This update contains some major backend changes to help prevent hacking. We have integrated Easy Anti Cheat (EAC) with the game, and you will be required to install it before running the game. EAC will run in the background after you launch Reign of Kings, when you are done playing, EAC will stop running. We felt it was best to have a major anti-hacking solution on our side while we also work to prevent exploits and hacks on our end. We also included another layer of our own hack prevention in this update aside from EAC. You will now also be required to agree to our EULA before playing the game. We hope everyone understands that we are doing our best to prevent hacking, and we hope some of these solutions help out. We will continue to make this our top priority in the near future.



http://www.easyanticheat.net/



Do not risk hacking/exploiting the game, as this may result in your account being permanently banned through the EAC system. Bans will be delivered in waves, we will not elaborate on the exact timing.



For Community Servers:

You will need to delete your permission file, don't worry, it will auto-generate when you restart your server. Otherwise users may experience problems with users connecting to your server (stuck on downloading characters). Please clear your permission file. The permission file is located under the Configuration folder next to your ROK.exe.



As with the last update - Due to the current anti-hacking layers, modding of the game is not permitted at this time, this would include language packs or other localization attempts. Please verify the integrity of your game cache and keep your DLLs and game files unmodified to avoid unwanted banning or being added to a ban list. If you are unsure you can verify your game files through steam by selecting "Verify Integrity of Game Cache..." in your game's properties under "Local Files".



Looking forward to the next week, our main focus will once again be on hack prevention, and also on performance.



This update also includes many bug fixes, design changes, and some new features like a trap door & furniture. You can find the full list below.





Features:



-Added Trap Door

- Added Wooden Sword (training weapon), one damage per hit.

- Added Wood Stick (training weapon)), one damage per hit.

-New original song "Wings of Shelter" added to the game

-Added Woodworking Station (used to create furniture)

-Added 26 Furniture, List of Furniture Items:

-Low Quality Bed (acts as spawn point)

-Low Quality Bench

-Low Quality Chair

-Low Quality Fence

-Low Quality Shelf

-Low Quality Stool

-Low Quality Table

-Medium Quality Bed (acts as spawn point)

-Medium Quality Bench

-Medium Quality Bookcase (acts as a container)

-Medium Quality Chair

-Medium Quality Dresser (acts as a container)

-Medium Quality Stool

-Medium Quality Table

-High Quality Bed (acts as spawn point)

-High Quality Bench

-High Quality Cabinet (acts as a container)

-Lord's Bath

-Lord's Bed (acts as spawn point)

-Lord's Small Chair

-Lord's Large Chair

-Banquet Table

-Bear Skin Rug

-Deer Head Trophy

-Rocking Horse

-Gazebo



Changes:



- Easy Anti Cheat (EAC) integration. Needs to be installed before playing. Will run in background while playing Reign of Kings, and then automatically shut off when finished playing Reign of Kings.

- Lobby refresh feels more seamless.

- Lobby pings are no longer discarded on refresh.

- Lobby column sorting is now saved.

- Lobby ping sort now updates at regular intervals while pinging.

- The saved lobby list will now load immediately.

- Input fields are more responsive to highlight selection. Double-click will now select all.

- Chat will now automatically close when disconnected from a server.

- Made it so the whitelist command is case insensitive.

- Ballista will lock during interaction

- Ballista aim screen has an interaction



Optimizations:



- Garbage collection optimizations.

- Fixed object pooling. Added pooling to furniture, lights, and some additional items



Bug Fixes:



- Fixed some saving issues when the server is shut down.

- Fixed some dead sleepers not being saved when the server restarts.

- Fixed camera bug in third person where the camera will jarringly move forward, epsecially while swinging melee weapons

- Adjusted flame sound loops

- Fixed particles on Holdable Torch going crazy

- Players who have died while asleep are now properly re-loaded on server restart.

- Fixed the fires so they now properly damage players who are on top of them

- Blast decal for trebuchet should be proper

- If using ballista it shouldn't leave you in a camera broken locked state

- Paging will now continue if it encounters an error with one prefab

- Move prefabs to be taken in a conquered crest zone

- Lockpicks will not have two picking bars

- Prefabs cant be placed in conquered crest area

- Fix the campfire disappearing if it is updated and the area is left



Design Changes:



- Renamed a few items: eg. Steel Great Sword --> Steel Greatsword

- Trebuchet Stone is now limited to 15 per stack.

- Stone is now limited to 1000 per stack.

- Small Wall Torch, now Wall Torch.

- Wall Torch, now Small Wall Torch.

- Small Wall Lantern, now Wall Lantern.

- Wall Lantern, now Small Wall Lantern.

- Bear hide, now has a chance to drop from bears.

- Iron Chest, Steel Chest and Wood Chest now have descriptions updated to display proper slot count.

- Stone Blocks, now require 1 Stone Slab, 5 Clay (was 1) to craft.

- Stone Slab now costs 4 charcoal (was 2), 8 water (was 4), 100 Stone (was 60) to craft.

- Siegeworks now costs 400 flax, 1200 Wood (was 850), 100 Iron (was 50) Ingots to craft.

- Trebuchet Stone now costs 1 Stone Slab (was 50 Stone) to craft. Stone Slab has processing time involved.

- Trebuchet now costs 50 flax, 2000 Wood, 50 Iron (was 25) Ingots to craft.

- Iron Wood Cutters Axe, Steel Wood Cutters Axe and Stone Wood Cutters Axe all had their wood resource gathering increased by 2 per hit.

- Crest description will now indicate items health.

- Large Iron Cage now costs 40 Iron Ingots (was 90) to craft.

- Large Iron Hanging Cage now costs 40 Iron Ingots (was 90) to craft.

- Small Iron Cage now costs 25 Iron Ingots (was 80) to craft.

- Small Iron Hanging Cage now costs 25 Iron Ingots (was 90) to craft.

- Steel Cage now costs 30 Steel Ingots (was 95) to craft.

- Candlestand & Chandelier now burns fat for fuel.

- Ground Torch now costs 3 Iron Ingots (was 5) and 40 Stone to craft.

- Hanging Lantern now costs 2 Iron Ingots (was 9) to craft.

- Hanging Torch now costs 3 Iron Ingots (was 9) to craft.

- Holdable Candle now costs 3 Fat (was 5) to craft.

- Holdable Torch now costs 1 Flax (was 3) and 10 Wood to craft.

- Iron Floor Torch now costs 4 Iron Ingots (was 12) to craft.

- Small Wall Lantern now costs 2 Iron Ingots (was 7) to craft.

- Small Wall Torch now costs 2 Iron Ingots (was 7) to craft.

- Wall Lantern now costs 3 Iron Ingots (was 8) to craft.

- Wall Torch now costs 3 Iron Ingots (was 8) to craft.

- Standing Iron Torch now costs 4 Iron Ingots (was 12) to craft.



Thanks for playing,

- The Code}{atch Team