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UPDATE 03.05.2023

Hey everyone!
This month has been a bit busy for the team with vacations and other distractions taking a lot of time, so this months update is.. tiny.
Sorry about that, more interesting things are in the works!

Balance updates
- Tweaked material drop chances slightly
- Added rotten ghoul essence as an upgrade material to the new level 30 weapons
- Reduced the amount of gem dust/shards/fragments needed for crafting the next higher tier of gem
- Reduced monster summons from rifts level 45 and 50 (which where increased too much last update)
- Added a few monster summons to rifts level 40, 60 and 65

HOTFIX 08.04.2023

Changes
- Added a arrow/highlight of where to go once the dungeon key for Rondor's/Vondor's crypt was found
- The new weapons are now all marked as valuable to prevent accidental sale

Balance updates
- The dungeon key for Rondor's/Vondor's crypt lasts 5 minutes instead of 3 minutes now
- Reduced the werespiders hp
- Slightly raised manticore tail drop chance
- Reduced required materials for teleporter unlocks

Bugfixes
- Fixed new weapons not dropping from monsters with their innate enchantments applied
- Fixed missing naming for the new pyramid material "weathered gold chalice"
- Fixed respawn also being forced when dead on the floor for a while in instances
- Fixed Elf Steel Bow dropping +10 from one monster, bows dropped as such will be downgraded to +0
- Fixed a possibility of getting stuck in Rondor's/Vondor's crypt when killing all monsters before the lesser skeleton king so no key drops
- Fixed attack animation timing (especially the mounted attacks were quite off)

UPDATE 05.04.2023

New Features
- Added legendary level 30 weapons which posses innate enchantments
- Replaced Rondor's/Vondor's crypt with a new instanced dungeon available from level 10
- Added animal bosses on Nibor/Jurdana
- Weapon upgrading materials were completely overhauled to require less materials and materials in the level range of the weapon. We also reduced the amount of existing materials accordingly (and drop rates were of course also adjusted). Let us know what you think!
- Added a variety of new materials

Changes
- Quick-move hotkey is only shown in item tooltips when there is a window open to quick move to
- Slightly lowered grass height on Jurdana
- Removed some hard to walk on rock piles on Nibor
- Tweaked monster/player lighting brightness in the pyramid
- We're temporarily allowing players from other empires to go to the starter map (Nibor/Jurdana)

Balance updates
- Reduced required experience to read skill books by half
- The Half Demons Blade of Darkness buff is now removed when switching weapons
- Increased movement speed of some of the scorpion and beetle monsters in the desert slightly
- Experience loss from dying to a monster now only happens when respawning where you died
- Players will now automatically "respawn in town" if they lay on the floor dead for over a minute
- New players start with more health potions
- Added several groups of bears and lions on Nibor/Jurdana
- Adjusted levels of monsters in Caratas Wasteland/Jerro Highlands, Deadland (+ Cave), Desert and Frozen Land
- A corrupted soul fragment can now rarely be obtained from Glacius as well
- Added two more Werespider spawns
- Removed big monster taunts from shops, but added it as a drop to some elites and bosses
- Adjusted gold drops for some monsters that were unusually high
- Rebalanced Dark Elf Gladiator/Spearman/Sharpshooter and Lizardman
- Monsters in the pyramid are now aggressive and will attack on their own
- Added ranged monsters to the pyramid
- Adjusted gold/exp rewards from pyramid monsters
- Improved some rift placements

Bugfixes
- Fixed an issue where some players got stuck at 99% loading with the udp network backend selected (this was hotfixed on the 31st)

Easter Event

Ramadan Event Week #5

Ramadan Event Week #4

Ramadan Event Week #3

Ramadan Event Week #2

Ramadan Event Week #1

UPDATE 01.03.2023

New Features
- Added Level 5 and 15 rifts to Nibor and Jurdana
- Added Nightmare boss to the Deadland
- Added Glacius Boss to the Frozen Land

Changes
- Quick move and item split key bindings are now shown in item tooltips and the shop ui
- Reworked the monster spawning on the 2nd half of Deadland
- Moved the Frozen Land Portal

Balance updates
- Reduced maximum minimap zoom-out slightly
- Rebalanced all "badass" monsters (Dark Elf Gladiator/Spearman/Sharpshooter, Dark Lizardman, Volcrate Champion, Frost Golem)
- Tweaked Dark Lizardman spawn
- Added some more monster spawns to Jerro Highlands/Caratas Wasteland to make leveling there more attractive
- Tweaked and added rift spawns on all maps (that previously had rift spawns)

Bugfixes
- Fixed an edge case during reenchanting that could lead to enchantments not being deleted correctly before adding new ones
- Fixed a floating railing on Jurdana
- Fixed Jurdana city region being slightly too small leading to the wilderness title to appear in some corners
- Fixed hp/mp potion regeneration not clearing in the ui when dying
- Fixed tailor window now closing when walking away from the npc
- Fixed half demon attacks playing multiple sounds in some cases

UPDATE 02.02.2023

New Features
- Added an animation for mounting/dismounting
- Added separate, increasing visual effects for every stage (normal/master/grandmaster) of the attack skills. These are a first version and there's some things we still want to change and adjust in the future, they should be a solid improvement across the board though. Let us know which one is your favorite and which skills still need some touching up
- 7 day shop time vouchers are now available in the itemshop
- Rift compasses are now available in the itemshop
- Lucky coins are now available in the itemshop

Changes
- You can't mount/unmount while in a house/no mount zone anymore
- Reduced prices of bronze and silver supporter packages
- Supporter and itemshop UI shows bonuses and discounts more clearly

