We have alot of very exciting patch notes for our
1 year anniversary posted below, but let's first remember where this all started!
Wow what a year everyone. I cant believe it has been 365 days since our first open beta… 12 months ago this was a tiny project of me myself, and now we’re a strong team of nine, from six different countries including Canada, Sweden, Norway, US, Brazil and The Netherlands.
Our
facebook page has grown sustaniably, our server is played daily by over 2000 unique accounts, over 3500 unique weekly, our forum thread on otland has 70,000 views and 1800 posts, and we are currently the most highly viewed non-rl map server on otservlist, otslist and opentibiaservers!
47 Patches later in 52 weeks we have gone from a project with 16 small spawns, 2 dungeons, no events, no arena, no crafting, no daily quests, no legendaries, only 3 unique spells per class, and 6 classes. We went from 50% of the time dungeons crashing the whole server, to 11 flawless dungeons. Archlight now officially has over 300 different chest and reward boxes. It has 1200% more monsters than when we begun, and it's player base has grown exponentially.
This was our humble beginning, and ever since then we have done nothing but expand, grow, and we have all of you to thank for that.
Not only through your monetary support - much needed for server costs, ddos protection, advertising - but also for allowing us to do what we love doing - make new content for all of you!
but also we thank all of you for your non-donation support in ways of telling friends about our project, posting kind words on forums and facebook, and overall just playing Archlight Online!
You the community is what builds this server, and we thank you all for being apart of the most played Non-Rl map server in 2015 and 2016!
Some of you may have noticed already, but after alot of work we have set up a proxy server for North American Players. Using this proxy will not only help keep you connected when there are OVH network hickups, but it will also (for 99% of people) lower your overall ping! This is a huge step in a cool direction for us and it opens us up the option to setup proxies for other regions like the UK and Australia/New Zealand to further reduce ping for everyone.
To use the proxy service follow the following steps and change your location, once changed you must logout fully of your account and log back into your character and you will be connected to the proxy!
More new mining caves!
Snowball Fight Event
Castle Siege + Defend Event
Power Rating System
"Your character's power rating is 272.6"
This will take into account your gear rating, your character level, your character skills, your achievements and your stat points and it will give you an overall power rating. This will be a really cool way to compare character to character, but also healers and tanks will have a power rating showing how good of a healer or tank they are. I can see this used in many ways in the future and a great way to determine power of a character with how many unique systems we have in Archlight.
12 More Stat Point NPCs with new lore and stories!
New Normal Mode Dungeon and Hardcore Mode Dungeon!
Brand new spawn and monsters for levels 1500+
32 New Weapons being added.
Team Boss Arena completed and 8 new bosses added (this will be part of the way you achieve the new weapons).