I see everyone is freaking out that we haven't said much so I decided that while I'm still here at the Underground Lab today that I would go ahead and let you know what's going on.

First off, 2 holidays right next to each other. Both holidays appear to be things people want celebrated pretty badly. Unfortunately, coming up with a new mech in a week is flat out impossible with the current schedule everyone has. We're all working very hard on the next several releases already so that their content will be ready. Unfortunately, that leaves us little time for this week so to answer questions,

I will begin with no. There is no April Fools mecha this year. We thought about reviving one of the old ones but I think of those as extreme rares and I would be hesitant to rerelease those. The Easter mecha seem less-rare to me so for mechas this week, you'll be getting a revived Easter mecha. I don't think we've figured out which one yet and if we did, I've forgotten it since I'm trying to get a dozen other things in order.

I will continue by saying that there will still be an April Fools item and maybe some foolery going on. The item seems to be in demand but we'll see when it launches. Only thing we haven't decided is if we should roll the item at midnight tonight or Thursday at normal roll time, followed by the Easter stuff on Friday. So more to come on that.

I'm hoping to make it so the old Easter quests are replayable. I need to talk with Warlic about how to set that up because it seems like the Easter releases were set up in the most chaotic way possible.

That said, there will be a new, single fight Easter quest and it will have 2 rewards. One being the revived mecha, the other being a monster mecha.

And trust us when I say we're all well aware about how disappointed you will be since you've been expecting one all week. It just won't happen, at least not this week. If I were to try and compromise, I would suggest that we schedule an April Fools day mecha on May. And call it the "April Fools Edition Mecha Now in May" mecha. Any of you have thoughts on that? I'm perfectly willing to try and make a solution but thinking of us as realistic human beings, it just won't happen this week but I'm willing to work with you all on coming up with something as exciting.

On a lighter note, we're changing some sound effects soon. Don't be alarmed. I started playing with some audio tools and I figured out how to make them with more bass and they sound nice. However, feedback is always welcome and we'll change them back if you guys don't like them.

That's all I have to say right now, I think. So we apologize for the inconvenience (since I'm sure there is one) but let us know what you think about delaying an April Fools mech to a not-April-1st date.

Holy cow.... The last few days have been severely long. It's been an odd week. First off, congratulations to Jemini. She has finally graduated college with a Bachelor's of Fine Arts degree! Good for her. I hope she enjoys her debt like the rest of us. I mention this though because she was doing a lot this week getting ready for graduation and making sure she wouldn't fail. So she wasn't available as much as she usually is which is perfectly understandable given the circumstances. Warlic and Yergen Von Shmergenbergen were given a big deadline so they were unable to help. So the result? A litle bit of a late release but a total level up on our part.

I just want to say that I feel we did great this week. Everyone was on their A-game. Maegwyn's been sticking it out with me through most of these late nights (though in the end I won by staying up til 6AM this morning working only to wake up 3 hours later and begin working again :P). Arklen vectorized and animated the weapons very quickly. They came back looking great. Blues made specials right away and Personator coded them excellently despite the fact that we were confused out of our minds. Azami endlessly assisted the testing of every little thing. It was hectic. In the end, we still needed some more help so I brought on another team player whom happens to be getting debuted in the game today. Char (Charfade) provided all of the art for the backgrounds of the walkaround quest. She also designed her own character and Jemini did a great job adding the shadows, highlights, and making small adjustments. It may not take you guys long to beat at all but in the end, this was a great release in my opinion. It's thrusting us into the next arc of the story which will remain fairly constant excluding certain holidays of course. This all leads to a big finale of this story arc which we ultimately have planned out but we still need to figure out some of the stuff that goes in the middle. Either way, I'm confident it'll be awesome and I think players will appreciate it.

Some things are still unknown in the end of this release and that's on purpose. I won't mention anything here because I think it ruins it if I spell everything out for you. Either way, I hope everyone enjoys the new turn of events. We're all really excited about it. I realize it'll be fairly short to beat but really, this is a release that's all about the story. We're really trying to push MechQuest forward.

Anywho, we have some new weapons with new specials. Let's go to Blues.

Yes I stole a joke from the forums. I found it funny. Thank you, zanathos.

ANYWHO!!!! Equip your energy blades. You'll be happier. And you want to be happy.

Thank you, Blues. A very hefty post indeed. And while on the subject of weapons, I realized I forgot to do the check in Warlic's office which I have now fixed. Going there after completing the quests will earn you the new weapons that Blues mentioned. As for the Choco BunZ promo item, you'll need to pick up an Artix Entertainment upgrade card from any local stores that may have one! If I were super responsible, I would have a list of stores. Unfortunately I don't so I'm useless there but then again, I just spent the last 72 hours of my life working almost non-stop. Worth it though.

So the Lucky Star Captain Mecha are no longer available but now you have (hopefully) unbugged and fully color customizable versions! I hope you enjoy those as well.

Finally, let us know in the forums what you think of the release! Otherwise, have a great weekend.