Lol they definitely fooled me the first couple times I played. They should go the more traditional route and make them red or something
Enter the Rift. v1.1.0 preview. Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel Ire: Blood Memory v1.1.0 preview. Note that there will be no perspective change from the current build. This clip is a preview of some new additions coming to Ire.
Adding another playground (details for v1.1.0 ) Hello, TA! I was talking with the devs and was told that v1.1.0 update was submitted last Thursday. Devs mentioned that the gist of the update mostly revolved around player requests for another area of competition, item and equipment upgrades, vanity items, and an app icon swap. So that's what we did: Added a couple of playgrounds, unlocked mid-tier items/equipment, trying out vanity item(s), and a bunch of other stuff. More update details below. -- . New content - Game modes - Quest and boss - Weapons & armour - Items/Merchandise in Shop - Mid- and high-tier Mystical Shards . Bug fix - Minor bugs fixed .Improvement - Texture & colour - UI . Changes - Gems consumption to extract shards - Option to unlock items to forge with Gems - Gold consumption on Revive - Status/Skill boost from Line Stone increased . Balancing - Difficulty of enemies - Boss HP - Difficulty of quests adjusted - Acquiring & using Bone Shards
Full update details. App review was a lot faster than expected. Ire is under maintenance break. I just got the full details of the update. Here you go! -- v1.1.0 update today. Prior to the update, server maintenance is scheduled during 1900 – 2300pm on Aug. 6, 2015 (GMT/UTC). Download the update after maintenance to play v1.1.0. ======================================================================================================= ○ New Quests - Chapter 6 with 4 new quests. - New boss, Bloodwed. - Forgotten Corridor map. ○ Rift Mode - Rift Mode added: The fall of Munin split wide the Rift, a place lost to time and betwixt worlds. - Level 15 and above required to enter the Rift. - 2 Rift bosses, Rifthound and the Faint, added. More to come. - To summon a Rift boss, players must offer Sacrifice gained while questing. * Sacrifice to summon Rifthound: acquired on completion of quests with recommended level 15 or higher. * Sacrifice to summon the Faint: acquired on completion of quests with recommended level 40 or higher. - Next tier weapons and armour added. * Able to acquire Harvest ingredients from Rift bosses and craft equipment. * Options, skills and slots of Rift bosses’ equipment are randomly generated. - When summoning a Rift boss, Boons and randomly selected players will receive notification of an open Rift. Each Rift participant engages in single player combat, competing against other players for rewards. - Participants in the same Rift will be randomly summoned for aid. ○ New Bosses - Bloodwed: Chapter 6 boss - Rifthound: level 25 boss in the Rift - The Faint: level 50 boss in the Rift ○ New Weapons - Rifthound’s Claw (Gauntlet) * Able to forge with Metal Fragment by defeating Rifthound. * G.10-17 stats, skills and 1 empty slot. - Ancient King’s Tarnished Sword (Blade) * Able to forge with drops from King Lyrius. * G.10-17 stats, skills and 1 empty slot. - Aker’s Spear (Lance) * Able to forge with drops from Aker the Spjot. * G.10-17 stats, skills and 1 empty slot. ○ New and Next Tier Armour - Set of Ranger’s Armour A * Able to ascend Ranger’s armour to next tier. - Set of Etchy’s Armour A * Able to ascend Etchy’s armour to a next tier. - Set of Pelorus’s Armour A * Able to ascend Pelorus’s armour to a next tier. - Set of Thonius’s Armour A * Able to ascend Thonius’s armour to a next tier. - Set of Udaeus’s Armour A * Able to ascend Udaeu’s armour to a next tier. - Armour Set of Aker the Spjot * Forge Aker’s armour with drops in quests. * Able to acquire certain items by carving parts. “Weakness Exploit” skill increases chance to carve parts. - Set of Bloodwed’s Armour * Forge Bloodwed’s armour with drops in quests. * Able to acquire certain items by carving parts. “Weakness Exploit” skill increases chance to carve parts. - Armour Set of the Faint * Forge the Faint’s armour with “Faint Fragment” drops in the Rift. * G.13-18 stats, skills and empty slots. ○ Next Tier Accessories and Mystical Shards - Able to forge next tier accessories. - Able to forge mid and high tier Mystical Shards. ○ Ballista - Siege weapon added to some quests and the Rift. - Ballista shoots giant arrow in a fixed direction, dealing massive damage. - Bone Shards consumed. - 2 minutes required to recharge ballista. - Ballista can be destroyed by physical attacks from both the player and enemies. ○ Balancing - HP and attack of enemies decreased. - HP and attack of bosses increased. - Dainn’s spawn location in Quest 5-11 changed. * Before: Aker’s remaining HP 30% * After: Aker’s remaining HP 50% - Bone Shard rewards adjusted. * Bone Shards no longer rewarded for completing quests. * Bone Shard rewards for defeating Corrupt invasion remain the same. * Boon Reward increased to 3 Bone Shards. * No Bone Shard consumed to summon Boon via Shield of the Sentinels. ○ Maximum Level of the Champion - Increased from 50 to 55. ○ New Items and Merchandise in Shop - Rage Rate * Monthly subscription. * 120 Gems provided on purchase. 20 Gems daily via Inbox for 29 days. * Daily Gems are not provided when player does not check-in. * Renewal of subscription available 30 days after previous purchase. - Champion’s Bundle * 50,000 Gold + 300 Bone Shards + 300 Gems + 10 Sight Memory +17 + 10 Heart Memory +17 * One-time purchase. - 10 Gems * Able to purchase 10 Gems with $0.99. * Limited time only. - Bloodied Cloak * Limited time only. * 2 empty slots to imbue Mystical Shards. * After purchase, check in Inventory – Accessory – Cloak. ○ Further improvements - Recommended equipment and skills in Quest 5-5 changed. - Elevation exploits in maps fixed. - Gems required to extract Shards changed. - Able to unlock items with Gems. - Gold consumption to Revive adjusted depending on player level. * Starting from 200 Gold, 200 additional Gold required for every 10th level. - Status and skill boosts from Line Stone increased. - Return to Quest screen upon exiting Inventory or Forge when players open Inventory or Forge in Quest Info screen. - Font. ======================================================================================================= We hope you enjoy the update. Thank you. * Official Facebook Page of Ire: http://facebook.com/IreBloodMemory * Questions and Feedback: [email protected] -- That's the list I got. Quick, but rough, translation involved.
