Fantasy Online 2 News

[p]Tier 1 - 4 One Handed Weapons[/p][p]Tier 1, 2, 3 and 4 One Handed Weapons have arrived! Head to the different weaponsmiths in Cave of Despair, Forgotten Underground, Mirky Woods and Frozen North to start your crafts today and get ready for Tier 5 on June 10th![/p][p][/p][p]Dino's Patch Notes[/p][p]- Added Tier 1-4 One Handed Weapons to Tier 1-4 Weaponsmiths
- Added Marble Mold, Marble Shell and Starforged Antimatter Shells
- Added a new Destroyer, The Destroyer of Hope, to CoD
- Changed Epic Pearl Wand to Epic Pearl Staff
- Added a new entry for Epic Pearl Wand
- Changed Wand Base to Intellect Base
- Changed Bow Base to Agility Base
- Changed Weapon Base (2H) to Strength Base
- Added Stamina Base and gave it as a drop from Destroyer of Hope
- Added Despairite and Gem color Fight Lines
- Added Taunt Rank 2 to DM
- Added Aggro to a bunch of mobs!
- Updated the icon for Soul Thunder
- Updated Tier 3 Int Ring icon
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- Updated color palette for Mahogany Saplings and made the outline darker  
- Updated stat and level reqs for Eden Sword
- Increased the chance of a mob debuffing you in DM
- Debuffs in DM now have stronger effects
- Changed Taunt 2 from x25 to x20
- Fixed a big bug with Reckless Strike 4... the values were flipped...
- With the launch of Tier 5 Armor, Weapons, Books and Rings coming I've rebalanced the crafting times for tier 3 and 4 items.
- Decreased the time to "unlock" your Gemstones at the Gemstone Crafter
- Testing Tiamat Armor
- Testing Archmage Armor
- Testing Paladin Armor
- Testing Colossus Armor
- Testing all Tier 5 weapons
- Testing Tier 5 Books and Rings
- Added the first pet for testing
- Added a silly skill for testing[/p][p]FO2DB v2[/p][p]Hey everyone, it's Ak here with a little announcement I'm excited to share. For the past few weeks I've been working on a complete rewrite of the DB that is lightning quick, backed by actual game data, and most importantly will live as a part of the main site at https://db.fantasyonline2.com Since it is a rewrite, you will have to bear with me as it does not have feature parity with the old site just yet. This is just an initial launch and soon I will port over the battlepasses, maps, and build-playground. Advanced filtering will also return in a new and improved way down the line.[/p][p]Thanks to G for making this possible and as always feel free to message me on Discord with any bugs, questions, or feature ideas.[/p][p]All the best,[/p][p]-Ak Δ[/p][p]Gamer's Patch Notes[/p]

• [p]Quest dialog window has been ported to GUIWindowDynamic aka mobile.[/p]
• [p]Crafting window has been ported to GUIWindowDynamic and GUIScrollList aka mobile.[/p]
• [p]Changed the tooltip information for set bonuses as it was making the tooltip waaaay too tall.[/p]
• [p]Moved sprite animation code to a new class AnimatedSprite to get ready for pets.[/p]
• [p]Optimized mob hate, aggro, and debuff logic server side.[/p]
• [p]Added mob aggro interval settings to the database.[/p]
• [p]Started working with https://waterwitchrpgstudio.com/ on a monthly basis to fill out sound effects over time.[/p]
• [p]Fixed the bug where you click on another player and it would say path is blocked.[/p]
• [p]XP bar has been ported to mobile.[/p]
• [p]Lots of cleanup of skill code as I prep for skills on mobile.[/p]
• [p]Lots of general code cleanup.[/p]
• [p]Increased skill hot bars from 4 to 8.[/p]

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Dark Marsh
The day is finally here! If you're reading this, Dark Marsh is here and ready for you to explore! New mobs, items, skills, crafts, bags (trunks), morphs, and more can be found in the marshlands.



