To the beloved reforgers:
Hello everyone, first of all, thank you for your interest and support. We apologize for not updating the game and community announcements for a while, but we've heard from many of you who are eager to play and learn about the game's new content, and we understand your excitement and anticipation. However, we are sorry to inform you that the next big update planned for AoR (Age of Reforging) has been postponed. This does not mean that our development progress has been seriously lagging or has been significantly hindered. On the contrary, we've been working at full capacity for some time now, producing a great deal of new content. We've also made a number of breakthroughs on the technical side.
We've upgraded the game engine and improved or even remastered many of the technical components. These upgrades have been very successful overall, and the game's performance and graphics are now significantly improved. Our development efficiency has also increased with the engine upgrades. However, with such a huge upgrade came short-term instability in the game. With some of the technical upgrades not yet complete, we're hesitant to release the next big update.
We want to make sure that the experience you get is as seamless and smooth as possible. Our goal and commitment remains the same: to do our best to make Reckoning/AoR a complete, rich, and fun game. We'll be announcing the next big update later.
Allow us to present you with the results of what we've been working on for a while (most of them will be the content of the next big update):
Gameplay Improvements:
1) We have used new technology to create dynamic physics effects for all hair and equipment in the game. Movable fabrics will now look more smooth, natural and vivid.
2) we re-implemented the game's highlighting system using a new technique, and the highlight strokes of all interactive objects now look much cleaner and simpler.
3) we reworked the blood splatter effect in the game, and we're happy with the new effect, we think it's much more aesthetically pleasing and natural.
4) with a technical improvement for Terrain, the frame rate of many scenes has been significantly improved.
5) Optimized character loading logic. Improved the loading speed of NPC characters when entering a scene. You should no longer see characters that are completely naked when they are first spawned (unless they were designed that way).
6) We have optimized the loading logic for encounters on the world map. It now takes significantly less time to go back and forth between the world map and the encounter scenario.
New Content:
1) we have added 3 properties/player house available for players to purchase in Briar, Stirrup Town and Green Town. Once purchased, players will have unrestricted access to the tavern and warehouse features in their own homes.
2) we've added the ability to travel by wagon to all towns on the world map. Now you can travel quickly between neighboring towns by wagon. But be careful, this still won't be a foolproof journey, so be prepared for the risk of being robbed by bandits and attacked by monsters. Protect your wagon and driver, or you'll be back to traveling on foot.
3) some of the inaccessible megacities on the world map we gave (Golden Harbor, Lone Star City, and Saltwood City...) have each made a tavern, and players can now enter these tavern scenes to rest their feet in this temporary haven and feel the warmth of the locals.
4, we are nearing the completion of two new world regions. These two regions are in the south of the world map, and they are the Deadwind Desert and Starfall Canyon. Each of these areas has a major field map that provides 5-10 hours of gameplay, with plenty of side quests, powerful enemies and bosses, and interesting dungeons. In addition, the Deadwind Desert region has many new locations to explore: a large town, Saltwood, a village, two gladiator arenas, a bandit camp, and several dungeons.
There are also more developments in AoR, but we haven't figured out when we can announce them yet. Anyway, we hope you can continue to be patient for a while, we may be missing communication to the community, but have been putting our heads down and pushing forward with the development of the game. Please give us some more time and confidence.
Previous game - Blackthorn Arena is now reforging! :
We are attempting to work on Blackthorn arena: Reforged ! which you can think of as a remake of the original Blackthorn arena that is much more than a so-called big “mega-update”. We expect to apply the new technologies and systems used in AoR, huge improvements to the underlying code, and visual enhancements to Blackthorn arena: Reforged. As opposed to the original version of Blackthorn arena, you will see a completely new version with models, animations, and special effects all redone, and vastly improved mechanics, balance, and equipment systems. And there's no doubt that this huge update will be free! Players who have already purchased the original version of Blackthorn Gladiator will also upgrade Blackthorn arena: Reforged for free.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1194930
Finally, thank you for your continued support, we will announce the release of each of the above updates as soon as possible, and we wish you a great weekend!