Coming next week: VoD siege mode, new guild boss & new glory season!
Hello Community!
Today we want to share our plans for next week’s update – and it’s going to be huge! Not only are we preparing for the end of the Glory Season, but we’re also working on the new epic Siege mode for the VoD tournament and the most challenging PvE encounter ever introduced to Gloria Victis.
Without further ado, let’s see what’s coming next week!
[h2]End of the Glory Season[/h2]
The New Glory season will start next week, on Thursday, the 13th of April. Also, we’d like to remind you that the last day of the season – Wednesday, the 12th of April – will be a dedicated day of the season's end. It will not be possible to earn or lose the Nation Points on this day and the scoreboards of other season-based rankings (Glory and Arena) will be frozen then. However, it is the last chance to donate your NP to your guild as the Guild Points. When the new season starts, the Nation Points collected by a player will count from 0 as the new season will begin.
A little explanation for the new players: Glory is a season-based ranking that rewards you for activity in the faction v faction v faction PVP. The seasons last around 2 months (depending on the current updates schedule) and the top players are rewarded with unique titles and 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 draw your weapons and fight your way to the top!
[h2]New VoD Siege mode and map[/h2]
As you all know, last week we enabled the Valley of Death Tournaments on the New Beginning servers. This was a very important step towards the introduction of Guild Castles, as well as a key feature that brought more variety to the daily PvP offering multiple game modes and a variety of maps to play on!
Now, we want to take it a step further and bring even more new, and interesting content to the Valley of Death Tournament — a siege game mode! This new game mode will feature its own, unique map, designed to hold sieges with more than 300 players! We believe that this new map will become an interesting addition to current gameplay, as well as a playground for Nations and Guilds to test their combat and tactical skills!
This new mode will include the usage of siege engines, ladders, and destroying buildings in order to break through to the heart of the castle, capturing courtyards to then face the full might of the enemies in the last epic brawl for the final flag!
[h2]Exclusive guild boss[/h2]
We want the new season to bring new content to Guilds too, thus we are introducing a new and unique boss to the game. Find a special altar and make your offerings, and then cooperate to survive and gain precious rewards!
The new boss will be the biggest PvE challenge in the game as of yet. Its unique mechanics and specially prepared altar locations will be a real test of the guilds’ cooperation skills as well as require each member to show their full combat skills and discipline!
The new boss is a mysterious creature, and we don’t want to introduce its identity just yet. It will be up to the guilds to find their way to the altars and summon the boss and tell their tale… if they prove brave enough to survive the fight!
[h2]New Lore Collections[/h2]
With the start of the new season, explorers will receive some more content too! We will be introducing 84 new lore fragments, scattered around the world for players to find. The new lore is grouped up into 9 collections, with each collection being hidden in specific regions of Stoneholm! Get ready to roam the lands and find them all!
[h2]New Beginning Server Merges[/h2]
With the end of the season, we will also be merging some servers together. Thanks to the server-side optimizations that we have been making for the past few weeks, with the most important one coming live today, we will be able to increase the capacity of the servers, thus offering more challenging fights, epic sieges, and a world even fuller of player activity!
We will be merging the following servers together:
Wolfield 2, 3, and 4 will be merged together and take the name of Wolfield 2
Holmridge 2, 3, and 4 will be merged together and take the name of Holmridge 2
Dunshire 1, and 2 will be merged together and take the name of Dunshire 1.
As we always clearly stated, we are not planning on merging Legacy and New Beginning in the foreseeable future.
[h2]Legacy server merges[/h2]
Based on the data we gathered, we have decided to merge the Eaglewood, Aquilla, and Dukla Legacy servers together and create a new, global Legacy server.
We can see that the overall population of the Legacy servers is low, which results in a lack of action across the servers, bringing stagnation and a lack of fun. Merging the servers will increase the balance and improve the amount of action that happens on the Legacy server.
We believe that due to the ping compensation system in-game, merging the servers is a much better solution than leaving three servers with minimal activity.
We are aware of the voices of some members of our Community, that the Legacy servers should be merged with the New Beginning servers, however, as we have already mentioned, there are no plans for such a move in the foreseeable future. The servers will be merged eventually, however, based on the data we have, we believe this is not yet that moment. The economic disparity between Legacy and New Beginning servers is too big to maintain fair and competitive gameplay. New Beginning servers are still new and very active, thus they need time to mature and stabilize on their own.
