Weekly Update 292: Work in Progress insight and weekly dose of improvements
Greetings, Warriors!
Today we deliver further improvements and fixes to recently added features, including reworked parts of the User Interface and character development systems. Our designers took some time to make the “Catacombs” event more player-friendly and engaging, and are preparing some nice additions to the game for the upcoming Halloween event!
Due to the next character development system, which will change the game economy a little, our level designers are creating special areas which will be dedicated crafting districts in locations. You will learn more about the upcoming changes in the Work in Progress section below. We are very excited about this since it will positively impact the prices and accessibility to some resources and crafting materials.
Next week, we will start a Halloween event, so prepare for some spooky things to do! As a part of the event, we will host a PVP 5v5 event on the [EU] Eaglewood server. It will start at 6:30 PM GMT, 8:30 PM CEST (GMT+2) (Sunday, October 31st).
Join us in the arena on the [EU] Eaglewood server and fight for fame in 5v5 battles. We invite everyone, especially our new players! The winners will be immortalized on the in-game monuments, and everyone who will come will be rewarded! Additionally, winners of the tournament will be awarded a special, unique item.
Check the new changes and have fun in the game!
The screenshot’s authors have been awarded. sh0tz, EssN and SEREZAKA – check your Ambers!
Work in progress insight
Character Developement: Metallurgy tree
We are preparing to introduce the Metallurgy tree, related to the heat processing of metals in the game. Due to that, players' workstations, for example, furnaces and bloomeries will be more popular and useful in the game. Placement of your workstations in the game world will have an impact on passive crafting speed, so territory control will be even more correlated with the game economy, introducing more reasons to fight and keep desired flags under your nation's control.
Metal processing will be fully moved to the workstation system, so we are preparing dedicated “Crafting districts” in locations that will give bonuses when you place your workstation on them. Guild castle owners will be able to place their crafting areas as they please, using a new economical building.
You will earn experience by processing metals in your furnaces. And each node will give you boosts to smelting speed, increase chances to make more items in one go, and reduce fuel usage. Players will need a proper recipe and to complete the main node on each tree level to unlock more advanced metals processing, but rest assured – we will unlock the main nodes for you looking at your metallurgy skill level.
Changelog v.0.9.8.7 Beta
Quality of Life Improvements:
Iteration of the Catacombs event
As a result of close observation of players' behavior during the Catacombs event, we decided to introduce some changes in the event to make it more interesting and dynamic. As it was troublesome to fight other nations invading the corridors dedicated for others, the possibility to do that was blocked by special gates. Players will not need to rush their spiders and will be able to progress through the event with less risk and more time before being invaded, lost in the maze, or getting separated from their colleagues. Without wandering around, the event will be faster and more dynamic. In the center, there will still be a PVP part where all nations can meet on the same bosses, and invades are still possible if the gates will be destroyed or, the enemy will approach you from behind.
Other changes
– Recently added Conversion Points are now allowing to convert experience directly from the nodes in Character Development trees. You can now reset your progress and convert experience in the node to free experience, with the same ratio as surplus experience conversion. Disclaimer: You will need to convert all experience stored in the node, it will be not possible to do it partially. Conversion can be made only on nodes that are last on the branch (You cannot convert nodes from the middle of the branch before you convert the ones that are progressed or completed after them). – Items created from items disassembling are now displayed on the disassembling confirmation window. – Disabled scaling on side mode user interface windows. – Added a new icon for Recruitment Boards on the map. – Guild Recruitment Announcements are sorted by activity. New guilds are segregated above “medium” activity. – Guild Recruitment Announcement will be visible on the board as long as any Officer, Viceleader or Leader will be active in the last three days. – Changed 4K icons filter mode to bilinear, to make them look smoother on lower resolutions. – Added memorials for participants of Gloria Victis Video contest 2021 in capital cities of their nations.
Fixes:
– Fixed all known issues related to the tooltip's positions and behavior in the game. – Fixed the issue causing the nearest location name tooltip to stay on screen. – Fixed the issue causing the context menu to be shown outside of the screen while using a bigger User Interface scale. – Fixed an issue causing holes for gate traps (oil/logs/stones) that could partially block arrows. – Fixed an issue causing it was possible big rams could be stacked in one place. – Fixed an issue causing it to be possible to stand on top of the mantlets and use them as transportation. – Fixed an issue causing some farming objects (for example carrots) to not properly “stick” to each other.
Weekly Update 291: New Character and Inventory window!
Greetings, Warriors!
This week we are happy to introduce the next part of the User Interface rework, along with weekly Quality of Life improvements and fixes.
The Character and Inventory screen has been recreated to match the new setting and visual style of the game interface. It kept all its functionalities, and few new features have been added to make it more player-friendly, intuitive, and better looking. We hope you will welcome it warmly and it will have a positive impact on your game experience.
Last week, we were happy to welcome a lot of new players, who shared their feedback and suggestions via the ingame feedback tool and in discussions on our official Discord. As we can agree that the game should provide better flexibility when it comes to learning the ropes and picking your gameplay style, we made some changes that should be appreciated.
Check the details below, and see you in battle!
The screenshot’s authors have been awarded. Giroux, and Tyrader – check your Ambers!
PVP event this weekend!
Reserve some time to join us at 12:30 GMT, 20:30 SGT (GMT+8) (Saturday, October 16th) on the global arena of the Dukla [SEA] server and fight for fame in 5v5 battles. We invite everyone, especially our new players! The winners will be immortalized on the in-game monuments, and everyone who will come will be rewarded! Additionally, winners of the tournament will receive a special, unique item, newly introduced to the game!
We’ll have 5v5 battles in elimination style. A group that has at least 1 man standing at the end of a fight, wins it. The last 2 remaining groups will fight in the finals – a team that wins 2 rounds in the finals wins the event.
After the finals, there will be a bonus round, and every participant will be rewarded after it. Be sure to stay in the arena after the event to receive rewards! See you there!
Disclaimer: We are already reserving the space for the next event, which will take place on Eaglewood [EU] server soon!
