Posted July 12, 2020 Greetings Wurmians! Today's Valrei International comes with special reveals and the winners of the server name competition! Besides naming the new lands, we have designated the new cluster as the Northern Freedom Isles, with the existing server cluster renamed to Southern Freedom Isles. What's in a name? And the winners are... *drumroll* Spoiler Congratulations! These two players will go down in history with the ability to brag about naming these new, wild, lands of the Northern Freedom Isles. That's the key! With any great game comes amazing Key art, which is used as promo material, box art, and across social media! The lovely Malena a.k.a. Katspurr has outdone herself in creating this fantastic scene of a troll raid on a Wurmian castle! We asked her to elaborate more on her work as well as share some early concepts: Malena Quote There's something that most games have that Wurm Online has been missing all of these years, namely: Key art. For those who don't know what key art is, it's usually a painting that represents the game, which can then be used in the box art, in social media backgrounds, banners and so on. Even though Wurm Online is nearly 15 years old, it's never actually had any key art, so what better time to finally make one than the Steam launch! We started by sketching out various concepts for what this painting could be, and in the end, the first concept was chosen. Only, instead of nighttime, we switched it to a daytime scene with trolls battling fighters up above with, a sprawling city and harbour below. We hope you get a kick out of seeing familiar things like our trolls from Wurm, represented in a painted format! If you would like to use this as your desktop background, we have you covered! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18WH2AnZEPRDfg4EQAk-KNfSmNegfzZLf?usp=sharing We've seen a few other questions about the launch time and whether a map dump will be available so thought we'd answer them quickly below: Right now we don't have an exact time of day for the launch but expect it to be evening Central European Time. A map dump will not be available upon launch, but an in-game map will be. Target Window Icons Some of the target window icons came out early, and with the old UI looked a little... off. Rest assured, the new UI handles them much better, and we'd love to show off the full set! Check them out below: Wurm Launch Trailer! The launch trailer has been completed and is ready for release leading up to the launch of the game on Steam on the 24th, it's a fantastic trailer, and it even makes ME want to play Wurm! It's going to be amazing so keep your eyes peeled! If you haven't wishlisted Wurm on Steam already, you can do so right here! https://bit.ly/WOSTEAM Wurm keeps moving forward and we're kicking into the final gear in time for the launch on Steam, so hold on tight and keep on Wurming! Regards, Retrograde & the Wurm team 21 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 2 minutes ago, Retrograde said: What's in a name? And the winners are... *drumroll* Hide contents 56 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 Congratulations to the winners. Any information about the 5 or so top names that either were chosen from? I am sure many would be interested to see the creative thoughts of the community. 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 lol target portraits look good tho 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 (edited) Cant wait for people to Rumble about this. Edited July 12, 2020 by Bradcub 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 19 minutes ago, Retrograde said: What's in a name? And the winners are... *drumroll* Reveal hidden contents 17 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 (edited) lol Sorry, but this is not good Edited July 12, 2020 by Ryaanna 18 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 Rumble.. Yikes did someone forget to ward dragon? 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 26 minutes ago, Retrograde said: the existing server cluster renamed to Southern Freedom Isles. Time to polish your sotherner accents y`all! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 Rumble sounds... Very out of place in the Wurm world. 25 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 Can we have another vote please? 12 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 (edited) Wow.. How are we going to abbreviate rumble? "I'm portalling to rum" "I'm going to rub" Edited July 12, 2020 by Monokles 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 Since I didn't provide a name suggestion, I don't feel I have the authority to complain . I am just excited to have a fresh go at a new PVP server with some balance iterations. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 Yea, trash name for PvP server. I say re-vote 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 Those names seem very unusual. Bad PR is good PR though? I suggested Awakening and Resurgence (for the pvp) - these reflect the hope we had for the revival of wurm / PVP I know this is just about names, which don't really matter, but I don't think the words chosen 'mean' anything at all They also don't match the existing server names. Put in a test of "pick the two most different to the rest", I think most people would choose these new ones 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 Rumble is quite awful as a name... 11 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 Those server names sound like some hobby WU servers and not like some professional servers run by a company. 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 Nice pics about trolls doing a raid , a shame that will not true would be interesting it in the game . Rumble well ... no comments. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 whoever voted for rumble.... like honestly, come on there has to be something better than that one 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 2 minutes ago, Zekezor said: Rumble is quite awful as a name... +1 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 I wonder how many people voted for Rumble. Whole Wurm team? Or just one person made pick? 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted July 12, 2020 (edited) Please don't take it the wrong way, but I think the names are bad. Name it something like "Prosperity" and "Vindication", "Pandemonium", "Discord" or whatever. Even "Hearthland" or "Hearth" would be better than "Heartland". I mean it doesn't really sound like anything. EDIT: just forget about voting, please, and choose something good. I didn't even know there was a vote going on, and I bet a lot of players are in the same situation. Edited July 12, 2020 by Idlamn 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites