Mythic Victory Arena
Cross Promotion of Chaos Chain
While this game is sleeping, a friend has developed another great game! If you enjoy RPGs take a look!
Here's a link to the game. It's currently in Early Access and will see completion!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1536730/Chaos_Chain/
March 11, 2018 Update
This update fixes a really annoying bug though, where completing the C Rank wouldn't actually allow you access into the B Rank shops. Go into the Arena area if you've completed the C Rank to fix the issue.
ADDITIONS:
- ✪ Added a current level for Hires when you go to hire them so you can remember what level they are
✪ For Leora's Explosive Arrow, an animation will play on all other targets when the explosion successfully happens
✪ Denira's Shine Blast, an animation will play on all other targets when the explosion successfully happens
CHANGES:
- ✪ Tail Whip's lower defense status has been changed to 3 turns from 5 turns.
✪ Save Prompt saves to the 11th save slot, which is an autosave slot
✪ Lowered Magic Attack of Staves, Staff Blades, Clubs, Maces, Flails
✪ You can no longer stack accessories of the same type that are the same rank together
✪ Removed Magic Damage Boost from Mage's Playbook
✪ Lowered power of the Skill Dark Grasp
✪ Enemies of Darkness who use a Healing skill no longer Drain HP and instead heal HP as intended
FIXES:
- ✪ Fixed a bug where completing the C Rank would not complete the C Rank
✪ Fixed position of Battle Recoveries menu element inside the Arena
✪ Fixed SS Rank Armor Shop items
✪ Fixed the Weapon Shop and Armor Shop faces when you talk to them to buy from them.
✪ Fixed Derack's Basic Sword attack -- again.
✪ Fixed Felia's Ballistic Blast causing a crash on Skill Unleash!
✪ Removed all of Felia's Trident skills from players to fix a bug where they wouldn't be removed upon skill learn.
✪ You can now use keyboard input to select a champion in Skill / Level shops if you have selected them as your main character
✪ Numerous Enemy skills now have elements
✪ You can enter the SS Rank Orb Shop now.
✪ You will no longer be able to encounter 8 Pumpkins in the random A Rank fights.
✪ Denira's Kurien's Embrace uses the correct cast animation now.
✪ Minor Skill Fixes
✪ Minor Text Fixes
March 11, 2018 Update
This update fixes a really annoying bug though, where completing the C Rank wouldn't actually allow you access into the B Rank shops. Go into the Arena area if you've completed the C Rank to fix the issue.
ADDITIONS:
- ✪ Added a current level for Hires when you go to hire them so you can remember what level they are
✪ For Leora's Explosive Arrow, an animation will play on all other targets when the explosion successfully happens
✪ Denira's Shine Blast, an animation will play on all other targets when the explosion successfully happens
CHANGES:
- ✪ Tail Whip's lower defense status has been changed to 3 turns from 5 turns.
✪ Save Prompt saves to the 11th save slot, which is an autosave slot
✪ Lowered Magic Attack of Staves, Staff Blades, Clubs, Maces, Flails
✪ You can no longer stack accessories of the same type that are the same rank together
✪ Removed Magic Damage Boost from Mage's Playbook
✪ Lowered power of the Skill Dark Grasp
✪ Enemies of Darkness who use a Healing skill no longer Drain HP and instead heal HP as intended
FIXES:
- ✪ Fixed a bug where completing the C Rank would not complete the C Rank
✪ Fixed position of Battle Recoveries menu element inside the Arena
✪ Fixed SS Rank Armor Shop items
✪ Fixed the Weapon Shop and Armor Shop faces when you talk to them to buy from them.
✪ Fixed Derack's Basic Sword attack -- again.
✪ Fixed Felia's Ballistic Blast causing a crash on Skill Unleash!
✪ Removed all of Felia's Trident skills from players to fix a bug where they wouldn't be removed upon skill learn.
✪ You can now use keyboard input to select a champion in Skill / Level shops if you have selected them as your main character
✪ Numerous Enemy skills now have elements
✪ You can enter the SS Rank Orb Shop now.
✪ You will no longer be able to encounter 8 Pumpkins in the random A Rank fights.
✪ Denira's Kurien's Embrace uses the correct cast animation now.
✪ Minor Skill Fixes
✪ Minor Text Fixes
Febuary 20th Update
What's all that Press 1 and Press 2? Amazing, is what they are. Read about it below.
