Patch Notes

In patch 0.6.0 we introduced our Weather System. The particles used in this system are leveraging some of the newest tech available on the Unity engine. This allows us to display a massive number of particles incredibly efficient on modern desktop hardware. While we intend to continue work on optimizing the systems and better supporting older hardware, we recognize that in it's current state, the weather can cause significant performance impact. To that end we have prioritized the implementation of Weather Quality Settings. You will find the Weather Quality Dropdown in the Options [F8] Menu in the Video Tab. If you are experiencing slowdowns during weather events, we encourage you to reduce or turn off the weather. We've done what we can to maintain the feel despite the quality reduction, but we will continue working on improving performance across the board.

With the introduction of several new settings, we have upped our internal UI version. This means that your game options have been reset. Make sure to revisit the Options screen [F8] to reestablish you preferences and explore the new options! We apologize for the inconvenience.

- Shadow Knight Combat Ability Implementation / Refinement

- Shadow Knight Starting Quest Initial Implementation (First Half Only)

- New Particle Effects for Shadow Knight Abilities

- Education in First Aid Can Now be Sought in The Down Below

- Ledgerman Darkquil Now Offers Banking Services to The Down Below

- New and Refined Quests Can be Found in The Chapel of Grixius

- New Item Icons and Edits to Existing Item Icons

- Tons of Produce and Market Art

- Updated Various Ability Descriptions for Clarity

- Music Added to The Down Below

- Player Corpses (with items) will Decay after 7 Days

- Weather Profile Now Respects the Parent Zone

- Added CombatAbility function RemoveBuffFromTarget

- Added Better Helper Functions for Ability Effects

- Adjusted Fog Settings for Menu Scene

- Kick and Shield Strike Can Now Skill Up

- Many Abilities Now Reset Primary Auto Attack Timer

- Server Side Player Casting Visibility Checks (On Cast)

- Added Stance Multiplier Ability Effect

- Characters Buffs are Saved on Exit

- Adapted Linear Fizzle Rate Algorithm

- Heavy Reduction in Fizzle Rates and Better Skill Curve

- A Rogue's Backstab Attempt When Out of Position will Still Cause Minor Damage, but No Skill Progression

- Ability Type Enum Created

- Updated Ambient Sounds to 1.2.16 for Sound Performance Improvements

- Implemented Unity Recorder Based Capture Solution for Marketing Materials

- Additional Feedbacks for Player on Pick Locking and Disarming Traps

- Group Wide Feedbacks for Player Picking Lock and Disarming Traps and Collecting

- All Items in Feedbacks Now Clickable

- [U]nderstanding a Player Corpse will Show Time Until Decay

- Added Scribing Instructions to Spell Scroll Hover Text

- Added /ui Usage Help Messages

- Further Portrait Capture Hardening

- Force Reset Animation Triggers on Sit / Stand

- Zone Manager Node Rotation Threshold Fix

- Fixed Issue Causing Interrupts to Fire Before Spell Cast Message

- Player Light Source Adapts to Height of Player

- Locked Day / Night Cycle in Menu

- Better Feedbacks when Other Looting Corpse

- Increased Skill Per Level of Monk Hand to Hand to 10

- Fix Group Portrait Issues

- Player Light Source Moved from Camera to Player

- Fixed Group Looting Messages

- Fix NPC GoBackHome Misfiring

- Fixed a Bug Deleting Loot when Two Players Looted at Same Time

- Fixed a Trading Completion Bug

- Fixed a Locking Issue in Crafting

- Adjusted Hand to Hand for New Damage Format

- New Butchering Enthusiasts Have Appeared in the Leont Region

- First Aid Can be Learned in the Leont Infirmary

- Additional Music from Tony Manfredonia

- Substantial Osgul Prop Work

- Additional Flora in Leont Meadows

- Added Con Gem to Target Window when Targeting Player

- Parameterized Interactable Distances

- Networking Messaging Rewrite (V8)

- Added "Blink" Type Ability Effect

- Pathing Improvements

- Improvements to NPC AI Scripting

- Lots of Melee / Combat Algorithm Updates

- NPC Combat Rebalance (NPCs Hit Harder, NPCs Miss Less, Players Miss Less, AC Nerf, Spells get Resisted less on Yellows/Red Cons)

- Stuns Interrupt

- Concept of Buff Stacking Added

- Lots of Ability Effects to Support Shadowknight

- Combat Melee Distance is Dynamically Controlled by Entity Model Size

- Added Invert Camera Y Options (Never, First Person, Third Person, Always) to General Options Menu

- Added /ui Commands to Reset Windows

- NPC Type Titles

- Hover Tooltip on Collectible Objects

- Other Player Interrupts and Fizzles Displayed

- Hotbar Button Countdown (Options Available)

- Support Long Names in Pet Window

- Stand Bar Added to Paladin and Shadowknight

- Better Tooltips for Throwing and Shield Items

- Weapons Display True Damage and Real World Time Delay

- Shift+Up Chat "Recall" Improvements

- Chat Messages on Buff and Debuff Fading

- Fixes to Group Portrait Capturing NPCs

- NPC Greet State Replaced (Precise Control Over NPC Turning to Player)

- Animation Transition Work on Skeleton, Bear, and Rabbit

- Removed Right Click To Activate Hotbutton

- Grass No Longer Blocks Targeting Clicks

- Terrain Voxels Texture Atlas Replaced with Texture Arrays (Fix Mip Mapping)

- Fixed Error Recalculating Stats After Death

- Fixed NPC Facing Player on Interaction Options

- Various Audio Additions

- More Osgul Propping

- Various Animation Additions and Cleanup

- Human Monk Starting Experience First Pass

- Updated Pass on Human Rogue Starting Experience

- Additional Abilities and Ability Effects for Several Classes

- Implemented Throwing

- Implemented Animated Dual Wield

- Players Can /surname at Level 5 (one time only!)

