Olympus Updates

Performance, UI & Fixes Update

This update focuses on faster loading, smoother navigation, UI improvements, and several gameplay fixes.

Performance & UI

• Improved overall page loading and in-game navigation performance.

• Optimized map and background images to reduce loading times.

• Updated the mini-map HUD and corrected its image sizing.

• Improved combat colors, labels, and text readability.

• Fixed the inventory paperdoll display and enlarged item tooltips.

• Added additional site security improvements.

Gameplay & Quality of Life

• Added quick teleport controls to the Kingdoms page for players with the Teleport Rune.

• Players can save up to three favorite teleport locations or travel directly to coordinates.

• Fixed Auto Combat losing its selected enemy between quick victories.

• Using /rc now properly stops Auto Combat before teleporting.

• Fixed several kingdom combat, building, fortification, and hourly attack issues.

• Added realm announcements when Aegisbreaker, Aegisward, or the complete Aegis set is equipped.

• Fixed quest creation defaults and reward settings.

• Improved Silver transaction tracking and economy reporting.

• Fixed an issue that could incorrectly return a tournament access error outside tournaments.

• Improved chat reliability across messages, announcements, combat notices, and other game systems.

More performance work and general polish will continue as we move forward.

• Improved auto-combat speed.

• Fixed beast spawn rates, ambush messages, and several beast loot issues.

• Improved inventory labels for weapons, armor, and spells.

• Fixed selling materials on the Auction House.

• Increased the maximum Auction House listing price to 5 billion gold.

• Corrected monster damage scaling across different planes.

• Added several performance improvements and smaller bug fixes.

Olympus Awakened Development Update

The forge has been burning hot this week, and Olympus just got a fresh pair of sandals.

Behind the scenes we've continued improving performance, stability, and real-time gameplay while laying the foundation for some major upcoming features.

Highlights

• The public website has received a fresh overhaul, making it easier for new heroes to discover Olympus Awakened and jump into the adventure.

• Real-time systems continue to expand. Chat, marketplace activity, beast spawns, player movement, PvP, and player presence are all moving away from heavy polling toward a much more responsive experience.

• Tournament improvements have continued with better lobby handling, player teleports, rewards, and more reliable tournament progression from start to finish.

• Our Laravel migration keeps rolling forward. More inventory, combat, crafting, shops, quests, equipment, and related systems have now been moved over to the new architecture, giving us a much stronger foundation for future content.

• A long list of bugs and quality-of-life improvements have been addressed across combat, quests, crafting, marketplace escrow, navigation, avatars, HUD performance, starter equipment, and more.

• The admin toolkit continues to grow, giving us better control over events, items, player management, account upgrades, world configuration, and future content releases.

We're making steady progress every week, and while not every change is flashy, each one brings Olympus Awakened closer to the experience we've envisioned from the beginning.

Thank you to everyone continuing to test, report bugs, and provide feedback. It genuinely helps shape the future of the game.

• Speed of auto combat and auto combat lite have been increased.

  • Auto combat lite - 2000ms from 3000ms

  • Auto combat module - 1000ms from 1250ms

• Refined the tournament play-by-play announcements for Best-of-3 Finals.

• Moved all socketing functionality to the Forge under the Crafting tab. Players can now add sockets, socket artifacts into equipment, and remove socketed artifacts from a single, centralized location.

• Various UI improvements and quality-of-life adjustments throughout the game for a smoother experience.

• Kingdom Interest message patches
  
  

New Feature: Equipment Tempering

A new equipment progression system has arrived. Eligible weapons, armor, accessories, and spells can now be tempered with special Temper Stones to increase their star level and boost their item stats.

Tempering is available from the Crafting Hall under the new Tempering tab. From there, you can view eligible equipment, see current and next-star stat bonuses, craft Temper Stones from fragments, and upgrade your gear in one focused place.

Temper Stone fragments are earned by salvaging eligible equipment. Salvaged Legendary gear can grant Legendary Fragments, and salvaged Mythic gear can grant Mythic Fragments. Once you have enough fragments, you can craft Temper Stones:

• Legendary Temper Stone: 500 Legendary Fragments

• Mythic Temper Stone: 250 Mythic Fragments

Artifacts cannot be tempered.

Start salvaging, craft your Temper Stones, and push your favorite gear even further.

Tournament Improvements

• Added support for Best 2 of 3 Tournament Finals.

• Finalists now need multiple wins before a champion is declared.

• Improved the final tournament flow so championship matches feel more competitive and are less dependent on a single fight outcome.

• Cleaned up finals chat messages to make each round and result easier to follow.

We're excited to release Version 1.0.2, bringing another round of performance improvements, bug fixes, and quality-of-life updates. Thank you to everyone who has been reporting issues and sharing feedback—it continues to help shape the game.

Performance & Infrastructure

• Fixed server time synchronization issues.

• Implemented Redis caching to improve overall game performance and responsiveness.

• Added backend optimizations to improve PvP performance.

Crafting

• Added a Craft Max option, allowing players to craft the maximum number of items possible based on the materials currently available in their pouch.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed several issues affecting Account Upgrades.

• Addressed various backend bugs to improve overall stability.

User Interface

• Made several minor UI adjustments and visual improvements throughout the game.

Administration

• Added new administrative tools and workflow improvements to better support game management.

This update continues our focus on improving performance, stability, and the overall player experience. We appreciate everyone's continued support, bug reports, and feedback as we work toward future content updates.

Thank you for playing, and we'll see you in-game!

This update focuses on improving stability and resolving several issues reported following the launch of Version 1.0.0.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue with Ascension Crafting involving the Material Pouch and Craft Queue.

• Fixed multiple Kingdom settlement and building issues.

• Fixed issues affecting Artifacts.

• Fixed the Stats view in Settings to correctly display Raw and Modified stats.

• Fixed an issue where equipping and unequipping items in the Inventory could behave incorrectly.

• Fixed Crafting issues with queue timers.

• Fixed Material Pouch images.

• Inventory comparison view working again.

Thank you to everyone who has been reporting bugs and providing feedback. Your reports are helping us improve the game, and we'll continue releasing updates as we work through the remaining issues.

Today marks a major milestone for the game: we have officially migrated to Laravel and are starting fresh with version 1.0.0.

This update is less about one single feature and more about building a stronger foundation for everything coming next. The old legacy system served its purpose, but moving forward we now have a cleaner, more stable, and more scalable codebase to build on.

With this fresh start, we are also resetting the news feed. Older updates will remain part of the game’s history, but from this point forward, news posts will focus on the current version of the game and future development.

What this means going forward:

• Cleaner development structure

• Better long-term stability

• Faster feature development

• Easier balancing and bug fixing

• A clear version history starting at 1.0.0

Thank you to everyone who has played, tested, reported bugs, and helped shape the game so far. This is the beginning of a new chapter, and we are excited for what comes next.

Version 1.0.0 is live.