[2023] NARAKA: BLADEPOINT Update – June 29th, 2023

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Dear players,
The servers of NARAKA: BLADEPOINT will be suspended for maintenance from June 28th, 2023 at 23:00 (UTC) to June 29th, 2023 at 03:00 (UTC). We suggest you log out in advance and enter the game again after the maintenance.

The details for this update are as follows:

Brand New Content
I. Capture the Spirit Well Early Access



Story:
Taking advantage of the heroes' victory over Omnius, the Psylith people, who had been suppressed for millennia, broke free from the prison island and initiated their retaliation against the Fervent disciples.

1. Gameplay:
This is a battle between the Fervent and the Psylith factions for control over the Spirit Wells. Each faction consists of 12 players and is divided into 4 teams of 3 players each. Players on the same team cannot select the same Hero.

2. Victory Conditions:

• Capture and maintain control of the 5 Spirit Wells on the battlefield to increase your faction's points.
  
• The faction that reaches a total point of 1000 first wins the game. The result will be a draw if there is no clear winner.

3. Basic Rules:

• When defeated, you can open the map and choose to revive at your faction's Soul Altars.
  
• In Capture the Spirit Well, players gain Dark Tide Coins over time. Additionally, capturing the Money Tree on the battlefield increases the Dark Tide Coins for your faction.
  
• Challenges to boost morale will appear periodically during the battle. You can get the corresponding rewards upon completing the challenges.
  
• You can spend Dark Tide Coins at the Rift Dealer on the battlefield to assemble powerful sets of equipment for yourself.
  
• When defeated you keep all your items, except for Extreme Souljades.

4. Other Rules:

• When there is a significant point difference between the factions, Bounty and Bodyguard Quests will be triggered. Pursuing or protecting the Bounty objective grants your faction a substantial points.
  
• In this mode, the effective range of Ziping Yin's Ultimate, [Saving Grace] and [Saving Grace: Aegis], is changed to 50 meters.
  
• Rift Dealer can now recommend suitable Souljades based on your current Primary Weapon and Secondary Weapon.

5. New Items

• A powerful Moonbane Charm item unique to the Capture the Spirit Well has been added: It has a shorter duration but greater potency.
  
• New Extreme Souljade items have been added to Morus' Blessing: Soulfire Blades, Shadow Eclipse, Annihilation Render, Moonbane's Wrath.
  
• New Souljade items have been added to the Rift Dealer: Warrior, Divine Form, Backfire, and Soul-drawing.

6. New Settings

• In Setting - Audio, "Omni's Nightmare Faction Voice Volume" is adjusted to "Faction Voice Volume". You can change the voice volume from your faction in Capture the Spirit Well and Omni's Nightmare modes.
  
• In Setting - Audio, "Capture the Spirit Well Voice" is added to switch the voice channel of your faction or team.

II. New Souljades
Extreme Souljades have been added for 4 weapons, with each having its own requirement for consumption of Ultimate Rage.

1. Soulfire Blades: [Dual Blades Skill] Grant Dual Blades a 3rd-stage vertical charged strike with enough Rage. Use vertical strike again while retrieving your Dual Blades to kick them out once more.
   
2. Shadow Eclipse: [Dagger Skill] Grant Dagger a 3rd-stage horizontal charged strike with enough Rage, thrusting forth and leaving a marker. Can attack repeatedly, with its final blow launching another attack from the marker.
   
3. Annihilation Render: [Greatsword Skill] Grant Greatsword a 3rd-stage vertical charged strike with enough Rage. Can attack repeatedly, and land an additional final blow.
   
4. Moonbane's Wrath: [Longsword Skill] Grant Longsword a 3rd-stage horizontal charged strike with enough Rage. Enemies hit are marked. Can attack repeatedly, with its final blow stunning enemies.

Note: The above Souljades are only available in Capture the Spirit Well mode in the current game version.

III. Zai's new Skill [Flame Ward: Firestorm] and Ultimate [Chain Scythe: Afflict] are now available

Skill [Flame Ward: Firestorm]

• Zai transforms into [Flame Ward], entering aiming mode and cannot be hit.
  
• Then she dashes in the aimed direction, knocking nearby enemies airborne and burning them.

Ultimate [Chain Scythe: Afflict]

• Zai switches her weapon to [Chain Scythe] which exists for 30 sec.
  
• Vertical and Horizontal strikes are changed into new attack ways.
  
• When charged strikes of [Chain Scythe] mark enemies twice, Zai can unleash [Splinter Soul] to attack the enemy.

