Difference between revisions of "Game updates"

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Update Notes: February 15, 2026

This is a bug fix update that also has some art changes.

- Fix camera jitter that gets worse the higher your framerate

- Horse speeds are no longer partially tied to your framerate

- Tweak handling of horse-related textures, to hopefully reduce crashes

- Fix for horse hair physics not working

- NPC nameplates are now blue by default

- Revised environment in Serbule - mostly lighting, sky, vegetation

- Revised environment in Casino - some props, lighting

- Revised environemnt elsewhere - vegetation

- More Statehelm graphical optimizations

- Fixed Casino not switching portals between each moon phase as intended

- Added measures to Nelson Ballard to prevent alt farming of his free 1000 councils. The lockout for receiving more Councils on a different character is 1 day (per server)

- Similary, Fae starter chests can only be used once per day per server to prevent players from cheese-alting

- fixed damage display of animal handling pets with Big Cat Ultrakill ability. (It listed damage as 0 because it does special direct damage)

- Players who purchased a shop pack with VIP now have that VIP accessible on all servers, not just Arisetsu

- VIP users who previously couldn't redeem the February VIP pack on any server can now do so. (But only on one server)

- fix scenario where monsters "desync" upon death and can't be fully killed

- many classic account-wide titles (for events and VIP rewards) are now accessible on all servers, rather than just Arisetsu server

- Improve error handling around preference loading at the start of the game, which should fix getting stuck on the login screen due to a corrupted GorgonSettings file

- Skeletal Frogs now properly use their rage attacks, and no longer infinitely stack their debuff on you

- Fix placement of some particles on new humanoid models, most notably Phoenix Strike, Brambleskin, and Fire Shield

- "Target Framerate" setting now has a max value of 240, and actually defaults to 60

- a bunch of quest items were missing the red "quest item" icon overlay

- VIP users who could not access their own reserved names from the Arisetsu server can now access them

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Update Notes: February 7, 2026

- Increased respawn rate for most spawners in Serbule, Serbule Hills, and Eltibule. These spawners will now maintain a minimum number of live spawns, preventing too much overall zone depletion.

- Similarly increased respawn in newbie dungeons, but to less dramatic extent

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Update Notes: February 5, 2026

This update fixes the following:

- new server hardware for Dreva server

- Fix bug causing your personal horse to not have the correct texture

- The Map UI now tries to fix itself if it finds itself broken after zoning

- More safely remove horse textures from memory

- Fix padding of pet check window

- fix north/south reference in Mirraverre dialog (Desert dream)

- reduce monster aggro radius in desert dream

- add Demo player access to desert dream

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Update Notes: February 4, 2026

This update adds a new content area for players with combat skills level 1 to 15. To access it, look for the golden portal just outside the Serbule gate (the one near Sir Coth).

In addition:

- Fix bug allowing bosses to be camped

- Fix for characters sometimes not animating

- Increase Animation Distance Multiplier defaults for each quality level, so creatures and players don't skate around as much

- Potential fix for desync issue (where monsters are dead but appear alive and cannot be looted)

- Potential fix for projectiles "sticking" to a creature and rapidly spinning around it

- Fixed broken Glassblowing training requirements on Rebeccah The Whisperer

- Most monsters can now be clicked on even if their animations are turned off through settings

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Update Notes: February 2, 2026

This is a small bug-fix update:

- Fix bug causing monsters to camp player corpses

- Fix bug allowing players to loot corpses they shouldn't (!)

- Further performance improvements to client assets, including a new approach to horse texture management:

- Convert horse texture algorithm from the CPU to the GPU. This is obviously much quicker, and lets us compress the textures so they're much smaller now too - win/win!

- Fix bug causing people to sometimes play instruments while they're sheathed

- Party Members now get their own nameplate color! Defaults to green. To change it, go to Settings > GUI > Colors > Nameplates

- Update default positions for Quest Tracker, XP Tracker, and Party Frames

- Fix bug preventing buffs/debuffs with a number counter from being hovered over

- raise demo player level cap on Cartography and Gourmand from 15 to 25 (so they can't accidentally lose irretrievable XP due to the cap)

- more server performance optimizations

- added a shovel you can find on the beach of the newbie island

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