The Hunters Event – User Manual

As you will have guessed, we are going to re-do the Battleknight Hunters event. The last time that we ran this event there was quite a lot of confusion as to the purpose of this event and how beneficial it could be towards users, so this year I’m trying a small explanation.

The first point to keep in mind is for people that took part last year:
For players that participated in the event last year, if you had any Hunter Marks left, they will be available for you to use in this round, we purposely kept them for you!

Onto the event, for those that do not know what it is about, the gist of the event is that for the next 2 weeks, every 2 days a ‘special’ hunting monster will spawn in an unknown location.

Don’t worry, we won’t let you run around blindly (but you can do so if you want to!) One or two of the locations will be announced on our Facebook page just after the monster swaps.

The Aim
The aim of the event is to hunt the special hell-spawned monsters and collect hunter badges. The monsters that drop the badges start off on the low levels and therefore will at first only give a very low silver payout. However as the event progresses, the silver payout will increase. That said, farming silver is NOT the objective of this event, this event is essentially a window of opportunity for the intelligent players to gain various premium estate bonuses for free! This is done from the special hunters shop.

The New Shop
The event brings with it a new market option that gives you access to special gear (the retro gear from pre 0.9 times), mounts and companions – the legendary Muse is available here! But perhaps most important of all is that players can buy the premium bonuses using the badges, collect enough badges and you can get the premium estate for free, or perhaps you want a different estate bonus, well don’t worry – they will be there too!

As I mentioned earlier getting the badges is the key to this event, they are dropped only from the event monsters. If you encounter an event monster from a 20 point mission, you’ll get 1 badge, 40 points will earn you 2 badges and a 60 point missions will earn you 3 badges. That said, hunters should take note that even if you are in the right location, it’s not guaranteed that you’d encounter the beast you’re hunting!

Happy Hunting! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask us on the BK Facebook page!

Today we have something rather special to announce.
The Battleknight BETA server will soon be updated with the new 1.5.0 version and we’re offering our players some fantastic rewards if they help us test this new update!

What sort of rewards do you ask?
The Muse, Black Lightning Bolt, Gems, and the alternative art for the Gryphon chest armour will be raffled out to everyone that takes part in a special checklist.
On top of that, if you are the first person to report a new bug then you will be rewarded with a coupon worth 30 gems. (Can be used in any Gameforge game/any server.)

What do I have to do to take part?
Firstly, register on the beta server!
The URL is: BETA SERVER
You will then be asked for a special username and password, the username and password is: beta

Everyone who is on the server by 18:00 will be given 100 gems. Please note that the Beta server does not have a payment system and so you cannot top up gems for money.

After the update, the BETA server will have some special settings until Monday:

• All registered players (before 18:00) will get 100 gems.
• All cooldowns have been reduced by 50% except for Order wars.
• Order war run time has been reduced to 15min
• Order War: 1 round = 15min instead of 8h.

Post all your bugs in the BETA forums
To take part in the raffle for the special items: Raffle checklist

If you are interested in taking part, then you can find out more information here.

Good luck to everyone that takes part!

Noble Knights and Fair Sheild Maidens!

The rulers of Battleknight have decided to bestow upon us many new updates starting on the 5th of August!

Update Changelog

• New: no health point loss in duels below level 5
• New: automatic heal for low level accounts
• New: reward for joining and order or founding one
• New: one time login bonus for beginner
• New: new itemset for low level accounts: shadow runner
• New: new companion: the crow

Health Points below level 5
Firstly, this counts only for PvP duels, not missions.
HP in combat will work exactly the same (they loose hp until they are capped) however after the combat, the HP is automatically returned to pre-combat levels.

Automatic Healing for low level accounts
Players that get taken to below 10hp whilst they are below level 5 will be automatically healed by Merlin (max 3 times). If you are between level 5 and level 10 you will get another 3 heals for free.
The healing will only take place if the user is online.

Reward for joining and order or founding one
When you join or found an order for the first time, you will get two 50hp potions.

Beginner Login Gifts
If new users log in 5 times during the first 5 days, they will get a bonus. The bonus does not repeat and cannot be restarted.

Day 1: 1x 50hp potion
Day 2: 50 Karma points of the karma the user uses.
Day 3: 1 Premium potion (100%)
Day 4: 1000 Silver
Day 5: 5 Gems and 120 mission points.

