Hiya Principals, another update is coming today, and you can bet that this one is going to make your day even better!
In this update, we’ve added a new minigame: the Autumn Feast! As the name suggests, this is an eating contest that you can partake in with students, mentors, and other NPCs in the game.
Just like a real-life eating contest, this minigame will be a combination of (tummy) management, timing, and perseverance. How’s your appetite lately? Because this huge feast is coming to an Academy near you 🥘
You’ve finished all the quests and cleared the dungeons from monsters. Surely, everything would be fine and dandy, right?
Wrong! There are always going to be people in need that could use a helping hand, and it’s up to you and your students to save the day!
Enter a new quest type: Rescue Quests! From this type of quests, your Academy will periodically receive a call for help from beloved residents of Valthiria.
Example of Rescue Quest
By finishing these Rescue Quests, your students will be, well, not quite “heroes of legends”, but everyday heroes! We all have to start somewhere, right?
Your Academy will also gain more reputation as students save townsfolk from vicious beasts, and, um... find a soot-filled pan for a distressed grandma? Or at least, one of the Academy’s graduates did that one.
We’ve also implemented an Advanced Studies system in the curriculum, so now, your Academy can surpass the proficiency limit even after you’ve built all the buildings in the Academy grounds.
Here are the complete list of changes and additions in the 0.5.0.0 update:
Features
New Minigame: Autumn Feast
New Quest type: Rescue
Implemented Advanced Studies for the research feature
Contents
New champions: Viola and Hugo
New dungeon: Tundra
New quests
New decision events
Bugfixes
Fixed story timeline
Fixed misplaced VFXs
Standardized some terms for student stats
Fixed several visual novels and tasks issues
Smashed other bugs of various sizes
Last but not least... two new champions are enrolling in the Academy! You might find one of them reading a book in the corner, minding her own business, while the other one walks around the Academy helping fellow students in need.
You can also explore the new Tundra dungeon/biome (dungeome, anyone?). Grab your warmest, fluffiest coat, and start adventuring!
Watch the trailer for the new champions here:
See you on the next update, Principals!
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Principals rejoice, because the 0.4.0.0 update is coming today! Another day, another step towards progress, right?
This time, we are adding a major feature, and expand on an existing one. Both of them will flesh out the world even further and add new things to do (and consider) when you’re out there managing your academy.
First thing first, we have added the final part to the political feature: the faction relations system! You might know that managing a relationship is hard, but managing relationships with factions that has different ideology and goals? Hoo boy, now that’s even trickier.
Fret not though, this is a fun new system that will add a new layer and intricacy to how diplomacy works in the game. Based on your academy’s standing with a particular faction, you might get bonuses and penalties that will change the way you play – so plan out your move from the get-go!
Diplomacy update
Now for the second part, we’ve added not one, but two new gameplay elements in this feature! We added two new things that you – with your students as proxy – can do, and it has to do with... Well, making the gameplay more fun and varied with optional stuffs you can do. Can you guess what it is?
If you answered minigames, then congratulations! Go ahead and pat yourself in the back!
There’s two minigames we’ve implemented, and both are aquatic in nature, which are swimming and fishing. So go on then, catch a big one or make like a fish and start flapping your arms like fins yourself!
Here are the complete list of changes and additions in the latest update:
Features
Added new feature: Minigames (Fishing and Swimming)
Added final part of political feature: Faction relations
Moved the help button from the main HUD to the in-game menu
Contents
New champion: Lily
Added new events
Rebalanced quests, gold, skills, etc
Added new FTUE tasks
Improved all tutorial texts
Added new enemies on Forest and Mountain
Character textures improvements
Bugfixes
Changed all texts from Mana to Arc Points (AP)
Fixed several visual novel and tasks issues
Fixed SFX Male reverb
Squashed some more bugs
Wait, it feels like I’m being watched as I’m writing this... Do you feel it too? I swear this is giving me goosebumps... What could it be?
Ah, false alarm, I guess. It’s just the new champion peeking around the corner 👀
Watch the trailer for the new champion here:
See you on the next update, Principals!
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Principals rejoice, because the 0.4.0.0 update is coming today! Another day, another step towards progress, right?
This time, we are adding a major feature, and expand on an existing one. Both of them will flesh out the world even further and add new things to do (and consider) when you’re out there managing your academy.
First thing first, we have added the final part to the political feature: the faction relations system! You might know that managing a relationship is hard, but managing relationships with factions that has different ideology and goals? Hoo boy, now that’s even trickier.
Fret not though, this is a fun new system that will add a new layer and intricacy to how diplomacy works in the game. Based on your academy’s standing with a particular faction, you might get bonuses and penalties that will change the way you play – so plan out your move from the get-go!
