Happy Monday, Patrons!
This week, we wanted to showcase a change we made a while back to provide more information at a glance to players while they are running around the map. A few weeks ago, we showed you the design of our new TAB menu, including a full-size minimap for your reference. However, we felt that wasn't enough for players, so we've also decided to change our main player HUD.
In the above images, you can see that you will now have all three lanes present on your HUD at...
2022-12-20 03:03:25 +0000 UTC
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In Ethereal's internal testing, the wyverns have been a source of confusion and immense power. As such they are receiving a minor rework of effects in order to be brought more in line, and provide an easier time for teams to come back into the game when they are behind. Below will detail the old Ice Wyvern buffs and the new ones. We ask that you vote for the name you believe fits best with our new Ice Wyvern buff! (As always, the figures below are subject to change)
Be su...
2022-12-12 06:50:06 +0000 UTC
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In Ethereal's internal testing, the wyverns have been a source of confusion and immense power. As such they are receiving a minor rework of effects in order to be brought more in line, and provide an easier time for teams to come back into the game when they are behind. Below will detail the old Fire Wyvern buffs and the new ones. We ask that you vote for the name you believe fits best with our new Fire Wyvern buff! (As always, the figures below are subject to change)
Be ...
2022-12-12 06:49:57 +0000 UTC
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Happy Sunday Patrons!!
This week on Patreon we have two bits of news for you! The first is two new polls regarding our Wyverns, and this post goes into some detail about the recent lighting update on our map Elysium!
To improve Ethereal's performance. we've recently discovered a huge slow-down occurring in our in-game lighting. This includes not just the global sunlight, but also ambient lights that are spread around the map such as torches, fireflies, and spotlights on jungle c...
2022-12-12 06:49:08 +0000 UTC
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Happy Sunday Patrons!!!
The day has finally come to talk about our Spear and Axe Updates. In wanting to have the items keep to their theming and with the addition of Cleave to Ethereal, we've completely swapped our axes and spears and added some new stats to them as well! Below we'll describe the primary changes to these items as well as give you all the details of the new Tier 3 effects provided. (As always, their stats are subject to change.) You'll notice some effects have been dire...
2022-12-05 05:15:56 +0000 UTC
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Happy Sunday Patrons!
As we get closer to the end of the year, we'll share more gameplay and core feature updates with you, starting with our recent update to our crosshair system.
In past gameplay, our crosshair was implemented so you knew where you were aiming, but didn't have much functionality past that, and certainly no drastic changes to help guide players as to their status in the game.
Since then we've gone through a few iterations on our crosshair and have landed...
2022-11-27 19:58:33 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Everyone!
This week we wanted to show progress on new skins for another one of our first myths, and present Harlequin Nicholai! This skin will be a Tier 2 skin, meaning it will be an updated model, combined with a minor VFX Overhaul to match the theme of the skin!
We are hard at work turning these amazing concepts from the art team into a reality! In the future, we'll be showing you concepts from myths you know and love, to the myths you don't!
What do you th...
2022-11-18 23:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Happy Wednesday Patrons!!!
We've got some exciting news about our Melee myths in Ethereal and an added quality-of-life feature for them. CLEAVE!
We've added cleave to all of our melee myths in Ethereal, this will let them deal damage to multiple enemies at once (reduced damage for non-primary targets though) allowing melee characters to push lanes slightly better, or take multiple minion jungle camps with slightly more ease!
This change comes with some o...
2022-11-16 16:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Happy Monday Patrons!
With some exciting changes that you'll hear about soon, we've completely reworked our spear item tree in Ethereal which includes adding some new spears! As such our artists got to work and created some incredible art for our three new Tier 3 Spears as well as art for a new Tier 2 spear. We'll go into more detail about what these spears do and why they were added in a few weeks along with some changes to our axe item tree, but we just couldn't wait to show you the ...
2022-11-07 14:32:47 +0000 UTC
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Happy Sunday Everyone!
This week we wanted to show progress on new skins for another one of our first myths, and present King Dante! This skin will be a Tier 3 skin, meaning it will be an updated model, a Major VFX Overhaul to match the theme of the skin, as well as some updated animations!
We are hard at work turning these amazing concepts from the art team into a reality! In the future, we'll be showing you concepts from myths you know and love, to the myths you don't!
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2022-10-30 15:27:04 +0000 UTC
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Hey Patrons!
While we are hard at work implementing new features and concepts into Ethereal, we haven't forgotten about our HUD! This week we wanted to showcase the changes to our TAB Menu and show some of the new ways you'll be able to view the information in game.