Today we want to share our plans for next week’s update – and it’s going to be huge! Not only are we preparing for the end of the Glory Season, but we’re also working on the new epic Siege mode for the VoD tournament and the most challenging PvE encounter ever introduced to Gloria Victis.
Without further ado, let’s see what’s coming next week!
[h2]End of the Glory Season[/h2]
The New Glory season will start next week, on Thursday, the 13th of April. Also, we’d like to remind you that the last day of the season – Wednesday, the 12th of April – will be a dedicated day of the season's end. It will not be possible to earn or lose the Nation Points on this day and the scoreboards of other season-based rankings (Glory and Arena) will be frozen then. However, it is the last chance to donate your NP to your guild as the Guild Points. When the new season starts, the Nation Points collected by a player will count from 0 as the new season will begin.
A little explanation for the new players: Glory is a season-based ranking that rewards you for activity in the faction v faction v faction PVP. The seasons last around 2 months (depending on the current updates schedule) and the top players are rewarded with unique titles and 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 draw your weapons and fight your way to the top!
[h2]New VoD Siege mode and map[/h2]
As you all know, last week we enabled the Valley of Death Tournaments on the New Beginning servers. This was a very important step towards the introduction of Guild Castles, as well as a key feature that brought more variety to the daily PvP offering multiple game modes and a variety of maps to play on!
Now, we want to take it a step further and bring even more new, and interesting content to the Valley of Death Tournament — a siege game mode! This new game mode will feature its own, unique map, designed to hold sieges with more than 300 players! We believe that this new map will become an interesting addition to current gameplay, as well as a playground for Nations and Guilds to test their combat and tactical skills!
This new mode will include the usage of siege engines, ladders, and destroying buildings in order to break through to the heart of the castle, capturing courtyards to then face the full might of the enemies in the last epic brawl for the final flag!
[h2]Exclusive guild boss[/h2]
We want the new season to bring new content to Guilds too, thus we are introducing a new and unique boss to the game. Find a special altar and make your offerings, and then cooperate to survive and gain precious rewards!
The new boss will be the biggest PvE challenge in the game as of yet. Its unique mechanics and specially prepared altar locations will be a real test of the guilds’ cooperation skills as well as require each member to show their full combat skills and discipline!
The new boss is a mysterious creature, and we don’t want to introduce its identity just yet. It will be up to the guilds to find their way to the altars and summon the boss and tell their tale… if they prove brave enough to survive the fight!
[h2]New Lore Collections[/h2]
With the start of the new season, explorers will receive some more content too! We will be introducing 84 new lore fragments, scattered around the world for players to find. The new lore is grouped up into 9 collections, with each collection being hidden in specific regions of Stoneholm! Get ready to roam the lands and find them all!
[h2]New Beginning Server Merges[/h2]
With the end of the season, we will also be merging some servers together. Thanks to the server-side optimizations that we have been making for the past few weeks, with the most important one coming live today, we will be able to increase the capacity of the servers, thus offering more challenging fights, epic sieges, and a world even fuller of player activity!
We will be merging the following servers together:
Wolfield 2, 3, and 4 will be merged together and take the name of Wolfield 2
Holmridge 2, 3, and 4 will be merged together and take the name of Holmridge 2
Dunshire 1, and 2 will be merged together and take the name of Dunshire 1.
As we always clearly stated, we are not planning on merging Legacy and New Beginning in the foreseeable future.
[h2]Legacy server merges[/h2]
Based on the data we gathered, we have decided to merge the Eaglewood, Aquilla, and Dukla Legacy servers together and create a new, global Legacy server.
We can see that the overall population of the Legacy servers is low, which results in a lack of action across the servers, bringing stagnation and a lack of fun. Merging the servers will increase the balance and improve the amount of action that happens on the Legacy server.
We believe that due to the ping compensation system in-game, merging the servers is a much better solution than leaving three servers with minimal activity.
We are aware of the voices of some members of our Community, that the Legacy servers should be merged with the New Beginning servers, however, as we have already mentioned, there are no plans for such a move in the foreseeable future. The servers will be merged eventually, however, based on the data we have, we believe this is not yet that moment. The economic disparity between Legacy and New Beginning servers is too big to maintain fair and competitive gameplay. New Beginning servers are still new and very active, thus they need time to mature and stabilize on their own.