Dear players of the Blackthorns arena:
We sincerely apologize for the delay of the update, the large update we originally planned to launch at the end of June will be postponed until mid-July. This is mainly due to two reasons:

First of all, after we made a lot of new content and tested it, the performance of the test is not very satisfactory. We would like to ask a little more time to polish and improve some Details;

Secondly, we will add localization of five new languages ​​after the update (respectively Italian, French, German , Spanish and Russian), and our translators will need time to supplement the translation of new content since the official release in order to provide a localized experience that is as complete as possible.

In general, we hope that the updated version 1.1 (we will both update 1.0 + 1.1 in the same time) will become a fairly complete and stable version, so we would like to ask for more time to polish the game carefully and optimize all the unsatisfactory details.

Therefore, the content of this update will be more abundant than any of our previous updates, and it will be worth your wait.


1) Multiple optimizations of UI and sound effects.

2) A new special arena : The temple of the god of war Gortus.

3) New post-challenge : Gortus' Endless Challenge.

4) Several new legendary weapons.

5) Several new monsters.

6) Add a new kind of side mission map.

7) New build template system : Some NPC gladiators will automatically use build template. (In addition to the current NPC champion, NPC gladiators will have a large number of powerful(epic) gladiators )

8) The AI ​​trigger has been greatly improved.

9) Add a new plot mission.

10) New weapon skill and Genre : Martial arts and Monk （ Monk might need another week of time to import into the game)

11) New online leaderboard system: players can upload or download their own or other players' gladiator data while challenging other players' championships! (Half online mode)

12) A new DLC, including a new plot mission and a new plot competition. The final rewards are two sets of legendary armor symbolizing the goddess of victory, Alyanas, and the god of war, Gortus.

In addition to the above, other interesting content will be added.

We once again apologize for the delay in our update and also thank you players for your continued support and understanding of the Blackthorn Gladiator. We will also work harder to improve the game. If you have any suggestions or feedback, please leave your comment below.

Blackthorn Arena v 1.09 Patch note:


1) Fixed a bug that caused the fall in love event to get stuck due to the death of the gladiator.

2) Fixed an issue related to the Assassin's Stamina Cost.

3) Fixed a bug where Berserker’s head attack damage calculation was incorrect.

4) Fixed a bug where the gladiator might disappear from the scene after returning from the arena.

5) Fixed a rare bug that cause the players to be stuck during the challenge.

6) Fixed a bug where a lover buff would still take effect when the gladiator's lover was not present.

7) Fixed the bug that related to the display bug of cell scene.

1) Slightly reduced the chance of triggering gladiator fall in love event.

2) Added a shelving button to the handling of some events. Now players could temporarily put challenges event, and side mission event on hold and processed at any time before the end of the round.

3) Monsters and players will no longer perceive each other through the door of the dungeon.

4) Fixed several localization errors.

1) Now the friendship bonus and lovers bonus will also take effect in side missions.

2) Slightly weakened the damage of the orc master whirlwind attack.

3) All status skills are divided into combat stance and defensive stance

4) The effects of two combat state skills can only exist one at a time.


In addition, a larger update will be released at the end of this month. Until now, we will not update more content, but some hotfixes may be fixed in the form of hotfixes. Enjoy!

1）Fixed a bug where the deleted trigger still works.

2）Fixed a bug related to the Monster butcher set model .

3）Fixed a bug where characters in dispatch games or side mission would be lost.

4）Fixed a display issue with the command chain.

5）Fixed an issue where monster corpses sometimes shudder.

6）Fixed an issue where when saving a game when editing a trigger, the trigger would not be saved.



8）Fixed a bug where the total skill points would increase a little after using the Amnesia Potion.


1) Fix some wrong skill descriptions.

2) Players can now spectate while not participating in any arena's match.

3) Add a yield (give up current match) option to the game.

4) Various permanent potions' effect will no longer overwrite each other.

5) Rangers will no longer attack enemies out of sight.

6) Optimized some treasure hunt scene in side missions.

7) The color of the character's underwear is unified to gray.

8) The Gladiator's Career panel now displays the Gladiator's personal reputation.


1) Added a new set of epic (purple) quality equipment- Assassin Set.

2) Added a " gladiators fall in love" event to the game. Through this event, your two gladiators may become lovers and enjoy a certain bonus in the battle.


