Today is Wednesday, and Wednesday means patch day! The team has been hard at work on today’s update, which includes some pretty significant new systems and content. Yesterday we wrote about Siege Spells, Corpse Markers, New UI Improvements and the brand-new Phoenix enemy. You can click here to check that out now!
The complexity and size of the buildings that you guys have constructed has been far beyond anything we imagined! Because of the immensity of these structures, we’ve been able to identify an engine-level issue with how physics objects are handled by PhysX. This issue has contributed to the lack of stability that has burdened some servers, particularly our European servers. We’ve implemented a fix that should alleviate some of these issues and keep our Euro servers up longer! Server stability is, as it always will be, an on-going priority for us, so please let us know if your server of choice continues to struggle after today’s update.
Additionally, magical properties will now generate correctly on crafted items, weapons and armors. We found that our Magic Find system was not configured properly, causing these enchantments to appear significantly less frequently than we intended. This should now be fixed!
Lastly, we’ve fixed the way the Elixir of Amnesia works on private servers with XP multipliers. The Elixir works by reducing your level to 0 and then immediately giving you the XP you need to return to your previous level. This process is now immune to XP multiplication.
Here’s the complete changelist for today’s patch:
New Content
- New creature: Phoenix
- New reagent: Phoenix Feathers
- Siege spells added: Celestial Bomb, Arcane Bomb, Divine Bomb
Structures
- Structures are now only vulnerable to Siege spells
User Interface
- Improved tame menu
- Improved death screen
- Improved build menu
- Corpse markers added to map on death
- Corpse markers turn grey if player's loot bag despawns or is taken
Crafting
- Crafted items will now have a chance of having multiple magic properties
- Elixir of Amnesia now works properly on servers with XP multipliers
Other
- Server optimizations
- Player dropped loot bags now stick around for 15 minutes
Please be sure to update your client via Steam, and give our servers a moment to come back online with the latest version of Citadel. As always, we hope to see you in Ignus!