Game Updates - Maintenance Release

[[GM]Olly]

[[GM]Olly]

Client Performance and Quality Control

We have released a new updated game client v1.8.0.0 which will give you more control on the graphics quality and performance of the A3 Client.



Use Discrete GPU

This option is useful for Laptop that have Dual GPUs (Intel and AMD) or (Intel and Nvidia). Generally Intel graphics is used for lightweight workloads to save battery power and Discrete GPU (Nvidia or AMD) is used for performance intensive tasks such as games. By default, the A3 Mania Client runs on Intel GPU thereby limiting performance. This option would help you switch between integrated and discrete graphics. By ticking the option, the game will utilize the discrete graphics card in the laptop if available.


Anti-Aliasing
Anti-Aliasing is a quality improvement that will blur out rough edges in the geometry of the characters and environment. You can select from 3 options.

OFF - Anti-Aliasing is turned off.
MSAA - Multisample anti-aliasing. (Balance between performance and quality).
SSAA - Supersampling anti-aliasing. (Prefer quality over performance on select Graphic cards).

MSAA and SSAA both run at 2x since there are diminishing returns beyond 2x.

We suggest to play around with this setting to find the best balance of quality and performance. Your mileage may vary based on your PC configuration and the GPU that you use.



Anisotropic Filtering

Anisotropic filtering makes distant objects in games look sharper. We suggest to always keep this option enabled because it has very little impact on the performance but makes the game look much better.

[[GM]Olly]

Arena is Live!

Arena is live and is accessible from Temoz and Quanato Arena Manager NPCs as well as Barley NPC in Sidhe.



A new Match Mode "Non Dex Match" is available in which the arena will prevent you from using Dex based Unique Weapons.



All Unique larcs are disabled from the Arena and cannot be used in any Match Modes.

[[GM]Olly]

HP and MP Candies

To reduce the impact of HP and MP candies on wars and make the game less candy centric, we have implemented cooldowns on Candies similar to the cooldowns that we have added on Rubal's Elixir and Void Stone in the past.

Both HP and MP candies will have a 30second re-use cooldown.

[[GM]Olly]

The following updates have been carried out to the game as a part of regular Maintenance game update releases to fix existing issues and implement minor functionality.

• Improved Network performance for slow networks.
• Fixed issues with client getting stuck when traveling across Episodes (Town <-> Hatrel <-> Cloro <-> Sidhe)
• Fixed blinking timer text in Arena and Tower.
• Fix Special Quest 2-1 puzzle preview not appearing properly.
• Disable Mania+ weapon flame in Tower of Desire.
• Added Out of Stock functionality for Eshop items.
• Fixed issues that would cause skills to miss due to creep lag on moving creeps.

[[GM]Olly]

Update: 10th November 2023

The following updates have been carried out to the game as a part of regular Maintenance game update releases to fix existing issues and implement minor functionality.

• Fix client freeze issue when hovering over HP and MP candies when cooldown is in progress.
• HP and MP candy cooldown has been re-scaled to 15 seconds.
• Fixed intermittent delays in inputs caused due to server performance issues.

Hamutz Bossing Changes
Ishida boss will now provide drops based on the player damage on the boss. Players with higher damage on the boss will have more chances of getting drops. You will still need to be within 10 blocks of the boss and have atleast 3 free inventory slots to receive boss drop rewards.

[[GM]Blade]

Update: 25th December 2023

Unique Larcs with cooldowns are re-enabled after fixing a bug that would prevent the lasting effect to prevail after travelling through episode maps.