Shadow Runner item set
This will be the beginners version of the Dragon/Griffin armour. Unlike the current item set, this one will be only useful on the early levels and focuses on elemental resistances.

Companion – The Crow

This is a companion that will give you a discount on items at the merchant, (equipment only and discount on silver only)
As a special, the crow will be 50% cheaper for players below level 15.

Part 2 – Server Starts and Tanoth Promotion

For now ORG, AR and LV will not be a part of this.

The Tanoth to Battleknight promo on Germany went really well so we’re expanding this to almost all other BK comms. In short, players that come to Battleknight from Tanoth will be able to get special items from Tanoth.

We are going to do this promotion in 2 different ways, a group with a server start and a group without a server start.

When there is a server start, the Tanoth promotion will direct the user to the new server. In the case of the group without a new server start, the promotion will direct the users to the newest server.

What exactly is this promotion?

1/ Tanoth players will see a special link in Tanoth, and will also get a link in a mail which will lead them to a special BK page. This page only displays the new server (or the newest avaliable server for comms without a server start). Players have to use this page to register otherwise they will not be flagged as being part of the Tanoth promotion.

2/ If you are part of the Tanoth promotion, you will see a special in-game news about the promo content. If you are not part of the tanoth promo, then you will just see the usual advert for all users.

3/ By taking part in this event you will be able to get some special items and art.

-A mount (Cloud/sky snake from tanoth) avaliable after level 5. Increases armour by 5%, Aptitude by 5% and travel speed by 25%.
-One of 3 special Tanoth Avatars
-A Tanoth BG for BK.

New Servers

5th of August
BG, BR, CZ, RU, RO

6th of August
EN, ES, FR, GR, HU, IT, PL

Without new server

6th of August
DK*, HR, LT, NL, PT, SK, TR, US
*Special note for DK, the Tanoth.se will direct their promo players to Battleknight.dk

Here’s a look at the special mount that is coming for anyone that registers from Tanoth

See you all soon!

Noble Knights, Lords and Ladies!

We have an update for BattleKnight, it’s small but has a few important changes for the game.

Changelog

• [Feature] Players can now report order (alliance) messages.
• [Feature] Unsubscribe link for advertisement emails has been added to the registration mail.
• [Fix] Clues that point to event locations will automatically fix themselves after the event ends.
• [Fix] Match making for order wars was not calculated correctly.
• [Change] Remove all negative constitution debuffs from items (existing and future.)
• [Change] Minimum characters for reporting messages has been decreased to 5.

The update will be live on the German servers first on the 16th of June.
All other servers will be updated on the 17th of June.

The Tsar of Arythmere will be returning to the realm of Caldean! To honour his visit, the Lords and Ladies of Battleknight have declared 14 days of celebration!

During this festival all tournament registration fees will be removed, knights will be able to take part in the tournaments for free. As well as that, the winners of the tournaments will be gifted a Brown War Bear companion!

We’ve even added a special treat, during this event the Black War Bear will be on sale for half price in the item shop!

Today we’re letting you know how the Easter event works.

Summary

This event will have 3 phases where the player has to obtain an egg, hatch the egg and then feed the creature. The creature will then become one of 3 types of personalised companions.

The companion type (dark, light, neutral) will be dependent on the karma the player used during the hatching phase, and the power and effect of the companion determined by the final feeding phase.

Phase 1 – Obtaining the Egg

For the first 7 days of the event there will be a new mission location in Grand, a cave. It is the task of the knights to explore the cave.
There will be only 1 opponent there, the Grotto Watcher which will drop high levels of Silver.

Exploring:
Exploring the cave is done via missions. Every 20 points spent here will generate 1 mission point (regardless of combat win/draw/loss).

3 points = 10%
6 points = 20%
And so on.

As soon as the user has explored 100% of the cave he will get his event egg. A new interface will open in the Tavern menu called ‘Egg’ and in this page you will see all the controls for it.

As well as the Event egg, doing missions in the cave can give you the eggs from last year’s Easter event. Players may find 5 types of colours eggs (sells for silver) and the golden egg (sells for gems).

