Minor Patch 1.2.1 - Winter Festival

For the full version of patch notes, visit: https://zenithmmo.com/blogs/news/minor-patch-1-2-1-winter-festival

Patch Type: Minor Patch Number: 1.2.1 Patch Name: Winter Festival PTR Date: 12/15/2022 Release Window: 12/21/2022 - 12/22/2022

We're excited to announce our very first Winter Festival patch that comes with winter themed content like quests, food, toys, snowballs (!), presents, a chained Public Event against icy mobs and a boss. The Winter Festival will only be in Zenith for a limited time -- * three weeks from launch! -- so get out there, Agent! *Edit 1/5: the Winter Festival is extended until January 25th. Enjoy!

New Content

• Winter Festival World Event

• Winter Festival Agent Rank Challenges: earn Winter Coins, toys, and valuable rewards

• Winter Festival Public Event in Fractured Plains: summon and defeat Faminus, the Hunger

• Speak to Wynty near the Nexus District entrance to cash in Winter Coins for new toys, improved recipes, cosmetic pandowl-themed winter headwear, and a Frosted Stripetail pet

• Toys: give out "mystery" Presents with random rewards, throw Snowballs, build Snowfriends

• New Creatures & Pets:

  • Royal Scarab

  • Stripetail Cub 🐯

  • Dazzling Stripetail

  • Frosted Stripetail (Winter Festival)

• When fast traveling around the map you'll now find Winter Festival themed decorations in familiar places and Winter Spirits roaming the zones.

Feature/System Updates

• New Player Experience:

  • Reduced overall difficulty of Blossom Village area

  • Updated Academy gliding tutorial to mention stamina use

  • Adjusted first Fractured Plains quest to not require gliding

  • Fractured Plains respawn point moved closer to the bridge

  • Removed enemies from outsides mines area to make it safer

  • Increased size of mines boss quest location and moved to center of room

  • Minor quest text typo fixes

• Slightly re-increased Arborial Serpent HP

• Added ability to swap stick inputs for left-handed users

• Added controller-oriented locomotion option which uses the direction of the hand rather than the head for smooth locomotion

• Updated model for the Dazzling Pandowl

• Inventory icon for Transponder quest item

• Added a new pulsing material for all spires and updated location marker visuals

Resolved Issues

• Fixes for various interactions that you can mistakenly do while dead [Multiple Sources]

• Fixed being unable to upgrade Lich’s Bane (blaster from Twilight Athenaeum dungeon) at synth stations [Player Top Issue]

• Fixed icon behavior when dragging items in inventory

• Fix cleaning up of quest drops, also a flag to make items placed by users despawn on logout [Multiple Sources]

• Fix for Agent Rank rewards showing up as empty and cannot be redeemed [Player Top Issue]

• Fix for fireseeds and firestarters not working to activate triggers in public events

• Improved waterfall materials and VFX

Edit (12/21):

• Set boss doors in Infernal Core to not close during the fight so players do not get locked out upon death anymore [Player Top Issue] Updated Vulkane Boss room respawn point to be on boss platform and set gates to close during combat again

• Reduced chance of waypoints not appearing in the new player experience

• Fixed spells not working when joining an instance with Agent Rank menu open

• Fixed Agent Rank menu staying open when joining an instance

• Fixed confirmation prompts rendering behind the main menu UI

• Fixed laser pointer cursor rendering behind section icons

• Fixes to Agent Rank UI

• Fixed bugs with networked VFX

Hotfix 1

• Fixed winter cookies, nog, and noodles recipe quests bug that took coins instead of the required items

• Fixed Tome Keeper raid occasionally not granting rewards

• Improved stability of public events, we