Kaetram v2.5.0

Hello everyone, it has been quite some time since our last post on itch.io. We've been working hard to update the game and have made an enormous amount of changes over the years. The game is on a fast track towards the official beta release. This dev log contains not only the change-log for version 2.5.0, but a couple of the previous change-logs merged into one.

Version 2.3.3 (January 21st, 2023):

- Mining skill

- Drop tables (mobs now roll through a drop table) 

- Magic is now publicly available

 - Added support for in-game special ranks 

- Added new quests, bosses, weapons, rings, pendants, and areas 

- Fixes to disconnection issues due to high-latency 

- Fixes and updates to multiple interfaces

 - Improvements to clicking moving mobs and ranged combat

 - Combat formula and defense stats of mobs updated 

- Support for multiple game worlds now completed

Version 2.3.4 (January 26th, 2023):

- Added arrows to archery 

- Added boots 

- Added following functionality 

- Right-click interaction with mobs and items 

- Zooming now available on mobile 

- Fixes player stuck online bug 

- Fixes bug where items would disappear when unequipping 

- Fixes and improvements to the user interface 

- Fixes WASD interaction with NPCs/mobs

Version 2.4.0 (February 23rd, 2023):

- Added Defense skill

 - Added combat attack styles 

- Added secret achievements 

- Added freezing effect and snow potion functionality

 - Added PVP areas, new quests, and new areas 

- Experience gain is now on a per-hit basis 

- New interfaces for profile, skills, and friends list 

- Fix bank/inventory/store-related bugs 

- Fix cross-server private messaging 

- Fix ordering of skills in the skill menu 

- Loads of backend improvements and optimizations

Version 2.4.1 (March 21st, 2023):

- Added player guilds 

- Added leaderboards user-interface

 - Added status effects to arrows/weapons

 - Added weapon enchantments 

- Added new items (fruits, objects, and shards) 

- Added stats to almost every mob 

- Added critical, terror and fire effect

 - Fixes to the status effects 

- Fixes Queen Ant not rewarding player with the achievement 

- Fixes some chat colouring issues 

- Fixes ice sword drop rate issue

 - Fixes candy key not dropping

 - Fixes zalgo text abuse 

- Increased max arrow stack to 9999 

- Boosted effectiveness of Defense skill

 - Boosted magic and archery damage 

- Boosted mana regen relative to Magic level 

- Tooltip when hovering over attack style 

- Mob logic updated (mobs will now change targets/disengage when appropriate) 

- Networking rehaul, Socket.io -> uWebSocket

 - Cross-server communication improvements (relaying packets between servers)

Version 2.5.0 (April 19th, 2023):

- Added 8 new skills

- Added new quests/achievements/areas/mobs/bosses 

- Added new arrows - Added a crafting system that is used for new skills 

- Added hovering silhouette and hurt sprites 

- Added map parsing tile property for obstructing tiles

- Added special events in the weekend (double drops, 1.5x exp, double harvesting, and more)

 - Increased container size for inventory and bank

 - Reorganized the UI such that buttons do not affect mobile experience 

- Fixed leaderboards not updating 

- Fixes a bug where the death animation would hang 

- Fixes a minor bug where the idle animation would interrupt the walking animation

 - Fixes bug where status effects would not clear properly 

- Fixes relating to new characters and guests not being properly recorded 

- Fixes bug with enchanted weapon stacking when placed in the bank

 - Fixes bug with enchantments disappearing when dropping item 

- Fixes bug with guild status displaying as offline when creating guild 

- Preliminary backend security against DoS attacks 

- Many backend optimizations, refactoring, and dependency upgrades