http://www.demonwar.net/index.php en-us CuteNews http://www.demonwar.net/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1241640657&archive= 1241640657 Wed, 06 May 2009 21:10:57 +0100 http://www.demonwar.net/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1236809154&archive=
Let me start by saying, if you haven't checked out the game for a few months, you probably should. So much has changed since the earlier days, i'll outline all the major changes below with a few screenshots.

Thanks to everyone who has helped with the alpha testing, it's been a great help, we hope to be at beta within a couple of weeks at the most after we implement the last few major features and reset the characters. I'll be sending out a mailshot fairly soon to let everyone know the 2nd phase of testing is about to start.

OK, on with the important stuff... what's happened with the game?

1) Dungeon Crawling - We have implemented several locations which have crawlable locations. Once in the location there are monsters located around to battle, once the area is clear, the 'boss' shows himself, providing you with a tougher battle (but yielding greater loot)





2) Familiars - You can now buy a creature to train and fight by your side. Creatures will give you a slight stat bonus in battle. For a fee you can pay a Familiar Whisperer to train your beast while you are away from the computer (up to 8 hours of training)



3) Trading Posts- Prices or market items fluctuate daily and vary from city to city. Buy items in one city for a low price, travel to a nearby city and sell for a profit (and it's safer than crawling dungeons!)



4) Jobs and Reputation - You now have a choice on what kind of adventurer you want to be, and the jobs you pick will affect your characters reputation and alignment. Doing too many "questionable" tasks will eventually earn you an evil reputation, but with this comes some benefits, certain weapons and equipment are only available to evil (and good) characters and the more you sway in one direction, the greater rewards for questing become unlocked





Summary of other features we have implemented:
- Character Profiles updates
- User avatars now available to upload
- Enhanced evil scavenge 'Steal' which yields higher returns but runs the risk of being sent to Rotten Bay prison island for 15 minutes - other prisoners are free to attack though!
- Player-vs-Player battles
- Hospitals, heal up without having to manage potions, available in most major cities (and where you will wake up if you die)
- Weapon store improvements and item filters
- Some ranged weapons have been implemented (and more to come soon)
- Battles no longer load a full new screen, no refresh required. The battle stats now appear in the dashboard as they happen (see below)

Still to come (within the next week or two):
- Skill/Spell Tree (partially complete)
- Vehicles/Caravans to increase Trade capacity
- Gamblers Den to make a return
- Probably a few things I can't think of (but I'll edit this as I do)

Anyway, one last screenshot eh? The new dashboard layout after running into an enemy.

]]> 1236809154 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:05:54 +0000 http://www.demonwar.net/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1235414806&archive= This book describes Novacastria - a city reborn from the devastation that was the Daemornia!

Using the material in this book you can build a Daemornia campaign on Earth, where the forces of humanity are starting to reach out and discover what has happened to their world in dark decades before. They will be in for some surprises.

As well as the city of Novacastria , the surrounding environs are detailed, and everything you read will have clues and hooks that lead to adventure.
A pivotal concept in the material is the relationship between Daemonic magic, and Gurri magic. The Gurri (Australian aboriginals) have an ancient mythology, steeped in magic that appears even older than that of the Daemons, and is likewise rooted in primal energies.

Not every outcome in this book is set in stone - the various possibilities are described, and the GM and players can chose which path their campaign will take. Will subterfuge and cunning be the order of the day, or will strength-of-arms see the players through? The choice is yours.

A complete history, from Gondwana to Aboriginal, to Colonial, Modern and Daemornia.

The complexity of current Politics

Maps and location guides.

Outside the City and the Hunter Valley.

Things to see and do in Novacastria

A detailed guide to the entire local area, including Stockton, Mayfield, Civic, the Shipyard, Walls-End, the Abandoned Steelworks and much more!

