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Temporary Server MaintenanceApr 4, 2018 - Community AnnouncementsThank you for playing Hounds : The Last Hope. Our server will go under maintenance on 2018 April 18th. Schedule April 18th 0:00 AM ~ 2:00 AM (EST/GMT-5) ※ Please note that during maintenance, the servers will go down temporarily. Thank you. -Hounds Dev Team[Important]Announcement of "Hounds: The Last Hope" Service TerminationJan 28, 2018 - Community AnnouncementsThank you for playing Hounds : The Last Hope. Today, we would like to announce something very important. It is with deep, heavy heart that we must announce the discontinuation of service for Hounds : The Last Hope. We sincerely apologize for being unable to continue the service for this game and we would like to thank you for your continuous love and support. Please refer to the the shcedule below, regarding our game service plans from here on out. 1.Server Shutdown Date: April 29th, 2018 2.New Purchases are no longer available from January 29th, 2018. *Players will be able to play the game and use purchased items until April 29th, 2018. Once again, we would like to express sincere gratitude to those who have enjoyed Hounds : The Last Hope. We are truly grateful for your love and support. Thank you. -Hounds Dev Team[Sever is now open!]Announcement for Temporary MaintenanceFeb 7, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsHello, Thank you for your continued support for Hounds: The Last Hope. We will be conducting a temporary maintenance for a brief moment to reinforce our servers. Schedule 9 February 01:00 AM ~ February 2:00 AM (EST/GMT-5) ※ Please note that our servers will be closed temporarily while in maintenance, and players won't be able to play Hounds : The Last Hope during this time period. 1.Maintenance Details We will be reinforcing our security measures on our servers. While we were not able to respond, we are reading all of the reports and feedbacks from you, and we appreciate it from bottom of our hearts. We will do our best to bring news to you soon. Thank you. Echo[Important]Regarding Bug Exploits and Unfair AdvantagesJan 9, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsHello Houndsers, First of all, a happy new year to all of you. We wish you all the best for the rest of the year. As always, we are doing our best to improve the game via planning various contents, fixing bugs and testing various anti-cheat solutions, there were several, open and anonymous, reports regarding unfair advantages exploiting level glitches and illegal programs. While we are looking into the codes for the illegal program usages, we have acquired solid evidence for such acts, such as video clips and logs; as I have said in the forums, we do not tolerate unfair advantages; and this time, I'm posting this announcement as a proof of that statement. I'm afraid we cannot reveal every detail of the penalty for various reasons, however, we can reveal that as of this moment, we have penalized 1 user who have been using exploits and distributing them actively. The penalty will last for about a week, and if we find that user to be using that exploit even after the penalty ends, we will be penalizing said user further, which will result in a permanent ban in the end. We strongly advise you not to use such exploits, or use external programs to gain such unfair advantages. While we haven't penalized this time, there are couple of more users currently being analyzed. We will take actions towards them, after we have a solid confirmation from our tech team. Thank you. Echo[Patch Released!]Official Announcement Regarding Issues of Certain Item OptionsDec 25, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsEDIT: We have encountered an unexpected technical issue during maintenance; while this was fixed immediately, to make sure that this issue does not cause any trouble in-game, we would like to have an extra hour of maintenance. Thank you very much for your patience. Thank you for enjoying Hounds: The Last Hope. We have received several reports about the issue regarding certain item options (HP, Stamina) on the new armors not applying properly in-game. First of all, we would like to apologize for the inconvenience we have caused with this issue. We have found the source of the problem and prepared a patch that will solve the issue, and will release the patch this Thursday evening. As we would like to make sure that this issue is properly fixed with the hot-fix patch we are going to deploy this Thursday evening, we are planning to conduct a temporary maintenance, to test this issue internally, and to make sure that we don't have to conduct another maintenance and cause inconvenience to the players who are enjoying this game. Below is the detail for the temporary maintenance. Schedule 29 December 00:00 AM ~ 03:00 AM (EST/GMT-5) ※ Please note