Thank you for your patience! We hope you enjoy the new global update. Now we are again entering the mode of weekly regular updates, because there is a lot to fix and improve. Ahead lies work on “Politics”, laws, events, generals with RPG elements and much more.

CAUTION!
Now aviation works only as air support (airstrike) in a tactical battle. Soon we will reveal the full potential of aviation and navy. Follow the news. Thank you for staying with us!

• Added effects for the player when a bullet hits/explosions are close to them.
  
• Improved AI, the enemy actively uses aviation and artillery, if he has it.
  
• Added planes (in development).
  
• Added helicopters (in development).
  
• Added new types of battalions (Air Force battalion, Navy battalion).
  
• Added systems for loading and unloading battalions (for now only for the navy).
  
• Added "collateral damage" when capturing cities.
  
• Added new research to the Tactical Campaign.
  
• Added a new faction "Arvik".
  
• Added a new faction "Rekvik".
  
• Added a new faction "Bearish".
  
• Added a new type of faction to the game - “Island States”.
  
• Added a new faction "Whalen".
  
• Added a new faction "West Anjou".
  
• Added a new faction "East Anjou".
  
• Added a new faction "Velyland".
  
• Added a new faction "Akutan".
  
• Added new rebel factions.
  
• Added a new tank "T-34-85".
  
• Added a new tank "Leopard I".
  
• Added a new tank "Leopard II".
  
• Added a new modification M113 with Vulcan.
  
• Added the ability to crush enemy infantry (using any vehicle).
  
• Added new shells to the game.
  
• Added new MLRS "HIMARS".
  
• Added Toyota Hilux with DShK machine gun, modification with ZU-23, modification with Vulcan, civilian version.
  
• Improved support movement system for some MLRS.
  
• Artillery sights have been improved (for easier shooting from 1st person).
  
• Improved artillery (increased accuracy).
  
• Improved reloading of weapons for armored vehicles.
  
• Added a new desert biome for the southern islands.
  
• New locations have been added to the game (more than 50 new locations for tactical battles).
  
• Added the mechanics of calling aircraft and artillery from the global map in a tactical battle (using binoculars).
  
• Added some new sounds.
  
• Added Mosin rifle.
  
• Added Vahan assault rifle.
  
• Added Valmet M78P assault rifle.
  
• Added Sako RK95 assault rifle.
  
• Added Valmet M78 assault rifle.
  
• Added Type 64 assault rifle.
  
• Added M1903 Springfield rifle.
  
• Added Galil assault rifle.
  
• Added Spas-12 automatic shotgun.
  
• Added the Vektor R4 assault rifle.
  
• Added new achievements.
  
• Added a new command truck (Kamaz).
  
• Added a new GAZ-66 truck with different modifications.
  
• Added new MLRS BM-21V.
  
  
  
• Fixed getting achievements.
  
• The balance of production adaptation has been changed, some developments are now available at the start.
  
• Fixed physics errors for cars and tanks.
  
• Fixed garrisons, now the stability bonus is given not only by police units, but also by regular army units (police still gives a higher stability bonus).
  
• Fixed the construction window in global campaign mode.
  
• Fixed "Attack" on the F1 key - now your troops are actively attacking the enemy.
  
• Fixed research branches for armored vehicles in the global campaign mode.
  
• The supply of battalions has been corrected, the ability to send cigarettes and alcohol to the troops has been added.
  
• Fixed display of sights in armored vehicles.
  
• Fixed critical errors when rearming garrisons.

Greg (Lead Designer) and Kat (Lead Narrative Designer) are back with another update on Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown, including details on AI towns and trade, as well as Military updates including formations and rations.

*This stream is pre-recorded*

Major balancing and saved game
Following the release we got a lot of feedback from you. We worked as hard and as fast as we could.
Some of you are experiencing bugs ; this patch is the first of a series to fix all remaining issues. We already have identified issues we aren’t able to fix and ship today, but we don’t want to delay what we already fixed. So, if you still experience issues with this new release, please be patient, we’re on it!
As for gameplay, we adjusted the amount of fights per floor. To accommodate these new changes, we didn't have any choice but to erase any pre-existing saved game.


