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Our last update, Devoured by Darkness, sent us deeper in to the Rusty Hearts saga and showed us multitude of new story lines and adventures. We’re elated to build off that story with our latest update “Requiem.” This update will focus on a few different game elements, but none more important than Frantz's quest to find Amelia. Requiem will is slated for a Valentine’s Day release on February 14th 2012.

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<b>Highlights from Requiem</b>

-Natasha makes her first appearance in Rusty Hearts lore and becomes an integral part of the team

-Fluffy wreaks havoc in his monstrous return after a brief glimpse in the prologue/tutorial

-Frantz search for his lost love Amelia heats up

-Gerald continues his twisted and demented ways as he creates an alliance with Cipher to acquire more power

-The Golden Seal team investigates the Opera House in an effort to locate the enigmatic power source brining all the marionettes to life.

-The team’s investigation brings them to uncharted depths of the theater where they encounter one of the biggest enemies ever seen.

<b>New Features</b>
New Cash Shop Character- Wrap your hands around the sexy, yet deadly, Roselle Vergerius

New Level Cap- Continue the fight as you reach new heights and level higher than ever before

New Items- Scores of new items to use for crafting, forging and progression

New Hub World- Explorer the lush forest-like Training Camp and gain access to dungeons, skill masters and townspeople

Raid Dungeon- All new dungeon mode where you and 7 friends (8 players total) can create an “Expedition” and attempt to rise to the top on an all new dungeon. Thwart onslaught of enemies while you navigate the multi-tiered dungeon.

New Enemies- New dungeons bring some of the most unique enemies since the early release of Rusty Hearts. Each new dungeon contains a never-before-seen set of monsters as well as massive dungeon specific bosses

Devastating New Skills- Over 200 new and upgraded skills to master from levels 39-45

New Weapons- Dozens of savage new weapons including new drops from the Alter Raid dungeon

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Are you tired of waiting for more energy? Do you want to earn more XP faster? Is Research and Production taking forever? Then raise your heads, because in the upcoming patch there will be another new shop, right next to the <a title="Collection Trader" href="http://www.isotx.com/?p=3172" target="_blank">Collection Trader</a>; <span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Yarson’s Perk Store</strong></span>.

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In Yarson’s Shop you can treat yourself to week long boosts for your energy regeneration, experience gain, and research or unit production speed in exchange for Gems.

<span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Buy Perks:</strong></span>
<ul>
<li>XP Boost: Boosts Earning XP by 50%</li>
<li>Extra Motivation: Boosts Training Room and Engineering Productivity by 50%</li>
<li>Science Team: Boosts Research Productivity by 100%</li>
<li>Energy Boost: Boosts Energy by 100%</li>
</ul>
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Navigate to Yarson’s Shop through Anchorpoint or directly via the little plus next to your XP field.

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Yarson also has special offers, where you might get cheap bargains, or valuable extra potent boosts! The Special Offer perk will run its duration before you receive another special offer. It can run simultaneously with other existing perks, stacking up to super high percentages!

Patch 9 - hotfix is now available on Steam. Your Steam client will update automatically.

<a href="http://digitalmindsoft.eu/forums/showthread.php?7700-Patches&p=201117&viewfull=1#post201117">Check the Change-log here.</a>

Enjoy!

Patch 9 - hotfix is now available on Steam. Your Steam client will update automatically.

Check the Change-log here.

Enjoy!

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<b><a href="http://arcengames.blogspot.com/2012/01/ai-war-beta-5023-plasma-siege-starships.html">Please see the original post here</a></b>
<b><a href="http://arcengames.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=AI_War_-_Current_Post-5.000_Beta#Prerelease_5.023_Plasma_Siege_Starships">Changelog may be found here</a></b>

This one has a bunch of tweaks and fixes that should be really welcome (almost all of them were player requests, after all). There's actually quite a bit that is significant in here, such as many golems getting tweaks and turrets getting energy costs rebalanced almost across the board.

But of course none of these compare to... the antimatter starship. I mean siege. I mean dreadnought. I mean, now it's actually called "plasma siege." Wow that's a lot of identity shifting to go through in its life. This is a ship that has been in the game since very shortly after 1.0, so basically since June 2009, and we've just never been able to get a design for this one that folks have been happy with long-term.

This new design I didn't see until reading about them in the release notes that Keith typed up, but I think this stands a good chance of being the final design at last. The plasma siege starships have a unique role, a useful role, but not one that is prone to either abuse or long periods of listlessness.

