Q: What are the updates in the progress, and what are the keywords that we should know?
However, after that picuture, the Director mentioned that there will be a "summer update" starting from 7/31, and some major updates starting from August. During the summer update, premium pack, fashion slot, and prem combo card revival (!) will be provided.
Next, as the Director says it, the keyword for the August update is "chapter". Literally, they'll release a new chapter. The format will follow those that preceeded the saga, and unlike saga, the story's focus will be on the Milletian. As for updates, you won't see is like saga, where updates happened episode after episode. Instead, it will happen in seasons like before.
Another developer mentions that another keywords is "Order" (order was the closest word I could think of, think of it as order from "Harry Potter and Order of the phoenix", or just some special force shit I guess). Each member of the order has distinct characteristics. However, they differ from the Aces in a way that they don't necessarily develop their own ways through their uniqueness.
Q: Out of the summer patch notes, the Greenogi season 3's hacking restore system catches our eyes. How much can you actually restore?
Part of the problem was that throught 10 years of game's service, solutions for hacks weren't that great, to say the least. There were many technical difficulties till now, but now we can try new things as well as restore players' lost goods.
For now, we can restore the deleted/created character cards, inventories, bank, pet inventories, upto 1 month prior to the update. As much as we'd like to implement this as quick as possible, we decided that if we implement this prematurely, it'd actually be more problematic for the players, so we are planning the update very cautiously. We will release this during the summer if possible.
We are also in the process of creating prevention tools for hacking. As hard as we are working, we'd also appreciate the users' effort to be cautious about their account information.
The next question asks if previously affected users can benefit. The answer is unfortunately no, as they can only give the benefit to users who got affected 1-2 months prior to the update.
The next couple questions regard dungeons, especially about passes. They're planning to make the passes easier to get.
There will also be an event for returning/new players, to experience the special upgraded weapons. Apparently they will be provided with special upgraded weapons (wat)
Also, still no big plans for dungeons, jousting, and fashion contest :(
Even though they don't actually have set plans for combat power and its inaccuracy to really measure player's damage/performance (already visible when a 2.5k cp [me] outdamages a user with 3.2k cp).
This was pretty much summarized, except for the two questions that I felt were important. The next questions in bold are the ones after the pictures with three awesome looking order members.
Q: It's known that the new chapter will focus on the new world, revealed by the released seal of Erinn at the end of the saga 2. Would there be regional changes similar to how Iria went through during the saga?
In saga's case, the changes happened before, and the primary focus was to trace the causes, and face numerous events. In the new chapter, there isn't any immediate new regional changes, but it's always possible that there could be changes, especially in accordance with the story. (Tory Ravine, maybe?)
Since the seal was released, it's always possible that you guys can create stories unrelated to Celtic mythology. On the other hand, it's also possible that the story will still be based on Celtic myth. What would the new story's direction be then?
It'd actually be a bit of both. It is true that we got out of the Celtic myth border to create story lines freely, but there is no reason to completely abandon the original world. You could consider it an expansion. Our focus will always be on Celtic myths, and you could consider it an expansion of Milletian's activities.
ironwoman's thoughts: I'm expecting another region, or Tory Ravine to be opened. I also kind of want to see them open upto other continents, like Asian-based world, or African-based world. We'll see.
In the new chapter, Milletian will be part of the "order" and fight. You guys mentioned that "order" has distinct charaters, could you explain more?
The "order" is a group that moves with purpose. The members of the "order" have united purpose, but they differ in ways they do to meet that purpose, or how much they're willing to do to meet the purpose. Unlike the zero aces, the "order" will show more human characteristics, and as a result, the mood of the new chapter will be lighter and less gloomy than the saga.
Some additional things:
-Aces will most likely not be involved in the new storyline, nor is any new ace talent planned.
-There is a new combat skill planned. Think of it as skills gained from generation, like transformation skill, and shock.
-Therefore, they do not have Ninja planned for KR... yet.
-There will also be a new mainstream boss.
More translations from ironwoman
You can view this update as an extension of the "Greenogi project". They're planning on implementing things like viewing of dye amp info enabled (like color code), dress room upgrade, partner icon added, title search button enabled, renewed loading screen tooltip, etc.
Like mentioned before, they will be implementing a hack prevention system, and following after the update, will compensate those who have been hacked within 4 weeks prior to the update.
As for the new generation, "Divine Knights", the focus will be on the "ordinary knights" who meet up with the Milletian and fight for Erinn. The chapter will consist of 4 generations, namely "meeting", "adventure", "war", "divine".
From August 13, the new chapter will kick off with "meeting". In the generation, the Milletian will be on adventure following the strange events in places in Erinn, and in the midst of feeling of loss, will meet up with the "ordinary knights", to get confronted with the situation where Milletian will have to learn the skills of knights in order to defeat a new enemy.
On the other hand, from July 31, a free chapter "castle wall's prelude" will be introduced. For a period of time, premium package, combo card extension, fashion tab key will be provided for free, and for those returning or new, there will be an event called "ultimate weapon giveaway". Also, similar to how generations gave AP and stuff after Genesis patch (?), the old mainstream quests will give extra rewards during the event, as well as an event for new chapter's prologue.
Original article can be found here: http://mabinogi.gameabout.com/news/view.ga?news_id=2484