News

UPDATE 02.03.2021

Changes
- Deadland cave lighting improvements
- Fog tweaks in Zagans dungeon, deadland cave & Rondors/Vondors crypt
- Reduced ram usage
- Texture streaming/vram limiting works on more textures

Balance updates
- Removed zagans dungeon monsters from daily hunting challenge
- Made the daily hunting challenge a bit easier

Bugfixes
- Fixed another bug related to invisibility name hiding
- Fixed status effect ui getting stuck in some cases
- Fixed dynamic character texture size being formatted incorrectly

UPDATE 20.02.2021

Tägliche Quests sind jetzt für alle Spieler ab Level 20 verfügbar!

HOTFIX 04.02.2021

Changes
- Skill exchange potion quest now only shows when relevant

Bugfixes
- Fixed bad collision on the warriors "Wind Cut" skill on master leading to it hitting only once

UPDATE 03.02.2021

New Features
- Rumors of a skill swap potion are spreading across Pangeus

Bugfixes
- Fixed shared storage ban not being shown in item tooltips
- Fixed not being able to move items into shared storage by clicking to pickup and then clicking again to drop
- Fixed skill cooldowns not resetting correctly in some cases in the competitive pvp arena

UPDATE 30.01.2021

HOTFIX 01.02.2021
Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug in the point calculation for the competitive pvp arena, all existing points have been reset to the start value

HOTFIX #2 31.01.2021
Balance updates
- Reduced healing of the wizards "Purify" skill slightly
- Reduced damage of the half demons "Fire Spirits" skill
- The half demons "Fire Spirits" skill can't stun, poison or slow anymore

Bugfixes
- Fixed another bug leading to fight counts being lost

HOTFIX 31.01.2021
Balance updates
- Innate magic defense was reduced by half
- Restored some of the innate magic damage

Bugfixes
- Fixed large hud text sticking not being reset after leaving the arena

UPDATE 30.01.2021
New Features
- Added a competitive 1v1 pvp arena

Changes
- Items with more than one enchantment now need extra confirmation when selling to an npc
- Players with negative karma don't drop items in duels anymore, only in world pvp
- The player target hud is more compact now
- Target hud buttons to send popups have a slight cooldown now
- Improved matchmaking speed

Balance updates
- Status effect bonus of the "Mana Sphere" wizard skill has been changed from "Resist Damage" to "Resist Hit Damage" and only works reduces normal attack damage now
- There is no more innate magic damage given for leveling up or putting points in intelligence. All magical skills still increase their damage with intelligence as before
- Reduced weapon defense enchantments from 15%, 10%, 6%, 4% and 2% to 12%, 7%, 4%, 2% and 1% respectively
- The warriors "Charge" and "Raging Flame" skills can now stun
- The following skills now rotate towards the target properly: Wind Cut, Cosmic Slash, Earth Split, Soul Slash, Breaker, Quick Attack
- The warriors "Stone Skin" skill now gives knockdown resistance on master and higher
- The half demons "Fire Spirits" skill had it's magic damage buff removed and now attacks enemies around you periodically

Bugfixes
- Fixed invisibility breaking name texts in some cases
- Fixed multiple grass interactors being spawned on the same entity in some cases
- Fixed some ui bugs that may sometimes happen on first login due to late ui spawn timing
- Fixed some popups (e.g. party invites) being unclosable after logging out with them open
- Fixed a bug prevening auto-attacking after a skill was used, it now always resumes attacking if it was before

UPDATE 20.01.2021

Bugfixes
- Fixed some mobs being invisible
- Fixed missing grass on some maps

UPDATE 13.01.2021

New Features
- Most grass on the Nibor map (Caratas starter town) is now 3d and reacts to characters (depending on object quality setting)
- Added a few more props to the Caratas Wasteland map

