Greetings PlaneShifters! A new release is ready for you to download.

This release cannot be updated through the PSLauncher, so you have to download it from our Download page.

Here is the list of changes for 0.7.40:

Many textures have been upgraded in quality. Now we use higher resolution textures, but still very reasonable in terms of hardware requirements. Upgrades include hydlaa west, hydlaa east, jayose library, kadael tavern, laanx temple, bronzedoors and ojaveda (only base sandstone).
Changed hydlaa external walls textures and main city doors with higher quality ones
Increased texture resolution of some tools
Added small gardens to main hydlaa plaza, changed the fountain gems

Expanded Levrus magic shop, there is now more space, and also some higher resolution textures

Simplified crafting. in the crafting book window, there is now the possibility to check if tools and materials are available to complete the crafting, by checking the surroundings and your inventory. After the check is successful a new "prepare" button shows up in the same window, to move all the required materials in the crafting container.

Added Gamma to the Setting window
Added /screenshot command. You can use also with "nogui" parameter to take a clean screenshot without user interface.

Improvements to Dryken plane, more hints, one more tutorial message, new reference points (planets)

Improved message when you already at max faction score
Fixed issue with chat logs
Fixed Ylian male hair when wearing robe
Fixed being able to cast identify item spell
Fixed quest crash when assigning faction points
Fixed /changeguildleader crash

Various fixes to NPC animations (arangma, kikiri, ulber)

Updated all spells sounds to fix the right channel audio issue
Fixed some bugs in board minigames
Fixed crash on invalid skill when lockpicking
Fixed non-attackable new players
Fixed crash when a new NPC event was triggered by time event

All the bugs are tracked on our Flyspray, where you can register and add your findings.
If you want to support us, become a Patreon. Find other players in our Discord to get access.

Good intention, and while I think there'll be only a couple of players who might be able to return, there may be a few. The sad thing is that the forums likely are visited only by those same players, since (IIRC that has been mentioned elswehere) other media have taken over, but maybe it's the lack of publicity PS receives, as it doesn't feature on any of the gaming networks. At least, I haven't found it on GOG, Epic or Steam (very likely because you have to sell them your soul, as other very good FOSS gaming projects like UFO:AI, Babylon5:I found her, Wesnoth, etc. also don't appear there).

Anyway, I don't like the idea of giving away contact information (maybe you'll even remember my pro-privacy stance from back in the days, so no surprise there. ). Having the PS system send out mails to dormant accounts would be OK, the reminder may or may not be an issue, IIRC there was something about receiving occasional mails from PS on signup to the forum, but not to the game, so maybe stick to forum members, which likely will catch all "ancients" anyway (there was no discord, reddit or whatnots back then)?

I already tried to check out the new PS-U but couldn't. First, I could run it on my ancient machine, but the Char Creator GUI is fixed at 16:9, so on my 4:3 screen the elements on the right simply don't get rendered. The UE itself copes perfectly with the resolution, but if the GUI positions are fixed, there's nothing it can do about that. That's a problem I've seen primarily on UE4 titles, I read that the GUI creator doesn't help with that and you must knowingly design on the lowest resolution, but with high-DPI textures, and then the upscaling will do the trick, instead of the GUI being scaled down meaningfully, which at best breaks text legibility.

Anyway, I somehow managed to blind-fly part of the CC, came into the Dryken Plane and don't recall if I even managed to get out of there, maybe the GUI again, or the oddness of the place, or something else.

And now, I'm still on Windows7, which has been dropped by PS a while ago (any of course many others). Once I decide upon and install an alternative (be it W10, DraugerOS or whatever), I'll retry, but it seems I'd have to buy a new screen, too.

Hi! Just letting everyone know that there are events at the usual time every Saturday. The calendar is being obstinate, but the events will happen! Hopefully, I'll see you all there!

~Uadjet

Well met friends! A new release is ready for you to download.

This release can be updated through the PSLauncher, but if you want, you can also downloaded it from our Download page.

Here is the list of changes for 0.7.39:

Some merchants are now faction aligned. They will give you better or worst prices when buying based on your faction alignment with them. You can see this information at the bottom of the merchant window and trading with them
Added overall discounts for factions and possibility to have certain items you can buy only if you have a certain faction reputation. The idea is to have certain high quality items sold by merchants only if they like you
Merchants can completely refuse to trade if the faction reputation is too negative

We added magical trails following the weapon swing. The trails are divided in tiers based on the rarity of the enhancement. If the weapon has more than one enchantment, the most rare one will define the trail type.

Improvements to combat:
- Added 2 more animations for melee attacks
- Added the left hand animations for melee attacks, you can now finally see the proper animation when attacking with the second hand
- Added the ability to use your shield as a defense. Put it in your left hand, then in combat mode you can right mouse click and use the shield.
- Changed all shields to be equip-able only in the left hand

Added new capabilities to prevent access to containers based on a certain condition, example a certain faction reputation. This allows for example to have a chest or a bookshelf inside a faction hall, that will be accessible only with a certain reputation score.
Fixed a bug in assigning faction points through quests

Fixed casting of offensive spells through shortcuts
Fixed bad bug of items disappearing in containers when trading exchanging over capacity
Fixed the train stat window, to show all the stats available, clicking on train will now give proper messages based on your rank or faction scores
Fixed helm position for lemur characters
Fixed the idle animation not to be played while moving
Created new GM panel to simplify setup of items for in game events
Added ambience music to Dryken Plane and added music volume reduction during dryken plane voiceovers
Changed the way icons show in the right-click context menu. Now Use is shown only when meaningful
Changed the way icons are displayed for containers. The right-click context menu doesnt show combine and use. Those are only in the container window
Removed all icons from container window when you open it from your inventory, as those are not relevant
Fixed crash on NPC exchange when not part of a tribe
Fixed crash of newly created familiar, which is then fed and crashes

All the bugs are tracked on our Flyspray, where you can register and add your findings.
If you want to support us, become a Patreon. Find other players in our Discord to get access.

Indeed this was a great impromptu event I really enjoyed, and hope to attend again! Great job Daevaorn!