In CROWZ, there are a total of 3 currencies, and the ways to obtain it and items that can be purchased with it are different for each currency.
1. Paid Currency
[RCP]
- Can be acquired by purchasing RCP in the game after adding funds to your Steam wallet.
- Various items such as Battle Pass and packages in Shop, as well as outfits, stickers, appearance items, emotions, sprays, etc., which can be checked in [Play Setting > Product], can be purchased with it.
2. In-game Currency (Free currency used during gameplay) - Volatile items that can be obtained through gameplay, and disappear once the battle is over.
[Q-on]
- A Currency that is only used used only in Squad Operation mode, and that can be obtained in each area of the map by gathering Q-ons from the floor or by killing enemies. A large amount of Q-ons can be acquired at once by installing Q-on extractors.
- In Squad Operation, supply boxes and vehicles can be obtained depending on the amount of accumulated Q-on held. (However, Q-ons will not be deducted after acquiring such items.)
- Due to the requirement of having to acquire a certain amount of Q-ons in order to win in Squad Operation, Q-ons can be seen as a key currency on the way to victory.
- It is crucial to acquire a certain amount of Q-ons in order to reach the win condition in Squad Operation, so Q-ons can be seen as a key currency for the victory.
[Blood Zone Currency]
- Can be obtained by contributing to occupying bases and killing enemies.
- Tactical skills can be purchased with it in Blood Zone, such as Morphine Box, Squad Respawn Device, UAV Support, etc. First of all, we would like to express our gratitude to many Crows who are interested in creating a better gaming environment in CROWZ.
We would like to introduce the selection conditions for a partnership about which many Crows have been curious. It can be checked in the CROWZ Partner Policy Guide. And we would also like to introduce additional benefits that are given after becoming a partner.
Please refer to the details below for more information, and we will continue to do our best by preparing various events for our Crows in the future.
※ CROWZ Partner Policy Guide
■ Partners Recruitment Plan
We are planning to recruit partners on a monthly basis. - After a collective review of all applications at the end of each month, notifications will be sent via e-mail. ※ Please note that emails are only sent to selected partners.
■ Partner Selection Conditions
0. Basic Conditions - Creators who are 19 years of age or older and who have their own channel - Those who have given consent to the marketing use of creator-generated content - Those who are willing to work hard to create a positive CROWZ community
1. Partner Selection Conditions - Monthly average of 20 or more concurrent viewers with an average of 1,000 or more views per video - Experience in producing CROWZ contents (2 or more VOD clips or streaming for 6 hours or more) - 1,000+ followers (any platform) - Even when conditions are not met, if there are special circumstances, we will review such cases internally.
2. Lead Partner Selection Conditions - Active channels with over 10,000 followers - More than 100 average viewers per month - Influencers who are consistently making a positive impact on the CROWZ community - Internal review will be undertaken if any of these conditions are met.
■ Partner Policy
1. Requirements for Maintaining Role - Streaming CROWZ for more than 10 hours per month (Live streamers) - 3 or more CROWZ VOD produced per month (Video creators)
2. Restriction Policy > If any of the following conditions are met, the partner role will be revoked, and all given benefits will be retrieved. - If contents have not been created for more than 1 month without prior agreement or any particular reason - If actions or comments that are inappropriate for the partner role are confirmed (e.g., discrimination based on race or nationality, any actions that cause conflict, etc.). - If the game account violates CROWZ's Operational Policy
■ Benefits
- Partner-only outfits - RCP - Opportunity to participate in Partners-only Twitch Drops
In addition to the benefits mentioned above, we are discussing other various benefits, so we ask for your active participation.
[Maintenance] Scheduled Maintenance Notice – April 26, 2022
Maintenance will be held to fix occurred issues and improve game features.
We ask for your understanding that during this time the game will be unavailable for play, and we will do our best to provide an enjoyable gameplay environment.
