Soldiers of the Wasteland

HanbitSoft has announced that it has acquired the publishing rights for Hellgate: London in a number of countries including North America.

Hellgate: London will return to North America after it launches in a few other countries first. Hanbitsoft has said it plans to launch Hellgate in China, Taiwan, and South East Asia, Europe then North America, and finally Japan. The launch may entice old players back to the game with all of the additions made in the Korean version Hellgate: Resurrection.

No firm date has been put in place yet for when Hellgate: London will return to our shores (and PC’s).

To stay up to date with the latest news check out the thread on the forums. And if you plan on getting back into the game, why not register on our forums and get to know our community of largely ex-HGL vets- many of whom will also be getting back into the game as well.

Another patch for Hellgate: Revival has been released, fixing a number of bugs from 1.0.1. Originally this patch was to be numbered 1.0.2 but due to the large number of changes the revision number was stepped up.

Full patch notes are available on the Revival forums. It should also be noted that the Zomper zombie skin option has been moved from the patch file and into the optional packages mod. So if you would like to continue using the Zomper zombie skin you will need to download the updated optional packages mod as well as the new patch file.

Maeyan has also stated that this patch will be the last for Revival, at least for a while, to allow himself more time to work on other projects. So a big ‘cheers and thanks!’ to Maeyan for all he has done on the project so far!

As always, the patch is available to download from our downloads page or from the Revival forums.

A minor patch has been released for Hellgate: Revival, fixing some issues that arose during the Fawkes Event that began on November 5.

In a post on the Revival forums, Maeyan explained what had happened-

I had borrowed addresses from various ‘unused’ Fawkes items to fix the sell values for the Retrainers. This is why your goods are selling for copious amounts of Palladium.

Along with fixing the Fawkes related problems, minor tweaks have been made to the game including fixing bugged quests, implementing the level 55 cap correctly, increasing amount of palladium within treasure passageways and introducing the optional ‘Elite for Normal mode’ and ‘Superior Quests’ modifications. Full patch notes can be found on the Revival forums.

The optional ‘Elite for Normal mode’ inclusion reduces the difficulty of Elite mode back to normal mode standards, but retains the bonuses of playing in Elite mode such as increased mob density and a higher spawn rate of champion mobs. The ‘Superior Quests’ modification increases the objective targets of quests by up to 100 and increases experience & palladium gained from completing quests.

The Revival 1.0.1 patch, as well as the two optional modifications, are available to download from our downloads page or from the Revival forums.

The long awaited Hellgate: Revival 1.0 modification has been released today, marking the 2 year anniversary of Hellgate: London’s launch.

Maeyan and the rest of the Revival team have been working tirelessly to get this modification out by the scheduled release date, and have done a fantastic job in doing so. The modification installs easily regardless of whether you have a fresh install (with the 1.2 update) or if you have the previous Revival 1.0pre patch installed.

Changes and additions to the game are numerous and have been mentioned here before in previous posts, but for a full list, check out the patch notes available on Google docs.

To get your hands on this modification, you can download it from the Revival forums or simply head to our downloads page and download the modification from there.

I would like to thank and congratulate the Revival team for all their hard work and effort that has gone into making this patch. Hellgate: London fans everywhere, salute you!

Back in the beginning of August the Revival 1.0 patch notes were announced. 5 weeks later and the patch is still yet to be released – but with good reason.

The Revival team decided to delay the release of the 1.0 single player patch, most probably due to the sheer amount of really cool stuff they want to put in there, and thankfully Maeyan has re-released the patch notes which now include all the new additions to the patch.

Below is a sample of what to expect in the Revival patch:

• Fawkes event loot
• In game pets Cocomoco and Mantawraith
• Dye kits including special ‘Founders only’ dyes
• Transmogrifying cube
• Skill and Attribute Retrainers
• Unlocked ‘multiplayer only’ unique items
• Dawn of the Zombies – a new quest where you kill 150 zombies!
• New custom launcher
• Standard balances & fixes

For a full list and detailed description of what is included in the patch be sure to check out the Revival SP Patch 1.0 thread on the HG:R forums.

The release date for the patch is listed as October 31st.