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Hello everyone!
Phase 2 is now available, let's see all the nice additions we made for this new testing phase. I also want to share a bit of future acts progression, and invite you to share your questions and vote for the next video.
*****General information regarding T-Beta Phase 2*****
Is it representative of the Beta or the final game?
No. The Technical Beta has limited content on purpose and doesn't reflect the Beta or the final game. Everything you will experience is still a work in progress.
What are we testing?
For this phase, our technical focus will be on the stability of the 14 international servers and on the ability to join a pending game with your friends.
These 14 servers are spread to ensure that everyone throughout the world can have a low latency, don’t hesitate to let us know if you have latency issues and specify your region.
How long will the TB-2 be available?
The servers are open from November 22nd to December 6th, 2018.
How can I install the Technical Beta?
1. Go to your Library and right click on Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem to choose the “Properties” menu.
2. Choose the Beta tab on your menu, and select the Beta branch.
How do I report the bugs and crashes?
Wolcen now has a crash reporter so you don’t need to send us your crash reports anymore. However, if you encounter a bug, please let us know on this forum
Is matchmaking already available?
Not yet. We're still working on this feature.
*****Phase 2 content*****
All the content from Phase 1 will be available, except for the cave dungeon that we replaced with a graveyard architecture from the Necropolis.
You can take a look at Phase 1 content here and here
New weapons
Shields, two-handed axes, daggers, and pistols come back in the game.
Although shield and gun combination is not available for this phase, all other weapon combinations will work.
Tank armor
Along with the shields, you will also be able to loot the new tank armor!
Uniques
All previous TB1 content is still available, including uniques. Since we’re adding new weapons and combinations, it only seemed fair that we add more uniques to go with it! Here are some of them, and more can be found in the game:
Quintet of Sundowns (Shield)
Edgy (Two-handed Axe)
Goremaker, Shard of the Red Mountain (Dagger)
Multiplayer
As told at the beginning of the news, you will now be able to join a pending game, see your friend list and invite your friends in your group while you’re playing. In addition to this option, creatures are now scaled depending on the number of players in the group.
New creatures
We’re adding three specialists and one champion for this phase.
The Beta Spitter, the Beta Screecher, the Animated Martyr and the Sadistic Thug will be joining the party!
Additional skills
4 skills are added in this version, and each of them has 4 Active Skill Tree options to improve efficiency.
Annihilation is the ancient Gaze of Ot-mah. This spell allows you to cast a channeled umbra ray to decimate your enemies.
Bulwark of Dawn is a new spell allowing you to heal yourself and your friends.
Arctic Spear if the ancient Frost lance, its mechanics have been improved.
Arrows Wail allows you to cast a rain of arrows on your foes.
The Archivist returns
The Archivist is waiting for you in Nowhere, he no longer sells skill books but Enneracts. Enneracts allow you to learn spells or skills, you can also sell them to the Archivist in exchange for Primordial Affinity.
Primordial Affinity allows you, through the Archivist, to gain skill levels of your choosing.
*****Special thanks!*****
A lot of players are currently working on various localization and we already have additional languages to propose for this Phase 2. Many thanks to CoTTo from wolcen-game.de, Vatjjar, Rindow, Alk0zAuruS and Destiny for their help on the German, Finnish, Japanese and Russian localization!
If you wish to contribute, don’t hesitate to join our localization topic to see what is currently in progress.
*****Future Act preview*****
Our teams continue to work both on the Beta and future acts. Here is a quick preview of the environments we’re currently working on:
*****Q&A for the next video!*****
Some of you asked for a Q&A on various topics regarding Wolcen and our company. We would like to answer them in our next video.
I’m going to centralize the questions on our Discord server and allow you to vote for them on the channel #ask_the_devs. The questions will be gathered on this thread and with the help of our community fansites.
Once the questions are on the channel, you will be able to vote for them with a thumb up, and the questions that will receive the more votes will be answered in our next video.
Changelog
GENERAL:
- Archivist has been added to Nowhere
- New Necropolis Dungeon
VISUALS:
- Base hit and critical hit effects will now change depending on weapons main elements.
UI:
- Other players damage numbers are now hidden.
- AST window is now correctly updated when gaining a skill level.
- Friendlist now displays your friend’s activity (in game, in main menu…)
NETWORK:
- Dedicated servers now run in 14 different regions across the globe to ensure minimal latency for the players
- Players are new disconnected from the game after 30 minutes of inactivity
- Added a game version detection to notify the players if an update is available
AUDIO:
- Staves projectiles sounds are properly stopped upon destruction.
- Added a gore effect to melee impacts, intensity tied to enemy HP.
ENVIRONMENT:
- Various optimizations
STATS:
- Toughness now properly gives additional Health.
GAMEPLAY:
- Thunderstrike now prioritizes monsters over other possible targets.
- Stings of Krearion targeting now takes slopes into account, and its spread angle depends on the mouse position at cast.
- Devourer’s SoulMeat skill now inflicts damage.
- Globes and gold autopicking speed has been increased.
- New skill: Arctic Spear
- New skill: Annihilation
- New skill: Arrows Wail
- New skill: Bulwark of Dawn
MONSTERS
- New monster: Svriir Beta Spitter
- New monster: Svriir Beta Screecher
- New monster: Raised Martyr
- New monster: Sadistic Thug
AFFIXES:
- Additional Flat Damages to Spells are now correctly computed.
MISC:
- Updated localization for German thanks to CoTTo
- Updated localization for Russian thanks to Alk0zAuruS
- Updated localization for Japanese thanks to Rindow
- Updated localization for Finnish thanks to Vatjjar
- Umbra resource is now "Willpower"
- Willpower attribute is now "Wisdom"
- Umbra damage is now "Aetheral damage"
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