We're excited to announce Major 1.2 is coming towards the end of November 2022! It’s packed with new features, content updates, and major bug fixes that you, the community, have been patiently waiting for. We’ll share the release window and full patch notes as soon as they’re ready. Till then here’s what’s on the way.
Upcoming Features
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Creature Catching - Catch and collect creatures out in the wild~. A whole new immersive way to enjoy the beautiful world of Zenith!
Summoning Pets - Summon a creature as a friendly companion to join you on your quests. You can pet them too 🥰
The Academy - Join the new generation of heroes at the Academy. Experience an epic new introductory storyline, learning to control your essence and become the hero of Zenith you were meant to be.
New Early Game Dungeon - Your first major mission after the Academy against the Exiled on hidden lands. Put your newly learned skills to the test while teaming up with others to get the job done.
Tome Keeper Boss Raid - In a shadowy chamber filled with long forgotten knowledge lies the Tome Keeper. An unyielding protector, trapped and twisted by dark knowledge.
Agent Rank and Promotion Rewards - Level up your Agent Rank with a new series of daily and weekly challenges. Complete challenges to earn a variety of rewards like gold, XP, and more!
Miscellaneous Fun Stuff like chess ♟️, new handheld streamer camera (desktop only), VFX updates and graphics fidelity updates for desktop!
We're opening up a Community Alpha where you can start trying out some of the new features. Skip to the last section to see how to join!
Top Player Issues
Do Right By The Player is a core value of ours at Ramen VR. This includes gathering feedback, learning our players’ pain points, and seeing how we can do better. In July we started aggregating Top Player Issues from Feedbear, Discord, bug reports, and player interviews – chipping away at the relatively smaller issues in every Minor patch since. For the upcoming Major 1.2, we’re tackling the big ones you’ve all been patiently waiting for:
- Voice chat bugs [source]
- Fixing Godstone abilities so they work as described [multiple sources]
- Ability to reroll enhancements gained from the enhancement stations [source]
- Allow joining instances with parties smaller than 8 people [source]
- Better ways to make Zen [source]
- Guild menu improvements like adding a scrollbar and showing which shard members are on [source]
- Switching daily and weekly quests [multiple sources]
- Allow dailies to be completed more than once [multiple sources]
Please keep the feedback coming! Upvote your top issues here: https://feedback.zenithmmo.com/boards/player-top-issue-vote.
New Roadmap
Last month we ran a community survey in our Discord and many of you asked for more transparency and an updated roadmap. We heard you and we listened.
We present to you our new roadmap: https://trello.com/b/C7HdP25J/zenith-the-last-city-roadmap. The roadmap is a living and breathing document we’ll continue to update over time. Be sure to check out the “How to Read This Roadmap” card for extra details. And let us know what you think!
Major 1.2 Community Alpha
I can’t wait for you to see what we’ve been working on! Please note the features in the alpha are subject to change as we gather feedback from everyone.
📌 Important: the Community Alpha is private and under NDA. No streaming of the build is allowed and discussions about it are only allowed in the designated Discord channels.
Join the Community Alpha:
- First, join our Discord: https://discord.gg/zenith
- Go to the #bot-commands channel and enter !joinalpha
- Check your DMs for your special access code. You'll also be granted a special role and access to private discussion channels with us.
- Switch your build to Community Alpha by following the instructions below.
- Boot up Zenith and enjoy!
For Community Alpha bug reports: please report on the bug-reporting forum in Discord
How to Switch Builds:
Getting set up only takes a few minutes. You’ll just need to switch to the Community Alpha build for Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest/2, or Steam. Sorry PSVR :( Community Alpha is only available for Steam/Oculus users due to the nature of build releases with PSVR.
Oculus Rift/Quest
- Navigate to the Oculus store page on your computer or phone.
- Tap/click on the version number.
- Change to the channel named 'CommunityAlpha' and the app will update on your device.
Steam
- Navigate to the game in your Steam library.
- Right click on Zenith > Properties > Betas.
- From the drop down, select 'communityalpha'.
Install the Community Alpha build then you’re all set!
If you want to go back to the live game – uninstalling the game, changing your version/channel back to LIVE, then reinstalling works well.
Hope to see you out there!
Andy