Happy Halloween! I'm back with this week's Act II update! This time, I've got another song. Here is "Vagrant (II)", a remix of Weapon's theme that accompanies a boss battle in Act II.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfu4Zfhigs

What a great Halloween treat! Thanks, Sailerius!

This week's update features Vanquish, a Banivian knight that joins your party in Act II.

Awesome! I love the expression on his face.

i got some what ferther havn't played alot and i still fucking love this game nice custom stuff also !!XD

Quick question for anyone that's beaten Act I: How many credits did you have toward the end of the game?

Hi everyone and welcome to December! Everything's still on track for a January 1 release. Here's this week's Act II update, a new track called "Nightlife."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bABeWW3yh5M

I just beat it today and it was a awesome game thanks for sharing with us and i can't wait for Act II btw I had 345 credits and 11169 step count at homecoming I think the only thing I bought besides the stuff for the first quests is a chain shirt. I have a question though what were these items for We Are Forever and Shadow and Ashes? I got We Are Forever out of a door at the start of the game and Shadow and Ashes not sure where that came from but they have no descriptions. So was wandering what they were/are for? thanks

Another question but yes or no answer. lol is that girls boyfriend that stood her up at the pizza place IN the game lol that is the only side quest I couldn't finish but might play again just to find him lol but want to see if anybody else found him I looked everywhere. Also there is a treasure chest on a cliff below the first city, there is fence in front of that Juice shop you can see it on a cliff. Is there a way to get to it now or is that for Act II? Yes or No answers for both questions please don't tell me how to do it. Thanks

First: thanks for playing! And congratulations on finding We Are Forever, as not many people manage to get it. It's an easter egg item. Use it and save to the first slot. The next time you run the game, you should find something new.

The boyfriend quest is completable. You can't find him until nightfall, though--I won't tell you any more than that unless you really want to know. Lastly, you can't get to the treasure chest yet.

Hi, I'm really enjoying this game but I'm kinda stuck now. I can't win the battle with back to back fights (abandoned caravan). Any tips plz?

Sure! That's one of the hardest fights in Act I, so you're not alone in getting hung up there.

1) What level and stat build is your Auria? Remember to use the Dodge reaction if she has high SPD and Guard if not.
2) Have you gone back to the Hall of Legends to purchase new abilities?
3) Failing that, make sure to spend all of Zaqris's SP on healing if he's at least level 3.

It's ok... managed to win XD I had gotten Fury attack for Auria but Zaqris was only lvl 2 at that point (he's now at 3). Was there a way to level up some more before that encounter? Anyway, I just used guard on all as I wasn't too lucky at dodging despite having high spd whereas the enemies kept dodging my attacks. XP

You get XP from winning sidequests (mostly in East Naven). 'grats on winning, though! Hope to hear your impressions of the rest of the game.

I don't like the main character, she is too whiny. But the game though is awesome but I felt the last few maps to the end of the demo were kind of rushed.

Wow, ok, so this is getting extremely difficult. Ive gone all over, and Ive found the same .zip file that i find everywhere to fix ERROR 58. Sadly, the darn file is so corrupt that -WinZip couldn't open it, or any other zipping program. I can't extract the files AT ALL. Not even a Zip- repair program can fix it. It would be mega helpful if someone could show me where to get a repaired version of the fmodex.dll file, or, maybe someone could show me where to download it in unzipped format? Thanks.

I sent you a PM about it.

Whoo! After a 20 hour train ride, I'm finally home for the holidays. Though this week's Act II update is still forthcoming, I've got something else in the meantime. I'm starting up an Act I character poll, where you vote for your favorite male and female characters.

Once Act II has been out, a follow-up poll will be held and it should be fun to see if certain characters go up or down in the rankings. Without further adieu, here's the character list:

Male
Rayonne de Bellemont
Zaqris jaGrane
Vastale/Michael Ranksmith
Weapon
Blaise Tearson

Female
Auria Edith
Serijala Racorie
Sandarga
Auria's Mom
Fiora

Submit your vote either by response by IM, PM, email, or whatever method of communication you feel like and I'll add it to the tally. I'll post again next Saturday with the results.

Today's Act II update is a screenshot that shows what the streamlined battle UI looks like.



Some new face portraits by Salice are shown, as well as Ganonfrog's beautiful new battlers for the new party members. A different font was chosen which is crisper and easier to read. Also, the addition of the Ascensions option in the battle command menu.

I love your game btw. I never really commented before though. You really did well mapping, graphics, and overall gameplay of this production. I nominated it for PotM. Good luck to ye!

Haha, thanks a lot! I'm putting in all my time and effort into making sure that Act II blows away Act I in all the areas you mentioned.

