Welcome again, survivors!

We are ready to introduce the new Open Alpha Patch 0.8.1. We have been working on the performance of the game, as well as on adding some features, on character balancing and on some small improvements in all our maps.

The changes in this new build include:

• Video options menu
  
• Added texture streaming to improve loading performance

Khärn: He needed a minor tweak to its basic attacks as the combination of multiple Khärns in LTS modes were too powerful. The damage reduced was compensated with an improvement of his Dash Attacks, that are now more effective. We are aware that this may affect duels more than we intended, will keep tracking match results and improve it over the coming builds.

• Basic Attacks damages reduced to 55/55/75 from 60/60/75
  
• First Basic Attack Impact changed to Medium from Hard
  
• Basic Dash Attack damage reduced to 50 from 55
  
• Specialized Dash Attack damage reduced to 55 from 60
  
• Solved a problem that made the Dash Attack to not connect with the enemy

Shinse: We detected a systematic usage of the sprint attack that wasn't giving much window to counterplay to other players. To strengthen her high risk high reward mechanics we want to move that focus back to her basic and specialized attacks. Most changes influence the penalization caused by impacts, allowing for a more combo focused attacks instead of getting in and out. Given her high skill cap we will be having a look at her performance.

• Sprint Attack Damage reduced to 65 from 75
  
• Basic Attack Damages adjusted to 50/50/60 from 55/45/60
  
• Specialized Attacks Impact improved to Medium from Light

Tamvaasa: We wanted the Vilkai Song to be more interesting making it harder to use in team based game modes and gives some reaction time when playing duels.

• Activation of Vilkai Song is now delayed by 66ms
  
• Time between cooldown consumption and actual effect activation has been increased giving more time for enemies to stop the skill before activation

Overall / Game Mode

• Added Specific Balance modifications for Game Mode Duel: Heals/Regenerations halved in terms of effectivity

• “Gâo-Di - Temple of the Zem” map performance
  
• “Kilma - Blut at the Lava Coliseum” map performance
  
• “Jaarvi - The Circle of Axes” map performance
  
• “Coliseum Tutorial” map performance
  
• General textures

• Social: Improved the reception of friend requests
  
• Social: When joining in a match, sometimes you could see the conversation written in party chat, in the in-game one
  
• Social: Fixed the fact that you couldn’t invite a player which is already playing to a party
  
• Account: Fixed crash while loading session
  
• Account: Fixed problems with parties while changing the region
  
• Menu: Fixed a visual glitch where some character parts were not completely loaded
  
• Glyph system wasn’t being updated when changing bindings
  
• HUD skills when changing bindings of special skills to some key on numeric keyboard

See you on the battlefield,

The Skara Team

They went down from the mountain
Like lava
They spread like fire
And not even all folkin
were able to save Kornit.

[Excerpted from The lament of the vilkaitith - Tamvaasa Song]

Dawn on the battlefield has left a trail of dead bodies in the lands of Kornit. The Khärn, commanded by Bajheera, managed to grasp victory on the last day of the fight against the troops of the Tamvaasa led by Revenant. The Vilkaitith clan has been forced to retreat north again while the Khärn settle on their domain west of the Rozsha Mountains.

Many have been the feats carried out by the brave heroes who tried to defend Kornit from the invasion of Bajheera. Songs will be written about Destroyer, a warrior from Celea who fought relentlessly on the side of Revenant, overcoming innumerable enemies. Or of
Kanna, a brave Shinse who was trying to prevent the expansion of the Khärn to her homeland. Even Saga, a traitor in the eyes of the Khärn, fought on the side of the Tamvaasa against his brothers . But all was useless against the tide of giants that was spewed from the bowels of the volcano.



Is this the beginning of an even greater conquest? Or can the Tamvaasa regain the lost land? The Shinse, whose territory borders on Kornit, contemptuously contemplate the presence of a new enemy, while trying to keep their southern borders safe from the Celea.

The world of Skara continues to war amongst itself in the Age of Two Suns ...

Welcome to Skara, survivors!

The Battle of Kornit - our biggest Lore Event to date, will start in 30 minutes (5pm CET, 11am ET, 8am PT).

This time BajheeraWOW as a Khärn leader and RevenantLOL as a Tamvaasa leader, both renowned YouTubers and Streamers, are summoning all Skara players from any culture to join their armies.

You will get a granted reward for registering to the event here and will be able to contribute to your clan by levelling up in-game, opting for the Basic Pack reward for all your clan if you win this battle. The live score will be available here when the event starts.

The event will end on Monday the 5th of June at 9:00am CET (midnight PT on the 4th), so you will have plenty of time to climb onto the Top Positions and become a Legend in Skara!

See you on the battlefield,

The Skara Team

Welcome, survivors!

The “Echoes from the Zem”, our Lore Event that was been launched with the Open Alpha Update 0.8.0 has just ended!

