Gunslinger

Arriving on 4/21/15!

NEW IN THE STORE
* There are new costumes on the store (and in a brand new pack), they are:
* The Heartbreaker for the Gunslinger, by CloBunny
* The Bee Trickster for the Fae Trickster, by Rajeeb
* The F43 Trickster for the Fae Trickster, by Leeon1234
* The Sugar Skull for the Candy Barbarian, by Astrick
* The Dark Infineon for the Candy Barbarian, by Screamheart
* The Heartbleed for the Neon Ninja, by Astrick
* The Lunar Ronin for the Neon Ninja, by Thelgmo
* The Shadow’s Disciple for the Ice Sage, by FriedSushi

* Chaos Chests have been randomized. Open a few and see what’s in there this week! We’ve put in a few Meownts plus the Neon Nightcycle and a bouncing bug we found lying around.

UI
* The hotbar has been updated to the new UI style.
* The star bar has been updated to the new UI style.

GRAPHICS
* There are now some new graphics settings that are testable for high end users (coming soon to actual video settings near you).
* Type /postbloom to test out bloom
* Type /postssao to test out ambient occlusion.

CLASSES
* New VFX for Candy Barbarian - Licorice Lord costume.
* Dracolyte VFX beefed up a little.
* Fixed bug where Dracolyte and Pirate Captain familiars disappeared after player fell to their death

CLUBS
* You can now join other club members in their worlds from the club roster!

BUG FIXES
* Fix for Class Coin or Flask coin not unlocking your selection if in a specific slot.
* Fixed bug where wings sometimes got triggered by normal jumps in club worlds
* Fixed a bug where it was possible to get more than 8 people in a Shadow Arena or Dungeon
* Corrected the orientation on the Gunslinger charged shots and Chaos Hound's footprints.
* Enemies no longer leave combat in Shadow Arenas

COMMUNITY CREATIONS
* New hairstyles by Rajeeb, Phydra, MonsterAnt and Pupshies have been added to the game!
* New hat styles by Ranen, SK8REX, Sqwyt, Aviarei, Mythlit, Brava, Eriri, The_Coby, Shalimar, AngeloTGC, Fizzinc, TigerLove, Mansage, Knightlock, Estavos, MappyT, MonsterAnt, MajorTom, chocobag, and Stedms have been added to the game!

Arriving on 2/10/15!

== FEATURES==

NEW CLASS: SHADOW HUNTER
* Shadow Hunter is now live! This class uses a bow to do massive damage to enemy targets with charged shots, while the shadow trapped in their gem whispers about who to kill.


ENTER THE SKY REALMS
* You can now craft a portal to the Sky Realms!
* Mine Crystallized Clouds, harvest Radiant Shards, but you'd best come prepared with wings, or it's going to be tough to keep up!
* A new rare mount, the Nimble Nimbus, can now be found rarely in the Sky Realms!
* Updraft blocks are now craftable in the Fun Factory!


WINGS ARE NOW LIVE!
* Wings are now obtainable in game!
* Mastery Rank 20 and 100 now grant wings!
* Stormcaller's Wings are now in the store!
* Wings of Darkest Night now drop incredibly rarely from Shadow Arenas.


NEW PROFESSION: RUNECRAFTING
* Runecrafting is now live! Obtain some radiant shards from the Radiant Ruins, then learn a whole bunch of new block recipes to build to your heart's content! As your runecrafting skill increases, you'll unlock a variety of colored, metal, glass, and glowing block recipes.
* At the higher levels, you'll be able to craft vault style unlockers that will unlock a Vault style, as well as tomes that you can equip to grant yourself additional resources of a specific type as you adventure!
* A new mount, the Floating Formula, can now be crafted by Runic Masters at the Runecrafting bench!


== GAME UPDATE==

GENERAL
* Added 101 new colors of colored blocks (split between standard, glass, metal, and glow).
* Added emotes! You can now /wave hello or goodbye or take a nap with /zzz. Characters with no input for 2 minutes will also now automatically start snoozing.
* Fixed the dreaded "Received user acknowledgement" login bug.
* Mastery rank now goes to 100!
* The Magic Find tooltip now has correct text.
* Fixed a bug where players who are loaded in while already in flight appear to fall and teleport back up repeatedly.
* Fixed a bug where being hit by an enemy could cancel jumps and other movement.
* Chests now take fewer hits to destroy.
* Spikes can now be destroyed by bombs.


