After skipping last week we're back at it again with another Citadel update. Today's patch is, again, largely focused on improving server performance and rising pings on populated servers, and to that end we have a pretty substantial enhancement! We also have some new quest content, some bug and exploit fixes, and an entirely new visual improvement to Mana Generators. Let's get to it!
Net Driver Improvements
The netcode improvements continue! We’ve made a pretty significant upgrade to Citadel’s NetDriver, which should have a dramatic impact on pings on servers with higher populations. To put it simply, we’ve made optimizations to the way the client and server replicate the various items and objects in the world.
Previously, the game would evaluate every replicated actor on a loop for every player on the server. With today’s update, the game now takes a box query around each player and only considers those actors for replication. TLDR: You should experience much less of a rise in pings as more players join a server and interact with the world!
More Magic Structure Visual Improvements
Remember how we changed Mana Generator lines to reduce the clutter? Forget all that! We’ve hunkered down and implemented a significantly better way of visualizing what’s powered-up and where it’s powered from, while also making the entire presentation much cleaner.
After this patch, Mana Generators will display a blue sphere of influence. Anything within its sphere can be powered by that Mana Generator. The best part is that these spheres will only be visible when you’re in build mode! Say bye bye to annoying lines and VFX clutter during normal gameplay forever!
More Quests
We’ve also added another 100+ daily quests to the selection offered by our daily quest givers, and a host of new quest givers have been added to the world. They will appear as exclamation marks on your map as you discover them, so be sure to explore the world and let us know what you think of the additional injection of quest variety!
Much More
As always, there are a handful of very nice bug fixes and gameplay improvements included in today's patch notes, so be sure to look below to see all the details. We hope you enjoy these new optimizations and fresh content, and hope to see you in Ignus soon!
- Significant Net Driver improvements
- Mana Generator visualization changes
- Added 100+ new quests
- Multiple new quest givers added
- Fixed an exploit allowing players to Blink through walls
- Fixed a bug that prevented players from building while mounted
- Various crash fixes