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Hi all,

first minor patch is coming!

Changes

• Attacking no longer cancels spellcasting. You can still cancel issuing a movement command. #1 player request fulfilled!
• Being inside of a land parcel you own or co-own grants protection from monsters, which will ignore you. Attacking the monster outside causes the protection to be lost. #2 player request fulfilled!

Bug Fixes

• Packaging stations are functional again.
• This was fixed yesterday: boosted crafts from used recipes are correctly saved at logout and no longer lost.
• Opening the store from the button in game now correctly opens the store for Steam users instead of showing the home page.
• It's no longer possible to pick up items from cart inventories when mounted and bug your character out.
• Casting a leech spell against a creature with Globe of Spell Protection no longer causes the caster to lose mana regeneration even though the spell (correctly) failed to cast.
• It's now possible for a land parcel owner to set permissions for the Forge, and a Smeltery set as Public is now accessible to everyone.

@eso said in Humbly request start time of KS:

@Prometheus I wanted to see if it would be possible for you to provide us with a timeframe for when the KS will start. With limited tiers on some potentially hot items, I don't want to miss out, or have to play f5 bandit for the day. Please, please, consider providing us with a window to expect it going live.

Newsletter with exact starting time coming tomorrow!

@Gunzemo said in Paths of Magic:

Can someone give me some ideas on how magic will be developed in this game?

This is something we're going to cover in a feature spotlight of its own, but I can drop some hints. There will be different schools of magic, tied to different regions of the world and to NPCs that populate player-made towns. The NPCs will be region-specific as well though. Bottom line, you'll have to explore the whole world, including the areas that are most hostile to your race, if you want to learn all the spells in the game. And then there are Ancestral and Divine spells, connected to the most remote locations and the Gods of Fractured... but I can't reveal more about those now, you'll have to wait for the spotlight

Hi everyone!

Now that the last Feature Spotlight has officially ended the series of updates dedicated to the Knowledge System, it’s about time we move to what is likely to be the most debated topic in the history of the Fractured community - and that of the MMO genre in general.

The topic, of course, is Player Versus Player.

Since the very beginning, we’ve stated how Fractured wants to cater to the needs of peaceful/cooperative and aggressive/competitive players alike, allowing them to coexist in a single, massive game server. How does that happen in reality? Come find out!

Click here to read the journal

As always, let us know what you think about this new sneak peek and check out the end of the article to find out what we're covering next!

Enjoy Fractured!

Hi @Ori0n, you were accidentally not granted access, I've just fixed that manually. Apologies for the wait, we're all really busy to deliver Alpha 2 - Test 2 in perfect shape!

Hi everyone,

we're glad to announce you that starting today these boards will have their first official moderator. Give a warm welcome to @Specter!

What is a moderator?

A moderator is a volunteer who helps the Dynamight Studios team in managing the community boards of Fractured. The major tasks of a moderator are:

• To remove content that violates our Terms of Service, and, if needed, punish the violators.
• To keep conversations friendly and on topic.
• To point all members of the community asking questions to the appropriate replies if already given, or get in touch with us to answer them.

We're going to keep a laidback approach to moderation, so as long as you stay nice ladies and gentlemen you'll likely never hear a reproach. Also, don't forget a moderator is first and foremost your friend, not a forum policeman :slight_smile:

A little side note

In these first two weeks of August our presence as developers here on the forums will be quite limited, and most likely no Feature Spotlights will be posted till around the 15. Our apologies, but pretty much the whole studio is on vacation!

Thank you all!

Yes ladies and gentlemen, it's all true. After a (way too) long wait, the first Fractured gameplay video has been finally released!

The footage includes 15 minutes of cuts from half an hour of pre-alpha gameplay, featuring the exploration of a 1 sq. km, procedurally-generated map, showcasing our beloved ARPG combat and the overall art direction of the game.

Adding to the above, we’ve thrown in some commentary with insights on core features such as character and world building. Moreover, we’re delving into “cool technical stuff” like procedural map generation and the inner workings of the SpatialOS engine.

-and-
Check out the dev blog

As always, let us hear your feedback loud and clear!

Enjoy Fractured!

Hi @Azurael! Bow damage is actually pretty high, and you don't need mana to keep attacking, so I'm wondering... have you tried it with the Gladiator background (or even better, a 18 DEX 18 PER character) or with your mage character? Because if it's the latter, it's obviously not going to be great

On a side note: level 4-6 poisons and non-primitive weapons are missing, don't forget that

Looks like we have a winner - pottery crafting! So exciting! Spotlight's coming!

