Release 42
Welcome to Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues Early Access Release 42! How to Play instructions and game update notes on Release 42 are available here.
May 31, 2017
Build Number 614, 10:30AM
Fixes
- Ambient audio effects in South Naryad Pinelands have been fixed.
- Audio effects in Ardoris Sewers have been fixed.
- A Research Note in Oracle Colossus has had its text updated for spelling errors.
- Constellations have been enabled in the Hidden Vale Overworld.
- Broken doors have been removed from PvP Castle Arena (Teams) scenes.
- Eyeballs will no longer bulge forward and clip through the lower eyelid when settings are at max.
- Fixed Palisade Gates in Brittany Alleys.
- Gaps between platforms in Opalis Ruins have been updated to allow for NPC AI to properly path across.
- Conversations will now automatically close if the targeted NPC has a schedule change based on time of day.
- The Braids hairstyle on male avatars have been improved to avoid clipping through certain armor types.
- Skin color is now consistent when wearing Firedancer Leggings
- Root will no longer cause AI leashing behaviors under rare conditions.
- Labels for the exits in the Halls of Artifice have been corrected for the Lyceum and the Forge of Hephaestus.
- Compass directions have been fixed for the following scenes: Ardoris Sewers, Blackblade Pass, Spectral Mines, Caverns of Skrekk, Valhold Palace, Elysium Mines, Brittany Sewers, Crypt of the Avatar, Verdantis Mines, K'rawl, Serpent's Spine Mines, Owl's Head Sewers, Kingsport Sewers, Solania Catacombs, The Fall, The Clink, Midmaer Passage, Kiln Cistern, and K'rul.
- Khary will now reliably recognize when you are ready to move between Harvest and Estgard as part of the Path of Courage questline.
- Equipment that alters skin tone (e.g. Ring of Cuttlekin) will no longer cause body parts to disappear completely.
- Mail messages/letters can now be stored in chests/containers.
- A mailbox has been added to the interior of the bank in Elad's Lighthouse.
- Mailboxes in PoT Bank Buildings can now be accessed by residents; not only PoT Owners and Stewards
- All letters generated by vendor activity now include the location of the vendor.
- Extra doors blocking Decoration Shops have been removed, restoring access.
- Resurrect Creature will no longer work to resurrect other players.
- Resurrect Creature will now appropriately resurrect dead pets when targeting self.
- Avitas's dialogue in Etceter will now clearly indicate what is needed for Passage, as part of the Path of Truth questline.
- Edvard's dialogue in Battle of Solace Bridge will appropriately reference the journey to Solace Bridge Outskirts instead of Soltown.
- A scavenger hunt letter container has been restored in Brittany Fields.
- Audio for a number of runes have been fixed (Light, Dash, etc.)
- Item Count/Limits for containers will now be visible while stored in a bank.
- All generic merchants and trainers should now respond to the "buy" and "train" keywords respectively.
- Players that killed the alpha wolf in Solace Bridge Outskirts but couldn't turn in the quest to Filmore the farmer should now be able to talk to him again to clear that task.
- Cooldown time for Locked Decks will no longer be calculated on post-cast heat levels, which made them overly long.
- The max cooldown penalty for Locked Deck heat is now capped at 2 seconds, a reduction.
- Female Avatar eyes will now animate properly when lying down.
Known Issues
- Interrupting sheet music with another song may result in the music breaking for remote clients listening.
- Linux: Binding keys to the keypad’s period (.) key results in the key being bound to the keypad’s forward slash (/) key.
- Linux: Playing on Fullscreen in desktop environments other than Ubuntu’s Unity (Gnome3, KDE, Cinnamon, etc.) may result in being unable to click on anything. If the client is started in windowed, then adjusted TO fullscreen, it may then work.
- Grass will not always be cleared when using the roadway pavers, resulting in grass poking through. We are looking into a reliable solution to this issue.
- Number keys do not activate hotbar skills if set to auto-hide from game settings.
- Deleting a character will reset the local settings for the entire client. Other accounts, or offline/online characters will also have their settings reset.
- Ring of Fire VFX will appear distorted when displayed against walls and water surfaces.
- Avatars do not go back to idle animations after walking with an instrument being played.
- Backgrounds may remain blurry after leaving conversations if resolutions are on lower settings.
- The barrier in Etceter Crag Mines has been removed temporarily, there are issues with the primary puzzle triggering the removal.
- Some decorations placed in basements may shift through walls and end up in inaccessible locations.
- Chaotic Clone is not distracting enemies.
- Not all items listed in R42 Instructions are yet in the game or Add On Store
- Cloaks will often sort through the avatar’s body
- Some scene instances may be bugged in which it is easy for players to fall through the ground. An existing workaround is to reload the scene.
- Players may be unable to interact with objects via double-click if their framerate is poor. A workaround is to use the “E” interaction key.
- Some spell VFX do not play properly
- Some textures may look incorrect due to optimizations (white, black, pink, low resolution, pixelated, etc.)
- Rain and Snow is coming through the roof of some buildings
- Some SFX are not properly tied to the sound volume controls.
- Water lots in Dynamic Player Owned Towns can currently only be placed along shorelines, not on docks
- Some cities are experiencing performance spikes
- Some pledge, add on, and stretch goal items have not yet been built and/or do not yet have tech support.