Heroes of Arkesia,

We’re excited to announce that Jump-Start servers, a system we hope will provide a fresh beginning for new or returning players who are interested in giving Lost Ark another try, will release on September 13 in our September update.

We’re excited to welcome new and returning players to the shores of Arkesia and help them experience the many unique raids, dungeons, and character systems that make Lost Ark special. We recognize that the game encountered many challenges at launch, with a steep progression curve, bots, and stability issues. We’ve made serious strides in addressing these and feel confident that we’re in a good place to bring players back.



Players on Jump-Start servers will receive materials that provide faster vertical and horizontal progression, including honing materials, card packs, and more! Find details on some of the ways we plan to help players level up in the Events & Rewards section. Players will get a South Vern pass to “Jump-Start” a character immediately to Item Level 1415.

There will be a server available in each region:

• West - North America - Lauriel
  
• East - North America - Azakiel
  
• Europe Central - Kayangel
  
• South America - Elgacia

Jump-Start servers will be isolated from other servers, with independent PvE matchmaking, Party Finder, Marketplace, and Auction House (PvP matchmaking and rank will be shared with the rest of the region). This allows restarting players to have an independent experience that’s unaffected by existing servers/regions. We will be closely monitoring the progression and populations of Jump-Start servers, and plan on reconnecting Jump-Start Servers with their respective regions within the next six months.



Jump-Start Servers will include a medley of special events to help players progress quickly and jump into the endgame. In addition to all the specific events listed below, Jump-Start Servers will also have unique Hot-time and Log-in events!

South Vern Powerpass, Story Express, & Jump-Start Mokoko Express Event
A Story Express event is available for Jump-Start players to quickly experience Lost Ark’s story on their main or on an alternate character. Story missions will take the player from Item Level 1 to 1415. Select a Story Express Character through the ‘Event Quest’ window and clear story missions for valuable progression materials. The event will last until December 13, 2023. Any character that has not yet completed the ‘On the Border’ quest from Rethramis can become a designated Story Express character.

An Event South Vern Powerpass will be available for players to use on Jump-Start Servers until December 13, 2023. Pairing well with the South Vern Powerpass, players will be able to designate one character between Item Level 1415 and 1540 on their account to participate in the Jump-Start Mokoko Express Event, where they’ll have discounted honing rates and earn honing materials to quickly level up to Item Level 1540 and beyond. There’s also Combat Style Setting Support options for players to easily set skills and Engravings through presets, and get item support for accessories and Ability Stones.
The designated character will earn valuable rewards as they level up, including Silver, Honing Materials, Gems, Engraving Recipes, and more! The Jump-Start Mokoko Express Event also includes an Engraving Support system that lets players choose 5 Engravings to be in effect at level 3 during the event.



A special gift will be awaiting players who log into Jump-Start Servers!

Characters on Jump-Start Servers will have increased XP gains (200%)

• Roster Level XP up to Lv. 100
  
• Character Level XP up to Lv. 60
  
• Stronghold Level XP up to Lv. 60
  
• Trade Skill Level XP up to Lv. 60

In this special event rewards are granted to help players rapidly progress. Clearing (and reclearing) Legion Raids, Challenge Abyssal Dungeons, Chaos Dungeons, and Challenge Guardian Raids grant extra (and valuable) rewards. The items include Relic Accessory Chests & Ability Stones, Soaring Card Packs (containing only the cards from entry card sets Deep Dive / You Have A Plan), Gold, and more! This will help players kickstart their accessory and card collections, while also helping populate the Auction House for the player-driven economy to thrive on the new servers.



The Event Shop on Jump-Start Servers will be different than the Event Shop on regular servers, with the goal of helping Jump-Start players progress vertically and horizontally. Jump-Start Servers will have a variety of items for players to earn by exchanging event tokens, which will help them progress their Stepping-stone Card sets, level-up their ship, Rapport, Skill Tree, and Honing. Event tokens can be gained by completing Chaos Dungeons, Guardian Raids, and by participating in the Blooming Mokoko event.



