Alpha Testing Begins in December

Posted by Boomland Jenkinson October 26, 2024in Shard News

The team has been making great progress working through internal playtests, bug fixes, and creating in-game tools for our Alpha testers. Players will begin receiving invites to Discord at the end of October. Alpha tests are scheduled to begin in December of 2024.

Fall Patch Notes Summary

Character Creation

Players will be able to select from a few pre-made templates upon character creation. Tamer, Bard, Hybrid Warrior, Dexer Warrior, Poison Mage, Scribe Mage, Crafter
New player characters will start with 1000 gold.
New Item: Outfit Deed. New players will receive an outfit deed. This deed lets you select a blessed outfit.
New Item: The Great Flood: New players will receive a book titled “The Great Flood” explaining the recent events.

Alpha Testing Features

Testers can now purchase ostards, nightmares, drakes, and dragons from the Exotic Animal tamer in Britain.
Testers can get a “panic button” at Britain Bank to recover instantly health, mana, and stamina.
Testers can get a Ring of the Britain, to easily teleport to Britain Bank.
Combat damage will display above your avatar in-game, allowing you to see how much damage you do or receive. This feature is intended to help us during shard tests and may be removed at a later date.

Crafting

Training Dummies can train melee combat skills to 70.
Pickpocket Dips can train stealing skill to 70.
Training Dummies and Pickpocket Dips have a max (500) number of uses.
New Item: Addon Repair Deeds. Carpenters can create repair deeds for Training Dummies and Pickpocket Dips to recharge them.
New Item: Potion Barrels. Potion Barrels work just like potion kegs except they hold 1,000 potions instead of 100.

PVM

Adjusted loot tables on Brigands, Henchmen, Hunters, East Guard, Mercenaries, and Diseased Corpses to be more appropriate for their difficulty.
Adjusted difficulty of Walking Dead.
Dungeon and POI spawn rates have been reduced slightly.

Screenshots

You’ll find Britannia familiar but certainly not unchanged. The Great Flood has had an impact well beyond the shoreline, forever changing environments and causing a spike in tribalism for those who inhabit Britannia.