Citadel: Forged With Fire News

In anticipation of our full launch coming on November 1st (less than 2 weeks away now!!), we're looking to release a big patch today to address some last minute fine-tuning and tweaks needed as well as the addition of some community requested features to the game.

Some things coming today that are especially noteworthy are the frequently requested addition of moving mouths when using VoIP, a new mini-boss, new server types and dozens of other miscellaneous requests.

As some may already know, we spent the last 2 days performing server wipes and server maintenance to get ready for our 1.0 launch. For all those who are asking, this means that there will be no server wipes happening on November 1st.

Apart from that, we're also very happy to announce that starting tomorrow Citadel: Forged with Fire will be taking part in a Steam Free Weekend Event!

As usual, please take a moment to read the notes below as you wait for our servers to update and see what's been added to the game with this update:

New Items

• Player mouths now move when VoIP is used
  
• Added mastery pools for better high-level regeneration
  
• Added new armor crafting options
  
• Added new weapon crafting options
  
• Added new phoenix mini-boss

Gameplay

• More appropriate orc loot rewards
  
• Increased harvest rate for marble, decreasing average marble node quantity
  
• Increased marble drop quantities in rift treasure
  
• Added new top-tier food buff: sublime indulgence
  
• Adjustments made to eagle and phoenix swoop attack
  
• Adjustments made to quest requirements to make them less tedious overall
  
• Adjustments made to leech modifiers
  
• Added more appropriate leveling curves for tamed creatures: weaker creatures level faster, stronger creatures level slower
  
• Added more appropriate HP and damage scaling for tamed creatures
  
• Made several tweaks to Orcus to improve combat
  
• Dropped leather requirement for saddle by 50%
  
• Increased XP rewards from boss creatures
  
• General fixes made for griefable terrain and rocks
  
• Roughly doubled rune rewards in medium and large crystals
  
• Adjustments made to roots of wrath spell to prevent multiple phantom hits
  
• Adjusted golem loot drops
  
• Increased sickly heart drops in tundra abominations
  
• General improvements made to boss creatures
  
• Made faery dust a guaranteed drop on Phoenix Spirit sprites
  
• Better alignment of creature ranged attacks and perception radii
  
• Firepits now decay in 2 hours if abandoned
  
• Fixed PvP spell debuffs

Aesthetics

• Regenerated some foliage for better performance and resource distribution
  
• Updated regional title card level ranges for creatures
  
• Adjusted color of tundra rocks
  
• Fixed attenuation of pounce spell
  
• Better bloodlust VFX positioning for 1P combat
  
• Fixed golem death animation

Technical

• Added logs for raiding to the server so that owners can tell who's been attacking who
  
• Added whitelisting support for streamers - use the "admin_whitelistadd" and "admin_whitelistremove" commands to add steam ids
  
• Added Steam join in progress for dedicated server games
  
• Increased server player counts from 40 to 50
  
• Fixed repair bench causing item cards to disappear and reappear
  
• Added RCON command "whoisonline"
  
• Added the ability to change a passworded server's password at runtime via the "setpassword" command. Available with RCON as well
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when taking over 100 items from a lootbag at once
  
• Improved lootbag performance opening bags with many items
  
• Improved particle and lighting performance
  
• Lights are better managed via occlusion so situations with torches not illuminating are reduced
  
• Doubled the radius of all player created lights
  
• Optimized performance on magic structures
  
• Doubled structure render speeds
  
• Optimized NPC inventory for better server performance
  
• Optimized idle NPCs for better server performance
  
• Optimized reformation stone logic for better server performance
  
• Dragon fire breath properly consumes mana
  
• Improved server physics performance
  
• Fixed crash on listen servers
  
• Fixed occasional single player crash in dungeons
  
• Added the ability to reset bindings
  
• Fixed occasional bugs that could happen with player level when logging back into the game
  
• Fixed an issue with the VOIP slider not persisting after relog
  
• Fixed a server crash that occurs when dismounting
  
• Fixed an issue on listen servers where the first quest progress is not properly tracked
  
• Fixed taming interaction when using other languages
  
• Merged notifications of resource pickups when running multipliers
  
• Fixed overlapping exp text when running multipliers
  
• Improved single player world configuration settings for gamepad
  
• Fixed an issue where the player would be invisible after respawning many times
  
• Added the ability for administrators to toggle the weather via the command "togglerain"
  
• Fixed issues where on listen servers, creatures had very far sight range
  
• Fixed an issue where context menus in the inventory could sometimes spill out of the window
  
• Fixed an issue where the VFX on players would not go away after the relevant buff expired
  
• Added new server types, their configurations are as follows:
  - PVP - veryfast-reset: 5x exp 5x gather, server reset every 90 days
  - PVP - fast-reset: 3x exp 3x gather, server reset every 90 days
  - PVP - fast: 3x exp 3x gather
  - PVP - very fast: 5x exp 5x gather
  - PVE - fast: 3x exp 3x gather
  - PVE - veryfast: 5x exp 5x gather
  - PVE - freebuild: unlimited resources, free flying, no weight restrictions
  - PVE - freebuild-reset: unlimited resources, free flying, no weight restrictions, reset every 90 days

Just a friendly reminder that our servers will be down starting today until Wednesday, October 23rd for server wipes in preparation for our full launch coming Friday, November 1st!

For players interested in continuing to play on our legacy servers, we've made the server data available for download here:

http://blueislestudios.com/citadelgame/ServerBackups/

Players can download this data, put it in the save folder of their game and continue playing a single player game. Alternatively, players can also host a game using that data while renting a private server and load that data into the save folder.

