Developer posts and news about this game.
Elvine Added a new barracks in southern Elvine with training dummies. Added a new Golem combat spawn behind the Elvine barracks. Added the first visual pass for Southern Checkpoint - Elvine’s central entrance from the Middlelands Improved the terrain across southern Elvine to pro
Town Projects Town Project rewards now more clearly distinguish between Contribution earned by individual players and rewards unlocked for the entire town. Added Town Projects that require items of a specified quality. Added a Refresh button to Town Projects. Fixed Town Project d
Town Projects are now available from the City Halls in Aresden and Elvine. Donate or claim the requested items to help complete projects that strengthen your city, earning Contribution while working towards rewards for the entire town. Towns & Progression Added Town Projects
Map & Exploration Added quest markers to the minimap. Added more points of interest to the minimap across Aresden, Elvine and the Middlelands. Increased the size of point-of-interest icons, making important locations easier to identify. Fixed some point-of-interest icons and
Rebirth & Equipment Added Rebirth Obelisks to Aresden and Elvine. Added Dark Knight and Templar equipment to the City Hall Officers in both cities. These items require at least one Rebirth to equip. Quests & Gathering Fixed the Elvine Troll quest not counting Troll kills.
Progression & Quests Added Rebirth to Obelisks, allowing players to return to level 1 in exchange for permanent stat increases. Added more quests that award Contribution. Added a temporary automatic 10× Contribution multiplier for the playtest. Fixed an issue preventing some
Factions & Contribution Added the foundations of the Factions and Contribution systems. The system will be expanded in future updates. Contribution Points can currently be earned by completing quests and spent as currency on Hero items. More ways to earn and use Contribution
Cities & Travel The city maps of Elvine and Aresden are now open! Find Cedric Tidewell near the docks in northeast Wayfarer’s Rest and speak to him to teleport to either city. Fixed players occasionally falling through floors after teleporting. Crafting & Trading Hold Shi
New & Improved Added a new Hammer talent tree, giving Hammer users more ways to develop their combat build. Added the Focus Staff to the research tree. Added quest boards to Wayfarer’s Rest and both City Halls, providing access to repeatable quests. Added bug reporting to the
Quest & Shop Fixed an issue preventing players from purchasing items from shops. Improved vendor dialog wording when selling items. Fixed several quests not correctly tracking objectives, including tree cutting and magic damage objectives. Fixed completed quests requiring a l
Over the last two days we have been identifying and fixing a memory leak that was causing the server to need frequent restarting. If you were playing during this time, you may have experienced frequent crashes or restarts multiple times per hour. This is now fixed.
Performance & Stability Fixed a startup crash. Fixed GPU resident drawer failures that caused FPS drops. Improved server memory management. System, UI & Localization Fixed a localization initialization issue. Fixed welcome message text showing information from previous pl
Performance & Server Stability Implemented several provisional client performance fixes to address lag. *(Note: These changes require further testing.)* Fixed an issue where the server player limit was not being applied correctly. Fixed issues with NPC NavMesh agents becoming
Abilities Added ability: Gash (All melee weapons) Empowered attack. Your next attack causes Bleeding for 2–8 seconds (scales with Strength). Cooldown: 5s · Stamina Cost: 10 · Requirement: 20 STR Added ability: Charge Shout. You and nearby allies gain 10–20% movement speed for 2–5
Items Floor items now disable any associated lights (such as Deva glow and Kloness wand gems), as real-time lights were reducing FPS Standard potions now have a maximum stack size of 10 (HP, MP, SP, Antidote, etc.). Recall Scrolls are no longer stackable Recall Scrolls and Invisi
Spells Reduced Create Food INT requirement to 10 Fixed being able to see, buy, cast, or unleash admin spells (e.g. Admin 9999) Items Added War Mace model and thumbnail War Mace now allows dual wield Fixed BBH crafting to Scythe NPC's Regeneration is now configurable to help balan
NPC Increased Giant Tree collider size so it is easier to target Giant tree stomp attack cooldown increased and target range reduced Removed regeneration from mountain dragon for now Added new boss mob ready for PvP week NPC's now have the ability to spawn minions during combat N
For our final week of the current playtest, we are shifting full focus to PvP; the core gameplay loop of Helrift. We want to push these systems hard, with many players and as few barriers as possible. Changes for PvP week: Max level available to all players. No XP grind. A new my
Spells Freeze Amount and Freeze Duration are now scaling attributes on individual spells based on MAG so that they align with how burning works Frozen no longer stacks. Instead, spells are limited by the freeze amount on their scaling attribute. E.g. Ice Strike can only slow by 1
Core Improvements to movement so players don't float when falling from height Map Expansion - Mountain area added north of the giant tree forest in the north side of the island Added Mithral rocks to the mountain area NPC's Added Ogres. Pit replaces the old MG pit. MGs moved to t