the tab is not subscribed to your current channel.
[h3]Bugs[/h3]
- Fixed rare issue that caused loot to sometimes NOT spawn if you had Loot Luck.
- Logout now cancels when items are being moved around.
[h3]General changes[/h3]
- All smaller gatherables and pickables (not trees) now have a small chance of giving a Rare Plant Seed that can be combined with a Plant Pot to make a nice decoration for your house. Plant Pots can be purchased at any Utility Vendor.
- Fixed bug causing the Parry spark VFX to not show correctly.
[h3]Engine[/h3]
- The engine has been upgraded to Unreal Engine 5.5.3
- Updated FSR to version 3.1.3
- Updated DLSS to version 4.0.0-NGX310.1.0.0
[h3]Spells[/h3]
Developer note:
Many (but not all) of the following spell balance adjustments which affect the damage range of a spell have been made to lessen the element of RNG while casting, with the average damage being maintained on them. This does not apply to all cases where spell damage has been affected however, and some have been nudged up or down for balance purposes.
- Lesser Healing Mana cost increased from 4 to 5.
- Lesser Healing base healing range tightened from 12 - 18 to 14 - 16.
- Stilling Mist base healing range increased from 2 - 3 to 3 - 4.
- Stilling Mist Purified Water reagent cost adjusted from 10 to 5.
- Greater Healing base healing range tightened from 28 - 34 to 30 - 32.
- Lightning base damage range adjusted from 18 - 23 to 21 - 22.
- Lightning Mana cost decreased from 20 to 18.
- Lightning cast time decreased from 2.1 to 1.7.
- Thunderlash damage range adjusted from 24 - 31 to 27 - 28.
- Flamestrike Mana cost increased from 45 to 50.
- Flamestrike damage range adjusted from 33 - 41 to 36 - 38.
- Shock base damage range adjusted from 19 - 24 to 20 - 21.
- Mental Leech lifetime decreased from 60 to 15 seconds.
- Mental Leech Mana cost decreased from 25 to 8.
- Mental Leech cast time reduced from 2.3 to 1.2.
- Outburst Mana cost decreased from 13 to 12
- Outburst cast time reduced from 2.2 to 1.9.
- Outburst base damage range adjusted from 15 - 18 to 15 - 16.
- Earthquake base damage range adjusted from 32 - 38 to 34 - 36.
- Fulmination base damage range tightened from 30 - 40 to 34 - 36.
- Blind Mana cost increased from 15 to 20
- Blind cast time decreased from 2s to 1.4s
- Expel Spirit duration increased from 60s to 90s
- Mental Projectile base damage range tightened from 28 - 38 to 32 - 34.
- Death Hand base damage range tightened from 30 - 40 to 34 - 36.
- Mending Vapors cast time reduced from 1.5s to 1.1s
[h3]AI[/h3]
- Updated and rebuilt the AI attack code. This will change how some AI use their attacks making them “smarter” when they decide what attack to use.
[h3]Art[/h3]
- Lot’s of world landscape and terrain fixes.
- Lot’s of navmesh improvements to prevent Ai spawning inside objects.
- Fixed an issue where you could target the Sidoian Pathfinder through the boss doors.
- Fixed a lake at a Fishing POI where you could not fish.
- Fixed an issue when choosing high FOV deformed the landscape a lot.
- Added missing Guards at Toxai task vendors.
- Added a missing POI that just had loot and no structure.
[h3]Pets[/h3]
- Bush Pigs are now rideable.
- Lowered Bush Pig Pet Point base cost at level 50 without Lore skills from 25 to 20.
- Lowered Bush Pig Taming level range maximum requirement from 11 Taming to 7.
- Taur Dog Stamina lowered from 900 to 800.
- Taur Dog third speed lowered from 830 to 820.
- Increased the incline Spiders and Lykiators can climb up by 1 degree.
- Venomous Bite cooldown on all spiders increased from 0.8s to 1.5s.
[h3]Alchemy[/h3]
- Increased base alchemy effect strength for Magic Defence.
- Increased extraction yield of Magic Defence base material.
- Adjusted alchemical modifier strengths for the Magic Defence effect.
- Fixed bug causing Magic Reflect buffs from potions to stack.
[h3]UI[/h3]
- Added support for context menus, these are sub menus that can appear when you right click on UI.
- You can now right click player names in the rankings menu to bring up the context menu.
- You can now right click player names in the matches menu to bring up the context menu.
- You can now right click player names in the friend list to bring up the context menu.
- You can now right click player names in the guild member list to bring up the context menu.
- You can now right click player names in the broker to bring up the context menu.
[h3]Optimizations[/h3]
- Player and NPC armour are now merged into one mesh, improving CPU performance.
- New Unreal Engine rendering technology is used to improve frame pacing.
- Improved performance in large-scale battles.
- General world optimization with up to 50%+ better performance in certain areas.
[h3]Server[/h3]
- Large parts of the chat server have been updated and improved.
- Fixed an issue where choosing Bakti as a starter town could send you somewhere else.
- Dramatically improved startup and shutdown performance. Server initialization now completes in under 1 minute (down from 30 minutes), allowing for faster updates and maintenance with minimal player disruption.
[h3]Known Issues[/h3]
- Character textures sometimes appear at a lower resolution than intended. We are working on a fix for this.