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UPDATE 05.10.2022

New Features
- Something spooky might happen soon
- Minimap zoom level is now saved and will be remembered across restarts
- Item tooltips now list if an item is a material used for upgrading equipment, enchanting, crafting or a combination of those

Changes
- Slight overall performance improvement due to software/tooling upgrades
- Quest update scribble sound now only plays for tracked quests
- Small cleanup in the shop location part of the player shop management ui
- Crafting UI max amount button now ignores materials that have a chance to not be consumed
- Gem crafting recipes are now sorted by the gem quality
- Tweaked Amemori's greeting to be less confusing
- Increased timeout before disconnecting with an "already connected" message slightly
- Karma drop bonus is now included in the regular stats calculation instead of being applied internally
- Bonus Experience stat now also starts at 0 like the other bonus stats

Balance updates
- The following monsters on Caratas Wasteland and Jerro Highlands are not aggressive anymore: Centaur, Centaur Major, Centaur Chief, Dark Elf Archer, Dark Elf Bowman, Snake Grande
- Loot distribution on monsters now resets when the monster fully heals (loot is distributed proportionally to how much damage a player did once the monster dies)
- Monster/Rift spawns with long spawn intervals aren't spawned straight away when a server starts

Bugfixes
- Fixed various missing translations in the trade ui and other uis
- Fixed rift name tooltip being too dark and hard to read on the minimap
- Fixed certain forms of item expiry not being displayed correctly once the item is expired
- Fixed a netcode desync causing actions (for example skills & attacks) to start slightly too early
- Fixed being able to follow invisible friendly players
- Fixed being able to ride your mount in the greaves shop in the City of Nodrog
- Fixed maps that have their minimaps disabled resetting the minimap zoom level
- Fixed gold reward being offset to the right on the quest complete screen
- Fixed some floating rocks in the Frozen Land
- Fixed whisper/chat uis not scrolling to the end for new messages in some cases

UPDATE 14.09.2022

New Features
- UI sliders can now be operated with the mouse scroll wheel
- Minimap zoom is now infinitely variable instead of 5 predefined steps, can be controlled with the mouse scroll wheel and doesn't reset between teleports
- Added "Special Weapons Delivery" guild mission

Changes
- Guild upkeep cost in the levelup window has thousands seperators now
- Npc shop buy dialogue defaults to buying a whole stack if you can afford multiple stacks
- Removed obsolete hunting lodge map marker from jurdana
- Added tone mapping to the post processing stack in order to make very bright colors look more reasonable
- Small performance improvement on some hardware to sky rendering
- Added an explicit close button to the hud chat
- Added tooltip to the open log button on the hud chat
- After creating a character the game will automatically start instead of just loading in the character selection
- Added the empire name to the empire selection during character creation
- Added the gender name to the gender selection during character creation
- Corrected female gender icon
- Changed the rule window accept/close button to be an actual button
- Added a cancel button to the esc menu
- Network errors will now display an actual reason instead of "n/a" for most issues
- Some changes to networked movement that should result in slightly smoother monster movement for bad connections and less bandwidth use in general (~50%)

Balance updates
- Tweaked the way monster spawn timers work to not respawn monsters near-instantly
- Reduced minimum level to use the global chat to 5

Bugfixes
- Fixed guild creation level requirement error saying something about inviting someone to a guild
- Fixed account wide storage scroll speed
- Fixed map window clipping out of screen bounds after teleporting to a map with different size
- Fixed scrolling scrollbars in the character selection still zooming the camera
- Fixed rift spawn sfx not playing in 3d and thus being audible far away
- Fixed equipment icons not being aligned properly in the trade window
- Fixed half demon sword attacks not playing attack sounds

UPDATE 03.08.2022

New Features
- Equipment now has a small icon next to it to make it easier to distinguish at a glance. The icon is red if the equipment is not for your character class
- Trade window now adds thousands separators to your own gold offer
- You can now quick-move items into the enchanter window
- Items and gold on the floor now flash before despawning
- You can now buy up to 10 stacks of items from an npc at once
- You can now quick-buy a whole stack from an npc by right-clicking with the quick-move key held (shift by default)
- The inferna rules/guidelines are now also available in-game via the ESC menu
- Empty equipment slots now show a tooltip with their type

