lazypenguin

Good morning, We have a small patch to push today to fix a bug causing a very large text file to be created. The file is located at %LOCALAPPDATA%/Rednim Games/ROSE Online/data/zz_log.txt We recommend deleting this file as the last patch can cause it to get very very large! Maintenance Time: 9:30am ET - 10am ET (2:30pm GMT - 3:00pm GMT)

We actually removed a TON of trade restrictions before starting early access. Most blue items were actually trade restricted back in NA but we removed those restrictions. We decided to leave honor/valor gear as they were since we wanted to see how things would play out once the game was live and people were playing that content. If you have an opinion on this please share it!

Happy Monday all, A small patch to help some players with DC issues. Please continue to report any issues you have, thank you! Game: Fixed storage UI to automatically pick a slot on the next page if the current page is full when dragging in an item Misc: Fixed heartbeat messages between world server and client. This may have been causing disconnect issues for some players.

Happy Monday everyone, We have another patch we'd like to apply to the server that we believe will help some players with the disconnect issues. We are scheduling maintenance to apply this patch. Maintenance Time: 12:00pm ET - 12:30pm ET (5:00pm GMT - 5:30pm GMT)

Yes good suggestion!

Clan storage is a good idea, it would not be too difficult to add I think. Of course we will get more tickets for people who bring a bad clan member in who steals all the stuff. I think it would be more work to add the “access control” stuff. Like maybe only veterans can take items from storage? The borrowing idea is interesting but would be quite complex to implement!

Interesting thread all, regardless it does sound like mana shield is a contentious skill. Evaluating the cooldown seems like a sensible place for the team to investigate as a possibility. In general, for PvP balancing issues the more hard data you can share with us the better. Things like screen recordings are helpful to us because we can’t see all PvP content with out own eyes! I’d be curious to hear people’s thoughts on cooldown adjustments that wouldn’t nerf this skill into oblivion. Btw in our testing we found a good raider melts a mage. @percent1 @Garnet interesting thread for you.

Maintenance completed!

Hello all, We upgraded the network connection settings for better bandwidth performance and to keep the connection alive as long as possible. Additionally, we also made a big upgrade to the engine dramatically improving the performance of particles! Particles are all the effects you see in game, such as from salamander flames...(or 500 of them...) There should be a noticeable performance improvement when there are a lot of effects on the screen. A big thanks to the old Titan ROSE devs who provided us with this optimization! Changes Misc: Updated client/server network settings to help address disconnect issue Improved performance of particle rendering in engine If you have any feedback regarding this patch, please share it with us in this topic!

Happy Friday all! We will be pushing out a minor update today to try to tackle some of the network issues players have been reporting. This update changes some of the settings we use in the connections between players and the servers. Maintenance Time: 6:00pm ET - 6:30pm ET (11:00pm GMT - 11:30pm GMT)

In pre-evo clan fields were only open during certain times and gave good exp from riddler jellybeans and the kings were good for drops and exp. I kind of liked that it was only open during certain times. Limited to only level 89 does feel restrictive, would you really create a new character just for this clan field?

Clan quests are nice idea, not sure how it would work. Maybe instead of players getting the quest the quest is given to the actual clan and everyone can contribute?

These are better than the official default ones we have!

