The forum gets a new banner too! A simple Asmodian Ranger fronting the banner.

And we’re having a nerdrage session too- We are going to that screwed over for choosing to preorder from a brick and mortar store rather than the online store. Our early access into the game might be affected if the shop we bought our game from brings Aion on the 22nd Sept (SG time). The 2 day early access starts on the 21st! Which happens to be a public holiday for all of us! RAGEEEEEEE.

And we finally update our banner after a long long time. About time we retired Grace from Granado Espada for an Asmodian Sorceress from Aion!

More updates to the blog and forum are in the pipeline. It’s time to start kicking up the Aion frenzy. 22nd Sept (SG Time) is only just a month away now! For those who still have not gotten their hands on a copy of the pre-order, head to this thread here on our forum for an FAQ on how to acquire one.

We are also starting up the roster list for Aion, pop by in here to let us know what character are you planning to roll. Yakisoba will not be taking the hardcore route we took for Granado Espada considering most of us now have big real world commitments, but that shouldn’t stop us from still playing together as a Legion.

Our forums are unfortunately only available to all Yakisoba members. We’ll be opening it up soon though, it’s about time we start adding new blood to our family. As for the rest of the members, you ghouls better start posting!

Okay, here’s the detail for those who already have the game. Yakisoba will be rolling Asmodian on Siel Server.

Guess we’ll see everyone in game tomorrow morning at 3am (Singapore time).  If you need a countdown timer, check out this site.

Alright, I’ll see everyone then. Keitaro and myself will be playing at 3am (provided the patch doesn’t screw us again like the previous beta). I’m going cleric and Kei’s going Ranger so let’s all party all because I’m going heal botz. lulz.

Hello all, it’s been a very long while since I updated our guild blog and while the outside world thinks that Yakisoba is dead, we were in fact holed up in our guild forums. I just want to annouce that Yakisoba is going to play Aion Online (US) server when it comes out in September. A number of us have already pre-order the game and we can be found enjoying the closed beta testing. Don’t expect us to go all out for Aion since most of us now have more commitments to attend to IRL.

For existing active/inactive members, I’ve also created a new section for Aion Online in our forum. Do check it out and add more stuff into it.  Hopefully I will be able to spend some time to create a new theme for our blog and forum in Aion style. The GE theme is getting a little too stale now. =/

I apologize for the lack of posts, I was having trouble trying to get onto wordpress for some strange reason with my ISP.

Nonetheless, this has been fixed and it gives me great pleasure to announce that Xalor has emerged victor in the SEA regional tourney for Atlantica Online, beating Free League top seeded player Khai. 5 players from Yakisoba, Officers Kongbakpao, Testarossa, Keitaro, Grimmway and Xalor participated in this competition, having ranked top 16 of entire SEA region during the Free League competition.

Sadly, 4 of our members were pitted against each other, effectively taking out 2 possible winners from Yakisoba. Keitaro and Testarossa had to face off Grimmway and Kongbakpao respectively in the beginning.

Round 1

Round 2

Semi-finals

3rd Place Match (Best of 3)

Final (Best of 5 Match)

The final match between Xalor and Khai was an intensive ping pong match, where each player won one match after the other. The final score was 3-2, though Xalor won, both of them would be flying off to Seoul, Korea to face off other players from the globe.

Also, Keitaro and Kongbakpao also had the opportunity to become commentators at the event, and apparently the organizers loved their commentary and they were also given addition goodies.

Once again, we are pleased to be able to still compete on such a national level, despite being reduced to a more casual and free gaming guild. Our PVP days over at Granado Espada has not left us!

Pictures and additional commentary from the Atlantica Online team can be found here.

Atlantica Online CB3 starts today, and here are the new patch details. Things are looking better.

