Last week we were unable to do our weekly livestream due to an internet outage but we will be back this week for another content packed weekly Community Livestream this Friday September 21 at 4 PM CDT on Twitch!

This week we are going to talk about Player Made Books! Joaquin “Wizardsmoke” Del Canto and Scott “Scottie” Jones will be showing you how to make and publish a player made book as well as how to make copies of it using the Printing Press. We will also show off other player customized writing items and uses for them like notes with mail, Bulletin Boards with Flyers, and more!

Remember every Friday of the release all purchases from noon to midnight count towards the Release 57 Stretch Goals which are dungeon themed in honor of the upcoming Player Made Dungeon feature which is previewing in Release 57 and going live in Q4! We have already hit four of them, and last week we were only $1000 short of hitting a fifth one!

• ACHIEVED $10K: /rolldice
• ACHIEVED $25K: Flame Trap Decorations (non-harmful)
• ACHIEVED $35K: Candle Helm
• ACHIEVED $50K: Spike Trap & Arrow Trap Decorations (non-harmful)
• $65K: Unique Dungeon Entrance Eternal Pattern
• $80K: Torture Set: Torture Chair, Torture Table, Rack
• $90K: Key Themed Weapon Set: Sword, Mace, Polearm
• $100K: Unique Dungeon Room Blueprint

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 “Roll the dice” in the chat window (no purchase necessary).

Watch on Twitch this Friday at 4 PM CDT!

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Another content packed weekly Community Livestream is this Friday September 14 at 4 PM CDT on Twitch!

This week we are going to talk about Player Made Books! Joaquin “Wizardsmoke” Del Canto and Scott “Scottie” Jones will be showing you how to make and publish a player made book as well as how to make copies of it using the Printing Press. We will also show off other player customized writing items and uses for them like notes with mail, Bulletin Boards with Flyers, and more!

Remember every Friday of the release all purchases from noon to midnight count towards the Release 57 Stretch Goals which are dungeon themed in honor of the upcoming Player Made Dungeon feature which is previewing in Release 57 and going live in Q4! We have already hit four of them!

• ACHIEVED $10K: /rolldice
• ACHIEVED $25K: Flame Trap Decorations (non-harmful)
• ACHIEVED $35K: Candle Helm
• ACHIEVED $50K: Spike Trap & Arrow Trap Decorations (non-harmful)
• $65K: Unique Dungeon Entrance Eternal Pattern
• $80K: Torture Set: Torture Chair, Torture Table, Rack
• $90K: Key Themed Weapon Set: Sword, Mace, Polearm
• $100K: Unique Dungeon Room Blueprint

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 “Roll the dice” in the chat window (no purchase necessary).

Watch on Twitch this Friday at 4 PM CDT!

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The Release 57 Livestream is set for Friday September 7! All Avatars from around the world are welcome to join us in the livestream activities. We will be doing deep dives, answering questions, having sales, handing out prizes, and tracking towards stretch goals. In honor of the upcoming Player Made Dungeons feature the theme for this livestream is Dungeons which are previewing in Release 57 and will go live as soon as Q4!

LIVESTREAM SCHEDULE (Central Time Zone)

Monthly livestreams are on Twitch and include answers to your gameplay questions, world building tours, prize giveaways, sales on items, and more! Here is the schedule:

• 3PM: Introductions
• 3:30PM: Deep Dive 1: Player Made Dungeons
• 4:30PM: Q&A
• 5:30PM: Deep Dive 2: Fishing
• 6:30PM: Q&A
• 7PM: Ending Announcements

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[From a forum post by Starr “Darkstarr” Long]

Avatars,

Please read this entire message, as well as the linked Player Guide and Known Issues.

Release 57 of Shroud of the Avatar goes live this Thursday, August 30, at 10:30 AM US Central Daylight Time (15:30 UTC).

Release 57 is the second release in which we focused on the current iteration of our Top 10 Priorities (from Q3 2018 post). We continued to make great progress on Systems and User Interface Polish with a specific focus on improving Quality of Life. We also continue to fix huge numbers of bugs.

Quality of Life Improvements: This was the main focus of Release 57. Our goal here was to improve moment to moment and daily gameplay. Siege skipping, Control Point skipping, Global banks, removed NPC slowdowns, double XP as the new normal, reduced Roving encounter awareness and other similar changes should all make very noticeable improvements to every Avatars play experience by removing continual inconveniences and slow-downs. Read more…

Another content packed weekly Community Livestream is this Friday August 31 at 4 PM CDT on Twitch!

This week we are going to talk about Tier Markers. Keith “Sannio” Quinn and Travis “Vas Corp Por” Koleski will be explaining how we label each scene with a Tier Marker to indicate the level of challenge of that scene. They will be using our existing scenes like Hallowed Plains to illustrate how the system works and highlight some of our recent changes to the system including the addition of the “+” to indicate varying degrees of challenge and the addition of Tiers 6-10 (was previously only 1-5) to better indicate higher levels of challenge for our top level players.

In exciting news this Friday is the first Friday where all purchases from noon to midnight count towards the Release 57 Stretch Goals which are dungeon themed in honor of the upcoming Player Made Dungeon feature which is previewing in Release 57 and going live in Q4!

• $10K: /rolldice
• $25K: Flame Trap Decorations (non-harmful)
• $35K: Candle Helm
• $50K: Spike Trap & Arrow Trap Decorations (non-harmful)
• $65K: Unique Dungeon Entrance Eternal Pattern
• $80K: Torture Set: Torture Chair, Torture Table, Rack
• $90K: Key Themed Weapon Set: Sword, Mace, Polearm
• $100K: Unique Dungeon Room Blueprint

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 “Roll the dice” in the chat window (no purchase necessary).

Watch on Twitch this Friday at 4 PM CDT!

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Another content packed weekly Community Livestream is this Friday August 24 at 4 PM CDT on Twitch!

This week we are going to talk about the upcoming Player Made Dungeons feature which will be getting previewed in Release 57 with some example dungeons players can place on their properties along with some customizable entrances! In Q4 we will launch the system where players can modify and expand the dungeons themselves through adventuring, crafting, and purchase! Join us to see some of the new dungeon kits and rooms we have built to support the system and learn more about how the system will work. Join us again for the Release 57 Livestream (link coming soon) where we will be going into even more detail with a dedicated Deep Dive!

This Friday is the last Friday where all purchases from noon to midnight count towards the Release 56 Stretch Goals. Last Friday we managed to achieve the Box of Replenishing Aether Dye, this Friday let’s see if we can hit the Aether Dragon Statue, or even the Aether Weapon Set (Aether Axe, Aether 1H Spear, Aether 2H Bludgeon)!

Watch on Twitch this Friday at 4 PM CDT!

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