Developer Smilegate rolled out a significant update in the early hours of yesterday morning. Lost Ark’s servers went offline for about three hours as the developers rolled out a major patch. The update included multiple bug fixes while also laying the groundwork for a new server region.
The developer announced the update on Lost Ark’s Twitter account and provided a link to the full patch notes on the game’s official forums. It contains fixes for seven of Lost Ark’s multiple known issues, two of which related to the game’s premium currency and cash shop. One fix resolved a bug that prevented players from getting their Royal Crystals refunded at the game’s Currency Exchange. The developers also fixed the connection issues that some players experienced with the game’s store.
The patch also resolves a glitch where Lost Ark’s Northern Lawmaker skin wouldn’t display correctly if the player character died while wearing it. In addition, it repaired several glitches with Lost Ark’s user interface. For example, the patch fixes a glitch with Procyon’s Compass schedule where it displayed incorrect times for the limited-time Adventure Island areas.
It also solves a known issue where emoticons appear as text when sent between players with different language settings. Lastly, as far as the UI issues are concerned, developers fixed a bug where the UI didn’t scale correctly on non-native resolutions. The latter glitch reportedly came from a problem with how Lost Ark interacts with DirectX 11.
The remaining updates were specific to Lost Ark’s European servers. This included adding Lost Ark’s European West server region. Eight new servers launched later that day under the names Rethramis, Tortoyk, Moonkeep, Stonehearth, Shadespire, Tragon, Petrania, and Punika. The developer also stated that it would roll out additional servers as needed. The same patch also resolved a glitch where the game randomly booted players on Central European servers.
Lost Ark is available now on PC.
Source: Smilegate
