Zenith: Nexus News

Hey everyone! We have a new patch with new quality of life features as well as bug fixes.

Patch Type: Minor

Patch Number 22028

Build Numbers for all Platforms 22028

• Polished Create Account and Keyboard Usability.
• Major Polishing on Shard Selection:
  • Filter by region
  • Show home shard always on top
  • Sort by name
  • Sort by shard population
  • Make shard names human readable
• The next Main Story Quest is always displayed in your inventory.
• Added extra inventory pages and cosmetic inventory tabs.
• Equipment slots position and rotation can now be customized.
• "Beater Gear" and "Arik's Gauntlet" rewards are now available in the Nexus District store if you have them unlocked.
• New in-game referral system. Refer players to Zenith using your code to get exclusive Beater Gear cosmetics! 1 point per referral, 10 points for the full set! The referral screen can be found in the Social tab alongside your friend list. Use it to check the current number of points you have or to enter the name of the player that referred you. Linking your Discord account and adding a referrer will also give you 1 point each. You can pick your rewards up at the Nexus District store.

• Polished Guild Creation UI.
• Show contribution and reward tier medals when completing events.
• Rewards pop ups for quests. Show item rewards in the public event pop ups.
• Add party member count to UI, increase max party member count to 8.
• Opening and closing the in-game menu is now much faster.
• Added modifier descriptions to item and godstone tooltips.
• Make the starter weapons trash-able. Add a repeatable quest to Mika in Galian Plains that gives new starter swords or launchers (depending on which class you are). That way if you trash your original starter weapons you can replace them later on.
• Distance grabbing is now disabled while in combat, to prevent accidentally grabbing loot.
• Add player's email and account ID as tooltip to the login screen.
• PS4: Update Shard Filter availability properly when coming from PSN Only.
• Godstones now properly say when they are fully leveled
• Hide "remaining XP" on logout panel when level 40 because the value was misleading
• Improved readability of in-game system messages (shard restart warnings)
• Redesigned Agreements for better performance (paging instead of scrolling)

• Fix some enemy AOEs not being visible on Quest.
• Prevent Arboruht and other enemies from not counting towards Public Events when kited out of the PE.
• Fix overlapping quest journal lines.
• The in-game menu could be opened while loading which could cause accidental interactions. Also, disabled spells and weapon grabbing while loading. This also solves the issue that items (e.g. food) could be grabbed and lost while loading.
• Fixed issue that role-levels were not properly updated in Godstones UI. Also fixed issue that current role button was not properly disabled, so it was possible to switch to the same role the player already had.
• Fixed "Must Shroom" quest completing without going to NPC
• Fixed Quadruped mobs sliding
• Fix base godstones getting regranted on every login and level up.
• Fix synthesis stations breaking when taking out stacks of different qualities.
• Fix Shin quest in Forest 2 not rewarding the player.
• The help menu now works properly on all platforms.
• 'Shrooms in the Desert' quest now has a Boundary Circle indicating location of the Pond.
• 'Noodles to the Palace, Pronto' quest now completes at Amani in Emerald Palace.
• 'Mikas Large Order' quest now available from Brimm at level 40 and Tier-2 Rosemary Rare Mushroom Noodles.
• Fixed Oculus ID not showing up anywhere; this also caused players on Oculus to show up as offline in the party list and broke all tooltips in the login area (for Create Account and Login)
• Fixed Vivox Volume Slider (its range went too high); it's still possible to create distortions when going all the way up and the other player is at max volume but this should now happen much less frequently
• Collect - Fire Seeds quest: Fixed incorrect "Return to" text.
• Floating Island Treasure quest: Fixed incorrect pre-requisites, separated collect nodes for better tracking.
• Fixed framedrop issues in credits.
• Fixed godstone points not saving properly.
• Updated the current epic equipment to have the same stats as the retired legendary equipment.
• Players are no longer able to sell the Orange Creamsicle Smoothie Recipe.
• Avatar's feet now have proper IK and don't clip through the ground.

Patch Type: Hotfix
Patch Number: 21391
Release Date: 3/11/22

[h2]Preamble[/h2]
Hotfix Patch 21391 is primarily a bug fix and quality-of-life update. We tried to tackle some of the more frustrating issues we were seeing, like players getting stuck in the middle of nowhere when trying to log in, Public Events behaving inconsistently, Brimm not offering the proper quests, and godstones losing settings on logout. There were also a number of stability fixes behind the scenes as well.

We added some QOL improvements to the World Map, including toggling various icons on/off, and making fast travel points easier to click on. PTR is also fully set up now, so Oculus and Steam players with existing Skywave accounts can switch channels and opt into the PTR program.

