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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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