Update 1.0.0

The Secret World

GENERAL

• You can no longer create a Nickname that ends with a dash instead of a letter or number. (in accordance with the rules of naming your character as stated in the character creation tooltips).
• Items/Weapons obtained from the in-game item shop can no longer be sold in game to vendors.
• Corrected an issue where some character bound items could be traded.
• Fixed an issue where background music would cease to play after zoning a few times.
• When the player holds Shift and double clicks a loot bag, the cursor now reverts back to the default icon.
• Characters are no longer bald after character creation (unless you chose to be bald).
• Fixed an issue where particles from a buff would not be removed properly.
• Fixed the "getting Lore" animation.
• When changing the eye color on a newly created character, it now changes the eyes as intended.
• Fixed the animation when your character interacts with something.
• Fixed an issue where the chat filter was not working properly.
• Fixed an issue that was responsible for a chat server crash.
• Climbing ladder animations are now more in sync with the ladder.
• Using /reset while in anima form no longer renders your character unable to resurrect.
• Fixed some visual issues seen in London with Tessellation enabled.
• Removed the automatic video popups while in the training rooms.
• Your pet should now be able to follow you through Agartha without pathing issues.
• Fixed a staircase in The Scorched Desert where your character would stop moving near the top while climbing the stairs.
• Shadowy Forest : You can no longer look through the bottom of the herb gardens.
• Equipping an item should always play a sound now.
• Corrected an issue where a few cinematics could remove certain buffs from your character unintentionally.
• Fixed an issue where you could accidentally select the wrong dimension to create your character during character creation.
• Fixed a crash that occurred on shutdown of the client.
• The patcher button now links players to the official forum, and players are now sent to Community and Support pages in their chosen patcher language.
• Applying more than one resource at a time should now play the resource added animation correctly.
• Fixed an issue with overlapping voices.

CLIENT

• Fullscreen mode setting on the patcher should now save for Dx11 users.
• Fixed a crash caused by opening/closing the browser and going into fullscreen mode.
• Fixed a crash observed when training skills.
• You should no longer crash when using energy drinks.
• Fixed a crash caused by opening the tradepost window.
• Fixed a crash caused while navigating through the storage pages of the tradepost.
• TXAA has been disabled in the Video options setting panel, even if you have a 600-series card (like the GTX 680) and the newest beta drivers (304.48).

GUI

• There is now a popup asking if you would like to buy an item you cannot use.
• Dynamic tooltips are now updating correctly on the toolbar as well when players have "Show advanced ability descriptions" both checked and unchecked.
• The Run for the Border achievement has been renamed.
• The text that warns you that you are about to delete your character is no longer cut off.
• Loot confirmation popup windows now display during cinematics.
• The Claim Reward button on the Deck tab will work correctly now.
• The Health bar tutorial now contains all correct information.
• Empty passive skills no longer have a gold border around them.
• Fixed the cause of some error text in the tooltip of an item updated with a glyph or signet.
• Mission goals are no longer overlapping for multiple missions in the mission tracker GUI.
• Fixed an issue where it was possible to lose keyboard input when clicking outside the tradepost while writing a letter.
• The inspection GUI no longer shows Faction Rank as undefined.
• Missions that are unrepeatable do not show up on the Mission GUI anymore.
• Fixed an issue where you could not drag an ability's icon from the ability wheel to your hotbar.
• Added missing tooltips to the Savage Coast , Carpathian Fangs, Besieged Farmlands, City of the Sun God, The Blue Mountain, and Shadowy Forest maps.
• Fixed an issue where a button on the login screen would overlap the login name field on small resolutions.
• Implemented a few new Lore categories.
• Double left clicking items that have an ability no longer automatically attaches them to your mouse pointer to move them.
• The tutorial window now properly displays information.
• Fixed an issue where you may have seen the wrong faction on the character selection screen.
• Rank is no longer cutoff in the Members tab of the Cabal Management window.
• Stack size no longer appear as a block in the crafting window.
• Cursor "cog wheels" no longer light up when you are too far away to interact with an object.
• There is no longer a black screen when the player spams the M key to open the map is pressed repeatedly.
• Corrected an FPS drop that occurred when opening and closing GUI windows rapidly.
• There is a rename GUI that pops up now when you have an invalid name.

COMBAT

• Players are no longer able to sprint with their weapons out.
• Fixed an issue where the Shotgun Wedding ability had no icon, description, tooltip, and could not be equipped.
• Raging Volcano is no longer missing its animation.
• When using the ability Blowout the buff icon now appears the same no matter how many resources you have.
• Linked Veins no longer heals the player, but his allies, as intended.

DUNGEONS

• Recursia should no longer freeze and fail to summon adds.
• Hell Raised : Nightmare version - Adjusted the Corroder encounter difficulty slightly, based on feedback.
• The Ankh : Elite - Slightly increased difficulty to make this more of a challenge.
• Hell Fallen : The damage numbers have been balanced to make the Golems much more difficult.
• The Slaughterhouse door now has a tooltip to show it leads back to The Carpathian Fangs.