1. Free Leagues
* Players’ previous Free Leagues information has been wiped.This is an opportunity for players to start anew in the Free Leagues.
* There will be 8 Free Leagues per day, one occurring every 3 hours (all times are Pacific Daylight Saving Time):
* 7-Character Leagues (4 times per day): 12 a.m., 6 a.m., 12 p.m., 6 p.m.
* 9-Character Leagues (4 times per day): 3 a.m., 9 a.m., 3 p.m., 9 p.m.
* In Free League competition, players’ attributes like physical strength and magic powers will be enhanced even if they are at a lower level, as compared to fighting monsters.
* A player can obtain three times more Experience points fighting in the Free Leagues than what he/she can earn fighting monsters.
* There are no capacity limits.
* The minimum level to participate in the Free Leagues has been changed to Level 20.
* Players cannot exchange mercenaries in the 7-Character league.
* The method in determining a player’s ranking in the Free Leagues has changed. It is now based on the following, in descending order of importance: Division, League points, win/loss percentage, total number of matches fought, Level, and Experience points. Example: If two players are in the same division and have the same number of League points, the player with the better win/loss percentage is ranked higher.
* If a player doesn’t participate in the Free Leagues for more than 3 days, he/she will fall back to the next lower division.
* The method in determining the initial division a player is placed in when he/she first starts in the Free Leagues has been adjusted. See the table below:

* Division 18 – Level 20 and above;
* Division 17 – Level 35 and above;
* Division 16 – Level 50 and above;
* Division 15 – Level 65 and above;
* Division 14 – Level 80 and above.

* There will be a new button displaying the Free Leagues’ starting times.
* Instead of declining at 7 minutes after a battle starts, player’s physical strength will start to decline after the 15th turn.
* The division of a player will be displayed next to the player’s character name.
* The effect of enchanted equipment will be less in Free League competition.

2. Stamina
* Stamina points will not be deducted when players are in a tutorial region.
* A player can still obtain items and Experience points in battle even if his/her Stamina score is 0.
* When fighting in a party, all party members’ Stamina points will reduce.
* If fighting in a party of 2, each player will recover 1 Stamina point after every 2 battles. If fighting in a party of 3, each player will recover 2 Stamina points after every 3 battles. (This only applies to party members actually engaged in the battle.)
* If battling with a party, a player with no Stamina points can still obtain Experience points and loot.

3. Challenges
* The minimum level for a player to register or accept a Challenge has been changed to Level 20.

4. Items
* If a player at Level 50 and above fails to loot anything during a battle, he/she will obtain a gold coin bundle instead.
* The NPCs Jang Gun, Kim Han Duck, Mitsui, and Yim Sang Ok will purchase the gold coin bundle for its original price.
* The required materials for Savior’s Charm have been reduced.
* Players can purchase the Scroll of Mana Piercing, which reduces the Mana defense level of your opponent, from the market for a set price.
* A new category of items has been created called Energy.And previous energy-similar items now fall under the Energy category.
* Against the boss in the Shogun Castle dungeon (which requires a key to enter), the drop ratio of equipment boxes has been increased. (This is applicable only to North American players.)
* Quests that once gave Scroll Boxes as a reward now give out a Scroll of Vortex.In addition, the Scrolls of Silence, Nike, Confusion, and Darkness have been replaced by the Scroll of Vortex. The Scrolls of Reinforcement and Bewitching still remain.

5. Monsters
* The defense ability and the physical power of Admirer of Shiba, a monster in Bran Castle, have been decreased.
* The vitality of the Guardians of Sea King’s Palace has been increased.
* Some monsters from the Forest of Spirits, Yellow River, the Sea King’s Palace, and Angkor Wat have had their physical strength increased.

6. Magic
* The damage caused by magic skills Chaos Wind, Break Down, and Evanescent Scud has been increased.
* The Mana consumption level for the Monk’s magic skills of Protect and Shield of Protection has been reduced.
* The accuracy of Wild Shot has been increased and the damage caused by this magic skill has been increased by a small amount.

