What's New in Hero's Song Early Access Update 5 — Hero's Song™ News

IMPORTANT: If you created a world or character during Alpha 3 or Early Access, and that world or character remains affected by an issue listed as resolved below, you may need to create a new world or character for the respective changes to take effect.

General

Fixed an issue where the server was crashing due to an argument out of range exception
Fixed an issue where pathing through fall nodes could cause a crash
Fixed an issue where health regeneration, food, water, and blood were not synchronizing correctly with all clients or incorrectly saving on the player
Fixed an issue where geotiles were repopulating incorrectly
Fixed an issue where players could load into worlds without a character name
Fixed an issue where deep water was not traversable by projectiles

Multiplayer

Added world descriptions that can be used to provide more information about worlds
Added a new friends list window that is not currently usable (coming soon!)

Balance

Increased overall worldwide difficulty and smoothed level curve
Fixed an issue where wildlife entities could not level up
Fixed an issue where inventory set distribution was not scaling with NPC level
Fixed an issue where coin loot was not scaling with NPC level

Quests

Added a new quests feature!
Added 16 collection quests offered by commoners (15% chance; more quests on the way)
- Talk to a quest giver to learn about the items required to complete the quest. With the required items, talk to a quest giver to turn in the items for a reward. The reward is an amount of experience based on the difficulty of the quest.
Added a new object interaction cursor for quest givers

Combat

Fixed an issue where the hold position key allowed melee abilities to hit distant targets
Fixed several issues where a number of melee abilities required a target

Classes

Assassin
- Blade Toss
  - Blade Toss now deals 100/115/125/150/175% weapon damage
- Evasion
  - Fixed an issue where the particle effect was not displayed
  - Fixed an issue where the sound effect was not played
- Stealth
  - Stealth now generates 10 surprise per second
Druid
- Trait: Wildling
  - Fixed an issue where the trait caused a faction change
Paladin
- Turn Undead
  - Fixed an issue where the delivery type was not set correctly
Ranger
- Strike
  - Fixed an issue where the ability required a target instead of using an arc
- Volley
  - Volley now deals 80/100/125/150/185% weapon damage

Merchants, Trade and Economy

Fixed an issue where merchants could sell items that would not be added to the player character’s inventory
Fixed an issue where merchants could sell items when the player character had no inventory slots available

Items, Loot and Crafting

Added rare loot to evil humanoids that scales with NPC level
Added base block bonus to all shields
Fixed an issue where crafted Leather and Plate armor was not dropping on death
Fixed an issue where Silk Kneeguards were assigned to the wrong slot

Encounters

Bears
- Fixed an issue where bear nameplates did not display their names
Gnoll Queen
- Fixed an issue where the Gnoll Queen was missing behaviors
Merchants
- Added a chance for wandering merchants to appear with patrols
- Added jewelry that scales with merchant level to wandering merchants
Rats
- Added rat encounters to all difficulty levels
- Removed large encounters from very low level geotiles

User Interface

Added a center map button to the World Map window
Added an error notification for when targets are out of range
Added an error notification for when an ability requires a target
Fixed an issue where button states were not resetting properly
Fixed an issue where the Settings screen did not have a title
Fixed an issue where the World Map was not centering after switching characters
Fixed an issue where the stats accordion was not sorted correctly on the character creation screen
Fixed an issue where the stats accordion was not expanded by default on the character creation screen
Fixed an issue where tooltips were not displayed on the character creation screen
Fixed an issue where tooltips were not positioned correctly on the character creation screen

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