■ Details - Schedule: April 26, 05:30 ~ 08:00 (GMT+0) - Contents: Fixing issues and improving game features
※ During the maintenance period, the game cannot be accessed. ※ The maintenance period may be extended or completed earlier. ※ Update details will be provided through the client patch notes after the maintenance is completed.
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[Patch] Client Patch Notice
A Client Patch has been released to fix some occurred issues.
Update can be done when restarting the game. If you are logged in, kindly restart the game to install the update.
■ Client Patch Notice - Patch Contents: Fixing an issue in Shop
The temporary maintenance we informed yesterday has been changed to a client patch.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that may be caused. Please refer to the below for the patch details.
■ Details - Schedule: Apr 15, 06:30 (GMT+0) - Contents: ① Improved some frame drop issues ② Improved waiting time for Squad Operation
#CROWZ #MAINTENANCE #THUMBAGE #ROYALCROW #FPS
Crowz Dev Letter #2
Dear Crows,
Going into the second week of Early Access, we have to admit it’s very difficult to believe it has ONLY been about 10 days since the launch. Our team has been overwhelmingly busy working hard to make CROWZ better every day.
Seeing your constructive feedback as well as supportive words of encouragement have made us feel very grateful and incredibly humbled by the positive response. I speak on behalf of the entire team that we feel even more motivated to make CROWZ a better product.
As you may know, we are a very small development team with limited resources. By opening the game to the public during Early Access, it enables the team to better understand players’ feedback alongside supporting data points so we can identify vital areas of focus and address them towards the v1.0 launch. It has not been easy, but we truly believe this decision to have the game playable for people around the world via Early Access was one of the best choices we made. Thank you to all CROWZ players for their continued patience during this process.
Speaking of player feedback, we have been closely listening to you, organizing the most recent reported issues, and creating a plan of solutions. In this Dev Letter, I will be talking about some of the highest priority issues based on the data we have analyzed.
Frame Drop
After a number of internal tests alongside data analysis, we found that there are certain situations in the game where significant frame drop occurs. This issue happens due to several different factors and, unfortunately, a single solution cannot improve the performance across the board. In order to find the fundamental solution for this issue, we are in communications with Epic Games’ support team and engineers who worked on Unreal Engine 4 - the game engine that CROWZ is built on - and have begun a collaborative investigation. As I write this letter, both teams are working together to resolve the issue. Considering the complexity of game development, this issue is only going to be improved through a series of patches step-by-step - we expect that the patches will be deployed sooner rather than later, so please stay tuned for announcements coming very soon!
High Ping / Latency
We found higher ping issues are happening especially in Blood Zone, where there are many more users on the battlefield. This usually happens when the data transfer load increases. We are constantly looking for what causes this problem and will keep optimizing to improve performance. We encourage players to continue to play more matches, as it gives us more opportunities to find similar cases. We hope through this development collaboration with our players, we will be able to deliver the true amazing CROWZ experience - we appreciate our players for their time and commitment in this endeavor.
Server Stability (Network Error)
In the first few days, there were connectivity/login issues caused by multiple reasons. We already found those reasons and deployed some hotfixes and saw a significantly lower number of cases after these hotfix patches. Of course, our work is always ongoing during Early Access and we will keep optimizing the servers as we see an increased number of users in the future - things will only get better!
Anti-cheat
Cheating - and specifically using illegal third-party cheater programs - has been one of the biggest problems for multiplayer shooting games for a long time. Many game developers have been pouring significant human and capital resources to fight cheaters in order to maintain a normal and fair competitive environment. The Royal Crow dev team is also working very hard to prevent cheaters from undermining the fair gaming environment.
In this effort, we are working closely with Wellbia, a South Korean security company that has a proven track record of reliable anti-cheat solutions for 15 years, overseeing anti-cheat measures for over 270 games across 20+ million users. Through this partnership, we were able to detect illegal cheating software successfully throughout past beta playtests as well as the Early Access period. Currently, cheaters in CROWZ are not significantly increasing at the moment, though we will remain vigilant as we believe anti-cheat is a continuous fight for fair online play. We will do more research and development to provide stronger and safer anti-cheat technology in the future.
