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UPDATE 14.09.2022
Update
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
Update
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
Update
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
Update
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
Update
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
Update
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
Update
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 02.02.2022
Update
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
Update
Changes
- Moved the return to city teleport target for jerro outside of a house to counteract exits being blocked by other players

UPDATE 01.12.2021
Update
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