EQUIPMENT SLOTS CHANGE
* The Mount, Mag Rider, Flask, Wings, and Ally slots are now class specific.
* As a result of this change the Mount, Mag Rider, Flask, and Ally slots will be empty on log in and will need to be re-equipped.


STORE UPDATES
* Chaos Chests have been randomized!
* Uberman, a new costume for the Gunslinger, is live!
* Prisms are now 1000 Credits.
* Heart-a-Phone is now in the store and now turns your target's name red for 24 hours.
* You can no longer purchase the textured block recipe in the store for bordered blocks. You now earn these through Runecrafting.
You now gain 2 no-trade flask coins instead of the fixed flasks in the Power Pack.

CLASS UPDATES

GUNSLINGER
* Gunslinger's Blast Jump ability now increases height less but gives you a temporary slow fall effect
* The Gunslinger now slowfalls after hitting with a basic attack
* Fixed bug where Gunslinger's passive instant charge shot couldn't be fired at zero energy.


CRAFTING
* Mining Troves, Party Animals, and Recipe Blocks will now drop the new type of block recipe that teaches you a random block recipe that you don't already know.
* You can now deconstruct stacks of the same item.
* Red equipment can now be deconstructed for flux plus 1 eye.


ADVENTURE WORLDS/BIOMES
* Magic Carpet drops are now more common in Uber 4 and 5, and are otherwise less common.
* Uber 4 and 5 worlds are slightly harder.
* The King's Tomb dungeon will no longer spawn in Undead Hills.
* The Haunted Mansion dungeon will now spawn properly in the Undead Hills.


SHADOW ARENAS AND DUNGEONS
* Shadow Arenas and Dungeons are now slightly harder.


VISUALS
* Improved cloud distribution, especially while moving. Clouds now respond immediately to lighting changes.
* Fixed a bug where the knight could lose Iron Will shield VFX upon being hit.
* Significantly reduced CPU cost of camera-based player opacity.
* Fixed a bug where exiting gliding by jumping put the player into the wrong animation.
* Resource blocks now blend into the terrain better.


COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS
* Accesories on hairstyles will now, for the most part, ignore hair color and retain their own coloring
* New decor by Tribe, MajorTom, Qoaleth and Screamheart has been added to the game!
* New hairstyles by Dragoes, GadgetCAT, and Subtitles have been added to the game!
* New mask styles by TigerLove, Ixion, chocobag, and Claire have been added to the game New hat styles by Kukui, Ranen, TheZoobler, Aviarei, Shyster, MCfan567, Turtlenade, Dusty_Mustard, Floretha, Agent_41, and Phoenix have been added to the game!
* New staff styles by Zeeg, MediocrityGoggles, Smorph, nolanvoid, KtlavskoX, FedoraTip, and FriedSushi have been added to the game!
* New melee weapon styles by Karokendo, Sentium, Zeeg, Zodriac, ForJagler, Turtlenade, AllieCat, RoflGofl, Blindside, Miredirex, Seral, Enthropy, ElMexicano, LETAL1TY, LippyLapras, Hypatech, Smearg and Fhilian have been added to the game! New pistol styles by Zipperumpazoo, BlueMango, and Voodoo have been added to the game!
* New bows by Tribe, Aodahn, Jonny_Spikey, Screamheart, nolanvoid, Floretha, Greenitthe, PinkNekoGirl, Tyhler, Riptide, FriedSushi, GadgetCAT, Stedms, Ixion, RutilusFalx, EdgeG, Cougarkillz, Solipso, MapletXD, LinguisticallyInept, Drakfyre, MiszterSoul, TehRedReaper, MysticLugia, LippyLapras, Ranen, TheGiv32, miopiIV, watermellonduke, JumpyBunny, Dragoes, Leeman, CloBunny, _Protichsx_, Qoaleth, GinnyBinny, Bahamuth, Quedifuv, Linker, FrozenCross, Taiboi, Uniquisher, Jallafish, Wallow75, Aspis, Sephyr, Shyster, MajorTom, Buckerneir, Dirkalo, MrTuffnStuff, TomixD, Rhylight, PsicoVoxeL, Leeon, Nomeneta, Caspersaur, tmahwk, Prototype, Rade_Dobison, pasi123567, GreyRellik, demosito, Stedms, Aodahn, TheZoobler, FriedSushi, PinkNekoGirl, HandofGod, Tribe, Khali, Eriri, Mirage, Ecky, Kiyomi, Kyiro, Zimanta, Nomeneta, CassIV, TeeKayM, Soulrenor, Dave203, Kopandazavr, TheGiv32, Robotik, Ginkgo, Lucifuge, Prototype, cczeus, Tresette, taelg, AshtonGrey, Byoo, and Kane8066 have been added to the game!
* New Neon City dungeons from Khastiel and Lamafao.
* New Undead Hills dungeon from Screamheart.
* New Treasure Isles dungeon from FriedSushi.
* New Candoria lairs from Habosbabafos, Thresio, Markec1983.
RN: New Undead Hills lairs from Tribe and WINRAR-exe.
RN: New Highlands lair from Condorspark.

