Patch notes

Patch Notes for Shroud of the Avatar are listed below.^[1] Each revision will be noted until release. After release we will archive the pre-release versions and then start into major revisions of the game (episodes).

Episode 1

Pre-Release R27

Build 389

Fixed various sound effects so they are properly connected to volume controls including Elven House doors as well as various avatar and creature sounds
Fixed offhand equip slot getting messed up after using two-handed weapons. Again. For Real this time. Seriously
Added shields to the list of valid items for gem socketing
Known Issues:

Many recipes changed for R27 and were therefore no longer appear in players’ recipe books
Many SFX are not properly tied to the sound volume controls.
Some items like musical instruments will show as 0/0 durability. This does not affect their functionality
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
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.
If your video drivers are out of date characters will appear as if they are covered in triangles.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 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

Build 388

Fixed various exceptions and error messages
Performance optimization that should help when there are lots of characters and creatures on screen
Benches should be able to be placed again as a decoration
Increased Immolation max time to 97 sec
The ever-multiplying Graff Family Necklaces collected by the kobolds of the Graff Gem Mines as heirlooms and ways to taunt the inventory space of trespassing avatars can now be sold. Marlene Graff is now looking for her actual heirloom necklace, of which it is rumored only one exists. Hopefully.
Known Issues:
Many SFX are not properly tied to the sound volume controls.

Shields cannot be socketed
Some items like musical instruments will show as 0/0 durability. This does not affect their functionality
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
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.
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 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

Build 387

Testudo no longer makes friendly NPCs aggressive
Fixed Discharge spell tooltips
Lava damage increased
Added Recall scrolls to glyph list
Removed invisible object from Wood and Plaster 3-story Row-house that was blocking the entrance
Moved wagon that was intersecting with a player lot in Owl’s Head
Solania Catacombs: Added additional Ankh at the start of the approach to the hidden chamber
Fixed more creature sounds to connect them to SFX volume slider
Root spell now working properly against all targets
Fixed offhand equip slot getting messed up after using two-handed weapons
Spectral Mines: Updated broken door/key.
Necropolis: Updated broken doors/locks.
Shardfall Discoveries: Replaced old icons with new “Shardfall” Discovery icons on Novia Overworld
Removed invisible lava from Verdantis Shardfall
Fixed errors that were causing NPCs on player lots to load inconsistently.
Fixed Novia Map Atlas so it can now once again hold maps
Fixed Block and Parry so they now should work as expected. Updated the attack messages to correctly show the block or parry as well.
Increased the rate at which exps get apply by a factor of 4. We increased the rate at which players gain experience but not the rate at which it was applied. The result was people using gust balls and accumulating huge amounts of exps. This will help with that
Reducing the duration on all move speed debuff skills based on strength of the target by 1 second per 50 strength.
Crafting tools are no longer tied to decks, also if anyone has already created a deck using crafting tools, those tools will not be equipped when the deck is equipped.
Building block decorations can now once again rotate on their axis
Held items will now be considered for repair at crafting stations
Fixed timing for Immolation visual effects
Disabled Obsidian Forge damage volume due to performance issues
Added some high level creatures and mini-bosses in various locations (go find them!)
Fixed broken masks in inventory for bag mode
Fixed creatures playing death animation multiple times
Fix for missing textures on Baron Frigate
Fixed an issue where dyeing an item would also dye the base item color of any other item of the same type until the game is re-loaded.
Disabled guild chapter house checkbox for non-owners. Disabled lock doors toggle for Kindred and lower.
Known Issues:

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
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.
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 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

Build 386

Elven Greenhouse joins the other greenhouses in being able to be put onto Player Towns
Fixed error preventing several Slime variations from spawning properly
Immolation VFX now last for duration of spell
Added dagger pin to fancy kilt (to make it even fancier!)
Fixed kilt sitting visual issues
Bucket Helmet now properly shows material colors when crafted
Fixed visual errors with Character Stats UI by making it wider. Now all stats names should display properly next to the values
NPC audio should now be properly linked to SFX volume slider
Ice Fist movement debuff now should apply properly
Fixed nameplate colors for conning system
Added “Submit & Lock” function and button to PoT form
Fixed Chaos Vortex nameplate position
Tweaked nameplate color for tier 4 enemies
Fixed instances of incorrect building and POI prefabs
Updated display name of Fancy Walking Cane to match Add On Store name: “Dragon Handle Maplewood Cane”
Fixed floating fishing node in Nightshade Pass
Rimstone lava pools now properly burn
Fixed animals getting stuck while investigating resources.
Edwin in Soltown requests the correct amount of cotton to proceed in the crafting tutorial quest.
Fixed an issue where plants were not being properly reset if they did not require replanting.
Known Issues:

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
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.
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 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

Build 385

The skills trainer in Soltown now trains adventurer skills up to Tier 3.
Some super minor nerfs to healing. Healing touch cast time moves from1 second to 1.25 and both Healing touch and healing ray drop by 1 point max heal
Fixed issues where players were stuck on loading screen
Brookside no longer has Kiln’s innkeeper.
Stealth visual effects no longer break when player uses a stealth invoking skill twice
Doubled the number of POT Decoration Limits
Wolf and Dog sound effects no longer trigger constantly and volume adjusted
Skeletons in starting scenes should now be much easier
Discoverable locations should now be showing on compass again
Added Discoverable locations to Novia and Hidden Vale Overworld (Cities, Shardfalls, Dungeons, Control Points). Should make it much easier to navigate.
Fixed issue where images on the columns of the lunar rift were sorting improperly with the visual effects
Fixed issue causing severe hitching in towns with lots of player lots.
Changed salvage and repair timer to be a quarter of a second instead of three seconds
Fixed more exceptions and error messages
Enemy sound effects should now be properly tied to SFX volume slider
Known Issues:

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
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.
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 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

Build 384

Added descriptions and screenshots to Templates in the PoT submission form
PoT submission form now changes entry fields when selecting Dynamic or Custom Static
New skill icons for Redirection and Bolster Balance in Shields school as well as Bulwark of Earth and Earth Attunement in Earth magic
Fixed some resulting crafting messages that were not properly set if events occurred.
Saturation slider now working
Fixed a typo in description of Absorb Impacts skill in Heavy Armor school
Set up Airships to block rain under main sections of balloon
Updated Owls Head tracking map so player location should now display properly
Breakables can now remotely triggered allowing you to shoot breakable gates (like in Control Points) with your bow.
Fixed some issues that were preventing some items from being salvaged.
Dropping equipped tools onto the character sheet will no longer generate errors
Casting the Shield skills Dig-In or Testudo no longer generates errors for others in the scene
Removed un-textured floating plane in Elven house in Blood River Massacre tutorial
Immortality fruit can now be allocated to a deck and used in combat
Quest Items (like the Phoenix feather) so that it will not be stacked during meticulous collection
Aerie realtor now correctly sells housing deeds, not decorations
Journal entries in the Solace Bridge tutorial fixed to refer to bow, not sword.
Increased the power of Xavar, the Fire Pillar in Nightshade Pass
Fixed tooltip for Dig In
Fixed duration of Immolation effects
Complementary wax cylinder with Countach Phonograph now introductory music
Fixed lots of exceptions and warning messages
Fixed visual effect error when clicking on the book entrance to Chillblain’s Compendium
Obsidian Cloak has correct icon image now
Fixed issue where field dressing tool message would have a blank value in parenthesis “()”
Equipped tools can no longer be added to the trade UI
Solania Catacombs: Added back into the game
Fix for massive hitching caused by some plot setups
Greenhouses can now be placed on POTs: Greenhouse, Rusted Iron Greenhouse, Rusted Iron Small Greenhouse
Bucket Helm now properly displays material colors from crafting
Kingsport: The Port Mirren ferry once again launches from Kingsport harbor
Ignite Weapon now properly add damage
Visual Effects on the Obsidian Forge now display properly to everyone in the scene.
Fixed typos in Kelly Hayward’s journal entry in Owl’s Nest
Fixed Bentley’s conversation in Soltown so that he does not greet you the first time as if he already has met you.
Fixed invisible colliders in Armor shop in Etceter. Also applies to derivative scenes: Spite, Broochash, and Graff
Fixed issue where all 3 destinations were showing available at once in Isle of Storms (return version)
Fixed issue where when purchasing multiple bundles (ex. arrows) you would only receive content of a single bundle
Letter recieved from Stanley in Soltown has a more descriptive title.
Annika the Blacksmith in Soltown now sells arrows.
Known Issues:

Sometimes players will be stuck at 100% when loading into a scene.
NPC Sound effects not tied to SFX slider and triggering too often
Points of Interest markers on the Compass are not working
Sometimes items will not load in Player Owned Towns (including NPCs, buildings, homes, etc.). Logging out and back in generally fixes 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
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.
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 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

Build 382

Welcome to Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues Early Access Release 27! Notes on what is in this release are available here.
Known Issues:

Sometimes items will not load in Player Owned Towns (including NPCs, buildings, homes, etc.). Logging out and back in generally fixes 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
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.
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 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

QA Build 328

Dev+ bug test

QA Build 325

Dev+ bug test

Pre-Release R26

Build 381

Reverted Drum sounds to original pitch shifted versions
Various tasks and content related to Shooter Jennings album release party that may, or may not, include copious use of Hot Pink
Performance fallback routines for cloaks (should help a lot in scenes with lots of players wearing cloaks)
Known Issues:

Linux and Mac builds are experiencing significant graphical and stability issues
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
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
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 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

Build 378/379

Build Number 378 PC and Linux, 379 OSX

Fix graphical artifacts on Linux, but must run the game with “-force-opengl” command line argument, or you will likely just get a pink screen. Launcher and Steam will be updated to use this argument automatically. Still has some issues, such as pink hair.
Printing press should also copy the author of the book
Some conversation dialog fixes
Performance improvement work in Aerie, Ardoris, and Owlshead
Prevent intro video from playing on OSX to fix freeze (OSX build 379)
When mixing locked and unlocked cards, the minimum required cards to avoid slugs is now reduced by one card per card that is locked
Chaotic Feedback has been adjusted to include a life attunement buff that grows over time.
Players watching someone play piano should now see them sit correctly.
Fix for an issue that caused local skill levels to sometimes be inaccurate.
Known Issues:

Linux and Mac builds are experiencing significant graphical and stability issues
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
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
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 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

Build 376

Fix some fog graphical issues
Add long bowstave recipe to merchants
Fix exception with lot navigation
Some fixes for custom books on lots
Fixes for a few UI exceptions
Known Issues:

Linux and Mac builds are experiencing significant graphical and stability issues
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
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
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 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

