AQ3D Design Notes/News/Patch Notes

They all have the same description. o_o And they're not even descriptions it's just telling you to complete Fortes's quest to craft the items.

It still doesn't. Inspecting a player doesn't even show the XP thing anymore, it only shows it for you.

I don't see any difference from before, seems kinda pointless for them to mention

 

NEW RANDOM ADVENTURE - FROST CASTLE!
Artix Krieger | Monday, July 10, 2017


JUST RELEASED! ADVENTUREQUEST 1.5 IS NOW LIVE ON ALL PLATFORMS....
Login to AdventureQuest 3D and go on adventures to encounter the Frost Castle, craft wands, craft new blades, hear sneevils (and other monsters), and more. Play or read on for details.



THE FROST CASTLE
Now when you go on a random adventure, there is a chance you will end up in the Frost Castle. It is unquestionably the best looking random adventure/dungeon yet... and I particularly like how the bridge takes you outside, giving a glimpse of the bigger world you are adventuring in.



WANDS! OUR 1ST EVER...
Are you the type of mage, wizard, warlock, erm... magic user who prefers casting spells with wands? Then you are in luck! Now you can craft wands at Cysero's forge. There are currently two types:

• Blue Glass Wand (Elegant and powerful)
• Bone Wand (For magic users who prefer.... the darkness)

THE ABYSS BLADE
Also check Cysero's forge for two versions of the Abyss Blade:

• Elegant Abyss Blade
• Abyss Blade

NEW SOUND MANAGER - LIVE!
Warlic did an overhaul of AdventureQuest 3D's sound engine. We now have monster soundFX, ambient tracks and music tracks. Best of all, any object in the game can now have 3D positional sound placed on it. We added some sounds on monsters... run around and battle stuff to see what they sound like. Give us feedback, because now that we have the new Sound Manager, we are going to do a HUGE pass to improve all of the game's sounds.

FIXES & UPDATES

• Added a "Lock Camera Zoom" option in Settings.
• The Quest panel has been updated to now show you where to go for any particular step of the quest that you are on.
• Increased the size of the "Track Quest" checkbox.
• Adjusted the slow fade in / in out of the camera.
• Inspecting a player will now show the correct amount of XP.
• Fixed missing textures in Guardian Tower.

COMING NEXT!
Greenguard Forest, Ashfall Part III, and the Bank (Including the new creature race and bank vault run) are in development now. I just approved the new female faces, and Oishii is working on expressions while Xero implements beards & braids. We will release the character improvements along with new hair styles, face customization options (eye color, etc), and the Barber Shop.

 

The new release was okay, but not the most spectacular release in the world.

Just a few things about the new release I'd like to point out.

1. The Descriptions Added to the Guardian Items

The description (more of an instruction on how to obtain the items) they added to the Guardian Tower craft shop items felt completely redundant considering that players will have to complete the 'Quality Ingredients' quest to access the craft shop in order to read the description anyway. What they could have done was add the description to the items in the Guardian Shop and Collector's Guardian Shop instead, but even that feels sort of redundant because you'll likely run through the Guardian quests when you get to the Guardian Tower. To be honest, it would have been nice to see descriptions that tell some brief story, not some instruction manual.

2. Presentation/Quality of the Release

So far I have found two grammatical errors in the new release. When going to a player who is in Bothvar's Castle (Frost Castle), the text will say "Bothvars Castle" instead of Bothvar's Castle. Also one of the monsters in the dungeon, the Ghostly Guardian, is plural even though it's one entity.

I did like that they used a unique texture for one of the bosses, the Deogoarth. It's certainly the first time we've seen a dragon like that in-game. I'll certainly farm for the new items (wands and blades), but probably won't use them as often.

 

BIG PROBLEMS
Artix Krieger | Tuesday, June 11, 2017



Pictured above: This is what happens when you go AFK on the development server.

TOP 5 BUGS IN ADVENTUREQUEST 3D
"When the coding gets tough... the tough get coding."
Yup, you saw a few new terrible bugs enter the game. We read your feedback and bug posts (Thank you!) and the time has come to unleash the bug spray bazooka. Grab your magical vorpal fly swatters of insect implosion +1 as we count down the top 5 bugs in AdventureQuest 3D-- and immediately squash them. *STOMPS* ...with fire *FIRE STOMPS*

#5 Weird things in the floor... worlds colliding
Did you ever enter a random dungeon and see an NPC's ! bubble sticking up through the floor? Want to know why it happens? Ready? *gulps* Multiple maps were all loaded at the exact same time. What!? How is this even possible!? Players have been reporting this for a really long time, but it happened so rarely we could not figure out what was causing it. But when we added random dungeons it started happening... a lot. Which is good news! (Well, not for those trapped between the worlds, but for figuring out why.) If turns out, clicking the random adventure button too many times, too fast, it causes your game client to load multiple maps! O_O. Not good. Which explains why you see bits and pieces from other maps sticking through the floor. There is no benefit to doing this since the server only allows you to be in one area at a time, and it knows where you really are. But having all those extra maps loaded causes additional problems. The coding team is almost done fixing this and plans a HOT PATCH to go out this week.

