Happy Holidays, Gladiators! This festive season, we bring you new challenges, powerful gladiators, and legendary treasures to make your battles even more exciting. Thank you for being part of our community—may your arena victories be as joyful as the holiday cheer! Although it is currently very difficult time for Indie game studios to operate, we will remain true to our original aspiration and bring you a better gaming experience. Not only Blackthorn Arena, but also another game developed by our studio, Age of Reforging: The Freelands, will also be launching a huge free update during the Christmas week! The update will be on sale for a limited time together with Blackthorn Arena during Winter Sale!
Blackthorn Arena: Reforged V 2.5 Update Patch
New Content:
*Gortus' Endless Trials has added a mode that challenges the gladiator. In this mode, players will face at least 10 gladiators in each wave and ultimately face at least one champion from other arenas. Each wave of enemies will be enhanced.
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A new powerful gladiator, the Swan Knight Adelaide, has been added.
A new suit of magical armor has been added to the random equipment treasure chest in the Gortus' Shrine.
A new legendary shield has been added, which can be obtained through the extremely difficult(RED) treasure hunt.
Six new Life Profession Sets have been added, which enhance the effects of your character's profession. They are:
Drillmaster Set: Increases the experience gained from training.
Doctor Set: Increases the health recovered from healing.
Torturer Set: Increases the loyalty gained from torturing.
Blacksmith Set: Reduces the money spent when crafting weapons and equipment.
Cook's Set: Reduces the cost of cooking food.
Herbalist's Set: Reduces the cost of crafting potions.
You can obtain these sets from the Wandering Merchant and the Robbing Caravan quests.
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Improvements
- *Japanese localization text has been updated and added (Localization for other languages are also Preparing). - *Some optimizations have been made to the running efficiency of the game, which may increase the frame rate for some players.
UI:
Added a function to buy multiple items at once with one click.
Added the function of automatically assigning free personnel to the training ground, Treatment Room, and torture chamber.
Participating in a competition will no longer automatically assign players, but it can be done automatically via a button in the lower left corner.
Now viewing a competition that has already started, you can see the specific participating NPCs.
Scenes:
Improved the lighting effects in some scenes.
Bug Fixes:
System:
Fixed an issue where players can watch matches held in other arenas through the arena list while they have put aside event and storyline matches, thus missing the event and storyline matches they have put aside.
Fixed an issue where duplicate characters may be generated after the Freeman Champion escapes from the player's Arena.
Fixed the problem where the poisoning effect of a poisoned weapon did not cause additional damage when stacked.
Fixed the problem where the achievements Dragon Slayer, Enlightened Monk, and Watch Your Step could not be unlocked correctly.
Fixed an issue where the race of a character did not match their appearance, which also caused the character's equipment model not to display.
Fixed an abnormal force effect after being knocked into the air.
Through a series of improvements, the problem of characters getting stuck outside the battle area or falling below the terrain has been further avoided.
UI:
Some skill descriptions with incomplete effect descriptions have been completed.
Fixed the inaccurate and incomplete description of the bonus to the agility attribute.
Fixed the problem that the input in the input box did not take effect immediately when trading.
Fixed the problem that the target indicator of the character did not disappear when the pause was cancelled.
Fixed the incorrect skill description of Yanfan.
Fixed the incorrect description of LeKha's grasp.
Units:
Fixed the incorrect weapon type for the Orc Master.
Skills:
Berserker – Suppress Anger: Fixed the issue where the skill effect did not take effect.
Balancing:
Units:
Werespider have been moderately strengthened.
Crocodiles have been significantly weakened.
Reduces the knockback effect of the scorpion lion skill.
Skills:
Defender – Intercept: The radius of the taunt has been increased by 1.5 meters from 1 meter, while the knockback effect has been reduced.
Rogue – Venomous Weapon: It can now be stacked up to 6 times.
Berserker – Suppress Anger: It now also has the effect of restoring health and ending the berserk
Shapeshifter – Howler of Terror: now does not work against large enemies.state.
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Our team is committed to bringing more fixes, updates, and content to Blackthorn Arena: Reforged! Please remember to leave a review - this helps us out tremendously!
A blizzard decorated the post-apocalyptic world for the holiday! The streets are garbed in snow, with weird icicles everywhere and the hoarfrost is alive.
It's our turn to get ready and decorate the Christmas tree! The zombies are in business too, dressed all warm for winter fun, while the Siren has turned into a true snow queen. Everyone helps to decorate the tree in time for the holiday.
And the gifts are waiting for everyone! Join in the fun! Hurry and get the holiday gifts!
