- Patch 0.8 released. Zeal is back on Steam! - 5 November 2020
Zeal hasn't been available on Steam for about a year, and you might be wondering, what was going on? We were running private playtesting through Discord, and if you've missed them, here are the latest changes: — Zeal is now a tab targeted game with controls and combat similar to WoW. — Mastery/Prime customization system replaced with Talent Trees Play Zeal for Free on Steam! Currently 6 classes are available, 2 more coming soon, and another 2 later this year.
- Zeal is now a tab targeted game. Available to play! - 3 October 2020
It has been a while since the last announcement and you might be wondering what's going on. While there's no ETA for the planned MMORPG features, we'd like to outline an important change to the combat system: Zeal is now a tab targeted game with controls and combat similar to WoW. How to play: join our Discord and install Zeal from the #zeal-install channel. https://discord.gg/txFRc94
- Zeal will be a PvP-focused MMORPG - 11 July 2020
This week is exactly 3 years since we started working on Zeal. Though this project was never supposed to be a standalone arena simulator, the constant lack of resources we were facing didn't let us do anything else. And even now, when the game is more polished than ever, it's not appealing enough for new players, while old players simply get tired of playing against each other. The game needs drastic changes, and we're going to make them. Servers are closing today, and we're starting a big rework. Zeal will be a PvP-focused MMORPG without open world, something between Albion Online, Warframe, and even Escape From Tarkov to some degree. Don't worry, neither gear nor other grindable bonuses will work in Arena, it will stay as it is. We'll post more details later, meanwhile, please read about the upcoming changes to our Patreon campaign in #patreon on our Discord: https://discord.gg/sJESRK…
- Zeal's summer playtesting season has started! - 10 June 2020
We've started a new playtesting season with 10 classes and Arena mode available. Download Zeal via Discord and play for free! https://discord.gg/txFRc94 Note: Zeal is currently not available on Steam, but it will return closer to the release.
- Zeal's Patreon is up with early access to the Alpha! - 21 August 2019
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- AMA begins now! - 2 August 2019
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- AMA this Friday 4 PM (GMT) - 1 August 2019
We’re going to organize an AMA event this Friday on r/IAMA at UTC 16.00 regarding the story with Drakore Studios and the future of Lycanic Studios and Zeal. You can see our reddit post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/zealrpg/comments/ckeuzu/upcoming_ama/ If you have any questions, we'll try to answer them there and then. Thank you for reading!
- Pre-Alpha is over! - 17 May 2019
Zeal’s Pre-Alpha Phase is officially concluded. We have gathered a lot of valuable feedback during the past months and we are now confident about the future of Zeal. First of all, we're going to improve the combat — make it more dynamic, more about avoiding damage and landing skillshots, less about cooldowns and crowd control. Though the amount of active abilities will be decreased, they will become more impactful and their cooldowns will be reduced. Harder to land abilities will be more rewarding, and you won't need your CC cooldowns (like Flash Freeze) to deal some damage. Our main goal is to allow 1v2 and even 1v3 if you're lucky enough, without relying on long cooldowns or CC. We'll be back in a few months! Join our Discord to stay in touch: https://zealrpg.com/goto/discord
- Patch Notes 0.4.13 - 5 May 2019
General — Casters and Ranger now have 13000 Health. — All casts that were 1.1 or 1.2 seconds are now 1.0 second. — GCD reduced from 0.75 to 0.70 seconds. Conquest — Conquest is now played as 10 teams of 2. — Conquest is now always available and starts automatically after maximum 10 minutes of waiting. Empty slots are filled with bots. — If you queue solo, you’ll get a bot who will follow and assist you — Bot teammates will pick up items only if they think you don’t need them. To force them to get an item, loot it and drop back to the ground. — Experience is now shared to all team members within 50 meters. — All NPCs now have more health and deal more damage. — Poisonous Spider’s poison now can be dispelled (as Poison). — Call Help now pulls up to 2 NPCs of the same type (was unlimited). — Last Stand now can be broken by defense breaking abilities. — Enrage is now instant and has a visua…
- Patch Notes 0.4.12 - 3 May 2019
General — Interrupts now interrupt all types of casts with lock duration depending on the type — regular and channeled casts: 3s, holdable and chargeable casts: 1.5s — Getting interrupted now also locks primary weapon ability — Client now correctly updates tooltips when data is changed on the server. — Swiftness removed from Stat Allocation. — GCD reduced from 0.8 to 0.75 seconds. Conquest — Experience orbs now restore 10% health over 5 seconds, not stacking (was 5% instantly). Warrior — Steelwake stamina cost reduced from 20 to 15 per tick. New symbols added. Wizard — Energy Lash now has a correct 120° hit sector (was 360°). — The Arctic Call now replaces Flash Freeze on procs (temporarily). Outlaw — Stab no longer deals bonus damage from behind or to stunned targets. Instead, it’s now a passive effect of Daggers, working with every melee attack. Judicator — Righteous Strike and Righte…
- Patch Notes 0.4.11 - 1 May 2019
Warrior — War Fervor no longer heals and requires the enemy to be killed by you to get the Stamina bonus. Outlaw — Quick Shot damage bonus removed. — Slice and Dice damage reduced from 500 to 300. — Poison Bomb now slows by 30%, damage reduced by 20%. Judicator — Now has a 1H weapon style and a new offhand: Seeker's Book of Divine Law. Witch Dark Binding — Now deals indirect damage and doesn’t dismount or break stealth. — Cast time changed from instant to 1 second. — Now duplicates 50% of the damage taken. — The target and its team now can interract with the doll as a friendly unit, but it can’t be healed. — Maximum link range reduced from 50 to 30 meters.
