Dear Commanders:

We started an update maintenance on 15：00, January 31 (UTC+8). The maintenance is expected to take 120 - 210 minutes.

After the maintenance, please update the client to the latest version before start the game.

During the maintenance, the players will be forcibly disconnected and unable to login. Please logout before the maintenance to avoid any data loss.

The following is the introduction of update contents:

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In the [Journey Story] gameplay, commanders will be able to enjoy the exclusive storyline of SP Blackguard, and have a chance to obtain ancient sets of [Eternal Quality] gears after challenging the final BOSS.
Journey Story has 2 modes: <Story Experience Mode> and <Standard Mode>, provide different game experiences for commanders with different levels.
<Journey Story> need complete Chapter.1 Area <7-4> to unlocked. After unlock the <Journey Story>, you can found the enter button in the "Main City" interface.

<Story Experience Mode>
Unlock:
Complete Chapter.1 Area <7-4>
Mode Contents:

• A more easy battle environment
  
• Final Boss Stage does not divide multiple difficulties
  
• No additional rewards will be dropped for Final Boss Stage

<Standard Mode>
Unlock:
1. Complete the progress to 100% in the <Oblivion Places 3>
2. Level up the Yggdrasil to 1300

Mode Contents:

• Normal difficulty battle environment
  
• Completing the levels in the Standard mode can also claim the first complete reward for the corresponding level of the Story Mode
  
• Final Boss Stage divided into multiple difficulties to choose
  
• Final Boss Stage will drop special gears and other rewards

At the end of the year, Arklance celebrated the annual grand festival, the Spring Festival. Every household was bustling and celebrating, welcoming the Eastern New Year. And at this time of saying goodbye to the old year, a traveler from the Eastern came to the town...

Participate in the challenge of the final BOSS level of [Standard Mode], there is a chance to drop the following new 4-piece ancient sets of [Eternal Quality] gears: [Netherflame Swordsman], [Crimson Neon Slayer], [Impasse Wanderer], the 4-piece sets include parts: Ring, Relic, Badge, Deputy.
Ancient equipment's Max Level is 800, and new Gems slots can be unlocked in the Deputy slot. This type of equipment cannot be upgrade quality by using the Upgrade Stone, but it can obtain additional attributes through the Equipment Enhancement function.
Due to the added of the new ancient equipment, the Handguard will increase the number of Extract Stone skills that can be placed in subsequent versions, and can accept the Extraction Skills from the right part of the Blackguard equipment slot.
When first time complete the Final Boss Level in <Story Experience Mode>, claim Ying's Helmet skin <Bamboo Hat>.
When first time complete the <Hard> and <Blacktide> difficulty in the Final Boss Level in <Standard Mode>, claim Ying's Weapon Skin <Duan Ning> and <Feng Yuan>.
In the future, we will continue to update new story chapters, so stay tuned!








Gems Fusion Optimization
Adjusted the Fusion requirements of the Gems that quality lower than immortal. Now as long as the Gems are of the same level, the fusion operation can be performed.


New Novice Pool: Coltish Artillerist & Centaur Minerva, within 30 days after a new player creates an account, the Novice Pool will be unlocked for players to pull. After 30 days, the Novice Pool will end.
Also, after this update, old commanders will also unlock the Novice Pool, and the Novice Pool will last for 30 days.
Note: This Novice Pool does not share the guaranteed pull number with other SP Pool.


1. Max Level of the <Material Equipment> is 700, and already be engraved.
2. <Material Equipment> and <Target Equipment> are in the same slot, and have the same Affixes Group.
3. Max Level of the <Target Equipment> must equal to or higher than the <Material Equipment>.
4. If choose Ancient Equipment as the <Target Equipment> to inherited, its quality must equal to or higher than the <Material Equipment>.

<Material Equipment> will be destroyed after inherited (please consider it carefully before the operation)
Some of the Equipments (such like Blackguard Exclusive Weapon and Bounties Reward Equipments) can not be inherited.