Security Programs
We found that some anti-virus/security programs have falsely detected CROWZ as malware or virus because the game is new. It is technically possible for players to turn off their security software and run our game with no problems. However, for the sake of players' safety, we are testing a lot of security software to find more possible cases and collaboratively working together with the security software developers to whitelist our game.
First-person Only Mode
We know a lot of FPS enthusiasts want First-person ONLY mode and the feedback has been especially enthusiastic from some of our hardcore fans! Interestingly, based on our data analysis, a surprisingly large number of players are enjoying the game with a third-person perspective ONLY when they can switch to first-person.
Since we are in the Early Access period where we are testing many different things, we will keep gathering more gameplay/user behavior data to find an ideal answer to create the best and most satisfying CROWZ experience. We know it is impossible to make everyone happy, but we will try our best to make a good choice with your help.
LATAM Server
Muchas Gracias! Muito Obrigado! We would like to show our gratitude to Crows in Latin America/Brazil! We are very well aware of the increasing number of players in this region and we are actively looking for ways to support you better. However, deploying more servers in a specific region requires a large amount of investment and we need a bit more time for us to find the best solution. Until then, please keep playing and supporting us!
In addition to the aforementioned high-priority issues, we are working on more content in our initial development roadmap, UI improvements, SFX improvements, and much more. We will be able to share more details in our Patch Notes soon.
Once again, we want to thank everyone for joining us on this journey - we are determined to make all Crows proud that they joined and continue to be part of this adventure. We want to give a special shout-out to the contributors and content creators who are actively supporting our game in the Steam Community, Discord, and many social media platforms.
Twitch drops together with Crowz partners (Rewards Changed)
We are here to bring some good news to our Crows!
Don't miss our CROWZ partners' streams as Twitch Drops are back again with new rewards.
■ Period - April 14, 3:00 am ~ April 30, 3:00 am (GMT+0)
■ How to participate: 1. Link your Twitch account to CROWZ 2. Watch for a certain period of time a streamer whose Twitch account is linked to CROWZ with Twitch Category being set as CROWZ - Watch for 1 hour - Watch for 2 hours - Watch for 3 hours - Watch for 4 hours
CROWZ streams can be watched through the link below, and before watching it, make sure to click on 'Drops Enabled' tag to see the list of streams with enabled drops.
■ Rewards ※ We have made some changes to the reward list to provide even more benefits to Crows who enjoy watching Twitch streams. - Watching for 1 hour: AR Weapon Exp 50% (30min) x 1 - Watching for 2 hours: Level Exp 100% (10min) x 1 - Watching for 3 hours: Weapon AR Exp 100% (1h) x 1 *Although the item name indicates AR, please note that the effect is applied to all weapons. - Watching for 4 hours: Level Exp 100% (1h) x 1
Rewards will be sent to the mailboxes after completing a mission and can be received only within 30 days.
■ How to receive rewards: After logging in to the game, please check [Mailbox > Account Mailbox] on the top right.
※ Caution 1. Drops will not be given if your Twitch account is not linked to CROWZ or if you watch a streamer whose Twitch category is not set to CROWZ. 2. Rewards are given only once per item. 3. After a mission is completed, there may be a delay of about an hour until the reward is given.
Looking for CROWZ partners
Don't miss an amazing opportunity to become a member of CROWZ.
You get to enjoy the game while receiving awesome benefits!
Temporary maintenance will be held due to the occurred issue with Battle Pass level rewards.
We apologize for the abrupt maintenance, and please refer to the below information for details.
■ Details - Schedule: April 8, 08:00 ~ 08:15 (GMT+0) - Contents: Fixing an issue with sending Battle Pass rewards ※ We have sent normal rewards to your Mailbox for those who have unlocked the Battle Pass level 59 rewards from the last update until today's patch.
Earn Twitch Drops with CROWZ
Check out the shower of rewards. Watch the CROWZ stream on Twitch until April 13th, and the rewards are all yours.
If you haven't done it yet, link your account right now!
