Greetings, Warriors!
This week we are taking a short break before introducing one of the biggest features we are preparing for you in the background – Guild Technologies. This week in Poland was shorter, as we had two days cut off by a national holiday – so we decided it would be reasonable to exceptionally postpone the next update to the following week. Those who haven't left Lublin for the holiday met at the weekend and expanded our office. We needed more space, and we had to demolish a wall to get access to the next room. But we did it in style! One of our employees - you may know him for his work as a user interface programmer - put on armor (safety first!), and started hammering.
After hours, we are cleaning the new space up and doing a small renovation, to be able to work there, yet we still have some matters to discuss and share with you, so stick around and check the details below!
The screenshot’s authors have been awarded. Ænema, Brudna_Ryba® [♔], and [1stBdC] Marques – you will receive your Ambers soon!
Glory Season
Remember, that this week is the last of the current Glory Season! The new season will start on Thursday, the 12th of May. Also, we’d like to remind you that the last day of the season – Wednesday, the 11th of May – will be a dedicated day of the season's end. You will not earn any Nation Points during that day, and it will be the last bell to donate the one you accumulated to your guild. The top players on the ranking table will earn great rewards and nice titles, so it’s time to compete against the others and fight your way to the top of the ladder!
A little explanation for the new players: Glory is a season-based ranking that rewards you for activity in the faction v faction v faction PVP. The seasons last 2 months and are rewarded with unique titles, as well as gold. Also, every Thursday night you’ll get Contribution Points – an in-game currency used to purchase special items from the Glory Quartermasters. The amount of earned CP depends on your position on the leaderboard, so climb up it!
WIP insight – Guild Technologies
The next updates will bring the long-awaited, brand new system, introducing a number of new interesting mechanics, buffs, and challenges for guilds to enjoy! Yes, we can finally fully announce the upcoming Guild Technologies system!
We feel that it’s important to create new content for all guilds (especially the smaller ones) and we believe that introduction of the guild technologies will enable the smaller guilds to specialize in certain fields of Gloria Victis and have a chance to compete, or even excel in these fields against the big guilds, making them a valuable asset for the nation.
Guild technologies will be a new feature enabling guilds to build and research new types of structures, that will aid the guilds in their daily activities and give them a new way to specialize in a certain part of Gloria Victis content.
We aimed to design the technologies so that each of them is based on at least one of the 3 categories:
- War technologies (i.e. longer potion buffs)
- Social technologies (i.e. slower food drain)
- Crafting technologies (i.e. smaller market taxes)
that will offer buffs and new mechanics aiding these aspects of the game for that guild.
Every guild will be able to invest their time and energy into any combination of the technologies, which will lead to a new type of meta for guilds to be born, a meta suiting the needs of the guilds’ members.
The guild technologies system is designed so that it will suit other upcoming changes to the game, thus evolving and growing in size and significance with time.
First iteration
In order not to blow away all of the fun things that are about to come in the next months, let’s first talk about the features of guild technologies that are about to hit the main server in the next few weeks.
Gain technology points...
Each guild will be able to gain the technology points needed to research technologies simply by doing daily activities and events around the map, the very same way it now works with leveling up a guild.
Another way to gain the technology points will be for now restricted only to the guilds that own a guild province. A new building will be available to build and generate the points.
However, don’t worry we will soon be adding other systems that will enable all guilds to place their own buildings of this kind! So, just do your daily quests, be active around the map in search for events and wait for your own generators to earn more points…
…or fight for them!
While the new buildings will be providing some additional technology points for the guilds owning the guild castles, it will also be possible to rob the technology points from these buildings during SoW! Wake up, there are some castles to ~~burn~~ rob!
Research technologies
Up until this point in reading, a question might come up — what do I need the points for? The answer is simple — the points can be used by the leader and his 2nd in command to research technologies for the guild. Each technology will be getting better with each level, but there is also a catch — after a technology reaches a certain level it will be starting to diminish, meaning that if a guild doesn’t deliver enough points, its level will drop!
Every-two week Video contest
We are extremely happy to see your contribution to the video contest. We are receiving a lot of nice gameplay videos and it was quite hard to pick a winner who gets 2000 Ambers! Yet, like before, we will have honorable mentions rewarded with 1000 Ambers too!
And this time the winner is *drumroll*: Audemar! With his gameplay video “Gloria Victis - They kept coming…” Enjoy your 2k Ambers!
Honorable mentions (1k Ambers each):
Traveller – greetings to the whole Bellatores guild, and good fight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AY4nYBiUqs And Yildaqiqiqi for “¡¡¡Captain, Captain Look – Enemis!!!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkzvvpxOrAM
Leave some love in the comments and like the videos to help their creators grow. Be sure to leave your nickname in the comment to get 50 Ambers along with the new season start!
If you want to check the rest of the videos shared by our players – join our Discord and check the #media-streamers channel – there’s much more fun stuff to watch, subscribe and share!
As we are in the Community section already, we would like to show you something awesome. Players from the Polish guild "Gwardia Karleonu" met recently at their own small convention. If you would like to see the awesome banner they created and how they had fun, you can find their photos on our Discord. It is heartwarming to see that Gloria Victis is creating such bonds between players, and we are honored to create a space for you all, to meet new friends, and have fun together. But that’s not all! Those people created a playable card game, where the heroes on cards are represented by themselves! Breathtaking!
We would be delighted to get a copy of that game to play at our office, so… (call me – Daim). And kudos to all who contributed! We’re happy to have you!
We also cannot miss the fact that our game is constantly growing and inviting cool communities from around the world. Here 's one for Portugal 1º Batalhão de Caçadores! Welcome to the game and good luck on the battlefields! We are amazed at how many recruits you gathered and we cannot wait to see you grow! Vejo você na batalha!
That would be all for today. Next week will be awesome, so stay tuned!
Thank you for sticking around, and see you in the game!