New Implementations
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- Added "Spicy Salad", food.
Combat Changes
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- Made it so that ranged damage scales linearly with the aim meter, rather than quadratically. Generally speaking this should increase damage significantly. One thing we didn't properly consider when we remade archery last week was precisely the aim meter's effect on damage. With the increased accuracy we added it should be possible now to hit with, say, about only half the meter charged, or whatever, but doing so of course reduced damage more than was perhaps intended. Cautiously trying this for now, but wouldn't be entirely opposed to buffing base damage back up a bit if it's too little.
- Reduced the aim penalty from being mounted from 50% to 75%.
- Fixed a bug by which ctrl-clicking to move did not properly indicate aiming direction.
- Made it so that you do not dismount another rider by hurting his horse, if you yourself are mounted. You can still hurt and knock the horse out.
Siege Changes
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- Made it so that when you siege an object, all shields covering that object take damage. I.e. if a personal claim and a village claim overlap to both protect the object hit, both shields take full damage. If one of two overlapping claims has no shield left, the object and the still charged shield both take damage.
- Made it so that extending a personal claim reduces its shield by the same factor with which it was extended. (E.g. claim is increased in size by a factor 10, shield drops to 1/10). If such an extension would reduce the shield beneath 2400, the shield will also go inactive.
Key Fixes
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- Fixed a bug by which mount passengers could interact with containers remotely.
- Snowball fights now meaningful as per this suggestion.
Small Fixes
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- Added an error message when you can't place a well due to terrain. Reported here.
- Made it so that scythe quality reduces stamina drain from using scythe. Suggested here.
- Gave Troll meat some satiation against Meat. Reported here.
- Fixed a problem with teleporting while on wagon.
- Fixed the wall rotation of Völva's Wand. Reported here.
In the Pipe
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- The floating-point and combat test servers have been merged to one test server, quite simply. You can test combat in Valhalla, and everything else in the game world as you see fit.
- We'll push all of these changes to the test server tonight. If there are no pressing reasons why we shouldn't, we would like to push to the main server tomorrow night, and thus bring the new combat system to the real server.
- We are not necessarily entirely satisified with every aspect of the new combat system, but we also feel that we need to push it to the live environment at some point, to actually get a real feel for what we need to change.
- Loftar's side projects still include object push-out and object-controlled objects. Those things aside we see, after some analysis, our main priority as significantly increasing the dynamism of the world to provide more ingame events to partake in, in order to remove or reduce the staleness of older worlds. We want to work on PvP, trade, social interaction, and quests. We do not have a quick fix formula, but we have some ideas.
- We would like to stay on top of combat and keep iterating on it, so keep the feedback coming. It is very valuable.
The .jnlp for the test server is: here.
Enjoy!