For players looking to further enhance their characters, the Jump-Start in-game store will have special packages and items. With heavily discounted material packages to boost vertical and horizontal progression (such as Card Packs, Pheons, Silver, and Honing Materials), we want to ensure players on Jump-Start Servers looking to dive into the end-game have options that give them value. And for those looking to vanquish the demonic hordes in style, a variety of cosmetics will be returning from the vault, available exclusively on Jump-Start Servers. Jump-Start players will have plenty of cosmetic customization options available.

We’re excited for new and returning players to experience the many unique raids, dungeons, and character systems that make Lost Ark special. Current players will have plenty to look forward to in September with Primal Island, Yoz’s Jar, new Rapport Affection Ranks, a new Ark Pass, and more! We have a few more surprises and updates planned— so make sure to checkout the September Release Notes. We can’t wait to hop in the Jump-Start servers with everyone on September 13. Until then, we’ll see you in Arkesia.

Hey everyone,

This September, we are challenging YOU to make a name for yourselves and to have fun while doing it – we welcome you to the Miasma Chronicles: Speedrun Challenge.

The rules are simple: Beat Miasma Chronicles as FAST as possible, Any%

The time starts after the “Chronicle One” load screen and finishes when the animation of the final boss starts.

Once you’ve completed, recorded and uploaded your run to YouTube or Twitch, please mark your entry on https://www.speedrun.com/Miasma_Chronicles

The challenge will run until 5th January 2024, so there’s plenty of time to hone your skills and get that “perfect” run.

After that, we’ll be inviting The Bearded Ladies, along with a few familiar faces from 505 Games to join us for a live stream on Twitch where we will be judging and celebrating the top 5 runs. Expect to see more information about this nearer to the time, alongside blogs and features of the infamous TOP 5.

We’re excited to get involved within the speedrunning community and looking forward to seeing your runs.

Get Tiger Tough!

Hey there, good folks! After much vrooming and a fair amount of flying, we're back with a




To all the gamers who joined us at Gamescom, a HUGE shoutout! We are looking at what happened there, and so far we can share that:

• The game was played 257 times and we're now out of all our pins and prizes!
  
• 72 players out of 257 are named AAAA
  
• A total of 983 Gears were found
  
• Also 12 Golden Bunnies were rescued
  
• A grand total of 16962 Flips were performed, 3800 of which were mid-air. Only 172 backflips were done, 99.8% of which happened purely by chance.
  
• 340 clients were safely brought to their destination, resulting in only a slightly larger amount of roadkills taking place in the process of doing so. We call this a success.

A huge thanks to those who were there in person and online supporting us.



We're also pleased to say that the MIX at PAX West was a big hit. Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom sped into the hearts of several outlets and the demo was beloved. We've uploaded the revised one in the Demo area for you to get a taste. Stay tuned for October when we have some more exciting news on progress and lots more to share.

Your support and feedback are what keep this taxi vrooming so post your thoughts in the Steam forums!




We've always wanted to say that.
Anyhoo, don't forget to follow us on Twitter/X and hop into our Discord community for all the latest updates and news. We promise, there's never a dull moment with us!

Twitter/X: @PanikArcade
Discord: {LINK REMOVED}https://bit.ly/YGTVDiscord

Alright, friends, it's time to hit the streets and make this drive a wild one!

Sept 6, 2023 (Wed) after maintenance - Sept 20, 2023 (Wed) before maintenance

During the event period, when you defeat the boss in the Dark Rift, you can obtain the below [Event] Box of the Dead and depending on a set probability you can obtain the Black Distortion Earring


* The above [Event] Box of the Dead items have the same loot tables as before with just the Black Distortion Earring added.
* [Event] Box of the Dead will drop from Dark Rift bosses during the event period.



