Soldiers of the Wasteland

The first video showcasing in game scenes from the new Ice & Blood expansion has just been released.

The video shows some scenery from the two new regions (the Blood Forest and the Crystal Plains) as well as showcasing the new Dragon Mage class. We are treated to seeing the Dragon Mage transform into the Dragon, along with plenty of fighting scenes of the Dragon Mage in both human and dragon form.

Check the video out for yourself below, and leave any comments about it or the upcoming expansion, on our forums.

A new patch for Sacred 2 has been released today. The patch seems to contain mainly bugfixes, however there are also changes made in preparation of the new expansion, Ice & Blood.

The update has not been added to the Sacred 2 Update site, so for now the patch can be downloaded from the official forums here.

You can read the patch notes and discuss the changes in our Sacred 2 forums here. Thanks to Dirty for the heads up.

The expansion to Sacred 2: Fallen Angel has been officially given a title – Ice & Blood. It was announced a week ago on the German forums then a few days later on the English forums, and finally ended up on our forums thanks to thegreatcthulhu.

For those too lazy to scour the internet for details (like myself) Cthulhu has kindly provided some information about the upcoming expansion in his thread.

- Release Date: this August (PC only)
- 1 new class (more may come): Dragon Mage – Summoner / Offensive Magic Caster / Transforms into a Dragon
- 2 New Regions, with new sub-campaigns for each region: Blood Forest and Crystal Plains
- Combos now can have up to 5 combat arts
- New, very powerful legendary weapons and also currently existing legendary weapons will be enhanced
- Two new horse mounts: Unicorn for good characters and Flame Horse for evil
- Carrier imp will be given to everyone who buys the expansion.

You can also check out a few screen shots from the new patch (which show the new regions) here.

In other Sacred news, Dirty has a thread on the forums trying to organise a weekly game night for SotW members to meet up together and play. Details are still sketchy at the moment, but so far all you need is a character on the Light campaign on the US servers. If you’re interested in joining the event, check out the thread here.

I’ve done a little bit of spring cleaning on the forums this evening, moving around the locations of some of the boards. As briefly discussed in the forums, the Sacred 2 board has been moved to the Other Games section as the majority of discussion around the game has ceased. While in the cleaning mood I also shifted the Diablo III board to the Other Games section as well.

This now makes the forum a lot sparser but also reflects the fact that at the moment we don’t have a flagship game that the majority of the guild is playing.

However, there is another game that some members of the guild have recently started playing and so it has also been added to the Other Games section of the forums.

Requiem: Bloodymare is a free to play MMO, so why not download it and give it a test run. It is also celebrating it’s one year anniversary at the moment so there is increased experience, drops, and lant (gold) throughout this month.

If you do try out the game, be sure to post about it in the forums so your character can be added to the in game guild.

To clarify how much trouble Ascaron are actually in, thegreatcthulhu has kindly provided some information about the German legal proceedings of Insolvency and the phase of Administration.

The German legal proceeding of “Insolvency” is the same as the US legal proceeding known as Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.

When you go into Bankruptcy/Insolvency, your companies leaders have to ceed their power over to a court appointed “administrator”. This person oversees your company for a specific amount of time (in Germany, 3 months) to evaluate the situation and then afterwards, they decide whether or not to have the company fold or restructure.

The legal phase of Insolvency/Bankruptcy where the court appointed administrator takes over is, as you probably guessed, “Administration”.

The only optimistic part about this is that the court actually approved they could claim insolvency… otherwise they would’ve been told they’re SOL. So they must have at least somewhat of a snowball’s chance in… you know where.

So it looks like Ascaron’s situation is a little worse then they are actually letting on. Thanks again to Cthulhu for the clarification.

And if you feel like doing some further reading on the subject, here are some helpful links:

• http://www.mayerbrown.com/publications/article.asp?id=2572&nid=6
• http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4130/is_n3_v25/ai_19161963/