Chrono Ark News

Hello, fello Arkers!
Chrono Ark EA Beta v1.5 is here.

First of all, we apologize for the delayed updates.
We have moved our office from a small 150 square feet room to a 500 square feet office.

We had planned big scenario updates for v1.5, but unfortunately it's taking more time than initially planned.
We are currently prioritizing improvements for bigger parts of our game system.


The biggest improvement for v1.5 is the increased skill pool for all characters. Rare skills are a new addition to the game.
As we have improved most character mechanics, we have also added new skills for each of them.

- Currently, 49 character skills have been added.

The following characters are currently available in Beta:
Hein, Joey, Trisha, Miss Chain, Azar, Pressel, Ironheart, Charon, Silverstein, and Lian.


New

• Up to 10 skills and 3 Rare skills per character have been been added.
  
• Every character gained a Lucy's skill that helps draw more skills.
  
• Skill Books: Skill Books generate a random class skill for one of your party members.
  
• Golden Skill Book: Golden Skill Books generate a random party member's Rare skill. Rare skills have a red border. You are guaranteed to obtain a Golden Skill Book at some point while playing.
  
• Lucy's New Draw Skills: Gain a low chance to obtain a new class Draw skill for your party members when you upgrade Lucy's Draw skill.
  

Improvements

• Your party members now have more basic skills. You can remove a skill when you have more than 4-5 skills. Class skills are now removable.
• New Keyword: Count. This substitutes the previous Keyword: Focus. A skill with Count will be cast later than others. A skill's Count will decrease each time you cast a skill.
  
• Debuff skills with no damage will always be activated.
  
• You can now wait more per turn with increased Speed.
  
• New clown-themed music has been added for Stage 2. We are planning to add more bosses besides Joker.
  
• Boss-themed music has been slightly edited for Stage 3.
  

All character mechanics have been improved and adjusted.
There are so many changes this patch, please don't hesitate to check them out!

How to join the Beta
Steam Library -> Right Mouse Click on Chrono Ark -> Properties...

You can also join through the Beta tab!

Thank you!

Hello, fello Arkers!
Chrono Ark EA v1.42 has arrived!

Improvements

• Remnant of Madness: Description has been altered.
  'If an enemy is defeated, add the excess amount' -> 'Whenever a target is damaged, add any excess'
  Merciless Explosion and Remnant of Madness' combo now activates Remnant of Madness' effect even if you could not defeat the target with the overkill damage.
  

Balancing

• Soul Stigma: Base damage has been reduced from (50 + 200% of Attack) to (43 + 200% of Attack).
  
• Shadow Illusion: Now has Swiftness. This cannot be casted on a skill that was already created by Shadow Illusion.
  

Bug Fixes

• Trisha: All ally skill costs will be correctly reduced after 5 stacks of Trisha's Backstab.
  
• Time Eater: The next skill cast after Time Eater's Fast Forward will be correctly Focused.
  

We have made done some balancing and corrected some bug fixes for this patch.
Thank you so much for playing the Beta and reporting bugs!

Upcoming SD character design for Investigation Team members

Hello, fello Arkers!
Chrono Ark EA v1.42 Beta is here!

Improvements

• The shortcut for End Turn has changed from Tab to Q key.
  
• You can now open the party information window with Tab key during battle.
  
• Changed the attack timing of Lucy's 'Dark Silhouette'. e.g. Hein's 'Merciless Explosion' skill will be cast before 'Dark Silhouette' when both are cast on the same turn.
  
• The basic skill set for each role group after recruitment has changed slightly.
  
• Chrono Ark now supports Windows 64-bit! (Better optimized with 64-bit)
  

Newly Added

• Lucy's New Skill: 'Trick Show'
  

Balancing

• Charon - Soul Stigma:
  The debuff success rate has increased by 10%.
  The debuff damage is amplified if you or an ally has dealt damage to the target.
  
• Charon - 'Vigil of Darkness': Debuff duration has increased from 2 to 3 turns.
  
• Charon - 'Shadow Pillars': Skill has been reworked.
  
• Lian - 'Combat Roar': 3 Skills from the top of your hand gain 100% chance to critical hit after casting Combat Roar.
  
• Miss Chain - 'Pursuit': Cost has reduced to 2. All skills drawn by Pursuit have their cost reduced by 2.
  
• Miss Chain - 'Bazzuum!': Attack power ratio has increased from 133% to 140%.
  
• Hein - 'Detect Weaknesses': Now costs 0.
  
