Lords and Ladies!

There is always something strange and marvelous happening in the Prime Zone. Lately, the Heroes, upon returning from the watch, have been telling about some mysterious light coming from the heart of the forest.
It is time to investigate what is going on over there!



⏳ Complete the quest from 12:00 p.m. (UTC +3) August 13 to 12:00 p.m. (UTC +3) August 24 to get valuable rewards: abrasives to upgrade a talent to 8, 9, and 10 Stars and catalysts with a 20% upgrade chance!

❗PLEASE NOTE:❗
This is a single quest, not a quest chain. To get the rewards, you must complete all tasks.
However, in one battle, you can do several things at once: collect 20,000 Prime, inflict 10,000 damage to Heroes, kill 2 Kittons or Fire Drakes. All of the above will get into the quest progress.
Besides, if you are in the process of completing a quest and decide to switch to another game client, the quest progress will be reset to zero.

Always yours,
Prime World Team

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1213570/Cave_Quest/

• Chinese localization (translated by Source Localization Team 起源汉化组)

I express my deep gratitude to the translators for their work.

We’ve prepared some special events to mark the arrival of the Cursed Wanderer – Igrid!

Check them out below!

■ Event Period

- August 13, 2020 (Thu) after maintenance – August 20, 2020 (Thu) before maintenance


■ How to Participate

① Login to Shadow Arena.

② Play one match of Solo, Team, or King of Hill mode with the new Hero, Igrid, to participate in the event!


■ Event Rewards
* Sparring Grounds, AI matches, and Custom matches will not be counted for the event.

* Players must fully complete a match to be counted as completing the event requirements. If you leave during a match, it will not be counted as fully completing it.

* For 2 weeks starting from August 13th (Thu), all Heroes will be available to play for free, so you can participate in the event even if you do not have the “[Hero] Igrid”.



■ Event Match Date and Time

- August 18, 2020 (Tue) 21:00 (UTC+9)


■ Server

- Asia Server

■ How to Participate

① Login to Shadow Arena Asia server before the match time.

② Before the match begins, there will be an in-game notice announcing the custom room’s name and password for the event match.

③ Enter the event match room with announced the name and password as the [Hero] Igrid and enjoy the match!


■ Event Rewards




[Event] [Igrid] Priestess of Ynix

* You may only participate in this event match with the [Hero] Igrid; if you enter the event with a different Hero, you may be kicked from the room.

- If you participate in the event match as a different Hero than the [Hero] Igrid, you will not be eligible for any of the event rewards regardless of your match placement.


Additional Notices

[Event 1] The event reward will be sent by in-game mail after the maintenance on July 30, 2020 (Thu).

[Event 2] Event rewards will be sent by in-game mail on the same day as the end of the event match.

[Event 2] The event match room will accept players in a first-come, first-served basis for up to 40 participants.

[All]

- Pearl Abyss reserves the right to change/cancel the event depending on mitigating circumstances. If changes are made, they can be found on this event page.

- If you violate the Shadow Arena Terms of Service and have your account banned/restricted even after becoming a winner, your reward may be cancelled or withdrawn.

- If you have any other questions or concerns related to the event, please contact us via https://support.pearlabyss.com/Support/Start.

- Any matters not listed on this page will follow the [Shadow Arena Event Rules].

Hi everyone!

If you follow our social media then you know exactly who brought life to Tove. BUT if you somehow missed it, let us introduce you to the great actress - Ingvild Deila.

Tove is the game’s emotional core and central to Röki’s story, and we knew it was going to be very challenging for us to find the right person for a role that was so central to our game. It was important that we cast a Scandinavian actress with great emotion range, who could be quite subtle and understated but still connect and convey emotion to the player.

We knew this was quite a big ask.

It was a very big deal for us and we didn’t want to get this wrong. We put such importance on the casting of Tove that we concentrated all our casting efforts around her character, knowing that she would be the linchpin around which all other casting decisions would be made.

Introducing Ingvild



Finally the role of Tove in Röki has been taken by Ingvild Deila.

She is a multi-talented Norwegian actress, singer, writer and philomath who played Princess Leia in Rogue One as well as having a small role in Avengers: Age of Ultron. She also has played the female lead in the following feature films: Hippopotamus (2016 dir. Ed Palmer), Escape from Brazil (dir. Bruno Decc 2018), Out-of-Place Artefact (dir. Bruno Decc 2019) and Baumbacher Syndrome (dir. Gregory Kirchhoff 2019) where she played opposite Tobias Moretti.

Watch a video showcasing some of her work!

Impact

The remote Röki recording session with Ingvild was a lot of fun and very exciting. Throughout the session we were all hit by what a big difference this was going to make and taken aback by Ingvild’s performance as we were hearing Tove come to life for the first time.

Great job Ingvild!

As we said at the start of this post, casting Tove was always going to be a difficult task for us, and one that we were quite nervous about. The outcome has been more than we could have hoped for.

Please, big applause for Ingvild and her contribution to Röki!

Until next time,
Alex & Tom

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1067540/Rki/

The game is available in Steam and we have made discounts for everyone.

