Hey guys,
Sorry for the delayed update, but I've been ill last week and couldn't really work on too much. This was planned to be released 1 week earlier.
Christmas EventSame procedure as every year, Santa! A wild Christmas tree has appeared south of the Grand Exchange including presents, snow drifts and Santa himself. Talk to him to do a miniquest and find out a little secret that he's been hiding for quite a while. You'll also meet Jack Frost again. I've re-enable present deliveries and all old Christmas events. In fact, you have to do the old events first before being able to do the newest. Christmas crackers can also be obtained again with a very rare chance of receiving salty claw hat and candy cane (1 in 1000). As well as traditional Christmas outfits, reindeer hat, present imp, Christmas cape and snowman hats. You'll know what to do with snowman hats after completing Santa's miniquest!
Engine updates:- Map loader overhauled another time. I wasn't quite satisfied with the results especially on slower computers. I've improved the loader to minimize fps stuttering and to minimize loading / waiting times as much as possible.
- The way the map loads when being in a POH was improved. It'll no longer refresh everything when building a new room. Several clipping issues have also been fixed.
- Worldmap viewer now shows additional details (trees, rocks, etc.) and not only landscape anymore.
- Certain chat heads (pets and non-humans mostly) are now larger.
- The chat heads of colored pernix items have been fixed. You'll no longer have a black mouth and black eyes.
- Fixes to shadows in regions where upper heights aren't shown (Slayer tower, corporeal beast).
Game changes and fixes: - Rugs are no longer clipping with stairs in POHs.
- Ancient longbow's accuracy buffed.
- Ancient arrows and bolts strength bonus buffed.
- Picking up ranged ammo (knives, darts, etc.) no longer overwrites your arrow slot.
- Broken Demon crossbow and longbow can no longer be used in their broken state.
- Onyx can now be cut into bolt tips again. There was an interference problem with recharging the regen bracelet.
- The charges of newly started poison purge aura have been increased to 20,000. It degrades every time you are hit, which can be used up quickly when being hit by multiple enemies.
I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very good time! This is probably the last update in 2017 unless I have to do some bug fixing. The next year is going to start with new weapons and bosses for Melee / Magic. After that we can open up another discussion topic what things you'd like to see in 2018. Maybe Summoning?
All the best,
Thomy
