Unseen Studios

HUGENORMOUS BUG FIXING! Stuff tackled:

• Underground log-off/-on shows aboveground terrain
• Items pulled from storage disappear
• Items disappear in general
• Fix HP/MP equations
• newly created chars have stats reset and no way to reassign them
• stats of lvl 26s broken
• Raise max lvl and stop EXP gain
• scroll reset
• speed boosts broken fixed again

I've done a bunch of testing to make sure this update isn't as sh!tty as the last one. Sorry about that :/

In this update, you'll have to reassign your stats. Also, try making a new character. I'm trying out starting characters with a lot more HP than they used to have. I think this will let new players participate more easily right from the start, since they can pvp without 1-hitting each other, hunt monsters with more variable damage, and I can increase the range of weapon damage, armor and spell damages. I leveled a few chars to 4 to try it out, and I thought it went pretty smoothly.

Still having random items go poof? Logged off in a dungeon and logged back on 1 hour laater and all the gear was gone.

I think that's related to the server doing weird things rather than the other random-item-killing bug.

I may have found the crashing bug, and I upped the server's rate of backups so if anything does go wrong you'll lose fewer items. Also, speed is fixed.

Was about to post "well, I'll try and crash it today", then thought nah, I'll just see what happens. Logged on and within 2-3 mins its down again.

haha yeah so....this is actually a bug that the other crap was hiding. there's an infinite loop occurring ... somewhere ... !

This kind of bug is a huge pain in the bum to find. With a debugger? 5 seconds. But of course, it never happens on my machine! Without a debugger? I have to sift through thousands of lines of loop code >.<

Would it be at all reasonable to assume that it's a loop you added in 2.11?
or at least to start your search from those loops?

I think I may have found it!

Today's Update:

• I may have found the freezing bug. The only real way to know is if it doesn't lock up again. *crosses fingers*
• I added some new rocks in the mountains to make 'em a little less wall-like
• Sorcs have a new spell to help tackle those tougher baddies
• Reduced the number of trees and plants in the world....as others have noted, it was a tad overwhelming
• Vortex's radius has been reduced and the spell was modified slightly; however, its damage was upped
• Added description for Fireslash
• I might have fixed the Volatus spell (give it a shot!)

Volatus works. The new sorcerer spell is a whole lot of fun. I'm pretty laggy right now so haven't played around much with Vortex.

I'm laggy too. The server might be doing something wonky, I'm not sure. I installed visual C++ on it to help debug, so maybe I'll try wiping that off to see if speed picks up. Glad to hear you like the spell! =D Not quite a substitute for good ol' Beam, but it's in the works

it's pretty sweet. looking forward to a proper beam.

did you say you had cleaned up the way the game handles lag?

I'm no longer disconnecting when I get bad lag, and I'm not sure if that's b/c of fixes on your part or just b/c I moved to a wired connection and am getting a more stable connection to the server.

and, I hate to say it, but there's still an item bug: items are disappearing from death stacks. Full description in the bug list.

I didn't do anything to fix lag (unless I fixed it by accident....which would be odd).

WAIT! Actually, I may have fixed it by accident! There's only about 25% of the scenery now, so maybe your compy's having an easier time loading it.

The choppiness in-game is due to the server's hard-drive being badly fragmented. I took the server down to run defrag; should be back up in a minute.

Items are disappearing from death stacks eh? I'm on it! At least they aren't disappearing from storage anymore

no kidding! Also, I'm heartened that the only time today the server went down, it wasn't the loop. I think you may have fixed it!

Hooray

Also, the choppiness is still there. I'll uninstall stuff this evening to see if that fixes it. Gotta get back to skool stuff.

nice direct damage spell