Rebirth & Equipment · Added Rebirth Obelisks to Aresden and Elvine. · Added Dark Knight and Templar equipment to the City Hall Officers in both cities. These items require at least one Rebirth to equip. Quests & Gathering · Fixed the Elvine Troll quest not counting Troll kills. · Standardised mining and woodcutting speeds so left and right-click gathering actions work consistently. Items & Craf…
Progression & Quests · Added Rebirth to Obelisks, allowing players to return to level 1 in exchange for permanent stat increases. · Added more quests that award Contribution. · Added a temporary automatic 10× Contribution multiplier for the playtest. · Fixed an issue preventing some players from gaining XP. · Increased the Gladius’s stats to better reflect its crafting requirements and distingu…
Factions & Contribution · Added the foundations of the Factions and Contribution systems. The system will be expanded in future updates. · Contribution Points can currently be earned by completing quests and spent as currency on Hero items. More ways to earn and use Contribution are planned for future updates. · Added a Factions tab to the Character window, allowing players to view their factio…
Cities & Travel · The city maps of Elvine and Aresden are now open! Find Cedric Tidewell near the docks in northeast Wayfarer’s Rest and speak to him to teleport to either city. · Fixed players occasionally falling through floors after teleporting. Crafting & Trading · Hold Shift when moving an item to the Sell box to move the entire stack, making bulk selling faster. · The crafting interface n…
New & Improved · Added a new Hammer talent tree, giving Hammer users more ways to develop their combat build. · Added the Focus Staff to the research tree. · Added quest boards to Wayfarer’s Rest and both City Halls, providing access to repeatable quests. · Added bug reporting to the home screen so login errors can be submitted, and updated the report window with an improved design. Combat & Ma…
Quest & Shop · Fixed an issue preventing players from purchasing items from shops. · Improved vendor dialog wording when selling items. · Fixed several quests not correctly tracking objectives, including tree cutting and magic damage objectives. · Fixed completed quests requiring a logout/login before rewards could be claimed. · Fixed completed quests not appearing correctly in the quest list.…
Over the last two days we have been identifying and fixing a memory leak that was causing the server to need frequent restarting. If you were playing during this time, you may have experienced frequent crashes or restarts multiple times per hour. This is now fixed.
Performance & Stability · Fixed a startup crash. · Fixed GPU resident drawer failures that caused FPS drops. · Improved server memory management. System, UI & Localization · Fixed a localization initialization issue. · Fixed welcome message text showing information from previous playtests. Quests & Gameplay · Fixed access to quest dialog with McGaffin to allow access to new quests. · Fixed an i…
Performance & Server Stability · Implemented several provisional client performance fixes to address lag. *(Note: These changes require further testing.)* · Fixed an issue where the server player limit was not being applied correctly. · Fixed issues with NPC NavMesh agents becoming stuck, generating errors, and placing unnecessary strain on the server. System, UI & Localization · Fixed resoluti…
Items · Floor items now disable any associated lights (such as Deva glow and Kloness wand gems), as real-time lights were reducing FPS · Standard potions now have a maximum stack size of 10 (HP, MP, SP, Antidote, etc.). Recall Scrolls are no longer stackable · Recall Scrolls and Invisibility Potions now respect combat timers · Consumable cooldown increased from 0.5s to 0.75s for testing · Fixed…
Spells · Reduced Create Food INT requirement to 10 · Fixed being able to see, buy, cast, or unleash admin spells (e.g. Admin 9999) Items · Added War Mace model and thumbnail · War Mace now allows dual wield · Fixed BBH crafting to Scythe NPC's · Regeneration is now configurable to help balance it and allow differences between in-combat and out-of-combat regeneration · Regeneration added back to…
NPC · Increased Giant Tree collider size so it is easier to target · Giant tree stomp attack cooldown increased and target range reduced · Removed regeneration from mountain dragon for now · Added new boss mob ready for PvP week · NPC's now have the ability to spawn minions during combat · NPC's can now do stamina drain with attacks · Lowered the run speed of Hellhound and Werewolf slightly so…
For our final week of the current playtest, we are shifting full focus to PvP; the core gameplay loop of Helrift. We want to push these systems hard, with many players and as few barriers as possible. Changes for PvP week: · Max level available to all players. No XP grind. · A new mystery merchant selling powerful items at low prices. · Cheap equipment repairs to keep fights going. · New, previ…
