We have deployed v1.3.1, a comprehensive update to refine the game's economy, stabilize server performance under heavy AI load, and ensure your hero's safety during critical respawns.
What is fixed in v1.3.1
- Economy & Stack Selling: gems and stackable items now correctly calculate their gold value based on the stack size. No more losing gold when selling in bulk.
- Greater Rift Key Validation: opening a Greater Rift now correctly consumes 1 Keystone. If you don't have a key, the portal will remain closed with a warning message.
- Currency Visuals & Pickups: Platinum, Blood Shards, and Gold now use the direct currency flow. Fixed "ghost" item icons and restored the visual "flippy" and floating text for Platinum pickups.
- Server Backpressure Mode: new defensive system that detects high server load. When active, Offline AI reduces its action frequency and loot priority to maintain overall game stability.
- Atomic Respawn Resolution: the respawn system now uses atomic pathing to ensure you always land on a valid, walkable surface, avoiding "stuck" positions or falling through the world.
Respawn & Protection Overhaul
- Enhanced Ghost Protection: upon reviving, you now gain a temporary "Other Plane" shadow effect. During this state, you are invulnerable, untargetable, and invisible to enemies.
- Configurable Safety: the duration of this protection is now set to 15 seconds by default (configurable), giving you ample time to reposition after a death.
- No-Spawn Zones: refined safety logic to prevent respawning near Waypoints, Portals, or high-density monster clusters.
- Watchdog Cleanup: added a background system to ensure protection buffs and state locks are properly cleared after they expire, preventing permanent "Immune" bugs.
Expected gameplay impact
- Fair Trading: full gold value returned for all stacked item sales.
- Tactical Recovery: the new shadow-form respawn allows for safer recovery in high-difficulty zones without immediate re-death.
- Consistent Performance: less "input lag" during massive battles thanks to the new AI backpressure and optimized density counters.
If you notice instability, please report hero name, zone, UTC time, and whether .offline was active in Support.
- Zethrone Team