Love the game- can't wait for more.

Also, whoever did your artwork did a great job. =]

Haha, thanks! Hope you stick around to play Act II. Speaking of, I should have a nice surprise ready for Christmas...

Merry Christmas from everyone at Project BC! This week's Act II update doubles as our Christmas gift. Check out "When I Die", the Act II opening song! Vocals performed by Melanie Ehrlich.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvLCYPxUJ2M

OK do you have an opening for a mapper ? cause to be serious i really love this project and it would look good for me to help with something this epic!!!! i mean to get my name out there.... i thought i was really good but I've been practicing and working on some stuff now i think my skills have improved 10fold.....so i want to put them to the challenge...if not no hard feeling just it couldn't hurt to ask

That would be amazing. Do you have any samples of your work?
Although Act II is pretty much done, I could really use the help for Act III. I handle all the scripting (and by that I mean script modding), mapping, eventing, etc etc so it gets extremely overwhelming at times. I would greatly appreciate the help.

This is my first time commenting on this sub-forum. I'm usually posting in General or Mature Discussion. There may be flaws in your game, but I won't be commenting on that. I just want to let you know that you did a great job on this game. It's you and your team's efforts and meticulousness that made this game great in my eyes. The theme song above was the motivating factor that pushed me to praise you. Please let the vocalist know that I think her voice is lovely and kudos to the music composer. Besides the story and characters, nothing pulls my strings more than the music.

well i do have some stuff to show now not all of it is too good cause i've resently went throught the process of legacy studio's helping me improve my mapping with some serious feed back... so here i go

REALLY love the game :], I cant wait for Act II. It makes me want to jump straight to eventing my story lol and all that epicness, but for now, im stuck in arting phase @_@.

Thanks so much! You'll be glad to hear that there's a ton of new music in Act II and in my opinion, it blows away the music from Act I. What was your favorite song?


Cool. I'll get in touch with you once Act II's out and we'll chat about it.


Thanks for playing! I hate to have to delay Act II when I promised a release today, but there are still a couple annoyances that I need to fix. I don't want it to go live with as many bugs as Act I had.

Just started playing (finally!), so far so good.
I need some help with the Missing George quest... where is he? I looked everywhere.

Uh... still can't find him. Instead saw Is it related? All the bldgs are inaccessible being night time... where exactly is he?

Thanks!

This game looks pretty great, I'm going test it and tell you what I think.

Awesome, hope you have fun. The final beta of Act II is going through testing right now, so I'm hoping to have it go live sometime today.

Sorry for the delay, everyone! Beta testing is now finished! It's 6:12 AM now and I haven't slept, so I'm going to crash and upload the game as soon as I wake up.

It looks like Act II is gonna be good, Sailerius. I'll see if I can review as soon as you upload it.

It's finally here!!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VD2VJDNO
2shared: http://www.2shared.com/file/10476465/b0b3b...tention_Ac.html
WPI GDC: http://gdc.wpi.edu/Vacant_Sky_Vol_1_Contention_Act_II.zip

Any other mirror site requests?

By the way, I should have mentioned, but in order to properly convert over your save data from Act I, you need to have the Act I Clear Flag, which you get by saving after the credits. Make sure you've done that before trying to convert!

Sailerius, I think I ccame across a bug with the Rien character. It seems as though she is permanently stricken with Posion and Priority status. Is that supposed to happen?

Nope, that's not a bug, that's intentional. She has two pieces of locked equipment, one of which grants her Poison and one of which grants her Priority.

Sorry for dropping off the face of the earth for a week; got busy with classes starting up again. Since a few people have asked about it now, here's a reminder: To import your Act I data into Act II, make sure you've saved after the credits in Act I or it won't work.

I like the story of this game. I try to finish Act 1 as soon as I can. But I don't know this part. When Auria was shot by a man name Blaise, shewent to Hall of Legends and I'm stuck in here. A man name Ejaro said something that I quite don't understand much: Establish a link with your patron. What doesn that mean?

You need to take a weapon out of each pool in the Hall of Legends then examine the book at the altar.

*explodes*

Wheee! Act II! Just what this bored gamer needed!

Haha, let me know what you think. XD I've actually been really surprised that no one has commented yet.

Been quiet for a while, but I've been putting hellish hours into Act III. Here's a promo image to prove I haven't been slacking:

Looks tight....wait, aren't those

so when can we expect Act III to come out?

Great scenes. Haven't completed it yet because I got stuck when you start playing as Area or whatever that red chics name is. When That masked faced freak escapes from prison, that is coolest part of game I must say. Music is exceptional and you know at what points to use them to thier fullest.