== FEATURES ==

PIRATEY GOODNESS
* The pirates of the Treasure Isles have begun sailing back into the worlds of Trove, their cargo holds chock-full of mysterious goods from the lands beyond the Sea of Regret. Find them anchored in any adventure world, and check out the goods they have to trade!

Originally Posted by Developer Notes

This is the first part of our post-sky update and is still pretty early. The seas are still shallow, but this is how you can get some goods like pets, mounts, pearls, and recipes. Currently the pirates are just crafting stations and this will be updated with the larger water update planned as the next big update after the sky one.

ONCE OUR PETS, NOW OUR ALLIES
* Allies-- formerly Pets-- are now more widely available and have some extra special powers. Catch 'em all!
*Cotton Candy now has more magical attributes.


== GAME UPDATE==

GENERAL
* Mastery rank now goes up to 90, which grants the Cycle of the Master!
* Flasks now give 25 mastery points. Pets (aka. Allies) now give 10 mastery points.
* Player terminal velocity now changes in water. Players no longer receive fall damage while underwater.


GAME MECHANICS
* Jumping and building no longer cost energy. Instead, energy regeneration is temporarily stopped.
* Experience gain from levels 1-10 is now limited to adventure worlds one above the currently recommended one.
* Slightly increased experience required to level from 6-10.
* Magic Find is no longer group based and increases rarity instead of forge level, leaving the level to use the same.
* Magic Find from equipment has been reduced and the chance per point to trigger has been retuned.


PACK UPDATES
* The Power Pack and Class Pack now are available in the store!

Originally Posted by Developer Notes

The Power Pack is designed to be an obvious single or first purchase from the store. It has wings, a mount, pearls, two class coins (no trade) and more. The Class Pack is a way to get a deep discount on classes if you’re interested in picking them up 5 at a time. These are replacing the starter packs.

STORE UPDATES
* Tomes, Pearls, and Prisms are no longer available for Cubits on the store.
* Horse mounts on the store are now 2000 cubits and the raptor and awesome ball are now 4000.
* The Hotdog Hero Gunslinger costume is now live, both on the store and in the Costume Mystery Box!
* Chaos Chests are now available on the store!

Originally Posted by Developer Notes

Chaos Chests are low cost chests which have a lot of possible loot from both the past, present, and future of Trove. You never know what you’re going to get and what is available can and will change at any time and without warning.

MOUNTS
* Water no longer reduces movement speed of mounts.
* All players now start with 'Slow Sebastion'. A slower than normal mount.
* Two new mounts are now acquirable in game: Fast Frank and the Jelly Knight!


ADVENTURE WORLDS/BIOMES
* Reduced incidence of Candoria recipe lairs to be in line with the other biomes.
* Candy Castle dungeon should no longer be embedded in the terrain.
* Shadow invaders now drop guaranteed equipment instead of flux.
* Slightly increased health of uber enemies.


