2012 First New Content Archives (FR)  

< Back to the New Content page

Contents [hide]

June 27, 2012

June 18-21, 2012

June 14-15, 2012

  • Shrouded Glade is Under Seige! FR Artist and Animator, Floyd Bishop, hosted a webcast with Ryan Shannon and Eric Hankins (FR Game Designers), to give us some details about Shrouded Glade being taken over by the Gloam. The update went live on Friday morning!
  • Shrouded Gloam is here! There are a number of new quests, new gear, new allies, new villains, and open-world combat! Read through The Invasion of Shrouded Glade lore from the Welcome Page. At the end, you have the opportunity to teleport to the Royal Palace and speak to Queen Valerian about what you can do to help.
  • The Summer Pass membership sale returned for this year. Purchase gets you 3 months of membership and a Dark Flower Island Shirt for $9.99. The offer is available until July 9th.
  • From June 16th to 18th, SOE is having a Weekend Blitz! Every SC item in the game is half price during this sale!

June 8, 2012

  • There were 2 hotfixes today: the first to fix the TCG calendar and new rewards, and the 2nd to add functionality to some in-game purchase options.
  • In a peek at the future: there's news from E3! Free Realms Producer, Harvey "Captain Flametalon" Burgess, let us know during an interview that Sunstone Valley will be open by the end of the summer! Leading up to that, next week there will be some major changes to Shrouded Glade! Check out the news story on your profile page!

May 31 and June 1, 2012

  • The time limit on all of the Mystery Chests has been removed. You may earn as many as you want each day! However, you still have to buy a Mystery Key to open each one.
  • June's Member's Pack has been distributed to each character on members' accounts. It contains a Smiley Face T-Shirt and Coins 10,000 .
  • More changes have been made to the New Player Starting Area: Chatty appears in pop-ups to lead the new player around to some of the different tasks. Each of these introductory quests gives the player a few coins to start him off.
  • The portrait bug has been fixed (again).

May 24-25, 2012

  • The Birthday Bash has been removed from the game for another year.
  • There's been an update to the Mystery Chests:
    • A new set of items has arrived in Sci-Fi Mystery Chests, all with a sci-fi/alien theme.
    • The chests are no longer strictly earned from dungeons. Each day, each chest type will be assigned to a different mini-game. The dungeons are still a possibility, but they may now also be found in other games such as Chess, Hack and Slash, and Mail Sorting.
    • Both the original chests and the new ones can be earned once a day. There's a new Mystery Chest window on the Welcome Screen to help you keep track of their availability.
    • For a sneak peek at some of the items, watch the latest Super Secret Stuff video.
  • To celebrate Memorial Day, members will get 30% off of all Marketplace purchases from May 25th through the 28th.
  • Amnerys posted some interesting news on the official forums: Over the next few months, you or your friends may receive emails or popups in-game with a whole host of new special offers. These offers are specially made for you, designed to give you a deal where you want it most. They’re also still in development and this first round will help us figure out which kinds of players want which kinds of deals. This means that you and your friends may receive different offers, and that some of you may not get an offer at all. Don’t panic! It’s meant to work that way, because everyone is different! If you have received an offer or have suggestions, let us know what you think!

May 17, 2012

  • All of the Mother's Day items have been removed from the Marketplace.

May 8-10, 2012

  • An easy teleport spot has been added to the Atlas. You can now port directly to Camellia, in Sanctuary, for the duration of the Birthday Bash.
  • More bugs were fixed.
  • There will be a Mother's Day Marketplace Sale from May 11th to 13th. All Station Cash wallpaper, flooring, and roofing items are half price.

May 1-4, 2012

April 24-28, 2012

April 18-19, 2012

  • The Birthday Bash has returned to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of the game! The first time that any character signs in while the Birthday Bash event is running will receive a free Birthday Cake Hat!
  • This hotfix also brought some typo corrections, tooltip issue fixes, minor UI adjustments, and a few squashed bugs.

April 10-13, 2012

  • There have been more changes made to the New Player Starting Area: the only things left are the Pet Adoption Center, the Housing Tutorial, and the King of the Ring battle. Everything else was removed.
  • They are currently working on the chat problems that cropped up for the younger players. Main chat should be working correctly for all players now, but whispers are still broken.
  • Special sales and events were held in many of SOE's games to celebrate Friday the 13th. In FR, all Style Cards available in the SC Marketplace were on sale for half price, including the Name Change Scroll. Also, Greenwood Forest had a special visitor for the day: Jason Maskface was standing on a hill between the Chatty and Robbie camps, waiting to ask you a scary question. For more details, please read our story and Massively's article.

April 5, 2012

  • In the Marketplace, we have 3 items added that may be familiar to some. Three items that were part of the Fan Faire Pack are now available for everyone to purchase!
  • Some bugs were squashed, mostly related to the User Interface.
  • Beginning April 6th, there will be a Double SC Weekend! For more information, please see our news story.

April 1, 2012

  • The April 2012 Member's Pack has been distributed.
  • The April Fool's Surprise that was mentioned before has brought Bruce back to the Realms! Each character that logged in on April 1st was granted 5 Bruce's Offstage Pass! Use one of these consumables to get him to play a personal concert for you and your friends!

March 29, 2012

  • Amnerys posted the following update notes:
    • Players should see a decrease in memory usage while playing FreeRealms.
    • April Fool's surprise. Well, we can't say anymore. It's a surprise!
    • Fixed and closed over 90 open bugs, including Captain Fletcher!
  • There was one thing that she didn't list: each character's SC and coin totals are now visible above the character icon in the upper left corner of the game screen.

