Month: October 2011

  • Holiday Event News, v1.54 Incoming

    It looks like there won’t be a Halloween holiday event this weekend. It’s really unfortunate that the timing didn’t work out for me to create the event, because Halloween has an incredible amount of potential for stuff like this. Hopefully I’ll be able to make up for it with a really awesome holiday event week […]

  • v1.53 Update Released

    NEStalgia version 1.53 is a fairly large patch with lots of little bug fixes and balance tweaks. It will be live on all servers within a few hours, and the release notes can be found on the wiki: NEStalgia v1.53 Update Notes This update is our first crack at smoothing out some of v1.52’s rough […]

  • This Week’s Podcast – Skill Trees and the v1.53 Patch

    Spiff and I have been working on a v1.53 patch with various bug fixes and balance tweaks, and I’ll make a full post about that update here when it’s ready to go. In the meantime this week’s podcast features discussion on the communities’ reaction to the skill trees, the first round of changes that we’re […]

  • NEStalgia v1.52 Released! The Podcast Returns!

    NEStalgia v1.52 was released yesterday afternoon as planned, but I neglected to announce it here on the blog. Although I’m sure that most of you have read up on it by now, you can find the release notes on the wiki. The release went very smoothly, and over the course of the next few weeks […]

  • Top Ten Previously Unannounced v1.52 Changes

    I’ve talked a lot about the big stuff coming in v1.52, but there are loads of smaller changes included in this patch as well. Granted, “smaller” is relative here: in a typical patch almost all of the less touted features coming with v1.52 would be fairly significant news. Many of the items below have been […]

  • Preview: Changes to Merchants in v1.52

    Merchants have always been a bit of an experimental class. My goal was to create a class that could fill the same party roles as Soldiers while simultaneously maintaining a unique play style. I think that the Merchant as it currently stands does meet those criteria and is a lot of fun to play, but […]

  • v1.52 Release Date Announcement

    The release of the long-awaited NEStalgia v1.52 update will take place one week from tomorrow on Wednesday, October 19. We’ll also be resuming the weekly NEStalgia Podcast at that time. You can read up on what’s coming with this update in the past few development blog posts, starting here. My hope is to post a […]