Note: This guide is now hugely out of date, and we’ve written a replacement that you can view here. A Valley Without Wind Getting Started GuideBy Josh Knapp The year was 888. Wind blasted snowfields have covered the world of Environ for centuries… Hey! Never mind all that, let’s just get to the game! If…
Over on Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jim Rossignol has published first impressions of A Valley Without Wind, which marks the first official media hands-on with the beta ahead of its imminent release. Lots of good stuff, but we’ll let Jim do the talking. Head over to one of our favorite gaming sites period and check it out. Also,…
This one has the lately-omitted AI Hunter/Killer ships returning to take up a role in exo-galactic strike forces. Perhaps more interesting to more people are the forcefield changes: the blocking effect that was removed in the last patch is now back, but the various other forcefield improvements from the last patch have been retained: regarding…
It’s been a couple of weeks since our last update, but we’ve been hard at work! No video this time, but I wanted to tell you about a few things that are new or altered in the game, since we’re getting close to public beta. We’re hoping to hit that stage in about another week…
This one has some really substantial changes to forcefield balance. First of all, the player forcefields are buffed and increased in ship cap. Then players also get a new line of mark I-III hardened forcefields, which are high-armor but lower-heath alternatives to regular forcefields. Next, the way that enemy ships collide at the edge of…
As of September 1st, 2011, we have so far raised and donated $27,779.12 for Child’s Play! That’s $7,098.82 since our July update, all of which has already gone directly to the charity. This means that we’re just a hair away from doubling the original goal of $14,000.00 raised for Child’s Play, which we could not…
