Happy Holidays, Gladiators!
This festive season, we bring you new challenges, powerful gladiators, and legendary treasures to make your battles even more exciting. Thank you for being part of our community—may your arena victories be as joyful as the holiday cheer! Although it is currently very difficult time for Indie game studios to operate, we will remain true to our original aspiration and bring you a better gaming experience. Not only Blackthorn Arena, but also another game developed by our studio, Age of Reforging: The Freelands, will also be launching a huge free update during the Christmas week! The update will be on sale for a limited time together with Blackthorn Arena during Winter Sale!

• *Gortus' Endless Trials has added a mode that challenges the gladiator. In this mode, players will face at least 10 gladiators in each wave and ultimately face at least one champion from other arenas. Each wave of enemies will be enhanced.

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A new powerful gladiator, the Swan Knight Adelaide, has been added.

A new suit of magical armor has been added to the random equipment treasure chest in the Gortus' Shrine.

A new legendary shield has been added, which can be obtained through the extremely difficult(RED) treasure hunt.

Six new Life Profession Sets have been added, which enhance the effects of your character's profession. They are:

1. Drillmaster Set: Increases the experience gained from training.
   
2. Doctor Set: Increases the health recovered from healing.
   
3. Torturer Set: Increases the loyalty gained from torturing.
   
4. Blacksmith Set: Reduces the money spent when crafting weapons and equipment.
   
5. Cook's Set: Reduces the cost of cooking food.
   
6. Herbalist's Set: Reduces the cost of crafting potions.

You can obtain these sets from the Wandering Merchant and the Robbing Caravan quests.

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- *Japanese localization text has been updated and added (Localization for other languages are also Preparing).
- *Some optimizations have been made to the running efficiency of the game, which may increase the frame rate for some players.

• Added a function to buy multiple items at once with one click.
  
• Added the function of automatically assigning free personnel to the training ground, Treatment Room, and torture chamber.
  
• Participating in a competition will no longer automatically assign players, but it can be done automatically via a button in the lower left corner.
  
• Now viewing a competition that has already started, you can see the specific participating NPCs.

• Improved the lighting effects in some scenes.

• Fixed an issue where players can watch matches held in other arenas through the arena list while they have put aside event and storyline matches, thus missing the event and storyline matches they have put aside.
  
• Fixed an issue where duplicate characters may be generated after the Freeman Champion escapes from the player's Arena.
  
• Fixed the problem where the poisoning effect of a poisoned weapon did not cause additional damage when stacked.
  
• Fixed the problem where the achievements Dragon Slayer, Enlightened Monk, and Watch Your Step could not be unlocked correctly.
  
• Fixed an issue where the race of a character did not match their appearance, which also caused the character's equipment model not to display.
  
• Fixed an abnormal force effect after being knocked into the air.
  
• Through a series of improvements, the problem of characters getting stuck outside the battle area or falling below the terrain has been further avoided.
  

• Some skill descriptions with incomplete effect descriptions have been completed.
  
• Fixed the inaccurate and incomplete description of the bonus to the agility attribute.
  
• Fixed the problem that the input in the input box did not take effect immediately when trading.
  
• Fixed the problem that the target indicator of the character did not disappear when the pause was cancelled.
  
• Fixed the incorrect skill description of Yanfan.
  
• Fixed the incorrect description of LeKha's grasp.

• Fixed the incorrect weapon type for the Orc Master.

• Berserker – Suppress Anger: Fixed the issue where the skill effect did not take effect.

• Werespider have been moderately strengthened.
  
• Crocodiles have been significantly weakened.
  
• Reduces the knockback effect of the scorpion lion skill.

• Defender – Intercept: The radius of the taunt has been increased by 1.5 meters from 1 meter, while the knockback effect has been reduced.
  
• Rogue – Venomous Weapon: It can now be stacked up to 6 times.
  
• Berserker – Suppress Anger: It now also has the effect of restoring health and ending the berserk
  
• Shapeshifter – Howler of Terror: now does not work against large enemies.state.

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-The Blackthorn Arena: Reforged Team

Hello Gladiators!

We're excited to announce the Blackthorn Arena: Reforged Deluxe Edition, now live with all previous content at a 20% discount.

We're not stopping there; expect more patches and new content in the future. We'll keep some surprises up our sleeve for now, but rest assured, the adventure continues.

This Deluxe Edition will be available during the Steam Winter Sale and beyond, so it's a great time to get the full experience.

Thank you for your support, and we look forward to your feedback on this and what's to come.