**Event:**
A new character event has just begun featuring Bryce (AKA Nightstorm)! Complete objectives to unlock her and help the community with the global objective to earn powerful rewards!

The event ends on March 4th!

Enjoy!

**Event:**
A new crafting event celebrating Valentine has just begun featuring Holly, The Rebel Fighter! Collect ingredients and craft her along with powerful exclusive items!

Gretta also joins the fight!

Special exclusive promo gachas will be available for the duration of the event.

The event ends on February 24th, 2020.

Enjoy!

**Features:**
- A speed up button has been added for combat. You can now select x1, x2 and x4 speeds for your grinding needs!
- A Boss Ingredient daily crafting bag has been added to the shop. Just like for the crafting events, this is only available once a day.
- A pause button has been added for sex scene animations.
- The max Barracks level is now 11.
- Boss Campaign teams are now saved separately from your regular campaign teams.
- New ultimate items for some of the more recent maidens have been added to the Boss Crafting.


**Bug Fixes**
- Fixed an issue where the XP boost would open in the gacha and display a white square instead.
- Fixed a missing image for Florence in the gallery.
- Fixed an issue where the normal and hard modes sometimes both appeared selected at the same time.
- Fixed Sumiko and Brianna not appearing in the gallery.
- Fixed an issue where using set items with increased item drop rate chance would not work as intended if the item's drop rate reached 100%.
- Fixed inconsistencies in the names of maiden-only items vs their ultimate versions.
- Fixed 41 other issues related to upcoming content.

Hey everyone!

To celebrate Valentine, we've enabled the following:
- Valentine Promo Gacha.
- 50% off special animated scenes.
- 3x normal daily rewards for the month of February.

Look forward to our Valentine Crafting Event coming on Wednesday featuring Holly and Gretta!

An Infinite Energy weekend has just begun! The event will last until Monday at around 11AM Eastern.

For the duration of the event, we've made the Boss Ingredient promo gacha available.

Enjoy the weekend!

**Event:**
A new character event has just begun featuring Felicity, The Science Gal! Complete your personal objectives to unlock her and help the community complete the global objective to earn additional rewards!

The event ends on February 5th!

**Bug Fixes**
- Fixed an occasional crash when opening the VIP tab.
- Fixed an issue where Annie was not appearing in the maiden list for some people.
- Fixed debug text descriptions for boss campaign ingredrients.
- Fixed an infinite loading issue with Florence's scenes.
- Fixed an issue with the Have Fun? trophy where you could claim the reward each day. (Sorry!)
- Fixed the skill icon art not displaying properly for several maidens.
- Fixed an issue where Lexi appeared with clothes on in every scene.
- Fixed an issue where playing two of Lexi's scenes back to back would cause the second scene to freeze.
- Made significant improvements to performance when loading the Boss Craft panel after a fresh cache clear.
- Brianna and Sumiko should now properly appear in the Gallery.
- Fixed 32 other issues related to upcoming content.

Hey everyone!

The Crystal Maidens team hopes you had fun holidays and a good 2019 year.

I thought players would like to know what our plans are for 2020, what we're working on and what you can expect.

Unfortunately I cannot provide dates, but know that we're trying to get this all done in a reasonable amount of time without impacting our release of events and maidens every 2 weeks.


Tutorial
After reading through a lot of your feedback, it has become clear to us that the onboarding of new players could use some improvements.

As such, we're redesigning our tutorial to better explain the core mechanics of the game and help make the transition towards the more complex mechanics easier.

Passives and Set Bonuses
While we want to avoid making maidens completely useless at a competitive level, we agree that legendary and exclusive maidens should feel a little more "special".

We're currently working on introducing more passives similar to Sumiko and Astrid that really help define their archetype.

Additionally, we're working on creating new set bonuses that can be used for either set items or ultimate items. The intent here is to broaden the available strategies and help you build highly customized teams of maidens.

PvP Balance Pass
The highly anticipated balance pass... If only you guys knew how much we wanted to get this ready in time for our massive Christmas release! The truth is, after looking at our upcoming passives and set bonuses/ultimate items, it didn't really make sense to make the balance pass first. It would have inevitably required another pass immediately after.

Once the passives and set bonuses are finalized, we'll be completing the balance pass and try our best to create a real identity for each maiden. This will impact the Boss Campaign as well.

If you thought Litza wasn't a real one punch girl, just wait and see ;)

Limit Break
Some of you may be familiar with this mechanic from playing other games. As announced when we released the Boss Campaign, the later levels and tiers were purposely impossible to complete for even our best players. This was because we knew we wanted to introduce an interesting way to increase the power of your favorite maidens.

We're currently working on a system that allows you to break the level limit of a maiden once she reaches level 90. We're exploring different avenues to bring this feature to a place where we're comfortable releasing it and things are still very much subject to change. Things like a new special item slot are on the table.

New Elements
In order to create new counterplay as well as more design possibilities for us, we'll be introducing two new elements. Note that some existing maidens may end up getting their elements changed once this is released.

Pause Button for Animations
While the animations were generally well received, some players prefer to continue to watch the scenes with no animations.

We're currently finalizing a pause feature.

Lore
You may have already noticed that we're currently trying to solidify "factions". Agatis, time travelers, our upcoming lesbian island, sky pirates, etc.

Lore may not be for everyone, but it truly helps us define a maiden. Her attitude, clothes, weapons and everything in between.

We've made changes to how we approach the lore of events and maidens to provide you guys with at the very least an interesting read that makes you that much more engaged with the maidens.