IV. Brand-new system:Outfit Collection

1. When you get a cosmetic, the collection points will be increased. Once you reach the required amount, you can unlock a certification title.
   
2. You can collect the single cosmetic or set to get [Romantic Mirror] for more collection points.
   
3. Collecting the corresponding outfits, weapons, and accessories for ultimate and skills in the set can light up the set scroll.
   
4. Collecting the set of cosmetics to earn Dynastic Treasure Choice Gift, Regular Treasure Choice Gift and more rewards.

V. Limited-time event: The Herald's Duel
Event Time: From June 29th, 2023 Update to July 20th, 2023 at 20:00 (UTC)

Event Info
The Herald's Duel is now available! Come experience a different mode of Showdown!

1. Tap the 'Join the event' button for the event.
   
2. Use the cards to pass levels and win the mysterious reward: "Telluric Essence"!

VI. Limited-time Event: Vein of Holoroth
Event Time: From June 29th, 2023 Update to July 13th, 2023 at 20:00 (UTC)

Event Rules

1. During the event, log in daily and claim sign-in rewards - Vein of Holoroth Gift on the Daily Chest page.
   
2. Gain Veinstones by completing quests during the event. Veintones can be used to redeem great event rewards.

Souljade Adjustments I. Souljade Adjustments

1. Health boost that [Health Souljade IV]'s provides is reduced from 25% to 24%.
   
2. Melee resist that [Melee Resist Souljade IV] provides is reduced from 12.5% to 12%.
   
3. Head defense that [Melee Resist Souljade IV] provides is increased from 15% to 16%.

In-game Adjustments I. Mechanism Adjustments
Optimized the collision volume of Scout Bells, addressing specific cases where they failed to trigger.

II. Newly added Report Button to Martial Artist Solo
In the Martial Artist Solo:

• Tap the Z button at any time during the match to enter the reporting interface.
  
• A report button has been added to the settlement interface after the end of the game.

In the Custom Room - Martial Artist Solo mode:
Open the Match Schedule, and you can click on a player's avatar to enter the reporting interface (when there are only two players remaining, a report button is added next to the name of both players on the Match Schedule).

Out-game Adjustments I. Voice Adjustments
After a thorough assessment of resource use, we have made the difficult decision to limit the language options for voice-overs in the game to Chinese, English, and Japanese. We understand that this may cause inconvenience to some of our players, and we sincerely apologize for that. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

II. Ultimate Skills Visual Optimization
Optimized the display method and names of default appearances for Ultimate Skills.

III. New Quest Navigation Feature
The out-game quest interface now supports guiding and navigating to other interfaces.

IV. Hero Voice
Optimized the voice of the enemy hero's release of Ultimates, making it more obvious and clear.

V. Spectator Adjustments

• The position of the "Spectating XXX" / "XX's Camera" prompt interface for in-game spectators and referee spectators has been adjusted.
  
• In the Settings - Gameplay - Ref Spectate, a new option "Hide the Ref Spectator Interface" has been added. After turning it on, you can hide the "XX's Camera" prompt interface for the referee spectator.

Showdown Adjustments I. Combat Adjustments

• Optimized the hit reactions of Astral Aegis monsters.
  
• Reduced the duration of Stone Monster's entrance animation.
  
• Optimized the sound effects of the Horizontal and Vertical Strikes of Tianhai [Titan's Call: Showdown].

II. Level Adjustments

• Adjusted the player spawn points for Eventide Ember on Easy difficulty and optimized the level progress prompts.
  
• Recommended Sense level for Enigma Peak has been adjusted to 525.

III. Others
Added guidance for the equipment and upgrading of Souljades. These guides have no influence on players who have cleared normal difficulty levels.

Client Optimization
I. Further optimized high-frequency code execution efficiency in the client.

II. Optimized memory allocation within the rendering submission queue to reduce fragmentation and improve rendering performance.

Store Updates
I. Yin Yang Pool is available now



Each time you open the Yin Yang Pool, you need to consume 1 [Journey of Blades Ingot], priced at 400 Gold, after opening it, you will have a chance to get 20 rewards such as Justina Gu's Legendary Outfit [Journey of Blades·Fairy Bunny] and Matari's Legendary Outfit [Journey of Blades·Lady White Bone].
You'll receive different rewards each time. The final prize Justina Gu's Legendary Outfit [Journey of Blades·Fairy Bunny] becomes available once you've obtained all 20 items.

"Guarantee: Based on the above drop rate, players are guaranteed to receive at least one Gold (Legendary) reward within the first 3 draws. Another guaranteed Gold (Legendary) reward within 5 more draws, followed by the next guaranteed Gold (Legendary) reward within 7 more draws."