Changelog v.0.9.8.6 Beta
Quality of Life Improvements:
– New User Interface for Character/Inventory screen, with character preview, side, and fullscreen modes. – New User Interface for Depot and PVP loot window. – Introduced an option to abandon a treasure hunting quest. This option will allow you to use the next map and find a treasure placed in a more attractive or available place on the map. – Greenleaf's accounts can now use abilities and attributes resets without limits. Greenleaf status is now removed on reaching 50 level with any character on the account. (It was 40 level before) – Ingame icons resolution has been increased to meet the 4K standard. – Improvements of the Quest Log and side panel: Different makers have been introduced for solo and group objectives. Added checkbox-like progress indicator. – Updated tutorial GIF for a step explaining how to check quests on the map. – Improvement to Combat Log: Added information about melee damage reduced by ally hits. – Improvement to Hit indicators: Added information when the released arrow hit an ally. – Spawnpoint gates leavers in the Sea Wraiths event were moved away from the gate and their interaction range has been reduced to prevent enemies from opening them. – Boars are placed more widely on starting quest areas, which will reduce situations where players are forced to fight multiple animals at once. – Increased the time between boars' attacks and speed up their animation to ensure better feeling and easier block of their attack sequence.
Fixes:
– Fixed an issue allowing people to jump in and out of the buildable walls and towers through their windows. To cover all possible problematic edge cases, for example, prevent the attackers from bypassing whole layouts of fortifications, jumping through windows will not be available. – Fixed an issue causing arrows to be detected and blocked by a Gatetower collider in front of them which was meant to prevent building anything by the gates. – Fixed an issue causing a message in the rankings window to show outdated information about Nation Points cap (Cap was increased from 20k to 30k last week).
Weekly Update 290: Convenience improvements!
Greetings, Warriors!
First, let us warmly welcome all the newcomers who joined our Community this week. We’re glad to see so many new players on the servers and we believe you’re having a good time in the game! We wish you the best in your new journey through the world of Gloria Victis MMORPG!
As we’re working on some bigger changes that require some more time to be completed and introduced, we are continuing the tasks of game interface rework in the meantime. Our coders are also working hard on some technical aspects of the engine, servers, and client to improve the game performance and servers capacity. Today, like always, we have for you a weekly dose of convenient quality of life improvements and fixes.
The coolest part of this update can be the first iteration of the reworked quest log – fully adjusted to the new interface and visuals of the game. Crafting quests were also slightly improved, so they will now be triggered by dialogue, which is much more player-friendly and standardized. The oldest capital city in the game – Midland’s Dunfen – received some love and will now cherish your eyes with some new layout and visuals. There are more very nice changes you’ll find extremely helpful, so we cannot wait for your opinion and feedback.
We should also mention that our Dev Team is preparing an event for the upcoming weekend – we will be hosting a 5v5 tournament – with great rewards for participants and viewers, and this time, with extra, unique rewards for the winners!
Find more details below, and see you in the game!
The screenshot’s authors have been awarded. Siegbert, Neqster, and Essn – check your Ambers!
Changelog v.0.9.8.5 Beta
PVP event this weekend!
Reserve some time to join us at 09:30 PM GMT, 4:30 PM CT (Saturday, October 9th) on the global arena of the America [NA/SA] Aquilla server and fight for fame in 5v5 battles. We invite everyone, especially our new players! The winners will be immortalized on the in-game monuments, and everyone who will come will be rewarded! Additionally, winners of the tournament will receive a special, unique item, newly introduced to the game!
We’ll have 5v5 battles in elimination style. A group that has at least 1 man standing at the end of a fight, wins it. The last 2 remaining groups will fight in the finals – a team that wins 2 rounds in the finals wins the event.
After the finals, there will be a bonus round, and every participant will be rewarded after it. Be sure to stay in the arena after the event to receive rewards! See you there!
Quality of Life Improvements:
New Quest Log
We are delighted to show you the first iteration of further User Interface rework. Today, you are receiving a renewed quest log and objectives panel, which will greatly increase the convenience of using them and guide you better through your journeys. There will be further improvements made on those matters, as there are some more things that are planned to make those refreshed parts of the interface even more player-friendly and useful.
Way to convert your surplus experience in Character Development (ChD) systems:
As we received a lot of questions from our Community, and many requests to add such features, we are introducing a way to use the surplus experience gathered in Character Development systems. Newly added Conversion Points Cards will give you special Conversion Points, which can be used to convert Surplus ChD Experience to Free ChD Experience. One conversion point can convert two surplus experience points to one free experience point. Cards can be acquired in Glory Shops for Contribution Points that you are collecting while playing the game, and in Supporter Shop, if you would like to help the project by purchasing some Ambers.
As many of you asked for such an opportunity, we are working on cards that will allow the reset of the ChD tree's progress and reuse the experience. You can expect them in the following weeks.
Other QoL improvements:
– Increased the Nation Points Cap from 20 000 to 30 000, both - for secured and not-secured points. – Decreased the level requirement to unlock additional inventory slots from level 10 to level 5. – Quest icons and markers have been updated. They are now yellow, to be better visible on various terrain, including snow. – Reworked the Items Delivery Quests so they can be completed via dialogues. – Dunfen capital received a slight rework. Due to the refreshed layout and visuals of Midland capital, the deposit placement was changed. – Increased the drop chance of higher tier treasure maps from Mysterious Scrolls. – Tweaked the experience values needed to unlock the nodes in the Archeology ChD tree to make it more unified with other trees and quadrupled the experience values gathered while excavating and treasure hunting. The Player's experience will be scaled to keep the same % of your progress. – Change in Gate Control System, following the Community suggestion, we are adding the possibility to open gates for players with rank Veteran and above from 5+ level guilds. – As we noticed, that there was a way to exploit combat with AI opponents using kicks, improvements have been made in the mob's actions system, so they will evade player kicks better. This ability is scaling with their level. – The terrain under the gates at Outposts was leveled up to prevent siege engines to fall under the ground there. We believe it will partially fix mentioned issue, but if you ever experience such a problem, please let us know. – Introduced three new, unique swords to the game. Those can be obtained from cyclical PVP events hosted by developers (Be there this Saturday!), and as season rewards for top place in the Arena and Glory Rankings. – Support for Traditional Chinese language and font.
Fixes:
– Fixed an issue causing keybinds to be not properly initialized on Quick Menu after relog. – Fixed an issue causing the Coat of Arms to be not properly shown on some shields. – Fixed an issue causing "Hardened" achievement to show after login to the game each time. – Fixed a bug causing that the skins for light shoulderguards didn’t work with the tier 4 items.