Balance updates
- When receiving shared experience in a party, your own players exp bonus is now added instead of the original players that got the experience for the party
- When dying to a monster, there is now a chance to lose a few percent of your experience
- Adjusted the required experience to level up
- Increased the assassins "Rain of Arrows" target area angle (15° to 30°)

Bugfixes
- Fixed an issue with the skill "Fan"-type hit detection being offset forwards (affecting the "Rain Of Arrows" skill and one of the hydras attacks)
- Fixed skill area targets not being shuffled before selecting every time

UPDATE 04.01.2023

New Features
- Added enchanting catalyst system (with the reenchant scroll being the first catalyst introduced)
- Added refine catalyst system (with the gods blessing of chances being the first catalyst introduced)
- Added a button to open the wiki to the "ESC"-menu
- Supporter choice now includes instant gold pick up
- Added Mnemonic Potion to increase the chance for skill book reading to succeed, available as a reward from Zagan and in the itemshop
- Added Focused Learning Book which allows you to read skill books even if you are exhausted and normally had to wait, available as a reward from Zagan and in the itemshop
- Added reenchant scrolls which allow you to reenchant items for no cost aside from the scroll itself, available as a reward from Zagan and in the itemshop
- Added Orb of Health, Orb of Mana and Orb of Restoration which instantly heal your hp, mp and both respectively, they are available as a drop from high level bosses and in the itemshop
- Potion of Fighting and Super Speed Potion are now available in the itemshop

Changes
- Portals are slightly larger
- Skill books are now crafted from fragments of knowledge at the librarian instead of dropped by rifts directly
- Status Subtract Tincture is now dropped rarely by most bosses
- Increased itemshop coin bonus for purchasing larger amounts at once

Balance updates
- Reflection now only works against hit damage
- Mounting or dismounting does not remove spawn protection anymore
- Reduced random boss and elite monster size variation from +-20% to +-5%
- Skill projectiles now speed up gradually instead of staying at the same speed

Bugfixes
- Fixed the "Demonic Chains" skill effects not rendering with ambient occlusion enabled
- Fixed skill swap potion not transferring skill exp

HOTFIX 05.12.2022

Balance updates
- Increased post-poison immunity for scorpion king, hydra and zagan
- Increased minimum level for higher level monsters in zagans dungeon for Danji's holdiay tombola

Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug that could cause a disconnect right after logging in for some accounts
- Fixed a localization issue for completed/failed guild missions in the guild window

UPDATE 30.11.2022

HOTFIX 01.12.2022
- Reduced the damage of the half demons blade of darkness skill very slightly

HOTFIX 30.11.2022
- Increase damage of the half demons blade of darkness skill
- Reduced respawn time of the king skorpion, but added more spawn points


New Features
- Danji's holiday tombola is starting again with lots of holiday and not-so-holiday themed goodies to collect!

Changes
- Tweaked materials of crocodiles, centaurs and dwelfs to make them less glossy
- Tweaked some ground and object textures on Jerro Highlands
- Added a small bridge to a stream crossing on Jurdana
- Werewolf now drops gothic shields
- Skorpion king now drops shields of darkness
- Added scorpion king to the dangerous creatures guild mission

Balance updates
- Increased duration and cooldown of the sword prowess skill
- Monsters will now (stupidly) attempt to intercept you when chasing instead of just following you
- Monsters can now adapt and resist future knockback after being knocked back
- Slight increase in monster movement speed in Frozen Land
- Removed higher level shields from the shield shop
- Bosses will now be immune to poison for a while after being poisoned
- Shields movement speed debuff now increases with their level and decreases on higher upgrade levels
- Weapon defense is now twice as effective against magical damage (changed from 1/6th to 1/3rd)
- Reworked scaling of all equipment and monsters to make using the same low level items for high level content less attractive, this has the effect that lower level items have lower stats, but the stats of lower level mobs have been decreased as well
- Increased monster damage by 40%
- Increased hp of monsters in the desert by 50%, deadland by 30% and frozen land by 15%
- Increased the damage of monsters (in addition to the general 40%) in the desert by 20%, frozen land by 38% for lower level monsters and 25% for higher level monsters
- Reduced max hp bonuses on bluesteel and red satinwood bracelets as well as medallion of nagaris
- Increased max hp enchantment from 50, 100, 150, 200 and 300 to 200, 350, 500, 750 and 1000 respectively
- Tweaked hp regeneration of some bosses to be in quicker intervals, but lower amounts
- Buffed weapon defense enchantments from 1%, 2%, 4%, 7% and 12% to 2%, 4%, 6%, 10% and 15% respectively
- Reset everyones status points

Bugfixes
- Fixed some bad tree colliders on Deadland
- Fixed guild mission complete/failed status not getting translated
- Fixed pet following player even while invisible
- Fixed an unwalkable bridge on Jurdana
- Fixed the two doorways near Kadir being hard to walk through in the desert
- Fixed visual effects (like poison particles) not correctly attaching to monsters
- Fixed dead trees in the desert being very wobbly
- Fixed a rare edge case that could lead to items disappearing after dropping them and picking them up instantly

Danjis Holiday Tombola, Week #2

Danjis Holiday Tombola, Week #4

Danjis Holiday Tombola, Week #3

Danjis Holiday Tombola, Week #5

UPDATE 02.11.2022

New Features
- Itemshop UI now shows item tooltip when hovering the icon
- Clicking on a material in the crafting ui will now open the recipe, if it's craftable at the current npc