Build 375

Various fixes for localization errors including broken bankers / town criers in Spanish version
Arabella in Resolute properly says goodbye when prompted.
Kingsport Oracle now uses correct Oracle dialog
Quest logic fixes for Cai Lau in Ardoris
Piano is making sounds again
Fixed improper collision on the entryway of Edelmann Founder village home
Known Issues:

Items on Public Vendors were accidentally wiped with this patch
Linux and Mac builds are experiencing significant graphical and stability issues
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
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
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 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

Build 374

Southeast of Blackblade Mountains: Added ankh at Novia exit, re-positioned existing ankh to exit to Blackblade Pass. Re-positioned bear spawners away from pass exit.
Fixed survey visual effect showing as rectangles (vs. sparkles) when viewed through fog
Douse and Purify can now advance without actually removing a debuff
Fixed issues with NPC pathfinding and placement in Aerie
Fixing possible issues with talking to Myra in Owl’s Head about her brother.
Fixing crafting tutorial in Soltown to match new crafting requirements
Three number tweaks for passives Blade Mastery, Crusher, and Draw Strength
Protected Virtue Bowler Hat from ransom
Solace Bridge: Fixed stuck spots in both Starter and Nonstarter version of Map.
Fixed maps where cloud layer geometry was improperly clipping into scene, including South Varisalla Foothills, Greymark Forest, North Brightbone Woods, and many others
Fixed missing textures on Baron Benefactor home
Minor conversation fixes for Anton, Thomas Strongbeard, and Nob the Stableboy (coconuts are once again obtainable!)
Fixed bricked up windows in Twin Spires Manor
Purchase Orders can now be placed
Added Bow recipe to merchant (note: we no longer have short bows in the game)
The Ruined Keep map is no longer labeled as the Obsidan Keep Map
Weight of Novia Map Atlas and all mini maps decreased
Searing ray had a long pause before executing. Now will execute appropriately to match animation
Fixed water level in Jaanaford
Book “Through the Lunar Rift V” no longer displays the text for “The Weasel in the Granary”
Modified shoreline for a town water lot to exist adjacent to a city water lot in the lake location of the grassland player owned town.
Remedied texture stretching along riverbank in grassland player owned town
Planting Barrel and Planting Pot can be placed on “exterior floor” (rooftops, balconies, decks, etc.) as well as “ground”.
Optimizations to player made books that were causing large increases in load times
Made a possible fix for placing “Yew Tree” deco in its previously familiar location on the island player owned town
Replaced last placeholder NPC dialogs for Aerie
Wax Cylinders of songs from Shooter Jennings album Countach (attend the release party for a chance to win one!)
Two more small performance improvements including disabling some update calls when they are not your character
Disorderly Displacement now consuming reagents properly
Sawblade Sweep updated to match the changes to Whirling Blades range and damage
Performance work: Reduced the distance at which we update the dynamic bones (hair, beards). Added logic to not update dynamic bones behind the camera. Better culling for the dynamic bones.
Free attack ticks set to 1 for wand/staff
Dragon’s are now breathing fire again versus another orifice
The Clink: Fixed an issue where errors were occuring while NPCs were trying to find waypoints
Players can never earn less than 20% of the original experience from crafting a recipe. This fixes the issue with XP falloff where players would stop earning XP after crafting items several times.
East Perennial Trail: Deleted odd tree phasing in and out.
Known Issues:

Items on Public Vendors were accidentally wiped with this patch
Linux and Mac builds are experiencing significant graphical and stability issues
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
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
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 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

Build 372

Fixed memory leak associated with players with old/bad installs of the Chroma SDK.
Fixed broken Rottweiler visuals
Reduced some of the hip popping in the female run cycle.
Fixed some tree issues in East Perennial Trail
Add-On and Pledge Reward Castle Wall pieces now properly delivered
Basement Hatches are now being properly included with basement deeds
Fixed broken/stretchy Summoned Skeleton models
Fixed melee enemies constantly backing up
Chain Lightning skill description typo fix
Fixing timing on Double Slash
Cyannis in Highvale now greets the player appropriately.
Set an inventory max of 1 for all quest-related items.
Added missing prison cell doors and updated broken ones in the Castle Stone Arena basement
Party member buff icons now fade away properly when buff ends
Enemies should now properly attack all players in a scene
Fixed mistaken changes made to POT Vanguard. Converted back to island biome and returned it to previous location
Owl’s Nest forest entrance: Updated NavMesh and ensured all spawners were on NavMesh.
Novia: Added overhead banner above Sanctus Spine control point
Removed Agriculture skill tree since the skills do nothing currently
Cyannis no longer hands out infinite copies of his report if inventory UI is manipulated.
Fixed some issues with Night Vision
Fixed collider for dead daemon so he can be selected properly for looting
Fixed NPC names missing in Vendor interface
When wielding a bow using auto-attack you can now open gates, pull switches, etc.
Fixed quest flag issue with Charlotte Grey in Solace Bridge
Resolute gate guards can no longer be lured away from their post.
Fixed Salvage gain not adding to base crafting proficiency
Aerie: For Sale signs no longer block front doors of Row Lots
Fixed cloud layer issues that were creating odd visuals at the edges of scenes
Fixed a bunch of spells and skills that were not working properly including (but not limited to):

Lightning
Chain Lightning
Root
Searing Ray
Body Slam
Rapid Fire

Known Issues:

Linux and Mac builds are experiencing significant graphical and stability issues
Purchase Orders cannot always be placed properly
Merchants do not have bow recipes
Some innate skills are not working properly and/or are not advancing properly
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
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
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 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

Build 371

Fixed visual issues with cloud layer in Shardfall scenes
Turned down water resolution in Owlshead for performance
Adjusted hover and landing heights for all flying creatures
Nob the Stableboy will once again deign to speak to you.
Fixed pink textures and broken geometry for Mac & Linux builds (we hope)
Summoned Daemon now visible
Quest to take message from Resolute Lord Marshal to the Captain in Ardoris is now working
Corrected problem loading localized conversation text
Minor tweaks to male 2-handed blade animations
Some taxes / deed list UI polish
Error message added when trying to talk to an NPC while ‘mounted’
Creature collision attack spacing adjustments to address enemies sorting through players during combat
Fixed issues blocking entry to Dara Brae PoT
Optimization: Don’t update character controllers that aren’t moving
Fixed icons for augmented cloth armor
Aerie: Fixed collision on Dock stairs.
Fixed joining party members from overworld to random encounter
Aerie: Adjusted Color Tone of Ocean Water
An NPC will use English text if at least one keyword of his/her conversation is not yet translated.
Added localization debug commands to help track down and fix partially localized conversations
Added localization debug command to flip between english and localized language (for conversations)
Fix for textures that blur at range.
Replaced most placeholder Aerie NPC conversations
Cats are now neuter as part of the Greater Novian Spay-Your-Pet Initiative (actually, for localization)
Known Issues:

Enemies will only attack the first player in a scene (aka Master)
Many skills do not work properly nor advance properly
The Castle Wall Sets are not being delivered properly yet.
Sky bugs creating weird scene borders
Night Vision broken
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
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
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 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

Build 370

Now able to use the “Enter” key to confirm a pop-up message
Picking up the key in East Perennial Trail no longer makes the entire house disappear
Heart cloaks names updated to match add-on store
Food buff channels now working
Aerie NPCs now working properly
Polish pass on male 2-handed blade animations
Fog is now working properly with smoke visual effects
Fixed water lot placement in the POT Grasslands template
Aerie Town Crier now responds to double click, really.
Lowering the water level 1 foot to keep waves out of the shore in Aerie
Fixed / polished materials on Plate armor and Clockwork pets
Fixed the bug that caused blank recipe book upon learning a recipe
Fixed timing on fire damage over time visual effects
Summon demon swap out to low poly version.
Fixed a small transform error on the daemon pet.
Attached light to flying watcher (the light did not previously rise along with the watcher while it flew)
Removed extra Ardoris map from the Novia Map Atlas Pack
NPCs can now move about under the Yew Tree decoration
Various performance optimizations
All inventory bundles pushed to players from pledges or add-ons now have the word “Reward” in them for easier finding and context
Removed developer only and pledge items from some merchants
Grand tour guides now properly give quest credit
Fix for most of the see through houses when viewed at range.
Fixing the LODs on the lord marshall house to not cull as soon.
Character names still show up in social UI (friends/party/guild) even if character is deleted
Fix combat shop npc building
Fixed improper cloud layers on island skies
Error message now displayed if attempting to promote a player to leader, but target character has been deleted.
Knights of Norgard now properly exit conversation upon saying goodbye, and offer to open the keep gates when appropriate.
Chest Armor now shows up properly on Alchemy Table
NPCs will no longer force-open a conversation if other players are in the same scene.
Fixing conversations for animals and oracle minions
Arabella in Resolute now responds properly
Fixed certain Aerie NPCs so they display their name overhead when asked
Fixed dialog for elf child in Blood River Massacre
Fixed animation hold / alignment issues with the Daemon holding his Trident of Chaos
Fixed typo in Oracle dialog
Dye Preview fixes: Changed the character sheet to prevent equipmant changes while in preview mode and made it display a message if attempted to make it clear. This prevents a lot of odd use-cases from happening. Also, the equipment tab in the inventory will no longer break the preview UI.
Fixed issues with turning in Stanley’s notes to Cugel in Ardoris
Added more keywords to complete Cai Lau / Sheng Lau quest
Various fixes / polish in Aerie (floating objects, stuck spots, etc.)
Fixed rusty weapons not being able to be salvaged
Fixed bows/wands/staff salvage producing leather
Fixed wands and staves to work as bludgeons (really, we mean it this time)
Crystal ore nodes now properly update their collision when harvested
Fixed dialog for minor prisoners in the Clink
Now able to fire off a ranged free-attack when auto-selecting a target
Disabled heat distortion effect throughout our game for R26. It destroys the frame rate even in small doses.
Removed half the Oracle crawlers and fliers from Ardoris for performance
Fixing journal entry for Brigid in Resolute to denote that Path of Courage currently ends in Resolute.
Changed confusing reference to boat location in Blood River tutorial
Fixed buff and debuff icons not disappearing when the effects expire
Chairs: Added interactive text to many chair prefabs (some already had this text) and updated the “can’t sit here” error message players see to include these interactive text labels (so players will, for example, soon see messages saying they can’t sit on “Wooden Chair” instead of “?borg_chair01?”)
Fixed Night Vision effect cutting out randomly
Known Issues:

The Castle Wall Sets are not being delivered properly yet.
Quest to take message from Resolute Lord Marshal to the Captain in Ardoris is not working
Summoned Daemon is invisible except for trident and visual effects
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
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
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 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

Build 368

Augmented Leather gear is no longer invisible
Game window now opens properly on multi monitor setups
Enabled default bloom settings for all scenes
Fixed pathing issues in Restless Woods
Added missing carpentry weapon recipes (ex. Great Axe)
Hitting F9 while moving/placing an object will no longer get the object stuck to your cursor
Fixed for t-posing chickens and rabbits
Set lot expiration timers on Live to 4 months (120 days)
Fixed skeletons that were improperly rotated 90 degrees
Daemon Fixes:

Attunement Buff now working properly
Added Earth damage to Chaos Bolt package
Added Chaos Bolt to Summoned Daemon

Sheath animations no longer break while moving
Immolation no longer triggers switches.
Hanging Signs:

All hanging “shopkeeper” signs now have a default tooltip (each relates to the sign’s purpose/theme).
The following scenes had a sign polish pass to replace signs with a more appropriate signs, especially blank signs.

