Dear Onmyoji,

To ensure a better game experience, we are performing an update from Apr. 11th 2:00 to Apr. 11th 5:00 EST. During this time you will not be able to log in. The estimated duration time may be extended due to technical issues. We appreciate your patience and understanding.



Boss: Odoroku appears in Demon Encounter

Odoroku is an assembly boss invading the real world. When an Odokuro is discovered in Demon Encounter, players have 3-6 minutes to assemble in the lobby space to prepare. No players can join once the battle has begun. Odokuro summons soldiers to help him when he takes a certain amount of damage. The challenge has three stages:

Stage I: Odokuro resurrects 5 of his fallen soldiers to protect him. Odokuro receives damage reduction effects as long as his soldiers are present. One of his soldiers is special. players can deal extra damage to him with normal attacks and only reduced damage with skills.

Stage II: Odokuro resurrects 6 of his fallen soldiers. Only two are the true soldiers of Odokuro. Odokuro's true soldiers reveal correct messages. Players should only KO the true soldiers. KO any of the other four soldiers brings about the wrath of Odokuro. Each player can only see a message from one soldier. Players need to cooperate to find the correct messages. If a message begins with [Report], it contains information from the"Scattered Notes" scroll. If a message begins with [Battle], it contains information about the rules of the current stage.

Stage III: Odokuro resurrects 5 of his fallen soldiers to fight for him. Odokuro receives damage reduction effects as long as his soldiers are present. The 5 soldiers were once a band of brothers and are united as one. KOing any one of the soldiers enrages the other soldiers.

Affected by Odokuro's strong power, the visuals of the fields summoned by Shikigami are less magnificent. But the effects remain the same.

Boss Defense

Every Saturday from 10:00 to 23:00 EST, the leader, and officers can set the difficulty of the Boss Defense of the week. The higher the difficulty, the more challenging the Boss and the better rewards after the Boss is defeated. Difficulty limit is based on guild level. To challenge a Boss of higher difficulty, players need to work together to make their guild more powerful.


Event time: April 11th after the update to April 17th 23:59 EST
During the event, enemies in the Exploration Zone will have two bonuses at the same time, affecting the drop rates for your loot!


New skins of Hitotsume: Wisdom Seeker will be available at the skin store after the update. This skin will be 20% off for the first week only! Our familiar one-eyed friend is taking on a more colorful look with his new blue appearance!

1. Fixed language and technical bugs.
   
2. Fixed the problem so that players will immediately know which souls obtained after exchanged for Plain Soul Box.

Hi

parodineto detected an issue in where people were not getting inputs from the Storage! Basically, orders were added only in certain circumstances!

The problem was fixed!

Please if you find any bugs, by all means, report it in the forums

Thanks

Hello again, everyone!

We’re happy to launch the Steam Page for our 2nd game, Treasure Hunter Claire! After the success of our 1st game, Fallen ~Makina and the City of Ruins~, one of the first developers I thought of contacting was Acerola. They’ve always been known in the industry for high quality games. To be honest, I thought there was probably only a 1% chance that they would accept us. So I was pleasantly surprised when they came back to us with open arms. And since you guys, our fans, have been asking us for voice acting in our next games, everything worked out!

At Kagura Games, we’ve been really lucky to have such great partners and fans this early on in our development. I hope you will continue supporting us!

The game will be available in June of 2018! I’ll have an exact release date next month! Please look forward to it!

If you haven’t played our first game, Fallen, you can find it on Steam at the link below:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/791330/Fallen_Makina_and_the_City_of_Ruins/

Also, we started our own Steam Group and Patreon. Feel free to join them at the links below:

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/kaguragames

https://www.patreon.com/KaguraGames

MPQ 150!
New Support Feature: Now your Marvel heroes and villains can use Supports to make them even stronger! Equip your characters with Supports for increased stats and new powers.
Recruit MPQ’s latest character – Jubilee!
Various bug fixes and character balance changes.
For full update notes (English) visit d3go.com.
Thank you for playing!

For each of my games I love to make an 'official' A3 poster to put on my wall, and since we are so close to Rolling Lines release I just got this one printed!

