In case you missed the Stream on Steam, you might've missed the concept arts for the newest additions to Eternal Return: Emma and Shoichi.

First, we have the concept art for Shoichi, the Cunning Gentleman.



Shoichi is well versed in the art persuasion - a master at convincing others. Equipped up with a secret briefcase loaded to the brim with blades, he looks ready to take on Lumia Island - either from the front-lines or by letting the others do his bidding.

Next up, we have Emma, the Magnificent.



Emma's outfit really goes well with her hair, and she's even accessorizing her rabbit too! ...Are more gonna come out of that hat? Also, it looks like she's got a couple playing cards ready to go. Will she use them for magic tricks or as a weapon?

Stick around for more Shoichi and Emma related releases! Join us on our Official Discord or Follow us on Twitter so you'll be the first to see them!

After a handful of Alpha and Beta tests, Eternal Return: Black Survival is joining the Steam Game Festival before launching onto a full Early Access release!

Find your favorite character from our (ever growing) roster of playable characters, plan a strategy and route, and take on 17 other foes on Lumia Island.

You can download the game from the Steam page, hop into the game, and play! It will be very similar to the Early Access version of the game, but we’ll be continuously adding more features and characters along the way.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1049590/Eternal_Return_Black_Survival/

The servers will open with the Steam Game Festival on October 7th at 10 AM PST and close a bit early, October 11th, 11 PM PST. We gotta prepare for Early Access!

During the festival, the servers will be open in segments. 

• North America: 4 PM - 11 PM PST
  
• Korea: 2 AM - 11 AM PST
  
• Europe: 10 AM - 2 PM PST (7 PM to 11 PM CEST)
  
• South America 3 PM - 7 PM PST (7 PM to 11 PM BRT)

(Custom games and vs AI modes will be open at all times)

We’d love to have you on our Official Discord where you can leave your feedback and discuss the game with the rest of our awesome community!

Also, follow us on Facebook or Twitter and Wishlist us on Steam to get the quickest updates. You gotta be the first one to try the new characters!

Chiara will descend to Lumia Island armed with a Rapier in one hand and her bible in the other. We're here to give you a quick look at how exactly she will pass her judgement on the other test subjects.







When Chiara hits an enemy with a skill, she carves a Stigma into them, reducing their defense. Chiara can apply only up to a certain amount of Stigmas to the same enemy.

When the enemy reaches the maximum amount of Stigmas, Chiara's movement speed is increased.





Chiara casts out corrupted energy in the targeted direction, dealing damage to all enemies it hits. The corrupted energy remains for a certain time, reducing the movement speed of enemies.

Hold the skill down for a few seconds to cast out the corrupted energy further and in a straight line.




Chiara divines a shield, absorbing damage. If the shield is not depleted after a certain time, she can reactivate the skill again, making it explode, dealing damage to enemies in range.




Chiara sends out a shackle in the targeted direction, dealing damage to enemies hit and linking them to Chiara. If the link is maintained for a certain time, she deals damage and roots the enemy.




Chiara channels the darkness inside of her, transforming into a fallen angel. While transformed, her normal attacks are ranged, her max HP is increased, and she Plagues the area around her.
Enemies inside of the Plague receive damage every second, and Chiara recovers HP in proportion to damage dealt.
While Plague is activated, she gains vision of all enemies that have the maximum amount of Stigmas, and she can cast Last Judgement.

Last Judgement: Chiara can crash down upon an enemy with the maximum amount of Stigmas, dealing true damage and ending the Plague. Killing enemies with Last Judgement reduces the cooldown of Plague.

Hey everyone, Aesop here with our last balance adjustment before the Early Access release. There isn’t a lot to go over, just some slight changes for characters and weapons, so let’s check it out.

• Attack Power 40 —> 37

• Attack Power 30 → 32
  
• Rebel Assault (W)
  • Cooldown 20/18/16/14/12s → 16/14.5/13/11.5/10s
• MOK Operational Mine (R)
  • Cooldown 40/35/30s → 30/25/20s

• Defense 22 → 20

• HP per level 65 → 60
  
• Girl in a Bubble (W)
  • Cooldown 20/18/16/14/12 → 21/19/17/15/13s

• Wok It Off (E)
  • HP Cost 60/70/80/90/100 → 30/45/60/75/90

Focusing early-game strength is a sound strategy, but players shouldn't have to avoid certain routes because it is too difficult to survive against characters with early power spikes. Instead of adjusting strong weapons in the early game, we adjusted weapons stronger in the later game that had no alternate routes.