Bugfixes
- Fixed a rare quest bug related to tracking npcs
- Fixed some bad map collisions on Caratas Wasteland
- Fixed sound volume being set to very low, but not completely muted after switching maps
- Fixed some movement glitches on vertically overlapping areas (deadland cave, houses)
- Fixed some vegetation on a deadland house being invisible close up
- Fixed pyramid respawn point not being in front of the portal
- Fixed some special mobs spawning too close to walls
- Fixed incorrect icon on the Monster Hunter Chestplate

UPDATE 06.01.2021

New Features
- Reworked vegetation on the Caratas Wasteland map

Changes
- Increased gold drop and item drop name distance
- Reduced ram usage slightly (~500MB at best) due to some shader optimizations
- Danji has packed up his things and has left the cities
- Removed (now useless) tickets and refunded any left over gold tickets
- Moved teleporter outside his house in Nodrog

Balance updates
- Reduced start lion mount movement speed

UPDATE 30.12.2020

New Features
- Added a little something for all the pyromaniacs to celebrate the end of the year

Changes
- Camera can look up a little further and zoom out a bit more
- Camera is now centered on the players head
- Added some background mountains to the Nibor map

Bugfixes
- Fixed rifts in the Frozen Land spawning too close to walls
- Fixed horses going sideways in some cases while rotating to the floor slope
- Fixed performance penalty even with ambient occlusion disabled

UPDATE 23.12.2020

New Features
- Added ambient occlusion for improved visuals

Changes
- Added additional props to the Nibor map (Caratas starter town)
- Small improvements to the half-demons demon hand
- All mounts adhere to the ground slope now
- Skill books now stack to 200

Balancing changes
- Zagan now has some poison resistance

Bugfixes
- Fixed Frozen Land portal not having a safe zone
- Fixed Frozen Land teleport not teleporting you to the portal
- Fixed swapped class description for the assassin during character creation
- Fixed some bad map collisions and rift spawns on the Frozen Land map
- Fixed some transparency issues on the event tree boss

UPDATE 17.12.2020

New Features
- Reworked vegetation on the "Nibor" map (Caratas starter town)

Changes
- Updated minimap images with higher quality versions
- Increased horse size so it matches the character better

Balance updates
- Changed the way monster stats are calculated, leading to slightly faster hp generation for all monsters (aside from Zargan bosses)

Bugfixes
- Fixed missing post processing in the City Of Nodrog
- Fixed a small performance issue with displaying skill cooldowns
- Fixed some particles not displaying correctly
- Fixed some dynamic character glitches
- Fixed a bug in party handling leading to broken parties

UPDATE 10.12.2020

Changes
- Added distinct names to the starter towns & cities
- Increased shadow quality for close-up shadows
- Replaced discord button in the news window with a close button
- Improved dynamic character build performance
- Respawn buttons don't change positions anymore when the cooldown expires
- Critical hit damage numbers are more distinct

Balance updates
- 70 day guild contracts are now available

Bugfixes
- Fixed some minor server-side performance issues
- Fixed some edge cases when exchanging tickets with a full inventory
- Fixed some ice projectiles and particle effects being invisible
- Fixed monster projectiles following indefinitely in some cases

HOTFIX 04.12.2020

Bugfixes
- Fixed a display error showing all monster types as creature
- Fixed hyper potions expiring in real time as opposed to play time

HOTFIX 02.12.2020

Changes
- Shops & pets aren't avoided by the auto-walk anymore
- Auto-walk avoidance now stops near the end of the path

Balance updates
- Zagan's demon steel expires after 2 hours

UPDATE 01.12.2020

New Features
- Auto-Walk will now (try to) walk around monsters, players and npcs
- Added a new option to mute sound when tabbing out of the game
- Added weapon trail vfx when attacking
- New demon hand for male half demons

Changes
- Improved hit particles and increased hit wiggle
- Adjusted damage numbers to be a bit more yellow

Balance updates
- Increased player attack knockback distance
- Zagan's demon steel loses its magical properties after 12 hours
- Most bosses will aggro onto nearby players now

Bugfixes
- Fixed an issue where the monster AI would stop attacking on slopes
- Fixed monsters attempting to aggro onto previous target even though they are out of range (noticable for rifts)
- Fixed some npcs being called "missing name" in some languages
- Fixed progress bar text not being cleared properly when max. guild level is reached (Congratulations SEKTE for reaching level 100!)