Weekly Update 289: Character Development Extension
Greetings, warriors!
This week we’re introducing probably the most important part of the Character Development system: Equipment! From now on you can progress your way through mastering various armors and weapons in the game to earn nice bonuses! Rest assured, as we promised, you are receiving a new tree properly unlocked in relation to your character level, and each character receives a proper amount of free experience to be able to master the equipment they are using.
Additionally, we are addressing a lot of recent players' reports and feedback, implementing a lot of fixes and improvements to the game. Disassembling the character development tree received a lot of love, including nice touches to the interface and fixes for reported issues. We are thankful for your help in finding reproductions of bugs and sharing with us important details which helped us to find the problems and remove them.
Our graphic artists were also able to get over the problem that prevented us from introducing nation-colored Glory Armors before, so you can finally enjoy their new visuals.
In accordance with the introduced Character Development systems, we are visualizing the skill of using armors and weapons to the tree of character development. Like the systems introduced before, this will give a better sense of progression to new players and create smaller goals to achieve, along with helping the ingame economy to be more variable and interesting.
In the beginning, the character can use weapons or armors of the lowest tier and with time in the game develops his abilities to become a master of them. DISCLAIMER: If you are a current player - you will have free experience and/or main trees unlocked already depending on your character levels!
Initial weapon tiers do not have narrow specializations due to the fact that this type of weapon offers slightly worse statistics and is not late-game. We would like the main hubs (marked with a larger square) to be unlocked without specializing in the previous tier, allowing a straight path to the best armament or armor.
Specialization in a particular field will be associated with bonuses, which, of course, will not be a game-changer, but will slightly strengthen the player who unlocked the full branch of specialization.
For example, rewards for mastering a given weapon can be:
For weapons: – Additional % to damage dealt – Reduced stamina per attack – Slower durability loss
For Armor: – Additional % to all damage reduction – Slower durability loss
For shields: – Additional % to all shield resistance – Reduced durability loss on block
You can earn the experience by killing mobs or participating in PVP in the open world as well as in solo and group arena duels!
As we forecasted earlier, we decided to give you free experience with the introduction of these trees. We are unlocking the main nodes of the trees of weapons and armor based on the character level. So you can wear any weapon or armor right away if you are on level 80 or above.
Everyone who already has logged into the game since the introduction of the first Character Development system will get Equipment main nodes unlocked and additionally 5.5 million free experience, scaled with levels (The value of the free experience given to level 100 is equal to 5500000. Lower levels scale down linearly so that 10th level gets 550 000 experience).
– Levels 1-19: No masteries unlocked – Levels 20-39: Unlocked Main Nodes: Tier 2 Armor, Tier 2 Weapons – Levels 40-59: Unlocked Main Nodes: Tier 3 Armor, Tier 3 weapons – Levels 60-79: Unlocked Main Nodes: Tier 4 armor, Tier 4 Weapons – Levels 80-100: Unlocked Main Nodes: Tier5 Heavy Armor, Tier 5 medium armor, Tier 5 light armor, Tier 5 Two-handed Weapons, Tier 5 One-handed Weapons, Tier 5 Bows
Players returning to the game, that is, those who have not logged in since the introduction of Character Development systems will also receive a proper free experience amount to progress their trees, but they will need to complete their masteries manually.
Addressing Players Feedback and Reports:
Thanks to our precious Community feedback and reports we are introducing numerous improvements and fixes. Just in the most recent month, over 30 of players' suggestions and feedback were introduced to the game! Thank you for your help and cooperation in making Gloria Victis an even better game!
Improvements and balance of Disassembling:
– Armor nodes have proper description now. – Main armor nodes for purple/blue have now 50% mod for disassembling light/medium/heavy. – Main weapon nodes for purple/blue have now 50% mod for disassembling 1h/2h/bows. – Items that do not have recipes now will be giving experience when disassembled. – Updated the icons of Heavy Armors, Weapons, and Bows in Disassembling Character Development tree – Balanced the experience values for Disassembling: Tier 4 Armors and Tier 4 Bows nodes require 30k of experience instead of 50k to be completed.
Quality of Life Improvements:
– Brandon, Ragi, Sirius Treasure Quests were replaced. They are now near those events, not inside them. – Final battle colliders are expanded to the whole guild castle area, to prevent some edge case issues. – Added old Scavenger to the elite animal's list which is used to complete “Kill Rare Animals” Daily Challenge – Left Mouse Button cannot be bonded to non-fighting actions anymore – Balanced workstation production to be less randomized. – Added nation colors onto Glory Armors. – Smoothed out the reflections rendering. – Removed ChD User Interface snap after opening Node’s detail panel. – Improved the visuals of the Character Development nodes and side panels. – Added new filters on the Map for icons shown on close zoom, for example, Dice poker, Logistician, Stablemaster – Progress tracker of character Development has been reworked, it will be merged and unified with the upcoming quest tracker in the following weeks. – Implementation of a system that increases the respawn time of guards on the smaller servers - to dynamically balance the gamer's experience based on the current server population. This change excludes respawn time of guards of Holy Temples outside the Daytime, the same as they don't generate Siege Points outside Daytime now.
Fixes:
– Fixed the issue where Rite events could be triggered twice at one time, which had an impact on spawn points, sometimes sharing them between different nations. – Fixed an issue causing there was a possibility to have two different State of War timers for one guild in a specified edge case when the guild had two castles and the SoW timer was changed by owners during the completion of the token on their other castle. – Fixed an issue causing map locations names to be missing on Rodrock Lumbermill and Dirmar Farm – Thanks to Community Reports, we fixed the issues causing some items to not be disassemblable. – Fixed an issue causing Campfires to be named as “Bonfire” on the player constructions window. – Fixed an issue where the buffs User interface position wasn't saved if you drag it holding the icon. – Fixed the issue causing colliders on the Guardhouse, used to detect hits from siege engines, were also blocking arrows shot by enemy players. – Fixed the visual issue causing Hitpoints and Stamina bars to overlap with buffs UI after opening fullscreen mode of User Interface. – Thanks to Community Reports and aid with reproduction, we fixed the trade system bug causing part of traded items to be lost during a trade when the same stackable items were traded back and forth with different quantities in one trade. – Fixed the issue where colliders of old ruins were still working on the original Volcano location. – Fixed an issue causing rebinding to use old bind while rebinding action. – Fixed an issue causing unlocking tier 3 weapons were not unlocking disassembling of one-handed blunts and one-handed spears.
