In today's update, we are introducing the first iteration of changes related to Guild Activity, Guild Technology, and Guild Experience. Besides that, we have a new, remarkable skin for horses – the Myrmidon's Mount Skin, updated map icons for events, and as usual, we have a bunch of fixes and quality of life improvements.
Today we would like to share with you and encourage you to watch our new dev log video that includes information about Guild Castles and presents how it will look like. In the dev log we will summarize recent changes and tell a bit more about some of the plans mentioned in the June 2023 Roadmap! Remember to subscribe to our channel to be always up to date with GV news.
https://youtu.be/rbtUhpzJa14
News about Guild Castle
Our developers are working really hard on bringing Guild Castles to our game. As we stated a few times in the past, the Guild Islands are our priority right now. At this moment we are polishing the system and finalizing tests. According to that, you can expect them to be implemented very soon – with a bit of luck and your support, we will try to publish Guild Castles with the patch next week.
5v5 Tournament
We would like to announce that we are preparing a 5v5 tournament in the big open arena. That event will be held on the NA/SA Holmridge server this Sunday UTC+2 22:00
Everyone can expect to receive rewards, whether you will be participating in the 5v5 fights or will be cheering on your friends and guild mates from the stands.
On top of that, the winners of the whole tournament will receive a unique Sword that will be signed with their in-game names, and their names will be written on the in-game monument that is placed in the arena.
The screenshot’s authors will be awarded. Rambs, Jesnek and LORNE – Contact [GVMod] Koma via Discord to receive your ambers!
Video of the Week
We always look forward to watching and sharing the awesome videos posted by our community. It brings us a lot of happiness and gratitude in the office to see players exploring content, having fun, and showcasing their skills. This week, the reward of 2000 ambers goes to SunriseQQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDYqyAP4NUw
Congratulations to the winner and good luck to all competitors for next week’s Video of the Week award!
Changelog v.1.2.3
Rework – Guild Activity – 1st iteration
We've identified an opportunity for improvement in our current guild activity system. We noticed that the guild activities focus more on the individuals activity than on group and playing together with the guildmates. We want to change it. We want the guild to be a natural place for a community that is playing together and together is developing their guild, especially, as Guild Castles are incoming very, very soon! The current system was doing the opposite because most of the guild activity points were farmed by solo activities.
Presented changes will have a positive impact on the members of the guild. They will have more reasons to hang out together because they will have more things to do that can help develop their guild further. Every guild leader wants to have active members that sit together on voice comms, talk and enjoy the game together. Today's changes are aiming in this direction. We want to give members more things and reasons to do so.
Source of the guild activity points
Currently, the main source of the guild activity points are daily challenges that are done alone. In order for the guild activity points to be genuinely connected to guild activity, in the near future, we will replace gaining these points through daily challenges and we will introduce various events that will reward guild activity points.
Today, in the first iteration, we are introducing a new bunch of guild group activities and events that will reward the guild in the guild activity points.
Group Activitis
For being rewarded by doing the below activities, there is a requirement of being in a party with at least one member of the same guild.
– Group Arenas – By participating in a group arena, the guild will receive 100 guild activity points. If there is a 5v5 fight among the same guild member, each player will receive 10 points. That being said, the points are spread among all the participants. If in the fight participate more than one guild, then the points are spread among all the guilds.
– Mining – Guild mates gathering a given resource together and depleting it, will be rewarded in guild activity points. Points depend on the tier resource. For a Tier 1 resource, the guild will receive 3 points. For a Tier 5 resource, 15 points. The math is Guild Points = 3 x resource tier. The sum of the points is spread among all the participants.
– Capturing Locations – If a guild member captures a location, his guild will be rewarded with 100 guild activity points. If there are for example 5 members of the same guild in the location collider, then the sum of the points is spread among all the participants. If in the location collider are two parties of different guilds, then each guild party will gain 50 guild activity points. This activity is not counted during the events such as System Generated Siege events.
– Killing Enemy Players – For each enemy kill, a guild will be rewarded with 10 guild activity points if and only if at least 1 guildmate is also in the party and less than 1000 units away from the victim. If in this range are players from the other guilds, then the points will spread among the guilds.
Events
List of events that provide Activity Points:
– The Griffins Company, Banished Crusade, Werewolf, Show of Strength, Foreign Technology, Enemy Farm: Sabotage, Abandoned Outpost, Defend and Kill the Spy, Raubritter’s Lair, Devil's Lair, Hound's Lair.
Rework – Guild Technology – 1st iteration
Guild Technologies have become a big and important part of guild gameplay. They offer important boosts as well as some additional “Quality of Life” technologies that may be less vital, but provide a good improvement for select players such as higher chance to tame a better horse, or more guild technology tokens. However, we noticed there are not enough activities for the guild to gather the technology points. In order to change that, we are going to introduce a few more ways of getting the technology points.
For now, there was only one event that gives the Guild Technology Points – The Foreign Technology event. While it’s a good event for big groups of players, we are lacking some smaller events that could be done daily by smaller groups of players and not entire guilds.
In today’s update, we are introducing a new event that lets players gather guild technology points and a new item: a Guild Technology Deposit Map.
New Guild Technology Event
This new event is similar to how Kargalds work. This event spawns at several possible locations in the world without a marker, so it requires roaming to find the spots with a new event.
At the spot of the event, there will be a cart with 3 technology packs near it. The event takes place in the bandit camps scattered around the map. The cart will be guarded by NPCs and the goal for the players is to deliver the technology packs to the closest Scribe in a castle. The player can either manually take or spawn a craftable cart, fill it with the tech packs, and drive it to any castle in the loot zone or to castles and temples in non-loot zone.
