Mythic Victory Arena
Quick Fix - July 9th
July 4th Update - NEW GAME REQUIRED
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IMPORTANT - NEW GAME REQUIRED
Due to a few major changes to the game, it is required that you start a new game. This is not optional, you must start a new game or you will receive crash errors. This is caused by fixing the bestiary menu.
With that said, let's get to the notes.
Pre-loading
In the fight to prevent lag in initializing sounds and images throughout gameplay, a pre-load system has been put into place. Every time you start the game, you'll be greeting with the load menu you saw above. Give it a moment and then you'll be able to jump right into the arena.
New Hud
Are you ready for this one, player? You better be ready. With this update, Mythic Victory Arena now has hud elements to provide you with some basic character information before entering the arena as well as new information inside of the arena.
Take a look at the arena menu here:
Pretty amazing right? Here's what it looks like in battle right now:
This allows you to know how much exp you require until your next level, so you aren't hoping you level up before getting destroyed in a fight.
Skills Unlocked
An issue that got in the way of playing was how skills were locked to the weapon you have equipped. This is to say that if you had an E Rank Axe, you only had access to E Rank skills only. This is no longer the case.
You now have access to any rank skills you have unlocked regardless of the weapon you have equipped.
Do note, that previously ranked skills will be unselectable for use in battle if you have a higher rank version of that skill unlocked.
Daily Reward
Welcome back to viewing patch notes, here's a reward for you! Come back tomorrow for more.
That's what I'd tell you if I posted patch notes every single day, but I don't, so this gag falls apart. Oh well...
Every day you start up and load into your save on Mythic Victory Arena you will be rewarded with 500 AC for you to use on whatever you please. Load the game for a total of 7 days total and you get a big AC reward just for playing!
Bestiary Fixed
The bestiary now works and looks as it should. Take a look at it here:
Chaos Mode!
Here's a new option that you can enable from the options menu. It's called Chaos Mode. Every turn in battle, there is a 2% chance of a random battle effect happening. Anything from having your states buffed or debuffed, poison or HP regen being inflicted upon your characters, or even being granted a level up! Who knows what you'll get? It's chaotic!
EXP Formula Changed
The formula that determines how much experience you get for doing damage has been changed. Here's a quick rundown:
- Any action that heals an ally character will grant you exp based on the amount healed
- Actor EXP Rates are now taken into account of the total EXP gained.
- Actor Luck stat has an effect on total EXP gained.
That's it, really! The important thing is that you get EXP for healing up now, so take advantage of that!
Patch Notes
Here's all the notes in their wordy glory, have a look!
ADDITIONS:
- ✪ Content Pre-loading
✪ Derack's art
✪ New hud information in the arena and in battle
✪ Chaos Mode Option
✪ More achievements added
CHANGES:
- ✪ Updated many core scripts
✪ Skill overhaul The most recent skill learned will be the one you can use if you have multiples of the same skill
✪ All characters will now by default double hit if they are wielding two weapons.
✪ Exp Formula modified - Read Above
✪ Paralysis now halves AGI on top of its other effects
✪ Lowered status infliction chances of many skills
✪ Ralph's Boast is now an all-target taunt, forcing enemies to attack only Ralph. Some enemies can ignore this though
✪ Borrel's Double Attack is now Triple Attack
✪ Drel's Power Pact properly grants the state now
✪ Lowered strength of Ralph's Shine Smash
✪ Leora's skills now take defense into account when calculating damage
✪ Leora's Coin Bolt can now miss
✪ Chain Whip's Sweeper can now miss
FIXES:
- ✪ Fixed a few sanity checks
✪ Molly can no longer learn skills she shouldn't be able to
✪ Ralph's Shine Smash no longer requires Orbs/Gylphs as part of the learn cost
✪ Borrel's Revitalize now properly heals his teammates
✪ Denira now has access to her Mace skills
✪ Felia's Jump no longer bugs out after the F Rank
✪ Leora's Wind Shot now properly inflicts stun on succesful infliction
✪ Minor text fixes
Artist Announcement and Sale - 75% off!
