Entropia Universe 19.10.0 Release Notes Avatar All players will also receive a one-time opportunity to customize their characters using the new character creator. New character models with high-quality geometry and high-resolution textures, rendered with a new PBR skin shader for realistic, detailed skin. Added 20+ new hairstyles for male and female characters, featuring modern high-poly models and high-resolution textures. Each hairstyle supports separate color customization for the roots and tips, while the new color system offers a much wider range of colors than before. New high-resolution eyebrow textures, new eyelashes for female characters, and redesigned underwear with PBR materials. Added a new facial animation system with modern facial morphs, supporting basic expressions and also providing a foundation for more animations in future updates. A redesigned Character Creator and in-game Surgeon interface, featuring scene previews, outfit try-ons, and a wide range of customization options. NPCs have also been upgraded to the new avatar models while preserving their original appearances as closely as possible. User Interface Many windows have been updated and or reworked including windows such as Auction, Codex, Message Center and many more Chat has been reworked to provide a cleaner and cleaner more readable and faster experience AD screens has been reworked and now offers a wider range of customizability Crosshairs and Rifle Scopes have been reworked, crosshairs now shift style between ranged, melee and mindforce Performance and responsiveness of the new interface have been greatly improved System and Video Memory footprint for the new user interface has been greatly reduced Construction now provides an option to select how many entries to save as logs to reduce memory footprint for longer crafting sessions on lower end machines Auction Sell to Best Order: Sell queued items directly to the highest matching buy order, with price verification before confirmation. Apply Lowest Comparable: Price items using the current lowest comparable buyout with a single click. Market Information: Day, week, and month markup info and sales volume are displayed directly on each staged selling row. Markup Entry: Enter prices as markup percentages instead of PED, with your preferred mode remembered between sessions. Sell Queue: Prepare, configure, and batch-submit multiple listings inside a single selling queue with automatic stack-splitting. Safeguards: Instant warnings within the Auction window protect against accidental underpricing or listing below market levels. Quantum Set Capsule: Craft single-use containers to package and sell complete, inspectable item configurations (such as armor sets or weapon setups) as a single listing. Map Interactive 3D & 2D Modes: Explore terrain, settlements, destinations, and waypoints in real-time from an entirely new perspective. Precise Location Tracking: Reworked technology presents more accurate positions for mission NPCs, dynamic events, and other key world activities. Client Performance and Visuals Large performance improvement in busy graphical areas. Static meshes and vegetation are now rendered as instanced batches instead of one by one, cutting per-frame CPU work by more than 60% in dense scenes. On our test machines, areas that used to dip to around 30 fps now run at 100 fps and above. Smoother world: objects and level-of-detail changes now fade instead of popping, on every quality setting. Frametime has been increased on all settings Several stutters and hitches have been reduced or completely removed Texture streaming has been enabled as an option under advanced settings to further reduce cpu bound texture loading Shadows have been reworked on all settings providing a more realistic and performant experience on all settings Low, Medium, High and Very High graphics have been reworked Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) has been added to advanced graphical settings Additional new Features New profession rank titles have been added, extending progression all the way to level 1000 Changes Tier-Rate Amplifiers now give a consistent Tier Increase Rate bonus based on the item's maximum instead of its current rate, so their benefit no longer varies from item to item. This effectively means that the current amplifiers will give +20 to Unlimited items or +400 to limited items The Ice Shield Chip's cooldown has been adjusted to 15 minutes and now uses its own dedicated cooldown group Raw fish caught while fishing can now be sold on the auction, and has its own auction category Auction categories have been reorganized so that fishing catches, cooking-chain ingredients, and cooked foods are now sorted into clear, dedicated categories, making it easier to find and list them Cooking recipes and blueprints are now organized in the auction into Cook, Nutritionist, and Provisioner sub-categories Codex tracking slots are now counted per territory, so tracking creatures in one territory no longer blocks you from tracking on another Bug Fixes The Void Umbranoid Codex challenge now contributes to the Attribute Meta challenge as intended Fixed an issue where the Void Umbranoid Codex challenge could appear twice, with rewards claimable from only one Fixed an issue where the Codex icon could indicate an unclaimed reward that could not be found or claimed in any challenge Fixed an issue where tracking entries in the Codex might block tracking on other planets New Setting Recommendations Medium settings are now recommended for low-to-medium performance hardware. If you previously played on Low, we encourage you to switch to Medium for an improved experience. We strongly recommend keeping GPU-accelerated UI rendering enabled for optimal performance and interface responsiveness, even on integrated graphics cards. If you encounter any display issues, please update your graphics drivers first, as disabling this feature should be a last resort. We also strongly recommend enabling MSAA (2x, 4x, or 8x) even on low graphics settings, as it significantly improves visual quality with minimal impact on framerate for most machines. MindArk and the Planet Partners strive to ensure a smooth and problem-free Version Update. Nevertheless, even after extensive testing some issues may arise after release. Such issues are often addressed via mini-patches directly after a release and in subsequent patches. If you feel that the possibility of encountering minor issues or bugs directly after a Version Update affects your gameplay to an extent that Entropia Universe is not enjoyable, please wait until the mini-patches have been released and any last minute issues have been resolved. Continue reading...
