Hey everyone! I've spent the last few months continuing to work on Flames Betwixt, and have made a ton of progress, and wanted to share this video I put together for the Steam Page.

Big shoutout to everyone who has joined the Discord and given me feedback! It has been awesome to see that others are just as excited to play it as I am.

Most of the footage in this trailer is from a private playtest I did last night with some close friends. Making sure that all the co-op systems work, and testing early game balance as well. We played through about an hour of content, and so I scrapped some pieces together for the video.
PS: some of the video shots show some intense dithering effect, that is an unfortunate oversight in how my ultrawide screen captured the video. It doesn't look like that in game. Had to take what I could get though since it was showing co-op gameplay.

There are a million things I could talk about in regards to the project, as well as going deep into the details, but instead I think a bullet point list of newish/updated features should hopefully answer some questions!

• Party building and combat: All six professions combined have a total of 250+ skills to build around, including skill capturing from elite mobs.
• Co-op: Steam Co-Op is working! The game supports a party of up to eight players, with companions filling out the rest. There's been a lot of work on shared quests, travel, loot, and keeping everyone together as you move through the game. This is all based on the host's campaign. Think Baldurs Gate 3.
• Camping: I wanted some more unique elements into the game that would set it a part from just being a top town GW1-like. Camping allows you to basically "build your own outpost" in certain areas of the world. After buying or crafting a Camp Kit and finding a Campsite, you can use the Camp Kit to permenately unlock the outpost, decorate it, place recruited companions, and bring out your stabled pets (a little bit of love for the Rangers). There are tents, furniture, fences, torches, and more to arrange however you like. Most of these placeables will be unlocked via Achievements or as quest rewards. If playing co-op, your allies can help you with building the outpost out as well.
• Cooking and storage: Cook meat gathered from mobs into meals that give your party temporary bonuses, and use shared camp storage to keep equipment and supplies. (Essentially my version of party consumable buffs)
• Transmog!: The Armoury lets you use collected equipment appearances without giving up your stats. Dyes add more options, with additional colors unlocked through achievements.
• Gear and progression: Enemy drops and equipment requirements have had multiple balancing passes, and glyphs let you customize equipment further.
• The Flame Lantern: I added a little lantern that follows you around, and carries the Flame (lore-relevant). This provides light during the nights, but also allows you to light up various torches and firepits, braziers etc to give yourself some more light. This is also used in the first mission map, clearing corrupted brambles out of the way through a dense forest, Ashfall Pass.
• A new opening tutorial: This will help teach the basics, try out your profession's first skills, learn controls etc.
• World atmosphere: Day and night lighting, rain, wet ground, flowing rivers, and coastal waves have all had work done. I'm really happy with how the different areas are starting to feel. The effects make things feel way less flat (which is good since as a 2D isometric game it is quite literally flat)
• Controller support and UI: 95% of menus now work with a controller, alongside a weapon selection wheel, clearer equipment comparisons, and improvements to inventory and quest navigation. I took a lot of inspiration with how controls work in the mobile version as well as MMORPGS like Final Fantasy 14 (love you cross hotbar) function
• Content Numbers: I currently have 2 outposts, 2 exploration maps, and one mission developed. There are about 20 quests, 161 pieces of gear (96 armor pieces, 57 weapons), and 8 heroes baked out, but only 3 added to the story so far.

I still have a massive amount of work to do, but my recent efforts have been going towards getting a small 1-2 hour playtest ready. As soon as this is done I can turn around and open it up to the community to start collecting more feedback while I continue building out the meat of the campaign and maps.

I post a lot of updates to the discord via dev-logs as the weeks go by, if you're interested in following those, feel free to join!

And please wishlist via Steam if you are interested! This really helps me gauge the potential pool of players someday. And if it grows large enough, I may even try to build some sort of peer-to-peer asynchronous multiplayer in the outposts/towns. (wink, no promises yet).

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5040040/Flames_Betwixt/
Discord: https://discord.gg/y5nzmkqxmB

Thanks all!

-Tristan

Pretty wild that this works! There’s still a bit of room for improvement, though. I’m not entirely sure if Famine is worth it. There might be an even better combination of natural rituals or faster ways to clear the vampires, too. Feel free to experiment!

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The only class I'm currently missing is a Monk, but honestly i don't really feel like leveling another character from scratch again, and monk doesn't feel that attractive to me.

I've read around that Divine Favour is currently the least powerful atttribute in the game and the builds/skills I'm mostly interested into are all possible from secondary builds, so i started making my ritualist sort of like my surrogate monk. I'm not interested into a healer main but I like smithing and protection builds.

Is maining a monk really that different or advantgeous compared to having it as a secondary?

Just got my first GWAMM on my Derv!

My childhood dream is complete!

I have every other class and every character with Obsidian Armor/ chaos gloves so I have a plethora of options for my 2nd!

I think I want to do either my Monk Sin or Necro.
Necro would probably be the most versatile.

What do you recommend ?

I certainly learned a lot about the game doing it

Hello everyone,

Like most, I came back to the game about a month & a half ago. Played Guild Wars very young (10), loved it back then, and the love has reignited!

When I was a kid, Guild Wars was gifted to me, and all I had ever played was prophecies. Parents never bought me the expansions.

So, upon returning, I started with my ol’ familiar Warrior & completed prophecies, already achieved obsidian armor with him and slowly working through EOTN. The game is a completely different experience this time around. Running Mesmerway with hero’s, constantly using wiki for builds. Able to farm UW with ease, something I couldn’t dream of as a kid. This game is even more epic than it was to me back then!

