[VC] TGIF... this week in dev! 22/06/2012

OK anyone else out there supposed be experiencing summer right now that is experiencing craptastic weather like we are? I will just throw out a what the heck to the summer we are experiencing. Not like I would be out there anyways but still disappointing.

To the topic at hand, this week in Zombie Slayer dev. Battle Arena prep and tuning continued to eat up a lot of our dev resources but we are close to a final feature. We hope it will provide a great addition to the game but we will let y’all be the judges of that and let us know.

Battle Arena:

After a successful first arena with 1994 participants lasting 57 hours we are ready for Round 2 starting up Sunday 11am PDT. We've had a great amount of feedback from the community that is helping us make this feature better. The general tone has been very positive, we are still working out the kinks and trying to make it fun for everyone even if the start times aren't ideal for some time zones. Look forward to arenas starting bi-monthly with fixes and gameplay improvements in each one! The next arena lobby is live so don't forget to join and get some free xp. Lets hear your feedback in the Battle Arena discussions http://forums.kanoapps.com/showthread.php?7768

Updates:

• Skadi’s Blizzard Crafted Items
• Rare Battle Drops
• Free Stamina Reward: http://forums.kanoapps.com/showthread.php?7752
• A helmet full of minor fixes (not worth mentioning but still mentioning)
• Call for a new forum moderators: http://forums.kanoapps.com/showthread.php?7770
• Battle skill warning added to skill allocator

Community:

Next week we will have some exciting announcements with respect to community team here at Kano/Apps. We will be growing the team by +1 and will announce all the juicy details and plans next week. It is our goal to make the Kano/Apps community a place for players to come, have their ideas posted and listened to by other players and devs. At Kano/Apps it is our goal to be a developer that is known for listening to and caring about players, we may not always agree but we always try our best to understand and take action as appropriate. We have lots of improvements and goals we want to make with respect to the community and are ecstatic with what is yet to come.


This may in fact be my last TGIF post to make room for new community reps but I will always be around because you can’t take the Kendall out of Kano. Have a good weekend y’all!


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thanks kendall

got a question i got a few of the new battle drops but saw that there stats are lower than the normal ones that one gets from adventure drops or bosses drops ?

 

hmm, a mod asking a question of an admin. can't say i've ever seen that before. p

 

hmm, arena now to be biweekly? can we also expect calendars to be every month now too? and a special calendar every month or so?

 

why not Mods are players too we need answers for ourselves and to get answers for others that have questions, not everyone uses the forum

 

were players before mods kennycjr

 

Will have to refer that question to our game designer. Will email him now.

 

We have to go through the same channels as anyone else if we have an issue or a problem, we don't get special treatment

We however have means of communicating if there is an error or a problem with one of the games, or there are serious issues

 

There are two types of battle drops, rare and common. Rare drops are powerful and should be around the strength of boss rewards. Common drops are less powerful and are the strength or a bit weaker then boss drops.

When the game chooses the strength of the battle drop you are rewarded it looks at your level and the opponents level then chooses the lower of the two levels. Each battle drop falls within a certain level range, for example God Hallowed charm falls between levels 4601 -5900 while the Pathfinder Drakkar falls between level 2601 - 3600. If you are level 5000, while your opponent is level 2650 you will be rewarded the Patfinder Drakkar with a successful common battle drop roll because the we choose the lower of the two levels for determining the reward.

If there is a specific item you would like me to look into please let me know.

 

i see weapons that have the same picture but different names ie celestial battle axe 75/63 (normal adventure drop) and the sublime axe 74/62 ( battle drop) dark stratus that what am referring too

 

The Celestial Battle Axe and the Sublime Axe are two different items and thus have different stats. The background on the sublime axe is different then the celestial battle axe to help you tell the difference between these two items.