Announcements - 2011/02 - Blood From Stone
February 2011 - Patch Page
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Rollout Article
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Release Notes
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February 2011 Release Notes
Greetings and welcome to the February 2011 release notes. In addition to their continued focus on improving Asheron's Call, the team spent time working hard to fine tune various Olthoi issues in addition to introducing Mouse Turning. Let's see what is new and exciting this month in Asheron's Call!
Mouse Turn & Movement
This month the team has been highly focused on putting in the ability to turn and move with your mouse. The change to incorporate the mouse has brought about a few other changes as well such as the ability to zoom in & out with the mouse wheel.
There are a couple of ways to setup the new mouse options so you can begin navigating Dereth. A red button has been added to the options under Keyboard Configuration that will remap some keys and adjusts to the recommended settings for mouse turning in one click. This button will also cause the right mouse button to rotate the camera. It's important to note that if you wish to return to the settings you had before, it will be necessary to manually change each setting back to the numbers that will be displayed in your chat window. Another way to setup the new mouse options is by selecting the "Turn your character with camera turning." on the Config tab of the options panel.
At this time there are a couple of known issues with the mouse movement system.
- In low height resolutions (800x600 and 1280x720) the mouse run does not always execute as expected.
If you notice any additional issues with the system, please let the team know so they can continue to perfect this new system.
Additional Notes
- Monthly Killtask updated.
- Quests of the Month
- Spear of the given heart
- Tunnel of Love quest
- Rose of Celdon Quest
- Added coastline textures to various areas.
- Added a Shadownether wand with happy-go-fun-time-purple and black-flame action.
- The animation for Empyreans entering into and out of combat while using a bow has been fixed.
- A New Olthoi healing kit has been added, novelty bandages not included.
- Some two handed rare weapons have been updated to have their own art.
- The two Olthoi Matrons are now easily distinguishable for Soldiers and Spitters.
- Double the effectiveness of Olthoi critical damage & Olthoi critical damage reduction "armor" buffs.
- Tweaked some Olthoi Soldier animations which include fixing a clipping issue during Olthoi Soldier emote animations and an issue with small incremental movements while in combat stance mode were retracted.
- Abdomen armor pieces for the Olthoi Damage Reduction set have been fixed to apply the correct set spell.
- Kaneth al-Evv will now exchange tokens for exactly 50 Mutated Olthoi Glands.
- Hunter NPC now rewards players who were extra enthusiastic in killing more than 10 Snow Tusker Leaders.
- Some creatures in the Gear Crossbow Quest have been tweaked in an effort to prevent the quest from bugging.
- The portal for the Renegade Living Weapons quest has been fixed so that Gear Knights can use it.
- The Zaikhal meeting hall now has an exit portal.
- Node Golems for Tainted Ley Line quest are now able to reward players once per day.
Letter to the Players
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