that our servers will be closed temporarily while in maintenance, and players won't be able to play Hounds : The Last Hope during this time period. Hotfix Details 1. Fixed an issue of certain item options(HP, Stamina) not being applied properly in-game. We will do our best to constantly improve. Again, we would like to apologize for this issue. Thank you for your patience. Regards, Echo[Server Is Now Open!]Emergency Maintenance Patch NoteDec 21, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsHoundsers, First of all, I owe you all an apology for this sudden emergency maintenance. We have completed the maintenance successfuly, and fixed some of the problems we couldn't find when we were testing internally. These are the some of the critical bugs we have fixed for this week's update: 1.Item Parameters Some of the parameters in certain items, including new armors, were totally out of balance, which we have not expected; we have revised them to be more balanced. 2.Level issue We have found a critical issue in certain missions: in certain areas, the enemies weren't able to recognize the players at all; we have fixed such blind spots, as it was not intended. Thank you for your patience and support on this urgent matter. Sincerely, Echo[Package Deployed!]Package of Gratitude Q&AsDec 13, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsEDIT: We have some plan changes regarding the method of distribution. I will edit it once again when it is confirmed 100%. Thank you for your patience. EDIT2: We have a firm plan for distribution of the package and have updated the announcement. Thank you very much for your patience. Houndsers, We have announced yesterday that all houndsers who have purchased our game and DLCs will be provided with a Package of Gratitude. I would like to get into detail of this package in a form of Q&A. Question 1 : What is a Package of Gratitude? Answer : It is a package item to show our gratitude towards houndsers of Steam. Question 2 : Who will get this item? Answer : All houndsers who have bought and played Hounds : The Last Hope on Steam store before the game makes transition to free to play. Question 3 : What exactly is in this item? Answer : 300 P-Weapons Tokens, 300 P-Armors Tokens, and 3 Premium Material Box. Question 4 : What can you do with these items? Answer : After the update, you will be able to create Weapons(Gabriel series) and Armors(Field OPS Specialist series, Brute Force Assault series) which are planned to be released along with the December update. Weapons or Armors might be added on future updates, and you'll be able to use your items to create them as well, if you choose to save them for later. Question 5 : How is it going to be distributed? Answer : We will be sending them via in-game mail. If you have any other questions, leave a comment below: we will do our best to answer them. I hope you stay warm on this freezing winter season :) Regards, Echo [Patch Released!]December Update Patch NotesDec 13, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsEDIT:We have finished our maintenance! Thank you for your patience :) Houndsers, The long awaited December update is almost ready to be released! Here are the details of this month's update, which also includes the maintenance schedule. Schedule 19 December 8:00 PM ~ 20 December 5:00 AM (EST/GMT-5) ※ Please note that our servers will be closed temporarily while in maintenance, and players won't be able to play Hounds : The Last Hope during this time period. Update Contents 1. Hounds will be free to play. For details, please check the special announcement we have made. Special Announcement from the dev team 2. New in-game shop An in-game cash shop will be added to the game. You can access this shop when you are at the village, or at your private room, by clicking the green button on the bottom right of your screen. This special shop will sell various premium items, including various DLCs, such as avatars, equipment-related ingredient items, and other expendable items that will certainly help you along your mission. (※Cash Shop requires microtransactions for it's items.) 3. New Token items Introducing P-Weapons Token & P-Armors Token: they are the new tokens that enables you to forge powerful prototype weapons and armors. While they are available for purchase at the brand-new cash shop, they also can be obtained by combining fragments of these tokens. You can obtain P-Weapons Token Fragments by playing daily missions, and P-Armors Token Fragments by crushing Unique class armors(Tier 2~Tier 4). Collect 5 fragments, and you will earn 1 token by combining them. 4.New Weapons All new "Gabriel" series will be added to the game. These weapons can be forged by using P-Weapons Tokens. 5.New Armors All new "Field OPS Specialist" & "Brute Force Assault" series will be added to the game. These armors can be created by using P-Armors Tokens. 