What a great video, made me smile

Hello all, Last update we released our stability patch which has been a great success and our service has achieved the highest up time to date! Since then we have been actively working to continue ironing out the priority issues that we consider "critical". After the last update, we anticipated we would continue focusing on "stability" for the rest of February and are on track! In this update we've fixed a few more game server crashes and a few more technical issues related to the item code as well as some other bugs reported to us by players. We fixed a major issue where players were losing their gems or substats from items randomly. We also fixed an annoying bug with the pickup skill that wasn't allowing players to pickup an item that they could, the same fix should also resolve the issue with drop indicators being inaccurate. We are still tracking the disconnect issue that is impacting some players. We have added more logging to our systems to help us identify the issue and are tracking it as high priority. This is our last "stability" item that we have identified and we hope to resolve it ASAP! We had some more things we wanted to include in this update but didn't want to postpone this any longer due to the gem/substat fix being available. We opted to deploy this patch now to prevent players from losing anymore gems while we continue working in other areas. Some things on our roadmap for the next updates: Adding machine id tracking to remove Game Arenas IP limitations Addressing complaints regarding summons in game arenas Fixing frequent disconnect issue for players Improving the repeatable quest situation Evaluating drop tables Brainstorming new clan based content (we'd love to hear your ideas or suggestions on the forum!) Improving engine performance around particles Changes: Quest: Fixed Qpid mentionning wrong level requirements for the event quest Removed Darren dialogs mentionning Ruven Token Corrected wrong descriptions of the quest reward items from Linda Game: Fixed a bug with the pickup skill that was not letting players pick up party drops Fixed refine material for the some Sub Weapons requiring bindrume rather than talisman for: Pharaoh's Mummy Doll Pharaoh's Mammy Doll Sopdu Shield of the Pharaoh Pharaoh's Book of Horus Tutankhamun's Mummy Doll Tutankhamun's Mammy Doll Sopdu Shield of Tutankhamun Tutankhamun's Book of Horus Fixed Dragon Defender Wings not being able to be refined Corrected the Happy Holiday from an item mall type to an event type item Modified Frost set to give set bonuses when equipped as normal equipment only (previously was a costume bonus) Misc: Fixed bug which didn't check case when renaming a character allowing two characters to have the same name (e.g. lazypenguin & LaZyPeNgUiN) Fixed bug which didn't check case when creating a clan allowing to clans to have the same name (e.g. coolclan & Coolclan) Fixed two cases that could cause the game server to crash Added a fix for gems and substats randomly disappearing from player's items Removed zuly requirements for refining item mall items Fixed a bug in the bad name checks causing the restrictions to be too strict (e.g. names could not have the letters gm next to each other) Update item mall purchases tab to be open by default Fixed the ability to bypass the TOS screen Added some additional logs to aid investigating the ongoing disconnect issues reported by some players If you have any feedback regarding this patch, please share it with us in this topic!

Good morning all, we will be performing some maintenance in 3 hours (10:30am ET/3:30pm GMT) to deploy a game update. The maintenance is expected to take one hour. Thank you. Time: 10:30am ET - 11:30am ET

Your VM will need to be able to virtualize directx as well

Can you clarify, does the updater crash or does the game crash after running the updater?

Unless you pay for a static IP address your provider can change your IP at anytime.

This tab will be open by default in the next update

I agree, I'm not even sure why it's hidden by default

The servers will be going down shortly to deploy a patch. Please watch this thread or the discord for an announcement when the servers are back online.

Valentine's Day Event The Valentine's event is scheduled to start automatically in the next few days, make sure to try it out! In the past this event had some pay-to-win elements which we have removed in this update. Additionally we will roll out some Valentine's themed Item Mall items shortly after this update. The Valentine's event runs from February 10th - February 25th Mega stability patch As many of our active players are aware, we have been suffering from some stability issues with our service the past few weeks. We have been quick to apply hot fixes and patches to keep systems running but some players have been impacted by the temporary side effects (clan functionality not working, losing items, unable to login on first try, etc.). In this patch we are deploying a massive change to our server back end that should address many of the issues you have been experiencing. This is a very big change that touches on several parts of the code. We have tested it on our end thoroughly and are confident in the changes but please be vigilant and report any new issues that may arise. This is a very exciting patch for the team, it marks a milestone for us where we can start transitioning focus from 100% on stability to more game content focused patches in the coming weeks. Changes: - Quests: - Updated Valentine's event dialogs and removed P2W bonuses - Added Valentine's event quest to quest tracker - Removed Money reward for "In need of Repairs" quest due to abuse - Game Arena: - Removed lower level PVP game arenas due to player abuse - Drops: - Added Ghost Elementary Scrolls (atk/def) to Fallen Judge Talratha droptable - Removed Mozanite Briolette [1][2][3] from the drop table - NPC: - Permanently moved Bryll to the center of Fossils Sanctuary - Misc: - Updated bad names and bad word filters - Deployed mega stability patch for server backend If you have any feedback regarding this patch, please share it with us in this topic!

