<Addition of New Territory and Hunting Grounds>
1. A new territory that is about 1/5 of the size of the existing Lineage II World has been added. Embark on an adventure to new places you have never been before, such as the Ivory Tower, Oren Castle, the Town of Oren, Enchanted Valley, the Hunters’ Village, and the Sea of Spores. You can reach the new regions by passing through the Death Pass which is connected to the northern region of Giran.
2. The Forgotten Temple is added to the western part of the wastelands in Gludio.
< Addition of New Skills >
A total of 147 new skills have been added. Also, it is now possible for existing skills to be upgraded to a higher level.
< Change of Skill Effects >
1. Now the effects of crystallize skill is applied differentially. For example, in order to destroy a grade C item, you must now have the crystallize stage 2 skill.
2. A change has been made so that when using range attack skill, with the exception of the attacker’s own party members, all other characters including chao and temporary chao characters will receive damage.
3. The effect of raising ER of agility has been increased.
4. The shield stun’s MP consumption rate has increased by about 1/10 of its existing rate.
5. The re-use time of hate and of focus force has been decreased.
6. The re-use time of resurrection, a type of resurrection magic, has been increased by four times.
7. The build encampment and the seal of ruler, which are clan skills, are modified so that now they are not influenced by magic casting speed or attack speed.
8. The appearance of graphic effects for spoil, iron punch, mortal blow and poisoning have been modified.
< Quests >
1. The quest for 2nd class transfer has been added. In order to qualify for the 2nd class transfer, you must first complete 3 types of quests intended for your race and class. After collecting three marks that you receive as rewards for completing quests, and go to the NPC that facilitates characters of level 40 + with their 2nd class transfer, you will be able to complete the 2nd class transfer. More detailed information regarding the quests for 2nd class transfer is available from the Lineage II’s official home page.
2. A newly added quest called “Get a pet” is a quest to obtain a pet. In order to fulfill the quest, you should go find Martin, the pet guardian in Gludin village.
3. If you are currently working on 15 quests at the same time, and if you attempt to start on the 16th quest, you will receive a notice informing you that you are not allowed to work on any more quests at the same time. Please note that if you would like to pursue another quest at this point, you will have to give up one of the quests you are currently working on.
< NPCs >
1. Many new monsters have been added. NPCs of the villages in new regions and NPCs that are needed for the 2nd class transfer quests have been placed throughout the game. Also, in the case of village NPCs, their attire has been modified in various styles to reflect their occupation.
2. The position of monsters in Gludio has been modified.
1) The total number of monsters in Gludio region has been increased. Therefore, now you will encounter monsters at a higher frequency in this region.
2) By equally distributing the levels of monsters in Gludio, we made the region a good hunting environment for characters after their class transfer.
3) We have changed the places and locations to which monsters of turek orc campsites and monsters of Ol Mahum campsites flee.
4) The placement of monsters in the Grim Ruins and the Ruins of Despair has been modified.
3. With the latest update, monsters for high level players have been placed in the Enchanted Valley and near the Hunters' Village.
4. Monsters that can be hunted by mid to high level characters who are readying themselves for the 2nd class transfer and by upper 50 level characters have been placed in the Sea of Spores, the Ivory Tower, and the Town of Oren.
5. Monsters that can be hunted by characters of mid 20 level and up have been placed in the Forgotten Temple.
6. We have changed the locations of monsters that appear in the Dragon Valley in Giran.
7. Now, in some regions, the number of monsters will increase at night. These regions include the Dragon Vallue, Gludio Territory, the Grim Ruins, the Ruins of Despair and the Execution Ground of Dion.
8. Orphen, a boss level monster, has been added to the game. If you go to the Sea of Spores, you will be able to find Orphen. Please note that due to the magic force field surrounding Orphen’s encampment, characters’ moving speed will always get dropped near the area.
9. A group style event monsters have been added. Each group consists of a captain and soldiers.
10. The overall frequency of skill usage by monsters has been lowered.
< Items >
1. At a boutique store in Giran, some of the grade C items can be purchased by paying with crystals.
2. The spiritshot that boosts magic power and magic casting speed has been added. It functions in the same way as a soulshot.
3. The items that come in sets that one can use to obtain additional benefits such as an increase of HP, MP and moving speed have been added.
4. Now, blacksmiths in each village can make two-handed swords type items.
5. One piece type clothing items have been added.
6. The method of making items by using a recipe has been changed. Now, when making a lower level grade D item, one does not need to use a grade D crystal. And when making a lower level grade C item, one can use a grade D crystal.
