Welcome to Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues Early Access Release 40! How to Play instructions and game update notes on Release 40 are available here. March 30, 2017 Build Number 577, 1:15PM Fixes:

• Male and female Cabalist wearable robes are now fitted correctly.
• Eye bulge clipping during character creation has been fixed.
• Missing collision on palisade walls in Kingsport has been added.
• High-level creature weapon loot added.
• Kobold Champion in Skrekk Test of Courage instance now displays the proper nameplate.
• Kobolds in Skrekk should now make some noise.
• Adjusted collision for elven greenhouse to allow for more lenient decoration placement inside.
• Ghost Corpion is transparent again.
• Fixed a bug that caused hints and help messages in the chat window to appear in the wrong order.
• Fixed a decoration wall surface in Stone 2-story Keep w/ Corner Turret village home, decorations no longer go through wall.
• Fixed Kobold Statue level-of-detail meshes.
• Fixed stray geometry crashing through ceiling in Owl's Head NPC Building.
• Added a context menu option to clear a locked glyph in the combat hotbar.
• Female avatar legs no longer disappear if wearing leg armor along with the Short Skirted Satin Bodice.
• Ornate Elven Longbow shaft is no longer rotated incorrectly when equipped.
• Walls now block the camera correctly in the Wizard Tower.
• Founders Cloaks no longer appears all white.
• Male-avatar hand finger-spacing was updated.
• Turned shadowcasting off on windows of Greenhouse deco.
• Playing sheet music from the chat command /play now works properly.
• Shadow will no longer be rendered while stealthed.
• Duck models updated.
• Brown Suede Sofa sitting position was updated to not sit so far forward.
• Grammar fixes for some task list entries.
• Ornate Elven Mage staff is now usable as a decoration.
• Fixed stair ramp colliders in Viking two story stronghold village home.
• In the Battle of Highvale, Edvard no longer stands as close to the gate (thus fixing conversation issues in some situations)
• In the Battle of Highvale, Nena's initial request correctly registers as a task.
• Avatars can once again talk with NPCs that have a required response.
• Lord Demig is no longer invisible in Caverns of Skrekk.
• Introduced new guard models for Ferig and Demign
• NPC in Harvest now holds his staff correctly.
• Fixed airship wheel that was missing a material in Blood Bay.
• Fixed an issue where on-and-off states for Geometric Stained Glass Floor Lamps did not affect level-of-detail meshes.
• Made on-and-off states more obvious for Frosted Glass Floor Lamps.
• The player is no longer stopped when talking.
• Carved Oak Furniture recipes are now teachable.
• Scrolling the camera all the way in no longer blurs the screen.
• Missing icons for pavers, fountains, and other decorations added.
• Fixes for some transparent grass.
• Adjusted a few crafted item values based on ingredient cost.
• The Obsidian Crown Alchemist merchant in Aerie no longer goes off duty.
• The Fishing Supply Merchant in Brittany Fields by the docks will no longer run back and forth haphazardly.
• Most merchants in Brittany Fields now have a small-but-comfortable wander area.
• Fixed interaction on door in Brittany Sewers.
• Corrected compass orientation in Brittany Sewers and several other underground scenes.
• Fixed some ladders sometimes not being able to be traversed by NPCs and pets.
• Fixed missing Vile Shield mesh.
• In Harvest, the names of Aldis Adisson and Dagmar, Bjorn's Wife, now correctly update after you learn them.
• Fixed player being blown through wall from rockslide in Serpent's Spine Mines.
• Material updates for good equipment.
• New tiling patterns to enhance materials.
• Extended the water trigger in Metropolis Island Player Towns to prevent players from falling through the ocean before zoning out via the east exit volume.
• Corrected location of exit discoveries in Metropolis Mountain Player Towns and removed erroneous south exit discovery.
• The Cabalists themselves are now personally leading their sieges into battle!
• Water in Blood River Massacre is no longer invisible.
• Made corrections to transparency material on tree walls .
• Missing materials on fences in Spite added.
• Added missing water into Brookside.
• Resolution increased for generic fabric and leather textures.

• Easter Baskets are invisible during /tossconfettiegg throw emote
• Not all items listed in R40 Instructions are yet in the game or Add On Store
• Cover System is not applying to magic spells
• Some of the Obsidian Cabalist abilities are still placeholder
• Some NPCs are not holding items correctly (mugs, brooms, etc.)
• Cloaks will often sort through the avatar’s body
• Some scene instances may be bugged in which it is easy for players to fall through the ground. An existing workaround is to reload the scene.
• A new Conversation interface has been introduced and may introduce various issues with resolving quests and talking to NPCs.
• Players may be unable to interact with objects via double-click if their framerate is poor. A workaround is to use the “E” interaction key.
• Some spell VFX do not play properly
• Some textures may look incorrect due to optimizations (white, black, pink, low resolution, pixelated, etc.)
• Lot Deeds cannot be purchased in Offline Mode
• Some UI text is not wrapping correctly
• Rain and Snow is coming through the roof of some buildings
• Some 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