Good morning everyone, we are preparing to release a new update to the game. Soon we will disable login access to the game and will start the update process. This will be an extended maintenance as we will be updating our underlying systems as well. The expected maintenance time is 2 hours. Start time: 16:30 UTC End time: 18:30 UTC Thanks!

Hello ROSE fans! We are excited to share with you our latest update for ROSE Online. Unfortunately the update was delayed for a few internal reasons but we are continuously working to bring these update There are a mix of features and bug fixes in this update. Group Crash Bug We have identified and fixed the group crash bug causing the client to crash for certain groups. This was largely impacting the game arena experience as once a player has disconnected from a game arena they are unfortunately unable to re-join. Allowing people to re-join an in-progress game arena is something the team is looking to address in the future. Skill casting bug We have also reverted some of our changes to the skill code that was meant to combat the "skill stacking" exploit. This should resolve the "skill is casting bug" which caused players to get stuck casting their skills, Party Changes We have made a few changes to parties to address some issues with the abuse of the party mechanism and questing. We added a new level gap limit that limits the maximum level difference between the highest and lowest party member to 19 levels. For example: A level 1 player and a level 18 player will be able to party but a level 200 player will not be able to party with a level 220 player. First hit We have made some adjustments to the "hitting" rules for determining ownership of a drop. Currently only first hit is used to claim ownership of a drop, i.e. only the person who hit it first can get the drop. Unfortunately this is quite imbalanced as someone can simply first hit all the mobs and sit and wait for someone else to kill it before picking up the item. We have changed this process so both the first hitter and the player that does the most damage ("overdamage") has a chance of claiming the drop. Game Arena Limits We have temporarily reduced the limits for game arena's to promote more PVP play until more of the player base has reached max level. The new limits are: Akram Arena: 5v5 Crystal Defender: 5v5 Additionally, we have enabled per-IP limit for game arenas. We are aware this might be penalizing for players who share a location or who use the same VPN as others but we are applying this limit as a temporary measure to curtail some abuse of game arenas that we have observed. In the future we plan to implement a more sophisticated system. Please provide us with your feedback on this, if we find it impacts too many players negatively then we will disable this restriction. Shop Changes We have added some new options around shops, it is now possible to enable an option to hide all shop names in game. Additionally, there is a new option that can be enabled that will fade a shop once it has been visited in game. Drop Item Status We added a new option to make it easier to pickup your own drops. If you enable the "Show item pickup status" then an indicator will appear after the drop name showing whether you can pick it up or not. NOTE: This feature is not currently working in all circumstances, we recommend disabling it for the time being until the next update. Wipe Rumors and the economy We have been alerted that there is a rumor circulating in the community (based on doctored screenshots of staff member messages) that we are planning to fully wipe the server. This emphatically not true, we have no intention of ever performing a full wipe of the server as we don't believe in erasing player progress. However, we are acutely aware of the current issues within the economy regarding the proliferation of materials and the devaluation of many items including uniques, epics and more. While we may set our sights on the economy and directly intervene in the future, we will not do so until we have resolve the systemic issues that caused the problems in the first place (drop tables, quest rewards, bugs, content abuse, etc.). We also would not implement drastic changes without communication and coordination with the community. Stats update on existing bugs While this patch addresses some critical game bugs (group crash and skill casting bug) there are still a few major bugs we have not resolved yet. We are focusing our entire efforts on these major bugs going forward: Player disconnect issues Inventory bugs ("item loss") and character rollbacks Fossil sanctuary Clan functionality/friends list