Here's an announcement from our artist that was posted on our forum in the community hub:
Hi everyone! This is Mia, the person who does the character art for the game. I just wanted to mention how that I've been looking back at the old art for the game and I find it really interesting how much I've progressed in my ability over time as I've been working on game art more and more. Here's a lineup of all the character arts I've made so far, in order!
Here's the original forum post:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/514200/discussions/1/1369506834142901393/
Also, Mythic Victory Arena is 75% off for celebration of the great Steam Summer Sale. Get it now while it's cheap and grind for Arena Coins in the game!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/514200/Mythic_Victory_Arena/
New Logo Design
Take a look at it here:
Also, community avatars have been added, so you can wear the face of your favorite champion. More champions will be available as they are added to the game:
http://steamcommunity.com/games/514200/Avatar/List
I also fixed a bug that wouldn't allow unlocked characters to access their Skills menu, so there's that.
As always, thanks for playing Mythic Victory Arena!
June 15th Update - NEW GAME REQUIRED
Woah, champion, take a moment and visit the hospital before jumping into these notes, you'll need to be at full health to hear all this!
IMPORTANT - NEW GAME REQUIRED
I really hate having to do this two times in a row, but it's a necessary evil to make sure the game is as good as it can be and can continue to be.
The Bestiary wasn't properly working since the game was released in its Early Access state, but it works now, and it's the reason for you to start a new game.
It hurts to make you go through this, but this is early access and this is likely to happen. I'm glad it hasn't happened often though.
In the future, I'll do my best to avoid a forced new game.
B Rank Unlocked!
The B Rank has been completed and is now available for play in Mythic Victory Arena. Face off against the water-type enemies who have a number of special properties to them.
Some enemies gain a stat increase whenever they kill one of the challengers.
Some enemies have their stats shuffle around each turn.
Some enemies can take you with them if you kill them.
Some enemies stack up their defenses against you, making them harder to kill.
Have fun in the B Rank!
Bestiary Update!
The cause of your forced new game, the Bestiary now works, but still needs to undergo some changes before it's at its full potential. For now, here's a screenshot of what it currently looks like:
Level Up!
While playing through Mythic Victory Arena, you'll notice you level up when you get a chance to gain Gold, EXP, or a skill. After your first 10 level up rewards however, you only see that message every 5 levels. So, to inform the player that the character they are playing has leveled up, I've added a message to show whenever it happens.
Full Heal!
A new item has been added to the game, called the Full Heal. This item heals all party members to maximum HP and MP, removes paralysis and poison, and can only be used from the menu. It's an item meant for use once you've unlocked the hospital and no longer receive free heals after every fight.
Or... you can sell it for 1000AC.
AC Rewards!
Since Mythic Victory Arena released on Steam in Early Access, there has always been one constant, the Arena Rewards. After going through a week-long play test myself, I've realized the AC reward for each arena was just too little to play with and forced grinding to the point of boredom.
Each Rank has received a tweak to their rewards and the Rank Clear Bonus has been massively increased, making it easier for players to move into the next rank with minimal grinding.
Drops!
Enemy drop rates have been changed to include more possible drops. It's possible to now receive a sack full of items once you clear an arena fight, which you can promptly unload into the item shop if you don't need anything. Rank+ enemies have increase drop rates and have the chance to drop ultra rare items.
Warning!
Here's the opener of the post, the warning. If you have Pro Mode disabled from the Options Menu, you will receive this prompt whenever your main character has less than 25 percent of their Max HP. This should serve a useful reminder for players to heal up once they've unlocked the Hospital.
Weapons and Armors!
Weapons and armors have gone under changes, standardization and balance tweaks. Primarily, axes, staves, and plate armors were touched, but a lot of special unlock reward items received balancing to prevent the game from becoming too easy. You can check which ones received changes in the patch notes below.
Magic Missile!
