We hope you are as excited for the wipe as we are! We have been working extremely hard to ensure the quality of this patch. There are additional patch notes to take into account since our last patch notes preview. Please review them carefully.
Log In Bonus
In order to receive the fresh wipe log-in bonus, you must log in between the times:
Dec. 8th 6pm EST- Dec. 12th 12pm EST
Developer Hunt
Developer Hunt is on! The devs will be playing this weekend. Watch out for discord announcements. Generally, Devs will be on from around 5pm-7pm EST, but really anytime this weekend it’s possible to encounter a Dev in game. If you kill a dev, you will be awarded the Discord title of Dev Slayer! Good luck.
Full Patch Notes
General Changes:
- Personal Room on the ship has been redesigned.
- You can now shift click to instantly move items from your inventory to stash/containers/bodies.
- Upon blocking a hit, you can not lose stamina for 1 second, preventing you from instantly going exhausted upon receiving multiple hits in a short span of time.
- Some extracts are now 1x1
- Less armored zombies spawn on the lost island, lowering the difficulty of the undead in the entire level.
- All Servers will now point to NA in order to get more players to match together. Players outside of NA will experience lag. We will expand Servers when the population begins to grow more
- You can now attack while exhausted. But you have -50% attack speed and -50% base damage
- Mercenary Followers now display their status above their heads after being given a command
- Female Body type has been updated with better proportions
- Crossbows can no longer be reloaded while sprinting
- Backpacks can now be renamed (Double click the name while the backpack is open)
- Foliage updated to look better when playing on low graphics settings
- Added ‘Katar Asura’ Variant
- Gada Asura can now leap attack
- Added quick crafting to crafting stations
- Added various leaderboards (PVE KD, PVP KD, Networth, etc…)
- Added various ‘Polearm’ weapons- Wooden Spear, Iron Spear, Iron Bardiche, Steel Naginata, Steel Partizan, Steel Halberd, Steel Guan Dao
- Added bot variants that use new polearms
- Added new freebooter loadouts with wooden spears
- Added Throwing Kunais- Projectile consumable that slows enemy movement for a short duration
- Attacking and Sprinting are no longer mutually exclusive
- Added ‘play online’ to starting room on Boat
- Quests are no longer items, they are now stored in the quest tab
- You can now track Quests so they display on your HUD
- Added UI unified menu to inventory screen- You can now access every trader, crafting table, stash without moving. But you still have to discover each NPC once before they become available.
- Bots now are limited on how often they can combo attack and have reduced stamina efficiency.
- ‘Early game’ zombies take 50% more damage but drop less gold (royal zombies still drop 100g)
- Night time is ‘a bit brighter’
- Blocking no longer drains stamina, instead prevents regen
- NPC dialogue is now typed out on first encounter (instead of one long block of text appearing at once)
- Removed Crossbow Freebooter Loadout
- Asuras now have damaged textures to indicate how close they are to death
- Doors that require keys now automatically open if you have the key
- Added Rice Hat
- Added Crusader Chest Armor
- Added Lip Sync to Essential NPC traders(quest givers)
- Added Screenshake when you land a hit
- Extraction should now immediately cancel if you exit the area
- AI will now heal more carefully instead of spamming pots on low health
- Massive performance and optimization updates
- Added FidelityFX
Bug Fixes:
- Zombies now correctly queue attacks when hit
- Archers now no longer try to kick the player from unreasonable distances
- Fixed a bug where swapping armor/weapon when there is no space for the original item could cause the item to disappear OR Operation Failed
- Crafted Consumables will no longer automatically go into hotbar slots
- Fixed hotbar items not dropping when a player is killed (Will drop into a small bag if inventory is full)
- Fixed (hopefully) player’s legs vibrating when standing on an uneven surface
- Fixed armor sounds not changing properly after selling equipped armor
- Fixed items dropping from backpack breaking the backpack
- Fixed stats screen unable to be closed with ‘tab’
- Fixed bot spawners (it’s a secret)
- Fixed mesh clipping issues on players forearms and armor
- Pressing ESC should not properly exit the party menu and the settings menu