Greetings, Aces!
Happy 2025! Our first update of the year is here—bringing exciting new updates, including mission types and map improvements, expanded language support, and a special perk for Founders: the ability to claim all previous Monthly Bonuses.
Kicking things off, the World Map will feature three new mission types. Each can be completed once, and some have graduated from discovery tiles to permanent spots on the map. Beyond that, we’ve fine-tuned combat and enemy behaviors, and polished up the visuals (no more NPCs mysteriously losing their faces—oops!). Enemies now have sharper responses and clearer tells, making fights challenging but fair. Plus, this update brings some love to your inventory, tweaks to item stats, and improved mission flow to keep things moving.
What’s that you say? More-monster-mangling was your New Year’s Resolution, too?! Well, then—what are you waiting for? Ready up, Aces … this year is gonna be a doozy.
More Languages
The Belfry continues to welcome Aces from around the world with these new options, bringing our support language count to 23:
- Polish (pl-PL)
- Danish (da-DK)
- Swedish (sv-SE)
- Norwegian (nb-NO)
- Finnish (fi-FI)
Gameplay & Exploration
This update hits some quality-of-life love for your inventory, item balancing fun, tweaks to mission and progression flow, and more. Dive in and see what’s new!
Founders: Claim Past Monthly Bonuses!
- With this update, Founders can now claim all previous Monthly Founder Bonuses—no more Ace envy for you newer Aces out there!
New Mission Types
Three new types of missions can be found on the World Map. Each one of these missions can be completed once. Some of these missions used to appear in discovery tiles, but now have a permanent location on the map. These were missions like escorting the wagon or helping the City of Number refugees as they try to make their way to the Belfry.
- Guide and Guard - Protect or escort wagons.
- Bait and Clear - New challenging missions where players progress through waves of enemies by ringing a bell.
- Chance Encounter - Unique experiences for the Ace to discover (Some of these you may have come across in a discovery mission before, but there are also new encounters and missions to discover).
Quality of Life Improvements
Easier Group Finder Access
- You now don’t have to go back to the Belfry to access Group Finder; find your group from the World Map, too!
Storage Increase
- Increased the Aspect inventory storage limit from 50 to 80, to match the Weapon and Gear storage limits.
Loot Adjustments
- Improved the drop rates for many Legendary items that were rarer than intended.
- Adjusted loot throughout the game to bias slightly in favor of gear dropping over weapons.
Item Stats Balance
- Strike DMG min/max random substat values reduced.
- Umbra Strength min/max random substat values increased.
- The “Focus Gain When Hit” item stat is now considered a Legacy stat. It will still function on existing items with this stat, but will no longer appear on newly acquired items.
- Its functionality has been rolled into the “Focus Gain on Hit” stat, which has now been relabeled to “Focus Gain.”
- Changed the static substats of the “Cambulary’s Strength” Legendary Sword:
- Bleed DMG → DMG Reduction
- Crit DMG → Strike DMG
- Existing Cambulary’s Strength items will be considered legacy items and retain their original affixes.
- Changed one of the static substats of the “Red Handed” Legendary Gauntlets:
- Crit DMG → Health Per Hit
- Existing Red Handed items will be considered legacy items and retain their original affixes.
- Crit DMG is now calculated as a multiplicative modifier rather than additive. It will now stack as expected with other damage modifiers like Strike DMG.
Tech Tweaks
- You can now scan a unique QR code in the Settings Menu to reach the ticket submission page to receive support.
- Various network stability fixes.
- Improved framerate while navigating menus.
- Fixed an issue with incorrect player profiles being shown.
Mission & Progression Adjustments
- The conversation screen that displayed “I don’t have anything for you right now” has been removed. The screen will now close if an NPC doesn’t have any new conversations. If you interact with an NPC that doesn’t have any conversations, a menu will display indicating no conversations are available.
- After loading into a mission, the quest tracker now hides itself after a couple of seconds. The information can still be brought back up by pressing 2 on the keyboard or RIGHT arrow on controller.
- Fixed a bug with Danger License Trials not displaying health bars correctly, and reinforcement enemies not spawning.
- Adjustments have been made to how encounters are selected in discovery missions, resulting in a more varied experience.
- Discovery missions now have a more contained selection of enemies.
- Numbers Ironworks background art was updated.
Combat
Classes
- Sentinel: Fixed an issue where certain Combo Finishers were not tagged properly.
- Pyroclast: Fixed an issue where certain Combo Finishers were not tagged properly.
- Rockbreaker:
- Fixed an issue that caused a Level 1 Powderkeg Punch to hit later than expected.
