New Features

- Updated graphics with colored lighting, glowing crystals, fire embers, heat haze, desert mirages, and new spell and projectile effects.
- Added Nearest, Sharp, xBR, HQ2x, HQ3x, and HQ4x upscaling graphics filters for sharper pixels or smoother edges.
- Improved walking smoothness and responsiveness on higher network latencies.
- Updated dungeon entrance interface to allow player selection and invitation.
- Added Quality rankings to equipment based on the rarity of their attributes.
- Added equipment comparison to tooltips when holding Shift.
- Added Item Lock to prevent equipment from being accidentally sold to shops or on the market.
- Added Auto Compact to automatically combine identical item stacks within a container.
- Redesigned the Options window with grouped settings and live previews.
- Made official website links clickable in chat.
- Added an explicit vsync setting toggle.

Updates & Changes

- Standardized dungeon entrances as non-protection areas and dungeon exits as protection areas.
- Rangers can no longer inflict ricochets or equipment AoE while adjacent to a hostile monster.
- Premium Card buy offers must now match at least the latest Noble Coin price.
- Added an Ironborn indicator beside Health in the Status window.
- Added a sand color to the minimap.
- Improved the readability of character speech and on-screen messages.
- Food tooltips now show approximate regeneration duration in minutes.
- Added a Noble Coin purchase shortcut to the Bestiary coin counter.
- Reduced Epic enchanting costs from 3 to 2 Zezenium.
- Compatible equipment slots now highlight while dragging equipment.
- Adjusted dungeon entry fees and difficulty selection.

Fixes & Adjustments

- Fixed diagonal targeting and positioning for Piercing Shot, Spread Shot, Dark Spikes, Rocky Ascension, and Blind Rush.
- Corrected Strong Bewilderment animations, Bravery feedback, and several spell descriptions.
- Corrected quest logs, dialogue, reward displays, and requirement hints across dozens of quests.
- Corrected the Beast Collector achievement description to require 50 monsters.
- Corrected Birlusk's rage waves and Wojatupp's trap damage patterns.
- Fixed stuck progression in Smart Trader and Smuggler's Life for certain characters.
- Fixed issues with nectar collection in Adria's Sick Daughter and wall restoration in The Fate of Isaac.
- Fixed the Royal Residence ladder and The Six Portals' spike resets.
- Fixed assorted monster and quest mechanics to work as intended.
- Corrected Heal Friend critical healing, Divine Touch healing attribution, and Mortal Melody mana/cooldown handling.
- Fixed interruptions to active Cerberus encounters.
- Fixed incorrect Lizard hardcore exit.
- Fixed issue with Bersund arena entrance.
- Improved analyzer accuracy including loot totals, healing reports, session durations, and experience rates.
- Fixed keyboard navigation, hotkey editing, and Enter-key shortcuts in several windows.
- Fixed rare pathing issues around certain tiles.
- Fixed several client gameplay and runtime crashes.
- improved client rendering and gameplay performance.
- Improved server responsivity of autoloot shortcuts (Shift + Right click).
- Reduced network usage during gameplay.
- Improved server performance during heavy gameplay.

Personally, I think there are way too many lights. The visual effects are so bright that they can be blinding. Is there any way to dim them or turn them off completely?

Now, I want to ask you a more important question. Imagine you're driving a car with your family to the seaside for a vacation. You get a flat tire, and while checking the car, you also notice that the paint on the side is scratched and peeling off. Instead of focusing on fixing the actual problem and changing the tire, you start repainting the car and then try to continue driving without replacing the flat tire. Does that make any sense?

That's how I feel about things lately. It seems like you're focusing too much on minor, relatively unimportant details and wasting time on them, instead of prioritizing meaningful changes and new content that could actually attract new players. Instead, you're spending time on cosmetic tweaks that don't really address the bigger issues.

I completely agree, the game is more fluid now, but there's way too much brightness, it looks weird. I wish there was an option to leave it 'original' without these visual effects.

Regarding the ranger, something really needed to be done, it was unbalanced, but now the game is totally focused on area damage. So my suggestion is that when the ranger is close to the monster, the ricochet and area damage drop to 35% of the original damage, and when using a blocker or at a distance, it goes back to 100%. ...