Patch 1.39 Release Notes (Test)

Sanya has posted the v1.39 patch notes from the test server over on Camelot Herald, revealing lots of good additions to the game, including level 40 epic quests and the ability to turn off “pulse” messages. Here’s a small rip from the full notes:

– The last patch had a change to Hibernian Piercing combat styles – Sidewinder was changed to require an opening style that itself had a block opening. This had the large unintended consequence that many classes (who didn’t use shields) could no longer use these styles. So, we’re changing it back to the way it was before. Sidwinder now requires as its opening Black Widow. We apologize for the confusion.

– We think we’ve finally nailed down the last bug that was preventing high level characters from getting combat styles. You should now see all your styles when you log in.

– You’ll now see arrows fly through the air when an archer fires at a target. When the arrow hits the target, the arrow sticks in the target for a couple of seconds letting the target know the rough direction from which the arrow was fired.

– Players can now climb ladders. To climb a ladder run up to it and continue holding down the move forward key. You’ll climb up the ladder. To climb down the ladder, use the move backward key. If you are on a wall and which to climb a ladder, move backwards and fall off of the wall onto the ladder – you’ll stick to it and can climb up and down.

– Monsters now respect doors so that if a door is closed (but not locked) the monster will open the door before going through. If a door is locked (i.e. at a frontier or relic keep), the monster will not come through at all.

– You now get a dialog box for confirmation when you give weapon or armor to a guard.

– If you have no chance to repair an items, you now get a message telling you that – previously you would just get a message telling you that you failed.

– Previously, you could not be interrupted while shooting a bow after you draw the bow but are just “waiting to fire”. Now you have a chance of getting interrupted while waiting to fire as well as when you are drawing the bow.

– The /bind command has been slightly changed – it still binds you if you are in a bindable area, prints your bind location if you are not. The change is that if you are in a dungeon or another Realm, you’ll get “you can’t bind here” message (because the game doens’t know where your bind point is when you are in another region).

– If you are mesmerized in the middle of the cast, you no longer complete your spell when the mez wears off. You now have to recast your spell.

– You can now simply type “/who 30 40” to find players of certain levels. Previously you had to type “/who level 30 40” to find the same information.

– You can no longer inadvertently downgrade an object by using the “upgrade” command and specifying a lower level than the object’s current level.

– You can no longer salvage an item for 0 money.

– The position of the tradeskill timer should save now when you exit the game.

Can’t wait to try out the new level 40 epics when these go live on the regular servers =).