Welcome to Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues Early Access Release 33! Notes on what is in this release are available here.

August 25, 2016

Build Number 471 8:00 PM

• Touched up shoulders and fingers on death anim for NPCs.


• Fixed visual blending issues with Celestial Bodies during the daytime


• Fixed issues where short range skills like Healing Touch had very long ranges


• Fixed camera clipping in Blackblade Foothills


• Soltown: Rebaked navmesh. Hopefully fixes child sliding through hill


• Fixed issue with Male Avatar where limbs appeared disconnected and pure white when partially covered


• Fixed unsnapped dungeonkit piece in Spectral Mines


• Fixed camera clipping in Graff Gem Mines.


• Fixed issue with Chain Lightning that was causing inordinate amounts of extra damage


• Nightshade Pass: Tuned NavMesh to address Bears getting stuck


• Brittany Fields: Fixed various stuck spots


• Spite: Relocated tree that was intruding on player lot.


• Bloom will now remember its settings between level changes


• Double (again) the cost in gold to get your ransomed items back.


• Fixed issue causing opaque fog issue on Mac and Linux


• Eastreach Gap: Standing at (-123.1, 129.6, -163.7) placed characters too close to the Control Point's teleporter volume inside the doorway, so the volume was pushed back a little. Players standing here should not get teleported outside the gate anymore.


• Fixed skewed skydome in Ulfheim


• Water improvements


• Allow a PVP player to heal their non-PVP party member.  Fix various other targeting issues involving pets.


• Fixing the fish so they are visible again.


• Fixed ambient lighting in Etceter Crag Mines so Night Vision should work now


• Viking 3-Story Stronghold: Fixed rear door off frame


• Fixed issue where rain was persisting over player even after rain storm stopped


• Viking 4-Story Row House: fixed ladder to take you to attci


• Novia Overworld: Improved the collision on the shoreline from Rhun Ruins to Eastmarch in Drachvald.


• Shield of Crystal should now show correct values in the tooltips


• Viking 2-Story Stronghold Village Home - Fixed wall seam above first-floor doors


• Fixed issues with the Ghost Corpion bouncing back and forth even though he was aggro'd to players


• The Necropolis: The trap components visible at (111.9, 0.1, 531.7)  were actually poking through from the tunnel above at (112 5 529). I moved the trap a little bit to (111 5 525) and everything should be good now.


• Fix plant growth rate in basements - now the same as the growth rate inside of houses


• Naryad Woods: Removed tipped chair at (107.0, 40.3, 95.5).


• Naryad Moors: Corrected the tier markers (to "4 skulls") to better represent the difficulty of the scene.


• Fixed preview for importing custom book text


• Highvale Village: The Navmesh was outdated, so the settings were updated and it was rebuilt. The bear at (-114.8, 40.2, 34.4) should path better around the lake.


• Various minor typo fixes


• Island Keep Lots: Fixed issue preventing placement of pavers


• Fixed issue where Knockback was pushing NPCs through walls on death


• Changed name of Deed Lottery Tickets to Raffle Tickets


• The Salvage button is now disabled while a Repair is possible with the current items on the crafting table.


• Foliage now being cleared on Island Lots


• Fixed bug that caused the free attack charge bar to get stuck on the hud when charging a free attack with a broken weapon


• Eastreach Gap: Moved nightshade plant at (-88.3, 134.4, -121.5) down to ground level.


• Fix Samuel escort not starting


• Fixed bad skill school mappings for Train Dexterity and Parry - caused the wrong skill tree to open when clicking on these skills on the HUD, and possibly other minor bugs.


• Fixed gender assignment for older NPCs for Localization purposes


• The Sirens Foothills: Adjusted rocks and added collider; stuck spot should be clear.


• Fixed error message when attempting to summon dead pet.


• South Hulenholt: Fixed stuck spot


• Recipes for Tiaras (Simple & Fancy) and set crafted tiaras to be enchantable


• Fix interruption for recall/teleport when becoming  encumbered or removing your recall scrolls


• Novia Overworld: Replaced the temporary collision along the shoreline from Point West to Harvest. Added a bridge along the river southeast of Point West.


• Added missing text for some Masterwork & Enchantment modifiers (resistances mainly)


• Flattened Terrain Lot in Yew, Bramble and Kiln


• Fixed issue with Corpse Explosion not working on Wolves and Satyrs


• Fixed missing material reference on mounted bass, mounted salmon, fish carcass salmon, and fish carcass trout


• Fixed missing textures on seagulls


• Reduced the damage of lightning and chain lightning by 8%


• Created unarmed kick animation.


• Fix alpha issue on UI for custom books, letters, and valentines


• Fiery Decay now drains life as intended.


• Adjusted LOD ranges for dungeonkit pieces. This should fix visible seams in various dungeons like Ruins of Ravensmoor


• Set Minimum summon skill requirement on tamed creatures. This means you will no longer be able to summon a tamed creature if your Summoning skill is too low


• Fixed visual seams/errors as well as floating objects in the Spectral Mines.


• Restless Woods: Fixed stuck spot.


• POT SQiRLS DEN: Changed biome (from Tropical Island to Underground). Changed nesting interconnection from The Brave Coast to Spite. Upgraded to Hamlet.


• Fixed stuck spot in Castle of Ardoris


• POT Rift's Legacy: Added new POT, nested in Rift's End.


• Wood & Plaster Two-Story (Row) house: Fixed missing interior window frame


• Fixed Village Waterlot location at tip of small island in Forest01 and Forest01a POT templates


• Midras: Fixed player stuck spot.


• Robert Villines companion NPC will now assist properly in combat


• Changed add-on store text in front-end and patch client to no longer refer to expired pledges


• Fixed missing ceiling collision Wood and Plaster house


• Spite banker no longer randomly journeys into the Astral plane.


• Fixed pillar LOD popping in spite.


• Wynston Haevia in Desolis will also teach the /pontificate emote when given the books he asks for.


• /pontificate is now Teachable.


• Fixed highvale guard model


• Fixed uneven terrain on playerlots in Solania, Mud, and Westend


• Yew:  Added a number of discoveries to Yew, and matching ones for Bramble. Fixed discovery bug in Kiln also.


• Fixed Owls Head water level


• Added interconnection between Midmaer Passage and Crypt of the Avatar.


• Added Sanctus Spine reinforcements


• Fixed male POT Guard NPC


• Display required skill level for Tamed Creature Summon necklace in tooltip.


• Wynton's Folly: Fixed stuck spot.


• Estgard gates are unlocked for everyone and will remain so until Path of Courage quest line is complete.

• All dyed armors lose their material links and appear pure white upon scene change


• Some items listed in the R33 instructions are not in the game yet (mostly the Add On Store stuff) including:
  
  
  
  • Aeronaut Outfits
  
  
  • Tiaras
  
  
  • Grey Great Dane
  
  
  • Obsidian Book of Unlearning gift
  
  
  
  


• Using the Mirror on Isle of Storms can crash sometimes


• Novia Overworld rework has introduced various stuck spots, incorrect collision and "exit into the air" issues


• Some UI text is not wrapping correctly


• Rain is coming through the roof of some buildings


• The new Targeting system still has various issues that need fixing


• Stability: The latest version of Unity we are using has introduced significant stability issues along with memory leaks. We are working with Unity to resolve these as quickly as we can


• Pathfinding is breaking in some houses and basements


• Local chat is failing in some situations


• Many SFX are not properly tied to the sound volume controls.


• 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 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