1.12.5.7 Patch Notes

[Quintus]

Patch 1.12.5.7
Released October 4, 2012
This patch addresses a number of issues:

Functional

• Shared stash now creates a backup of itself
  
• You can no longer 'steal' items from your buyback tab by closing the window with Spacebar
  
• Can’t drag merchant items onto the buyback tab
  
• Gambler does not show 'can't equip' X
  
• CTRL-M will instantly toggle map visibility
  
• Pet equipment cannot get sockets from enchantment
  
• Fixed rare crash related to Charming a monster
  
• Multiplayer logging is reduced, and can be disabled with the NEVERLOG console command (may improve performance for some clients)
  
• Creating a player in a difficulty other than Normal, directly joining a game, and then exiting, won't revert your stored difficulty to Normal.
  
• Confirmation box added for quitting without saving
  
• Fixed a few rare hardware related crashes
  
• Particle update optimizations
  
• Various rendering optimizations

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue in multiplayer where non-killing MP players did not receive appropriate XP falloff due to level delta
  
• Armor Degrade properties now apply properly - degrade armor values were reduced for newly generated item properties to compensate for them working correctly - but don't worry, they will be better than before!
  
• Zero walkspeed monsters won't attempt to jump down
  
• Fixed some display issues with Fame level progress
  
• Wandering (non-town-based) Enchanters have a slightly better range of enchantment strengths. They also now have an approximately 20% chance to get a 'powerful enchantment', which are about 50% better than normal. This is represented by a sound and text message in game.
  
• Swamp Flier scream debuff will show an appropriate name on debuff icon
  
• Creep squish blood now has a censored version
  
• Fixed a few areas where loot from a specific event spawned publicly
  
• Fixed a few spelling errors
  
• Act 4 banner should properly display
  
• Pets can be sent to town from the last 2 boss rooms
  
• Fixed an issue where occasionally an errant MOUSEUP event could ignore your attack in extremely fast click situations
  
• DOTs now correctly calculate bonuses from +DMG%
  
• XP and Fame %bonuses from gear are now capped at +/- 100%
  
• HP bonus gear will properly be reflected in final health of player to other clients post-zoning
  
• Game can be saved at any time from the options menu
  
• Onscreen notification in bottom right of screen when saving takes place
  
• Console-created items now have an effect that displays that they were cheat-created
  
• Damage reduction effects on the player are capped to 75%
  
• Stat expenditures when leveling up are properly synchronized in multiplayer
  
• When leveling up, your health is properly recalculated on other clients
  
• Skill cycle keys can now be bound to mouse buttons
  
• Transmuted items are no longer destroyed if an inventory is full with no place to accept them

Skills

• Berserkers are still targetable while performing Savage Rush
  
• Bramble walls and Ice Prison will properly die offscreen, and if the originator leaves the zone
  
• Battle Standard's properties are properly exclusive (they don't stack)
  
• Fixed charged versions of Fire Bash from levels 9-15 using the incorrect effects (weaker when charged!)
  
• Howl duration fixed (Extended)
  
• Berserker Wolf Shade master healing property was reduced from 5%+5% per rank to 5% + 2% per rank - and the first rank properly provides healing
  
• Vortex Hex won't target smashables
  
• Fixed two ranks of Seismic Slam incorrectly doing electrical damage
  
• Level 15 Elemental Boon cast time reduced 20% (was not properly set)
  
• Glaive Throw has had a damage nerf (25% reduction in max damage and decreased growth per rank ) with less additional bounces per tier
  
• Elemental attunement properly benefits from owner’s level
  
• Elemental Boon should properly speed up cast time on last rank
  
• Shadowbind should properly rank up duration
  
• Blast Cannon’s armor reduction effect no longer stacks and works for both fire and physical damage
  
• Fixed sped up hitframe for male shield skill anim so that it is never skipped when a subsequent skill is queued
  
• Outlander Long Range Mastery should now affect wands as well
  
• Prismatic Bolt gains charge at half the previous rate
  
• Spider Mines should show debuff icons
  
• Spider Mine summon duration fixed
  
• Shadowling procs from wand chaos or weapon affixes properly last 20 seconds instead of 3
  
• Elemental Attunement shouldn’t attack smashables
  
• Tremor rank 6 should properly perform its charged effect
  
• Immobilization Copter damage effect shouldn’t stomp on other damage effects
  
• Berserker Retaliation can only trigger once per second per given target – and no longer procs/leeches
  
• Rapid Fire and Venomous Hail now use DPS instead of Damage

Scripting

• Fixed some issues with Grom's arena in multiplayer when another player speaks to the NPC while the main area is completed
  
• Several boss rooms have had structural changes to make it more difficult to cheese them with certain skills
  
• Various minor level scripting or layout repairs
  
• Fixed farmable Gel phasebeast room so that XP gain isn't overblown
  
• Fixed various other farmable phasebeast unitspawners which incorrectly granted XP
  
• Fixed a few areas where the player could get stuck

Networking

• Fixed a case where backlog of messages for resend would escalate and disconnect the client
  
• Friends-only games are fixed to synch correctly across lobbies
  
• Fixes for various serverside issues
  
• Erroneous ‘Connection Failed’ messages should be fixed
  
• Games can now be filtered near your level

Graphical

• Many wardrobe tweaks and fixes

Boring

• Various alterations were made to better support translated versions of the game, and to detect and deal with other language items during trading

[InsidiousForce]

Turns out the developers DO know what the patch does.

[Rodbow15]

Why wouldn't they know?

[Lachleo]

Cheers for this, Runic forums are down so its nice to know what it is!

[S-YXG98]

Cool! This is great!

[TonyHawksProHater]

Thanks for posting this. I was wondering what the patch was for.

[Nirimetus]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Rodbow15:

Why wouldn't they know?

Off topic: He is refering to the "other" company "little" issues lol

On topic: Really nice fixes, this patch is a nice improviment.

[Jyre]

Thanks for the quick, clear patch notes. Awesome job TL2 team!

[ein]

I don't really like your game but I love you and this is why.

[Johnny Fronthole]

Aww... I'm going to miss my indefinitely spawned spider mines.

[edit] Oh yeah, and good job on the excellent customer support. Pretty rare to see patch notes published directly to the Steam forums/Community by the devs.

[Rathia]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von BrockDiesel:

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• Berserkers are still targetable while performing Savage Rush
  
  
• Berserker Wolf Shade master healing property was reduced from 5%+5% per rank to 5% + 2% per rank - and the first rank properly provides healing
  
  
• Glaive Throw has had a damage nerf (25% reduction in max damage and decreased growth per rank ) with less additional bounces per tier
  
  
• Prismatic Bolt gains charge at half the previous rate
  
  
• Berserker Retaliation can only trigger once per second per given target – and no longer procs/leeches
  
• Rapid Fire and Venomous Hail now use DPS instead of Damage

1. I can live with.

2. Ouch.

3. Ruined the ability.

4. Ouch.

5. Hurts, but I can live with.

6. Ruined the abilities.

Not cool.

[Konst]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Johnny Fronthole:

Aww... I'm going to miss my indefinitely spawned spider mines.

THIS.

T_T

[Wolfy]

Love Runic S2.
Great patch, though I'm not sure how I feel about glaive throw, oh well, never used anyway.

[Sammun]

Glaive throw bounces decreased?
WHY

[AchromaticSky]

Glaive Throw was hilariously broken, the changes were necessary.

[daflame]

Enjoying the game ver much. I am hoping that the download page can link to the game patch notes. I know they're here but I just caught these notes before the other screenshots bury it. It's still cool being able to respond on the hub but it would be nice to see them there.