
Citizens of Mercia we bring you a new update for the weekend! This patch contains a whole host of fixes as well as new prisoner animations and the King/Queen of the server feature!
Here are the patch notes in full:
New:
- The most powerful player who is of the “Royalty” profession will be named King/Queen of the server (shown at the top of the map screen)
- In the map you can now see which direction you are facing (a small arrow at your player location)
- New prisoner animations (for kneeling prisoner): 1x extra idle extra (struggling) 1x released thank you anim
- New prisoner animations (tied to stake): 1x idle anim and 4x idle extra anims
- Ambient water/river sound tests added around a few streams near Freemans Port
- Speed hacking detection

Have the most renown as the royalty profession and enjoy being king/queen of the server, we are currently working to extend this feature to give the player additional benefits,hopefully coming within the next few updates.
Updated:
- Added sounds/voice to prisoners
- Polished and updated paths in the environment
Fixes:

We are continuing to improve the fidelity of the prisoners in the black death such as this new release animations
Balancing:
- Wolves are now more aggressive
- Stone weapons have had their durability increased by 50%
- Stone mace durability is increased by 125%

Navigate Mercia with ease and use the new player direction icon on the map to get your bearings.
Optimised:
- Optimised resource management
- Optimised prisoner skeletal meshes
- Optimised misc animations
Known Bugs
- Chat log can sometimes not appear, relogging should fix it though
As always, thanks for all of your bug reports and thanks for playing!
// The SIG Team