Menus Redone
I was constantly aware of the bog that the menus were previously, being text on a screen that was not appealing. They were placeholders until I got enough in my budget to cough up said budget and put it into some actual effort. These handcrafted icons created by Rexard (Go support their creations here - https://www.gamedevmarket.net/member/Rexard/ ) fit well into Mythic Victory Arena and should really make it easier for you to navigate the menus.
But that's not all! Take a look and see for yourself.
Woah! That's a lot of information. What does it all mean? It means you can now play Mythic Victory Arena solely with a keyboard. The mouse-only design isn't very efficient for some players and I found this to be the most effective solution. Each Icon has accompanying text with a specific character colored in Green. If you press the corresponding key on your keyboard to that of the Green colored character, you'll be able to access the menu of that Green character. Try it out when you get back in the game!
More Weapons!
As you continue to grow and progress through the arena, you'll start taking more names and gaining more EXP than you know. You'll hit level 20 and beyond without much thought towards it. What about more weapons for reaching these milestones? To kick it off, Leora, Derack, and Denira all gain new weapons once they hit Level 20 and beyond. Leora gets a second one too at level 25.
A Katana for Derack. A Shotgun and Rifle for Leora. A Flail for Denira. These weapons each come with 4 new learnable skills which you can purchase from the Skills Shop.
Unlocking these weapons in game will also unlock the corresponding achievement, for all you achievement hunters out there.
Statuses!
Many Status have been given their own animations that play once a battler has been inflicted with that status. You'll see it the most with the Death and the Guard status. The more common ones you'll notice are Bleeding, Wet, Stun, and Burned. It should help make the Arena feel more visceral.
Patch Notes!
That's all for now. The rest of the patch notes should clue you in on the progress that's been made towards making Mythic Victory Arena feel like the game it was always going to be.
ADDITIONS:
- ✪ Added S+ Rank Encounters
✪ Added SS Rank Orbs and Glyphs
✪ Added a Synch FPS Option for low-end PCs. You can disable it from the options menu (You really shouldn't).
✪ Added Blunderbuss for Leora to unlock at level 20
✪ Added Rifle for Leora to unlock at level 25
✪ Added Katana for Derack to unloack at level 20
✪ Added Flail for Denira to unlock at level 20
✪ New Interface design to give a more polished feeling
✪ Animations play on a user inflicted with specific Status conditions
✪ Unlockable Weapons now have Skill Unleash sequences
✪ Added New Achievements for the new unlockable weapons
CHANGES:
- ✪ You can no longer purchase older rank versions of skills
✪ Consecutive CQC no longer requires all other skills of its rank to be unlocked for it to be purchased
✪ Drastically reduced cost of Hospital Heal cost
✪ Level up rewards are now based on your current rank, and not the rank of the arena you are in
✪ Gold Level up reward formula has been changed to be more beneficial
✪ Experience level up reward formula has been changed to be more beneficial
FIXES:
- ✪ Fixed SS Rank Shop
✪ Fixed EXP values of Dark Star and Dark Angel
✪ Fixed an issue with Orb Rewards
✪ Fixed a bug with Derack's and Molly's F Rank Fire Skill
✪ Fixed a bug with Denira's Club skills
✪ Fixed Denira's Spiritual Touch not working as intended
✪ Fixed Denira's Shine Blast not working
✪ Fixed Leora's Coin Bolt from not working as intended. It shows if you pick up AC
✪ Fixed Pain Swap missing an animation
✪ Fixed many default attacks and prevented them from Skill Unleashing by default
✪ Fixed Bronze and Iron Staves using the wrong Attack
✪ Minor Item Fixes
✪ Minor Text Fixes
Skills Hot Fix - February 8th, 2018
Just posting this to let you know Skills were given a hotfix to rectify a few issues with some skill executions and to introduce a new feature to Skill Learn.
You no longer can purchase old skills from the Skill Shop.
January 29th Update
Hospital UNLEASHED
The older iteration of the Hospital didn't have much thought into how it worked and how well it worked out. This is a step to improve previous design and moving forward it will be adjusted to a finer setting. For now, it it as shown.
You can receive instant heals for a set amount of your Arena Coins based on the Rank you currently are.
