U42 Preview 2: 4/16-4/18

[Aelonwy]

Is the in-game appearance for the Legendary Hallowed Trail cloak final? Its incredibly plain and boring. The "hat" items are also not very exciting, although the new helm Standard Issue Faceplate is quite lovely and perfect for a half-elf.

Hallowed Trail Cloak & Standard Issue Faceplate



My character's hair (human female with short hair) cut through the collars of the medium armors (Mark IV & Blessed Vestments). Also the Legendary Wildwood Outfit and Legendary Turncoat appeared identical on my same human female and they identically were missing their lower half - exposing her knickers. I'm not sure how I feel about the Nicholson-esque Coattails suits... except that they aren't very feminine and thus not particularly appealing to myself.

Medium Armor Hair Snafu & Wildwood/Turncoat Indignity




Coattails suit style on Wildcard





The Legendary Enforcer's Coat is interesting and different, reminiscent of a Star Wars style. I like it, but I'm not sold on the color choice. The Legendary Moonguard Buckler cuts into my character's hand/arm badly.

Enforcer's Coat Interest & Moonguard Buckler Discomfort



Legendary Order's Garb and Legendary Watch Captain's Platemail/Blessed Bulwark are very nicely done. And the Legendary Crystalline Ward is perhaps the most beautiful item of the batch. The new orbs have a very fascinating steampunk appearance.

Order's Garb & Watch Captain's Platemail & Crystalline Ward



So much gray. Really. I would seriously like to have a conversation with one of the art devs about armor color selection.
Assuming something better hasn't been chosen for the Hallowed Trail Cloak... this would make a nice Sharn Cloak:

[Mindos]

In addition to those main features there are an assortment of smaller changes and/or bugfixes which are listed below

Character

• Favored Soul's Bonus Feats have much clearer and more concise wording
• Fixed Obscuring Mist doing Obscuring Darkness FX
• Fixed Obscuring Mist's effect having the name/description of "Obscuring Darkness"
• Fixed Fireball's/Domain Fireball's spell description (never got updated in U41)
• Fixed some animation issues on Male and Female Tieflings
• Tiefling's innate Fire Resistance and Infernal Resistance enhancements (acid/cold) now properly update their values when you level up without needing to relog
• (non-Scoundrel) Tieflings no longer innately use Fiddles for Bard songs
• Tiefling/Scoundrel players are now immune to fear, as they're supposed to be.
• The spell Spawn Screen no longer scales its number of targets (badly) via caster level, and instead affects all allies in the AOE.
• Druid: Tier 1 of "Force of Nature" (in Tier 5 of Nature's Protector) now grants the following in addition to its current effects: "Your attunement to Nature is emboldened - Your Druidic Oath is no longer broken by wearing metal armor or shields."
• Wail of the Banshee now has its signature Wail sound effect back!
• Tieflings, both male and female, now have a second dance.

Items

• N/A

Monsters

• N/A

Quests

• The Salve of Stone to Flesh in Eyes of Stone now has a cooldown of 5 seconds, rather than 30.
  
• Nudged a pair of hobgoblins in the quest Caverns of Shaagh to help them not become one with the stairs.

Misc

• Shield Guardian Hirelings have updated sounds
• The engine will no longer limit video/virtual memory usage as harshly on systems which have sufficient virtual memory. The game should properly take advantage of virtual memoryresources available to it.
  
• The character sheet UI now uses abbreviated class names, and has moved all four class fields onto the same line
• The character sheet UI now displays your Offhand Doublestrike underneath Doublestrike.

I totally missed all this great info! I see you edited this post in the afternoon when you first made it in the morning. You should always make ANOTHER dev post, to let us know you made an edit! (of course you may have done that and I missed that as well)

[vms4ever]

So this entire preview I have been trying to get the lammania client loaded.

No problem running the live server, the preview client refused to decompress files so I uninstalled and reinstalled the lammania client and it was loading and loading and this morning it was almost done when I left for work. This evening I get home stare at the lammania client with the login window and try to login and no connection. restart the client and get the "connecting to patch server....failed" server connection timed out.


So my take U42 Preview 2 is....Failed.

[DYWYPI]

I managed to drop into a deep ditch area within the Cogs Wilderness and I don't think I could climb out or escape by any method... It was near pitch black so if there was a method I could not see it, but I kept leaping up at walls and stuff to see if I could get any footing purchase on the ditch walls, etc.

(Standard): You are at: r1 lx1524 ly820 i11 ox96.56 oy93.36 oz64.09 h61.9
(Standard): Q:0x70030E8E

You might want to evaluate as to whether there is a "stuck area" close-by.