This is another huge one, the cumulative results of the pre-beta testing that has been going on for the last couple of weeks.  I want to thank everyone who's pitching in to help get this tested and solid for beta launch.

Read on for the release notes...

 Area Fixes and Additions

• new Gateway to Khalidine is onlne.  Excellent job by AllPlayAndNoWork!
• close off Old City (it is not ready for beta)
• remove Seller's Rest (will be moved to its own town)
• fixed transitions not working to goblin caves attached to alder's farm, broken walkmesh
• fixed bad spawns in slums, which would spawn a nonhostile badly named woman
• fixed overpowered spawns n sewers
• lighting fixes in gesel core sewers
• Abandoned mines in Alder's Farm now accessible and populated.
  

New Speech System Commands

• new emotes: cower, clutch, jump
• new player command to play animation: .p animation-name [target] reference http://developer.obsidian.net/wiki/index.php?title=PlayCustomAnimation
• new player command to play animation in a loop: .pl  animation-name [target]
• new player command to show what areas PCs are in: .who -filter-  (Filter is partial name of a PC)
• dm command added to turn lights on: .lon [radius] [target]
• dm command added to turn lights off: .loff [radius] [target]
• fixed .raise DM  command to work properly
• fixed .scale and .scalexyz DM commands to use new 1.12 functions.
• added permissions check for jumping to bugs from GUI
• fixed permissions bug where PC could not speak through his familiar/summons

Systems Fixes and Additions

• xp_bugfix by Skywing is now running, making the server much less prone to crashes and instabiltiy
• new (and temporary) loot system is now in place.
• fixed bug where upon entering various triggers, PC was not correctly recorded as havnig left the trigger upon doing so
• bug reportng feats: fixed incorrect labels and wrong category  for bug reporting feats
• fixed issues where PC was jumping back to his feet and staying there after death.
• fixed issue where opponents kept beating on dyinig PCs
• fixed issue where custom pickpocket was not working
• speech command targetinig enhancement:  now commands that don't require a target can still use one if provided. (defaults to UI, then specified)
• fxed issue where draggable corpses were  hostile
• added spell hooking logic to check for requried components and/or plot flags.  This will allow for controlled spellbook gain, and limited availability of custom spells.
• fixed bug where defeault PC langnuages not gettinig properly added on character creation.
• added new area flag for 'no location save' and 'no fatigue'.  Prevents PC locaton from getting saved in the gateway, or fatigue from occurring in high RP places
• a couple of potential pickpocket exploits were fixed.

Custom Content Updates

• add GUI dice roll interface which appears as a dice button on the chat window. ALlows  DMs to choose dice rolls for selected target.
• increased duration of summons spells to 10 rounds + 3rounds/level, to allow for more viable solo spellcasters
• modified Summon Creature spells so that they summon Spirit creatures to fit in with world background.  Note that spell descriptions still haven't been updated.
• set nwn2_deities correctly for alignment, classes.    Note that paladins must choose a lawful deity, and have a lawful-anything alignment.
• blackguard changed to any non-lawful evil
• class description change: paladin (levelup only)
• class description change: assassin    (levelup only)
• set up deities so that approprate alignment, etc restrictions are observed.
• sorcerers have been modified to use an every-third-level progression for new spell levels, inistead of just doing this for 1st to 2nd as is default.  Level 9 spells become available at L24; the default starting spells at each level is now 2.
• removed alignment-based summonings from Greater Planar Summoning, Planar Summoning
• remove menu idleexpiretime (performance)
• remove borked darkvision.sef from visual effects.

Misc Issues

• fixed missing dialog for minister of culture in startup area.

Logged Bugs - below are fixes for bugs that have been logged in-game (details can be found in our bug database or through the in-game bug browser ):

• - 612    lockpck dc is too low...
• - 611    When I .goto anyone, it reports as ha...
• - 606   Rats still attacked even when PC is r...
• - 600    I'm trapped behind the corpse of Tok....
• - 599    Speakng dialog aloud when dragging corpse
• - 598    There's an inappropriately placed wor...
• - 594    Non-hostile thug_male_01, also needs ...
• - 588    Missing walkable tile...
• - 587    Tile missing...
• - 584    Rat got action failed no path...
• - 581    Can't use entrance...
• - 557   invisible walls make me cry Gese
• - 559   Environmental lighting in Gesel Core ...
• - 550   transition bad can't reach sewers...
• - 549   Too many point lights here...
• - 546      cannot get to slavers dock - transtio...
• - 529   This is not a good place to rest
• - 466    When traveling back to th...
• - 382    Walk through crates 2  Can also walk ...
• - 381    Can walk through crates  The crates a...
• - 380    Door placed incorrectly  When door ah...
• - 370    s a house floating here, and the terr...
• - 369    Floating House : the wood triangle pa...
• - 368    Floating House...
• - 288    This door and the second to the right...
• - 287    This door is shifted to the left to f...
• - 285    This door and three closest to the ri...
• - 284    This door and the three closest to th...
• - 271    Floating House...
• - 270    Floating House ...
• - 269    Floating house : the slighly upper ...
• - 268    This house is floating....
• - 176    [Laban-Fr] transition : The door in caves does not ...
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