If the Max Level of <Material Equipment> and <Target Equipment> are different, the Inheritance Contents are different too. For detailed contents, please check the Notes in the Inheritance Interface, the following are the notes:

<Inheritance Equipment>
Material Equipment: Max Level 700
Target Equipment: Max Level 700
<Attributes can be inherited>
Equipment Level
Enhancement Level
Equipment Quality
Affixes and Affixes Level
Fusion Level

<Inheritance Equipment>
Material Equipment: Max Level 700
Target Equipment: Max Level 800
<Attributes can be inherited>
Equipment Level
Affixes and Affixes Level

<Inheritance Equipment>
Material Equipment: Max Level 800
Target Equipment: Max Level 800
<Attributes can be inherited>
Equipment Level
Affixes and Affixes Level


New Frontline - <Thunderstorm>

SP Lightning Blackguard: Coltish Artillerist, Foxy Archduchess, Shadowy Mirage

Effect: When the Thunderstorm front reaches the 2/3/4 level, the Blackguards of this front in the team will release 2/4/8 bolts of lightning towards random enemies at the same time as they release their Ult Skill, causing Lightning Damage equal to 800% of Spell Power to enemies near the impact point of the lightning. (This damage is considered skill damage and will only be affected by the All DMG Boost and Lightning DMG Boost effect)

<Max Level of Frontline increased>
The max level of SP Blackguard’s frontline has been increased to level 10


New Limited-time SP Pool Duration: After Update ~ 2 27, 2024

Rules：
1. Players can pick one of the SP Blackguards to summon from the above Blackguards: [Coltish Artillerist], [Legendary Dragon], [Foxy Archduchess], [Thorny Bramble], [Coffin Morrigan], [Centaur Minerva].
2. The picked SP Blackguard can be freely replaced with other available SP Blackguards before being summoned, and the guaranteed number of summons will be retained.
3. After the picked SP Blackguard is summoned, it cannot be replaced with other available SP Blackguards.


[Everwinter Land] Season 17 and 18 is about to start. Due to the blessing of Lightning, Lightning type heroes will enjoy additional combat ability improvements in the battle of [Everwinter Land].


New Outfit - [Ying - Disaster Slayer]



After this update, each purchase level of [Sanguine Stone] in the Shop page will be reset to provide a double bonus for the first purchase.


Duration: after update ~ February, 21 2024 12:00
Introduction: Consume Lucky Charm in the Lottery Event, commander has a chance to obtain Ying's exclusive Weapon skin, Helmet Skin, and other rich prize.

<Unusual Luck>
Event Duration: February 2, 2024 - February 09, 2024, and the deadline after Sigh-in activation is February 16, 2024.
Complete the 8 days Sign-in, claim exclusive New Year Title: Full of Vigour
<New Year Sign-in Rewards>
Day 1：Sanguine Stone*50
Day 2：Warp Scroll*10
Day 3：Sanguine Stone*50
Day 4：Warp Scroll*10
Day 5：Sanguine Stone*100
Day 6：Warp Scroll*15
Day 7：Sanguine Stone*100
Day 8：Full of Vigour（Title）



Event Rule
Use stones in the workshop to obtain score, Get up to 4 rounds of rewards provided by Nora
Different Modification Stone will provide different amount of points
Accumulative point reward can be obtained up to 4 rounds

Expected Event Duration
February 1, 2024 8:00 ~ February 29,2024 12:00


Event Rule
Duration the Event, every 【Sanguine Summon】will gain point, accumulate point to obtain massive pts reward. Event reward can be claimed up to 6 rounds
This event will have server/Cross server ranking, and will provide related ranking rewar(The Heart of Summon leaderboard will be replaced)

Expected Event Duration
January 31, 8:00 ~ February 14, 2024, 12:00


Event Rule
During the Event, consume FP will have chance to drop event coin「Sakura Emblem」. 「Sakura Emblem」can be used to exchange various reward on event shop

