TLOPO Release Notes - 2018

This Release Notes page will list major updates in the world of The Legend of Pirates Online during the year of 2018. But, for the latest information - also check The Legend of Pirates Online or Pirates Forums!



February 24, 2018 (tlopo-rc-1.11.0)
On the Horizon Features Bugfixes Maintenance Windows Launcher 1.3.0
 * Something strange be brewin' in Cursed Caverns on Isla Tormenta. Ye best watch your step.
 * Our infrastructure has undergone a bit of an expansion. We've added several new web servers and client agents, and four new Oceans! You might recognize their names: Cortos, Deseano, Fragilles, and Kokojillo!
 * The Sword of Triton now has a custom inventory icon.
 * The Triton's Vengeance passive skill is now functional.
 * Fixed a district reset with sailing loot.
 * Fixed the remaining bugged searching containers for quests. Thanks for your patience! Other quest fixes are forthcoming.
 * Fixed an issue that caused Engenio Fausto's jeweler catalog to be empty.
 * Jumbees in Hollowed Woods will no longer incorrectly drop Cursed Blades.
 * Code cleanup.
 * Each ocean can now hold 600 pirates at once, upped from 350.
 * Localizer typo fixes.
 * Made improvements to moderation tools.
 * Several security enhancements to our servers.
 * Improvements to patching have been made; this should improve download speeds.
 * The launcher has received a facelift with a brand new skin, featuring our official logo.
 * Known issue: the old "skull" logo still appears as the launcher's icon.

February 21, 2018 (tlopo-rc-1.10.3)'''
PSA Features Bugfixes Maintenance Known Issues Some players are still missing their Black Pearl Story Quest. We're investigating this issue.
 * Make sure to check out our list of Known Issues. There are still quite a few things we're working on fixing that may still be interrupting your gameplay. Thanks so much for your patience!
 * Many players have been asking us if any changes were made to land loot recently. We have not touched land loot in any form in any of the recent updates. Any droughts you see in your plunder are just due to luck (or lack thereof). If we make any changes to land loot, we will be sure to tell you. We will always be transparent about any changes we make. Thanks!
 * Added an additional fart sound effect to Flatulent Fizz potions.
 * Mastered GUI for overall notoriety and weapons will now use the new TLOPO logo.
 * As much as it would have been nice to have a comeback to the argument "when pigs fly," the pig near Adoria Dolores' tailor shop on Padres Del Fuego no longer floats in midair.
 * Fixed a bug that prevented Jolly Roger from attacking barricades during Invasions.
 * Fixed a crash related to quests.
 * Fixed a district reset caused by porting a ship with materials in its cargo.
 * Fixed an issue with badge display.
 * Fixed various memory leaks.
 * Most quest searchable containers now function properly. Others, such as shelves or cabinets do not. We're working on getting those fixed!
 * Significant improvements to loot obtained while sailing. We're still working on this. Thanks so much for your patience!
 * Tia Dalma will no longer be randomly standing in King's Run on Port Royal.
 * Fixed an issue with our anti-cheat systems.
 * Localizer grammar/typo fixes.
 * The Black Pearl Boss Battle does not reward plunder.
 * Boarding permissions for The Queen Anne's Revenge are still wonky.
 * Bonus rewards from the Raven's Cove Story Quest are not being awarded or may award the wrong item.
 * There are still a few issues that need to be worked out with sailing loot. It's a top priority for us.

February 17, 2018 (tlopo-rc-1.10.2)
Maintenance
 * Temporarily disabled the random invasion task in order to stop invasions from constantly happening. We're working on identifying this issue and appreciate your patience.

February 17, 2018 (tlopo-rc-1.10.1)
Bugfixes Mac Launcher Update Bugfixes
 * Fixed a server bug where some players' inventories failed to load.
 * Fixed a server crash preventing numerous players from logging in.
 * Here's what's new in version 1.5.1 of our mac launcher!
 * Fixed a bug which prevented Mac players from patching the game properly.

