Battleon Briefing Vol. 11

Hi heroes! AQW Infinity is charging closer towards Closed Beta with the Undead Invasion of Swordhaven, Guild Halls have started development, and our first-ever Infinity Upholder Star Sword for ~every~ hero who helped make this dream of ours possible. You have supported us, backed us, battled alongside us, and believed in this crazy dream all the way to Infinity and beyond. THANK YOU!

Undead Invasion Incoming

The Undead Invasion is the next major update and will help usher AQW Infinity into Closed Beta! You can expect new undead enemies with rockin’ animations from Nulgath, killer cutscenes from Ghost, dialogue improvements, and more story content as the invasion spreads through Swordhaven.

The undead are rising… Swordhaven is in trouble… and, naturally, we’re sending YOU because NPCs like me are too busy writing the Design Notes and spilling coffee everywhere to actually help you out 🙈

Building our World

Development continues across Infinity:

• Sir Fainal, PineOak, & Cylisse are working on cleaning up the quests for the Invasion of Swordhaven
• Founder’s Tower in the Sanctuary is being worked on J6
• Spider is working on Statues being properly displayed in Houses
• Pineoak helped Ghost fully animate a cape! It looks sooo good.

• SpellStones and SpellForges are coming together nicely
• UI fixes are being made continiously 
• Improved shop system with quest locks that allow items to become available as you complete quests
• NPC spawn chance adjustments 
• An option to hide other player's spells and particle FX
• Mobile notifications
• Daily quests
• But no one is working on those digital extra Wallpapers yet... tsk.. tsk...
• Jongaar is working on the AQWorlds Soundtrack
• More ways to celebrate the journey from AQWorlds to Infinity
• Next major game feature being worked on is Guild Halls! Woohoo!

Closed Beta Plans

AQWorlds Infinity is getting closer to the start of Closed Beta. During this next phase, only backers and upholders will be able to participate. It might not seem like a very big difference from Alpha, but it actually is. Beta declares the main features of the game stable and the focus shifts onto content production. The team will continue adding and improving features, of course. Many backers were waiting for a more stable version of the game. We invite them to join us for this! If anyone is waiting until the live release, that is OK too. All of the special rewards, releases, and badges during Alpha/Beta will continue to be available to backers so that no one will miss out on anything.... no matter which phase they join.  

Device Release Order

1. Steam PC - Live now!
2. Steam Mac - Live now!
3. Android - Live now as a side-loadable APK. Will go live on the app store during Open Beta. 
4. iOS - Next (But will be a while due to the way Apple restricts betas/testing to limited numbers of testers) Will go live on the App Store during Open Beta. 

This is where all of the work, testing, bug finding, bug squashing, feedback, and dreaming starts coming together with YOU in the game. We cannot wait to see you + all your friends + former AQW players + new AQW players there too!

Infinity Upholder Star Sword

A HUGE thank you to all the amazing Upholders who supported Infinity and/or AQWorlds! You are the real heroes who help make all of AE’s games possible. As a token of our appreciation, y'all are OBVIOUSLY getting something sharp (technically it is made of pure energy), shiny, dangerous, and dangerously cool:

🌟 STAR SWORDS! 🌟

Our first-ever Upholder experience in Infinity will include a special map, special quest, and of course the Backer-exclusive Star Sword! Every Infinity Kickstarter Backer will be able to get the 1st ever Infinity Star Sword.

Thank you all for believing in AQW Infinity. And in Star Swords. And in the fine art of spilling coffee everywhere. But mostly, thank you for believing in AQWorlds :)

To Infinity... and BEYOND!