Less than 3 weeks to go until release!

Hello everyone!

The Steam Page for our next game, Treasure Hunter Claire, is up now! Feel free to check it out below and add it to your wish list:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/828070/Treasure_Hunter_Claire/

Also, we started our own Steam Group and Patreon. Feel free to join them at the links below:

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/kaguragames

https://www.patreon.com/KaguraGames

Alpha 1.6.0 is now available. This update adds a new system for blood on weapons that adds both texture and transparency variation as blood accumulates on each weapon. Any feedback, bug reports, etc. can be posted in the discussion boards.

• added a new blood on weapons system
  
• added broken weapon warning message
  
• updated blood placement (more blood!)
  
• updated high settings to use realtime reflections
  
• updated low settings to use pre-baked reflections
  
• updated player-controlled melons to not spawn with weapons impaled in them
  
• updated shadow distances (optimization)
  
• updated all melons to die when the game ends
  
• updated blood decals draw distance (optimization)
  
• updated melons to not continue spawning after the game ends (optimization)
  
• updated check for weapons that need to be removed (optimization)
  
• updated check for out of bounds weapons (optimization)
  
• updated dead melons to be reused (optimization)
  
• fixed round increasing before all melons are dead bug
  
• fixed indoor/outdoor reflections bug (thanks Lord Tism)
  
• fixed weapon break sound not playing bug
  
• fixed blood on weapons disappearing bug
  
• fixed painting blood bug
  
• fixed create match can't click buttons bug
  
• fixed spectating input bug
  
• fixed player-controlled melons attack damage bug

Would you like to tell me the clothes you want us to appear in the game?

Ascended, we are so happy to have you with us, on Live and Prime. It’s been a busy year and we want to share what’s coming next! Grab a mug of ale or a cup of coffee and settle in...


ALL RIFT SERVICES:

There are a lot of causes for lag, most of which occur in the wild spaces between your system and hours.  So let’s talk about a type of lag we can address internally in our services: Ability Lag. We’ve made a number of adjustments to load-heavy abilities on some classes, and load distribution on our servers, with more to come--we’ve seen a dramatic reduction in reports of Ability Lag. This doesn’t mean that we’re done yet, or that it doesn’t still occur; we continue to watch and review, and will take more action over time as we identify culprits.

Balance:

Balance is a common and repeated request, and one we take seriously. We know that souls and challenges evolve over time, along with the game. Again, we plan slow and careful adjustments over time, rather than massive, sweeping changes. You can expect more of these to come throughout the evolution of RIFT on both Live and Prime services. Here are the tweaks we are making this patch on both Live and Prime services, focused heavily on Warriors, who really needed the love... GROUP HUG! (read on below for more Warrior adjustments on Prime only)

• Warrior – Void Knight: The cooldown for Tempest has been removed. Damage has been slightly reduced but threat has been increased.
• Warrior – Void Knight: Increased the threat gain on the following abilities: Ragestorm, Unstable Reaction, and Discharge.
• Warrior – Paladin: The cooldown for Sweeping Strike has been removed. Damage has been slightly reduced but threat has been increased.
• Warrior – Paladin: Increased the threat gain on the following abilities: Light’s Vengeance, Light’s Reprisal, and Vengeful Decree.
• Rogue – Riftstalker: The cooldown for Rift Disturbance has been removed. Damage has been slightly reduced but threat has been increased.
• Mage – Frostkeeper: The threat generated from Earthen Rapport has been reduced.
• Mage – Frostkeeper: Players and pets can now only have 1 stack of a Frostkeeper barrier on them at a time.

 

General Content:

On the general content front, Lantern Hook has received some attention. Pyromaster Cortinald will no longer be able to ignore taunts, while Tarthak the Immolator’s health will scale more appropriately.

 

PVP Bolstering Adjustment

In PvP, we’re introducing an adjustment for bolstering at lower levels (10-50), wherein they use the same bolstering effect as level 50+ Warfronts. We ask that you please post feedback of any bugs you may encounter with this change. Here is the official feedback thread - we really appreciate your input AFTER the patch goes live, of course!

