There’s lots going on this month in TERA: Look forward to a whole bunch of boosts and a spooktacular Halloween event! Read on to find out all about our October events.

Just want a quick overview? Then take a look at our [[url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jIfuq5BR2ptaC5ZTHikM23VK5476SLB26C68oN35YbY/edit#gid=824815252]Google calendar[/url]]

**6th October 2020 (6:00 AM) to 12th October 2020 (5:59 AM)**
More entries, more fun, more loot! During the event the number of daily dungeon entries will increase, giving you 3 additional entries to the following dungeons:
* Forbidden Arena [Hagufna]
* Draakon Arena (Normal/Hard)
* [Immortalis] Forbidden Arena
* [Aeternia] Forbidden Arena

**10th October 2020 (midnight) to 11th October 2020 (11:59 PM)**
Take advantage of the one-third increase to enchantment chances and reach that epic gear! With the exception of Enchant Scrolls. The increased chances apply to the following items:
* Dauntless & Manaforce Azart Gear
* Flawless & Master’s Duranium Gear
* Dark Light, Annihilation, and Eternal Gear
* Mythical gear

**16th October 2020 (midnight) to 19th October 2020 (11:59 PM)**
During the event, your chances of loot in the following dungeons is doubled:
* Draakon Arena (Normal/Hard)
* Bahaar’s Sanctum
* Forbidden Arena [Hagufna]
* Corrupted Skynest (Hard)
* Commander’s Residence
* RK-9 Kennel (Hard)
* [Aeternia] Forbidden Arena
* [Immortalis] Forbidden Arena

**22nd October 2020 (9:00 AM) to 3rd November 2020 (9:00 AM)**
Want a treat? Then let tricky Gourdo and his Halloween skeletons have it!
In our **Halloween event**, you can use your new special abilities with the cannon. Titania at the Eldritch Academy in Pora Elinu can teleport you to the banquet hall. For participating in the event, you’ll earn candies that you can exchange with Ellonia for spooktacular prizes such as almighty spooky steeds, creepy costumes, and the new stamps for the fall: Autumn Dreams and Windswept Maple Leaves.
Tip: For every day you log in, you’ll receive 10 additional Halloween Candies.

**23rd October 2020 (midnight) to 25th October 2020 (11:59 PM)**
The number of daily dungeon entries will increase again for this event too, giving you 1 additional entry to the following dungeons:
* Sea of Honor
* Commander’s Residence
* RK-9 Kennel (Hard)

**27th October 2020 (9:00 AM) to 3rd November 2020 (8:59 AM)**
You’ll earn double loot and Gold for Vanguard Initiative quests during the event period.

**29th October 2020 (10:00 AM) to 3rd November 2020 (10:00 AM)**
Up to 40 bonus rewards per day during the event period for quests level 65 to 70!
Bonus rewards for each “chest”:
* 2x Skill Advancement XP Tome II
* 10x Skill Optimization Scroll I
* 10x Skill Optimization Scroll II

**31st October 2020 (midnight) to 1st November 2020 (11:59 PM)**
Take advantage of the doubled increase to enchantment chances once again this month and reach that epic gear! The increased chances apply to the following items:
* All relics
* All halidoms

In this weekly progress update, we'd like to share with you the latest news of the game development.

First of all, we are happy to announce the release date of The Guise, and it is October 20!

For this event, we have prepared for you the final Gameplay Trailer of the game:


A free updated demo version is now available on Steam, providing you with ~30 amazing levels of the game – about 30 minutes of pure joy.

What's new in the updated demo version:

• Numerous gameplay improvements and bugfixes;
  
• New mechanics - familiars, your loyal companions, and helpers;
  
• New amulets;
  
• New side quests;
  
• A working shop for upgrades and leveling up your abilities;
  
• Balance edits;
  
• Professional English translation;
  
• Added the Russian language;
  
• Added all missing sounds and music.

Currently, only Russian and English languages are available in the demo. Other languages are under development and will be available in the full version of the game.

Thank you for staying, see you in the next update!

Yours,
The Guise Dev. Team

There are some texts that are still in the translation process and we will update them as soon as they are completed.


- Right-clicking on 'Devil Slayer - Raksasi' in your Steam library.
- Click ‘Properties’.
- Click the 'Betas' tab.
- Select 'test' from the drop-down menu.
- Click 'Close'.


