Post by Athenna on Aug 21, 2007 7:25:34 GMT -5
August 2007 Release Notes
Hello there and welcome to the Release Notes for the august event, Corrupted Sovereigns! Dereth is once again on the cusp of something big occurring. The Olthoi in the north have undergone some odd changes, and there have been reports of more strangeness surrounding Bobo. Let’s see what else is going on this month in Dereth.
Live Events
We will be running a series of live lore based events for the August event. We have a set schedule for these events, but we will also be running them randomly as well. Our goal is as always, to let as many people as possible participate in these events. The scheduled events are as follows:
Frostfell- August 22, Wednesday, 8pm EST
Harvestgain- August 23, Thursday, 8pm EST
Leafcull- August 24, Friday, 8pm EST
Morningthaw- August 25, Saturday, 3pm EST
Solclaim- August 26, Sunday, 3pm EST
Thistledown- August 27, Monday, 8pm EST
Verdantine- August 28, Tuesday, 8pm EST
Wintersebb- August 29, Wednesday, 8pm EST
Darktide- August 30, Thursday, 8pm EST
Updated Content and Functionality
After studying how Composite weapons are made, a Gharu’ndim woman has finally come up with a way to craft a Composite Atlatl.
The area in Olthoi north that had seen some strange activity over the last month is now seeing even more activity. Adventurers hunting near that area may want to proceed with caution when the August event goes live.
There has been more strange activity surrounding Bobo. Players may want to trying running through things again, to see how they may be of help to the Tusker cause.
A new spirit has arisen from the Graveyard. This new spirit appears to be looking for something that was lost. It has been reported that this new spirit has only appeared at night.
In the past Tuskies could only hit players with their projectile attacks, even though at some point they would run up and try to hit you with physical attacks. This has been fixed and the Tuskies will now be able to hit players with projectile as well as physical attacks.
The Portal Guardian outside of Sanamar has finally decided to stop talking about the festival activities, right before the start of the next festival season.
In Concept/Game Discussion
We wanted to take this time to discuss some changes we want to make to The Colosseum in the coming months. As we had said when we first introduced The Colosseum, it is going to be an ever changing place where players will have multiple options.
The first of these upcoming changes will be the introduction of Colosseum currency. The basic concept will be that as players work their way through The Colosseum, they will earn Colosseum coins, depending on how far they make it through. The more levels you complete, the more coins you will collect. Players will then be able to spend these coins at a special vendor in The Colosseum, who will sell some unique items found only on that vendor. This vendor will work the same way that all of our vendor work, but instead of taking pyreal, he will only take Colosseum coins.
Some of the items we are looking at making available for purchase would be things like; 24hour passes to certain Colosseum bosses, Colosseum Tickets, Keys to open the Colosseum chest, and more. The items listed above are of course only tentative, and could change at any time during our development of this new currency.
Another thing we are looking at adding to The Colosseum is a practice area. This would be a place where players would be able to go in to a Colosseum like room, click on a statue representing a particular stage of The Colosseum and do “practice runs” on the levels of their choice. Players would not earn xp for these practice runs, but they would be able to learn and adapt to certain stages that may be causing them problems. This could be something that will help people get better at making Colosseum runs, without having to waste an entire run through The Colosseum.
So there are just some of the things we have in store for Asheron's Call in August and beyond. Please remember that along with everything listed here, there are several new quests and exciting things going into the game for the August event.
Hello there and welcome to the Release Notes for the august event, Corrupted Sovereigns! Dereth is once again on the cusp of something big occurring. The Olthoi in the north have undergone some odd changes, and there have been reports of more strangeness surrounding Bobo. Let’s see what else is going on this month in Dereth.
Live Events
We will be running a series of live lore based events for the August event. We have a set schedule for these events, but we will also be running them randomly as well. Our goal is as always, to let as many people as possible participate in these events. The scheduled events are as follows:
Frostfell- August 22, Wednesday, 8pm EST
Harvestgain- August 23, Thursday, 8pm EST
Leafcull- August 24, Friday, 8pm EST
Morningthaw- August 25, Saturday, 3pm EST
Solclaim- August 26, Sunday, 3pm EST
Thistledown- August 27, Monday, 8pm EST
Verdantine- August 28, Tuesday, 8pm EST
Wintersebb- August 29, Wednesday, 8pm EST
Darktide- August 30, Thursday, 8pm EST
Updated Content and Functionality
After studying how Composite weapons are made, a Gharu’ndim woman has finally come up with a way to craft a Composite Atlatl.
The area in Olthoi north that had seen some strange activity over the last month is now seeing even more activity. Adventurers hunting near that area may want to proceed with caution when the August event goes live.
There has been more strange activity surrounding Bobo. Players may want to trying running through things again, to see how they may be of help to the Tusker cause.
A new spirit has arisen from the Graveyard. This new spirit appears to be looking for something that was lost. It has been reported that this new spirit has only appeared at night.
In the past Tuskies could only hit players with their projectile attacks, even though at some point they would run up and try to hit you with physical attacks. This has been fixed and the Tuskies will now be able to hit players with projectile as well as physical attacks.
The Portal Guardian outside of Sanamar has finally decided to stop talking about the festival activities, right before the start of the next festival season.
In Concept/Game Discussion
We wanted to take this time to discuss some changes we want to make to The Colosseum in the coming months. As we had said when we first introduced The Colosseum, it is going to be an ever changing place where players will have multiple options.
The first of these upcoming changes will be the introduction of Colosseum currency. The basic concept will be that as players work their way through The Colosseum, they will earn Colosseum coins, depending on how far they make it through. The more levels you complete, the more coins you will collect. Players will then be able to spend these coins at a special vendor in The Colosseum, who will sell some unique items found only on that vendor. This vendor will work the same way that all of our vendor work, but instead of taking pyreal, he will only take Colosseum coins.
Some of the items we are looking at making available for purchase would be things like; 24hour passes to certain Colosseum bosses, Colosseum Tickets, Keys to open the Colosseum chest, and more. The items listed above are of course only tentative, and could change at any time during our development of this new currency.
Another thing we are looking at adding to The Colosseum is a practice area. This would be a place where players would be able to go in to a Colosseum like room, click on a statue representing a particular stage of The Colosseum and do “practice runs” on the levels of their choice. Players would not earn xp for these practice runs, but they would be able to learn and adapt to certain stages that may be causing them problems. This could be something that will help people get better at making Colosseum runs, without having to waste an entire run through The Colosseum.
So there are just some of the things we have in store for Asheron's Call in August and beyond. Please remember that along with everything listed here, there are several new quests and exciting things going into the game for the August event.
