Dear players of the Blackthorns Arena,
Thank you again for your strong support and waiting! We will do our best to optimize, improve, and add richer content to the Blackthorn Arena. The following patch brings us a lot of new content updates this time! If there is any feedback or suggestions, please leave a comment below. Thank you for your patience!



1）Fixed a rare bug where the Gladiators' Ragdoll status would get stuck after death.

2）Fixed a bug where players could only exit and restart the game after encountering a black screen. ( Now if you encounter a black screen, you can restore it directly by loading the recent archive without exiting the entire game).

3）Fixed a bug where the description of Dual weapon's skill ( Two swords one brain) was written in"increase dodge" instead of "increase block rate".

4）Fixed a bug where learning Marksman's skill (Never off hand) and increasing the level of three(Light, Medium, Heavy) "armor expert" skills will not recalculate characters' weight.

5）Fixed a bug that Gladiator skill ( "Kill Desire") is not working properly.

6）Fixed a bug that caused NPC ’s arena influence to be abnormal due to the challenge mode.

7）Fixed the bug that using Amnesia Potion could obtain extra potential points.



1) Now in the character attributes panel, the basic attributes of characters and bonus attributes (Extra points from gears or food buff) are displayed separately

2) Gladiators that are currently participating in matches cannot be executed and sold.

3) Now that the map has a tooltip, you can hover the mouse over the tooltip to extend the specific information of each game.

4) Change the default battle camera to Free camera mode, however, players can switch camera mode anytime in "Gameplay" of the options menu.

5) Repack all model assets for all arenas, to make the game size on hard drive smaller.



1) Added recipes for leather quiver T2 and T3.

2) Added large, medium, and small experience potions.

3) Added a new set of epic(purple) equipment: Ranger set.

4) Added 7 new traits:

- Greed for death: When the character's health is full, the damage is increased by 5%, however, when the character's health is below 50%, the volition is reduced by 10.

- Rebellion: The chance of increasing loyalty is reduced by 25%, and will have a 25% chance to lose an extra point of loyalty when losing loyalty.

- Hard work: Experience gained from training increased by 50%.

- Handedness: Critical Rate is increased by 3% when the character is holding a single weapon.

- Steady hand: Accuracy is increased by 6 when the character is using a ranged weapon.

- Balanced: Attack speed is increased by 8% when the character is using a polearm weapon.

- Strong grip: Stamina's cost of blocking reduced by 5% when the character is using a shield.

5) Designed unique traps or terrain obstacle mechanisms for most arenas, making the battlefield more dangerous.

6) Set effect system: Equipment has a Rare (blue) or above rarity will now have a set effect.


- Tag match: Similar to the rules of traditional fighting games (such as The King of Fighters), the two sides send 2-4 gladiators, but only one on one at a time, the next gladiator immediately enters the fight after the current friendly gladiator is defeated.

- Throne challenge: Multiple teams will participate in the throne challenge. The winning team will become the Throne leader, while the other teams become challengers and will take turns to challenge the currently Throne leader. The teams will play in random order.

Each arena will now have a very powerful champion, while more than ten legendary (orange) weapons with unique effects will be added to the game and assigned to each arena champion! These champions will have a chance to appear in competitions in various arena, and become the most powerful enemy of players. In addition, players can continuously challenge each of the arenas to eventually challenge their strongest champion. Players could earn their legendary weapon as a reward by defeating the strongest champion in the challenge.

- Wind whisper: Ranged attacks have a significant knockback effect.

- The golden strike: 10% chance to stun enemies for 2 seconds while attacking

- Osilel's root: immune to any knockdown effects.

- Smaragdus's squama: Blocking a projectile has a 25% chance to bounce the projectile back to the opponent.

- Bone crasher: Attack has a 25% chance to fracture opponents, reducing the target's attack speed and movement speed.

- The emerald thorn: Expose weaknesses will stack twice at a time.

- Osseydy's sacrificial dagger: Whenever an enemy is killed, the dagger will be blessed by Osseydy, causing 25% increased damage for 8 seconds.

