Project: Gorgon News

• Fix bug causing monsters to camp player corpses
  
• Fix bug allowing players to loot corpses they shouldn't (!)
  
• Further performance improvements to client assets, including a new approach to horse texture management: Convert horse texture algorithm from the CPU to the GPU. This is obviously much quicker, and lets us compress the textures so they're much smaller now too - win/win!
  
• Fix bug causing people to sometimes play instruments while they're sheathed
  
• Party Members now get their own nameplate color! Defaults to green. To change it, go to Settings > GUI > Colors > Nameplates
  
• Update default positions for Quest Tracker, XP Tracker, and Party Frames
  
• Fix bug preventing buffs/debuffs with a number counter from being hovered over
  
• raise demo player level cap on Cartography and Gourmand from 15 to 25 (so they can't accidentally lose irretrievable XP due to the cap)
  
• more server performance optimizations
  

There's nothing quite like taking your first steps into a shared universe. Whether it was the early days of World of Warcraft that first drew you in, or the likes of Neverwinter Nights, EverQuest, Ultima Online, or Runescape, the tangible sense of exploration and discovery is what made the best MMORPGs truly special. Nowadays, the focus is typically much more on guiding the player through those early hours and making sure they know exactly what they need and where to go. Project: Gorgon is a throwback to those magical experiences, stripping out guardrails to immerse you in its fantasy realm. It's just hit 1.0, and developer Elder Game is about to launch a fresh-start server with a rather unique twist.

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• Add even more temporary monsters to the newbie island
  
• Fixed incorrectly-triggering particle when angling
  
• Improve memory management around horse genetics textures; significant video-RAM improvement in busy areas
  
• Improve memory management around the UI highlighting system
  
• Statehelm memory-usage reductions
  
• Some Statehelm loading-time reductions
  
• Hide settings button during the intro cinematic
  
• Escape key closes the out-of-world settings window now
  

• Fix for more fairy gear causing massive framerate dips (that's actually fixed all of them this time, I mean it)
  
• Greatly reduce memory usage for new armor models
  
• Graphics settings are now tweakable from the login/choose character/create character screens. Click the gear at the top left to access them
  
• Add hover-text to fairy button during character creation, letting you know that it's unlockable via a quest
  
• New setting: "GUI > Overlays > Overlays Enabled". Enables/disables the overlays on a creature/object when you hover over it. Defaults to off at "Fast" quality and below
  
• Fix script errors in Sam Veilmoor
  
• Fix bug allowing other players to ruin your bread dough while it's rising
  

• Fix for some fairy gear causing massive framerate dips
  
• Fix skin and hair color discrepancies between character creator and in-game - this time for females!
  
• Fix for some chest pieces giving you a buzz cut
  
• Fix the really dark item preview window
  
• Add a mushroom circle to Statehelm (temporary location)
  
• The sun in Statehelm now correctly burns vampires
  
• Adjust land around Percy Evans' house in Eltibule
  
• Add collision to corner-plants and some buildings in Statehelm
  
• Adjust LODs of prison shackles
  
• Fix bugs with Chancellor Algest's animal assistant registration
  
• Statehelm NPCs no longer think foxes are terrifying
  
• Add missing Archery prodigy training option
  
• Statehelm NPC favor balancing adjustments