March 31, 2024
Crafting,
Quest,
Release,
Beta
I spent the week implementing a quest system. I use it to introduce the players into the game.
At first, you have to farm materials.
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The player has to enter Academy Halls and farm 10 of each material. That takes approximately 15 minutes. You can see your active quests above the chat window on the left side. To open the quest details, click on the small yellow icon. After gathering, you have to compile avatars for the remaining roles.
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March 24, 2024
Crafting,
Equipment,
Release,
Beta
I could finally release the new crafting system to the beta servers. Thanks to @Madrao for finding most game-breaking bugs so this release feels functional.
If you followed the updates of the recent month, there is probably not much new.
If not, I will iterate through the changes below.
The character configurator compiles all your equipment into one avatar.
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These avatars get stored in compilation booths in your cell.
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February 4, 2024
Academy-Halls,
Beta,
Minimap,
Pickups
Tweaking the lightning filled up most of this week. My new Radeon card is fast, but it behaves differently from the 1080 I had before.
I think the result is somehow passable and better than before.
New NPCs for Academy Halls
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With the help of Madraox, I could add more variety to each wing of Academy Halls.
We have three new normal monsters:
Jumping Spider
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An aggressive spiderling that charges onto enemies.
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January 21, 2024
Academy-Halls,
Beta,
Minimap,
Pickups
This update is smaller than the last one. I was busy fixing stuff in the academy halls.
You can get pickups in Academy Halls!
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Every mob you kill has the possibility to spawn a pickup. Currently, there are five different types of pickups:
Health: restores 10% of maximum health Resource: restores 10% of your resource pool (Mana, Energy, Rage, Focus) Experience: grants 150xp to your current equipment set Essence: grants a random essence with a random level They have different drop probabilities.
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January 14, 2024
Academy-Halls,
Beta,
Spawns
Welcome to the first update in the year 2024. I am proud to introduce you to a PvE world-level Academy Halls. The level is 25x times bigger than Sludge Madness but belongs to the same setting.
This is the first world-level and there are several more planned. In Academy Halls, you wander a lost university. Monsters are roaming free through the floors.
There are several enemy spawns that you need to capture.
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December 17, 2023
Adamant,
Beta,
Release
Adamant mechanics
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I added adamant mechanics for all levels.
Firebound Forge
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Every meteor will spawn a dragon egg. Those eggs need to get destroyed, or dragonkins spawn. Pit of Elements
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At the start of the boss fight, Khorin spawns a big vortex that rotates around the arena. Another vortex spawns, every time he casts meditation. Soul Towers
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The High King got a new ability. He will periodically summon a High Priest.
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December 10, 2023
Adamant,
Beta,
Release
This week I released adamant difficulty for three raids on the beta server. Those raids are Bloodshed Arena, Sludge Madness, and Escape Attempt. They all got new boss mechanics. In the case of Bloodshed Arena, I improved the existing mechanics. The boss will now get a shield as soon as a vassal spawns.
Five obstacles at the start
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Adamant raids will get an additional obstacle. Every week a lesser and a higher obstacle is chosen.
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October 22, 2023
Beta,
Us,
Server,
Pit of Elements
I will stream this evening 22.10.2023 at 18:00 CET on Steam and Twitch. US Beta servers are ready.
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I spent nearly the whole week searching for proper and cheap servers on the US west coast. My first try was with “OneProvider”. It is the cheapest I could find. But sadly, it is cheap for a reason. It took three days to set up my server. When it was ready, I tested the bandwidth and had 10 MBit/s.
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October 14, 2023
Beta,
Release,
PitOfElements,
Weapons,
SiphonAndCarnage,
WaterStream,
Chroniker,
CoolingCarapace
Pit of Elements is now released onto the beta server. It is a 2.5-phase fight.
The first phase contains lightning vortexes and stone pillars. You will have to move the vortexes to the pillars.
Then comes an intermediate phase. You have to pierce the earthen shield to interrupt the cast.
After that, there is a longer phase with fire elementals and ice blocks.
At the end of the cycle, you should hide behind the pillars or the blocks to dodge the nova cast.
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