Spells received a balance change, in which their MP cost increases as you unlock higher rank spells. This is to prevent cheesing out a bunch of spells for free with some of the special MP Regeneration items available in the game. It also forces more thought into mana management.
Patch Notes
That's all for now, below you can find the patch notes in all of their wordy glory:
ADDITIONS:
- ✪ B Rank is Complete
✪ Added skills to Derack's Saber
✪ Added skills to Borrel's Claws
✪ Added skills to Drel's Grimoire
✪ Added skills to Molly's Grimoire
✪ New Level up Message
✪ For each level up until level 10, you will be rewarded with a Full Heal item. Use them wisely
✪ The game will warn you after you've unlocked the hosptial if you have less than 25% HP. You can disable the prompt with pro mode
✪ Each character has their own damage values based on their default attack
CHANGES:
- ✪ Increased Arena rewards
✪ Drop rates and item drops have been changed for all enemies
✪ Potions, Ethers, Elixirs, and Tech Solutions have had their values adjusted
✪ States that cause loss of life each turn will now kill the inflicted target if their HP is low enough.
✪ You can no longer stack same rank accessories
✪ Drel's replication state no longer adds extra actions, but instead causes normal attacks to happen more than once
✪ Lowered status infliction chances on the single target elemental spells
✪ Book of the Dead's Dark Grasp is now a single target only spell
✪ Increased MP costs of magical spells as their ranks increase
✪ Experience Orb is now Regeneration Orb, which adds HP Regeneration
✪ Weapons have been adjusted, the changes are as follows:
- ✪ Lowered HIT RATE of Axes
✪ Increased ATK of Axes
✪ Removed negative EVA RATE of Axes
✪ Lowered CRIT RATE of Swords
✪ Lowered MP COST reduction of staves
✪ Prices for each weapon have been changed to match these new adjustments
✪ Armors have been adjusted, the changes are as follows:
- ✪ Removed random resistances from body armors that didn't need them
✪ Removed M.EVA RATE of Robes
✪ Removed M.EVA RATE of Tunics
✪ Removed resistance bonus of Helmets and Shields
✪ Added Light Attack resistance and Heavy Attack resistance to Chainmails and Full Body Armors
✪ Lowered EVA RATE of Chainmails and Full Body Armors
✪ Removed Counter Attack bonus on Shin Guards and Wrist Guards
✪ Lowered bonuses of Speed Ring and Focus Ring
✪ Changed EXP bonus of Fedora to HP REGEN
✪ Removed ATK TIMES bonus from Dancer Shoes
✪ Prices for each armor have been changed to match these new adjustments
- ✪ Lowered HIT RATE of Axes
FIXES:
- ✪ Bestiary works now (and is also the reason for a new game)
✪ Snake, Imp x2 E Rank fight no longer repeats
✪ C Rank final boss fight will now appear as last match.
✪ Stats and costs of Crossbow are proper now
✪ Assassin's Gem properly grants the MaxHp bonus now.
✪ Assassin's Gem no longer is rewarded twice on Set Item reward from D Rank Rewards
✪ Drel's Time Warp now targets all enemies when in selection mode
✪ Drel's Earthquake now targets all enemies
✪ Fixed animation of Leora's Adrenaline
✪ Leora's Coin Bolt returns AC on successful luck properly now
✪ Leora's Coin Bolt (C) and (B) appear if you have the corresponding crossbow equipped
✪ The Marked status properly lowers Evasion Rate and Critical Evasion
✪ Arena losses no longer cause sequence breaks
✪ Arena Practice Mode being eanbled no longer causes sequence breaks
✪ Minor text fixes
DLC Added - Unlock all Characters
Hey Champions, ever wanted to shortcut your way to playing as a new character from the beginning of the game? You can do that now, with the release of the Unlock All Characters DLC for Mythic Victory Arena.
Normally, you unlock a new character to start the game with after you clear the A Rank, but with this DLC, at the low cost of only $0.99USD, you get to start the game as any character, skipping all of the hard work involved!