<i>If you are looking for an AI War, give the latest <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/games/aiwar/announcements/detail/1371576318549571187">AI War Sortie Bulletin</a> a look! Post your info in the comment section and add each other over Steam to organize a game. This is reposted every few months to refresh the list of available and eager players looking for a game, so check the Steam announcements once in a while.</i>

<i>This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater itself, if you already have 5.000 or later. When you launch the game, you'll see the notice of the update having been found if you're connected to the Internet at the time. If you don't have 5.000 or later, you can download that <a href="http://www.arcengames.com/aiwar_buy.php">here.</a></i>

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Please see the original post here
Changelog may be found here

This one has a bunch of tweaks and fixes that should be really welcome (almost all of them were player requests, after all). There's actually quite a bit that is significant in here, such as many golems getting tweaks and turrets getting energy costs rebalanced almost across the board.

But of course none of these compare to... the antimatter starship. I mean siege. I mean dreadnought. I mean, now it's actually called "plasma siege." Wow that's a lot of identity shifting to go through in its life. This is a ship that has been in the game since very shortly after 1.0, so basically since June 2009, and we've just never been able to get a design for this one that folks have been happy with long-term.

This new design I didn't see until reading about them in the release notes that Keith typed up, but I think this stands a good chance of being the final design at last. The plasma siege starships have a unique role, a useful role, but not one that is prone to either abuse or long periods of listlessness.

If you are looking for an AI War, give the latest AI War Sortie Bulletin a look! Post your info in the comment section and add each other over Steam to organize a game. This is reposted every few months to refresh the list of available and eager players looking for a game, so check the Steam announcements once in a while.

This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater itself, if you already have 5.000 or later. When you launch the game, you'll see the notice of the update having been found if you're connected to the Internet at the time. If you don't have 5.000 or later, you can download that here.

The next Nuclear Dawn update is scheduled for this week (hopefully tuesday) and apart from the beta version of our new map Oilfield we have also listened to all your requests, checkout the final changelog: <a href="http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/4002-final-changelog-for-nd-52/" target="_blank">http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/4002-final-changelog-for-nd-52/</a>.

The next Nuclear Dawn update is scheduled for this week (hopefully tuesday) and apart from the beta version of our new map Oilfield we have also listened to all your requests, checkout the final changelog: http://forums.interwavestudios.com/topic/4002-final-changelog-for-nd-52/.

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<b><a href="http://arcengames.blogspot.com/2012/01/ai-war-beta-5022-minor-tweaks-and-fixes.html">Please see the original post here</a></b>
<b><a href="http://arcengames.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=AI_War_-_Current_Post-5.000_Beta#Prerelease_5.022_Minor_Tweaks_And_Fixes">Changelog may be found here</a></b>

This one is really just a maintenance release. There are a couple of balance tweaks that players requested, and we fixed a bug from the prior version that had busted tutorials.

<i>If you are looking for an AI War, give the latest <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/games/aiwar/announcements/detail/1371576318549571187">AI War Sortie Bulletin</a> a look! Post your info in the comment section and add each other over Steam to organize a game. This is reposted every few months to refresh the list of available and eager players looking for a game, so check the Steam announcements once in a while.</i>

<i>This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater itself, if you already have 5.000 or later. When you launch the game, you'll see the notice of the update having been found if you're connected to the Internet at the time. If you don't have 5.000 or later, you can download that <a href="http://www.arcengames.com/aiwar_buy.php">here.</a></i>

Looking for a game? Current AI War Sortie post
AI War Facebook page
Arcen Games' Facebook page
Tidalis Facebook page
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Our community forums
Report bugs and suggestions: MantisBT
AI War web IRC / irc.rtsnet.org/aiwar
Please see the original post here
Changelog may be found here

This one is really just a maintenance release. There are a couple of balance tweaks that players requested, and we fixed a bug from the prior version that had busted tutorials.

If you are looking for an AI War, give the latest AI War Sortie Bulletin a look! Post your info in the comment section and add each other over Steam to organize a game. This is reposted every few months to refresh the list of available and eager players looking for a game, so check the Steam announcements once in a while.

This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater itself, if you already have 5.000 or later. When you launch the game, you'll see the notice of the update having been found if you're connected to the Internet at the time. If you don't have 5.000 or later, you can download that here.