1) The upper limit of all resistances has been increased from 85% to 90%.

2) The actual dodge chance could exceed higher than 95%.

3) Cautious combat style's hit rate has been changed from 25% to 10 fixed value.

4) The dodge and block gained by the defense combat style have been changed from 25% to 10 fixed values.

5) The additional attributes of some equipment were balanced.

6) Reduced the amount of equipment and bonuses for challenges.

7) Reduced the money income of holding the competition.

8) The champion will no longer flee.

9) Changed the equipment of Russell Ron, Iron Arm and Jack Heartbreaker.
Enhanced Jack Heartbreaker.

Weapon and Genre skills:

1) Fixed a bug where the marksman passive bonus was higher than the described value.

2) Fixed a bug where surpirse attack would also take effect when targeted by an opponent.

Block expert:
Block Stamina cost reduction changed from 10/15/20% to 8/12/16%

Painpoint attack:
Ignore the block now.

Dash Attack:
Increased the range of hit determination.

1) Players can now spectate while not participating in any arena's match.

2）Various permanent potions' effect will no longer overwrite each other.

3) Fixed a bug where the deleted trigger still being worked.

4) Fixed a bug related to the Monster butcher model.

5) Fixed a bug where characters in dispatch games or side mission would be lost.

6) Fixed a display issue with the command chain.

1) Fixed issues related to the orc invasion plot.

2) Fixed a bug where the knockback arrow had a chance to knock the enemy back below the ground.

3) Fixed a bug that the socreboard will mistakenly display status as "death" after players defeat one of the legendary champion in a battle.

4) Fixed a bug where bow and archery sound effects were incorrect.

5) Fixed a bug that related to the Ossidell’s roots.

6) Fixed a bug when players click the main menu to start a new game, then click "ESC" will cause the main menu button to disappear.

7) Fixed a bug where pressing the ESC key to close the "holding competation" window would cause the prizes dragged in to be lost.

8) Fixed a bug where the Gladiator would always get resurrected during the rebellion event.

9) Fixed a bug that would prevent players return from the side mission.

10) Fixed the bug that the number of locked frames was invalid (Now only turning off vertical sync can lock the number of frames).

11) Fixed a bug where the player's gladiator might become an enemy during matches and side missions.

12) Fixed the bug that the Pratice training in Iron Man mode will be saved automatically, which will result in corrupting archive.

13) Fixed a bug where the gladiator get drifted when playing the victory animation.

14) Fixed a bug where the squad members who fell near the scarecrow could get stucked in battle phase (can not leave battle).

15) Fixed a bug where double-clicking an item would cause the item to be disappeared when opening the loot interface in side missions.

16) Fixed a bug where a player would issue an attack command to himself during the triggering battle event, which would cause the character to try to attack himself.

17) Fixed a bug where dispatching gladiators might cause them to not return to arena.

18) Fixed a bug where the character would occasionally get stucked and unable to move in " No manual combat"mode.

19) Fixed a bug that in " No manual combat"mode , players would not able to leave combat in side missions.

20) Fixed a bug where the wounded gladiatiors in the treatment room would not leave the room after recovering to full health by the effect of daily diet .

21) Fixed a bug where the character could still move while playing the stand-up animation.



1) Set the turning distance as a percentage instead of a specific value.

2) Now the game is set to 60 frames by default

3) The hate system has been adjusted, and it is now easier for characters to shift their targets when hatred grows.

4) After the unit dies, it will become a loot directly. Clicking on the loot tab will issue a pickup command.

5) The rotation range is changed to be displayed as a percentage of the attack distance.

6) The Amnesia potion will now also reset the skills in the user's skill shortcut bar.

7) Now the night attack in the side mission will not be very dark.



1) Add 5 new female hairstyles.

2) Add 4 new Face Print.

3) Replacing the final challenge of the Grand Final, players will now face a destructive orc warlord.



1) Devas's servant: A powerful soul reaper, attacking causing soul damage, ignoring defense.

2) The master of the deep: An octopus wizard who is good at ice magic.




Executioner: Inflicts an additional 50% damage to enemies with less than 25% health.

Blade of the Twin Gods: When attacking with this weapon, there is a 35% chance to perform a "double attack", which will not only inflict twice the damage but also cause additional attack effect twice ( such as exposure weakness) to enemies.

