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Also, the war in Khaeldron is now converted into a permanent quest. You can access it through the Research Labs in the town of Khaeldron. the War armor has been replaced with the slightly less powerfull Drakel Power Armor. The biggest difference between the DPAs is the Drakel Sanctus Shield ability which was only available on the War version of the Armor. Both versions have the awesome Advanced Cockpit ability (available via powercell merge on the non-war Drakel Power Armor). Collectors will surely be interested in obtaining both versions of this gorgeous mecha model.

When we converted the war to permanent content, we added level 25 monsters to the mix. So this is a perfect place to gain some good experience during this special Boost weekend!

I’d like to mention that we have started designing a new planet. This planet will feature a nefarious villian that you may recognize from DragonFable… There will be some high voltage and possibly some voltage thrown in with mutant mecha powers and exploding buildings… Was that a piece of skyscraper that just hit your mecha? And who’s that girl with all of the comic books? It’s going to be a real super planet!

Power (increases Damage)
Accuracy(increase your chance to hit)
Efficiency(Lowers your energy expenditures)
Perception(Lowers your damage taken)
Reflexes(increases your chance to dodge) and
Luck(Does a lot of stuff!)

In addition to stats, we are going to implement an initiative system in MQ. At every battle, the game will roll to decide who goes first. Reflexes and Luck will play a roll in your initiative rolls. Don’t worry though, initiative rolls will be strongly weighed in the favor of players…. just every no and then your enemy will have a chance to hit you first… (before you pummel them with your new house mecha!)

With this update, MechQuest is now at version 1.0! We have left the Gamma phase and are now officially in the Omega phase! Don’t you love how we make up testing stages? Omega will be our final stage, since we are always releasing new content, we’ll never reach a truly “final” stage…

Also, I was informed that In our latest newletter, I apparently gave everyone the user name of Warlic! This was due to the fact that I was working from home yesterday in preparation for the hurricane that never came and had to copy/paste the newsletter to create it… I apparently copied my name too… As Milli Vanilli once said… blame it on the rain…

In addition to the awesome new weapons and designs, I want to express what truly makes me excited about these mecha models. When I designed the specials for these mecha models, I wanted to make them something very special for Star Captains. I realized that we have had so many nova gem mecha and items that are the most poweerful items in the game and started to feel that we were gradually drifting our focus away from Star Captains in favor of Nova Gems. I want you all to know that this was never my intention. Any power disparity between Star Captains and pure Nova Gem players is simply a result of the incredibly rapid expansion that MechQuest has seen over the past several months. So now, with these new House Mecha I am very excited to announce Star Captain bonus abilities. Star Captains will receive powerful new abilities that only they will be able to use. Even with the Nova Gem versions of these mechs, you will get the best results if you are also a Star Captain. We will be adding many more weapons and items that have Star Captain powers in the years to come… Free players are not left in the dust however, because the new Advanced House Mecha have weapons and stats that do what would have previously been Star Captain levels. There are also alternate abilities that will activate if you are not a Star Captain. So I hope everyone enjoys these mecha!

Also another update for today was a rebalancing of the Energy Strike maneuvers such as the Wolf Slam and the Equinox energy draining attacks. These attacks may now be resisted if you have Immobility resistance. Also, the energy drain has been fixed so that you can never drain more energy than your opponent currently has… It takes energy to make energy…

In other news… The Khaeldron war is long over. This will be the last weekend that it is accessible. The bossfight quest is going to be turned into a permanent quest and the War Armor mecha are going to be replaced by slightly less powerful Power Armor versions. I have left the war up for such a long time because it is intended to be a part of the permanent Westion storyline and there will be some work to convert it to static content. So grab your war armors now while before they’re replaced by their less powerful cousins!

And finally… Our newest game, AQWorlds, is going into BETA on Monday!!! This is a fully mutliplayer MMO set in the Artix Entertainment universe and it is amazing! The Beta will be open to those players who have upgraded in on of our other games. So, become a Star Captain, DragonLord or Guardian today!

The testing and balancing process is very intense with these new designs. This is a major release. In fact it’s the biggest mecha release we’ve had since the original house mecha were released so long ago… Some of the new effects require an update to the game engine to work properly. We are planning to release them on Friday. there will be upgradable versions as well as stand-alone versions (for those of you who’d like to keep your classic designs!)

Today we raised the level cap to 25 and added some new challenges to the Knife and Spork. Also, to help you make the epic journey to level 25, we released level 24 incremental upgrades to the classic house mecha models! The level 24 upgrade adds stun resistance to the classic houses.

I am very proud to announce a brand new Nova gem package that is available today! Our best value package get you a whopping 20,000 Nova Gems for only $49.95. Considering the fact that the 5000 nova gem package is $19.95 that is an awesome deal! You can get the new nova gem package here.

In addition to today’s mini-update, those of you who have the Drakel War armor mecha from the War will notice an extremely powerful head option called, “Advanced Cockpit”. The cockpit features an powerful damage and defense booster that increases over 4 rounds of combat. This our first Buff Over Time ability! BoT! It required a slight engine level update to implement this, but it was well worth the overhaul because we can do ALOT with it… I have decided to leave the Khealdron mines war up through this weekend due to the addition of the new cockpit weapon. Next week, the war will be taken down permanently and the boss fight mission is going to be converted into a permanent quest. the non-war version of the Drakel armor will have a significantly less powerful buff on the cockpit, but will be the same otherwise.

Also , notable was this week’s new arm weapon, the Zeus arm… You may not know it, but this weapon is our first step towards combo weapons. In the very near future, we will be able to release mix and match weapon combo sets for more strategic options!

