Version 0.5.13

Version History
← 0.5.12 January 1, 2010	0.5.13 October 4, 2010	0.5.14 → January 1, 2010

Patch notes

These are the official patch notes for version 0.5.13 released by Grinding Gear Games.

• Revamped water system
• Ocean water has waves
• Fixed passive skill screen bug (displayed skills incorrectly)
• Fixed minimap not displaying on ATI graphics cards
• Added wave attack for the sea witch monsters
• Changed character selection UI to only have supported character classes
• Fixed rare/magic items generating unidentified without mods
• Whetstones and armour shards now increase quality by 3
• Added message of the day
• Fixed orientation of waypoints
• Flasks now play no sound when empty
• Fixed another bug with fireballs
• Made disconnection messages more useful
• Increased difficulty of the brute
• Fixed some gloves icons
• Prevented doodads spawning on town entrances
• Added alternate attacks to some monsters
• Added leap slam sounds
• Reduced the effectiveness of life regeneration mods and global armour increase mods
• Renamed Hunter class to Ranger
• Strength weapon specialisations now add accuracy
• Fixed some item sounds
• Characters now play their "idle relaxed" animations in town rather than "idle combat"
• Fixed behaviour of options "revert" screen
• Made players transition between instances in a safer way
• Increased idle instance server timeout to 180 seconds
• Fixed an issue with sounds sometimes not being played
• Fixed various crashes related to objects being hibernated and players transitioning
• Improved textboxes
• Area name appears on minimap
• Items play drop sounds when they hit the ground
• Fixed an issue with doodad collidability
• Added damage mitigation totals to character screen
• Added chance to hit and damage per second to the character screen
• Prevented implicit mods spawning again as explicit mods
• Added many new chests to all areas
• Fixed parties so that you stay in your party after death and when changing areas
• Fixed some crashes related to partial packet serialisation
• Fixed bug related to having multiple item hovers open at once
• Players now stick to towns correctly when leaving game
• Quest bosses are now spawned at "Unique" rarity
• Improved options screen resolution code
• Added rubber-banding when the player is out of sync
• Fixed double waypoint issue
• Added a variety of new item drop and use sounds
• Fixed issue with mod selection that resulted in wrong armour mods appearing
• Fixed problem with doodads and other objects rotating as they appear
• Improved character creation screen
• Reduced scroll of wisdom drop rate
• Added new variations of topologies for early act1 areas
• Fixed crash when changing to fullscreen and turning on postprocessing at the same time
• Changed layout of experience values on the character screen to be clearer
• You can now see the level of other players when you hover over them
• Added female scavenger sounds
• Added brute sounds
• Made brute's Upper Prison level smaller
• Made all currency items stackable and increased stack sizes of previously stackable ones