Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

News Announcements

• Upper Tears Reborn
• Upper Tears Reborn Livestream
• FLASH SALE: Crowns of the Obsidian 20% Off All Weekend!
• Winter Vault Round
• January Login Reward: Krampus Statue
• Release 73 Reward Program Items: Winter Holiday Theme
• Streaming Reward Program
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
• Recent Shroud of the Avatar Livestreams (YouTube)
• Upcoming Events Calendar

Community Updates

• Meretz: Win a Dry Docked Huge Pirate Galleon (Vault Edition)
• Community Event: Virtue Radio Release Party Hosting & Holiday Coverage Planning!
• Project to Support: Crowfall
• Project to Support: Pantheon
• Project to Support: Avatar Express
• Resources: Players Helping Players

Upper Tears Reborn

Greetings Avatars!

Word has spread throughout the land that new dangers await adventurers in Upper Tears! The undead which inhabit this territory have sent word to their masters that their rest has been disturbed–many times! Over and over! In fact, they were being grinded for experience, with only the magical powers of Experience Attenuation holding adventurers at bay. Take caution Avatars! Reinforcements have arrived!  The denizens lurking behind the waterfall of Upper Tears will now have much greater power at their disposal! Enemies that Charge! Enemies with Chain Lightning!

These changes as well some combat balance and attenuation changes are now patched into QA and should patch into the live server soon! These are just some of the many exciting items coming your way this year. If you missed out on what’s on the horizon, be sure to check out the 2020 Vision Post by Chris Spears.

Upper Tears Reborn Livestream Today!

Another content packed weekly Community Livestream is this Friday January 24, at 4 PM CT on Twitch! Chris Spears will demonstrate the changes to Upper Tears, Combat Balance and Attenuation!

As usual we will be giving out prizes at 4:15 and 4:45! To be eligible all you need to do is either make any purchase in the store or log into the game and type “The weather outside is frightful” in the chat window (no purchase necessary).

Watch on Twitch today, Friday at 4 PM CDT!

FLASH SALE: Crowns of the Obsidian 20% Off All Weekend!

Attention Avatars! For those who missed out on the holiday Crown of the Obsidian sale, worry not! For it has returned for a short weekend Holiday Sale Revival! Crowns will be on sale for the entire weekend. You might just need it after seeing what’s up on the vault this round. Enjoy!

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Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

News Announcements

• Shroud 2020 Vision
• 2020 Vision Livestream Today
• Winter Vault Round
• January Login Reward: Krampus Statue
• Release 73 Reward Program Items: Winter Holiday Theme
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
• Various Other Livestreams (YouTube)
• Upcoming Events Calendar

Community Updates

• Meretz: Win a Obsidian Tower Town Water Home
• Community Event: Calling all Pirates and Others all Across Novia!
• Community Event: Release 73 Dance Party with DJ Darkstarr
• Project to Support: Pantheon
• Project to Support: Crowfall
• Project to Support: Avatar Express
• Resources: Players Helping Players

Shroud 2020 Vision

[Forum Post by Chris “Atos” Spears]

Greetings Avatars!

As a team, we try to remain as flexible as possible to work on what feels most important at any given time. With that said, we wanted to give players some insight into what our focus will be as we head into 2020.

It is important to note that this is not intended to be some kind of binding contract where we promise we will hit each and every item mentioned. Rather this is just intended to be a vision of where we believe we are headed for the next year. Items will move around, sometimes slip, or sometimes move earlier in the schedule, In some cases we might decide that an item no longer makes sense once we start digging into to it and we might remove it.

The obvious elephant in the room that needs to be discussed first is Episode 2; what that means and when it will arrive. How to deliver it is the really big question. We have some people who are angry we are not currently creating content. At the same time we have other people who say they want us to hold all of Episode 2 until it is 100% done and not trickle it out to people. There is some logic to each of these views and where we will end up is likely somewhere in the middle.