Weekly Update 288: Warriors - Assemble!
Hello, Warriors!
Let us welcome you to the new Glory Season! The top players of last season have earned their rewards and titles, so it's time to compete against the others and fight your way to the top of this season’s ladder!
A little explanation for the new players: Glory is a season-based ranking which rewards you for activity in the faction v faction v faction PVP. The seasons last 2 months and are rewarded with unique titles, as well as gold. Also, every Thursday night you’ll get Contribution Points – an in-game currency used to purchase special items from the Glory Quartermasters. The amount of earned CP depends on your position on the leaderboard, so climb up it!
As always, we start the new season with bigger changes. This time we have another – after the warmly welcomed Fishing and Archaeology, as well as the updated Treasure Hunting – Character Development tree: Disassembling! We also took the chance to improve this economy branch by giving you, the players, even more means to gain wealth and, most importantly, to co-create the game’s economy. We’d also like to remind you that with the introduction of every further Character Development tree, we’ll be giving free experience in amounts depending on your character’s level.
We are also happy to open the global test for the highly demanded "Return to Character Screen" feature. You can use a /relog command on chat to test the functionality and help us gather information and surety, that everything works correctly.
From now on, Disassembling is an activity that you can develop in the same way it’s already done for Fishing and Archeology. This time, though, you receive a much more massive tree than before:
On top of that, we updated the Disassembling flow itself. Until today, it was nothing more than an additional activity used to level up the crafting professions. The salvaged items were not attractive enough to meet players’ expectations, and, except for the very first tiers, Disassembling didn’t really allow creating other items using the salvaged materials.
Starting today, by disassembling items you will gain the most salvaged materials in the form of scraps and in quantities depending directly on the number of materials required to craft those items. Also, there are now modifiers for the amount of salvaged materials to account for the disassembled item’s quality and durability, as well as the player’s progress in the Disassembling tree of Character Development.
Since with a fully developed Disassembling tree you will be able to get from full durability and highly enchanted items almost all resources back, is now a very viable choice, allowing to recycle a lot of the resources, and at the same time helping to develop players characters and supporting the ingame economy and trading. It will be also a great opportunity for PvP players, who would be able to disassemble the looted items for much more reward than previously, and put the resources on market anytime or reforge them into valuable gear.
Other improvements to Disassembling and crafting:
– From now on, you can disassemble items easier, using a special key combination by holding Alt and clicking on the item with Left Mouse Button. Disassembling will be more convenient that way, and more player-friendly. Also, we did an additional bool to switch the on/off confirmation window during disassembling many items in one equipment window session. However, a confirmation window will pop up always if items that we want to disassemble has an average market price of more than 1 gold. – As a part of the preparations for this week’s update – and the upcoming Metallurgy Character Development – Mining and Metallurgy will be changed into Metallurgy Character Development. As a part of the preparations for this update, the smelting processes are now only possible using the player-built furnaces, and the other remaining recipes from the Mining and Metallurgy have been distributed between the Weaponforging and Armoursmithing professions. In effect, there are no remaining recipes available in the Mining and Metallurgy profession, so it’s not visible in the crafting window anymore. – We also addressed the issue with leveling up crafting professions by disassembling low-tier items. Simply stated, it was never our intention to reward such unsatisfying gameplay by crafting tens of thousands of low-level items just to disassemble them with a significant waste of resources, and then repeat the process over and over again.
From this update, once the level difference between the player’s crafting level and the recipe’s recommended level reaches a threshold, crafting such items will no longer grant experience. On the other hand, you’ll salvage much more from disassembling, so you’ll be able to craft further items more conveniently, and in effect have a smoother progression, but still, you will require better materials to progress your crafting.
Additionally, the recipes are now better color-coded in the crafting window to show the possibilities of craft and mark the amount of experience that can be earned by crafting them with the current crafting level:
Gray – the recipe level is too low, earning no experience for crafting this item. Green – low recipe level, earning a low amount of experience. Yellow – normal level, earning a good amount of experience. Orange – high recipe level. These are the recipes you can craft that will give you a lot of experience, but you can’t bet on high-quality results, and they might not be as effective as yellow recipes. Red – the recipe level is too high to craft this item; you must level up first.
– Added new types of scraps – there were scraps for only some materials so far, and they weren’t as useful as one could hope for. Now, there are scraps of most types of the main materials like metal bars, different types of leather, and canvases (except for the Elite Canvas which still can’t be crafted or disassembled) – From now on, when disassembling items that are crafted using Elite Canvases, the player receives Quilted Canvases Scraps as a salvaged material. – Added some more Quilted Canvases to the top tier recipes to increase demand for this item and compensate for the upcoming influx of Quilted Canvases. – Adjusted the market value of Quilted Canvases by editing their recipe and adding additional suet to their crafting requirements. – Added new recipes for crafting materials from scraps. – Added the possibility to disassemble the top-tier tools and champion armors. – Added the possibility to disassemble bags. – Added new items and recipes for light tier 4 shoulders. – From now on, recipes displayed in the crafting window are sorted by their level.
Quality of Life Improvements:
– Updated the Abilities interface – from now on it’s not a separate window but a part of the fullscreen UI and also contains the character’s other statistics. – Updated the rewards for the fishing quests and some later-stage questlines. – Implemented the first iteration of UI scaling – since it’s a large and complex task and might have some edge-case issues, we’d like to ask you to report all the problems you encounter so we’ll be able to fix them. – Expanded the Character Development window navigation so it now supports zooming and moving the window’s content for big trees, which don’t fit the window’s size. – Added new NPC shops and market filter types: "Guisarmes" and "Bardiches." – The heavy and light shields now have 5 tiers each, like the other types of equipment. New items and recipes have been added to the game. – Added a new item to the game: Old Bottle, which contains a random treasure map and can be obtained by fishing. – Added new events for exchanging Map Fragments for Mysterious Scrolls, which are dropping random maps on use.
