Greetings Mortals,
The Sprint 7 PTR will be going live shortly today, and will be up for a few days for testing and gathering feedback.
This latest update introduces an all new ranked dueling system, the ability to surrender and allow others to inspect your inventory, clade reroll tokens, daily tasks, new mastery gifts, mountable spiders and much more.
Read the full patch notes below and happy testing!
How to access the PTR
- Open your Steam client and right click Mortal Online 2 in your games library.
- Click ‘Properties’
- Click ‘Betas’ on the left
- Using the ‘Beta Participation’ dropdown menu, click on the ‘Mortal Online Public Test Realm’.
- Your Steam client will then patch your game over to the test branch, and if the servers are up already you will be free to log in as normal.
What we encourage you to test!
We thank you for being part of the PTR to help us make Mortal Online II the best it can be. With the Public Test Server, we encourage our community to help us with utmost gratitude. There are several new features and several other fixes we want to make sure are ironed out before release to the Live server.
Daily Tasks
Please attempt to try one of these when you log into the PTR and give us your feedback and report anything that causes you issues.
The exact balance of the daily task rewards may be adjusted after the PTR, and the speed of task rotation is faster on PTR for testing purposes.
Surrender System
Having as much data and players trying this new mode will help us clear up any issues of this new stance. As this is foundational to future updates with some content, we want to make sure it’s working well.
Please try anything you can think of while entering, exiting or being in the surrender state.
Ranked Dueling
Please try to duel each other with this new feature and give us your feedback on its UI, progression and conveyance!
Please keep in mind the ranked dueling UI is still a work in progress and is missing certain aspects on the PTR, such as unique “badges” for each rank tier and division. The UI “popups/fanfare” for duel requests and match results are also still being worked on along with the sounds.
Clade Reroll
For the PTR we have given every character 3 Clade Reroll tokens, accessible via the Account Items option in the ESC menu.
Please try using them and changing your characters. Dealing with player characters, this is a rather sensitive update of course, so we appreciate as many eyes on it as we can get.
These tokens will not transfer to the live server or be added once the patch goes live.
New Spider Mounts
As the newly rideable spiders are able to climb steeper slopes than other mounts and players, it is possible they may be able to reach previously unreachable locations, which could potentially cause issues.
Please try riding around on a spider and see if you can get anywhere you “shouldn’t” be able to.
Mail Rebuild
We have rebuilt the Mail system in our code base and want to make sure there are no issues which can cause loss of items or other unforeseen problems. We have done extensive testing which has not brought any bugs, however we would appreciate testing it in a larger environment.
Dungeon Volumes
In the last few patches, we have introduced several server volumes which help with performance in dungeons for players. There were several places in various dungeons that had some overlooked areas which have now been remedied. There were also a smaller number of locations missing the dungeon logout blockers which have been fixed. Both of these fixes have been tested and extensive sweeps throughout these locations were made.
If you encounter either of these issues in any of the dungeons in PTR, we encourage you to make a report in-game at the location of the missing volume.
Once again, we appreciate your assistance in this and we hope you enjoy this preview of the next live patch for Mortal Online II. We look forward to your feedback.
– Robmo, Community Manager & the Star Vault Team
How to Report Bugs or Leave Feedback
- When in the game world, press the ESC key to pull up the menu.
- Click on the Report Bug button in the menu.
- A black window to enter your comments will appear. There is a drop down called “Report:”.
- Click on the drop down and several options will appear.
- Select the option most relevant to your issue.
- Note: For general feedback and not a bug report, please select FeedbackandComplaints.
- Next, there is a drop down called “Tag:”. Select this drop down and select a category which closely matches your issue as close as you can.
- In the larger text box, describe your issue in as much detail as possible.
- Hit the Send button at the bottom of the window.
Please Note
The PTR has limited to no Game Master support during its public period of testing. If you require assistance, please ask for it in help chat and if Nebulous is around he will attempt to help you.
Read the Full Patch Notes Below
Tasks
- Added a new type of “Daily” task which can be done once per 24 hours and offers higher rewards. These tasks do not award a quick execution bonus.
- Veteran Bandits now count toward Bandit tasks
- All Risar now count toward regular Risar tasks.
Radial Interaction Menu
- Added a radial menu for interaction with player characters.
This new menu allows you to perform various actions on another player, such as challenging them to a ranked or unranked duel, along with things like sending them a whisper by prefilling their name in your chatbox or sending them a friend request.
Dueling
- Added Ranked Dueling System, accessed through the radial interaction menu.
- You can now choose between challenging opponents to ranked or unranked Duels.
- Duel winner will now be declared upon reaching mercy mode instead of death.
