Greetings, Scavengers!
In today’s pre-alpha update, we are implementing several new content changes (Quest Markers, new Nodes and more) along with another round of bugfixes.
1. Content Changes
- Added quest markers for NPCs who still have quests available for player characters.
- Developer note: We added this feature to help players—especially in the early game—find new quests.
- Reduced the impact of strong wind on tree and grass movement.
- Developer note: We decided to reduced the effect due to potential motion sickness feelings.
- Multiple areas, including buildings, in and around Ashwater have been populated.
- Added two new Nodes (Gasstation and Hospital Laundry) in Ring 5
- Players now receive a notification message when the try to interact with the flag of an already depleted or claimed node.
- Thatchers and Legacy faction NPCs are now by default set as “attackable”.
- Developer note: Originally factions were set to “not attackable by default” for new characters, which conflicted with two faction-related quests requiring players to kill Thatchers or Legacy members. Since players had to manually enable attackability in the reputation menu—without this being communicated—and this was perceived as a bug, Thatchers and Legacy are now attackable by default for new players.
2. Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug where the Hammer Rage skill could cause enemies to become invulnerable.
- Fixed a bug where swapping backpacks that contained items in their slots could cause the inventory to break, potentially leading to disappearing items after looting.
- Fixed a bug where for some characters the compass was not shown in the open world after completing the beginner tutorial.
- Fixed a bug where Overseers were inactive in fights against player characters.
- Fixed a bug where player characters could walk through walls and stairs at the sports hall near the train station.
- Fixed a bug where spitters were immune to knockbacks.
- Fixed multiple issues with the feedback dialog (accessible in-game via F8).
- Developer note: The feedback dialog can now also be opened while a player character is dead.
- Fixed multiple graphical issues where fences were clipping into villas.
- Fixed some graphical issue in tunnels.
- Fixed an issue where loot particles were visible through walls.
- Updated the tooltip for the skill Electric Field to display the correct trigger time (once every 5 seconds).
We truly appreciate your continued support in helping us improve Persist Online for the future!
-The Persist Online Team