Renamed Pau to Paw, Herald of Unity and changed their effect to "Tactician. Whenever a card enters your field or support zone from your hand, explore for a card with the same types"
Renamed Urvar, Varlari Vanguard to Advar, Varlari Vanguard
Renamed Lost Departed to Lost Soul and replaced the effect with "Last Words - Deal 2 damage to your hero, then summon a 2/2 undead follower token"
Changed Darkness Sword to 3-cost 2-attack (from 2-cost 3-attack)
Changed Varlari Necromancer to 5-cost 1/3 (from 4-cost 2/2)
Changed Arfactus cost to 12 (up from 10) and removed Untargetable
Changed Focus Point to 2 cost (down from 3), changed the essence to last while you control it, and added "Enters the supply zone exhausted"
Changed Redan Fruit Merchant to Uncommon
Changed Staff of the Wilds to Rare
Changed Lifestream Ritual to Epic
Changed Solar Eclipse's effect to "Increase the damage and healing your spells, enchantments, and artifacts deal by 1"
Changed Flame Elemental to put counters from its trigger on itself only
Changed Hide Away into an item artifact and renamed it to Hideaway
Changed Tarin Spellburst's first effect to "Explore for spell, enchantment, or artifact"
Changed Tarin Spellburst's second effect to "Your spells, enchantments, and artifacts deal +1 damage"
Added second mode to Back to Nature to give a follower +X/+X until end of turn
Reduced quest zone card limit to 6 (down from 12)
Reduced support zone card limit to 8 (down from 10)
Changed Draft and Sealed deck size to 40
Renamed Golems to Constructs
Removed health indicator for hero cards in the collection
Removed keyword reminders from several cards that became too wordy
Changed Black Market to be once per turn
Changed Enfeeble cost to 3 (up from 2)
Other Changes
Disabled camera auto scroll when mouse is over the bounds of the screen unless attacking
Adjusted the logic of the collection browser
Added number assist setting to accessibility menu
Increased in-game size of quest and support cards
Card stat modifiers appear when browsing the discard zone
[New stage has appeared!] Chapter 8-2 Lit Tactical Palace has been implemented. “The guardian's blessing will continue to protect you in the dark palace. However, you must face the fear that the blessing has driven away for the last time.”
You can play this stage for free until Chapter 8-3 is implemented. (The DLC will go on sale when Chapter 8-3 is implemented.)
As you can see when you play it, this stage has a crazy amount of new systems implemented. There are so many new things that even the developers don't really understand this stage. That said, we developed this stage with a lot of room to spare, so the balance is more stable than in previous stages to a certain extent.
However, the programmer was running out of steam towards the end of the implementation, so there are some noticeable errors in the positioning and program bugs in the final adjustments. We plan to fix these in the next few days.
[Regarding future work plans] We plan to intermittently implement bugs and unimplemented effects over the next few days. Then, next week, we plan to make QoL improvements as an “interim update”.
As a result of the player vote on Discord, the interim update this time will be “a function that allows you to see a list of items acquired with the Tab key” and “a change in the reward for defeating the Unique Enemy in 7-1”.
After that, Chapter 8-3 will be implemented, and at that time, the DLC will be sold. (At the time of the DLC sale, 8-1 and 8-2 will no longer be available for free.) In addition, the Chapter 8 DLC can be received for free by those who have purchased the main package for a fee. (A system to notify you of this will be introduced in the interim update.) The DLC for Chapter 8-3 is scheduled for December 31, but considering the trend so far, there is a very high possibility that it will be released in late January.
After Chapter 8-3 is implemented, we plan to implement QoL improvements and other changes as an interim update, and then implement Chapter 8-4.