- Patch Notes 0.4.10-rc1 - 30 April 2019
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- Patch Notes 0.4.9 - 28 April 2019
General — Tooltips now correctly display the resource amount consumed per second of casting. Conquest — Arrows and other projectiles are now affected by wind. — Experience is now longer given automatically, but dropped on the ground near the killed npc/player. Picking it up also restores you 5% Health. — NPCs now use various defensive abilities on low health. — NPCs no longer benefit from body blocking (so explosions and cleaves will always deal full damage) Warrior — 2H weapon split to 2 styles: Assault and Defense. — Steelwake stamina cost reduced from 25 to 20 per tick. — Bashing Momentum is now baseline — Valor duration reduced from 5 to 3 seconds, cooldown reduced from 45 to 30 seconds. — Endurance duration reduced from 6 to 3 seconds, cooldown reduced form 35 to 20 seconds. — Bladewave and Killing Edge are now primes — Dormant Steel temporarily removed Wizard — Mana Shield is now…
- Conquest is available for playtesting. Patch 0.4.8 released. - 27 April 2019
Conquest Mode https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F33188525%2F882b1493db4e146a3b74762efd05339b136fe5df.png 10 people Conquest is available for playtesting! Note it's an early version and some things might not work well, other things might not work at all. Patch Notes 0.4.8 Conquest — Passive health regen removed — Raw Meat and Cloth Scraps removed. — Animals now drop Meat Steaks that can be eaten without cooking. — Humanoids and Undeads drop Bandages and Healing Potions. — Elite health reduced by 20%. Items — New magic item: Amulet of Acceleration. Killing an enemy reduces all your cooldowns by 2 seconds and restores 10% of your resource. — New magic item: Amulet of Protection. Killing an enemy gives you a shield, absorbing damage equal to 10% of your Health. Lasts 5 seconds and stacks up to 20% Health. — New rare item: Chaos Talisman. Increases your Critical…
- Patch Notes 0.4.6 - 25 April 2019
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- Patch Notes 0.4.3 - 10 March 2019
General — Base health of all classes increased by 15-20%. Warrior — Endurance duration reduced from 8 to 6 seconds. Ranger — Tailwind damage bonus per meter reduced from 1% to 0.5%. — Windpiercing Shot damage reduced from 1000 to 800. Outlaw — Bash cooldown increased from 15 to 16 seconds. — Passivating Strike cooldown increased from 15 to 16 seconds. Judicator — Focused Beam now can proc up to 3 times in a row. — New mastery: Hammer Time. Your melee attacks deal 50% more damage and ignore 50% of the target's Armor. Cleric — Searing Light now also deals 200 Holy damage instantly.
- Patch Notes 0.4.2 - 9 March 2019
General — Bots now correctly use all their baseline abilities Warrior — Dormant Steel: Dealing direct damage with Advancing Strike or Bladewave grants you a stack of Dormant Steel. Once it reaches 10 stacks, they will be consumed and you'll get the Awaken Steel effect for 8 seconds. It increases your movement speed by 30%, range of your melee attacks by 30% and their damage by 30%. — Steelwake damage increased from 270 to 400, Stamina cost increased from 15 to 25. Wizard — Meteor Strike now slams airborne enemies to the ground, dealing up to 50% more damage. — Hurricane Wave now throws enemies higher and also slightly decreases their movement and falling speed for 2 seconds. — The Arctic Call now works with Ice Blast instead of Hurricane Wave. Outlaw — Dark Guile removed — Passivating Strike is now a prime. Now it also turns Stab into Ambush. — New mastery: Combat Lust. Your melee attac…
- Patch Notes 0.4.1 - 8 March 2019
Small update for the 0.4 patch, without new content. Some of the changes are temporary. General — Old bugs fixed. — New bugs added. — RAM usage reduced. — Pillars on the castle arena are now smaller. — Shock and strong slow effects (more than 50%) now also prevent players from jumping. Classes — Action bar size reduced from 11 to 10 slots. — Perks temporarily removed. — Prime limit increased from 3 to 4. — Each class has 1 baseline spell moved to the Primes pool. — Some old spells are temporarily available as Primes. — Some spells are slightly changed.
- March Update - 8 March 2019
Unfortunate outcome of our Kickstarter campaign has hindered our capability of working on Zeal, the development has been considerably slower in comparison to our previous pace. While allocating our extremely limited resources and time for the campaign greatly slowed our progress during the last months, we will never stop our efforts towards making this game the most fun no-grind RPG around. We’re currently working on new content such as a brand new talent system, weapon system, in-game arena tournaments, new modes and new classes. We’re planning to launch a Patreon page where you can support the game every month in order to help us quicken the development and allow us to replace placeholders. Patreon page will be launched later this month (perhaps in April) as supporters will get early access to new content and many other rewards which will be announced later. Meanwhile, the current are…
- Early Conquest Mode will be available to play soon! - 9 January 2019
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