EPICA News

[h2]Weapon Trails[/h2]

• Added weapon trails for swords and axes. Each weapon has a default weapon trail, but can have a special trail style, depending if a weapon has element damage.
  

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[h2]Interface[/h2]

• A couple of interface tweaks for the new Minimap, and Quest panel.
  

[h2]Player[/h2]

• Increased default swim speed to 280.
  

[h2]Game Manual[/h2]

• Added entry for Minimap
  
• Added entry for Interactions
  

[h2]Quests[/h2]

• Hotfix 0.1.9.2 Resolved a bug with the display of the quest panel, which just recently became an issue.
  
• Several quest interface optimizations.
  

[h2]Minimap[/h2]

• Further improved the minimap interface.
  

[h2]Interface[/h2]

• Added a minimap.
  
• Removed the compass, redundant.
  

Yes, the game has finally a #minimap much thanks to @IdodmgA who gave me the right impulse to get back to consider this feature.

The minimap features, graphic and icons will be tweaked with the next patch.



[h2]Movement[/h2]

• Fixed an issue with jumping.
  

[h2]Player[/h2]

• Fixed a bug spawning new players in Naerocks, instead of the new starting location Naerocks Atoll.
  

Happy New Year, 2021 is the Year of Epica!

[h2]Skillbar[/h2]

• Added Encyclopedia Epica entry.
  
• Added keybindings for all eight skillbar slots, those are 1-8 keys, hotbar slot default keybindings have been updated to correspond to the F1-F8 keys.
  

[h2]Combat[/h2]

• When no weapon is equipped, or the player is not in combat mode, attacking with left-click, or via skillbar slot keybinding, will automatically equip a weapon and or enter combat mode, then attack once.
  
• Added the feature, when unequipping a weapon the player leaves combat mode.
  

[h2]Entities[/h2]

• Adjusted minimum damage for all entities slightly.
  

[h2]Quests[/h2]

• Fixed several issues with counting of collected quest items.
  
• Fixed some issues with display of quest objectives
  
• Added current collected amount, and killed amount to the quest overview panel.
  
• When the player is near a NPC with a not yet completed quest, a green lighted sphere will now hover above the NPC head, instead of the letter ‘Q’.
  

[h2]Items[/h2]

• Added new item Portal stone.
  

[h2]Teleportation[/h2]

• Added a portal stone, usable with waypoints.
  
• Reworked teleportation, it can now be interrupted by movement or attacks.
  
• Added a game manual entry for teleportation.
  
• Added waypoints which can be interacted with and used to bind portal stones.
  

[h2]Quests[/h2]

• Fixed a bug with quests in Naerocks Atoll appearing multiple times in the quest log.
  
• Added a Portal Stone quest, available in Naerocks Atoll.