A lot of "goodies" coming up...

We have decided to go for a large update, instead of doing a number of smaller ones, so here is the list of what you can expect in the next update.

-Achievements and Players' Titles

Unlock achievements by meeting certain conditions, such as 20 victories in Normal difficulty. Achievements are divided in 5 tiers and every time a tier is unlocked, a new title is unlocked for the player, which will be visible in the chat.. Eg. "Billborg the Conqueror"
Players will be able to choose their title among the titles which have been unlocked.

-Quests

There will be two archetypes i.e. Story and Repetitive Quests.

The Story is divided into 3 parts, which all 3 are consisted of a number of quests with a certain story. You unfold the story as you move from one quest to the other and of course there are rewards involved. The Story is mainly a guide for new players... However, the Story has a concept and WILL affect the course of the game as MORE things are coming up...

The Repetitive Quests are random quests which are given by the Capital. While the player is online, a Messenger will appear in random time intervals and the player will need to click on him so as to receive the quest. All the Repetitive Quests have a specific completion time and can give rewards ranging from resources, to fragments, fame and even items. There will be different types of quests (Gain X PVP Victories, Gain X PVE Victories, Gather X Fragments, etc.) and different difficulties as well.

-Battle Reconnection

If a player disconnects from a battle, for whatever reason, he will be able to reconnect by simply logging on the game. While he is away, the AI will take over, but once he reconnects he will have direct control of his army.

-CO-OP and PVP Ready

When a match is found and the battle is ready to begin, then all players will need to confirm in order for the battle to begin. Once the confirmation window is sent to all the players of the match, then they have 30 seconds to comply. When all the players confirm, then the battle immediately starts, otherwise the match is not starting and all players are sent back to the relevant queue (PVP or CO-OP).

-AI will be a "little bit" smarter. Expect the AI to be a lot smarter in coming updates. We love watching your current tactics knowing that the AI is not at its 100%.

-Smithing Technology will affect the rarity of a crafted item. The higher the Smithing tech level, the higher the probability of a "better" rarity for a crafted item. For example, if for a weapon you have used 2 uncommon fragments and 1 rare fragment, then depending on the Smithing tech level, you will receive a bonus towards crafting a rare item instead of an uncommon item

-Several bug fixes and optimizations

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There will be a major change in the game, which has to do with units and their permadeath condition, but this is something that will be announced later on. We have noticed that players tend to get too attached to their units and their levels and therefore they find it a lot more difficult entering a PVP battle when they know that they can lose high level units and that they will need to "train" them again.

We are working on a solution on the units permadeath condition and you can also expect changes in the PVP rewards as well. For example, PVP will ALWAYS reward the victors with 1 random item and then there will be a probability for either an additional random item or a random fragment.

One last thing...Artillery WILL be devastating, especially catapults...More on that later on.

We have also decided to change the World Map as well and add the official one, as it will be on day 1 of the launch.

Be prepared because you will see a dramatic change.

One more thing... With the next update, if I were you, I wouldn't feel very confident if I had to face an army with artillery units. You have been warned.