Update 0.59.680

Introduction

Hi everyone!

We didn’t tell you anything for a while, but only because of hard work and active recruitment.

Anyway, our patch note will tell you more. Be sure, we are proud of it ;)

Have a great weekend, ROG’oms up!

Change list 0.59.680 from 24/06/2021

Game mechanics

General:

Added:

(0.6) Seamless travel - seamless transition between servers in the open world, or, yet, almost seamless :);
Social animations;
Faction system for players and NPCs - as an extension of dynamic tag system, that allows NPCs to change their opinions about players and even other NPCs;
NPC visual equipment system (however, for the time being, you will have to watch naked men again);

Changed:

First person camera shake system (complete refactor);
Sprint motion controller;

Optimised:

Modular equipment system (complete refactor);

Quest system (0.5):

Functionality in general: accept/track in journal/complete;
Quest making tool for game designers;
All quest data is stored in a database, so that we could:

change anything without patches;
for dynamic requirements and rewards (DRR) depending on general game statistics. (e.g.: in the DB we can see how many rabbit skins players currently have, if there are too many, the quest giver will ask for more skins for the same reward);

Objectives:

Find a location;
Interact with an object or NPC;
Kill an NPC;
Bring items;
Reach a certain level of character stats;

Awards:

Thalers;

Resources/Recycling/Craft (0.6):

Resource spawn:

random quality and seasonal characteristics;
various limits;
parameters for the count’s influence;

Recycling resources into materials:

including random acquisition of rare metals;
payments in kind because of count’s influence on recycling;
Black market, which appears when counts don’t invest in recycling;
Splitting and merging materials with the help of recycler NPCs;

Craft:

currently, it is available for everyone and is not bound to crafting stations (right ALT to call the menu);
recipes;
recipe requirements to profession/magic level;
simple recipe making tool for game designers;

AI:

Added:

ability to change amount of damage, range, area, and the offset of that area for each animation;

Changed:

Crime system was integrated into the faction system;

Karma and zone system:

Zones:

Open world;
War zone;
Safe zone (complete refactor);
Ability to mix rules within a single zone;
New display of location names in the top right corner with a color tip on what karma rule is working in this zone;

Graveyards:

Now they work differently depending on player’s amount of karma;

Karma (depending on zone and karma):

Player’s name colour depends on karma;
Penalties for killing other players;
Experience loss on death (complete refactor and changed formula);
Item drop on death;
Safe inventory slots (highlighted with current karma color);

Game world

General

Added

T1 and T2 armor, weapon and powder recipes;

Daerkunn County

Added:

Forests;
4 lumberjack camps;
Roads;
3 arena pits;
Market at the arena;
Mobs: stickman, wolf, boar;
Resource spawners and recycling;

Fixed:

100+ remarks/errors;

UI/UX

Added:

Resource recycling window;
Craft window (temporary);
Quest journal;
Ability to minimize battle log;

Changed:

Battle log size;

Fixes

Arena pits don’t have the restricting collisions;
First weapon equipment doesn’t work after death;
NPCs’ and players’ names and HP bars are invisible;
Character is 10 cm above ground until jumping for the first time;;
No SFX/VFX effects when weapons hit objects until first death;
On client, arrows that hit character hover in the air where they hit;
If two buttons in the hotbar have the same 2H weapon it remains on character’s back when unsheathed;
There would still be a weapon behind character’s back even if there were none on the hotbar;
Weapon doesn’t drop from hands after death;
World map determines wrong player coordinates;
Sprint gets stuck when energy gets low;
Artificial light doesn’t turn off depending on the time of the day, and leads to dramatic FPS drops;
Crossbow shoots like a rifle (when using RMB);
It’s impossible to shoot animals with a crossbow, because they have different animations on client and on server;
Effects (shooting magic) don’t work;
Character hit animations only play on the client of the player that gets hit;
Character ragdoll stops moving after some time after death;
Quitting game with Alt+F4 when the character is dead cancels respawn;
Magic has a shadow (powder pouch
Renewable chest for social animations;
Social animations break spherecast motion or direction when hitting in third person or free camera mode;
Crossbow zoom doesn’t turn off on death;
Weapon disappears from hands after some time;
Holding RMB does alt attack for 1h and 2h weapons;
Fixed timings for shperecasts;
Crossbow doesn’t shoot where the crosshair points;
Magic projectiles were askew to the right;
Character performs an attack when releasing RMB or LMB;
2h weapon sprint attack doesn’t work;
Arrows spawn both on client and server without replication;
Dwarrhan npc stopped moving around;
Impossible to kill rabbits and rats because of different poses on server and client;
Fixed issue with magic (unnecessary VFX would spawn and remain in character’s hands, there was no visible projectile on the client);
Removed shadows cast by rebase.

Known issues

Character is invisible (after Seamless transition);
Time widget disappears (after Seamless transition);
Getting hit in block deals full damage, like if there were no block;
Jumps work with drained stamina (camera)
Issues with display of material slots on character (on LODs above 0);
New character mesh doesn’t have morph types;
Cross (to close the window) doesn’t work in craft widget;
Guards deal zero damage;
After RMB attach with a 2h weapon you can perform an LMB attack;
Arrows get stuck midair;
Mobs do not attack if you attack them from distance long enough;
Can’t perform a melee attack after dodge;
If you die with a settings window on, it will get stuck and won’t close;
If you pick up a powder after holding a shield with a weapon, the shield gets stuck in the hand;
After being killed by mob, it keeps hitting the spot where player stood for some time, and think that this spot has a collision a couple of minutes after;
Chat log gets cleared after death;
Agro widget always shows “1”;
Karma in character window is always “Neutral”;
After respawning, sprinting doesn’t drain stamina;
After death, respawning in Harbur doesn't trigger guard spawn;
Procedurally added walls/fences/piles lost some of their elements;
Can’t raise a shield when holding powder + shield;
In Dwarrhan, character receives x50 damage on falling after launch attacks;
Getting killed by a guard launches a character 100-200 metres away.