Davis' sickle: The attack causes direct soul damage, ignoring all resistance.

Hans' pot lid: Players can use the shield as a weapon type, inflicting 15-20 points of basic damage, all melee attack attribute bonuses will be affected.

Storm chop: Whirlwind will be cast twice in a row.

Stone breaker: All bow and arrow skills damage increased by 15%.

These 6 legendary weapons can be obtained by completing extremely difficult treasure hunt side missions.

Add Orc Masters’ set as a reward for the Orc Masters Arena Challenge (players who have previously challenged the Orc Masters can challenge again)






1) Increased the reputation cost of holding a competition.

2) Modified the calculation method of the competition's reputation reward. Now the reputation of the game will be determined by the competition's level, number of participants and type of competition. The reputation gained by the competition is now a bit lower overall.

3) Increased the automatic calculation of win rate for all champions and reduced the gambling odds of the champion's team.

4) Slightly enhanced the orc domination of the final challenge of the Grand Game.

5) Reduced the turning speed of all gladiators.

6) The stamina cost of blocking is reduced from 125% damage to 100%.

7) The attack distance of all two-handed weapons has slightly increased overall.

8) The attack range of all bows and arrows is slightly reduced.

9) The damage of all weapons above the Rare (blue) level is reduced overall. The damage of all Legendary (Orange) and Epic (purple) weapons are decreased by 8%, and all Rare (blue) weapons are decreased by 5%.

10) Added elemental resistance to some light armor.

11) Slightly reduced the experience of side mission other than treasure hunting.

12) Increased the dispatching win rate of the Venationes.


1) Reduced the damage of the Scorpion Lion.

2) Increased gargoyle's Health and resistance.

3) Increased Medusa's Health.

4) Slightly reduced the stone giant's Health.


1) Wind whisper: The knockback effect is slightly reduced.

2) Smaragdus's squama: The chance of reflecting projectiles has been increased from 25% to 40%.

3) Fisherman's Disaster: Increased base damage, now the chance of adding bleeding effect is changed to 100%.



One-handed weapon:

1) Head blow:
-The blunt damage is increased by 30/40/50 from 25/30/35.

2) Incise:
-Each time the weapon damage is increased from 70/80/90% to 80/90/100%,
-Stamina cost is increased from 100% to 150% the weapon cost.
- The animation (Cast) speed is increased.

3) Smart Gesture:
- Attackers' melee damage will no longer been reduced
- Attackers' stamina Cost is increased by an additional 5%

4) Tentative attack:
- Weapon damage caused changed from 60/70/80% to a fixed 100%.

5) One-Handed Weapon Master:
- Damage bonus reduced from 25% to 15%.


Dual-armed weapon:

1) Cross cut:
- Stamina cost reduced from 200% weapon cost to 150% weapon cost.

2) Feint:
- Stamina cost has been reduced from 120% weapon cost to 100% weapon cost
- Animation (Cast) speed has been increased.

3) Serial Pricks:
- Stamina cost reduced from 300% weapon cost to 200% weapon cost.

4) Dual Weapon Master :
- Removed the accuracy bonus
- Reduced the damage bonus from 20% to 15%.


Polearms weapon:

1) Stumble sweep:
- Knockdown time reduced from 2/3/4 seconds to 1.5/2/2.5 seconds.

2) Armor penetration:
- Armor penetration has been reduced from 12/18/24% to 10/15/20%,
- Fixed a bug that the skill will increase the accuracy by mistake.

3) Polearms Weapon Master :
- Removed damage bonus and accuracy bonus,
- Increases attack speed by 15%.


Ranged weapon:

1) Dead zone:
- Stamina cost reduced from 300% weapon cost to 200% weapon cost.

2) Power shoot:
- Stamina cost reduced from 200% weapon cost to 150% weapon cost.

3) Execute shoot:
- Stamina cost reduced from 150% weapon cost to 120% weapon cost.

4) Disable shoot:
- Stamina cost reduced from 150% weapon cost to 120% weapon cost.

5) Falcon Eye:
- Accuracy bonus reduced from 10/15/20 to 6/9/12.

6) Range Weapon Master:
- Removed the damage bonus ,
- Accuracy bonus has been increased from 10 to 15.


Two-handed weapons:

1) Armour crash:
- Physical resistance reduction increased from 10/15/20% to 12/18/24%.

