Naraka: Bladepoint, the slicy and spicy Battle Royale has released the patch notes for the upcoming update, supposed to land on March 7.
As per the developer, the game servers will go down on March 6 at 23:00 UTC, to March 7 03:00 UTC, to deploy the update.
The update will introduce a new combat, new limited time event, and more. The full patch notes can be found below:
Naraka: Bladepoint March 7 Patch Notes
Brand New Content
I. New Morus’ Blessing Combat Item Available: White Tiger’s Prowess
The Heralds believe the mighty White Tiger’s appearance to be a symbol of warfare, and that those with its blessing are destined for greatness in battle.
1. Effect Details: Instantly restores a set amount of Health, Armor, and Rage to all allied units, as well as restoring their Health over time (excess Health is restored as Armor). While the owner of White Tiger’s Prowess survives, any allied unit will gain a permanent Melee Resist and Ranged Resist boost upon defeating an enemy. Additionally, whenever an ally defeats an enemy, the owner of the White Tiger’s Prowess will unleash a shockwave with a range of 40m. Enemies hit by the shockwave will be dealt a percentage of damage to their Health. White Tiger’s Prowess lasts for 180 sec.
2. The new item can be acquired from Morus’ Blessings across all modes of Realm of Yang as well as during the first and second rounds of Trios Immortal War.
II. Limited-time Event: Spring Prelude
Event Duration: Mar 6, 2024 20:00 (UTC) – Mar 20, 2024 20:00 (UTC)
Redeem the rewards before: Mar 24, 2024 at 20:00 (UTC)
Event Rules:
1. Open Stashes to find Bow Ties. Up to 10 can be obtained per day.
2. Use a Bow Tie on the event page to randomly unlock a Campus location. Unlock all the locations in an area to receive rewards, as well as a School Life Comic featuring Kurumi and Tessa. There are 7 areas to unlock in the event.
3. You’ll receive 1 Spring Bow Tie upon first opening the event page each day. Use them to choose and unlock a Campus location.
4. After all 7 areas have been unlocked, Bow Ties and Spring Bow Ties can still be used on the event page to redeem Tae and Spectral Silk.
III. Limited-time Event: PlayStation® Tournaments #3
We brandish swords to gain fame, the only heroes in this game. PlayStation® Tournaments #3 are available for a limited time!
Event Duration: Mar 7, 2024 20:00 (UTC) – Apr 10, 2024 20:00 (UTC).
Event Rules:
There are 3 quests available each week. Completing each weekly quest earns you 100 Honor Medals – MAR. You can claim more Medals in the mail after advancing in the tournaments, and the number of Medals awarded for each rank is as follows:
1st place: 300 Medals
2nd place: 200 Medals
3rd-4th place: 100 Medals
5th-8th place: 50 Medals
Medals can be used for redeeming rewards and participating in rankings.
Tournament Start Time:
| Server | Monday – Friday (UTC) | Saturday – Sunday (UTC) |
| NA | 03:00 | 23:00
03:00 |
| AS | 11:00 | 07:00
11:00 |
| SEA | 11:00 | 07:00
11:00 |
| EU | 19:00 | 15:00
19:00 |
Start Time of the First Tournament:
NA: Mar 8, 2024 03:00 (UTC)
AS: Mar 8, 2024 11:00 (UTC)
SEA: Mar 8, 2024 11:00 (UTC)
EU: Mar 8, 2024 19:00 (UTC)
IV. Extended the Righteous Season
The Righteous Season and the Righteous Battlepass have been extended to Apr 11th, 2024 00:00 (UTC)
Souljade Adjustments
I. Dual Halberds Souljade
Optimized the camera movements and effects of [Martial Art•Will-Form Hook].
II. Fan Souljade
Fixed the bug where characters equipped with [Martial Art•Tai Chi Fan] were unable to counter while charging for Horizontal Strikes in a crouching stance.
In-game Adjustments
I. Feature Optimizations
1. Upon leaving the Realm of Yang, all Ultimate effects will now be automatically terminated.
2. The duration of Draco Storm has been changed to 180 seconds.
II. Hero Adjustments
When in Ultimate status, Tianhai’s jumping stomp skill now has an expanded impact range, along with his stomp skill when he is not grabbing anyone. Corresponding changes have also been applied in Showdown.
Out-game Adjustments
I. Fairyland Penglai
1. Made some QoL improvements to the Songbird Arena
(1) When interacting with an instrument, players will no longer receive “Public Challenge” requests.
(2) Players now have the option to “ignore all player requests for 5 minutes” on the challenge request popup.
(3) During a Songbird Arena combat, players can interact with the Songbird Monolith to access combat info.
(4) The cooldown period for initiating combat challenges now begins counting down after the end of the previous match.
II. Personal Information
Now, your personal information will display your rankings on various leaderboards.
III. Friend List
1. Players have a new option to indicate their online status as “Seeking Party”.
2. Its visual effects have been optimized for a more appealing appearance.
3. It displays how many players are in the current team.
IV. Heroes Assemble
A reminder popup will now appear when the Heroes Assemble event begins.
V. Place Marker Feature
Players can now mark the warning range when refreshing warnings in Morus’ Blessing and the Realm of Yang.
VI. Hero Voice
A plethora of new voice lines have been added for each Hero.
//Dev Notes: These include messages such as “Need Armor” and “Mark the Morus’ Blessing”, allowing effective communication even when players don’t turn on microphones.
VII. Free Training Optimization
Players can now try out the Weapon Skins in the Free Training mode before obtaining them.