Renamed Pau to Paw, Herald of Unity and changed their effect to "Tactician. Whenever a card enters your field or support zone from your hand, explore for a card with the same types"
Renamed Urvar, Varlari Vanguard to Advar, Varlari Vanguard
Renamed Lost Departed to Lost Soul and replaced the effect with "Last Words - Deal 2 damage to your hero, then summon a 2/2 undead follower token"
Changed Darkness Sword to 3-cost 2-attack (from 2-cost 3-attack)
Changed Varlari Necromancer to 5-cost 1/3 (from 4-cost 2/2)
Changed Arfactus cost to 12 (up from 10) and removed Untargetable
Changed Focus Point to 2 cost (down from 3), changed the essence to last while you control it, and added "Enters the supply zone exhausted"
Changed Redan Fruit Merchant to Uncommon
Changed Staff of the Wilds to Rare
Changed Lifestream Ritual to Epic
Changed Solar Eclipse's effect to "Increase the damage and healing your spells, enchantments, and artifacts deal by 1"
Changed Flame Elemental to put counters from its trigger on itself only
Changed Hide Away into an item artifact and renamed it to Hideaway
Changed Tarin Spellburst's first effect to "Explore for spell, enchantment, or artifact"
Changed Tarin Spellburst's second effect to "Your spells, enchantments, and artifacts deal +1 damage"
Added second mode to Back to Nature to give a follower +X/+X until end of turn
Reduced quest zone card limit to 6 (down from 12)
Reduced support zone card limit to 8 (down from 10)
Changed Draft and Sealed deck size to 40
Renamed Golems to Constructs
Removed health indicator for hero cards in the collection
Removed keyword reminders from several cards that became too wordy
Changed Black Market to be once per turn
Changed Enfeeble cost to 3 (up from 2)
Other Changes
Disabled camera auto scroll when mouse is over the bounds of the screen unless attacking
Adjusted the logic of the collection browser
Added number assist setting to accessibility menu
Increased in-game size of quest and support cards
Card stat modifiers appear when browsing the discard zone
Greetings Sheriffs, We’ve just released a new Major Hotfix to enhance your gaming experience and address some of the feedback we’ve received from our amazing community. Below is a detailed list of the improvements and fixes included in this update:
Improvements:
Starting Area: First of all, we completely redesigned our Starting Area, reducing its size and making it more functional. And now you can also try out the grenades and turrets available in the game in the Shooting Range! (Even our Priest standing in the church is shocked by this situation and looks like he won't be able to speak for a while.) Level Select: We've completely removed the 3D map table and replaced it with a more informative and easy to understand UI. Tutorial: We've updated our Tutorial screens with a new start area. We've tried to make it more understandable for everyone with less text and more icons. Sitting Mode: In Pause Menu you can now adjust the Belt's height, left and right, and forward and backward. UI Improvements & Changes
Removed extra health indicators on weapons. And the icons for church and player lives have been changed to make them easier to distinguish.
When you deal damage to an Enemy, a grey bar now appears on their health bar.
The quality of the money labels in the game has been improved. and now our money appears on every table in the Wave Shop.
Pause Menu, the win and die screen now has "Return to Base and "Level Select" options.
The time you spend on the level is now visible on the Wave Board.
There is now a Master Setting in the Pause Menu.
Fixed the range of increased stat values in the Upgrade Table.
Grenades: The throwing power has been increased to make it easier to throw. Bosses
The footsteps of the Boss on the first map are no longer global. It has been made easier to understand where it comes from.
We reduced the effects of the boss in the first map to improve performance.
The attacks of the Boss on the second map have been improved.
Weapons in Shop Wave: The magazines that come with purchasing a weapon in Shop Wave have been positioned more clearly and their number has been increased.
Bugfixes
Let's start with the most annoying ones first.
Fixed the issue where bombs could not be thrown and would go underground when thrown.
Fixed the issue where objects falling in the church area would go underground.
Fixed the issue where health drops from enemies were not being picked up properly.
Fixed the UI overlay issue when the magazine is placed on the belt.
Last Enemy Indicator: The last remaining enemy on the map being displayed in red now works properly.
Fixed the issue where Turrets would exceed their maximum limit when purchased from Shop Waves and chests.
Fixed the issue where a Tank zombie would go into strange animations when it was shot in the leg area.
Fixed the issue where ranged enemies could not hit us while in Seated Mode.
The issue where church and player health was not reaching its maximum value when gaining health in Shop Wave has been fixed, and the damage sound is no longer played when buying player health.
Fixed the issue where bosses could not gain shields at certain health levels. This way, boss phases are now working properly. (They won't die that easily anymore)
Thank you for your continued support and feedback! We’re committed to making EvilPunk the best experience it can be. As always, please let us know your thoughts on these updates in the Steam Community Hub or through our social media channels.
Stay tuned for more updates, and enjoy your time in the world of EvilPunk!
As we approach the end of the year, we want to take a moment to reflect, share some exciting updates, and express our heartfelt gratitude for your incredible support. We delivered nearly 50 updates this year, and we couldn’t have done it without your enthusiasm and feedback.
We’re thrilled to share what’s in store for next year! Expect an exciting new fighting system, multiplayer features, and even more creative ideas to enhance your gameplay experience.
Thank you for being an essential part of our journey. Here’s to an even more epic year ahead!
Improved VRAM usage by ~100MB
Improved RAM usage by ~300MB
Fixed an issue causing persistent slowdowns if aggroed mobs unloaded weirdly
We want to emphasize once again that using illegal third-party programs, sharing information about these tools, or participating in any suspicious activities in the game is strictly against the rules.
Moreover, idling during a match (AFK) will not be tolerated. Any violation will result in temporary or permanent suspension of your account without exceptions.
