Shards Online Prepares For Alpha With Server Wipe And Preview Weekend
Citadel Studios announced last night via its newsletter that it is preparing to move Shards Online from Pre-Alpha to Alpha. Some of the features included in the Alpha Preview update, which will serve as the final update before Alpha, are as follows.
- Player Parties and Group Looting.
- Fishing - Who is going to be the first to catch a rare Golden Aetherfish?
- The Prizm Lounge - Founders Tier VIP Club with Exclusive Items / Quests
- (PvP) Criminal System - Risk vs reward through criminal and murderer player flags.
- (PvP) Guild Allegiance - Pledge yours guilds in allegiance to the Gods of Water or Fire and claim victory in their name!
- (PvP) Combat Balance - major revisions to spells, abilities & damage.
- New Spells and Combat Abilities: Greater Heal, Poison, Cure, Onslaught, Leap and more.
- Interface Overhaul: Mini-map, Containers/Backpacks, Crafting, Skills/Abilities, Guild interface & Buff bar added!
To prepare for a the launch of Alpha, Citadel is wiping the Pre-Alpha servers. While unfortunate, Citadel does not believe that another server wipe will be necessary.
Still not sold on Shards Online? You will get your chance to play this weekend, when "all expired trial keys" will be reactivated for an Alpha Preview Weekend. The Alpha Preview Weekend will run from 4 PM EDT on Friday to sometime on Monday.
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The update is live now on the Test Server that is accessible through the experimental build; it will go live on all Pre-Alpha servers this Friday. You can find the full set of patch notes here.