2) Charge attack:
- The animation has been reworked to make the entire skill smoother.

3) Spiral slash:
- Stamina cost reduced from 200% weapon cost to 150%s weapon cost.

4) Two-Handed Weapon Master:
- Removed damage bonus and accuracy bonus.
- Stamina Save increased by 10%.


Weapon & Shield:

1) Knock shield:
- Taunt duration reduced from 3/4/5 to 2/3/4.

2) Shield strike:
- Cooldown time increased from 12 to 14,
- Stamina cost reduced from 18 to 15.

3) Smash Ground:
- Damage based on block rate has been increased from 40/50/60% block rate to 70/80/90%.

4) Alternate attack:
- Damage bonus increased from 4/8/12 to 8/16/24,
- Stamina Cost reduced from 150% weapon cost to 120% weapon cost.

5) Shield Master:
- Removed the damage bonus.
- Stamina cost while blocking now reduced by 10%.



Gladiator:

1) Multi-weapon master:
- Now reduces the weight of secondary weapons by 50/75/100%.


Commander:

1)War banner:
- The radius of skill increased from 3 meters to 4 meters.


Duelist:

1) Precision strike:
- The Animation (Cast) Speed is increased.

2) Expose weaknesses:
- Fixed a bug that could stack infinitely, and now only stack 16 layers.


Marksman:

1) Marksman:
- Ranged damage bonus reduced from 10/15/20% to 8/12/16%.

2) Burning Arrows:
- Stamina cost increased from 0 to 8.

3) Bouncing Arrow:
- Stamina cost reduced from 200% weapon cost to 150% weapon cost.

4) Sniper stance:
- Damage bonus has been reduced from 1/1.5/2% ranged damage per point to a fixed 1%
- Increase the attack range by 1/2/3 meter.


Ranger:

1) Ranger:
- Ranged damage bonus reduced from 10/20/30% to 10/15/20%.

2) Slide Strafe
- Name has been change to slide , the shooting effect has been canceled.
- Movement speed will be increased by 10/15/20% within 5 seconds after sliding.


Rouge:

1) Envenomed Weapon:
- Fixed a BUG that could be stacked indefinitely. Now, poisoned weapons can only stack 4 layers.
- Damage per second reduced from 3/4.5/6 to 3/4/5.

2) Surprise attack:
- The effect has been reworked : attack damage will be increased by 140/160/180% damage to enemies who is not current targeting you.
- This skill has a 5 second cooldown.

3) Lurk :
- Skill has been replaced with "Back Stab"
Back Stab:
- Move quickly behind the target to launch an attack
- This skill has a cooling time of 11/9/7 seconds.

4) Light armor expert:
- Light armor weight burden reduction has been changed from 20/30/40% to 10/15/20%.
- Add a new effect , for each piece of light armor equipped, an additional 1/2/3 evasion is added.

Orc Master Invasion Event has been postponed for 15 days overall in order to provide players more time to get prepared.
Added a hint to the fact that the game cannot be held during the plot competition.


1）Fixed a black screen bug caused by performing " Escaped Gladiator Capture mission".

2）Fixed a bug where retreating from the challenge will cause the players to lose their characters.

3）Completely solved the bug that the monsters could not be used to hold the Venationes.

4）Fixed a bug that caused the players to get stuck in the loading screen after returning from the side mission.

5）Fixed a bug where gladiators could not equip items occasionally.

Starting this week, we will reduce the frequency of major update patches and instead push more content to everyone at once. This will also help us to have enough time to test our changes. Our next major update will be launched this weekend. The updated content will include: new legendary weapons, new legendary armor sets, an interesting new system, new side mission maps, and massive adjustments in balance. Stay tuned !

1) Fixed a bug when players challenge Orc Master's team will get stuck in the Grand Game

2) Fixed a bug where the gladiator occasionally went out without any HP during the Tag Fight .

3) Fixed a bug where the player's avatar appeared in the arena with a default appearance.

4) Fixed the bug that the mission could not be completed after obtaining the BlackThorns Armor Set.

5) Fixed the bug where black thorn battle armor was found and it would still enter the tomb after clicking temporarily.

6) Fixed a bug where the mission disappeared after exiting from the grave of the Black Thorn Warframe.

7) Fixed a bug related to the trigger target.

