Well met friends! I have never been happier to write a design notes post. Say farewell to the Combat Bug, Falling through dungeon floors, and malformed maps because...



http://www.aq3d.com/news/fixedit/

Well met friends! I have never been happier to write a design notes post. Say farewell to the Combat Bug, Falling through dungeon floors, and malformed maps because...



http://www.aq3d.com/news/fixedit/

Join us in AdventureQuest 3D and go on random adventures to encounter… the Frost Castle! It is hands down our best looking random adventure are yet. New items are now available to craft at Cysero’s forge including our first ever wands. You will also notice that monsters… make noise now. Read on for details-- and see you in game.



Are you the type of mage, wizard, warlock, erm... magic user who prefers casting spells with wands? Then you are in luck! There are two wands among the new craftable items at the forge in town:

• Blue Glass Wand (Elegant and powerful)
  
• Bone Wand (for magic users who prefer… the darkness)
  
• Abyss Blade (One of Dage’s finest)
  
• Elegant Abyss Blade (Stylish?)

Now when you go on a random adventure, there is a chance you will end up in the Frost Castle. It is unquestionably the best looking random adventure/dungeon yet... and I particularly like how the bridge takes you outside, giving a glimpse of the bigger world you are adventuring in.



The Ornithon race is best known for their sharp beaks, deadly talons, and accounting skills. You will be meeting them soon when the bank in town opens up (like, next).



As you may already know, we are updating every area from Greenguard to Doomwood with all of our new features to bring them up to the quality & fun of our newer “Dragons of Ashfall” areas. Check our official site and read my regular design notes posts for sneaky peeks, and clues to some of the interesting things being added… including, the game’s main storyline plot >_>. (Wait.. the game has a story plot!)



We know you would never do it, but just getting the word out there that we have taken a strict no-bots policy. Protect your account (and warn others to protect their accounts too.)



Warlic did an overhaul of AdventureQuest 3D's sound engine. We now have monster soundFX, ambient tracks, and music tracks. Best of all, any object in the game can now have 3D positional sound placed on it. We added some sounds on monsters... run around and battle stuff to see what they sound like. Give us feedback, because now that we have the new Sound Manager, we are going to do a HUGE pass to improve all of the game's sounds.



(New players were in for an unexpected surprise)

Thank you for being a part of this growing world. Greenguard Forest, Ashfall Part III, and the Bank (Including the new creature race and bank vault run) are in development now. This week I approved the new female faces, and Oishii is working on expressions while Xero implements beards & braids. We plan to release new hairstyles, new face customization options (eye color, etc), and beards and braids along with the Barbershop.

Battle on!
Artix & the AdventureQuest 3D Team

P.S. We are also releasing a "Hot Fix" patch this week (depending on submission time) which will solve the TOP 5 Bugs of AdventureQuest 3D!

Join us in AdventureQuest 3D and go on random adventures to encounter… the Frost Castle! It is hands down our best looking random adventure are yet. New items are now available to craft at Cysero’s forge including our first ever wands. You will also notice that monsters… make noise now. Read on for details-- and see you in game.



Are you the type of mage, wizard, warlock, erm... magic user who prefers casting spells with wands? Then you are in luck! There are two wands among the new craftable items at the forge in town:

• Blue Glass Wand (Elegant and powerful)
  
• Bone Wand (for magic users who prefer… the darkness)
  
• Abyss Blade (One of Dage’s finest)
  
• Elegant Abyss Blade (Stylish?)

Now when you go on a random adventure, there is a chance you will end up in the Frost Castle. It is unquestionably the best looking random adventure/dungeon yet... and I particularly like how the bridge takes you outside, giving a glimpse of the bigger world you are adventuring in.



The Ornithon race is best known for their sharp beaks, deadly talons, and accounting skills. You will be meeting them soon when the bank in town opens up (like, next).



As you may already know, we are updating every area from Greenguard to Doomwood with all of our new features to bring them up to the quality & fun of our newer “Dragons of Ashfall” areas. Check our official site and read my regular design notes posts for sneaky peeks, and clues to some of the interesting things being added… including, the game’s main storyline plot >_>. (Wait.. the game has a story plot!)



We know you would never do it, but just getting the word out there that we have taken a strict no-bots policy. Protect your account (and warn others to protect their accounts too.)



