Circle of Eight Modpacks 7.3.0 and 7.3.0 NC Released news

In addition to the usual fixes and tweaks and upgrades, the Circle of Eight is pleased to present a comprehensive fix for the longstanding lag issues in the Elemental Nodes and certain Temple levels in our version 7.3.0 release.

UPDATE: You must also apply the v7.3.3 Add-On Module/patch to this release. You can find it HERE

Changelog

GENERAL

• Comprehensive lag fix implemented: significantly reduces or eliminates lag in the Air, Earth, and Fire Nodes and in Temple levels two and four.
• Disabled descriptive "empty/not empty" hover-text for containers.
• Adjusted jump points in Moathouse Dungeon (near Lubash) and in Broken Tower (from Escape Tunnel below) to avoid parties being separated in different rooms upon arrival.
• Changed Lantern Archon attacks from melee to ranged touch (per RAW) casting Searing Light.
• Reduced value of summoned shillelagh to 5 CP (same as quarterstaff) so as to avoid selling exploit.
• Bulletproofed drinking contest routine so that Paladins don't fall.
• Corrected some exotic armor prices and stats.
• Updated Moon-Ivy armor as follows: removed spell casting ability and charisma bonus from regular variety; added Poison-Ivy, Explosive Spores, and Pheromones varieties per the Arms and Equipment Guide. Reduced availability of all varieties so that they are rare.
• Reduced CR for Drow, WotGS dwarves, and both Hextor factions to slow leveling (NC only).

HOMMLET

• Removed many mobs added in Co8 v5.5 from Hommlet exerior as test measure to enhance performance and relieve jerkstop.

MOATHOUSE

• Bulletproofed runoff routine for gnome and elf captives in Moathouse.

NULB

• Fixed pathnode-related Nulb exterior crash bug.

TEMPLE

• Made Romag and Hartsch appear in creatures killed log.
• Removed Kella's spell resistance as per the module.

WELKWOOD BOG (NC)

• Merged Welkwood Bog exterior maps (NC only).

HICKORY BRANCH (NC)

• Fixed bug where Hickory Branch blockage would not appear after leaving area and coming back (NC only).

VERBOBONC (NC)

• Upgraded many Verbobonc interior maps to be consistent with the upgraded exterior (NC only).
• Upgraded Darlia and the Verbobonc Scarlet Brotherhood cousins and nephews (NC only).
• Upgraded gnome tunnels spiders (NC only).
• Upgraded Verbobonc dragons from adult to old and from young to juvenile (NC only).

We sincerely hope that you enjoy this edition of The Circle of Eight Modpack.

- The Circle of Eight Team