Our new pre-alpha update (v.0.6.0.89) includes content, balance, and sound changes, as well as several bugfixes. Read the full patchnotes below:
1. Content Changes
- Recycling items in the Safehouse (the area between character storage and inventory) now only triggers when the mouse button is pressed down, instead of when it is released.
- Developer Comment: This should prevent items from being accidentally recycled when dragging them between storage and inventory and suddenly releasing the mouse button.
- Updated “Aggressor State” – which automatically activates when a player character has the Aggressor toggle activated and harms other players:
- Players who enter a Protected Area while the Aggressor State is active will no longer receive the “Protected Area” buff or its protection effect. Once the Aggressor State expires, the protection effect will be restored automatically.
- Players with an active Aggressor State can no longer enter the Safehouse. Attempting to do so will show a message explaining that Safehouse access is unavailable while the Aggressor State is active.
- Removed all enemy creatures from Ring 9 or higher areas , for example the desert city of Calinares.
- Developer Comment: These were unfinished/work-in-progress areas and were only populated with random enemies in the past. Since we are going to rework these areas, we have decided to remove all enemies there for now. In the future, we might even restrict access to such areas entirely until they are fully finished.
- Renamed the general term “Reload Speed” to “Reload Time”.
- Updated the description of “Component Sets” to make it clearer how much progress using the consumable will add to an item’s mod.
2. Balance Changes
- Changes for Harvesting Faction Quests:
- Adjusted Harvesting Faction Quest difficulty scaling. When generated, Harvesting Faction Quests now always use the lower resource tier instead of randomly choosing between the lower and higher tier.
- Higher-difficulty Harvesting Faction Quests now require more harvesting actions instead of increasing the required resource tier.
- Reduced the random variance for required harvesting actions, making quest requirements more consistent.
- Adjusted the profession-based actions for Harvesting Faction Quests:
- Thievery and Street Smarts now require fewer actions.
- Hunting, Mechanics, and Fishing use the standard requirement amount.
- Electronics, Construction, and Mining require slightly more actions.
- Woodworking and Botany require the highest number of actions.
- Reduced the drop rate of weapons and equipment starting from Ring 2 up to Ring 8.
- Developer Comment: We noticed that, especially from Ring 2 onward, characters would loot a lot of weapons and equipment during their adventures, which were often not needed and instead blocked inventory space. Therefore, we decided to slightly reduce the drop rate of weapons and equipment in Ring 2 up to Ring 8, so that characters have the ability to loot and carry more junk items, to recycle them into raw materials or sell them for cash. We will continue to monitor the situation and make more changes when needed.
- Increased the drop chance from Thatcher or Legacy Supplies for the quest “Grains of Discord” from 30% to 60%.
- Backpacks of defeated player characters now remain in the game for 60 minutes, up from 20 minutes.
3. Sound Changes
- Accepting, canceling, and completing Faction Quests now have sound effects.
4. Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug where the mod “Lucky” on items would display the incorrect %-value.
- Fixed a bug with “Rage” stacks from Hammers.
- Fixed a bug where player characters could attack Thatcher NPCs without getting any damage.
- Fixed a bug where the login details, specifically the email address, were visible in the error message when typing the wrong account password.
- Fixed a bug in non-English clients where the key “I” was translated incorrectly.
- Fixed a bug with incorrect Elite spawns on the Isle of Solitude in Bristlecone Preserve.
- Fixed a bug where the ability “Sixth Sense” would show harvestable spots in Faction strongholds, even though those spots were no longer harvestable because characters had reached a high reputation level within the Faction.
- Fixed a bug where characters could not use Amnesia Pills to reset skill trees.
- Fixed a bug where the Faction Board could generate quests that required characters to defeat NPCs from the same Faction.
- Fixed a bug where characters could not complete a Faction Quest because the Faction NPC was not interested in talking to the player due to low reputation.
- Fixed a bug where the quest marker for Faction Quests in the compass would show the incorrect world location.
- Fixed a bug where the Faction Quest interactable, such as placing a banner or repairing a satellite dish, did not work correctly in several locations.
- Fixed a bug where, under certain conditions, items in storage could visibly disappear after being swapped with other items.
- Fixed a bug where durability loss on items was not displayed correctly.
- Fixed multiple bugs where characters could become stuck in the world.
- Fixed multiple missing or incorrect labels and tooltips.