Wow, huge update! Love the new app icon . Hope this game is doing well. Can't wait to try out the update; patiently waiting for the countdown to end.
Double that - exciting update! I even like where you are going with the new website. (irebloodmemory.com) Keep the good work up! Bests, Konrad Kowboy
Ire Forum Thought it was about time to post an update or two. Ire forum is up now. Come on over and say hi! Ire: Blood Memory Forum
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Quick Thoughts Absolutely, bar none, this is an amazing experience. I FINALLY understood it tonight, mostly The graphics, the polish, all of that is OBVIOUS... I just was struggling with the gameplay. It DOES feel a little like the Monster Hunter game, which I have only dabbled with, but didn't know if that was a fair comparison. I'd downloaded and uninstalled this app probably 3-4 times before, because I just couldn't understand what was going on, TBH. The Sight, the Memory, etc. were odd terms that maybe my Western mind could just not grasp the translation I'm still not for sure why there are two different of these "resources" but I know if I add them to armors and weapons and such, they improve haha! Overall, though, as I've gotten into Chapter 2, with the difficulty of the creatures rising, the need to be a little more wise with how I battle... it's getting to be so much more fun. I do have one big confusion, though... the combo system. How exactly does that work? It says to push the buttons in sequence, but do I do it fast like in Street Fighter or let each movement finish before starting the next? I'm trying to figure out how to drop $10-15 in this game and get the most bang for my bucks. Is that $4.99 item in the store the way to go for this? Typically, like in a Foursaken Media game like Heroes & Castles II, I get the paid version then drop $15 or so in IAP... I just want to do justice to you guys for the effort.
Holy crap... If not for brothamann's post above i wouldnt have checked this out. THIS GAME IS FANTASTIC. That is said in a first-2-hours-of-playing perspective of course. I cant say much about the freemium side of things, but for now, this game is tops in my book in terms of gameplay. I wish the levels were bigger, but i'd take the pseudo Monster Hunter gameplay right now and say that i love it.
I figured you HAD already. It fits within similar genres as we seem to comment in some of the same forums.. I.e. Amazing hardcore games
Didnt yet before i read your comment. Was interested in this one during its release, but i guess i just kinda forgot about it.
Combo & Forum @brothamannp11911 @Exact-Psience: Holy mother of pearl! Thank you for playing Ire, and for the comments! brothamannp1191, you sound like me when I first played Dark Souls. Wow, really, thank you for the patience and trying out our game again and again. Exact-Psience, thank you for jumping off the fence. As gamers, we know that that leap is a difficult one to take. Let me address the combo system first... The combo system and the input setting/speed is a little bit different for each weapons system, and of course, an individual's reaction time. If time and precision is an issue you may want to test combinations out by spamming the buttons just a little bit. Gauntlets and lances have a shorter window of frames to chain a combination. Swords have longer motions, so the window to chain a combination is just perhaps a fraction of a second longer. I personally play like Street Fighter or Tekken. There are more accomplished gamers that will chain combinations right before the movement is finished, but that kind of precision is beyond me. About the merch and cost efficiency. If you want to take this game for the long haul and don't mind the grinding, the rage rate is more than enough. Meeting Challenge requirements will definitely keep you well funded. You won't need much until you're in the late lvl30s or early 40s. A lot of the gamers also purchase Cloaks. Cloaks are limited items, and they change about every 2weeks. Though they have extra slots to imbue Mystical Shards (Skill Shards), not everyone uses them. In any case, we are grateful for the consideration you've shown in the post. For information and questions we have a couple of places you can visit: Facebook & a forum some of our friends have kindly made for Ire. - Ire: Blood Memory on Facebook - Ire Forum A handful of people are starting to post useful tidbits about the game on the forum--perhaps a good place to start. We haven't updated in a few weeks. We adjusted our plans for a huge update coming at the end of this year, which will address a lot of feedback that we have accrued during our soft launch/test phase since May. So if you have any comments or feedback to give, just let us know here, or on the forums. All right! Be well, ppl!
