Hello, everyone! We hope that everyone has been enjoying Palia’s Steam Launch and the 0.178 update! But we also want to talk about some feedback that’s been brought to our attention.
Palia is Currently in Open Beta
We want to clear the air: since our Open Beta launch back in August 2023, the game remains as a title still in Open Beta. Know that we’ll keep our players updated with as much information as possible as we approach what we consider to be our official launch.
We know that there has been feedback regarding our messaging and status on various platforms, but the emphasis is that Palia is free-to-play and available for anyone to try. It is a continuous, ongoing effort, and we are committed to providing patch updates with new content, improvements, and bug fixes well into the future.
In fact, looking at our version, being on 0.178 means we’ve made over 178 updates to the game! Even from the start, and the days of Pre-Alpha, we made sure to include player feedback and have it shape Palia to be where it is today. And when it’s ready, we also plan to have the versioning update from “0.XXX” to “1.XXX” to better reflect Palia’s new status — but even that is not the end. We’ll keep having more patches after, and developing Palia alongside our players. That was one of the primary reasons why we wanted it to be a free-to-play, live-service game.
We invite everyone to be part of this journey.
What’s next?
There’s some exciting content we’ve outlined in our March Dev Update, and some we’re not quite ready to share just yet as they need a bit more time to bake.
That said, we also want to share that additional quality-of-life and accessibility features on the horizon, such as:
Brightness sliders
Colorblind features
UI and text adjustments
To our players, your feedback and support of the game will keep shaping and improving Palia. This is something we extend to all players: new, old, and returning.
★Secret Dungeon Reward ED Adjustment Pre-Announcement
From the overall ED Gain data collected from last year 2023-12-06 Secret Dungeon Revamp update to now, we believe that the polarization of obtainable ED has been partly resolved.
However, we have noticed the ED Gain from Secret Dungeons have increased 4 times since the Secret Dungeon update, and the overall ED Gain up to 2 times. This numbers have far over-exceeded our expectations, and brings concern that it may be a major factor in ED value dropping in the long run. To prevent this outcome, we will be adjusting some of Secret Dungeon ED Gain.
When looking at the ED Gain per CP stage in the Secret dungeon, the farming based on CP has been functioning mostly as intended. We intend to adjust the ED gain only in stage 3 and stage 4, as the amount of ED gained from stage 1 and stage 2 have not been extensive, and we acknowledge the importance of early-game ED acquisition.
We understand that the issue of adjusting the amount of ED gain is a sensitive matter and approach it as such, especially because ED acquisition is directly connected to the game’s economy.
However, even with all this consideration, we believe the current ED gain in Secret Dungeon will have a major impact in future ED value and the overall game economy; therefore, it is imperative to make adjustments now.
The above adjustments will be applied with the 4-24 maintenance. We will continue to check on the issue of ED Gain and make sure that all Elsword adventurers can enjoy a stable game environment.
★ Lithia Event Dungeon Reward Added
After 3-27 maintenance, Lithia character can open Velder Academy Library, Velder Academy Athletic Meet event dungeon exchange reward cube.
★ El House Improvement
El House Music List has been added.
Added 4 new categories.
Lithia Region
Tirnog
Abyss
Monaterra
Added 2 Village Background Music.
Beyond the Rift
Magmelia
Added 41 Dungeon Background Music
Memory Shard
Tirnog
Abyss
Monaterra
You can craft [Luriel] Wooden Picture Frame (Lithia) through NPC Ariel.
★ Character
[Ara]
Energy sync is improved to fixed host and non-host energy amount being different in certain situations.
[Add]
Fixed incorrect message popping up when entering the Special Action (V) key with Add 1st, 2nd, 3rd path.
[Dominator]
Fixed Install – Zero Kelvin Generator [Enhance] not applying when Flotilla Stage 4 Fusion Factory effect is applied.
[Rose] [Tempest Burster]
Fixed [Mod] Quantum Bomb skill sometimes targeting dungeon obstacles.
[Noah] [Second Selection]
Fixed being able to skip skill motion by activating card while being unable to act Circulation.
★ ETC
When in a party, fixed Title Switching UI not ending when entering a dungeon.
Fixed not being able to portrait right-click invite party with certain steps.
Fixed title effect before change remaining when using title switch in certain situations.
When fixed NPCs that cannot be knocked down being knocked down in certain situations when applying petrified effect to these NPCs.
Fixed pet auto consume upgrade’s timer being reset when a party member resurrects.
When searching certain words from Market Board, fixed the items containing that certain word not coming up in the search.
Hey y'all! The style selection has been implemented into the game and an alt variation of the characters will be avaialble in near updates in the future! As of now we are open to any ideas or suggestions for the remaining characters who need outfits!
-Snail -Moko -Shed
If you have any ideas, let us know in the discussions in the community tab or on Twitter!
Along with that, we wanna show more love and support to the talented people within the community! If you have any Rabbit Hole fan art you want to share, remeber to use #rabbitholegame on twitter, newgrounds or instagram!
Thank you all for the support, we apprecite you all! With love, ShortCakeCafe, Engie and MOAI Music
DEAD MAN'S HAND: Card Roulette Action Playtest - chreas
- Fixed cardbomb breaking the match state. - End game screen now directly transitions back to the lobby instead of leaving players in the match screen.
Continuing on from the "lumber mill props" added last update, this next update adds some more props and features themed around a western town! This includes new buildings, props, and a new wooden tunnel style.
As you might have seen mentioned previously, all these updates are working towards a big map set in the Sierra mountains and the California logging industry in the early 1940s. This map is going to be Rolling Line's first ever expansion (almost 6 years after the games release). More details will be coming in the future about this expansion, but for now here's some new props added to the game while i've been in the process of making the town of Tuolumne, California!
Old western buildings
Firstly, a modular hotel building:
A set of classic street-side shops:
And a church:
Also a bunch of props, including shop-front signs, wood planks, hitching posts, etc:
New wooden tunnel style
This tunnel can be added from the popup track-style menu, or using the new painters in the "track tools" drawer. You can make a single-track tunnel or a double-track tunnel (by adding walls to each side on the two lanes of track). There are also snappable tunnel portals for single and double track tunnels:
More mill props
A few new props added to the "buildings -> mill" drawer, these include a new modular water tower as well as a wooden "sand chute" building:
Other minor fixes/features also include:
Added snapping to all double-track tunnel portals
Added placement ghost arrow to all tunnel portals
Improved collision on several wooden debris pile props
Moved several props around to clean up drawers, there is no longer the bizarre "props -> warf" drawer, these props have been moved to "vehicles -> boats" and "buildings -> Western"
Added a couple of new church window props
Sierra logging layout preview!
While this is still massively work-in progress, here are a few sneak previews of parts of the map that I have been working on! There will be much more info released about this map in the future.