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‹ Release Notes

Release 98

‹ R97R99 ›

Went live 12/27/2021 · 42 change items · 7 interim builds

In short

Release 98 is live and focuses heavily on bug fixes and quality of life improvements across Britannia. A significant issue blocking NPC spawns in populated areas has been resolved, alongside corrections to ore node scaling and sizing in multiple scenes including the Sunless Barrens and Tanglemire. Several questlines have also received attention; players encountering problems with Stanley’s quests in Soltown involving Arabella and Baozhai should now find them completable by speaking the word “help” to the relevant NPCs.

Beyond fixes, this release includes a few notable additions for player enjoyment. New overhead maps are available for Demig’s Battlecamp, Artifice Entrance, and Boreas Colossus scenes, aiding navigation. Players will also notice increased creature difficulty in Episode 2 scaling zones, particularly at higher levels, with adjustments to both health pools and caster behavior—NPC casters now have more attunement. Obsidian lions have joined the Spectral Peak pride, and Teralopolis taverns have been expanded to accommodate twelve jukebox slots.

Finally, a number of smaller tweaks address visual issues (young snow tigers, party health bars), performance concerns (HDR rendering options and graphics settings adjustments for Nvidia cards), and oddities with big cat taming and animations. Developers have also added logging to investigate lingering bugs and are running holiday sales for MLK day weekend.

AI-generated summary (google/gemma-3-27b) — may contain errors; the full notes below are authoritative.

No categorized patch notes were captured for this release (no post link on index).

Interim builds (7)

Build 1508 — Feb 16, 2022, 12:00 AM

  • Turning off deed upgrades on client/server

Build 1507 — Feb 11, 2022, 12:00 AM

  • Enabled holiday deed upgrade sale!
  • Sunless Barrens: Geyser sound effects throughout the scene have been lowered and their drop-off ranges reduced.SOTA-70187
  • New overhead map for Demig’s Battlecamp Scene
  • New overhead map for Artifice Entrance Scene
  • New overhead map for Boreas Colossus Scene
  • Fixed visuals for young snow tiger
  • Ore Nodes: Corrected the scale on numerous Tier 5 ore nodes in a large number of scenes.
  • Tanglemire: Corrected the size of oversized ore nodes.SOTA-70157
  • Solace Bridge Outskirts: Improved the logic to remove the “Mention Ebon Dawn to Scout” compass marker.SOTA-70153
  • Fix: Some fix for lua that prevent user from playing after unloading scripts

Build 1501 — Jan 14, 2022, 12:00 AM

  • Fix for critical issue that blocked all NPC spawns in some high traffic areas
  • Turning on holiday sales for MLK day weekend

Build 1500 — Jan 6, 2022, 12:00 AM

  • Tiny emergency patch to back out change for HDR rendering as it had the unexpected side effect of making ground targeting circles difficult to see

Build 1499 — Jan 6, 2022, 12:00 AM

  • The winter storm has moved on from New Brittania
  • Deed upgrades have been disabled
  • Sale items have returned to 20% vs 25%
  • Additional logging has been added to attempt to identify several lingering bugs and performance issues
  • The “Bloom” option in graphics settings will now also disable HDR rendering. This is an attempt to fix the massive frame rate drop several players with Nvidia 20×0 and 30×0 cards have seen but we have been unable to reproduce. If you have severe frame rate drops in combat, please disable bloom and see if it helps!

Build 1498 — Dec 20, 2022, 12:00 AM

  • Obsidian lions have now joined the pride of lions in Spectral peak
  • Lightning Storm has had its flashes of lights greatly diminished to reduce shock to sensitive eyes
  • Previously added renaming of the house that would create an exception when clicking the stone and not being an owner already.
  • Lua function ShroudOnSceneLoaded will trigger once player data has been loaded.
  • Teralopolis’ will now have 12 juke box slots.
  • Soltown: Stanley’s quest that points avatars to Arabella will now successfully conclude when saying “help” to her. Players who already completed the quest but it hasn’t concluded should say “help” to her for it to conclude.SOTA-70027
  • Soltown: Fixed a typo in Stanley’s response about Castle Atos.
  • Castle Atos: Baozhai now shares their name with avatars. Also, the quest from Stanley pointing players to Baozhai will properly conclude.SOTA-70026
  • Battle of Solace Bridge: Fixed text in barks, responses, and journals.SOTA-70025
  • An error caused by trying to move your health bar when not in a party has been fixed.
  • Righ Inis and other ForestVillage02 PRTs: Moved the adventurer trainer to the ground near the tavern stall.

Build 1497 — Dec 17, 2022, 12:00 AM

  • Winter is coming…
  • The Wyvern Egg Salad recipe is now set as “Not Teachable” as intended.
  • Episode 2 creature difficulty for scaling zones will see a small increase. Most high levels will see a small increase in health but casters and ranged may see additional skill usage as well.
  • All NPC casters are receiving a small amount of attunement! This will make them more effective with spells but magic resistance was dropped accordingly so they should not be more resistant. (Approximately their level/2 attunement for most caster types)
  • Player dungeon Trolls were dramatically low on health. This has been corrected.
  • More tiger variations have been seen spawning in the Mysterious Swamp!
  • Fix for party health bars stacking on each other.
  • Fix for the vertical position of the party member being offset when clicking it.
  • Some lion cub issues have been fixed but he is still misbehaving when not used on a lot.
  • Several big cats were giving the wrong result when tamed. We believe all of these to be fixed now.
  • Big cats received a small animation polish pass to make their feet slide less
  • Fix for Spider Spawn Room (totem will not place)