Phase 2 – Hatching your Egg

This phase runs at the same time as the first one. After acquiring the event egg, the remaining days from the 7 days of phase 1 will be used to care for the egg until it hatches. This phase dictates how the creature will look like.

Players will be able to cast karma spells on the egg to change its alignment (dark, light or neutral).

In total there are 3 stages of development for light 3 for dark and 1 for neutral. As a bonus, the top 5 karma users for this phase will get a special companion.

Phase 3 – Feeding your Companion

As soon as phase 2 is over, the egg will hatch and phase 3 will run for 7 days. The egg page in the Tavern will be replaced by a new page for the companion.

Users will be able to find food for their companion during missions; this food can then be used to feed your new pet.

There are 7 different stages and 4 abilities that your companion can get, the power of each ability increases with each stage.

All in all, the event will run for 14 days! We hope that you’ll enjoy it!

I wish you a merry Christmas on behalf of the whole Battleknight development team, the gameforge staff and the honorary community teams. We hope you’ll enjoy these days with your loved ones and we look forward to another year with you to continue the battle for Caldean!

Love,
Lissala

inter is here, it’s time to get some snowballs ready!

But it’s also a festive season where trees are decorated and great feasts are held, so this year we’ve decided to keep the much loved BK snowballs hidden away and create a new event for you!

Christmas trees were first set up in the late Middle Ages with Freiburg in 1419 being the first documented Christmas tree. However, instead of decorating it was holly, tinsel, ornaments and other shiny objects, the first trees were covered with food. The main foods used to decorate the trees were apples, nuts and gingerbread. These would be kept on the tree until the new years when a great feast would be held!

The period before Christmas, starting from the 25th of November was also very different. This was a traditional fasting period where you could only eat special food and drink, such as gingerbread.

BattleKnight will now take you on a journey back to the middle ages with our new Christmas event!

The event will be split into 2 parts, the fast + decoration period, and the feast!

Let there be joy and celebration! Let jubilation reign! For BattleKnight is once more celebrating its birthday!

7 years is a long life for any game and many great changes that have swept through the realm of Caldean since its inception. The story of BattleKnight is a long and twisting path, but it is the knights who walk that path who have truly made this game. Fair or foul, without such loyal players this game would never have reached the heights it has achieved and so we wish to celebrate your story.

Every player in BattleKnight is the hero or villain of their own story, from their humble beginnings to the greatness of legends. How they have played, the people they have met, the challenges they have overcome and the great orders they have forged, each is a part of the Epic of BattleKnight, each is a story worthy of remembrance!
What better way to celebrate the 7th birthday of BattleKnight than to immortalise these stories and experiences of your game.

The greatest knights of our world-spanning servers each had a humble beginning. Our notorious villains, our noble bastions of wisdom, our mighty clashing orders, everyone has a story to tell and now is the time to lead us down the path you trod chose to walk.

To help us celebrate BattleKnight’s 7th birthday we are looking to our users to create a short comic strip to share their in-game experiences! It can be a particular experience or your journey as a knight. A heroic epic or the confessions of a black hearted scoundrel, now is the time to add to the chronicle of BattleKnight!

You may either draw your submission on paper and then scan it or use image editing software to create it on the computer!
We will be looking for the comic that tells the best story (not the best graphics) and the most imaginative way of showing it to the world.

Send all entries to: comic@battle-knight.com and make sure to include your In-game user-name, server number and what country you play in somewhere in the e-mail. (How else can you get the prizes!)

This contest will start on the 6th of November and last until the 27th of November.

Enter now and win a unique item – a special unique Griffin item!

1. Special Code for an alternative Griffin item a Muse and a 10e coupon.
2. Special Code for an alternative Griffin item a Muse and a 10e coupon.
3. Special Code for an alternative Griffin item a Muse and a 10e coupon.
4. Special Code for an alternative Griffin and a 10e coupon
5. Special Code for an alternative Griffin and a 10e coupon
6. Special Code for an alternative Griffin and a 10e coupon
7. Special Code for an alternative Griffin and a 10e coupon
8. Special Code for an alternative Griffin and a 3e coupon.
9. Special Code for an alternative Griffin and a 3e coupon.
10. Special Code for an alternative Griffin and a 3e coupon.

The terms and conditions of the contest can be found HERE.