Shroud of the Avatar – Update of the Avatar #149

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Greetings Friends & Fellow Avatars!

Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

  • Play Release 23 Now!
  • R23 Patch Notes
  • New Player Owned Town Template: The Underground Biome
  • Extra Life. Play Games. Heal Kids. – MUST SEE!!!

Play Release 23 Now!

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[A scene from the FireLotus Release 23 Party!]

Release 23 successfully launched yesterday, October 29, with thousands of backers downloading, patching, logging in, and checking out the new changes! Lots of new content to explore, including:

  • Massive changes to combat
  • Tons of Halloween content
  • Expansions to Fishing and Taming
  • New Scenes including the Highvale Battle single-player starting scene, Jaanafort, and Vertas
  • Placeable servants, house pets, and town NPCs
  • New Player Owned Town Underground Biome Template
  • …and more!

Check out the Release 23 Instructions update for detailed information about all the new R23 content.

Portalarium needs all your help with testing the new patches, putting more stress on our multiplayer servers, and testing the new game content, so please join us in playing Release 23!

If you have not backed the game yet, you will need to register and login at www.shroudoftheavatar.com, select the “Pledge or Send Gift!” button in the right side-bar, and purchase a pledge at the $45 Adventurer level or above. The basic Adventurer level pledge is also available on Steam Early Access.

Release 23 Player Instructions

Release 23 Known Issues

 

R23 Patch Notes

Thanks to all our community members that jumped right into this Release and started reporting bugs. We’ve already fixed quite a few of them and pushed out several patches. Click here for the most up-to-date Patch Notes.

October 30 2015  

Build Number 344 5:30 PM CDT: 

Fixes:

  • Fix for a memory leak
  • Plague Doctor’s Mask awarded at maximum durability.
  • Fixed issues with Tracy’s paperwork in Battle of Highvale
  • Fixed issue with turning in Jarred’s dagger in Owl’s Nest. If you have already tried to complete the quest and no longer have the dagger, you can try again by talking to Jarred in Braemar.
  • Fixed typos in Gawain’s conversation in Battle of Highvale
  • Torpid Torment now working as intended
  • Fixed formatting issues with chat messages about vendor sales
  • Fixed Black Rock texture for terrain (bad normals)
  • Clink light fix to prevent the world from always being dark.
  • Fixed ugly shadows on flat ice
  • Minor fix to Blood River tutorial
  • Minor fix to Solace Bridge tutorial
  • Player Owned Town Fixes:
    • Sparrowfall: Improved placement of caravan teleporters
    • Liberty: Moved exit-into-Novia target so player’s don’t appear in the air.
    • Water lots are now placeable on frozen lake in alpine player owned towns
    • House placement in valid locations within swampy section of dynamic, player-owned, swamp-biome towns is now possible

Known Issues:

  • Some scenes are not displaying lighting (or any lights)
  • There are numerous errors with PoT data, we are working as fast as we can to resolve them. In the meantime if you have a PoT and you notice something is wrong DO NOT place nor claim any lots until we can fix it.
  • We do not yet officially support Windows 10. If you have upgraded to Windows 10 you may experience instability
  • Lighting and fog levels are still being tuned to work with the new weather system, expect anomalies
  • Weather has not been propagated to all scenes yet so there may be mismatches
  • Zooming into First Person camera leaves floating hair in view
  • Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
  • Sound effects are not always playing properly
  • Players in the same scene will sometimes be invisible to each other, usually leaving the scene and returning will fix
  • Death and Resurrection do not work properly in the team arena
  • Water lots in Dynamic Player Owned Towns can currently only be placed along shorelines, not on docks
  • If you upgrade from a property owning pledge between data wipes you will receive extra lot deeds.
  • Time is not in synchronized between scenes that have the new sky vs. the old sky
  • Red crystal nodes in Etceter Crag Mines are all yielding blue crystals.
  • If your video drivers are out of date characters will appear as if they are covered in triangles.
  • Some cities are experiencing performance spikes
  • Some assets create flash bulb like sparks on screen
  • Many pledge, add on, and stretch goal items have not yet been built and/or do not yet have tech support.
  • The update to Unity 5 caused a host of general texture and lighting related issues, and not all of these have been resolved.
  • Distant tree billboards may have a white outline that is especially noticeable at night, and some trees may shimmer with white at night.
  • Skin tone will sometimes not match properly on different parts of the body
  • ALT key can no longer be bound. This was necessary to re-enable quick self cast with ALT
  • Unity 5 Engine Bug: Objects in the foreground sort incorrectly against objects in the distance like trees and the horizon

[Complete Patch Notes…]

New Player Owned Town Template: The Underground Biome

Michael Hutchison created the new Underground biome for Release 23, and several POTs are using it, including Neath:

Here are overhead views of the Underground biome, with and without the lot placement overlays:

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Extra Life. Play Games. Heal Kids.

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Every year, gamers unite to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network hospitals around the country by playing games for Extra Life. This annual 24-hour game marathon is being held on Saturday, November 7th, beginning at 8am CST. This year, community member Browncoat Jayson will be streaming gameplay of Shroud of the Avatar on Twitch.

And speaking of the community, the entire community have come together to create a series of in-game events and donate prizes to support the cause. From 8am CST on Saturday, November 7th to 8am CST on Sunday, November 8th, there will be tutorials, the Welcome Quest, a visit to the Church of the Dark Star, a Party at the Hearth of Britannia, socializing at Port Phoenix, a PVP Tournament at Vengeance, Fishing with Winfield, and much celebration! Come win prizes and help raise funds for this important charity event! Visit this forum thread by Browncoat Jayson for information about how to take part!

Follow @browncoatjayson and @ExtraLife4Kids on Twitter for more information.

Browncoat Jayson’s 24-Hour Extra Life SotA Gaming Schedule includes:

7:30 – 8:00 AM: Introduction
8:00 – 9:00 AM: Character Creation and the Tutorial
9:00 – 11:00 AM: Deck creation, skills tutorial, and game mechanics
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Church of the Dark Star with Amber Raine
12:00 – 2:00 PM: At the Bear Tavern
2:00 – 3:00 PM: Welcome Quest
3:00 – 4:00 PM: Grand Tour
4:00 – 5:00 PM: “The Shape of Things to Come” by the Caverns
5:00 – 6:00 PM: Avatars Radio Race
6:00 – 7:00 PM: Shardfall Free-for-All
7:00 – 8:00: Port Phoenix Social Night
8:00 – 9:30 PM: Vengeance 1-on-1 PVP Tournament
9:30 – 10:30 PM: Fishing with Winfield
10:30 – 11:00 PM: Journey to the Hidden Vale
11:00 PM – 1:00 AM: Dragonsmeet at the Hearth of Britannia
1:00 – 2:00 AM: Yo, Hometown Cribs
2:00 – 5:30 AM: Open Questing
5:30 – 7:30 AM: Explore Novia! with royalsexy
7:30 – 8:00 AM: Thank you and Signoff

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