You’ve waited a bit for this update so we’re aiming to make it an informative one!
Are you enjoying the Spring event and fighting back against Queen Medb and her forces? We’ve watched a number of you battle hard against her evil touch, you’re doing Dal Riata proud! Can you smell the warm salty breeze from the sea? This tell us it shouldn’t be too long before the warmer summer months grow upon us, but we hear there’s a further evil coming to the lands…
With the studio hot on a lot of exciting new things planned for the rest of this year, we’ve been keeping a keen eye out for your feedback, and whilst we are unable to reply to every thread on the forums, the team are trying to be much more active and responsive on your forum posts. A new beta is coming soon so we’d love to hear your thoughts, both what you like, and what you don’t! Ofcourse we hope you’ll get involved in reporting bugs too!
We want you to know that “Feedback and Suggestions” section of the forum is now being watched by the Design team more than ever before . We truly want to encompass as much of your feedback as possible into future updates of our 3D MMO Celtic Heroes and so we are keeping an up-to-date list of your accumulated feedback in the studio.
With this in mind, now we move on to a question some of you have asked - What are the key updates coming to the game this year?
Some of the immediate priorities for us here in the studio include:
- Cracking down on Game Performance so many devices should get a significant boost in frame rate, currently we have been working on improving combat performance and performance within large zones to help this.
- Horizontal content and more things to do ingame - Bounty Board, Fishing and Cooking, Animal Mounts with mounted combat to be intended later
- Usability Improvements for various parts of the game including:
- Players can equip items from hotbar slots
- Improved targeting selection, you can now select monsters, players and NPCs that are standing inside of other entities
- Clan list ordered by rank
- Haste now properly effects animation speed
- Improved platinum purchase verification with the itunes store
- More variety in new content and gameplay
- Monster levels are staying at 220. We are going to focus floor 6 on raid content and include one new skill for each class, the skill books will be dropped exclusively from this floor though other players will be able to use them.
What’s coming first?
The next update should contain some bug fixes, and game performance improvements including usability as mentioned above, along with both the Bounty Boards and Summer Event, but that’s not all! Also coming in the next update will be companions and horse mounts (our first step towards our mount system)!
The Bounty Board will give you daily PvE tasks to kill monsters around your level. We’ve created hundreds of bounties so there’s a variety of different tasks for players of all levels. A player will be able to complete a number of bounties per day, the balancing for this will be sorted out in Beta testing. A new feature brought in by bounties are mob sets. These allow you to target multiple monsters or monster levels for your bounties, so you could be asked to kill any wolf in Lir’s Reach, or any Firbolg Chopper in Carrowmore Tunnels to complete your Bounty.
So what are the rewards for the bounties?
Rewards will encompass XP and gold, and some bounties will have a chance of dropping a bounty bag with unique cosmetics or premium items. What the team place into the bags will expand or rotate over time as we’ll be taking your feedback on board once you’ve had a chance to have a look at them. Lastly, tying into the seasonal events, we’ll have rare seasonal bounties which will have a unique seasonal bounty bag with unique event cosmetics.
We’d like to reiterate here that a lot of the above will be very dependent on YOUR feedback. Whilst we may not be able to act on all of it, we do want to know what you’d like so that we can take action accordingly.
Beta for the Bounty Boards and Summer Event is coming very soon so please keep an eye on the forums and your email (if you’ve previously tested).
Lastly, we hear that evil forces are travelling to Dal Riata hoping to use the heat of the summer months to drain the remaining life from the world and send everyone into drought and starvation……