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April, 23 Patch #4

Free premium weekend and no overpowered characters now!

Roleplay system, drugs and food consumption effects allowing to raise stats permanently are fixed. As a result, all characters will have their stats reset to default values and stat points will be granted according to current player level. Players will have to reassign points manually.

All players will get a free 3-day premium (timer will begin as soon as servers get update installed) as a bonus for patience and helping us to resolve the problem. Also there are good news on premium itself – it is now synchronized between servers. Purchasing premium on any server enables it everywhere. But no premium items sync yet – those remain in the character that purchases them.

Quest system was upgraded. As many players had problems with buggy quests, it was decided to reset quest progress for everyone. All quests will be marked as never taken and you may complete them again. Experience and items gained as a result of finishing quests earlier are not affected – characters keep them.

Fixes:
- Server state saving optimization, no stats, exp or inventory loss after unplanned reboots now.
- Client performance improvements.
- UI optimization.
- Faster character models generation.
- General server-side improvements.
- Crafting issues fixes.
- Trade window fixes.
- Quests issues are fixed.
- Experience gained for mob kills notifications are fixed.
- Animation synchronization fix.
- Healing by doctors is fixed.

Improvements:
- A system detecting speedhack is added. Not autoban or something, players that get reported as cheaters will be contacted by developers.
- News are displayed on login screen.
- While having any character that passed quests in Farm and teleported to Kimary, you get an option to skip training for new characters. These characters will get a basic items set - clothes, sawn-off shotgun and shells.

Balance changes:
- New customizable set of armor (Kevlar).
- Crater safe zone is made bigger.
- Option to exchange gold to coins is removed.

Confirmed bugs:
- Some items durability progress bar may not be updated after merchant NPC repairs them. To get item data updated, just do any operation with inventory – equip or put something to the warehouse.