Ardoris
Braemar
Owl’s Head
Solania
Kingsport
Jaanaford
Soltown
Etceter
Aerie
Kiln
Resolute

Replaced missing doorway graphics in Epitaph Chamber of Souls
Disabled distortion on fire vfx due to performance
Fixed stuck spot in Hilt Fortress
Avatar no longer rolls into a distorted ball of mangled limbs when tumbling immediately after an attack
Damage now properly interrupting Spell casting
Fixed sky in Aerie
Obsidian Keep: Updated to dynamic spawns
Fixed floating books in The Epitaph
Double Slash visual effects now properly synced with animation
Vertas: Several rabbit spawners were high in the air, causing errors. These spawners are now moved to the ground and no more errors.
Fixed inaccessible oysters in North Ravenswood
Planter boxes containing items marked as NoTrade, NoDestroy, or ProtectFromRansom will now be considered while trading or generating items for ransom.
Fixed book in Crag Foothills
Fixed tree in West Veiled Swamp
NPCs in Aerie can now be interacted with via double left click
Added Quarter, Half Chest armors to valid socketing targets
Fixed size on gem/jewel components-few components had incorrect size such that they could not stack and caused issues
Fixed inaccessible mandrake root in North Celestial Wetlands
Rapid Fire skill can now be triggered even with nothing targeted (like other skills)
Fixed popping visuals of skeleton in Owl’s Nest
Aerie NPCs should now have properly working conversations
Fix rabbit disappearing while running over rocks.
Fixed Ring/Necklace socketing not working
Fixed terrain / stairs level mismatch in Aerie
Fixed all issues with dye preview not closing when it should, not equipping items when it should, and not allowing dyes to be applied if a piece of armor (similar type) is equipped already.
Removed huge waist rotation on magic wand auto attack animation
Fixed crocodile nameplate positions
Slight improvement to flickering Light script
Reducing performance overhead on conversations.
Known Issues:

Grand Tour is not working
The following items are not being delivered properly yet: Novia Map Atlas (including the Minimaps) and the Castle Wall Sets
Food Buffs channels are not working correctly
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
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
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 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

Build 367

Welcome to Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues Pre-Alpha Release 26! Notes on what is in this release are available here.
Known Issues:

The following items are not being delivered properly yet: Novia Map Atlas (including the Minimaps) and the Castle Wall Sets
Aerie NPCs are not working properly
Food Buffs channels are not working correctly
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
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
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 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

QA Build 316

Dev+ bug test

Pre-Release R25

Build 364

Fix crash on player lot in Redmill village
Fixed Braemar Taming Trainer
Set add-on Cornucopia to be refresh daily
Fixed Light Red Dye being named Light Pink Dye
Secret area silver ore nodes can be mined now in Hilt Fortress
Fixed issues that were preventing use of interactive objects (crafting stations, chairs, etc.) on some player lots
Fixed Ghost Corpion boss spamming damage
Shield of Air now properly takes away from player’s focus pool when receiving damage
Known Issues:

There are two versions of Etceter in the game. If you claim property there you will have to zone to your home to get to the proper version.
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
Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
Sound effects are not always playing properly
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
If your video drivers are out of date characters will appear as if they are covered in triangles.
Some cities are experiencing performance spikes
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

Build 363

Hoe that comes with immortality fruit seed now gets full durability on delivery
Fixed walls with no colliders in Nighshade Pass
Filled in a rubble hole in Hilt Fortress to prevent getting stuck
Verdantis Shardfall: Removed boat teleporter to Port Mirren.
Fixed water not showing until you move camera issue
Fixed Clockwork Raven reward to correct clockwork raven (silver)
Minor typo fix – Braemar/Jarred
2015 Holiday Gift: Fireworks
Fixed wolf attack that were double spamming attacks occasionally
Hilt Fortress lava pools now cause damage
North Naryad Pinelands: Moved a harvestable pine tree that was in a house to the ground.
Troll Attack fixes: set attacks so they will not be interrupted and fixed timing on rock throw
Added messaging for players when their guild enters a guild war
Known Issues:

There are two versions of Etceter in the game. If you claim property there you will have to zone to your home to get to the proper version.
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
Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
Sound effects are not always playing properly
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
If your video drivers are out of date characters will appear as if they are covered in triangles.
Some cities are experiencing performance spikes
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

Build 362

Fixed some floating tables and rugs in Hilt Fortress
North Naryad Pinelands: fixed some spider spawners
Added more pre-placed lights Duke Founder Keep
Brightbone Pass: Fixed some Bears and Wolves spawners
Fixed bug that was preventing adding consumables to the non-combat hotbar when standing on a plot that you have permissions on or own.
Fixed bug where NPCs would stand on top of invisible collisions related to resource nodes
Fixed Grand Tour hat names from “fur” hats to “nomad” hats on items and in conversations
Fixed free attack for bows so you no longer need line of sight to a target to continue charging up
Record name of the guild at the beginning of the war, in case there is a disband later
Health stats now again show properly on NPCs.
Disbanding a guild involved in a war no longer increases the war duration for the remaining involved guild.
Player titles are once again selectable by players and not locked to gender (this was unintended side effect of supporting gender in localization)
Known Issues:

New water is not visible when first entering a scene until camera is moved
There are two versions of Etceter in the game. If you claim property there you will have to zone to your home to get to the proper version.
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
Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
Sound effects are not always playing properly
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
If your video drivers are out of date characters will appear as if they are covered in triangles.
Some cities are experiencing performance spikes
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

Build 361

Fixed transparency issue with water in Nightshade Pass
Fixed an issue that was preventing agriculture from recognizing watered times
Fixed some visual inconsistencies with agriculture when planting. When new data was received from the server, it was not applied to deco items and upon moving a deco item, the data would revert back to what the scene loaded (appearing as if you had planted nothing).
Added a limit to the number of times you can water a plant.
Smoldering Shiv can stack with itself! DoT speed slowed down further so it will do the same damage but over a longer period of time
Added snowman recipes to recipe merchants
Fixed missing light orange dye recipe
Fixed inventory resize error while using a small screen
Fixed empty guild name on nameplate
Added Beneficient Blessing spell to Master Life Magic trainer
Bodan Koren can again be talked to in Braemar.
Fixing missing floor collision in Hilt Fortress
Fixed issue that was causing NPCs to spam their melee auto attack which was basically insta-killing players
Hilt Fortress pass on gameplay and spawning, added reagent resources and treasure chests
Payment Plans extended to June 2016
Fixed a planted cotton issue so plants properly reset after harvest now.
Fixed Holly Wreath Hat recipe and added recipe to merchants
Fireworks boxes should now replenish properly
Known Issues:

New water is not visible when first entering a scene until camera is moved
There are two versions of Etceter in the game. If you claim property there you will have to zone to your home to get to the proper version.
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
Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
Sound effects are not always playing properly
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
If your video drivers are out of date characters will appear as if they are covered in triangles.
Some cities are experiencing performance spikes
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

Build 360

Welcome to Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues Pre-Alpha Release 25! Notes on what is in this release are available here.
Known Issues:

New water is not visible when first entering a scene until camera is moved
Water in Nightshade Pass is invisible
There are two versions of Etceter in the game. If you claim property there you will have to zone to your home to get to the proper version.
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
Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
Sound effects are not always playing properly
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
If your video drivers are out of date characters will appear as if they are covered in triangles.
Some cities are experiencing performance spikes
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

QA Build 311

Dev+ bug test

QA Build 306

Dev+ bug test

QA Build 305

Dev+ bug test

QA Build 302

Dev+ bug test

QA Build 301

Dev+ bug test

QA Build 300

Dev+ bug test

Pre-Release R24

Build 358

Fix an issue that caused other players teleportation spells (Chaotic Step, Night Step, etc) to affect all player cameras in the scene.
Known Issues:

There are two versions of Etceter in the game. If you claim property there you will have to zone to your home to get to the proper version.
Aether Amplifiers do not work on Mac nor Linux clients
Players are unable to interact with triggers with weapons
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
Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
Sound effects are not always playing properly
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
If your video drivers are out of date characters will appear as if they are covered in triangles.
Some cities are experiencing performance spikes
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

Build 357

Fixed being teleported to the front of a plot when on a plot with locked doors
Changed scenes from “party only” to “open”:

Eastreach Gap
Mariah Overlook
North Naryad Pinelands
Brittany Graveyard
Blood River (not tutorial version)
Highvale (not tutorial version)
Solace Bridge (not tutorial version)
Desolate Hills
Whiteguard Foothills

Known Issues:

There are two versions of Etceter in the game. If you claim property there you will have to zone to your home to get to the proper version.
Aether Amplifiers do not work on Mac nor Linux clients
Players are unable to interact with triggers with weapons
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
Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
Sound effects are not always playing properly
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
If your video drivers are out of date characters will appear as if they are covered in triangles.
Some cities are experiencing performance spikes
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

Build 356

Corpse explosion now actually requires a corpse!
Summoning a tamed pet no longer breaks interactive objects
Fixed issue where player corpses could not be resurrected if the dead avatar heals at the moment of death
Fixed advancement of Moon Beams skill
Changed “AC” to “armor” in description for Testudo
Swamp outside the Tower of the Shuttered Eye renamed “Approach to the Shuttered Eye”
In a quiet ceremony full of mystery and wonder, the Vertas town crier finally has his own name.
The Clink is once again accessible from Owl’s Head.
Fixed issue with stacked Root spells being inescapable
Reduced size of death collider on Satyrs that was blocking other interactions
Closed climbing gaps in rock wall of Whiteguard Foothills
Fixed loophole where players could remove their temporary PVP flag by logging out
Fixed broken windows in Blue Tile Roof Two Story Row Home
Fixed bad rotation on skeletons in the world
Fixed issue where bows appeared at the players feet when stealthed
Bear hat now has the correct icon
Fixed pathing issues on water lots that was breaking pets
Brittany Graveyard: Fixed a few tombstones that were not snapped to terrain.
Fixed stuck spot in Mariah Overlook
Poison Weapon can no longer stack
Iolo’s Lute now using the correct soundbank (lute instead of harp)
Fixed issues that were blocking Mystery Boxes from working properly (Snowball, Cornucopia, Artisan, etc.)
Fixed huge performance issue caused by pets moving around on player lots (mainly water lots)
Fixed missing texture on roof of Knight Benefactor home
Movement impairing effects (stuns, roots, etc.) no longer take enemies out of combat mode
Fixed water issues in Etceter
Etceter: unique dialogs for Boniface and Snip-Snip in the Bilge and Barnacle tavern, and for the satyr realtor.
Minor fixes to Vertas dialogs
All basements now support up to 128 players
Navigation meshes in Player Owned Town Templates updated to fix some dead spots
Known Issues:

