2010.08.12
We are continuing our collaboration with Video Symphony Studios, which produced an updated version of the trailer, with better and more realistic sounds. It's now posted in the movies section of the web site!
2010.07.17
Due to some problems with Skylab, we have to move our primary server to a new hoster. We are very happy to welcome Zeroping as our new hoster! Thanks for your support and we wish to work with you for long time! If you are interested in hosting services, please check the Zeroping website.
To be able to connect to the new server you need to update your clients with the updater.
If you experience any problems with the updater then please open the file PlaneShift/data/servers.xml with notepad or a text editor and change
ip="planeshift.skylabhost.it"
to
ip="62.173.168.9"
Enjoy!!
2010.06.24
Dear Planeshifters, starting from today, you can finally experience the effects of different weapons on armors!!
The rules team has analyzed the resistance of various armors to different types of damage, like slash, blunt, pierce. This means certain weapon types will do better against some armors and worse against others. For example you can expect a mace to be a good deal more effective against plate mail than a long sword.
This also applies to monsters so be sure to test different weapons against them. Use this new feature to gain tactical advantage over your opponents ( Tournaments included! ) Please use this forum thread to report how this feature works for you.
2010.06.12
PlaneShift team is very proud to announce a new update for our clients and servers!! The new release is called 0.5.4 and is a solid upgrade from previously available 0.5.3. Here is a detailed list of changes. Please note that you can upgrade from 0.5.3 but follow the instructions in our download page for this.
Art
- An very nice expansion of Ojaveda has been added: Dsar Kore. Many thanks to Xoel for building this new area!! With this addition the enkidukai will finally have enough place to live and prosper. There also be new space for guildhouses.
- Completely new user interface for the character creation, much more readable and usable! A new login screen as well on the same theme.
- First implementation of wizard robes! For now it's only available to NPCs, see Levrus, but soon will be available to players as well.
- Introduction in game of bracers! They are not only new items, but they are also visible when you char wears them. We are adding now quests which will provide the bracers to you.
- The male and female enkidukai heads have been improved by adding more polygons.
- The hairs of all characters have been changed to avoid having a plastic look
- Water reflections! Added in few places as test, allows the water surfaces to reflect the environment. Still need some improvement to look more realistic.
Engine
- Ability to support maps with image backgrounds. To be used as maps of major cities, given to new players.
- New soundmanager, which allows us to have monsters emit sounds! Thanks to Agy for the hard work on this.
- Implementation of ranged weapons. They are fully functional now!
- Expansion of the tribes system! The NPCs are getting smarter, and are now aware of being part of a larger tribe. They can call for help if attacked, and they can expand. This feature is still under testing, but will be largely used in the future to make our world more interactive.
Music
- More sounds and more music added to the game
Known bugs
- The client crashes on exit (we are working on it)
- The sound on linux seems to malfunction on certain systems (Pulse audio).
Download the new client from our download page.
You can comment this news in our forums in this thread.
Enjoy PlaneShift!
2010.05.31
Dear Planeshifters we worked on the last weeks into making our web site more interactive!
In particular there are 4 new areas you can access to :
- Guilds page: Using the new Guilds page you can find the complete list of guilds in Planeshift including the member-count and links to guild pages when available. Visit if you want find guilds you have never heard about or go to your guilds page quicker when you are already at planeshift.it.
- Events page: Here you can see important events which are planned for the next 365 days. It is good to know when to be online and further you can make preparations for important times at Planeshift.
- Players Wiki: can be found via the Community folder on the main page. The Wiki is not new but offers many FAQs, guides and descriptions. Has been created by players, and you can contribute to it as well. It is a real help for beginners to gather information about the game quickly and it helps veterans to be up to date with details of the game.
- Live Webcam: Last but not least we have added a Webcam where you can see live-streamed events by GMs or Developers. We stream usually when a major event is going on.
We hope this bring new fun to your PlaneShift experience!
2010.04.27
We have just moved our roleplay server to a better and faster one!! Many thanks to Fragnetics, who have hosted our main server for many years with a friendly and seamless service!
That server will remain available for us as a development server, so our great relationship with Fragnetics will continue!
The new server is donated by Skylab and it's located in Europe. All european players will experience a major improvement compared to the old server located in Singapore. To use the new server, just update your clients and you will see in the servers list a server named "skylab". Enjoy!!!
2010.04.23
The PlaneShift team is proud to announce a valuable collaboration with Video Symphony, a professional training center for entertainment media production. Students from Video Symphony's Audio Engineering Pro Tools Program are creating audio production for the PlaneShift game and trailers.
"We are pleased to be a part of this production team, and we’ve chosen PlaneShift as the platform for our video game courses," said Michael Verdick, Program Director.
Thanks to this collaboration we are happy to present the trailer that was jointly produced by the two teams.
This is the first official PlaneShift trailer, view it here.
2010.04.08
In honor of the release of Arcane Chrysalis the PlaneShift Music and Art department's banded together to assemble an Original Sound Track for your listening pleasure. It contains many tracks found in game, plus few other bonus tracks soon to be added. We think it's a beautiful soundtrack, and it really expresses our motivation and inspiration to make PlaneShift the best free game ever! We added printable cover and back, so you can burn and print your own CD! If you do that please post your happy shots with it in this forum thread. The CD can be freely downloaded at no cost, but you cannot resell it or distribute it in any way. Download it here. Enjoy!