Warlic did an overhaul of AdventureQuest 3D's sound engine. We now have monster soundFX, ambient tracks, and music tracks. Best of all, any object in the game can now have 3D positional sound placed on it. We added some sounds on monsters... run around and battle stuff to see what they sound like. Give us feedback, because now that we have the new Sound Manager, we are going to do a HUGE pass to improve all of the game's sounds.



(New players were in for an unexpected surprise)

Thank you for being a part of this growing world. Greenguard Forest, Ashfall Part III, and the Bank (Including the new creature race and bank vault run) are in development now. This week I approved the new female faces, and Oishii is working on expressions while Xero implements beards & braids. We plan to release new hairstyles, new face customization options (eye color, etc), and beards and braids along with the Barbershop.

Battle on!
Artix & the AdventureQuest 3D Team

P.S. We are also releasing a "Hot Fix" patch this week (depending on submission time) which will solve the TOP 5 Bugs of AdventureQuest 3D!

http://www.aq3d.com/news/randomadventureslive/


You can now click on the Travel Crystal in town to go on a random adventure. Earn Battle Gems, bring them to Cysero and use them craft pieces of the Beta Berserker set at the forge! This is something fun to do while you wait for the Dragons of Ashfall: Part III which is in heavy development now.







Just login, and click on the Crystal in Town.

Battle on!
Artix

For more details read the full post at:
http://www.aq3d.com/news/randomadventureslive/

http://www.aq3d.com/news/randomadventureslive/


You can now click on the Travel Crystal in town to go on a random adventure. Earn Battle Gems, bring them to Cysero and use them craft pieces of the Beta Berserker set at the forge! This is something fun to do while you wait for the Dragons of Ashfall: Part III which is in heavy development now.







Just login, and click on the Crystal in Town.

Battle on!
Artix

For more details read the full post at:
http://www.aq3d.com/news/randomadventureslive/

http://www.aq3d.com/news/betaberserker/

In this week's AdventureQuest 3D release, we will be adding Beta Berserker to the game. It will only be available for you brave (and dark) souls playing in Beta. How to get it? Easy :D Our first ever random adventures are coming in the next release. There are only 2 dungeons to start... so the word "random" is being used loosely until we add more. Each run will earn you a shiny and highly valuable Battle Gem. (Possibly more... there is a chance on mini-bosses, and you can also find Battle Shards to craft battle gems) Collect a bunch of them and craft Beta Berserker weapons and armor pieces at Cysero's Forge.



After running the dungeons a bunch last night, they felt a bit lonely. So they bumped it up to 2 players so you will always get a random friend when you go on a run. It is so much more fun. It also drastically reduces how long each run takes. Then we thought... what if your new friend is not pulling their weight? So we are adding a small chance that a Battle Shard will drop from common monsters. These can be crafted into BattleGems to give you an advantage. Bottom line... the more active you are, the faster you will get Battle Gems. We did run into a few other issues with making random adventures multiplayer, like... what if you want to play with a specific friend? We have a solution, but we need to do a major game update to implement it. So for right now, enjoy the randomness of your battle buddy. Soon, you will be able to go on random adventures with your party.




These are the crafting costs on the dev server as of 12:43pm Tuesday 6/27/2017. We added three new back items based on the weapons-- OMG they look awesome.


Beta Berserker Cape - 1 Battle Gem
Beta Berserker Boots - 3 Battle Gems
Beta Berserker Belt - 5 Battle Gems
Beta Berserker Gauntlets- 6 Battle Gems
Beta Berserker Helm - 36 Battle Gems (This is the set's most unique piece)
Beta Berserker Armor - 15 Battle Gems
Beta Berserker Shoulders - 24 Battle Gems
Beta Berserker Sheathed Sword (Back) - 9 Battle Gem
Beta Berserker Sheathed Scythe (Back) - 9 Battle Gem
Beta Berserker Sheathed Axe (Back) - 9 Battle Gem
Beta Berserker Sword - 50 Battle Gems
Beta Berserker Axe - 50 Battle Gems
Beta Berserker Scythe - 50 Battle Gems
Battle Gem - 10 Battle Shards (Bonus! Randomly drop off any monster in the adventures... yay!)