Changes
- Ranking rewards now show item count on the preview icon
- Tweaked text of the "leave instance" button to be shorter
- Tweaked some npc positions in the City of Nodrog
- Tweaked monster and rift name colors
- Changed (mini-)map tooltip background to be darker, making text easier to read
- Shortened potion hp/mp restore tooltip line
- Moved some decorative boulders around in Jurdana
- Improved map collisions in deadland cave
- Temporarily removed some spiderwebs from deadland cave due to lighting issues
- Slight cpu performance boost due to engine improvements
- Improved object/map collisions on the following maps: Deadland, Deadland Cave, Desert
- Increased size of the guild role info window
- Improved vegetation rendering, higher performance and better visuals
- Simplified grass distance/density into a single grass quality setting
- Added grass interaction setting to the settings ui which was previously set automatically
- Lowered frozen land brightness slightly
- Tweaked gradient of the pop-up chat background to be more solid near the top
- Pop-up chat does not block clicks anymore
- Pop-up chat is now limited to showing a maximum of 10 messages at once

Balance updates
- Aggressive karma rank now gives the intended -1% drop chance penalty instead of the -10% it was previously
- Karma gained from monster kills now scales with level difference, like other loot
- "Dangerous creatures" guild mission now counts kills via damage done instead of final hits, as long as a guild does 30% or more of the total damage to the specific boss, it counts as a kill

Bugfixes
- Fixed reflections not refreshing in some cases
- Fixed scrollbar of the event ui showing under the minimap even if there is no events
- Fixed whisper ui not scrolling to the bottom when minimized
- Fixed clicking on an attackable target while not being able to attack with the current weapon not walking towards it
- Fixed roots and hanging moss in deadland cave being lit too brightly
- Fixed initial player shop naming popup using the wrong kind of input ui
- Fixed "/help help" causing a disconnect
- Fixed bad collision on a sandstone pillar in the desert
- Fixed very slow monster/player movement being jumpy instead of smooth
- Fixed monster name height not taking height variation into account
- Fixed an edge case in harvesting causing it to not work the first time
- Fixed harvest animation not playing for other players
- Fixed name toggle hotkey working while writing into a text field

Halloween Week #4

Halloween Week #3

Halloween Week #2

Halloween Week #1

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

UPDATE 02.03.2022

New Features
- You can now open a whole stack of chests at once

Changes
- City of Ardnas is slightly bigger and had it's ground vegetation & texturing tweaked
- City of Nodrog is slightly bigger and had it's ground vegetation tweaked
- Various performance improvements to exp orbs, hp/mp steal particles and damage reflection effects
- Hp/Mp steal particles had their visuals tweaked & spawn slightly varied to prevent stacking
- Internal update of vegetation rendering shaders (slight performance boost without any significant visual changes)
- Audio is rotated to the cameras direction instead of the players
- Tweaked heavy snow weather to not obscure the view as much when zoomed out far
- Tweaked tincture of enchanting and corrupted soul icon color slightly to be more distinct from the combining one
- Tweaked npc name positions

Balance updates
- Gray fox kills are also counted for the "New Arrival" quest

Bugfixes
- Fixed item rarity outline/glow in the ui not being aligned properly
- Fixed mana absorb effects glowing red instead of blue
- Fixed valuable item confirmation popup buttons not being translated
- Fixed auto-attack running around large monsters instead of attacking them in some cases

HOTFIX 03.02.2022

Changes
- Drops are now spread apart even further

Balance updates
- Weakened young mega gazer slightly
- Adjusted young mega gazer level to 70
- Adjusted one missing desert rift's level to be a multiple of 5

Bugfixes
- Fixed monsters sometimes not hitting their attacks
- Fixed a translation error in the smithing ui

UPDATE 02.02.2022

New Features
- Monsters now vary slightly in their size, strength, speed and gold/exp rewards
- There have been reports of the Frozen Land getting more unstable and rarely corrupting monsters to even more hellish beasts
- A fourth enchantment may now be added to level 57 weapons and level 56 armors

Changes
- Removed young monster variations from Nibor & Jurdana
- Adjusted names of some animal monsters on Nibor & Jurdana
- Guild deposit/withdraw popup now also has an input field in addition to a slider
- Increased player shop table lod range
- Using monster taunts will remove the spawn protection status effect right away
- Tweaks to monster behaviour after killing their focused player
- Player shop UI now closes when walking away from a shop
- When a monster or rift drops many items, they are now more spread out
- Slight performance increase to exp spheres

Balance updates
- Slightly adjusted monster exp to be more in line with the respective monster level across the board
- Ranged monster attacks can now be defended against with bow defense
- Slightly increased world drop chance in Zagan's dungeon (it is still lower than normal)
- Reduced the knockback of the warrior's Charge skill
- Zagan's chest now stacks up to 20
- Reduced ranged monster damage on Jerro Highlands & Caratas Wasteland
- Tweaked damage of some melee monsters on Jerro Highlands & Caratas Wasteland
- Increased damage of lower level monsters on Dead Land
- Tweaked damage of Beetle & Deadly Scorpion
- Reduced hp of Vampire, Starved Vampire, Manticora & Infected Manticora
- Tweaked rift levels to be a multiple of 5
- Reduced skill book drop chance
- Reduced hell essence drop chance
- Jewelry from levels 1-22, 28-42 and 48-58 respectively have the same enchant & reenchant costs
- Reenchant item cost is now influences by how many enchantments the item has

