[AC] Dev Notes Februar

[Sun_al-Mage]

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New content and Functionality

- A Character Title Panel has been added to the game. When you first log on after the event goes live you will have your current title added into this panel. Any title you gain after that will be added to the panel. At any time players will be able to change the title they are displaying to other players, though they will not have to if they choose to keep this number to themselves. Others will also be able to see how many titles you have when you they ID your character.

- The first of our PvP changes will be going in this month. By completing a quest, players will be able to get an item that will give them a 10% boost to the attack modifier of the weapon they are holding at the time they use the item.

- The series of quests which were started in Throne of Destiny will continue with new quests that will continue to ask you to make a choice in the war between Queen Elysa and King Varicci.

- The Real Time Rare system has been added into the game. This is the Rares system that we had spoken about in the LttP. You can read more about this new system in our February Letter to the Players.


Miscellaneous Changes and Improvements

- When we removed some of the seasonal body part drops, some Moarsman stopped dropping Moarsmuck on death. This has been fixed and all Moarsman who should be dropping the Moarsmuck now are.

- The creatures that drop the Pirate Patch were dropping them at a 100% rate. This was not intended. The drop rate on these is now correct on these.

- Players can now assign a key to the action 'Move selected item to main pack'. This action is very much like 'Move selected item to inventory' (the F key by default), but it ignores whatever pack you have open.

- We have also added a new character option that allows you to use your main pack as your preferred pack; instead of the pack you have open at the time.

- The Darktide world is getting it's much needed hardware upgrade this month, The goal of this upgrade is to help improve performance on this world. With the environment being different from other worlds, it can put more strain on the hardware.

- The drop rate on the higher tier Rare items has been increased slightly. The goal of this change is to let players see more of the higher tier rare items.

- While doing some testing, we discovered the way that some ring spells were casting, in particular Ravens Fury, was not correct. In effect if you were standing behind the caster of the ring spell you could get hit by the spell twice. This lead to the effect of double damage from one actual spell. The error has been fixed.

- Players will no longer be able to send out messages using the green text. This was not an intended behavior, and has been resolved for this month.