New Difficulties: Easy and Demonic

- You can change the difficulty by talking to Master Shi at the Pavilion of Spirits.
- Demonic difficulty will be unlocked when you finish the game on Normal difficulty.


The Soul Crystal system will be unlocked when you finish the game on Normal difficulty.
Afterward, in Normal and Demonic games, the souls you carry will be transformed into Soul Crystal after the trial.
Gather some Soul Crystals, then talk to Master Stone at the Soul Pavilion to activate the Trial Token, which will open up harder challenges!


Soul Charms can be collected through the Reincarnation Trials and equipped on Soul Idol to strengthen your character~.
Special combinations of Soul Charms can also activate Soul Spell to further enhance your character~~.

- Raven: Appear in the Pavilion of Spirits when all talents of the current character are unlocked, speak with them to unlock the Soul Idol system.
- Old Crone: new Trials unlocking item [Soul Charms Merchant].


- Ninja Set: Bleed Damage is increased to that of Attack Power; Damage while Stealthed +100%, and it will take 2 seconds to reappear after an attack.


- (Ninja Set) Shadow Clone
- (Ninja Set) Thunderball
- (Ninja Set) Tendon Severer
- (Ninja Set) Boots of Dodge
- (Ninja Set) Catalysis Talisman
- (Ninja Set) Talisman of Slaying
- Unmoving like a Mountain
- Poison Band
- Flame Band
- Thunder Band
- Frost Band
- Demon Band


- Filter Effects are implemented to enhance the game's display effect. You can switch it on and off in the settings.


- Zanbatou: shortened Whirlwind Slash stamina time; fixed a sound error of Xilvaron.
- Flamebrand: Firewave attacks have been implemented in a new way, increasing the damage factor to 1.5, decreasing the hit protection time to 0.3 seconds, and causing 3 hits in certain situations.
- Double Bladed Staff: reduce the knockback distance of some attacks. Whirlwind Slash has been modified to have the "Guard Break" effect on the entire attack action.
- Starcrusher: modify parry to not consume energy; add description of knockback effect.
- Sickle & Chain Weapons: shorten the startup animation of swing attacks; fix inconsistency in the backswing of some characters.
- Sledgehammer Weapons: unify the timing of attack cancellations.
- Rattan Shield & War Fork: add the "Guard Break" effect to the first hit of the shield attack.


- Glasses Cat's Tail: modify its effect to increase dodge distance by 30%.
- Deerskin Shoes: modify its effect to increase movement speed by 10.
- Purse: also works for the Greedy Spirit.
- Replica Coin: also works for the Greedy Spirit.
- Treasure Map: also works for the Scavenging Merchant and the Soul Charms Merchant.
- Demon Spider: no longer restore life when changing rooms.
- Hunter Trap: no longer take effect on air units.
- Puppet Maggot: Improve the logic, so that units summoned by the Puppet will also become Puppets, with corresponding visual effects.
- Enraged Bovine's Brain: modify its effect to decrease Max MP by 20 and increase Max HP by 60.


- Practitioner Set: Serpent Spirit's Frost Incantation can now be cast on player character, itself and other companions.


- Zombie Artisan: now can be affected by bleeding and Lifesteal.
- Jianzhou Cavalry: Immune to immobilize.
- Bandit Rider: Immune to immobilize.
- Great Sandworm Egg: immune to all negative effects.
- Tiny Sandworm: change character type to normal snakes instead of Skeleton.
- Spider Eggsac: immune to all negative effects.
- Thorns: immune to all negative effects.
- Devil Bud: immune to all negative effects.
- Alabaster: range of vision increased to 30.


- Killer Vine: no longer take effect on air units.
- Iron Window: no longer take effect on air units.


- Cryoshatterer: fix the description of "Frost Damage" effect.
- Bladed Shield: tweak the "Guard Break" effect of Shield Throw to avoid misinterpretation caused by displaying the "Guard Break" warning at the wrong time.


