The server was not broken — the Microsoft Store was not downloading the patch

[Vengeance]

THE SERVER WAS NOT BROKEN
The Microsoft Store copy was not downloading the patch.

This is the one that matters. We were patching. Fixes were going out. The Microsoft Store launcher was refusing the file list and not downloading them. So most of you stayed on an old client while the game moved on. Vanishing people, black screens, doors, combat, quests — a lot of that was already fixed on our side. It looked like the server was broken because you never got the update. That download block is fixed. Open Mir Vengeance and let the patcher run all the way through.
when it looks idle. When it finishes, you are on the client everyone else was supposed to have.


What those patches actually fixed — last 48 hours

People on screen

• Players vanishing while you run past them, while you both stand still, or a few seconds after they appear in town.
• Plaza / shop / door copies, and a leftover picture that stayed glued to you after they had already left the map.
• Monsters and floor loot invisible until you random-teleported.
• Runners freezing mid-step because a visibility refresh cut the stride.

Black screens and doors

• A door or shop exit dumping you into a black world, sometimes with empty HP, gold, and belt — it looked like a wiped character. It was a failed map load.
• Leaving the Bichon Wall shops no longer blacks the outdoor map.
• A bad door no longer force-closes the client.
• Random teleport or any map change no longer drops you with “connection lost” right after the minimap updates.
• A missing map now tells you in chat to Repair, instead of a silent black void.
• King’s Room no longer rains indoors. Cave exits no longer look pitch black.

Combat and movement

• Thunderbolt sticking on a mob that is already dead.
• Double Slash whiffing at high attack speed.
• Poison (and other targeted spells) following the locked mob instead of the one under your mouse.
• Thrusting not hitting properly and not gaining levels.
• A straight run through town snapping you backwards. One cause was the game thread stalling. Another was a bag-stack save hitch locking every mob to the same tick.

Quests, harvest, guild

• Hooking Cats (12046) — daytime kills were ignored because flavour text mentioned night.
• Night quests were stuck on a 21:00 clock. The map already goes dark from the UK sunset. Quests now use that same night, and the quest says when kills only count at night or in weather.
• House rules would not accept from the Pit Boss you were standing at, so the gambling tables looked closed.
• The next quest in a chain (10 deer, then 20, then 30) stayed hidden until you went through a door.
• Harvesting a perfect deer said you could not carry any more when the bag still had weight spare. The meat was refused, not the weight.
• Wooma Temple King’s Room run could complete and then fail on the walk back.
• Guild invite: you joined, the letter stayed in the bag, and it read like a script item. Accepting removes it. It expires 10 minutes after it enters the bag.

Other

• Bag pages 2 and 3 no longer stick a locked drag. Grocer sells War God Oil again.
• “Your fish got away” stays on the green notice. Fishing weights on the site are in lb.
• Brian only offers hero spell books for the hero you actually have out.
• Lion Roar holds longer and a hit does not break it.
• Creating a guild no longer dies on a database error.
• Electric Shock no longer tames bosses or elites.
• Lunar Frozen Zuma was handing out 1 experience because its stats were zero. Map lava and lightning damage that had been wiped to zero is restored.
• Warehouse store and withdraw works on non-English clients.
• The launcher was sometimes starting an old leftover exe instead of the one the patcher had just updated.

What you should do

• Open the game from the Microsoft Store (or the patcher, if that is how you play) and let it download.
• A few of this morning’s quest, harvest, thrusting, and guild-letter fixes are server-side. They go live on the next server restart 12pm today (29/10/2026). The client half is what the Store was failing to fetch.
• If it still will not patch after a full run, say so in Bug Reports and include whether you installed from the Store.

Sorry for the last four days. A lot of what you reported was already fixed. You just never received it.