Yearly Archives: 2007

Age of Armor: Space War

Space War
It is the time to conquer the Space now!
Age of Armor 2nd Close Beta test has been running very smoothly, and thanks to those Mech fans, thanks for their in time bug reports and their suggestions, they are really doing us a big favor. To show our thanks for their help, we are going to open the high leveled PvP area—Space War. This is a special PvP area, as it is not only for the opposite site, but also for the one side civil war, that is to say, it is a free for all area, the kill mode is auto activated as one enter the area, the last one wins. However, if one just want to slay the monsters there for high level equipment, they can turn of the killing mode, but it only can keep one from civil fight, it have no effect on opposite sides.
The Space war consist of several areas, each area spawns some unique monsters, those monsters are of high level many of them are belong to enforced type and the bring high ranked armor parts, to collect those rank 17+ armor parts, one need to prove his courage and wisdom, as he is not just slaying the Monsters, he is fighting with other players who have the same aim. Wits contest would be the most interesting things for an MMO RPG..
Space War, opens in next week, for the most challenging game style, you won’t miss it anyway!
For more news, please visit our official site:
www.aoaus.com

Gewben

ZU Online Dev Diary #1

Zu Online—http://zu.igg.com is a unique combination of two hugely popular genres, martial arts and the fantasy RPG online game. Some Ancient Chinese martial arts and legends have been absorbed into this game, to totally immerse players in a fantasy Chinese environment.
In order to make Zu Online a beautifully polished gem among all the enormous online games available, the developers are continuously improving and working on the game. Because the game is continuously undergoing changes and improvements, the designers have been reluctant to part with many details. However, once we get important news from them, we want to share it with our loyal players to give you a special preview of what is to come.
The development team is adding a new system to the game which will definitely distinguish Zu Online from other similar games. The new system is full of distinctly Chinese features, many Ancient Chinese buildings and scenery have been added to the new system and from the screenshots that have already been released, we can see new scenery such as the “Crystal Wall” and the “Ancient Skerry” as well as new monsters, such as the “Rush Fish”.
You can head over to the below URL for more detailed description: http://zu.igg.com/news/newscon.php?aid=155

Rush Fish

Ancient Skerry

Voyage Century: Item Old for New Event

An Item Old for New activity will be held in Voyage Century (http://vc.igg.com) on Sep.25, 2007. The VCO groups provide players a good opportunity to renew their old equipments according to their requirements and to help them out on the difficulty of finding suitable equipments after upgrading in this activity.

Content: GMs will appear in Athens at a definite time. Players can exchange their equipment with GMs if you meet the requirements.
Rules: You can make use of the guild system to increase your attributes or upgrade with the help of items in the shops. There is no limitation. You can obtain rewards if you can finish.
Flow of the activity:
&. Hand GMs your items to identify them in the trade interface.
&. Confirm it and register your relevant information.
&. You can be online after 24 hours and then exchange your rewards with GMs.
& Non-Dragon equipment
Old equipment (weapons, clothes, or hats) + definite additive attributes (Attack) +45=New equipment
Old equipment (clothes) + definite additive attributes (Defense) +45=New equipment
Old equipment (hats) + definite additive attributes (Defense) +45=New equipment
& Dragon equipment
From Flame Dragon to Green Dragon
Old equipment (weapons, clothes, or hats) + definite additive attributes (Attack) +55=New equipment
Old equipment (clothes) + definite additive attributes (Defense) +55=New equipment
Old equipment (hats) + definite additive attributes (Defense) +55=New equipment
From Green Dragon to Golden Dragon
Old equipment (weapons, clothes, or hats) + definite additive attributes (Attack) +61=New equipment
Old equipment (clothes) + definite additive attributes (Defense) +61=New equipment
Old equipment (hats) + definite additive attributes (Defense) +61=New equipment
From Golden Dragon to White Dragon
Old equipment (weapons) + definite additive attributes (Attack) +65=New equipment
Old equipment (clothes) + definite additive attributes (Defense) +65=New equipment
Old equipment (hats) + definite additive attributes (Defense) +65=New equipment
From White Dragon to Black Dragon
Old equipment (weapons) + definite additive attributes (Attack) +70=New equipment
Old equipment (clothes) + definite additive attributes (Defense) +70=New equipment
Old equipment (hats) + definite additive attributes (Defense) +70=New equipment

For more information, please visit the official site: http://vc.igg.com

Tales of Pirates: Triple Prizes Monthly Kick-off

Triple giveaway, triple surprise. Here comes surprising news for all Tales of Pirates (http://top.igg.com) players. IGG is proposing a large monthly giveaway for both new and old players in Tales of Pirates. Jump in and grab the opportunity for generous prize and multiple items. Good chance passes likes a shooting star.

