Fantasy Online 2 News

[h3]Welcome to Crablantis!!![/h3]
Time to dive under the ice covered water in Frozen North and find what secrets lie at the sea floor!

Seaweed in a Bottle
Seaweed in a Bottle is a skill consumable, same as any skill book in the game, so consume that seaweed and unlock your skill! Seaweed gives you the ability to breathe under water and make the journey through Crablantis a little smoother!



New Bosses, New Loot!
Crablantis is adding 4 new bosses to the game! Take on the Devilish Star, Kraken, Flying Dutchman and lastly, the Troglodyte Scourge! These bosses have new items to offer in the form of trinkets, back, offhand and face items!



Boss Skills?!
Try your luck slaying the Kraken and the Flying Dutchman to get your hands on the new skills - Ocean's Blessing and Dutchman's Blessing! Also, don't forget to head over to the skill trainer and grab Tuff Love for some extra armor and heals!



Unobtainium Pickaxe and Gold Lockpick
Head down into the depths of Crablantis to craft your upgraded Pickaxe and Lockpick! You may notice a new plate is needed to craft the Pickaxe so get to mining that Unobtainium!



Patch Notes
- added mobs, npcs, items, skills, crafts, quests, chests and veins to Crablantis.
- added Le Chat to Mirabella
- added Seaweed in a Bottle as a drop from all cats
- added Seaweed skill
- added kill achievements for Le Chat, Devilish Star, Flying Dutchman, Kraken and Troglodyte Scourge.

- added faction achievements for Echoes of the Deep faction.
- Fish Sticks now stack to 20
- Fixed minor spelling and possession errors.
- Updated Faction points for each faction based on HP scale.

- balanced gold drops from Aliens
- Moved MM Faction shop to the entrance of FU.
- Added sell prices to Love and Luck Outfit Items (2.5k coin)
- Reduced Faction requirement for Elf Bow, Elf Staff, Elf Sword, Bearserker Axe, Mossy Sword, Goblin Tooth Necklace, Mossy Axe, Forest Shield and Elf Ring.

* Fixed the bug where you could never hit for a weapons max damage.

* Guilds now have a max member size of 250. This is enforced server side.

* Guild member list now scrolls infinitely and fast and doesn't crash your computer.

* Guild member list takes up the entire left of the guild window now.

* Guild member list sorts lastly by online/offline now.

* Reddit ads had a deal so I tried them out. It's not great but not bad either.

* Guild member data now includes their last updated timestamp.

* Implemented web api code to get Steam friends.

* Upgraded the MySQL server and crashed the game.

* Fixed Glacier faction achievements on Steam.

* Fixed a left info display bug for party members. Health/Energy/Buffs should update correctly now.

* Fixed a bug where if your party member was attacking a mob and you were attacking another mob, you would stop attacking if that party member killed the other mob.

* Fixed the bug where party members and selected players would not have their portrait in the info panels on the left updated when changing appearance.

* Added a way to request a refresh of the accounts steam inventory server side every 30 seconds.

* Fixed a bug where you could get kicked.

* Fixed flickering between old and new images when opening different crafting windows.

* Fixed flickering of old items in loot window when opening a new loot window.

* Market median is now hidden for any value under 200.

* Fixed the bug where the client was checking for a blocked path when trying to loot.

* You can no longer leave a party while fighting.

* Fixed top left info thingies to be wider for big health enemies.

* Fixed an WebGL error that's been around forever. The one where a random character won't be clickable.

* Turned off AWS automatic linux upgrade service as it has decided to restart the game server a couple times on its own.

[h3]Winter Will Come Again![/h3]
Holiday Isle and the 2024 Christmas Event are gone! To anyone that bought a key, don't worry, you'll be able to go to HI again next year without having to purchase another one!



[h3]Love and Luck Battle Pass[/h3]
Battle passes that follow the seasons of Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter are great but unfortunately, we've run out of seasons! Introducing the "Love and Luck" Battle Pass! Enjoy some Valentine's Day and St. Patrick Day themed cosmetics along with overhauled rewards now including Amethysts, Ice Plates and new Faction consumables to level up your Glacier Union rank!



[h3]Level Requirements to enter zones have been introduced![/h3]
16 - Cave of Some Return
18 - Swamp Grotto
30 - Cave of Despair
36 - Forgotten Wasteland
40 - Forgotten Underground/Under Underground
48 - Mirky Woods
62 - Crablantis

[h3]Skill Balancing[/h3]
- Self Motivated 5 level requirement has changed from 60 to 56.
- Self Motivated 5 intellect requirement has changed from 300 to 280.
Self Motivated 5 requirements to use were too high for players entering MW and wanted players to be able to enjoy it while exploring the new zone.

- That's the Stuff 4 level requirement changed from 60 to 62.
- That's the Stuff 4 now gives -4% crit.
- That's the Stuff 4 buff timer has been changed from 10 minutes to 8 minutes.
That's the Stuff 4 gives an average of 125 HP per second. In comparison to TTS3 which only gave 20 HP per second. This is a super high jump and needs to be balanced. Instead of the traditional nerf to the HP values we're going to try adding negative 4% crit. This way the skill still does what it's supposed to do but at a small cost.

[h3]Reminder![/h3]
Check out the Top 500 Player Leaderboard in Mirabella Cove and the new Boss Kill Achievements!