Dark Marsh Bosses
Both will have a solo challenge this time round! Take on The Father or Mother Nature solo with proof of the completion via screen recordings or alerting a mod, Dark, Alyssa, Destaith or Dino of your attempt so they can witness the fight.



Wood Cutting and Mahogany Trunks
When trunks? NOW! Mahogany Trunks have been added to Dark Marsh! However, to obtain the best bags, trunk, in the game you'll need to learn a new ability. Wood Cutting! You can cut down Mahogany Saplings with a Saw. How do you get a Saw? Head over to the Loggers Camp and help him with his Centaur problem. Also, he may have some more tasks for you to get a Chainsaw?



Forest Keepers and Lumber Lords
Two new factions have come to Fantasy Online 2 with the addition of Dark Marsh. Each come with new factions outfits, medallions, banners and crests!

Want to increase your faction rank? Take on mobs like Frogs, Gnomes, Dryads and Werebears, to increase your Forest Keepers rank and Mahogany Saplings, Centaurs, Forces of Nature and Mother Nature to increase your Lumber Lords rank!



Metamorph Rank 2 and Rework
Rank 2 Metamorphs are here and some of you got a preview of those earlier today! Head to Dark Marsh and take on the Elemental Fairies. Each one will drop unique crystals needed to upgrade the Rank 1 Skill Books.

In the process of adding Rank 2 Metamorphs we took a good look at the sprites. The morph sprites we currently have in game were from the original with minor touch ups to match the style of FO2 better but still had something off about them. Thanks to Alyssa's hard work we now have updated versions to fit the feel of FO2!



Debuffs
Coming with Dark Marsh the elemental Fairies will have different debuffs based on their element. Also, Mother Nature and Forces of Nature will have Root so get ready to stand there while praying your dodge doesn't fail you.

- Fire will have Burn. While Burn is active you will take continuous damage even while out of combat.
- Earth will have Thin Skin. While Thin Skin is active your Armor will be reduced.
- Wind will have Off Target. While Off Target is active your Crit will be reduced.
- Ice will have Degen. While Degen is active your Energy will deplete even while outside of combat.

Debuffs will have a cast interval and a success percent.
Example: Cast Interval is 30 seconds. Success Percent is 50%.
If it's successful then the debuff duration timer will start. When finished the mob can cast again.
If the debuff is unsuccessful, the 30 second interval timer starts again.



Tier Set Bonuses
Tier set bonuses are here! Get rewarded for using multiple of the same tier set gear. This includes armor, weapon, books and rings. Think of set bonuses as having an additional Tier Book that just gets applied behind the scenes. Below is a table showing off the bonuses for all tier sets along with a sneak peek at T5 bonuses.



Gold Pickaxe Crafting
You will now be able to craft a Gold Pickaxe as you enter the Forgotten Underground. Now go collect some RF Gold Plates and Gold Crab Relics and get to mining!



Gemstones, Salt, Coral and Souls
We've heard the talks on gemstone drop rates for quite some months now and understand a buff should be made. Alongside gemstones, there’s been talk of other valuable resources like salt, coral, souls, and even pearls from clams.

-   Onyx, Sapphires, Amethysts, Rubies and Diamonds will be receiving a buff from 5% drop change to 10%.
-   Diamonds were the odd one out with a 7.5% drop rate but will also be made 10%  .
-   Pearls from Clams and Big Clams will also receive a buff. Clams will go from 2.5% to 5% and Big Clams 5% to 10%.  
-   Salt Veins will now have a 3% chance to drop a Salt Slab.  
-   Coral Veins will now have a 3% chance to drop a Coral Slab.  
-   Graves will now have a 1% chance to drop a Soul Gem.  
-   Tombstones will now have a 2% chance to drop a Soul Gem.  

