Come see the Arch Mage after he finally has finished drinking the never-ending essence bottle!
He will be in Tralisia Town Center on 12/21 at 4 PM ET!
The Return Of RP!
Actinate and I are excited to bring you some exciting news that many of you have been waiting for! We intend to restart RP on December 20th.
What does this mean and what can you expect?
We will be running world campaigns along with some smaller quests on the side. World campaigns are going to be the core piece because it allows us to tell a unified story and include as many players as possible at once. We’ve done these before and every character is able to participate and take part and impact the story.
While the focus will be on these world events, there will still be others – but less frequent – quests that involve individuals. In cases like this, they will generally involve preplanned and approved RP. Given there are only two of us running RP, we ask you for your patience in these.
Some of you may want to help out and we are interested in offering a merchant system of some sorts – similar to the container auction and clothing order peddles we’ve had in the past. We look to still have these because they are fun and the players enjoy them!
In terms of scheduling, we will look to announce events ahead of time so proper preparation can happen. We do ask for patience and flexibility here as well, both of us like to get sick and have families we tend to. Our goal is to try to run 2 events a month.
We are dedicated to ATS and more importantly, to you. I’m reminded of a time long ago, 16 long years ago when ATS wasn’t active. I was sitting in the car shop getting an oil change and reading the old forums on my phone. Seeing all of the posts, the happiness, and more, but it was all gone. It was lost. I seeked to find it. Little did I know, Actinate – at the same time – felt the same. It was not long after before we agreed to remake ATS, into what it is today. I vowed to never give up, my hand tight and Actinate smiling at me, for ATS is who we are. If ATS no longer exists, we do not exist.
Anyways! Thank you for your time reading this and your dedication over the past 5 and more years. It’s really the community that brings us here and together. We look forward to making memories together and have fun times!
Day and Act
Arcane Inquisitor is Released!
Greetings!
Today Actinate and I announce the release of the Mage Hunters: Arcane Inquisitors! This class is one we’re both very excited about as it’s been hinted at many times in the lore – a secret order tasked with dispatching Magic Users who stray to far from “the rules”.
This is an elite organization that has existed for the majority of the Arcane Order’s history in various forms. The Arcane Inquisitor is a martial mystic trained to suppress, subdue, and dismantle rogue spellcasters and magical threats. An Inquisitor’s strength lies in the fusion of weapon and voice. They wield conjured anima brand weapons, swords, halberds, and whips made from distilled anima, switching fluidly between them to adapt to the flow of combat. While most of their attacks are physical in nature, they are laced with vocal resonance, manifesting as debuffs, stuns, and mental disruption.
This class is primarily a melee based attacker with some sound based voice control attacks.
You can read more about the class here:
https://tempestseason.com/manual/classes/arcane-inquisitors/
They also have new extensive lore, which can be found here:
https://tempestseason.com/lore/primers/arcane-inquisition/
https://tempestseason.com/lore/important-people/high-inquisitor-damarin/
This class uses a new “data driven” concept, where all their items, abilities, and specializations are defined in data files and then fed into the game. This means there is no need for item, ability, and specialization editors to be used and this content can be defined at a very high level. I’ll make a post about this in the near future because it’s a core component of our future. Since this class represents the first time this is being used, expect some bugs and inconsistencies.
Please put any feedback in #arcane-inquisitor-feedback Discord channel.
Thank you and we hope you enjoy playing this new and exciting class!
Day and Act
Act and Day
Game Update October 2025
Game Update – October 2025
Hello!
Actinate and I wanted to give a brief update on the State of the Game!
The past year and a half has been filled with many updates, all centered around improving the longevity of the game—both from a game balance and infrastructure standpoint.
The rebalancing has gone well and numerous changes have been made:
- Removal of the Focus system (except for Agents, at least for now).
- All abilities have been converted to the new Damage Tier System (each ability is flagged with a tier and attribute instead of raw damage and maybe an attribute or weapon).
- Every class now gets some sort of “weapon” to assist in adding a baseline amount of damage to the damage tier.
- Cosmic Heralds are well underway in testing and finalization! They will be released after RP starts, as their arrival will be very fun to experience!
- We recently moved to a new server with a significant upgrade in capabilities and hardware. This has allowed us to move from Java 8 to Java 25, which offers many benefits—not only in performance but also in development (it allows code to be written easier and increases reliability).
- This upgrade will also let us continue enhancing the architecture of the system if needed, such as moving toward a containerized architecture and/or using something like Quarkus.
- With these added benefits come added costs: the monthly server expense has gone up from $20 to $50 per month. As such, Act and I want to thank everyone who is a Patron—your pledges and support go directly to the server costs. Thank you so much!
- Moving to the new server also allowed us to revive the Discord Bot! This now has tighter integration with the game, allowing real-time chat between Discord and the game using the
!chat <message>command. It’s very cool! Expect more features to be added as time goes on. - Item Skins System: A brand new system has been added that allows you to collect item skins on your characters and then apply them to your items. For example, if you liked the “some gleaming black Vanyelarian titanium war plate” but had frost-metal armor, then you couldn’t wear this cosmetic—now you can! You can locate a skin for the titanium war plate and skin it onto your frost-metal armor to make it a “some gleaming black Vanyelarian frost-metal war plate”! The description of the skinned item changes as well. You can read more about this new system here: Item Skins Forum Post. We’ll be adding some skins into the shops shortly.
- We previously mentioned some form of End Game System, and we’ve made some progress on that. We’re still in the early stages of development and will announce more soon.
- We’re also trying to tie up a few final items before starting RP up again. It’s a very exciting time!
Thank you for playing and for your continued support of ATS! It is a pleasure to have you here.
Day and Act