Our goal will be to roll out some new content on a continuous basis, roughly one new scene per release. Simultaneously we want to keep the Episode 2 story held back until we have full confidence in our new quest system. The current plan is that once we have confidence in the new quest system we will start rolling out the main Episode 2 quest line on QA only. Additionally, at least once each release we will migrate data from Live to QA and effectively reset your progress on the main quest line on QA.

New Episode 2 content in the form of new maps, items, creatures, and skills will roll out monthly. Our goal will be to average roughly one new scene a release starting with the February release. Long term our goal would be to get to two scenes per month in the second half of the year. Read more…

Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

News Announcements

• Release 73 Livestream Today
• Lot Upgrades & Crown Sales + New Winter Vault Round
• December Login Reward: Holly Wreath Hat with Sparklers
• Release 73 Reward Program Items: Winter Holiday Theme
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
• Sneak Peeks & Various Other Livestreams (YouTube)
• Upcoming Events Calendar

Community Updates

• Meretz: Win a Viking Three-Story Stronghold (Vault Edition)
• Community Event: Release 72 Dance Party
• Community Event: Immortal City Annual Yule Ball
• Community Event: Hit me with your Best Shot Holiday Giveaway
• Community Event: 2nd Annual Novia Market Yuletide Giveaway
• Community Event: 5th Annual New Years Eve Party
• Project to Support: Pantheon
• Project to Support: Crowfall
• Project to Support: Avatar Express
• Resources: Players Helping Players

Release 73 Livestream Today!

The Release 73 Livestream is set for this Friday, December 20, at 3 PM Central Time! All Avatars from around the world are welcome to join us in the livestream activities.

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Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

News Announcements

• Play Release 73 Now!
• Sneak Peeks: Episode 2 Map, Bards, etc. Livestream Today
• Lot Upgrades & Crown Sales + New Winter Vault Round
• December Login Reward: Holly Wreath Hat with Sparklers
• Release 73 Reward Program Items: Winter Holiday Theme
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
• Player GM Tools & Various Other Livestreams (YouTube)
• Upcoming Events Calendar

Community Updates

• Meretz: Win a Viking Three-Story Stronghold (Vault Edition)
• Community Event: Release 72 Dance Party
• Community Event: Welcome Quest Release 73 – Ordinis Mortis
• Community Event: Hit me with your Best Shot Holiday Giveaway
• Community Event: 2nd Annual Novia Market Yuletide Giveaway
• Community Event: 5th Annual New Years Eve Party
• Project to Support: Pantheon
• Project to Support: Crowfall
• Project to Support: Avatar Express
• Resources: Players Helping Players

Play Release 73 Now!

Release 73 launched Thursday, December 12, with thousands of backers downloading, patching, and logging in to check out the changes! There’s lots of new content to explore, including:

• Player Game Master Tools Phase 1
• Lua Phase 1.1
• Scene Polish: Tartarus, Soltown
• R73 Rewards Program Items: Winter Theme
• Snow Pavers
• January Login Reward: Krampus Statue
• Performance Improvements
• More Bug Fixes
• and more!

Check out the Release 73 Instructions update for detailed information about all the new content.

If you have not downloaded the game yet, go to www.shroudoftheavatar.com and click the “Play Now” button. The game is also available on Steam.

Release 73 Player Instructions

Release 73 Known Issues

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Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

News Announcements

• Release 73 on QA
• Player GM Tools Livestream Today
• Lot Upgrades & Crown Sales + New Winter Vault Round
• December Login Reward: Holly Wreath Hat with Sparklers
• Release 72 Reward Program Items: Fall Theme 2
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
• Release 72 & Various Other Livestreams (YouTube)
• Upcoming Events Calendar

Community Updates

• Community Event: Hit me with your Best Shot Holiday Giveaway
• Community Event: 2nd Annual Novia Market Yuletide Giveaway
• Community Event: 5th Annual New Years Eve Party
• Project to Support: Pantheon
• Project to Support: Crowfall
• Project to Support: Avatar Express
• Resources: Players Helping Players

Release 73 on QA (Live next week)

An early version of Release 73 is on the QA server! Release 73 has some fun updates like Player GM Tools! An early version of the Release 73 Instructions is also available for review. We could really use everyone’s help to test all of this amazing content before it goes live next week!

