Greetings Blackthorn Arena members.

We now have a Discord server set up for all of the community members out here.
Here we can chat, make discussions, share screenshots/videos, fan-art, support eachother, answer questions and others.
Shortly said, it makes the communication a little easier between the team and the members.
But unfortunately not for all of us..

Discord is blocked in China and as the developers are from China it makes the communication between them and the members a little harder. So if you want to communicate with them or get answers, then please use the Steam discussions. If you want to know some more information and detail about why China blocked Discord etcetera, please do some research on Google as there is plenty of information.

Here is the Discord server invite link which brings you to the 'info-rules' channel.
Discord server invite link: https://discord.gg/5m8NW6R
Currently trying to get the Discord verified.

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Latest important update can be found here.

Dear Players,
Hi, thank you for supporting our game! As promised, the Jan 23th update will be mostly featured on adding new improvents as well as fixing bugs. We have already added automatic combat function (CPU VS CPU) to our combat system, however, at this point it might not be perfect. There won't be any huge updates between Jan 23th to Fen 3rd because most of our crew is on Chinese New year vacation (There would be hotfixs and urgent updates if necessary). If you have any advice or experience any issues, please leave your comments below or contact me though my Steam account.

Hope you enjoy and happy Chinese New year!!!

Update Jan 23th:

BUG fix:
1）Fixed the bug that cause food modelsto stay on gladiators' hand.

2）Fixed a bug where the troll's grabing still will cause the characters to drop below the ground.

3）Fixed a bug that would cause Gladiators to get stuck in the game

4）Fixed a bug which prevent gaining Influence from sparing defeated gladiator's life.

5）Fixed a bug where can cause daily costs (in the UI) to display incorrectly.

6）Fixed a bug where a gladiator's actual skill points would exceed his current weapon skill points.

7）Fixed a bug that could caused the players to be forced to get back to main menu after ending turns.

8）Fixed a bug where some kind of immovable (stun,grab,etc) buffs would stay on gladiators even after the battle .

Improvments :

1) Added a difficulty option when creating new characters, now the game has three difficulty levels. The original difficulty of the game will be set to normal (Senior).

2) Added an automatic combat function (shortcut U) (CPU VS CPU system)

3) Players can now click on the steward's avatar in the upper left corner to gain additional informations.

4) Players can now check the daily costs (detailed).

5) Improve slaves' avatar to aviod strange posture.

6) Black market now has tutorials

7) Black market now displays slaves' price when players are trying to sell them.

8) Casting skills will no long been interrupted by using "WASD" to move characters (using right mouse click to move characters will still interrupt skill casting)

10) Squad members in players' team will no longer abandon tracking their current targets because they are too far from the player controlled unit.

11) A scale bar will be provided in order to clearly reflect to the audience's preference (Live or Die).

12) Improve the battle summary for each game to show the gladiator's upgrade.

13) A complete post-match report will be provided after players return from the battle, instead of a few pieces of event notice to inform players of the outcome (gladiators' health report, money gained, etc) of the game.

New equipment:

- Add three tridents

- Add two bows

- Add a new helmet

Balance adjustment

General:
- Increased Hp gained per stamina point from 5 to 6

Long-range weapons:
- Reduced dead zone's radius from 3 meters to 2 meters


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Fixed a bug that could cause a black screen to appear in the Blackthorns Arena

Today's update is pretty large since we did some optimizations to more than one scenes to prevent characters getting stuck. We apologized for the inconvenience and we will do our best to compress the sizes of update in the future.
Thank you.


Bugs Fixed:

1) Fixed a bug that will definitely cause the game to crash when players win a certain venationes.(Mostly Spider and Gaint Rats)

2）Fixed an issue which will prevent the ending to be displayed correctly after Player win the Grand Game.

3) Fixed the bug that the player's reputation and main goals would not be reseted when start a new game without fully exiting the game.

4) Fixed a bug where the gladiators would engage with the enemy before the match even starts

5) Fixed an issue where the prologue of the Grand Game's final challenge is missing.