Bugfixes
- Fixed a translation error in the deadland cave artifact quest when attempting to return artifacts and having none in your inventory
- Fixed stat resetting via the character ui not working
- Fixed an edge case where item interactions (using, selling, upgrading, enchanting, ..) would only be communicated via their position and if swapped before confirming would interact with the swapped item
- Fixed a bad rift spawn position on Frozen Land
- Fixed text overlapping with large numbers in the slider confirmation popups
- Fixed text overlapping in some cases in the smithing ui
- Fixed not being able to zoom in/out with a keyboard hotkey while the mouse is over any ui
- Fixed an untrimmed carpet material
- Fixed a rounding error in party exp distribution causing some exp to get lost (only really relevant at very low level)
- Fixed negative attributes not showing in red in item tooltips
- Fixed weather not syncing
- Fixed an issue that caused player attack hit detection to be slightly delayed

HOTFIX 11.01.2022

Changes
- Moved the return to city teleport target for jerro outside of a house to counteract exits being blocked by other players

UPDATE 05.01.2022

Happy new year everyone!
Just a quick reminder, we've moved to a monthly update schedule instead of the weekly one, so the next update will be at the start of February.

Changes
- When downgrading skills, any status effects applied by that skill are removed
- In item tooltips only the item name & rarity text are colored according to the rarity
- In the character selection, the selected character is highlighted in the list again
- Danji is saying good bye for now and has left

Bugfixes
- Fixed some minor issues in inventory handling
- Fixed the name and classification of some two handed swords that apparently were axes in a previous life
- Fixed a bug in instance spawning that caused it to fail with long run times

UPDATE 01.12.2021

Changes
- Guilds max debt for guild fees is capped to 4 weeks worth of guild fee payments (in effect next monday)

Bugfixes
- Fixed a ranking issue with counting monster category kills
- Fixed the minimum level for Zagan's dungeon mobs in Danji's challenge
- Fixed a wrong description for beetle dust

UPDATE 24.11.2021

New Features
- Danji has appeared again! Find out more on monday

UPDATE 10.11.2021

Changes
- Disabled halloween event

Bugfixes
- Fixed shards not dropping as much as intended from rifts
- Fixed bad cliff collision on the Nibor map
- Fixed missing aquamarine shard image

UPDATE 03.11.2021

Changes
- Chest open result popup does not stack and is replaced instead

Balance updates
- Gem dust/shards now drop as "unidentified" instead of all different variants to save on inventory space while farming
- Increased gem dust drop rate slightly
- Increased gem shard drop rate slightly

Bugfixes
- Fixed being unable to rotate your camera with hotkeys while mouse cursor was over the UI
- Fixed preview pictures for some customisation options in the character creation not being shown correctly
- Fixed missing tooltips in the character creation

UPDATE 29.10.2021

New Features
- Skills & skill group may now be changed through the skill ui (up to level 30)

Changes
- Slight fps improvments on the 'Nibor' map

Bugfixes
- Fixed a small hole in the background mountains at some view angles
- Fixed an issue in the player shop ui where slots would sometimes be hidden
- Fixed some tooltip color issues

UPDATE 20.10.2021

New Features
- Integrated status point resetting into the character status ui

Changes
- Improved tooltip performance

Bugfixes
- Fixed fps lag with the detailed stats window open

UPDATE 13.10.2021

Bugfixes
- Fixed mounted status desync happening sometimes after login/map change

UPDATE 08.10.2021

New Features
- It is time for the spooky season - we've started our Halloween event!
- When adding an item to your shop it will now suggest a price if that item is already in the shop

Changes
- Tweaked horse sizes slightly
- When riding a horse, the riders feet now line up with the stirrups properly

Bugfixes
- Fixed a client lag spike when player shops refreshed their inventory
- Fixed a few ui related lag spikes

UPDATE 29.09.2021

New Features
- Added an extended stat section to the character status window
- Available skill /status points are now also displayed as badges on the hud buttons

Changes
- Changed starter lion mount to use one of the new lion mount models

Balance updates
- Werespider also drops gem shards
- Mounting/Dismounting now takes 0.2s and 0.8s respectively

Bugfixes
- Fixed emote tab being empty when no sub-class was selected
- Fixed quickbar slots not saving properly sometimes
- Fixed an edge case in skill execution that could cause a desync when switching weapons right before casting a skill
- Fixed an edge case in monster AI that could cause it to get stuck
- Fixed an edge case where player shops wouldnt spawn correctly
- Fixed some visual glitches with vines on Nibor/Jurdana

UPDATE 22.09.2021

Changes
- Improved stone river crossing colliders in Nibor

Balance updates
- Added/Removed some monster spawns on Jerro Highlands and Caratas Wasteland so they are equal in terms of what/how much spawns

Bugfixes
- Fixed priest on Nibor having gone for a walk around the church
- Fixed being disconnect instead of teleported when a pvp tournament fight ends

UPDATE 17.09.2021

New Features
- Added craftable gems which can be inserted in weapons and chest plates
- Added crafting recipes for upgrading magic essences to their greater form
- PvP Season #1 has begun!

