The updated Game Client with Hardware Acceleration is now live, this brings improved performance, graphics and better camera angles.
Complete Change List
General
- Complete graphical overhaul means the game now uses the graphics card instead of the CPU for rendering and runs much faster, and should support older devices.
- Improved camera angles let you look around freely into the distance and above.
- Improved camera collisions now zooms in to walls/terrain (when the camera collides with them) and restores the old zoom distance when moving away again smoothly.
- Increased view distance for seeing mobs and other interactable world objects.
- Mini-map zoom range expanded to see the larger world around you.
- Improved texture rendering quality, with less pixel fighting/artifacts and all round much smoother looking.
- Fog effects added to most realms, creating a more atmospheric and immersive world.
Gameplay
- A new mount has been added the the Eldevin Market : Purple Cape.
- Added a repair NPC in level 3 of the Murky Depths.
- Added a new menu that can be opened by pressing the 'Escape' key or the settings cog in the bottom right. This new menu contains game settings and logout options.
- Ascended Relics can now be used to purchase Fusion Powder from the Gem's Supplies Shop.
- Adjusted the quest 'Arcane Council Trial' so that you no longer have to enter the second floor of the Othalo Tower.
- Adjusted the quest 'Basic Melee' to provide improved feedback when you hit the dummy with the wrong attack or weapon.
- The sell value of General Loot has been increased.
- Increased friends list to 200.
- Many abilities have had their ranges increased slightly due to improved camera distances.
- Many mobs throughout the game have had their chance to drop general loot increased and also their general loot tables improved.
- Potions now give 100% of their healing and mana in PvP.
- Players no longer have to manually dismount before attempting to gather resources.
- The ladders to and from the Hobgoblin and Mandreke's Wife in the Murky Depths now allow you to use them a stage earlier.
Abilities
The following abilities are now available at level 45 :
- Glaciate
- Reap
- Torture
- Tornado
- Fulmination
- Repent
Bug Fixes
- Applied a fix to the achievements "Foolhardy Fool" and "Poke a Bear", which would only award under a very specific (and unintended) set of circumstances.
- Fixed an issue where the achievement "Gorilla Smashed" was prohibitively difficult to get.
- Fixed an issue making the achievement "Thick Headed" unobtainable.
- Fixed a bug in Basic Melee that when hitting the combat dummy when you have the axe equipped in your left hand did not advance the stage.
- Fixed bug in Eldevin Kingdom (West)'s day/night cycle to give correct sunny lighting rather than cloudy lighting.
- Players who are already dead on logout/disconnect on Trappers Atoll should no longer lose smuggled items a second time.
- Reduced the number of times a player must be the target of Lord Undeath's knockdown for the achievement "Continually Grounded" to 4 down from 5.
- Replaced the Faridon Island requirement in the Isle of Nasaroth achievement with Palemyst Sands, making the achievement completable.
- Resolved an issue where players were able to advance in the quest "My Supplies" without ever having picked up the supplies.
- The achievement "Medic Denied" has been replaced with "Hear Me Scream!"
- The achievement "The Opportunist" has been adjusted to award when you resurrect a player in Trappers Atoll, instead of in a PvP Battleground.