Greetings FS City Ballers!

Check out these new events and items available in-game starting today!





Event Period : 8/13 - 8/19 23:59 (PDT)

Special chance to try out upcoming characters, Jimmy, Fei and Walker!

Check out their skills at Max Level!




Enjoy your 3v3 match and get 100% Coin Buff for your match reward!

Event Period: 8/14 - 8/16 07:00 - 13:59 / 15:00 - 17:59 (PDT)





Celebrate your victory with these new celebrations available in the shop starting today!




New Freestyle Hair Salon just arrived to FS City! Check out the new hairstyles available!

Hi everyone! We've recently concluded the releases of puzzle boxes from our Terran Utopia collection. With that, we will do a slight content pause and will focus on preparing the first post-early access release version of the game. Right now we are working on a very challenging new feature that you'll surely like - the functionality to select a puzzle slicing algorithm for each new puzzle game!

While the currently used slicing algorithm in the game is decent, we always wanted to offer something more in terms of puzzle tile shapes and variation. The problem with creating such a feature is that the more a puzzle tile goes away from a regular rectangular shape, the harder is to program an algorithm that detects if neighboring puzzle tiles match when they're put together. Nevertheless, now that the game is out of Early Access, we can start experimenting with such features.

As we developed Masters of Puzzle during Early Access, we always made sure to keep backward compatibility as much as possible as not to break your saved games. We want to take the same approach with this feature as well. Therefore, we plan to do more than just changing the slicing algorithm and the underlying assembly system. We want to keep the old system intact and at the same time allow for new systems to be tested and used. This will require some major changed in the code related to puzzle generation and assembly - something, on which we're already working. We hope you'll like the result once it's ready for release.

In addition, we've been thinking about trying out a different type of puzzle images - non-standard black and white photography. Take a look at a couple of images we're currently considering for this new collection:




These puzzle boxes will be free for all owners of Masters of Puzzle. Do you want to build puzzles like these? Let us know what you think in the comments.

Don't forget to follow our social channels for regular news and some exclusive information about the game:

• Official Site
  
• Facebook
  
• Twitter

We're moving this small patch to the stable branch now after it performed well for several weeks on the beta branch. We are also aware of some issues that might be happening in relation to the torpedoes introduction mission; we're working on those!

Here's a quick summary of the latest patch notes:

"As always, bug fixes with [UBR] are User Bug Reports. Thanks for helping improve Avorion and keep it up!"

• [UBR] Fixed some typos in new server.ini docs
• [UBR] Fixed a hang when beating the MAD science lab
• [UBR] Fixed a hang in torpedoes introduction mission
• [UBR] Fixed several issues with localization
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where the sector overview window was too big on small resolutions
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where file sectornamegenerator.lua wasn't moddable
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where reconstruction of ships sometimes didn't restore turret designs
• [UBR] Fixed a crash when transforming a normal block to a holo block

"A small patch fixing some urgent issue while we're working on the bigger things."

• Fixed some cheat- & security issues
• Added a config option to server.ini to specify maximum receivable network message size
• Server now writes out a server.ini documentation file

• Added Player [Client]:onJumpRouteCalculationFinished() callback

"As always, bug fixes with [UBR] are User Bug Reports. Thanks for helping improve Avorion and keep it up!"

• [UBR] Fixed several issues with translations
• [UBR] Fixed an issue with the tutorial getting stuck when played on Chinese or some other languages
• Fixed an issue where building mode buttons weren't correctly disabled during tutorial
• Improved profiling on Windows machines
• Fixed several issues in scripts
• [UBR] Fixed a server crash that happened in large sectors after too many sectors were explored
• Fixed an issue where some scripts were loaded more than necessary
• [UBR] Fixed several issues in torpedo introduction mission
• [UBR] Fixed an issue where mining lasers didn't recognize asteroids as mineable after they were split into two pieces
• [UBR] Fixed a rare crash when starting a singleplayer game
• [UBR] Fixed a rare crash when connecting to a multiplayer game
• [UBR] Trading Posts now no longer post resource shortage bulletins if they have enough in stock to fulfill request

Hi, everyone,

Thanks so much for your support and attention! We all know Cruel Bands Career is a very unusual title and we've received a huge amount of feedback. The good news is that we've got the first update ready for all of you, here's the list:

- Many players have mentioned that this game is somehow too difficult. We've added a hidden easy mode with 10 lives, please choose it as you want. However, what you need to know is that, in this mode, the best records for the most coins and the fastest run won't be updated in film01.

Here's the tip how to enter this hidden easy mode, very similar to the classical Konami code:



- Fixed a problem with some users in Sydney or New Zealand system timezones stuck in the loading screen.
- Fixed a few other bugs.

By the way, the Official Soundtrack of Cruel Bands Career is ready too, which includes If you didn't own it yet, you can always get it from the bundle with an additional 10% off discount.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1389220/Cruel_Bands_Career__Official_Soundtrack/

Hope you can enjoy our game, and feel free to let us know if you have any good suggestions.