We will be providing a more technical deep dive of these issues for our Ko-Fi supporters in the future but the root cause of these issues are due to fundamental (perhaps even "catastrophic") technical issues in the code base that have accrued over the years. While over the past year we have remedied many issues with these legacy systems these issues went under our radar as they require a critical mass of players to trigger them. There is good news though! Thanks to some assistance from an outside expert we have narrowed down the root cause for these bugs and have a plan in place to address each of them. However, as they are deeply technical we ask for some patience as the team implements these fixes during the coming patches. Updates: Game Arena: Added a fix for clients sometimes crashing during a game arena Modified the player requirements for several PVP game arenas Enabled IP limit for game arena Gameplay: Added overkill factor, first hitter and player that did the most damage have the chance of getting the drop Added party gap limit, the maximum party gap is now 19 levels Adjusted exp bonus for parties Arumic Valley All crystal respawn times have been set to 30sec UI: Fixed chat prefixes being removed after sending the message Allow minimap to be zoomed out a little further Fix highest performance setting ignoring user selected camera smoothing value Stop client from closing if connecting to login server fails Show status effect of target under their center HP bar Added an indicator for items that can be picked up by the player Added back hotkey (ALT) to temporarily see names of dropped items Added option to hide shop names Added option to change the shop name style once it has been visited Added option to disable WASD Quests: General: Fixed and reworked Looking for a Mate / Check Mate quest on Hebarn side. Talk to [Ikaness Staff] to continue your quest. Added option to buy and appraise items to Pabel during quests Added the missing quest dialog indicators to Pabel and corrected the wrong ones Fixed quest tracker objective for Luna Gangsters Fixed quest tracker objective for Akram Arena: Stand Your Ground Fixed quest tracker objective for Akram Arena: Claiming New Ground Fixed quest tracker objective for Crystal Defender: Stand Your Ground Fixed quest tracker objective for Crystal Defender: Claiming New Ground Fixed quest tracker objective for In Need of Repair Fixed quest tracker objective for Arg Scavenger! (2) Fixed quest tracker objective for Supplying the Expedition Modified the color of Sikuku Delivery (2) on Quest Tracker to be less confusing Corrected all quest icons and dialog icon for the Flying Ship Quest Suite (Rosemary Doll / Sonnet of the Galaxy) Shady Jungle Added missing quest dialog indicators for all NPCs in Shady Jungle Sikuku Ruins: Added quest dialog indicators for Kojo and improved dialogs Added quest dialog indicators for Hope Added quest dialog indicators for Akuku Added quest dialog indicators for Maria Added dialog quest indicators to Bennett Added dialog quest indicators to Redford Added dialog quest indicators to Catherine and modified some dialogs Added dialog quest indicators to Gilbert and modified some dialogs Corrected wrong quest indicators for Sikuku Delivery for Catherine Corrected wrong quest indicators for Supplying the Expedition for Gibert Corrected wrong quest indicators for Sikuku Delivery for Redford Corrected wrong quest indicators for Supplying the Expedition for Bennett Xita Refuge Added quest dialog indicators for Harold Added quest dialog indicators to Oscar Patrick Added some quest dialog indicators to Darka Khan Added quest dialogs to Peppie Fixed some random mistakes in various dialogs Oblivion Temple: Added quest dialog indicators for Jorgus Added quest dialog indicators for Starburner Added quest dialog indicators for Serenity Corrected quest dialog indicators for Bond and modified some dialogs errors Orlo Quest: Corrected all NPC Quest indicators to be the right color, they were all incorrectly showing the grey exclamation mark Added quest dialog indicators for the NPC that were missing it Fixed Methio not showing indicators progress at all Some other minors corrections to make the dialogs less confusing Misc: Added new terms of service dialog when logging into the game Updated saturunes to give 100% refine chance Fixed bug where a player can get stuck in "Skill is being cast" NOTE: We are reverting some changes we made before so there might be side effects to this change. We have done some testing but please share with us your experiences. If you have any feedback regarding this patch, please share it with us in this topic!