Life is Feudal: MMO News

Hello, Feudalists!

We’ve been gathering, processing and discussing your requests, and we are finally ready to share what we’ve agreed on for the upcoming patch based on your suggestions and feedback:

• “Coward!” now has a 100% chance to knock out a player. However, it works on both the player who used the warcry and the player it was used against;
  
• Skill cap has been removed;
  
• We’ve found a reason behind map’s issues: apparently there was a bitcoin miner. It will be fixed in the nearest future;

We’ve found those responsible and issued the necessary measures

• Horses’ speed has been multiplied by two. Armored warhorses can no longer turn right or left in order to lower the difficulty of lancers’ gameplay;
  
• Heavy crossbow now deals five times more damage and can hit through walls;
  
• Lesser Instanced Battle will be returned. Sides will be limited to two players per battle;
  
• Naphtha Pots explosions are going to have a shock wave, dealing terrible damage;

One of the patch’s victims, many more are to come

• Judgement Hours will cover 24 hours for 1st Rank in the Guild Rating;
  
• 100% of all the guilds will be in the 1st Rank of the Guild Rating;
  
• Wooden walls were reworked: they can be destroyed with Berserker’s warcry;
  
• You will be able to launch your guild members with a trebuchet.

We’re hoping to deliver these fixes as soon as possible in order to improve your gameplay. Stay tuned for the exact date!

— The Team

Hello, Feudalists!

Unfortunately, today we have to start on a sad note again.

Stay strong
One of the Spanish players, MandaTTo#7042, in his difficult moments, shared a beautiful, touching poem with us, being a farewell to his son that has passed away.

Vivan, no tienten al fuego...
Vivan, no mueran en el juego...
Ciegos podran seguir viviendo,
Ustedes tendran su propio cielo...

Alzen sus copas a su debido tiempo
No mezclen tragos al viento
En esos dias de dolor...
Podran seguir naciendo.

No caduquen el conocimiento,
Pregunten, a sus mentores,
Demostraran vivas luchas
Y podran seguir viviendo...


Sangren en el mismo pasto
La nueva tierra es suya
Resurgan ideas nuevas
Coronen a sus ancestros.



Batallas, se ganan con honor
En tantos gritos de dolor
Quien gobernara sus almas
o seran vasallos de por vida?

Luchen hijos mios,
Son la resistencia
La rebelion causaran
Sus almas no moriran...
No moriran jamas.

May the energy and support of your friends and family keep you strong.

Game development
Our main priority remains on delivering a better experience in our game to you. We’re looking into issues and difficulties related to the Judgement Hour/Holy Judgement system. Our latest world rules update is only a part of a bigger picture. We would love to see your feedback about the current situation to make sure we won’t miss something that is causing problems. Feel free to reach out to us on the official Discord server or on our forum.
For now, we cannot share any details about future game mechanics tweaks and improvements, but, as always, the feedback is crucial here as well. After all, we’ve made many changes based on your suggestions. Please, do not hesitate to share with us your thoughts and ideas on what we should improve and how.

Fighting cheaters
Now, we need to go back to our least favorite topic once again — cheating. We are very disappointed and a bit sad that the concept of fair play still eludes some of the players, who despite our strong messages still try to resort to cheating in our game with the use of illegal software. Up until now the punishment for using it was a 3-month account suspension. It seems the prospect of a temporary ban is not enough to prevent some players from trying, which is why from this point onward, account suspension for this violation will be permanent.
Note: This concerns only the modifications that have any form of gameplay influence in any way providing an advantage over other players. You are still allowed to use minor modifications for subtle in-game art changes.

Event incoming
We want to briefly mention that Edward Teach#1475 is planning to host another tournament at the Coliseum! The details about the time, competitions and rewards will be provided a bit later. Stay tuned!

Have a great weekend, and stay healthy everyone!

— The Team

Hello, Feudalists!
It’s hard to believe, but it’s already been a year since we’ve opened the Godenland realm, bringing all the players together on this amazing, enormous continent, where anything is possible and where life IS feudal! We are so happy to celebrate this special time with you, especially since you are the ones who shape this world, and in so many ways. You change it through terraforming, by building your amazing settlements and roads that connect them, through your alliances and through wars as you scorch the lands of your enemies. You, collectively, are changing this world constantly and make it into what you want it to be, so it’s really all about you and how all of you, together, shape Godenland by your actions..