You can also purchase up to 10 Battle Recoveries which instantly fully recover you after a battle. If you have the Pro Mode option disabled, you will be able to have control over when you decide to Recover.
Battle Recoveries appear on the screen so you know how many you have left.
S Rank UNLOCKED
Probably the most brutal Rank released yet, the S Rank will teach you just how broken Mythic Victory Arena is. Be sure you grinded wins in the other ranks and received some of the best Set Items you can find to get a real upper hand in this rank. 50 Battles of unending pain and suffering.
Also, one new addition to battles is that each character currently in battle will have their level shown in their respective HUD.
Leora Art UPDATED
Miabun has released an updated version of Leora from her old works. Check it out!
Other Additions
Potions and Elixirs now have Skill Unleash modifiers, which double the amount of HP you can receive from a Potion if you get a Skill Unleash! (Yes, I know Items aren't skills, fight me.)
The value Potions and Elixirs damage creatures of Darkness has been lowered and in the future will have their own unique formulas instead of set damage.
Take a look at the rest of the notes below. Tons of changes and fixes for quality of life when it comes to playing Mythic Victory Arena.
Patch Notes!
ADDITIONS:
- ✪ New Hospital. Full Recovery for a percentage of your AC.
✪ Purchase 10 Auto Recovers for after battle.
✪ Potions and Elixirs have Skill Unleash attributes now, doubling their healing power
✪ Current Level is shown in battle now
✪ New Leora Art
CHANGES:
- ✪ Due to an issue with Refined Orbs and Glyphs not functioning as intended, all Refined Augments have been removed and replaced with Compensation Vouchers, which you may sell for the price you purchased the augment for.
✪ Lowered AC cost of unlocking skills by 50%
✪ Insight Orb now grants TP Regeration instead of TP Charge (which probably did nothing)
✪ Phase Glyph now grants Magic Evasion instead of lowered Target Rate (Which did not work!)
✪ Lowered damage formula of Crossbow and Bow
✪ Lowered overall Experience Curve of each character
✪ Lowered overall Agility Growth of each character
✪ Lowered Drel's base Magic Attack
✪ Lowered power of Molly's Vibrant Spark
✪ Lowered overall TP cost of Leora's skills
✪ Lowered overall TP cost of Ralph's skills
✪ Dread Cloak is now bodygear
✪ Mage's Playbook now has Silence resistance instead of Holy resistance
✪ Lowered Magical Attack of Staves
✪ Lowered Magical Attack of Drel's and Molly's Grimoires
✪ Lowered Defense Bonus of Plate Armor
✪ Leora's Skills now have element typing, meaning they do extra damage to enemies weak to ranged attacks
✪ Leora's Camouflage grants Increased Evasion Rate for 3 turns instead of Decreased Target Rate
✪ Derack's Roar hits 2 times now instead of 5 times.
✪ Critical hit formula is changed to make them less rare
✪ Lowered HP of many B Rank enemies
✪ Fear status lowered to 3 turns from 5 turns
FIXES:
- ✪ Gambler's Debt reward for clearing a rank works now
✪ Gambler's Debt no longer shows a false Clear Bonus
✪ Guard actually works as intended now
✪ Leora may no longer learn Precision Bolt if you don't have the Crossbow unlocked
✪ Leora's arrow skills no longer hit too many times at full power
✪ Leora's Explosive Arrow no longer explodes if it misses (I HOPE!)
✪ Leora's Dark Arrow cost has been fixed
✪ Leora's Grapping Bolt's damage formula has been fixed
✪ If an enemy dies from Leora's Explosive Arrow or Denira's Shine Blast, the enemy will properly be removed from the battle.
✪ Ralph's basic attack unleash has been fixed
✪ Ralph's Rundown heals whole number values now
✪ Ralph's Rundown no longer always heals
✪ Ralph's Bloodbath doesn't lock up the game looking for an image that doesn't exist
✪ Enemy's Grapple no longer stuns 100% of the time
✪ Bunny and Wolf enemies now call their backup correctly
✪ You can get the D Rank Reward at 100 wins now
✪ Forest Slime+ now appears in the D+ Arena Battles
✪ Thorn Armor Glyph is now a glyph and not an orb
✪ A+ Battles work now
✪ Minor Item Fixes
✪ Minor Enemy Fixes
✪ Minor Skill Fixes
✪ Minor Shop Fixes
✪ Minor Text Fixes
✪ Minor Icon Fixes
November 29th, 2017 Update
New DLC! Unlock All Skills
Launching alongside this update is a new DLC, which when you purchase it, unlocks all skills for each character that they can normally unlock through leveling up. This grants you more opportunity to gain EXP or Arena Coin when you level up. In the future, I'll add extra Level Up Rewards to make up for the current lack of options.