Expected Event Duration
February 1, 2024 8:00 - February 7, 12:00


Event Rule
Brave Trial is a limited-time mode during the activity period. Players can get two free challenge opportunities per day. AP will be used afterwards.
A blackguard will be assigned to participate in Brave Trial, who will be Lv.500 with no self equipment at the beginning.
Each wave has a time limit. Any time afterwards for each wave will be deducted from the return time.
min of return time is given initially. If reaches zero, cannot proceed to the next wave.
Crystals for equip modification is given for wave clearance. Owned equip will be replaced if gets the same type.
For boss reward, you can upgrade equipment to Mythic, or get an extra piece of equipment.
Use FP to obtain loots including Diamonds. Sakura Emblem is given based on amount of waves cleared in the end
Commanders can gain massive reward by completing Event task
Pass Wave 10 to enter the leaderboard and win extra Diamonds

Expected Event Duration
February 1, 2024 8:00 - February 7, 12:00


Event Rule
During the Event, players can obtain massive Warp Scroll, Ahchemical Dust, SS blackguard and precious Coin as reward by completing a serial of modification stone fusion task

Expected Event Duration
February 8, 2024 8:00 - February 14, 12:00


Event Rule
During the event period, finish serial task to obtain massive reward, extra reward will be provided after finish all tasks

Expected Event Duration
February 8, 2024 8:00 - February 14, 12:00


Blacktide Frontline is a limited-time trial. During the Event period, The commander has to challenge boss with 4 blackguards with self-decided difficulty

Event Rule
The boss has a specific weakness which appropriate Blackguard can take advantage of
The challenge of all difficulties cost 100 AP
The trial is limited to 180 sec. If whole team faints in battle or exceed the time, challenge fails
If kill the leader within the time limit, commander will win score and drop rewards from boss
The more bonus drops will be given at higher difficulties, massive modification stone will be awarded.
Each difficulty has its own leaderboard and will provide ranking reward（Each leaderboard will have level limit, the rule is similar to Primeval Gate Leaderboard）During this round, there will also be cross-server leaderboard
There is also score for each participation. Bonus rewards and score ranking rewards will be given based on the accumulated score, including modification stone, SS blackguard Shard and precious coin

Expected Event Duration
February 8, 2024 8:00 - February 14, 12:00


Duration: After update ~ February 29
Complete event requirements of Bounties Event, obtain limited-time exclusive <Female Commander> OL outfit and more rewards!


We are planing to Merge Asia-12 and Asia-10 server on February 5, 2024, for the exact date and time please look forward to future announcement


Adjusted of Foxy Archduchess's Exclusive Weapon: Casting [Enbrace of Thuderbolt] now give 1 Lightning Ball to all allies. And increases Rage Restored by 20 to all allies affect by [Enbrace of Thuderbolt].
Optimized cross-server Academy Cup Defensive Formation sync rules
New gameplay recommendation function, commanders can choose gameplay recommended based on the current progress.
Fixed the issue of abnormal trigger frequency Rage Restored of Shield: <Violet Rage>

Patch Notes:

• Added Entity
  
• Reworked "Collectibles"
  
• Adjustments made to room spawns
  
• Added "Treasure" room type
  
• Minor bug fixes

New content: the Confused Emote, the Full Moon Camo, the Jammer and ChemLight Emblems.

EA 0.1.13

• Patch Highlights
  
• Character balancing
  
• Deck Edit Crash Fixes
  
• Bug Fixes

Balance Changes
In preparation for the tournament this weekend, we have made a few changes to several characters to balance out the viability of all characters. We aim to create a game where all characters are relevant and maintain competitiveness throughout version updates where new characters will be released. This round of balance changes aims to tweak the power level of certain characters to avoid them becoming overly dominant or overly weak. We didn’t want to do anything too drastic that will change the current strategies and make big shifts to meta now before the tournament.

Tori the Paladin
Tori receives the most love in this balance patch. Being an Evangelist, she is limited by her indulgence level that essentially limits the number of cards played a turn to 2. Which from play data and feedback from the community, is quite easy to play around in PVP making her difficult to fare against other champions. The changes below aim to address the problems in her play pattern by introducing a new Boon mechanic and increase the consistency of some key cards in her deck.

Boon - New Mechanic
“When this card is played, it is unaffected by the Evangelist's indulgence level that could result in reducing your devotion or exhaustion.”

The main idea of this mechanic is to allow Evangelists to have additional opportunities to play cards before transcendence, thus decreasing their predictability. We will be looking more closely at the class rules and how we can incorporate more Boon cards in the future to increase the number of viable strategies in the class.