Combat & Balance:
– Blocking now guarantees that the durability of the shield or weapon used to block will decrease (previously it damaged a randomly selected part of the player’s equipment). – Decreased weapon durability loss while attacking to compensate for the new durability loss while blocking with a weapon (except bows, because you can’t block with them). – Shield handling endurance is now related to shield durability like any other shield stat. – Shield can be raised to block on 100 instead of 125 shield handling endurance. – Low shield durability reduces shield handling endurance. – The durability cost of using equipment has been adjusted. – Fuel requirements to craft top-tier heavy armors have been unified and balanced. - Added some clay spawners in the Sangmar area (near Fort Eaglenest and on the quest lines), to balance the accessibility of the resources and unify it for all nations. – Moved light shield skins from tier 2 to new tier 5 and tier 4. Heavy shields skins are now compatible with tier 4 shields.
Fixes:
– Fixed an edge case bug that caused defensive siege engines (oil, stones, or logs) to not deal damage. Yes, the Pilgrim's Rock oil should work properly now. Thank you for your reports and commitment that helped us to find the source of the problem. – Fixed a bug that caused the equipment tier on item tooltips to be displayed as untranslated color coding instead of the actual tier numbers (1-5). – Fixed an edge case issue that caused the character to move slightly faster while being in combat mode while moving in a certain direction and with a certain attack type. – Fixed an issue in which the horseman ability "Battle Horse" [increasing damage] did not work against the NPC enemies. – Fixed a bug that caused that the fishing events were permanently disabled until the next server restart if they ended with failure. – Fixed an issue that caused only 1 user to receive a reward for a treasure if two players were doing the very same treasure quest while being in a party together.
Weekly Update 287 – New locations and new opportunities!
Greetings, Warriors!
Are you ready to conquer new locations and push the frontier further into the enemy lands? Will you use your tactical and strategic knowledge to take advantage of the new opportunities?
This week we are introducing an important extension to the game world. Our designers added new locations extending the outer rings, to improve the PVP aspect of the game and make the territory control system more player-friendly and rewarding. The map received a slight rework, you can tell that when you find out that the Volcano mountain was moved. The size of the map has not increased yet, but further in the changelog, you will find the proper explanation of the current changes.
We are aware that we forecasted the Metallurgy and Disassembling changes for this week, but those require some more time to be introduced. Additionally, we want to remind you about the end of the current Glory Season. You have one more week to climb the rankings!
As always, we have some Quality Of Life improvements and fixes ready for you, so check the details below and see you in the game!
As you know, Gloria Victis MMORPG is based on three pillars. Two of them are related and are Open PVP and Territory Control. To improve the gameplay and the experience of players regarding those aspects of the game, we decided to add six new locations to the outer link ring. With the current number of flags, it was enough that our nation lost one small Fort to feel extremely dominated, especially when we didn't have a temple on the same link.
The difficulty difference of attacking and defending between the City and the Castle location types is too big, which often made warbands stop to capture the Fort and do not go further.
Placing new flags – Outposts – between the Castles and Forts creates a buffer between those two, pulling up the attack flow further and giving the defenders more tactical options, as well as giving a target to groups that don't feel strong enough to occupy the Castle, but have just taken over the Fort.
We hope you’ll like that change and it will encourage you to be more active on the global map. You should also remember that we’ve planned for increasing the map size in the near future, to create more space for our Community.
Quality of Life Improvements
– Added six new upgradable locations – Outposts – in the game world: Elmridge, Griffinclaw, Reksvald, Hogsten, Saffa and Quilium. – From now on, the map will show static icons (like deposits, logistician, stable master.) from any distance if we zoom in on the map close enough. Also, there are icons that will show only if we are close to them. It can be for example workshops or vendors at controlled locations. It will improve the player's orientation in the game world. – Polish of the Character development interface – added new tooltips and functionalities. – Increased the radius of the fishing events 4 times. – Added fishing event duration, it's active for 40 minutes, like a crafting event. – Added a new marker type on the legend for the fish delivery event. – Updated the fish bait descriptions.
Fixes
– Fixed an issue causing gaining experience in archeology during the treasure hunt only when the proper shovel was on the body – you had to have a shovel equipped to get experience from treasure interactive – Fixed an issue causing text to wrap in the quests side panel. – Multiple small fixes of game localization in all languages.
Weekly Update 286 – Optimization update!
Greetings, Warriors!
The world of Gloria Victis is growing every day, on every plane. New interesting systems and features are being added to the game, extending the activities list, and creating new layers of gameplay. We’re constantly welcoming new players, growing our Community, and populating the servers. The map of the Stoneholm conquest area changed and expanded in time, with new lands and isles rising from the seas.
All of that, taking into account that our game provides an open-world sandbox experience, and barely has any limitations regarding the size of the fights on the battlefields and under castle walls, with such detailed locations and models, requires a well-thought optimization.
This week is dedicated exactly to that. Our graphic artists did an outstanding job with the global optimization of static models, greatly improving the game client performance. The biggest changes you’ll be able to see in the most detailed and biggest locations like capital cities, but remember, that improvements have a very positive impact on every area of the world, so even in the most active battlefields you’d see better FPS ranges.
Additionally, we're delivering some fixes and improvements to the newly added Character Developments systems, and we can already forecast the next ones: Metallurgy and Disassembling, which should hit the global servers next week.
Before we move to the list of changes this week, we'd like to tell you a few words about the near future.
Glory Season
New Glory Season will start on Thursday, the 16th of September. The top players on the ranking table will earn great rewards and nice titles, so you have just two weeks to compete against the others and fight your way to the top of the ladder!
Character Development
As mentioned in the introduction, part of the dev team is working on the next systems of Character Development. Fishing, Archeology extension, and Treasure Hunting were warmly welcomed by the Community and we can already see that introducing more of such systems will have a positive impact on players, giving them more reasons to participate in creating the game economy, roam around map to find valuable items and resources and always have some rewarding activities in reserve.
The next trees of the Character Development will be the tree of Metallurgy, and the tree of Items Disassembling. We chose those two to increase the level of implementation complexity and also because those two should be introduced at one time since they are related and will have an impact on each other. We believe you'll have a lot of fun developing those!
World Extension
Our level designers are working on adding new lands and locations to the game! 6 new flags should appear around the end of September, creating new links and battlefields. Strategic placement of Outposts and their minor flags will open new ways of attack and allow you to develop new strategies.
The non-loot zones behind the Capital Cities will also be increased, to open some more space for players who prefer to focus on PVE aspects of the game or need some more time before moving to PVP. Gloria Victis is a place for all kinds of players, and we want to prepare even more space for everyone.
