Welcome to Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues Early Access Release 35! How to Play instructions and game update notes on Release 35 are available in the forums.

October 31, 2016

Build Number 500, 12:00 PM

Changes:

• Fixed some deco wall surfaces on first floor of Gothic Mansion


• Some fixes to the Firedancer outfit on the male avatar


• Fixed some issues with the Viking Town Stronghold


• Fixed sorting issues and missing gold color with Firedancer outfit


• Ardoris Black Arrow quest convo additions


• Website fixes


• Increased falloff distance for NPC SFX so they can be heard from farther away


• Fixed various exceptions


• Fixed Obsidian Armor color again (hopefully we got it this time?)


• Fixed bugs with Elven Village Keep


• Removed duplicate shutters from Stucco Row Houses


• Fixed 4th story wall gap in Stone 4 story Row House.


• Yet another fix to address deco lights not providing light properly


• Fixed odd texture square in bank ceiling


• Fixed internal door frame texture in 4 story Wood & Plaster Row Houses.


• Made ants in Ant Farm darker to be more visible.


• Fixed incorrect compass rotation in Necropolis


• Fixed planter box highlight bug


• Fixed icon for music symbol that looked like a fish


• Control Points: Modified leash ranges for NPCs


• NPCs using the white male Owl's Head guard model can again be interacted with.


• Bloodriver: Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause undead enemies to not spawn.


• Fixed various Elven Town Tree Home issues


• Removed duplicate recipes from Ardoris merchant


• Fixed various Elven City Home issues.


• Solania Catacombs: Restored loot bundles on corpses in scene.


• Crypt of the Avatar: Removed the rusty sword from the arms of the Avatar skeleton at (90 25.997 291.799)


• Spectral Mines: Unified faction of undead here with bandits so they will no longer kill each other


• Fixed bug that would cause Flaming Bagpipes to endlessly spew flames (awwww!)


• Fixed blocked rear entrance of Shingle Roof 3-story Open Plan Village Home


• Fixed practice dummy being unplaceable.


• Improved pets following on/off player lots.


• Fixed windows with sorting errors in Ardoris carpentry shop


• Fixed craftable water well collision and water material


• Fixed male water gathering animation


• Fixed Roving Encounters not starting due to npc state corruption when joining a running scene.


• Fixed issue where Roving encounters were not matching location on Overworld


• Another iteration on Enchantment Item Glow: slowed down the speed of pulsing, lowered the intensity and made the color more white, less blue

• Fountains and Wells placed in POTs will only provide water to the POT owner


• /playsync not working for musical instruments


• Lot Deeds cannot be purchased in Offline Mode


• Rewards are not yet being delivered in Offline Mode


• AMD A8 Graphics Chipsets do not work with Unity Games including Shroud


• Fire Arrow icon not visible in tutorial


• 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


• 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