Zezenia Season Five begins Friday October 13th at 19:00 (UTC)! Check the countdown in your local time on the home page. Season Five marks the opening of Cronus, a 10x Speed Rate Seasonal World:

- Players have a static 10x Experience Rate throughout the season. Skills advance at a 3x rate.
- The world is split into non-PvP and PvP-Enforced areas rotating between Ben Qarassih, Aranagua & the Ice Islands weekly.
- The PvP areas have an increased presence of elites & enraged monsters plus an additional +10% XP boost.

Create your character and reserve your name in advance now! Will you be one of the legends to be immortalized in this season's Hall of Fame?


Season Five players who reach level 500 will receive the Seasonal Outfit Scroll and an exclusive Season Five exclusive Mortie Pet Scroll! Players can choose to consume the scrolls on their seasonal character or take them to permanent worlds.



NPC Rewardo will also make a return at the Ellaria depot handing out seasonal gift bags for reaching level 100 milestones.


The Season Points system returns for Season Five. Players will gain Season Points for leveling up, completing achievements, slaying rare monsters and more. Complete the following activities to gain points:


Season Points can be exchanged for valuable items on the Season Points Shop after the season ends. The value of a Season Point will be higher this time around! Some of the items that will be available include:

-Outfit & Pet Scrolls
-Premium Time Scrolls
-Training Refill Scrolls
-Stamina Refill Scrolls
-Seasonal Mystery Bags
-Potion, Brewing & Fishing Packs
-And more!


The most legendary players of Cronus will join the champions in Zezenia Online's Hall of Fame! Here are all high scores up for contest this season:




Season Five is on for 90 days until Thursday January 11th, 2024. Transfers to permanent worlds will open at this time. For the first time new forms of progress gained during a Season will be redeemable to use on permanent worlds in various ways:

- Bank gold will be converted to noble Zezenian coins at a rate of 300 000 gold to one coin.
- Challenge Points accumulate at a 10x rate and will be preserved on transfer. Challenge Points will become account shared per game world in a later update.
- Zezenium ores are preserved on transfer.

The following restrictions apply:

-Character level is capped at level 200 on all worlds. Skills cap at level 100. Magic level caps at level 75.
-Achievement & Bestiary progress is preserved on transfer.
- Only Premium Shop items, outfits, pets, collectibles and container items can be transferred. Other inventory & depot contents are lost on transfer.
- Most quest progress is reset on transfer.


Create your character now and be prepared to play Season Five as it begins! We hope you are as excited as we are. And of course, keep an eye out for upcoming game & content updates before and during the season!

Sincerely,
Zezenia Staff

This week’s Server Save includes the following changes:

Spawn Updates

- Added new Yahgan spawn in Kpunda.
- Added new high level Yahgan spawn in Settlement through Mighty Werebears.
- Adjusted South Ellaria Golems.
- Adjusted South Ellaria Colossal Golems.
- Adjusted Kpunda Yahgans.
- Adjusted Ben Qarassih Giant Beetles.
- Adjusted Ben Qarassih Melket Bombadiers.
- Adjusted some of the Melket spawns between Caerfa and Culthan Ruins.
- Added new Werebear spawn under Culthan Ruins Werebears.
- Adjusted new Hellish Magus spawn in Culthan Ruins.
- Adjusted Goblin spawn north of Bersund.

Game Updates
- Updated Teddy & Sadie NPC trade lists with grand inquisitor, death knight & vanguard sets.
- Added separators to gold amounts in shop, market, bidding windows and bank NPC’s.
- Added rendering engine toggles to the options dialog. The default option is the best for most hardware configurations, but players experiencing low FPS can try changing the renderer.
- The Daily Boss can no longer be looted by party members that have not inflicted enough damage to the boss.

Bug Fixes

- Fixed macOS compatibility down to version Mac OS X 10.15.
- Fixed glitches in fog rendering.
- Fixed glitchy flying fish animations with very high FPS.
- Minor map fixes and updates.

Sincerely,
Zezenia Staff

This week's Server Save / Client Update includes the following upgrades:



The Zezenia Online game engine has been upgraded with a new graphics backend. Players will see:

Better Performance: most players should see at least a modest increase in their FPS (Frames Per Second). The biggest improvement can be seen on lower end hardware such as laptops, integrated graphics cards, and certain series of graphics cards.

Increased Compatibility: the previous engine based older Direct3D 9 technology has served us well, but encountered increasing performance issues & crashes with modern graphics card drivers. The new renderer makes use of modern technologies and has wide compatibility.

Added Portability: using the new engine we are happy to announce:



The all new macOS and Linux clients are now available to download from Steam. The macOS client is an Universal Binary with support for Apple M1/M2 & Intel devices. The Linux client is built for x86_64 devices.

Standalone Mac & Linux releases will be available for download outside of Steam later after a testing period.





Sincerely,
Zezenia Staff