• Uppercut (D)
  • Cooldown 10s → 15s
• Buddha's Palm
  • Attack Power 28 → 33
• One Inch Punch
  • Defense 30 → 25

• Skill Amplification per mastery level 2.4% —> 2.8%

• Skill Amplification per mastery level 2.7% → 3%

• Excalibur
  • Attack Power 50 → 55
• Monohoshizao
  • Attack Power 65 → 70

• Durendal Mk2
  • Attack Power 50 → 45
• Meteor Claymore, Joyeuse
  • Critical Strike Extra Damage 50% → 30%

• Extra Damage to Normal Attacks per mastery level 3.5% → 4.2%
  
• Dragon Guandao
  • Attack Power 150 → 130
    
  • Movement Speed -0.15 → -0.1
• Lance of Poseidon
  • Attack Power 145 → 130
• Cosmic Bident
  • Attack Power 165 → 150

• Gigantic Axe
  • Attack Power 150 → 130
• Beam Axe
  • Attack Power 170 → 160
• Harpe
  • Skill Amplification 55 → 50

• NTW-20
  • Attack Power 90 → 95
• The Deadly Ray
  • Attack Power 90 → 95

• Extra Damage to Normal Attacks per mastery level 1% → 1.5%
  
• Single Coil Pickup, Superstrat
  • Attack Speed 20% → 15%
• Golden Bridge
  • Skill Amplification 18% —> 14%
• King-V
  • Skill Amplification 27% —> 20%
• Humbucker Pickup
  • Attack Power 15 —> 25
    
  • Skill Amplification 27% —> 15%
• Purple Haze
  • Skill Amplification 25% → 22%
• The Wall
  • Attack Power 75 → 70
    
  • Attack Speed 30% → 18%
• Satisfaction
  • Extra Damage to Normal Attacks 18 —> 14
• Teen Spirit
  • Extra Damage to Normal Attacks 33 —> 26

• Elemental Bow
  • Skill Amplification 55 → 48

• Ballista
  • Attack Power 130 → 115

• Ruthenium Marble
  • [NEW] Healing Reduction 40%
• High Explosive Grenade, Grenade of Antioch, High Explosive Grenade
  • Charges 6 → 8
    
  • Recharge time 60 → 50s
• Smoke Bomb, Flour Bomb, Molotov Cocktail
  • Recharge time 30s → 25s

• Motorcycle Helmet
  • HP 350 → 300
• Covert Agent Uniform
  • Defense 20 → 23
• Blazing Dress
  • Defense 22 → 25
• Glacial Shoes
  • Skill Amplification 13 → 15

Small adjustments to HP Recovery for food that can be crafted with a lighter; and easily craftable in the southern parts of the map (Docks).

• Garlic Bread
  • HP Recovery 400 → 500
• Bacon and Garlic Sticks, Herbal Medicine
  • HP Recovery 600 → 650
• Honey Garlic Pickle
  • HP Recovery 400 → 480
• Hot Ramen, Scrambled Egg, Curry Croquette, Stir Fried Ramen
  • HP Recovery 600 → 550
• Boiled Egg, Oriental Concoction
  • HP Recovery 650 → 600
• Curry
  • HP Recovery 500 → 480
• Fried Chicken
  • HP Recovery 550 → 510
• Fish Cutlet
  • HP Recovery 800 → 700
• Grilled Chilean Sea Bass
  • HP Recovery 500 → 480
• Garlic Ramen
  • Quantity 1 → 2
    
  • HP Recovery 950 → 700
• Fish And Chips
  • Quantity 1 → 2
    
  • HP Recovery 1200 → 900

• Explosive Trap
  • Attack Power 130 → 180
    
  • Quantity 2 → 1
• C-4
  • Attack Power 380 → 340
• Smart Bomb
  • Attack Power 450 → 410

• You can now filter Nunchakus in the weapon types in the Store.

After a handful of Alpha and Beta tests, Eternal Return: Black Survival is joining the Steam Game Festival before launching onto a full Early Access release!

