By now we all know that Ship of Heroes was review bombed on Steam, so our launch has been extremely rocky, to say the least.  This is unfortunate, but we are simply soldiering on, fixing bugs, adding improvements and upgrades requested by players in game, and preparing to demonstrate some of the fun new stuff we have planned as expansions to the game.​

As promised, the Halloween event is currently running. Go trick or treating, destroy the various monsters roaming the city and watch out for the exploding pumpkins!

Halloween has come to Apotheosis City, bringing new dangers in the form of skeletons, jack-o-lanterns, vampires, and werewolves. This includes multiple new bosses and some new missions.

New Trick or Treat doors can be found in Apotheosis City, primarily centered in the Science Park district. These doors could give you a free treat or reveal a trick in the form of an ambush. You can collect new Halloween Treat items and turn them into a new Treat Collector for a Halloween themed badge and title.

A Halloween mission contact, just south of the Arch, in the little graveyard is offering several missions.  It’s amazing how those trans-dimensional energies are manifested in the 25^th century!

In housing, a new Halloween themed Slithering Pillar object can be placed in your homes or bases. It can be obtained by completing the Incident Investigation mission, which will only be available during the Halloween event.

We had been reluctant to publish our internal roadmap for expansion. Other MMOs’ experiences appeared to predict several months of intense bug fixing, and we did not want to promise updates and be unable to deliver for several months. But by day 13, the servers were stable, and major bugs were fixed.  While continuing to fix bugs as they were reported, we found that we had enough bandwidth to add features and launch additional content.

By the beginning of week 3, we started adding to the game according to our internal roadmap. Players requested a few things, including expanded crafting and a couple of crafting trainers.  Done and done.

In a few days we will begin showing some additional raids, starting with the Nagdellian invasion under the Arch.  And yes, the invasion is simpatico with the Halloween event, but extra monsters plus invading extraterrestrials can make the area quite a hazard, so it’s better to team up.  Sometime this week, players will gain the ability to speak with another mission contact near the Arch and set the invasion in motion whenever they want to. To make raiding possible when a small number of players are in game and interested, players will be able to call NPCs to join the fight on their side.

After the invasion is live, we will be introducing a winter raid as part of the Christmas seasonal content.  We might even give beta access to our New California Colony raid. This raid takes place on another world, the second world to visit.

We’ve been fixing almost every reported bug in the game, so if you see something not right, please put in a bug report for us – we love your player feedback.  Feedback can be delivered straight to the dev team using the question mark button on the navigation bar/compass.

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