- Khal Della: Character with no shield equip in the hand has an 18% chance to disarm opponent for 2 seconds while blocking.

- Fisherman's end: Each attack will cause bleeding damage.

- Barrier Breaker: Attack has a 25% chance to break the block.

- Rubrumors's fury: Attack will grant an additional 5 fire damage to the enemy.

- Irous' chosen: Each time character taking damage will have a 20% chance to grant an Irous blessing buff which will restore the character's health by 15 in 3 seconds.

- Peacelander's arrogance: Critical arrows will penetrate the target.


Obtained by the Legendary Wandering Merchant.




Dressed by the champion of the BloodSand Arena.[/h3][/b]




Dressed by the champion of Desolate Fort Arena.




Dressed by the champion of Terrell's Prison Arena.




10) Added more conditions and action options to the trigger:

New trigger conditions:

- Determining the number of enemies currently engaged.

- Determining whether the unit is currently under control

New trigger actions:

- Activate / deactivate status skills.

- Change Attack direction.

- Change Combat style.

- Change Engage style.


1) Reduce the research costs for all recipes by half.

2) Slightly increased the probability of holding daily matches in other arenas.

3) Slightly reduced the player's experience gained in the match, and reduced the maximum experience gained in a single match to 1000.

4) Reduce the monetary rewards obtained in the challenge by half.

1) Rogue:
- Removed the Stamina save bonus from "Light armor expert".
- The maximum stack of "Envenomed Weapon" is set to 4.

2) Duelist:
- The maximum stack for "Expose weakness" is set to 16.

1) Gladiator helmet (light):
2 intelligence changed to 1 intelligence.

2) Gladiator helmet (heavy 1):
Removed 15 health points.

3) Gladiator helmet (heavy 2):
5% tenacity changed to 3% tenacity.

4) Champion helmet (light):
1 Intelligence changed to 2 Intelligence
1 Will power changed to 2 Agility
10% tenacity changed to 6% tenacity

5) Champion helmet (medium):
10% tenacity changed to 8% tenacity
2 Intelligence changed to 2 Strength

6) Junior Gladiator Heavy Chest T3:
12% tenacity changed to 10% tenacity.

7) Senior Gladiator Heavy Chest T2:
Removed health restore bonus.

8) Senior Gladiator Heavy Gloves T2:
10 Stamina changed to 5 Stamina.

9) Senior Gladiator Heavy Boots T2:
7% tenacity changed to 5% tenacity.

10) Senior Gladiator Heavy Leg Armor T2:
10 health point changed to 6 health point.

11) Veteran Heavy Chest:
15% tenacity changed to 12% tenacity,
Removed Strength bonus
8 health point changed to 5 health point,
Health restore changed to 0.05.

12) Veteran Heavy Boots:
5% block rate.

13) Veteran Heavy Leg Armor:
1 Stamina.

14) Junior Gladiator Medium Breastplate T3:
12% tenacity changed to 10% tenacity.

15) Veteran's Light Breastplate:
Remove Stamina cost reduction,
3% block rate changed to 5% block rate.

16) Champion Light Chest:
6 dodge changed to 10 dodge.

17) BattleAxe:
25% Critical Damage changed to 20% Critical Damage.

18) Light Mace:
Removed attack speed bonus (was 0.15),
Penetration changed from 35% to 25%.

19) Sabre:
20% Critical Damage changed to 10% Critical Damage.

20) Two-Handed Warhammer:
1 strength changed to 2 strength.

21) Duel Sword:
0.1 attack speed changed to 0.07 attack speed
Removed Accuracy bonus (was 9).

22) Morgan Stern:
25% Critical Damage changed to 20% Critical Damage.

23) Knight's Sword:
-5% critical Rate changed to 5% critical Rate.

24) Hammer Axe:
Removed block rate bonus (was 5%).

25) Champions Cloak:
Rarity changed from rare (blue) to epic (purple).
Flame, Cold, Electric, and Poison resistance increased from 8% to 10%.
Increases 5 dodge and 5% critical strike rate.

