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Ærena Alpha 4 - biggest patch so far!

18 February, 2014 - loquee

We have worked very hard on the next step and we are proud to announce major improvements in Ærena - Clash of Champions.

New Features:

From now on you will level up as you progress through matches. Gaining levels will unlock new content and features and give rewards.
Player profile:
- Players have a master profile page now, which can be accessed by clicking on the name in the bar at the bottom of the screen
- The page displays the player's experience score, badges, current tier, the leaguepoints score and rank in the tier leaderboard
- Players are able to check on their badge progress and can set their master image - a picture shown besides their name in the matche UI, player profile, profile bar and in the chat
Shillings have been introduced to game-play as currency, with which players get rewarded after completed battles and for getting level ups/achievements. Shillings can be spent for Shell-packages, ships and champions.
Two new ships:
- The Packer has only 12 Health but starts with 3 Aether
- The Sparrow also has a slightly reduced health (13), but will not take damage on the two outer ship-tiles
- The ships that have no distinctive specialty yet were removed temporarily: Tesla, Valiant and Mac. Those ships will eventually come back at some point of the development
The user interface has been redone:
- The turn-order icons are now static and will no longer cycle through. A magnifying effect now highlights the champion in turn
- Basic attack doesn't need an extra button any more. A red outline indicates the champion's attack range and a blue overlay indicates the movement range
- The ships received a hitpoint and AEther marker
- During match, the information about a champion's base attack, range and attack pattern is now shown below the portrait on the right
- During match, the player’s names are shown left and right from the turn timer
- Skill and shell info are now displayed on mouse over
Two new shells: Teleport and Backdoor.
When spawning a character, a character sheet now gives information to the selected champion (attacks, movement, health).
Implemented appropriate combat marker for different attacks:
- a fist symbol for melee attacks,
- a spear symbol for spear attacks and
- a crosshair symbol for range attacks

Fixes:

Martel's Ultimate skill no longer leaves a blazing trail sticking next to the targeted ship
New Year Season ends on 10/02/14. Alpha Season 3 starts on 10/02/14 and ends on 05/03/14.
The League points calculation has been changed to allow faster progress in the lower tiers. Bronze tier players won´t lose any points and lower tiers lose less for a defeat than before.
Fixed a display bug in the match preparation screen, where items where placed too far on one side after switching category
Effect of the Shell "Light'em'up" is now played on all affected targets
Clients no longer show a white screen if they were not able to retrieve the news screen
Shell generation time has been increased to 3 hours per shell since shell packages are now available
The falling animations of agents pushed off the platform have been fixed
Fixed typo in Mary's info panels
Gaining ship Æther will now be visualized with an Æther bolt being released from the point of the appropriate action to the gathering device of the ship that gathers the Æther
Top three players of each tier are now correctly shown in Season End screen
Tutorial texts have been updated.
Tutorial window for placing a character in the first combat is now shown correctly
The ship portraits are now centered upon entering the loadout or the ship shop.
All loading screens have been given a visual makeover.
Only ten matches are needed now to reach AI level VI instead of 20
Adjusted sorting of players into tiers at start of future seasons

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5 Comments

jemj134 22 Feb, 2014 @ 9:03am

Keep at it, i played a little prior to this update, and was looking to get back into it, this looks like you guys are well on your way to keep improving a game that has great potential

{Cy4G} Buckle Yo Pants 18 Feb, 2014 @ 5:07pm

:3 yay!

Ignos 18 Feb, 2014 @ 9:32am

nice update guys

PunasaurusRex 18 Feb, 2014 @ 9:01am

Good job! Loquee, Michlbert, Columba Palumbus and rest of the team

FBI Special Agent Agent Agentson 18 Feb, 2014 @ 8:50am

Seems like an amazing update!

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