Hello Asterix & Friends Community,

on Tuesday, July 29th we will release Update 23. Due to this, the game won’t be accessible from 10:30 AM until approximately 12:30 PM. We will provide you with further informations on the patch and coming changes over the next few days.

Please note:

• the gameserver is not available tomorrow (27.05.2014) during maintenance from 10:30 – approximately 15:30.
• buying roman helmets is not possible from within the game, starting 0:00 CEST/GMT+2 on 27.05.2015 until end of the maintenance (10:30 – approx. 15:30)!

New features

• You can now share your Asterix and Friends experiences with your Facebook friends.
• Reworked brawl-screen with slicker design, which now facilitates the overall brawling experiences, as all the information needed is now on one screen.
• Pop-up notification triggers when a brawl tournament has ended (showing you the top ranked players and your own rank)
• Introducing the guild feature: join forces with your friends and create your own guild! Choose your name and banner layout from a vast range of graphical options. Furthermore the guild chat room makes it easy to stay connected with your friends and help each other out. (4 roles: chief, elder, warrior, villager)
• Growl notification, when legion spawns at own/friend/guild colleague village
• Your guild colleagues are listed in the friends section of the tournament leaderboard
• Players you follow will be deleted from friendsmap – you will receive a mail with a player list (new friendsmap follow limit: 15 players – rest is reserved for guild members)
• Reworked building upgrades: You now can see at a glance which building upgrade is in progress, as it is displayed over the building. This reworked feature needs some tactical thinking: choose the timing of the upgrade wisely, as resource generating buildings (such as butcher, fish market, farm, mine and co.) do not produce resources during the upgrade time and the fabrication of new items is not available when a building upgrade is in progress. (workshops: not possible to craft items or to cook dishes, druid and druid circle: not possible to brew potions). You can cancel an upgrade in progress at any time.
• Overall number of participants in the village brawl is now displayed in the tournament ranking dialog
• Further functionality in tournament leaderboard: send messages and follow players directly from within the leaderboard using the newly added buttons.

New Content

• 17 new quests (repeatable and non-repeatable) especially addressing the cooking of Gaul dishes
• One new achievement to complete and to earn Roman Helmets

Bugfixes

• [pvp] Fixed display issue where the info “you are not ranked yet” was displayed although you were already ranked
• [chat] Fixed several issues with chat scroll bar when resizing the chat window
• [chat] Fixed issue where it was not possible to scroll chat content with mouse wheel
• [chat] There was an issue with the chat command /l (for chat room list) where the online player count was not correctly displayed. We had to disable this info completely – only the list of available chat rooms is now displayed
• [pvp] It’s no longer possible to load empty leaderboard pages
• [chat] Usernames in combination with the chat command /w (whisper) don’t get censored anymore
• The achievement (all tiers) where you have to conquer the farm x times is now ready for completion for anyone who has constructed the permanent outpost. User who have not constructed the outpost yet can still complete the achievement by conquering the farm many times OR by construction the perma outpost.
• Fixed issue where it was not possible to buy a “one time roman helmets offer” (triggers sometimes with level up) – a browser pop-up blocker was preventing the user to open the roman helmet shop.
• Fixed display issue where the brawler strength bar refilled after winning a brawl with only one brawler
• We might have fixed the out of sync error when receiving mails while having lots of actions queued. Please inform us in case you still run into this issue.

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!
• 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)
• 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 roman helmet offer that triggers 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] Tournament mails that have been sent out before live update 20 (15.04.2014) have a small spelling error in the message text (the league system did not exist back then)
• [pvp] Tournament end reward information screen does not display the ranking position and points the players have achieved at the END of the tournament. It’s the current status, meaning the information can be different from the actual end result.
• [chat] Sometimes, the connection to a specific chat room fails – you have to refresh the game in this case.
• [chat] 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).

Known issues GUILD

• Guild banner, name and invitation setting changes are not immediately effective for other players or guild members. They have to wait a few minutes until the changes are visible on the friendsmap.
• New guild members who have joined a guild are not visible on the friendsmap right away.Wait a few minutes or refresh the game to see the member on the friendsmap.

Introduction

There now is a total amount of 15 leagues. Each one has its own trophy (gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood), which is separated into 3 sub-leagues (e.g. gold 1, gold 2, gold 3), which is indicated by the number on the trophy.

Only active users, who have won/lost a fight as attacker at least once, take part in the ongoing tournament and therefore get a trophy and rewards, according to the league, at the end of the tournament.

The classification is conducted by percentage distribution of all actively participating users in the tournament (see “user distribution” in the table above).

Questions and Answers

Q: Do I get tournament end rewards when I’ve only won/lost village brawls as defender?
A: No. Players who are not actively attacking another village are not ranked in the ongoing tournament and don’t get rewards, but they are still displayed in the leagues (trophy icon is missing – see screenshot).

Example in Screenshot: Village_592, Gernix, Bixbox and Boxingo are not in the tournament and don’t get the reward (the trophy icon is missing)

Q: What is the meaning of the colored arrows in the ranking screen?
A: With every ranking update (every day 4:30 a.m.) the leaderboard updates the player rank positions and compares your old rank with the new rank.