Dear Blackthorn Arena Players:
Greetings, thanks for supporting our game. As always, the following content contains some bugs fixed, imrpvovement and balance adjustments. This hotfix is fairly small and our next major update will be coming next week. If you have any feedback or advice, please leave your comment below or share your opinion on our official discord. Thank you.

Feb 21th Hotfix:


BUG fix:

1) Fixed the bug that the already started competition can still participate when the world map is opened and players clicked the "next turn" button at the same time.

2) Fixed a bug where the block would be ignored in subsequent normal attacks after using the ignore block skills.

3) Fixed a bug where players could still participate in other matches from the arena list on the same day of the story match (such as Spring games, the Grand Venations, etc).

4) Fixed a bug where the ejection arrows' damage would be increased with the number of ejections.

5) Fixed a bug where the blacksmith's crafting time would sometimes be different than the time it should take.

6) Fixed a bug where wild boars would become Goblin Warriors in Venations show.

7) Fixed some text errors.

8) Fixed several missing localization (Chinese translation) issues.

9) Fixed a bug where the killing damage was not included in the damage taken and damage caused statistics.

10) Fixed the bug where characters can return extra potential points through the reset button of the skill panel after using the Amnesia potion.

11) Fixed a bug that characters can equip both bows and shields at the same time.

Improvement:

1) Now the reputation of the NPC arena would not exceed 10,000.

2) Added an event where players will now be challenged by NPC gladiators.

3) Now in the challenge matches, the winning side will receive the influence reward based on the influence level of the losing side, and the losing side will lose its influence based on the level of its influence.

4) Defeated opponents cannot be executed in the challenge matches now.

Balance adjustment:
1) Reduced the possibility of gladiators escaping and increased the chance of arresting gladiators by guards.

2) Gladiators with higher weight are now less affected by the knockback effects.

3) The dwarven racial talent "Son of rock" will now reduce the weight penalty by 25%.

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Dear Blackthorn Arena player:
Hello everyone, starting from this week, we will focus on adding new content (new systems, new equipment, new mechanisms, new genres, etc.) as well as fix a few minor bugs. If you have any feedback or suggestions, please feel free to leave your comments below. We will try our best to improve as soon as possible.


PS: Dear players, we have just improved the way game resources are packaged so that the volume of subsequent updates and the disk space occupied by this game are as small as possible, however, the downloads of this and the next major updates will be fairly large. We apologize for any inconvenience that may cause you. Thank you for your understanding.

BUG fix:

1) Fixed a bug where characters with "benevolence" and "cruelty" did not correctly increase obedience when the player chose the opponent's life or death.

2) Fixed an animation error after the lizard man was stunned.

3) Fixed a bug where some monsters were not correctly translated into Chinese when players held Venations.

4) Fixed a bug where the "Trace Arrow" skill did not properly apply Debuff to the target.

5) Fixed an issue where the Execute Shoot's additional damage was incorrect.

6) Fixed a bug where Evasion could not properly transfer the target's hatred.

7) Fixed a bug where the skill "Break free" in the duelist genre could not properly remove the movement restriction effects.

Improvements:

1) The crafting page now shows the required skill levels.

2) Add a cancel button where players could cancel the treatment process in the treatment room.

3) Improved the buff's information display, now you can see more specific information through it.

4) Improved display of skill requirements. Skills will now display information such as genre not learned, required attribute points and levels.

5) Added some missing UI localization (in Chinese).

6) Improved the layout of gladiator tooltip pannel. Make it more legible.

7) The Action Bar will now be displayed when viewing the details of the Gladiator (originally only displayed when viewing the Skill item).

8) Reduced the duration of floating text when the skill is released.

New Content:

1) Added a new guard system:
Many players must have noticed that the main Hall, training ground, treatment room, torture chamber, and the smithy all have corresponding functions. Only the gladiator cells look superfluous. Well, here it comes.

Guard system: A guard column has been added to the gladiator's cell. Players can hire guards to manage their gladiators in order to reduce the frequency of gladiators trying to escape.
Gladiators with low loyalty may launch riots or escape now. If the guard failed to stop them or been defeated, the gladiator will escape forever!