The release of our first Random Adventures will go live tomorrow... or if you do the forbidden dance of the doom elves, possibly earlier :D

http://www.aq3d.com/news/betaberserker/

In this week's AdventureQuest 3D release, we will be adding Beta Berserker to the game. It will only be available for you brave (and dark) souls playing in Beta. How to get it? Easy :D Our first ever random adventures are coming in the next release. There are only 2 dungeons to start... so the word "random" is being used loosely until we add more. Each run will earn you a shiny and highly valuable Battle Gem. (Possibly more... there is a chance on mini-bosses, and you can also find Battle Shards to craft battle gems) Collect a bunch of them and craft Beta Berserker weapons and armor pieces at Cysero's Forge.



After running the dungeons a bunch last night, they felt a bit lonely. So they bumped it up to 2 players so you will always get a random friend when you go on a run. It is so much more fun. It also drastically reduces how long each run takes. Then we thought... what if your new friend is not pulling their weight? So we are adding a small chance that a Battle Shard will drop from common monsters. These can be crafted into BattleGems to give you an advantage. Bottom line... the more active you are, the faster you will get Battle Gems. We did run into a few other issues with making random adventures multiplayer, like... what if you want to play with a specific friend? We have a solution, but we need to do a major game update to implement it. So for right now, enjoy the randomness of your battle buddy. Soon, you will be able to go on random adventures with your party.




These are the crafting costs on the dev server as of 12:43pm Tuesday 6/27/2017. We added three new back items based on the weapons-- OMG they look awesome.


Beta Berserker Cape - 1 Battle Gem
Beta Berserker Boots - 3 Battle Gems
Beta Berserker Belt - 5 Battle Gems
Beta Berserker Gauntlets- 6 Battle Gems
Beta Berserker Helm - 36 Battle Gems (This is the set's most unique piece)
Beta Berserker Armor - 15 Battle Gems
Beta Berserker Shoulders - 24 Battle Gems
Beta Berserker Sheathed Sword (Back) - 9 Battle Gem
Beta Berserker Sheathed Scythe (Back) - 9 Battle Gem
Beta Berserker Sheathed Axe (Back) - 9 Battle Gem
Beta Berserker Sword - 50 Battle Gems
Beta Berserker Axe - 50 Battle Gems
Beta Berserker Scythe - 50 Battle Gems
Battle Gem - 10 Battle Shards (Bonus! Randomly drop off any monster in the adventures... yay!)



The release of our first Random Adventures will go live tomorrow... or if you do the forbidden dance of the doom elves, possibly earlier :D

Read the full post on our official site:
http://www.aq3d.com/news/battleon-reborn/

The war is over! Wrythion and his dragon army have been defeated (and Dragonlord Talyn is most displeased). The forces of evil were driven off and not a single life was lost... but our beloved home was burned to the ground.


Not to worry! Warlic and Cysero called in a favor from the Mistress of Time... the Chronomancer known as Sora To Hoshi. She and other Chronomancers used their time magic to build a time bubble around the husk of our destroyed down. Meanwhile, Cysero and Warlic used their combined magic to rebuild town. It took 3 years. But since they did it inside the time bubble it seemed like just a few minutes to everyone else! The new, better Town of Battleon seemed to appeared instantly!

The war has ended but Roland will stick around in Battleon until at least next Tuesday in case you have any crafting that you'd like to finish up.

Once again, NONE of the Battleon Defender items are rare so if you didn't get them all don't stress out. Roland and the Battle Defenders will return when our new town falls under attack for the first time. They do not call our home "Battleon" for nothing!


At first glance, it might look like we just rearranged some buildings... but the reborn Battleon is much more than that.

• Better performance (Like, a lot better)
  
• Increased player cap
  
• More lively! NPCs everywhere.
  
• Easier access to The Forge, Bank, Barbershop, Inn, and more.
  
• Quests to help new players
  
• Expandable for player houses/castle
  
• Twilly & Zorbak are now both in town.
  
• All NPCs are using our new system which lets us update their dialog, shops, cutscenes, and more without uploading a new map.
  
• The statue on top of the magic breaths blue fire... just because.
  
• A few secrets and surprises

This will REALLY help new players. As soon as you enter, you will notice a new small quest chain that picks up the story where the intro (which we also cleaned up) left off, guiding brand new players through town and getting them out into Greenguard forest and the rest of Lore. You should complete these quests too and get some rewards including our first ever armor with stats on it!