Feedback on Discord
As always, I appreciate everyone's feedback and love for the game. I read all the messages in the main discord and the direct messages, even if I don't reply. That being said, please keep feedback constructive without going after people for their opinion.
- Dino

Dino's Patch Notes
- Added Mobs
- Added Quest NPCs
- Added Quests
- Added Item drops to Mobs
- Updated HP/Gold values
- Added Mahogany Saplings
- Added Woodcutting Items
- Added Wood Crafter and Trunk Crafter
- Added Mahogany Trunk
- Moved Mobs to new locations
- Moved NPCs around
- Added Root Debuff to some mobs (more debuffs coming soon, along with Boss HP rebalance)
- Added Root to Mother Nature
- Updated Map with a shortcut
- Added Lumber Lords and Children of the Forest Factions
- Add Faction Shops
- Renamed Ground Metamorph to Earth Metamorph
- Added 2 Skill Shops
- Added Skills
- Added Metamorph Rank 2 crafter
- Added Gold Pickaxe Crafter
- Added Lockpick Quest Line to Dusty "The Guard"
- Rebalanced Vampiric Blade
- Rebalanced Twilightning Bolt
- Rebalanced Reckless Strikes self damage
- Rebalanced Thick Skin at rank 5 and above
- Added a TP Skill Book to MW Badger Camp
- Added a TP Skill book to ToLS to go to T5 crafters quicker
- Added Tier Set Bonuses
- Tier Books have been rebalanced
- Tier 1 Books received a buff while Tier 2,3,4 received nerfs.
- Testing Debuffs - Burn, Venom, Degen and Off Target.
- Added T5 Crafters (NO Crafts yet!)
- Added Antimatter Shell Crafter (NO Crafts yet!)
- Added T5 Book Crafter (NO Crafts yet!)
- Added T5 Ring Crafter (NO Crafts yet!)
- Started work on 1 Hand and Two Handed Tier Weapon options
- Updated Unobtainium Pickaxe Crafter NPC
- Updated T4 Ring Crafter NPC
- Updated T3 Ring Crafter NPC
- Buffed Gemstone drop rates from Veins to 10%
- Buffed Pearl drop rate on Clams from 2.5% to 5%
- Buffed Pearl drop rate on Big Clams from 5% to 10%

Gamer's Patch Notes

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  Updated to the latest BabylonJS.
  
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  Changed collision maps to load on demand instead of all at the start.
  
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  Upgraded our APathfinding from 4-directional to 8-directional. Some corners will produce much smoother paths now.
  
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  Replaced manhattan heuristic with octile in Afor a better cost function for 8-directional.
  
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  Started rewriting and cleaning up skill slot handling code.
  
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  Added Debuffs column to MobDefinition in MySQL.
  
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  Added parsing and using of this column server side.
  
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  And now mobs can have debuffs that they can cast on you.
  
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  Added debuff processing code server side.
  
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  Added root debuff code.
  
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  Fixed some bugs having to do with buff visual display.
  
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  Added skill ranks to buff display.
  
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  Fixed a couple bugs having to do with tooltips and buffs.
  
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  System buff code cleaned up and now uses our bitmap font.
  
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  Added skill dbuff visuals.
  
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  Fixed a bug where steam achievements weren't being unlocked due to a limit.
  
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  Fixed a bug where a corpse rotting could blow up the entire server in a nuclear winter.
  
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  Added debuff dot support server side.
  
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  Fixed a couple Steam achievements that were unintentionally hidden.
  
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  Fixed Holy Mirror
  
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  Fixed a bug on mobile where if you backgrounded the app it would reload the game when it foregrounded.
  
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  Added energy debuff code.
  
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  Added all the new achievements to Steam.
  
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  Fixed a bug where stat bonus tooltips weren't showing crit or atkp.
  
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  In-app purchases finally working on Android. whew
  
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  New Android build now available from Play. iOS build needs some work so next release will be later.
  
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  Fixed the display of drops on the mobs tab in the character window.
  
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  Level cap raised to 90.
  

