Changed: “Intellect” stat no longer gives additional skill points. When a player increases INT, they receive the following benefits: - Reduced crafting action time: 0.25% for 1 point of INT - +1 Luck for every 5 points of INT
Skills
Changed: the team has adjusted the duration of “Treat a patient (Bed Rest)” ability to be: - 5 minutes when used in the open world - 10 minutes when used inside an Instanced Battle (IB)
Guilds
Changed: (only for “seasonal” Arden) when a character leaves a guild, they must suffer a “penalty” (alignment loss). Currently the mechanic only works correctly when the character actively performs the leave action while logged in. We observed players avoid or manipulate alignment loss by being offline when removed or by initiating leave/kick events under conditions that bypass the penalty. Therefore, we have made the necessary adjustments so that the penalty always applies, and we increased the alignment loss from 10 to 25.
New: in our attempts to further balance guilds based on their membership number, we introduce a new multiplicator that will increase the overall base upkeep for a guild’s monument by 5.7% for each unique account above 50.
Combat
Changed: Weapons of the Pike category currently allow players to jump and perform an attack while mid-air. This behavior is being abused, as it enables players to close distances unnaturally fast and gain unintended mobility advantages in combat. As a part of our work to further balance the weapons, we blocked the ability to perform any attack during jump animation when using the following weapons: - Short Pike* - Medium Pike* - Long Pike* *including sharpened/perfect versions.
Changed: Reduce stamina consumption when blocking 3 → 0.
Changed: Enemy stun duration of successful parry: - Stun time on parrying combo attack: 1.6 → 1.1 - Stun time on parrying regular attack: 1.1 → 0.8
Changed: when stamina runs out in combat stance (trying to move without stamina), we brought back a “catching breath” animation to indicate recovery. During this time, movement or parrying is disabled. This is the first step of implementing the out-stam mechanic. We will be monitoring how it influences PVP, and we will also possibly add out-stam on performing hits without enough stamina later.
Changed: according to the players’ feedback, the resistance of “castle”-type fortifications was too low and did not provide defense proportionate to the amount of resources spent. We decided to increase the resistance for the “castle”-type fortifications for better balance and as an incentive for continuous improvement of the walls throughout the season.
Changed: we noticed that during HJH players replace structures destroyed by siege damage way too fast, thus rendering the work of attackers ineffective. Therefore, we decided to increase the duration of abilities “Build a Simple Construction”, “Build Construction”, and “Build Complex Construction” to 30s during JH/HJH/PJH.
Change: currently we observe a situation when a player could use regular or premium decorations to block a particular tile and limit siege mechanics for attackers. This is not a strategy we want to support. Therefore, we set the owner timeout on premium and regular decoration to 60s so other players can remove them after that time.
Changed: During the JH/HJH/PJH, the following actions will take 1s: - Collapse - Break Reinforce - Dismantle - Deconstruct
Fixed: we have restored the ability to cancel a lance attack.
Fixed: we have detected a disturbing practice where players could manually edit client configs, i.e., network connection settings, and thus decrease performance for the players around them. We have made the necessary adjustments to revert the settings to default and block the means of altering them.
Fixed: the team has fixed a bug that affected the capture/counter-capture mechanic. Now the capture downgrades an outpost (both “military” and “non-military”) by 1 level, and counter-capture downgrades an outpost (both “military” and “non-military”) by 2 levels.
We've redesigned the combat state system to make combat feel more dynamic. We continue our work on combat balancing:
Nordic sword - Hit animation reduced from 1.15s to 1s - Recovery animation reduced from 1.30s to 1.15s
Falchion - Hit animation reduced from 1.15s to 1s
Grossmesser - Hit animation reduced from 1.1s to 1s
Claymore - Swing animation reduced from 1.2s to 1.1s - Hit animation reduced from 1.3s to 1.15s - Recovery animation reduced from 1.3s to 1.15s - Damage increased by 9%
Zweihaender - Swing animation reduced from 1.3s to 1.2s - Hit animation reduced from 1.3s to 1.1s - Recovery animation reduced from 1.3s to 1.15s - Damage increased by 10%
Flamberge - Hit animation reduced from 1.2s to 1.1s - Recovery animation reduced from 1.2s to 1.15s - Damage increased by 8%
Chieftain Sword - Piercing damage decreased by 10% - Slashing damage decreased by 11%
Pollaxe - Swing animation reduced from 1.1s to 1s - Hit animation reduced from 1.2s to 1s - Recovery animation reduced from 1.1s to 1s
Bardiche - Hit animation reduced from 1.2s to 1s - Damage increased by 7%
Broad Axe - Hit animation reduced from 1.2s to 1s - Damage increased by 5%
Spear - Hit animation increased from 0.75s to 0.8s
Boar Spear - Hit animation increased from 0.75s to 0.85s
Awl Pike - Swing animation increased from 0.95s to 1s - Hit animation increased from 0.7s to 0.9s - Damage decreased by 20%
Estoc - Swing animation increased from 0.5s to 0.7s - Hit animation increased from 0.9s to 1s - Recovery animation increased from 0.8s to 1s - Damage decreased by 3%
Lance - Damage decreased by 10%
Jousting Lance - Damage decreased by 20%
Decorated Jousting Lance - Damage decreased by 10%
Hunter Axe - Fracture chance is decreased from 0.4 to 0.25
IB
Changed: the cooldown for initiating IB over a province was increased from 24 to 48 hours. This change is aimed at diversifying the lands guilds fight over and bringing better balance to the IB mechanic.
Fixed: due to permission restrictions, allied guilds could not use the ability “Enlist to battle”on a friendly guild monument and sign up for an IB. We fix this situation by allowing the players from “friendly” guilds to perform the following actions (and also some extra): - “Look in the Bag” (dropped items on the ground) - “Look in Inventory" (movables) - “Open/Close Door” - “Manage Combat Styles” - “Enlist to battle”
Knools
Changed: “Knool Archer"has a reduced magnitude of “Bleeding” effect.
Technical
Fixed: the team has fixed the error that prevented the transfer of characters from Newbie World to Arden/Seasonal Arden.
Fixed: we fixed the situation when a character's stats could display incorrectly in the character selection menu.
Fixed: we have eliminated the majority of situations that provoked swift camera rotation after the completion of an action and subsequent start of movement.
Fixed: the recently introduced “Stack” button had an unpleasant effect of stacking regional and non-regional resources of the same quality, with the former losing their regionality in the process. Now the “Stack” button will create two stacks of the same quality resource, keeping regional resources separate.
Fixed: the team eliminated the bug that caused the game to crash when a player attempted to delete a character.
We have updated the P2P system, now it should work more stably.
UX/UI
Changed: we have enlarged the inventory window for the military outpost (T2 and T3).
New: players can now enable/disable the crosshair in third-person view in Settings > Video.
Shop
Changed: we have introduced an option to split item stacks in Account Inventory. This way, if a player has several units of an item they want to use on both of their characters, they can now split the stack and choose to Consume for each character individually.
Fixed: Boosters pack has been fixed, the players can reap the full benefit of opening it.