- Fixed an issue that caused a Level 3 Powderkeg Punch to fire automatically while charging when paired with certain Aspects.
- Adjusted the visual language of Skyward Swing’s vortex to improve gameplay visibility.
- Shadowstriker:
- Fixed an issue that caused Sunrise Shrapnel to have a smaller hitbox than intended.
- Adjusted the hitbox on Dash Light Attack so that it hits more reliably.
- Air Heavy Attack, when used as a Combo Finisher, is now properly counted as a Finisher.
Umbra
- Sten: Adjusted commit window so that you’re less likely to lose a charge if interrupted during the cast animation.
- Picus: Fixed an issue that caused airborne enemies to not get put into the proper hit reaction.
- Grimel: Adjusted cancel window timing so that you can do combos more intuitively.
Enemies
Your foes just got a little smarter—and fairer! This update polishes enemy behavior, improves visual cues, and makes fights smoother without losing the challenge.
- Break Bar:
- Enemies now have a much more obvious animation tell when they’re about to reactivate their Break Bar after being stunned.
- Adjusted hitbox of reactivate shockwave so that it feels less sudden when it hits the Ace.
- Enrage:
- Enemies now have a much more obvious animation tell when they’re about to activate Enrage. Enrage now hits on frame 60 instead of frame 25.
- Lowered Break Bar HP for fodder enemies, making it easier to break them, which deactivates the Enrage state.
Enemy Adjustments
- Flickertail:
- Adjusted landing frames from the Leapshot so that it’s easier to punish on whiff.
- Adjusted movement behavior to alleviate an issue where Flickertail walked backwards more often than intended.
- Adjusted the hitboxes of the Smoke Bomb projectiles so that they’re more reflective of the visual.
- Adjusted Flaming Sky Arrows so that there is a visual tell that signals their landing positions.
- Gobo Brute:
- Adjusted cooldowns to improve the pacing of the fight.
- Added a new attack tell to the dashing Heavy Attack so that it’s less abrupt in gameplay.
- Added missing Block Breaker warning visual to the dashing Heavy Attack.
- Adjusted the hitbox of the dashing Heavy Attack so that it better reflects the swipe visual.
- Gobo Tailwhipper:
- Fixed an issue that caused the Tailwhipper to not go into a proper reaction when Parried.
- Merk Marauder:
- The running Charge Attack has been adjusted so that it only causes a Stun when the Marauder is Enraged.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Flipping Double Axe Attack to hit earlier than intended.
- Merk Slugger & Conscript:
- Adjusted attack cooldowns to better pace their combat actions and alleviate frustration.
- Adjusted attack ownership so that the Ace doesn’t get put into repeated hitstun reactions in quick succession.
- Dusker Nightmare:
- Fixed an issue that caused Parry VFX to not appear correctly.
- Dusker:
- Fixed an issue that caused Parry VFX to not appear correctly.
- The Shepherd:
- Fixed an issue that caused Parry VFX to not appear correctly.
- Yxil:
- Adjusted hitboxes of ground projectiles so that it’s easier to jump over them.
- Fixed a bug that caused the Ground Stab visuals to appear underneath the ground instead of on top of the ground.
- Adjusted the timing of the stab so that it pops out from the ground 10 frames later. It also has a longer visual warning to help players anticipate the attack.
UI/UX
We’ve spruced up the interface so it’s smoother. Plus, we added some audio flair and squashed a few bugs—because no one likes those.
- Fixed multiple danger license-related layout bugs in various languages.
- Added keyboard scrolling in popups.
- Improved readability of pinned quest text.
- Added a warning when purchasing a cosmetic when the base item is not yet owned.
- Fixed layout of Ace rank and name in the group tab.
- Fixed multiple layout issues on the job board with certain combinations of languages and font sizes.
- Fixed layout of challenge timer in cases where it could become obstructed.
- Added an audio cue when starting a DLT.
- Fixed points in the store where the scroll bar could disappear.
- Fixed the mark-mode in the forge not letting players swap tabs.
Art
Bug fixing on the Art front should sharpen up your visual experience while making sure NPCs are looking their best. Enjoy!
- Fixed a Z-fighting issue in the Rescue Husband Event in the Mountains Biome.
- Fixed an issue where a Tower NPC was missing facial features.
- Fixed an issue with Ogden’s facial features in the conversation screen.
- Fixed a clipping issue with the Steamsilk Belt.
- Fixed a skinning issue with the Numberian Shoulderpads.
- Fixed a skinning issue with the Grandeur Guardian Belt.
- Fixed a clipping issue with the Glacial Grandmaster Cape.