Patch 2.3 - New Training Dummies, Item Preview, Easter Event!

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Description Howdy valued community!

We wish all of you a Happy Easter!

To celebrate Easter properly, we went on an egg hunt and behold:
We've found quite a lot of features that we can share with you!

We thank you for playing 4Ancient and being loyal to us!


Addons
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1. Item Preview
What you see is what you get.

You can now preview costumes, skins, mounts and companions by right-clicking them while holding Shift.
Items in the item shop can either be previewed with the "Preview" button or also by right-clicking them while holding Shift.

The preview window allows you to zoom in and out and rotate around the previewed object with the mouse or the dedicated arrow buttons in the window.

Items that can be worn will be shown with your character as the base.
You can choose whether to show your own equipment in the preview window with the "Hide Equip" checkbox.

If your equipment is being shown and a costume you are wearing would otherwise hide the item to be previewed, the costume will be hidden automatically.

2. Health Plates
8000, 6000, 4000, ..., already dead?

Added health bars to be shown above enemies' heads to provide a better PvP experience.
Health bars are the same color as the name and target indicator.

To make them stand out more, your target's health bar is bigger than the others'.

Health plates can be configured in the settings under "Game" -> "Health Plates":
  • My own - Health bar on your own character (enabled by default)
  • Hostile Player - Health bar for all hostile players (enabled by default)
  • Friendly Player - Health bar for players of your own nation (disabled by default)
  • Raid and Group - Health bar for party and raid members (enabled by default)
  • Monster - Health bar for monsters (disabled by default)

The option "Hide full life" hides the life bar of enemies with 100% health except for your target, which always displays the health bar.

Private shops are always excluded and never have a health bar.

3. New Training Dummies
Honing your skills has never been easier.

New, more advanced training dummies take the place of the old ones in the Peaceful Settlement.
The new dummies allow you to configure the desired skill to be used and its interval or to have them shoot at random intervals.

Available skills:
  • Lightning Arrow
  • Chaos Arrow
  • Throwing Axe

You can configure up to 3 dummies at once and the same dummy can be used by multiple people.
If you want to, you can also use dummies as a punching bag to practice your ABB.

Your Dodge skill and any negative effects you have will be reset at least one second prior to a dummy's attack.

Failing to dodge is indicated by a message in the info chat and the debuff in your buff panel.
These debuffs from dummies do not have negative effects and only serve as said indicator.

A training dummy cannot be transformed into something else and is immune to all kinds of displacement skill (e.g. throwing, pushing, teleporting).
Additionally, they cannot be stunned and are able to see you even when you are invisible.
Although dummies do not take damage and cannot inflict damage, the damage that would have been dealt is still shown as an indicator.

Skills used on dummies do not consume mana.
If at least one dummy is active, Dodge also consumes no mana.

Starting a duel, teleporting away or getting out of range of the dummy will cause it to stop.
Dummies automatically pause after 10 minutes.

4. Bulk Unseal
Less clicking, less moving, less... zzzZzz

When placing a stack of items into the mystic, they will now all be unsealed one after another.
The unsealing process can always be canceled by pressing Escape.

The time needed to unseal the whole stack will be shown below the item slot.

You can speed up the unsealing process by using Liquid Mystic Profession, which will make unsealing twice as fast! (from 3.5 to 1.75 seconds per item)

When your inventory is full, unsealing will stop and display a message informing you.

4. Autoloot Filters
All those gloves, be gone!

Instead of managing the inventory yourself and constantly throw away items, you can now configure Autoloot to only loot what you actually want
by right-clicking the skill icon in the buff panel.

The following loot filters are available and can be combined (except for "All"):
  • All - Loots everything (enabled by default)
  • Material - Loots all kinds of crafting material
  • Tears - Loots Tears of Goddess or anything else that a mystic can unseal.
  • Blue items - Loots all items with less than 3 magic options
  • Yellow items - Loots all items with 3 or more magic options
  • Bonus Points - Loots all items that grant you bonuspoints

The filter settings are not bound to a single Autoloot and will transfer to a newly activated Autoloot.

5. Flashing Application Icon
Attention! Important events are unfolding!

It is now possible to have the game's icon flash in the taskbar in case of certain events while the game is not in focus.
You can configure when it should flash in the settings under "Game" -> "Flash App Icon".

The game can ask for your attention for the following things:
  • When being whispered
  • When being attacked
  • After dying
  • After receiving a letter


6. +16 Item Effect
The +16 item effect has been added as a possible effect to be obtained from +17 and above.
The chances to get the +16 golden item effect are very low.


Changes
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1. Buff Panel
The buff panel now displays buffs that expire the earliest first, followed by permanent ones.
Within those two categories, buffs that can be canceled are prioritized.

2. Spawn Invisibility
The spawn invisibility effect (triggered by teleporting, reviving or logging in) will now be shown in the buff panel,
to let you know how much time remains.

3. Security Code System
It is no longer possible to proceed when the input fields are empty.

After the code has been entered incorrectly once, it only has to be entered correctly once again afterwards. (used to be twice)

4. Rune of Bundling
Upon destroying a Rune of Bundling, it will now automatically stack with other destroyed Runes of Bundling in the inventory.

The message box when destroying a rune can now be confirmed with Enter and canceled with Escape.

5. Settings Window
Some things in the settings window now show you additional information when hovering over them.

6. Friend List
Added the option "Whisper" when right-clicking a friend in the friend list.

7. New Application Icon
Added multilayered application icon with several resolutions (from 16x16 up to 1024x1024).


Easter Event
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New cashshop items
To properly celebrate Easter, we've added a few new cashshop items.

Costumes (Limited offer: available until 30.04.2022!)
  • Easter Hat
  • Elegant Bunny Ears
  • Elegant Bunny Costume
  • Chicken Hat
  • Chicken Costume
  • Floppy Bunny Hat
  • Floppy Bunny Costume


Mounts (Limited offer: available until 30.04.2022!)
  • Bouncing Bunny
  • Bouncing Bunny with Spots
  • Egg ride


Rate Events
The Easter rate events can be found on our Discord server!

Channel: » 4Ancient Discord | #upcoming-rate-events


Bug Fixes
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1. The Plague Mask cannot be stacked anymore.

2. The security code window no longer shows errors that happened in previous, unrelated attempts to enter the code.

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Patch 2.3a - Buff Panel adjustments and Bugfixes