Expedition Agartha

• Updated two handed blocking animations to be synced between first person and 3rd person
  
• More UI cosmetic Updates, gear score and player level propery added to inventory screen
  
• Increased the size of the stash vertically
  
• Item now displays a "drop icon" if an action would drop the item whem moving it around in inventory
  
• You can now customize the amount of items you want to split in a stack
  
  
• Speculative fix for bug that causes your character's turn speed to be reduced to near zero
  
• Fixed bug where the title of your killer was smaller than the name
  
• Fixed bug where you could get stuck in block
  
• Speculative fix for issues involving getting locked out the game temporarily after death or extraction
  
• Fixed bug where asian male head was too large and would clip through hair and helmets
  
• Fixed bug where equipping an item from a loot bag would evaporate the preivously equipped item
  
• Fixed bug where unequipping the shield would cause you to block with the wrong arm still even though you are one handed
  
• Fixed bug where merc followers would throw kunais at the player leader
  

• Updated consumable descriptions to be more numerically understandable from a player perspective.
  
• Increased the size of the head Hitbox to prevent "near misses" that lead to poor combat feel.
  
• Backpacks should count properly in storage space.
  
• New inventory UI and icon art implemented, expect continuous upgrades in the future.
  
• When your attack cannot commit due to not enough stamina, exhaustion is now forced.
  
• Removed obsolete tips.
  

• Fixed combat exploit in which you can face away from target but still hit through their block.
  
• Speculative fix for bug where some players could not loot properly.
  
• Fixed bug where Gada Asura uses leaping attack too frequently.
  
• Fixed bug where turning the voices setting didn't turn off some NPC voices.
  
• Fixed bug where Gold Value didn't update properly when switching to stash.
  
• Fixed bug where damage values didn't calculate properly sometimes when recovering from exhaustion.
  
• Fixed bug where polearms didn't work propery with Brigandine Gloves.
  
• Fixed bug where you could go over 100% reduced stamina damage taken.
  
• Fixed bug in undercroft where you could go below a wooden structure and instantly die.
  
• Fixed exploit in which you could get to the Lost Cache without the key.
  
• Speculative fixes for connection timed out errors.
  
• Fixed bug where players spawning in would look like yellow mannequins.
  
• Fixed bug where disconnecting and reconnecting would lead to all possible extracts including the wrong ones becoming visible.
  
• Fixed bug displaying parry effectiveness incorrectly.
  
• Fixed bug displaying movement speed incorrectly.
  
• Fixed bug displaying attack speed in full stat page incorrectly.
  

• Hits that land below the knees now do 70% reduced damage and do not apply bleeding or broken bones
  
• Significant improvement to shiphub netcode, hopefully fixes disconnecting and "failed to detect heartbeat" issues
  
• Additional anti-cheat measures to try and stop flyhacks
  
• Speculative fix for shiphub nametags not showing properly.
  
• Removed nigredo and calcified ash salt from loot drops
  

• Shield Charge- while sprinting, charge with your shield out to impact and stun enemies ahead of you in an AOE cone.
  
  
• Sweeping Cleave- While wielding a two hander or a polearm, unleash an uninterruptible 360 swing that deals critical damage and stuns blocking opponents.
  
  
• Qi Heal- Harness the healing powers of your Inner Qi and heal an ally, or yourself if not targeting anybody.
  
  
• Qi Lightning- Gather your Qi to unleash a blast of energy that does normal damage to one target, but will stagger groups of enemies.
  
  
• Leaping strike- A passive skill that increases your damage after a jump.
  

• Fire Lance- Unlock the ability to craft a one-use primitive gunpowder based weapon. Launch a rocket at your foes that explodes with deadly force.
  
  
• Smoke pot- Unlock the ability to craft a grenade that creates a cloud of smoke that slows down movement speed and stamina regeneration inside the cloud.
  
  
• Steel- Unlock the ability to craft Wootz Steel onto weapons, making the weapon unable to lose durability.
  
  
• Crystal Shards- Unlock the ability to craft explosive crystal shards that can be thrown to kite groups of enemies.
  

Patch Notes

• Additional input tweaks to make sprint feel better and require less re-input when interrupted
  
• Durability bars added to weapon HUD
  
• When an Asura hits a bot enemy, the bot enemy will lose immortality bonus(by default all bots are immortal until hit by a player)
  
• Updated items with new graphics for upgrade slots
  
• Shield balance tweaks- removed movement speed debuff on all shields, increased their parry effectiveness, and fixed bug where shield heavy attacks were slow
  
• Crossbow balance tweaks- base damage lowered(wooden 300> 250, arbalest 400>340), headshot damage increased from +35% to +50% (bots do reduced bonus headshot damage)
  
• You can now loot dropped bags on top of bodies, preventing the unable to loot exploit.
  
• Additional anti-cheat measures to fight the ongoing war against hackers.
  
• Insured gear that is inside an insured backpack should now return with the insurance.
  
• Opening doors no longer grants Exp.
  
• More matchmaker Optimizations.
  
• Toxicity and Fullness warnings appear at 50% now.
  
  
• Hubworld servers are now open and can fit up to 33 parties/99 players.
  
• Players can now see name tags on the Hubworld.
  
