2.1.1 - Aotulia Vulcano

Patch 2.1: Aotulia Vulcano 7 October 2009



The long awaited Patch 2.1.1 „Aotulia Volcano“ has arrived and the players will enter a zone hotter than hell. Rivers of lava run through the wide fields and signs of the predatory exploitation by the Naga can be found everywhere. Unknown dangers await reckless adventurers who dare to enter this very high level zone.

The newest patch delivers a new zone, the "Cave of the Water Dragon" and many new NPCs, Quests und enemies of course. But that’s not all, we improved many features of the existing game, you can look them up in detail in our patch notes.

But that’s far from being all. There is not just a new area to explore there is also a new event "Oktoberfest" and a new feature: "Cross Server PvP" that allows players from different servers to meet in battle. Have a look at our new content page for details on that feature.

We apologise that today's maintenance took longer than expected but we discovered a bug at the very last minute that we wanted to fix before we could present you with the new "Cross Server PvP battlefields".

Our Quality Assurance Team needed to do a few more tests and now everything is running as expected.But that’s far from being all. There is not just a new area to explore there is also a new event "Oktoberfest" and a new feature: "Cross Server PvP" that allows players from different servers to meet in battle. Have a look at our new content page for details on that feature.

Now that the Oktoberfest in Munich has ended, we still want our players to enjoy their share of a good Bavarian "Gaudi" (party, festivity, song and dance). For all our younger players and those who dislike the taste of beer there will be lot of juices being served instead. Many enjoyable games wait for the thirsty adventurer to relax from the hard time of killing Naga and other dangerous beasts around Taborea. You can take part in our Juicolympics or be a waiter for some time. And the best thing is, many great prizes will sweeten your attendance if you’re participation in these events is successful.

So have a drink as long as it lasts.

We wish you a lot of fun with our new patch and its content.

from EN forums Community Manager 8 October 2009

Hi everyone,

I would like to thank you for the very civil discussion so far. (Have seen much worse on the German forums >.<).

Concerning a few of the issues:
 * - Windows 7 and sounds: As Achoore already pointed out, RoM is yet not supporting Windows 7. The developers are aware of the issues (we reported them some time ago already) but to do all the compatibility checks and maybe rewrite parts of the code takes quite some time. Please let us know (in the bug-report forums) if the Workaround halalszarny described works.


 * - Elven Elite Skills: getting these right is now our priority. We want them to be great additions to the rest of a character's skill set, so we are now working on the Elites for all class combinations and all tiers.


 * - Pet System: As long as it's in before we release chapter III it technically... Kerensky suddenly faces a forum full of angry people that wield forks and torches... please! Don't hit me! Working on it, more complex than a few lines of code, takes time, will come.


 * - Aotulia Vulcano: Runewaker is working on the next iteration of that zone. I mean... when we started testing it, it was full of fluffy bunnies and we thought that that would be a bit too hard to bear for all of us. So they replaced the bunnies with fierce monsters and still have left a few places in that zone (and adjacent zones) that will be populated with real monters and NPCs and instances and quests. Until then we have closed the access there for the moment.

This zone, we think, offers a lot of opportunities and is probably one of the highlights of the game for strong solo players and those who like working in a party.

There will be more content and new features later.

In that context: It would be great if you could give us some more feedback on the difficulty of the Vulcano zone. Let us know if you are solo, in a group and how you experience travelling through and fighting in that zone.

Much appreciated!

Take care and hope you're having fun with the new stuff.

Source: Kerensky on the patch notes discussion forum