Editing Announcements - 2000/09 - Twilight's Gleaming (section)

== Release Notes ==

{{Microsoft Zone
 |  Link = <nowiki>http://classic.zone.msn.com/asheronscall/news/septbuild.asp</nowiki>
 |  Date = September 12, 2000
 | Title = September Developer's Notes
 |  Text =

Here are just some of the additions made in the September 12 game update, ''Twilight's Gleaming''. The following list is comprised of detailed notes straight from the developers themselves. For a summary of things of most interest, be sure to consult the official event roll-out article, [[Announcements - 2000/09 - Twilight's Gleaming#Rollout Article|<font color=#FFFFCC>Twilight's Gleaming</font>]].

<br><font color=#ffffff><b>Detailed Notes for Builds 2400-2408:</b></font>

* Added new creature-only weapons.
* Added new logout motion and animation. Now, when a player logs out, they get purple bubbly effects and fade out.
* Fixed some typos in vendor, NPC, and monster death strings, as well as some item descriptions and trade skill strings.
* Cragstone's scribe, grocer, and healer shop strings now match the town spec.
* Crystals now leave corpses.
* The Esper Firestorm, Lethe Hellfire, and Tenkarrdun Hellfire elementals now leave a corpse, guaranteeing that whoever kills them has first dibs at their phat l00t.
* Virindi now cast Drain instead of Health-To-Mana.
* Multiplied the range of the armor/weapon spells by 2.5.
* Added owls and distant wolves to heavy forests as part of our continuing ambient sound buffs.
* General landscape weirdness fixes -- floating trees, inescapable pits, and so on.
* Added "@friends online" option.
* Slashed elemental creatures' particle counts by 2/3! This will improve the frame rate in very advanced, very dangerous areas with these creatures!
* Updated the Tatters Dungeon.
* Updated Folthid's Cellar where players could get trapped.
* Updated the Uziz NPC's -- they have new snazzy clothes!
* Electrical spurt effects in Amperehelion Vault now repeat instead of firing just once, and have a sizzling sound effect.
* SOLL infusions have a better use string now . . . something that shouldn't be so confusing.
* Previously viewed packs/sacks/etc. should now not try to open again upon re-login.
* To lessen the camping of the one good chest in the Soul Fearing Vestry treasure room, the chests have been scattered randomly.
* For some reason the Great Heaume glowed in the dark. It no longer does.
* Lurkers, Stalkers, and Raveners will now always carry weapons. No more "kung fu" drudges.
* Aerfalle's chest is no longer full of cheese and grapes. A couple of nifty new things have been added to make up for the inconvenience.
* Tenkarrdun Hellfire, Lethe Hellfire, Esper Firestorm, and Port Relic Bones had unique stats allowing players to find them easily. They now have the same stats as their brethren.
* Imperil VI has been made resistible.
* Frozen Green Tea's icon is now green.
* The table has been moved in the simple suite dungeon near Yanshi, preventing players from getting stuck on it.
* Shields generated by the treasure system will now be created with Invulnerability spells.
}}