Front and center you'll see our updated minimap designs for the new map. While still a work in progress, we are extremely excited about this minimap and the potential it holds to provide information about the map.
2022-10-30 04:31:43 +0000 UTC
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Happy Sunday Everyone!
This week we wanted to show progress on new skins for another one of our first myths, and present Magician Noxus! This skin will be a Tier 3 skin, meaning it will be an updated model, a Major VFX Overhaul to match the theme of the skin, as well as some updated animations (Pulling a Rabbit out of a hat)!
We are hard at work turning these amazing concepts from the art team into a reality! In the future, we'll be showing you concepts from myths you know and l...
2022-10-17 02:25:40 +0000 UTC
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Happy Wednesday Patrons!
We are extremely excited to share some updated designs for our role icons! In the past tests, we've had some placeholder assets which were our golden role icons generally in the design of Fire, Ice, and Void with a dedicated grass shape icon for JG, and staff for support. We really liked these concepts for our game but knew they were not up to par with everything we've released thus far.
As such it was important for us to update these icons for the futur...
2022-10-12 18:20:19 +0000 UTC
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Happy Thursday Everyone!
Ethereal plans to have multiple different recurring skin lines throughout the game's life. One of which is a Winter Skin Line! Today we wanted to showcase one of two winter skins already completed, Winter Queen Marina!
Can you guess who the other one is for?
We are hard at work turning these amazing concepts from the art team into a reality! In the future, we'll be showing you concepts from myths you know and love, to the myths you don't!
...
2022-09-30 03:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Happy Friday Patrons!
In our last open test, we heard feedback from the community that our towers, and spires were starting to look a little dated, and didn't match the overall feel we are striving for.
This week, we have a video to show you the before and after versions of our spires and towers creating a much more dynamic and unique feeling map. In addition to the visual changes of these structures, we've also added a few animations to them to show how the map in Ethereal is j...
2022-09-23 15:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Happy Saturday Everyone!
This week we wanted to show progress on new skins for one of our first myths, Malaia! In the past, we had a contest to determine if Malaia received her cyberpunk skin or the Empress skin. While Cyberpunk won out in the end, we knew that we couldn't let such a gorgeous concept go to waste! As such we've begun work on Empress Malaia, and she will be available with the other skins when Ethereal's release happens!
We are hard at work turning these amazing co...
2022-09-17 16:29:52 +0000 UTC
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Happy Tuesday Patrons!!!
This week we wanted to check in with all of you and get your vote on which announcer to proceed with in Ethereal as the universal base announcer!
Attached there are 6 different options to choose from (some with more significant changes than others) and using your votes and the votes of our internal developers we will proceed with the development of the new announcer for Ethereal!
Feel free to ask any questions below, and let us know which you like...
2022-09-13 23:38:51 +0000 UTC
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Happy Monday Patrons!
One of the things we've been working on has been adding some additional ambiance and balance changes to the new map. We added a ton of things (some of which teasing future updated to Ethereal 👀)
These updates were intended to provide additional ways for myths to traverse the map as well. With these changes we've added several ramps allowing all myths to gain verticality against their enemy such as the ramps you see in Ice Lane!
In...
2022-09-06 00:00:03 +0000 UTC
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We've talked in the past about Talos' upcoming visual update. As of now, you've seen some of his VFX (an updated version of the footage you've seen is on our socials this week) and you've seen the concept art for his base model. Today we wanted to show off some of the potential Talos now has with his redesign.
While Talos' was seeking revenge on the great Kraxian beast that decimated his homeland he's come across various other wild creatures. Some of which being wyverns! We wanted to ...
2022-08-29 15:00:07 +0000 UTC
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We've begun updating a few of the smaller elements of the map! One element we've added is a thank you to all the people who make Ethereal the best it can be, including our employees, testers, and YOU, our Patrons.
In doing this we also wanted to keep it tied to Ethereal and so your name will be immortalized near the obelisk in the native Etherean Runes. Starting in our next open test, you'll be able to find your name added to our pillars on Elysium!
* This is not...
2022-08-23 01:58:45 +0000 UTC
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The following cumulative one-time rewards are waiting for you as you continue to back our Patreon! When you back more than the dollar amounts below over the life of the Patreon. You earn EXTRA rewards as a thank you from the UG team!
$20 Pledged Total
- Backer Only News
- Digital Wallpaper Pack
- Pre-Alpha Access Key
- Discord Role
- Patreon Exclusive Profile Image / Banner
$60 Pledged Total
2021-08-22 22:16:28 +0000 UTC
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