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@Eurav said in Alpha 1 Launch Announced:

So...

What about the developer forum? When will we see that? I think in one of the Q&A videos @Prometheus mentioned it will start with Alpha? What is the current plan for this?

Will the weekly drawing winners get released soon? Are you going to leave that to @Specter ? Some of the newer people don´t even realize that this is a thing

What is the plan for "Access to private monthly video Q&A chat with the developers" from the Aristocrat pledge pack? Is this something planned for the testing phases or after release?

How is bug reporting for the Alpha going to look like? Will there be a seperate thread on the forum for Alpha 1 just like for the Pre-Alpha (with the difference that it is going to be public)?

Are you going to add some voice channels / an Alpha 1 channel in discord? I am sure people would not mind writing / speaking to each other while testing the game

Next week!
Today!
Definitely not this month, but hopefully we can start before the summer.
There will be new forum sections, like for the Pre-Alpha.
Done

Prometheus

I see a heated debated here! Let me give you some clarifications

First of all, you already know players can create multiple characters per account, and we fully expect most will do that. This shouldn't be a surprise for anyone - Fractured features 3 races enjoying different planets and gameplay and sub-races with unique abilities. Moreover, you sort of "create your own class" by setting attributes during character creation, while attributes respecs will be very limited. You have to create alts if you want to have a "mage" character, a "warrior" character, a "rogue" character, etc - just like you would do in almost all existing MMOs.

We don't see having multiple characters in the same account as an issue really. You can only become the citizen of one city per planet account-wide. Even if you created multiple accounts and bought access for all of them, why bothering? Resource extraction and processing for advanced crafting is a group effort and requires permissions, as @Specter mentioned. Now let's assume you played 12 hours per day with 4 accounts, citizens of 4 different cities and part of the crafters group of each city... Well, it's legitimate, but if you wanted to "get rich" I can assure you there are plenty of faster ways to achieve that than being a crafter in 4 different cities

On a guild level, the situation is different. The risk of a guild claiming a small city with a handful of secondary accounts just to gather resources so they don't have to trade with anyone is real. Again, it's not clever, but I can see why a guild might want to do that to be entirely self-sufficient. We must make it a very unprofitable choice through maintenance costs, time required to move resources and other tech tree shenanigans

Prometheus

@ThatOtherJesse said in Roadmap To Alpha 1 - Test 2:

Will I be able to pvp. While killing mobs in test 2. Great work so far keep it up boys cant wait to stream test 2.

If we have enough time, we'll implement a proper party and dueling systems Alpha 1 is focused on PvE and the ruleset of Syndesia is not the final one.

@Dagimir said in Roadmap To Alpha 1 - Test 2:

Can we expect other playable races or Martial arts please!!!!?!?!?

Martial Arts is possible, other races are for Alpha 2 or later I'm afraid.

@twitchjackyace said in Roadmap To Alpha 1 - Test 2:

just leaving this here

Ahahah what an embarrassment! That PC had its motherboard changed months ago, got unregistered, could never be bothered to contact customer support. It's fixed now

Prometheus

@Nekrage said in The Potential City Problem.:

I like your mindset on most of this however I STRONGLY disagree with the lack of an option to steal resources from an enemy city. It allows for additional PvP elements when sieges are not occurring. Additionally it's very easy for a guild to refuse to trade with another guild (this is guaranteed to happen) and lock each other out of resources.

...but the option does exist! Guilds can launch raids on cities without having to own a neighboring city. The raid battle happens at a given time the day after the raid is declared, but resources that can be stolen are locked beforehand.

Also, once multiple resource nodes per city are implemented, all cities in proximity of a node will be able to vie for the control of that node.

There are a lot of opportunities for PvP. Allowing players to freely use the nodes that belong to other cities would make the whole resource nodes system pointless though.

