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Scratch that... the story says this Lich is a brother. Of corpse he is! Or maybe this is the monster the Lich brother summoned? Undead family trees are such a hassle... mostly because they move and grab your with their little-grabby-branches.
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"OK... we might be getting a little out of control with these particle FX. On second thought. Maybe we should add more?"
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Alpha had a great start... but there were two HUGE features from AQWorlds that it did not have yet. The bank and barber shop (character customization). If you did not know the bank was already released, that happy to share with you that it is live in Infinity! Next up is character is the ability to customize your character in game. We needed a little extra time on it, but here is a look at the clean interface. It will let you change both your armor and character colors.... and hair styles.
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Just like the past week of insane releases, there are a lot of things happening all at once... one of them is the Founder name plates (A Kickstarter Stretch goal that you unlocked.) Thought you might like a sneak peek of the progress. Diogon's art looks amazing. With this feature it is possible for us to add more name-plate styles in the future. We are adding an option to toggle (and choose your nameplate) in game. The same will be true for titles.
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I just finished posting a HUUUUGE new AQWorlds:Infinity Kickstarter Update Post for you.
It was super effective...
I responded to a player by sending the link to their codes... and then after, they sent me another "Send codes, please!". O_o Were they testing to see if I was some sort of automated bot? Despair and I actually read and respond to all of the messages. Full transparency, I made a handy stream deck button that scrapes the Kickstarter page for your backer ID and then uses a javascript to call a powershell script which looks your id up in our database and then generates the link your reward page and pastes it back into the browser. (Suuuper proud of this.) But we still manually read all of the emails.
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If you walk through town or the intro and really look at the leaves and trees in the foreground and background... you will notice there are an insane number of layers being parallaxed. This gives it much more of a pro animation 3D feel. A new version just went live 30 minutes ago with a ton of bug fixes. Last week, we upgraded the Unity version to 6000.3.17f1 LTS. The LTS stands for "long term support". With this, we are also switching everything to Unity's new input system to re-implement controller support using Unity's new input system. It is going to make it reaaaaally nice to play on the Stream Deck. Also, it will make the possibility of publishing for consoles like the Switch at some point in the future after we finished releasing on the promised platforms.
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The zardmen that were in Infinity were animated before we developed our current techniques. So they were completely rebuilt using our newest methods... and got an art glow up and some additional personality at the same time. This week, we are fixing a lot of reported content bugs... especially with maps, monsters, and quests. (Darn... I could have said "missions" to get the trifecta of M's.) We also are building new tools to automatically detect issues and missing things in maps and monsters which will help the game stay (more) bug free as we expand to more platforms. It is VERY wise for us to take a moment to do clean up now... we are just a few weeks into Alpha, and the content conversion is only going to accelerate from here.
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Ever wonder what is inside that mausoleum? Or perhaps what was behind it? The graveyard is getting a little expansion.... increasing from 5 rooms to 10. But one of them is suuuuuper long and scrolly. This is a pretty small thing compared to all of the big things in the works, but fun to know nevertheless. I started writing the mega KS post. A LOT to cover. Will probably take me more than a day to finish and post it though.
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If you got the drop from Thr'Hall's axe drop, you can upgrade it through a quest to this improved version... Nulgath added particle FX to it. Love the way the particles move independently of the character.
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Do you think he will bite me if I try to pet him...? o.o
Rare dark wolves have been made and are coming to infinity, so keep an eye out for these bad boys!
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Who doesn't love Zard hunting?!
Bring some friends and your best gear... these Zards aren't playing around!
Talk to the zard hunter (or /join forest) and battle to defeat the Zards, obtain the keys, and get new items!
Well... Caddeus does NOT like Zard hunting!! if you see him protesting... you know why!
The weapon drops are gorgeous... and I'm OBSESSED! (Thank you Aranx for these!)
Baby red dragon pet is now available as well!
The animation effects for the the DoomAxe have now been added as well!
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The infinity reporting system has gotten an upgrade. :D
We want to keep AQW Infinity a welcoming, kind place... and making sure our report system is easy to use is an efficient way to do that.
Keeping the community respectful and peaceful is our goal.
As always... if you see something, say something!
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Player housing is now available in infinity!
Head to /Centaur 21 to get your own cottage to decorate (or flying castle if you have access to that!).
There are a ton of new resize and overlap features for you to mess around with and create new fun things... and I can't wait to see all of your creativity!
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If you backed the AdventureQuest Worlds: Infinity Kickstarter project, and filled out the pledge manager (survey), then you should have received your codes via email. If you have not gotten your Steam Key and Reward Code to access to the game yet... please send us a message from your Kickstarter accounts saying "Send codes please!" Especially if you are a Custom, Benevolent, or Immortal tier backer. We need everyone's data moved over to our database to start the next phase. :D Also, if you just filled out your pledge manager (survey) or are a late backer who just pledged, please give us 2 to 3 days to manually sync your data to the game's database and then email you the codes. (We had actually been doing the manual sync daily. But it takes a lot of time, effort, and takes time away from building features. So we plan on reducing it to once a week soon. So if you have not gotten your codes yet, hurry!) I will post another reminder to all backers in next week's BIG Kickstarter Update Post.
Incoming! Alpha is off to a good start. We have been fixing issues for tons of backers and getting them in game, our communication through the campaign has been rock solid, the game has been getting more stable every day, and we had our first ever release... while simultaneously building new features and the original AQWorlds has not skipped a beat. Not too shabby! But we still have a lot coming. We have some big rewards (and the features to support them) coming up... Infinity Founder Class, SpellStones, Housing (Flying Castle), Statues, the Founder's Sanctuary, Sponsoring Items, creating the Custom Items, expanding to more devices (Mac, Android, Apple iOS) and ALL of the other highly anticipated things that are coming. We are taking this responsibility very seriously. And just so you know... you and the community has been doing an INCREDIBLE job of being supportive, encouraging, and giving great feedback. Thank you. What we have been doing is working. Let us keep it going... just like these runaway fireball projectiles.