• Player Game Master Tools Phase 1
• Lua Phase 1.1
• Scene Polish: Tartarus, Soltown
• R73 Rewards Program Items: Winter Theme
• Snow Pavers
• January Login Reward: Krampus Statue
• Performance Improvements
• More Bug Fixes
• and more!

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Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

News Announcements

• Lot Upgrades & Crown Sales
• December Login Reward: Holly Wreath Hat with Sparklers
• Release 72 Reward Program Items: Fall Theme 2
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
• Release 72 & Various Other Livestreams (YouTube)
• Upcoming Events Calendar

Community Updates

• Community Event: Hit me with your Best Shot Holiday Giveaway
• Community Event: What happened at River’s Cross in Jade Valley?
• Project to Support: Pantheon
• Project to Support: Crowfall
• Project to Support: Avatar Express
• Resources: Players Helping Players

Lot Deed Upgrades & Crown Sale!

• Lot Deed Type and Size Upgrading with Crowns Sale: Upgrading Lot Deed Type and Size in-game with Crowns is on sale for 20% through the end of the year! Originally patched into Release 62, you can upgrade your deed “type” and size for Crowns in-game via right-click. This means, for example, you can upgrade from a Taxable Player Owned Town Village Lot Deed to a Taxable Player Owned Town Water Village Lot Deed, adding the ability to claim a water lot. You could also upgrade from a Village Lot Deed to a Town Lot Deed. This was previously available in the Game Services store but can now be done directly with Crowns. You can also upgrade from Taxable to Tax-Free deeds, with the exception that other types of deeds cannot be upgraded to Founder deeds. NOTE: you can only upgrade types, not downgrade, so you cannot go from a Tax Free deed to a Taxable deed, for example. Also you cannot upgrade to Tax Free Founder Keep or Castle, or Tax Free Keep or Castle (these were pledge exclusives). You can still upgrade to all other Keep/Castle types, including Tax Free Player Owned Town Keep, for example.
• The Vault: Current round of Vault items are available until Thursday, December 5 at 10:30 AM Central Time. At that time, the next round of 9 items will be available for two weeks, and then the next, etc2017 Yule Card 5-Pack
  • Ice Wings
  • 2016 Winter Holiday – Wax Cylinders
  • Winter Lynx Pet
  • 2015 Holiday Wreath
  • 2015 Yule Hat
  • 2015 Yule Tree
  • Yule Velvet Bodice Ensemble
  • Viking Stronghold

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Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

News Announcements

• Play Release 72 Now!
• R72 Livestream Today
• Crown Sale & 11/22 Crown Shop Updates
• November Login Reward: Turkey Statue
• Release 72 Reward Program Items: Fall Theme 2
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
• Lua & Various Other Livestreams (YouTube)
• Upcoming Events Calendar

Community Updates

• Community Event: What happened at River’s Cross in Jade Valley?
• Project to Support: Pantheon
• Project to Support: Crowfall
• Project to Support: Avatar Express
• Resources: Players Helping Players

Play Release 72 Now!

Release 72 successfully launched Thursday, November 21, with thousands of backers downloading, patching, and logging in to check out the changes! There’s lots of new content to explore, including:

• Krampus Returns
• LUA Integration (Phase 1)
• Reagent Agriculture Balance
• Unicorn Stew Recipes
• Grilled Wyvern Chops Recipe
• Fish Sticks Recipe
• R72 Rewards Program Items: Fall Theme (2nd Round)!
• December Login Reward: Holly Wreath Hat with Sparklers
• Performance Improvements
• More Bug Fixes
• and more!

Check out the Release 72 Instructions update for detailed information about all the new content.

If you have not downloaded the game yet, go to www.shroudoftheavatar.com and click the “Play Now” button. The game is also available on Steam.