- Running away from a duel will result in a disqualification due to ring-out. The size and behavior of the ring will likely be adjusted, so please give us your feedback on it in the survey!
Clade Gifts & Mastery
- Added new gifts to the Mastery Tree
- Maximum Broker Slots
- Maximum Stable Slots
- Broker Tax Fee
- Vendor Sell Price
- Vendor Buy Price
- Ore Extraction Yield
- Butchery Extraction Yield
- Alchemy Potion Potency Increase
- Alchemy Potion Yield Increase
- Fishing Reeling Speed Increase
- Fishing Bite Chance Increase
- Crafting Durability Increase
- Crafting Material Cost Decrease
- Loot Luck Increase
- Loot Amount Increase
- Adjusted the balance of various Mastery Gifts
- Bow Sway Reduction increased from 3% to 4% (15% to 20% total)
- Bow Draw Speed Increase increased from 2% to 4% (10% to 20% total)
- Marksmanship Headshot Weakspot Bonus increased from 2% to 3% (10% to 15% total)
- Fall Damage Reduction increased from 1.25% to 2.5% (5% to 10% total)
- Jump Height Increase increased from 1% to 2% (3% to 6% total)
Account Items & Clade Reroll
- Added support for character rerolls, these can be accessed from the in-game account items menu, once used your character will be logged out and before you can login that character again you need to go through the character creation again.
- Rewards in-game menu renamed to account items.
Surrender System
- Added the Surrender system.
This is an action which can be found in the skill list and it can be activated when idle, during mercy mode and even while mounted. While surrendering, other players will be able to peek inside your inventory, which is useful in case you want to negotiate a deal with potentially hostile players or to show them you have nothing worth killing you over (without putting yourself at risk by doing /droploot).
Pets
- Horses can now be tamed with no points invested into the Taming skill.
- Updated the required Taming skill level range for all pets. You can now customize your Taming skill point investment based on which pets you want to be able to tame, rather than always needing 100 Taming for most pets regardless of their strength or utility. Weaker pets generally require less Taming skill point investment.
- Pets no longer lose loyalty when telling it to attack a target.
- Hitting your own pets now decreases loyalty by 25% of damage dealt, previously this was 500%.
- Beast Influence & Mastery skills now level roughly 5 times faster from each use.
- Added Skill for crafting Spider bags.
Mounts
- The following Creatures are now mountable.
- Clothos Worker.
- Clothos Flinger.
- Clothos Maiden.
- Mountain Spider.
- Lykiator and Spider mounts can traverse steeper slopes than other mounts and even players. Spiders can climb steeper than Lykiators.
Magic
- Increased Stone Wall duration from 5 seconds to 8 seconds
- Increased Stone Wall mana cost from 40 to 50
- Decreased Flamestrike base damage from 34-42 to 33-41
UI and Interactions
- Removed the auto return of mails if they were not picked up within a certain time.
- We now have our own system for leaderboards. These leaderboards are global (meaning it does not matter if you are on EOS or Steam you will see the same leaderboards).
- The leaderboards are per-character and use the character name.
- Leaderboards menu in the game menu renamed to Rankings.
- The Rankings menu showsyour current duel rank score, max rank score,wins,losses and duel history.
- We will convert more of the legacy leaderboards to this new system. For now the legacy leaderboards have been removed from ingame but are still updated on the store you used to buy the game.
- Deleting a character will remove them from the leaderboards but not from duel match history.
- Interaction timer on players reduced from 1 second to 0.1 sec
Art
- Fixed many environment issues
Optimizations
- Optimized the new server to reduce lag.
- Rebuilt server handling of mailed items.
- All character heads, beards, and hairstyles have been re-rigged using a minimal number of skeletal joints. All combinations of body and head meshes have been merged into a single mesh component, which affects humanoids, including players, NPCs, and Risars. This is solely a technical update aimed at improving game performance and should not result in any visual differences.
Server
- We’ve made significant behind-the-scenes enhancements to improve server stability and overall gameplay experience. These updates address the ongoing server lag issues we’ve experienced over the past week, helping to reduce lag spikes and improve network response for a smoother and more responsive experience.
Bugs
- Fixed an issue with the Broker where buying “faulty” items would remove actual items from sales.
World
- Fixed missing logout volumes in various dungeons
- Fixed missing interest list transitional volumes in several dungeons
Known Issues
- Displayed text on updated Mastery Nodes might show previous values instead of new, however the gifts should be working correctly.
- Spider’s bags materials may have texture issues
- Spider’s bags are not implemented for the Ritual version of the pet.
Feedback Survey
As always, we will be hosting a feedback survey soon where you can let us know about your experiences on the PTR.
We greatly appreciate everyone who takes the time to fill these out. A link to the feedback survey form will be posted closer to the end of the PTR.