II. New Discounts

1. Newly added Viper Ning Legendary Gesture [Journey of Blades·Web Veil]. Standard price: 1,200 Gold; Now: 900 Gold.
   
2. Newly added Justina Gu Legendary Gesture [Journey of Blades·Elegance]. Standard price: 1,200 Gold; Now: 900 Gold.
   
3. Newly added Matari Legendary Gesture [Journey of Blades·Alluring Bones]. Standard price: 1,200 Gold; Now: 900 Gold.
   
4. Newly added Temulch Legendary Accessory [Journey of Blades·Wuneng Hat]. Standard price: 1,200 Gold; Now: 1000 Gold.
   
5. Newly added Legendary Gesture [Journey of Blades·Enlightener] for all Male Heroes. Standard price: 900 Gold; Now: 750 Gold.
   
6. Newly added Feria Shen Epic Gesture [Journey of Blades·Love Ya]. Standard price: 300 Gold; Now: 250 Gold.
   
7. Newly added Akos Hu Epic Gesture [Journey of Blades·Love You More]. Standard price: 300 Gold; Now: 250 Gold.

III. Discounts End

1. Spear Legendary Skin [Journey of Blades·Fiend-Routing Staff] has returned to its standard price of 1,500 Gold.
   
2. Cannon Legendary Skin [Journey of Blades·Yin-Yang Essence] has returned to its standard price of 1,500 Gold.
   
3. Tarka Ji Legendary Accessory [Festive Dragon Head] has returned to its standard price of 1,200 Gold.
   
4. Kurumi Legendary Pose [Spring Prelude·Pounding Heartbeat] has returned to its standard price of 900 Gold.
   
5. Tianhai Epic Pose [Journey of Blades·Purge of Evil] has returned to its standard price of 500 Gold.
   
6. Kurumi Legendary Outfit [Spring Prelude·Morning Breeze] has returned to its standard price of 1,800 Gold.
   
7. Kurumi Legendary Accessory [Spring Prelude·Ice Cream] has returned to its standard price of 900 Gold.
   
8. Kurumi Epic Hairstyle [Spring Prelude·Early-Flowering Cherry] has returned to its standard price of 500 Gold.
   
9. Viper Ning Legendary Outfit [Journey of Blades·Spider Demoness] has returned to its standard price of 1,800 Gold.
   
10. Viper Ning Legendary Hairstyle [Journey of Blades·Bound with Spiders] has returned to its standard price of 900 Gold.
    
11. Viper Ning Epic Background [Journey of Blades·Arachnid Grace] has returned to its standard price of 200 Gold.
    
12. Tianhai Legendary Outfit [Journey of Blades·Wujing] has returned to its standard price of 1,800 Gold.
    
13. Tianhai Legendary Accessory [Journey of Blades·Bodyguard] has returned to its standard price of 900 Gold.
    
14. Tianhai Epic Hairstyle [Journey of Blades·Flowing Sand] has returned to its standard price of 500 Gold.
    
15. Tianhai Epic Base [Journey of Blades·Curtain] has returned to its standard price of 400 Gold.
    
16. Tianhai Epic Background [Journey of Blades·Spirit of the Deep Sand] has returned to its standard price of 200 Gold.

IV. New Items in Spectral Silk Store
Newly added Justina Gu Rare Face Item [Justina Gu Eyeshadow] with a price of 5,000 Spectral Silk.

V. New Items in Item Store
In "Item" store, [Surmount Card·Reckoning] is now available. Use to upgrade Hidden Treasure of Reckoning Season by 30 levels. The price of [Surmount Card·Reckoning] is 1800 Gold, purchase limit is 1.

Bug Fixes I. Hero-related Bug

1. Fixed an issue where Feria Shen's Bronze Mech in cannon mode occasionally failed to cause damage after successfully hitting an enemy.
   
2. Fixed the maximum triggered damage to [Soaked] effect under Valda Cui's skill [Haze: Showdown Lv.1], [Nether Nightmare: Showdown Lv.1] and [Nether Nightmare: Showdown Lv.2].

II. Weapon-related Bug
Fixed an issue where residual sound effects would occur after interrupting the Charged Shot of Vertical Strike for Staff.

III. Battle Related Bug
Fixed the issue where some scene device like Forbidden Seal was unable to be interacted with.

IV. Showdown Bug
Fixed the issue where the damage of Cannon Souljade [Thunder Cannon] was lower than expected.