User Interface Rework
The User Interface rework is also being worked on, but we've to reserve some more time before showing the next part of it, since we're taking care of inventory, character, skills, and attributes windows, which are related and will be merged into one. One of the nicest features of the new Character interface is the live preview of your character, similar to the one from the character selection screen. Have you seen the design already? Here it is!
Changelog v.0.9.8.1 Beta
Quality of Life Improvements
– Global optimization of static models. An increase in client performance will be the most visible in the biggest, most detailed locations. – Added the possibility to open any User Interface window (with exception of the Map) while the respawn window is opened. – Renamed some ingame NPC’s and updated the dialogues related to them, to make them more fitting to the game setting and lore. – Updated some old, and implemented a few new NPC speeches. – Updated the icon of fishing quests. – Decreased base fishing exp of primeval seal (9k -> 3k) and changed ability to fish out worms to grubs. – Polish of the newly added Character Development interfaces, including showing the right panel on hover at the chosen node, closing the right panel after clicking outside of the node, opening the development tree on clicking on the side panel, and improving the responsiveness of the UI overall. – Surplus experience nodes are now properly shown on the interface. – Balance and improvements in all nations' third questlines. Objectives needed to complete the tasks have been changed, which should have a positive impact on players retention.
Fixes
– Fixes some issues causing minor bugs in the respawn window, including preventing the reset of the interface by using Party Finder, improving the responsiveness of the respawn buttons, and fixing the visuals of respawn buttons when we have a tent respawn available. – Fixed the issue causing map descriptions to not be translated correctly. – Fixed the issue causing combat log resorting after opening the full-screen interface window or resizing combat log. – Fixed an issue causing errors after the player used the free experience button on the finished node. – Fixed the issue causing Archeology nodes could not be progressed with any shovel. Conditions visible on the interface are now working properly. – Fixed an issue causing the surplus experience to keep going on User Interface even with fast experience toggle enabled – Fixed an issue causing it to be possible to enter the spawn area in the Rite of the One event location from the ground. – Fixed the issue causing dialogues in some Midland and Ismir questlines were not shown properly.
Weekly Update 285 – Venture on adventure!
Greetings, Warriors!
MMO RPG games are a genre that invites players to stay in their worlds with various activities, freedom of action, and sandbox experience. Like many MMOs out there, our game is social-based, even if it’s directed towards the endless war and global conquests. But most MMOs, if not all of them are equipped with different ways to develop players' avatars, ensuring a safe and fun place for all kinds of players. That is why the list of Gloria Victis MMO features is constantly growing, and we are introducing new reasons and goals that players can achieve in our game through various activities. And we want to make those paths more interesting and rewarding.
We are aware that there is a big chunk of our playerbase that love our world and setting and prefer to support their nation from the second line, as builders, crafters, merchants, and gatherers, rather than in participating in territory control battles on the frontlines. Since our game is not limiting anything and you can be a respected fighter at the same time when you are a master crafter, cook, and dedicated gatherer or fisherman, the ultimate task is to make all the ways to develop character engaging and well reasoned.
This is why today we are introducing the first new character development systems, with extended fishing and newly added archeology and treasure hunting. You can expect even more systems of this kind in the very close future, and we are hoping you will like them and those will encourage you to play more and feel rewarded for your time spent in the world of Gloria Victis MMORPG.
Additionally, as always we are delivering a weekly dose of Quality of Life improvements and Fixes, as well as a new questline, last in the Ismirean Inn quests sets, mirrored with previously added quests for other nations.
We also would like to encourage you to join our official Discord and check the ongoing video contest. The topic of the event is the creation of a video that shows your ingame nation's power and might. You need to use the newly added music tracks, available on our Youtube channel!
We are already receiving first submissions and we were blown away by how creative and talented our community members are. Be sure to show us your talent too! You have time till the end of the month to take your chance to be memorized in-game!
From now on, the whole system will work differently and introduce some more challenges on the way to become the master fisherman. Each fishing action will give you special experience points in a dedicated fishing skill tree. Each tree is divided into special nodes, and you are getting experience in each node to fill it and unlock new baits, rods and get bonuses to catch specific types of fish.
As you will find out during progressing the fishing tree, you are getting free experience for each action and that experience can be used to speed up the progress of any other development tree in the game, and as forecasted earlier – there are many to come. When you fill up the experience needed to finish the last node in the tree tier, you will start collecting surplus experience that in the future will be possible to convert to free experience and use it in any other character development trees, using Ambers.
We are all starting from square one, so prepare your lures and be the first players on the servers who will be able to cook the best fish meals! We are planning to present you with free experience when we will be introducing some more important systems, like armor or weapons development trees to allow current players to unlock their current builds as soon as the character development system will expand to it, but now we have to see the full progress for testing and balancing purposes.
Archeology
We decided to create Archeology as a second system of character development because we wanted to bring in an expansion to the gameplay with new unique activity, and we wanted to test the idea and check if everything will be working properly on at least two different types of systems. You can progress this tree by digging up the excavation sites in-game and hunting for newly added treasures.
When you find a treasure map, you can use it to activate a special quest and the treasure will be shown on your map. Simply go to the marked area and dig it up. There are few tiers of treasures that can be found, and we believe you will be very happy with the rewards that can be found, especially in higher-tier chests! Overall, at this very exact moment, there are 100 new different small quest places to be found using the maps. Those quests will be polished and become more complex in time.
New Questline
The new questlines follow the rules that made a huge positive difference in player perception and gameplay experience. They are more story-rich, player-friendly, and will not require traveling to distant areas to complete them.
Today you are getting access to midgame, quite challenging questline placed between Sangmar and Ismir mainlands. We will not spoil the story, but we can tell that you will be able to meet one of the Devteam members there, and also need to fight Giants, Nightcrawlers, and the Devil himself to complete it. Venture onto the quest today – visit the Young Wolf Inn soon and happy hunting!