Changes
- Updated hell essence icon

Balance updates
- Tweaked hydra respawn time and spawn position(s)
- Hydra is slightly stun resistant

Bugfixes
- Fixed some duplicate house geometry in the cities
- Fixed some floating axes on nibor
- Fixed placeholder icons not showing in the equipment item slots

UPDATE 08.09.2021

Changes
- Slight reduction in required bandwidth for monster movement syncing
- Emotions can be interrupted by simply walking in any direction
- No need to pause attacking to go on/off your mount anymore

UPDATE 18.08.2021

Changes
- Updated socketing ui

Balance updates
- MP consuming status effects now expire when there isn't enough MP left to sustain them

Bugfixes
- Fixed trees wobbling when loading higher res models
- Fixed grass interactions/rift grass hiders not working sometimes
- Fixed missing red text color when an item has a negative status in the item tooltip
- Fixed missing blue text color for enchantments in the item tooltip
- Fixed enchantment texts being moved way to the side in the enchanter ui

UPDATE 11.08.2021

Changes
- Reduced build size by cleaning up some unused assets

Bugfixes
- Fixed an exploit that allowed selling items to any npc
- Fixed an exploit that allowed attacking with a bow/wand from further away than intended
- Fixed jittery player movement syncing

UPDATE 04.08.2021

New Features
- Gold can now be stored in the shared storage

Changes
- Improved deadland cave map collisions (please report any remaining bad spots you see)
- Improved player movement sync

Bugfixes
- Fixed mixed up ground textures in Jurdana
- Fixed water clipping through the terrain near the lake in Jurdana
- Fixed occasional disconnects on busy maps
- Fixed rifts not removing vegetation around them anymore
- Fixed grass not interacting when walking through it properly
- Fixed a few broken vegetation shaders ("pink textures")
- Fixed broken particles of the snow gazer pet
- Fixed skill casts sometimes getting eaten by the server
- Fixed the untranslated monster type in the boss target ui

UPDATE 28.07.2021

In this update, we've upgraded our engine version. This should lead to a slight increase in performance and fix some engine bugs (notably, we can use vsync again).
Otherwise, everything should look and feel the same. Should you run into any bugs or performance degradation please get in touch

New Features
- VSync is available in the graphics options again
- In addition to a slider, there is now also a number input for fps
- Added option to completely uncap fps

Changes
- Unified grass & trees systems in most maps
- Tweaked light direction in character selection

Bugfixes
- Fixed bad environmental reflections in the pyramid
- Fixed an edge case in path finding leading to some one-sided invisible walls in the middle of nowhere (notably the city)
- Fixed female characters not looking at the camera properly
- Fixed an edge case in monster AI that could cause a small lag spike on the server
- Fixed some translation errors in guild skill cast confirm popup

UPDATE 24.07.2021

New Features
- New & improved network backend - better ping times and less lag especially for worse connections (old backend is still available via the game settings)

Changes
- Improved aggro behaviour for monsters, they'll switch targets more readily
- Reduced monster movement bandwidth usage, this had been an issue for some players especially for highly populated areas (e.g. Pyramid, Zagan's dungeon)
- Attempting to cast a guild skill will ask for confirmation
- The skill cooldown duration is now formatted as a duration instead of a plain number

Balance updates
- Stone skin continues gaining knockdown resistance when upgrading to grandmaster (previously there was a drop when upgrading to grandmaster)

Bugfixes
- Fixed some monster aggro related bugs and edge cases
- Fixed boss health bar not showing up consistently when close to a boss
- Fixed ping sometimes not updating properly

UPDATE 14.07.2021

Changes
- Tweaked monster movement syncronization, should be even better for players with bad connections
- In the graphics settings, basic post processing is always enabled, even on low and very low (only applies to new installs)
- Increased player following stop distance slightly
- Tweaked safe zone monster spawn prevention to counteract some rifts spawning too close to safe zones

Balance updates
- Improved some bad attack collisions on a bunch of monsters
- Moved a potential rift spawn further away from the old tower in Nibor
- Reduced login skill cooldown to 15s

Bugfixes
- Fixed ping not updating correctly after a map switch
- Fixed event slot display resetting to the placeholder name after a map change
- Fixed griffon pet feathers not being transparent
- Fixed an error causing slight lag for some users when loading the shop model
- Fixed rift spawn effect not showing on monsters
- Fixed map/minimap path preview blocking mouse clicks/hover
- Fixed monsters not animating in some cases (especially noticable from rift spawns)
- Fixed monster name being hard to read in the minimap
- Fixed inconsistent sparkle color on some two handed weapons +10
- Fixed some small player movement netcode desyncs

UPDATE 07.07.2021

New Features
- Rifts now hide most grass/plants around them on reworked maps to make them more visible

Changes
- Monster models are now loaded in the background to reduce frame drops when entering a new area
- Monsters now move smoother
- Entities are now loaded more gradually when moving around, this should reduce frame drops some people noticed since the update on 23.06
- Player movement syncs a bit faster and shoud feel a bit snappier

Bugfixes
- Fixed an edge case where the network library would skip syncing sometimes after the server had been running for ~6 days
- Fixed an edge case where connecting to a server would time out for some people
- Fixed shutdown procedure disconnecting all players instantly instead of waiting 10s

UPDATE 30.06.2021

Changes
- Increased view range to match the one before last weeks update
- Slight networking responsiveness tweaks

Bugfixes
- Fixed a minor bug in statistics tracking
- Fixed purchasing coins without steam not working if steam was running on the computer
- Fixed a server bug in visibility code
- Fixed some synchronisation issues, especially noticable since dismounting/mounting was not working sometimes
- Fixed an edge case in duels sometimes causing pvp free mode to activate after the duel ended

UPDATE 23.06.2021

In todays update, we're releasing the first "maintenance" update in which we're doing large changes behind the scenes to keep the game current and optimized. This time we've upgraded our netcode library to a current version, which gives us some performance improvements, but should otherwise be unnoticable.
As with all big changes, there might be some issues that slipped through testing, should you find any please report them in the #bug-report channel on our discord!
Next week, all things going well, an improved network backend should follow which provides lower latency & snappier responses, especially in less ideal network conditions.

