Hellgate: London v1.5 Korean Patch Details

HanbitSoft fired over a press release this morning announcing some preliminary details about their v1.5 patch for the Korean version of Hellgate: London. Essentially, they’re adding an auction house, achievements, item linking, and everything else that was going to be a part of Flagship Studios’ Abyss Chronicles update.

HanbitSoft Reveals 1.5 Patch Details of Hellgate: London
Seoul, Korea March 16th, 2009 HanbitSoft Inc. announced today that the company is revealing 1.5 patch details of Hellgate: London, an online action RPG developed by Redbana US Studio, every week through the game’s Korean official website.
HanbitSoft and developers in Redbana has been preparing 1.5 patch since last year, as soon as the developing crew had been formed. It is planned to be an extensive update to reinforce Hellgate’s reputation. HanbitSoft announcing that the company will be posting the patch details in weekly basis suggests that the update date is getting close.
HanbitSoft posted the general introduction of 1.5 patch on March 6th through Hellgate’s official website, and mentioned that there will be Mode Merger, Consignment House, and various kinds of PvP features, etc. On March 13th, the company revealed parts of the patch contents in details: Mode Merger, Achievement Reward System, Instance Swtiching and Item Linking.
After 1.5 patch, all modes will be merged. In current Hellgate, players play either in Normal Mode or Elite Mode, but later on, the two modes will be combined and all players will be playing the game together. Players who are playing in Elite Mode will be able to keep the Elite mark next to their names, and granted with special titles.
Achievement Reward System is a system that rewards the players who accomplish the challenge achievements, with ‘˜- + To all attributes’, ‘˜Health injectors’ and etc. Instance Switching will also be added for easier channel shift. Instance Switching is designed with simple User Interface, so that any player can easily transfer to the place where the player he wants to play with is. Ultimately, it will also strengthen the community by providing convenient system for more active interactions between players. With Item Linking, players can link their items to chatting window, and show off their luxury items. It will make the item trade a lot easier.
HanbitSoft will be revealing more details on rest of 1.5 patch contents step by step every week through Hellgate’s Korean official website.
***HanbitSoft has any and all rights to distribute and service Hellgate:London
in South Korea and certain part of Asia excluding Japan.***
About HanbitSoft
HanbitSoft Inc. is one of the largest online game publishers in Korea as well as in Asia. HanbitSoft has continuously invested in developing and publishing excellent and promising online games. HanbitSoft has broad portfolio of online games ranging from casual games to high-end MMORPG’s, either developed in-house or by external development studios such as Joy Impact (WYD and upcoming MMORPG AIKA) IMC Games (Granado Espada), etc. HanbitSoft games have reached out to more than 40 countries including Europe and Brazil and it is focusing on pioneering overseas online game markets in an effort to be a (global leading publisher.) For more information, contact Janelle HA at hBonkiE@hanbitsoft.co.kr

Maybe someday they’ll obtain the rights to update the US version, too.