[VC] TGIF! This Week in Dev and Community September 23 - 27

It's the last TGIF of the month. Read on to find out what happened in Dev and Community!

Player Bans September 13 - September 19

As a reminder, the following numbers are permanently frozen accounts, and don't count temporary freezes.

FB: 6
KPs2: 26
Kong: 21

The majority of permanently frozen accounts are frozen for being a shared or alternate account. This is something we actively investigate, and we appreciate players reporting suspicious accounts to us.

If you have any questions or comments about a frozen account, please direct them through Support as the Forums are not the place to discuss account freezes, because of the sensitive account information involved.

New Limited Items!

A new week means new Limited Items! Here’s what’s up for grabs:



New Characters!

Read about them here!

New Battle Drops!

We released some new Battle Drops to the game this past week. These drops are for levels 15k+.



About That New Location...

Late last month we teased a new location for Viking Clan to be released in September. As the more astute of you might have noticed, the end of September is quickly approaching and there is no new location.

We’ve unfortunately had to delay the release of the new location with the intent of getting it out in early October. Earlier this month we hit a couple roadblocks and had to reevaluate how we were planning and releasing new locations.

The downside is that we had to push off the new content for September, but the upside is that this should mean more locations more frequently. I apologize for stringing everyone along this month, but things were kind of up in the air for a while. The new Viking Clan location will hopefully be out in early October. Thanks for your understanding.

Axe Slap Leaderboards and Achievements!

You know what’s satisfying? Slapping your foes with the broadside of your axe. You know what’s even more satisfying? Seeing your slaps go up on the leaderboard and getting achievements for it!

We’ll be implementing a “Hardest Axe Slap” leaderboard in the game today with the related achievements coming next week. Get slapping, vikings!

Support Report with your favorite burrowing, nocturnal mammal and Answerpreneur, Aardvark!

Happy Friday players! Another long week; the trend of high request numbers and longer response times has been continuing. We're currently working to change things up on our end to improve the speed and service we provide, but in the meantime a big thank you to everyone for your patience.

An update on the Facebook purchases situation: it looks like the new systems in place that handles transactions have been making extra checks before applying orders to player's accounts. This can sometimes result in a few extra minutes of delay, but things looks like they're working and orders are coming through just fine. As always though, please let us know if there seem to be any problems!

Cheers,

Aardvark the occasionally frazzled

Terrible Joke of the Week

I beat you'd wish you could "leaf" this joke behind!

What kind of tree grows in your hand? A palm tree! ← Highlight for hilarity!

That's it for TGIF this week, everybody! Thanks for reading, and have an excellent weekend!

Play Now!

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I always like new achievements, but technically "hardest axe slap" has a achievement already, it's called "health achievement" Wouldn't "axe slap kills" be more fitting, you already promote "battle kills" on the leader board.

 

Nice tgif...ty.


hardest axe slaps is a great leader board category. Hopefully the coming achievements will exceed where players are currently at. There are drawbacks though......the strength of an axe slap depends on the lower of the two opponents health which makes no sense and the stronger you get increases the range of damage one can get with an axe slap which actually decreases ones odds of getting the monster slap.


@ mathew. axe slap kills are already count toward battle kills...adding another category specifically for them would be redundant

 

Yup, just like hardest slap that is dependent on opponent health. My point is having leadership board for kills, yet not axe slap kill's which makes a "guild/group/armada/chat groups/etc." work as a team to get the ultimate goal is "KILL OPPONENTS" and BTW slap kill's was not always in stat's as well, should it be? I think yes, so redundant I'll say this. Hardest axe slap is dependent on max health of opponent,(which you know) but there is achievement for health to get max slap, not your fault they don't invest in health or lower level and can't kill with a single slap. PIMP you cannot disagree with me on this one, killing is the nature of this game. Hardest slap or axe kill's? Pick one, I choose kills, even though the slaps suck on lowers with chit health that decide to find themselves in ours/yours rival list.
[video=youtube;prX8WVNx76A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prX8WVNx76A[/video]

 

Im having difficulty understanding what your trying to say. There's already a leader board category for "battle kills" which includes "slap kills". Im all for more leader board categories but I cant see having 2 categories for the same thing. Is that what your sying? Have 2 categories...1 for battle kills and 1 for slap kills? That seems redundant to me.

Achievements and leader board categories are 2 completely different things. Health has an achievement(which is severely outdated btw) not a leader board category. The amount of ones slap damage is largely dependent on ones health but I dont think it is the sole factor. Maybe Im wrong about that ...Im not entirely sure. If slap damage does rely entirely on the amount of ones health then they way slap damage amounts are derived is even more absurd than I previously thought and shouldnt have any type of category at all.


Kills is what this game is largely about....its a shame Kano doesnt make them more important. Its also a shame that the higher in levels or the stronger you become makes it easier to kill a higher level than a lower level.....it seems totally contradictory and counter productive to the whole idea of these games which is to level up and get stronger.

 

Well I knew that would happen the way things were going! LOL Keeping fingers crossed that it comes out next week!

What IS good news is that you are starting to plan ahead a little with more locations! It get's kinda boring being stuck in 1 location forever with no place to go!!! I really feel sorry for the the ones that are higher than I am! You really need to concentrate on getting ahead in development of the higher level players instead of the players being ahead of the development of the game, after all we (Players AND Kano) all owe them our gratitude for paving the way for the rest of us AND for sticking with the game with no place to go!

It's not just 1 or 2 people anymore that are "higher" in levels and there are a lot that are not far behind now!

Please remember that just because we are higher levels, we still like something to look forward to in the game just like the lower level players do!

 

AMEN! Nice post.

 

I second that remark.

 

I would have loved some new Halloween themed gifts for October. I know you folks want to keep the gifting simple, but I miss the fun of seeing new gifts monthly. Ah well.

 

just because your slap kills are included in your kill count doesnt make it redundant to have a slap kill category and/or achievemnts for it. if anything i think slap kills are way harder to acrue than regular ones....you know better than most that just when you see a rival with a sliver of health left and youre thinking "sweet, i'm about to smoke his a**"............you have axe slapped fill in the blank for 1 damage xD


edit: You just Axe Slapped Fielding the Reasonably Priced Crack 000 and dealt 59 damage. lolol i rest my case ;p

 

TY DEMONIK, that was basically my point.

 

sometimes it takes a like-minded different perspective to point out the obvious haha no problemo

 

Um, Your Slap Kills are right under "Axe Slaps Dealt".

 

so when are those achievements you mentioned coming mitch? THIS next week or next next week?

 

sweeeeet! TY 4 the axe slap achievments