UPDATE 03.06.2021

Balance updates
- Level 1 weapons +0 don't drop anymore
- Increased drop chance of level 1 weapons +1
- Level 1 weapons all have the same price/gold value

Bugfixes
- Fixed items going invisible when adding to a player shop with not enough space to fit the item

HOTFIX 28.05.2021

Bugfixes
- Fixed item binding being lost when splitting stacks
- Fixed daily gold reward chests being bound to the player that earned them

UPDATE 27.05.2021

Changes
- Teleportation Scroll (City & Return), Potion of Health Regeneration, Rift Compass, Potion of Vanishing, Blink, Teleport Charm Refresh, Shop Time (48h), Potion of Health, Antidote, Ultra Speed Potion are now tradable, however new items received from the "Daily Hunt" quest will be locked to the character they were earned on as they were previously.
- Artifacts can now be traded

Balance updates
- Player shop time was doubled

Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug where players with negative rank could drop items they weren't allowed to drop/trade

UPDATE 19.05.2021

Changes
- Using a teleport item inside a instance asks for confirmation before leaving now
- The "restart at start" respawn button is now disabled in instances to prevent accidentally leaving them when misclicking
- Tweaked view range for monster quest highlights (seen during "kill quests")
- Clicking on an npc to open their ui again after closing it is now more responsive

Bugfixes
- Fixed cancelled guild missions causing replacement guild missions to fail during the duration timer of the previous mission running out
- Fixed a guild mission related memory leak
- Fixed some minimap path rendering bugs
- Fixed an edge case where name text would misbehave for the first frame after spawning

UPDATE 06.05.2021

Changes
- Toxic Undead Horse armor is now colored appropriately
- Some quest markers now flash on the map/minimap

Bugfixes
- Fixed an edge case in the matchmaker that caused it to lock up in some cases when it lost connection to the backend
- Fixed experience spheres continuously flying around a character (especially at low fps)
- Fixed a few npc dialogue ui issues
- Fixed some ui highlight issues

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UPDATE 21.04.2021

Changes
- Artifacts can now be transferred to the shared storage
- Multiple artifacts can be collected at once
- Tweaked event chests to contain both the armored & non-armored horse variant based on user feedback

Bugfixes
- Fixed the event chests not being stackable
- Fixed localization error of the refining potion
- Fixed first ranking getting marked as read without the ui being opened
- Fixed itemshop item descriptions not resizing to their text length

UPDATE 15.04.2021

New Features
- The Ramadan event has started, give your fellow citizens a hand and be rewarded

Changes
- Removed skin chest world drops & keys from the itemshop
- Removed odd breathing sounds when on a horse

Balance updates
- Rebalanced the artifact drop rate & required artifact amount
- Artifact drop scales with drop chance & level difference

Bugfixes
- Fixed a skill related memory leak
- Fixed a text error in the artifact quest stating you had to give the archaeologist one more artifact than you did
- Fixed invisible players being shown in the minimap
- Fixed bad refining ui translation
- Fixed footstep sounds not playing on a horse
- Fixed gameplay settings not starting scrolled to the top

UPDATE 07.04.2021

New Features
- Added the archaeoligist artifact research quest line

Changes
- Removed easter basket spawns & easter egg drop, you've got until next week to exchange any remaining easter eggs with Wakai

Bugfixes
- Fixed minimap zooming out too much on smaller maps
- Fixed a load of translation bugs
- Fixed refine ui overlapping with longer enchantment names
- Fixed minimap monster/rift dots overlapping player dots, they're now properly sorted again
- Fixed shadow aura status effect particles being completely opaque
- Fixed a bad lake collision on Jurdana
- Fixed some bad rock collisions on Nibor
- Fixed "Mercury Wand" being erroneously being called "Mercury Staff" even though it is a wand
- Fixed teleporting or re-logging causing hp loss in some cases
- Fixed status effect icon durations sometimes overlapping if they're long
- Fixed npc dialogue buttons text overflowing when too long
- Fixed rifts/monsters spawning in safe zones
- Fixed drops falling outside the accessible part of the map in some rare cases

HOTFIX
Changes
- Some text changes to make the archaeologist less confusing

Balance updates
- First archaeologist quest requires a few more artifacts, but they have a higher drop rate

Bugfixes
- Fixed items which previously had a trade lock not stacking with other ones

UPDATE 31.03.2021

New Features
- Wakai has returned! She's still out on the hunt for easter eggs and will exchange complete sets for all sorts of goodies
- Key bindings are now shown for some of the HUD buttons in their tooltip

Changes
- Big HUD text is slightly higher

UPDATE 24.03.2021

Bugfixes
- Fixed rankings button sometimes not updating the number of new rankings
- Fixed rock lying on a path in Jurdana

HOTFIX 20.03.2021

Changes
- Increased minimap zoom levels
- Higher quality map/minimap images

Bugfixes
- Fixed dead monsters and closed rifts still showing on the minimap
- Fixed quest highlights on the large map being extremely small
- Fixed ranking name overflowing when too long
- Fixed water not being visible on the map/minimap

UPDATE 19.03.2021

New Features
- A recent landslide has revealed a massive expansion to the deadland (& general visual update of the deadland map)
- Updated Ranking UI will notify you of new rankings

Changes
- Minimap is a bit snappier
- Minimap has consistent zoom levels on all maps
- Minimap doesn't reset zoom level between map changes
- Changed inactive skill tab color to be more readable

Balance updates
- Adjusted range of archers on Caratas Wasteland & Jerro Highlands to be lower
- Reduced poison chance of snakes on Caratas Wasteland & Jerro Highlands
- Reduced range of bats in deadland cave