Prometheus

@Robinhoodrs said in Spread The Word & Win An Alpha Key!:

Kinda hard to talk about a game in high spirits without knowing much about it, correct me if I'm wrong here, but, surely it would make more sense for someone with a media following to post a positive video/blog, etc AFTER they've actually tried the game themselves, no?
I'm hyped for this game, so are many others within my guild, but I've been hurt to many times before by kickstart MMO's falling far from their promises. I don't wish to mislead my audience into that, just from a personal experience I've had with it before.
Once I actually get my hands on this game, I'll be 100% sure to post my thoughts and views on it as I've been keeping track since day 1.

Hi @Robinhoodrs! We're soon going to launch an influencer program and send keys to content creators with a good following and appropriate content (like yours). This new initiative is mostly targeted towards "regular" community members who might talk about Fractured in the Discord channels / reddit channels / forums of the communities they follow, content creators with a very small following, and so on

Prometheus

Hi @Stacy555, we believe the most problematic point with Fractured's graphics as of today are the biomes, which, as many players like @d3Sync pointed out, all look pretty similar.

This is due to an overall lack of unique "decorative" art assets for each biome (and the average quality of the existing ones), but also to the lack of unique lighting and post-processing. The latter is going to be improved before the next test, but the former will have to wait until we hire a dedicated environment artist.

Adding to the above, animations are also very poor, and we know that. We don't have a dedicated animator in the team - our art director has been taking care of that so far. You can consider all the current player character animations as placeholders - even the walking animations eheh.

All the above being said, you can't really compare Fractured graphics-wise to AA/AAA games like Ashes of Creation or New World from Amazon, whose owner earns in 3 minutes (literally) the total cost of the development of Fractured so far We are an 8-people indie studio, and while the team's hopefully going to grow and graphics are surely going to improve before full release, they will never compete with AAA titles - nor it's our interest for them to

Prometheus

A few weeks ago, we anticipated that July would be the last month for Kickstarter-replica pledge packs. Well, July’s endings, and it’s time for packs to say goodbye!

On August 1, the Fractured store will be completely overhauled: Alpha 1 access, lifetime VIP and limited offers will be gone for good!

Find out more

Enjoy Fractured!

Prometheus

@Nekrage said in Physical Immune enemies should be removed.:

Having to completely change a character's build and equipment to kill a single type of enemy is quite tedious.

I have no seen magic immune enemies yet but I am sure there are plans for it.

I don't really see this being a positive experience for any player.

What do you guys think about it?

The reason you can't get a Wisp at all as a warrior for now is because of missing options. For instance, you still can't enchant your weapon to make it deal non-physical damage, and shared party knowledge gains are not a thing yet.

@Phylosophys said in Physical Immune enemies should be removed.:

I agree with @Nekrage, what is the point of having to play with a party if the knowledge is not shared.

We are going to implement shared party knowledge ASAP!

@BlueGoblin said in Physical Immune enemies should be removed.:

If you have physical attack immune enemies.. then there should be magic immune enemies as well. Correct?

There will be for sure!

Now, that being said, I'd like to remind you that having to change your character build (even radically) to be able to defeat a specific creature is a core part of PvE in Fractured. Actually, the fact that pretty much only Wisps force you to do that as of today is quite sad

Prometheus

Hi everyone!

Our stress test weekend has ended, and it's been a great... mess! Not uncommon for a stress test, but perhaps a little worse than expected

So, what happened during Fractured's first explosive* event of this kind? Let's find out!

Read the full article

Stay tuned and... fingers crossed for the text open test!

(* servers exploded)

Prometheus

Hi everyone,

Alpha 2 - Test 1 has started, and with it some new live streaming!

LIVE NOW:

https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Fractured

Here is the list of the channels that decided to bring Fractured on Twitch TV:

Here are the ones who prefer YouTube Live instead:

EpicPureGamer https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-uviNdYvHDMYHFfSUGFVw
Falconero

GRM Adrian

Grillmastah

Kazhamania https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4co9wT8hjTcPCClFDdN7bg
KiraTV

Kraxell

LESTAT

Limpy

MyUsualMe

MoSes

Oxfurd

Red Revan

RobinHoodrs

thadumbgoose

Vulkan

Thanks so much for your support guys!