ITEMS
* Golden Holiday Key is now known as the Golden Key.
* Reduced Unyielding Flask's duration by 0.5 seconds.


AUDIO
* LightCycle sound tuned: Ambiance Turned On : Underwater audio state supported.
* Pember and Pembur now have footstep sounds and Pember has a jump sound.
* Cycle engine sound improved.


VISUALS
* The Gunslinger and Candy Barbarian's left-hand weapons are now mirrored.
* Fixed instances of skin-based VFX not spawning, such as the Dracolyte's idol explosion.
* Corrected issue with cubemap initialization in OpenGL.
* The top segments of lamp posts should now emit light.


CRAFTING
* Cupcakes now correctly indicate they are found in Candoria zones, not Permafrost.
* Infinity Frames now require 50 bottles to craft.
* Pearls can now be traded for from pirates for Flux.

Originally Posted by Developer Notes

We see the Pearls as essential and the other materials more as ways to ‘cheat’ through the equipment advancement portion of the game. We feel that the Magic Find change also accommodates the function of Prisms in a more gameplay way. We’ll be closely watching the impact of this change.

SHADOW ARENAS AND DUNGEONS
* Shadow Arenas have been updated to be have a staging area, be enclosed, and have a more shadowy look. In addition, staging areas for Shadow Arenas and Shadow Dungeons now feature a Class Changer.
* Slightly increased health of enemies in shadow arena/dungeon.
* In Shadow Arenas and Dungeons occasionally a random class will be chosen to deal double damage for the duration

Originally Posted by Developer Notes

We made this change to provide a fun bonus to people who have multiple end game ready classes.

COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS
* New hairstyles by Uberzolik, GadgetCAT, and Dragoes have been added to the game!
* New face styles by RainNero, Blindside, Hawanity, Tichondria, LoboMal, Afalach, and GrimTheR34P3R have been added to the game!
* New decor by CyberTriber has been added to the game! New Hat styles by Walyn, Aviarei, tmahwk, User, Humpypants, BrianVI, Coyote_Tricks, GMM, Kukui, Smorph, and Darkinhell have been added to the game!
* New Staff styles by Tytillean, MisterFii, CubistWollywog, Camoman908, Condorspark, KyroVision, Proximus, Pupshies, Lachtre, Kukui, Supamuffin, _Lucidity_, Ocgineer, Marotovski, Aspis, Finnary, BrianVI, and LippyLapras have been added to the game
* New Undead Hills dungeon from Curtharv.
* New Candoria lair from Lamafao.
* New Candoria lair from Cogarkillz.
* New Candoria lair from Screamheart.
* New Undead Hills recipe lair from GadgetCAT.

Note: This patch is scheduled to go live at 7 AM 1/13.