7. The races other than the dwarven race can now get some items made by village blacksmiths.
8. The following change has been made. Now, before a character completes the 2nd class transfer, a spellbook and amulets one needs to learn a skill or magic can be obtained only by buying them from a store. After completing the 2nd class transfer, a character can obtain them only through monster hunting.
9. When a scavenger is using spoil or Search skills, the probability of obtaining an item from a corpse has more than doubled. Up until now, one could obtain ingredient items only from a corpse. But, after the update, it is now possible to obtain other items such as weapons, armor and accessories from a corpse.
10.The appearance of several items such as Brigandine, Mithril set etc. has been modified.
11.The maps of Aden and Elmore have been modified to include new regions, and bugs have been fixed.
12. When crystallizing enchanted items, a change has been made so that now the more enchanted items one has, the more crystals one can obtain. When one’s attempt to enchant fails, the same rule will apply.
13. The graphical effects that appear while one is using a scroll of escape, antidote, or a soulshot have been modified.
14. A change has been made so that when a player is using escape, resurrection, or scroll of escape to return to a clan hall or to a castle etc.; now it will not influence the character’s magic casting speed or attack speed.
15. Until now, recipes and some ingredients have not had any weight. But with the new update, now they will have some weight assigned to them. For now, they will have the same weight applied to them. This can be changed at a later update.
< Taming Monsters >
The pet system in which a character can obtain and raise a pet has been added. The term “taming” means that a player adopts a specific NPC available in the game and control it semi-permanently. (From here, a taming monster will be called a pet.)
< Addition and Modification of Systems >
1. The buddy registration system has been added. When a character who has been registered as your buddy logs in, you will be notified through a system message. (/invite buddy name, /delete buddy name, /list buddies)
2. The option to select the method of obtaining items after creating a party has been added. first come first serve / random looting
3. An alliance system has been added. Only a clan of level 5 and above can create an alliance. Once an alliance is created, it can admit any clan to the alliance regardless of a clan’s level. (/alliance invite, /alliance quit, /alliance expel, /alliance dissolve, /alliance register emblem, /alliance information)
4. A private store has been able to sell items only. With the update, now a private store can purchase items also. Currently, unless a store already carries an item a character wants to buy, the item cannot be purchased from the store. A dwarf can register up to 5 items on a purchase list and other races can register up to 4 items on a purchase list.
5. A new function to prevent mistakes and fraud has been added to private stores. When a character is registering an item at a private store, if there is a big difference between the price of an item being ordered and the item’s actual value, a window to double-check the item will appear. Likewise, when you are buying an item from a private store, if there is a big difference between the price you pay for it and the actual value of the item you are buying, the verification window will appear. With the strengthening of our system security that has been implemented with the current update, and with your taking extra precaution during sale and purchase of items, we hope to stop any more unnecessary heartache due to a mistake or fraud during exchanges.
6. Various abnormal states that have been applied to characters will no longer disappear after restarting a PC and logging into the game again. For example, when a character is under a shield that is supposed to last for 10 minutes and your PC restarts before the shield time is up, when you log into the game again, the shield effect will last only for the remaining time.
7. During a PvP, the duration of chaotic state being applied has been slightly changed. The duration of chaos applied to a character that initiates an attack to another general character has doubled. Since this change was made to impose slightly more penalty to the player who initiates an attack, when the attacked character fights back, the existing duration of a chaotic state will be applied.
8. The guaranteed item looting time for a character or a party that inflicts the most damage has increased from 3 seconds to 5 seconds. And the character that inflicted damage will have additional 10 seconds of looting time after that. Please note that if no damage was given, looting can begin about 15 seconds after an attack.
9. A chaotic character cannot interact with a village merchant NPC, gate keeper etc. However, they can still interact with gatekeepers located at dungeons.
10. When there is no action taken for 10 minutes in the character selection screen, the login will automatically be terminated.
11. In any input window, we made a change so that now the last entries you selected will be retained.
12.A character that belongs to a clan can no longer be deleted.
13. When creating a clan or an alliance, grand masters and grand elders located in each village will no longer discriminate against different races. Now an elf can go to a grand elder in the dark elven village and create a clan or an alliance.
14.When you restart or login while in water, your character’s breathing gauge will start at 1/10 of its normal rate.
15.The moving speed in the water has been reduced to about half that of the moving speed while a character is on land.
16.The teleport fee to move from the Dark Elven village to the Town of Gludio has been reduced.