Chasten
Text Change : This is a BOON card and you are granted a Blessing. If your Devotion is 6 or above, your damage is increased by 2. This attack can Interrupt spell casting.

Chasten X
Text Change : This is a Boon card and you are granted a Blessing. If your Devotion is 6 or above, Heal 5 lives.

Repent
Text Change : You are granted a Blessing and your Devotion is further increased by 2. To play this card you must discard a card.

Damage : 2 < 3
Devotion increase : 1 < 2

Repent X
Devotion Increase : 1 < 2

Strength
Regen value : 1 < 2

Strength X
Damage : 6 < 7

Protection
Text Change : If you Devotion is 6 or greeted, the value of this block is further increased by 3.

Invocation
Damage : 8 < 10

Invocation X
Damage 8+ < 10+



Enryu the Gargantusaur
Over the week, the big bad gargantusaur came as a threat to the existence of all creatures in Corrum. But… quickly no one feared it. Despite being bulky and having access to powerful healing abilities, Enryu is hard countered by Grievous Wound and without access to Cure, it has no counterplay and the deck falls apart. We decided to give it access to Cure through an Unleashed card to give Enryu the ability to take initiative. As a result, we also nerfed the regen ability on Reinvigoration to keep it’s healing potential in check as repeated use of this card turn after turn can result in a very frustrating play experience.

Scalification
Text Change : You are granted Fortify(4) and Cure.

Scalification X
Text Change : You are granted Fortify (4) and Cure. If you opponent has no cards in play, decrease their attack damage by 2 until the end of turn. When this card is Discarded you are granted Fortify(3).

Reinvigoration
Regen value : 2 > 1
Heal value : 2 < 3

Reinvigoration X
Heal value : 2 < 3

Feral Defiance
Text change : This card is only playable if you have 25 or less health remaining.

Feral Defiance X
Text change : This card is only playable if you are Enraged or when you have 25 or less health.

Block value : 7 < 8

Mighty Thrash
Text Change : You are granted Enrage(1). If Disintegrate is on your opponent, you are granted Enrage(3) instead.

Mighty Thrash X
Text Change : You are granted Enrage(3). If Disintegrate is on your opponent, your damage is increased by 2.

Crushing Jaw
Text Change : You are granted Enrage91) and you Heal 3 lives, if you have 24 or less health remaining.

Crushing Jaw X
Text change : You are granted Enrage(2) and Heal 3 lives. If you have 25 or less health remaining, Heal 6 lives instead.



Roxxor the Giant
Monster Pummel is perhaps the least played card in the game, even when it is in the deck, it is typically never played and just there to fill the 15-card requirement for decks. As a strong, muscle-head giant, we want to keep the identity of this card to be simple but powerful. We increased the damage of this card and to match the cost and risks for playing this ultimate punch.

Monster Pummel
Text Change : To play this card you must discard a card.
Damage : 16 < 23

Monster Pummel X
Text Change : If a Reaction card is in play, the cost of Action Points to play this card is reduced to 1. To play this card you must discard a card.



Susan - A.T.A.C.R - Lee
The current meta is undoubtedly dominated by these three champions. Their mix of flexibility, burst damage and control makes them hard to content against in PVP. Before the tournament we want to slightly dampen their dominance by making small changes to their cards. But at the same time, we don’t want to over nerf or change the meta drastically at this moment in time. So, these changes will mainly focus on rebalancing card costs and rewards.

Susan the Sniper
Taser Drone
Damage : 4 > 3
Ammo Cost : 2 < 3

Taser Drone X
Ammo Cost : 2 < 3

Tranquilizing Shot
Damage : 4 > 2
Ammo Cost : 2 > 1

A.T.A.C.R
Reactive Armour
Text Change : Increase you Barrier value by 4, if it is already active.
Ammo Cost : 2 < 3

Lee the Dragon Master
Twin Dragon
Momentum Cost : 1 < 2
Damage : 3 < 4

Twin Dragon X
Damage : 3 < 4
Text Removed : Damage is increased by 2 until the end of the turn.