6.New Items Express Time Reducers have been added to the game. You can purchase these time reducers at the in-game cash shop. 6. Update Events Holiday Event (Combine Event - continued from Mid-fall Event) 7. Bugs and Glitches We have fixed couple of level related glitches and bugs. ※ Along with this update, a package of gratitude will be provided to all Houndsers who have purchased the game before this update. We will announce the completion of the maintenance by editing the title of this announcement. Have a great week houndsers, and as always, thank you for your support. Regards, EchoAn Important Announcement From The Dev Team to HoundsersDec 13, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsHoundsers, First of all, I would like to apologize for being under the dark for couple of weeks; as I'm writing this announcement, we are finalizing our update patch and polishing it as much as we can, before we can finally release this giant update we are preparing for you. Thanks to the weeks of hard effort, we now have a firm list of update and contents, which we will announce in a separate announcement. With that said, there is an important news I would like to share with all of you. Starting from December 19th 6 pm PST, Hounds: The Last Hope will switch to free to play. While we have tried our best to maintain the game as it is now, we have decided as such to further enrich the user community and enhance accessibility, by making the base game free to play. By switching to free to play, the following will change: 1. Hounds: The Last Hope will be free to play. 2. All DLC maps will be provided free of charge. 3. All DLCs (weapons, avatars, etc.) at Steam store will be unavailable for purchase, as the base game switches to free to play. 4. This update will not change your DLC items: you will be able to use ALL of the in-game items obtained via DLCs, just like as it is now. It is our top priority that your current DLCs will remain the same after the update. 5. An in-game shop will be implemented to add future DLCs and other useful items. 6. And most importantly, with the exception of avatars and certain items, you will be able to earn future contents (weapons & armors, etc.) completely free. This decision was a very tough one, and was not made lightly; we know that we have price tagged this game and sold them to you. And with this decision, we are aware that many of you might feel disappointed. To make this up to all of you, we are going to provide a package of gratitude to every houndsers who have bought Hounds : The Last Hope, as we release our December update. This package will include in-game items, brand new item tokens and materials, which will be available on the newly implemented shop. With it, you will be able to earn new weapons and armors, and combine it to your liking. And more than anything else, thank you for supporting us throughout the year; we are ever grateful because of your support and having fun playing our game. Your dedication is the main source of energy that fuels us forward, and we are here thanks to you. For that, we would like to express our gratitude from bottom of our hearts, and we hope you enjoy playing Hounds after this big change, as you have until now. Thank you. Sincerely, EchoNew Weekly Login Rewards!Nov 28, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsGreetings, Houndsers, whether you are a rookie or a veteran, we welcome you to another new week of Hounds :D And while this might be familiar to the veteran houndsers, we have a new batch of weekly login rewards! As always, Here are details: Schedule 2016-11-29 ~ 2016-12-05 (EST, GMT -5) Reward Item Tuesday : A-Token (x6) Wednesday : Alloy Material Box (x20) Thursday : U-Token (x40) Friday : Heat-resisting Carbon Alloy Steel (x20) Saturday : A-Token (x6), U-Token (x40) Sunday : Alloy Material Box (x20) Monday : Heat-resisting Carbon Alloy Steel (x20) You can receive these items just by connecting to Hounds; this week, we have prepared the items which will help you on making certain type of item. Which one, you ask? Well, for the veterans, I suppose you already have your answer. As for the rookies, let's just say, try to collect them all through out the week, as it will help you eventually ;) Many of you may know by now that the weekend event wasn't available last week: that is because we are working our best to drop the next update in time. While I cannot address the details just yet, it is a huge update; and I will announce it officially with patch notes and remarks towards the patch, in due time. Stay frosty houndsers, and have a great week :) Regards, EchoNew Weekly Login Rewards!Nov 21, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsGreetings, Houndsers! We have a new batch of weekly login rewards! Spoilers: it's rather simple. Here are details for this week's login rewards. Schedule 2016-11-22 ~ 2016-11-28 (EST, GMT -5) Reward Item Every day, you will receive: Special Upgrade Material Lucky Box (x5) & Special Combine Material Lucky Box (x5) That's quite simple isn't it? Worry not, houndsers, we have other few tricks up our sleeves: and we will reveal them in due time. Stay frosty houndsers, and have a great week :) Regards, EchoWeekend Map Clear Event Has Returned!Nov 18, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsEDIT: Our log indicates that there were no Houndsers who were applicable for the rewards; interesting. If you have indeed cleared the prison mission for more than three times, contact us by commenting below; we will reconfirm the logs. I promise I'll bring some other exciting type of event next weekend. untill then, stay cool houndsers :) Greetings, Houndsers! Weekend has returned! So let us bring weekend map clear event back to life, shall we? Here are the details of this weekend's map clear event! Special Mission - Prison Clear Event Complete the special mission Prison, and recieve rewards! Schedule 2016-11-18 ~ 2016-11-21 (EST, GMT -5) Rewards Clear 3 times and more Upgraded Carapace Extract (x15) Clear 5 times and more U-Token (x20) Your reward items will be given no later than November 23rd. Have a nice weekend Houndsers and I'll make sure to bring some news with me in coming days :) Best regards, EchoWeekly Login Rewards!Nov 14, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsEdit: Apologies on the typo; Since next Monday is actually on 21st of November, I have revised the schedule date. Houndsers, We have a new batch of login rewards ready for you to redeem and use along your mission! Here are the details: Schedule 2016-11-15 ~ 2016-11-21 (EST, GMT -5) Reward Item Tuesday : Special Upgrade Material Lucky Box (x5) Wednesday : Special Lucky Box (x5) Thursday : L-Token (x5) Friday : Random Option Change Item (x5), Premium Gold Bar Random Box (x5) Saturday : Instant Resurrection Item (x5), Premium Gold Bar Random Box (x5) Sunday : Special Lucky Box (x5) Monday : Special Upgrade Material Lucky Box (x5) Hope you enjoy Hounds through out the week! Regards, Echo[Rewards Given!]Weekend Speedrun Event is Back!Nov 11, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsEDIT:We have recieved reports of missing rewards from certain users, and confirmed from the logs that some of the mails were stuck from being sent to them. Please check your mail box again for your rewards and if you haven't received your rewards still, please leave a comment with your exact character name, and we will check the logs to re-confirm. Thank you for your patience. Greetings Houndsers! The long awaited weekend is back! I think you have enjoyed this new type of event; so let us continue with the speed event! However; there would be no fun in it if things were the same, right? To encourage your participation, I have added something more on the prize..... So, here are details of this weekend's speedrun event! Weekend Mission Speedrun Event Clear the appointed mission within specified time, and gain rewards! Schedule 2016-11-11 ~ 2016-11-14 (EST, GMT -5) The Mission Special Mission - Prison Complete the special mission Prison within specified time, and recieve rewards! Rewards Completing the mission within 15 minutes: Tool Box (x15) Completing the mission within 12 minutes: Alloy Material Box (x15) Completing the mission within 11 minutes and 20 seconds : U-token (x30) You will receive your rewards no later than November 15th. Again, remember: you will be receiving your reward based on your best record. So feel free to join the challenge as much as you want :) Enjoy the weekend speedrun event Houndsers, and have a great weekend! Kind regards, EchoWeekly Login Rewards!Nov 7, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsHoundsers, we have renewed our batch of login rewards: The boxes are back for this week! Here are details for this week's login rewards. Schedule 2016-11-08 ~ 2016-11-14 (EST, GMT -5) Reward Item Tuesday : Special Combine Material Lucky Box (x5) Wednesday : Special Upgrade Material Lucky Box (x5) Thursday : Special Lucky Box (x5) Friday : Special Combine Material Lucky Box (x5) Saturday : Gold Bar (100,000) , L-token (x5) Sunday : Special Upgrade Material Lucky Box (x5) Monday : Special Lucky Box (x5) Remember, the weekly rewards are offered for only one week, so don't miss your chance to receive them! Hope these rewards help you along your journey on Hounds :) Regards, Echo[Rewards Given!] Weekend Mission Speedrun Event!Nov 4, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsGreetings Houndsers! Expecting a fun weekend? I'm aware of the fact that you are enjoying our new mission; many of you also participated in the weekend map clear event, and have done fabulous jobs out there :) So, how about we spice things up a bit, and make this weekend's event a speedrun event? Here are details of