2010.03.16
Hi Planeshifters! With the release of 0.5 we got a very stable platform to work with, and now we can focus more on the balancing of the game, and building new feaures. In particular we had one item in our roadmap since long time about improving magic. There have been two main stream of work on this. First is a new and improve particle editor which allows us to easily add more effects to the game and tweak the ones that are present today. The work on the editor is not yet completed, however it has been already been very helpful. We plan to add more effects soon with it. The second area of improvement is to actually make magic more effective and balanced with fighting. Up to now magic has been much weaker than melee and weapons. Now magic is stronger, making it more balanced with the rest of the game, also the skills have been balanced against each other. Here is a summary of the changes:
- First overall increase of average damage for almost all spells. Some have been bumped more then others.
- The K-factor (the little slider on your status window) now actually does something useful. Increasing it will increase overall damage but it will also increase mana usage, spell cast time and the chance that the spell fails. Experiment until you find the *right* value.
- A bug was fixed which caused spell casting time to go to zero. Now spell casting times are always reasonable. Also it is now no longer possible to cast spells while running.
- Some ranges for stronger spells have been reduced to balance them with their increased power.
2010.02.24
Due to the need of new art and updater changes, we decided to release new installers today (0.5.2.1). Upgrade is recommended.
See you in game!
2010.02.21
PlaneShifters, today you may experience some ups and downs on the servers, but this is good news! Again, we have made a new release for you! This time we also released full new distributions, so you will have no problem with the updates. Here is a more complete list of changes in this update:
Art
- Added nolthrir female plate armor
- Added ylian male hair variations
- Added many new monsters variations
- Added drifters and rivnaks as mounts
- Many fixes to icons and items
Engine
- ITEM STORAGE!! You can now ask certain NPCs to store your items. You can enable this function by the proper NPCs. /storage Jirosh, Taemian, Harnquist, and Gardr (thanks weltall).
- UTF8 (Unicode) support for any input box (this means you can write with most languages) and characters like àùèò and the german ones are supported now.
- Additional updates to translations
- Implemented texture change in meshes when dropping/equipping or when dropped on ground. It's possible to add different textures on the same item by doing changes in the server database data.
- Fixed crashes caused by not entirely loaded items.
- Added additional information for gm in info and bugs with offline support.
- Fixed basic cloth armor for mobs and npcs to be set per race/type correctly.
- The updater now uses curl for downloading updates and should be more reliable than before.
- Damaging spell will be stopped on yield when dueling.
- Added an /fps command which will show the current fps. This should help with bugtracker entries giving better feedback.
- Improved performance of in game windows which should improve performance on slow computer when training.
- Now the quest and event button don't switch anymore.
- Made checkboxes of pslaunch bigger to be easier to click.
- Now it's possible to check easily progress on the updater with a progress bar.
- The updater will fetch the update mirror from the server in place of giving precedence on the local list. should improve download speed of updates.
- Now it's possible to have single named pets and mounts fixing PS#3721 - pet name adds "familiar"
- Now it's possible to use storage and merchants even when overweight exhausted or while sitting.
- Fixed wrong basic ctrl setting in windows and Linux clients it seems the macosx only ctrl setup got in place of lctrl.
- Fixed a bug which didn't allow some quest paths to be executed if not a gm or dev character (e.g. two paths assigning the same quest).
- Fixed movement dead lock without re-log if you stop before being exhaust but end up exhaust anymore.
- Various fixes to text-boxes and scrollbars.
- Added an eta in pslaunch while updating.
- Allow to mine and fish with the tool in any hand
- Allow to get messages about login/logoff of people in the other guilds of the alliance.
Settings
- Added quest for rivnak and drifter (mounts) acquisition.
- Many quests are fixed and more fixing continues.
- Npc re-factor phase one is done and phase two is ongoing. Phase one included the addition of new NPCs and an overall balancing/redistribution of about 320 NPCs in game. About 150 are still missing the refactor.
Music
- Added 3 tracks in game
- Improved sounds in nearly all levels, by adding new ones and repositioning old ones.
Download the new client from our download page.
You can comment this news in our forums in this thread.
Enjoy PlaneShift!
2010.01.24
We have just recently released a patch (0.5.1.1) in order to solve some crashes and add some content. The next time you start the game with pslaunch, it will ask you to update.
Please note: the pslaunch program will need to update itself before updating your client. Don't be worried, just relaunch it until it won't update no more.
Thank you for playing PlaneShift!
2010.01.31
Over the last week, the rules team has been working hard on releasing a redesign of the weights and the sizes of items.
This was long needed since there were a lot of inconsistencies like a plant weighing about the same as a box of goods, or a short sword having more size than a staff.
Another update performed is the change of prices. This has been done to better reflect the value of (crafted) goods compared to the effort spent in creating those, as well as make the in-game economy more balanced between source of income and spendings.
On the long run we should like a swordsmen to be able to make about the same amount of money of a miner, or a cook.
The current setup is surely not final, but allow us to playtest the economy.
You can comment this news in our forums in this thread.
Thank you for playing PlaneShift!
2010.01.24
We have just recently released a patch (0.5.1.1) in order to solve some crashes and add some content. The next time you start the game with pslaunch, it will ask you to update.
Please note: the pslaunch program will need to update itself before updating your client. Don't be worried, just relaunch it until it won't update no more.
Thank you for playing PlaneShift!