Icon Explanation:

-you have earned points and reached a higher rank position. Great!
-you have lost points and your rank position. Equip your brawlers with weapons and climb up to the top!
-you are on the same rank position as before, nothing has changed…

Q: What happens to my score when a tournament ends?
A: As before, every tournament lasts for 14 days, however at the end of each tournament there won’t be a reset of your placement. Your score and rank within a league are saved, which allows you to ascend, or even descend as you lose points if a brawl is lost.

Q: Who are the top players?
A: The top players are shown in the “Top players” leaderboard. These players have reached the gold 1 league and have the highest score on the server.

Q: Where can I see the rank of my friends?
A: On the leaderboard you can track your tournament progress as well as the progress of your friends. Click on the “Friends” tab to see the progress of your friends across ALL leagues.

Each entry lists the name of the player, the score, the league and the rank within the league and additionally, if their rank position has changed.

Please note: the gameserver is not available tomorrow (15.04.2014) during maintenance from 10:30 – 13:00

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

Please note: the gameserver is not available tomorrow (01.04.2014) during maintenance from 10:30 – 13:00

Features

• ALPHA version of the in-game chat 

  This is not the final version of the chat, performance issues and usability problems might occur while using the chat. The availability of the chat is not always guaranteed

Chat features

• initially 30 global chat rooms (10 chatrooms for each language – EN, DE, FR) – more chatrooms coming soon
• possible to move to different chat room with command: /c [chat room name] (chat room name examples: de1; en5; fr10 – it’s always the language tag + number).
• possible to view chat room list with command /l or /list (all available chat rooms are listed)
• whisper functionality (talk with other players in private) – chat command: /w [Username]
• context menu when you click on the playername in the chat with following options: follow/unfollow; send message; whisper
• turn on/off autoscroll
• depending on the language settings you have in the game you get connected to a chat room with people who have the same language settings (Example: game in English = English chat room)

Tweaks

• adjusted the collision of “reed” in Egypt (making it more easy to harvest reed)
• adjusted position of Avatar during harvest animation (palm trees / ruins)
• new quest GUI (window): the quest rewards and quest objectives are visible at any time
• changed cargo ship startposition – now in Gaul (previously: Egypt)
• The price and resource cost to construct the Boxing Ring has been reduced significantly. Additionally players can construct it already at level 8, previously level 11.
• There is now a bigger Sesterce Pack available in the Market with the quantity of 100k Sesterce.
• The items: bone, mushroom feather, linen cloth red gemstone have been reduced in price. The lobster item has been slightly increased in prize.
• Building upgrade durations have been significantly reduced. For example the first upgrade used to take 10 minutes, it now takes only one minute. the third took one hour it now takes 15 minutes,…
• Time reduction cost have been increased for building upgrades, crafting and brawler cooldown. Due to the time reduction changes the first couple of building upgrades are cheaper though than they were before.
• Permanent inventory unlock prizes have been changed. The prize of all inventory bags combined stayed the same but the prize progression is very different now.
• Level up Helmet rewards have been slightly increased for the first few level ups and reduced for mid and high level ranges.

Bugfixes

• fixed issue where words in quotation marks were not displayed in message
• fixed issue where the Communication Panel (announcement when you log into the game) was missing when the first time Egypt tutorial was active
• fixed issue where the brawl tutorial was missing when the Egypt first time tutorial was active at the same time (the player was not able to brawl as attacker – no opponent was found)
• [Cooking] merchandise duration for the “Egyptian stew” (tavern merchandise item) was not correctly displayed in the recipe selection tooltip
• added information screen when clicking on pier/boar in Gaul before reaching player level 20 (to start the Egyptian adventure)

Known issues

• Problem with upgrades of buildings (and their respective achievements) that have been started ahead of the update 17: the new, shorter upgrade times do not always translate to these ongoing upgrades. Sometimes, the old upgrade time (update 16) is not shortened on the servers-side, despite the players client shows the update has been finished. In this case, the player needs to wait the original time the upgrade has been started with ahead of update 17. In rare cases, this may also result in a login-error, which sometimes will last until the upgrade is finished on the server-side.
• 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.
• [Browser] Rarely, error #3672 when playing/loading the game in Chrome
• 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)
• Issues when fighting against a Roman Unit (patrol, camp, legion) where it’s possible to lose a fight with a 100% win chance. Please add the steps to reproduce when you encounter this issue (for example: Used food to regain strength – yes or no? Villager is equipped with sword/spear/shield/helmet. Overall strength of your villagers VS. overall strength of the Roman Unit)
• [Egypt] Egyptian workers are sometimes called “villagers” in some descriptions (upgrade a worker, equip a worker, …)
• possible to lose tournament points with a score with decimal places (example: the winner gets 15 points; you 7,5 points) -> resulting that sometimes the tournament list shows a “wrong” tournament score. It’s just a display issue, because we cannot show rational numbers on the client.
• 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.

KNOWN ISSUES CHAT

• Autoscroll toggle button can be interacted with when the click “began” outside of the button area
• Mouse panning is not toggled off when releasing mouse button if cursor was released in chat window
• 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.
• Underscore character is displayed in bold in the chat
• Using arrow keys while typing in chat pans the game map
• Chat doesn’t necessarily reconnect you to same chat room after you have been disconnected. If you are not in the same chat room than before, just use the command /c [chat room name] to change back to the correct chat room
• 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)