P.S. - 15 years ago FO launched on Kongregate.

The Market has a new look and a lot of new features.


Much of the Market's GUI code has been completely rewritten.


A level column has been added which shows the level requirement of the item and allows you to sort by it. Tooltips now show exactly what these column headers do.


Item type and subtype combo boxes have been added to the Market's GUI. Item type and subtype filters have been added to the public Market search api as well. This allows for item type and subtype filtering just like in the Collector window.


Level min and max sliders allow you to filter by level. Click on the level column header and you can sort by level at the same time. This makes it much easier to find gear your level.


The sell tab contents also got a big facelift to match the buy tab.

If you find a bug, please report it on discord.

https://discord.gg/fantasyonline2

Gamer's Patch Notes

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  Quick equip now works with double click/tap along with right click.
  
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  Added a friend request counter on top of the social friend/ignore button.
  
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  Android and iOS are now locked to landscape right. (iOS bug still let's you rotate. Waiting for a fix.)
  
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  Refactored item slots a bit to remove some old nasty code including BabylonJS setAndStartTimer.
  
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  Updated Steam client to the latest Electron which includes the latest Chrome which has a lot of bug fixes.
  
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  Fixed a bug where you couldn't drag/drop or double click/tap without breaking the slot. Mostly happened on mobile.
  
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  Removed some code that turned off all pointer enter/out on mobile as it broke things.
  
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  Added onPointerEnterNonTouchObservable alongside onPointerEnterObservable in order to filter out touch enters and suppress tooltips and hover color/alpha changes.
  
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  Market level requirement has been removed.
  
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  Added Level column for market search sorting.
  
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  Added tooltips to the reset sort button and all the sorting headers.
  
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  Added sorting by level to the market search api.
  
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  Improved market search api endpoint speed.
  
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  Added min_level and max_level to the market search api.
  
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  Added level min and level max filters to the market window.
  
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  Added scrolling to listings on the market search tab on mobile.
  
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  Added filtering by type and subtype to the market search api.
  
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  Fixed a bug with pointer enter on mobile having to do with GUIRectangle.
  
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  Wrote a new GUIComboBox to replace the finicky GUIDropDown from long ago.
  
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  Added item type filtering to market search.
  
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  Added armor subtype filtering to market search.
  
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  Added weapon subtype filtering to market search.
  
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  Added outfit subtype filtering to market search.
  

See you next patch notes.

All damage skill sound effects are played using spatial audio! "Spatial audio" refers to sounds placed in a three dimensional space. It requires a "listener" to hear the audio, and a "source" to emit the audio. Listeners and sources both have a 3D position and direction, and sources have additional settings for specifying how the sound should propagate in the 3D space.

In FO2 the listener position is set to your characters position and the source position is set to the damage target's position. The source also is set to currently be at default volume from 1-64 pixels from the target, falls off from 64-512 pixels, and is silent past 512 pixels. This will possibly be changed to use the viewport size in the future.

All damage skills now have visual effects and sound effects that play on the target. We continue to work on finding and commissioning more visual effects and sound effects to cover other skill types like buffs, healing, and teleports.



Fight Lines
Welcome to the first steps of customizing your gameplay! Fight Lines introduce a new way to personalize the game to you. Head on over to the Fight Line Shop in Mirabella Cove to find a new color today! More colors will come out in the future!



Color Options

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  Sapphire
  
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  Onyx
  
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  Pearl
  
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  Amethyst
  
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  Gold
  
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  Ruby
  
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  Emerald
  
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  Diamond
  
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  Antimatter
  
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  Celestial
  

Reminder
Fiesta of Flavor leaves tomorrow, May 17th, after 5pm PST!
Proceed at your own risk if you have any crafts still going after this time.

Patch Notes
- Added some mobs to DM for testing
- Added some fun new items in DM for testing
- Added the Fight Line Shop
- Added 10 Fight Line items based on materials in game

Gamer's Patch Notes

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  Ported the character window to GUIWindowDynamic aka mobile.
  