Balance Changes

• Adjusted the amount of fights over each floors
  
• Increased heroes max HP by 5
  
• Decreased They Who Forbid HP to 225 from 300
  
• They Who Forbid HP ability only target one card per round and reshuffles none
  
• Decreased Defective Custodian IM02 HP to 600 from 650
  
• Decreased Elevated Form HP to 600 from 700
  
• Decreased The Protector HP to 550 from 620
  
• Decreased Burning Incubation W damage bonus to 15 from 20
  
• Increased Architect’s Curse level 8 max HP reduction to 15 from 10
  
• Psy-preacher now heals for a flat value instead of granting Reconstruction
  
• Increased Shieldbearers of Salda guard gain to 15 from 5

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with Tales of Woe not dealing its damage
  
• Fixed an issue with Fast Draw not displaying the tooltips of the various Rapier attacks
  
• Fixed an issue with a scavenge option allowing to upgrade a Base attack without having Base attacks in deck
  
• Fixed various damage sources on hero leading to soft-lock
  
• Fixed an issue with Emissary of Kaïti expedition giving too much bonuses
  
• Fixed several memory leaks issues
  
• Fix various minor issues on Sohoma, Jokan and Sora 3D models

Additions / Improvements

• Lots of optimization to improve stability
  
• Added an icon to identify Card Removal nodes on the minimap
  
• Added two new foes to the first floor fights
  
• Korean translations corrections
  
• Changed how video settings are managed to enforce appropriate defaults

Bug fix

A few major fixes. More choreo polish. German narrative translation v1.

FIXES:

-Fixed the NPC vision trace line checks against the player. They were always off. The players collision radius and center are properly calculated for both VR and 2D now.
-Fixed NPCs being able to see the VR player almost always because of a bloated render bounds on the arms skeleton. (The above fix solves this)
-Fixed two package build errors in rooms and scripted sequences related to editor only components
-now controlling when to cache shaders on mobile platforms so the consortium loading dial comes up sooner
-spaced out some IO operations at boot so they don't slow eachother down all running at once (speech to life, shader cache, save and config)

Virtual Trainer Editor:
-Fix for toolbar not showing all elements in VR


IMPROVEMENTS:

-Experimental German translation of entire narrative. (NPC and player dialog only currently). V.O.I.C.E. supported but as of this release remains virtually untested. If you speak German, give it a go and kindly pop in and let us know how well it works for you on our Discord server?

-The entire potential “in person” Kiril confrontation in the Hangar Bay has been given a final expression and eye choreography improvement pass.

-The ensemble “brig convo” near the end has started receiving final choreography polish pass. Developing…

-The final conversation choices improvement pass for the entire narrative has been completed.

A few major fixes. More choreo polish. German narrative translation v1.

FIXES:

-Fixed the NPC vision trace line checks against the player. The players collision radius and center are properly calculated for both VR and 2D now.
-Fixed NPCs being able to see the VR player almost always because of a bloated render bounds on the arms skeleton. (The above fix solves this)
-Fixed two package build errors in rooms and scripted sequences related to editor only components
-now controlling when to cache shaders on mobile platforms so the consortium loading dial comes up sooner
-spaced out some IO operations at boot so they don't slow eachother down all running at once (speech to life, shader cache, save and config)

Virtual Trainer Editor:
-Fix for toolbar not showing all elements in VR


IMPROVEMENTS:

-Experimental German translation of entire narrative. (NPC and player dialog only currently). V.O.I.C.E. supported but as of this release remains virtually untested. If you speak German, give it a go and kindly pop in and let us know how well it works for you on our Discord server?

-The entire potential “in person” Kiril confrontation in the Hangar Bay has been given a final expression and eye choreography improvement pass.

-The ensemble “brig convo” near the end has started receiving final choreography polish pass. Developing…

-The final conversation choices improvement pass for the entire narrative has been completed.

But you alone must drive it...

This week doesn't have a code update for FUNG, since we don't need any more code changes to complete CHAPTER 2. But fret not, we are still hard at work on completing the chapter. To make up for this, we have some updates to Drift King (available on itch.io)! Unfortunately, the new AI that was the bulk of work this week is not yet in a good enough state to release. But we do have a new clip replay system, and some improvements to the overworld!

For those that don't care for Drift King, I have a sneak peek for you, a closeup of the facility post the initiation of the COLLAPSE PROTOCOL. It appears that the building and even a part of the road has fallen down here, deep under the ground.

The Towers Mode will be added on October 31st bringing the game up to version 8.0!

This update will come with 7 tower runs. Six of the towers will consist of battles against monsters of a single family. The more monsters you have unlocked, the higher you will be able to climb. For the most part, you will be able to choose the order you fight them, but just be sure not to lock yourself out of the lower level monsters by outleveling them!

The main twist to The Towers is the new Burden Gifts that will remain mostly exclusive to this mode. Most of them are purely negative effects, but they only last a set amount of battles just like Quick Gifts do. Monsters here will offer gifts paired with a burden of similar rank. So getting a 3 star Power Gift will most likely come with a rank 3 Burden! What's more is Power Gifts will also be temporary in this mode! You will also be able to set up a loadout of Quick Gifts for each character to start with. You can fill each character's quick slots with any Quick Gifts you have radiated. This adds another reason to find all those upgrade gifts!