...ok ok, just kidding. Alpha 1 map be it! That journal is actually ready - going to go live tomorrow (or on Wednesday at worst), together with the Fractured Account Guard and a couple other website changes

Just so you all know - we're following the whole discussion closely. We're all busy with the recordings for Kickstarter, but I'll soon make a dedicated thread to explain why the progression boost from VIP is marginal and why it absolutely doesn't affect the "competitive power" of a guild with players using it VS one who doesn't.

Hi @MiniHammer, currently we only have one world, hosted in US East. Later on, we might add an EU server if population becomes too large, otherwise we'll stick to a single server for US+EU.

Other markets are a different story. Latency from Asia/Oceania to EU/US is too high, so once we hit Asian markets (likely at full launch, as you mentioned) we'll surely have a world hosted in China. See this blog post for more info

Hi everyone,

GamesCom 2019 is approaching! Me and the other two founders of Dynamight Studios (Andrea aka Uriel - Lead Designer and Michele aka Sunti - Art Director) are going to be there from Tuesday 20 to Friday 23!

I guess a few of you will be there too. We'd be glad to meet up for a chat while we're not busy talking with some publisher and whatnot. If the presence of Fractured fans is substantial, we could organize a Fractured lunch/dinner!

Moreover, we have a booth in the business area, part of the Italian Games stand (Hall 3.2, Stand D010 E019) from Tuesday 20 to Thursday 22! If any of you has purchased access to the business area because you're game devs yourselves, press, influencers... You should totally drop by to visit us - let's play Fractured together!

So... just leave a post here if you'll be at GamesCom, and let's see how this goes!

Cheers,
Jacopo

Hi everybody!

We said early June. E3 got in the way, so we had to postpone a little…

…and now it’s official: the Fractured Kickstarter campaign is starting on Monday, June 25, 2018!

To tease you even more than usual, we’ve decided to create three short videos featuring most of the gameplay footage that will be included in the campaign...

Click here to read the the full post

As always, let us know what you think about this new sneak peek!

Enjoy Fractured!

Oh, I understand where the misunderstanding is coming from now @islesofurth! We still haven't assigned the gold from the old packs It was meant to be done last week but preparation for Gamescom messed our plans up - we'll do it this week for sure though!

Edit: we also need to implement the page that shows what pledge you used to have and what you got from it - that we'll also do this week.

@blah64 said in Feature Spotlight #7 - Towns, Governors & Politics:

Democracy & Elections usually don't exist in MMOs for a reason.
Hopefully it works out for the best here.

We need to dare to breath new life into the genre. Very few have tried to do something different when in comes to political systems in MMOs, and there's no reason why democracy won't work if the system is well designed and takes into account all "loopholes"

(on a side note, you can rule your town as a guild town and avoid the "democratic" side of the system)

Hi @Aries, I assume you're talking about the rewards from The Foundation since you've mentioned "character level". None of them (aside from forum titles) can be claimed because the systems supporting them haven't been implemented yet. This includes the pet companion system, the equipment skinning system and the mount system.

Most cosmetic systems will be implemented later on (beta or even full release) since gameplay has higher priority. Pet companions may be an exception and get live during Alpha, but it's not guaranteed.

I understand it can be a bit annoying, but it's common for crowdfunded game in early stages of development and it's been stated multiple times since The Foundation has been launched.

Hi everyone!

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Congratulations to everyone and thank you for being part of this awesome community! See you at next week's drawing!

If you're wondering what types of drawing exist and how to participate, check out this explanatory thread.

Please note: drawing winners are drawn on Wednesday - so Week 46 ended on December 5th (last Wednesday).

Please note: the leaderboard is updated once per day. If you've won a drawing and want to trigger the update immediately, you have to open your own foundation page first

@Balderly I understand how travelling for a long time can be annoying right now, so we're definitely considering adding a switch to simulate holding the left mouse button down

@Jarvis said in Unity has blocked SpatialOS - What's up and what it means for us:

Pretty scary news at first, but to be honest I'm still kinda worried if they don't bring back support.

I don't think Improbable ever got much support from Unity in the first place, and their integration with Unity is already great. I'm not particularly concerned

@Logain said in Why bake bread?:

During the first open test, people had issues that no 'tutorial' existed, holding their hand to teach them the basics. The developers listened to that feedback and implemented a short tutorial. Baking bread is simply the most trivial form of conveying gathering resources and crafting, which is why the fields are marked as hotspots on the map.

^ this!

@idioticmaddog said in Why bake bread?:

Indeed, I do hope that bread and farmlands become more attractive later on.

Oh, they will, trust me. Just wait for player cities and food maintenance costs to become a thing