2) Add two new genres :

- Berserker: Berserker's fighting style is very wild and aggressive. In their battle, they ignored their own safety and attacked their opponents madly. They often fight more and more bravely and will be the most dangerous enemy when they are on the verge of death.

- Marksman: Unlike Rangers, Marksman is very good at sniping enemies from a long distance. They rarely miss arrows and can cause many negative effects on opponents. However, the marksman will be extremely vulnerable after being approached by the enemy.

3) Added the feature of removing traits: the torture chamber can now remove the negative traits of the character through torture, however, it will consume a long time and gladiators' health.

4) Added material system: Now almost all blacksmiths, chefs and doctors need certain materials to craft their recipes. These materials can be obtained by participating in competitions or purchased from street merchants.

5) Added 7 new recipes to the chefs for research: their materials need to be killed by different monsters in the Venations.

6) Added a Death immune potion recipe to the doctor, which will avoid the next complete death in battle after drinking.

7) Added a Loyalty potion recipe to the doctor, which will increase gladiators'
Obedience after drinking.

8) Added an Amnesia Potion recipe to the doctor, which will return all potential points and skill points spent on weapon skills and genres for that gladiator after drinking.

9) Add some pictures to the events.

Balance adjustment:

General:

1) Improve the Genre skill system:
The original genre skills need to learn a pre-skill to unlock, but we found that there is no obvious logical relationship between many skills and their pre-skills.
This kind of dependency is not reasonable and will cause players to waste their skill points on completely unused skills. Now, we have eliminated the pre-skill requirements of all genre and changed them to the requirements of levels and attributes.
Such changes make the game's point system more balanced and more reasonable

2) New Weight system and Weight penalty:
Medium and heavy gladiator armors will no longer increase stamina exertion and reduce movement speed. Instead, it will be replaced by a weight system. All the equipment of the gladiator will increase the weight of the gladiator. When the gladiator's weight exceeds 25% of the total weight, the movement speed, stamina savings, and dodge would get reduced. The higher the weight, the higher the penalty. Strength attributes can increase the weight of a character.

3) Players will now see the winning probability of the Venations and exhibition match on the battle interface, however, players will no longer be able to send gladiators to participate in the league.

4) Slightly increased the winning probability when players send gladiators to participate in the Venations.

5) Improved the calculation method of the winning and losing ratio of sending gladiators to participate in matches

6) Gladiators now have a chance to reduce their loyalty if they participate in matches if their health is less than 50% or morale below 30%. The lower the status, the higher the chance.

7) Increased damage resistance cap from 75% to 85%.

8) The buff gained from special foods are nerfed, and the buffs from multiple foods will not overlap. The buffs gained from the last food will overwrite those from the previous food.

9) Increased the chance that a gladiator will acquire the corresponding trait after killing various types of monsters.

10) All NPC gladiators will receive certain attribute bonuses in Chapters 2 and 3 (After the Spring Game). The bonus value will be depended on difficulty.

Monster:

1) The Minotaur is now counted as a large enemy.

Skill:

1) One-handed weapon:
- Gale combo damage has been increased to 90% / 100% / 110% weapon damage,
- Gale combo will now sprint towards the target.

2) Rouge:
- Light armor masters will now reduced the weight of light armor by 20% / 30% / 40%.

3) Gladiator:
- Medium armor master will now reduce the weight of medium armor by 20% / 30% / 40%.

4) Defender:
- Heavy armor master will now reduce the weight of heavy armor by 20% / 30% / 40%

Items:

1) Roast Suckling pork:
- Reduced the health recovery rate gained from 0.5 to 0.1.
- Reduced the Stamina gained from 2 points 1.

2) Venison in cinnamon sauce:
- Reduced Stamina gained from 2 points to 1

3) Mock turtle soup: A
- Added materials requirements for the recipe.
- Now it only provides 6% physical resistance. (was 10% physical resistance and 0.2 Hp recovery before)

4) Mushroom fish soup :
- Added materials requirements for the recipe.
- Reduced the Precision gained from 2 points to 1.

