Smash the Stars!!
We're running a 'Closed Weekend' from Thursday 12th April through until Sunday 15th April
The aim for this weekend is for us to break the game. Seriously.
We know we’ll never be able to be 100% prepared for a global launch, so we want to try and push it as hard as possible, to see what breaks when tons of players join in the fun so we can at least fix it a bit!
This is the first step towards us launching on Early Access, and with any luck that won’t be too far in the future.
Of Note - for existing players, your inventory/currency will be temporarily put in holding, this will be back to normal as of the next update, but this is due to re-pointing our backend service to a different container for this weekend.
More Server improvements.
More improvements to the servers of Lazarus, meaning that they're under less load and more capable of running the game. This echoes down to the gameplay experience, as because the server isn't so busy dealing with too much going on, it has more capacity to deal with player interactions/requests, resulting in a much smoother overall experience.
AI General Improvements
Each of our factions is controlled by an 'AI General', plotting where to send NPCs to gain territory, or regain it from foes. The Generals are now more aggressive in re-issuing orders to existing NPCs, allowing for better distribution.
Tutorial Improvements and better world 'knowledge'
Some under the hood improvements have been made to the FTUE/Tutorial, to streamline the capture-territory stage and improved 'target selection' if you're struggling to capture a territory, so that we don't keep sending you to your death!
Connection Logging
In order to help us diagnose user's connection problems, we now log anonymous connection "data" (such as opening connection to server, disconnects, etc) to a file. We have the option to upload them automatically when you close the game, but this requires you to opt-in to sending this information to us. We'll use this data to try and isolate and triage the connection problems a number of you are seeing. You can opt in/out of this at any time.