Global Chat Skill Timers and a News Feed

Global Chat Skill Timers and a News Feed

Global chat connects every server, skill buffs show live timers you can cancel, multiplayer visibility is fixed, and the website has an official news feed.

Chat

• General and Trade chat are now global, connecting players across every map, channel, and server.
• Public chat now requires a verified email. Guests see a notice explaining how to link their account.

Skills and Buffs

• Added an active skill timer row to the HUD showing each buff with its remaining duration and clear expiration.
• Added exact durations and rank scaling to the skill panel.
• Your own buffs can now be cancelled with a right click.
• Aligned buff icons with the health display and cleaned up minimap and quest tracker spacing.

Multiplayer

• Fixed cases where a player joining a map could not see adventurers already there.
• Other players' skill effects, including projectiles, impacts, healing, and buffs, now display correctly.
• Added a total online count beneath the channel selector.

Accounts and Website

• Strengthened account session protection so every action stays bound to your signed in account, and removed account identifiers from player facing data.
• Added a signup link to the login landing page.
• Added the official news feed at idlebound.com/news with the full history of game updates.