March 20-22, 2012

  • Amnerys has been very quick about posting the update notes, and that is always appreciated!
  • There's some new housing items in the Marketplace: portraits based on artwork from the Trading Card Game.
  • A female-only version of the Farmer Hat has been added to the Vending Machine on your farm.
  • The new Pet Tutorial has been updated with a new entrance. This way you can actually buy a pet before doing the tutorial, if you want.
  • During the Pet Tutorial, the rewards have now been equalized, no matter what pet you use for the trial. Even though you receive the items at different times during the quests, depending on the pet you use, by the end of the tutorial, everyone has received some coins, a bowl, a brush, a Doggy Pirate Collar, a Kitty Pirate Collar, some pet food, and some shampoo.
  • Some bugs were fixed for the following items:
    • Mega Growth Sprayer
    • Box of Bunnies
    • Cage of Crows
    • Vending Machine
    • Withering Can
    • Spider Sprayer
    • Fungal Sprayer
    • Wilds Tractor
    • Necrowart Zombie Buff
  • Merchant Store coin balance requirement issues were fixed.
  • The jobs hotkey should now work when you are inside a house instance.
  • The game dock should no longer disappear when you close the Battles UI.
  • Gender-specific farming hats should display properly with the gender symbol now.
  • Miscellaneous bugs with the pets controls, that caused the game to get stuck or crash, are now fixed.

March 16, 2012

March 9, 2012

March 1, 2012

  • Free Realms now has a new Community Manager: Amnerys! She will be taking over for Zatozia, who is moving on to other SOE games. There's an Introduction Thread on the official forums, if you would like to say hi.
  • The March 2012 Member's Pack was distributed with today's hotfix. It contained a Mystery Key and Coins 10,000 .

February 22, 2012

  • The following improvements were made to the TCG in this update:
    • Opposing creatures will no longer score when Stuck in a Tree is zapped.
    • Chasing Ninja Master during combat using Here's the Cavalry no longer crashes the game.
    • Crush effects now activate properly when a Trickster is involved in the battle.
    • PoD Miner now properly charges 2 coins to activate.
    • Miss Artie's Crush text now activates properly.
    • When there are multiple copies of Driller in play, they all ready if Crush is activated.
    • Cursed Bear no longer retains its trick bonus between battles.
    • Commander Kluggenrush's log message has been adjusted to make clear where the card draw came from.
    • Edwin Goldstory now reports when he saves a resource.
    • Kirill Moonrunner is now properly indestructible if swapped into an active battle.
    • Dominic the Brawn can no longer zap a stunned creature.
    • Gloompedal no longer triggers to save a card that was saved by another effect.
    • Miss Artie's gametext can no longer be canceled.

February 14-16, 2012

  • The King of the Ring battle, within the starting area, has had a tutorial aspect added to it.
  • Updated the TCG section of starting area.
  • Some improvements were made to the Wilds Condo quest line.
  • The NPC text now appears correctly in the chat box.
  • All of the farming-related items that were accidentally released 2 weeks ago have now also been removed from players' inventories. Apparently, the items were causing issues for some characters. Everyone who had purchased any of these items received a full refund. And again, we've been promised that these items will return to the Coin Shop at some point.
  • SOE is having a President's Day Sale, which will run from 12:01 AM PST on Feb. 17th to 11:59 PM PST on Feb. 19th. Here's what's on sale in Free Realms:
    • All houses and lots are 50% off.
    • All TCG Booster Packs are SC 200  and Starter Decks are SC 450 .

February 7-9, 2012

February 1-3, 2012

  • The February 2012 Member's Pack has been distributed.
  • The Shuffle Shooter illusion should now be fixed.
  • Some of the Festival of Hearts items have started to reappear in the Coin Shop.
  • There were several farming-related items that were mistakenly added to the Coin Shop, but were removed within hours of their placement. We were told that the items were put in the game much too soon, but will return at the appropriate time.
  • Some text in the new housing tutorial was changed to make the quest easier to understand.
  • The housing directory billboard can now be moved around within the Wilds Condo lot.
  • The name of the house browser window was changed to My Houses.
  • The name of the decorate button was changed to Click to Decorate.
  • February and March Community events were added to the Activity Calendar.
  • Various game bugs and housing bugs were fixed.

January 24-26, 2012

  • A new Wilds Condo will be the starter housing given to all newly-created characters, instead of the Apartment. If your character already has the Apartment, then you will be granted the Condo as well.
    • There is also a new tutorial quest line introduced when you first enter the Condo.
    • You can watch the newest Super Secret Stuff video to get a preview.
  • Various bugs were fixed, including some in the Snowhill Lodge.

January 19, 2012

  • In Highroad Junction, the Warpstone has been moved diagonally across the intersection -- to where the Pet Adoption Center used to be.
  • A couple of changes were also made to the New Character Starting Area: The Cooking Station has been removed, the Raceway Station has been moved over to replace it, and the Pet Adoption Center was added in the empty spot.
  • The January 2012 Member's Pack has been distributed.
  • Snow Days has been removed for this year.
  • Blocks have had an overhaul:
    • Both the Marketplace and Coin Shop prices have been lowered.
    • All 11 shapes come in solid color, polka dots, cheese, and tiger striped.
    • All are now colorable.
    • The solid colors can be purchased in multi-packs in the Marketplace.
    • All but 5 of the Coin Shop blocks are Members Only.

January 5-12, 2012

  • Many bugs were fixed during this time-frame, including several from the 3rd Series TCG cards.

Free Realms
Wikibase™

Category: Free Realms
This page last modified 2013-03-23 16:05:44.
© 2024 Fanbyte LLC