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Sept 6, 2023 (Wed) after maintenance - Sept 20, 2023 (Wed) before maintenance

Search for [color=#accf9d]Golden Insect Amber[/color] with the Life +50% Hot Time!



Gather during the event period to randomly obtain [Event] Golden Insect Ambers!


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Sept 7, 2023 (Thu) 00:00 UTC - Oct 3, 2023 (Tue) 23:59 UTC

Sept 6, 2023 (Wed) after maintenance - Sept 20, 2023 (Wed) before maintenance


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Sept 6, 2023 (Wed) after maintenance - Sept 20, 2023 (Wed) before maintenance

All field and world bosses, excluding Vell, will drop [color=#a39ecc][Event] Old Moon Boss Seal[/color] during the event period!




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Aug 30, 2023 (Wed) after maintenance - Sept 13, 2023 (Wed) before maintenance





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Daily Special Pass Period:
Aug 23, 2023 (Wed) after maintenance - Oct 4, 2023 (Wed) before maintenance

Daily Special Rewards Availability Period:
Aug 23, 2023 (Wed) after maintenance - Oct 18, 2023 (Wed) before maintenance


Tap the icon next to the minimap to access the Daily Special!

You can grab lots of rewards once per day just by logging in!

Additional rewards are given each day! when you purchase the Autumn Daily Special Pass from the Pearl Store

Enjoy your adventures with even more rewards!

Good afternoon Mercenaries,

If you did not know, we're LEAPing back into war. That's right, it's time once again for our Wild Warfare Wednesday event and that means we need you to fight in the ongoing intergalactic war. Now with the news at hand, we have your special instructions below if you so happen to take on this challenge.

• (September 14) event will run from 3:30pm EST until 4:30pm EST
  
• This game mode will be a rotation of Stomping Grounds, Control, Asset Assassination, and Team Annihilation played through our various game matches
  
• Please join the server "Devs + Community Jam"
  
• Everyone is welcome to join - this is crossplatform

• 2500C// sweet sweet credits to buy yourself some luxury guns, decals, and skins in the Black Market

As a reminder, we run our in-game chats over Discord so if you’d like to join the action feel free to enter the voice chat with our dev team and community!

Greetings, fellow adventurers!

We're excited to present the very first episode of our Turbo Chicken Simulator Game Development Diary. In this series, we'll unveil the secrets behind the making of our open-world action RPG and give you a front-row seat to the magic happening at Balkanware.

Recollection has been updated with two new languages, Dutch and Catalan, for a total of 16 translations now!

To celebrate these additions, the game will be on sale for the rest of the week, with a (deepest yet) discount of 25%

Many thanks to Brend Buijtenhek and Projecte Ce Trencada for the new translations and to everyone of you for your interest in the game <3



Cheers,
Erkberg

You can join Discord server here.


Shades of Rayna Update 0.7.2.0 (09/11/2023)


Rift Gate

Underworld is now open. You can access Rift Gate after you complete the Conquer Objectives. Last boss Witch will drop Underworld Rift Stones. You can use them to open the rift to Underworld and access the new Grand Relics after difficulty 40.


Changes

-Mayhem nodes on Conquer layout will be visible on default until the end of the season.
-Decreased the enemy damage scaling with the difficulty significantly.
-Decreased the enemy defence scaling with the difficulty significantly.
-New relics are added: Life On Kill (Tier 3-6-10). The stat is also available on Grand Relics.
-Increased the given loot count from portal area chests.
-Adjusted mayhem trap sizes.
-There won't be any traps near the waypoint portal anymore.
-Increased the drop chance of Reveal Stone from 10% to 20%.
-Change the placement of map chest on Heartless Cliff's first layout.

Ranger

-Increased Ranger's Steal passive skill value from 0.2% to 0.5%.
-Increased Fire Arrow's base damage from 2.5 to 5.
-Increased Crossfire's base damage from 4 to 6.
-Decreased the Raining Thunder relic damage.
-Decreased the Bouncing Fists relic damage.
-Decreased the Diverging Rain relic damage.
-Increased the Rapid Fork relic damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Lightning Strike damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Chill damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Cutter damage.
-Increased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Fire Arrow damage.
-Increased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Poison Circle damage.
-Increased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Rapid Shot damage.