Next week we’ll be implementing the long awaited level 25 Level cap increase. Then, soon after that (meaning – when it’s ready), we will release stat training. Keep reading for future updates regarding stats!

J6: No comment… Why would I want to do that? now, if it was moglins, then maybe I’d punt a few… but only for cakes…

Warlic: Okay okay, that must have been a vicious rumor then… Well, I’ll get to the biggest rumor. Some people are claiming that you have been seen on the Westion train, stealing fuel! Is that true?

J6: Listen, I’m not saying I’m not the guy. What I will say is, even if I was, just try to stop me.

Warlic: Ummm… Well, that would be next to impossible, wouldn’t it? Everyone knows that you’re the quickest draw and the sharpest shooter in the galaxy! What would you do with train fuel anyway?

J6: Well, for one thing, that train in Westion just happens to be fueled with Crystallized Dragon’s breath, which EVERYONE knows makes perfect starship fuel… And with Starship fuel prices the way they are nowadays and the light-yearage per pound being soooo low on the large Galaxy-Class models.. You can see why a man would be desparate.. I mean, come on Warlic, not everyone has a hybrid mana-drive starship like yours!

Warlic: Good point… So, J6, Are the rumors at least true about your starship being spotted in Westion starspace?

J6: That’s a very long and complicated story that is going to span multiple quests over many releases… It’s way too much to explain here! You’ll just have to wait and see…

Rolith
It’s Not Done Yet!

Star Date: August 5th, 3008
What’s Up!
Hiya everyone, long time no post! Who wants some dirt on what’s on my plate right now?

This information isn’t set in stone, and is subject to change as development continues (and we read your input of course.)

Mech Quest is getting STATS! That’s right. Finally.

Little did you know, but you’ve been accumulating stat points since you first stepped foot onto the shuttle to G.E.A.R.S University and leveled up for the first time.

When released you’ll get to spend these hard earned points on one of six new stats to make you an even more deadly mecha pilot

Accuracy : Increase your chance to hit enemies.
Reflex: Increases your chance to block enemies.
Power: Damage buff
Perception: Reduces Damage taken
Efficiency: Decreases EP demands of weapons.
Luck: Lots and lots of little things…

A little reminder: This is a a MAJOR project, again, and don’t expect it until we announce it as coming out. Right now it’s still “SOON!”

This information isn’t set in stone, and is subject to change as development continues (and we read your input of course.)

Also, last week I gave all new players the chance to leave the intro shuttle at any time… It was a great idea because if gave all players a chance to experience more of MechQuest without having to wait until level 3. However, this was perhaps the LEAST popular decision I have ever made in MQ! The forums (in fact, possibly the entire internet) immediately errupted in flaming posts about how I had completely lost my mind! I assure you… I lost my mind a couple decades ago… WAY before I opened the shuttle doors and let all the newbies out.

So, Today I am adding the ability to re-visit the dropship for all players. So, if you landed in Soluna city and feel that you are not ready for the challenge yet, you can go back to the ship and level up with easier enemies… If you are an experienced player and wish to take a dropship shuttle-ride down memory lane… you can go there too! Just talk to Admina and she can make the anachronistic travel arrangements… Ah, the good old days

So instead, I’d like to show you the mecha that we have been working on… Drakel Power Armor! This is the mecha that you will be able to get at the end of this war. We just finished balancing it and in many ways this is my new favorite mecha! It is color customizable and has new specials that have not yet appeared in MechQuest. The first new ability is a shield that gives a small boost to defense, but reflects damage back at your opponent (Note – the damage reflect is only available if you merge the mecha with the Drakel Powercell found in the Khaeldron Research Labs). The second new ability is one of my new favorites – the shoulder weapons can force your opponent’s weapons to overheat. this has one of the following results:

1) If your enemy is in an equippable mecha -I.E. PvP or mecha-type enemies, It can force a cooldown on a random weapon. this can be a great strategic advantage and you can add cooldown times to weapons that are already cooling down.

2) If your enemy is in a non-equippable mecha – I.E. monsters and non-playable mecha, the effect of the cooldown is to nerf their damage by 50% for 2 rounds.

This mecha also has a lance that can halt EP regen once per fight and a gun that has a chance to damage EP and HP.

This mecha is going to be available when the war is over. So, Battleon! Let’s show EvilCorp who’s CEO!

This just in! An update from Lussion! In addition to the awesome boss quest at the end of the current war (seriously, the end quest for this war is tuly epic – There’s something BIG down in the darkest depths of that mine!), He is working on a new quest featuring none other than our very own J6! I won’t give too much away – other than the fact that J6 has an awesome starship and the quest involves gunfighting on the top of the Westion train! Oh – and a really robo-suit… and bounty hunters and GOSSIP!! The J6 quest is almost complete. I’ll give you more details soon!

Our newest war is here and this time everyone can participate! There is going to be a lot of plot in this war and some aspects are going to remain permanently as in-game content. For starters, the Vul’Kharim have an ancient prophecy of DOOOOM that is about to be fulfilled… I am VERY excited about this one… VERY Excited Plus, it’s great for experience and money too! Anyway – Have fun and destroy as many enemies as you can!

Many of you have been wondering what to do with the powercell…. the powercell will be required to use the Drakel Power Armor when it is released (soon). It will work similarly to the House upgrades. You will need the mech and the powercell to receive the fully functioning new mech…

Right now we’re working on some new house weapons… Korin actually 3d-rendered one the new weapons to add realism to the animation… Also, we will be updating and re-releasing the Elite Squad defender at higher levels with some new specials attacks!