Change list 0.68.857 from 10/11/2021

Game mechanics

General:

1.1 | EPIC:

• (Seamless) Support for teleportation (using tokens) and forced player transition (e. g. on character death);
• (Seamless и ServerManager) “Zone” system. It gives every zone one or more allocated servers and the ability to distribute players between those;

1.2 | Added:

• (1.5) Character progression system;
• Character “noise” system – character makes noise depending on the weight of their equipment;

1.3 | Changed:

• Refactored the way character’s hot bar is being saved: it will be stored in a database now;

Castle Filling System (1.0):

1.1 | Any player can fill a castle (start its white phase) with an elixir:

• there are 2 types of elixir: regular and royal, each subdivided into 12 levels;
• elixirs have requirements;

1.2 | The player chooses the time when the white phase ends;

1.3 | Then they choose an elixir that suits the time, castle type and some other factors;

1.14| These parameters depend on the elixir the player chose:

• How big is the deviation of the time when the white phase ends from the time planned;
• The length of the next red phase and its end-time deviation;
• The rate of the land tax – the longer the white phase, the smaller the tax;

Food System (1.0):

1.1 | Added:

• Overeating (without visualisation);

1.2 | Fixed:

• You couldn’t heal satiety HP bonus;

Combat System (2.9)

1.1 | Added:

• New logic for checking hits at a shield that uses Physical Assets instead of simple collision;
• System for interrupting the attacks with different types of shields including magic shields from obelisks;
• Sound and camera shake system;

1.2 | Changed:

• PvE will use a simplified version of block logic;
• Deleted unused logic from weapon classes;
• Distance calculation for 2H alternative attack;
• Significantly reconsidered weapon attack speed;

1.3 | Fixed:

• 2H alternative attach was visually interrupted regardless of the type of obstruction it hit;

Tutorial(0.8)

1.1 | Changed:

• Stages with powders (minimized the number of necessary powders and actions to complete these stages)
• Added mantras as an unnecessary for completion part of the tutorial;
• Tutorial dummies will have shorter intervals between rotations;

1.2 | Fixed:

• Mobs couldn’t deal damage to the player in the tutorial level;
• Incorrect date;
• Incorrect sun rotation;
• Deleted the “tutorial system is not completed” banner
• Typos;
• Unfinishable powder stage;

AI Component (1.0)

1.1 | AI Component is a new logic that controls the behavior of AIs:

• Optimized the inherited elements and deleted the unused ones;
• Added smart state transition. It changes states depending on previous states. For instance: Ai will make a transition from Defend to Attack if before Defend state it was in the Attack state;
• New reaction system. We can add any number of conditions, when they all are met, the AI reacts to it. E. g.: we can set that if the AI receives over 300 damage and its health drops below 10% it will deal 2 times more damage with its next attacks;
• AI now works directly with our faction system to detect enemies;
• Refactored the agro system;
• Refactored turn logic. Now turn speed will be static;
• Reactions and triggers will have changeable presets;

Game World

Daerkunn County

2.1 | Added:

• 4 ancient ruins;
• Abandoned camp;
• Camp;

2.2 | Changes:

• A considerable rearrangement of Harbur village (starting village):
  1. The blacksmith, the weaponsmith, and the tavern are placed just outside the isle where players are first spawned in the world: now new players will more easily find them and buy whatever gear they need to hit the road;
  2. Added buildings and places for NPC and objects that present new gameplay mechanics (library, bank, crafting pot, etc.);
  3. Added the blank buildings for future mechanics and necessary NPCs (the houses of the skinner, jeweller, auction houses, alchemical shop);

2.3 | Fixed:

• Visual and technical issues;

UI/UX

3.1 | Added:

• Temporary placeholder for castle filling window;

3.2 | Changed:

• The player interface was rendered over the main menu;
• Couldn’t interact with quest interface to take a quest or close the window;
• Position of some interface elements;

Visuals

4.1 | Added:

• New landscape and procedural grass material;
• New character sound system (footsteps, hits, etc.);

4.2 | Changed:

• Turned off unnecessary post-process effects;
• The sun will rise in the east and set in the west;
• Decreased the brightness and size of the moon;
• The speed of clouds;
• The sun and the moon will move smoother across the sky;
• The brightness of lamp posts;
• The intensity of fire particles glow;
• FXAA removed from graphics settings;
• The system of 1st person camera shake;
• Over 400 new sounds for the player character;

4.3 | Fixed:

• Errors in materials;
• Errors in particle systems;
• The positions of item descriptions: it will render over other windows;
• Absence of some materials;
• Sky flickering at some camera angles;
• Absence of leg animation when casting spells on self;
• Incorrect position of mantra VFX;
• Wrong color of blood;
• Character materials in the appearance editor;
• Incorrect rendering of decals spawned by hits on character’s arms;
• Incorrect rendering of decals on animal and human models;
• Errors of appearance editor: camera rapidly changing its position, absence of sound effects when clicking on buttons, absence of music, etc.;

Fixes

1. Herbs (the resource) spawned upside down;
2. Melee weapon dealt no damage to mobs;
3. Many widgets didn’t work correctly: buttons were not clickable, couldn’t scroll down texts, etc.;
4. Chat window was rendered over the main menu;
5. Players could get stuck between the arena pit and environment collisions;
6. Equipping and unequipping weapons didn’t sync up well with the animation;
7. Experience for magic attacks didn’t work correctly;
8. Clouds jittering;
9. Artefacts of shadows on grass;
10. The logic for icons and character abilities;
11. Shadows from magic effects in character’s hands;
12. In the arena, a character could get the criminal buff for hitting other players (despite both being inside the arena pit);
13. Spell VFX didn’t rotate after casting the respecting spell;
14. Incorrect hitreacts when using shield;
15. Rendering of the crosshair when using mantras and obelisks;
16. When teleporting, the player’s screen will fade until the environment around them loads completely;
17. Couldn’t equip the bag with a double click;
18. Dying in an arena pit characters dropped items that anyone could pick up afterwards;
19. Shields didn’t deflect the damage dealt by mobs;
20. The camera replayed the camera shake when the hit animation played backwards;
21. Shields and obelisks didn’t work correctly;
22. Spell VFX didn’t fade out in the distance;
23. When changing equipment in 3rd person mode, character 1st person model appeared, whereas the right one disappeared;
24. If the player didn’t have enough stamina for the 2H alternative attack, the stamina would still deplete but the attach wouldn’t play;
25. Character flew up when teleporting to a place where another character was standing;