Changes
- More effect sounds are loaded in the background before playing to reduce fps stutters
- Tweaked weather randomization to roll bad weather less often
- Slight performance tweak in text rendering for common latin script characters
- Armor traders in the starter towns don't sell weapons anymore
- Reward panel in the quest window is now hidden when there's no rewards
- Common rarity items now also have a gray outline (similar to higher rarity ones) to make dark items easier to see
- A warning is shown when trying to de-equip an item with no space left
- Tweaked ambient occlusion strength
- Added some color to the skill tooltips level/exp lines

Balance updates
- Reduced prices of hp potions (small from 50 to 32 gold, regular from 150 to 90, greater from 250 to 150 and super from 600 to 250)
- In order to make the game more accessible for beginners, most equipment world drops will be for the class of your character now instead of an equal mix
- MP will not be automatically restored to full when reviving

Bugfixes
- Fixed an edge case where the character would not move to a target when clicking on it
- Fixed a bug preventing the character walking to an item to pick it up
- Fixed emotions not showing their cooldown in the skill window
- Fixed some bugs in the sound overlap limiting logic
- Fixed many items bags dropping at once by for example a rift would drown out any other sounds
- Fixed name toggle keybind sometimes changing the setting permanently
- Fixed environment time of day oscillating in some circumstances right after login
- Fixed switching to full screen resetting the selected resolution
- Fixed untranslated text in the player shop ui/name
- Fixed untranslated text in the character creation
- Fixed character skin shader not rendering shadows
- Fixed grainy rendering, especially noticable in darker areas
- Fixed ambient occlusion not turning off when disabling the post processing section
- Fixed successful skill book read still mentioning a level up
- Fixed skill tooltip showing exp in the next level section as well

HOTFIX 04.06.2022

Balance updates
- Some young mega gazer attacks cause knockback

Bugfixes
- Fixed buttons not interacting correctly sometimes due to the engine update
- Fixed some supporter related translation issues
- Fixed very long status effect durations now displaying correctly

UPDATE 01.06.2022

New Features
- Introducing the supporter system!
This is a direct replacement and upgrade for the previous exp/gold/loot potions obtained from the itemshop.
Depending on your supporter rank, you will be able to pick and choose a combination of these to be active on all players of your account with more perks and goodies to come in the future.
Supporter ranks can be obtained in 1 month increments.

Changes
- Tweaked the way environment reflections are rendered to improve visuals during dark/rainy conditions
- Tweaked vegetation wetness during rain

Balance updates
- The young mega gazer chase radius has been increased significantly

Bugfixes
- Fixed an AI freeze when monsters would reach the end of their chase radius
- Fixed first inventory page button still not working quite right when dragging and item over it
- Fixed some broken horse hair materials
- Fixed friend list/player right-click content menu being unusable
- Fixed a server side memory leak that caused crashes which the new engine upgrade introduced

HOTFIX 20.05.2022

New Features
- You can now also quick-move items from the inventory into the smithing window

Bugfixes
- Fixed switching intenvory pages while dragging an item not working sometimes
- Fixed clicking on intenvory page buttons dropping the item being dragged

HOTFIX 13.05.2022

Bugfixes
- Fixed broken horse shaders
- Fixed fog not affecting water and some other transparent effects
- Fixed HDR monitors displaying the game very dark

UPDATE 12.05.2022

New Features
- Upgraded engine for increased performance, we're seeing an fps increase of up to 50% in some cases
- AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 1.0 (FSR) is now used for upscaling and finer steps for render scale have been added
- Ambient Occlusion post processing effect is now faster
- Increased maximum shadow texture resolution for even crisper shadows on the ultra setting

Changes
- Updated lighting & ceiling height inside the pyramid
- Updated jurdana ground textures
- Grass is less shiny

Bugfixes
- Fixed ingame time of day sync glitching at midnight

UPDATE 06.04.2022

Hey everyone,
This month we've been at work on some behind the scenes things, so not much to show just yet. You'll notice a supporter settings section in the new account window, more on that next month
In addition to the month-long ramadan event, we've also got an easter event going live shortly, so keep your eyes peeled for that!

New Features
- Basic account management is now integrated in the character selection
- You can now use the "tab" to select the next interactable ui element within the same window

Changes
- EXP % tooltip now shows an additional decimal place
- Tweaked light snow weather particles to be less annoying on high zoom levels

Balance updates
- Guild members with expired contracts are auto-kicked after 14 days instead of 2 days

Bugfixes
- Fixed stacked sound effects playing during map loading
- Fixed some cases where popups could not be closed

Ramadan Event Week #1