Shards Online: Release 0.2.6 Patch Notes

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Citadel Studios have posted the patch notes for Release 0.2.6 of Shards Online. New features introduced in this build include:

  • Improved Targeting System
    • Space bar sets current target to object highlighted by the mouse
    • Tab cycles through nearby targets
    • Target window
  • Interaction Menu: Most objects in the world allow for multiple ways to interact with them. We added a radial menu to provide access to these additional interactions.
  • Added mouse control schemes
    • Default: Left click handles movement and object interaction, right click opens the interaction menu
    • Classic: Left click handles object interaction, right click handles movement, Alt-Left click to open interaction menu
  • Controls Window: Allows for switching of mouse control schemes and key remapping
  • Splitting stack support for stacked objects
  • Animal Taming UI: Shows tamers their pets’ stats and allows for dragging pet commands to the hotbar.
  • Character Customization: Choose from different skin type and hair options in limbo before you enter Celador.
  • Equipment names are now colored based on the quality
    • Flimsy: Light Brown
    • Stout: Green
    • Sturdy: Light Blue
  • Crafting now guarantees a number of improvement successes based on the quality of the item
    • Stout: 1 guaranteed improvement
    • Sturdy: 2 guaranteed improvements
  • New Spell: Bind Portal – Opens a portal to the location your soul is currently bound to.
  • Equipment Repair – Crafting tools have a repair option on the interaction menu
  • Quest Tracker – Allows you view finished/unfinished quests and lets you change the currently tracked quest
  • House decoration window has been given a facelift
  • Housing and quest buttons added to hotbar (Housing button only appears if you are inside your house plot)
  • Added guaranteed guard protection from PvP in the plains region of the map (except in the arena)
  • Add message to indicate when you have entered or left a guard region

Click on through to read the rest, including notes on fixed bugs and still-outstanding issues.