The Repopulation - 0.0.5.5 Build Notes

This patch had a quicker turnaround than our average patch, but there were several important fixes that needed to be resolved. update again focuses on polishing and improving the early stages of the game. We've given new special abilities to many monster species, in an attempt to make the various species encounters feel unique. We also integrated a new default control scheme. If you are an existing player and would like to try the new scheme you can set it by entering the Controls tab on the Options Menu and clicking the Reset to Defaults button. As always you can apply for alpha testing or get the more information by visiting our web site at: www.therepopulation.com

Crafting

- Armor plates are now stackable.

Effects and Abilities

- Fixed a bug that was causing Knock Down abilities to not trigger. It should be noted that knockdowns do not work on all NPCs, they must be capable of being knocked down.
- Added the Combat Tactics based ability: Charge. This ability will charge you towards your opponent giving a momentary but potent speed boost.

General
- Player held Lightsources have had their range and brightness increased.
- The /eval command has been updated to return factional and difficulty level information on your target. By default you can also get this same functionality by pressing the Z key when you have an NPC or Monster targeted.
- There is now a 20 second delay before a character can logout when they will be pending logout. If players disconnect or if they quit without camping they will remain in the world for 20 seconds. They can be attacked at that point, and if they take any damage it will reset the camping timer until the end of combat. You are not able to camp while in combat. This change was made to prevent players from "pulling the plug" in PVP or a bad encounter to avoid death. This code still needs some testing, so if you get a chance, try to fool it and let us know if you succeeded and how.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing votes from being tallied correctly. Voting is again functional. You can vote for the Mayor of your control point of residence, or declare your residency in a new location by visiting the Control Computer in that town.
- Newly created characters will automatically be a resident of either Freedomtown or Plymouth, depending on which faction they choose. This allows them to take advantage of the benefits of that city's control point bonuses, rather than needing to manually declare themselves a resident first.
- Reduced the speed at which players can strafe.
- Fixed some spelling errors.
- Made a number of server side optimizations.

Graphics

- Teleporters and Control Computers have a new and improved appearance.
- Clouds should no longer render as black on certain cards.
- Trees should now be visible from a much further distance than was previously the case. The distance shapes are billboards, so the performance hit should be minimal.
- Rock formations and the Waterfall in Plymouth should also be visible at a much further distance than before.
- The trees in Plymouth will now enter into lower levels of detail more quickly than was previously the case.
- Female animations are
- Fixed a bug that was causing bracelets to sometimes have a missing material.
- Added a new menu logo.
- Fixed a couple places in Plymouth where the roads didn't quite line up correctly when they intersected.

Missions

- Fixed a bug that was causing generated Camp missions to continually spawn minions until you killed the boss. The camp will now be spawned only one time, when the character first moves into range.

UI

- The map has been significantly improved. Zooming has been tweaked, and tracked contacts will be automatically plotted on the map.
- We've implemented a sweeping list of default control settings to bring us more in line with what is the standard control keys in MMOGs.
- The A and D keys, and left and right arrow keys will now default to Strafe, instead of Turn. You can turn with the Q and E keys or by holding your right mouse button down and looking with the mouse. As with all other control list changes, this is remappable through the Controls pane in the Options Menu.
- You can now move forward with the arrow keys, in addition to the W and D keys.
- You can now use the NUMLOCK key in addition to V to toggle auto run.
- You can now zoom into first person by using the + key on the number pad.
- You can now zoom out into third person by using the - key on the number pad.
- The Z key will now evaluate your opponent, giving information on how they feel about your factions and their difficulty compared to you.
- The L key will now toggle your Mission Helper Window.
- The O key will now toggle the social/friends window.
- The G key will now toggle the clan window.
- CTRL-H will now bring up the Help Window.
- CTRL-F will now bring up the Frames per Second metrics counter.
- CTRL-X will now Hide the UI. You can bring it back by hitting enter.
- F1-F6 will now select yourself (F1) or your alliance members.
- You can now bind keys to toggle the Social and Clan Windows.
- There is now an option to reset to the Default Key Mappings in the Controls pane of the Options Window.
- Added new loading images to most zones.
- Fixed the Control Remapping Window in Options.
- Re-arranged the layout of some of our control options to make them sorted in an easier to find fashion.
- We thought we had the mob selection problems fixed in the last update, but there were still some problems with certain models. This update should have them licked for good.


World

- Made a large number of adjustments to monster special abilities. Monsters are now more likely to use their special abilities, and smarter about their usage of them. Monsters can also have new innate abilities that they will have from the moment they are spawned.
- Made a large number of adjustments to the resistances different monster species, and within each species. The goal here is to make some monsters more vulnerable to certain types of attacks, and allow players to adjust their weaponry to gain an edge.
- Vultures now have the ability to leap. This can place them behind or to the side of players, so players will need to adjust.
- Larger vultures can bleed acid occasionally when damaged, damaging anyone who comes into contact with it.
- Hokfig now have a permanent damage shield.
- Faugea and Lesoo Shaman are now capable of mind control abilities.
- Hounds and Setlang of sufficient difficulty level now have a flanking attack capability that will do additional damage if used from behind.
- Added four new special attacks to Dragon-kind including multiple area of effect attacks and the ability to strike fear into their attackers.
- Lesoo shaman are now able to heal their allies.
- Mature Faugea now have a new energy based ranged attack that can knock down opponents.
- Lurkers, Hokfig, Hounds and Setlang now have innate hiding capabilities.
- Brutes now regenerate at an advanced rate.
- Drakes and Dragon-kind have very high resistances to certain types of attacks, and the varies from type to type.
- Grasslings are now able to absorb physical damage very well, and players should probably attempt to use elemental damage to defeat them.
- Added new 5 boss special abilities.
- Reduced the drop rates from some human mobs, who were dropping too much loot previously.
- The Plymouth Exploration point was previously underneath the terrain and as a result players could not discover it and receive the skill bonus associated with it. That has been fixed.
- Fixed some geometry occlusion issues in the Sewers.
- Fixed a bug that was causing the security guards to attack employees in some Industrial instances.
- Players should no longer swim on land when they are just outside the pond area.
- Fixed a bug that was causing players to occasionally fall spawn underneath their apartments.
- The Simulation Bot in the tutorial has had its hit points and damage output reduced significantly.
- Adjusted the rate at which Freedomtown and Plymouth gain structure points.