EPICA News

• Some Tarnmill village lights were too bright.
  
• Item pick-ups now with pick-up sound.
  
• Goblin with sword and shield now always attacks.
  
• Some loot items were not properly setup.
  
• Optimized the inventory and pick-up item info panel.
  
• Red apples are now stackable.
  
• Optimized castle brock interior lights.
  
• Added lights and items to the Tarnmill village church.
  
• The quest A warm meal is now more specific.
  
• Added music to the Tarnmill tavern.
  
• Added more fitting voice to the Tarnmill tavern barmaid.
  

• Addressed an issue preventing new ladder entries with more than 100 points.
  

• Extended the Tarnmill region further, including new quests and biome development.
  
• Updates to the starting zone, the village of Tarnmill.
  
• Swimming is now working in the Tarnmill lake.
  

• Fixed the Tarnmill cave quest with NPC Herez.
  
• Fixed a NPC group spawn issue, spawning too close to each other.
  
• Fixed an issue with gear visibility.
  

It has been awhile but we are back with Epica updates.

• Updated the game engine version.
  
• Added a new location in the Tarnmill region.
  

• NPCs no longer disarm weapons on default.
  
• The time before the player character disarms his weapon was not properly reset during combat.
  

• The distance for NPC interaction has been reduced, interaction camera switch to player camera is now faster.
  
• The skill actionbar no longer requires a double click to perform an attack, set to single mouse click.
  
• The skill info panel has been moved to the right.
  

Stay tuned for more!

With the recent changes the starting zone required some updates, which are now taking shape.

• Updated the lobby character.
  
• Enabled swimming.
  
• Added forests and a river around the Tarnmill region.
  
• Added a chat message on item pickup.
  
  
  
  
• Optimized Ai spawning / despawning
  
• Added Ai to the Tarnmil Tomb
  
• Added a new Archer Ai to the Tomb
  
• Added a new Mage Ai to the Tomb
  
• Added Ai to the Castle Brock Dungeon
  
  
  
  
• Addressed lightning issues in the Tarnmill region and Castle Brock
  
• Fixed a bug resulting in some Ai not properly despawning.
  
• Fixed an issue with noisy shadows (anti aliasing noise).
  
• Fixed an issue with the loot dropping through the Tarnmill Tomb floor.
  

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[h2]Content[/h2]

• Added more location content to the starting zone.
  
• Added a Tavern and Castle Brock outside of Tarnmill.
  

[h2]Ai[/h2]

• The Ai is now dynamically spawned / de-spawned in the world.
  
• Ai interactions will now switch to an immersive camera view.
  

[h2]Updates[/h2]

• Updated the layout of the lobby patch notes.
  
• Updated the game world back to Unreal Engine's World Partition system, a single world instead of many levels.
  

[h2]Fixed[/h2]

• Fixed some issues with attacking.
  
• Fixed: Clicking the Actionbar attack icon launches player attack.
  

Upcoming updates will continue to re-add more starting zone content.