[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]
- All MW mobs, not bosses, have had their HP nerfed.
- Gold rates have been updated to match the HP changes.
- Reduced the amount of Alien and Cyborg Crabs kills in FU Quests.
- New SSC's have been delivered. Thank you for your support and love seeing your creations in game!
- Balanced Self Motivated 5.
- Balanced That's the Stuff 4.
- Removed Nice List Scraps from MW mobs.
- Removed 2024 Christmas Event NPCs.
- Removed Holiday Isle Shop and Sign.
- Changed the function of the Holiday Isle Teleport to TP you to MC. (don't leave if you're finishing crafts)
- Added Love and Luck Battle Pass
- Brought back Spring 2024 Battle Pass.
* Fixed the bug where non-combat skills were getting cancelled after a kill.
* Kills from party members now increment quest kill counters and unlock kill achievements. (You don't need to be the killer)
* Added kill achievement server code. (We now have a lot more achievements.)

* Upgraded our MySQL database.

* Upgraded Ubuntu on our game servers.

* Upgraded game servers from c7g.large to c7g.xlarge. 4 virtual cpus hurray!

* Fixed a bug where you would get kicked right on login.

* Steam version now clears Electron's Chromium cache on app start.

* Fixed the bug where you could see level up animations in zones above or below you.

* Casting is now cancelled when the mob you're attacking dies.

* Fixed the bug where lots of skill duplicates would appear when learning a new skill.

* Rewrote the Skillbook. Skills are now put into categories and sub categories sorted by rank and sorted by the level of the first skill in the series.

* Sent 1099-NEC forms to the two USA people I paid in 2024. Musician is in another country so I don't need to deal with that!

* Fixed the bug where you could invite/join parties while fighting.

* Added a referral code for each account. You can see your referral code in the Settings window. (More details coming in the future)

* Verified domain ownership with bluesky and now our handle is @fantasyonline2.com which is cool. https://bsky.app/profile/fantasyonline2.com

* Added a data endpoint to pull the last 5 bluesky posts for the upcoming welcome window.

* If casting is cancelled, the black animation over the skill being cast is now cancelled as well.

* Added https://fantasyonline2.com/api/public/character/leaderboard endpoint

* Added caching to the Guild Leaderboard endpoint.

* Fixed a bug with faction achievement unlocking.

* Added a Top 500 Players leaderboard to MC. It updates every 10 minutes from https://fantasyonline2.com/api/public/character/leaderboard. The sorting is by level then achievements. (We'll add more leaderboards in the future.)



- Reduced the amount of Alien and Cyborg crabs you need to kill in FU quests.

- New SSC Delivered- All MW mobs, not bosses, have had their HP nerfed.

- Gold rates have been updated to match the HP changes.

- reduced hp of Evil Snow Fans

- reduced level of Evil Snow Fans

Lots of polls being held on https://www.patreon.com/c/FantasyOnline2 as well.

Added a quest for The Future

Fixed some quest bugs and dialogue

Fixed item descriptions

Added description of skill to skill books

Updated Ice Vein health (200->150)

Buffed Ice Crystal Fragments drop rate from Ice Veins

Added Ice Crystal Chunk as rare drop from Ice Veins

Changed Gold Veins in CoD to FW versions (can know kill them for Gold Mining Daily)

Lowered Pharaoh Relics from level 45 to 40

Lowered crafting time for Undead Rings

Reduced required Fire Ring amount on Blazing Bling quest

Updated certain items to no longer be consumable, helping fix a quest bug

Sent out missing Gem Notes to players that bought multiple

Updated old quests that talked about being a daily quest.

Added [Event] to quests that you complete during an event

Moved Dusty, "the Guard" (pickaxe quest) to CC

Added sign in CoSR about mining

Added sign next to Tailor Tina

Updated Craft Times and Gem Cost for Crafting

All shops in main zone shops now follow standard (scrolls, potions, gold items, gem items)

Added Iron Molds to shop in CoSR

Added Silver Molds to shop SG

Removed XP and Faction Potions from SG shop

Added "Deliver" before all delivery quests

Updated some NPC's missing before quest dialogue

Balanced Crab Relics

Fixed SG shop item

Added Memorial in MW for World's First Solo Future Kill - Congrats Defincarna999!!!

Added Memorial in FN for World's First Solo Evil McFreezeGuy Kill - Congrats Arc!!!

Updated the shape of Cat Memorial in MC

Minor text fixes

Added Dream Reaper Box to Gemster

Added Head of the Herd to Gemster

Added Cat Hat to Gemster

Astronaut Box has been brought back to the Gemster!

Added "What's Included?" to boxes so players know what to expect from opening an Outfit Box.

Every iron and silver vein now has the same opportunity to give sapphire, onyx and amethyst.

* Setup JDK Mission Control and started using Java Flight Recorder to find bottlenecks.

* Found some bottlenecks and fixed them!

* Fixed the bug where items were stacking in Steam inventories.

* Added DDOS protection.

* Scaled back DDOS protection as it was too harsh. lol

* Optimized several areas where data is converted between JSON Objects.

* Optimized tick iteration of mob spawns.

* Turned off DDOS protection as it was giving a lot of false positives. I'll find some other better software to deal with it.

* Optimized the server rate limiters.

* Fixed a bug where transfering quest items between a bank tab and bags wouldn't inc/dec the quest counter.

* Fixed the bug where sometimes randomly a kill wouldn't count towards a quest.

* More optimizations across many parts of the server code.

* Fixed the Steam Inventory stacked item not transfering to mail properly bug.

* Added a check for buffs being full when trying to cast.

* While logging in to the Steam version, the game now checks if in-game achievements need syncing to Steam and then syncs. (Some people were having an issue where random achievements weren't unlocking on Steam)

* Upgraded to version 34 of Electron. Made a build and released it to Steam.

* FO2 has been reviewed by Steam's Steam Deck compatibility team and we are now marked as Playable!

Things to work on to become Steam Deck verified.