IGN.com is now the home of one of the newest Aion fan sites out there, Aion Tower! Explore Aion Tower now for the latest news, comprehensive guides, discussions on the IGN.com boards, and more.
We had a blast showing off Aion to the enormous crowds of people and potential robots at Comic-Con in San Diego last week. It was a crazy event that spanned five days – but we are now back in the office, getting ready to launch a brand new beta event that is sure to tickle your curiosity. Read on.
Closed Beta event #5 (CB5) is incoming, ladies and gentlemen, and it’s coming with a respectable shipment of fixes, improvements and fine additions which we have worked hard to complete since the previous event. To give you an overview, please find below a pure list of things to expect for this coming weekend:
Especially exciting for us is to introduce a first round of English audio, allowing you all to have a small taste of a more completely localized version of Aion. As we have announced before we are committed to releasing Aion with all its content adjusted and culturalized into top-notch English, including character voices and voice-overs. Keep in mind that these are currently implemented as a beta feature and that they will contain minor irregularities and bugs. Bear with us as we work to polish this and extend the volume of content even more in the foreseeable future. You will be able to log in to the game no later than on Friday noon PDT (8 PM BST, 9 PM CEST), marking the exciting dawn for two entirely new game servers for each territory. In order to promote newcomers to join these new servers, character creation will be disabled on all other servers during the beginning of the event.
Meanwhile, the much asked for beta forums will open for responsible posting again on Thursday 30th noon PDT (8 PM BST, 9 PM CEST). Don’t miss it, as constructive feedback means a lot to us and allows us to make even more accurate improvements to the game before launch.
Let us thereupon extend a hopefully helpful recommendation as conclusion to this announcement. The audio-rich patch for CB5 is definitely a big one, and it’s advisable for you to boot up your patcher as soon as possible in order to get the game ready for the weekend. Waiting until the last minute to download all the new content we’re pushing out for this event could mean that you miss out on a good amount of enjoyable playtime!
That’s all for now, see you in Atreia!
Associate Producer Lani “Liv” Blazier is back with the latest look at the classes of Aion, this time with a spellbinding look at the Sorcerer. If you want to command fire, wind, earth, and water with a wave of your hand, you may find your calling as a Sorcerer in Atreia. Lani shares tips for playing a Sorcerer, answers burning questions about the game, and more, so visit Ten Ton Hammer now to check out this comprehensive class interview.
Are you curious about the other classes in the game? Check out Ten Ton Hammer’s Aion game coverage page to find more exclusive class interviews!
It’s not a big surprise that Aion previews can be found all over the internet now that a broader audience is able to look at it during our closed beta events. Loyal fans of Aion who are following the development of the game for a while now will be glad that the feedback from our players and press shows that it was worth the wait.
Let’s see what IGN, Zam and IncGamers have to say:
IGN
” … with those visuals, that flight and the remarkably powerful character creator, it’s a far more epic and lavish experience than we’ve seen to date”
ZAM
“Interestingly enough, however, despite the fact that I did go into this with fairly (ok, extremely) high expectations, Aion was impressive enough that I could really understand what all of this hype was about.”
IncGamers
“I thought the class selection screen was impressive, but I was blown away by this stage. The face that greets you as you begin to design your character is uncannily realistic.”
Another weekend full of action packed adventures in Atreia has passed and the closed beta event #4 has come to an end on Monday, 20th of July (12:00 PM PT, 9:00 PM CEST, 8:00 PM BST). A big thank you again to our eager beta testers who have been able to get a first glimpse of the Abyss, Aion’s unique PvPvE zone where the war between Elyos, Asmodians and Balaur takes place.
We have now established a cease fire, will go over all the feedback we have received and start plotting the plans for the continuation of the war in our next beta event starting on Friday July 31st (12:00 PM PT, 9:00 PM CEST, 8:00 PM BST). The battle in the Abyss has only just begun – stay tuned for more details as we get closer!
Overview of upcoming Closed Beta Events:
Closed Beta Event #5 – July 31-August 3 Focus: Elyos and Asmodian levels 1-30
Closed Beta Event #6 – August 14-August 17 Focus: TBD
Believe it or not, but the Aion team is now on location in San Diego, CA, along with a full entourage of PCs running Aion and ready to start giving away some until now well-guarded treasure swag and beta keys. Tune in for Twitter updates via @aion_ayase, @aion_liv and @aion_xaen – or even better – come and visit us in the flesh at booth #5005. Another excellent idea would be to join our steadily growing Facebook group where not only thousands of other Aion fans await you, but to where we also intend to push a video or two of our Comic-con endeavors.
You can find us in the convention center until Sunday 26th.
The Aion Facebook community is growing bigger and bigger reaching out to over 11.000 fans at the time of this article. Those fans are coming from all over the world and we are now providing you a way of finding other fans who speak your language and recruits for your legion.
The so called community meeting point is divided into five sections:
Recruiting legions
Legion leaders who are currently looking for new members can leave a posting here together with details about their legion. If you are interested in joining one of the legions just send them a message via Facebook or follow the instructions they’ve provided in their posting.
English speaking fans
This is the place to go if you would like to meet other English speaking fans. Leave a posting here with details you would like to share about yourself. For example you can tell other fans in which city you live (you might even be able to find other fans near you) or your public Twitter profile (get new followers).
French speaking fans
Our French speaking community on Facebook is very impressive and already using this place to get in touch with each other. Post your details there (like mentioned above in the English section) and find new friends.
German speaking fans
Of course the same applies for the German section, our third officially supported language for Aion in the West. “Sprechen sie Deutsch?” Then head off to the German section and socialize in your native language.
Other languages
While we officially support English, French and German we would still love to offer all our fans speaking a different native language the chance to connect in an easy way. Feel free to visit this section and leave your details so that others can find you.
Frequent visitors of Aion will have already noticed that our official Aion website got a fresh new look as we are closing in on the release of the game in September. We hope you like it and while loyal fans will notice that the structure hasn’t changed much compared to the previous version we’ve added a powerful new feature called PowerWiki.
The PowerWiki hosts all sorts of information about the game and will surely become a valuable pool of knowledge for every adventurer in Atreia. Please remember that it is still in an early beta phase – more content will continously be added and we are also aiming for having it localized into French and German around the time of the game’s launch.
If you are new to the game and just got your beta key for this weekend, you might enjoy the Beginner’s Guide which will tell you all about your first steps on your way to becoming a Daeva. From there you can follow the various hyperlinks and explore the PowerWiki for more detailed information about all the different aspects and features of Aion.
Another good news is that the Closed Beta Event #4 has just begun and while most of you already know that you can take part in all beta events until launch if you preorder the game from one of our official partners you will be glad that we just added another partner to our network. The game is now available on Steam so feel free to head over there and get your copy of Aion digitally distributed directly to your PC.
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