There are two versions of Etceter in the game. If you claim property there you will have to zone to your home to get to the proper version.
Aether Amplifiers do not work on Mac nor Linux clients
Players are unable to interact with triggers with weapons
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
Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
Sound effects are not always playing properly
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
If your video drivers are out of date characters will appear as if they are covered in triangles.
Some cities are experiencing performance spikes
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

Build 355

Wind Turbines now affected by wind speed and direction
Fixed missing Lute String recipe
Fixed icon on streetlamp recipe
Stretch Goal boat decorationss can now both be placed as player town decos
Emotes no longer broadcast across the entire scene
Death Shield is now correctly converting a portion of damage received to the avatar’s health
Fixed being kicked out of basement even with guild permissions
Brittany Graveyard polish
Novia: Added extra-high invisible wall at Nightshade Pass, Brightbone Pass, Vertas Pass, and Eastreach Gap to thwart players trying to skip the control point scene.
Fixed several skills not advancing. Worth noting however that Purify Burst only works if it removes an effect and Ring of Fire must damage someone.
Fixed the breakage that occurs when deco items with more than 16 containers in them are moved. No moving occurs and the game does not break (the item is properly reverted to the original position)
Fixed issue with severe performance degradation with pets on water lots
Etceter: Added unique dialogs for the blacksmith Aaron Denbo and his faun apprentice Widget. Fauns no longer enter conversation mode (they’re too short) or use bot responses (they’re too human).
Fixed minor typo in Soltown/Abigail dialog
Fixed position of Ardoris Oracle screen (it’s still imperfect but better)
Fixed ability to turn in quests to Guard Winslow in Owl’s Head and Guard Captain Cugel in Ardoris.
Known Issues:

Mystery boxes are not always working properly
There are two versions of Etceter in the game. If you claim property there you will have to zone to your home to get to the proper version.
Aether Amplifiers do not work on Mac nor Linux clients
Players are unable to interact with triggers with weapons
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
Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
Sound effects are not always playing properly
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
If your video drivers are out of date characters will appear as if they are covered in triangles.
Some cities are experiencing performance spikes
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

Build 354

Player Owned Towns: Fixed naming, connection, and ownership issues that were blocking access to almost all PoTs in the game
Brittany Graveyard now has proper exits to Novia
Known Issues:

Mystery boxes are not always working properly
There are two versions of Etceter in the game. If you claim property there you will have to zone to your home to get to the proper version.
Aether Amplifiers do not work on Mac nor Linux clients
Players are unable to interact with triggers with weapons
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
Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
Sound effects are not always playing properly
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
If your video drivers are out of date characters will appear as if they are covered in triangles.
Some cities are experiencing performance spikes
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

Build 353

Add On Store Drum display name updated from Pine Drum to Maple Drum
Damage now removes stealth effects properly
Fishing Skill now appears properly in glyph menu
Fixed performance issues related to water reflections and shadows with new water system. Should significantly improve performance in scenes using the new water
Fixed animations not displaying properly while playing instruments
Fixed issue with cloaks and Winged Helm not being repairable
Northern exits from Soltown again work correctly.
Fixed stuck and unresponsive NPCs in Mariah Overlook
Fixed many items that could not be repaired including cloaks and the Winged Helm
Tweaked critical success and recovery chances for crafting
Fixing vendor display for non-generic Etceter merchant NPCs
Minor typo fix for grand tour guide dialog
Pushing back some LOD distances on decorative plants as they were the number one performance drag on towns. They are now at the levels set by speed tree!
Necropolis instance names localized correctly
Player Owned Towns: Fixed ownership for Jeffrey Point, Lacedaemon, Highland Keep of Clan MacDaddy, Eodon, and Veger
Known Issues:

Most, if not all, Player Owned Towns are broken. We are working on a fix as soon as possible.
Mystery boxes are not always working properly
There are no exits to the Novia for Brittany Graveyard. You need to use the wagons to exit to Brickport and from there you can access Novia. Alternatively you can log out and choose “Start on Overworld”
There are two versions of Etceter in the game. If you claim property there you will have to zone to your home to get to the proper version.
Aether Amplifiers do not work on Mac nor Linux clients
Players are unable to interact with triggers with weapons
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
Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
Sound effects are not always playing properly
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
If your video drivers are out of date characters will appear as if they are covered in triangles.
Some cities are experiencing performance spikes
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

Build 352

Did a pass on correcting female eye-targeting so they don’t roll too far out of view when doing facial animations
Fix for skirted bodice clipping
Fixed difficulty setting on expert crafting stations so they now modify success chance correctly
Fixing an issue where attacks were not correctly reporting critical hits.
Added recipes for harp, drum to merchant
Minor Etceter NPC fixes including pilgrims not updating name tags and Captain Steel has stopped meowing
Hooked up proper Engage Opponent icon
Snowy Biome scenes now have proper snowy skies and snowfall
Set snowballs target type to be “All”. This will allow snowballs to be thrown at any valid target
Equippable items that make up multiple pieces like the Tabor Drum as well as the Mortar and Pestle now display properly
Fixed NPCs that were not loading conversations in Jaanaford.
Fixed error with loading public vendor conversation in Vertas
Augmented Chainmail can now be salvaged
Fixed issue with Tracy’s papers
Doubled the speed at which experience points are applied to Taming per skill use after hearing the sob story of how Sindariya used 140 collars to gain 3 points.
The tour guide in Hometown now awards the Pilgrim’s Bonnet in game. Avatars who did not get a Pilgrim’s Bonnet because of this bug can talk to any tour guide to receive one.
Updated Enchant Weapon and Socketed Gem icons for recipe book
Air Balloon, Crypt and Talking Mirror now displaying correct icons
Etceter Realtor now has proper list of deeds for sale at correct prices
Dale Leland in Ardoris now works as a proper crafting trainer. His brother Chip has moved in to handle selling supplies and recipes.
Fixed performance issue related to pets moving around on player property
Gate in Vertas should now work properly
Fixed issue with female harvesting and mining animations
Fixed some issues with animations for the Textiles crafting station
Finishing Abigail’s quest to find her lost child in Soltown now also rewards the Backflip emote (as does asking about her daughter once the quest is finished)
Overworld location names should no longer wrap awkwardly onto a second line
Added localization strings for joystick axis (for keybinding screen)
Some polish on the Brittany Graveyard
Water in island towns is back.
Added a disclaimer for current state of localization being in progress and a link to information for volunteer translators
Undead are now immune to the bleed effect in combos that use Rend
Fixed issue where swimming visual effects were showing up when the player was standing above the water on docks.
Windmill power generators sound effects are now connected to the sound effect volume slider
Holiday Wreath can now be placed on the exterior walls of homes
Kingsport: Removed some of the clutter from the Overworld so players won’t get stuck.
Kiss emote will begin to be *re*teachable as well as teachable for some (unfortunately if you’ve gotten it already it won’t change until next wipe)
Harps and Tabor Drums now available in game
Fixed issue where water did not appear in Hometown until you turned the camera to certain directions
Reduced damage of critical hits a little bit (still more than R23 levels) and reduced the high end effect of Attunement skills.The combination of those two together was blowing out both heals and critical damage on spells.
Castle Wall display names updated to match new naming structure
Changed the case where a player can not navigate to a crafting station to show the crafting UI instead of post “can’t make it” to the chat log. This means there should be nothing that can block a player from crafting.
Windmills should now turn slowly with changing wind direction not rapidly, no matter how quickly wind direction changes.
Player Owned Towns:

Isle of Nylorac: Fixed ownership
Knowhere: Fixed ownership
Unter Kampf: Fixed ownership
Tuned wave height in the Player Owned Town islands so it doesn’t go higher than camera height

Known Issues:

Aether Amplifiers do not work on Mac nor Linux clients
Players are unable to interact with triggers with weapons
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

Build 351

Fixed animation issues with Tanning crafting station
Fixed exits from Brittany Graveyard scene
Tour Guides are now wearing the R24 Grand Tour Hat: The Bonnet
Chillblain’s Compendium: Added warning letter to start of dungeon letting players know they have to kill everything in each room in order to advance. “Tame and ye shall fail!” – Chillblain the wizard
Fixed floating elven home in Bloodriver Massacre
Fixed durability of Yule Hat 2015
Highvale (before and after) and Nightshade Pass: Fixed issue causing enemies to ignore water
Soltown: Got rid of dev only cube game object left in the scene
Aldhaven (and other player towns using that template): Removed tree that was intersecting with houses placed on a lot
Fixed tooltips issue with renamed decorations only displaying the default name when placed.
Fixed placed NPCs (pets, servants, etc.) not updating position when moved until the scene was reloadedt
Updated hold pose for mortar and pestle
Fixed help text title for instruments
Some Grand Tour hats were not protected from Ransom. Now they are.
Fixed issue where other avatars casting stealth appeared stuck in animation loop
Fixed stun removal when using Smelling Salts
Added foggy to weather settings
Fixed navmesh for Lord House Boat that was causing issues with pets, chairs, and crafting stations (anything trying to pathfind)
Dark Stone Spiked Castle Walls added to game and Add On Store
Add wind sound effects to weather types.
Fix for “Identification Papers: Tracy of Resolute”
Deck Builder UI has syntax error when a deck is below Glyphs minimum
Harps should now be available in the game
Yule trees can now be placed in player towns
Updated icons for Artisan, Artisan Founder tools
Weather is locked to Light Clouds with Calm Winds on Hidden Vale and Novia overworlds
Highvale: various bugs and polish issues
Snowball boxes now are now fully stocked immediately
Added tuning functionality to radio to fix issue with pressing play while a radio station was already playing. While tuning the player cannot push “play” or “stop”. When hitting play while already playing a station we stop the current station and tune to the next one, even if it is the same station.
Crafting Recipes for Harp and Tabor Drum
Humanoid enemies are now properly displaying Knockdown and Knocked Back animations
Avatar now plays the whistling animation when summoning Baron’s Servant
Fixed loophole where players could avoid death penalty by logging out
Fixed issue where Satyrs would sometimes not exhibit their Berserk behavior
Fixed issue where Cooking Pot was intersecting with the body when equipped
Player Owned Towns:

Removed Farholt, a PoT that should not have existed, yet somehow did. Obviously the damn Satyrs did it.
Diamond Fields: Fixed ownership
Journeys End: Fixed ownership
PaxLair and Dragons Watch: The interconnection between these two POTs now set up properly.