• Hein - 'Blood Reflux': Restores the target's healing gauge. Take damage equal to half the amount.
  
• Trisha - Passive: Trisha's next skill costs 0 after her 4th ability or skill is played. -> For every 5th skill played by Trisha, an ally gains a free skill cast.
  
• Trisha 'Shadow Veil': Now has Swiftness.
  
• Trisha's New Skill - 'Heart Pierce': Heart Pierce costs 1 and deals combined ticking debuff damage from yourself and the target.
  
• Common Skill - 'Locked On': Now increases Accuracy by 15% instead of 10% and critical damage by 50%.
  

Bug Fixes
The buff from The Forgotten King's equipment no longer disappears below 3 stacks.


Development News
The Chrono Ark development team have welcomed a new UI designer, character artist, and scenario writer!
This has allowed us to work on Chrono Ark more efficiently!

The image below is a preview of the next new boss!


Thank you!

Chrono Ark EA v1.41 is here!


Hello, fellow Arkers!
Chrono Ark EA v1.41 is now live!

Newly Added

• Multiple NPCs have been added to the Ark who will appear in accordance with your game progress. Some NPCs will even be able to give you quests in future updates.
  
• Lucy's New Skill: Dark Silhouette.
  Whenever an ally takes damage, all enemies take damage.
  
• New Common Skills: 'Boomerang' and 'Fury Attack'.
  Boomerang and Fury Attack have special uses unlike previous Common skills.
  We are planning on dividing Common skills into tiers. If so, Boomerang and Fury Attack will be of a higher tier.
  
• New Purple Tier Equipment: 'An Indescribable Portrait'.
  
• New Relic: 'The Cross of Light'.
  

Balancing

• Huz: Bonus Attack Power per level has been slightly reduced.
  
• Charon: Healing Power has been increased by 1.
  
• Charon: New skill effect for Dark Heal has been added. Defeating an enemy with Dark Heal will now deal overkill damage to all enemies.
  
• Narhan: Damage based on maximum Health has been reduced when Narhan attacks more than 2 targets with Nightmare Syndrome.
  
• Pressel - First Class to Heaven: Overheal mechanic has now been correctly applied. The Overheal ratio has been slightly reduced.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a tooltip where the removed effect for Miss Chain's Engine Reload! was shown.
  
• Fixed a bug where Miss Chain's Death's Door Immunity buff did not activate at 3 stacks and she was already at Death's Door.
  
• Time Eater: Fixed a bug where you use a Fixed ability after Fast Forward is cast.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to use consumables twice.
  
• Fixed a bug where two or more characters recover or lose Health at the same time at the end of battle.
  
• Fixed a bug where the wrong skill effect was shown when you mouse over an enemy after selecting an attack skill during battle.
  
• Fixed various miscellaneous bugs.
  

Thank you so much for submitting bug reports!

Development News

• We are planning to make a chart regarding user's skill pick rate and each character's game clear rate. We are looking forward to release this chat with each update.
  
• Thanks to your generous support, we are increasing the size of our developement team! We promise to keep working on improving the quality of Chrono Ark.
  

What's up, everyone!
Chrono Ark EA v1.4 is here.

We've found many bugs during beta testing and we've fixed them.
Thank you for participating in the beta!

Newly Added

• Narhan and Huz are now unlockable. Their achievements are also now available!
  
• Narhan has new dialogue that has been added.
  
• Charon - Soul Stigma's effect has been added.
  

Balance

• The Sanctuary - Yellow and Green Guardian Golem's Resistance has increased.
  
• The Forgotten King - Protecting Pillar's Pain Resistance has decreased from 55 to 40.
  
• Time Eater - Skill 'Stand By' has changed to 'Fast Forward'. You can now remove Time Eater's unique Focused skill once by casting 'Fast Forward'. Timeless Gear's damage has been increased.
  
• White Graveyard - Jars no longer appear in the area.
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where temporary storage objects did not appear at the campfire.
  

[h2]1.41[/h2]
New Ark NPC

[h2]1.5[/h2]
New Storyline
Chrono Ark's storyline is finally complete.
However, the storyline is really indepth so we'll release it in parts with future updates.
Adding the full storyline to the game may take some time, so thank you for your patience!

Twitch Stream: Chrono Ark Development
https://www.twitch.tv/hyungunder12
You can watch Chrono Ark live in development here!
While working on the story, the development screen may be hidden to prevent spoilers.