this weekend's speedrun event! Weekend Mission Speedrun Event Clear the appointed mission within specified time, and gain rewards! Schedule 2016-11-04 ~ 2016-11-07 (EST, GMT -5) The Mission Special Mission - Prison Complete the special mission Prison within specified time, and recieve rewards! Rewards Completing the mission within 15 minutes: Super Polymer Bioactive Resin (x15) Completing the mission within 12 minutes: Alloy Material Box (x20) You will receive your rewards no later than November 8th. One thing to remember: you will be receiving your reward based on your best record. So feel free to join the challenge as much as you want :) Enjoy the weekend speedrun event Houndsers, and have a great weekend! Kind regards, EchoStatus Update Regarding Last Week's Map Clear EventNov 2, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsHello Houndsers, Echo here: I am posting an announcement regarding the recent issue that occured during last weekend. As we have notified you on the announcement, there was a critical issue on our server logging system, preventing us to send rewards in time. Fortunately, our tech folks have fixed the issue on our systems and we managed to send the rewards to the participants moments before this announcement. As part of the team, I would like to apologize for the issue and late response. We will do our best not to repeat the issue again. We would also like to hear feedbacks or any kind of issue regarding this event(that does not mean we wouldn't like to hear other kinds of feedbacks!); so feel free to write comments below or contact us through direct messages. We will do our best to apply your feedbacks. Again, sincere apologies for the issue, and thank you for your patience. Regards, EchoWeekly Login RewardsNov 1, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsAs we move forward from the festivities of the moonlit night, we have renewed the weekly login rewards! Here are details for this week's login rewards. Schedule 2016-11-01 ~ 2016-11-07 (EST, GMT -5) Reward Item Tuesday : L-Token (x7), Gold Bar 50,000 (x1) Wednesday : A-Token (x7), Gold Bar 50,000 (x1) Thursday : Shape Derivative Additives (x15), Gold Bar 50,000 (x1) Friday : L-Token (x7), Gold Bar 50,000 (x1) Saturday : L-Token (x7), A-Token (x7), Gold Bar 50,000 (x1) Sunday : Shape Derivative Additives (x15), Gold Bar 50,000 (x1) Monday : A-Token (x7), Gold Bar 50,000 (x1) Remember, the weekly rewards are offered for only one week, so don't miss your chance to receive them! Let us carry on with the hype and have fun with hounds! Regards, EchoHalloween is Here!Oct 30, 2016 - Community Announcements♪Boys and girls of every age, Wouldn't you like to see something strange? Come with us and you will see, this, our sale of Ha-llo-ween!♪ Greetings Houndsers, and HAPPY HALLOWEEN! X) (....And yes, bear with me here, I had to make that Tim Burton reference XD) To celebrate, we have joined the grand Halloween sale and put all kinds of things on sale! As you can already see at the store page, Hounds: The Last Hope and DLCs will be offered with discounts up to 75%! The grand sale will last until 1st of November 10:00 am PDT, so don't miss your chance! Oh, and let us not forget the Halloween spirit by preparing a pumpkin head. Don't have one? No worries, dear houndsers, we've got you covered. Get your selves a Halloween Pumpkin Head just by connecting to Hounds: The Last Hope on Halloween! Consider that as our treat for this Halloween :) Enjoy the night of Halloween houndsers! :D Regards, Echo[Rewrads Given!]Weekend Map Clear Event (Revised)Oct 28, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsEdit by Echo: Greetings, Echo here: we tried our best to send out all the rewards to the participants today; however there was a critical issue on our server logging system, so we were unable to send the rewards today. We are currently looking for a solution and will report back to you via separate announcement ASAP. We sincerely apologize for this issue and will make it up to you guys some how. There was a mistake on the announcement for difficulty of Prison mission, and now it is revised. We are sorry for the confusion, and as an apologize users will receive 5 more items for each clear rewards. Once again, we are very sorry, and we hope you have a happy Halloween with Hounds . :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weekend map clear event is back! Here are details of this weekend clear event. Special Mission - Prison Clear Event Clear the special mission Prison, and recieve rewards! Schedule 2016-10-28 ~ 2016-10-31 (EST, GMT -5) Rewards Clear 3 times and more Upgraded Carapace Extract (x15) Clear 5 times and more Super Polymer Bioactive Resin (x15) Reward items will be given by November 1st. We hope you enjoy Hounds throughout the weekend. Have a gooood weekend! :)
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