Version 0.1

BALANCE:

• High end vendroid will now only spawn in 20+ level ranges
• Big Che’s rocket barrage is now a bit spicier
• Boss currency/equipment drop rates have been tweaked (non-NFT)
• Putting points into stats will now improve player attributes for each point rather then every 5 points
• Reduced “bleed out” time when players are knocked down
• AI that are significantly higher level than the player will now be less polite about waiting their turn to attack
• AI that are significantly higher level than the player will now trigger stronger hit reactions during combat
• Speed potion speed adjustment has been reduced
• Barbarian Shout no longer affects Defensive Layers. It is meant to be a Crowd Control ability.
• Orb Lightning: Now hits the single closest target at level 1. With each extra point spent, Orb Lightning will hit an extra target.
• “Chaff” mobs are now slightly tougher across the board
• AI that are significantly higher level than the player will no longer be stunned by player abilities
• AI Projectile Damage will now scale with the level of the AI casting/shooting them
• PlayerStatsToAttributes
  - At Stat amounts of 31+, those stats will now start affecting the attribute they affect
• Mob offensive stat
  - Mobs now Scale up their Accuracy Stat at higher levels
• mob defensive stats
• MobDamage
  - At level 15, 25, and 35 the mob damage curve increases letting those mobs do more damage
• AI that are significantly lower level than the player will not drop as many goodies when killed (This is true for mobs that are devolved at time of death as well)
• Damage curves for various AI types have been increased
• Reduce the amount of time Big Cyberpriates stay knocked down
• The time period after reviving or being revived when players are invulnerable has been reduced
• Devolve will no longer stack (except between different versions of devolve)
• Cooldowns, and cooldown reduction modifiers have been tweaked across the board to fix cooldowns being unintentionally small
• Several abilities that were not improving when upgraded now get better as they are upgraded
• Sweep The Leg now deals 50% less damage for each successive enemy hit.
• Consumables are no longer affected by cooldown reduction stat bonuses
• Vendor item costs have been adjusted for various items
• NInja leap cost has been increased, and cost will now scale with level

AI:

• Several changes were made to improve game experience when players are “training the zone” by running through the entire dungeon and aggroing all enemies
• AI are now more free to activate special abilities
• Fixed some cases causing AI to get stuck on bushes
• Fixed TRexes getting into a state where they never attacked again

ANIMATION:

• Adding Scared Idle for Evermore Cadet NPCs who are lost
• Extending inventory idles
• Longer Waffles animation
• Cyberpirates reinforcements animation extended
• Added portal spawn-ins for summon decoys
• Added new animations for no weapon stance
• Added new shadow ability animation

GAMEPLAY:

• Add NFT roll chance when completing quest objectives*
• Into The Fray has been changed to leap to a user-targeted location rather than a set distance.
• New passive ability — Shield Block Energy Reduction — reduces the amount of energy used to absorb damage when actively blocking with a shield.
• Bloodspray Aura
  - Bloodspray Aura’s effect now correctly grows with the ability level
  - Bloodspray aura’s radius now grows from 500 units at lvl 1 to 1000 units at lvl 10
• Summon Party Portals
  - Portals now attempt to position themselves in front of the summoned player so that they are easier to notice.
  - If a summoner is not available to teleport to when a summoned player takes a portal, they will be teleported to the summoner’s last known location.
  - Portals will attempt to re-teleport players if the initial teleport failed (previously this resulted in the portal disappearing without teleporting the player).
• Various ability reticles will now highlight targets that will be affected by the ability.
• Many abilities with short cast times were changed to keep them from being interrupted from light damage in between going on cooldown and the ability effect occurring.
• The visuals for Heal Beam have been adjusted to better reflect the intended effect.
• Pocket Watches that have been equipped, or had points spent on them can no longer be dropped or sold
• Outdoor adventure instances will now have some more variety in quest objectives

LEVELS:

• Boss battles are now only active after all other objectives are completed
• Boss battles in the forest dungeon have been updated with geo changes and enemy placement changes
• General fixes for areas of the map that were easy to use for escaping the playspace
• Adjusted forest dungeon use of their various components to make for improved layouts and cut down on travel time between encounter spaces
• Added some CommBots discussing defensive layers to Time’s End
• Enemies now spawn near some higher-end portals in overworld
• Valley at start of Time’s End was smoothed out to make it easier to get into the forest from the starting area

UI:

• Added color feedback to item notifications
• Equipped items can now be marked as trash and favorite
• Added a tooltip to trash and favorite checkboxes
• Trash and fav checkboxes are now hidden until hovering over the items to make them more obvious
• Added a darken gradient at the top of the item slot when hovering to improve trash and fav checkboxes visibility
• It is now more obvious when items are unable to be equipped
• Added custom tooltips for empty items and ability slots
• Added streamer mode option to the settings menu that will hide which server you are on
• Added vsync and frame rate limit options on settings menu
• Mark as trash / Fav icons have been updated
• New icons for Pouches
• Non-equippable pocket watches are marked as such
• Added High contrast crosshairs
• Added a way to accept party invites from the notification and increase the duration of it
• Added several missing icons for periodic ailments
• Current ping is now displayed in the bottom left corner of the screen
• When users are kicked from servers due to being idle for too long, a message indicating what happened will be displayed

