Ashendal

Friday, August 7, 2015

House Leader Challenge

Greetings! Tonight we've got an update for the houses at G.E.A.R.S.! Each of the house leaders has a test for you. Should you succeed then new specials for some older weapons await you!

The different buttons that are up take you to different fights. The Basic will change based on your level between the base house mecha and the advanced version. The Advanced button will set you up against an Elite House Mecha. The Challenge button will let you face a...special...version of the Elite House Mecha. (Careful with that one) If you beat any of the versions you'll have access to the shop with the rewards so don't feel like you have to beat one of the harder levels. Those are only there if you WANT to try them. A lot of players keep asking me to make more "challenge mode" type content so they have something to test themselves against, so I keep trying to do that whenever I have time during the normal releases.

I had originally planned to give a few more items an update but as I went in and looked it turns out that the original house mecha really need an update in terms of specials and need things like a head and body attack. There's also the issue of getting stuck in the walls of the Labyrinth to select a house in the first place so I'll also try again to fix that. (I already did once with what I thought was causing the problem but people are still getting stuck so I'll need to spend a more dedicated amount of time to find out what's wrong with it.

That's my plan for the week of August 21st (two weeks from tonight) so look forward to those updates then! After I get both of those things sorted, if I have any extra time I'll look into updating some more of the weapons in the shops that need it. I don't know if I'll have that much time since stuck walls are something that is tricky to fix in some cases. (I still can't find the cause for why people are getting stuck in the Police quest after 12 attempts at fixing it. Still trying to find out what people are running into) The base level of the house mecha have been kinda neglected for a while and that's not right so I'm going to make sure that is fixed.

Also since I've been asked "why do I keep doing things like this release and the Wyonna release from last week? Can't we get back to the storyline!" There's a lot of storylines and things that I'd like to start building but my art skills can only go so far and Lyris doesn't have tons and tons of free time. Once Maegwyn makes her final choices on the artists and bug testers we should be able to start doing some more story type quests. I know me throwing together art isn't really something every likes so I'm trying to hold off till we get someone to help Lyris out and we can start having two or more actual artists working on it. I'll still do small storylines, like my EbilCorp one I've been working on, as well as updates like the house mecha one I'm planning, but I really want to hold off on true main storyline releases right now until we have the art to do it justice. I know that's not what a lot of people want to hear but I'd rather do something right than do it piecemeal and it looks bad because my art is bad.

Other than that, it's a very special day for our friendly Otter tomorrow so make sure to check back in for the return of her birthday items! Have a good weekend and enjoy the release!

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