Arcfall
Release Pre-Alpha V1.3
**Bugs Fixed:**
- Increased Frame rate and reduced frame rate drops when moving around in the world. Now you will only get a slight drop when new mobs spawn in the first time.
- Fixed the PvP-PvE button to display proper changing between the two.
- Fixed it so that character names wont show up above the minimap.
**New:**
- Completion of Swordsmanship Skill tree with abilities going up to 1000 skill points.
- Completion of Archery Skill tree with abilities going up to 1000 skill points.
- Completion of Magery Skill tree with abilities going up to 1000 skill points.
- Completion of Mining Skill tree with abilities going up to 1000 skill points.
- Completion of Lumberjacking Skill tree with abilities going up to 1000 skill points.
- Completion of Tailoring Skill tree with abilities going up to 1000 skill points.
- Completion of Gathering Skill tree with abilities going up to 1000 skill points.
- Completion of Excavating Skill tree with abilities going up to 1000 skill points.
- Added particle effects and smoother animation transition between sword attacks, Archery.
- Changed top Menu icons added descriptions so you can see what each one is.
- Added a quest icon that will show quest status over a NPC.
- Camera Rotation added so you can rotate the character view direction.
- Al major gathering skills now have a ability that allows you to conjure up a tool instead of buying a recipe and crafting it every time
- 30 new items added for resources and crafting.
**Balancing:**
- Increased Archery attack distance from 15 max to 30 max so archers are more effective now before they get attacked.
- Increased view distance for better range combat.
New Archery Skill Tree
In all abilities where it states base damage, that's the starting amount of damage used in the combat calculation. From there it will determine the targets resist and also add some other stats including your skill level to determine the final amount of damage dealt to a target.
The next Skill we will be covering is Magery which will be the final skill for combat changes coming in the next major update.
New Swordsmanship Skill Tree
With Swordsmanship you have both damage abilities as well as effect abilities like slowing a target down which is more useful in PvP than PvE. We aimed to balance both PvP and PvE play styles with abilities. Learning a secondary skill like Fire Stance for instance will add a new Skill tree to your Skill list opening up additional abilities listed under Fire stance, using those abilities will then in turn allow you to gain skill points in that skill tree making a players combat style very unique dependent on what abilities and skill trees he unlocks.
As you have a limited amount of total Skill points you will need to choose wisely what type of character you want to build. With this insight on how the new abilities will work we look forward to seeing you in game making unique builds to suit your play style. This system will be implemented in our transition update from pre-alpha to Alpha coming soon. In the following weeks we will be revealing the other combat Skill trees so stay tuned.
Release Pre-Alpha V1.2
Release Pre-Alpha V1.1
**Bugs Fixed:**
- Marsh Trees can now be harvested in the swamp Biom.
- Swamp Crocodiles can now be attacked and killed for loot.
- Tab Targeting works again
**New:**
- New merchants added to Mudlock Swamp town.
- New head items like Miners Hat which added extra stats and light has been added as drops from mobs( Rock Elemental drops Miners Hat recipe - Rare drop)
- New Mana, Health and Strength potions added with different qualities.
**Balancing:**
- Changed made to Rock Elemental to drop better loot and coin.
- Changes made to the Forest Giant drops and coin drop.
Release Patch Pre-Alpha V1.0
**New:**
- New bioms/areas added
- New mobs added including dragons
- new town added
- New weapons and head armor added.
**Balancing:**
- Selling prices changed and increased on a wide range of items.
- All mobs should now drop coin with higher tier mobs dropping more coin so its easier now to make money.
- All loot is now more balanced with higher tier items dropping from higher tier mobs
Pach moving into Alpha
Pre-Alpha to Alpha
What you can expect in the 25 August patch release:
- PvP system: How the PvP system will work is its based on a players Karma Points. When you have less than -500 points you will be on auto PvP and wont be able to turn it of, above -500 points you have a option to turn PvP off or on. If you loot any players body you will automatically have PvP turned on. There is a 30 min cool down to turn PvP off if you are allowed to. Doing things like stealing, killing players or bad rep quests will reduce your karma. Doing things like helping players, killing certain mobs and good rep quests will increase your Karma.