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  Ported character window factions tab to GUIWindowDynamic aka mobile.
  
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  Fixed a bug where the factions tab would not show newly discovered factions until you refreshed.
  
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  Fixed the iOS project bug with Apple's help.
  
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  Partially fixed screen rotation bug that let you rotate to portrait and play the game. It's an issue internally with React Native so I may be lock the whole app to landscape in the future.
  
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  Remove the skill point to button grey lines and adjusted everything in the character window equip tab to fit into the standard window height.
  
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  Ported character window equip tab to GUIWindowDynamic aka mobile.
  
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  Ported character window outfit tab to GUIWindowDynamic aka mobile.
  
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  Ported character window mobs tab to GUIWindowDynamic and GUIScrollList aka mobile.
  
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  Fixed a bug with the mobs tab where some mobs don't have a zone id.
  
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  Player leaderboard has been ported to GUIWindowDynamic aka mobile.
  
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  Guild leaderboard has been ported to GUIWindowDynamic aka mobile.
  
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  Fixed a bug where certain characters would break the Collector.
  
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  Oh no, that's why I can't lock the app to landscape... https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/36869 waiting for a fix...
  
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  Boom headshot final animation added.
  
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  Added playback for skill target sound effects.
  
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  Boom headshot sound effect added and turned on.
  
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  Added support for spatial sound effects.
  
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  All skill sound effects fall off between a distance of 64 to 512. They are silent past 512 so you won't hear any combat sound effects if you're far away from someone fighting.
  
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  Sound effect toggle in the Settings window now effects skill sound effects as well.
  
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  All damage skills now have both a visual effect and a sound effect that play on the target.
  
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  A lot of this long term GUI refactoring has lead to finally removing some very old nasty files. Awesome.
  
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  Bag bar slots are now vertical on the right side of the screen on mobile.
  
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  Added Relic and Mount slots to the equip window.
  
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  Added Relic and Mount slots server side.
  
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  Added Fight Line slot to outfit window and server side.
  
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  Added Fight Line color customization code to client and server.
  
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  Fixed a few bugs I introduced with all this refactoring.
  
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  Sound effect volume default is now 50% instead of 70%.
  
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  Fixed a bug with Settings window loading.
  

Surfside Shores Longboard Surfboard Contest!
Yoooo everyone! It's been a while since we've done one an art contest and thought this would be the perfect time! Design the perfect longboard surfboard using the template below and post it! We'll hold voting on June 1st! 

Prizes
1st - Surfboard in game and 500 Gem Note
2nd - 250 Gem Note
3rd - 100 Gem Note


Rules
- 1 submission per person
- NO Copyright material
- Anything goes as long as it's within the Terms of Service.
- Can't believe I have to say this but any inappropriate submissions will get you banned.


Important Dates

Submission window is now until May 28th
Voting will start on June 1st

SEND YOUR SUBMISSION TO DINO VIA PRIVATE MESSAGE ON DISCORD

http://discord.gg/fantasyonline2



Early Gemster Update

With no items rotating out of the Gemster this month why no get new items early?! Enjoy the new Moriarty original, Cybermech Box, a Grad Cap and the Gem Sword!



Patch Notes

- Work on Dark Marsh continues!
- All Teleport NPCs now follow the same naming structure (swapped out "Guide" for "Teleport")
- Renamed Evil Gingerbread Man to Gingerbread Man
- Shortened some long named items
- Shortened some quest titles
- Changed Vein health to be more linear
- Changed Vein respawn rate from 10 mins to 8 mins
- Added additional Iron, Silver, Gold, Unobtainium, Ice, Coral, and Salt Veins
- Added additional Graves
- Added additional drops of Soul Thunder, Soul Flash and Crystalline Tears to Taunted Throne
- Testing cosmetic versions for Satchels to spicy up the bag bar (cosmetic versions of trunks will be a thing too)
- Added Cybermech Box, Grad Cap and Gem Sword to Gemster

Game's Patch Notes

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  Barber window ported to GUIWindowDynamic aka mobile.
  
