Blackthorn Arena: Reforged v2.1a Update Patch
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New content:
- Added some new innate traits that can be randomly obtained
- Added a champion of the freeman, “Xuefei”. This mysterious swordsman from the East will appear in the Arena of the Freelands and have the opportunity to fight for you.
Bug fixes:
System:
*Fixed a bug where a small number of players were unable to start the game due to video decoding issues
*Fixed a bug where the game could not be played normally when a player encountered a side mission challenge during a tournament.
- Gladiators who are currently undergoing surgery, training Genre, or being tortured in the dark room can no longer be sold.
- Fixed the bug that allowed gladiators who were away/dispatched from the arena to be sold.
- Fixed the bug that caused the damage of the injuring Palm to be overpowered.
Performance:
- Fixed the bug that the bat would get stuck in the terrain.
- Fixed the bug that occasionally caused the arrow of the bow to get stuck in the hand and not disappear.
- Fixed the bug that after hosting a feast, the gladiators would not return to their posts.
- Fixed an issue where skill tips that did not meet the attribute requirements were incorrectly displayed.
Other:
- Fixed an issue where some acquired traits were classified as innate traits.
- Removed attribute requirements for some weapon skills.
- Fixed the bug where the damage of the Empty-handed and the Monk's Qi Gathering was too high.
- Fixed the issue where the health potion also restores morale.
Balancing:
Overall:
* The character load limit system has been redesigned: characters now have three load limits: light, medium, and heavy.
- When lightly loaded, the character will receive a certain amount of bonus to dodge, attack speed, movement speed, and stamina saving.
- When heavily loaded, the character will receive a certain amount of penalty to dodge, attack speed, movement speed, and stamina saving.
- When medium loaded, there will be no bonus or penalty.
-Characters can now dodge charging skills.
- The initial random attributes of the characters in the Role library are now consistent with the initial random attribute range of the market characters.
Weapons and armor:
- Bows and crossbows now reload immediately after firing
- Bows, crossbows and quivers have had their damage increased by 1.5
- Polearms have had their damage reduced by 1
- Adjusted the stamina cost of some two-handed and polearm weapons, and increased them overall
- Slightly increased the armor resistance of the Freeman
- Slightly increased the attributes and levels of some of the weaker champions
Animations:
- Power strike : The animation speed has been reduced by 20
- Lunge : The animation speed has been increased by 30
- Bow and Crossbow: The animation speed of the attack and reload has been increased by 20
Skills:
- Injuring Palm: Remove the damage of time effect. Its damage type changed from sustained to soul damage.
- Martial arts master: Resistance penetration has been reduced from a maximum of 75% to 50%, but it will increase the basic damage of the maximum 6% physical strength vaule.
- Quick Heal: The life recovery speed has been reduced from 4/6/8 to 2/3/4
- Power Strike: The cooldown has been increased from 12 seconds to 15 seconds, and the Stamina consumption has been increased from 1.5 times the weapon value to 2 times
Improvements:
Features:
* When creating a custom character in role library, players can now select initial traits under certain rules.
- When selling and buying gladiators, you can now also view the gladiator's equipment.
- When viewing a character, you can now view his equipment.
- The automatic save before reading the dispatch task is now not repeated when the task is executed again.
UI:
- The UI for selecting the initial gladiator at the start of the game has been improved.
- When viewing a character in the purchase interface, hovering the mouse over the genre will display an introduction to the genre's characteristics.
- Players will now be given more obvious prompts when they obtain items.
- Buffs now display the duration on the icon.
- The UI of the match and mission settlement screen has been optimized. Excess loot now no longer extends beyond the UI frame, but is displayed using a slider.
Scenarios:
* In the sewer scene of some missions, the character can now fall into the water and climb back up the ladder.
- Improved lighting effects in multiple scenes