Warlic

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Shadowscythe Prepare for Attack!

And their next target is... Jemini!

When Jemini's wormhole device scrambles her destination, she finds herself facing an enemy any traveler would run from... across galaxies AND times! Korin, Maegwyn, and the MechQuest team have joined forces with Ghost and J6... and the next explosive (literally!) mission in the March of the Shadowscythe finale is almost upon us!

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Artix

Monday, April 29, 2013

GrimSkull is coming...

Upon the winds you will find a whisper of doom, "Grimskull is coming." We thought he was just something the Paladins thought up to scare the young Knights in training. The slight possibility he could be real sends a shiver down my spine. 

GrimSkull is coming

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Warlic

Monday, April 22, 2013

Planet Lagos will NOT Surrender

In the exosphere, where planet meets space…

Bursts of white-red-orange flare, their blasts lighting up the night sky. Soundless explosions rock the unforgiving battlefield above Lagos.  No screams ring out, no unsung heroes flee in fear. There is nowhere to flee TO, not when they fly miles above Lagos, fighting for their lives AND their home against the Shadowscythe.

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Maegwyn

Friday, April 19, 2013

Soluna City Spring

Star Date 19 April, 3013:

The new springtime look of Soluna City is here! Practel did the decorations (I made the blooms) and he melted all the snow. And did you find who it is that has a flower tucked perkily behind one ear? (Could there be more than one?)

Please join the MQ team in wishing Lyris a happy birthday (almost missed it... I really need to change my calendar settings to alert me in advance...) Happy Birthday, Lyris! 

Last chance for the O.ops: The 5000000 credit O.ops Clover Shot will be available in the shop button in Soluna City for the duration of the weekend. It is available for all players to purchase (as long as you have enough credits) and has received a buff - if you are a Star Captain, it now does the Star-Captain- powered specials. 

Small bugfixes: the Arthuria vs. Pirate (AvP) war quests should now give all the credits you earn.

Working on a very exciting quest that you'll unlock at the Queenadent's War Camp - most likely we'll have it ready for next Friday (the 26th). 

Have a great weekend, and Battle On!

=Mae

Artix

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

MechQuest's "End of the Galaxy"

This morning I met with members of the team for Mechfast (the most important meal of the day!) In addition to eggs, bacon, grits, coffee, pie, and ketchup... I had a copy of the MechQuest's "End of the Galaxy" script.

Korin & Maegwyn (The co-leads of MechQuest) and I have revised and improved the script a lot over the past two weeks.  We were showing it for the first time to Warlic (who was the former MechQuest Lead before he programmed OverSoul) and Alina (AQWorld's co-lead). Warlic read this final script for the first time. He put down his coffee cup, looked us square in the eyes and said, "This is wonderful. Absolutely wonderful." We all smiled and nodded in agreement. So my friends... as of this post, history is starting to unfold. We are just 5 releases away from the "End of the Galaxy."

Writing the perfect script to tie all of the seemingly unrelated stories in MechQuest into one, final, epic confrontation against Lord Valoth's Command Fleet was hard. But building these 5 releases will be a lot harder. MechQuest's small team does not have enough people to do the art and animation required for the HUGE 5th and final release. Needless to say every artist and animator that worked on MechQuest is coming back to help... and many more members of the team are volenteering to take on the extra workload. The final cutscene and battle will be the combined efforts of J6, Ghost, Arklen, Oishii, Jemini, Korin, and more. It really feels like we are doing this right. "If you are going to go out... go out big!" Play MechQuest and get ready for the big event!

Read everything we are working on at Artix.com

Maegwyn

Friday, April 12, 2013

Rainbow Raid Incentive and Promos

Star Date [s]10[/s] [s]11[/s] 12 April 3013:

Rainbow Raid Incentive! As we had some server issues over the weekend and considering that I meant to publish these DNs earlier this week...

...we have extended the timeframe for the O.ops version of the Clover Shot to get its extra power. Sorry about that inconvenience! You now have until midnight Saturday 13 April - so that gives you all day Saturday to get the war meter to 100% 

If you pick up the new ShadowScythe T-shirt from HeroMart, your FREE MQ promo item is the Front Arm weapon called Doomblade 3013. It fits nicely on the Sepulchure mecha models. You can still pick up a version of the Sepulchure mecha from the Mysterious Stranger in Soluna City East (for Nova Gems).  

Doomblade 3013 Specials:

  • Levels with you to L100
  • CD = 1
  • Main Specials
  • + 50 BtH against ShS 
  • +40% bonus damage against ShS 
  • +25% XP and credits against ShS 
  • Chooses from one of the following 4 specials:
  • Blade specials: 
    - Blade 1: guaranted crit 
    - Blade 2: damages also EP with 75% damage done and drains it 
    - Blade 3: heals HP with 50% damage done 
    - Blade 4: -100 immo resist and tries to stun 

The CyseroBacon T-Shirt is also available at HeroMart, and here are the specials for the promo Back Arm that comes with it - the Bacon Shooter.

Bacon Shooter Specials:

  • Levels with you to L100
  • starts with 125% damage 
  • starts with +75 Bth 
  • CD=3 
  • - Hit 1: enemy BtH NoT, -20 per turn for 3 turns, normal EP DoT 
  • - Hit 2: enemy damage NoT, -20% damage per turn for 3 turns, tries to stun, no immo resits nerf! 
  • - Hit 3: own damage BoT, +20% per turn for 3 turns, normal HP DoT

Story Button Revamp in progress: We are in the process of making the Story Guide easier to access and setting it up to help navigate you through all the areas of the game in a logical progression. This should make it much less confusing for those who still need to get caught up with all the quests for access to everything in the massive Shadowscythe Invasion quest chain that is developing in Queenadent Odessa's War Camp area.

To those who ARE caught up, we appreciate your patience as we continue to put together all the elements of this exciting story arc! Artix himself has written some exciting scenes - hold on to your Space Helmets, because you're in for a wild ride! The next NEW installments are under way for release in the weeks ahead.