PlaneShift 0.5.5 - Virtual fantasy world, start as peasant and become a hero.. (Free)

PlaneShift 0.5.5 - Virtual fantasy world, start as peasant and become a hero.. (Free): "

PlaneShift... The objective of the PlaneShift Team is to create a virtual fantasy world in which a player can start as a peasant in search of fame and become a hero. We will focus our efforts in the reproduction of a real world with politics, economy and many non-player-characters controlled by the server that will bring to life our world even without players connected!

We want to give Free access to everyone, without the need to either purchase the game or pay a monthly fee. Servers and bandwidth will be donated by sponsors.

Our virtual world is persistent, and this means you can connect to it at every hour of day or night and you will always find players and npcs wandering our realms. You will be able to disconnect and reconnect again, the server saves the actual status of your character including his possessions.

You will use a client program to interact with our world, that enables you to have a 3D view of the surroundings.

Version 0.5.5:

New features:

• Characters turn transparent while sneaking to simulate the fact they are hidden. We are testing this new option, and we plan to use it also for spells or other situations
  
• Added 'pterosaur services' for travelling between cities. There is one beastmaster in each major town which rents pterosaurs for travel
  
• Made shields functional. They are now part of the combat calculation, and allow real blocking of hits
  
• Improved the way NPCs chase an opponent by using generated paths (navmeshes) for navigation. This is a major improvement to combat and allows them to walk around obstacles
  
• Weather has been known to be cause of crashes on certain hardware, mainly intel chips and to slow down gameplay. It's now possible to disable weather effects from pslaunch! Be sure to enable it and test if it works for you before giving up on it!
  
• Added improved snow effect. Snow now shows on ground! Start humming a Christmas song :)
  
• Added the new Klyros city Amdeneir! It's actually one quarter of the city, which is located to the 'left' of hydlaa, for now reacheable only by pterosaur travel
  
• Added animations for attacking with bows on all characters
  
• Added a new progress bar for crafting
  

Fixes and updates:

• Changed item dropping and allowed arbitary rotations in all directions. This will allow better customization of guildhouses and events! To rotate, you have to hold the right mouse button and drag the mouse, or do the same by pressing shift
  
• Removed the gossip channel from the Main tab in the chat window. The Main tab is supposed to be In Character and the gossip channel was polluting too much the text. Be sure to clear your old settings, or the gossip will stay there
  
• Fixed rain
  
• The view window of an armor now shows its stats
  
• The view window of containers now shows the weight
  
• Ability to disable active magic window notification
  
• Removed need to specify a resource for dig/harvest/fish
  
• There is a new auto-refusal option for marriage proposals in options
  
• Failing to cast a spell may have a negative effect now
  
• Support for automatic execution of commands upon logging in
  
• Configurable tab completion. You can now speficy a set of additional words to be used in the autocompletion in the chat window
  
• Improved the way the server handles randomized and creative items (saving memory)
  
• Alliance channel may be added to main now as well
  
• Sort item categories by name in merchant/storage windows
  
• Added few new idle animations to stonebreaker female and ynnwn female
  

• Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
• 128 MB VRAM.
  

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