::August 30, 2002 - BUILD NOTES::

We have performed a major update to the AC2 Beta! Please read on for details.

We regret to inform you that we had to do a “character wipe”—that is, all characters were erased. This was due to data incompatibilities created by bugfixes. It is our goal to do as few wipes as possible on Beta

World Red. We only do them when absolutely necessary.

 

The sad news out of the way, here are significant changes/fixes:

• Many USB mouse problems should be fixed, though mouselook may still have issues.
• Added new "Overall Graphics Quality" setting to AC2Config. This allows you to easily select a good preset for your graphics settings.
• AC2Config now scans your computer's hardware and automatically recommends an appropriate graphics quality level.  If you've already customized your options and would like to revert to a preset, just load up AC2Config and click the "Detect" button.
• Modified Training Hall quest. You start off with all 3 weapons already in your pack.
• “Cannot examine target” spam has been removed. But hey, no-one noticed that anyways, right?
• Rat Smasher quest is functioning correctly now.
• Changes Jailais and Slings to Cestas. The Cesta Union 101 made us an offer we couldn't refuse...
• Mines can now be used by multiple crafters at once.
• More Tumerok armor recipes.
• Vakentu Emerald can now be found again.
• Skills now can cost more than 1 point. As much as 5 points in some cases. You now have to  make actual "choices" while training up your trees. You won't notice any difference before level 15, but afterwards, it's a whole new game...
• Fixed skills: Insidious Concoction, Imbue Fire.
• Human and Tumerok diving looks better.
• Paragon skills now bar off-tree specialist skills and vice versa.
• Lugian skill Weaken Resolve (and others) no longer can reduce a player's or monster's health to 0, making them invulnerable.
• Map notes and your place on map are more accurate, and easier to navigate.
• Level 8 has the proper amount of XP needed to level.
• Special sound when you successfully use a powerful skill combination.
• Target Next/Previous/Closest Fellow should work.
• Removed the "cancel" button from the "Please wait..." dialogs, since it didn't do anything useful.

Most notable bugs/issues (we intend to fix all of these soon):

• Some copies of the Training Halls are very dark. We apologize for this-- you'll have to brighten your screen, feel your way through, and use your radar as a guide.
• The Training Hall quest does not give proper instructions in the panel: it tells you to do the step you've just done. You need to: 1) Double-click the Ancestor Head; 2) Kill a Filcher; 3) Get the Orb from the Filcher; 4) Drag the Orb from your backpack to the body of the Statue; 5) Leave through the portal.
• Some quests, dungeons, and Vaults still can not be completed.
• The locations given in the Obelisk Search Quest are wrong. You can find the first obelisks by going through each Ringway and looking around a bit for the next Obelisk, which will be near the next Ringway portal. The last Amethyst Obelisk is by the entrance to the nearest Vault: in the Arwic Outlands at 35.4N 4.2E; in the Esper Reaches at 26.6N 22.6W; in Lost Wish at 49.4N 22.4E. However, the Lost Wish Vault can not be completed.
• We still have some crashes on the client. Turning your graphics settings all the way down/off may help avoid these.
• Some skills do not work properly.
• Allegiance chat channel (using /a command) still does not work.
• Monsters can still get stuck and become easy kills.
• Not all issues with all supported graphics cards, sound cards, or firewalls are resolved.
• Changing game resolution to something your card does not support will cause a client crash.
• In some game resolutions, not all UI can be clicked or seen.
• You cannot remap any of your keys! Not by using the GUI anyway...
• When you log in, people near you often won't be able to see or hear you until you run away for a minute and come back.
• F1 help does not display on Windows98.
• The font in the Story Quests is wacky.
• Kingdom-granted skills say you need to spend skill points on them when you don't; you need to be a certain PK rating when you use the Kingdom shrine.
• You cannot drag recipes to the shortcut bar.
• Effigy Orb looks stuck to your arm.
• When you do extra damage thanks to an attack in a combo or on a vulnerable monster, the floating number for the extra damage is stacked on top of the other damage number.
• Lugian Elementalist skill Hurricane causes client crash and possible data corruption.
• To perform Lifestone Recall, you need to be wielding a magic-casting "focus" (drum, scepter, etc), otherwise your movement freezes for a minute and it fails.