Bugfixes
- Fixed Footstep and UI sound sliders being swapped
- Fixed Itemshop item names overlapping if too long
- Fixed some translation bugs
- Fixed some trees/bushes having a white texture
- Fixed controller "B" button being forcibly bound to "ESC" (might have to reset your input settings to default for this to take effect)
- Fixed not being able to untoggle the ui hiding

UPDATE 11.03.2021

Changes
- Removed extremely outdated & unfinished Turkish, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Italian and Hungarian translations. Most of our translations are community based, so if you'd like to help please get in touch on our discord!
- Reduced required disk space by ~9GB, game should also load faster on slower drives
- Party member hp/level is now visible everywhere when on the same map

Bugfixes
- Fixed hair clipping through the half demons Obsidian Helmet
- Fixed bad texturing on the female wizards Hiker Greaves
- Fixed the assassins Bounty Hunter/Pirate armor having swapped visuals with each other
- Fixed another name invisibility glitch
- Fixed carets in input fields sometimes disappearing on lower resolutions
- Fixed shared storage empty/drag hint blocking the search field
- Fixed some translation errors
- Fixed game ui showing briefly while logging out
- Fixed damage for fire spirits not being shown in skill/status effect tooltip
- Fixed a party bug causing map channel preference to be lost
- Fixed a party bug potentially causing party to "self destruct" when switching maps
- Fixed party chat

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

Daily Quests are now available for all players level 20+!

New Features
- Dodor is handing out hunting challenges every day with special rewards

Changes
- Increased fence sizes in Caratas Wasteland to match Nibor
- Shared storage now shows the help text if empty
- Performance and lighting improvements to Zagan's Dungeon
- Reduced grass height on Reworked Jerro maps
- Gold is formatted in the chest tooltip properly

Bugfixes
- Fixed some map collision issues in the Caratas Wasteland and Jerro Highlands
- Fixed players being able to attack other players while in a safezone
- Fixed player shop title accepting too long names, it's limited to 32 characters now

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!)

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HOTFIX 27.11.2020
Bugfixes
- Fixed some translation errors
- Fixed hit effects not showing with some weapon skins

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 11.11.2020

New Features
- Added two new guild mission types

Changes
- Added more monsters to the "Population control" guild mission
- Renki has left the city and taken to other ventures
- Removed pumpkins from the character selection
- Sped up dynamic player character generation slightly

Balance updates
- Rebalanced "Population control" monster count to resemble the monster availability
- Guild mission rewards are now more in line with their difficulty
- After logging in/teleporting all skills start on a 25s cooldown
- When logging out while dead, you automatically "Respawn at start"

Bugfixes
- Fixed player characters showing without armor for one frame in some cases
- Fixed duel requests not being rejected correctly
- Fixed a server-side memory leak leading to periodic crashes

UPDATE 04.11.2020

New Features
- New and improved attack animation for the half demon

Changes
- Removed candy drops and pumpkin spawns, you'll have another week to hand in your candy

Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug causing random disconnects

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 14.10.2020

New Features
- Buffs of party members are now shown in the party ui

Changes
- Switched to a different unambiguous font
- Improved memory usage of fonts by generating needed characters on the fly

Bugfixes
- Fixed horse hair not rendering
- Fixed some clipping and visual issues with water
- Fixed hair of non-dynamic player placeholders not rendering
- Fixed guild member activity being sorted incorrectly and thus not showing new activities
- Fixed an edge case that caused guild missions to not show up until a relog sometimes
- Fixed some ambient sounds not respecting sound settings and always playing at full volume
- Fixed some lighting issues in indoor maps, most notably in the pyramid
- Fixed additional lights not being rendered
- Fixed disconnects during loading/connecting

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 23.09.2020

New Features
- Time and coordinates are now shown under the minimap

Changes
- Added some additional terrain features and houses to Jerro
- Party now also shows level of party members when in range

Balance updates
- Increased the pyramid size slightly and added a few more passages between rooms
- Added a few more monster spawns to the pyramid
- Increased monster exp on frozen land significantly
- Added more attacks to the hydra

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 22.07.2020

New Features
- There have been reports of a shady character lurking outside the city walls, maybe he has a limited time deal some people might be interested in?
- The Officer, Commander & Quartermaster guild member roles are now available
- Stats of the next guild skill level are now shown in the tooltip

Changes
- Reduced button size in the target menu at the top
- Item count now has better visibility (like the quickbar)
- Partys can now only consist of players of the same empire
- Partys can now only consist of players within 25 levels of the party leader

Balance updates
- Buffed Gold/Exp/Loot Bounty guild skill slightly

Bugfixes
- Fixed sound on alacrity not respecting volume settings
- Fixed party & whisper overlaping with a full party
- Fixed some missing pillars & ceilings in the pyramid
- Fixed some footstep related bugs
- Fixed being able to ride your mount in some houses in the cities
- Fixed music being stopped by too many other sounds playing

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

UPDATE 18.06.2020

New Features
- New and improved skill sounds
- There's now a "Send Message" button in the friends menu to open a whisper
- Player shops now display a ghosted preview when not open
- The player shop ui now tells you on what map your shop is placed
- Added sounds to monster taunts

Changes
- Improved player camera behaviour
- It's now easier to set small values in the sensitivity sliders
- Valuable items (equipment from +7 and up) will now require an extra confirmation to sell
- Added an early access warning whenever you start the game