#4 No loot from Random Dungeons
We have had a lot of reports of players not getting loot from dungeons. Turns out... it was related to the multiple map bug! So fixing #5 will also fix this. Go HOT PATCH go!

#3 Pink Things
No, this is not simply about Artix's allergy to the color pink, I mean when in game things are totally 100% pink. As seen in the Guardian tower last week when a shrub went completely pink. (Or also how the Beta Berserker belt suddenly went flesh colored) Why does this happen? There are two reasons things can become completely pink in game. The 1st reason is if it is missing it's texture. That means the 3D model is there, but there is no art on top of it. This one is pretty rare, but like the Guardian Tower's pink shrub last week, it can happen after an update. The 2nd reason if if your video card does not support some fancy pants thing we are trying to do. Good news, is that AdventureQuest 3D was created to support as many devices as possible so you should not see this problem. (Remember that one time a player was unable to run the game because they had a super old video card and we sent them a new video card?)

#2 Falling through the Floor of a Dungeon
Last Mogloween, before we started getting rid of dungeon keys, before we had scaling dungeons, we had one of the most notorious bugs ever-- falling through the floor! We tried a lot of things to fix this one, but it mysteriously kept popping back. Turns out... it is ALSO related to bug #5 on this list (surprise!) and they are attempting to 100% solve it as part of the upcoming hot patch.

#1 Stuck in Combat Bug
We saved the BEST (actually, WORST) for #1. Sometimes, after fighting monsters, you just remain... stuck in combat. If this has ever happened to you, it is the worst. Because you cannot travel, change class, interact with NPCs, or a lot of other things while in combat. Why does this happen? Every monster in the game has secret list called "The Aggro Table". When you attack a monster, or it is hotile and notices you, then you are added to its list. Which basically means it will hunt you until someone is X_X dead or you run far enough away that it gives up and goes back to where it came from. There are a few weird cases where server gets confused and you get stuck on a list that no longer exists-- maybe not too weird, because it happens a lot. It is/was not an easy fix. This is because it was so deeply rooted in the details of our combat system that... well, just imagine Zhoom putting on a surgeon's coat, gloves, and performing open heart surgery on the video game. Well, imagine he had done it... because he already has. Cross your fingers and do any appropriate special magic dances because the upcoming hot patch may very well solve the Stuck in Combat bug too!

HOT PATCH!
Hot Patch....

Bring the heat....

Hot Patch...

Feel the burn....

Hot Patch....

Melt our video game's bugs in your scorching inferno....

Hot Pocket...

It is snack time.

...

Dang it, did I forget to eat lunch again?

HOT PATCH COMING!
AdventureQuest 3D's Version 1.5.1b2 "Bug Burning Inferno" Hot Patch is in testing now, and scheduled for submission and release this week.

 

Artix Krieger (@ArtixKrieger)
Dage just sent me a sketch up of the Portal Activator.


Source: Twitter

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I think Portal Activators will be like destination points you arrive in when you enter a portal or something, sort of like a checkpoint to save you from walking all the way from the spawn.

 

NET NEUTRALITY DAY
Cysero | Wednesday, July 12, 2017



A DAY FOR ACTION
Today is the Net Neutrality Day Of Action when companies, institutions and individuals across the globe are speaking out to draw attention to the U.S. Government's continued attempts to regulate access to the internet.

WHAT IS NET NEUTRALITY
Net Neutrality is a good thing. It is the idea that every Internet Service Provider allows access to every website and application equally without favoring one over another.

MichaelCthulhu explains it very well in this video.



It's Pay2Win for ISPs.

Let's use AQW as an example. Right now Netflix, Google, Amazon and AQ.com all have the same ability to deliver content to you. Even though the first three are WAY bigger than Artix Entertainment, the ISPs (Internet Service Providers) keep data flowing at the same rate for everyone.

IF NET NEUTRALITY FALLS
However... if the U.S. Government allows Net Neutrality to die, the IPSs will have the power to charge content providers for better access. Large companies like Netflix will basically HAVE to pay to get the best delivery speeds or suffer... and smaller companies like AE that can't afford to pay as much as the big companies will have their content flow choked off.

WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU
AQW (and our other web games) would start lagging because our delivery speeds would be restricted to whatever we could afford

ISP's would have the power to kill off any peer-to-peer applications entirely which is how a lot of games like Word of Warcraft deliver patches and updates.

Smaller websites and web based businesses would die off because they can't afford to access their customers at acceptable internet speeds.

ISP's could sell Package Deals like cable TV providers so you would have to pay to have things like YouTube and Reddit on your internet bill to get the best access to them, or possibly access them at all.

This also means that content providers (like AE) would probably have to charge YOU more to try and stay competitive.

IT GOES DEEPER
It doesn't just stop here in the United States, either.

Those who pay would be able to get their messages out faster, better and louder which would change the political landscape as well as have lasting repercussions on international trade.

WHO SUPPORTS NET NEUTRALITY
Here's a short list of entities who are supporters of net neutrality.

• Cysero
• Google
• Twitch
• Reddit
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Amazon
• Mozilla
• Netflix
• Imgur
• Spotify
• Tumblr
• BitTorent
• the ACLU
• Change.org
• The EFF
• Every Youtuber that I could find with an opinion on it
• ... even certain adult places that rhyme with HornPub

That's just a few of the larger and more well known names (except my name but this is my post so nyah). The list of people who defend Net Neutrality goes on and on.

WHO IS FOR ENDING NET NEUTRALITY
Basically this whole thing is motivated by greed so let's follow the money. Here's who want to end net neutrality...

• The Internet Service Providers (AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner, etc)
• U.S. Politicians who have been lobbied by the ISPs.

YOU CAN DO SOMETHING!
Thankfully, here in the United States the people still have a voice and the Federal Communications Commission (the FCC) wants to hear what you have to say if you live within the USA.

Just follow THIS LINK , click the "EXPRESS" link in the upper right of the page and fill out the form. Be sure to let the FCC know that you SUPPORT NET NEUTRALITY!



If you're under 18, have your parents fill it out for you. You are filing a document into an official FCC proceeding. All information submitted, including names and addresses, will be publicly available via the web.

Thanks, heroes.

 

07/17/2017 *NEW*
1.5.1 fixes and updates

• Fixed an issue where maps could get merged together.
• Fixed an issue where you could spawn into the map at the wrong spot.
  • This should fix the "spawning outside the map" as well as the "spawn and fall through the floor" bug.
  • This should also fix the bug where spawning in a map would put you in combat or aggro a mob from inside the map.
• Fixed an issue where loot would not drop for your character which happened as a result of the map merging bug.
• Fixed an issue where the player could get "stuck" in combat mode from a mob that had already died or been leashed.
• Fixed an issue with Item Previews breaking on Android devices.
• The Quest Tracker will now point you to the closest mob that is needed for your tracked Quest.
• Updated almost (almost!) every quest from Heartwood to Ashfall pt. 1 with easier objectives as well as improved drop rates. This includes dungeon quests.
  • Quest chains in Snevlyn Wilds, Whitaker Forest and Silverstone Mines can now be completed while inside the dungeon.

 

FIXED IT! ADVENTUREQUEST
Artix Krieger | Monday, July 17, 2017


AdventureQuest 3D's Top 10 Bugs have just been fixed!
Well met friends.... our hot fix is live! I have never been happier to write a design notes post. Update your AdventureQuest 3D game on Steam, Android, or Apple to get the bug slaying, glitch stomping, error eradicating new version (1.5.1)

Say farewell to the Combat Bug, Falling through dungeon floors, and malformed maps because...





A summary of what has been fixed
Kudos to the the AQ3D testers, Oishii, Zhoom, the coding team, and you, for seeing this through.

• Fixed an issue where the player could get "stuck" in combat mode from a mob that had already died or been leashed.
• Fixed an issue with Item Previews breaking on Android devices.
• The Quest Tracker will now point you to the closest mob that is needed for your tracked Quest.
• Fixed an issue where maps could get merged together.
• Fixed an issue where you could spawn into the map at the wrong spot.
  • This should fix the "spawning outside the map" as well as the "spawn and fall through the floor" bug.
  • This should also fix the bug where spawning in a map would put you in combat or aggro a mob from inside the map.
• Fixed an issue where loot would not drop for your character which happened as a result of the map merging bug.
• Updated almost (almost!) every quest from Heartwood to Ashfall pt. 1 with easier objectives as well as improved drop rates. This includes dungeon quests.
• Quest chains in Snevlyn Wilds, Whitaker Forest and Silverstone Mines can now be completed while inside the dungeon.
• A large number of smaller issues that were symptoms of the issues fixed above.