Check it out today!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/648960/Mythic_Victory_Arena__Unlock_All_Characters
June 4th Update - NEW GAME REQUIRED
Let's get right into it and mark the important additions and as always, the patch notes are at the bottom of the page.
IMPORTANT - NEW GAME REQUIRED
Due to some updates of core plugins, you are required to start a new game or you WILL encounter errors while playing this new update.
It is recommended you delete your previous save files to ignore the temptation of playing on them, but before you do that, you should transfer your AC to the new save.
START A NEW GAME. IT IS REQUIRED.
START A NEW GAME. IT IS REQUIRED.
START A NEW GAME. IT IS REQUIRED.
START A NEW GAME. IT IS REQUIRED.
START A NEW GAME. IT IS REQUIRED.
Interface Tutorials
Navigating the menus in Mythic Victory Arena definitely seems daunting for first time players, especially when it comes to shopping. To that end, I've added interface tutorials for each shop area. The shopkeepers will talk you through using the menu if you say "Yes, please" to them.
If you complete all the tutorials, you'll be rewarded with an achievement!
Status Change - Confusion and Paralysis
Confusion and Paralysis have received changes to how they function. They are as follows:
If you are confused, you no longer attack anyone, but instead have a 50% chance for your attack to fail. If it fails, you hit yourself. It lasts for 4 turns and can't be removed via damage.
If you are paralyzed, you now have a 35% chance to have any action you take to fail. It also no longer disappears after a set number of turns.
Target Selection Update
This is the reason you have to start a new game, but before you start grumbling at it, take a look at this screenshot:
With this update, most single target magic spells have the ability to target all enemies at once instead of targeting them one by one. This is a game changer. Also, you can target anyone with a single target skill.
Enemy HP Bars
Ever wondered why it feels like an enemy never dies? Aside from that aggravating game-breaking bug that gives an enemy undefined HP, you can now see the reason why, with an HP bar! An enemy's HP bar will only be revealed after you defeat an enemy of that type to begin with, though.
Static Battle Menu Skills
All characters now have Static Battle Menu Skills. What's a Static Battle Menu Skill, you ask? It's a special skill that each character has that they have by default upon starting the game. You can use this skill in battle from the menu of attack options. You've likely seen them as Ralph's Frenzy, Leora's Panic, and Denira's Pray.
Here's what Drel's Static Battle Menu Skill looks like:
New Item - Essence of Experience
Do you ever feel like you're not moving fast enough through the levels in the Arena? Boy, do we have the item for you! It's the Essence of Experience. Use this bad boy and each party member in the fight will have their EXP gain multiplied by 1.5 times. The effects of the essence leave after the fight is completed, so be careful not to be wasteful of the item!
Patch Notes
That's all for now, below you can find the patch notes in all of their wordy glory:
ADDITIONS:
- ✪ Added tutorials for each shop
✪ All of Denira's club skills have been added for selection upon new game
✪ Static Battle Menu Skills added to characters that didn't previously have one
✪ You can now see enemy's HP bars after defeating one enemy of that kind
✪ Mortally Wounded state now has 15% of maxHP loss per turn on top of its other effects
✪ Saber is now an unlockable weapon for Derack
✪ Claws is now an unlockable weapon for Borrel
✪ Grimoire is now an unlockable off-hand armor for Drel
✪ New Item - Essence of Experience. Increases EXP gain by 1.5x for one fight
✪ Added more achievements
CHANGES:
- ✪ Updated some core plugins
✪ Custom target selection has been added. This allows certain magical skills to target all enemies and for other unique selections in battle.
✪ Paralysis has been changed. Read above
✪ Confusion has been changed. Read above
✪ Shops will show a blank icon if you can't enter when you hover over them
✪ Save Prompt will automatically save to your previously loaded save when you select to save your game
✪ Changed Ralph's Whirlwind to a magical attack
✪ Changed Denira's Tremor to a magical attack
✪ Increased EXP reward option given to a character upon level up reward
✪ Base crit rate for each character has been lowered
FIXES:
- ✪ AC Transfer now takes all of the money you transfer (including fees)
✪ First time use of a skill in a rank with 0 wins will 100% no longer break the game in half.