5) Buttermilk honey cake:
- Remove the intelligence gained. ( 2 intelligence before)

6) Kale fish:
- Only provide a 10% critical strike multiplier now. ( was 1 agility, 1 accurate and 25% critical strike multiplier before) .

7) Grilled salmon row:
- Remove the health recovery gained ( was 0.3 health recovery before)

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Dear Blackthorn Arena Players:
Greeting, thanks for supporting our game. As always, the following content contains lots of updates and bug fixed.
If you have any feedbacks or advice, please leave your comment below or share your opinion on our offical discord.


Note:
We have recently resolved a very stubborn bug with the wrong character ID. This bug may cause: Mysterious people appear in the player ’s gladiator arena, a "traitor" suddenly appears in one of the gladiator games (Players/NPC ' gladiator will attack teammates), and the player ’s gladiator upgrade will automatically add skill points and other weird events.
Now, the newly created characters will get rid of this bug after the update, but unfortunately, all the archives before this update may still leave this bug.
To this end, we have added a bug fix command in the console, please follow these steps to repair your archive:

1. Load the archive you want to repair.

2. Press " ` " to open the game console.

3. Enter the "SaveFix();" command to repair your archive.

4. If the repair is successful, you will get a new archive with renamed " Fixed". If the repair fails, you will get a failure prompt. Your old save files can still be used even with this bug being unfixed, however, if you want a more complete gaming experience, we strongly recommend that you restart a game if the repair fails.

Note: Earlier archives would have a better chance to get successfully repaired. Some longer archives may not be repairable due to the complexity of the BUG situation, and we apologize deeply for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Bug Fixed :

1) Fixed a bug where passive abilities of some weapon types could be applied to other weapon types.

2) Fixed a bug where Blacksmith couldn't research the recipe of the champion sets.

3) Fixed a bug where monster butcher boots had only shows 1% for all types of resistance.

4) Fixed the bug that the polearms and dual weapon skill of the characters created in the role library were displayed incorrectly.

5) Fixed a bug where the match would not start successfully after clicking "start" button

6) Fixed some minor bugs in the UI display.

Improvement:

1) Added a shortcut button for switching weapons above the shortcut bar.

2) The setting of " only on action bar " can now be saved.

3) Added a setting for the upper limit of the number of auto-save. Now the default upper limit of auto-save is 10.

4) Players can now send gladiators to participate in a match without attending in person.
This feature will allow players to send gladiators to participate in multiple matches in one round.

Balance adjustment:

Monster

1) Troll
- Health increased from 600 to 700
- Health regeneration increased from 4 to 5.

2) Centaur (Ranged)
- Health reduced from 425 to 380.

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Note！: At present, the bug that will cause the characters to disappear has been fixed. If you encounter the problem （character disappears after the battle ends) before this update patch, please update it , load it into the round before the character disappears and start playing. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Dear Blackthorn Arena Players:
Greeting, thanks for supporting our game. As always, the following content contains lots of updates and bug fixed. If you have any feedbacks or advice, please leave your comment below or share your opinion on our offical discord.

Update Patch Feb 6th

Bug fixed

1) Fixed some bugs where displacement skills can cause charaters to penetrate into walls.

2) Fixed a bug where canceling participation in Players' hosted competitions may cause a wrong arena window to pop up.

3) Fixed an issue where switching the character in the AI trigger window may caused the character's cycle round distance to be remodified.

4) Fixed a bug where the defenders' unyielding ability will not recover the correct amount persentage of Health when the characters has resurrected.

5) Fixed the bug that players could retrieve the prizes from the game after start hosting it.

6) Fixed a bug that players could obtain sponsors' equipments by canceling the hosted game.

7) Fixed a bug where the Blade Dancer would also take effect on other types of weapon. (besides one-handed weapon)

8) Fixed a bug where player's gladiators may not appear on the leaderboard.

9) Fixed a bug that arrows would always miss the target at a certain distance.

10) Fixed a bug that caused multiple save files to be corrupted due to a single save failure.