6) Fixed a bug that could cause characters to fall below the ground

7) Fixed a bug that could cause characters to get stuck and become unmoveable

8) Fixed the Chinese translation bug of beast names while player trying to host venationes.

9) Fixed an issue where two conflicting traits would appear on the same character.

10) Fixed a bug where player can still research even after all recipes have already been researched.

11) Fixed the bug where materials could not been identified in researched recipes.

12) Fixed a bug where the crafting day are sometimes increased while blacksmithing.

13) Fixed a UI BUG caused by the cancellation of selling slaves by pressing the "ESC" button in the black market

14) Fixed a bug where rescue could not be cast

15) Fixed an issue where quivers will get lost if try to equip it to a character who already has the mainhand and offhand weapons

Improvements:

1) Adjusted the font, font color, and background transparency of the tutorial UI to make it easier to read

2) Moved some Arena's spawn points for gladiators and monsters to make them more reasonable and stable


Thanks,
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Dear Blackthorn Arena Players:
We apologized for our mistakes which cause players' items to lost when they jump from one market to another. We worked 16 hours yesterday to try to solve as many bugs and problems as possible while underestimateing the importance of testing. We have learned our lessons, and we promise in future updates, we will do as much testing as possible to avoid new problems caused by any updates.

The Market bugs has been resolved, if you have any comments, please let us know.

Thanks.

Improvemens:

1) The avata mode of the training ground can jump now. ( Press Spacebar)

2) Items can now be dragged directly onto the character in the gladiator details panel to equip.

3) You can now go directly from one black market to another.

4) Click on an empty gladiator slot will pop up a list of assignable gladiators now.

5) Blacksmith crafts equips now spend less days.

6) There would be a hint now if assigning a gladiators to a slot has been rejected.


Bugs resolved:

1) Fixed the model issues apper on player avata's outfits.

2) Fixed a bug that prevented the storyline from continuing after the Spring Game.

3) Fixed a bug causes UI display incomplete in 2K mode.

4) Fixed an issue where smithy researched recipes would overwrite each other.

5) Fixed a problem causes the enter scence camera dispaly error in the Desert Arena.

6) Fixed gambling achievements cannot be achieved

7) The system menu can now be opened correctly at the match paris panel before fighting start.

8) Fixed the bug that cause AI gladiators will try to climb the ladder when someone else is using it.

9) Fixed the problem that lags at the game logo is showing. And the logo can be skipped now.

10) Fixed a translation bug in gladiator's custom panel that cause a lot of Chinese characters
occurs in English versions.

11) Fixed some small translation errors.

12) Fixed a bug that could cause loading panel stuck after player put slaves into torture chambers.

13) Fixed a camera error caused by skipping spectate a match.

14) Fixed a bug that will cause a residual error in the dialog by skipping the spectate match

15) Fixed a bug that caused the game to be stuck when pressing the pause button while the judgment dialogue pops up.

16) Fixed an issue where gladiator equipment could be throw on the ground.


Notice: Due to some technical issues, Iron Man mode is temporarily not recommended.


Balance adjustment:

1）Long-handled weapons:

-Round sweep damage reduced to 60% / 70% / 80% of weapon damage.

- Impale's damage is reduced to 110% / 120% / 130% of weapon damage.

2）Two-handed weapons:

- Trio slash‘s damage per hit reduced to 80% / 90% / 100% of weapon damage.


Thanks guys for your wonderful support. If you have any advices or concerns, please feel free to leave your comments below.

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Dear players of the Black Thorns Arena:


Blackthorn Arena Urgent Update Patch


The following issues were fixed:

The problem of starting the game crash under Win7 system
Role library switch race and gender invalid
Right click on the purchase item and the UI will remain.
Depth of field at high resolution (2k, 4k)


Thank you, if there are new bugs and suggestions welcome to leave comments, we will get back to you ASAP.

The first released of Blackthorn Arena has just been released. We will keep adding new content, balancing the game, as well as improve it weekly based on the feedback we get. So please feel comfortable to pass by the forums and leave your comments!


Hope you enjoy the game!
Thanks.

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