You may purchase the new DLC below.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/748030/Mythic_Victory_Arena__Unlock_All_Skills/
Action Enhancer Buff!
The Action Enhancer item now has a little extra detail; it increases your Skill Unleash chance. It shows a percentage based chance, but the math is as follows. By default, you have a 1 in 16 chance to activate Skill Unleash! When you stimulate yourself with an Action Enhancer, the chance to activate Skill Unleash! becomes 1 in 5. Take advantage of this when it comes to what you're about to read next.
Basic Attack UNLEASHED
All basic attacks that each character can perform now have Skill Unleash! sequences unique to each weapon. As development continues, a more up-to-date trailer will be posted to the Steam Store and announced for you to fawn over. Take advantage of using Action Enhancers to have better odds at the Skill Unleash!
Who's Next?
As it stood before, during your first time play through, you likely weren't sure of what enemy you were about to face. And while it may not be helpful during a first time play through, it's good information to have regardless. Before you enter into an Arena Fight, you will be shown which enemy you are going up against. This way, you don't have to worry about what enemy is gonna be giving you a hard time as you enter.
Updated Damage Information
Damage text has been changed to include a lot more information of what's going on in battle. Take a look below and see for yourself.
Other Additions
As an additional bonus to using Solo Mode! you are granted a 50% increase in your Maximum HP and Maximum MP. This may be lowered in the future.
Felia may now unlock the Trident when she is level 10 or above. The Trident is weaker than the Spear, cuts your luck by 30%, but gives you an increased chance to Critical Hit. These are fair trade-offs for shoving a Water-based weapon into a Fire-based character's hands. Felia will make good work with the Trident regardless, but she won't accept you for making her use it.
Patch Notes!
ADDITIONS:
- ✪ New DLC. Unlock all skills.
✪ Basic Attacks all have Skill Unleash sequences now
✪ All skills have Skill Unleash sequences now
✪ Action Enhancer item also increases your Skill Unleash chance to 20% from 6%
✪ You are now shown which enemies you will be fighting while climbing ranks
✪ Felia now unlocks the Trident when she is Level 10 or above
✪ More damage information and popups
CHANGES:
- ✪ Added a 50% increase to Maximum HP and Maximum MP to Solo Mode!
✪ You now gain 5 to 10 TP (instead of 0 to 10) per each basic attack you perform
✪ Ignited status now lasts for 5 turns instead of indefinately
✪ Magic Evasion state has been changed to 50% Magic Evasion from 100%
✪ Magic Reflection state has been changed to 50% Magic Reflection from 100%
✪ Increased enemies' resistance to negative statuses
✪ Increased Molly's Sparks damage
✪ Increased Leora's Explosive Arrow explosion damage
✪ Renamed Leora's Patience Shift to Steady Breath
✪ Decreased Denira's Wrath of Kurien warmup
✪ Accuracy of Derack's Cat Call has been decreased to 90% from 100%
✪ Accuracy of Borrel's Intimidate has been decreased to 80% from 100%
✪ Power Break's chance to break armor has been adjusted
✪ Some Skills have had their damage rates adjusted
✪ Enemy Regen skill cooldown increased
✪ Enemy Regen skill rate changed to 10% instead of 15%
✪ Lowered Cockatrice's overall stats, but increased defense
✪ Lowered Attack of Bats
✪ Lowered Max Health of Bats
✪ Lowered Attack of Pelican
✪ Lowered Attack and Agility bonus of Borrel's Claws
FIXES:
- ✪ Mac install file-size fixed
✪ The game should no longer soft lock once you level up
✪ Skill Unleash! chance has been fixed to prevent dud calculations
✪ You can now properly "Leave" the Arena Hospital
✪ Felia's Spear Bomb has had its damage output corrected
✪ Denira's Tremor is now hidden until she unlocks the Mace
✪ Drel's Mage Armor state now properly increases your Magic Defense rather than decrease it
✪ Leora's Explosive Arrow no longer explodes if the skill misses (probably)
✪ Leora's Patience Shift has been fixed
✪ Leora's Poison Shot has been fixed
✪ Borrel's Redirection has been fixed
✪ Borrel's Zen Armor has been fixed
✪ Derack's Roar is not longer a Certain Hit and has been fixed
✪ Derack's Stab has been fixed
✪ Chain Whip's Pull Back has been fixed
✪ Parley status no longer keeps you from moving idefinately
✪ Red Tunic has the correct icon in its description now
✪ Molly now unlocks her grimoire and not Drel's when she's level 10
✪ The game won't soft lock if you pick Skill Level up and selected all Skills
✪ Pickax is no longer classified as Mace
✪ Only Denira is allowed to equip the Mace
✪ Removed Screen Flash from water animation
✪ Fixed numerous animation errors
✪ Fixed an egg
✪ Minor Text Fixes
October 26th, 2017 Update - Massive Content Update
Oh boy, this one's a doozy. Strap in Challengers and Champions, the ride is long and I can't talk about this update enough. When I say massive, I mean massive.