We must remain ever vigilant!
Be ever on guard, my Open Beta Brothers and Sisters... we have a lot of new features coming between now and AdventureQuest 3D's official launch on Friday the 13th, this October. But first, this week we are aiming to open up the Battleon Bank. Meanwhile, we are testing out Rabblefroth's recently re-balanced base classes. (I love the mage's ultimate skill) Then onto Greenguard, Ashfall Part 3, new customization, faces, and hair with the Barber shop, every other building in Battleon, and then raise the level cap with the next Saga. Battle on!

 

BANK TO THE FUTURE
Artix Krieger | Tuesday, July 18, 2017



"What do you call a hero that pays to have a vampire bite them? ...Fools Ghoul'd!"
So, have you ever wondered what it actually looked like inside one of your bank vaults? You are about to find out. The bank is opening next in AdventureQuest! If you have been following our previous design notes... then you already know, this release is (literally) for the birds. The bank of Battleon is run by Ornithons-- a race of avian beings. You know what they say, "birds of a feather, do stocks together."

Battle plan! Our release schedule...
Why are we releasing the bank now? An excellent question, thank you for asking Last week we were informed by the coding team that we needed to freeze / lock down the game for a week so they could implement some big complicated, fancy pants engine-level thing they are working on. Apparently it requires them to update every map in the game and will go all kaaboom-pop-explody if we try to release something while they are doing it. We wanted to release Greenguard or Ashfall Part 3 before they started, but these areas not fully cooked yet -- still waiting on some essential animation, assets, and in the case of Greenguard... a main game-wide story character which Thyton is working on (This character carries a fantasy weapon I have never seen in a game before.) ... and balancing. Yergen has been working on the interiors of the shops in the Town of Battleon. The Bank was mostly done-- it is a small but really fun adventure. Exactly the size of something we could finish before the temporary code-freeze. So that, is why the bank is releasing first. While the code freeze is taking place we will finish Greenguard Forest and release it with or after the next patch.

Bonus Story
The reason I titled this post "Bank to the Future" was not just for my love of the time traveling movie that ultimately inspired and brought us Rick and Morty >_> but because the original plot I wrote for the Bank starred a Chronomancer. Could not let these "dank puns" to go to waste. Alas, the awesome plot thing I wanted to do was brutally slain by not being able talk to yourself in a cutscene...yet :-( So we are going to save that for another adventure in... the future... Morty! The future!

 

I'm so hype for the new bank

 

They put a BOSS in the vaults OMG hahahahahhahaah!!!! This is going to be fun..it reminded me of harry potter and Lestrange's vault...

 

BREAKING THE BANK
Artix Krieger | Friday, July 21, 2017



Coming next week to AdventureQuest 3D
"Well, that was a surprise! Looking at the building from the outside... a regular person would think that the Bank was going to be a super tiny release."

I listen. Not perfectly. No one can be perfect, we are only human(-ish). But I do my very best to listen to feedback and make changes. Which is why a random comment from a player on my previous post has us making a very BIG change to the bank. In addition to the adventures/dungeons, we are making a non-scaling level 5 (with a special section for level 17) vault map for you to explore and quest in. We are calling it, "The Master Vault".

New Items coming with the Bank

The bank release will include a full new set of armor, along with fancy top hats and a monocle (mono-kill?). Reaching the highest level of Bank Vault Security will allow you to craft a very unique gem-eyed Ornathon skull (head replacement). We are also adding a second upgrade to your Nightlocke weapons which will allow you to make them level 17. Finally, we have two purely cosmetic Ornathon items for DragonCrystals (about 500ish). Oh, I nearly forgot to tell you! Completing the Bank security quests will also earn you... an additional free BANK SLOT! (UPDATE: Erm, correction-- WILL give you a free vault once we roll the next Game Client patch since it is not working in the current one.)

 

If someone has all 7 vaults already, I wonder if the "additional free bank slot" becomes the 8th

 

Wait by a free bank slot is it like a whole set like 30, or just 1 extra slot -.-

 

Everyone gets 1 whole set (30 slots)

 

what is the name of that hammer on the pic and can u tell me how to get it??

 

That hammer is called Iron DragonSlayer Warhammer. It can be found at the Dragonslayer Tent by clicking on any weapon rack

 

Probably. It would be unfair for players who have all 7 vaults not to get a free one, or maybe AE would compensate those players some DCs. I think there would be a separate tab for free vaults.

 

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thx for your information dude