Known Issues:

Completing the Grand Tour in Hometown will not award the hat
Aether Amplifiers do not work on Mac nor Linux clients
Players are unable to interact with triggers with weapons
Overworld location names wrapping awkwardly onto a second line
“Augmented” series chain-mail cannot be salvaged.
Snow is currently showing up as Rain.
Tabor Drum is not yet in the game
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

Build 350

Welcome to Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues Pre-Alpha Release 24! Notes on what is in this release are available here.
Known Issues:

Yule Trees cannot be placed in Player Owned Towns outside of lots
Aether Amplifier – Hitting Play on an already playing channel breaks the station
Aether Amplifiers do not work on Mac nor Linux clients
Mystery Boxes (Snowball, Artisan, Cornucopia, etc.) do not start stocked, you must wait for a certain amount of time depending on the box
There are multiple issues with Stealth
Players are unable to interact with triggers with weapons
Overworld location names wrapping awkwardly onto a second line
Satyrs not properly exhibiting “Berserk” behavior without Fauns.
“Augmented” series chain-mail cannot be salvaged.
Snow is currently showing up as Rain.
Tabor Drum and Harp are not yet in the game
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

QA Build 296

Dev+ bug test

QA Build 294

Dev+ bug test

QA Build 291

Dev+ bug test

QA Build 290

Dev+ bug test

Pre-Release R23

Build 346

Accidental super-plate-chest-armor-loot removed from The Epitaph
Fixed invisibility of rough wooden fence decorations while placing
Cloaks can now be repaired
Fixed issue where all gems were mislabeled as Uncut Sapphire Gems
Tabletop decorations no longer have the weight of their full-sized counterparts
Crag Mines final ghost spawner disabled (until we can fix it properly)
Train Dextertiy now available at lower level trainers
Tabletop Grim Reaper Statue and Skull Candle can now bemoved in bag mode
Fixed “Add Character” fields in town and lot permissions window
Added scrap as mininum wolf drop
Fixed bug where combat would prevent all subsequent interactions
Fixed terrain stuck spot in both Highvale Scenes.
Party invite dialog now re-appears if you zone before responding to it
Relogging while dead resurrects you at the location your ghost was, not where your body was
Fixed stuck spot in burned down elf-house in Bloodriver Scenes.
Fixed Morton’s dialog in Owl’s Head so he no longer refers to players as $name$.
Fixed typo in Min Liang Tan dialog
Fixed equipped items not showing properly on some non-combat NPCs
Open pvp players can now heal non-pvp party members.
Fixed NPC pathfinding in Vertas (no more elves dancing on tables)
Lowered height of dynamic plot colliders to allow placement in underground PoT
Fixed issue where sometimes skill timers would go negative
Fixed Melee AI not pathing back to player’s melee range, AI with higher reach than player’s weapon
Flattened more terrain in pot underground
Fixed Light spell timer not displaying
Fixed stuck spot in Verdantis Shardfall
Fixed rotation on avatar rug so it now lays flat again
Invisible announcers (such as in Tower of Shuttered Eye) no longer slow player down when running through them.
Fixed formatting issues in the Recipe book
Owl’s Nest: Changed display name to “Owl’s Nest Mine.”
Fixed Grandmaster tooltip
Fixed NPCs getting stuck in doorways.
Fixed logic to prevent right click unequip while fishing.
Ardoris castle guards will always let players through the castle gates if they have completed the Tower of the Shuttered Eye quest.
Fixed multiple lot markers lighting up when only one is selected
Can now complete summoning if standing in shallow water
Animated the electric arcs on the phonographs

Resurrection ankhs placed in Owl’s Head, Kingsport, and Ardoris Sewers

Fixed lighting in Owl’s Head Sewers
Fixed misplaced sky dome in Highvale
Moved Blacksmithing table in Soltown that was causing pathing issues for players
Player Owned Town Fixes:

Fixed lot claiming restrictions for Player Owned Towns to make them unlimited again
Brewood: Players can now enter this town from Novia
Golden Cove: The Lockbrier boat teleporter now sends players to the Lockbrier docks instead of the default overworld entrance
Grumpie Hermit’s Hide-a-way and Falling Waters Fortress boats now send you to the correct locations inside the PoTs
Bravehaven: Added new Island POT to Novia at (11.39 11.94172 435.24)
Sea Nymph Grotto correctly links back to PaxLair
Removed old/redundant access point to Wizard’s Rest POT from hex grid. (Wizard’s Rest POT is still accessible from the one correct hex at the correct POT location.)
Nested connections for Dragons Watch and Sea Nymph Grotto now work properly

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

Build 345

Fixed walls in the Lord of the Manor Keep that were causing players to get stuck
Fixed text formatting issue with Gawain’s Amulet
Fixed issue where SFX on crafting stations were not controlled by SFX volume control in options
Fixed crash caused by Poison Weapon
Oracle screen moved to within confirmatory in Kingsport and Ardoris
Improved disconnect message – more reliably report pelican instead of altair9000
Increased the lock and cooldown values on Searing Ray
Added protection against removing placed NPCs (merchants, servants, pets, vendors, etc.) while in conversation mode.
Fixed players getting locked to crafting stations when spamming the crafting/repair/salvage buttons
Player Owned Town Fixes:

Sparrowfall: Changed Jaxton caravan teleporter to point to Phoenix Fields.
Serenity’s Edge: Fixed owner issue
Calain: Fixed owner issue
Island POTs in Novia Overworld: Set all islands in Novia to a proper level above sea-level.
Drakenhof and Drachental now have their connections properly placed
Flattened the terrain in several player lot areas in underground POT
Connection between Irenhold and Unterwelt removed
Connections from Jade Valley, Phoenix Fields, and Drowned Mountains to Port Phoenix now work correctly.

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

Build 344

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

Build 343

Fixed incorrect display names on multiple pieces of armor (boots, chest, etc.)
Distract skill is now in the game
Engage, Poison Weapon, all potions that you use on yourself, and swap deck no longer breaks stealth.
Sneak attack now does a base amount of damage and then additional damage if behind and even more damage if stealthed.
Engage now has a longer range.
Using a crafting station for the first time no longer causes the client to lock up for a period of time
Targeting highlight visual fix for Fire Elemental, Water Elemental
Fixed issue where creatures would get stuck after getting too close to non-traversable areas
You can no longer right click and unequip the fishing rod while fishing.
Distract: Creatures no longer start moving towards distract point before the skill is finished casting
Music added to Highvale
New icons for Shield of Air, Sap, Poison Weapon, and Distract
Air elemental visual effects no longer play too fast
Battle of Highvale: Replaced nonoperational curtains with interactive ones.
Updated the Quick Swapping skill to not give back more than 100% of focus!
ID papers for Tracy of Highvale now readable
You can no longer fish from any distance
Lights will once again work in the Kingsport Sewers
Fixed text for receiving multiple items from an NPC
Avatar rug decoration no longer makes objects placed on it seem skewed
Conversations for servants working now
Fixed collision issue on a boulder asset in Crag Foothills and elsewhere
Fixed issues that were preventing Phonographs and Arrows working in Bag Mode
Isle of Storms: Added two resurrection ankhs
Player will no longer jump at the end of fishing if jump was used to interrupt the fishing operation
Fix for some help text during tutorial
Water particle shader fix
Fixed interactive curtains in Highvale
Lamps on balconies of Row houses can now be turned on/off
Moved Piercing Breeze combo sigil visual effect to be above the player versus in front
Now awarding the correct version of Plague Doctor’s Mask after finishing Grand Tour quest.
Player Owned Town Fixes:

Drachenfels, Drachental, and Drakenhof are no longer missing interconnections.
Illusive Cavern: The interconnections between Illusive Passage and Finchfield are working
Swamp Template: Replaced missing water quad around (117.1 34 438.9) with a big gap in the ocean
Kam: Was replaced by Kai but never removed. Now removed from Novia
Port Beran returned to Novia and accessible by players
Brewood now accessible from Novia around (442.0, 12.2, 330.1)
Serpent’s Watch has been upgraded from a Hamlet to a Village
Rift’s End now has governor
Minock: Moved overland Novia entrance to be adjacent to Blackrock Cove and Blackrock Point. Interconnection between all 3 set up. Customer also asked for interconnection with Obsidian Ridge but that was not confirmed by other owner. Customer also asked for interconnection with Mara Mesta but that is not confirmed AND is too far/not adjacent so can’t be done.
Ferry between Blackrock Cove and Pomerantz added
Added connection between Irenholde and Unterwelt
The Caverns of Kahli: Fixed the interconnection manhole to point to Kahli
Fixed non-interactive caravan between Jade Valley and Port Phoenix
Fixed non-interactive caravan between Phoenix Fields and Port Phoenix
Added ferry from Lockbrier to Golden Cove
Ferry between Falling Waters Fortress and Grumpie Hermit’s Hideaway added
Removed non-functional cart in Sparrowfall leading to Port Phoenix, replaced with boat ferry
Added caravan between Jaxton and Sparrowfall.
Added caravan between Journey’s End and Snug Harbor
Caravan added from Lockbrier to PaxLair.
Fixed misdirected ferries in Islands of Wonders leading to Golden Cove and Serenity Isle
Fixed connection from Sea Nymph Grotto to PaxLair
Moved ferry between Grumpie Hermit’s Hide-a-way and Falling Waters Fortress to where the town owners requested

Known Issues:

Some scenes are not displaying lighting (or any lights)
Players with very high numbers of add on store items and pledge rewards are missing some of their items
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

