General

RPG LAND have awarded the trophy of Original MMORPG of the year to *drumroll* yes you guessed right if you thought “Tabula Rasa”!

Have a look at their website to read what they said about your favourite action MMORPG or the full version of this article!

CVG has published a unique look at gaming history in their article, The Many Deaths of Lord British. Head over to CVG and read about how over the years, killing Lord-British and even his newest incarnation General British, has evolved.

Speed of Combat

We’ve noticed your concerns with the speed of combat and soloability since 1.4.  These issues stem from the way attributes worked with creatures pre-patch to the way they work now.  There are several changes in 1.5 that may improve upon this issue, but we are still investigating additional changes.

For those who hadn’t realised, today marks the beginning of the new year in most countries in Asia, what is more commonly referred to as the Chinese New Year.

We announced through the Feedback Friday on the 11/01/08 that fireworks would appear in your backpacks in order for you to celebrate this event in style. Well this is happening later today and we hope you have lots of well deserved fun with this. Do however bear in mind that the Bane may take this opportunity to carry out surprise attacks so keep vigilant and don’t drop your guards!

One last thing, if your consumables tab is filled up, clear out 5 items and relog. This should do the trick!

High Command reiterates its good wishes on this new year of the Rat!

1.4 is live and kicking! We hope you’re enjoying the new content and sending us your feedback on all the changes we’ve made in this build. We will be working out any new found issues with 1.4 in the upcoming week as well as focusing on 1.5 content (which we hope to share with you sometime soon)!

Today’s maintenance window: We said we would deliver 1.4 soon, and true to our word it’s coming today! We’ve been busy fine-tuning this build and we’re sure you’ll find it hits the mark. Patch notes are available at the usual spot! Now all you have to do is wait for the servers to come back up…

New Approach for New Content

A common practice that many game developers use when releasing new content is to schedule fairly large expansions spread out every 3+ months. After these expansions are released, developers spend the next several weeks fixing any issues found or making the final tweaks with the release build, and then start working on the next expansion schedule to be released months down the line. For many game developers this may mean sitting on finished content for months before it is compiled with an expansion and released to players. For the players, it means getting a lot of new content at once, experiencing this content, and anxiously awaiting the next expansion.

1.4 to PTS!

The new 1.4 build arrived onto the Public Test Server last week with the character database from the Orion server. We hope that you will be able to read through the PTS Patch Notes and test out the new content. Remember! If you have any comments or suggestions about the 1.4 changes, please make sure to send them using our Feedback Form.

Patch Update

On Thursday we made a new build for version 1.4 (1.4.2) for the Public Test Server. Currently, it’s going through final testing before it hits the PTS. Many of the concerns we had for 1.4 have been corrected in this new version and our goal for 1.4.2 is to have it out sometime next week. When 1.4 goes to PTS, the Orion player database will be copied to the Test Server. Stay tuned to the website for updates!

In an effort to make our European website as helpful as possible to all our soldiers out there, we will be updating it every so often with various features.

This week, for those who hadn’t noticed yet, the updates include the following sections and changes:

- AFS Intel > Armour
- AFS Intel > Allies
- AFS Intel > Engineering
- Shortcuts (above the Latest News on the front page) > Server Status
- Shortcuts > Server News
- Shortcuts > Patch Notes
- Field Training > Test Server Access
- Combined General News and Community News

And don’t forget, you can always use the Feedback Form if you have any suggestion to further improve our website!