- Spirit of Agility: removed from the Common Shop Pool, and removed from the Devil Slaying Log.
- Spirit of Vigor: removed from the Common Shop Pool, and removed from the Devil Slaying Log.
- Spirit of Speed: removed from the Common Shop Pool, and removed from the Devil Slaying Log.
- Green Lantern Spirit: can illuminate nearby areas in the dark; change to an air unit.
- Douyu Spirit: change to an air unit.
- Pufferfish Spirit: change to an air unit.
- Bomb Spirit: change to an air unit.
- Chipped Hound: no longer disappear prematurely due to collision with barriers.
- Cloak of Immolation: improve the display logic of hit effect.
- Life Candleper: change the action to use it.
- Familiars summoned by the player will also display the changes in their attributes over their heads.


- Maggot Set: the blood maggot spawned is modified to not collide with the player character.


- Great Sandworm: fix the problem of multiple stun effects appearing at the same time when the Perfect Guard is triggered.


- Green Lantern: illuminate nearby areas in the dark.
- Mire Squad: add appearance animation.
- Spiral Dragon Tower: adjust its fire effects.
- Raven Rifleman: improve the visual effects of its ammo.


- Automatically pauses the game when selecting items.
- When you use a controller, now you can unlock the target by pushing the right stick in the opposite direction of the target.
- After the first time you finish the game on Normal difficulty, the Soul Room no longer requires all Souls to be consumed before opening the door.
- The negative effects of the player character will be cleared when you finish the battle in the Challenge Rooms and Survival Trials.
- Modify the music and sound effects of some levels.
- All effects that change movement speed by percentage will now be changed to a fixed value.
- When a unit's movement speed is reduced, limit its movement speed to no less than 30% of its original movement speed.
- When the player character leaves the room and comes back，chests or characters that created by triggers will appear where they were appeared before, not where they were when the player left the room. Avoid getting monsters stuck in weird places that prevent you from finishing the battle.
- Implement the process of expanding the field of view in darkness, fog, and other situations.
- Refine the flying mechanic, flying units can move across low barriers, but not through medium and high barriers.
- Refine the implementation of the Charm mechanic.
- Teammates no longer scald the player character.


- Improve display of boss HP bar.
- Enhance the blinking effect of the grid on the map, so that players can confirm the current location when teleporting.
- Improve the display of practice unlock hints.
- Improve the pictures for mouse operation instructions.
- Add an option in the settings to control the number of relics displayed on the right side of the main screen.
- When there are too many buffs displayed on the main screen, it will automatically change to thumbnail mode so that more buffs can be displayed at the same time.
- Display the number of items in the item selection UI; add small icons to indicate the position of the currently selected item in the item sequence.
- Replaced the screenshot used for item details in the instructions with the new version.
- When entering the Pavilion of Spirits, use a gradient background for scene names; the display position is moved to the bottom of the screen.
- Use a gradient background for the Boss names display.
- Fading effect added to the pickup info UI at the top of the screen to prevent flickering.


- Adds special filter effects when player character near-death or dies.


- Fix an issue where some text is displayed in the wrong language when the level progress UI is displayed for the first time.
- Fix the problem that pressing the arrow keys in the Talents UI will play wrong sounds after the talents of the current character are fully unlocked.
- Fix an issue with incorrectly retaining the [Immaculate Integrity] status when the player character is injured and then save/load the game.
- Fix the problem that the speech text may be displayed on the wrong character's head.
- Fixe the problem that the afterimage of Japhriel's Flamechain Sickle was displaying incorrectly.
- Fix AI problem for allies using Double Bladed Staff.
- Sage Ring: Fix an issue where blunderbuss's Bombard attack would not trigger its effect; fix an issue where the last hit on an enemy would not trigger its effect.


- Update the translated text.


- Adjust some of the game text.
- Fix a small bug in Soul Keeper's flame display.
- Optimize the implementation of some underlying systems to improve performance.
- Adjust the steam SDK initialization process.

*v3.4
*Fixed bug with weapon collider
*Fixed doors on castle entrance
*Added blocking with right mouse button (will need refining)
*Changed how to inspect creatures and humans health/stats (middle mouse button)
*Fixed furnaces null reference errors
*Fixed furnace in castle not loading saved contents
*No losing resource while crafting (Unless craft success)
*AI no longer walks through doors
*Adjusted lighting
*Fixed cooldown graphic for equipped weapons
*Increased collider size of a few items

The Mac problem has been fixed.

Saturday update: Fixed some teleporting bugs that caused players to not be able to teleport in certain areas in the arena, hopefully that should be fixed now. Next up: Making some needed edits to the Steam store and trailer. Have a great weekend everyone!