We sincerely thank you for continuing to support our game. Our team is small and releasing content every two weeks is not easy! We understand there are bugs that creep up every now and then and we're very appreciative of you guys sticking around. 2019 was a great year for us and we want 2020 to be even better so we're stepping up our game!

We hope you're excited for the upcoming changes!

**Event:**
A new crafting event has just begun featuring Brianna, The Dragon Queen! Complete levels, collect ingredients and craft new powerful items and sets!

Sumiko, The Ice Spirit also joins the fight and will be available in the event gacha!

This event ends on January 29th, 2020.

**Balance:**
- Reduced Mercy’s basic attack damage slightly.

**Animations**
Due to popular request, we are currently working on a pause system to allow you to pause animations. This feature should be completed soon.

**Bug Fixes**
- Fixed inconsistencies between ultimate items and their original legendary forms.
- Fixed an issue with the Have Fun? achievement not registering logins after the first day.
- Fixed a bug where the fight would start in PvP even if you did not place maidens when you left the game idle for a few minutes.
- Fixed a sizing issue with the screen blackout effect when viewing the Extra Time tab in a level.
- Fixed a spelling issue in the new animated scene.
- Fixed an issue where all event scenes were marked as Scene 0 in the gallery.
- Fixed SFX issues in the Boss Craft panel.
- Fixed 41 other issues related to upcoming content.

Starting now and until January 13th, all boss campaign maps are available. Additionally, you'll get 2x the usual number of daily attempts!

The promo gacha for boss ingredients and attempts will also be available throughout the event.

We hope you had good practice over the holidays and will enjoy the event!

Look forward to the upcoming crafting event next Wednesday featuring two new maidens. One of which is sure to change how you go about choosing your items!



Bug Fix:
- Fixed Annie's Ultimate Blood Necklace. It now properly grants dodge instead of crit.

**Event:**
A new crafting event has just begun featuring Jane Doe, the Bambi Bimbo! This event will last a little longer than usual to last throughout the holidays. Complete levels, collect ingredients and craft powerful maidens and items!

Nicole also joins the fight and will be available in the event gacha.

This event ends on January 8th 2020.

**Features:**

**Boss Campaign**
The Epic Boss Campaign has finally arrived! This feature introduces a new campaign that consists of 21 levels each with 20 tiers for a total of 420 tiers to complete.

Each tier provides more and more of the resources you'll need to craft exclusive maidens, set items and the new **Ultimate Items**! Note that high tier maps are not easy to complete. Some may even be impossible to many of you. Later tiers, impossible for everyone.

These levels do not use energy. Instead they use an "attempt" system which refreshes every day. 3 different levels are unlocked each day and each player gets 10 attempts per day.

This feature is meant to be a true end game feature that allows for growth, accounts for our future plans for the world of Crystal Maidens and accounts for the highly anticipated Maiden Balance Pass which will introduce powerful new passive abilities and a rebalance of many maidens.

We sincerely hope you'll enjoy this feature as our small team has put a lot of time and effort into getting it to you in time for Christmas. We're looking forward to your feedback so be sure to share!

**Animations**

Animations are finally here! The vast majority of maidens have had their standing idle images animated. Most sex scenes have also been animated. 1 frame for common, rare and epic maidens. All 3 frames for legendaries and guardians.

Note that maidens who came out fairly recently are not animated yet, but will be animated very early in the new year. Some old maidens may also be missing a few animations as those were not quite ready. We're looking forward to feedback. A large release like this is bound to come with bugs here and there and we intend to fix animation bugs as soon as we get them. Let us know on Steam or Discord what you think!

**Special Scene**
A new animated scene showing Shan and Hikaru getting their well deserved attention from our protagonist is now available in the Gallery! This scene has been drawn by a new artist and has been trained by our in-house artist himself! We hope you'll like it as much as we do!

**Sale**
For the duration of the holidays, all gem purchases from the store will grant a 30% bonus.

**Balance**
- Reduced Katsumi's damage slightly.
- Reduced Katsumi's splash radius (this was very negatively impacting the balance of the Boss Campaign).

**Bug Fixes**
- Fixed 114 issues related to the boss campaign, animations and the crafting event.

Event:
A Boss Rush event has just begun in order to prepare you for the upcoming release of the Boss Campaign on December 17th!

The event will last until the release of the new campaign. This is your chance to farm the items and coins you need to face the highly difficult monsters that are coming.

About next release

Boss Campaign
Next release will introduce a new campaign that consists of 21 levels each with 20 tiers for a total of 420 tiers to complete.

Each tier provides more and more of the resources you'll need to craft exclusive maidens, set items and the new Ultimate Items! Note that high tier maps are not easy to complete. Some may even be impossible to many of you. Later tiers, impossible for everyone.

These levels do not use energy. Instead they use an "attempt" system which refreshes every day. 3 different levels are unlocked each day and each player gets 10 attempts per day.

Event
Alongside the Boss Campaign, we'll also be releasing the Christmas Crafting Event featuring two new maidens!

Feature
Last but not least, animations are finally here! The vast majority of maidens will have their standing idle images animated. Most sex scenes have also been animated. 1 frame for common, rare and epic maidens. All 3 frames for legendaries and guardians.

Note that maidens who came out fairly recently are not animated yet, but will be animated very early in the new year. Some old maidens may also be missing a few animations as those were not quite ready. We're looking forward to feedback. A large release like this is bound to come with bugs here and there and we intend to fix animation bugs as soon as we get them. Let us know on Steam or Discord what you think!

Sale
For the duration of the holidays, all gem purchases from the store will grant a 30% bonus.