UPDATE 25.11.2020

New Features
- Danji has arrived in the city...
- The buy coin button now also works for players not playing via steam
- Character re-customization is now available via the itemshop

Changes
- Added new demon hand to the female half-demon
- Timed quest objectives behave a little better, failing/hiding when the time runs out
- Improved texture quality of distortion effects
- Improved shadow quality for very close objects

Bugfixes
- Fixed some collision bugs, especially noticable on the first jerro map
- Fixed some monsters sliding on the floor after being knocked down
- Fixed the orc dogs hair not being transparent
- Fixed the player models skin shader not handling normals correctly, it should look a lot better now
- Fixed oversized search icon in the itemshop window

UPDATE 18.11.2020

New Features
- Skill icons now glow when the skill finishes it's cooldown

Balance updates
- Lowered monster requirement for "Monstrous activity in

UPDATE 28.10.2020

Changes
- Changed player target ui to be more concise

Balance updates
- Increase collider height of some smaller monsters so they are easier to hit

Bugfixes
- Fixed some monsters not hitting their attacks consistently

UPDATE 23.10.2020

New Features
- The Halloween event is live! Help Reki correct his horrid mistake and collect goodies while doing so
- New and improved class selection during character creation
- Rankings are now available and the first one has already started - compete to win prizes!
- More detailed bloom & depth of field graphics settings
- Graphics settings for cloud quality, sun/moon light rays and aurora
- The increasing demonic influence seems to have been having adverse effects on half-demons..

Changes
- Particles (for example buffs) are now either hidden or made more transparent when invisible (only applies to yourself)
- Small dynamic character building performance improvement
- Monsters on the starting maps now have more visual variety
- Added additional starting items for new characters
- Adjusted name position for most monsters

Bugfixes
- Fixed event countdown text not showing properly
- Fixed some sky/weather bugs
- Fixed a bad map collision around rocks in Frozen Land
- Fixed some translation bugs
- Fixed harpy feathers not being transparent where they should be
- Fixed ui tribal effect in window headers not rendering correctly
- Fixed fog rendering twice, making it thicker than intended (this should also be a slight performance improvement)

UPDATE 09.10.2020

We're happy to present the first major performance update!
There has been some big changes behind the scenes, so chances are there is still some small glitches.
We encourage you to fine-tune your graphics settings to get the best performance/quality for your system


New Features
- New and improved settings ui layout
- More detailed graphics settings
- A large earthquake seems to have disrupted the frozen land and caused one of the mountains to the north-east to crumble
- The night sky is now visible

Changes
- Switched to a more modern render backend
- Dynamic character generation is now more memory efficient
- Improved normal, critical and penetrating hit vfx

UPDATE 30.09.2020

New Features
- Items now have a highlight according to their rarity in the inventory
- An icon is now shown next to a monsters name if they are out of the players level range and won't drop any loot

Changes
- Improved map collision on Caratas, Caratas City, Jerro, Jerro City, Deadland and Frozen Land
- Small improvements to the party ui layout
- Guild member UI can now be sorted by online status
- The UI toggle hotkey is now bound to F11 by default (existing players may have to update this themselves)
- The UI toggle hotkey now also hides names of monsters/npcs/players/..