February 16, 2018 (tlopo-rc-1.10.0)
PSA Features Bugfixes Maintenance We have made a few changes to the Jolly Roger's and other invasion enemies' health formula.
 * We have entirely rewritten the questing system fixing numerous issues with questing, such as the frequently lost Black Pearl Quest. Please check to see if any of your missing quests have been returned. Thank you so much for being patient as we looked into this issue, please provide us with feedback on this update if you're still having issues with your quests!
 * Random Bosses are now spawning periodically around the Caribbean!
 * Fixed a bug causing the game's icon to not appear on Windows.
 * Fixed a bug where Jolly Roger attacked barricades that were already destroyed.
 * Fixed a bug where the ray of light shined on the wrong door in the tutorial.
 * Fixed a bug with health regen in battle.
 * Fixed a bug with the ravens on Raven's Cove preventing them from flying.
 * Fixed a deep-rooted issue causing quests to be randomly dropped without any apparent explanation.
 * Fixed a massive server memory leak in the world creation system.
 * Fixed a server memory leak related to NPC enemies.
 * Fixed a server memory leak related to ships.
 * Fixed a visual issue in the shard panel post-invasions.
 * Fixed numerous issues with Jolly Roger's attack AI.
 * Fixed several district resets caused by the fixed memory leak.
 * Fixed several grammatical errors in text.
 * Fixed several issues with the tutorial.
 * Fixed the ship loot overflow bug.
 * Potentially fixed issues with Jolly Roger's animations not always showing.
 * We have entirely rewritten the questing system fixing numerous issues with questing, such as the frequently lost Black Pearl Quest.
 * Added new hints to the loading screen regarding player security.
 * Code cleanup.
 * Numerous security improvements.
 * Players are now required to defeat the two enemy skeletons in the tutorial.

February 11, 2018 (tlopo-rc-1.9.7)
Features Bugfixes Maintenance Maintenance
 * Added some new spawn locations on Cuba to prevent clustering.
 * The "Nearby" panel in the Hearties panel has made a return!
 * We have re-implemented our revamped feedback panel from phase 1 of Beta! You can now submit more detailed bug reports and suggestions.
 * Fixed a bug where charms and jewelry could not be equipped.
 * Fixed a crash from the pistol shot animation.
 * Fixed a crash related to pirate movement.
 * Fixed a crash when declining a friend request when the requester pirate went away.
 * Fixed a crash when invasions started.
 * Fixed a crash when rejecting a friend request.
 * Fixed a crash with grenades.
 * Fixed a crash with the ship repair minigame.
 * Fixed a district reset caused by equipping jewelry.
 * Fixed a district reset from poker.
 * Fixed a district reset with the Black Pearl Boss Battle.
 * Fixed a GUI issue in the shard panel caused by invasions.
 * Fixed another massive memory leak on our servers.
 * Fixed misleading pig text when players try to interact with it when it's not roasting.
 * Code cleanup.
 * Improved moderation tools.
 * Numerous security improvements.
 * Upped the chance of invasions occurring.
 * We have added more detailed logging to help us debug crashes.
 * Whitelist and blacklist update.

February 10, 2018 (tlopo-rc-1.9.6)
Features Bugfixes Maintenance
 * Immunities given by weapons are now functional!
 * Infamy badges can now be displayed on ship nametags.
 * Invasions will now start at random times!
 * PvP tattoos are now able to be purchased at Infamy vendors!
 * Fixed a district reset related to ship repair.
 * Fixed a memory leak in the core infrastructure of our districts.
 * Fixed an issue that caused players to be unable to pick up the Valentine's Day quest if they had previously completed it last year.
 * Code cleanup.
 * Deprecated some old GUI options in the Infamy Accessory and Tattoo stores that related to legacy inventories.
 * Improved moderation tools.
 * Localizer typo corrections and updates.
 * Significantly improved our server security features.
 * Updated our database software to the latest version.
 * Updated our server engine to the latest version; bringing more stability and other misc. improvements.

February 8, 2018 (tlopo-rc-v1.9.5)
Bugfixes Maintenance Mac Launcher Update Features Maintenance Bugfixes
 * Finally fixed the memory leak which caused all districts to repeatedly crash over a short period of time. Woohoo!
 * Fixed a bug with Fire Bats dealing too much damage on death.
 * Code cleanup.
 * Optimized an operation with world creation.
 * Here's what's new in version 1.5.0 of our mac launcher!
 * Implemented resource patching for faster download speeds.
 * Faster launcher start up time.
 * Improved file writing for faster installation/patching.
 * More efficient storage management.
 * Updated the TLOPO application icon to our new logo.
 * Fixed a bug causing the window background to be black instead of transparent.
 * Fixed a bug where minimize button would not work properly.
 * Fixed a bug with Touch Bar not working on macOS High Sierra.

February 7, 2018 (tlopo-rc-v1.9.4)
Bugfixes
 * Implemented a patch to correct the database issues experienced earlier today.

February 5, 2018 (tlopo-rc-v1.9.3)
Maintenance Note
 * Code cleanup to make things look pretty.
 * Consolidated and cleaned up some operations with enemies.
 * Optimized an update task with pirate avatars.
 * Optimized and cached a few operations with ships.
 * Optimized several operations with quests and quest-givers.
 * We're heavily focusing on optimizing our servers - if you couldn't tell! We dislike lag, and so do you! This update will have a fairly significant impact on server response time. We'll be adding more profiling tools soon which will help us pinpoint any other bottlenecks.

