Game updates April 19th 2019: Crash/Disconnect protection, guards, and more!
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Crash/Disconnect protection
- Now, if you disconnect from the server outside of town (either normally or because you crashed or something) your player is left behind for up to five minutes.
- While disconnected, your player just stands around doing nothing. You can still be killed and consequently lose your stuff.
- If you reconnect to the server within the five minute period, you are put back inside your player without any penalty.
- This is a complex feature that will not be without its issues. If you experience any problems after being put back in your player, please report the circumstances in this thread or in the suggestions/issues thread.
Town guards
- It seems that all of you suck at killing player killers, so we hired a bunch of guards to do what everyone else couldn't.
- When a player killer enters town, a guard will give them a warning that they will be attacked soon.
- One minute after the warning is given, the guards become aggressive to that player and will try to kill them on sight.
- 10 minutes after the warning is given, the guards lose aggression and will re-issue their warning the next time they see that player.
- Yes, there are plenty of ways to cheese the guards, get them stuck, find blindspots from them, etc. I'm not too concerned about this because the point of them is to just put pressure on player killers who would otherwise stroll around town waiting for victims to leave; and I think they do that job pretty well regardless of if some of them get locked away.
Gameplay changes
- The Troll and Spider boss' rooms are now PvP safezones. I didn't intend to do this originally, but it's been pretty common for players to work together to kill these bosses without forming a guild. This is just a convenience so people stop getting accidentally player killer marked due to crossfire in the boss fights.
- There is now a 2.5 second cooldown after a door is generated before it can be opened. This will help reduce lag caused by people quickly running through and opening rooms (and subsequently ignoring the monsters in those rooms, which is lame).
- There is a new visual effect that occurs when you are very low on health.
Poison changes
- Poison stacks are now capped at 25% of your max health.
- When you would gain a poison stack beyond 25% of your max health, it is instead immediately converted into a small amount of poison damage.
- The town and dungeon shops now stock Antipoison potions. Comes in a normal and super varieties.
- It may be possible to get rid of poison via other means now.
Saving system changes
- Current health, current mana, and current poison are all now saved values and won't be reset by reconnecting.
- If you are logged in to the current world and make a new connection to the same world, your currently logged in session is immediately disconnected.
- If you disconnect while dead, your 'second best' item that would be returned to you upon respawn is no longer lost.
Bug fixes/Other changes
- Fixed scrolls not working when you have negative mana.
- Fixed an issue where it was possible to 'consume' a different item in your inventory upon using a consumable.
- Fixed some overworld areas being extremely easy to jump out of.
- Potions take slightly less time to use now.
I anticipate a lot of issues from this update, please don't forget to report any problems in this thread or in the suggestions/issues thread. The worlds should be going up within an hour.
Quote from: Pecon
- Now, if you disconnect from the server outside of town (either normally or because you crashed or something) your player is left behind for up to five minutes.
- While disconnected, your player just stands around doing nothing. You can still be killed and consequently lose your stuff.
- If you reconnect to the server within the five minute period, you are put back inside your player without any penalty.
- This is a complex feature that will not be without its issues. If you experience any problems after being put back in your player, please report the circumstances in this thread or in the suggestions/issues thread.
Yeah, I was outside of town and crashed. Rejoined within 2mins, was back in town all items lost. Wasn't in a room with enemies or anything so I'm fairly sure I didn't die from them after the crash.
Items Lost: Ice Staff, Healing Staff, Chaos Staff, Apprentice Staff, Red WizRobes, Mithril Longsword, Heavy Armor, Mind/Body, Compass, Super Antidote, Recall Scroll. Kept Dagger(p++) Edit: Also lost 4 lvls (29-25) and an unknown amount of gold.
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Quote from: Deokotaru
Yeah, I was outside of town and crashed. Rejoined within 2mins, was back in town all items lost. Wasn't in a room with enemies or anything so I'm fairly sure I didn't die from them after the crash.
Items Lost: Ice Staff, Healing Staff, Chaos Staff, Apprentice Staff, Red WizRobes, Mithril Longsword, Heavy Armor, Mind/Body, Compass, Super Antidote, Recall Scroll. Kept Dagger(p++) Edit: Also lost 4 lvls (29-25) and an unknown amount of gold.
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Which server were you on?
Quote from: Pecon
[US-E] AloneWhich server were you on?
Quote from: tally
Before this update I had crashed, lost my gram and went from lvl 35 to 20. Even though it was pre-update would it be possible to just get the gram back? It has a high cost and to lose it to crashing before this update was available kinda sucks
Unfortunately no.