Event Time: From Sep 20th to Oct 20th

Details of the event as below:
First Round (Novice): Once you have successfully registered, you are able to receive a newbie package of seven cakes and a skill book while logging onto the website and entering the game key.

Second Round (30+ characters created on or after Sep 20th are valid): When you reach level 30, you can buy a 99 Point Card worth 5 USD at the cost of one cent.

Third Round (50+ characters created on or after Sep 20th are valid): When you reach level 30 or above have the opportunity to join the Lottery Event and receive rich rewards.

Rewards include:
First Prize (one in total): One iPod Touch (16GB)
Second Prizes (two in total): One iPod Touch (8GB) for each
Third Prizes (four in total): One iPod Nano (4GB) for each
Fourth Prizes (eight in total): One colorful iPod Shuffle for each
Encouraging Prizes (twenty in total): One Level-8 amazing Fairy Pet for each!
For more about this event, please visit our official site: http://top.igg.com.

Top Secret: New Scenes of GodsWar Online

With the constant release of material and scenes, GodsWar Online (http://gw.igg.com) has steadily grown in popularity with many players and closed Alpha Testing for the game will be here soon. In order to create a fantastic world with all the characteristics of Greek Mythology, our designers have been steadily improving the scenery viewing quality. Below are some improved pictures for you:
http://gw.igg.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=830&page=1&extra=page%3D1#pid35725

OnNet USA announces Heroes in the Sky Closed Beta Test

San Jose, CA September 18th, 2007 – OnNet USA announced today that the closed beta test will begin today from 4pm-7pm PST and end on September 20th. Each day (9/18-9/20) the closed beta test will be for three (3) hours only, from 4pm-7pm.

Heroes in the Sky is the premier World War II flight combat simulation massively multi-player online game. Gamers can play against the system or against a multitude of other people from around the world. There are 2 exciting maps (The Pacific and Normandy) and dozens of realistic weapons to choose from throughout the game. The Dog fighting feature offers gamers three options: Survival, Deathmatch and team Deathmatch.

Realistic historical graphics and fighting sequences make this game a non-stop adventure for gamers who enjoy combat games as well as those who enjoy historical realism in games. The online component adds an element of excitement since players are able to engage in battle with people from all over the world.

Gamers wishing to be part of Heroes in the Sky can visit his.gamescampus.com and create an account for free.

“We are extremely excited to bring Heroes in the Sky to our gamers. This game offers many hours worth of enjoyment as they fly their way through a variety of missions, “said Chris Keswani, Team Leader, Heroes in the Sky.

Tales of Pirates: Costume-Design Contest

Here is good news from IGG for Tales of Pirates (http://top.igg.com) players that an interesting costume-design contest will be held in ToP Forum in order to let more players display their artistic talents. You can not only design a costume which only suits your characters, but also demonstrates your artistic vision to other people.
Note: We’ll adopt your idea if your work is creative and practical enough. You will receive the costume which you designed as soon as we make it, our Mall Hall will display your art as well.

Time: Sep 20 –Oct 20
Venue: TOP Media Overview (http://top.igg.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=75)

Rules:
1: Plagiarism is prohibited; if players are caught using others’ thoughts or ideas will be forced to quit the contest..
2: Players can name their own costume within 20 characters. The work should be handed in to appointed venue with “design” as the topic.
3: The work can’t contain violence, pornography, racism and sick topics.
4: In order to make sure your work will be adopted by us, please don’t change the proportions of your characters.
5: Players should illustrate the costume from all four points of view so we have a complete picture to work from. This includes the front, the back and each side.
6: The comments from the forum will be a part of the reference for the contest; though our company staff will make the final decision.

Rewards:
Winner (1): 500 Mall points
The Second Place (2): 300 Mall points
The Third Place (3): 200 Mall points
Encouragement Award: 100 Mall points

For more about it, please visit the official site: http://top.igg.com.