* Players now start with a non-tradable class coin which grants a free class.
* The Gunslinger class now must be unlocked in the store. All existing players will still have the Gunslinger unlocked.
* You can now purchase a tradable class coin on the store for 1200 Credits if you want to gift or trade a class - classes are otherwise able to be purchased as normal.
* Your name is now colored gold in chat if you are max mastery rank
* Flasks are now 750 credits down from 1300 - your credits will be returned to you if you already purchased flasks
* You can now join the official trade channel by checking [Settings] -> [Social] -> [Join Trade Chat]
* The player that uses a shadow key to unlock a shadow arena portal now gets a reserved slot in the shadow arena
* The player who unlocked a shadow arena portal can now kick other players from the arena with /kick
* Shadow Dungeons are now more common
* Invasions no longer drop prisms.
* Tentacles are now slightly rarer drops.
* Added missing deco to workbench
* Neon Ninja's basic attack now reaches further and all levels of the shuriken now deal more damage.
* Candy barbarian smash attack now does 33% less damage to blocks.
* The Fae Trickster can no longer teleport into spaces too small to fit.
* The Ice Sage's Icicles now only explode when they hit the ground instead of exploding when they hit foes and not doing enough AE damage
* Fixed bug where riding a mag rider could teleport you outside of world bounds
* Fixed bug where players with the "appear offline" option set still appeared as online to friends
* Adjusted rendering color curve (improves some color contrast).
* Improved performance of object rendering.
* Slightly improved performance of liquid pixelshader
* Minor server optimizations and increased server logging (we're tracking down the lag issues, promise!)
* Improved performance of liquid vertex shader.
* Fixed bug where dodging while attacking and walking backwards made you dodge forward
* Fix to volume sliders affecting sounds correctly. Music affects all music - including music blocks, and sfx slider affects all other non-music audio including UI now.
* Autumn and Winter pinatas should now drop updated recipes
* Fixed spinning mag riders
* Corrected screen flickering issue when dying
* Recipe lairs in Undead biomes will now generate as often as all other biomes.
* Players now automatically stop using abilities when switching between Adventure and Build modes.
* Stone Hearth is no longer craftable.
* Neon City "grass" is now craftable at the Cube Converter.
* Snowfest lairs have been deactivated.
* Liquid chocolate audio added.
* The Volcano dungeon in Dragonfire Peaks should now properly spawn an exit portal.
* New pistol styles by Walyn, Snaggor, Aethoryn, Aceship, Stedms, Cats_Sky, 5p3x, lizard455, GadgetCAT, Valaadus, GoldenDragon, Nox, Arkawn, Dyceman, Jalana, Qoaleth, and DogG6 have been added to the game!
* New face styles by NinjaKitten, Kokaburr, Arnoxuz, Axelbrito, Capteal, ShamusAran, FellMartyr, Qoaleth and Mouserat have been added to the game
* New hairstyles by Dragoes, Tomoki, WaffleBoy, Fhilian and Subtitles have been added to the game!
* New hat styles from Tribe, Zareko, Gameheros, Tichondria, Ixion, Aviarei, TehRedReaper, AddAustin, Solipso, and Phydra have been added to the game!
* New staves by Patt, Kodiakman, Tichondria, EdgeG, Astrum, EpicMidget, Uberzolik, Aceship, Heat777, Solipso, and Skritnic have been added to the game!
* New melee styles by MiszterSoul, Zerock, AlphaJD, Bahamuth, Ranen, MtkEndamine, Kobitz, Stedms, Kyameron, TheGiv32, EyeballPrincessII, Chadpole, Cretoriani, KingDead95, KtlavskoX, Aodahn, Protichsx, FaDiel, Alterblade, SillyBob, GadgetCAT, LemanRuss, RayLemon, Smorph, Enever, Blindside, Quedifuv, Dirkalo, FriedSushi, MajorTom, Erudito, Omenlex, Khang, Cloudvox, Kikkinwang, Lordgale, iLugag, Danieru, Wakan_Cheshire, 909mody, and Afalach have been added to the game!

The Gunslinger was our second class before we understood less what our combat system would evolve to. In general we like that the GS likes to spend time in the air, but don't like how much work it takes to do that. Our current thinking is that we'll give him some way to reduce his fall (maybe a small buff whenever you hit an enemy with a basic attack which temporarily reduces your fall speed?)

We also want to improve the readability of his passive and potentially look at his damage if it seems necessary.

Arriving on 4/28/15!

== FEATURES ==

WELCOME!
* The welcome screen is now live! It displays the current daily bonus, information about what's new and coming soon, a place to buy the latest deal, information on the current Adventure Box, and the daily chaos factor!

DAILY BONUSES
* Daily bonuses are now live! In addition to the current +100% cubits on weekends, there are now the following bonuses:
 - Monday: +20% gain to harvesting resources
 - Tuesday: +50% gain to ore
 - Wednesday: +100% gain to glim acquired through adventuring
 - Thursday: +50% gain monster drops on Thursdays (including adventure boxes)
 - Friday: +50% gain to shards (both Radiant and Shadow)


== GAME UPDATE ==

NEW IN THE STORE
* Randomized Chaos Chests. Look for some new wing previews this week in the chest!


ADVENTURING

* Phoenix Adventurer Chests have been replaced with Buddy Budgie Adventurer's Chests, which have a chance of containing one of two rare Buddy Budgie mounts, created by Kungfuquickness!


