Hey guys!

We've just wrapped up our seventh month of testing and have continued to make great progress.

Last month, our goals were to completely finish implementing Mechanic skills, work on Resistance scripts, and make infrastructure updates.

Mechanic Skills:

We've completed implemented all the Mechanic skills! It was a lot more work than we had actually anticipated. In fact, the amount of code required for Mechanics was more than Battle Mage and Wild Hunter, but we did it! Woo!

Resistance Scripts:

Similar to Mechanic skills, there was a lot more work here than we originally anticipated and we weren't able to find out exactly how certain quests work but we've wrapped up a fair chunk of this. What's pending is 4th job advancement and a few quests that are likely not required. We will continue working on it this month.

Infrastructure Updates:
We've begun building out our infrastructure and we expect this to be an ongoing effort that we'll be continuing to allocate time on. You shouldn't notice any visible changes from this work, but it's important that we have the proper infrastructure in place ahead of time. This will help us better monitor, maintain, and debug the server as development continues.

Weekly Recap:
End of Week Aug 9th
End of Week Aug 16th
End of Week Aug 23rd
End of Week Aug 30th

Goals for September:

• Release Resistance: Complete the remaining scripting and release Resistance.
• Bug Fixes for Resistance and Edelstein: We fully expect there to be bugs, missing scripts, and other issues once Resistance is released. We'll be working through these as they're discovered and reported.
• Website Rankings: We'll be implementing rankings on the website, allowing you to see the top ranked players as well as find your own ranking.
• Infrastructure & Tooling: We will continue working on our server infrastructure to give us better visibility on our server health, performance and debugging. We'll also work on additional tooling to make the development process smoother.

As always, thanks for sticking with us through our journey.

Astral Team