March 2025 (2)

Advancing Advancements

This one’s a little light on details because most of the focus has been on the technical front getting map kits setup properly and fixing layout and display issues for advancements. Our main focus now is on advancements, so please let us know what you think!

Map Kits

Map kits have been fully setup now. There are likely many bugs, but every map kit is enabled and should work. Please report any bugs you find in the kits so we can fix those.

Advancements

After many rounds of bug fixes and balance changes and map updates, it’s back to focusing on V4’s release. The last required element before release is a tutorial. As the first step towards this, we’ve wanted to add tutorial advancements, prompting you to try things for the first time, and awarding some achievements (with a few challenges thrown in). Having taken the time to refine our process when we remade level advancements, we’re now better positioned to tackle tutorial advancements.

• Visible always
• Hidden until a certain level - level advancements now follow this, more are shown at level 5, 7, 10, 20 & 35.
• Hidden until you make progress on it
• Hidden until you achieve the advancement
• Hidden until you collect another (typically a parent) advancement (or the advancement itself)

Currently, there isn’t a notification that more advancements are displayed, as they’re shown when you unlock another advancement anyway. If people don’t notice them, we may add one. Please let us know how you find the UI!

Event Advancements

As before, there are now two event advancements, tester & donator. The tester advancement is granted on join, and if you didn’t already get it, you gain the V4 Tester cosmetic. The donator advancement is also automatic. The event will last from now until 30 days after V4’s release. After that, the titles will not be earnable ever again.

Tutorial Advancements

We’re slowly setting up the display for the full list, however many aren’t achievable right now. The following advancements can be earnt:

• Ramming Gates
• Lift with your back
• I’m sorry for barging in
• I did knock...

Any advancement not listed above cannot currently be achieved, we’re focusing on setting up the UI with them all before making them functional.

Changes

Edoras

• Rams & Gates have had all their values tweaked

Balance Changes

• Increased natural regen interval 3.75s -> 6s
  • We felt it was a little too easy to finish a fight and recover back to full health, so we’ve slowed this down.

Fixed

• Fixed Fire Archer’s fire arrows not being on fire
• Fixed fire archer being unable to pick up their fire pit
• Fixed Edoras inner ring ram being too high
• Fixed Edoras inner gate spawn for Rohirrimm not working