I sometimes forget that Ire is one of the coolest and most entertaining games ever made for iOS. But as soon as I launch it again, I am lost in its dark depths. I haven't got all the intricacies of the Atone mechanics down, though. I have only searched for a Corrupt a handful of times myself, but when I opened the app up again now, I had a win/loss ratio of 1:12, and every single opponent that had flogged my purdy fanny had done so badly, with the help of vastly superior levels (often 10 above mine), and items at least one tier above mine (when I had one blue and the rest green, they were rocking all blue, etc). Is this the norm? Seems like it might be hard to maintain a positive win ratio when you are consistently targeted by players far superior in stats (and probably skill. I don't trust that bot ). Minor issue, though. The system is still fun even if I can never hold a position in the rankings. Another rather random query: are there any plans for synchronous co-op? Perhaps a novelty among Ire's hardcore and competitive features, but one I think might be hugely popular among a cross-section of the player base (though I'd never hazard a guess as to how many we might be). Finally, a far-flung wish for future products and those rain-slick days when there is simply nothing else left to code, but I'd love to see a contiguous, open world with a greater focus on narrative and RPG elements, but with Ire's unrivalled combat mechanics, non-streamlined and un-dumbed-down. Whenever I get down to the business of bashing fools with weapons in any open world RPG for iOS , I found myself wishing I was back in Ire, comboing and timing and strategizing and skill-ing. (This goes doubly for MMORPGs. A persistent online mode/game powered by Ire's mechanics would be a dream that hasn't even properly been realized for desktop platforms. Age of Wushu Dynasty might be set to introduce something slightly similar, but I doubt it can hold a burned-out candle to Ire's dark majesty.) If nothing else, an additional mode for Ire where the players traverses larger, open areas, perhaps with a risk vs. reward mechanic of loot and xp that swells cumulatively the further we go, would be an awesome addition that would add flavour and variety, hopefully without breaking Ire's tight design and focused gameplay.
Atonement Intro Vid and Feedback to Feedback @Ayjona: Here is a little something for you, straight out of our forum by player dso. Subscribe to the TouchArcade YouTube channel A little over a month ago, players really started to find their way to reinforcing and imbuing shards to upgrade their equipment. After that all hell broke loose. S. Korean players have been uploading stats, builds, and walkthroughs onto their forum, and it's become a bloody massacre, in the best sense of the word attributed to gaming. Overseas players have started to follow suit, and I heard that checking up on a player's public info is useful in finding out what armour and weapons to use. We are really excited about the level of interaction the players in S. Korea have been having in their forum (Naver Cafe). The community is very constructive, classy, and clever. We hope that the English forum will be like that as our game grows and more players interact. So, yes, it is the norm. I haven't been able to get my hands on the gameplay stats, but a lot of blue and a lot of purple. As for getting a bit lost, we are hard at work trying to alleviate that, and that will come in our next big update. Also, we will be adding a type of co-op mode that is different from calling on your boon phantoms from the Shield of the Sentinels. Hence, new UI and huge update. We are overhauling and adding many new and important features. One of the feedbacks that was given the most was about new modes. You want new modes? We will make you new modes of gameplay. Hell, we've even scrubbed our initial dev schedule to accommodate just that. We are still on the fences in regards to anything real-time. A total open world game with visible narrative will probably become another project. The Ire-verse is actually quite broad and deep. It's all in there in the aesthetics, the naming, the items, so on and so forth. We'll take this at a leisurely pace. Actually, this is something that I personally want to dive right into at this time, but priorities hinder me from taking swift action. We have had nightlong debates and discussions on our next game being a package game--fingers crossed. Ire is a tricky game to produce. As you mentioned, we believe our gamers are very clever, and extremely intelligent, and advantageously cunning. That has proved to be the case time and time again. It is because we know how smart our gamers are we need to be very careful in how we grow our game. Every patch or update we do, we get a lot of critical and direct feedback in regards to balancing of mobs, items, level design and positioning. It can be quite daunting, if not frightening sometimes. There is still a long ways to go. We haven't done a grand release as of yet. Truthfully, this means that we are still in the testing phase of Ire. This means we've been live-testing this baby for a little over 4months now. I know most major game labels would say that it is a stupid thing to do--to do live-testing for so long. By no means does that mean we will have major system changes to Ire. It just means that the game is live, we are still building, we are still testing, and we are gearing up for the next stage. We really thank everyone for being a part of the development process and making Ire a lot better. And rock on, Ayjona. It's good to have you here. Path to Ire: Blood Memory Forum
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Pilot testing weekly events. Ire: Blood Memory has been pilot testing weekly events. Come on over and give it a try. You can check out the info on our Facebook Page by clicking the image below.