This update is so massive in fact, I highly recommend you start up a new file. Not like that matters though, as there was a bug that prevented you from progressing past the F Rank. That's been fixed, by the way.
Okay, let's jump into the thick of it.
Skills, Enemies, and More!!
To put this briefly - as best as I can - Each and every Skill in the game has been changed, updated, and re-created to be better than what they once were. The same goes for Enemies.
- Skills have more unique Action Sequences.
- Enemies have more unique selection in how they battle.
- You have more options now as a player.
View the patch notes at the bottom to see what I mean.
Solo Mode!
Solo Mode is a new addition to Mythic Victory Arena. Instead of having someone fight alongside you in the Arena, you can go in alone and receive a power bonus for fighting by yourself. The Champion can explain it for you here.
New Art! New Music!
Miabun has been hard at work creating character art for the game and hard at work with her schooling. Felia is here with her glorious Absolute Territory and Jackassery. Ralph and Denira also saw a visual update. More to come in the future.
New music has been added to Mythic Victory Arena thanks to Anttis Instrumentals and their repository of tracks. More will be added in the future as the game nears completion.
A Brand New World!
With this update, you can now explore the Island of Terani and the Arena. Alongside them are new menus, which have been added to every shop as well, for your ease of access when playing the game.
A Brand New Information Hud!
When you beat an Arena Fight you get Arena Coin for your hard work. That information is shown in a clean style at the end of battle now, instead of in a text box.
The Patch Notes!
Is your head hurting yet? No? These notes should help seal your fate.
ADDITIONS:
- ✪ Solo Mode! If you go into the Arena alone, you get a 15% bonus to all stats.
✪ Felia Art
✪ New Ralph art!
✪ New Denira art!
✪ New animations!
✪ New Skill Action Sequences
✪ New Battle Victory Theme
✪ New loading background image and text
✪ New Music from Anttis Instrumentals
✪ Added checks to Battle Action EXP
- ✪ You will not lose EXP for damaging yourself or your teammates
✪ You will not gain EXP for damaging an enemy who is currently at 0HP
- ✪ You will not lose EXP for damaging yourself or your teammates
CHANGES:
- ✪ Updated core scripts
✪ Updated Steamworks integration
✪ Only 10 Save slots are now available
✪ Buffs and Debuffs are only 10% instead of 25% now.
✪ Buffed Potions
✪ Potions will deal damage to creatures of Darkness
✪ Tutorials have been updated with cleaner information
✪ You can now purchase Items from the guy running the Skill Shop
✪ Damage formula has been changed for the default attack to prevent enemies from steamrolling your face
✪ Default attack can now increase your TP by 0-10 points rather than a static 5 points now
✪ Statuses will no longer stack if the enemy already has the status inflicted
✪ Weapons, Armors, Items, and Skills have new updated information style (Purchase new ones to see the new information)
✪ Turn Order Window in battle is now vertical instead of horizontal
✪ Hornet has been renamed to Bee
✪ Enemies are now "animated". They breathe and look more alive.
✪ Enemies have become smarter! They have more options in battle and do many more things to interact with you as a player.
✪ Enemy skills have had many of their damage formulas adjusted to make them a little less powerful against players. Bats will no longer rule your life.