Balance updates
- Reduced rift respawn time on Frozen Land

Bugfixes
- Fixed unequipping items being possible with a full inventory
- Fixed being able to enter the desert via the teleport before level 35

UPDATE 16.09.2020

New Features
- Added a few more "tab targeting" hotkeys for specifically selecting enemies or friendly targets

Changes
- By default TAB is now bound to selecting enemies only (existing users might have to rebind this themselves)
- Improved map collision of frozen land
- Hovered names show for a shorter time
- Pathfinding performance improvements
- Adjusted some npc positions and rotations slightly

Bugfixes
- Fixed a pathfinding bug causing a lot of jittering when starting to walk somewhere
- Fixed player names glitching out and always showing sometimes
- Fixed shared storage not allowing to store more items sometimes

UPDATE 09.09.2020

New Features
- Account wide storage is now available
- An icon is now shown when your character riding a mount
- Shields are now shown ingame and can be toggled like helmets

Changes
- Improved map collision of deadland, jerro highland, caratas wasteland
- Skill tooltips now display the damage type

Balance updates
- Rifts in Zagans dungeon spawn monsters quicker

Bugfixes
- Fixed some more bugs with the skill window (dark icons and not being able to upgrade)
- Fixed whispers with different casing of letters opening different windows
- Fixed being teleported back to the previous position when being knocked back while using the assassins "Backstab" skill
- Fixed a netcode bug that caused unnecessary delay

UPDATE 02.09.2020

New Features
- You can now press TAB to auto-select a target
- Added a hotkey binding to interact with the selected target (X by default)

Changes
- Skill window now also shows cooldowns
- Adjusted safe zones in both caratas/jerro town and city
- Remove the misleading "Recreate" button and display only the "Play" button during character selection
- Your player character will now look at you

Balance updates
- Adjusted attack hitbox of mounted attacks

Bugfixes
- Fixed a bunch of netcode bugs & desyncs
- Fixed some monster and rifts spawning too close to safe zones
- Fixed skill ui being empty after a map change/relog sometimes
- Fixed skill ui not showing the "plus" button to upgrade a skill sometimes
- Fixed whispers not minimizing when pressing ESC
- Fixed hud chat not closing when pressing ESC
- Fixed expanded hud chat not layering over windows correctly
- Fixed a visual bug in the contract renew confirmation where the increase was shown as a very large number
- Fixed max hp/mp not being rounded in the stats window

HOTFIX 27.08.2020

Changes
- Remaining trade lock time is now displayed with more detail

Balance updates
- Guilds higher than level 25 have slightly more missions per day and active mission slots
- Guilds higher than level 25 get a 50%/50% split between normal/hard missions, with the normal ones having a lower reward
- Monsters can now move like players when being knocked back, this mostly affects bosses and bow/wand knockback

Bugfixes
- Fixed a movement desync when attacking

UPDATE 26.08.2020

Changes
- Changed icons and names for some materials that had duplicate icons
- Some changes to the skill netcode that should have no visible effect, but might introduce new bugs
- Trade window formats gold with thousands seperators
- You can now also quick-move item to the trade/player shop window with shift click

Balance updates
- Character height was reduced by 10%
- "Portals from Hell" guild mission now gives slightly less activity points
- "Population control" guild mission now gives slightly more activity points
- The guild mission difficulty now increases a bit less in the higher guild levels
- Reduced difficulty of "Dangerous Creatures" guild mission slightly

Bugfixes
- Fixed character names not always being above their heads
- Fixed not actually dying when taking lethal damage from reflection damage when you have hp steal

UPDATE 19.08.2020

Changes
- When choosing a sub-class the skills are now displayed for inspection instead of just listing their names as text
- Improved the deadland map
- Changed the arena environment to the new desert environment introduced in the update on 08.08.2020
- Improved the collision in the deadland cave further

Balance updates
- Buffed physical damage, both on weapons and the innate damage gained by leveling up (this also affects monsters)
- Buffed innate magical defense (this also affects monsters)