We want to use this special occasion to properly thank all of you who continuously support and believe in us by providing you with some token of appreciation. All active players who logged in between February 1st and February 22nd, 12pm UTC will receive a reward that consists of 5,000 God’s Favor for your premium shop purchases along with 5,000 God’s Coins to spend in-game. Please note that the rewards will be granted per account, which means that if you have more than one character, it doesn’t matter which one were you active on. The rewards will be sent during the weekend. Happy birthday to Godenland and thank you, everyone!

Now for the community spot!
Speaking of how you’re shaping the world, we want to share a fine example of that in the form of another amazing time-lapse video that we’ve received recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL_6EJN9kAA
It’s always great to see you work together on building something lasting and memorable. We are always happy when you share your creations with us, so please make sure to send us more of your fan art, whether it’s a screenshot, video, a drawing or a cosplay.

Hot topic
The last thing we want to talk to you about is the issue of the bases placed on top of very high, unnaturally terraformed areas that are normally impossible to create, as our mechanics allow a maximum of 4.0 height difference between tiles. Some players have learned how to abuse a loophole that allows them to bypass this limitation, resulting in bases that are nearly or completely unreachable with the use of normal game mechanics. Both, their existence and the methods players use to attack them due to lack of options have been topics of debate among players and the LiF Team. While we are looking for a solution to this issue, we’ve made a decision that outposts built on top of such glitched terraforming will be considered an outlaw bases, which means that attackers sieging such outposts will be allowed to use any method necessary to actually attack them. Should such outpost be rebuilt with normal terraforming mechanics, it will no longer be considered an outlaw base and attackers will once again be bound to follow normal game ruleset. This information will also be noted in the world rules.

We wish everyone a great weekend!

— The Team

Hello, Feudalists!
This week we bear news of upcoming fixes that we’re currently working on.
One of the issues that we are working on fixing is the notorious problem with the collapsed mines and objects on newbie islands which make it very difficult to complete a tutorial quest in that area. While on the topic of the starting area, it’s worth the mention that we are planning on wiping the newbie islands soon. Exact date will be announced on our Discord channel next week.
As for the Godenland, we are in the process of making some improvements for the ownership transfer of an outpost that was captured during Holy Judgement..
There's also an ongoing investigation of the instability issues on server 72. We're doing what we can to see that problem resolved as soon as possible.

Now for the community spot!
There's an upcoming, player hosted tournament - UFC Life is Feudal. You can find more details and rules of this event in this doc, and if you are interested in registering for the tournament, you can do it here.
Do not forget about upcoming Heritage Hunt event that we mentioned in our previous dev blog that will take place this Sunday.

Have a great and fun weekend everyone!

— The Team

Hello, Feudalists!
Last week we have welcomed you all in the new year with re-enabled Judgment Hour. This short time of peace during the holidays has ended and war is raging in Abella once again.
Small update released yesterday has ended the Christmas event and returned the looks of the trader carts to normal. In addition, we’ve provided some optimizations for launcher work. We’re hoping that P2P-connection will work more stable for you after this.
The dev team continues to gather and analyze all the feedback received in order to improve and further balance the game mechanics. More tweaks, bugfixes and gameplay balancing patches will follow in due time.
And more on the news about cheaters. Yes, we are aware that some people are still trying to play dirty. In response to that we regularly issue wave of bans on all these accounts to make sure that everyone can enjoy a fair game. This process will continue indefinitely and all cheaters will be punished.


Now to the fun part. The Crown has heard the rumors of ancient jewelry, that might be linked with those who lived in this land before the people came here. They’re willing to go even as far as to dig through the settlements of the savage Knools to get these artifacts — since this is where they were reported to be taken to. Will you answer the call of the Crown and become its champion?
The Heritage Hunt event is scheduled for next week, Sunday 26th.The same rules apply as with the recent Gloom's Festival event. Players who succeed in this event, will receive the following rewards: x5 Death Insurances (20), x5 Inspiration Boosters and 5,000 God’s Coins plus additional 1,000 God’s Coins for the successful group with Bard-Streamer in their ranks. In order to be deemed worthy of the prize, you shall bring the old rusty rings from Knool’ Camps to Arrakis. Who knows, you may also find some additional loot hidden in the containers. But beware, as other treasure hunters might not be willing to share and you might have to fight not only the barbarians, but also other expedition groups. Information about the approximate locations of the Knool Camps will be announced at Sunday 2020-01-26, at 19:00 UTC, which will mark the beginning of the expedition. Stay tuned for the news on our discord’s mmo_event_feed channel, where the detailed information and map will be published.

Have a great weekend everyone!

— The Team