This event will appear in the loot zone and in the non-loot zone. In order for the event to be doable in the non-loot zone, we added the Scribe NPC in each Castle (Volkvar, Blackrock, Skogar, Haddah, Dimar, Waterford) and in each temple (Hordun, Lordly, Abbey).
The packs delivered in the non-loot zone are less beneficial than those in the loot zone. In the non-loot zone, they will give 20,000 technology points per pack instead of 80,000 as it is in the loot zone.
The event lasts for 60 minutes and after that time he is despawned and reappears in another location. Yet taken technology packs won't despawn so the player will have time to deliver them to the castle.
Guild Technology Deposit Maps
Another way of obtaining guild technology points is connected with the guild events of The Griffins Company and Banished Crusade. While completing these events, the players will be able to get a Guild Technology Deposit Map through NPC loot drops and chest loot. These maps come in 3 different tiers.
– Minor Technology Deposit Map – locations always in the frontier region, 1 technology pack
– Decent Technology Deposit Map – locations in the non-loot ring, 2 technology packs
– Grand Technology Deposit Map – locations in the loot zone, 3 technology packs
The goal for the player is to use the map, go to the indicated area on the map, dig up the technology pack by using the shovel and bring it to the Scribe in the non-loot zone or the loot zone to receive Guild Technology points.
The packs delivered in the non-loot areas give 20,000 technology points per pack, and 80,000 in the loot zone.
Territory Control Workshops – Work In Progress
This event is still in progress and will be introduced in the near future. Each nation will have one “Technology Library” in the castles and in the motherland fort (Ysatd, Eaglenest, Dundrum).
These “Technology Libraries” can be looted during an attack on a location containing a library. Each Library will have 3 bookshelves inside that can be axed down to create technology packs. Each bookshelf will contain 2 technology packs. The players goal will be to carry these technology packs to the Scribe that will award the players with Guild Technology points.
The packs delivered to the Scribe in the non-loot zone will reward 20,000 technology points per pack instead of 80,000 as it is in the loot zone.
Rework – Guild Experience
Guild experience holds a fundamental role in every guild, serving as a cornerstone of the guild's development. As we embark on reworking the guild activity and guild technology point acquisition, it is crucial that we also address the guild experience. We acknowledge that the current system has certain shortcomings, as it lacks intuitiveness and fails to provide the optimal user experience. One particular issue lies in the majority of guild points being awarded solely during the weekly summary, which can be confusing and unclear for our users. Today, we are thrilled to announce significant improvements to enhance the user experience surrounding guild experience points. Our aim is to make the process more transparent, ensuring that members can easily understand and track how these points are earned. This positive update will contribute to a more enjoyable and engaging guild experience for all members.
Guild experience from guild activity
The experience points from guild activities are immediately added to the guild upon receiving them instead of cumulating into the weekly summary and being distributed during the summary. With today's update, the players and the guild will be immediately rewarded for their activity. From now on, players will be better informed about their contribution. This means that we are disabling the system that adds experience points upon the weekly summary.
Guild experience – how to gain
Guild experience is gained by doing the same events and activities that reward Guild Activity points. The list of events and activities will be greatly increased with the next updates.
Events:
– The Griffins Company, Banished Crusade, Werewolf, Show of Strength, Foreign Technology, Enemy Farm: Sabotage, Abandoned Outpost, Defend and Kill the Spy, Raubritter’s Lair, Devil's Lair, Hound's Lair.
Activities:
Group Arenas, Mining, Capturing Locations, Killing Enemy Players.
New skin – Myrmidon's Mount Skin
Today we are Introducing the remarkable "Myrmidon Mount Skin". Prepare to ride into battle on a mount that exudes power, style, and prestige.
The Myrmidon Mount Skin embodies the essence of courage, strength, and prowess. With its intricately designed armor and majestic appearance, this mount skin makes you the epitome of a fearless warrior.
Updated event icons
Today we are introducing updated event icons that will provide more information about their difficulty and any special rewards, including for example, increasing Morale in a nearby location.
- Group event that rewards guild experience.
- Event that rewards guild experience and can be done alone. 
- Event that increases Bastion Morale in a close location.In the near future, we will introduce more variations of icons.
Follow the Content Creators
We are very happy to see so many new content creators join our Community, as well as to see how the content creators we’ve already had grown in numbers! We encourage all of you to visit the channels of these amazing creators and hopefully find some content for you:
– https://www.twitch.tv/blaze_yemaryss
– https://www.youtube.com/@lokarn1965
– https://www.youtube.com/@kaedyia/shorts
– https://www.youtube.com/@skrytamodliszka
Quality of life
– Removed the possibility of storing the items in the workstations that can’t be used on a given workstation. For example, you can't put Meteoric Iron in the campfire or any other workstation.
– Added the possibility to repair the chassis for carts. It’s just a simple interaction with the cart.
– Added Longsword of Lord's Wrath Brotherhood and Claymore of Lord's Wrath Brotherhood as a base for Longsword skins.
– Added wagons as a usable item. From now on you can craft a wagon and spawn it in the same way as a barricade or tent. You can buy a recipe for a wagon in the Glory vendor for contribution points.
– A new use case for wagons. From now on, you can use them to transport scrolls related to Foreign Technology events and more.
– Doubled the amount of Technology Packs in Foreign Technology Guild Event.
Fixes
– Fixes related to animation speed of animals.
– Fixed collider related to crafting stations area at The Order of the Original Feith. Players were not able to place a workstation in this area.
– Fixed well in the Twinfall Village.
– Fixed weapon forging quest near Sangmar capital. One quest required the wrong item.
– Fixed coins text formatting in guild history: withdraw and deposit coins.