Crystal the Ice Faerie
Winter’s Embrace
Damage : 3 < 4
Mana Cost : 3 < 4
Text Change : Apply Frozen(X) to your opponent, where X is you Arcane Resonance. X cannot be lower than 1.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with Silent Stalking that caused the game to crash in Adventure mode when interacting with the card in deck edit.

修复部分bug

It is with great pleasure that I can now announce that Hex Racer is now released.

I hope you all have a blast playing it and look forward to some friendly competition on the monthly leader boards.

I have updated to v1.7.0.

- The game progress can now be saved. By choosing "Save and return to title" from the pause menu, a button labeled "Revert" will appear on the title menu. Choosing this allows you to continue the game from where you left off.
- Removed the protagonist's monologue in the prologue and replaced it with a display of tasks. The modification aims to prevent the monologue from interfering with the player's immersion in the game.
- Anomalies' Names
　- Rename from "Cue" to "Cue-chan." ("Chan" is a Japanese suffix indicating affection in nicknames)
　- Capitalization adjustments for English representation.
- Removed the flashlight next to the TV in the epilogue wake-up event.

- Environment
　- Changed the default state of the TV to off.
　- Improved the handle of the refrigerator.
　- Added a ventilation fan in the kitchen.
　- Corrected the shape of the bath bucket.

- Anomalies (Warning: Spoilers)
　- Handprint
　　- Enhanced presentation (voice).
　　- Improved materials.
　　- Opens the door upon completion.
　- Improved the quality of the effect to show/hide handprints on the floor and ceiling.
　- Adjusted the conspicuousness of the anomaly in the closet by modifying the bending degree.
　- After capturing the boy, fixed it to leave the capturable spot even after the boy disappears.
　- Added falling sound for the spider-bath-chair.
　- Fixed the polygon of the water surface on the washbasin that was protruding.

The Covenant faction received a unique suit in barter - the Peresvet suit. When leaving the faction, the suit will remain, but will lose its unique coloring. Also, this suit cannot be worn while in the "Mercenaries" faction.


Closed the passages leading to the Paths of Fools underground in the northern part of the location, located near the western passage to the location Red Forest.



Added a new passage from the underground, located northeast of the Covenant base and leading to the eastern part of the Path of Fools.

A shorter route to the easternmost passage of the Path of Fools undergrounds.



These changes were made in order to separate the flows of players from the factions "Mercenaries" and "Covenant", as well as to speed up getting the latter to more northern locations.

Trampoline – added a 3 second delay before reactivating.
Blackhole – a backpack with items is now left at the edge of the anomaly after the player dies.

12.7x55 mm and 12.7x55 mm PP cartridges

• Stopping power 40 → 70

Sledgehammer and Hand-held Firecracker.

• Mutant damage multiplier 1 → 1.5

VSSM "Vintorez", VSS "Vintorez".

• Spread 0.24 → 0.2.

• Animations and sounds of SPAS-12 interaction have been updated.

• The ability to disassemble items for stalbucks has been disabled in mechanics.
  
• Fixed incorrect coloring of the winter sight Leupold HAMR.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the location loading screen to be replaced by the standard one.
  
• Added painting of the following weapon modules in the color of the weapon:

Thank you for your attention,
and good hunting in the Zone!

2024年1月31日 18：00~19:00 CST
石油*1000

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我们将于2024年1月31日18：00对服务器进行停服维护，预计维护时长1小时，
更新期间幸存者将无法登入服务器进行游戏，请您及时做好游戏安排，避免造成不必要的损失。
我们将在结束后对维护前注册的幸存者们通过邮件发放 石油*1000 的补偿，感谢您的配合~

以下是本次维护更新的主要内容：

1. 新增新年活动、新年累充活动（2月9日8：00开启，持续7天）

1. 由美技能修复
   
2. 战斗异常修复
   
3. 修复维护公告显示异常的问题

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Greetings from the <Summoners War: Chronicles> team!

We would like to inform you about the Feb. 1st Update.

Check out the Update Note on the Official Forum:

■ Feb. 1st Update Notes (No Maintenance)
https://community.summonerswar.com/chronicles/eng-gb/board/16/56398

Thank you.