We’re very close now to the release of Gelebron’s Tower and we hope you’re all as excited as we are. The Tower represents a number of key milestones for us; it’s the first major environment we’ve released with our current team, it also holds the first new mobs created with our current team and the first new content using our Destiny Engine. The Destiny engine allows us to create content to a higher visual quality than we’ve previously seen and the development process internally is generally a lot quicker and more efficient for us. The current closed Beta has been quite possibly the most stable and complete beta we’ve ever run and it’s all thanks to the Destiny engine and our dedicated team. With these advantages we’ve been able to focus on listening to and addressing your gameplay feedback and balance questions rather than simply fixing bugs alone. There may be one more small closed beta update to add some further responses to your feedback but it may instead be included in the imminent Open Beta.
We’ll be announcing a date for the Open Beta very soon so if you weren’t one of the lucky ones that got into the closed Beta then there’s still a chance you may be able to see Gelebron’s Tower before it’s released to the general public. Your feedback is very important to us so we can continue to provide you with great quality content updates. Keep an eye on your email, forums and Facebook pages for news soon and if you get in then please log in and let us know how it plays.
The release of Gelebron’s Tower will coincide with the end of the Yule event so if you’re still missing any of those fancy hats or want to boost your level via the XP quests then now is the time to double down in your efforts to get those final rewards. As usual we’ll also be running a sale on the Yule Mystery Chests if you fancy trying to get one of the Arctic Wing Mounts or Fashion items.
In the coming months one of our key aims is to provide our heroes with fresh challenges regularly and new levelling options. The gathering and crafting skills are coming along nicely and will open up many different ways to enhance your time in Dal Riata as well as providing you and other players with some great items but that’s not all we’ve got in store for you. How do regular challenges tailored to your particular level sound? Something to keep you engaged every day and provide you with some nice xp into the bargain? Yes, we thought you’d like that ;-) We’ll have some news for you on this soon and we’ll see what we can do to sneak out some images of the first gathering skill as well.
Until next time, Heroes!