Quality of Life Improvements
– The Global Arena and Tournament area are now properly marked as non-loot zones. – Added a new chest drop that contains various spices. The chest can be acquired as a reward for newly added fishing quests. – All fishes have now extended rotting time, from 3 days to 7 days. – From now on, you can zoom out the map to see the whole Stoneholm Island. – Added new types of events in Crafting Inns to create demand for lower-tier fishes. – Treasure chests with randomized loot have been hidden in the whole game world. You need maps to find them! – Added a custom, subtle sound for getting stunned. – Spectre world boss now has stunning attacks and new SFX’s. – Non-humanoid NPC's had their animations tweaked, so the damage received animation won't override the attack animation which led to “ghost hits.” – Added new cyperus seeds to basic food vendors' stock. – New plant: Cyperus. It is a plant that can be used as fish bait. – New item: Mysterious scroll. Find out what it does by yourself. – New animals: Leopard and Black Leopard. – Hitting siege engines will now be indicated with proper sound.
Fixes
– Fixed the issue causing the combat log window to change size on opened fullscreen interface panels. – Fixed all known issues regarding new map icons. – Fixed an issue that caused AI to switch from the bow, to always switch into the one-handed weapon in terms of attack speeds. That led to animation desync in that case. – Fixed an issue where mobs were able to get into a blocking state while arming - that led to a feeling of NPCs blocking with a bow. – Fix an issue causing animator cases of 2H Spear not playing "stop attack" attack break animation, while hitting the blocking target. – Fixed an issue causing mobs attacking with the green attack instead of yellow which led to issues like boars receiving stun while hitting the shielding player. – Fixed an issue causing the repair icon to stay after the shop window was closed.
Weekly Update 284 – Hear the change!
Greetings, Warriors!
As our Developer team is working hard on upcoming character development systems and weekly improvements and fixes, we are delivering some work in progress insight to tell you what you get in the following weeks.
We had to reserve some more time before introducing the Fishing development progress tree to test and balance it properly. Next week we should be able to implement it into the game, and there are chances it will come accompanied with the next system in queue – archeology and treasure hunting!
Internal tests of the “Return to character selection screen” feature just began. You can expect this feature to hit the global servers soon!
Gloria Victis world is receiving three brand new pieces of music created by the world-class artists from Music Imaginary: Adam Skorupa, Krzysztof Wierzynkiewicz, and Michał Cielecki. On that occasion, we are opening a contest for video creators!
Throughout the development of any multiplayer / MMO game, player retention is perhaps the most important factor in developing a community. We are working on this all the time, carefully breaking down player activity as a factor - and while our retention at low levels is still quite decent, the players who reach the end game are the ones who very often stay in our game for thousands of hours. And this is what we are aiming for.
So what players and the game need are a system that will allow players to have smaller goals, in the pursuit of which they will be able to learn the new features, and gradually increase their skill and experience in them. A system that will reward the player for training specific skills - thanks to which he will be better and better at what a given person considers to be the most interesting in the Gloria Victis world.
By performing activities, in addition to experience points, the player will receive experience in a given profession or activity, which at various stages of development will allow for more advanced equipment and provide new opportunities or bonuses. We don't want to limit players in any way as a classless system and the possibility to be who you want to be in the game and change it anytime is a very valued aspect of our MMO. So you can become the master of every profession and activity.
Fishing is coming first, as forecasted earlier, but today we will spoil you some details regarding the next system which is being created in the background.
We want to create many different paths to develop characters in the game. One of them will be Archeology. Progressing in this activity will allow you to use better shovels, collect better loot from excavations sites, and also give access to a brand new feature: treasure hunting.
Treasure maps will be introduced into the game, and will be available among others as quest/events/daily rewards, and loot from excavation sites. Consuming a map will start a special quest and mark the treasure on the map so you would need to travel to the spot and dig it out. There will be few levels of maps and treasures, and to find the best ones you will need to gain experience in the Archeology tree, by searching for treasures and participating in excavations.
Along with extending the reasons list to roam the map and explore the game world, this activity should bring a lot of joy for adventurers, explorers, and achievement collectors. We believe it will be great fun to search for hidden treasures and you will warmly welcome the new activity in the game.
Of course, we are working not only on those systems. Our lead programmers are working on the “Return to character selection” option, and just today our dev team members will start testing that feature on global servers to ensure everything will work properly. Stay tuned!
Changelog v.0.9.7.10 Beta
New Soundtrack
World-class artists from Music Imaginary: Adam Skorupa (The Witcher, Green Hell, Hatred, Ancestors: Legacy and more!), Krzysztof Wierzynkiewicz (The Witcher 2, Bulletstorm, Iron Harvest and more!) and Michał Cielecki (Shadow Warrior series and working with freakin’ Two Steps From Hell!), well known for their work in the AAA games industry, film, and TV, have composed new music for our game!
We have the pleasure to present you with a piece of art dedicated to our Community. Each nation receives a unique track recorded with usage of real instruments, and you can hear them respectively in nations capitals.
The soundtrack of Gloria Victis MMORPG is already a beautiful piece of art, and with new motives designed to fill the capital cities of our world, the pleasure of listening to it will be extended. We are amazed at how the tracks sound and we hope you will like them too!
On this occasion, we are opening a contest for video creators. Take one of the new Capital Themes, record your own ingame footage and create a video showing the power and might of your nation! We are waiting for your submissions by the end of the month. Winners and participants will be rewarded with ingame Memorials and spreading the word about their talent in the game Community and on our Socials!
Please upload your creations to YouTube, and share a link with us, posting your submission on the #media-streamers channel on our offical Discord server with a #videocontest hashtag. We are waiting for your submissions by the end of the month.
– Improved the smoothing of walking animation of proxy players and NPC opponents. – Added a new mass-production recipe for Bark, Available in Glory Shop. – Few recipes that should be available in Glory Shops for Contribution points have been removed from the Pilgrim Rock Quartermaster offers: Elite Tanned Leather recipe, Old Animal Tendon Bowstring recipe, and Impregnation for Tools recipe. – From now on, attacking buildings with siege engines from outside of the siege collider will put a building cooldown on location, like in the case where the flag is burning. – Balanced the difficulty of early game questlines by exchanging lvl 29 Bear to lvl 15 wounded bear. New players had too much trouble to defeat it. – Added Lure icon on the map and its legend. – Added dedicated music for the capital cities of each nation. – Added a confirmation window before turning on friendly fire. – Changed the maximum temperature of fishing baits from 6 to 2.