This town is super optimized and supports more players, NPCs, and

We've moved quite a lot of items off under-explored shops and into Cysero's shop plus a few new items. They only reach level 5 for now but Battleon is the first place you go after the intro and we really focused on the new player experience when rebuilding it.


You'll notice some old friends now live in Battleon...


You should look around carefully. We've hidden lots of interesting pop-ups and fun secrets in Battleon.



We've also given a few of the NPCs some more lively dialogues instead of flat text blocks to read... and this is only the beginning!

• Quest Chain in every shop/building
  
• Barber Shop Interior
  
• Bank Interior
  
• Yulgar's Inn Rennovation
  
• Museum (Interior)
  
• Petshop Interior
  
• Zorbak's Graveyard Quests
  
• The Well...
  
• And a whole lot more.

We have a literal game-changer coming next. Combat and leveling is about to get a lot better. In order to prepare the game for all of our upcoming classes, we are doing the final, mandatory step-- introducing our new combat stats, and re-balancing every item in the game. We think you will like it-- and not just because you are about to get stronger. Armor is officially getting stats! Be sure to check back for our upcoming post on combat and stat improvements.



We hope you enjoyed the special event and release of this new town. A lot of truly amazing memories are going to begin in these walls. Battle on!

Read the full post on our official site:
http://www.aq3d.com/news/battleon-reborn/

The war is over! Wrythion and his dragon army have been defeated (and Dragonlord Talyn is most displeased). The forces of evil were driven off and not a single life was lost... but our beloved home was burned to the ground.


Not to worry! Warlic and Cysero called in a favor from the Mistress of Time... the Chronomancer known as Sora To Hoshi. She and other Chronomancers used their time magic to build a time bubble around the husk of our destroyed down. Meanwhile, Cysero and Warlic used their combined magic to rebuild town. It took 3 years. But since they did it inside the time bubble it seemed like just a few minutes to everyone else! The new, better Town of Battleon seemed to appeared instantly!

The war has ended but Roland will stick around in Battleon until at least next Tuesday in case you have any crafting that you'd like to finish up.

Once again, NONE of the Battleon Defender items are rare so if you didn't get them all don't stress out. Roland and the Battle Defenders will return when our new town falls under attack for the first time. They do not call our home "Battleon" for nothing!


At first glance, it might look like we just rearranged some buildings... but the reborn Battleon is much more than that.

• Better performance (Like, a lot better)
  
• Increased player cap
  
• More lively! NPCs everywhere.
  
• Easier access to The Forge, Bank, Barbershop, Inn, and more.
  
• Quests to help new players
  
• Expandable for player houses/castle
  
• Twilly & Zorbak are now both in town.
  
• All NPCs are using our new system which lets us update their dialog, shops, cutscenes, and more without uploading a new map.
  
• The statue on top of the magic breaths blue fire... just because.
  
• A few secrets and surprises

This will REALLY help new players. As soon as you enter, you will notice a new small quest chain that picks up the story where the intro (which we also cleaned up) left off, guiding brand new players through town and getting them out into Greenguard forest and the rest of Lore. You should complete these quests too and get some rewards including our first ever armor with stats on it!


This town is super optimized and supports more players, NPCs, and

We've moved quite a lot of items off under-explored shops and into Cysero's shop plus a few new items. They only reach level 5 for now but Battleon is the first place you go after the intro and we really focused on the new player experience when rebuilding it.


You'll notice some old friends now live in Battleon...


You should look around carefully. We've hidden lots of interesting pop-ups and fun secrets in Battleon.



We've also given a few of the NPCs some more lively dialogues instead of flat text blocks to read... and this is only the beginning!

• Quest Chain in every shop/building
  
• Barber Shop Interior
  
• Bank Interior
  
• Yulgar's Inn Rennovation
  
• Museum (Interior)
  
• Petshop Interior
  
• Zorbak's Graveyard Quests
  
• The Well...
  
• And a whole lot more.

We have a literal game-changer coming next. Combat and leveling is about to get a lot better. In order to prepare the game for all of our upcoming classes, we are doing the final, mandatory step-- introducing our new combat stats, and re-balancing every item in the game. We think you will like it-- and not just because you are about to get stronger. Armor is officially getting stats! Be sure to check back for our upcoming post on combat and stat improvements.



We hope you enjoyed the special event and release of this new town. A lot of truly amazing memories are going to begin in these walls. Battle on!