< Interface >
1. The point-of-view in the game has been more diversified. In addition to the existing point-of-views, the first person point-of-view and the remote point-of-view have been added. Now you can control point-of-view of your character with PageUP/PageDown keys (first person, basic, long range) With the change of point-of-views, the maximum distance one can zoom out by using a mouse wheel button has been shortened slightly.
2. The “enter chatting” option has been added. From Game - Options, you can select the “enter chatting” option. When you switch to enter chatting method, the hot-keys on the shortcut bar will change accordingly from number 1 through 0 and the shortcut keys that were used with ALT key can now be used without pressing the Alt key. Also, the movement of a character can now be controlled by W, A, S, D keys. In order to chat by using this option, first press the Enter key and then enter your texts.
3. The position of all the windows in the game that can be moved around is now automatically saved. (Except Option window). Also, the game option in the option window has a new function to return the position of the windows to their initial positions.
4. In addition to existing social actions, the actions to express “affirmation,” “denial” and “polite greeting” have been added. In addition, now, shortcut keys can be assigned to social actions.
5. The interface that is related to summoners is added. Its function is similar to the interface of the Pet system.
6. Toggle skills such as War cry / Accuracy are now indicated as an abnormal state.
7. In the shortcut bar, the graphic effects have been improved to be able to view the results after one’s skill/spell casting action is over.
8. When selecting a character in the character selection screen, now a character’s status values are more accurately displayed.
9. At a private store, while selling or buying an item, if a private store’s window is opened again, the store will stop its operation and the character will stand up. While a store is in an open state, a character cannot exchange items with another character.
< Sound >
1. Various background music pieces have been added.
As you enter a village, buildings located in villages, major terrains, regular ships etc. now you can listen to the music that is suitable for each situation. Various musical pieces for login window, character selection window, character creation initial window and character creation window for different races have also been added. With the addition of more diversified background music, players can enjoy and experience Lineage II even more vividly.
2. With the addition of new skills, new sounds to go with the skills have also been added.
3. In addition, sounds for new monsters have been added.
< Various bugs have been fixed. >
1. Until now, although a clan kills a clan leader of the opposing clan during a clan war, the clan could not win the war. This problem has been fixed. Now, when a clan successfully kills its enemy clan’s leader, the clan will win the war and the clan war will automatically be terminated. Also, currently when a clan leader surrenders, his experience level does not go down. This problem also has been fixed.
2. The clan member whose name is similar to that of a clan leader could not be deleted before. This problem has been fixed.
3. After using a soulshot, a character has been able to switch a weapon quickly to another weapon by utilizing a soulshot in an abnormal way. This bug has been fixed.
4. When one switches from a close fight weapon to a remote weapon and launches an attack, one could not accurately assess the shooting range. This problem has been fixed.
5. When you restart your PC after your character dies, if the character gets resurrected, the character’s HP is set to 1. This problem has been fixed.
6. When you restart your PC after your character dies, sometimes, passive skills could not be applied. This problem has been fixed.
7. When using the range magic, with the exception of the monster that receives direct damage, other monsters have not shown much reaction to damage. This problem has been fixed.
8. Boost breath skill could not be applied properly before. This problem has been fixed.
9. While learning a new skill, if a character keeps clicking on “learn” repeatedly, the game would get terminated. This problem has been fixed.
10. If a character uses the Search skill before receiving a quest item, the character could not get the quest item. This problem has been fixed.
11. The peace zones in villages had somewhat inaccurate settings. Now, the peace zones are more precisely set up.
12. During the ominous collector’s quest, zombie type monsters have been giving away zombies’ heads only. This problem has been fixed.
13. A bug has existed that allowed one to create an item without a recipe as long as the item creation window is opened. This bug has been fixed.
14. Gunner Treant, the guardian of the Elven Village has not been able to make a counterattack. This bug has been fixed.
15. While pressing down the Shift key, a character has been able to forcefully attack a village NPC. This problem has been fixed.
16. Other various bug related issues have been resolved.
Additional fixes
- Announcement of Update Information and Addition of Known Bug Related Issues -
We would like to inform you of several issues that were not included in the previous update announcement. We also would like to notify you of known bugs that we have discovered so far.
1. When making two-handed swords type items, the enchant value does not get retained in the final products. In other words, if you use two +3 swords of revolution to make two-handed swords, the resulting items will be the same as two unenchanted swords of revolution.
Please remember this fact so that you will not inadvertently waste enchanted weapons by using them to make two-handed swords.
2. Now you can move items contained in a pet inventory to your shortcut key bar to store and use them.
3. Among the newly added dwarven skills, trade skill has not been activated yet. We will notify you as soon as the skill becomes available.