✪ Enemy resistances have been streamlined for better experience in blasting off elemental spells
✪ Lowered Maximum HP of D Rank Cockatrice
✪ Lowered power of some enemy skills
✪ Lowered Ralph's Defense stat growth
✪ Some skills have been removed from the game. You will be rewarded an amount of gold equal to the number of skills removed from each character that had these skills.
✪ Many skills now have a minimum of a 3 turn cooldown
✪ All skills now have a 1/16 chance to do bonus damage (or bonus healing!). This is not the same as a critical hit
✪ All skills have new animations and action sequences.
✪ All skills now have more streamlined information. Information regarding status informations has been moved to the manual. There's A LOT of statuses
Some skills have been changed to make use of these new action sequences, take a look here:
✪ Changes to Ralph's Skills:
- ✪ Wild Swings now hits multiple times and recoil is 3% of Ralph's maxHp per successful hit
✪ Shine Smash now hits twice and can only inflict Blind now
✪ Boast's status now lasts 3 turns instead of 5
✪ Enrage can now target allies instead of being user only
✪ Heroic Shout increases HP Regeneration by 10% instead of increasing Maximum HP
✪ Hack Apart's damage formula has been modified to scale more fairly. It also hits 4 times now
✪ Whirlwind now hits 7 times
✪ Splinter now hits twice and its Warmups and Cooldowns have been adjusted
✪ Berserk's buff no longer increases Defense and the Attack increase has been lowered
✪ Bloodbath now hits multiple times and for each successful hit will only heal 5% of maximum HP
✪ Changes to Drel's Skills:
- ✪ Drel's basic magic now has a 2 turn cooldown.
✪ Drel's unlock skills have had their cooldowns raised, due to their power level.
✪ Ignite now hits 5 times and ignite has been changed to a state that deals increasing damage over time and lowers the user's resistance to fire by 100%
✪ Evocation now inflicts a state that grants increasing MP Regeneration over 5 turns
✪ Force of Will now hits 3 times
✪ Meteor Strike's damage has been lowered and now hits multiple times
✪ Changes to Leora's Skills:
- ✪ Power Shot is now a Ranged Heavy element, meaning it will do extra damage to enemies weak to ranged attacks
✪ Barrage now hits all enemies multiple times and is a Ranged element
✪ Dash can now target allies
✪ Explosive Arrow's secondary effect (the explosion) now has its own damage formula. If the arrow is evaded or misses the secondary effect will never happen.
✪ Grappling Bolt now hits multiple times
✪ Slow Bolt chance to inflict sluggish has been replaced with a chance to inflict slow
✪ Patience Shift can now target allies
✪ Changes to Derack's Skills:
- ✪ Slice n' Dice is no longer a Certain Hit skill
✪ Bide Power state lasts only 2 turns now instead of 3
✪ Parley has 90% accuracy now
✪ Saber Slash's damage has been lowered
✪ Changes to Felia's Skills:
- ✪ Spear Barrage now hits multiple times
✪ Sweep now hits twice
✪ Breathe Fire is now a Magical Attack and hits multiple times
✪ Shared Pain is now a Magical Attack
✪ True Strength can now target any enemy, but does more damage to enemies with 150 or more Attack
✪ Changes to Borrel's Skills:
- ✪ Flurry of Punches now hits multiple times
✪ Meditate's cooldown is now 5 turns
✪ Consecutive CQC is now a Physiscal Attack and can crit. It also hits multiple times
✪ Revitalize now heals Borrel alongside its revive effect, however it may still only be used if there is a dead ally to target
✪ Blackout now hits multiple times and no longer has a chance to inflict blindness. Instead, if Borrel is blind, the skill deals more damage
✪ Rest has been renamed to Deep Meditation
✪ Disable now hits multiple times
✪ Fists of Life now hits multiple times
✪ Puncture's infliction status has been lowered
✪ Bloodletting is now 70% accurate
✪ Changes to Molly's Skills:
- ✪ Revolt is now 85% accurate
✪ Sparks now hits multiple times and can only inflict Shocked now
✪ Blade Rush now hits multiple times
✪ Bleed Dry is now 90% accurate
✪ Changes to Denira's Skills:
- ✪ Denira's Club skills only care if she's wielding a Mace or Club now
✪ Pray is much more random and much more volatile now. Have fun!
