Greetings Nevarethians!
As you all know, we have been working very hard since we released our latest update, due to the update having many issues for many players, including us.
When we test updates on our test server, we don't have the amount of players that we have on the production server, so sometimes bugs get through.
This time we encountered a bug, that was caused partially from some of our new functions and also from the game itself.
I don't want to get too technical, so I will try to explain it so it is easy to understand for non technical users as well.
The game is a 32bit application, which in best case scenario, supports a maximum of 4GB of memory.
Due to how the game handles memory allocation this amount fills up very easily if not using optimized files.
Once the game reaches this limit, it will not be able to allocate then read any more data and the game will crash.
In our test environment we were not able to reproduce this, since with less players, the game was not loading as many resources and we were not reaching the limit.
What we did:
We have optimized our files, reducing the client size from a total of 8.39GB to 6.21GB.
We have implemented a better way for our custom functions to handle memory allocation and deallocation, resulting in even less memory usage overall.
With these changes, we were able to drastically improve client stability.
Reactivated features:
BM3 Macro has been reactivated, now it should properly work, however we would like to ask everyone to report if they encounter any issues with it.
BM3 Macro is available for all users with Premium Service Gold
AA/DA extension was enabled, we have fixed our conflicting extension and it should work as expected.
Character creation screen has been finetuned and it now properly shows class descriptions.
Legend Arena:
Now has a better UI display and also features a score system and a damage bonus system.
UI now displays the following:
Scores will be used to determine rewards once the system is fully configured and stable.
Bonus damage is a buff the player can get when entering Legend Arena. It has a random chance to apply or not a random % damage buff to the player.
Legend Arena is still in testing phase and will be tweaked as needed so expect some changes to the scoring system and the bonus damage rates.
Reactivated the new Mission War ban system, that should properly work now.
All channels are now accepting 100 players.
Vikalitan of Golden Sunset was moved to channel 6.
Multiple clients can be opened up to a maximum of 3 at the same time, however we cannot guarantee stability if doing so.
A brand new installer was created with the optimized client and was updated on the website downloads page.
Patch was also made available through the launcher, it is up to you to choose which one suits you better.
P.S.: This update was a special update that had to be released as soon as possible so we resolve these issues.
From here on, we will be releasing the updates on Tuesdays, unless a critical situation happens, like now, then we will try our best to correct it and release it as soon as possible.
Stay tuned for more!
As you all know, we have been working very hard since we released our latest update, due to the update having many issues for many players, including us.
When we test updates on our test server, we don't have the amount of players that we have on the production server, so sometimes bugs get through.
This time we encountered a bug, that was caused partially from some of our new functions and also from the game itself.
I don't want to get too technical, so I will try to explain it so it is easy to understand for non technical users as well.
The game is a 32bit application, which in best case scenario, supports a maximum of 4GB of memory.
Due to how the game handles memory allocation this amount fills up very easily if not using optimized files.
Once the game reaches this limit, it will not be able to allocate then read any more data and the game will crash.
In our test environment we were not able to reproduce this, since with less players, the game was not loading as many resources and we were not reaching the limit.
What we did:
We have optimized our files, reducing the client size from a total of 8.39GB to 6.21GB.
We have implemented a better way for our custom functions to handle memory allocation and deallocation, resulting in even less memory usage overall.
With these changes, we were able to drastically improve client stability.
Reactivated features:
BM3 Macro has been reactivated, now it should properly work, however we would like to ask everyone to report if they encounter any issues with it.
BM3 Macro is available for all users with Premium Service Gold
AA/DA extension was enabled, we have fixed our conflicting extension and it should work as expected.
Character creation screen has been finetuned and it now properly shows class descriptions.
Legend Arena:
Now has a better UI display and also features a score system and a damage bonus system.
UI now displays the following:
- Remaining time
- Minimum score
- Current score
- Bonus damage
Bonus damage is a buff the player can get when entering Legend Arena. It has a random chance to apply or not a random % damage buff to the player.
Legend Arena is still in testing phase and will be tweaked as needed so expect some changes to the scoring system and the bonus damage rates.
Reactivated the new Mission War ban system, that should properly work now.
All channels are now accepting 100 players.
Vikalitan of Golden Sunset was moved to channel 6.
Multiple clients can be opened up to a maximum of 3 at the same time, however we cannot guarantee stability if doing so.
A brand new installer was created with the optimized client and was updated on the website downloads page.
Patch was also made available through the launcher, it is up to you to choose which one suits you better.
P.S.: This update was a special update that had to be released as soon as possible so we resolve these issues.
From here on, we will be releasing the updates on Tuesdays, unless a critical situation happens, like now, then we will try our best to correct it and release it as soon as possible.
Stay tuned for more!