8) Fixed a bug related to the target of auto cast.

9) Fixed the bug that the unit will continue to perceive an enemy who has already exceeded the perception range.

10) Fixed a bug where the items in the inventory cannot be split.

11) Fix the bug that item sorting is invalid after category display.

12) Fixed the bug that rare prompt box remains and cannot be clicked.

13) Fixed a bug where certain bow and arrow skills would break the block and cause infinite damage (shown as break infinity).

14) Fixed the bug that the combat speed setting is invalid in the partice combat and side mission.

15) Fixed a bug related to resource loading, slightly reduced the memory usage after switching multiple scenes.

16) Fixed a bug where the player's character might initially fall to the ground during side missions.

17) Fixed a bug where a trigger might appear repeatedly in the tactical panel of another character.

18) Fixed a bug that gladiator occasionally does not deduct health when injured in battle.

19) Fixed a bug where robbery caravan achievement statistics is not working correctly.

20) Resolved the conflict that occurred when the player' competition started and the side mission was also sent out at the same time.


1) Now players can press Alt to highlight the gladiators on both sides while watching the battle.

2) Now hover your mouse over a gladiator's avatar, the gladiator will highlight in the scene and display the name.

3) The effect of using the potion was changed to take effect instantly, to avoid the animation being interrupted and making the potion invalid.

4) Balanced the reward of caravan side mission.

5) All humanoid units will drop a small amount of money after death.

6) Added materials to all monsters. Now monsters in both hunting and treasure hunting side mission will drop materials. The material will appear on the corpse after the monster dies.


1) Two new monsters have been added to the treasure hunt mission, Gargoyle and Wild Witch. They have very powerful skills and are very difficult to deal with.


2) Added all armor recipes for veteran T2 level, which can be researched by the blacksmith.

3) Six kinds of permanent potions have been added, which need to be synthesized by hunting the materials dropped by the top monsters. The formula of the potion can be studied by the doctor.

Blackthorn Arena v1.04 Update Change Log：




1) Fixed a bug in which players ’prizes would not return when players close the “Hold Arena" window.

2）Fixed a bug where a rare game played to a certain stage when no one participated in the game.

3）Fixed a bug where the host of the arena disappeared.

4）Fixed a bug that may caused a black screen or stuck .

5）Resolved an shadow flickered issue caused by monster butcher's cloak .

6）Fixed a bug where the guards could easily be knocked away.

7）Fixed some bug where players would get stuck in the grass during side mission.

8）Fixed some bug where some players would get stuck on the wall in dungeon during side mission.

9）Fixed a bug where certain rooms in dungeons could not be reached.

10）Fixed some skill description errors.

11）Fixed the bug that players' slaves would exceed the upper limit (16) by slave capture side mission.

12）Fixed the issue where the combat speed could not be adjusted.

13）Fixed the bug that the guards in side mission would sometimes not attack players when they should.

14）Fixed a bug where the archive will be corrupted after the side mission was exited in iron man mode.

15) Fixed a bug where the shadow of plants in the side mission would get flickered.

16）Fixed a loading bug related to desert side mission


1）Now archive will be automatical saved before side missions.

2）In Iron Man mode, archive will also be automatical saved before side missions.

3）The Cancel button in the settings interface now will close the window

4）Changed the game's default resolution from 2K to 1920x1080

5）Adjusted all the dungeon spots, monster configuration, and treasure chest placement.

6）Now with senior difficulty or higher, the orc master will participate in the Grand Game.

7）Added skills to many monsters, they are now more powerful and challenging.

1) Fixed a bug where specting the game and skipping the Left team would definitely win.

2) Fixed a bug where the characters in a side mission map would jump up in place.

3) Fixed bugs related to wolves in cave for side missions.

4) Fixed a model issue of wearing veterans light armor chest.

5) Fixed a bug that the newly added one-handed spear could not be purchased, and added localization to it.

6) Fixed a bug where the items in the store could be dragged directly into the gladiator's equipment bar.

7) Fixed a bug where the prize of the match sponsor could be dragged directly into the gladiator equipment bar.


1) Increased the level of Skeleton Knight from 6 to 10.

2) Increase werewolf's attack damage, health and stamina recovery.

3) Slightly improved the endurance of The Orc Master.


1) Added a few missing Chinese localizations.