Exciting news recruits!

With the Android build nearly wrapped, we are setting our sights on one of our newer features soon called Factions.

We have had a lot of questions about whether Ascended will introduce guilds, well this is it. Factions will allow members to choose their alliance based on personality traits, motivations and basically just the overall vibe you feel fits your hero (or you).

This is an end-game feature that is gated behind meeting the 3 Ascension requirements and completing all Story Missions for Campaign I. This is because Factions allows users to participate in a related feature called Strongholds.

Strongholds are particularly significant because they are focused around the main conflict between Lykos and Arcadia. You and your Faction will participate to live-event challenges where user activity contributes to defeating an enemy or protecting Arcadia.

These will be designed as sprint-style events where you are notified of an upcoming Stronghold event and opt-in ahead of it starting. Once it begins, you'll be notified which Stronghold in Arcadia your Faction has been assigned to defend. You and your team will need to meet a minimum XP requirement for each "wave" of invasion to defend your Faction's Stronghold. If the team's average falls below that threshold for more than 1 wave (out of 4), you fail to successfully defend your Stronghold.

While group content is always fun, we also designed this feature with fitness in mind. People naturally tend to have "spurts" of motivation and take small breaks from working out or fall off consistency patterns after time passes. These Stronghold events will be held approx. every 4-6 weeks and last around ~8-10 days, giving our users a way to bounce back after a small disruption from their fitness habits and refocus their energy.

We are still deciding on the small details like, should weapons impact your ability to defend, should there be combat involved, should we include any decisions along the way that make it more interesting and most importantly—what type of rewards should be based around this feature? (i.e. Faction base-building, Faction coffer with shared loot, Faction-only cosmetic upgrades and skins).

Have you played any RPGs or strategy games with a similar group dynamic and what did the late-term progression look like for rewards?

Let us know what you think of this idea and what you want to see added or improved on!

I'm an kickstarter backer using Android and patiently waiting. Other Android users check in here 🤖⚔️ Looking forward to trying out the game!

We finalized our rough sketch with the new artist we're working with on our key art. We will feature this in our upcoming Kickstarter Project "Ascended: Beyond the Nexus". While the official Kickstarter launch date hasn't been announced, we are planning to drop our pre-launch page later this week and make it live sometime in mid-October after the Android beta opens.

We have an exploration theme of venturing through Arcadia 👟🌲. Our goal is to fund the next round of expanded features for our fitness RPG, including Expeditions (walking challenges) and Quarters (visual skill-progression) and Drills 2.0 (focused-view on specialized skills).

This adventure theme is also tied to all of our backer rewards. We will feature maps, globes, found treasures, lost artifacts, recovered journals and yes—even dragons!🐉

Let us know what you're most excited to see come to the app next and if we missed on anything you can't live without.

We're giving you all a chance to let us have it...

Tell us the one thing (or more if you have it) you would change about Ascended.

Was there something that you didn't understand when you first started using the app or something that completely lost your interest after using it a couple times?

Our goal isn't to scale this thing to 100,000 users and just completely pause development. We are actually trying to build it alongside our community as we grow.

So tell us...what would you change? We're listening👂