Dear Fractured followers,
the time has come: we’re finally ready to announce the opening day of Alpha 1!
The first testing phase, labeled Alpha 1 – Test 1, is starting on Wednesday, April 10, at 4pm CET (10am ET), and is expected to last for one week.
Click here for the full announcement
See you soon in game!
Hi everyone,
It's been a while since we've closed the door of Alpha 1 - Test 2 and released the new store. August is always a complex month for us, torn between the preparation for Gamescom and the due summer holiday time.
Nonetheless, a new update is here, including the much awaited roadmap to Alpha 2 - which is sadly going to suffer a little delay, but will be packed with new features and content!
Going to Gamescom? We'll be there too!
Enjoy Fractured!
Hi everyone,
There are times when game developers get estimates right (rare), and there are times when they get them wrong (frequent). Then there are those when they get them very wrong...
...but the porting is finally over (it's going to be tested this weekend), and Alpha 2 is confirmed for November!
Enjoy Fractured!
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Hi everybody!
Among the myriad of pieces that make up an MMO, we believe that soundtracks often don't receive the due attention. Here at Dynamight Studios, however, we're well aware of the central role it plays, and we're not going to save on that.
It is therefore with great pleasure that we are releasing the first piece of the Fractured OST. It is no less than the first version of the main theme, which you're soon going to hear again in our upcoming Kickstarter campaign!
As always, let us know hear your feedback!
Enjoy Fractured!
Hi all,
this time we've decided to spice up the patch log with a list of content that's going to be implemented in the next few days 
Here we go!
Upcoming
Fixed in this patch
Hi everyone,
as some of you may know already, some totally unexpected (and very bad) news broke out today: the Unity’s block of SpatialOS.
The article I've just linked explains everything in detail, but in a nutshell:
Mind, this doesn't affect Fractured only. Fractured is not the only game developed with Unity + SpatialOS, and Improbable is not the only service allowing using Unity as a server. I don't know how many projects either released or in the making have been totally screwed overnight by a one-directional, entirely unannounced decision by Unity, but it's certainly many.
In fact, their decision affects even very small studios and individual developers who might be self-hosting a Unity server!
What does it mean for Fractured in the short run:
In the long run, we're confident the people at Unity will understand the move they made goes against their own interest and decide to retrace their steps. Considering the news has broke on mainstream media too, we're fairly sure it might even get resolved in a matter of days.
In the meantime, we'll keep touching base with the press, put pressure on Unity, and keep you up to date on any development.
Thank you all for your understanding.
Jacopo
Dear Fractured followers,
we're a little late, but we've made it: Alpha 1 - Test 2 is almost ready to ship!
It's therefore our pleasure to officially announce the start day of the second (and last) testing Phase of Alpha 1. It's Wednesday, July 10, at 4pm CEST (10am EDT)!
Click here for the full announcement
See you soon in game!
Hi everyone!
Alpha 2 - Test 1 has come and gone last November/December, and has been (by far!) our longest and most populated testing phase ever.
In order to keep you all more engaged and receive more frequent feedback, we've decided to shorten the time between each testing phase. That is why we're glad to announce that we are targeting the end of February for the start of Alpha 2 - Test 2!
Some of the most requested features in the history of Fractured will be going live then - and you'll have the chance to preview a few of them even earlier in a new open test!
See you soon in game!
Hi all!
Only 5 days left to the start of the Fall Alpha! Will your city be able to sustain itself? Find it out in the new video update on Health, Farming & Party Pins!
Want to join the Fall Alpha? You can get permanent access by buying a Master pack or higher on our store!
See you soon in game!
Hi & happy holidays everyone!
You could spend this joyful time with your family and your loved ones. You could spend it eating and enjoying some (socially-distanced and responsible) partying…
…or you could spend it playing Fractured, because on Wednesday, December 30, game servers will be opened to all registered users for a new open playtest!
Here's our very belligerent PvP gift to you!
Enjoy Fractured! 
Hi all,
our old website is fully functional again, and the data migration from gamigo to Dynamight Studios is live on this page!
Read the full announcement for some useful FAQ!
I hope you are as excited as we are to see Fractured Online back!
Please note: this is an internal design document we're sharing to ease your city planning. It's ugly! Also, it's tilted 45° compared to the actual continent of Myr.
Legend
Hi everyone,
welcome to the first Sprint Recap of Fractured! This post covers the work done here at Dynamight Studios during Sprint 12, which lasted from the 29th of November to the 13th of December.
If you aren't familiar with this kind of brief update yet, please have a look this introductory post.
Ready? Enjoy!
Human Body & Equipment
The human character has been further improved! We have reworked the standard rig of the model, dramatically improving the quality of the animations. Plus, we've polished the texturing of the naked body and that of some of its armor sets. Below is a picture showing one of the skins of the Leather armor from the low-poly mesh to the final version:
The weapons currently available to the player (unarmed, short sword, great sword, spear, crossbow, bow) have been visually upgraded as well. The picture below shows the 4 steps of the art pipeline behind the creation of the weapons - concept art, low poly, high poly, texturing:
Ability Galore
Projectiles, beams and sprays, added to Fractured a couple months ago already, were a nice start. In Sprint 12, we've begun expanding the number of archetypes to build new Fractured abilities on.
Much of the work has been focused on the creation of particle effects, textures and shaders for spells such as magical shields, heals, summons, terrain effects, equipment enchantments, and much more. Several of them will be shown in the upcoming Feature Spotlight, which will be the second and last chapter (for now) of the updates dedicated the Knowledge System.
