Test server screenshots (part 2)

Test server screenshots (part 1)

The private test server is now open and in a few days the public test server will be online and running. For non-tutors here is a little preview of the new features:

I'm the newest member here, so I thought I should introduce myself.

I'm Kowachii, level 29 Master Sorcerer. That's me in my house and my sleeping roommate.

I live in Thais in the world of Zanera, fun fun fun.

Rookgaard adventures

Some days ago, me, Mau the Darkslayer and Amasasas went to explore the dungeons below Rookgaard, searching for secrets buried in the sand. One of the most scary things we saw that day was the black hole left of us. The cave seemed to come to an end and only darkness could be seen behind it.




Quickly we continued our pad running away from the scary black hole, but little later we stood grund again. Now we saw bones lying on the floor raising and fusing together into something very similar to a body. The eyes in the skull wwhere very deep and empty, but on the same time they ware full and watching our step. The skeleton moved his left arm, took a Hatchet from the ground and stepped toward us. It swinged his arm and hitted Mau with the hatchet. We started running, but when we saw a skeleton at the other side too, we realised that wwe were trapped. The other Skeleton hitted me, and I bended trought my legs. There was no more side to go, so the only thing we could do was fight. I grabbed all strengt I had together and hitted the Skeleton in his stomach. The Skeleton seemed not to like that and felt on te ground. When Mau the Darkslayer and Amasasas saw this, they did the same with the other Skeleton, and this Skeleton also felt on the ground.

We continued our pad again and went to the room where we first saw the skeletons. In the room was a chest containing 2 fresh pieces of Salmon. Are those Salmon pieces of any use? Why do Skeletons protect it? I guess we'll never know. We went out of the cave, to the city wwhere we sitted down on the ground, recovering from our journey.

My first goal

As you can see on my tibia.com profile I have the next goals in Tibia:

* Get lvl 75
* Get lvl 100
* Get 80 sword skill
* Own a SoV
* Become supported fansite owner
* Get pally in level 50


Today I managed to reach my first goal, getting level 75 :).

First birthday

Today one year ago we started our Photoblog. 146 posts have been made within this year. Several adventures have been posted here and every day we get many visitors reading them. Let's hope the next year of blogging will bring us some more great stories :).

Test server report (part 4)

Yesterday Empereur Yorius, one of the members of Tibiacity's Dutch forum gave me his Sword of Valor for the duration of the test server. I went to Orc Fortress to try soloing 2 Orc Warlords at the same time, and it was pretty easy.




The day after I went to the Lizard City to explore the dungeon there. I ran trought all Lizards until I came at the dungeon, and then I cleared the dungeon that was very small, I had expected a bigger dungeon. After the dungeon was cleared I cleared the top floors, but on the upper floor I died because I ran out of UH runes, and also because I was too lazy to walk back to the city :p.




Later I went to the desert on my paladin where I was caught by a pk'er. He was level 50+ knight but I as level 40 paladin was stronger. Then he called his friend wich was a mage and she started shooting SD on me while the knight throwed teasure chests around me so I couldn't move. I ran around for 5 minutes avoiding chests, but after that time I died.

Test server report (part 3)

Even when test servers are mentioned to do tests, you can still have a lot of fun. I wanted to try and solo a Lich on test, and with that in mind I went to the Oasis deeper tomb. I took the middle exit of Ankrahmun and ended up in the desert between 3 Behemoths. I ran away from them back to the city and took the left exit. Trought this exit I went to the tomb close to the hills, and I succeeded in this. I entered the tomb, ran trought the firt 2 floors whitout encountering much trouble, and putted my scarab coin on the coal basin wwhen standing on the flame. I ended up in the deeper tomb searching for the Lich spawns. I first went to the south, but there wasn't a lich so I went west. I saw something familiar and I knew I have been there with Mysteriosu Lion and Mixxiphoid (look at previous stories). I was in a room 2 rooms before the Lich spawn, and I was killing 3 ghosts and 2 vampires. Then I got freezed for almost 2 minutes and when I unfroze I was still alive. After 2 seconds I got kicked.

The next day, today, I log in again, and I'm still alive and well standing in the tomb where I got kicked yesterday. I had a red health bar, so I opened my backpack with UH's as fast as I could and healed myself. I succesfully killed all monsters I was spawwning in and continued my way to the Liches. 2 rooms later I saw my first Lich.



The Lich wasn't so hard as I expected until he summoned a bonebeast. A little later he summoned another one, and another one, and one more. I was facing 4 bonebeasts, a mummy and a Lich. It took me a while, but I succeeded in my goal to kill the Lich.



I went on to the next room where I encountered 2 beholders, a few mummies and 2 vampires. I killed the 2 beholders and one vampire when another Lich appeared on my screen. He summoned a bonebeast, and after a while another one wich was fatal for me.

Test server report (part 2)

The new PM features have some nice things. A first thing you can do now is switch the PM's in the middle of your screen off. This might be usefull if you want to hunt whitout getting disturbed or if you're making a movie.



But this is not the only new PM feature. There is alos a new feature called a white list. People on this list can message you while you're ingoring PM's. To access this list just click on the icon you click on to open your ignore list. You can also select the option 'Allow VIPs to message you' if you want all people from your VIP list to be able to message you while ignoring PM's. Just as with the ignore list, you can make an allowed player permanent, or only untill you log out.




The new way trade channel works prevents you from getting banned by accidenlty putting a wrong message into the trade channel. To put a message there you now have to click on a button 'Advertise'. You can then enter the message you would like to see in trade channel. To prevent spamming the limit is still one message every 2 minutes, just like before.




There are more new features then you can read here, but the others are less important. E.g. there now is a chat channel for tutors only and etc. I hoipe this article helped a little into knowing what is going to come with the next mini update. I wish youy all a lot of fun on the test server, and later on in Tibia.

Test server report (part 1)

As you might have readed on the official homepage of Tibia the test server is online. It's not easy to log onto it, but it's possible. You'll probably get a message with 'Connection time-out' but if you keep trying you'll be online after a minute or two. Is it worth it, that's another question.

It's not really possible to hunt or explore something, since you're very likely to get kicked. I have been 20 minutes on test and I have been kicked 3 times. But remember that test server is to test new features, not to have fun. Now the client got an auto bug report option wich makes it easy for you to send it. The report window appears when you start the client, before you log in and looks like this:




What's new?

* New graphic options
* New PM options (white list, no pm's on game window...)
* New trade chat options
* New bug report feature

The new graphic options allow you to choose or DirectX5, DirectX9 or OpenGL. If you don't know what to choose and the old settings worked fine then choose DirectX5.