Placement was released three years ago today. In celebration of this, I have made the game free forever. It is currently available for free on https://chainsawkitten.itch.io/placement, a popular platform for indie games and it will become free on Steam as soon as Valve have reviewed my request to do so. I have also released the source code for the game on GitHub, a popular platform for hosting open source projects.

I have also released a free sequel.


Placement Colors is the sequel to Placement, and builds on the concept in the first game by introducing both black and white pieces. The game contains over 100 new levels.

The game is free on https://chainsawkitten.itch.io/placement-colors. I have also released the source code on GitHub.

Get Placement Colors for free!

• The game now remembers one's window position and restores it during the next playing session if played in windowed mode. This also should prevent game window caption from being hidden behind Windows taskbar, if it is placed on the top edge of the screen.
  
• Fixed a minor visual glitch, which probably no one noticed anyway. It was related to brightness of 2x2 gem blocks when they are split back into small ones to give way for Options menu or Match Results popup.

Dear desert travelers,

Since the launch of the English localization edition, we’ve been receiving lots of attention, kind support, and feedback from our players worldwide, among which we notice that many of you are asking about the English mod support.

Currently, the English Mod Editor is still under testing but fully open to our modders. Our devs are working on fine-tuning English modding tools and updating the mod developer manual. In the meantime, we hope to encourage our players to take a shot at creating some English mods, which will help the devs better troubleshoot potential modding problems as well as bring new energy to our global modding community.



During the first Sands of Salzaar Modding Event in May, our incredible modders fully unleashed their power of creativity and imagination, developing a variety of inspiring mods. This time, we decided to open the second Special Modding Event to players worldwide, encouraging our English players to get started on mod development as well. Here are the general event rules:

• The Modding Event is open from Sept. 26th to Oct. 18th to players worldwide.
  
• All Event mods need to be uploaded to Steam Workshop.
  
• For English mods, modders need to tag their Event mods with “[Mod Event]” at the beginning of their mod names, e.g. “[Mod Event] Medieval map”.
  
• We will select some best mods among the entries and offer their modders special prizes, including one First Prize worth $1100, two Second Prize worth $740 each, three Third Prize worth $370 each, and 10 Participation Prize worth $70 each.

To help English modders understand how to use the Mod Editor, the devs have prepared a full documentation of English mod development in the official wiki and will keep updating the manual with instructional videos in the future. If you encounter any problems when creating English mods, please join us on our Discord and our team will be there ready to answer any questions and help solve your modding issues.

There are already hundreds of mods available in Steam Workshop, featuring custom maps, new characters, themes, perks and more. To provide English players with a more diverse gaming experience, some of our modders have uploaded their localized mods to Workshop. If you wanna subscribe to these mods, go to the Workshop in-game and select “English Localized Mods” in the drop-down menu at the upper-left corner of the screen to browse the list.



Please note that these mods may contain some untranslated parts and bugs, but the modders in our community are willing to listen to your feedback and optimize their work. There will be more translated mods coming in the future. If you want to see your favorite mod or a particular type of mods to be localized, leave your comments below or in our Discord!

I first want to thank everyone who played INFLUXIS from the start and after the update, your feedback really is especially important for me. However, now that I started college, I am very busy and have pretty much no time to spend on game dev so during holidays will be the main period where I could deliver more content. Therefore, the next update will probably be up only starting December. Nonetheless I would like to know what you guys would like me to focus more on the next update so I have a couple of propositions:

PLAN 01 (original plan):
- Optimization – fps improvement
- Improved character animations and item animations
- UI improvement
- New biome – Arctic Region – shallow/deep
- Saving Problem work

CUSTOM PLANS: (anything you guys proposed and would like to choose from here and comment down below):
- Optimization – fps improvement
- Base Building (will be hard and little chances of direct implementation but progress could be made)
- Crafting Update – more craftables, crafting bench, large crafting station – boat, submarine (again a lot of work so little chance of implementing in December but progress could be made)
- New biome – Arctic Region – shallow/deep
- New biome – Blood Forest – deep
- Caves Update – huge improvement to underground cave systems and tunnels
- UI improvement
- Improved character animations and item animations
- Heavier development on story, lore and dialogue
- Rework of a current biome you consider could have some improvement
- More better controls – water sprinting, stamina …
- Saving Problem work
- Other bugs work or propositions – say in the comments