Find your favorite character from our (ever growing) roster of playable characters, plan a strategy and route, and take on 17 other foes on Lumia Island.

You can download the game from the Steam page, hop into the game, and play! It will be very similar to the Early Access version of the game, but we’ll be continuously adding more features and characters along the way.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1049590/Eternal_Return_Black_Survival/

The servers will open with the Steam Game Festival on October 7th at 10 AM PST and close a bit early, October 11th, 11 PM PST. We gotta prepare for Early Access!

During the festival, the servers will be open in segments. 

• North America: 4 PM - 11 PM PST
  
• Korea: 2 AM - 11 AM PST
  
• Europe: 10 AM - 2 PM PST (7 PM to 11 PM CEST)
  
• South America 3 PM - 7 PM PST (7 PM to 11 PM BRT)

(Custom games and vs AI modes will be open at all times)

We’d love to have you on our Official Discord where you can leave your feedback and discuss the game with the rest of our awesome community!

Also, follow us on Facebook or Twitter and Wishlist us on Steam to get the quickest updates. You gotta be the first one to try the new characters!

We are happy to announce that South America Server (São Paulo) and Europe Server (Frankfurt) will be opened during the Steam Game Festival!

From October 7th 10 AM PST, Eternal Return will participate in the "Steam Game Festival".

The Steam Game Festival is an event that gathers all Steam games currently having a "Demo".

We plan to open Europe and South American servers during the festival:

• Frankfurt (EU): 10 AM to 2 PM PST (7 PM to 11 PM CEST)
  
• São Paulo (South America): 3 PM to 7 PM PST (7 PM to 11 PM BRT)

Along with the promotion the festival provides, we hope to gain attention for our Early Access release and qualify for more promotion within Steam thanks to that.

We also hope that with a good response from our South American and European communities we can maintain the two respective servers open all the time.

We will alternate the modes each day between Solo mode and Squad mode. (Changes to be made upon player response)


Wishlisting us on Steam is ridiculously helpful for us. Please wishlist us and recommend us to your friends so we can continue to try to make the best possible game for everyone to enjoy.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1049590/Eternal_Return_Black_Survival/

No more rocket launcher for the assault rifle!

• Intervention, TAC-50, AK-12, Evening Star now have new images.

Change your mind?

• You can now cancel your character and weapon selection after "Locking In".

More LP

• As players continue to gain LP, the amount of players with 500+ LP are increasing, so we are segmenting high-level player matchmaking a bit.

The focus for the first area selection right now on Lumia Island for many players is usually the southeast side of the map. We are trying to redistribute some items so that starting areas become more diverse and allow more options for players. We are trying to shift some of the focus to the northwest side of the map, around Hotel and Beach, by switching the Tree of Life and Hammer locations and readjusting Fish and Chips, the food with the highest recovery, so that you have to visit both the north and south parts of the map to complete it.

Making Tree of Life appear earlier in-game so that it matters a bit more in early game strategy.

• Hotel (Day 2 —> Night 1)
  
• Forest (Night 2 —> Day 2)
  
• Cemetery (Day 3 —> Night 2)

• Potatoes removed from Chapel.
  
• Potatoes added to Pond (located between the Temple and Avenue entrance).

Due to Iron Sheet, players can easily craft at least two pieces of upper-tier equipment early game, and can easily make EOD Suit easily in the mid-game. We’re getting rid of the hammer in the oft-visited southeast and adjusting item locations so that players need to visit the northwest part of the map to complete Iron Sheet.

• Dock
  • [REMOVED] Hammer x8
    
  • [NEW] Bread x4, Kitchen Knife x4
• Hospital
  • [REMOVED] Hammer x6
    
  • [NEW] Razor x6
• Alley
  • [NEW] Hammer x8
    
  • Wetsuit x6 → x7
    
  • [REMOVED] Bread x4, Kitchen Knife x5
• Beach
  • [NEW] Hammer x6
    
  • Razor x6 [REMOVED]

The 6-minute "Vital Force" buff you gain by slaying Wickeline is tuned a bit too high in team modes. Facing Wickleine will now be a bit more difficult, and she grants a bit less power in team modes.

