Crystal2 — 0.2.0 · New screens and in-game windows

Three weeks of work in one post. Everything from the login screen to the world has a new look, the website's tools now open as the game's own windows, and the launcher and the website picked up a few new tricks along the way.

A new face, from the login screen to the world

Everything you see before you enter the world has been rebuilt in the Crystal2 look — cracked stone lit by jade and amber.

• A new login screen: sign in, pick your channel and use your saved accounts from one card over the launcher art.

• Create an account without leaving the game. The Terms of Service open right in the sign-up card. Forgot your password, your username or the confirmation e-mail? Help is on the same card, and a new account is saved and signed in as soon as its e-mail is confirmed.

• A new character select: your hero on a circle of runes in the valley of the stone warriors — turn it with the arrows, the keys or by dragging.

• New character creation and kingdom selection. The kingdom card shows how many players were active in each kingdom today.

• A new loading screen with the game's tips and today's events, and no more black screen after it — the art fades straight into the world.

• A new ESC menu with your character's face, class and kingdom.

• Autumn has arrived: leaves, embers, mist and bats on the login and loading screens until 10 November.

The website's tools are now real game windows

The Dragon Shop, Fortune Wheel, Minigames, Weekly Quests, Achievements, Account Security and Support used to open web pages inside the game. They are now the game's own windows — faster, in the game's look, in all 15 languages, and with no second sign-in: the game already knows who you are.

• Dragon Shop: everything the website shop has — trending items, your wishlist, account boosts, custom titles, the Battle Pass premium, your purchase history and partner codes. Top up takes you to the secure payment page in your browser.

• Minigames: Dragon Coin Rush, Metin Smash, Deepwater Fishing and Snake, played right in the game.

• Support: open a ticket, follow the replies and answer them without leaving the game.

• Account Security: a new delete code, a warehouse password reset, character PINs and "sign out everywhere". Every change is confirmed by e-mail, so nobody can use a stolen session to lock you out.

• Open them from the taskbar or the golden button in the bottom-left corner.

Redesigned windows

• Battle Pass: your level, both reward tracks, what is ready to collect (with Collect all) and your daily, weekly and monthly missions.

• Biologist: all ten stages at a glance, your chance per delivery, the boosts you own and what you have earned so far.

• Shop Search: categories, favourites, a proper Buy button and each item's price history over the last week or month.

• Dungeons: every dungeon as a picture tab with its rules, the boss's drops, your record (completed, fastest, best hit), the Top 10, a pop-up when your cooldown is over and a teleport to the entrance.

• Rankings in the new design — a tab clicked right after another no longer needs a second click.

Dungeons

• Parties can enter the Spider and Monkey dungeons. Until now only solo entry worked. Every party member on the map has to be within 50 m of the leader, and a party clear counts for every member.

• The Spider dungeon's 60-minute time limit now actually runs.

• Cooldowns apply to everyone who enters, not only to the player who talks to the NPC, and a failed run counts too. The entrance names the party members who still have to wait, in every language.

• King Spider now keeps your Completed and Fastest records.

• Devil Tower and Devil's Catacomb have no maximum level for the Dungeons teleport, the same as at their entrances.

Items and drops

• Five new weapons in the Dragon Shop: Poison Sword+9, Devil Wing Chakram+9, Crow Steel Bow+9, Bamboo Bell+9 and Grudge Sword+9, each with a guaranteed 60% Average Damage / -30% Skill Damage and two +12 bonuses.

• Dragon Shop items arrive with every socket they should have. The new preset weapons came one socket short; the few that were affected have been repaired.

• The Rotten Wooden Box from the Iron Box can finally be opened.

• The Football Event is over: no more Ice Cream drops, and the Peddler's football shop is closed.

Chat and options

• An emoticon picker next to Send, and emoticons only turn into pictures as words of their own.

• Chat and window background opacity sliders under Game Options → Graphics → Interface.

• The shout language filter covers all 15 languages.

• Safer chat links: only http(s) links to trusted sites open.

• Argentine players now show their own flag over their name instead of Korea's.

The launcher

• Game settings in the launcher — resolution, window mode, gamma, shadows, fog and sound. No more config.exe.

• Several game clients at once, with a live count and a dock to bring one to the front or close one that froze.

• Updates while you play: the launcher shows when an update is ready and applies it when you choose.

• Sturdier updates: a file in use no longer stops a patch, and a launcher left open no longer fails its next self-update.

• Seasonal effects — autumn right now.

The website

• The wiki is here: wiki.m2crystal.com, built straight from the game files — items, monsters, maps and every dungeon — in all 11 languages of the site.

• The event bar at the top shows what is running right now, including the events our team runs by hand, next to the server clock.

• Forgot your character PIN? You can reset it from the website.

• Guilds see their Guild Program reward history on their own page.

• Dragon Shop: titles show up in Recent Purchases, and the New Arrivals shelf has a new look.

• Autumn on the website, and a security pass over the whole site.

Fixes

• A Russian client no longer closes on entering the game, and missing texts fall back to English instead of staying blank.

• The fortune teller's "bad luck" readings work again, and the "not enough gold" line shows the real price.

• Typing letters when changing your character PIN no longer breaks the dialog.

• Auto-pickup time is no longer mixed up between players.

• The Guild Dragon Lair entry no longer breaks for every guild after its member limit is changed.

Client 2.12 arrives automatically through the launcher, and the launcher updates itself to 2.6.0.