We hope you enjoy and please feel free to let us know if you encounter any issues with the download!

We have some exciting news to announce - a huge new quests update is coming early next year as a free DLC!

Since Citadel first entered Early Access, players have been intrigued and mystified by the lore of Ignus; scavenging for clues left throughout the world for them to discover. Now, players can can delve deep into the history of Ignus' ancient factions and magics; participating in activities across the land with new characters and challenges.

"Ignus' tumultuous past is coming to life, awaiting a hero courageous and bold enough to deliver the land from the impending descent of evil. Learn the dark, mysterious history of the land and delve into its many ancient secrets. Meet unique personalities and assist them in their struggle for knowledge and supremacy. Wield the mighty force of the Godking's power, or plunge into the chilling depths of chaos and anarchy to make Ignus yours. A story needs to be told, will you be the one to tell it?"

Citadel is the ultimate fantasy sandbox and aims to provide players with the tools to tell their own stories. With the addition of these new narrative driven quests and more post-launch content to come, we hope to enrich the Citadel experience more than ever before. We thank you for your continued support and look forward to hearing all the stories you have to tell.

Server Maintenance
As we leave Early Access, we would like to remind players that servers will be going down and getting wiped as of Monday, October 21st at 7am EST. Servers will be back up Wednesday, October 23rd (time TBD) in preparation for our full launch on Friday, November 1st. We'll have more to share on our launch day patch and new ways to play soon!

Mouth Movements Coming for VoIP
Since our Early Launch launch two years ago, our RP community has frequently requested for this feature to be implemented and we’re happy to say that moving mouths for VoIP are finally coming! All those interested can expect to see this feature added by our 1.0 launch on November 1st.

As we approach our 1.0 Launch coming in exactly 2 weeks, we’d like to thank our community for all the feedback, patience and support you’ve given us for the last 2 years on this Early Access ride. We’ve learned a lot and couldn’t have done it without you! We’re looking forward to seeing this journey continue as we add more content and support the game moving forward.

We were hoping to launch a new update today for the community but due to a server error, we've been forced to restore backup save data from yesterday.

If you're running a private server, that there is a backup folder you can use to restore any lost save data (\Citadel\Saved\SaveGames\Bak\).

Stay tuned for the next few days as we plan to relaunch the update once we fix the server error we've encountered.

Thanks for your patience everybody!

We have another patch for you ready to roll out. This update is focused on making final adjustments, tweaks, bug fixes and balance changes prior to our Early Access departure coming soon. Tomorrow we'll be sharing more news about the upcoming launch, servers and more so stay tuned for further information!

In the meantime, please check out the notes below to see what this update has to offer:

• New crafted armor and boss gear weights. In the past, the philosophy was generally sum-of-reagent weighting. The new system provides more appropriate armor-per-weight ratios
  
• Slight nerf to deathweaver shadowblast damage
  
• Slight nerf to undead ranged spear attack
  
• Made unicorn blood epic tier
  
• Increased unicorn blood drops on unicorns
  
• Implemented magical shields in the doors in boss caves to reduce griefing
  
• Adjusted general cave NPCs in effort to reduce mass pulling
  
• Tweaks made to Orcus to improve combat
  
• Tweaks made to Evren to improve combat
  
• Increased dark plasma drops on undead
  
• Various projectile adjustments done for defensive structures
  
• Adjusted some NPC ranged attacks, allowing them to pick better locations to attack from
  
• Slight adjustment made to some NPC flight speeds
  
• Elixir of Destruction: adjusted requirements by eliminating shard and introducing unstable gems
  
• Elixir of Bleeding Hearts: reduced dark plasma requirement from 3 to 2
  
• Spell: Atonement: tripled the amount of spell energy available
  
• Swapped rowan berry seeds for rowan berries in sprite loot
  
• Introduced low-level boars outside starting towns to aid FTUE quests, provide more meat and XP at low levels
  
• Decreased deathweaver spawns in plains at night
  
• Increased Phoenix special loot drop rates
  
• Moderate increase to critical chance and damage for dark spells to make them more useful

• New taming calculation system: taming now better considers the creature's strength and health relative to the player's, and responds far more favorably to creatures with very low health
  
• Abomination ranged attack: acid spit
  
• Fire skeleton melee attack: fire swipe
  
• Armour skeleton melee attack: frost swipe

• Slightly decreased main travel tower map icon size
  
• Slightly increased questgiver icon size, should be easier to find questgivers in towers
  
• Adjusted Phoenix sounds
  
• Adjusted large mana generator preview radius to better approximate range
  
• Improved collision for railings
  
• Miscellaneous terrain and rock/iceberg adjustments
  
• Improved the audible range of some NPC attack sounds
  
• Better collision now for ice meshes
  
• Adjusted elk death sound
  
• Adjusted bird NPC to improve movement and combat

• 3D Text now supports all language symbols
  
• Added font scaling for long quest objective names
  
• Added font scaling for long item names
  
• Telegraphed controls in the building interface
  
• Restored Private/Public server sorting
  
• Fixed a bug where the context menu of equipment slots could spill off screen
  
• Fixed a bug where the item popup card could have text spilling upwards
  
• Fixed a bug where Essences were drawn vertically in the spell crafting screen
  
• Fixed an issue on listen server/single player that caused AI to aggro from far away
  
• Fixed a bug where players joining a house would not have an indicator
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the "mute all" button to not be selected by mouse
  
• Fixed a bug where binding the right face button would cause it to unbind from backing out of menus
  
• Fixed a bug where in some cases, a player could not remove a quest from the tracker
  
• The map resets its scale when respawning since there's no player to zoom-in on