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April 2009 | Darkfall 1.0

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Build 17

Here are this week's patch notes:

New Quests

New Quests for the Factions have been added:

MIRDAIN FACTIONS:

THE SERENE SPIRE

THE ARROWHEADS

THE EMERALD THRONE

DWARVEN FACTIONS:

VOICE OF YMIR

Visual Updates

There have been many visual updates including to:

Optimizations

There have been many optimizations as usual including:

Updates to the servers to better handle situations where thousands of players participate in sieges

Area / World-Building

Area / Worldbuilding updates to these areas:

Monster Updates

There have been several updates to monsters along with the following specific changes:

Monster loot has been updated in these monsters:

Monster A.I. has been updated

Crafting Updates

Weapon / Armor Updates

New axes have been added:

New Great Clubs have been added:

Servant of Malaut armor has been rebalanced

Magic Updates

Bug Fixes

There have been many bug fixes, including the following noteworthy ones:

Fix for enchantment to prevent duplicate enchantments on an item.
Fix to Pack Mule|mule skill so that when your skill increases your maximum carrying weight will be updated immediately.
Fix so that you can't use magic while mounted.
Fix so you can't "fall through" water and walk under water.
Clan guard towers have been fixed to work on all policy settings.
Fix to ignore lists, where a player that was ignored would not show up in the ignore list

Additions

A Trade channel has been added. Use by /trade . This will go out to all of the racial alliance
Fighters Guild NPCs in Clan Cities now teach spirited archer

Gameplay

A player will lose his invulnerability shield when running/spawning into a clan city/hamlet, unless he is a member of the clan owning the location.
When a player leaves or is being kicked/banned from a Clan there will now be a timer of 45 minutes before he actually leaves the clan.
Minimum time period between changing policies towards a Clan have been changed to 20 minutes.
Alignment boost for killing or ganking an evil or enemy player has been reduced to 1 point.
Ship cannon rate of fire has been balanced
Unsummon / unspawn timers for warhulks and ships have been increased

Party and alignment:

Parties will now follow standard rules for killing and ganking.
If you kill/gank a friendly player in a party he/she will get the opportunity to forgive the killer.
You will never get an alignment boost by killing a party member.

Enemy standing on the HUD:

You will now have the names of the players you target colored according to their standing towards you and your clan.

Members of the same Clan as yours will have their name displayed in BRIGHT GREEN
Members of Clans that you are at WAR with will have their name displayed in DARK ORANGE
Members of Clans that you are ALLIED with will have their name displayed in GREEN
Opposing Racial Alliance will have their name displayed in DARK RED
EVIL Racial Alliance players will have their name displayed in RED
ROGUE Racial Alliance players will have their name displayed in GREY
GOOD Racial Alliance players will have their name displayed in BLUE

These rules will follow in the order of: Clan Status, Opposing Racial Alliance, Same Racial Alliance.

Examples:

An EVIL player of the same race as yours but a member of a clan that you are at WAR with will always show in DARK ORANGE
A GOOD player of an Opposing Racial Alliance that does not have an affiliation with your Clan will always show in DARK RED
An EVIL player of the same race as yours but a member of a clan that you are ALLIED with will always show in GREEN
A GOOD player of the same race as your but a member of your clan will always show as BRIGHT GREEN