Update Client Patch Notes: March 20, 2022

Welcome to the client patch notes of March 20, 2022.

This patch is focused on features, client changes, as well as improvements. The Anniversary Patch which will be coming next will be focused on balance changes, skill changes, as well as changes towards the game itself.

Do note this thread in particular is about the client changes.

Client .ini related

During this client patch, we've cleaned up quite a bit of features found in Legends.ini. They were either not working, or were not working correctly.

The following settings have been removed:

- Windowed: This setting was not working correctly on the Windows client. You can still toggle between windowed and full screen using alt + enter. Seeing nobody reported this, we rather just remove it instead of fixing it. MAC users can still make use of this feature in their Legends.ini.

- RememberClosePos: This was not working at all. There was literally no code present at all.

New additions to Legends.ini

- ClickMode: This is a new addition that was implemented based on the feedback users provided to us when it came to clicking on NPCs.

We are now giving users the options for 3 modes: Classic, Modern GMS-Like, and our own tweaks

Classic: This is the double-clicking on NPC's that is present from beta until v0.67.

Modern GMS-like: This is the single-clicking on NPC's that is present starting v0.67

MapleLegends' tweaks: This is the method that was present in the previous patch: Single clicking NPC's as well as single-clicking on merchants.

Due to users coming into our server being used to newer methods, the default will be 1: Modern GMS-like. If you prefer the classic double-clicking, you can change that inside the .ini.

The "Double-click" graphic will be changed depending on the mode you've chosen automatically!

- WhiteScrollPrompt: This allows you to turn on or off the extra confirmations you'll receive now when owning White Scrolls using Legendary Spirit, or by regular scrolling. It's NOT recommended to turn this off in any shape or form, and if you do turn it off you'll not be refunded if you make any mistakes that cause you to lose White Scrolls. However, the option is there for you to do so. More information on how this works later in the patch notes.

-CloseGameConfirmation: This allows you to turn on or off the extra confirmations you'll receive now when attempting to close the game from the menu, alt F4, or pressing the X button. It's not recommended to turn this off if you are clumsy from time to time. More information on how this works later in the patch notes.

Game client tweaks

Game startup tweaks:

We've made some behind the scene improvements that should improve the startup speed of the game client. It has shown improvements for everyone that has tested it, including myself. Hopefully, it will be better for you too!

Shop NPC tweaks:

When users are selling items they usually do so by double-clicking and pressing enter. Often, users pressed enter multiple times which would cause the shop NPC to close itself. Starting this patch the NPC window will no longer close by pressing enter, so you can sell items without constantly re-opening the NPC window. You can still exit the NPC shop interaction by pressing ESC or clicking "Exit" as normally.

General tweaks:

- /partyexpel <ign> is now a case-insensitive command
- MonsterBook search is now case-insensitive (ex: red snail works)

Quality of Life improvements

- Up to 100 messages will now be stored in the chat history (up from 8)


- Users will be prompted to confirm their White Scroll usage everytime they scroll from Legendary Spirit while owning a White Scroll


This prompt is also still present while regular scrolling. A completely custom cancel button has been added as well, which is another extra layer to prevent mistakes. Previously users sometimes pressed "no" thinking it would cancel the scrolling.
Note that pressing the Esc key in this confirmation prompt will cancel the scrolling, while pressing Enter will confirm the White Scroll usage.

There's really not much more we can do than this when it comes to user mistakes. Please becareful what you do before scrolling your items.

- Pressing Alt + F4, Quit Game or the X button now provides an additional confirmation:


This prompt will only accept confirmation via the OK button clicking: pressing Esc or Enter will cancel the prompt.
As mentioned earlier this can be disabled in the Legends.ini if not appreciated.

We've personally tested the feature a lot and have been unable to find any problems with it. If you experience any problems please do let us know.

- Searching for Prestigious Coins with Owl of Minerva now has an option to yield results for ALL available coin types.


New client features

- Implemented support for Couple t-shirts.

Originally not supported by v0.62 and I believe any pre-bb version, couple t-shirts were added by GMS much later. Act very similar to couple rings, except they are t-shirts.

Adding support for these was kinda painful. As a good tradition of things neckson implements, a lot of couple/friendship related were hardcoded. Basically, anything new outside of v0.62 will not work.

Making the effect work was the first of the many layers. After that, we came into a problem where if you wore a ring AND a t-shirt, it would break again. Have you ever seen that error that appears if you try to equip a couple ring while already wearing one? Yes, that one. Seeing the t-shirt is a completely new ID, this error was not present. This also gave a nice answer to a question I had: Can you wear 2 couple rings without things breaking?

The answer is: No. The effect would break, and neither ring nor t-shirt effect would pop up.

So what we had to do is implement the error message that appears when trying to equip a second ring, and add it to the t-shirt. Then, we had to make sure the error pops up not only while having a t-shirt equipped, but also a ring. Sometimes adding a custom feature can be seen as very easy, but then you need to add all the edge cases which can suddenly make it take much longer. A similar case happened with this. But hey, it should be fully working now.

If you've found out an edge case we've missed that break them, please let us know!



- Implemented support for randomized chairs

In the previous patch, we've implemented support for chairs that alter your character position as you sit on them.

On this patch, we've decided to tackle another chair functionality from a later version: Chair randomization.

Not used by many chairs, and in this patch, it will only be used for 1 chair so far, but the code is there now to support much more in future.

What this does is each time you sit on a chair that supports this functionality, there's a % chance it will be x or y version of the chair, set in the data files of the chair.



Note: for the time being, the third-person view of this Chair will have a different randomized version. This will be fixed in an upcoming patch.

- Implemented support for dynamic quest requirements

This is a really technical achievement, but you will see more about this during this event. Basically, we have much more freedom than before what we are able to do with client-based quests now.

- Implemented support for new item tooltips (ex: Spikes on shoes)

Time for some memes. In a much more early version than v0.62, Neckson added scrolls that implements warm support for capes as well as slippery prevention for shoes.

The code functionality was present in the client, but the tooltip to display it was not, or not properly.

In this patch, we had to add the tooltip functionality so it displays properly on items. This has been done successfully:


By the way, while all the code is present for this, we are not 100% sure yet how we want to distribute those scrolls. More information on those hopefully sooner than later.

- Implemented support for new Hair/Face ID caps

We've upped this cap in the past from the default v0.62 client, but GMS is getting more and more hair and faces, and the cap was once again reached. We've upped it yet again, which means we can go even further now than ever before when it comes to hair and face IDs without having to change the numbers around

- Implemented support for custom Fonts and Font colours

For this patch, we've implemented support for custom fonts and font colours. Normally, MapleStory has a few specific colours for NPC chats, green, purple, blue, and red. With this modification, we are able to add way more colours at any point in time, without the need to replace any existing ones. We've used a few already for this event!

We hope you'll enjoy all those client changes! The other changes will be mentioned in the other patch notes thread, for the server-sided changes.

Thank you.

 

oh, right! There's one thing I forgot to mention



These messages have been re-enabled, but no longer tells you to take a break after 3 hours. We'll see how it sits with people before doing anything with them, but some people requested us to bring it back after I removed it many years ago.

They are completely re-enabled for at least this patch period.