✪ Fixed a few Abyssal Summon errors. (Let's hope I never have to do that again)
✪ Skills that hit All Enemies will no longer hit each enemy multiple times
✪ Drel can properly learn Force of Will and Meteor Strike (for real this time)
✪ Crossbow Skills have been standardized
✪ Ralph's Rundown skill now heals Ralph as it should
✪ Staffblade (F) is now equippable by Molly
✪ Dark Gem now appropriately gives the correct MP Cost rate benefit
✪ All-class weapons and swords now support Derack's Static skills (ones that don't care which weapon he's using)
✪ First time character hires start with the proper gear
✪ Some more checks are in place to prevent you from causing a menu leave when you shouldn't be able to with Right Click Leave option ON
✪ Minor graphic fixes
✪ Minor text fixes
May 27th Update
New Addition! Pick Two
At the start of the game, you'd select your character and be off in the Arena without much to get you started, except for the gear on your back and the 750AC given to you by the current-standing Champion. This is no longer the case, after you start the game and select your character you'll be given the option to start the game with two skills. This is mandatory, you can not choose to have no skills (why would you though?) Here's a screenshot of it, so you know what to expect.
Clicking on a skill will tell you what it does and ask for your confirmation. This will make it easier on starting a new game from now on.
Skill Standardization
A lot of the default skills were created at a time of exploration, with very little proper thought and structure going into them. You would have noticed this in the higher rank of skills you saw. Some descriptions would be wrong and some would just not do what you'd expect them to do. Everything is standardized based on the skills you would receive in the level up unlock selections.
That means cooldowns, warmups, and status infliction percentages are all standard across the board now.
Skill Unlock Grants
Speaking of Level Up Unlocks, that has also been adjusted. When you level up and select to unlock a skill, any skill you choose will be immediately be given to you at its lowest rank, very useful if you're still holding onto that F Rank gear, but also useful so you won't be spending AC to learn that skill after unlocking it, which is really unintuitive to its design.
Formulae and Costs
With this update and the standardization mentioned before, all the skills throughout the game that haven't been properly standardized saw treatment given to them to fix up their costs and their battle formulas. Formulas for skills have been streamlined to fix a pesky bug that's an extremely silly corner case. None-the-less, that bug has been addressed. You'll see it in the patch notes.
As for costs, skills now have higher costs for each character, due to how combat plays out and to encourage the use of various other support items and skills in battle before using the really good skills. The important ones are noted in the patch notes, but almost all skills received this treatment.
Extras
Aside from all the good stuff mentioned above, I wanted to quickly talk about a few changes and fixes I think need to be mentioned.
EXP is awarded based on successful hit and the damage you do is a factor in the EXP rewarded. Another factor is, but hasn't been that noticeable, is your rank in the Arena. It's been changed to be more noticeable. The higher your rank in the Arena, the less EXP you gain from grinding the lower rank fights. The punishment is a little less severe if you're attacking the Rank+ encounter enemies, but it's still there.
A unique identifier has been added to the game to prevent save scumming to give yourself infinite gold with the AC Transfer system.
For some reason, the game would disallow you into a rank or clicking the C Rank would place you inside of the D Rank. This has been noticed and fixed twice now. Either the game hates me, or someone is pranking me. I hope this issue doesn't pop up again.
That's all for now, below you can find the patch notes in all of their wordy glory:
ADDITIONS:
- ✪ Select 2 skills at start of game
CHANGES:
- ✪ AC Transfer can't be exploited
✪ Decreased total EXP gain to grinding a lower rank arena
✪ Level up unlock skills are now granted to the player upon unlock
✪ Status infliction chances for many skills have been standardized
✪ Cooldowns and Warmups for many skills have been standardized
✪ Less text if Story Mode option is Off
✪ Denira's healing skills can now have a chance to critical hit (Crit heals!)