Intent SoftwareÂ’s free MMORPG Astonia goes live

Intent Software’s free MMORPG Astonia goes live

Hamburg, September 19, 2007. Intent Software officially launches the new Astonia® world named Urd. During the one month beta test Astonia attracted 10.000 registered players. Astonia is free to play. Players can upgrade to paid premium accounts, which offer even more game features.

The game world formerly known as Astonia 3 will now be known as the “Hel” server. Urd and Hel are names from ancient Norse mythology.

WYD Global Interview

Questions by Brian Perry Jr.
Answered by WYD Global

Onrpg: Some players are aware of the sequel to this game, “Supreme Destiny”. Where did it come from in reference to the original WYD?
Basically, Supreme Destiny is not a sequel to With Your Destiny Global. The two games may be similar but actually WYD Global is an international version and caters most players coming from every country around the world. Supreme Destiny on the other hand, is published locally on several countries. WYD Global is published primarily by its developers Hanbitsoft and JoyImpact.

Onrpg: What makes this game different than the others on the market right now?
With Your Destiny Global have a lot of unique features that you don’t often see on other MMORPG. First of all is the game’s Auto Combat system in which the players can actually leave their characters to automatically hunt monsters and eventually level up. This feature is added to the game to prevent the use and download of illegal third party program that can be used to infiltrate the game. This feature also enables all the players to do several things while leaving their characters do the hunting automatically. Also this new feature allows the players to increase their character’s level much faster. With Your Destiny Global provides a nonstop 24 hours online costumer support to all the questions and inquiries of all the players. Players may send all their questions to our GMs and can expect an immediate reply or action within 10 – 20 minutes.
Another feature we have on WYD Global is the variety of events we conduct in order to satisfy all our players desire in the game.

Onrpg: How many classes are there and what does each one do?
With Your Destiny Global have 4 character classes a player can choose from. These are the Transknight, Foema, Beastmaster and Hunter. The abilities and skills of all the characters will depend on the build that you choose. Take note that all the character classes have 3 specific Skill Mastery and 8 skills in every mastery. So players will have the freedom to choose the abilities they want to have depending on their perspective.

The Transknight is the typical melee warrior which has AOE skills that can easily take down even a mob of monsters. Depending on your build, the Transknight can be a tanker dealing massive damage and having high health points and defense by choosing skills from the Trans Mastery. The Transknight can also be a magic user by choosing skills from Magic Sword Mastery. Lastly the Transknight can also use combination of defensive and assistance skills from the Faith Mastery.

The Foema can be a support type character by using healing skills, resurrecting dead party members and inflicting holy damage to enemies and curing status ailments like poison by choosing the skills on White Magic Mastery. The Foema can also inflict massive magical damage to its enemies by using skills on the Black Magic Mastery. The Foema can have a variety of attack and defensive enhancing skills and enabling her to summon party members on the Special Magic Mastery.

The Beastmaster on the other hand, can use elemental magic among its foes and can also enhance his attack and defense in the Element Mastery. The Beastmaster can also summon variety of animals to help him in battle with the skills in the Summon Mastery. Also, using skills on the Nature Mastery will enable the Beastmaster to transform himself into a werewolf, werebear and others to inflict massive damage to all its enemies.

The Hunter is the typical character that can have high evasion and can inflict very massive damage to all its enemies. Her first skill mastery, the Survival Mastery enables her to successfully evade and enhance her defense. The Hunter also has the advantage to items whether by selling or buying with her skills on the Trade Mastery. While learning skills on the Capture Mastery enables her to enhance her evasion and inflict lots of damage to any enemies.

Onrpg: WYD allows you to do something interesting in terms of setting some automatic commands. Will you elaborate on these two game mechanics?
WYD Global has a feature called the Auto Combat System in which players can set their characters to automatically hunt monsters and eventually level up on its own without the need to download illegal third party programs. The Auto Combat system allows you to set 3 Combat Control Mode (C.C Mode) depending on your preference. Using the Auto Combat System allows you to automatically attack or cast magic on the monsters to help you level up faster. You can set the C.C Mode to make your character use Physical Attack, Magic Attacks or automatically use potions or feeds. The potions will be used when you reached a certain percentage of hp (90, 50, 30%). The Auto Combat System also has 3 movement settings the Stationary Hunting, Free Movement Hunting, and the Fixed Range Hunting. On the Stationary hunting, your character will stay on its location and only attack monsters that are closed to him. On the Free Movement hunting, your character will constantly move to its closest target. While on Fixed Range hunting, your character will move to its closest target and will return to its original position.