Build 342

Fixed Blinding Shot animation
Torpid Torment and Chaotic Feedback can now be trained
“T” key can now be used again to toggle Auto Attack
Fixed missing harvesting sparkle effect on Pumpkin Patches
Taming skill now displaying correct animation
Lunar Rifts now change starting location based on time of day
Added Obsidian chip reagents to more creatures: Liches, Elven Mages and Zombies
Fix for issue with house pets and servants wandering
Fixed issue where Isle of Storms starting location would be saved from a deleted character
Fixed combat message for ranged weapons
Fixed issues with Shield of Air and Sap
Chat history cleared when creating a new character
When NPCs are given items (for quests, etc.) that information is now echoed in the chat window
Slimes will no longer flee through walls in the Kingsport Sewers
Bear and wolf head icons now work properly in bag mode.
Fixed Crocodile attack range
Fixed bug that was causing players to get stuck in casting mode when casting spells with long casting times.
Free Attack charge up visual effect is now looping properly
Servants now properly displaying walking animations
Fixed issue with fires in Highvale that were blocking movement by the covered bridge
Free attack charge up visual effect is now properly visible to other players
Sacred Oracle Orb of Obliteration is can now be thrown again (just remember that the number is 3, no more than 3, and no less)
A single wax cylinder is now delivered along with Phonographs purchased from the add on store or included as pledge rewards
Fixed combat death message timing that was making it appear that players were “not quite dead yet”
Non-combat NPCs should now properly display equipped items
Terrain texture and flora polish on Player Owned Town Undergound template
Improved visual effects for Fishing Hot Spots
Fixed composer names on wax cylinders
Fixed issues with waterfalls sorting improperly with water
Visual effects for Faun skills
You can now move with 2 mouse button movement while dead.
Fixed missing materials on Knight Founder House
You can now use the mouse wheel to scroll through video options
Fixed targeting visual overlay not showing on the Ice Elemental, Ghost, cow, chicken, and pig when targeted
Fixed missing collision on several boulders in various scenes (ex. Crag Foothills)
Fixed the speed of the Flesh Flayer pull attack
Fixed issue preventing salvage of rusty weapons and broken cloth gear
Fixed visual distortion in caves in Highvale and Necropolis Barrens
Targeting highlight visual now defaults to maximum (can be reduced in Options menu)
Fixed naming issues where all Plate Boots were named gauntlets
Fixed spawning issue with the Satyr in the Pool of Destiny room of the Epitaph
Player Owned Town Fixes:

Calain entrance on Overworld should now point to the correct town
Added ferry from Rats Nest to Verdantis Shardfall. Added ferries between Rats Nest and Horned Society and Corvus Peak.
Changed location of Falling Water Fortress
Ferry added between Grumpie Hermit’s Hide-a-way and Falling Waters Fortress.
Ferries added between Isles of Wonder to Golden Cove, Serenity Isle, PaxLair, and Novia
Visitors to Islands of Wonder from Novia now correctly enter at the southern docks.
Ferry to The Drowned Mountains from Sparrowfall now works correctly
Moved Liberty two hexes to the east, to ensure significant “buffer” space surrounding Britanny (by order of Lord British himself)
Dracheninsel and Calain now connected
Boat added to all swamp biome templates at the dock leading back to overworld map.
Exits to Sparrowfall, Jade Valley and Phoenix Fields added to Port Phoenix
Hwaseong entrance on Overworld should now point to the correct town
Both boats in Vanguard Ruins now correctly exit to Vanguard
Unterwelt, Drachenfels, Drachental, and Drakenhof are all now properly connected
Vanguard boat on docks set to exit to Novia, second boat added that leads to Vanguard Ruins
Connection from Tenakill to PaxLair added
Rift’s End: Removed the POT icon on the mainland (the POT now exists as an island only)
Ferry to Old Penshire Wharf added to Horned Society PoT
Scrunt: Confirmed access to Scrunt from Hidden Vale. Removed tree too close to town.
Sea Nymph Grotto is now accessible from Serenity Isle
Refugees Hideout is now connected to Refugees Haven
The Caverns of Kahli now correctly set up as Underground template and is now connected to Kahli
Raven’s Head now correctly connected to Raven’s Head South
Added town crier/banker to underground PoT template
Fixed connections to Dragons Watch and Sea Nymph Grotto from PaxLair
Fixed connection between Port Phoenix and The Drowned Mountains

Known Issues:

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.
Distract Skill has been temporarily removed from the Subterfuge skill tree until we can fix some major issues
Servants are not responding to conversation. The nerve!
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

Build 341

Welcome to Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues Pre-Alpha Release 23! Notes on what is in this release are available here.
Known Issues:

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.
Distract Skill has been temporarily removed from the Subterfuge skill tree until we can fix some major issues
The pledge reward and add on store phonographs do not yet come with a wax cylinder (they can be purchased from NPC merchants)
Some items cannot be salvaged
Servants are not responding to conversation. The nerve!
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

QA Build 287

Dev+ bug test

Pre-Release R22

Build 337

Allow players who are stealthed to be selected.
Change “Fishing Worms” to “Worm”
“Wearable coconut” recipe added to vendor
Fixed broken female merchant dress
Solace Forest: polished navigation to fix stuck creatures
Tutorial hint for musical instruments
Fixed issue that was making Random Encounters persistent
Gossamer Cloak now has an icon that matches the cape
Fix parsing issue with “inline commands” for ABC/MML files so tempo changes will play correctly
Fixed exit location issue with Hawkwind Harbor PoT
Dyes/pigments now have much better icons with colors to match each
Fix for Dragon spiraling out of control in flight
Blood River: Fixed some floating props and removed turnips
Desolis public vendor no longer calls himself a town crier.
Harley Redwool in Desolis now accepts the art journal when found. Art journal now has the correct text.
Delays added to closing of Khasi and Siranto’s final dialogs so they can be read.
Tesla Tower Vista discovery point in Owl’s Head changed to “Moon Tower Vista”
Making blink also work in non-combat mode.
Fixed error message for joining party
Changed login queue message, based on user feedback
System messages sent from conversations (such as notifications of items given and journal entries) once again display in NPC chat tabs.
The dance3 emote is now properly awarded. Asking the NPC that gives it out about his obsession will grant it if the player has already completed their quest.
Female characters will now display the coconut bra without the old bra underneath
Fixes for issues with the long beard
Fixed issue that was causing the facial hair not to show during character creation and character sheet
Character skin tone now matches properly when wearing the coconut bra
Fixed issue where players were not getting experience if they were not the scene master
Fixed owner and template data for Old Penshire Wharf PoT
Fixed Animal Charm where charmed creatures ignored charm state and kept attacking (when helping another npc))
Known Issues:

Fishing has no visual effects
Falling short distances can sometimes kill you
Cannot /r reply to GMs when whispering
Spell animations don’t play when moving… if you cast and then move, you slide
We have not yet tested all Razer Chroma devices, expect anomalies
Some items cannot be salvaged
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.
Some objects and NPCs in game are missing textures and show up bright pink
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
Unity 5 engine bug: Terrain is not accepting shadow casting lights and terrain lighting shows up on grid vs. radius
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

Build 334

Fixed bug that was preventing looting corpses in some cases
Fixed issue that would sometimes cause musical instrument playing not to work
Minor fixes to Arabella dialog
Fix to Abigail dialog in Soltown.
Fixed issue that would sometimes cause DoTs not to work
Shadow Form and Vanish now targeted spells, no longer Area of Effect
Brightened up the Night Vision spell via tone mapper.
No longer allow /play or /playstart while dead.
Removed Skinning Knife from Production and Refining recipes (it should have never been there)
Locked time of day in Blood River Massacre
Turning up the ambient light ever so slightly for Etceter Crag Mines. It was truly pitch black in there.
Reduced bloom visual effect on Isle of Storms
Fixed piano blocked by chair in Poets’ Circle in Ardoris
Reduced frequency of random encounters along the Perennial Trail.
Alexa Herbstile in Desolis now will buy and sell alchemy supplies as intended
Fixed localization issue with several Player Owned Town names that was causing question marks bracketing the name like this: ?townname?
Fixed stuck spots in the Epitaph
Moved Christoph Schneider behind the counter of his shop in Ardoris
Increased non-combat pet speeds
Fixed some data with Ranged enemies so they won’t run around so much
Added owner to Owl’s Rest and Orion’s Hold PoT
Blood River Massacre and Blood River: Fixed Scene Gap and floating props.
Fiery Decay was set to do half the amount of life drain that was intended. Fiery decay also now applies both fire bonus AND death bonus to the fire portion of the spell.
Flame fist was doing half the dot damage that was intended. Now fixed to be the same as Fire Arrow.
Brought up the Lute sounds one octave
Healing touch damage was unintentionally slightly better than healing ray. Turned it down to be the same power as healing ray.
Fixed bug that upon login the first free-form play of an instrument would break another instrument’s sound until scene was changed
All tools will show up for each table now (molds appear again)
Upped the range of blink
Don’t apply experience to Tactics and Focus passives when a producer skill is used (ex. Fishing)
Bank fix for players with bags from expired player vendor items that would break the bank for them
Fix for ranged guys failing to attack if you follow them
Known Issues:

Fishing has no visual effects
Falling short distances can sometimes kill you
Cannot /r reply to GMs when whispering
Spell animations don’t play when moving… if you cast and then move, you slide
We have not yet tested all Razer Chroma devices, expect anomalies
Some items cannot be salvaged
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.
Some objects and NPCs in game are missing textures and show up bright pink
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
Unity 5 engine bug: Terrain is not accepting shadow casting lights and terrain lighting shows up on grid vs. radius
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

Build 333

Reduced weight on lutes from 10 to 1
Animal Charm spell now working again
Added Coconut bra recipe to Tailor merchant
Wooden Weapons can now be salvaged at Carpentry Stations
More weapons and armor can now be salvaged
Fixed bug that would get players stuck at crafting stations when salvaging
Rough Stone Building blocks can now be placed again
All books sold from bookseller merchants are now home decorations as well as books
Fixed issue that was causing hats/helmets/masks to not show on paperdoll and disappear when zooming in
Double clicking to learn a recipe now opens the Recipe Book again
Fix for splitting stacks of items by using Shift-click and drag
Musical Instrument volume increased
Female avatars will now stay crouched when using the /crouch emote instead of standing back up immediately
Vanguard Ruins PoT can now be accessed from the island of Vanguard PoT
Fixed bug that caused list items to incorrectly center vertically within the list window
Fixed localization errors in Player Owned Town Names (still more to fix)
Fixed skin tone mismatch for female coconut bra
Upgraded size of Jade Valley PoT
Soltown Sewers can again be accessed from Soltown.
Novia: Moved the point-of-arrival for players exiting West Veiled Swamp to the road adjacent to that scene.
Fixed bug that would cause Basement Hatches to break when placed on a rug
Whiteguard Foothills: Reduced the volume of the ambient bird tweets heard throughout the map.
Fixed issue where party members would play different songs using /play <songname> sync function
Added connection from Rats Nest PoT to Old Penshire Wharf PoT
Swapped Owl’s Rest template for an island, instead of a forest
White Ravens working in game (even if they sound like bears)
Known Issues:

Looting corpses not working intermittently
Fishing has no visual effects
Falling short distances can sometimes kill you
Cannot /r reply to GMs when whispering
Spell animations don’t play when moving… if you cast and then move, you slide
We have not yet tested all Razer Chroma devices, expect anomalies
Some items cannot be salvaged
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.
Some objects and NPCs in game are missing textures and show up bright pink
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
Unity 5 engine bug: Terrain is not accepting shadow casting lights and terrain lighting shows up on grid vs. radius
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

Build 332

Fixed issue where Dragon statue display names all had a rogue ‘s’
Fixed issue that was preventing stone blocks being placed on top of the arch
Player Owned Town owners can no longer ban players from their town if it is flagged for Open PVP
Fixed issue that would sometimes cause Enemy NPC arrows to travel sideways
Fixed Enemy NPC blind skills to work like player skills
Added / Fixed access for the following Dynamic Player Owned Towns: Owl’s Rest and Hawkwind Harbor
Added access to and visible maker for Blood River to Novia Overworld therefore making the Tour Guide there finally accessible
Fixed Port Arx Draconis PoT exit location and moved closer to coastline
Upgraded Rift’s End PoT to Metropolis
Deck swapping now works properly again
Songs played via musical instrument now cancel immediately when player moves instead of at end of animation
1x1x1 Rough Stone Block can now be destroyed via right click menu like all the other cool blocks
Spider Decorations now available in game if purchased in add on store
Repair attempts, tools, and tables now account for item types.
Display names for Add On Store Items now in line with how they are listed on the web and in communications

Pine Upright Piano”
Stained Maple Lute”
“Elven Village Home”
“Elven Peaked-Roof Village Home”
“Stone Crypt”
Six skeletons go from “Skeleton” to adding descriptive from asset where possible.

