Mirage: Arcane Warfare Update Adds Bots, New Maps

Mirage: Arcane Warfare, the multiplayer wizarding game from the creators of Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, just got it’s first hefty update. It’s so big it’s even got a name – Gladiator. It adds a couple of new maps, some new abilities, but most importantly, AI controlled players.

The bots are especially important here, since the game has a depressingly small player base. It didn’t manage to take off the same way their previous brainchild did, so even the regulars can have a tough time finding people to play with. Thankfully, bots will now fill empty spaces on a server, moving aside when actual players appear. Here’s the full changelog:

• 2 Arena maps: The Pit and Old Arena
• Bot assisted servers
  • Bots will auto-populate the server once a player spawns in
  • Bots leave/join as players leave/join to max out the player count
  • Bots don’t prevent players from selecting a class if a class limit is set on the server
  • Bots are removed at end of each match
• 3 Abilities
  • Alchemancer Depth Charge: Release a series of explosions in front of you
  • Vypress Pincer – A Brutal melee attack that takes a long time to wind-up but delivers a crushing blow to a single enemy
  • Vigilist Surround Parry – Put up a barrier around you that stops all incoming attacks
• Taurant Sword: a new sword + multiple skins
• 10 new languages: French, Italian, Spanish, German, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian (joining US English and Russian)
• Balance Updates:
  • Reduced Taurant Health
  • Reduced Vigilist melee damage
• High level gradients: 2 new colour gradients (Abyssal and Radiant) unlocking at ranks 70 and 80
• Duplicate items are no longer being granted
• Duplicate items are no longer shown in inventory
• Indicators for new items on customization screen
• Lore video on game launch (yes, it’s skippable)
• 3D character in class selection screen
• Score-based autobalance implemented

• Various crash fixes for servers and clients
• Removed some duplicate items in the config screen
• Fixed sorting function on server browser
• Fixed item icons & thumbnails for customization menus and item drops
• Fixed Steam avatars not showing
• Vigilist Spear now shows correct icon in Killfeed
• Fixed autobalancer from preventing new players from joining while autobalance was in progress