Welcome to Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues Early Access Release 28! Notes on what is in this release are available here.

April 1, 2016  

Build Number 397 12:00 PM

Changes:

• Goti now has the correct public vendor.


• Spiders will no longer attack you through breakable walls


• Kobold Decorations and Kobold Homes are now in game


• Emperors' and Empresses' Clothing now in game


• Fixed lots of exceptions


• Fixed issue that was causing feet to clip through cloaks in some situations


• Fixed eye bugs on male avatar when playing piano


• Fixed color value mismatch for female basic plate chest piece and basic chainmail helm


• Performance Work:  Turned off dynamic lighting on Owlshead and Skrekk


• Fixed some issues that were breaking the Broadcast Automated Phonographs in some situations


• Male avatar head and eye texture settings optimization


• Male braids hairstyle should no longer be invisible


• You can no longer place non-wax cylinder items in automated phonographs.


• Created proper icons for 3 automated phonographs


• Inventory bags will no longer be shown in the crafting UI


• Fixed various broken doors that were causing crashes in Nightshade pass


• Fixed male avatar mouth interior


• Fixed female riding coat clipping with kilts


• Fixed batch salvage so that it does not seemingly cancel randomly.


• Wisps now display visual effects when casting spells


• Removed invisible collider in Caverns of Skrekk


• Hidden Vale: Adjusted heights of Discovery volumes to help keep players from spawning high above Kingsport


• Added new POT named Wind nested in POT Blackrock Cove (This also resolves final interconnection request for POT Blackrock Cove)


• Fixes to Skrekk gate guard dialog


• A ferryman will now take you between Spite and the shores of Malice

• Player made books are not working and displaying as blank


• Looping emotes (like dances) are not showing up to players when they first appear in a scene


• Memory is leaking badly, players will need to restart their client at least every 2 hours


• Emotes are not currently teachable


• Pathfinding is breaking in some houses and basements


• Local chat is failing in some situations


• Many recipes changed for R27 and were therefore no longer appear in players' recipe books. This will be fixed in R29 with the wipe


• 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