- Taming and mounts system: You will have a taming skill which you can increase by capturing animals. A example is if you find a bear's den you can capture a bear cub and tame it on your land in a taming pen which will yield a bear mount.
- Animal Farming: there will be many farm animals available to raise on your farm. For instance if you find chicken eggs it will allow you to place down a hatchery and grow chickens from it.
- Factions: we are adding factions in which will allw you to gain reputation with certain factions opening up new trading among other stuff if you gain a high enough standing with them.
- Guilds: You will be able to form guilds.
- Castle plots and building. We are adding new castle plots as well a a full set of building units for castles. There will also be 15 different house styles to place down.
- Full world map: the first continent completely done which is 10 times the size of the current map area and includes a desert biom and a swamp biom.
- Swimming and ocean creatures: With the new map you will be able to go anywhere in the map including swimming in the ocean which will have its own resource nodes and sea creatures.
- New abilities added to all combat so that all will have a min of 10 abilities each. Insuring that the damage dealt by each ability for each skill will be balanced to make them all worth the while to use.
- Full new loot system with new drops for current mobs and new mobs.
- With the new map there will be around 30 new mob types add, most can be tamed and become mounts.
- 100 new recipes for crafting.
- Allot more items like armor and weapons.
- Fast traveling through portals across the world.
- Player owned vendors.
Our aim with pre-alpha was to get all the major features in place and also the final world map complete. As we said above we are very close to that so will be able to do the transition from pre-alpha to Alpha in the next patch. We hope you understand why we have decided to move it another 2 weeks as we don't see doing any other wipes after this one until we reach Beta or maybe not even then. Thanks you for continuing to support Arcfall and we are very exited to be moving out of pre-alpha.
Arcfall Patch Pre-Alpha v0.8
Bugs Fixed:
- Chat box scrolls to the bottom now when a new message is received.
- Tab targeting will now only target enemies, you use the click on portrait to select group members.
- All other places where rich text can be used is removed.
- When deleting a claim and you press cancel it wont still be delete the claim anymore.
- When you click the pickup button on a house it will as conformation now if you still want to pick it up.
- Placing a item in your claim and mousing over bag to select another item wont place the first item down but switch it.
- Certain Mobs use to run stop in animation when they run to you, that is fixed now so they run smoother.
- Item Requirements added to tooltips.
- Tax deeds will now add the correct amount of time when added to a plot.
- You will now only be allowed to add one tax deed at a time and have to wait till that deeds time has run out before you can add another one. The remaining time before the deed slot is open again will be half of the deeds time so you can slowly build up time on a plot and is displayed at the bottom of the deed.
- Items used that's in the action bar will display the right amount now and be removed when you don't have any more in your bag.
- You wont be able to equip a weapon anymore if it has no more durability.
- Durability will now also be displayed in tooltip in a number format.
- Weapon base damage amount will now be displayed in tooltip along with what type of damage it does.
New:
- Have a craft all button now to craft multiple items at a time instead of clicking craft every time.
Balancing:
- Changed pricing on Deeds and house blueprints.
Arcfall Patch Pre-Alpha v0.7
Bugs Fixed:
- Chat box does not allow color changing text or size changing any more.
- Founders horses has a casting time now.
- After selling/deleting claim permissions will now be removed.
- Animation transition when running while picking up resource faster now and smooth.
- Cant send money or items through mail as what you are planning to trade at the same time.
- When deleting a claim permissions are deleted as well.
- Cant use abilities commands through chat window if you are not allowed to.
New:
- Stone Porch house added.
- Fishing system added
- New resource drops added: Bones, Poisonous Blood
- New Recipes added:6 furniture recipes, 1 weapon recipe, 8 crafting recipes, 3 cooking recipe.
- Iron and Bronze Elemental added
- 30 new different items added in total.
Balancing:
- All armor has now stat requirements to be worn.
- Resource drops changed on Forest giants, Skeletons and Spiders.