I know you guys are craving more chunkage. Oh that just sounds so lovely, doesn't it?

Well, no matter. Here's your sneak peak of what's to come!

Chunk 4

Posses
Guilds are too medieval for us. We call them posses! Visit the Posse Magnet to get your very own posee rollin'. Assign ranks and permissions and enjoy your very own posse chat channel.

New Dungeon: MutantMania
8 levels of rumblin' and tumblin. Start out wrestling backyard style and move your way up to the big time. There's a really awesome boss fight in there that you guys will love....

Wishing Well
Timmy didn't fall down this well, but your king's coins will. The wishing well randomly distributes new, cool looking items you can't get anywhere else. In addition new items it can also puke out a wide variety of items that already exist in game. You can try your luck to see what you get or you can just stand around and watch the magic happen for others. Yes, you can see what others get out of it.

Note: There is a 1 hour timer on the wishing well. To prevent stealing (no one would EVER do that) you can only pick up your own items.

Relic Improvements
We're spicing up the relic system a bit. Instead of getting your basic relic rifle dude you can get a caster, or a melee class...

Relics will now appear in all Dungeons, including the new MutantMania Dungeon.

Calling all rangers!
We know how hard it is being the brunt of all those great ranger jokes, and to help you out we are now providing you with Cannons, so you can take out your enemies with even more BOOM! New Weapon type added, Cannons! 5 Regular, 3 Unique and 2 Mythic!!!

More Mythics
Are you tired of seeing the same hundred or so mythics that you will never have be advertised for sale in the market channel? Well now there are 22 more mythics that you can lust over. 22 New Mythic items (not cannons) Created! Ok so really it comes out to like 24 new mythics if you include the 2 new cannon mythics, but that is just silly, that was part of the post above.

Elemental Chests
Are you looking for that special pizza slicer that freezes your pizza when cutting? Well your in luck, hundreds of new Elemental Weapons have been created and can be found in special Elemental Chests that will show up in the world.

New Fighter Armor
Fighters Rejoice! A new scale armor set has been dug up from the depths of the dungeons. While digging through vast piles of un-used ancient loot, we came across a set of armor that appears to have been created from old slatted venetian blinds. This new armor is quite good at giving you the intrepid fighter the ability to let light in or block it out.

Remember the Townston Environmental Protection Group and Authority on Sun Light says that staying out doors will increase your chance of a sun burn. You are encouraged to please stay inside interior dungeons as much as possible to keep from getting sun burns, use SPF 10,000 sunscreen while you’re outside of the new slatted armor!

Character Event Blogs
Now your friends will be able to watch you play even when they’re not logged in! Major events in your character’s life – gaining a level, dying, skunking that twink in PVP – will show up directly on the web, and RSS feeds will be provided as well. Want to see what all of your friends are doing in the game even when you can’t play? You can choose to aggregate everyone in your in-game friends list into a single easy-to-track “Friends Blog” and RSS feed. Want to keep track of what’s going on in your posse? All posses will have an aggregate blog that includes all members, plus an RSS feed so that you can easily display the events on your posse’s website!


Other changes:

New Champion and Hero FX for all creatures

Our quest exclamations and question marks got a makeover

Improved Map interface

Improved Options interface

Various NPCs have had their looks changed

Improved Quest Log

New Autumn Forest look

More to come....

Edited by Crickette (07/14/08 04:22 PM)

So when is this Chunk gonna make it's way up? (Yuck!)

Quite frankly, we just don't know just yet. We're working on getting this baby tested internally, but as soon as it is ready for PTS we'll let you guys know.

Status update:

The build has not yet reached our QA team - but hopefully that will happen very soon. The dev team is addressing some issues with the new posse (guild) system, and THEN we will get it in QA's hands. We are not sure how much time QA will need before this build reaches PTS, so I'll keep you guys updated as we move along.