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Important Announcement

Starting Monday, December 8, Xsyon will no longer support ‘Free to Play’ for new players.

After careful consideration it is clear that a ‘Free to Play’ introduction to the game is not a viable model for Xsyon.

The typical ‘Free to Play’ model relies on cash shops for items, ‘pay to win’ enhancements or unlocking game features, relying on players who pay high monthly fees to compensate for those who pay little or nothing. These systems ...

Steam
- Server updated to support future Steam players.

Improvements
- Crash log collection system improved to facilitate automatic crash reporting.
- Issue causing architecture projects to sometimes deselect while moving them corrected.

Optimization Update

Server
- Improved crash log collection
- Improved logging system
- Revised entity loading to prevent timing out during loading
- Code cleanup

Client
- Revised thread locking system to prevent crashes
- Code cleanup

Improvements

- Collision improved for easier movement on ramps and thresholds.
- Zone loading process streamlined.
- Automatic crash log reporting system added.
- Keybind system revised to prevent failed binds and other minor issues.
- Weights for cloth and leather revised to be more consistent.
- Permissions revised on buildings when a player leaves a tribe.
- If player leaves a tribe:
-- The player can't destroy buildings he built
-- ...

Improvements
- Movement on slopes revised to prevent players getting blocked when jumping across trenches and similar situations.
- Parry revised to take into account parrying skill for damage reduction.
- Craft knife added as a default starter tool.
- Tribe leader can harvest plants owned by any tribe member.
- Trial tribe expiration displays on trial tribe totems.

International Keyboard Revisions
- Special language characters should not appear and ...