The January legendary upgrade selection is up.

The previous round of upgrade recipes will be removed in approximately 24 hours.

Hello everyone,

The Christmas servers are back with the Nords using some festive gear, snowy scenes, and a new Christmas Fortress to defend.

In addition, double xp is in effect across all servers!

The event will continue through New Year's Day.

Merry Christmas!
- The NI Team

Item Stats:

• Battle Hardened Tower Shield: weight -2 (0.5)
  
• Blessed Phoenix Shield: weight -1 (1)
  
• Blessed Shield of Kings: weight -2 (0.5)
  
• Battle Honed Dragon Breath (melee): speed -2 (91), thrust 54p to 42b, one-handed animation
  
• Cursed Rupterer (melee): speed +2 (95), thrust 58p to 48b, one-handed animation
  

• Forest Outpost: ground texture
  
• Forgotten Bay: bot spawn moved, player camp adjusted
  
• King's Reach: bot spawn removed, player camp adjusted
  
• Praven: bot spawn added, player camp expanded
  
• Swadian Lighthouse: bot spawn moved closer
  
• Yalen Retreat: ai pathing
  

The December batch of legendary upgrades has been released.

The previous round of upgrade recipes will be removed in approximately 24 hours.

Bug fixes:

• The barricade pool should now be public.
  
• Fixed the sound of the barrel.
  
• Fixed the Bloody Blindfold; it should no longer make the head invisible.
  

• [White] Dragon Helmet
  • +1 head armour
    
• [White] Winged Helmet
  • +1 head armour
    
• Cursed Ancient Greatsword
  • blunt damage swapped to pierce
    
• Cursed Elegy
  • +48 length
    
  • -2.5 weight
    
  • +2 speed (default mode)
    

• Coastal Raid: restoration props at enemy spawns
  
• Forest Outpost: slight rework of the walls
  
• Yalen Retreat: simplified entrance for pathing
  

There are several much-needed bug fixes in this release as well as one or two behind-the-scenes changes to improve server-side performance a bit.

• Barricades are now stored in one public list allowing all engineers on the server to build any spawned barricade.
  
• Barricade previews should no longer cause underwater fog.
  
• Fixed the Bloody Blindfold model.
  
• Servers should no longer jam at the end of the round.
  
• Strong Barricades are more inline in size with the other barricades in its category.
  
• Switching between support items now consistently unequips the previous support.
  
• Updated the extra health display to accurately count boots.
  
• Item Stats:
  • Battle Honed Severance: +2 speed rating
    
  • Blessed Bolt Tosser: -4 speed rating, +1 shoot speed, -5 pierce, 115 accuracy
    
  • Battle Honed Dragon Breath: 0 difficulty
    
  • Ghastly Hood: 12 head
    
• Scene Updates:
  • Lake Town: player area escape
    
  • Nordic Village: shrine
    
  • Offshore: aesthetics
    
  • Old Shire: ground barriers
    
  • Swadian Overgrown: aesthetics
    
  • Swadian Temple: railing removal
    

• The new Bloody Blindfold model is MIA.
  
• The public barricade list is apparently not quite public yet.
  

The latest round of legendary upgrades has been released.

The schedule is still to cycle them on the 1st of each month (even though they were a bit late this time).

The previous round of upgrade recipes will be removed in approximately 24 hours.

We've got a few bug fixes and adjustments for you today as well as a new scene for the rotation:

• Fixed medic support triggering when typing in the chat boxes.
  
• Barricade previews can now be seen by everyone and not just you.
  
• Fixed medic support on cavalry mode.
  
• Support keys can now be rebound. Use the Group 5! key (6 by default) for medic support and Group 6! (7 by default) for engineer support.
  
• Added Fortress Outpost.