- Allow for Sitting / Standing and Moving (a small distance) while Fishing

- Long Click Based Left / Right Rotate (avoid unintended character rotation and selection)

- Added Self Click Equip

- Added Head Check and Feedback to Stand / Crouch Operations

- Pushed Concept for Multi Query Transaction Function

- Collectibles Moved to Entity Static System

- Add Option to Left Click and Look Around in First Person

- Added GM Invis

- Camera Height Changes of Looting for better feedbacks

- Aggression / Threat / Difficulty Information (Consider) Now Displayed in Target Window UI

- Targeting "Hate" or "Aggressive" Faction Mobs will Blink Difficulty Gem to Indicate KoS Status

- Added Tooltip to Target Window Showing Aggression, Threat, and Difficulty Information

- Added Window Anchor for all Windows

- Several New Portraits for NPC Models

- Upscaled Options UI

- Added Self Click Equip Mode Options (None = Click on Self Always Targets, Will Not Inventory if Item on Cursor; Always = If Item on Cursor, Auto-Inventory, else Self Target; With Modifier Key (Shift) = If Item on Cursor and Holding Shift, Auto-Inventory, else Self Target)

- Added Additional Fishing Feedbacks

- Weight Displays in Red on Encumbrance

- Added Character Name to Delete Confirmation and Blocked UI

- Fixed Trading on C# (this was announced in 0.7.0, but was JS and not yet ported)

- Fixed Sitting / Standing While Jumping

- Removed Jumping While Crouching

- Dying on a Ladder no longer Trigger Ladder State

- Static Objects Fixed on C# Server

- Traps Fixed on C# Server

- Clicky Item Charges Now Reduce Properly

- Fixed Naked Corpses

- Fix GetPlayerFaction NPC Scripts

- Make Chunks Load Fast Again

- Handled Scripted DoActions on Startup

- Hide Local Player Nameplate on First Person to Avoid Clipping

- Read Oly Corpses Added

- Fixed Lore Check on Collectibles

- Fixed a Bug with NPCs Summoning Unlimited Pets

- Encumbrance Fixed

Backend development began an exploratory implementation that evolved into a full conversion of the server from Node JS to C#. This work has come quite a long ways and only a few major systems remain. At this time both server can be run interchangeably.

In our last major update we implemented Local Character Awareness. This took the local representation of your character from being a floating pair of weapons to being a fully animated, fully visible, fully shadow casting entity. This is, of course, a fairly major undertaking. And though we will continue to iterate and improve, we are incredibly happy and proud of the results! Local Character Awareness was always a pre-requisite on the road to yet another major shift; Third Person. With this update you are now able to zoom (mousewheel) the camera to smoothly transition between 1st and 3rd person. Right Click will reorient the character to the camera. Holding Right Click will steer the character. Holding Left Click will allow for rotating around the character. Players will find several options regarding Movement Snap Back and other 3rd Person Preferences in the General Options [F8] menu.

This is a huge step in providing the player with more ways to interact with and explore Adrullan. We do wish to note however that Adrullan Online Adventures is designed in many respects as a "homey" experience. Warm packed inns. Claustrophic dungeons. This will remain and we find ourselves shifting perspectives frequently. We hope to retain what makes Adrullan Online Adventures feel truly immersive and palatable in First Person and believe our design will naturally encourage players to utilize First Person.

As Osgul nears "completion" considerable efforts have gone into the design, prop-ing, lighting, and content. All but the Ogre Monk are now initially playable. We anticipate possible glitches given the sheer volume of new content and kindly request players to report any issues they encounter. Additionally, we'd appreciate any reports of graphical anomalies as numerous graphical elements are being introduced in this region.

