Important:
We have updated Easy Anti Cheat. If you have issues starting the game please press the install EAC in the launcher before starting the game.
New chat system
The in-game chat system has been completely remade and overhauled.
- You can now right click chat tabs to:[list]
- Add a new custom tab
- Remove the clicked tab
- Bring up settings for the tab
- Bring up settings for the chat window
- Add Friend
- Invite to Guild
- Mute Player
- Report Player
Bugs
- Fixed rare issue that caused loot to sometimes NOT spawn if you had Loot Luck.
- Logout now cancels when items are being moved around.
General changes
- All smaller gatherables and pickables (not trees) now have a small chance of giving a Rare Plant Seed that can be combined with a Plant Pot to make a nice decoration for your house. Plant Pots can be purchased at any Utility Vendor.
- Fixed bug causing the Parry spark VFX to not show correctly.
Engine
- The engine has been upgraded to Unreal Engine 5.5.3
- Updated FSR to version 3.1.3
- Updated DLSS to version 4.0.0-NGX310.1.0.0
Spells
Developer note:
Many (but not all) of the following spell balance adjustments which affect the damage range of a spell have been made to lessen the element of RNG while casting, with the average damage being maintained on them. This does not apply to all cases where spell damage has been affected however, and some have been nudged up or down for balance purposes.
- Lesser Healing Mana cost increased from 4 to 5.
- Lesser Healing base healing range tightened from 12 - 18 to 14 - 16.
- Stilling Mist base healing range increased from 2 - 3 to 3 - 4.
- Stilling Mist Purified Water reagent cost adjusted from 10 to 5.
- Greater Healing base healing range tightened from 28 - 34 to 30 - 32.
- Lightning base damage range adjusted from 18 - 23 to 21 - 22.
- Lightning Mana cost decreased from 20 to 18.
- Lightning cast time decreased from 2.1 to 1.7.
- Thunderlash damage range adjusted from 24 - 31 to 27 - 28.
- Flamestrike Mana cost increased from 45 to 50.
- Flamestrike damage range adjusted from 33 - 41 to 36 - 38.
- Shock base damage range adjusted from 19 - 24 to 20 - 21.
- Mental Leech lifetime decreased from 60 to 15 seconds.
- Mental Leech Mana cost decreased from 25 to 8.
- Mental Leech cast time reduced from 2.3 to 1.2.
- Outburst Mana cost decreased from 13 to 12
- Outburst cast time reduced from 2.2 to 1.9.
- Outburst base damage range adjusted from 15 - 18 to 15 - 16.
- Earthquake base damage range adjusted from 32 - 38 to 34 - 36.
- Fulmination base damage range tightened from 30 - 40 to 34 - 36.
- Blind Mana cost increased from 15 to 20
- Blind cast time decreased from 2s to 1.4s
- Expel Spirit duration increased from 60s to 90s
- Mental Projectile base damage range tightened from 28 - 38 to 32 - 34.
- Death Hand base damage range tightened from 30 - 40 to 34 - 36.
- Mending Vapors cast time reduced from 1.5s to 1.1s
AI
- Updated and rebuilt the AI attack code. This will change how some AI use their attacks making them “smarter” when they decide what attack to use.
Art
- Lot’s of world landscape and terrain fixes.
- Lot’s of navmesh improvements to prevent Ai spawning inside objects.
- Fixed an issue where you could target the Sidoian Pathfinder through the boss doors.
- Fixed a lake at a Fishing POI where you could not fish.
- Fixed an issue when choosing high FOV deformed the landscape a lot.
- Added missing Guards at Toxai task vendors.
- Added a missing POI that just had loot and no structure.
Pets
- Bush Pigs are now rideable.
- Lowered Bush Pig Pet Point base cost at level 50 without Lore skills from 25 to 20.
- Lowered Bush Pig Taming level range maximum requirement from 11 Taming to 7.
- Taur Dog Stamina lowered from 900 to 800.
- Taur Dog third speed lowered from 830 to 820.
- Increased the incline Spiders and Lykiators can climb up by 1 degree.
- Venomous Bite cooldown on all spiders increased from 0.8s to 1.5s.
Alchemy
- Increased base alchemy effect strength for Magic Defence.
- Increased extraction yield of Magic Defence base material.
- Adjusted alchemical modifier strengths for the Magic Defence effect.
- Fixed bug causing Magic Reflect buffs from potions to stack.
UI
- Added support for context menus, these are sub menus that can appear when you right click on UI.
- You can now right click player names in the rankings menu to bring up the context menu.
- You can now right click player names in the matches menu to bring up the context menu.
- You can now right click player names in the friend list to bring up the context menu.
- You can now right click player names in the guild member list to bring up the context menu.
- You can now right click player names in the broker to bring up the context menu.
Optimizations
- Player and NPC armour are now merged into one mesh, improving CPU performance.
- New Unreal Engine rendering technology is used to improve frame pacing.
- Improved performance in large-scale battles.
- General world optimization with up to 50%+ better performance in certain areas.
Server
- Large parts of the chat server have been updated and improved.
- Fixed an issue where choosing Bakti as a starter town could send you somewhere else.
- Dramatically improved startup and shutdown performance. Server initialization now completes in under 1 minute (down from 30 minutes), allowing for faster updates and maintenance with minimal player disruption.
Known Issues
- Character textures sometimes appear at a lower resolution than intended. We are working on a fix for this.