Diplomacy update
Now for the second part, we’ve added not one, but two new gameplay elements in this feature! We added two new things that you – with your students as proxy – can do, and it has to do with... Well, making the gameplay more fun and varied with optional stuffs you can do. Can you guess what it is?
If you answered minigames, then congratulations! Go ahead and pat yourself in the back!
There’s two minigames we’ve implemented, and both are aquatic in nature, which are swimming and fishing. So go on then, catch a big one or make like a fish and start flapping your arms like fins yourself!
Here are the complete list of changes and additions in the latest update:
Features
Added new feature: Minigames (Fishing and Swimming)
Added final part of political feature: Faction relations
Moved the help button from the main HUD to the in-game menu
Contents
New champion: Lily
Added new events
Rebalanced quests, gold, skills, etc
Added new FTUE tasks
Improved all tutorial texts
Added new enemies on Forest and Mountain
Character textures improvements
Bugfixes
Changed all texts from Mana to Arc Points (AP)
Fixed several visual novel and tasks issues
Fixed SFX Male reverb
Squashed some more bugs
Wait, it feels like I’m being watched as I’m writing this... Do you feel it too? I swear this is giving me goosebumps... What could it be?
Ah, false alarm, I guess. It’s just the new champion peeking around the corner 👀
Watch the trailer for the new champion here:
See you on the next update, Principals!
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Hello Principal, there’s a new patch coming today! If you felt that the world threat system we introduced in the last update made the game a bit more difficult, we’re going to level the playing field by giving you a boost in the new update!
From the image above, you will see that we have added additional items that might help you. You can buy these items using the in-game currency to help your students during their exploration. Be careful not to spend too much though, you don’t want to be broke so early in the game, right?
But wait, there’s more, you can also send students out on errands to help reduce threat level now!
Here are the complete list of changes and additions in the latest update:
Features
New features: Errands and Booster shop
Revamped UIs: Student info, Course list, Cycle report, Exploration HUD, Main HUD, Battle UI, and more
Contents
New dungeon: Desert
New quests
New Champions: Nyrina and Connie
New monster: Tentopard
Re-balanced skills for Champions
Re-balanced stats and skills of monsters in all dungeons
Added new VFXs and SFXs
Added a new cutscene: Velin
Bugfixes
Fixed the skill issues in champions and other students
Fixed several animations
Fixed wrong status effect icons
What’s that you ask? New champions characters? Yep! We’ve invited two new students to join the academy, and you might’ve recognized them already 👀
Watch the trailer for the new champions here:
See you on the next update, Principals!
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With the first update that was released at the end of April 2022, we’ve also finished making our roadmap that would help us set the target for future updates until the full release. As we all know, the First Update added new champions, a UI revamp, the World Threat system, and several new updates that could improve your gameplay.
This roadmap will act as what we’re working on as well as what you will get in the next updates. Our goal is to add new contents in each update until the full release of Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story 2. Check out the roadmap below:
As usual, your feedback is greatly appreciated. If you have any suggestions, you can head to our discussions page and post your thoughts on the pinned ‘Early Access’ discussion, or head to our Discord server via the link below.
Today is finally patch day! We have added some new, interesting changes that come with exploration and biome environments, to help you experience more challenging battles with better rewards. The changes also include some relationship mechanic that could affect your gameplay. More details below:
From the image above, we have introduced a world threat system where it affects a biome’s difficulty and rewards. You can increase or decrease the difficulty depending on your relationship with the biome’s ruler. Helping them with quests will lower the threat, and not doing so will result in the opposite.
Here is the complete list of changes and additions that we implemented in the latest version:
Features
World threat and diplomacy
Added Principal task list menu to help player track their tasks
Revamped Research UI
Updated tutorial for Research and World Threat
Updated Mini map asset on Dungeon exploration
Major Animation update
Contents
New champion characters: Fia and Laurent
New quests
Re-balanced skills
Skill animation update
Added cutscene for quest The Leader Behind
Added more events
Bugfixes
Fixed principal task issue
Fixed betrayer character still showing after they’re leave
Other bugs
Aside from the changes, we also have invited new special students to join your academy! You might be able to recognize one of them already 👀. Watch the full trailer on the link below:
https://youtu.be/Ei_GQgo4Nsw
Thank you and good luck at the academy!
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Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story 2 will be coming to early access no later than March 31st, 2022! Brush up your academy management skills, because as the one who will guide the next generation of heroes, the future of Valthiria rests on your shoulders.
Thank you for your support and have a nice day!
**Edit: There's a slight delay in the early access release. The game will be available starting March 31st, 5AM PST. Apologies for the inconvenience. Thank you for your patience.