We have a clear Event Winner called Alino, who has been renamed as Crimson, an Assassin from the Celea, and now he is their Culture Leader.

The Top 10 positions in the General Ranking (together with their Ranking Points) are:



And the new Culture Leaders (with their Culture Ranking Points) are:

• Celea: Crimson (163 580)
  
• Tamvaasa: pdgf (87 525)
  
• Khärn: Sendrik (143 537)
  
• Shinse: Lo-Rei (269 856)

The four new Culture Leaders will become the protagonists of the Third Chapter of the Skara’s Interactive Novel and the Top 10 winners of the General Ranking have just received the amount of Karats that was indicated besides their position in the Event section of the in-game menu.

We will start working on the next Lore Event for all of you to join, if you manage to survive…

See you on the battlefield,

The Skara Team

Welcome, survivors!

Get ready for the new features in the Open Alpha Update 0.8.0! We will present them to you in our Inaugural OA 0.8.0 Streaming in 30 minutes (at 5:30pm CET), but you always can enjoy our trailer here if you haven't been able to attend to it or look at them in more detail in the following paragraphs:

It just started and it will follow nearly the same rewards structure as in the “Cataclysm” event that took place in February: there will be special rewards for the top 10 players in the event’s General Ranking and for the Top 1 in each Culture Ranking (you can check for the concrete rewards next to those Rankings in the in-game menu). The only exception is that every player participating will get a gift. It will finish at 5pm CET next Monday the 15th, so don’t miss the opportunity and jump into the arena!



After many iterations, we have come up with a new map setting that grants a really fun experience: set on the peak of a mountain, it has many bottlenecks, a completely new ambientation and its own special mechanics to redefine the way you play Skara. Words just stay short to what it really is… Enter the game and discover it!

We are happy to introduce this feature that will allow you to earn skin rewards for free as you gain experience. The first reward will be given to you early, so they will probably be easy to acquire, but you will have to climb the experience ladder in your player account in order to unlock all of them. Reaching a certain level with a specific culture will also grant you a reward.

The Vulkhän Skin is now available and has been gifted to all the previous Early Access backers, depending on their contribution. It won’t remain unnoticed to all survivors who fight any Khärn that wears it.

These all four main features bring us closer to our next steps. You can join the conversation in our Discord channel or watch the official presentation and the internal tournament in our Inaugural OA 0.8.0 Streaming in our Twitch channel.

See you on the battlefield,

The Skara Team

Welcome again survivors,

As featured in the announcement title, we will release the Open Alpha Update 0.8.0 next Thursday the 11th of May.

Want to celebrate the 0.7.3 farewell with us? We are holding our weekly “Play with the Devs” event today, in 30 minutes (at 4:30pm CET). Play with us and watch yourself featured in our Twitch channel while hanging out with other survivors in our Discord channel. We will let you know more hot details about what is coming during the streaming.

Apart from the listed bug fixes, balancing issues and improvements; the new update will bring the following major features:

Get a gift just for playing a match during our upcoming Persistent Lore event. In addition, if you are good enough to classify in the Top Ranking positions, you will earn a tasty prize in Karats to acquire your favourite skins, be featured in our medias and maybe even become a new Culture Leader!

Explore the team tactic options that this new arena brings. Will new cultures rise as their skills become more strategical? Its set up and its own special mechanics will benefit the clever one, and not only the brave.

Do you want a free skin? Keep playing until you reach specific levels to get some free rewards. These skins will allow you to customize your characters as you gain experience.

The previous Early Access backers that acquired the different available packs will receive their promised reward: the Vulkhän Skin, the limited-edition Early Access Skin, depending on their contribution.

Although the game will still have to evolve in many aspects until the definitive version, we think that this new content and mechanics will allow you, survivors, to feel more engaged than ever with what Skara represents. We learnt from experience, and we want you to enjoy this new build.

So don’t forget to join us now on Twitch to know more about the Open Alpha Update 0.8.0!

See you on the battlefield,

The Skara Team

Welcome survivors!

For the last few weeks we have been focused on improving Skara and trying new ways to engage with our growing community (mainly through Twitch and Discord), and now we are ready to unveil fresh news:

We will soon release a big Update (the 0.8.0 one), which will bring a new Lore Event with granted gifts for all participants, apart from premium rewards for the best players. As always, winners will get a place in Skara’s Lore forever.

The main content featured in the upcoming 0.8.0 build will be a completely new map; it will force you to find new team tactic options to dominate the opposite team. You will also be able to automatically gain “loot” when achieving certain levels, so you will no longer have an excuse to not showing off your customized characters. Last but not least, the backers from our Early Access past stages that acquired the different packs available will receive their promised rewards: a limited-edition Early Access Skin depending on their contribution.

Due to Easter, this Friday (tomorrow) we won’t be streaming our usual “Play with the Devs” event. Stay tuned and join us next week to know more details about the upcoming build! Its release date will also be announced soon.