The 7th tower will follow most of these rules except that it will be random monsters of all families. This will be about the length of an Altered Story run and is designed to be a story-like run with the new burdens involved. This is also the only tower where you can encounter any of the current final bosses. The Veyeral tower will not feature them right now, but this may change later.

The update will add over 100 burdens and some other small surprises that I'll let you discover! However the towers and version 8 will still not be quite done yet. There are a lot of new people here that might not be familiar with my normal release schedule, so I will explain it. You might notice the current version is 7.27 or in other words, the 27th main update to version 7! I normally update this game very frequently. Every two or three weeks, I will be dropping another small update to the game until everything I have planned for v8 is done! I pray that I won't have to go all the way up to 27 again this time, but who knows at this point. I'll do an updated roadmap when v8 actually drops.

In previous years I was able to do a personal challenge that I like to call Devtober where I updated the game every single day in October with at least 1 new gift, dreamscape, or even a new monster. I was able to do this challenge 3 times in 2018, 2019, and 2021! Unfortunately, I'm not able to do it anymore at this point in development. Everything I have left to do is kinda too big for that. I'm glad I'll still be able to drop something big on Halloween though!

Oh, one more thing. New Music!
The v8.0 update will add 12 new tracks, or maybe more who knows?!
Each normal monster family will get 2 new alternate tracks that play under certain conditions.
I already revealed a few of them on youtube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24mRzATpxbU

As always, thank you for loving those monsters!
ːradiantheartː ːradiantheartː ːradiantheartː

Hello, agents from around the world.


Here is the result announcement of the Abnormal Player Enforcement.



- Game bans based on security program detection cases such as changing game data or using unauthorized Programs

- Game bans based on Match log analysis & abnormal log detection cases

- Game bans based on the match monitoring & report history investigation of Abnormal play behaviors


VX is continuing to respond with various analytics and logic enhancements.
VX will continue to do the best to provide a pleasant and fair gaming environment.


Please see below for the detailed enforcement results.
Thank you.

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9/25 00:00 ~ 10/5 23:59 KST
9/24 08:00 ~ 10/5 07:59 PDT


- Restriction status : Access denied / Accounts restricted permanently
- The list of restricted accounts : 2 accounts


- Restriction status : Access denied / Accounts restricted for 90 days
- The list of restricted accounts : 90 accounts

The app must be updated to version 3.2.400.

・Another Style Polyhymniā... Parisa's Another Style is available

・Fateful Encounter Another Style Polyhymniā (Paid, 3 times max) is available

・Fateful Encounter Swelling Harmony Edition (Paid, 3 times max) is available
　*In the 10th Encounter, you will receive a 5★ character. Each of the 6 featured characters has an appearance rate of 10%. 　 　
　
・The "Ally Encounters" under Regular Encounters were updated.

Added new weapons for the character classes below in Manifestation: Weapon Discovery.
・Lovely (Lovely Chef)

• Felmina Extra Style (Erinys)
  
• Melody Another Style (Medea)
  
• Dream Weaver Dunarith

*Uncleared character quests will not be displayed.
*We are planning to add more stories to the Replay Story feature in the future.

▼Duration
October 6, 2023 3:00 (UTC) - Start of simultaneous release with the Japan Version
*The end date and time for the campaign will be announced together with the start date for the update that begins simultaneous release.

・Catch-up Campaign Supply Drop 3
　*After logging in during the campaign period, please collect items within 90 days.
　・Enemy Encounter+ Badge x3(*Increases enemy encounter rate)
　・Obtained EXP+ Badge x3(*Individual EXP +30%)
　・Grasta Piece
　　・Special Frag. x600
　　・Special Crystal x100

・EXP Boost Campaign
　Battles in the Another Dungeon: Sealed Realm's Transitory Time Space give 10 times as much experience!
　*This applies to Hard and Very Hard difficulties.
　　・The app must be updated to version 3.2.400.
　　・Part 26 of the Main Story must be cleared.

The Select Character filter will now save filter options when returning to the screen from Character Details.
Added an icon to visually identify enemies with Aura effects in battle.

・There are cases where the time duration for the 2,200 and 4,500 Chronos Stones' sales are displayed incorrectly.
　Correct: –10/16(UTC) x1
　*The issue can be fixed by updating to version 3.2.400.
・When using certain skills with an additional effect while Lunatic is active, if Lunatic is dispelled during the turn, the additional effects may still activate.

・Text and display issues.
・Other small issues.