Warrior

-Increaed Whirlwind skill range.
-Rage-neration tier 3 relic chance is changed from 100% to 10%.
-Warrior's Sliced Wave relic damage is increased.
-Warrior's Greedy Slammer relic damage is increased.
-Warrior's Broken Earth relic damage is decreased.
-Warrior's Vortex relic damage is increased.
-Decreased the Whirlteor damage.
-Decreased the Ancient Grounds damage.
-Decreased the Thunderline damage.
-Decreased the Beating Ground damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Throw damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Slice damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Grand Slam damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Thunder Strike damage.
-Increased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Burning Ball damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Whirlwind damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Earthbreaker damage.

Mage

-Increased Eruption's base damage from 12 to 20.
-Decreased Black Smoke's base damage from 12 to 8.
-Increased Corruption's base damage from 8 to 16.
-Increased Condemn's base damage from 8 to 10.
-Decreased the Crysment relic damage.
-Decreased the Conboom relic damage.
-Decreased the Shadow Spike relic damage.
-Decreased the Splasik relic damage.
-Decreased the Sonboom relic damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Eruption damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Coruption damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Splash damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Condemn damage.

Assassin

-Hemorrhage passive now gets activated by all damages, not just basic attack's damage, and every Hemorrhage explosion heals Assassin with 1% of max health.
-Increased Sting's base damage from 8 to 16.
-Increased Toxife's base damage from 5 to 8.
-Increased Deadly Strike's base damage from 12 to 16.
-Decreased the Spark Worms relic damage.
-Increased the Strike Blasts relic damage.
-Decreased the Hell Spikes relic damage.
-Decreased the Carnage relic damage.
-Decreased the Aqucicle relic damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Sting damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Throatcut damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Flash damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Deadly Strike damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Shadowfall damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Massacre damage.

Outlaw

-Increased Dynaboom relic damage.
-Decreased Bullet Mine relic damage.
-Increased Tornado's base damage from 8 to 12.
-Increased Spiral's base damage from 8 to 10.
-Decreased the Bullet Mine relic damage.
-Decreased the Thunray relic damage.
-Increased the Dynaboom relic damage.
-Decreased the HofPof relic damage.
-Decreased the Noxior damage.
-Decreased the Frostbeat damage.
-Increased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Barrelad damage.
-Increased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Dynamite damage.
-Increased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Hall of Fire damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Thunderfall damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Bullet Rain damage.
-Decreased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Wheel of Frost damage.
-Increased the percent of main attack stat that is added to Tornado damage.

Fixes

-Fixed the problem where map chests got stuck above the mayhem traps.
-Fixed the problem where mayhem ice trap didn't get melee damage.
-Fixed the problem where enemy values got calculated wrong on mayhem 9+.
-Fixed the problem where Witch Node couldn't get upgraded after unlocking it on Labyrinth.
-Fixed the problem where critic damage of DoT skills were calculated wrong.
-Fixed the problem where Folkry was getting pushed while immune to damage.
-Fixed the problem where the chest in Lab chest room was not getting down.
-Fixed the problem where map mods can be used on game modes other than conquer.
-Fixed the problem where sometimes Outlaw's bullets missed the target.
-Fixed the problem where Outlaw bullets couldn't hit Witch's Endless Night orb.
-Fixed the problem where the character couldn't get passed Voidance arrows.
-Fixed the problem where after using Reveal Stone, the layout was changing and the keystone was used again.
-Fixed the problem where Assassin's Shadowfall skill damage was calculated wrong.

-- Fix issue with slopes : When running on stairs, part of the player seems to go through.