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New CHAT features

• Trade chat: this channel is intended to be used for trading with other players and should not be used for general discussion!
• Online friends (players you follow) are listed when joining a chat room (only when your friends are in the same chat room)
• New chat command: /users or /u – list all users (usernames) who are currently in this chat room. Warning: please avoid using this chat command in the new trade chat room.
• New chat command: /r – reply to the last whisper (send message in chat to the last user who has messaged you in private)
• We have reduced the number of chat rooms from 20 to 10 and we have increased the player limit from 200 to 400 per chat room
• Possible to adjust the height by clicking on the button next to the close button (on top of the chat window)
• Spam filter (the number of chat messages sent within a short time period is limited)
• Added blink effect to chat button (when folded) when other users send messages to chat room or whisper you

New tournament system

• New tournament leaderboard for village brawls
• From now on there will be 15 leagues (previously 5) and all players will get rewards (at the end of the tournament) when they have attacked another village at least once
• Rank score doesn’t get reset when a new tournament starts – the points are saved for the next tournament
• Further details are listed in the pvp tournament FAQ 

Tweaks

• Quest objectives of repeatable quests in Gaul are easier than before – villagers do no longer demand expensive items
• Adjusted quest rewards for all repeatable quests in Gaul – completing repeatable quests are now more rewarding
• Food icon above a villagers head is no longer clickable (cannot restore strength by clicking on icon). In addition we changed the size and the position of the quest/food icon when the villagers is currently offering a quest AND is recovering from a fight against romans.
• The village brawl achievements “finish tournament with golden ranking” is no longer available with the new tournament system. If a player has the 2nd or 3rd tier of this achievement in progress, it will be completed automatically and the according rewards will be available to claim in a mail (sent from your Asterix & Friends team).Please note that we are already planning to add new tournament achievements (meaning you get a chance to claim the rewards that are currently not available).
• Made a few changes in the bad words list – conversation in chat and mail should be better now (we removed Asterix & Obelix license names and many other words)
• Added 30 more inventory pages that can be unlocked with roman helmets
• [village brawl] Slightly decreased the strength of all heroes that can be unlocked with resistance points in village brawl

Bugfixes

• [chat] Fixed issue where it was not possible to open the inventory to send gifts when you opened the message center via chat
• [chat] Fxied issue where it was not possible to send messages after you have been reconnected to chat server
• [chat] Fixed issue where new players did not connect to chat server in the first game session
• [chat] Fixed issue where using the arrow keys while typing in chat resulted in panning the game map
• [chat] Fixed issue where the chat server did not reconnect you to same chat room after you have lost the connection to chat server
• [chat] Fixed issue where the mouse panning was not toggled off when releasing mouse button (cursor in chat window)
• [chat] Fixed issue where the autoscroll toggle button could be interacted with when the click “began” outside of the button area
• [chat] Fixed issue where the underscore character was displayed in bold in the chat
• [chat] Fixed error that prevents user from adding friends to a full friendsmap (occurred when following / sending messages via chat)
• Fixed issue where it was possible to earn tournament points with decimal places (resulting in display issue in tournament leaderboard)

Known issues

• External buildings may be blocked despite the Roman camps having been defeated (could be the reason why certain quests and/or achievements cannot be completed) This issue might not be visible in the game – the game throws an error when you encounter it.
• Statistics for brawls won and lost (as defender) not correctly displayed in statistics category tab “village brawls”. A game refresh is needed to see the correct PvP defender statistics. Same goes for the PvP achievement: win x brawls as a defender.
• It’s not possible to store more than 20 brawl report mails (+ brawl rewards) in your inbox. Don’t forget to pick up your brawl rewards as soon as possible!
• The game throws an (out of sync) error when receiving mails while having lots of actions queued
• Constructed Outposts in Egypt and in Gaul might not display the correct amount of time left – please refresh your browser once in a while to prevent server-client syncing issues (especially when you are planning to extend the outpost time)
• Rarely, a quest row quest (Asterix or Obelix quest rows) cannot be completed although the client is already showing the rewards. You have to complete all objectives to get the rewards (you can see the objective list in the quest portrait tooltip on the left side)
• [Egypt] Egyptian workers are sometimes called “villagers” in some descriptions (upgrade a worker, equip a worker, …)
• It’s possible that 2 legions spawn within a short period of time. We are not sure what causes this issue – any information on this might help us in our investigation.
• One time offer that trigger with a level up are not available in the regular roman helmet market. please start the paying process in the dialog that triggers with the level up (to get the bonus roman helmets).
• [pvp] Message “you are not ranked” displayed when opening the tournament leaderboard for the first time (just reopen the leaderboard, to see the correct message)
• [pvp] Older tournament mails do not display the correct text (the league system did not exist back then)

KNOWN ISSUES CHAT

• User has to wait some time (duration variable) until information is displayed that chat server connection is lost. The chat reconnects after several minutes automatically. If this is not happening, you have to refresh the game to reconnect to the chat server.
• You disconnect from the chat server completely when you try to connect to a chat room that is already full. Unfortunately, the information if a chat room is full or not is not displayed in the game. You have to refresh the game to reconnect to the chat server (you get transferred automatically to a room that isn’t full yet)
• Some issues when resizing the chat window (chat scroll bar)
• Not possible to scroll chat with mouse wheel