Improvements:
1) Adjusted the trap generation points in several arenas. Traps will no longer generate near the gladiators' exit.

2) Add an auto hide logic to some sight blockers in several arenas. Some covers which would possibly block players' sight in some arenas has been hidden.

3) Reworked some of the arenas entering display. Now they will focus more on the inside of the arena than on the outside.

4) Adds a hint to the match that has already started in arena details panel.

5) The blood color of some monsters has been changed to different colors.

6) Hovering over the date with mouse now will show a list of upcoming events (including Story competitions, gladiators' healing, research recipes, etc.).

7) Added an event to the completion of research, forging, training of the gladiators' genre, healing of the gladiators, slave domestication and bankruptcy.

8) Game fails due to bankruptcy will be shown in the form of an bad ending now.

9) Add recipes for champions' armor sets to blacksmiths.

10) Added an option to force the gladiators only auto cast the skills in their action bar.(Skills outside the action bar would no long be casted if players choose to turn on this option)

11) Add a warning when players delete triggers.

12) The number of beds in the treatment room is now unified with the number of patient slots.

13) Add a cancel button to the genre training.

14) The genre training buttons will now prompt for the genre name.

15) Dragging the resisted slaves into the torture slot will now automatically put them into the dark room.

16) The fleed gladiator will now flee to a more open place instead of runing into the corner.

17) When player failed at trying to craft an item, there will be a hint that tells why

18) Added a hotkey for switching weapons, the default key is "/".

19) Players can now exit the game and continue the game in the market in Iron Man mode.

20) Optimized the logic of auto selecting gladiators to participate in the competition. (Higher-level will now have higher priority)

21) Added some event pictures for corresponding events.

New Content:

1) Added a new Venatione : Centaur Warrior and Centaur Archer.

2) A new Epic (Purple) armor "Monster Butcher" set has been added as a reward for the Grand Venationes.


Balance adjustment:

General:

1) Reduced the chance of Epic(Purple) equipments appearing in black markets and competition rewards.

Monster:

1) Spider:
- Attack damage reduced from 14-20 to 12-16.
- Attacks now poison the target, inflicting 3 Poison Damage per second for 5 seconds, stackable.


Equipments:
1) Duel sword (Blue/rare) :
- 20 Piercing Penetration has been changed to 10 Cutting Penetration.

2) Duel Sword (Purple/Epic) -----Renamed to Duelist's glory
- 20 Piercing Penetration has been changed to 20 Cutting Penetration,
- Renamed to Duelist's glory.


Skill:

1) Duelist:
- Fixed a bug that caused the duel status to increase the blocking rate.
- Expose weakness is no longer reset by casting skills, and can be superimposed by the number of melee weapon skills of the specified target.

Commander:
- Harasser can now only be applied to plural enemies.

Weapon

Update Patch Feb 4th.


Bug Fixed

1) Fixed a bug where injury killers were not been described.

2) Fixed a bug where both players and enemies standing on the slope could not attack each other.

3) Fixed a bug where icons may still remain after players drag gladiators and equipments.

4) Fixed a bug that traps could still be triggered even after players have finished the match.

5) Fixed a bug where prizes could be dragged back into inventory after the start of the players' hosted competition.

6) Fixed a bug where the characters in the role library appeared in the game have all of genres (They should only have two genres which are same as the original characters).

7) Fixed the bug that the setting of the circle distance did not take any effect.

8) Fixed a bug where slaves in the resistance state could be still dragged to the general torture slot.

9) Fixed a bug where the player's slaves cap shows incorrectly at black markets.

10) Fixed a bug where slaves could be purchased from wandering merchants will exceed the limt of 16.

11) Fixed the display error of none target order in the trigger action.

12) Fixed a bug where medical level did not provide any healing speed bonus.

13) Fixed a description error (Quick Aim should be describe as Decrease accuracy by 25 instead of Increase accuracy by 25)

14) Fixed a rare bug where players could not end round after the Spring Game.

15) Fixed the bug that the icon of the injuries did not disappear after a character in treatment room using the injury killer.

