Release 0.5.2

[Taken from main site]

PlaneShifters, today you may experience some ups and downs on the servers, but this is good news! Again, we have made a new release for you! This time we also released full new distributions, so you will have no problem with the updates. Here is a more complete list of changes in this update:

Art

* Added nolthrir female plate armor
* Added ylian male hair variations
* Added many new monsters variations
* Added drifters and rivnaks as mounts
* Many fixes to icons and items

Engine

* ITEM STORAGE!! You can now ask certain NPCs to store your items. You can enable this function by the proper NPCs. /storage Jirosh, Taemian, Harnquist, and Gardr (thanks weltall).
* UTF8 (Unicode) support for any input box (this means you can write with most languages) and characters like àùèò and the german ones are supported now.
* Additional updates to translations
* Implemented texture change in meshes when dropping/equipping or when dropped on ground. It's possible to add different textures on the same item by doing changes in the server database data.
* Fixed crashes caused by not entirely loaded items.
* Added additional information for gm in info and bugs with offline support.
* Fixed basic cloth armor for mobs and npcs to be set per race/type correctly.
* The updater now uses curl for downloading updates and should be more reliable than before.
* Damaging spell will be stopped on yield when dueling.
* Added an /fps command which will show the current fps. This should help with bugtracker entries giving better feedback.
* Improved performance of in game windows which should improve performance on slow computer when training.
* Now the quest and event button don't switch anymore.
* Made checkboxes of pslaunch bigger to be easier to click.
* Now it's possible to check easily progress on the updater with a progress bar.
* The updater will fetch the update mirror from the server in place of giving precedence on the local list. should improve download speed of updates.

* Now it's possible to have single named pets and mounts fixing PS#3721 - pet name adds "familiar"
* Now it's possible to use storage and merchants even when overweight exhausted or while sitting.
* Fixed wrong basic ctrl setting in windows and Linux clients it seems the macosx only ctrl setup got in place of lctrl.
* Fixed a bug which didn't allow some quest paths to be executed if not a gm or dev character (e.g. two paths assigning the same quest).
* Fixed movement dead lock without re-log if you stop before being exhaust but end up exhaust anymore.
* Various fixes to text-boxes and scrollbars.
* Added an eta in pslaunch while updating.
* Allow to mine and fish with the tool in any hand
* Allow to get messages about login/logoff of people in the other guilds of the alliance.

Settings

* Added quest for rivnak and drifter (mounts) acquisition.
* Many quests are fixed and more fixing continues.
* Npc re-factor phase one is done and phase two is ongoing. Phase one included the addition of new NPCs and an overall balancing/redistribution of about 320 NPCs in game. About 150 are still missing the refactor.

Music

* Added 3 tracks in game
* Improved sounds in nearly all levels, by adding new ones and repositioning old ones.

Download the new client from our download page.

Enjoy PlaneShift!