MISSIONS

• Story and faction ranking mission can no longer be shared, as intended.
• Missions with prerequisites should no longer appear locked in the GUI when not locked.
• Templar : Weapon training missions now update from all groups of demons in the Crucible in London.
• Onscreen messages will now show updates for each tier of a mission you are doing, not each task.
• Fixed several facial animation issues in cinematics.
• Virgula Divina : Players can now enter and exit the dungeon without having their mission paused.
• Dawning of an Endless Night now has proper faction-specific mission completion text.
• Dawning of an Endless Night : Tier 18 cinematic with Cassandra now displays correctly.
• Dawning of an Endless Night : Ami now opens her mouth to speak during her cinematic.
• Dawning of an Endless Night : Fixed a crash during tier 15 defend the Savage Coast wards.
• London Underground now completes correctly.
• After the cinematic that plays once Mara has been killed, the effects no longer have visual issues.

Seoul

• Fixed an issue where your character could become stuck in the Dojang in Seoul.
• The van that drops you off now has a better visual look.
• Heart of Chaos : The Dragon is now more lifelike during his cinematic!
• Total Eclipse : The waypoint marker is no longer offset for tier 9.
• Dae-su no longer runs over tables to describe the currently selected weapon.
• Dae-su will no longer use incidental dialog choices while describing weapons.
• End Game : The female characters lips are now moving with the speech.

The Blue Mountain

• The player is now able to assemble the ward on tier 3 of The Light that Blinds.

The Besieged Farmlands

• Of the Forest will now update on tier 2 when you go to the Polluted Valley.

City of the Sun God

• Black Sun, Red Sand : The mission no longer automatically pauses after reaching Akhenaten. Akhenatan's cinematic will now trigger properly.
• Mummy Issues : First temple door for Tier 2 now opens after the guards are defeated.
• The Black Pharaoh no longer interrupts himself while casting.

The Carpathian Fangs

• Mortal Sins should progress correctly now.

Kingsmouth

• Zen and the Art of Weapon Maintenance : The pop-up now shows the proper image for assembling pistols.
• Kingsmouth missions The Hunger and Floater have been locked in this update.
• The Occultist's Cookbook : The text located in the instruction booklet now reflects the correct way of assembling with glyphs.
• Interacting with the computer in the Kingsmouth Code mission now works as intended.
• The mission Men in Black Vans should now work correctly.

The Scorched Desert

• The locusts now have the correct animations for all of their abilities.
• Angels & Demons : Fixed an issue where some users would crash at the end of the warehouse cinematic.
• The Fate of al-Merayah : The mission now updates for all team members.

The Savage Coast

• The mausoleum in the Wheel of Misfortune instance has had its collision adjusted.
• The Black House : All media popups have subtitles now.

The Shadowy Forest

• Mortal Sins - Leaving the Dragon's tomb while on tier 15 will no longer prevent mission completion.
• Mortal Sins - Dying during Emma's cinematic will no longer make Emma disappear permanently.

NPCs

• Besieged Farmlands : Greenguards return to their original position after attacking enemies.
• London : Iain Tibet Gladstone now stands in his correct pose.
• Kingsmouth : NPCs at the sheriff's office now have attack animations.
• Fixed several NPCs in London who had clothing texture issues.
• Using an NPC's incidental dialog will no longer disable other dialogs on the NPC.
• Some additonal NPCs will now have conversations when you walk past them and trigger them.
• Reduced the difficulty of the Mud Golem in Kingsmouth.
• Cassandra King in Kingsmouth has proper textures now.
• Kingsmouth : The Draug Warmonger and it's zombies now correctly hate the player spawning them.
• Coughing NPCs now have cough audio.

PVP

• Players can now correctly purchase abilities within Fusang Project.

Previous Updates

Previous Updates (Patch Notes)
2018	2.2.0 ▪ 2.2.1 ▪ 2.2.2 ▪ 2.3.0 ▪ 2.3.1 ▪ 2.3.2
2017	2.0 ▪ 2.0.1 ▪ 2.0.2 ▪ 2.0.3 ▪ 2.1.0 ▪ 2.1.1 ▪ 2.1.2 ▪ 2.1.3 ▪ 2.1.4 ▪ 2.1.5
2016	1.13.1 ▪1.13.2 ▪ 1.14 ▪ 1.14.1 ▪ 1.15 ▪ 1.15.5 ▪ 1.15.6 ▪ 1.15.7 ▪ 1.15.8 ▪ 1.15.9 ▪ 1.15.10
2015	1.11 ▪ 1.11.2 ▪ 1.12 ▪ 1.13
2014	1.8.4 ▪ 1.8.5 ▪ 1.9 ▪ 1.9.1 ▪ 1.9.2 ▪ 1.9.3 ▪ 1.10 ▪ 1.10.1
2013	1.5.2 ▪ 1.5.3 ▪ 1.5.5 ▪ 1.5.5 ▪ 1.5.6 ▪ 1.5.6 ▪ 1.6 ▪ 1.6.1 ▪ 1.6.1.1 ▪ 1.6.1.2 ▪ 1.6.2 ▪ 1.7 ▪ 1.7.1 ▪ 1.7.1.2 ▪ 1.7.2 ▪ 1.7.2.1 ▪ 1.7.2.2 ▪ 1.7.3 ▪ 1.7.3.1 ▪ 1.7.4 ▪ 1.8▪ 1.8.0.1 ▪ 1.8.1 ▪ 1.8.2 ▪ 1.8.2.1 ▪ 1.8.2.2 ▪ 1.8.3
2012	1.0 ▪ 1.0.1 ▪ 1.0.2 ▪ 1.0.3 ▪ 1.1 ▪ 1.1.1 ▪ 1.1.2 ▪ 1.2 ▪ 1.3 ▪ 1.3.2 ▪ 1.4 ▪ 1.5