[Message to Players]
Hello, Heroes. This is the B&S Heroes development team.
Thank you for spending your precious time with B&S Heroes.
Our development team has spent a busy year working hard to bring you an enjoyable game.
Over the weekend, we carefully listened to all the valuable feedback you shared with us.
With this, we would like to begin addressing your concerns.
[Free-to-Play Friendly]
In Blade & Soul Heroes, we’ve put a lot of thought into creating an environment where you can fully enjoy the game without feeling pressured to spend. This is also the reason behind our events where simply playing every day for 7 days lets you earn around 8,000 Divine Gems, plus 40 Limited Hero Recruit Plaques and 90 Hero Recruit Plaques.
Going forward, we plan to continue offering generous events so that you can enjoy the game stress-free, without worrying about costs. And, as a token of our gratitude for all the support you’ve shown us, we’ve also sent 10,000 Divine Gems to your in-game mailbox. If you haven’t checked yet, log in and enjoy the thrill of collecting to your heart’s content!
[Cross-Platform Play and Mobile]
Since Blade & Soul Heroes supports cross-platform play, many of you have also joined us on mobile. However, we received feedback that progressing through quests and fighting monsters in the field felt a bit awkward.
To address this, we plan to add auto-play so that questing can be done with a single tap—press the quest button and your character will automatically move to the quest area and engage monsters. In addition, Hero Skills will auto-activate from the tutorial stage, reducing early-game confusion and making the experience smoother and more comfortable.
The truth is, the auto feature existed during development, but we were concerned that an overly automated experience might not provide a positive gameplay experience, so we launched without it. In addition, to highlight the satisfaction that only manual control can offer, we significantly buffed the Parry mechanic. However, many of you told us that, on mobile, even just progressing through the Epic Quest leads to excessive control fatigue. We agreed, and have decided to quickly reinstate the auto-play feature.
This will apply to mobile first. We’ll closely monitor your feedback and consider adding it to the PC version as well.
[Vision for Future Content Updates]
We’d like to share the overall direction of upcoming updates with our core players who have already cleared all existing content and are eagerly awaiting what’s next.
First, in this week’s update, we’ll be unveiling a new region, “The Scorching Sands.”
The Epic Quest will also expand into this new region.
The Scorching Sands continues the story after Tomun Range. If you haven’t yet played through Tomun Range yet, we encourage you to take your time and follow the story at your own pace.
We’re also introducing a new tactical battle mode called “Tactical Trial".
This will provide more advanced deck battle content, with diverse rules and mechanics, designed for those who have already completed their Mind Training gameplay and want deeper, more exciting challenges. And of course, the Mind Training stages themselves will be expanded as well.
In addition, we’re preparing new Solo and Party Boss Trials at a rapid pace, aiming to release them with every update.
In this week’s update, you can expect two new Solo Boss Trials and one new Party Boss Trial.
Looking ahead, we’ll also be bringing you Field Boss and the Duel Tournament events.
Field Bosses are powerful monsters that require many players to join forces to defeat. While similar to Party Boss Trials, they demand even greater coordination and focus. Naturally, the rewards for outstanding performance will be well worth your effort.
The Duel Tournament will allow you to enjoy direct PvP combat against other players in the field.
Unlike open-world PvP, this is a match-based system where you’ll face an opponent one-on-one in real time. Compared to Showdowns, the fact that it takes place in a field format and allows live, dynamic encounters adds a fresh new twist. Field Boss will be available starting with this week’s update, while the Duel Tournament will undergo additional refinements to make the experience more enjoyable before it arrives in a future update.
And once you’ve had your fill of all this content, we’ll be rolling straight into the Halloween Event, packed with generous rewards and festive content.
Rumor has it that a descendant of a certain Frost Keeper in the Silverfrost Mountains will be showing up at the party in an adorable Halloween outfit… you’ll be able to meet them in the next update!
[In Closing]
We’d love to continue chatting with you, but it’s time for us to get back to preparing tomorrow’s update.
For more details on what’s coming in this week’s update, please refer to the [Patch Notes].
We sincerely look forward to hearing more of your feedback, and we’ll continue to listen closely and do our best to make your Blade & Soul Heroes experience smoother and more enjoyable.
With that, we’ll bring this letter to a close and look forward to seeing you again in the next one.
Thank you.
—The Blade & Soul Heroes Development Team—