Bugfixes
- Fixed a few untranslated texts in the character selection ui
- Fixed incorrect start level for deadland guild missions
- Fixed a translation error in the guild activity log about auto-kick of guild members without a contract
- Fixed not being able to hand out long guild contracts
- Fixed quest change sfx playing when using/picking up items in a few quests
- Fixed monsters giving up attacking when repeatedly being knocked back
- Fixed an edge cause causing guild mission counters to stop updating sometimes

UPDATE 12.08.2020

Changes
- Improved memory usage slightly

Balance updates
- Zagan's Demonsteel is now awarded when defeating Zagan
- Zagan's Demonsteel can now be sold to npcs

Bugfixes
- Fixed fps drops when building many dynamic player/npc characters (for example in cities)

HOTFIX 09.08.2020

Changes
- Disabled vsync temporarily since an underlying engine bug causes inputs to still register even when the window is not focused

Bugfixes
- Fixed expired player shops not despawning
- Fixed some indoor maps causing hair to turn black due to bad light settings

UPDATE 08.08.2020

New Features
- Added new HD character models
- Added new and improved character creation
- Improved desert map environment
- Added a setting to limit fps while the inferna window is not focused (this currently does not work with vsync enabled due to an underlying engine bug)

Changes
- Some server performance changes, some UIs should be a bit snappier (guilds, player shops)
- When killing a target the full damage is now shown instead of limiting it to the remaining hp
- Improved deadland cave collisions

Bugfixes
- Fixed some text errors in the guild activity log
- Fixed player shops placed in zagans dungeon glitching out and breaking the dungeon when proceeding to the next level
- Fixed tiger mounts going very dark in the pyramid

UPDATE 27.07.2020

Just a small update this week while we're busy working on the HD character models which we're hoping to release next week.
Also a reminder for people who have not looked at Tsukamotos (the shady character lurking outside the city walls) deal yet: It's probably not going to last too much longer as the city guard catch wind of his offerings.

New Features
- Player shops now show the price per item if the stack has multiple items

Changes
- Canceling guild missions requires an extra confirmation now to prevent accidental cancellations

Bugfixes
- Fixes monster highlights not being cleared correctly
- Fixes item counts in the trade window not resetting correctly

UPDATE 17.07.2020

New Features
- Guilds! Guild Skills! Guild Missions!
- Select to show or hide your helmet in the inventory!

Bugfixes
- Fixed not selecting target when clicking on one sometimes
- Fixed a bad house placement on caratas
- Fixed T-posing when (dis)mouting

UPDATE 08.07.2020

Changes
- Sped up generation of characters (players and npcs)
- Corrected "Fire Spirits" description to describe how it is working currently

Bugfixes
- Fixed an edge case that caused dying by damage reflect during a skill to get the character stuck in a "limbo" state between dead and alive
- Fixed warriors "Chain Helmet" sparkling on all upgrade levels
- Fixed "Fire Spirits" skill on female half demons not attacking
- Fixed potential (visually) clipping into hills with high speeds
- Fixed a glitched house in jerro

UPDATE 01.07.2020

New Features
- Added footstep sounds to all monsters
- Added missing ambient sounds to some maps

Changes
- Player shops can't be opened in the arena
- The tailor in jerro city now lives in a house again, after he was so rudely left without one a few updates ago (sorry!)

Balance updates
- The brown horse mount (and all other brown horse variants) now have the same base move speed as all other mounts
- Reduced Zagans dungeon cooldown (should be able to start again right away in most cases now)

Bugfixes
- Fixed language update not syncing with the server until a restart
- Fixed some monster idle sounds
- Fixed some sound issues with flying monsters
- Fixed wrong footsteps for some floors
- Fixed a few monster spawns in deadland
- Fixed stash not closing if you walked away from the storekeeper
- Fixed not being able to re-enter zagans dungeon within the first few minutes after starting

UPDATE 24.06.2020

New Features
- Sounds are now limited to playing only a few of the same type - this should make fighting a horde of monsters more bearable on your ears
- Rifts now have sounds
- Ranged attacks (bow/wand) now also auto-select a target pointed at by the mouse cursor

