A new boss has been added and some quests to support him.

Rules: NPCs

• A new Boss: We have introduced a new boss! With this last addition we have completed the base set of Bosses. Pay a visit to Belcor Krakko to hear about it!

Setting: NPCs

• New NPCs have been made merchants and now see a series of items only previously available from GMs.

Setting: Quests

• A quest has been added to support the new Boss.
• Since the last update a whole host of quest fixes have been made. The majority of these however were already released as they are now made directly in production.

Others

• Creative items are now seperated into 'books' 'maps' and 'music'.
• There are now public maps and music scores, please let us know if they don't work.
• Wands are now called staves (will be staff) in the next update.
• All non-implemented skills are now labeled such in the skill description window.

Hi PlaneShifters, thanks to eonwind we also have a linux package of Crystal Hunt.

You can download it here.

As usual give us your feedback on any issue you find and the FPS you get.

This is our very first Mac build for Unreal, so it's normal it gives issues.

About the cooked content, it means the files are not "prepared" the way they should, but it's weird it gives the error only to one person, as it should be all or none. Anyway I will check it and see if we can COOK it.

Can people who managed it to run confirm the FPS they get? Press F2 to get options then enable FPS.

From the list above remove this line:
r.DefaultFeature.AntiAliasing=0

and see how it goes. It's the post-processor which smooths the edges.

Some updates on our Unreal Engine tests, and an arcade to remind old times.
 
We started the Unreal Engine project about 1 year and half ago. The start has been pretty rough, as we realized Unreal Engine is not specifically made to build MMOs, even if surely you can build such a game with it, but not without a lot of work. Probably one of the mistakes we did was to start converting our code in UE without first trying to learn how the engine works, and how it should be used. This lowered our motivation, and we restarted to focus on the current PS version. In the last year or so we had very little activity on Unreal, but the good news is that we restarted few weeks ago, with a new approach and new motivation.

So we decided to make a small single player game to test few things like: importing some of our models and at least one animated character, learn the blueprint system (very powerful), see the workflow in packaging a game and making patches, all using UE without too much custom code. The result is a simple game : Crystal Hunt. Some (probably few) of you may remember we had a crystal hunt also in the main PS server many years ago, and this is a revamp of that idea, but for now single player.

You can download the game for the three platforms we support.

Windows version is here.
MacOSX Version is here.
Linux Version is here.

For Windows please be sure to install the Microsoft MSVC 2015 redistributables as its a prerequisite. If any of you are still on win 32bit system, we also compiled a version for it, here.

This is the very first test we do with Unreal, so will be good if you could report any issues you find. You can also tell us the FPS you get in game. (first line in the right side of the screen after pressing F2).

Enjoy!

Settings - Quests

• NEW: A rare Growth. [Thanks Gaheris for contribution.]
• Additions to a number of quests to support the addition of the Assassin combat styles.

Rules - NPCs

• A new boss: Zlatac. See Beniua to get a clue!

Rules - Combat

• A new combat style: Assassin. For the dedicated shadowy characters. By completing the thief quests, you will have access to five new combat moves. For those who already have completed the quest line, the style is already unlocked.

Rules - Improvements and fixes

• Creation of a script that allow the server to recognize when you kill a boss. You will now receive an on screen system message when you kill a boss for the first time. This will allow us to implement MyPlane achievements in the future.
• The stack crafting is now enabled for: Alchemy, Kran food, Cooking, Broadsword, Axes, Blades, Common and rare stock. This include combinations whenever possible. With this improvement, we completed stack crafting for all the crafting patterns available.
• The waypoint network in the laanx dungeon has been extended, this should mitigate the problem of NPCs teleporting while fleeing.
• Fixed a bug with NPC behaviour in response to some debuff like Fear, Terror, Instill Confusion, etc.
• Fixed the bug causing items vanishing from the furnace after few seconds.
• Fixed the bug that was making it impossible to craft gold chain (jewelry crafting) and leather cheekplate (armor crafting).

Rules - Spells

• The direct damage component for Meteor and Lava Pit spells has been raised a bit to bring it in line with other Red Way spells.
• The Crystal Way spell Blessed Lithany will now give an increase max health buff as well as providing area healing.

Hi, I've updated it now. For some reason the calendar is acting up when there is daylight saving. In general the meetings are always at the same time Central Europe time.