Patch Notes v0.0.661

Windows and Linux staging build has been updated to v0.0.661 with the following changes:

Gameplay

• Reduced XP requirements for gathering professions

• Firewood Spawn times increased

• Skill damage balancing

• Items can now have skill requirements, e.g. Melee 10, Witchcraft 15

• Quests can now have skill requirements

• Enemies now show telegraph markers - frontal cones, and radius for impending attacks

• Added abilities: Heal - Cauterise, Melee - Eviscerate, and Witchcraft - Weaken

• Goughmead now gives Mana

• Enemies in Caverns of Peril now deal poison damage

• Added Lakeweed gatherable for crafting Poison removal potions

• Caverns of Peril rewards two chests on successful completion, with loot shared among all participants

• Enemies with several abilities will now choose to utilise more powerful attacks and heals as the fight progresses

• Enemies can now have buffs, and will cast buffs on themselves (and each other)

• Some abilities can now be cast on the ground, as opposed to a target enemy/player (or themselves).

• Infected (and uninfected) moose now roam the Tunna Wood, east of Atten Lake in the Attenmoors.

Environmental

• Attenmoors quarry zone

• Caverns of Peril now has additional environmental hazards

• Quarry Guardian sits at the entrance to Atten Quarry, shouting at would-be intruders

Graphical

• Added forge particle effects

• Increase scale of Attenmoors trees

• Cave interior lighting for Atten Quarry has had its brightness, gamma, and contrast levels improved

Audio

• Music - zones have their own music, sub-zones will also have a music change

• Controls for Music volume and Loop

Bug fixes

• Hunt Master can now no longer be killed

• Brief summer time change issue - Non-GMT time zones would crash client

• Zone notifications when switching zone would sometimes not be sent to client

• Player feet no longer ever-so-slightly clip into the floor

Interface

• Server selection now shows server version and status (offline or online)

• Field of view slider

• Character selection shows character equipment preview

• Character in selection window can be rotated

• Skills can now be tracked and will show as a progress bar under the action bars

• Added Buff and Debuff archetypes such as Poisons, Bleeds, Enhancements, and Boons.

• Skills are now shown grouped into their categories - Combat, Crafting, Gathering

• Floating combat text now shows damage coloured according to damage type

Performance

• Improved server-side stat calculation CPU usage

• All dynamic objects on client are now loaded in the background, which should reduce login times

• Reduced server-side cost of movement paths

Misc

• Demo mode - skills capped at 15, social features and trading limited.

• Game data authoring improvements, reducing development time, and allowing for self-hosted servers.

Work in progress screenshots

Coldpeaks Village

Coldpeaks Excavation Site

Attenmoors Quarry Interior

Coldpeaks Frozen Lake

New skills tracking UI