 

Guild Creation:

Creating a Guild through the game UI will now cost one platinum, to match the purchase rate of a Guild Creation Scroll.

 

Summer is Coming!

We’ve started work on Summerfest 2018, and hope to talk about it on this week’s Livestream! We think you'll love the theme for this year, so tune in and have a look-see! Yes, this WILL be on Live and Prime!

 

 
Level Boosting potions have been examined, tested and reformulated so that they will award the proper amount of experience for the applicable level.

In the Bastion of Steel Raid, we’ve taken a wrench to Vindicator MK1’s Burning Ground ability, so that it can no longer affect players outside of the instance. It’s an edge case, but an annoying one!

 

 
Progression is at the top of many current discussions across our many communication channels, and as the Vigil server population slowly matures (hey, not everyone is max level yet!), it’s time to plot a course for the next month!

Heads up – Greenscale is coming soon! Everyone’s favorite voracious chomper, the first Dragon to be encountered on Telara will show up in late April. Will It be wholesale slaughter, or will your guild persevere?

Meanwhile, the path to Greenscale is already opening, with the release of the Life Saga and Death Saga, just in time for the Month 2 Vigil Challenge! These will automatically unlock at 9:00 AM PDT, April 11^th!



Not enough content for ya? No problem - we’re also unlocking:

• Expert Deepstrike Mines
• Expert Runic Descent
• Expert Abyssal Precipice
• Expert Charmer’s Caldera!

 

Speaking of the Caldera, we’ve smacked around the bosses for ya in Standard mode:
Smouldaron: Deals a bit less damage

Cyclorax: Deals slightly less damage

Ryka Dharvos: Deals moderately less damage

Caelia the Stormtouched: Deals less damage

 
Darkening Deeps Expert is coming around the bend, expected to open next week or slightly later!

 
Blighted Antechamber is anticipated in the upcoming weeks as well. In both cases, we’re making sure the QA folks get a good look at them before being released to the wilds of Vigil!

 

PVP Warfront: Port Scion returns to the PvP Warfront list, as part of our 2nd Monthly Prime: Vigil Challenge!  We’re looking forward to feedback on this zone; in the past it’s been love it or hate it, with very little in between.


Prime-only balance updates focus largely on adjusting the Warrior, who needed the most help in this brave new world. As with balance adjustments on Live servers, we will watch, measure and gather both data and personal feedback, continuing to adjust over time as needed:

• Mage – Frostkeeper: Healing procced by Earthen Barrier has been reduced. Boop!
• Warrior – Paladin: Fixed an issue where when using Shield of the Hero, auto-attacks would do zero damage. Bing!
• Warrior – Champion: Slightly increased damage of Mighty Blow. Bam!
• Warrior – Champion: Moderately increased the damage of Titan’s Strike. Pow!
• Warrior – Champion: Greatly increased the damage of Bladefury. BOOM!
• Warrior – Paragon: Increased the damage of Shifting Blades. Yeah!
• Warrior – Paragon: Greatly increased the damage of Way of the Wind. Whoa!
• Warrior – Paragon: Slightly increased the damage of Deadly Parity. Take that!

So hug a Warrior today... unless you're in PvP, in which case, smack 'em hard, then run away fast!

 
PvP Queues taking forever? Level 50 Warfront Balance? We hear you like it when folks die. Message received!

Both damage (increased) and healing (lowered) have been adjusted pretty heavily.  Please continue to post feedback and we'll continue to tune toward fun.  Thank you!

 
Plenty! Now that we’ve been at this for a month, we’re getting a clearer picture of where the path leads. River of Souls is next up for scrutiny, Combat Balance continues, Dungeon Balance is under further review.

The first slivers glimmer on the horizon and are expected later this month - you can soon experience Gilded Prophecy and Drowned Halls again, for the first time!

We’re working on UI to support 20-player LFR.

Summerfest will come to Prime this year in addition to Live servers, marking the first full-on festival to run on Vigil!

And this just in… the team is starting internal testing on post-Greenscale world events! We can’t spill ALL the beans, or there will be nothing left to talk about, but hey, drop us some questions for the Livestream on Friday!


RIFT ON!

~The RIFT Team