MEOWNTS
* Meownt now drops rarely while adventuring!
* 6 new Meownts can be crafted at the Crafting Bench!


MERCHANTS
* The merchants of the Treasure Isles have wrangled up a variety of new mounts, and are now offering the Jade Larvorghini, Candorian Caterpillar, Battle Catterpillar, and Rodeo Cowterpillar for sale. Take them for a ride!
* The merchants of Treasure Isles have hauled in a huge booty of new sails from all over the worlds of Trove, and are now offering them for sale!
* Butterfly Allies can now be found inside the Butterfly Soultraps, sold by the Treasure Isle merchants!
* Pet soul traps now cost 300 Glim, up from 250.


BUG FIXES AND POLISH
* The trade window now returns to player selection if the other player cancels the trade instead of closing. Also clarified the message for when the other player cancels the trade.
* Corrected the orientation on the Gunslinger charged shots and Chaos Hound's footprints.
* The Candied Fishing Cane has a new, less gummy, more chocolatey bobber.


SETTINGS
* Added additional advanced video settings including: LOD Distance, Field of View, Bloom, Depth of Field and SSAO. Turn these on in the video settings!


COMMUNITY CONTENT
* New deco syles by BuzzBomb8, Ocgineer, Kukui, ROTFLandmines, GadgetCAT, EyeballPrincessII, TeeKayM, Screamheart, Insaint, Meowsifer, Walyn, Seth177, TehRedReaper, Tribe, Xeviar, Milambit, and Qoaleth have been added to the game!
* New melee weapon styles by Lyean, Laegh, Zsword, Yelish, QAQlll, Humpypants, Zuonis, Qoaleth, xGhost, Paper97, LippyLapras, PinkiePie, NyantaMan, Fhilain, Furler, Dragoes, AceGonzalez, Sotilis, Pumkmine, Erudito, Zanano, Jonjoun, boboyobo12, knecls, Lightraider, Mrturtleguy, Screamheart, MetalTxus, OreoKirby, Qbush, bananainyogurt, Skollrum, Howell, tmahwk, ap5p, BboySwifty, Reikdar, Fiscon, Sevrenox, Aodahn, Lachtre, Hordik, Mythlit, Miknugget, Gyrruss, and Roniofking have been added to the game!
* New Face styles by CloBunny, Mansage, Kill3rCreeper, TheMinion, Humpypants, PinkNekoGirl, EyeballPrincessII, chocobag, Erudito, Netharia, Stedms, MappyT, Delvulria, Fhilian, MajorTom, MetalTxus, Lenzsio, Ranen, BrianVI, Wellfox, Dave203, NyantaMan, and Ceca have been added to the game!
* New hat styles by Ranen, SK8REX, Sqwyt, Aviarei, Mythlit, Brava, Eriri, The_Coby, Shalimar, AngeloTGC, Fizzinc, TigerLove, Mansage, Knightlock, Estavos, MappyT, MonsterAnt, MajorTom, chocobag, and Stedms have been added to the game!
* New Staff styles by Bugvsbug, Mordred, Stedms, Eriri, Mioure, Ceicil, Revoniel, BrianVI, ReshiramFury, SupremeNova, Sheribonbon, Delvulria, Wesl, RageGamerRyan, Kill3rCreeper, Volfide, MCfan567, Rajeeb, PonyPrince, Heiliar, 5p3x, Shyster, Alyvian, MiszterSoul, Lacirev_, Xylioxus, KobayashiMaru, Icy_Ymir, and Reggame have been added to the game!
* New pistol styles by LETAL1TY, Keyelor, PixelatedGamer, Wenti, Heiliar, protOplasm, AdamantSpartan, Zsword, InfineonJ, LaFreakki, Karrut, Blestmist, CrossXDemon, OreoKirby, Qoaleth, Skendya, Minibot, Llianew, PinkiePie, Inzynier, Hooborg, GadgetCAT, Khali, orcamig, chocobag, Gyrruss, Revoniel, Knightlock and 456link have been added to the game!