Category: Legends of Aria News

If you’ve been hoping to “convert” your friend to the magic that is Legends of Aria, you’re in luck! This week marks the start of Friend’s Week at Citadel Studios. To provide your pal with a 1-week trial key, all you have to do is email the kind folks at Citadel who will send along a key. Then it’s a full week of gameplay goodness with your friend also extended the opportunity to convert all of their progress to a Founder’s Pack in order to keep on keepin’ on!

Legends of Aria alpha client has been updated with a patch that brings a number of tweaks to combat into the game, including the amount of heal during a battle and an increased STR damage modifier. One particularly interesting note is the removal of the “M” button to open a world map. “We feel strongly that “GPS” doesn’t make sense in our world, and having a map you open with a hotkey creates the wrong expectation”, the notes read.

The Legends of Aria Roadmap has been updated with the exciting news that the team will be deploying a couple of patches and then heading into “what [they] call “open beta”” sometime in June! The team feels that the game is at the stage where “we need to start addressing the issues we can only find with lots of people” and to help with that cause, free trial keys will be available much more freely.

The Legends of Aria site has been updated with a lengthy post detailing the biggest components of a patch that is expected to land before the end of March. Just to get this out of the way, the post answers the question, “So is this CB2?” “No.” The patch contains new systems as well as improvements and performance enhancements to other features.

Derek Brinkmann took to Reddit earlier today for an Ask Me Anything session with fans of Legends of Aria. The first question out of the bag asked if he believed that LoA would make its projected April Steam release date. Brinkmann wrote that, while a lot of great feedback had been taken from CBT1, the team realized that more work needs to be done on optimization, fleshing out professions and on a new player experience.

One of the unique features of Legends of Aria is the ability for server admins to create unique worlds for their players to adventure in. One of the interesting ones that came across our desk recently is one called Legends of Aria that aims to provide players with an Ultima Online 2 feel. “It’s an incredible server and truly plays like UO2 with even more features than the official LoA server” according to our tipster.