Fixes
– Fixed desynchro between animator and proxy on NPC opponents. It was an issue caused by the wrong creator and controller assigned to the NPCs – they could have animations of two-handed axes while using a spear creator. – Fixed the issue causing the “Show on a map” button in the task list and construction window to not work with the new map interface. – Fixed the position and loot drop place for boars. From now on both – boars and loot from them should be properly placed on the ground, not above the terrain. – Fixed the issue causing stairs colliders in smithy buildings blocking passage under some circumstances. – Fixed a lot of issues with the visibility system, for multiple small furniture and decorations models. – Fixed the lighting and visual of a short stone 45 wall model. – Fixed the visual issue of the ruins stairs model. – Fixed the colliders of the ruined midland keep. – Fixed an issue causing clipping of the equipment of some NPCs' enemies. – Fixed the issue causing Zander to be shown under dishes filter, not ingredient filter on market. – Fixed an issue causing NPCs to be sometimes shown in T-pose after their initiation.
Weekly Update 283 – Further interface improvements and more!
Greetings, Warriors!
This week we had to put our attention to further development of the new interface introduced before. The New Map and Party Finder interfaces are receiving many improvements, extensions, and fixes today. Part of the changes is based on your feedback and suggestions!
One of the biggest features implemented today is map regions. Map in-game received a new option with a dedicated filter. From now on, you will see all the various zones on the map: safe zone, non-loot zone, and all their derivatives. This useful and informative tool greatly helps players to mind their surroundings and plan their gameplay accordingly.
We are also happy to inform, that we managed to fix most of the reported issues with the new interface. Part of the fixes was introduced in hotfixes earlier, before today's update, to improve your game experience as soon as possible. Thank you for your attention, cooperation and patience.
As always, we are giving you some quality of life improvements and fixes, as well as three brand new cosmetic skins for two-handed axes!
Without further ado, let’s move to the changes list:
This is something our community asked about and wanted to have in the game. On the occasion of updating the game interface, we decided it is the best time to follow such a suggestion and introduce it to the game.
Additionally, we also updated the minimap and map renders to improve their visuals and added missing location names next to the minimap, in full-screen map mode, and in descriptions of parties created by the Party Finder system.
The way of informing players about his position on the map and what can be done around him has been improved with both – recent map overhaul and the Party Finder system introduced earlier. Still, there were a lot of places for improvements on those matters, so our team focused on introducing a convenient and intuitive system that will help players to plan their moves and be aware of the benefits or threats of various world areas.
From now on, the map is showing the borders of various zones.
As you can see, the Safe and Non-Loot zones will be now visible on the map!
– The War Zone is the area outside all other zones in the game. This is the place where players can kill and loot enemy players without any restrictions. It is not indicated by any special border and color.
– The Green Zone is the nation’s Safe Zone. Players who are in their safe zone cannot be killed and looted. This is the area dedicated for the new players, who are doing their quest lines to level up and learn the ropes of the combat and game features. Staying in this zone is indicated with the dove icon. The Safezone of another nation can be accessed by enemy players, but they can be killed and looted in it. Enemies staying in other nations' safe zones will be warned about that by a skull icon.
– The White Zone is the nation's Non-loot Zone. This is an area where given nation players can be killed, but cannot be looted. Proper icons shown for respective sides of the conflict are indicating staying in the zone.
Leaving and accessing the zones is being indicated on the game interface with a pop-up notification and a proper icon is being shown next to the location name. While accessing locations on the map – cities, castles, or event areas, players are also informed about that with proper notification on the side of the screen.
Press the attack!
Party Finder interface and system improvements
– From now on, in world events parties the “system” will become a leader. Until the event ends it will be not possible to take leadership and change party settings. This change is made to avoid putting responsibility and give power to players in such events because it could disturb their or other players' gameplay. Siege events, World events (Volcano, Rite, Sea Wraiths), Valley of Death tournament, and Group vs Group skirmishes will be event types that will use this system. – From now on, parties created by the Party Finder system during events will have event titles in the party description. – Added a glow effect on the public parties counter next to Minimap when the counter increases. It will help to see that a new party has been created in the area. – Replaced a few icon buttons in Social Window and added responsiveness indicated by scale and color changes on hover and click interactions. – Added tooltip info and error messages on disabled party buttons when the player is trying to use them anyway.
Glory to the fallen!
Quality of Life
– The jousting modificators have been improved. From now on, the power of the attack is better calculated and the block modificator (both weapon and shield ones) has been added to the equation. – Ballistas positions in Lord's Wrath Abbey have been improved: they were moved a little outside of the walls to prevent them from clipping with the battlements. – After receiving feedback from new players, we decided to give a little more strength to early game NPC enemies. They now hit harder (25-35 damage instead of 15) and have a little more Hitpoints. their reaction times have been also adjusted. – Additionally, based on new players' feedback we are balancing the early game weapons. First-tier weapons are now 20% weaker, second-tier 10% weaker, and third-tier 5% weaker. Those changes do not affect bows. The rebalance will make early questing a little more interesting and give a better progression feeling, at the same time creating a need of having better weapons. – Amount of experience earned in the early stages of the game has been balanced and reduced, to increase the user experience and ensure the feeling of progression and developing character. – From now on, tutorials and hints will be visible even when full-screen panels will be open. – The underdog experience buff has been set to 25%. The 50% gold bonus stays as before. This change is an answer to the most recent feedback and observations. New players, especially those who were joining the underdog nations were surprised that leveling is so quick, which had a negative impact on the progression feel. – From now, footman hitting horseman/horse who is not moving or moving slowly, will not have reduced dmg (before there was a loss of 5% from damage just because horseman stayed in idle) – Multiple adjustments of various interactives in-game, for example, clipping sabotage boxes, levitating resources, or interactives placed underwater. – Added two new memorials to the game world. – Skergard Guards Commander received a name and from now on will be known as Guards Commander Rothius. – Introduced three new cosmetic skins for two-handed axes: Griffin's Claw, Mercykiller's Long Axe, and Warbringer's Long Axe
New cosmetics are available in the Supporter Shop in the game! We hope you'll like them!
Fixes
– Fixed the issue causing the armor type modificator to be calculated incorrectly in the jousting equation. – Fixed the issue causing wrong sorting of the chat after each resize of the new interface windows. – Fixed an issue causing stone and logs gate defenses could deal damage multiple times if players were leaving and getting into the damage area again. From now on logs and stones are dealing damage to players only once, and their particles fall more synchronized with the debuff collider. – Fixed the issue causing cost per attribute point was not refreshed properly on mounts statistics window.
