Patch Notes #148 - Season of Screams

Season of Screams

Spooky Time!

The Season of Screams starts today in Fantasy Online 2! Gather your friends, head into the Haunted Forest, and if you're brave enough you can enter the Ghoulish Graveyard at the end of the Haunted Forest for more spooky loot!

How do you enter the zone?

There is an NPC in Mirabella Cove and New Crab City allowing you to enter but you must be level 35 to do so!

Bonko's Carnival Release

Bonko's Carnival is planned to release on October 17th UTC and will bring lots of new and spooky themed outfit items.

How will we enter the zone?

On October 17th UTC and cursed mirror will show up in Ghoulish Graveyard! Players that are over level 90 will be granted entry!

The Smelter

The Smelter is located in the south region of New Crab City! Bring items to him and he'll turn them into Salvage that you can then reforge into Gemstones and Plates!

Patch Notes

• Reworked Debuffs in Ghoulish Graveyard (GG)
• Reworked quests in GG
• Reworked quests in Haunted Forest (HF)
• Added new music to GG and HF
• Added two new exclusives in HF and GG
• Added the Smelter NPC to NCC
• Added the Salvage Forge NPC to NCC
• Added Teleports from MC and NCC to HF
• Activated teleport skills for GG and HF
• Fixed minor typos in quests and items

Gamer’s Patch Notes

Combat, targeting and movement

• Added pixel-style auto-attack effects for every weapon type and unarmed attacks, with weapon-specific motions, sharper pickaxe impacts and varied contact points on players and monsters.

• Added distinctive monster attack effects across the roster, including bites, webs, frost streams, gunfire, cannon shots and seasonal soul, pumpkin and bone attacks.

• Added visible arrows, harpoons, staff spells and other monster projectiles, with origins matched to weapon sprites and impacts that follow moving targets.

• Enabled auto-attack effects by default while preserving saved preferences, with a separate setting to turn them off.

• Improved attack-effect timing during brief slow frames and fixed fresh effects being dropped after pauses in crowded fights.

• Improved Tab and assisted targeting to select matching resource nodes while gathering tools are equipped, and added /tracemonster to focus targeting on a chosen monster type.

• Fixed grave-mining and attack approaches stopping behind obstacles or cutting across blocked corners.

• Fixed expired buffs being restored when logging back in, and delayed skill effects and sounds starting after a zone change or disconnect.

Quests, dungeons and teleporting

• Fixed unfinished Great Egg Hunt quests lingering after the event was disabled.

• Fixed the Ascension’s Peak return teleporter name to show New Crab City in every supported language.

Items, shops and crafting

• Prevented removing an empty bag while incoming items were reserved for its slots, and fixed bag and bank drags being cancelled by unrelated item loading.

• Fixed queued crafting alerts keeping the previous language after changing languages.

• Updated item and NPC artwork.

• Added a one-week double-gem sale.

Interface and localization

• Added Indonesian, German and French game content, menus, website pages, player-database text and crafting and market notifications.

• Filled missing Godly Wings, Bubbles’ Bargains and Bonko’s Carnival translations, corrected Reef’s Edge Outfit crafting descriptions, and fixed faction, crafting, Battle Pass and monster names not following the selected language.

• Corrected French one-pet achievement wording, German membership wording, Indonesian, German and French gem-voucher and vendor text, and the Blub Blub quest’s turn-in dialogue.

• Fixed opening chat shrinking the player, target and party HUD.

• Improved reward-notification ordering, reading time and priority over chat previews, and prevented old notifications reappearing after reconnecting.

• Improved the first-time language chooser on small phones, placed English and Brazilian Portuguese side by side, and fixed keyboard navigation to follow the displayed order.

• Fixed partly transparent artwork drawing too dark and colored fringes around smooth images such as emoji and welcome pictures.

Audio

• Added opening sounds for Battle Passes and NPC quest conversations, and fixed dialogue buttons replaying the opening sound.

• Fixed keyboard shortcuts and Escape skipping window-close, fishing Reel/Cancel and confirmation-dialog Cancel sounds.

Performance and online services

• Fixed a startup crash on older browsers and Android WebViews, and restored a usable Retry button after failed startup downloads.

• Reduced unnecessary graphics-quality switching, HUD clock layout work and UI drawing overhead.

• Reduced repeated server requests while browsing personal Market and Broker tabs.

• Improved game connection routing through global edge servers, renewed the connection security certificate and strengthened protection against malformed requests and forged connection addresses.

• Restored delivery of client updates, fixed overly long startup-file caching and font cache versioning, and refreshed seasonal NPC data for teleporting and crafting.

• Improved crash, performance and connection diagnostics while keeping private query details out of website error reports.

• Updated website payment and notification services with compatible security and reliability fixes, and reduced unnecessary background server work.

Database website

• Fixed automatic refreshes when newly released maps were added, improved cached page delivery, refreshed released content and market prices, and kept unreleased Bonko’s Carnival content hidden.

Steam

• Steam: Added Indonesian, German and French inventory text, achievements, store descriptions and supported-language listings, and filled missing achievement translations in the other supported languages.

• Steam: Updated inventory definitions for the latest items and fixed delayed inventory replies restoring old items after a refresh or character change.

Mobile

• Mobile: Added Indonesian, German and French Android achievement names, Play Games profiles and store descriptions, and corrected Android purchase, membership and gem-voucher wording.

Custom skins

• Added window-content padding controls, left-side close buttons, rounded checkbox, dropdown, slider and scrollbar corners, and wider title-bar end artwork.

• Expanded custom artwork to buttons in every state, text fields, sliders, scrollbars, tabs, progress-bar edges, column headers and quest tracker rows.

• Added more control-state, selected-row and focused quest-tracker text colors, disabled-button text shadows, separate XP and fishing-bar text colors over the fill, and adjustable pressed-button text offsets.

• Added colors for the skill hotbar’s empty slots, hotkeys, ranks, page number and resize handle, plus fishing-reel text and bar tracks.

• Preserved saved skins the client could not read, fixed stray dropdown-arrow slivers and empty equipped-slot frames during dragging, and improved older-skin loading and block-style XP-bar performance.

Skin Studio

• Skin Studio: Improved phone and tablet layouts, touch hints, compact menus and header buttons, and fixed clipped color-picker values and the Try Your Skin return button.

• Skin Studio: Fixed language changes leaving the status line, preview size or element names in the old language, and improved wording across all ten supported languages.

• Skin Studio: Improved Find Settings with localized terms such as HP, mana and gold, word-start matching for short searches and clearer empty results.

• Skin Studio: Made image names and preview-picking guidance clearer, renamed Example Skins and Use All Windows Artwork, and explained how Undo restores a replaced draft.

• Skin Studio: Improved color-picker placement and saved-color hints, fixed Original Color and palette changes losing transparency, and added preview-based eyedropper support in Safari and Firefox.

• Skin Studio: Added the new control artwork, colors and layout settings to their inspectors, with editable window-image stretch guides and more readable wide title-bar previews.

• Skin Studio: Fixed stale tooltip previews, incorrect fishing preview links, lost Safari image-button clicks and image-menu selection and error-state glitches.

• Skin Studio: Added Report a Bug with the preview, screenshots and skin settings, and improved dropdown-arrow spacing.

• Skin Studio: Replaced the example skins with 98, a Windows 98 skin, fixed uneven Emberglass window padding and matched partly transparent preview art to the game.

iPhone & iPad: (Update in the TestFlight app)

https://testflight.apple.com/join/C87yj5vZ

Android: (Update in the Play app)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fantasyonline2.fov4