Spells · Freeze Amount and Freeze Duration are now scaling attributes on individual spells based on MAG so that they align with how burning works · Frozen no longer stacks. Instead, spells are limited by the freeze amount on their scaling attribute. E.g. Ice Strike can only slow by 10% maximum can be overwritten by Blizzard 40% maximum · Cancellation cast range reduced 10 → 6 for balance · Mete…
Core · Improvements to movement so players don't float when falling from height Map · Expansion - Mountain area added north of the giant tree forest in the north side of the island · Added Mithral rocks to the mountain area NPC's · Added Ogres. Pit replaces the old MG pit. MGs moved to the new mountain area · Added Hellhound pit to the new mountain area · Added Vampiric (HP steal) ability to mo…
Magic · Fixed detect invisibility not always working VFX · Fixed magic shield VFX hiding behind water layer Map · Fixed directions on sign near the church NPC’s · Added NPC innate magic absorption. Note: this applies before strengths/weaknesses · Mountain Giant now has 3 different attacks it alternates through · Troll now does an AoE smash · Added some colour/equipment variations to a handful o…
Map · Moved stone golem pit to South of the church · New map area open, swamp on West side · Fixed Crystallized Mana not mineable UI · Added item overlays for ground items. Hold \ to hide/show the overlay · Admin chat now gets prefixed with a crown icon to denote they are a real admin · Removed insights currencies from Hero Vendor · Rich Text disabled on all input fields · Fixed mouse clicks fa…
Items · Optimizations to large item stacks (such as gold) which lags the server · Quiver no longer prevents cast · Fixed more item ground visuals · Fixed item copying routines breaking items with properties (coatings, spell scrolls etc.) Merchant · Fixed an issue with database token not renewing causing merchant to stop working periodically UI · Optimizations to the chat window to improve respo…
NPC's · Bandits now drop some basic items and gold · Balanced experience gain and gold drop ratios across all monsters, and made base experience a min/max value instead of a dice roll · Fixed issues with monsters not moving to attack players Items · Battle Axe, War Hammer and Devastator now show correctly on the floor · Fixed oil flask disconnecting player when double clicking Combat · ESC now…
NPC's · NPC's will now chase for significantly more time if you keep within a sensible range · NPC maximum chase distance is now tethered to a maximum distance outside of their spawn zone so they wont chase forever · Spawned NPC's (those with no spawn zone) will now randomly move around rather than idle in place. They will be tethered to their spawn location · Lowered the damage from giant tree…
Mobs · Skeletons and Stone Golems corrected to drop robes, instead of tunics · Orcs, Giant Rats and Crabs now drop Robe Hood · Stalker and giant tree now drops hat Magic · Fixed mass fire strike damage being insanely high Map · Added Aresden and Elvine Cityhall Officers to Warehouse so that you can claim citizenship and hero armour · Iron Ore rocks added to the west of the giant tree forest Ite…
Skills · Fixed being able to fish through terrain if there was water underneath Map · Spawn rates for mobs increased for low level pits · Improved drop tables for early mobs · Added loot tables for the new mobs added in previous update · Improvements to chunk streaming when at an intersection by 2 or more map chunks (such as across the bridge to pvp zone) · Added Orc spawn to the west across th…
Interactables · Fishing is now working in all bodies of water around the island Map · Added Warehouse next to Blacksmith · Fixed the signpost east of church not being readable Npcs · Added Warehouse Keeper to store additional items · Fixed Stalker walk animation getting stuck · Fixed additional issues with merchant buy/sell caused by duplicate IDs Items · Added missing thumbnails for cotton, fl…
Merchant · Hardening of merchant code to reduce the chance of failures to buy/sell items Interactables · Fixed Flax not being interactable NPC's · Fixed mobs giving more experience than they are allocated · Fixed snake behaviour (CDs, damage, move speed) · Fixed NPC positioning and pathing errors when moving around obstacles Research · Fixed items dropping to the floor if it cant be studied Cha…
Some of the main bugs were prioritised and fixed. Audio · Fixed range on woodcutting and mining sounds Map · Added colliders around river near Mage's Tower to prevent people falling in Research · Added an insights multiplier to speed up XP gain for the playtest, a multiplier of 10. Quests · Fixed “Kill x slime” not registering on slime kills, which soft-locked players out of additional progress…
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