✪ Fire Bash can now critical hit. It also hits twice
✪ Ice Bash can now critical hit. It also hits twice
✪ Thunder Bash can now critical hit. It also hits twice
✪ Wind Bash can now critical hit. It also hits twice
✪ Hammer Bash can now critical hit. It also hits twice
✪ Curall and Party Targeted Healing have been removed
✪ Heal and Cure can now target all allies as an option
✪ Heal and Cure now deal Holy damage to creatures of Darkness
✪ Cure's Warmup has been removed
✪ Spiteful Blessing can target single or multiple targets and target both actors or enemies. It will heal actors.
✪ Shine Blast no longer has a chance to stun. The explosion has its own damage formula now
✪ Spiritual Touch can target actors or enemies and its chance to inflict smiting sickness has been lowered.
✪ Wrath of Kurien now hits everyone and will instantly kill anyone who has the smiting sickness status inflicted upon them.
✪ Pommel Bash is now a Physical Attack
✪ Skull Crack now has a chance to inflict Dazed
✪ Changes to All-Class Skills
- ✪ Guarding will no longer attempt to hold your position in the battle queue
✪ Shield skills are usable as long as you have any shield equipped
✪ Stack Hit targets down a single enemy now
✪ Book of the Dead's Reflection now lasts for 3 turns instead of 5
✪ Book of the Dead skills are useable as long as you have any book of the dead equipped
✪ Mirror move can now target enemies or allies
✪ Changes to Enemies Skills
- ✪ Damage formulas for all skills are now similar to the basic attack formula
✪ Absorb is now a Physical Attack
✪ Grapple now hits multiple times
✪ Consentless Attack has been renamed to Consentacles
✪ Silk Shot now deals damage
✪ Fiery Bite only has a chance to Burn now
✪ Deadly Gaze has had its accuracy lowered and is more balanced.
✪ Fearful Presence's accuracy has been lowered
- ✪ Wild Swings now hits multiple times and recoil is 3% of Ralph's maxHp per successful hit
FIXES:
- ✪ Valeria no longer gets mad at you for leveling up when she thinks you're cheating
✪ Actions that should happen in battle should now properly happen
✪ Enemies and Actors should properly die if they reach 0 HP
✪ Sleep status no longer keeps the user asleep forever
✪ Frozen status no longer keeps the user frozen forever
✪ E Rank Hud element no longer stays on the screen forever
✪ Leora can receive levels from Ralph and Drel properly during level conversion
✪ Leora can now learn all crossbow skills now
✪ Fixed D Rank's Heal skill learn cost requiring the wrong item
✪ Slow Bolt has the correct icon now
✪ Coin Bolt has the correct icon now
✪ Ralph's Splinter will appropriately grant the state to inflict bleed
✪ Enemy's Gust no longer absorbs HP
✪ Skills that cooldown other skills will properly cooldown the skill they're cooling down.
✪ A ton of minor fixes for polish.
✪ Minor text fixes
Status of Next Update
It really looks like I was working non-stop on the project and pushing out an update every week or so because I had plenty of content to bring forth and now it seems like it has declined, as it has been almost 2 months without an update. There is a good reason for that, and I'll tease everything here, as it still isn't finished and won't be for another month or 2 again.
Skills Revamped
Inspired by another creator, I decided to revamp how skills functioned and give them the depth they so badly required to make Mythic Victory Arena more interesting. I won't explain how everything works just yet (wait for the update!) but here is a video of it in action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkiysH8_nCw&feature=youtu.be
You can see there are a lot of kinks to work out. Also, see that weird sequence on Rundown? That has a 6% chance of happening. Almost every skill has these rare 6% sequences.
Skills will look more interesting in the upcoming update. They will also read more legibly to the average player. Here's what I mean:
Battle Hud
If you watched the youtube video, you can see something nice. The battle hud has been updated. The turn order window is vertical and the battler information doesn't take up a majority of the screen, allowing for you to see more things happening in battle.
Re-described
Every item in the game has been given new descriptions to give them polish and to make it easier for players to know what their items, skills, armors, weapons are doing.
Updated Art
The artist, Miabun, has been hard at work updating her older character art creations into characters that fit her new style, which she has shown through Molly and Felia. Once all the characters are updated, Steam Trading Cards will be added.There are still four more to complete.
Here's Ralph and Denira!