To make spell development faster, we've created an ad hoc environment in a separate branch of the project where we can quickly test them out without having to load the whole of SpatialOS. A nice addition that will make us save a lot of the time in the future!
Human Buildings & Tech
As part of our ongoing effort to create all the core elements of Syndesia, our formidable art department has completed several new building components that are part of the modular construction system of Fractured. The latter will be covered in one of the upcoming spotlights, so stay tuned!
At the same time, we've created art assets for PvE locations and some examples of human technology. The picture below shows concepts and low-poly versions of a few of those, namely:
At last, we have a very special one. Sometimes, the first iteration of a 3D model must be revised a little. In this case, it didn't actually look bad, but...
...and yes, Humans can develop gunpowder, of course!
Open World II
As we've explained in the latest SOTG update, one of the most important features of SpatialOS is that it's designed to create open worlds of (virtually) unlimited scale and containing a massive amount of entities.
Before Sprint 12, we had never made use of this power in full, forcing the server to use to employ a single process (or worker, as it's called in the SpatialOS terminology) to control the whole world.
In Sprint 12, we've split the world into a grid, with each cell of the grid controlled by a single worker. This grid exists in the server only, of course - in the client, the player just sees an open world without any boundary. After doing in so, as expected, we've experienced several issues related to the moment an entity (a player or an AI-controlled creature) moved to a different cell of the grid, thus got to be controlled by a different worker.
One by one, we've tackled all the bugs, until none was left. Is it over then? Not really! While now we can have an open world of unlimited size, a huge amount of entities (players) close to each other in the same cell of the grid would overload the worker controlling the cell, ultimately causing it to fail. The next step will be to allow workers to dynamically change the size, shape and location of the area they control, getting rid of the concept of "grid" entirely.
What's Coming Next
Most of the works described above are still in progress - more abilities have to be added, and plenty of human structures must be finalized. This constitutes the bulk of the currently running sprint, while we also move towards the creation of the first long footage of Fractured, featuring some sweet PvE action!
See you soon and, as always, don’t forget to let us hear your feedback!
Hi @keshanberk, it's pretty clear you're not fond of Dynamight, whatever the reason might be, but let me address your concerns anyway.
@keshanberk said in to the developers:
The 3d assets you're showcasing are either prepackaged with Unity or are being sold for cheap on the Unity marketplace.
Back when we made our first pre-alpha gameplay video (well over 1 year ago), we used a few art assets from the Unity store as placeholders. What's bad about that exactly? It's a common practice to use placeholders in very early stages of development. As of today, the only art assets I can think of that are taken from the asset store are the animals, since they're pretty well made and it's not particularly relevant to have a unique... rabbit, right? If one day we have resources to spare we'll remake them too.
@keshanberk said in to the developers:
Although you may disagree with my previous statement -- can you point out a thriving MMO that utilizes Unity?
Albion Online
@keshanberk said in to the developers:
And do you believe your project will succeed when it's difficult to differentiate your game from Legends of Aria?
LOA is a spiritual successor to Ultima Online, which I sincerely hope will succeed since I loved Ultima Online It has very little to do with Fractured though, besides the genre (isometric sandbox MMOs). Controls, combat, rulesets, races, world building, progression, survival elements... they're all very different, and that's just to name a few.
@keshanberk said in to the developers:
How could you possibly deliver a unique game -- while having less resources than a competitor company
I don't know whether we have more or less resources than LOA really. It's undoubtedly true we don't have the same resources of some larger competitors, but I'd say technology (SpatialOS), time spent developing tools such as procedural world generators and various game design decisions are allowing us to deliver - we're not perfectly on schedule, but we're close
@keshanberk said in to the developers:
and still utilizing an engine that causes terrible lag when loading 3d assets?
Where did you get this information from exactly? There are ways to prevent that from happening, it's not even particularly hard. You can watch any Fractured gameplay videos on Twitch or YouTube, everything besides terrains is dynamically loaded / streamed around your character but you won't see any lag when people travel through our current 60km2 continent
@Logain said in Unity has blocked SpatialOS - What's up and what it means for us:
Looks like high time for a news post explaining and detailing the resolved situation and the future strategy (together with the forum downtime) to instill confidence for the customers again. Considering that funding increased by a whooping €20 in the last 6 days
Yes, a State of the Game is coming!
Please Note
Due to the bugfix on incorrect talent presets we had to delete all existing talent presets and reset all talents memorized. Don't worry, your talent points are still there, so you can just remake the presets. Apologies for the annoyance!
Minor Changes
Bug Fixes
Hi everyone!
We're glad to announce that the fourth wave of invites for the Fractured Pre-Alpha has been sent out today!
All players invited will gain access to Pre-Alpha servers starting this Thursday, March 14, at 6pm CET (12pm ET).
We've invited a total of 50 players, including all the ones who were in the TOP 100 of the leaderboard of The Foundation on 27th of November, plus a few contest/drawing winners (including those not yet published).
This wave is the last one - from here we go straight to Alpha 1, open to everyone who has purchased a Knight pack (or higher) on our store and during our Kickstarter campaign!
Here you can find some additional info on the Pre-Alpha in case you've missed them. Here instead you can find information regarding the state of development of the game.
Enjoy Fractured!
Dear Fractured followers,
the time has come: we’re finally ready to announce the opening day of Alpha 2!
The first testing phase, labeled Alpha 2 - Test 1, is starting on Wednesday, November 20, at 4pm CET (10am ET), and is expected to last for at least two weeks.
Click here for the full announcement
See you soon in game!
Hi everyone!
Our first stress test was short-lived, but a new one is coming already, and is lasting for a longer time!
Let’s spread the word and see each other soon in game!