With Your Destiny Global also provide an Auto Item Looting which allows you to automatically place the items you receive from a monster in your inventory. This system greatly goes along with the Auto Combat System because you will never need to worry about the items that may have dropped from your enemy while you were away from your keyboard.

Onrpg: How will players be entertained when they reach the so called “end game” when they are near the level cap?
WYD Global is currently on its Episode 1 and right now we can see a lot of high level players. But having a character with high level doesn’t mean that the excitement in the game is over. All the players can look forward to new and exciting events and surprises happening to WYD Global. So these high level characters will not loose their interest in the game. In With Your Destiny Global a character that reached its maximum level in mortal class will be able to create a new God Class character. These God Class characters will have to start again in level 1 but they will be much powerful compared to the mortal class because they can now have access to new skills, weapons, armors and even mounts. The information on the God Class characters will be revealed on the later episodes on With Your Destiny Global. For now we are continuously providing the players with new events and surprises that will definitely keep them hooked in the game. Expect to see a lot more events, updates, and surprises in the future.

Onrpg: What sorts of PvP will be available for players to participate in?
First the game provides areas where in Player Killing or PK can be done. Usually, you can always kill other player from your opposing kingdom on these PK Areas.
Next is WYD Global conducts a Guild War every week. On the Guild War, all the guilds battle it out to determine who will be next owner of the towns. A Guild can challenge the current Guild that owns a specific town by placing a bid. The Guild with the highest bid to the challenger Guild will have the chance to go to the Guild War at the end of the week. The Guild that successfully win the Guild War can enjoy benefits like having to take over a specific spot and as well as collecting certain percentage of tax inside the town.

The next PvP System on WYD Global is the Siege War. On the Siege War, the two kingdoms of the game will fight to determine the ruler of the Noatun Castle. This war is massive because all the knights from the two opposing kingdoms can join in the fight. All the Guild Leaders of every guild in the two kingdoms can fight to have the chance to claim the Noatun Castle. The Guild that successfully claimed the castle will enjoy many benefits like having the chance to collect all the taxes on all the towns in the map.

There is also a new PvP system coming on WYD Global which will be called Channel Wars. In this new PvP System players will be able to face all the other players coming from the other servers and collide in one big war. The new PvP System had been finally been developed and is now ready to be implemented in the game. This new PvP System will be released very soon. Also, there are new updates and system being developed on WYD, so expect to see more surprises on the days to come. 

Onrpg: How often can players expect new content to be released?
Players of WYD Global can expect to see different events happening almost every month. These events are carefully planned by our staffs and will surely provide excitement to all our players. Also, we are carefully planning the release of the future episodes of WYD Global. These new episodes of With Your Destiny Global will not be solely dedicated to all the old players but also for the new ones. We will make sure that all new players will never be left behind and will continuously enjoy playing WYD Global.

Onrpg: Will there be any events run on the servers live by the GM staff?
Yes, our GMs really participate in our events just like what we are having right now in the Open Military Academy Event. In this event the goal is to help everyone about their questions inside the game and also having a series of activities that can help them level up faster. Our GMs act as the Guild Leaders of guilds in all the servers. Our GMs are always interacting with the Sub Guild Leaders or Guild Chiefs which are actually in-game operators of WYD Global. These Sub Guild Leaders perform all the activities scheduled every day and constantly monitored by the Guild Leaders which are the GMs.

Onrpg: What class do you personally like to play and why?
Actually, all the character classes have its advantages and unique abilities. But I prefer more to use a Foema because this character can have many options to choose from in terms of skills. A Foema can be a Black Foema dealing massive damage to all enemies with the use of her black magic skills. A Foema can also become a White Foema that can have supportive skills giving you the ability to heal yourself and your party members, resurrect dead party members, cure negative ailments and as well as do holy damage to enemies. Lastly a Foema can also become a Battle Foema, a very deadly melee warrior by having skills that can greatly enhance your attack and defensive capabilities. Try to check all the character classes in With Your Destiny Global and choose the best one that suits you.