7. Battles
* A player can obtain bonus Scrolls from a character not only from just Free League battles, but also other battles, Challenges, arenas, and the Training Center.

8. General Information
* The Friends Referral system is now active in the game.

Well, not that it’s something that will make us excited, but Crimz thought he should let everyone know anyone. Nothing exactly new except the usual feeble stuff. Boring if you ask me.

Valve brings about their latest update for Team Fortress 2, introducing new maps, a new play mode, achievements and weapons for Heavy. Testa will most probably be launching his server again for all to farm their achievements, so fret not. It’s only a matter of time before we unlock all 3 weapons.

Check the link out and be glad at such a timely launch. We can now play TF2 while waiting for Atlantica Online CB3. Hur hur hur.

We have started our own nation: KuroNoKishidan, otherwise known as the Order of the Black Knights, inspired by same name from Code Geass. This makes us the 2nd guild to start a Nation, meaning we will be up against Saints’s United nation.

We’re open to any guilds interested to join our nation. At the moment Ronin has signed up. We’re hoping that more guilds will join us, to fight oppression! =D

Dear Atlantica Players:

We have heard your comments and feedback on the Stamina system, with many of you expressing the question: why was Stamina introduced into Atlantica? Please allow us this opportunity to explain our motivation behind adding this feature into the game.

Why we incorporated Stamina was a desire to emphasize the multiplayer qualities of Atlantica. We truly appreciate the fact that many of you enjoy going into battles using turn-based combat system, which is one of the features developed to help the game stand out among all the other MMORPGs out there. But with some players’ zeal to just hunt monsters and complete quests to level up, the community side of Atlantica ? interacting with other players for guilds or even player-versus-player combat ? was being overlooked. And we believe that this will hurt the long-term relationship we hope to have with all of you. By incorporating new features like Stamina, it will open up more opportunities for you to get involved in the world of Atlantica, especially when you start reaching the upper levels of 90 and above.

It would have been easier for us just to adapt the Korean version for you and players in North and South America and Europe, but we wanted to take what we learned from our past experiences and put more work into the game, making it better. The direction we want to go is to include features that we believe will make the game better over the long haul.

Stamina, we believe, is one of these features. The Stamina points you are given each day provides some amount of play time for you to fight player-versus-enemy battles. And you can recharge Stamina points by participating in various community activities, so you can still go back to PvE combat and further your quest for Atlantis. Plus, we are developing new ways for players to regenerate Stamina points in the future as well.

The addition of Stamina, we believe, will benefit the Atlantica experience in these three ways:

1) Strengthening the Atlantica community by encouraging players to interact with each other more.

2) Allowing players to discover the excitement of player-versus-player combat in Atlantica. In some instances, we have heard people’s attitude go from “I hate PvP” to “PvP is actually fun.”

3) With the benefits of (1) and (2), there will be a better balance between the systems and contents within the game and they will help each other so in the long-term, we can create a better gaming experience for players. We’ve already seen it in this second round of the closed beta, as more players hit higher records than the first round. Plus, you and other players are taking part in the community aspects of the game more.

And we would also like to stress that the Stamina Pill many of you are curious about will not be sold as a cash item for you to buy. We do not intend to sell this or any other items that will recharge Stamina. The reason why we introduced Stamina is not a quick-and-easy way for us to make money. It truly is to make this game better for all of you over the long term.

This long-term approach also applies to the Scroll used in PvP. The Scrolls we are developing will not be a cash item as well. We like adding an element of chance, which should enhance the game’s variety and excitement. In the near future, Scrolls for PvP can be easily crafted by you or you can purchase them in low price in markets within the game. And since the Scrolls will be equally available to all players, we hope that players will be able to explore using Scrolls in PvP as a valid and fair strategy.

We understand that this game cannot exist without your support. We hope to continue on this journey to make Atlantica better, and we want you along with us on this trek for a long time. Our goal is to make Atlantica one of the best MMORPGs. Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,
ATLANTICA TEAM