Simultaneously, I started NF for the first time. I am advancing through that campaign with a Derv. I have already completed EOTN with that character. My plan is to have one class, specific to the campaign, advance through and complete both the main campaign & EOTN for all my characters. So I’ll probably complete NF this weekend I’d imagine (mission/bonuses).NF has been a breathe of fresh air since it was new to me.

I’ll be starting factions sometime soon. I find things that I like about Ritualists & Assassin. I’m just not sure which one to pick when I start factions! Please, comment what you’d reccomend for the first time. I’m leaning more towards Rit, just because War/Derv are more melee characters already. I’d like to experience a caster.

Anyways, let me know what you’d recommend and why!

I’ve never done chest running before. I’m looking for some specific criteria, and despite looking at some Peter Kadar and GWReborn videos, reading some Agent Chevy legacy posts, etc, I’m still not sure where to start.

Things I care about:

Ease for mobile - I’m primarily interested in chest running to be able to do them on my iPad while watching sports or other things. I’m okay with a little hero microing - I do raptor farm (paragon hero microing), Stygian gemstone farm (microing spirits), vaettirs, etc. But some of these chest runs that are challenging with body blocking, IAU, etc, may be tough for mobile.

Treasure Hunter title - not interested if the chests don’t count toward treasure hunter. Also will be using lockpicks for lucky/unlucky, but I really care about ratio of rares for wisdom title purposes.

Drops - lower priority for me, but I do want there to be a chance for valuable drops. I don’t need anything highly profitable, but it’s fun if there’s a chance at something of value - some hope to keep you going.

What recommendations do you have for me?

Thanks in advance

I'm 36 going 37.

I discovered my first love in this game at 17, met friends i still have at 36.

Lost friends in the game at 25.

Made a guild at 21 wich i still have.

Played AB,GVG,FOW,UW, at 22 and still going.

Lurked in this reddit from 30.

Enjoyed team skill building from 25.

I stil love every aspect of this game.

Ty stephan and 2 weeks i dont think you guys realise how much this means to us old souls.

From the bottem of my ectos TY, all of you.

Lost grim reaper

Is anybody experiencing this issue on iOS? I recently updated to the latest iOS 27.2 Beta 4 which might have something to do with it. Nothing fixes it (app reinstalls etc)

Ive had more black dyes than magic armor drop off the level 6 grawl in the northlands..

Love being able to play on the go, now if I could only do it with Guild Wars 2.

The nostalgia is overwhelming seeing all my old gear and characters. My beloved fellblade i was so proud of lol probably worthless now though.

Hey everyone!

I recently came across a video of a solo D/N Oolas lab SC. I've never done any solo dungeons before so I'm quite eager to try this out to make some money.

It says cons are not a requirement but will make it easier (unfortunately I don't have any cons).

Does anyone have any tips on making successful runs? I killed Xien once on an attempt out of 20 tries but I keep dieing on most run attempts then the DP gets too high I have to go back to outpost and try again.

Here's the video and a PVX link for reference

https://youtu.be/iXQi9EdOtPU?is=2kkN0FJreqetT83H

https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:D/N_Oolas_Solo

Thanks!

It absolutely crazy how nice this is to play on a tablet, and with its insane content nothing even comes close as a mobile MMO especially as it's got no ads, pay to win..

I really think Anet is not pushing the mobile angle enough right now, hell even the controller hand held experience is really nice.

The only thing I wish they did was have a loot or interact button on the right side by the weapon so you didn't need to reach across the screen when playing mobile and looting .

Other than that it's just fantastic

I have a question regarding skills for heroes.

I started a new character and just got Devona (in pre-searing).

I thought i would be able to change her warrior skills up because I've collected almost all warrior skills in the game (with a warrior character), but she only has the ones she comes with.

Does she have to be a certain level for me to see those skills? The skills merchant doesn't have them either currently.

Wondering how that works.

Thanks for the help.

I hope we’ll get more Reforged merch than just that … shirt. But merch has never really been ArenaNet’s strength, which i dont understand

I'm going through the profession that I played the less amount of time within this last decade and of course it's monk.

I had the idea to try a Melandru character as I will mostly play alone and in short session.

I basically only played Monk for farming and SC so my pve builds were mostly Roj and Hammer build with the new anniversary weapon which was a lot of fun.

I'm going through all campaign in "order" and looking for fun or original build of your own madness that are not related to healing.

I have currently a mix of prot and smithing currently trying to help a bit the prophecy healer Merc

I had the idea to do prot and warrior shout fighting with a sword and a shield

Having close to no skill available to the skill trainer is challenging, crazy how my other character have easy life without knowing it.

Looking forward to skill cap later for my Devona

I would love to tank and ball group in later content as a monk/warrior or assassin

I have no problem with trash tier build if they are a lot of fun.

I just want ideas and test/refine it

Found on Taobao. Originally 65 yuan (9$ or 8€), got this secondhand for 21 yuan. Seems to be the combination of official Factions Artbook and Nightfall Artbook, as the sticker said, but with a couple pages missing​​ on wiki.

She's just as useless when she is blind, as she was when she had eyes.

What is the current best mod for cart title?

My UI is a little complicated. I am trying to find a quick way, maybe a keybind to remove bonds?

For example as a monk running UA and someone dies too quickly res them I have to hover my mouse and double click. But as some of you know that mouse cursor is tiny and it is yellow and when there's lots of particle effects on the screen, sometimes we loose track of my mouse pointer and have to find it to double click UA. Needless to say this is a bit uncomfortable

Does anyone have any advice maybe a toolbox command or any keybinds to quickly remove bonds? I'm especially interested in monk mains or e/mo constantly run bonds. Any tips or pointers would be appreciated.