✪ Combat magic skills can now have a chance to critical hit (Crit magic!)
✪ Learn cost of Denira's Evade Magic has been lowered
✪ Denira's Prayer skill now has a chance to inflict Smiting Sickness
✪ Shield Spin (Ralph/Derack) now 100% causes confusion to a single target
✪ Critical value variance for many skills has been adjusted
✪ Formula for the following skills have been adjusted:
- ✪ Damage of Ralph's Shine Smash
✪ Damage of Leora's Power Shot
✪ Damage of Leora's Barrage
✪ Damage of many of Derack's skills
✪ Healing Power of Denira's skills
✪ Damage of many elemental magic skills
✪ Casting costs for the following skills have been changed:
- ✪ MP Cost for Drel's Flicker has been increased
✪ MP + HP Cost for Drel's Force of Will has been increased
✪ MP Costs for Denira's healing and holy skills have been increased
✪ MP + TP Costs for Denira's elemental based skills have been adjusted
✪ MP Costs for combat magic (Drel/Molly) skills have been increased
✪ TP Costs for Leora's elemental based skills have been adjusted
✪ TP Costs for Derack's elemental based skills have been adjusted
✪ TP Costs for Ralph's default skills have been increased
- ✪ Damage of Ralph's Shine Smash
FIXES:
- ✪ Right Click Leave option now functions as intended
✪ All current ranks are now properly accessible
✪ A first time use of a skill in a rank you have 0 wins in would deal 0 damage. That is no longer the case for all skills
✪ Borrel's Dropkick can now properly be learned
✪ Drel's Force of Will skill line can properly be learned
✪ Derack can properly learn Slice n' Dice now
✪ Learn Cost for Shield Spin and Shield Bash requires the proper armors now
✪ Ice (C) can now properly be learned
✪ All of Leora's skills now can critical hit
✪ All of Derack's skills now can critical hit
✪ Icon for Leora's Wind Shot has the proper icon
✪ Minor text fixes
Thanks for keeping up with Mythic Victory Arena!
May 23rd Update
News
I'm bringing along a new update for the game, which fixes a few pesky issues and adds a few new features.
The first thing to note is many core scripts have been updated, so now the game should run a little bit better on more PCs.
Achievements!
Yep, you read that correctly. I managed to get Steamworks integration to work as intended, so now I've added some very basic achievements. Just things to get for rank clears. I'll be adding more achievements along the way. As for Steamworks now being integrated into the project, you can likely expect a few extra features to make your gameplay experience more enjoyable.
New Art!
The next thing on the list is Borrel. Our fist fighting monk has been drawn by the artist Miabun. Once you clear the D Rank, you unlock Borrel as a Hire. Check him out!
AC Transfer and Collect
What else, what else? Oh yes! The Arena Coin Transfer and Collect system has been added. For a small fee of 10% of your total deposit per transfer, you can send AC across multiple save files! Here's a quick look at it:
Aside from all these goodies, there's always the patch notes to take a look at. Check them out below:
The Patch Notes
May 23rd
ADDED:
✪ Steamworks Integration
✪ Achievements!
✪ Updated a few core scripts
✪ Unlockable Skills for Derack
✪ AC Transfer/Collect system. Transfer and collect AC between save files
✪ Art for Borrel
✪ Controls Reference on Title Screen
CHANGED:
✪ Increased power of Wild Swings
✪ Increased target rate on Taunt status
FIXED:
✪ Abyssal Summon now properly kills those who use it twice in a fight
✪ States that cannot or should not be changed in the Hospital no longer show up and eat your AC.
✪ Missing Graphics for Petrify Status
✪ F Rank being inaccessible
✪ Menu Position Fixes
✪ Minor Text Fixes
Weeklong Deal - 50%
Mythic Victory Arena is on sale at 50% off for the week. Purchase a copy now for yourself or for friends. Scale the ranks and enjoy a variety of options in gameplay!
That is all,
Thank you.