February 4, 2018 (tlopo-rc-v1.9.2)
Maintenance
 * Several heavy operations with quests have been reworked to be cached and preloaded. We identified during our logging last night that these operations were a huge consumer of system time. We hope this to be another step towards finally eradicating the server lag present during invasions. Apart from invasions, the lag created by these operations also caused teleports and quests as a whole to be delayed.

February 3, 2018 (tlopo-rc-v1.9.1)
Features Bugfixes Maintenance
 * On shards where an invasion is taking place, an icon of Jolly Roger will be visible on the server selection screen!
 * We've improved our infrastructure to better handle the massive amount of activity during invasions. We hope this will solve the server lag and lockups.
 * Fixed a bug where players would be revived at the end of an invasion if they were knocked out.
 * Fixed a bug that prevented players from being revived during an invasion.
 * Tweaked the math that calculates Jolly Roger's health. No more insanely high HP!
 * Code cleanup.

February 3, 2018 (tlopo-rc-v1.9.0)
Features
 * This update has implemented content that we are to showcase at our GM event! Stay tuned for updates. These release notes will be updated with more concrete information post-event.

January 30, 2018 (tlopo-rc-v1.8.7)
Bugfixes Maintenance
 * Fixed several internal exceptions and district resets. We love stable servers, and so do you!
 * Code cleanup.

January 30, 2018 (tlopo-rc-v1.8.6)
Maintenance Known Issues
 * Code cleanup.
 * Improved our moderation tools.
 * We have made significant optimizations to textures. Many players will notice a significant boost in overall game performance.
 * We are currently working on finding a solution for DirectX9. We hope to have a fix out for this soon.

January 26, 2018 (tlopo-rc-v1.8.5)
Bugfixes Maintenance
 * Fixed a district reset from loot containers. We don't like annoying recurring resets either, sorry about those!
 * Code cleanup to make our code more pretty.
 * We have replaced the website URL in our update message (the one shown when disconnected) with our status page URL. That status page shows cool status stuff, you should check it out here: status.piratesonline.co

January 22, 2018 (tlopo-rc-1.8.4)
Bugfixes
 * Emergency fix for a district reset with SvS.

January 22, 2018 (tlopo-rc-1.8.3)
Features Bugfixes Maintenance
 * The green interact circle now has an all-new HD texture.
 * We adjusted the loot rates in accordance with community feedback. We feel that this will make players much happier with their drops. Let us know your feedback on this!
 * A task to kill the boss Scatter Snap will no longer say to kill a regular Giant Crab.
 * A task to kill Tomas Blanco will no longer say to kill any Spanish Undead skeleton.
 * Fixed a district reset in the Black Pearl Boss Battle caused by skipping the cutscene.
 * Fixed a district reset when taking weapons from El Patron's loot.
 * Fixed a district reset with nature auras.
 * Fixed a district reset with potions.
 * Fixed a major flaw in our gameserver preventing the proper deletion of thousands of objects. We think this is the root cause of our AI leak.
 * Fixed an occasional district reset when attacking Hunters and Flagships.
 * Fixed several client memory leaks.
 * Fixed an issue with tasks asking to kill Spanish and French enemies in general.
 * Code cleanup.
 * Dozens of typo corrections to the localizer and quests.
 * Whitelist and blacklist update.

January 5, 2018 (tlopo-rc-1.8.2)
Features Bugfixes
 * We now have a "status" page! You can easily check the uptime/downtime of our services at status.piratesonline.co. This page is still a little rough around the edges, so bear with us as we work to make it a bit prettier.
 * We've released some information on the APIs we've been developing. You can check this out at piratesonline.co/docs. We have a lot more to document, so stay tuned!
 * Fixed a few issues with the collection of statistics in-game.

January 4, 2018 (tlopo-rc-1.8.1)
Features Bugfixes Maintenance On the Horizon
 * Dealer Shirts have returned to the Caribbean! You can find these old classics in loot as well as in their original tailors at Cuba and Port Royal.
 * Fixed a bug (and prevented further bugs) with holidays and redeem codes caused by changes in year.
 * Fixed a few bugs with quests.
 * Fixed an exploit with chat.
 * Potentially fixed that really annoying backend memory leak which is making our districts reset periodically.
 * Code cleanup.
 * Even more localizer tweaks. Bad grammar is seriously not welcome here.
 * We're now monitoring the status of our servers in a more robust manner; more to come on this.
 * We are adding several public-facing APIs soon which will allow developers in the community the opportunity to create fan-made applications.