Both goggles and coconut bra had incorrect icons, they are better-to-perfect now
Dragon statues had an icon that was a bed, that was bad, now fixed
Fixed stuck spot in Epitaph
Plain piano item now has a plain piano icon instead of the Benefactor Citizen item icon
Two new elven homes now have appropriate icons
Witch’s hat now has the icon of a witch’s hat
Players can no longer zone or be summoned away from Isle of Storms
Skeleton decorations now have very specifc icons so that choosing from them is easier
Fixed Bird sounds not being affected by volume slider
Arabella no longer curtsies
Arabella dialog fixes
NPC-taught emotes should now persist after logging out.
Fishing should now work in all scenes with water that is swimmable.
Fixed fence LOD in Wynton’s Folly.
Fix ranged attacks after moving into attack position
Shuttered Eye Interior optimizations
Added delays to dialog closing in Edvard/Blood River and Arabella to deter UI weirdness
Smoothed out hover height for non-master players when viewing the Dragon
Blood River Massacre: Capped a couple of holes in the wall that allowed players to exit the tutorial area prematurely.
Blood River Massacre: Ensured a case of floating tableware was no longer floating.
Blood River Massacre: Moved a table that was intersecting with a door.
Fixed inconsistent movement speeds when watching other players move
Added fishing worms to fish monger merchants
Skill at various crafting stations are now based on the skill level per practice (blacksmithing, tailoring, ect…) instead of “producer level”
Replaced old Runic beware signs in Soltown
Escape key no longer stops playing musical instruments
Removed the point light and added a shaped beam to the Dark Lamp
Fixed various texture and geometry issues with the Baron Founder Home
Baron Benefactor home is now visible again
Fixed nameof recipe for 1x1x2 Rough Stone Block
Southern Grunvald Barrens: Fixed gap between Terrain and Crater.
Reduced damage of offhand attacks
Fixed missing door and invisible wall inside Lord of the Manor Grand City Chateau
Guard Robert Bennett in Ardoris no longer blocks Sabine Eichner’s door if it’s left open.
Fixed size of emote icon used in trade
Known Issues:

Rough Stone Building Blocks are not place-able in this build
Looting corpses not working intermittently
Double clicking on a recipe no longer opens the recipe book
Coconut Bra Recipe is missing from game
White Raven missing
Hats and Helmets are not visible on Character Sheet
Fishing has no visual effects
Falling short distances can sometimes kill you
Cannot break stacks of items into smaller stacks via SHIFT
Cannot /r reply to GMs when whispering
Spell animations don’t play when moving… if you cast and then move, you slide
We have not yet tested all Razer Chroma devices, expect anomalies
Some items cannot be salvaged
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.
Some objects and NPCs in game are missing textures and show up bright pink
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
Unity 5 engine bug: Terrain is not accepting shadow casting lights and terrain lighting shows up on grid vs. radius
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

Build 329

Welcome to Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues Pre-Alpha Release 22! Notes on what is in this release are available here.
Known Issues:

Looting corpses not working intermittently
/bug goes to old R21 bug forums
Double clicking on a recipe no longer opens the recipe book
Coconut Bra Recipe is missing from game
White Raven missing
Cannot split stacks
Baron Benefactor House is invisible
Hats and Helmets are not visible on Character Sheet
Blood River not accessible from Novia Overworld
Emotes taught by NPCs do not persist
Fishing has no visual effects
Falling short distances can sometimes kill you
Cannot break stacks of items into smaller stacks via SHIFT when on player property
Cannot /r reply to GMs when whispering
Spell animations don’t play when moving… if you cast and then move, you slide
We have not yet tested all Razer Chroma devices, expect anomalies
Some items cannot be salvaged
Most water in Ardoris cannot be fished
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.
Some objects and NPCs in game are missing textures and show up bright pink
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
Unity 5 engine bug: Terrain is not accepting shadow casting lights and terrain lighting shows up on grid vs. radius
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

Pre-Release R21

Build 327

Fix exception that occurred when remote players left conversation mode
Should now receive the Rowboat House Decoration if purchased from the Stretch Goal Store
Can once again craft repair kits
Can no longer salvage No Value items.
Known Issues:

We do not yet officially support Windows 10. If you have upgraded to Windows 10 you may experience instability
Flame Fist DoT effect expires too quickly
Verdantis Shardfall light and sky settings are wrong
Adding a Gem to a weapon will break crafting, forcing a relog
Fireball DoT does not work
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
Two-handed swords cannot be crafted
Round Rugs cannot be placed
Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
Phoenix flight movements are not working correctly in some cases
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
Crafting Recipe book is not opening when you use a crafting station
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.
Troll does not have all visual effects
Not all Player Owned Towns in the list are in the game yet
Some objects and NPCs in game are missing textures and show up bright pink
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. These will not be complete until later this year
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
Unity 5 engine bug: Terrain is not accepting shadow casting lights and terrain lighting shows up on grid vs. radius
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

Build 325

Fixed (hopefully) issue that was preventing looting corpses in some cases

Build 324

Hollaim Player Owned Town placed
This week on “Too Many Oracles”, there was no way to get into the Confirmatory in Ardoris! Tune in tonight and you can… (no really, we mean it this time, this is fixed, seriously)
Arx Draconis Keep lots rotated to face inwards
Four-More pack of Kobold masks should now finally appear to those who purchased them
Moved some Player Owned Town locations and exit points in Novia
Adding smithing hammer to repair kit so that it can be craftable again
Several items did not have required tools to craft them, the proper tools are now assigned
Wand, bow (long and short), and staff will now be able to be salvaged

Build 320

Ardoris Oracle Confirmatory should now be enter-able again
Ensure avatars are in the correct state for handling events like death when in conversation
Desolis NPCs now show their name when it has been learned
Fixed issue with move forward animation when two-handed weapons equipped
Added connections between PaxLair to Golden Cove and Islands of Wonders Player Towns
Orion’s Hold Player Town island added
Adjusted scene icons near Owl’s Head so they better represent actual locations
Known Issues:

We do not yet officially support Windows 10. If you have upgraded to Windows 10 you may experience instability
Flame Fist DoT effect expires too quickly
Verdantis Shardfall light and sky settings are wrong
Adding a Gem to a weapon will break crafting, forcing a relog
Fireball DoT does not work
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
Two-handed swords cannot be crafted
Round Rugs cannot be placed
Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
Phoenix flight movements are not working correctly in some cases
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
Crafting Recipe book is not opening when you use a crafting station
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.
Troll does not have all visual effects
Not all Player Owned Towns in the list are in the game yet
Some objects and NPCs in game are missing textures and show up bright pink
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. These will not be complete until later this year
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
Unity 5 engine bug: Terrain is not accepting shadow casting lights and terrain lighting shows up on grid vs. radius
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

Build 319

Pledge and Darkstarr expiration reward work
Fix for LB protection
Blackrock Cove Player Town has been upgraded to a Metropolis
Wightwick Player Town has been upgraded to a Village
Hy-Brasil Player Town has been upgraded to a Village
Moved the Solace Forest starting location of several wolves so they better react to combat situations
Rebuild terrain colliders after closest plots to player have been initialized
Raven’s Head Player Town now hooked up
Logout timer api, client queries for actual amount of wait time
Updated navigation meshes for Hidden Vale random encounter scenes
Fix for stuck upper-floor door in the home shop NPC building
Fix Weapon Shop NPC building
Fallin’ Green Player Town now hooked up
Mediolanum Player Town now hooked up
Alchemy table now shows reagents along with all other items (no other table will show reagents)
Changed crafting stations from using weight as a way of knowing when it’s content
Known Issues:

We do not yet officially support Windows 10. If you have upgraded to Windows 10 you may experience instability
Flame Fist DoT effect expires too quickly
Verdantis Shardfall light and sky settings are wrong
Adding a Gem to a weapon will break crafting, forcing a relog
Fireball DoT does not work
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
Two-handed swords cannot be crafted
Round Rugs cannot be placed
Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
Phoenix flight movements are not working correctly in some cases
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
Crafting Recipe book is not opening when you use a crafting station
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.
Troll does not have all visual effects
Not all Player Owned Towns in the list are in the game yet
Some objects and NPCs in game are missing textures and show up bright pink
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. These will not be complete until later this year
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
Unity 5 engine bug: Terrain is not accepting shadow casting lights and terrain lighting shows up on grid vs. radius
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

Build 317

Fixed Juxtapose having zero lock time
Swapped locations of White Hart and White Hart on Abundis in Novia
Fix for broken weapon icon not showing
Fix for sorting available spells by quantity in the glyph list
Desolis: Added town decorations to location in Novia and modified the nearby rocky object
Added the following Player Owned Towns to Novia:
Serpent’s Watch
Silver Hold Player
Cottage Grove
Jagged Hold
West Perennial Trail banner has been relocated to be directly over it’s entry location
Added some texture noise to the Druid Tree home vines
Oceania Player Town, when returning to Novia players exiting will now appear just north of the Perennial Trail by Ardoris
Fixed tooltip for damage over time effects
Added Perimeter Collision to Snowy Mountain Player Town Template
Moved spawn point from middle of Snowy Mountain map to entrance
Add towncrier/banker to Snowy Mountain Player Town template
Fix for rebinding inputs on Mac
Players can no longer craft normal recipes with broken tools
Wynton’s Folly tour guide moved off the bluff to a place where it is less likely to upset an angry phoenix
Myron will now talk morosely to people who visit his cage in the Clink again
Highwayman Hat value set to zero so it cannot be accidentally sold
Fixed large radios blocking interactions
Troll attacks are now avoidable
Halved attack radius of some melee attacks
Reduced attack angle of some melee attacks

Build 316

Fix for an issue that caused disconnections and being unable to load into a scene with many users in it.

