Dreamhack

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Mikro

The big gaming LAN party is being held in Sweden right now and NCSoft is representing in full. Aion_Ayase is there to promote Aion to the crowds, along with the Swedish fan community members that are enjoying the PvP tournaments. There is a 3v3 tournament and a FFA tournament going on and finals will be hosted on Saturday. If you are visiting by any chance, you will be able to find Tutty, since they are handing out pink squishable pigs to innocent bystanders :). If you get a hold of one – we want pictures!

BTW, First FFA brawl was won by the aiononline.se community members (congrats) and they won some great swag from Razor and SteelSeries.

The full Aion agenda at Dreamhack can be found here.

Dreamhack HallNCSoft Aion boothaiononline.se wins
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Aion Attributes and Stats

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Genius

manastones

The power to create and change stats and attributes is welcome in every MMORPG. While you are trying to get the best armor sets or weapons additional attributes will help you to be proud of your non-green/blue/orange items.

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Aion Massive Ban for Good Morning

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Genius

ban_hammer

Over the last week Aion team has been working on a list – who was naughty or nice. Ban Hammer Claus just came to town. Nearly 16,000 accounts have been removed from the game. If your account was banned, please read the following FAQ.

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AION Vision Movie

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Genius

NCsoft has released new video – AION Never ending Challenge. It’s early to give the list of specific details but the video shows new content expansion, new underwater skills, housing system, mounts and amazing graphics. The question is how long we have to wait for this?

  1. Large Graphics Overhaul: Changing Seasons, Engine update
  2. Mounts: Single Player Mounts, Passenger Seat on Some MOunts, Combat Mounts
  3. Housing: Decorate them how you want, Personal Housing, Furniture
  4. New Skills
  5. New Weapons:  Whips,  Crossbows, Shields That Turn into Grappling Type Hooks, Massive Ground Sieges with massive Siege weapons.
  6. Swimming.
  7. Underwater Quest Hubs.
  8. New Hair Styles.

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Free game time and amazing Aion art

Posted on November 21, 2009 by Mikro

Patching in Europe did not go too smooth this Wednesday. Since the patch for improved performance and crysystem.dll crash had to be applied to the servers themselves, it was a bit trickier than just patching user clients. It took the whole night to be done and to apologize to its European players, NCSoft is giving one extra day to all its current EU subscribers. It might take up to 5 days to see the change on your account though, so don’t be alarmed if you don’t see it right away.

Aion’s very own community team put up another one of their Eye on Community articles on the official site (we were featured as well – wooooooo). The thing I really got impressed with were a couple of pictures made by an Aion fan on DevianArt. Artist known as nitro-killer decided to share its impression of Asmodians and Aion Love. It took him 5 days to complete the amazing Asmodians image. You can see both images bellow, but I recommend you go through his whole gallery at DeviantArt.


Aion Asmodians by *nitro-killer on deviantART


Aion love by *nitro-killer on deviantART

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Aion Machinimas

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Mikro

Having impressive visuals Aion can be a great source for making impressive videos using in-game footage. The Machinima community seems to agree and first couple of videos have been released in the past 10 days. They are both music video types of things, but with great video editing and some nice effects.

First one is a Machinima made by Nill on the Kalil server during October – November 2009. Music in the background is “Blow me Away” by Breaking Benjamin.

The other hails from BaronSoosdon that has been making WoW machinimas for some time now. His previous experience clearly shows, as the video feels pretty epic. Compared to his WoW work, there’s an evident lack of Model Viewer for Aion that would greatly help making custom scenes with effects. Here’s what BaronSoosdon had to say about the video:

Some of you might know me from the WoW-machinima scene.

Well, now I present you my first (which also might be the last) Aion machinima. It’s a bit of a mash-up between a music video and an exploration piece.

The video is done in the style of my Unlimited Escapism (World of Warcraft) videos, but with more music video-styled editing.

Making Aion machinima is currently only limited to ingame filming since there is no model viewer of any kind.

You can find a downloadable FullHD 1080p version and a little writeup about making of this machinima on his blog.

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Crysystem.dll crashes resolved?

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Mikro

Only after the patch has been applied and made available to the general public, have Aion community mangers explained that a possible fix for infamous crysystem.dll error during fort sieges has been included in the patch. We have added this information to our 1.5.1 patch notes page and bellow are the details

Optimizations have been made within the game to assist with the performance issues that characters experience during Sieges and other resource intensive activities

This should significantly cut down on the amount of CrySystem.dll errors that players have been reporting

If, by any chance, you are still experiencing crysystem.dll crashes you can let the Aion community mangers know in this topic on Aionsource.com forums.

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Patch day cometh

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Mikro

Aion 1.5.1 patch day

Greetings Daevas,

As you may know, we’re currently experiencing problems with all NA and EU game servers. We’ve been working to identify what’s causing these problems and are close to a solution that will bring stability back to the servers and rectify new issues that began with this mornings update.

We’ll have additional information including our action plan later this afternoon. We apologize for any inconveniences this has caused and want to thank you for your continued patience.

-The Aion Community Team

At 3:30 PDT (that is 11AM GMT for the European players) Aion servers will be brought down for maintenance and for the next three hours patch 1.5.1 will be applied. We can than bask in increased EXP for quests in Eltnen/Morheim and up, and all the other good stuff you can read about in our patch notes page. We will also be updating our quests/gathering/item sets database with the new data in the upcoming days.

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Asmodian level 37 done

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Mikro

We just wanted to let you know that we have added another 200 quest image walkthroughs to our Aion quests database. This brings the total to somewhere around 1/3 of all in game quests covered with screenshot help. We stopped counting how many screenshots have been uploaded a long time ago but I would guess somewhere around 5000.

At the same time I would like to thank an anonymous visitor that told us about a bug in our search system. Apparently, searching for Asmodian quests only didn’t list quests that can be done by both Asmodians and Elyos (like the quest Putting Out Fires). If any of you come across stuff like this on the site please feel free to let us know through our Contact Us page or by posting a comment almost anywhere on the site :).

We’re working diligently to put up the rest of the quests asap, but there’s only a few of us playing and Aion has a hard leveling curve so it takes time. Leveling while taking screenshots takes twice as much time it would take to level without screenshots, but we want to see this through and put up as many quests as possible from the whole game.

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Michael Jackson synced dancing in Aion

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Mikro

Portuguese Legion Conclave (http://www.conclave.com.pt/) decided the celebrate receiving their first Veteran Reward by synchronously using the Pop Legend Emote (better known as Michael Jackson emote). Add some music from the “King of pop”, do a nice montage, throw in a sexy looking toon and you have the community buzzing about it.

At the same time, another European Legion, Infinity is planning a server wide event using the aforementioned emote. We’ll post a video of that as soon as it becomes available. You can find the details on Aion Source forums.

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