See you in game!

Prometheus

Friday, April 10: everyone with a founder pack can play, disregarding its tier.

Sunday, April 12: live Q&A on player cities.

Surprise!

Click here to read the announcement

See you soon in game!

Prometheus

Changes

Added particles to smelteries, forges and charcoal piles and other world objects.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that caused heavy materials to disappear or change into different ones when put into / taken out of shop storages (e.g. Coal in the Blacksmith shop).
Fixed a bug that made it so that players buying heavy materials from a Trading Post would only receive 1 unit instead of the whole quantity.
The woodworking table now spawns correctly after completing its blueprint.
Trolls now spawn in the world and properly assign knowledge.
Fixed a bug that made Carpenter shops built in some locations not accessible (players couldn't pass the door frame).
Toggle / ready abilities that require a specific weapon now correctly deactivate when switching to an invalid weapon instead of remaining permanently active and proccing with each attack.
The crafting tab in the Inventory Crafting menu no longer disappears when opening the campfire.
City markers on the map no longer change
It's no longer possible to place forges in the walls of the Blacksmith shop.
Vice-Governors are again able to accept citizenship requests.
Ignore Armor can now be activated correctly.
Poison can again be applied to poisonable weapons (dagger, short sword, long sword, spear, bows).
Clicking on a requirement inside of a recipe now correctly opens the recipe for that requirement if it's a craftable item and it's crafted within the same station.
Bash and Heavy Blow now correctly increase attack damage.
Static Discharge now deals damage if interrupted because the caster runs out of mana.
Fixed a bug that would make the automatic Combat Mode become permanent when travelling the world after being attacked by a creature, which prevented all interactions and forced the player affected to relog.

Prometheus

@Logain said in End Year 2020 Open Playtest:

Is there going to be at least some form of 'neutral zone' in the beginning towns @Prometheus? And can you ensure that there's a BIG RED WARNING saying this is explicitly a PvP test and not representative of the game?

All claimed towns are safe zones, including the 2 starter towns! Personal land parcels are safe as well for the owner, co-owner and friends. That's not only for this test, it's how things are meant to work.

@Razvan said in End Year 2020 Open Playtest:

When you say "testing pvp" you mean that you wanna see if the karma system works as intended, or you start looking into balance?

The focus is on balancing, The Karma system is missing a key component - bounty hunting and jails

@PeachMcD said in End Year 2020 Open Playtest:

LOL @Kralith - I feel you, brother. I was just telling @Ostaff that I might have a shot at 'coolest land parcel' but I'd probably get murdered a million times trying to build anything.

Your parcel is safe and so are cities. Just claim it in a city with friends who can protect you or in an isolated area in the wilderness

Prometheus

Hi all,

it's no joke, we had a "server crash" (to put it in simple terms).

As mentioned on Discord, we're keeping in touch with SpatialOS engineers to figure out what happened. It's possible it was a hosting issue (stemming from the cloud that hosts game servers). World and player data are safe - if anything, there's going to be a small rollback, no more than 30 minutes of progression lost.

Servers are back online, but you should know that the problem is entirely out of our hands. We will only know more when the Improbable engineers have completed their investigation on the service that crashed.

What does this mean?

It means that if the issue was a transient one, not to be seen again, everything is going to be alright tonight and perhaps for the whole test. If not, another crash might happen in 1 hour, 5 hours, 10 hours...

In case it happens again, the rollback is guaranteed to be minimal, but it will be there.

We're really sorry and disheartened this is happening when such an exciting alpha testing phase was just launched.

We'll keep working on bug fixes and whatnot over the Easter holidays and the weekend, but once again, we can't make any promise the issue won't happen again.

