Sacred:1.8.26 FIXLIST

Changes in Sacred 1.8.26 Fixlist

Fixlist for 1.8.26 Gameplay and Single player

• Fixed: Chance of getting a set-item too low
• Fixed: Weak items as Quest award
• Fixed: Problems with the strength of quest givers
• Fixed: In higher difficulty levels, hidden items too strong
• Fixed: Quests with lvl 1 bosses
• Fixed: Disarming bonus too strong
• Fixed: Life leech not working properly on last hit
• Fixed: Some rewards and chest items too weak
• Fixed: Unique items were not created as normal items (like Swords etc.)
• Fixed: Tooltip displaying bonus damage did not work correctly
• Fixed: Health potion exploit could cause instabilities
• Fixed: Survival Bonus reset near Mystdale Castle
• Fixed: Pain only caused damage up to the current life energy
• Fixed: Xrysals Dagger (Set Item) now only for Wood Elf
• Fixed: Improved calculations for 2 quest items (now better rare items)
• Fixed: Imbalance caused by certain set items
• Fixed: A problem which could cause crashes when overwriting a savegame
• Fixed: Missing doors and triggers when using 1.6 or 1.7 savegames in 1.8
• Fixed: Instant death by Ice Elf moves in higher levels
• Fixed: Set-Items increased stats too high when being smithed
• Fixed: Instant death by Skeleton Mages through their life leech
• Fixed: Foes killed by Pets would either drop no items or not enough
• Fixed: Wolves with torches
• Fixed: Forest God quest: Priest would also drop a rune when quest was not accepted
• Fixed: When riding a horse the char would suddenly ride backwards after teleporting
• Fixed: Ice Elf quest: The guard of the priestess now generated only once
• Fixed: Dream netting of the gods set had last bonus missing
• Fixed: Combo-Exploit of the Wood Elf
• Fixed: 255 to 0 skill reset
• Fixed: Quest NPCs not teleporting away correctly
• Changed: Minimal drop stats for Dragons and Daemon
• Changed: The amount of numbers displayed onscreen (Damage, Exp etc.)
• Changed: Earthquake effect now only displayed when Graphic settings set to high (for Meteor, Jump moves etc.)
• Changed: Fog of War now reveals mini-map when also using special skills.
• Changed: Mini-Map now reveals when starting on the island or teleporting
• Changed: Arena battle near Gloomoor now limited to 10 fights
• Changed: Vampire, Awakening. Raised creatures now dependent on the spell and char level.
• Changed: Trade skill now more noticeably improves the offers from a trader

Multiplayer and ClosedNET

• Fixed: Quest portals visible for all now
• Fixed: LAN Coop: Daemon Horn now visible for all
• Fixed: LAN Coop: Final battle souls now visible for all and usable for all
• Fixed: Sporadic freeze when shutting game down
• Fixed: char files becoming too big
• Fixed: Possible error when logging out of game/saving
• Fixed: Changing bonus stats when reloading a saved character
• Fixed: Gameserver crash caused by too many simultaneous logins
• Fixed: CLOSED NET: Cheat protection could change item stats
• Fixed: Problems when Hirelings lose their host or when a host leaves the game
• Fixed: Some spells were not visible for all players
• Fixed: After a kick, sometimes a new game or single player was not possible without a restart
• Fixed: Teleport effect sometimes displayed incorrectly
• Fixed: Crash when entering the tower on the start island
• Fixed: Crash caused when loading a character already running at the time the game was saved
• Fixed: Crash in the lobby caused by \cfff…
• Fixed: Colours now displayed correctly in the lobby
• Fixed: Skulls had their stats changed through Cheat protection when logging off
• Fixed: Gameserver no longer permits the login of a broken char (patch should now repair the char, if you continue to have problems contact Service_sacred@ascaron.com)
• Fixed: Crash caused when clicking on a Horse that according to the Gameserver no longer is present.
• Fixed: Picking up a certain item could cause the char to teleport elsewhere
• Fixed: Fixed a random teleport of the char when opening the export screen in-game
• Fixed: Crash caused by chars with // in their name
• Fixed: /w command now only requires account name
• Fixed: Hardcore Flag now works correctly in LAN and Open NET
• Fixed: Common problems causing lags and crashes
• Fixed: Forest God Quest: Portal remains open, other party members can enter it
• Fixed: EXP exploit new Gloomoor Arena in Niobium
• Fixed: Only Dragon fire visible on the client can now cause damage
• Fixed: Continuous Earthquake and Lightning effects
• Fixed: EXP gain sometimes not correct when pets kill a foe
• Fixed: To decrease possible lag, certain effects have now been disabled in MP and are now only visible at the highest graphical setting
• Changed: Client performance improved
• Changed: After death in Hardcore, the dead char can no longer drop gold. When the dead char has under 1000 gold, all gold is dropped.
• Changed: Cheated items now replaced by Gamebox and dropped on the ground (Players caught cheating 3 times will receive a temp ban, second time offenders will receive a perm ban)
• Changed: \s whispering now only works ingame, no longer in the lobby
• Changed: Various improvements to how the map is discovered during gameplay
• Changed: Optimized CPU usage for Client and Server
• Changed: Optimized messages for distributed EXP
• Changed: Gameserver optimized against using too much memory causing lag peaks
• Changed: Closed Net: “Cheater Detected” appears as chat message, not as pop-up message
• Changed: Gameserver logs now possible by adding log to the end of Gameserver.exe
• Changed: Memory usage for Gameserver and Client optimized

Characters

• Fixed: Vamp Bloodkiss missing animation
• Changed: Dark Elf Reflection spells now work on party members
• Changed: Mage: Stormspell damage now calculated independently of paralysis effect

Item Loss

• Changed: Characters that equip themselves with faulty items will now be kicked from the server
• Changed: General overhaul in Multiplayer to minimize Item loss

General

• Fixed: Logbook errors for Forest God and Ice Elf quests
• Fixed: Stormspell no longer pushes back “large” foes
• Fixed: Vamp in Vampform did not identify certain weapons when slots where changed
• Fixed: Possible crash caused when certain characters die through quest script procedures
• Fixed: Statistic error showing last Foe
• Fixed: No EXP from larger creatures in higher difficult levels
• Fixed: Possible crash when loading startscreen
• Fixed: Error caused by Seraphim Energy bolts
• Fixed: Missing triggers when opening doors
• Fixed: JPG screenshots now created when playing fullscreen
• Fixed: Vidobj file no longer created when creating a screenshot
• Fixed: MP problem when saving a seraphim with an active BeeEffGee
• Fixed: Several errors caused when loading a savegame
• Fixed: AI problems when NPCs change state
• Fixed: Import of SP chars now causes a reset of previously owned quest items
• Fixed: Rare crash caused when fighting in a Castle
• Fixed: Inconsistency in Shareefas Dialog selection
• Fixed: Trigger on the Seraphim Cloister could be circumvented
• Fixed: Possible freeze near Giant Spiders
• Fixed: QuestNPC could disappear under certain conditions
• Fixed: Health not being correct since certain bonus stats not saved correctly in the savegame
• Changed: Daemon now appears after the first attack on the Horn
• Changed: Internal calculations for the “Heart of Ancaria”
• Changed: New log file created for EXP exchange
• Changed: FPS display size decreased
• Changed: Max EXP now around 2 Billion EXP, Max level still 206
• Changed: Quality of Rings and Amulets should now be improved