Shroud of the Avatar – Update of the Avatar #295

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Greetings Fellow Avatars! Collector’s boxes are finally arriving for people, with many of us never getting the email. My box arrived, though the outer packaging it came in was significantly damaged.  Thankfully the actual collector’s box inside the packaging was ok.

Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

Game Development

Play Release 57 Now!

Release 57 launched August 30, with backers downloading, patching, and logging in to check out the changes! There’s lots of new content to explore, including:

  • Player Made Dungeons Preview
  • Dyeable Decorations
  • Hide Helm Option
  • Quality of Life Improvements: Siege & Control Point Skipping, Global Banks
  • User Interface Polish: Health & Focus Bars, Vendor Button
  • “Full Water” Lots
  • Tons of Bug Fixes
  • Combat Balance
  • R54 Livestream Items: Tropical & Polynesian!
  • R55 Livestream Items: Lord British!
  • R57 QA Testing Incentive Winners
  • R56 Lot Deed Raffle Winners
  • …and much more!

Check out the Release 57 Instructions update for detailed information about all the new content.

Release 57 Player Instructions

Release 57 Known Issues

Release 54 Livestream(s) Items (cont.)

The Release 54 Livestream(s) items were all Tropical and Polynesian themed in honor of the summer months. Damon “enalNomad” Waldrip, Reid Rollo and Scott “Scottie” Jones have been busily working on creating them this release and they are turning out amazing! This week we are revealing the final remaining item: the Leaf Backpack, which will go live in Release 58.

Leaf Backpack (Scott “Scottie” Jones):

Shroud at Gamescom

Shroud of the Avatar was at Devcom and Gamescom last month in Cologne, Germany. Richard “Lord British” Garriott was there to support the Travian team and it was the first public appearance of the Retail Version of the box!

[From a forum post by Cerus]

Greetings Avatars,

We are now back from Gamescom 2018! A truly amazing experience for hundreds of thousands of gamers not only from Germany but from all around the world. We were happy to participate and to present Shroud of the Avatar at the Travian Games booth. Lord British himself came by to inspect and approve our setup.

We had a great time connecting, engaging, discussing and having fun with hundreds of roleplay gamers at our booth.

Additionally, every day we launched an interactive trivia event, in which our Grand Duke challenged the Seekers and Avatars who visited us.
Those of them, who were able to prove their knowledge about the Ultima lore, mythology, role-playing and medieval times, were greatly rewarded.

It was an amazing experience for us to engage with Lord British and the veteran Avatars.
Also, new Avatars have now found their way to New Britannia and will join us on this journey.

Thank you, Community, for making this journey possible.

Cerus & the Grand Duke

Release 56 Stretch Goals Final Results

Congratulations! On Friday, August 24, devs met another Release 56 Stretch Goal: the Aether Dragon Statue!

Here are the Release 56 stretch goals we are tracked during the release:

  • ACHIEVED $10K: Aether Lich Statue (Foyer Size)
  • ACHIEVED $25K: Aether 1H Sword and Aether Shield
  • ACHIEVED $35K: Double XP Every Weekend in August
  • ACHIEVED $50K: Aether Bow & Aether Crossbow
  • ACHIEVED $65K: Box of Replenishing Aether Dye
  • ACHIEVED $80K: Aether Dragon Statue (Village size)
  • $90K: Aether Axe, Aether 1H Spear, Aether 2H Bludgeon
  • $100K: Celestial Themed Wizard Robes

Release 57 Livestream: Dungeon Themed 

The Release 57 Livestream is set for Friday September 7! They will be doing deep dives, answering questions, having sales, handing out prizes, and tracking towards stretch goals. In honor of the upcoming Player Made Dungeons feature, the theme for this livestream is Dungeons, which are previewing in R57 and will go live as soon as Q4!

LIVESTREAM SCHEDULE (Central Time Zone)

Monthly livestreams are on Twitch and include answers to your gameplay questions, world building tours, prize giveaways, sales on items, and more! Here is the schedule:

  • 3PM: Introductions
  • 3:30PM: Deep Dive 1: Player Made Dungeons
  • 4:30PM: Q&A
  • 5:30PM: Deep Dive 2: Fishing
  • 6:30PM: Q&A
  • 7PM: Ending Announcements

STRETCH GOALS (Dungeon Themed!)

  • $10K: /rolldice
  • $25K: Flame Trap Decorations (non-harmful)
  • $35K: Candle Helm
  • $50K: Spike Trap & Arrow Trap Decorations (non-harmful)
  • $65K: Unique Dungeon Entrance Eternal Pattern
  • $80K: Torture Set: Torture Chair, Torture Table, Rack
  • $90K: Key Themed Weapon Set: Sword, Mace, Polearm
  • $100K: Unique Dungeon Room Blueprint

*Please keep in mind that stretch goal rewards take time to develop and will most likely not be available until Release 60 at the earliest. Devs will keep ppl updated!

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