4. Currently, a bug exists that creates the problem of returning a pet’s HP/MP window to its basic position a little after it is moved to another location.
5. When using a pet to target and attack another character, the pet keeps following the target character without stopping. In order to stop this, the pet’s master should press the stop key. Also, when you press ctrl key and attack key at the same time, even when your target is a general character, it will be considered a forceful attack. Also, please note that when a target character dies, the pet’s master can receive a penalty.
6. Currently when a cubic is summoned, no graphic or sound effects accompany the action. We will add this feature as soon as possible.
7. The following are several peculiarities regarding Forgotten Temple.
- When an item is dropped in the temple, rather than completely being dropped to the floor, the item floats at ankle height.
- At some coordinates, torch lights are floating in the air.
8. If a character performs quest related calculation or exchanges items while the character’s inventory is fully filled with 80 items, an NPC can take away an item from the character’s inventory in a normal way, but cannot give back reward items and other items to the character. During a quest, please double-check the number of items in your inventory window so that you will not miss the chance to receive reward items.
9. During game play, sometimes, although there is no server down, a message window will appear to notify you that the server connection has been terminated. If you click okay at this time, the game will be terminated. However, instead of pressing the OK button, if you press ALT + h to remove all windows to get rid of the message window, you can continue playing the game without any problem.
< Items >
In order to balance the items in the game, the following adjustments have been made.
1. The number of crystals generated when crystallizing Cursed Maingauche has been adjusted to make it similar to the number of crystals generated when crystallizing weapons of the same level.
2. The resistance level of several pieces of armor that are not sold in stores has been slightly lowered.
3. The experience level of Ogre Power Gauntlet has been lowered and the experience level of Karmian Hose has been increased.
< Tamning Monsters >
1. In response to many players’ requests regarding pet features, pets’ moving speed has been increased.
2. The penalty of experience drop upon the death of one’s pet has been reduced to 1/2 of the existing rate.
3. In order to correct the value that has been misapplied, the attack power and attack speed of weapons used by pets have been lowered to correct some values that were misapplied.
More fixes
<Bug Fixes >
The following bug related issues have been resolved.
1. The bug that is related to Orphen in the Sea of Spores has been fixed. Now Orphen will start making its appearance again.
2. The system errors regarding skill/spell learning and exchange/individual sale have been corrected.
In order to fix this problem we had to temporarily disable the functions regarding skill/spell training and exchange/individual sale function. Since the problem has been corrected, these functions are available again. We apologize for the inconvenience you may have experienced regarding these features.
3. The attack power of hand-to-hand fighting weapons and the values of attack power displayed in the information window were incorrect. This problem has been corrected.
4. The price of composite armor being sold in a boutique store has been revised to reflect correct pricing.
5. The descriptions of several items sold in the boutique store were incorrect. They have been corrected.
6. The squire's sword has had the appearance of a hand-to-hand fighting weapons. Due to this problem every time a specific skill was used the game got terminated. [translator’s note: meaning is not clear] This problem has been fixed.
7. When a character is taking off archery equipment, arrows did not get taken off automatically. This problem has been fixed.
8. Various bugs related to the 2nd class transfer quest have been fixed.
9. The problem of activating racial awareness immediately after a monster is created has been fixed.
10. Due to a bug that is related to a hand-to-hand combat weapon, the progress of orc monk’s 1st class transfer quest has been stopped without allowing further progress. This problem has been fixed.
11. During a pet quest, if the window gets closed or the game gets terminated, the player has had to start the quest from the beginning. This problem has been fixed. However, if an incident like this occurs, the character has to solve the pet related problem Martin gives from the beginning again.
< Game Tip >
In the game, if you cannot see some windows such as the acquired skills window, inventory window etc., press the Initialize the Interface button. Then, all the windows will appear in their original positions. When you cannot see a specific window, try using this method.
Since the update that was implemented on the 24th (Wed), several problems have occurred in the game. And to work on resolving these problems, since last night, frequent incidents of server-down and temporary maintenance period had to occur. We truly apologize for the inconvenience to all testers.
< Fixed bugs>
1. The problem of fist mastery’s effect not being applied correctly has been fixed.
2. The resistance of one piece type items had a much higher rate of resistance assigned to them by error. This problem has been fixed.
3. Some of the 2nd class transfer quests had erroneous explanations in their descriptions and contained errors in their procedures. They have been fixed.
< Announcement>
1. If you attempt to enter a petition in a server that has already received its maximum number of petitions, you may receive a message stating that your petition has already been registered.
20/03/2004, 02h08
Enorme Kha !