Includes four new career paths for your character

available from these places:

RPGNOW

DRIVETHRURPG

FLAMESRISING]]> 1235414806 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:46:46 +0000 http://www.demonwar.net/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1233706766&archive=
We have been working on updating the security on the site, there have been a lot of big server side changes and there will likely be a few niggly bugs while browsing the site. Just incase you see this before the forums are back online... post any errors you are having either in this comment or go to battlegroundsonline.net and post on the forums there (they are linked anyway so you will be able to see the demonwar folders)

Cheers :)

ooh, also... dungeon crawl is nearly finished :)]]> 1233706766 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:19:26 +0000 http://www.demonwar.net/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1231233136&archive=


There are still many features to come but traveling the map currently allows your character to:

Be attacked by random monsters
Take on missions to hunt down a specific creature
Travel from location to location, each location having different resources (market, bank, catacombs etc.)
View which other characters are in the same location (ability to directly attack coming soon)
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Leveling up now fills up your stats to max
Regen bonuses now in place and working

Other than that we have been bug fixing and trying to balance the game.

In the coming weeks we will be bug-testing and adding new features relating to the map. The store needs attention (it seems to keep getting bumped to the bottom of the list) so we should be picking that up this week.]]> 1231233136 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:12:16 +0000 http://www.demonwar.net/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1229415436&archive=
Just thought I'd post a snapshot of how the alpha testing is going:

developers notes
to give you an idea of what is coming (will try to keep updated)

Working On Right Now:

Revisiting and rethinking the method of training

View other players profiles and related character information (not including equips, physical stats and denzon)

Longer protection from being attacked by the same person

Potions implemented to be tested

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Features coming soon

Create a basic game guide to explain the fundemental game mechanics

Injured Status after being killed, leaving character unable to perform any physical actions (training, hunting etc.) for x minutes

Finish equipment stats and bonuses

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Complete

Setting attack restrictions - 15 min protection after being attacked

Regenration bonuses now working

Searching now costs denzon

Hunt History

Community Charts

Sorted exp progress bar

A stash for your characters denzon

Hunting for other Characters: Note that characters can only be targeted once per hour.

Store now rotates items regularly

Ability to delete / remove characters

Increased HP heal rate to 20% temporarily

Endurance now reduces according to the number of rounds in a hunt

Exhaustion: if a character runs out of Endurance during a hunt, other attributes are affected.

Able to sell equipment

]]> 1229415436 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:17:16 +0000 http://www.demonwar.net/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1228923582&archive=
One added bonus is that it's much busier than we imagined, and with this kind of constant activity we will have this alpha ironed out in no time.

I'll start posting all our major updates and fixes in this blog for those of you waiting for Beta (or full release) just so you can track our progress. Feel free to join in if your curiosity gets the better of you :P

And for those who are taking part in the testing, keep the ideas coming and thanks for taking part :)]]> 1228923582 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:39:42 +0000 http://www.demonwar.net/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1228785492&archive=
Check your mail and check your spam. If it lands in your spam PLEASE mark it as Not spam/junk mail so your email provider gets the picture that we are not sending unsolicited emails.

Have fun :) And please report any bugs (and yes, there will be a lot of them.. along with some half-finished features) in the forums.

Cheers,

ShavenLunatic]]> 1228785492 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:18:12 +0000 http://www.demonwar.net/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1228571759&archive=
Be sure to check your junk/spam mail folders as with this being a new email address it tends to get dumped into spam, if this does happen, just click the "Not Spam" button (or whatever the equivalent is with your mail provider) and it will register us as trusted. If you don't want to receive any more mails just reply with unsubscribe

OK, back to work, thanks for you patience - still i don't think we did so bad with getting to Alpha stage in about 8 weeks and also managed to cram in:

- 1 marriage
- 2 birthdays
- 2 redundancy risks
- 1 set of printable battlegrounds ccg cards prepared for the new year

Check your mail in about 24 hours :)

Shaven
]]> 1228571759 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:55:59 +0000 http://www.demonwar.net/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1227573059&archive=
There should be some big updates on the game coming soon and we are hoping to get some of you logged in just to test some basics before next week... so woo


also, I should really fix these almost invisible smilies...]]> 1227573059 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:30:59 +0000