Build 315

Fix for null exception in combat code.
Removing the entrance to Dragon caves from the sewers as the dragon caves have been removed…for now!
Tap soul was not giving focus, now changed to give a fixed amount of focus and then reduce damage based on level
Myra in Owl’s Head now correctly responds to all standard variations of “goodbye”
Fixes for mail delivery quest/tasks
Distraught after seeing so much death and suffering around it, the tour guide in Wynton’s Folly has moved to a very slightly safer spot
The Oracle is no longer silent about your progress along the path of virtues.
Small build process improvement
Fixing issue with being unable to loot some kobolds
Added log message for teleporters that point to invalid scenes and skipping going to black screen
Reverting creature speeds to R20 values
Baron Benefactor City home bugs fixed
Hopefully fixed getting stuck in a certain spot in The Epitaph
Clicking noise whenever walking around fixed
Fix initial zoom for camera
Since we can no longer salvage an item with 0 value, then it is ok to give back a low value item upon a bad roll. Salvage dice rolls resulting in a 0 value result will be adjusted to 1 to give back a very small value instead of nothing
White Hart Player Owned Town, changed template from Forest to Alpine
Obsidian Town Tower doors updated
Malus Player Owned Town, changed to PvP
Vengeance Player Owned Town, reactivated exits
Anomalous graphics on woodworking crafting table possible fix
Snowy Mountain Player Owned Town, added collision wall
New skies in more Novia maps
Bag mode now has tooltips! Yay!
Bodan Koren in Braemar once again giving a reward for killing wolfpack leaders
Toned down the difficulty of entrance crocs in The Epitaph, they shouldn’t be the toughest creatures in the place!
Addressed environmental lighting issues in Grunvald and Verdantis Shardfall maps
Set troll pathing surfaces – removing playlots, water, etc…
Rat’s Nest exit changed to nearby shoreline in Norgard
All pets take damage when they should now
Queen of Chaos visual bug fixes
Player Owned Town NPC buildings, added signs to the Weapon Shop and Bank
Citizen Benefactor Village home bugs fixed
Iron Gate Player Owned Town, added new town into Novia
Wizard’s Rest Player Owned Town data updated.
Performance drain fixed, no longer updating tiny radio at distance of more than 20
Prevent damage from unreachable targets
Prevent experience gain for using combos without hitting anything
Ornate Wood Streetlamp has a working light
Serpent’s Watch Player Owned Town, moved floating town to ground level (but it still inaccessible, will be addressed in a future patch.)
Fixed taming focus drain to be less than non-combat focus regen-fixed issue with taming effect subtracting base regen-set value to 0.4 focus per tick
Removed Grunvald Shardfall access from incorrect hexes
Ornate Iron Streetlamp has a working light
Blackrock Cove Player Owned Town information updated.
Don’t apply experience for interrupted skill
Allow player lots surfaces for gustballing
[Enter] key opens chat after rebind
Known Issues:

We do not yet officially support Windows 10. If you have upgraded to Windows 10 you may experience instability
Flame Fist DoT effect expires too quickly
Verdantis Shardfall light and sky settings are wrong
Adding a Gem to a weapon will break crafting, forcing a relog
Fireball DoT does not work
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
Two-handed swords cannot be crafted
Round Rugs cannot be placed
Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
Phoenix flight movements are not working correctly in some cases
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
Crafting Recipe book is not opening when you use a crafting station
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.
Troll does not have all visual effects
Not all Player Owned Towns in the list are in the game yet
Some objects and NPCs in game are missing textures and show up bright pink
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. These will not be complete until later this year
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
Unity 5 engine bug: Terrain is not accepting shadow casting lights and terrain lighting shows up on grid vs. radius
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

Build 314

Streetlamp icon size corrected
Solace Forest rebuilt navigation mesh
Scaling of Ring of Fire target radius is accurately reflected based on the skill’s stat
Correct icons are made and plugged in for new streetlamps
New sky in Kingsport
Allow AI targeting selection to work even if not currently selecting the target anymore
Fixed Automaton Call summoning wrong prefab
Prison entry stool in The Epitaph couldn’t be sat on, now it can be
Fixed missing two-handed flag in equip info for Rusty Two-handed Axe
Can now place stuff on 1st & 2nd Floor plus roof access is now working in Duke Benefactor Keep
More new skies placed in scenes
Item Modification was not properly refreshing items after the operation completed, this is now fixed
Increase delay between NPC lamplighter AI interactions
Fix tooltip for equipment comparison while dual wielding
Combat skill incorrect tooltips fixed
Tweaked tooltip hover times
Soltown barmaid bar area adjustment for NPC AI schedule
Fixed crafting filter to have the same content as the crafting tab on the player inventory always at the top and alphabetized and then listed armor, weapons, decorations, and repair kits below those contents also sorted alphabetically. This allows players to get the max usefulness out of the crafting UI
More new skies into Novia starting region maps
Define owner for Arx Draconis Player Owned Town
Turn-in quest UI now closes when tab or chat is closed, this should prevent being able to keep the window up while play progresses
Female avatar jumping sounds are back
Added female avatar chargeup animations
Added weapon sheath sound events and updated event markers in animation files
Known Issues:

We do not yet officially support Windows 10. If you have upgraded to Windows 10 you may experience instability
Oracle does not speak about the paths of Truth, Love, & Courage
Flame Fist DoT effect expires too quickly
Verdantis Shardfall light and sky settings are wrong
Adding a Gem to a weapon will break crafting, forcing a relog
Fireball DoT does not work
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
Two-handed swords cannot be crafted
Round Rugs cannot be placed
Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
Phoenix flight movements are not working correctly in some cases
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
Crafting Recipe book is not opening when you use a crafting station
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.
Troll does not have all visual effects
Not all Player Owned Towns in the list are in the game yet
Some objects and NPCs in game are missing textures and show up bright pink
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. These will not be complete until later this year
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
Unity 5 engine bug: Terrain is not accepting shadow casting lights and terrain lighting shows up on grid vs. radius
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

Build 313

Removed icons for Adventurer and Producer experience multipliers
Reduced pet focus drain dramatically
Fixed Knockdown Chance for Trip
Fixed various issues on the Queen of Chaos (glass, broken doors, crystal lights)
Rusty Sword is now salvageable
Recipe Book again automatically appears when you use a crafting station (had broken this function with new UI)
More use based updates for the life tree
Quest turn in UI can no longer be pinned
Crafting Station inventory filter now works exactly like the player inventory crafting tab
Pip the Blacksmith in Desolis now sells weapons and armor, as she promises.
Trainers in Desolis now actually train skills.
Added missing Ressurection Ankh to North Valeway
Fixed various issues with the dragon statue
Fixed desert plant flashbulbing
Phoenix Republic Player Owned Town connections and placement
Hint system update to account for new use-based advancement system (and other updates).
Fixed issue causing large game pause while removing items from inventories with large numbers of items
If you craft something that weighs the same as what you used to perform the operation, you will no longer be able to press any buttons and gain skill boosts
Blood will now appear again when players and creatures are hit in combat
Fixed broken water in Ruined Keep
Fixed issue with plot square feet progress bar in deco UI not showing up.
Items placed on the External Floor surface type are now appropriately categorized as external decorations
Added glowing veins to Underdweller Human, Elf and Troll
Fixed broken door in Queen of Chaos pilots cabin
Fixed claok floating too high above shoulders on female epic plate torso
Fixed cloak sorting at collar on all female epic leather torso variants
Ge hit effects and reactions no longer play during a miss event
Fixed tilted NPC buildings on second placement
Enabled weather on Arx Draconis
Fixed Soltown trainer not training taming skills, trainer now properly trains tier 1-2 of all non-crafting skills
Ardoris NPCs now correctly load dialog files.
Starting players with Taming skills Tame Creature and Summon, so that new players will be able to summon what they’ve tamed. Note: The Tier 2 skill Summon has no prerequisite so it can be learned at the same time as Tame Creature
Wrong number of long obsidian fences rectified (was 4 gates and 1 long, now 1 gate and four long)
Fixed invisible geometry on city wall section in Arx Draconis
Numerous (29) skills moved over to use based.
Harvesting animation now properly removes equipped weapons when viewed by second player
Chillblain’s Compendium of Pain and Suffering (Challenge Dungeon 1) can now be completed: Ensured Skeletons, Spiders, and other NPCs don’t try to jump into water when they shouldn’t.
Fixed messaging about party members looting a chest
Fixed focus cost scaling based on skill level
Fixed Large Aether Vibration Device (radio) blocking interaction with things
Fire tree (4 skills) now updated for use base
Troll attacks should properly damage players now
Known Issues:

We do not yet officially support Windows 10. If you have upgraded to Windows 10 you may experience instability
Oracle does not speak about the paths of Truth, Love, & Courage
Flame Fist DoT effect expires too quickly
Verdantis Shardfall light and sky settings are wrong
Adding a Gem to a weapon will break crafting, forcing a relog
Fireball DoT does not work
Radius for Ring of Fire Spell too large
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
Two-handed swords cannot be crafted
Round Rugs cannot be placed
Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
Phoenix flight movements are not working correctly in some cases
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
Crafting Recipe book is not opening when you use a crafting station
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.
Troll does not have all visual effects
Not all Player Owned Towns in the list are in the game yet
Some objects and NPCs in game are missing textures and show up bright pink
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. These will not be complete until later this year
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
Unity 5 engine bug: Terrain is not accepting shadow casting lights and terrain lighting shows up on grid vs. radius
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

Build 311

Welcome to Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues Pre-Alpha Release 21! Notes on what is in this release are available here.
Known Issues:

NPC Conversations are not working in many cases
Large Aether Vibration Amplifier blocks interactions with other objects
Lighting and fog levels are still being tuned to work with the new weather system, expect anomalies
Zooming into First Person camera leaves floating hair in view
Two-handed swords cannot be crafted
Round Rugs cannot be placed
NPC Buildings in Player Owned Towns will tilt when position is adjusted, for now just put them back in your inventory and replace to fix
Some skills have not been fully adjusted to work properly with the new use based system
Phoenix flight movements are not working correctly in some cases
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
Troll attacks are not doing damage properly
Harvesting animations are not playing properly for other players
Chillblain’s Compendium cannot be completed
Death and Resurrection do not work properly in the team arena
Water in the Ruined Keep is completely transparent
Blood is not appearing when enemies are hit
Crafting Recipe book is not opening when you use a crafting station
If you upgrade from a property owning pledge between data wipes you will receive extra lot deeds.
Troll does not have all visual effects
Not all Player Owned Towns in the list are in the game yet
Some objects and NPCs in game are missing textures and show up bright pink
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. These will not be complete until later this year
The update to Unity 5

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