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  Rewrote the barber image grid to use a background color highlight instead of alpha when mouse over.
  
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  Eye surgeon window ported to GUIWindowDynamic aka mobile.
  
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  Made the image grid code generic and centered the last row.
  
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  Fixed the bug where you'd click on a quest name in the quest log and it would lag.
  
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  Updated to Electron 36.2.0 and pushed a new Steam build.
  
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  Improved Steam Windows performance.
  
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  Widened the quest log a bit.
  
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  Cosmetic surgeon converted to GUIWindowDynamic aka mobile.
  
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  Bank window has been ported to GUIWindowDynamic aka mobile.
  
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  Bank tab cap has been increased by 1.
  
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  Partially fixed a bug where Alt+Tab on Windows 11 would spawn another window instance... working with others to try to find a full fix. https://github.com/ceifa/steamworks.js/issues/95 https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/uaj45h/window_duplication_with_alttabbing_windows_11/
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  Updated Android build to have email/password login. (Thanks Marek!) https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.fantasyonline2.fov4
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  Ported audio code to BabylonJS AudioEngineV2. https://doc.babylonjs.com/features/featuresDeepDive/audio/playingSoundsMusic https://babylonjs.medium.com/audio-engine-v2-0196031c30d5
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  Updated to BabylonJS 8.7.0 finally after being stuck on 7.43.0 due to engine bugs.
  
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  Upgraded the mobile project from Expo 52 to Expo 53 and wow that broke a lot.
  
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  Added Android edge to edge support.
  
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  New iOS build available. Update to latest via TestFlight https://testflight.apple.com/join/C87yj5vZ
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  New Android build available. Uninstall and reinstall via https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.fantasyonline2.fov4
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  Mob aggro server code v1 finished. Turned on and working in Pirate Shores - Easy for testing.
  
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  Started setting up https://www.revenuecat.com/ for iOS and Android In-App Purchases.
  
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  Started separating out the code for web, Steam, mobile gem shops as the code is so different. In-App purchase code is always complex and takes quite a bit time of to set up correctly.
  
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  Started work on GameSoundManager class to handle preload/playback of sound effects.
  
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  Added code to preload all the sound effects.
  
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  Added our first sound effect. It's a toggle click in the settings window.
  
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  Ordered a cheap Android phone to test things like parts of authentication that only work on real hardware.
  
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  Moved all the music streaming code to GameSoundManager.
  
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  iOS WebKit only just recently added support for ogg files in iOS 18.4 and our music is ogg, so I converted all the music to mp3 and now it will choose one based on platform.
  
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  Music playback on iPhones fixed! (You music have silent mode off for music to work on iOS right now. Looking into a hack to fix this as it's an iOS bug)
  
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  Music now pauses/resumes when the window visibility changes.
  
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  Fixed a bug where if you background the app on mobile and then go back into it, the game can possibly be in portrait. The game WebView is always forced to landscape now.
  
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  Fixed a bug with the bank window and tabs that slowed down loading.
  
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  Ported the text tab handling code to GUIWindowDynamic.
  
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  Ported the Achievements window to GUIWindowDynamic aka mobile and rewrote the internals to use GUIScrollList.
  
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  Added Achievements window toggle to top right on mobile.
  
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  Added Quests tab to the Achievements window. (Quest achievements will be added in the future)
  
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  Added shop purchase sound effect. (If you hate any sound effects please speak up!)
  
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  Another new Android build is available with some bug fixes. Uninstall and reinstall via https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.fantasyonline2.fov4
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  iOS project is currently bugged and only Apple can fix it, so a new iOS build will come once that's fixed.
  
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  Adjusted safe area calcs so the hud pushes more towards the edge of the screen on mobile.