New Menus
Thanks to the input of fungho, who really opened my mind in how I present the game, the upcoming update will feature an upgraded menu scheme. You will be seeing less square menus in the middle of the screen and will instead be greeted with an overworld and more. It's still a work in progress, but here's how it looks so far.
Anyway, that should be it for now. I should get back to working hard on the huge list of tasks I have so you can experience these changes for yourself!
July 17th Update
Molly!
The art for Molly the Battlemage has been completed by Miabun. This teenage witch will blow your socks off with her powerful witchcraft and magic. Also, she uses swords!
A Rank Unlocked! New Enemy Art
The A rank has been completed for you to play through and beat. It gets very tough up in the mountains, I hope you brought your best skills with you.
Enemy art has been updated to use graphics created by Ækashics ( http://www.akashics.moe/ ). This should help the game feel a little less dull in terms of how the enemies appear, for now.
Battle Clear! Reward!
At the end of each battle you'd receive some text boxes to let you know how much AC you were rewarded in each fight. That's been changed to show it on the screen instead. Just click and it'll continue then go away when you're done checking out how much you made.
In the future, all other notifications will be added to this end of battle screen.
Skill Changes
A few adjustments to skills have been made that are important to note. Various powerful skills have had their TP costs increased to match their power. In the future they will be scaled back to more reasonable levels with adjustments in their power. This isn't to say I'm nerfing the hell of them, just making not as powerful.
The other change is that skills that have secondary effects (such as Ralph's Rundown which heals you after dealing a successful to the enemy) will only have their secondary effect happen if the skill doesn't miss or isn't evaded.
More Achievements!
More achievements have been added. Have fun unlocking them all!
Patch Notes
Here's all the notes in their wordy glory, have a look!
ADDITIONS:
- ✪ A Rank added
✪ Molly's Art added
✪ Added more achievements
✪ New Enemy Art
✪ End of Battle GUI
CHANGES:
- ✪ Adjusted the TP cost of various skills
✪ Modified stat growth of Borrel and Drel
✪ Modifed AGI growth of Ralph
✪ Skills with secondary effects will not happen if the attack misses
✪ Full Heal now fully recovers entire party from the menu
✪ Damage formula has been modified to provide enemy's a chance against characters that have too high of defense
✪ Flying enemies are a little less weak to ranged weapons now
✪ Enemies with non-human intelligence resist Molly's Revolt and Derack's Parley
✪ Enemies with non-human greed resist Derack's Bribe
✪ Ralph's Whirlwind now has the ability to critical hit
✪ Venomous Bite now only has chance to poison
✪ Orbs have had their attributes adjusted for balance
✪ You no longer gain or lose consecutive level counters when transferring levels between characters
FIXES:
- ✪ Borrel's Intimidate lowers ATK, not DEF, as it should
✪ Petrify works again and counts down within 3 turns before you are petrified
✪ Drel will no longer steal Ralph's level up conversion levels
✪ Valeria won't get mad at you anymore for using the level conversion shop and then leveling up afterwards
✪ Daily bonus reward is now properly rewarded every 24 hours and won't reset every time you load the game
✪ Fixed some augments not properly removing their properties
✪ Derack's Saber weapon now has 2 Orb slots as it should
✪ Borrel's Claw weapon now have 1 Orb slot per weapon
✪ C Rank losses are properly tracked now
✪ C Rank wins will no longer go into the negatives
✪ Tutorial achievements can now be unlocked
✪ Enemy Sting (B) skill now has chance to poison
✪ Derack's Curing Tongue now heals as it should
✪ Derack's Roar now deals damage and debuffs the enemy as it should
✪ All B Rank rewards can properly be received now
✪ Ghost Ralph no longer reals
✪ Minor text fixes
What's Next?
Some of the changes I bring to Mythic Victory Arena take a while to create and updates aren't as frequent as like, or progress moving forward isn't where I quite want it. I'm always hard at work attempting to push the game forward into a state that is fun to play for you as the player. With each new addition and each change I bring about more issues, but more depth. I am reaching the milestones and goals I set for myself so the game can continue to grow. I'm happy that I am reaching the goals I make regardless of the time it takes.
So, anyway, here's what is next.
I'll be re-creating a lot of the skill action sequences from the ground up while adding new animations in the next update. After that, I'll move on to creating the S Rank and beyond.
As always, thanks for reading and for playing Mythic Victory Arena!