Chrono Ark News

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.

What’s up, everyone!
Chrono Ark's EA v1.4 official beta patch is now live!

v1.4 includes 2 new crew members joining the Investigation Team.
We have decided to release new characters during the beta.
You’ll need to unlock them after beta testing is over.

New Party Members

Huz is a supporter who utilises her healing whip with low-risk and high-return.
She provides strong healing alongside weakening debuffs.
This character’s design was based on an idea from a Kickstarter patron.


Narhan is a Psychologist who can read minds.
He is also a Crowd Control (CC) debuff specialist who can efficiently interfere with enemies.

• 'Reinforcement' at Research Lab
  You can recruit the 4th party member at the campfire.
  This feature will be available after you unlock a certain amount of party members.
  
• 'The Joker' is a collectible loot item that drops from the boss, Joker.
  
• Character stats now show the chance to resist fainting and debuff accuracy.
  
• Mechanics regarding damage to barriers has changed (Faster and more versatile response to various types of damage).
  
• 'Hand of Stars', a purple-colored level equipment has been added.
  
• Remnant of Madness no longer targets a random enemy.
  
• At the campfire, you can recruit a role that you do not have in your party.
  
• Enemies with action count remaining will attack first at the end of turn.
  
• A 'Stand By' button has been added during combat. 'Stand By' reduces ALL enemies’ action count by 1.
  
• New interactive character lines at the campfire.
  Some characters will interact with each other while you are resting at the campsite.
  More lines will be added.
  

Ironheart

• Passive 'Overbarrier': The excess healing converted to a barrier has changed from 100% -> 90%.
  
• Shock Wave: Base Attack ratio has slightly reduced.
  
• Shield Bash: Base Attack ratio has slightly reduced.
  

Joey

• Intoxication: The max. stack amount has reduced from 6 to 5.
  
• Weakening Smog: Damage has reduced from 55% to 40%.
  

Hein

• Blood Reflux: Now transfers all removable debuffs to Hein.
  

Charon

• Vigil of Darkness: Evade Chance has increased from 5% to 15%. It no longer reduces Armor. Instead, increase a target's receiving damage by 25%.
  
• 'Soul Stigma' has been added.
  
  Soul Stigma reflects damage to an ally as a Pain debuff to an enemy.
  Try it with skills that damage an ally or yourself!
  

Pressel

• First Class to Heaven: Attack damage has increased from 175 to 190. Accuracy has increased from 100 to 108.
  

Sizz

• Most of Sizz’s skills have been improved.
  
• Eve gains a chance to attack (2 stacks).
  

Miss Chain

• Leave This to Me! and Engine Reload!: New buffs have been added.
  'Immune to Death's Door': At 3 stacks, prevents Miss Chain's health dropping below 1.
  
• Engine Reload!: Miss Chain gains a buff that increases healing received by 33%.
  

Silverstein

• Bear Trap: Bear Trap is less strong and it now returns to your hand after it is activated.
  

Extras

• Improved Cross Brooch's item effect.
  
• Some equipment now has Weakening debuff Accuracy.
  
• Equipment has 1% less chance to be cursed and 2% more chance to be enchanted.
  
• Forgotten King's Blade, Vest, and Cloak gives 5% increased Attack, Max. Health, and Healing Power.
  
• Relic 'Witch's Curse': 'Crucifying Curse' deals more damage but doesn’t last as long.
  

• Fixed freezing after casting Remnant of Madness.
  
• Miss Chain's 'Burnnn!': When Miss Chain’s skills are copied by others, additional effects from ‘Burnnn!’ will be applied.
  
• Dodo's Rabbit Mask now always gives a unique effect.
  
• Living Armor from Stage 1-1 now can be unlocked properly.
  

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

You can also join through the Beta tab!

Twitch Stream: Chrono Ark Development
https://www.twitch.tv/hyungunder12
You can watch Chrono Ark in development live!

Improvement

• If the game crashes after the beginning of stage 1-2, you can continue from that stage.

bug fix

• The problem with being unable to adjust the volume for the BGM in the intro and the main screen has been fixed.
  
• Fixed an issue where character stats were sometimes displayed incorrectly.