VIII. Optimization of New Items and Voice Packs
1. In Shop, recommended cosmetics are added for the new cosmetics.
2. The contents of Voice Packs can be listened to on the “New” page.
3. Can now jump to the “Audio” page to listen to Voice Packs that are a part of Packs.
4. Voice Packs can now be sent as gifts.
Showdown Adjustments
I. Yama’s Abyss Adjustments
1. You can now challenge Yama’s Abyss up to Stage 50.
2. The rules governing monsters’ cooperative attacks within Yama’s Abyss have been fine-tuned. In general, when a substantial number of monsters of the same type are present, fewer of these monsters will attack simultaneously. However, the likelihood of different types of monsters coordinating their attacks has slightly increased.
3. In the Souljade Attribute Interface, secondary Attributes generated by Souljade brought from outside Yama’s Abyss will be highlighted in green.
II. Stage Adjustments
1. Adjustments to Eventide Ember Stages:
(1) Some terrains and pathways in Eventide Ember have been optimized, along with corresponding adjustments to Evil-Ent Strongholds.
(2) The final boss in Eventide Ember has been replaced by Omnius·Umbra Scorch. Additionally, the Fiery Monsters have undergone attribute and move adjustments and now serve as minions within an earlier Evil-Ent Stronghold.
III. Feature Adjustments
1. Showdown Leaderboard
New Feature: You can now view detailed information about the Souljade and Anima Rings used by players when they achieved their rankings on the leaderboard.
Please note that data prior to the introduction of this feature cannot be accessed.
IV. Combat Adjustment
1. Reduced the damage of Omnius·Rock’s slam with double hands.
2. The character model of the [Bow Evil-Ent] has been optimized to improve visibility in dark areas.
Store Updates
I. New Packs
1. Newly added Tessa exclusive Pack [Carmine Feather Pack (Tessa)], including Legendary Outfit [Spring Prelude·Carmine Feather], Legendary Hairstyle [Spring Prelude·Ethereal Crystal], Legendary Accessory [Spring Prelude·Little Fox]. Standard price: 3,500 Gold; Now: 2,400 Gold.
II. New Discounts
1. Newly added Tessa Legendary Accessory [Cloudy Fox].
Standard price: 1,200 Gold; Now: 800 Gold.
2. Newly added Epic Emote Gesture [Stamp Feet] for all heroes.
Standard price: 300 Gold; Now: 180 Gold.
3. Kurumi Legendary Outfit [Spring Prelude·Morning Breeze].
Standard price: 1,800 Gold; Now: 1,500 Gold.
4. Kurumi Epic Hairstyle [Spring Prelude·Early-Flowering Cherry].
Standard price: 500 Gold; Now: 400 Gold.
5. Kurumi Legendary Accessory [Spring Prelude·Ice Cream].
Standard price: 900 Gold; Now: 750 Gold.
6. Kurumi Legendary Pose [Spring Prelude·Pounding Heartbeat].
Standard price: 900 Gold; Now: 750 Gold.
7. Tianhai Legendary Accessory [Ice Vajra Bangle] (Unlock it to get a new appearance for Tianhai’s Ultimate “Titan’s Call”).
Standard price: 500 Gold; Now: 360 Gold.
8. Legendary Emote Gesture [Pop Dance·Left] for all heroes.
Standard price: 1,200 Gold; Now: 900 Gold.
9. Legendary Emote Gesture [Pop Dance·Right] for all heroes.
Standard price: 1,200 Gold; Now: 900 Gold.
III. Event Ended
1. Limited-time discounts for the Legendary cosmetics of Season 8: Reckoning Season and previous seasons have ended. Legendary Outfit 40% discount vouchers, Legendary Weapon 40% discount vouchers, Legendary Accessory 40% discount vouchers and other Legendary Item 40% discount vouchers will expire.
2. The limited-time return of the Bruce Lee-themed outfits has ended.
IV. New Items in the Item Store
1. In the “Item” store, [Surmount Card·Righteous] is now available. Use to upgrade Hidden Treasure of Righteous Season by 30 levels. The price of [Surmount Card·Righteous] is 1800 Gold, purchase limit is 1.
Client Optimization
1. Optimized character skeleton processing on Fairyland Penglai.
2. Optimized the character skeleton processing for faces during battles.
3. Optimized the animation processing for characters’ Grappling Hooks.
4. Optimized shadow processing.
5. When Shayol Wei use a Ranged Weapon in the Extreme Outfit [Rectitude], there will be a blast effect.
6. Improved the effects of the wings for Justina Gu’s Extreme Outfit [Star – Rimefrost Fairy].
7. Adjusted the Outfits sorting, the newer Outfits will be sorted on top if under the same quality.
Bug Fixes
I. Hero-related Bugs
1. Fixed the issue where Shayol Wei, in Ultimate status, experienced abnormalities when triggering [Black Tortoise Block] or switching weapons upon being countered.
2. Fixed the bug where Shayol Wei’s [Black Tortoise Block] was interrupted when sliding down slopes in certain circumstances.
3. Fixed the problem where some Skills and Ultimates could be interrupted through certain interactions.
II. Weapon-related Bugs
The issue where “Quick Counter” had a chance of not activating while moving backward has been fixed.
III. Showdown-related Bugs
1. Fixed the bug where an incorrect increase in Viper Ning’s counterattack damage when she depleted all Defuse slots by using the [Defuse·Counterattack] Souljade.
2. Fixed the bug preventing Feria Shen, equipped with the [Swift Heal] Souljade, from properly triggering its effect when using recovery items on the Bronze Mech.
3. The character model of the [Bow Evil-Ent] has been optimized to improve visibility in dark areas.
IV. Others
1. Corrected the calculation for awarding Fragrant Jade after a match in the Songbird Arena.
2. Fixed the abnormal posture of Tarka Ji during his “Severed Thorns” pose on the character display interface.