SOUND:

• A new sound has been added for the Whirlwind ability

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed an issue causing zone chat to be missing when not in a party
• Fixed emotes listed in UI being incorrect
• Fixed a typo on the backstab ability description
• Fixed an issue that could cause the user to be sent back to the lobby if blocks and swaps weapons multiple times quickly
• Fixed rarity color that wasn’t showing correctly for some items on the item notifications panel
• Fixed an issue that could cause video settings not to undo when canceling
• Fixed an issue causing fog that remains in the entire overworld when the player goes DBNO and dies in Icy wastes and respawns
• Fixed an issue causing DBNO screen desaturation persists for 1 minute after respawning when the player dies from a mob in the overworld
• Fixed sorting not being saved in inventory
• Fixed an issue that could cause the chat menu to be unresponsive after unfocusing the text box while loading into a dungeon
• Fixed an issue that could allow potions to mix two at different levels in the same stock
• Improved feedback when the party wipes
• Fixed an issue that could cause the revive UI to become stuck on screen
• Fixed overlapping issues with Pocketwatch selection (Timelines)
• Set a new default chat tab if you are not in a party
• Fixed issue with Heavy Cyber Pirates registering hits on their lower extremities
• Fixed mob names getting (dead) added to them erroneously in the damage log
• Fixed the SHOP sign not rotating for some vendors in the overworld
• Fixed name of Warrior Trainer in Time’s End
• Fixed some ability effect particle systems that were rotated the wrong way.
• Fixed collected flowers not disappearing when interacted with
• Fix narrative pawns not being cleaned up in some cases in Time’s End
• Fixed several Titles having the wrong Title text applied in-game
• Fixed two handed weapon stance missing heavy and small hit reacts
• Fixed canisters and loot chests blocking the camera
• Fix BarbarianShout using the incorrect damage curve
• Fixed several Two-Handed NFT weapon meshes that had the wrong grip offset
• Fix up things going into bags when they could be equipped instead
• Fixed Elite turrets not having their intended golden material
• Fix issues with Mega Clockies who are left to get back up after being knocked down
• Several client crashes have been fixed
• Fix summoned mobs not decaying over time as intended
• Fix Lord of the Dead ability not functioning as intended
• Fire trap in ice dungeons will now be more deadly as it was intended to be
• Fixed a bug where equipment able to be worn due to stat increases on other equipment could become displaced if the player took off equipment required to wear that item

PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION:

• Skip updating AI influence maps in the overworld (Time’s End) to improve server performance
• Avoid updating player pawn meshes when it’s not necessary
• Reduced overhead for computing damage indicators and updating foliage
• Fix fauna in overworld (Time’s End) not getting cleaned up and bringing server performance down over time
• Avoid doing extra work on the server to update melee lock-on target display
• Avoid updating mine points in Time’s End when not needed
• Move several objects to tick in parallel with physics updates

ART:

• Vfx- Heal Beam Reticle Size Parameter — Added a parameter to adjust the scale in + X for this reticle, so instead of moving it away from the caster the reticle can be scaled until it reaches its target.
• Vfx — Frost Spells — Some particles systems were marked as local space when they should be world space. Some particles were popping out of existence where they should gently fade away.
• Vfx — Minor devolve FX — Visual effects to “Devolve” ability. Fx on the caster and one effect for the enemy afflicted by this debuff.
• Vfx — Unstopoble shout fix — Fixed several Systems that had an wrong offset where it would make the effect clipping through the ground.
• Vfx — Decal for AOE — Visual effect feedback to better represent the radius and target of abilities.
• Vfx — Aoe Decal Loop — Set the decal to play infinitely
• Vfx — Glacial Entomb fix — Fixed the rotation orientation on the snow meshes for this ability.
• Vfx — Visual effects to “Devolve” ability. Fx on the caster and one effect for the enemy afflicted by this debuff.
• Vfx — New visual effect for Chronomancer`s Energy Ball ability.
• Vfx- New visual effects feedback for Big Pirate Anchor attacks.
• Vfx — Chronomancer`s energy ball now have a trail.
• Vfx- New visual effects feedback for Big Pirate attacks.
• Vfx — Better visual feedback for devolve ability.
• Vfx — Visual feedback for Summoner Overling swipe attack.
• Vfx — Visual feedback for Rend ability when it breaks the right defense layer.
• Staff loot mesh replaced
• Adjusted colors of character models so that they don’t become washed out in bright areas
• Fixed glowing Gastropods
• Fixed 2Handed Sword NFTs being held incorrectly
• Fixed some cases of floating trees in Time’s End
• Time’s End has new clouds

MISC:

• Improved visual look of Big Cyber Pirate chain physics simulation
• Overworld hub servers no longer need to shut themselves down every 6 hours

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