The time has come! With the big Bounty Hunt game mode rework, we're also launching the first of the "Season 2" event reruns, Bounty Hunters!

The Bounty Hunters rerun is live until August 31! It also comes with new rewards at all milestones, for those who have previously completed the event!

Follow Ellie and Lulu's adventures as you take down the bounties in the event written by Hono and illustrated by Ogipote!

This is the 2nd and final time the event gets run normally; after rerunning them, the season 2 events will all be retired!

The rework follows 2 beta phases and countless development hours, and brings with it a massive amount of changes! We'll only list the big ones here, please see the full patch notes on Steam forums!

Addressing one of the game mode's biggest pain points, the bounty locations and shops no longer use the Location Shuffle event to reset. Instead, they stay around until certain conditions are met. A new Mirage effect is always marked on a random panel. Once a location or shop is used up, a new one will instantly spawn on this panel marked with Mirage, and a new Mirage will spawn.

A new PvP bounty system has been added, enabling an alternative fame-gathering path. This adds public PvP bounties, which can be seen on the new Bounty Board by hovering over the top edge of the screen, and private PvP bounties, which can be acquired from Homes if you hold the Assassin’s Badge (which also gives the player an extra turn of battle against other players).

A new Norma Board system lets you choose a permanent bonuses on achieving your Norma.
These are presented at random for the player to pick, and will not appear again once picked. These bonuses vary from stat boosts to discounts and unique abilities.

The inventory graphics have been improved! In addition, each players' inventory can now be viewed at any time by clicking on the new icon on their character plate. Some items can now be used from this menu during your turn. This change removes the earlier Inventory button during Standby.

Two new invaders, Lost Rogue and Dark Chocolate Mousse, have been added and can be chosen from lobby options.

Invaders now also have the ability to apply Curse to contracts, in addition to their main ability. The curse puts completing that contract on a timer before it is removed.

Each invader now drops a special inventory item with a passive effect upon defeat.

A new traveling shopkeeper appears - the Shady Merchant runs the Black Market, hosting a plethora of powerful but expensive items; however, you may only buy one Black Market item in a game.

There are several other specific mechanical issues that have been addressed in various ways: Fish-a-Fish event now grants fame; Wins give stars upon landing on homes, a new catch-up mechanic has been added that gives extra contracts for lower Norma players, Bounties can be re-challenged after a defeat... the list is too long for the announcement, so please make sure to read the patch notes!

We hope you'll enjoy the new and shiny Bounty Hunt mode!

Changes:

• Updated Moss Golem in normal mode: +3/0/-3, 14 HP (down from +1 DEF). The unit card is also available in the Shop after having played 35 games.
  
• Teammates can now see another player's Heart of Resistance target in co-op, and it is permanently visible while active.
  
• Added unique indicators for Raging Madness and Heart of Resistance. They no longer overlap.
  
• Added co-op version of Flying Castle's unit card: "Cannot counterattack when challenged." This fixes his issues especially as Avenger in co-op.
  
• Edited Flying Castle and Immovable Object descriptions to be more accurate. Actual behavior hasn't changed.
  
• Game now detects your Steam language for initial startup language selection. It can also be changed from the game's properties. This change only applies to first boot.
  
• Added Big Poppo unit card to Binder & Shop. Card is available in the shop after unlocking Cyborg Poppo. If Cyborg Poppo is already unlocked, the unit card will be made available after finishing a game.
  
• F10 key now hides the window border for people that may need it (like those under GL build that might want to place it on specific bits of the screen and/or have scarce screen space).
  
• Made Mio (Festive) unit card available to players that already unlocked the character by visiting Player Info.

Fixes:

• Fixed Sweet Indulgence's displayed cost.
  
• Fixed QP (Dangerous) going over the battle stat cap.
  
• (GL Beta): Fixed Arnelle Hyper's distorted visuals.
  
• Fixed Hime (Moonlight)'s turn start Moon not disappearing.
  
• Fixed some battle hyper animations running at double speed when there's two running at the same time.
  
• Added preventive measures to not allow duplicates of dice and homemarks in selection.
  
• Fixed undefined behavior when a unit is spawned into the field which could lead to a game crash.
  
• Fixed misaligned player name on last played cards.
  
• Various backend optimization that shouldn't affect anything that's visible to players.
  
• Fixed damage result not appearing after a successful hit of Gray Whale's attack.
  
• Fixed an issue that made pin preview descriptions to go out of the screen.