This is a great day!

Not only did Ryzom get a new patch, but it’s a pretty good sized one.

There are some graphical updates that will now allow you to see clear across eternity, and all the mobs draw, too. This is so exciting, being that Ryzom hasn’t received any love in what…a year?

This lil game, so magical. The weather systems are like in no other MMO. In fact, when I see MMO’s without a good weather system, I think of Ryzom.You look up, and the rain falls straight down at you. The sunsets/sunrises are beautiful. Four seasons, each lasting around 3 days…watching the snow fall on the white trees in Yrkanis!

I wish more for this game, and this new company might just deliver. It doesn’t need much, being that the basic game is so strong. A couple live events and I might be fully hooked again!

Here are the notes:

Monday, January 26th 2009 – client patch 1.3.0 (00638)

[ LOGIN & PATCH ]

. Character selection is now always in windowed mode.
. Fixed the “Create Account” button on the login page.
. The tab key now works in the “Create Account” window.
. Error messages are now displayed when an error occurs during the account creation process.
. Fixed some issues with the keyboard focus during navigation of the login screen.
. Fixed some bugs in the login menu after a failure during account creation.
. Fixed a bug that generated an infinite patching loop.
. Fixed a problem that made Ryzom unable to patch on Vista when installed in the “Program Files” directory.

[ GRAPHICS ]

. Increased the maximum limits for graphics settings in setting dialogues to allow for increased visual quality.
. When the interface is hidden (by pressing Shift-F5) the “target reticule” is no longer displayed when hovering the mouse over an entity.
. Added new “Auto” aspect ratios for screen resolution.
. The old position of the window is now always reused when running Ryzom in windowed mode.
. Fixed a crash when the screen resolution was set to lower than 1024×768 in fullscreen mode.
. Fixed a bug when using a screen resolution of 1920×1200.
. Fixed a problem when resizing the window to less than 800×600 in windowed mode.

[ INTERFACE ]

. Fixed the crash related to the compass that corrupted and reset the interface.
. Fixed a crash when placing a new landmark.
. Added a new command: “/supportChat” that allows you to connect to the CeB support chat from ingame.
. The contents of your bags are now sorted without having to move or remove an item.
. Fixed the Team window not updating correctly when a player leaves the team.
. Fixed a bug preventing players from talking in a faction channel (kami or karavan chat) if they are teamed and have talked in the team channel.
. Fixed a bug that incorrectly sorted the names in the list of guild members.
. Fixed a bug that incorrectly displayed the team member positions on the map when you left team and entered a new team.
. Fixed some problems with tell management in the Ring.
. Fixed a bug where a message sent to a team channel goes to another team’s chat.
. Fixed a bug that unnecessarily displayed a “You win xxx title” message when opening a character’s Identity window.
. Fixed a bug when trying to add a non-existent player to the Ignore list.
. Fixed a bug that displayed random messages in the speech bubbles when someone typed an empty message.
. Fixed a bug that removed a player item from the merchant list when the player’s inventory was full.
. The IDLE emote is allowed when swimming.
. Added a confirmation dialog when deleting an action from the hands bar.
. Added a fold/unfold button in tell windows and added a notification when you receive a new tell.
. Removed the settings for clouds in the configuration window.
. Removed the old “PvP Challenge” option in the right-click contextual menu.
. Fixed the wrong icon on the Seeds material specialization.
. Fixed the Episode 2 faction pick medium and high quality skins.
. Fixed a bug that made one handed weapons in right hand disappear when doing an emote.

[ TEXT ]

. An error is now displayed in the Sys Info channel when invoking a non-existent command.
. Macros can now display accents (utf-8 characters).
. Accents (utf-8 characters) are now correctly displayed in ingame mails.
. Fixed some typos with all outpost crafting plans in French.
. Fixed some typos in the options window in French.
. The title title00079 (Wayfarer) is now correctly displayed and translated in all languages.
. Fixed some typos in the Outpost war declaration window in English.
. Fixed the incorrect labels for Vampirism Stanzas 6 to 10 in French and English.
. Updated the EULA file to correctly show Ryzom’s new owner.
. Fixed a French text that was too long on an item sold by a player.
. Fixed a bug where the female title was not displayed in a female player’s status.
. Used a shorter name in French for the “Packers” tab to make it fit in the buy/sell window.
. Target window now correctly displays the female titles.
. Fixed an incorrect label in the buy/sell window on the Mount tab.

[ MISC ]

. Removed some exploits.
. Fixed a crash when leaving Ryzom that was related to CTextureBump.
. Fixed a bug where camera height was reset after showing the settings dialog.
. Fixed a problem with the sound listener orientation.
. Fixed a player animation that wasn’t displayed correctly when launching a specific spell.