Our deepest apologies and thank you all for your understanding. We'll have some form of compensation for the downtime for you all for sure.

Best,
Prometheus

Prometheus

This is MADNESS: access to Fractured is FREE again from Friday, Jan 15!

How comes? Read the blog post!

Here's to the fastest feedback loop ever! Happy new year everyone!

Prometheus

Hi,

we've just experienced another server crash. The way it took place is similar to how it happened 3 days ago.

As much it would be convenient to lie and say game servers were under heavy load, they were not. A component of our backend engine (SpatialOS) just crashed out of the blue for no reason we can fathom.

We have considered stopping the Spring Alpha until the SpatialOS engineers have looked into the issue and solved it, which I'm sure they'll do quickly. We have decided against it because it's been 3 days since the last occurrence - and we hope that at least as much time will pass before it happens again (hoping it doesn't happen again at all, of course). Plus, we know many of you would rather keep playing and bear a 15-30m progression loss than not play at all.

So, onwards with the Spring Alpha and let's make these servers scale up and stay stable so they're ready for our Steam launch! And of course, apologies for all the inconveniences this is causing.

Best,
Jacopo

Prometheus

Hello everyone!

Here comes the first update on the upcoming Fall Alpha 2021! As usual, this type of video series is meant to cover more in detail all that was announced in the previous roadmap.

Read the post

Let us know what you think of these huge changes!

Enjoy Fractured!

Prometheus

This forum section has been created to give Fractured players a place to look for a guild or to promote their own guild.

A few rules apply here in addition to the standard Fractured Forum Rules, as listed below:

You are only allowed to open a thread for your guild or for yourself if you are looking for one.
If your guild is targeted to players speaking a specific language, or if you are looking for a guild using a specific language, you are allowed to discuss using that language in your thread.
This section is just for guild recruitment, not for guild politics and competition.
Adding to the previous point and more generally speaking, don't post replies to recruitment threads unless you're want to receive more information on the guild or want to become a member.
We invite you to actually create the guild in The Foundation and add the link to its page to your recruitment thread. You don't have to do it, but it makes things much easier!

Threads and posts that break the rules outlined above will be removed. Posts in a recruitment thread might also be removed following a request from the guildmaster / lieutenant who has opened the thread.

Prometheus

@lovechildbell @Kralith @Gothix yes, you'll need torches, definitely

@gothix said in Fractured Content Pills - Week 43, 2018:

I'm also getting curious now.. perhaps some night vision sight for shadow demons that are biologically "made" to hunt better in the dark.

Yes, they have that innate ability, and night sigh is also a spell.

@azraelius said in Fractured Content Pills - Week 43, 2018:

Wonder if there will be spells to create light, magelight?

Yes, there's one that summons a globe of light

@esher said in Fractured Content Pills - Week 43, 2018:

Does the UI will stay like that ? And what did you use to do the water ?

The UI is just a first iteration, but conceptually it will stay like that, yes. The water is made with a shader applied to a plane, as it's usually done

Prometheus

@benseine said in Becomming an Angel or Abommination:

Got some questions about changing your alignment so a demon becomes an angel or a beastman becomes an abomination:
-does becomming an Angel or Beastman changes your looks/appearence?
-Can an Angel live permanently on Aboreus and an Abomination on Tartaros?
-Does being an Angel or Abomination changes your debuffs on other planets?
-Does it changes your attributes, abilities or special powers from their home planet?
-Can a Demon change their allignment to neutral and go farming karma on Tartaros to become a good aligned demon?
-Is becomming an Angel or Abomination tied to a devine quest?

A few quick answers:

Yes, it does!
The latter yes, the former is still uncertain.
Sure it does. An Abomination is equivalent to a Demon, and so is treated. Things for Angels are more complex.
Yes! They're really different races!
They have to redeem themselves out of Tartaros - Babilis won't let them in their home planet
The final steps that complete the transformation include Divine Quests, yes

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