- New Fishing enthusiasts have popped up at the Leont Docks, Leont Meadow's Lake, and in Greenwood Cover

- Unique Body Type 2 Effort Sound Effects (Feminine)

- Temporary Visiting Priest of Yanus Shaman Quest in Leont Fixed

- New Fishing Trainer added to Frostfall Foothills

- Skinning Can be Learned in Frostfall Foothills

- Butchering Can be Learned in Osgul

- The Brookberry Battles have begun in Frostfall Foothills

- The Guard Tower in Frostfall is now defended

- Ogre Shadowknights will now be given Work

- Ogre Shamans will now be given Work

- Flower (Botany) Gathering Nodes can be found in Frostfall Foothills

- Fish (Ichthyology) Can be Caught in Icesurge Harbor

- Backstab will skill up quicker

- Trainers Sort Abilities by Level

- Group Window Fixed

- Key Binding Window Truncation Fixed

- Climb Speed (Ladder) Exposed (and Slowed Down)

- Target Window Consider Overlay

- New Weather Profiles

- New Ambient / Audio

- Ogre Voices

- Jumping Animations

- Jumping Efforts

- Added Locomotion Variant to Entity / Animator (Ogre Movement)

- Added Hand 2 Hand Variant to Entity / Animator (Monk Hand 2 Hand Expertise)

- Centralized GM UI Overrides

- Web Fetched Patch Notes with Indexing

- Item can have tooltip Descriptions

- Ability Scrolls will show Ability Description in Tooltip (in Inventory and on Merchant!)

- Item Text on Merchant Buy / Sell Pane Auto Fits Appropriately

- Styled Nameplates in line with new UI

- Many Additional Generic NPC Portraits

- Non Human Helmet Light Corrected

- Ogres should no longer freeze up after dancing

- Campfire Lighting / Sound Effects Syncs with State

- Visiting Priest of Yanus and Grazer Grozar have returned to their mission and can be found again at the Leont Docks (Temporary Development Shaman Trainer / Merchant)

- Adjustments to the Weather Systems in Leont Meadows

- Fog and Atmospheric Effects Lerp in Properly

- DoT Damage Reports all Ticks Properly on NPC Death

- Player Trade

- Added Directional Damage Indicator

- Item Tooltips Much Enhanced

- Player Trade Button Fix

- Options Menu Style Consistency Pass

- Bindings Window Size / Consistency

- You can no longer make Empty Spell Gems

- Group Invite Button Moved to General Abilities Window / Group Window Hidden by Default

- Hovering empty Equipment Slots will tell you their Slot Type since we have moved to icon based identification

Closed Alpha Tester Note: We have added the Directional Damage Indicator to help awareness when you are under attack. A drop down selection has been add to the General section of the Options (F8) menu for the Damage Indicator Mode: None, Offscreen, All. Offscreen will only trigger the screen effect indicating damage when it has been received from the sides or behind you where the attacking entity was entirely or mostly Offscreen. This will likely be our default mode. We are, however, choosing to not reset your UI Defaults with this patch, and thus you will load to a default of None. We'd like to get feedback on this important feature so we urge you to set this value to Offscreen (or All if you'd like to try it) and Save your settings.

- Adjusted Sunlight Intensity curves to remedy night time light leaks

- Mobs can now hold Secondary Items (Skeleton with Shields Oh No!)

- Container / Item Sizes now properly work (careful with those Wurm Slayers!)

- Business is booming for Braithe! The Blue Sheep has expanded its workforce

- Some Occupants of Harbourview have taken up the Arcane Arts

- New Ice and Shock Particles on some Spells

- War-Wizard Class has been further refined

- Compass Right Click Window Fixed and Enhanced

- Tooltips will Close When Host Caller is Inactive

- Stats in Character Window will Indicate if you are above or below base stat by color

- b062-001 Rapidly looted two dead mobs and on clicking the second one I started getting this error. will try to repro. Couldn't camp out due to being stuck in looting status, had to alt+f4 (edited) SERVERR: Already looting a corpse

- b062-005 Compass window direction is inaccurate.

- b062-007 necro NPC pets aren't flagged as undead

- b062-008 Riposte isnt skilling up?

- b062-009 DoT damage persisting through death

- Nights will be a little less dark and consistent with the design intent

- Pets will hold weapons and shields given to them

- Robe art returns, plus new textures

- Vertical Inventory

- Redesigned Inventory Buttons

- Drag Handle Improvements

- b061-001 If you sit while crouched, then stand by either pressing stand or walking to stand up will result in being standing and walking slow like crouched still. Pressing crouch key to crouch, and again to stand back up resolves it.

- b061-001 If I try to loot a body killed by a guard, or another player's corpse I can no longer sit. I am re-creating it on demand doing that.

- b061-004 Beric the Bard gave Venomous Spiderling Silk back but still gave EXP/coin for completing the quest. Could not turn it back in for repeats.

- b061-005 Persistent cast bar after using Plainchant of Conviction

- b061-008 Sitting with chant cast bar up causes "Your spell casting was interrupted!" to pop up regularly while sitting

- b061-009 Seclude the Wicked is still self-only and cannot be cast on enemies

- b061-010 Sanitize email addresses on register / login

- b061-011 Plainchant of Conviction seems to get stuck in an interrupted state and needs to be turned off/on again sometimes.

- b061-012 Targeting yourself causes you to hit yourself with a riposte

- Spell Effect Handling Improvements

- Zone Weather (WIP)

- Many Bug Fixes (Thanks Testers!)

- Robes on Universal UV

- Elven Helm Fixes

- UiScaling Reactivated (Note: Settings update is forced. Your Window and Settings Data will be reset)

- New UI Enhancements

-- Window Polish

-- New Close Buttons

-- Placeholder Inventory Slot Icons

-- Better Drag Windows

-- Hotbar Docks Stances