New
- Soulbound items added so that SealOfUtopia and SealOfUtopiaBox(10) can now be stored.
- Soulbound items can go into storage, but only the character they’re bound to can take them out.
- Soulbound items that aren’t bound yet show “Soulbinds on pickup” in their tooltip.
- Soulbound items only stack with copies bound to the same character.
- You can’t delete a character while its soulbound items are still in shared storage.
Skills and balance
- Hero archer Poison Shot at level 0 now has a 10% chance to charge Cripple Shot (before, it never proc’d until Poison Shot reached level 1).
- Pets at levels 8–11 now have their own name colours instead of showing white.
Translation
- Ctrl+click chat translation keeps working when Google limits requests: it pauses and switches to a backup address.
- Translated chat now shows the whole message, not just the first sentence.
- Chat messages containing &, # or + now translate correctly.
- Chat messages containing a time (e.g. 20:00), or wrapped onto a second line, now translate as a whole.
- Repeated chat messages are translated instantly.
- Changing language re-translates chat that was already translated.
- Chat translation now works in the web client.
- NPC lines containing your name, level, gold or other values are now translated instead of staying in English.
- Fewer texts are left in English when Google limits the translation server.
- Translations containing “=” are no longer lost.
- Launcher news that fails to translate stays in English and tries again on the next launch.
Graphics
- The desktop client can now load MLX, our new lossless graphics format, alongside the current files.
- Improved visual clarity across the game
- More rich and vibrant colours everywhere
- MLX Artwork is pixel-perfect, without the blocky, smudged compression of today’s files.
- Glows, wings and spell effects get true soft edges instead of hard cut-out outlines.
- Colours are restored to the exact values of the original artwork instead of slightly dulled ones.
- Restores lost image depth
- Cleaner animations
- Smoother edges
- Lossless format
- Item icons now use the sharper 32-bit source artwork where it exists.
- Older laptops and desktops with low VRAM might not handle the lossless libraries as well, we have included a new Mir2Config.ini setting for LowVRAM=False, set to true for very old laptops and desktops. This loses Quality and Fidelity and is NOT recommended unless you are having issues with lag due to low performance.
- Conversion to the new format is about 80-90% complete
- There may be instances of Broken or Missing animations or textures
- I have been extremely careful to try to avoid misalignments and have done extensive testing but due to the volume of data avoiding all of them is likely impossible. Please let me know if you run into any graphical bugs.
- Fixed a couple of subtle rendering bugs as well
Fixes
- Cold Archer now fires a proper arrow in all 16 directions, without the misaligned muzzle streak.