Balance updates
- Rebalanced the half demons manashield skill, the skill now scales how much mp it costs to absorb damage instead of how much damage is absorbed

HOTFIX 04.06.2020

Changes
- Improved click handling during attacking, it will now just make the character face where you clicked instead of interrupting the attack

Bugfixes
- Fixed a desync most commonly seen while attacking on assassins with daggers
- Fixed attacking not resuming on its own after a stun wears off

UPDATE 13.05.2020

New Features
- A new cave has opened up in the deadlands, what ancient mysteries could it hold? (Added new dungeon accessible from deadland)
- The cities now have more space to hang out
- A new shared arena map is now accessible by talking to Ninka in the city

Changes
- Improved pyramid performance
- Added some missing info to the skill tooltips
- Improved Jerro maps
- Empire change now teleports you to your new empires city

Balance updates
- Lizard mount movement speed was reduced to the intended 5%

Bugfixes
- Fixed players sometimes teleporting around when being hit in pvp
- Fixed hp/mp not always saving when leaving the game or teleporting to another map
- Fixed an edge case that caused the pvp mode "guild" to not trigger free mode when dealing damage to friendly players
- Fixed some animal furs not being affected by fog

UPDATE 06.05.2020

New Features
- Added new "Red Lizard" mount
- Added new "Demonic Minion" pet

Changes
- Improved startup performance
- Stats are now formatted with more detail in the character info window
- Improved Jerro map collision
- Added a loading spinner to the character selection load
- Moved Jerro spawn point for new characters to the town gates

Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug that caused some player characters not to build correctly (naked/no animation)
- Fixed some edge cases in the item equipment code that lead to stats not being added/removed properly
- Fixed players sometimes not sitting on their horse correctly

UPDATE 29.04.2020

New Features
- All armor pieces sparkle now from +7 onwards

Changes
- Reorganized and improved Caratas & Jerro City
- Updated ice land minimap
- Improved Caratas Wasteland map & navigation
- Improved Jerro map & navigation
- Incoming whispers now start minimized

Bugfixes
- Fixed an issue with skills desyncing and not dealing any damage when used after each other
- Fixed reflected damage causing pvp free/karma loss if player damaged/killed themselves
- Fixed trade window not accepting items via click based item dragging (dragging via holding worked fine)

UPDATE 22.04.2020

New Features
- Upon respawn you are now invisible and invincible for a short time
- Camera now follows your characters rotation when auto-walking (this is configurable in the gameplay settings to off/only autowalk/always)
- Added a whisper button to player shops so you can talk to the owner directly

Changes
- The auto-walk path is now more visible
- Miscellaneous map improvements to caratas city, deadland, desert and ice land

Balance updates
- Weapon-specific defense is now slightly more effective against magic type damage (it is still quite ineffective)
- High level jewellery now has a reasonable sell value

Bugfixes
- Fixed equipment slots not clearing properly
- Fixed another overlap issue in the target ui
- Fixed excessive lense flares of some building lights
- Fixed popups still being confirmed even when writing to chat
- Fixed only being able to buy an item from player shops if you have one more gold than required
- Fixed an edge case that made player shops not spawn

UPDATE 15.04.2020

Changes
- Easter egg drop was disabled, you've got another week to deliver existing eggs to Wakai
- Control Sensitivity can be increased further
- Some minor memory improvements
- Improved target bar
- Improved ice land map collisions
- In Zagan's Dungeon, the real key is now guaranteed to drop every time

Balance updates
- Increased natural magic defense of players

Bugfixes
- Fixed a desync in the attack netcode, this should fix the "gliding" when attacking
- Fixed missing inventory slots after loading in
- Fixed weapon not reappearing after using an emotion
- Fixed a typo in the level 49 and 56 boots on +8/+9 stats
- Fixed "boss" hp bar overlaying players target buttons
- Fixed a crash when following a target and the target goes out of range