  
• Fixed Multi-buy bug with certain items such as bolt
  
• Fixed bug where crossbow would not give bonus damage on headshot
  
• Fixed bug where you could kick somebody into a stunlock by repeatedly kicking
  
• Fixed exploit where you could consume items infinitely
  
• Fixed bug where it sounded like walking on grass in certain areas of stone in the Undercroft
  
• Fixed bug in which you get get out of parry stun by using a consumable
  
  
• Speculative fix for bugs when player is unable to connect to the game for a temporary period after extraction (The 'return to ship' button should now become available once your progress has been completely saved)
  

• Cintamani fragments, Cintamani jewels, and Lemurian keys stack to 20 again
  
• Special Locked Chests now take only 1 key item from a stack, and can be properly opened again
  
• Player can now matchmake into games that already started up to 5 minutes into an expedition, this should make matchmaking even more optimal for fuller games
  
• Parry effectiveness added to full stat page
  
• Light attacks and heavy attacks stamina cost increased by 20%, kicks changed from default cost 170 to 120
  
• Updates map descriptions since they no longer cost keys
  
• Corrupted zombies hitboxes reduced and attack speeds reduced 20%
  

• Additional speculative anti-cheat measures in place
  
• Reduced map rotation timer down to an hour and half
  
• Merc follower contracts no longer allowed in solo queue
  
• Merc followers should no longer constantly reload
  
• Enabled joining a match in progress to allow for more players in a server and additional matchmaker optimizations to put more players together
  
• Added in multibuy to shops, but only for items that can be stacked
  
• Tweaked sprint to allow you to press sprint input before movement input
  
• Cintamani Fragments, Cintamani Jewels, and Lemurian Keys can no longer stack.(Watch out forfor previously stacked items. It may feel buggy but there should be no loss of items)
  
• Cleave weapons only refund stamina once per attack
  
• Polearm light attack 1 animation is now smoother
  
• Freebooter Arena contestants now only spawn with 2 Dried Nuts
  
• Kicks no longer interrupt attacks
  
• Gear found in Freebooter arena now spawns with 200 durability but upon extract lowers to 50
  
• Fiadh's box of blood is now 2000 gold
  
• Hits now show damage under the hitmarker to help players understand their damage output compared to enemy resistances
  
• Lemurian Key Chests in the Ancient Caverns spawn much better loot
  
• Disabled WIP skill tree UI elements
  
• Fixed some floating decor
  
• Fixed stats typo with Ghazi boots
  
• Fixed steel axe dual wield crafting
  
• Fixed quest item dupe
  
• Fixed bug where parrying a kunai stunned the thrower
  

• Freebooter Arena and Lost Island will always be available, but the rest of the maps and any new maps in the future, will now be included in a randomized map rotation system that refreshes every 7 hours. This will streamline the population and also create a sense of urgency since now you can only attempt specific quests on specific days. This will also allow us to continue adding new content without splitting the population each time. This system may be modified in the future as our population continues to grow.
  

• Added the Lost Island Solo Queue.
  
• The Forsaken Temple, the Hypogean Undercroft, the Ancient Caverns, and ALL FUTURE maps will now be available based on a rotation cycle. Every 7 hours the available map will change. Keys are no longer required to access maps, but instead, the key items are now consumed and unlock special chests in the maps that drop good loot. Loot across all maps have been lowered in quality.
  Up to 20 public parties should now be able to be seen in public party browser.
  
• Cintimani Fragment is now 400 gold.
  
• Damage Dealt screen now shows the damage you dealt to others.
  
• Items inside of backpacks no longer return with insurance.
  
• Added Bug report link in game in ESC menu.
  
• Added Quick repair button in the insurance screen. 7g per 1 item durability.
  
• All gear that spawns in Freebooter Arena is returned to your stash with 0 durabilty, in order to stop Arena Profiteering and Teaming.
  
• Freebooter Arena no longer drops potions other than health tincture.
  
• Server ping disabled to stop players from confusing what their ping is.
  
• Recipe notes now stack to 20.
  
  
• Fixed bug with quest tracking in non English languages.
  
• Fixed issue where long backpack names didn't wrap properly.
  
• Fixed bug where items would randomly disappear.
  
• Fixed buggy smoke vfs in some campfires in the ancient caverns.
  

• Reverted updates to attack animation due to bug where parrying causes attacks to stop working
  
• Crouch is now Faster
  
• Added notifications when matchmaker finds a gamer
  
• Arrival message now is a bit longer to give player more time to prepare
  
• Bots can now sprint again
  
• Disabled dormancy- should fix bugs where nothing spawns in a chest when looting
  
• Equipped backpacks now use backpack's custom name
  
• Fixed bug where Kunais scale off your weapon
  

• Added outnumbered buff- For each enemy player near you, gain 25% additional stamina regeneration rate only when Exhausted.
  
• Kicks now refund a small amount of stamina.
  
• Added ripostes, affecting all weapons. Parrying gives you a buff for the next 3 seconds, affecting one attack. This next attack costs no stamina, is uninterruptible(can still be blocked), deals 25% additional stamina damage, and is 25% faster.
  
• Everything below the knees takes 50% less damage, applies to humanoids.
  
• Olfactory Augmentation vial has reduced distance, only lasts 15 seconds now, and adds 60 toxicity.
  
• Added additional Anti-Cheat measures.
  
• Corrupted Zombies now drop corrupted blood.
  
• Fixed memory leak involving stash- the crash can still happen but it should be much harder to trigger.
  
• Fixes to asura to improve chance of it not evaporating into thin air during jump attack.
  
• Fixed bug where parrying would slow down your movement.
  
• Fixed music bugs where they would spam play on repeate, but we had to disable dynamic combat music for now.
  
• Fixed fish carving missing from asura arena for Ching's quest.
  
• Fixed bug where region activity didn't update properly.
  
• Fixed broken travel to land boat in the back of the Ship in the hubworld.
  
• Fixed Bakufu npcs not wearing proper clothing.
  
• Fixed Templar knight not wearing the Crusader Paladin Torso.
  
• Fixed animals in the Forsaken temple dropping the wrong type of meat.
  
• Fixed bug where NPCs spawn underground at the Sun Scorched Camp.