Streaming

Asset streaming is coming to LoS!

What is asset streaming?
Asset streaming is dynamically downloading assets while the player is in the game, Playing!

How that changes things?
Texture quality is getting improved – after the initial load, higher resolution textures will be downloaded and will replace the low quality textures.
Reduced file size – we can now further reduce the initial file size on account of the lower texture resolution.
Reduced loading times – due to reduced file size and because of the fact that assets will be cached individually and reused in different levels, the loading towns are going down!
Sounds and Music – with an initial download of around 20Mb of data, sounds were off the grid. Now sound will be streamed along with the other data!
Resolved caching issues – some of our updates didn’t reach the users, because they’ve had a cached local copy of an old client, which had to be manually removed for the player to receive the games updated content.

What else is coming?
Inventory
Character Customization
Brand new Level!
Time of the day – the game time at the clients will be synchronized with a server clock!
Leveling up!
Options Menu
Spell Effects

Character Customization and Inventory!

Currently we’re working on two awesome new features : Character Customization and Inventory.

Character Customization Main Features

-Different hairstyles
-Different faces
-Different accessories
-Different skin colors
-Different clothing options ( as a beta feature the player would be able to change his clothing by his own liking )
-Different clothing colors – Most clothing would have customizable color or two

Inventory Main Features
-Equipment and Backpack – The character will have equipped items and items in his backpack
-Bonuses system – Different items would have different properties resulting a different effect on the player
-Hooked with the character customization – Equipping items would result a visual change in the character
-Spells – Items could grant the player new spells or may be used as spells
-Auras – Items may grant the player passive bonuses

New Update!

+Auras Implemented
+Fireball Damage Over Time effect
+New Movement
+Improved Jumping

Known Bugs :
-Fireball DoT messes up if the target dies

New Sound

Published by in Client, Other on February 2nd, 2012

Check out a piece of our soundtrack at – Danger Ahead !

GUI and Animations

The new GUI system is coming. All the user interface would be more functional, easier to customize ( currently just from us – in future LUA support would be added ). To make things even better the GUI would come with a brand new animations system. All gui components would be animated giving the game a better look!

Stay tuned!

Grayscales

Published by in General, Other on January 26th, 2012

The Grayscales – powerful gray dragons, gifted with tremendous magic affinity. Their leader Grayhorn – was the youngest, but most powerful wizard to lead their flock. But in time – bit by bit, his rational mind went insane. He became a terror, even bravest of warriors crumbled in fear in front of his might. The other dragons affected by their mighty leader drifting away from sanity, blindly followed the lead. The Grayscales became a threat to Elarion, leaving in its wake nothing but destruction…
The Lord of the lands gathered his best men in a heroic and unyielding army with the one sole purpose – to defeat Grayhorn. Their crusade power overwhelming but still no math for the leader of the Grayscales. The Lord and his army were slaughtered, none survived. People fell into desperation and hid in their shelters while the dragons continued to ravage the lands of Elarion.
Not long from then the later King appeared. Brave man, the only one daring to go out in the sunlight. He went into the cities capitol and disappeared. He was forging a blade. The blade to defeat Grayhorn. Few days later he left the city, the same way he came in – hooded. No one ever saw his face. He went on the hopeless quest to defeat the dragon leader.
King and Grayhorn fought for hours and hours but no one of them submitted to the power of the other. No other knows what really happened there, but when King came back with clothes soaked up with dragon blood, Grayhorns head stabbed on a spear and his blade shattered by the dragon – he claimed the throne of Elarion and led the Dragonslayers aiming to destroy each and every one of the remaining Grayscale Dragons.

New Level Released!

Our new level is released.

Featuring new and improved City scene and basic NPCs ( target dummies )!

Death, Duels and Revival

Death, Duels and Revival are coming soon to Land Of Strife sandbox.

Soon you will be able to duel other players and actually DIE. After a set amount of time you will be able to revive ( or meanwhile get ressurected by a fellow player ).

Health and mana systems are almost done. In the next release they’re getting released.

New level and improved frame rates are on the list of updates that are coming soon.

The King

Published by in General on January 7th, 2012

The King of Elarion is a shadow.

Myths tell that he once was the greatest warrior of all times. He slaughtered Grayhorn the most powerful of the Grayscale Dragons, banished the dragons and claimed the land. In the aftermath of the battle the remainder of the dragon flock scattered. Though the years many more dragons were killed by the King’s Dragonhunters. Today only tales remain about the King and the Dragons. People still honor and value their king greatly – by his unknown ways he kept ruling Elarion for hundreds of years. Some say he’s immortal, some think he died long ago and passed his rule to his ancestors.

It is said that the Divine Alliance – the protectors of Elarion, are among the few the King gives direct orders to.

Happy Holidays!

Published by in General on December 30th, 2011

New Year’s Eve is approaching!

With the new year we’ll work on our first demo version of Land Of Strife – introducing new gameplay – from Spellcasting Campaign Level a Boss Fight and a PvP Arena to the playable classes of  The Fighter, The Cleric, and The Mage.

Lore

Our heroes stand for the Humans in the Kingdom of Elarion. They’re training in order to become stronger and win the Dawnstill Tournament. The winner will be acknowledged as Champion and will then be accepted in the Divine Alliance – the most honorable guild responsible for the safety of the land and the King!

Stay tuned and

Happy Holidays!
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