[h2]New Features/Systems[/h2]

• New PTR opt-in/sign up flow for people who switch to the PTR channel. (21156)
  
• World map icons: you can now toggle different types of map markers on/off (for example, Main Story quest locations and Side Quest locations). (21118)
  
• Display fast travel markers on top of everything else on the World Map to make it easier to click on them. (21129)
  

[h2]General[/h2]

• Fixed Amara's Tears not showing up in Turtletop. (21093)
  
• Fix for players getting stuck in the air in Galian Plains upon login. (21185)
  
• Fixed players getting stuck on the loading screen when trying to log in. (21185)
  

[h2]Godstones[/h2]

• Grant any missing godstones on login. This fix affects players that leveled up a few levels at once and didn't receive the godstones for the levels in the middle. (21234)
  
• Small fix to some buggy godstone nodes that were not applying buffs/effects properly. (21258)
  
• Fixed an issue where selected godstones would not stay equipped after logging out, which meant re-equipping all the godstones when logging back in. (21259)
  
• Fixed issue where points that were allocated to godstone nodes weren't saving properly, so people had to redo their godstone nodes every time they logged in. (20972)
  
• Fixed the lag when interacting with the godstone screen (21135)
  

[h2]Public Events/Invasions[/h2]

• Partial fix for defend events randomly losing health even when enemies were not entering the defend zone. (21240)
  
• Partial fix for the occasional loss of Zen and/or Amara's Tears after logging out. (21253)
  
• Partial fix for the issue with Invasions where one event shows success AND failure at the same time (and ultimately fails, ending the invasion early). (21100)
  

[h2]Quests[/h2]

• Fixed an issue where you wouldn't be able to see locked quests from NPCs even after meeting the requirements, causing an empty dialogue box. (21277)
  

[h2]Known Issues[/h2]

• Characters created before linking Discord to your Skywave account do not have their reward items. This will be fixed in a later patch.
  
• Recipes sometimes disappear from the inventory.
  

Patch Type: Hotfix
Patch Number: 20999
Release Date: 2/18/22

[h2]Preamble[/h2]
- This patch addresses some of the biggest issues seen in the last patch (freezing, crashing, etc), along with fixing some bugs with Invasion Event rewards and Epic armor stats. Several of the side quests were causing the game to be unplayable for many, but we are happy to report that the fix is in this patch as well.
- Thank you to everyone who helped by sending bug reports and info over the past week!

[h2]New Features[/h2]
- In preparation for public betas and regular releases, the game client now checks for the current minimum version and requires an upgrade if it's too old (20927)

[h2]Resolved Issues (change sets)[/h2]
- Updated the current Level 40 Epic equipment to have the same stats as the retired Level 40 Legendary equipment to make sure the new gear is no longer a downgrade (20922)
- Godstones now show that their XP is maxed out instead of just ceasing to gain XP in the middle of a level (20924)
- Fixed Blade Master Epic Armor in Synth Stations (20943)
- Fixed a bug in certain quests that could cause frequent freezes and crashes until those quests were either completed or abandoned (20990)
- Fixed invasion events not giving rewards to everyone (20994)
- Improved performance and stability on Oculus Quest. Crashes from teleporting and traveling between zones are less likely to happen. (20996)

[h2]Known Issues[/h2]
- The freezes and crashes should be resolved with this hotfix but we may have missed specific hardware/character configurations that could still cause this.

- Characters created before linking Discord in Skywave do not have their reward items.
This will be fixed in a later patch.

- Godstone point allocation being reset (select upgrades for Godstone, log out, log back in and need to select again).
Workaround: None yet

- Skipped a level and didn't get the Godstones from the skipped levels.
Workaround: The next time you level up (regardless of role) they will be granted. A more robust fix is also coming in a later patch.

- Recipes disappearing from inventory.
Workaround: None yet

This is a quick hotfix patch to adddress a few of issues that occurred from the previous patch, and fix a few extra bugs.

Bug Fixes
- Fixed Arboruht Worldboss Telegraph, so you now know exactly where conal AOEs will fall
- Invasion events were previously broken during the second phase, these have been fixed – in addition, invasion events will spawn every 15 minutes instead of every 40, so get ready to get those materials!
- Fixed an issue for some, where picking up an item would cause a lag spike
- Enemies can no longer be pulled all the way to the entrance, causing griefing to be much harder.
- Player level scaling per zone fixed so that higher level players will be 2 levels more powerful, instead of at the same level of the zone.
- Fixed an issue where a lone pirate would spawn in the mines.

We've also put out a letter explaining the reasoning behind some of the balancing changes, and what we've learned so far here! https://zenithmmo.com/blogs/news/letter-from-andy

Thanks!

Hey everyone, we've got a brand new patch with a lot of new content and bug fixes!

Playable Content
- New endgame content: Overworld Dungeons, Invasions, and tuned Arboruht world boss
- Introduced 2 new forms of currency that drop from Invasion events and the world boss. Complete both to get the highest level gear in the game!
- 23 new side quests
- 4 new questgiver NPCs
- Streamlined tutorial/beginner quests
- New touchstones with helpful tips scattered around the starter areas
- Added several new synth stations around the world
- New items available at synth stations
- New item and godstone modifiers

Game Systems
- In-game alerting system: get live alerts from the developers (ex. servers going down for restart)
- News and updates on the main menu

Bug Fixes
- Fixed bug with players being stuck logged into servers
- Godstones now gain XP when players are level 40
- Fixed bug with some characters appearing as incorrect gender
- Fixed multiple visual glitches with armor
- Fixed multiple visual glitches with NPCs
- Players can now kick offline party members from the party
- Players who skip a level will now get the godstones from any levels they skipped
- Some Quest/Rift cross-buy players were stuck on "Internet connection available, checking account", this has been fixed
- Fixed bug that prevented some Support Essence Mages from casting Timeslow

Quality of Life
- Added Guild menu scrollbar
- Streamlined Godstone/Role switching UI
- Better feedback when completing quest objectives

Known Issues
- Characters created before linking Discord in Skywave do not have their reward items. This will be fixed in a later patch.

Secret Easter Eggs
- Nice try 😉

Thanks!