16) Fixed a bug where enemies would sometimes not attack the players' gladiators.

Improvments:

1) Click on each arena in the Arena leaderborad will open the arena panel directly.

2) Added some missing Chinese translations to the UI.

3) All actions in one AI Trigger will be issued to the character as a command chain.

4) Added a hint when dragged an unavailable gladiators to certain gladiator slots.

5) Optimized the three blackmarkets to make loading speed slightly increased.

6) Improved the match signs on the world map. (Different types of matches now have different signs, and different levels of matchs will also be distinguished by color.)

New Content:

1) Added three blunt-headed quiver leather quivers which will turn archers' damage type into blunt damage.

Balance adjustment:

General:

1) Reduced the probability that NPC gladiators will get advanced equipment.

2) Reduced the Stamina cost of blocking attacks from 150% to 130%.

Equipment:

1) Iron belt :
- Increases health and Stamina by 10,
- Rarity has been changed to rare (Blue)

2) Enhanced belt :
- Cut / blunt / puncture resistance is changed to: 4/4/4,
- Rarity has been changed to uncommon (Green)

3) Heavy belt :
-Cut / blunt / puncture resistance is changed to: 3/3/3

4) Light belt :
-Cut / blunt / puncture resistance reduced to: 2/2/2

5) Trident :
- Replaced 20 cut penetration with 5 puncture penetration

6) Iron Trident :
- Replaced 20 cut penetration with 10 puncture penetration

7) Mangler :
- Replaced 20 cut penetration with 10 puncture penetration.

Skill:

1) Duelists:
-Reduced Stamina cost for Advanced dodge from 6, 4, 2 to 3, 2, 1

2) Commander:
- First Aid cooldown increased from 20 to 25 seconds.


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Dear players of the Black Thorns Arena,
Hello. Due to the Chinese New year holiday and the impact of new Chinese viruses (Wuhan disease), we have maintained a slower update speed in the past week, but we are fully back to work starting today. More fixes, improvements and new content will be continuously presented to everyone !!

Here is our update plan for the this month:

1) First of all, during this week, we will keep the frequency of updating every 1-2 days, and will work to solve the existing bugs and problems of the game.

2) For the next three weeks, we will maintain the update frequency of 1-2 patches per week, and will start adding new content to the game, including new equipment, new enemies, new game modes,etc.


The following are the minor fixes and changes for this updates:

1) Now running the game for the first time will automatically set the language according to the computer system, and the Gaming graphics will be set according to the computer hardware.

2) Fixed a healing bug that occurred l in Treatment room

3) Fixed a bug where slaves were sold in the market but it still exist after players returned to the BlackThorns Arena.

4) Fixed a bug where the gladiator would not flee correctly during battle.

5) Cancel the pop-up window before the game starts, now all settings need to be set in the game main menu.

6) Fixed a bug where the match could still proceed even without players sending any gladiator.



If you have any concerns or advice, bug reports, please leave you comments below or add my Steam ID. Thank you for your support!

Dear Blackthorns arena player:
We apologize deeply for the bug of infinite loading caused by our last update. At present, this update has fixed the following :

1) Infinite loading

2) Players can not use their skill points to upgrade passive skills in Sheld

Dear Players,
Hi, thank you for supporting our game! The Feb 2nd update will be mostly featured on new improvents, balance adjustments and bugs fixed. Please leave your comments below or contact us via twitter and steam if you have any questions or concerns.


Update Patch Feb 2nd.

Bug Fixed

1) Spike rolls can now correctly damage the nearby characters.

2) Fixed a bug where changing the combat style from flee to other styles would not cancel the characters from fleeing.

3) Fixed a rare bug where the enemy team may get confused and mixed with players' teams.

4) Fixed a bug where players can enter negative numbers for the number of crafting items.

5) Fixed a bug where the player provided the rewards to host the competition will sometimes caused the item to be duplicated.

6) Fixed a bug where a player could host a competition before the spring game.

7) Corrected the wrong description of Gray Orcs' racial talent. (When health drops below 30%, damage increases by 20%.)

8) Fixed some errors in dialogue texts.