Bugfixes
- Fixed some minor issues with some monster sounds
- Fixed hydra projectiles
- Fixed opening player shops from another map than it's placed not spawning the shop
- Fixed a crash when trying to auto-attack with daggers on a horse
- Fixed goblin having a floating rock above their weapon

UPDATE 10.06.2020

New Features
- Added sounds to all monsters
- Added a few ui sounds for skill/status upgrading

Changes
- Polished the character selection scene a bit, its now extra shiny
- Minor server performance improvments
- Small improvements to the caratas starting town

Bugfixes
- Fixed snake, bat, hellrot and phoenix hits/projectiles
- Fixed orcs with missing weapons
- Fixed ghoul animation issues
- Fixed evil watcher idling too much
- Fixed a bunch of minor ui/mob bugs

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 03.06.2020

New Features
- Added a lot of sounds and sound effects

Changes
- Clicking on a target while manually attacking doesn't interrupt attacking anymore, it just changes the target
- You can now attack and pick up items while dragging items around

Balance updates
- Increased overall gold drop slightly

Bugfixes
- Fixed some visual glitching with bow/wand attacks when watching other players attack
- Fixed bow/wand projectiles disappearing while still in flight when the target died
- Fixed an edge case in the player collision detection that caused "invisible walls" on some maps (especially noticable in the citys)
- Fixed a bug in the knockback collision detection that caused targets to get stuck on walls as opposed to slide off them
- Fixed a potential desync while attacking with bows or wands
- Fixed a potential desync while using skills with high latency
- Fixed getting stunned while mounted causing the animation to get stuck sometimes

UPDATE 27.05.2020

New Features
- New & improved dagger animations for the assassin
- Improved input handling, skills now interrupt automatic attacking for example
- Skills now auto-target an enemy pointed at by the mouse if no target is selected
- Map now contains area names on some maps (more to be added in a future update)
- Added an indicator to the hud that shows when you're in a "safe zone" where no combat is allowed

Changes
- Miscellanious small map improvements on jerro/caratas and jerro/caratas city

Balance updates
- Gold bonus now influences the amount of gold per gold pile instead of the chance for a gold pile to drop

Bugfixes
- Fixed an edge case that caused some skills to cause any actions right after to desync with the server (e.g. Wizards Impact, half demons Demon Smash)

UPDATE 19.05.2020

Changes
- Restricted player shop opening in some places (especially near npcs)
- When day&night cycle is disabled in the settings, the time will still move from 9am-5pm

Bugfixes
- Fixed missing volcrete on desert map
- Fixed drag&drop buying from npc shops sometimes not showing the item correctly
- Fixed cursor lock not releasing correctly in some circumstances, causing the cursor to stay invisible

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

UPDATE 08.04.2020

New Features
- Added permanent pets to the itemshop
- Added 14 day exp, gold and drop bonus potions to the itemshop

Changes
- Improved Moonwalk Emotion
- Changed some skill names and descriptions to match their skill better
- Buying of expired items from player shops is prevented now (this is a temporary fix, removal of expired items from shops will follow in another update soon)
- The character select scene is now loaded in the background and does not freeze Inferna for long periods anymore
- Improved memory usage by unloading old maps before loading the new ones
- Improved walkable area of caratas and jerro cities
- When setting a price for an item in the player shop, the price is now also displayed as a formatted number

Bugfixes
- Fixed a typo in the level 49 and 56 helmets stats on +8 and +9
- Fixed a bug that allowed sending friend requests to an already "friended" player
- Fixed not displaying the correct error message when displaying the coin purchase list fails

Team Internal Changes
- The /spawn command is now capped to 100 mobs to prevent bringing down maps on accident (@xen :D)

UPDATE 02.04.2020

New Features
- Activated the easter event! Collect eggs! Exchange them for loot!
- Added new HD horse mount models
- Added new armored horse mounts
- Added a new tiger mount
- Permanent versions of mounts are now available in the itemshop

Changes
- Loot drop animation is now slightly more random

Balance updates
- Matched the respawn time of some monster between Jerro highlands and Caratas wasteland
- Reduced the required materials of some refine recipes

Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug causing player shops not to sync their movement correctly if you were in range of the shop
- Fixed missing player shop buy confirmation popup translation
- Fixed rifts/monsters sometimes spawning in inaccessible areas
- Fixed an edge case that could cause skills to be reset again when logging into a shutting down instance at just the right moment
- Fixed target indicator staying when the selected entity disappears
- Fixed backstab skill damage falling when reaching master

UPDATE 25.03.2020

New Features
- News are shown in the character select
- Ingame event announcements/countdowns

Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash on startup if it could not read/write the settings file

Rule Changes
View the full rules on our wiki: https://wiki.inferna.net/doku.php?id=rules
- Rule against real money trades: `In addition we would also like to mention that any trades for “real life” money are not allowed or supported in any way and will be interpreted as an attempt to scam players and punished accordingly.`
- Clarification of rule against pvp harassment: Too long to copy&paste here, see 2nd paragraph under "Be civil and nice to each other" https://wiki.inferna.net/doku.php?id=rules#be_civil_and_nice_to_each_other


As you probably noticed, this weeks update is very small.
We didn't get much done the past week, since part of the dev team has been sick (getting better and nothing serious - so no worries there). In addition to that, with isolation increasing and schools being shut down some of us have also been more occupied watching after their kids and family.
We're also working on some bigger features that will be released over the next month or two, to name a few there's the easter event (that'll be available very soon), guilds and the new HD character models - more about that in due time though.
You can also expect a more detailed post reviewing our progress on the roadmap, review of the suggestions and changes going forward sometime next week which will hopefully clear up some questions and concerns aswell.