Release 2

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**Release 2** is the second early access testing phase open to backers of Shroud of the Avatar. The release was originally scheduled to run from January 23 10am CST to January 25 2014 10pm CST. As a thank you to backers, the release was extended an extra day.

## Deliverables

* **Crafting:** We will be opening up crafting for testing with more than 100 recipes. Chests full of crafting resources will be provided. Crafting will initially focus on refining and production for smithing, tailoring, and carpentry.
* ~~**Shopping: Shopkeepers will be open for business for selling and buying.**~~
* **Town 2:** An additional municipality (likely village sized) will be open for business! Entering the swirling blue portal in the ring of stones will take you from one town to the other. We chose Kingsport for Town 2.
* **List Inventory:** For those who prefer spreadsheets to immersion. The inventory battle royale continues! Setting this option will change all containers into lists except for crafting tables (coming in R3).
* **Character Customization++:** Characters from R1 will be wiped, but you will now have even more options when creating your character! Now there are even more ways to look unique, including: facial features, scaling, and more content (hairstyles, head shapes, skin tones, hair colors, etc.) We were also able to include helmets and offhand items (torch and shield).
* **Jumping:** Tired of not being able to jump that fence? Well tire no more as we now have jumping. And not just any old jumping but player controlled height jumping. A quick tap on the spacebar barely lifts the player but holding down the spacebar allows the player to clear those pesky walls with a high jump. Long term jumping will use focus and will likely be affected by weight carried.
* **Run Speed:** Many of you commented on the slow run speed so we increased it by 50%, which feels much more satisfying. We will continue to tune this and balance it with an upcoming Dash skill that uses Focus as well as the Sprint buff in the Light Armor School of combat.
* **Mac & Linux:** OSX and Linux support is now working (with a few caveats). The game currently requires a two button mouse and while a trackpad technically works we are not fully supporting it yet. For Linux, Unity only officially supports Ubuntu so if you are running other versions it may not work.
* **Recipe Log:** We had originally planned to put crafting in R2 without a recipe log but quickly discovered how amazingly not fun that was. Discovery is great but not having any record of that discovery is just punishing. So we got in a recipe book that will track your recipes.

## Patches

### v55

* Several fixes were implemented to reduce memory usage. This should help reduce random crashes and make the game playable for people on 32bit operating systems.
* NPCs will bark less often so that they are less spammy.
* Some NPC conversation text updates.
* Top right icon that brought up a bug submission form will now redirect to the Release 2 bug forums instead.
* Admin and whisper messages should now pop up your chat window when received if it was not visible already.
* You should no longer see a naked male avatar briefly after making a new character.

### v57

* Added option to invert mouse look
* Added a sheen to items placed on the crafting table to make them easier to see.
* Fixed missing textures in Kingsport waterfront castle

### v60

* Improve right-click rotate camera controls. Should be more consistent and fix players for whom it was too slow.
* Fixes for a few exceptions that were occurring.
* Fix for inventory icons being offset incorrectly at high window resolutions.
* Fix for inventory icons not fading properly on bag close
* Fix for an inventory list visual glitch.
* Fixes for some plot loading issues.

## See also

* Release 1
* Release 3
* Release 4

## References

1. ↑ Release 2 Instructions
2. ↑ Release 2 Access Extended an Extra Day

## External links

* Release 2 Instructions on official site
* Release 2 Impressions from Chris (Tech Director)
* Release 2 Impressions (+ Release 3 Stretch Goals!)