Greetings Fellow Avatars!
Release 118 goes live September 28th at 10:30 AM CDT.
Welcome! The Catnip Games development team marks this monthly release of Shroud of the Avatar with new content and improvements. For Release 118 (R118), we offer an improved shopping experience, but not in Jotungrund.
For those wishing to participate in any community activities , upcoming one-time and recurring community events have…
Play Release 118!
We have gotten reports in the last 24 hours that people creating new accounts using Microsoft or Google based email addresses are unable to complete the registration process.
The issue is that the confirmation email that provides a link to create the account password is not being received by the new player. So far we have noted outlook.com (hotmail) and google.com email addresses being impacted.
We had just completed a move of our website from a cloud based solution to a dedicated data…
New Account Email Confirmations are not being received
The patch is being deployed now on the Live game server, please see the patch notes here for details.
The new login rewards should be delivered on your next login to the game. Enjoy!
In addition to the below sales, Double XP is in effect through September 4th!
In game Crown Store sales are 30% off
In game Deed Upgrades are 20% off
Website purchases for Crowns of the Obsidians are 20% off
Greetings Fellow Avatars!
Release 117 goes live August 31st at 10:30 AM CDT.
Welcome! The Catnip Games development team marks this monthly release of Shroud of the Avatar with new content and improvements. For Release 117 (R117), we offer challenges and coins. En Garde!
For those wishing to participate in any community activities , upcoming one-time and recurring community events have been announced! Be sure to…
Play Release 117!
Please see the testing Directive post here:
https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/testing-directive-courage-club-2-0.174877/
Use the Player Test Environment Feedback area to post input on the changes; we want to hear from you!
This patch addresses issues in the Port Harmony Cistern, as well as a bunch of other fixes. Please see the details here: https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?page_id=32989
You may see an “Instance Closing” message during deployment, this is expected. After the rewards are deployed, you should be able to claim your reward the next time you login to the game.
Greetings Fellow Avatars!
Release 116 goes live July 27th at 10:30 AM CDT.
Welcome! The Catnip Games development team marks this monthly release of Shroud of the Avatar with new content and improvements. For Release 116 (R116), we offer intruders that are not supposed to be in the water and animals that are.
For those wishing to participate in any community activities , upcoming one-time and recurring community…
Play Release 116!
Our data center has begun intrusive upgrade work without giving us appropriate warning. As per support, the work will be between 2am and 4am CT. I have no indication from them if the intrusion will be intermittent or throughout.
The impact is to the network connectivity only. The game and support servers are still operational.
The forums and website are not impacted as they are not located in the same datacenter.
I have asked them to send out an email to the clients and will be…
SotA servers are being impacted by Upgrade work in the Data Center
Our data center has advised that they are doing work on some of the routers that may cause some packet loss during their work window. The window has started (10pm CT) and is expected to be complete by 6AM CT.
They have indicated that the work should have not greater impact than some occasional packet loss. This should not impact game play.
I will send out an update if the work becomes more visible.
During Friday’s LB Birthday livestream a special shield was handed out to players in attendance. Announcements were made that only one shield per person was allowed.
A very small number of players obtained multiple shields. After the event we audited the logs and reposesed the excess shields. No other actions will be taken, however this does bring to mind the phrase “this is why we cannot have nice things”. As a result, we are now looking into adjusting methods used to distribute…
The case of too many shields …
This is just an FYI: Around 5pm CT we noticed that the SotA discord server [in addition to a number of other Discord servers] had a red exclamation point on them and no longer displayed channels.
This appears to have been an issue on the Discord side and is resolved by quitting and restarting your Discord client.
All is well; we were not hacked.
We have deployed the client and server patch to end all of the sales for Lord British’s birthday. Thanks to all who attended the annual Birthday Bash Friday!
The July login rewards are being deployed…
Players currently logged in may get an “Instance Closing” message. Once the rewards have ben deployed to the server, they will be delivered on next the player’s next login
Greetings Fellow Avatars!
Release 115 goes live June 29th at 10:30 AM CDT.
Welcome! The Catnip Games development team marks this monthly release of Shroud of the Avatar with new content and improvements. For Release 115 (R115), we offer more words, floating beacons of menace, and birthday cake.
For those wishing to participate in any community activities , upcoming one-time and recurring community events have…
Play Release 115!
Reminder: We will be starting the update process on Thursday by taking the game server down at 8am. The server should return to service by 10:30am.
The Release 115 livestream is being postponed until July 7th. This will be our annual Lord British Birthday Bash stream, with Lord British, members of the team and possibly others
This year our plans include the usual R115 update info, Q/A, lively discussion and game play! This should be an extended stream, so even if not available to…
Scheduling Notice: R115 and Livestream
Our Certificate Authority changed their Root Certificate, forcing us to update our certificate chain used during login. Though we updated and added the new info to our chain to allow for a transition, Unity is flagging a failure event though the cert is valid, worked and let you login.
Because of this error, it sends an indication that the EULA and Commercial TOS must be acknowledged.
I’m doing a QA build right now with the fix for the Certificate. We have tested in internally and the…
EULA and TOS acknowledgement on every login
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