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