Improvements

1) Some traps will now spawn with a random angle.

2) Edited some equipment descriptions to make the descriptions and equipments more appropriate.

3) Significantly increased the rewards for Venationes.

4) Reduced monetary rewards for gladiatorial matches and challenges.

5) The reputation that gained or lost by choosing between your opponents' live or die according to the audience's preference is now reduced by half

6) Modified the steward 's dialogue after the spring game to remind players that they can now host the competitions.

7）Game can now run in background.

8) Optimized the target selection logic. It is now easier to select the target with the mouse click.

Balance adjustment

(Note: the difficulty of the game will increase significantly after this update)

General

1) Equipment can now only be sold at half price.

2) Reduced the physical health recovery per round for competitions.

3) Gladiator will now reduce 5% of morale each time they participate in battle.

4) Players' revenue from hosting competitions has dropped by about 30%

5) The overall experience players' gladiators gained from any match is reduced.

6）High-level gladiators will gain less experience in participated low-level matches.

7）low-level gladiators will gain more experience when participating high-level matches.

8) Monsters will now increase health and damage with the corresponding difficulty factor.
(Senior / Veteran: 10% / 25%)

9) There is a small probability that the enemy equipment level will increase. (the probability depends on the difficulty).

10) The Stamina cost of blocking damage has been increased from 100% to 150%.

11) The blocking rate will not exceed 100% now.

12) Removed health regeneration. Characters will no longer passively recover health (except for individual equipment bonuses).

monster:

1) Giant Scorpion :
- Health increased from 500 to 650,
- Damage increased from 24-32 to 30-42.
- Cutting, penetrate, blunt resistance increased to 65, 45, and 60 respectively.

2) Eagle Warrior :
- Health increased from 380 to 460,
- Cooldown of VolcrateDash increased from 4 seconds to 8 seconds.

3) Hippopotamus:
- Health incresed from 650 to 680,
- Health regeneration speed increased from 0.5 to 1.5.

4) Crocodile:
- Damage increased from 28-32 to 30-46.

5) Rhinos:
- Cutting resistance is increased from 30 to 40.
- Blunt resistance is increased from 15 to 25.

Equipment:

1) General:
-Recalculated the base attack speed of all weapons to make them more balanced.

2) Two-handed Weapons:
- Damage has been reduced by 15%

3) Polearm weapons :
- Damage has been reduced by 15%.
- Changed damage type of of the halberds to sharp.

4) One-handed Weapons: [/b]
- Increased the Stamina cost of all one-handed weapons by 1.

5) Ranged Weapons:
- Increased the damage of all ranged weapons by 20%.
- Removed the damage bonus gained by agility.

6) Gold topaz amulet:
- Health regeneration has been reduced to 0.05
- Stamina regeneration has been reduced to 0.1.

7) Added three rare amulets.

Skill:

1) Shield and Sword:
- Shield Master damage bonus and block rate reduced to 10%

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Update content for Jan 30th.


BUG fix:

1) Fixed a rare bug where a story match was generated incorrectly.

2) Fixed a bug where a player's gladiator occasionally did not match the animation associated with the weapon.

3) Fixed a bug that could cause the the game to be permanently stuck after post-match report panel pops up .

4) Fixed a bug where female characters with range weapons sometimes do not reload arrows.

5) Fixed the bug that cause some traits do not work.

6) The gladiator's obedience will no longer exceed 10.

7) Fixed a bug that cause wine to restore health instead of morale in the daily diet.

8) Fixed the bug that the name of daily diet was incorrect.

9) Fixed a bug where Charge will cause characters to go outside the terrain.

Improve:

1) The English text of the game has been checked and polished.

2) The player now will receive a notification from their steward a few days before the Spring Game.

New Content:

Added 3 new traits:

1) Light foot: Move speed increases by 5%. Has 50% chance to not trigger a trap when step on it.

2) Bellicose: Morale increases when continuously fight, but decreases after not fight in more than 3 days.

3) Recreant: Morale decreases when continuously fight, but increases after not fight in more than 3 days.


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