See you on the battlefield,

The Skara Team

Haven't you already played the Patch 0.7.3 version with other survivors?



Don´t worry, we bring you two powerful tools!

First of all, we want to introduce in a more official way our Discord channel (http://discord.gg/c63VQcN). It is a great way to gather your team and find players to fight against. We are actively involved on it, feel free to join and play / talk with us!

We will also feature this channel during our new Twitch sessions called “Play with the Devs” that will be held every Friday at 4:30pm CET (Central European Time), where we want to create a hub for players to find each other. We will answer all your comments on Discord and in our Twitch channel (http://twitch.tv/skarathebladeremains), so it is intended to be a concurrent time slot for you to pack with in-game friends (or new ones) and fight against other survivors.

We will be pleased to see you in both channels!

Welcome back survivors!

As always, we have prepared the list of changes that this Patch 0.7.3 brings:

• Added an option to change the sensitivity of the camera
  
• Added an option to modify binding of Lock-on mode
  
• Various crashes when entering the arenas have been solved

• Reduced the invulnerability time of all the characters when rolling of by 30%
  
• Improved Shinse’s head
  
• When joining a game, the matchmaking system adds you now to the team who has less human players

Gameplay

• Fixed stamina not regenerating when being poisoned
  
• Fixed the death animation not reproducing in some situations
  
• Fixed the spectator cam following the last targeted enemy
  
• Fixed characters beginning to slide after receiving a hit
  
• Fixed Celea block animations not playing when receiving a hit (networking issue)
  
• Fixed the Vilkai VFX being still shown at the end of a round in some situations
  
• Fixed the Vilkai VFX being still shown when Shinse is invisible
  
• Fixed the trails of Shinse’s dash being still shown when she is invisible
  
• Fixed the characters being able to block while stunned or attacking

Party / Friends

• Fixed players not seeing a recently added friends if these last ones are online (while this friend can see if the player is online)
  
• Fixed friends remaining in your connected friends list after having removed them

Matchmaking

• Fixed infinite matchmaking process when other player/s suffer/s a disconnection in the internal room
  
• Fixed crash when cancelling matchmaking process in a specific internal state
  
• Fixed players not joining any match after cancelling matchmaking
  
• Fixed players not joining any match after the “match found” message
  
• Fixed players not allowed to click the game mode buttons after cancelling a matchmaking process
  
• Fixed issues related to the characters when joining a started match

General

• Fixed mouse cursor not appearing in rewards screen
  
• Fixed some scroll bar on the in-game chat issues
  
• Fixed scroll bar on the main menu chat issue
  
• Fixed some news didn't appear
  
• Fixed some problems with the rankings titles
  
• Fixed some issues with key bindings in the in-game menu
  
• Fixed some navigation Pad problems in the character selection screen
  
• Fixed some localization problems
  
• Fixed the proper friend level account not being seen in some places on the main menu
  
• Fixed players being able to use some special characters in registration process
  
• Fixed players being able to use some special characters in-chat
  
• Fixed players being able to use HTML tags in-chat
  
• Fixed Tamvaasa’s beard not appearing with all his helmets equipped
  
• Fixed “Tamvaasa’s Wolf” skin not being able to be equipped
  
• Fixed the characters having no hair when playing the Tutorial
  
• Fixed the game freezing when players type quickly some special characters
  
• Fixed the South America label not being displayed properly
  
• Fixed some UI elements not being in proper place
  
• Fixed equipped elements on menu not appearing in-game

After the “Cataclysm” event, new heroes have awaken among the Skara survivors, you probably already know them, otherwise you can always check their dedicated story in the Skara Wiki and the spread of their feats among our medias.

Since the release of our Open Alpha build, this 3rd of February, we have been working hard on polishing every aspect of our game. We still have many known bugs that we are solving right now but we are sure that this new Patch will improve your game experience.

Here there´s the list of the Patch changes:

• Social and Party features bug fixing
  
• Matchmaking improvements
  
• Various crashes when entering the arenas have been solved
  
• General game bug fixing

• Tweaked All characters stamina consumption for sprint
  
• Fixed some stamina cooldown problems
  
• Improved weapon trails

• The Kharn animations have been polished
  
• The Celea animations have been polished

• Tutorial: improvements, better lighting and material
  
• Tutorial: small assets have been added
  
  
• Coliseum: Lever Bugs fixed
  
• General game bug fixing
  
• Jaarvi: improved collisions
  
• General: Victory Pose displays usernames

• Tutorial: improvements, better lighting and material
  
• Tutorial: small assets have been added
  
  
• Blinks have been added to the characters
  
• The character selection page has been reskinned
  
• Fixed some localization problems
  
• New Reward screen

Finally, check out our new Gameplay Trailer and let us know what you think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJqW2r2MIj0

See you on the battlefield,

Pablo and the Skara Team