• Wickeline HP 200 * lv → 500 + 250 * lv
  
• The icon name of the "Vital Force" buff was also appearing as "Vital Force" for the enemy receiving the debuff by it. For the sake of clarity, the icon name for the debuffed enemy was changed to "Vital Force Disturbance".
  
• "Vital Force Disturbance" no longer stacks. For example, if all 3 members of a squad attacked an enemy, "Vital Force Disturbance" was applied 3 times to said enemy. The debuff will now be applied only once - only duration will be reset.
  
• Relevant changes, such as strengthening Wickeline in Duo and Squad modes, will continue in future updates.

• Damage dealt in Duo mode 92% → 90%
  
• Damage dealt in Squad mode 86% → 85%

• Movement Speed 3.25 → 3.2
  
• Marche & Rompre (E) base damage 100/150/200/250/300 → 100/145/190/235/280

• Damage dealt in Squad mode 95% → 92%

• Damage dealt in Duo and Squad modes 95% → 92%

• Dogfight (Passive)
  • Stack activation 50 → 70

• Damage received in Squad mode 93% → 95%

• Movement Speed 3.15 → 3.1
  
• Glove - Li Dailin base attack speed per second: 0.73 → 0.7

• Heavy Strike (E) knockback range 3.75 → 3.25m
  
• Bike from Hell (R)
  • Cooldown 60/50/40s → 80/70/60s
    
  • Duration 7/9/11s → 9/10/11s

• Girl in a Bubble (W)
  • Base damage 30/90/160/220/280 → 30/90/150/210/270
    
  • HP Cost 60/70/80/90/100 → 60/80/100/120/140

• Damage received in Duo and Squad mode 97% →100%

• Bhargavastra (R)
  • Base damage 100/160/240 → 80/160/240
    
  • Extra Damage 50/85/120 → 40/80/120

• Moving Reload (D)
  • Cooldown 30/20s → 40/25s

• Purple Haze
  • Skill Amplification 30% → 25%

• Skill Amplification per mastery level 2% → 2.4%

• Mallet
  • Attack Power 90 → 80

• Arondight
  • Attack Power 45 → 50
• Excalibur
  • Attack Power 45 → 50

• Skill Amplification per mastery level 1.5% → 1.8%

• Extra Damage to Normal Attacks per mastery level 1% → 1.5%

• Skill Amplification per mastery level 2.5% → 2.7%

• Frost Venom Dart
  • Attack Power 100 → 80
• Petal Torrent
  • Attack Power 100 → 80

• Dragon Guandao
  • Attack Power 170 --> 150
• Blazing Lance
  • Attack Power 130 --> 110

• EOD Suit
  • HP 350 → 300
    
  • Cooldown reduction 20% → 10%
    
  • [REMOVED] SP Regeneration 140%
    
  • [NEW] HP Regen +1
• Butler's Suit
  • Normal Attacks Damage Reduction 12 → 10
• Rocker's Jacket
  • Attack Power 28 → 30
• Dragon Dobok
  • Attack Power 10 → 15
• Blazing Dress
  • Extra Damage to Normal Attacks 20 → 22

• Motorcycle Helmet
  • HP 400 → 350

• Sword of Shah Jahan
  • HP 400 → 350

• EOD Boots
  • Defense 21 → 23

• Fish And Chips
  • HP 1350 —> 1200
• First Aid Kit
  • HP 1050 —> 950
• Garlic Ramen
  • HP 1000 —> 950

• The stun of Heavy Strike (E) is not activated anymore when using Full Swing (Q) immediately Heavy Strike (E).
  
• Jackie no longer moves in a fixed direction after being revived if downed while using Dual Sword Rampage (D).

Check out ぽぷちゃん ambushing his enemies all over Lumia Island as Isol, the Guerilla.



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Say "bonjour" to Chiara, coming to Lumia Island soon. I've got a hold of her 3D model, and I'm here to share it with you!



She's clutching her bible, seemingly ready to smite any who wrong her. Or is she looking down with pity?



Gotta see all angles of that outfit, too. That's a pretty incredible dress... you think she made it herself? Maybe she was blessed with good taste.

Chiara will be having the other test subjects praying for mercy in Early Access!

In the meantime, let us know what kinda skills you think she'll have or what weapons she'll use on our Offical Discord

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