Release 72 Player Instructions

Release 72 Known Issues

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Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

News Announcements

• Release 72 on QA
• LUA Livestream Today
• 11/15 Crown Shop Updates
• November Login Reward: Turkey Statue
• Release 71 Reward Program Items: Fall Theme
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
• Release 71 & Various Other Livestreams (YouTube)
• Upcoming Events Calendar

Community Updates

• Community Event: Release 71 Dance Party
• Community Event: Mad Splatter Tea Party 
• Community Event: What happened at River’s Cross in Jade Valley?
• Community Event: 1st Annual Skalabrekka Feast Party of Einherjar
• Project to Support: Crowfall
• Project to Support: Avatar Express
• Resources: Players Helping Players

Release 72 on QA (Live next week)

An early version of Release 72 is on the QA server! Release 72 is full of new content and fixes. An early version of the Release 72 Instructions is also available for review. We could really use everyone’s help to test all of this amazing content before it goes live next week!

• Krampus Returns
• LUA Integration (Phase 1)
• Reagent Agriculture Balance
• Unicorn Stew Recipes
• Grilled Wyvern Chops Recipe
• Fish Sticks Recipe
• R72 Rewards Program Items: Fall Theme (2nd Round)!
• December Login Reward: Holly Wreath Hat with Sparklers
• Performance Improvements
• More Bug Fixes
• and more!

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Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

News Announcements

• Release 71 Livestream Today
• 11/8 Crown Shop Updates
• November Login Reward: Turkey Statue
• Release 71 Reward Program Items: Fall Theme
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
• Q&A & Various Other Livestreams (YouTube)
• Upcoming Events Calendar

Community Updates

• Community Event: Release 71 Dance Party
• Community Event: Mad Splatter Tea Party 
• Community Event: What happened at River’s Cross in Jade Valley?
• Project to Support: Crowfall
• Project to Support: Avatar Express
• Resources: Players Helping Players

Release 71 Livestream Today!

The Release 71 Livestream is set for today: Friday, November 8, at 3 PM Central Time! All Avatars from around the world are welcome to join us in the livestream activities. We will be talking about , answering questions, and handing out prizes.

Livestream Schedule (Central Time Zone)

Monthly livestreams are on Twitch and include answers to your gameplay questions, deep dives, prize giveaways, and more! Here is the schedule:

• 3 PM: Introductions
• 3:30 PM: Scenes Tour: Tartarus (new content), Despair (polish)
• 4:15 PM: Lava Fishing Contest
• 5 PM: Ending Announcements

To participate in the Lava Fishing Contest go to Oracle Colossus and start fishing at 4:15 PM (you can also try whispering one of the devs for a teleport). The best trophy fish (longest) caught by 5 PM will win a prize! NOTE: We will be verifying location and time!

• Runners Up (2): Fishing Sign 9-Pack + Desktop Fish Trophy
• 3rd Prize: Ornate Fish Pavers + Bronze Fish Trophy
• 2nd Prize: Viking Village Water Home + Silver Fish Trophy
• 1st Prize: Player Owned Town Village Water Lot Property Deed (digital) + Gold Fish Trophy

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Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

News Announcements

• Play Release 71 Now!
• Questions & Answers Livestream Today
• Release 71 Livestream
• 11/1 Crown Shop Updates
• November Login Reward: Turkey Statue
• Release 71 Reward Program Items: Fall Theme
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
• Haunted Homes Tour & Various Other Livestreams (YouTube)
• Upcoming Events Calendar

Community Updates

• Community Event: Immortal City’s Annual Halloween Ball & Costume Contest
• Community Event: Halloween Party – Britt Mart
• Community Event: What happened at River’s Cross in Jade Valley?
• Project to Support: Crowfall
• Project to Support: Avatar Express
• Resources: Players Helping Players

Play Release 71 Now!

Release 71 successfully launched Wednesday, October 30, with thousands of backers downloading, patching, and logging in to check out the changes! There’s lots of new content to explore, including:

• Tartarus Level Polish & New Content
• Despair Polish
• Decoration Palette
• Gold and Silver Scrap
• Agriculture Economy Balance
• Batch Crafting Improvement
• Wyvern Trophy Head
• Winter Holiday Recurring Items Return
• R71 Rewards Program Items: Fall Theme!
• November Login Reward: Turkey Statue
• Performance Improvements
• More Bug Fixes
• and more!

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