Ueda

Very good so far, but I may need a better name

There is no such thing as clans affiliated only with Missings atm because you can't start as a Missing Ninja, your clan carries with you after you leave the village, you're just a different branch ie. Also whats the meaning of the name, it has to be lore friendly

New Legendary Blade - Kotsuzui Tanto added Boss Koitaru difficulty increased Tonfas now have hit animation Sword slashing animation and swords added to all swords missing them.

When you logout of Akatsuki's Cave now you respawn right outside. This is to prevent players who are no longer in the Neo-Akatsuki from staying inside if they're kicked while logged out inside the map. Fix to Manda's Lair - in the past, if you left the map right away after you killed Manda instead of waiting for the 30s timer to kick you out, the next time you entered, you would be kicked out. Temp fix for exploit that allowed players to see who is in an organization

Fixed Poison Cloud Technique on both players and NPCs broken hitbox (NPCs were more broken) Fixed descriptions for Bounty type missions!

February 2019 PromotionsLeaf VillageSpecialized Jonin: @Kuraen Arubaro the Earth Defense Specialist Chunin: @Kuraen Vali @Kuraen Arubaro Jonin: @Dayum MiranaSand Village Chunin: @Windy @Yuura Jonin: @Itama Date

Fixed Crescent Moon Beheading Technique being usable without holding a sword.

Use /weather in-game to disable particle weather effects. It will render a static image instead.

We're putting this feature on trial for awhile, feel free to feedback positive or negatively about it. @Harmony I kind of like the idea, will consider it if this becomes permanent.

Global Weather System! Something I've been planning to do for a long time. It now randomly rains in the world across all maps, and sometimes it's a thunderstorm. (Experimental) Village Broadcasts only usable from Aviaries. Leaf Aviary Added Leaf Aviary Added to Leaf Map Reduced the opaqueness of rain and sandstorm to be less jarring on the eyes.

I write all of this while I'm on the public transport on my phone, so there's going to be errors here and there it's pretty all over the place. But thanks for reading!

MMORPG are unique as a genre of projects to work on from normal RPG because they run as a service over a long period of time. They are different because there is not a definite end state, and players will always want more content and features. Of course, they are also different because of the social interactions your players can have, creating indefinite amounts of possibilities for special interactions and experiences in the world. Indefinite Service Indefinite Updates Indefinite Experiences These 3 factors when considered into the design and development plan can create a sustainable MMORPG. Diving into the past, most of us avid MMORPG players have encountered one of these scenarios. Being a long time player of a game but slowly realizing its no longer the game you loved. Being a long time player and leaving the game, coming back and seeing its no longer the game you loved. Anticipating a game from trailers for years, forgetting about a game, and jumping in half a decade later to realize its not what the trailers portrayed it to be. A lot of games lose sight of the original design over the years, this can be due to change in designers and people working on the game. This can be due to publisher intervention. This can be due to changes in monetization model. This can be due to a large variety of reasons that may even have been necessary for the longevity of the game. This common occurrence with MMORPG almost make it seem that this is the inevitable destination for all games in the genre. But if we look at the examples of games decades old that are still around and maintain a strong following, and the prevalence of Classic MMORPG private servers, we can see that this isn't true. There are dozens of popular Ragnarok Online private servers with thousands of daily active users while Ragnarok Online 2 is shutting down its team and the game has less active players than Nin Online which is made by mostly 2 individuals. Changing Developers / Designers When a game is bought by a new parent company, sometimes they come with deals where the creators or lead designers have to continue working on the game for a duration. Sometimes they replace them straight away. Whichever the case, while documentation can help, if you change the person behind the helm of a games development. You will get changes to the vision of the game. Lack of knowledge of what made the game great from a fundamental level can be detrimental, and even having that knowledge, it's still really hard to continue the development the way it was originally intended. Obscure decisions can seem random or error-like to a person jumping in midway through a game's development lifetime. Even experienced developers will struggle to weigh in everything that comprises a game's design when suddenly thrown a giant game design document and a world filled with more different kinds of players than they've met in their lives. The way Nin Online has counteracted this problem thus far is just by keeping the same lead designer on the helm for its current lifespan. While I intend to continue being the one leading the games development in the long term, it may one day be inevitable that I will not. In such a scenario, it will be very important that whomever continues the game knows not just the decisions for the game design - but the reasons for them - by heart. It is rare that a new designer can step into a project and make the game a better game while sticking to its original design. It's not something I've personally observed happen in all my research. I think companies undervalue the importance of keeping the individuals and overvalue the project they're buying. But besides just changing designers, I think individuals get bored of the project they were originally designing and turn their projects into something else over time, they start adopting market trends, listen to what players want rather than committing to good design in areas they shouldn't. Decisions like these compound into bad games and eventually cause the games to die or at least lose their initial target audiences. World of Warcraft is a great example of this Accessibility and Appeasing a Casual Playerbase Trend This next point is a very specific decision that has occurred within most of the MMORPG that some of us have enjoyed as kids. Making a game accessible has in mine and many people's opinions been the cause of decline for many MMORPG of the past. When a game changes its design to match the player instead of making the player match the game, you end up with a game that everyone can play, but nobody wants to play. When you subscribe to the notion that because you pay for something, you should have access to all its content, or that everyone should have access to everything in the game even if they don't have time to invest into it, you end up with a game where everything is worth nothing and you will never truly be proud of anything you do in-game. This is an echo of a video you can find on YouTube that's been trending lately. You can watch it here Power creep and updating balance https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Power_creep Game balancing is another issue that has to be considered for the entirety of a games development. While it is important to get player feedback, it's also important to constantly refer to original design documents and use formula, charts and diagrams to determine what works in theory. Determining whether something is imbalanced is hard. Personally for Nin Online, when something is deemed under powered by a group of players, I first have to consider all the variables that a single or even a large group of players might not notice. For example, if a Spell (Jutsu) is underpowered to a majority of level 50 players, I have to look at "what level is this jutsu" "what are the other jutsu in this kit" "what situations is this jutsu meant to be used in and not used in" "is it useful in situations that are niche and/or not currently experience-able In-game" "is there a combo that is not currently being used" "does the arena sizes and format of fights have anything to do with why this jutsu has been failing for these players" "are the players expecting something different than its original intention or is it simply not living up to its original intention" and more factors unique to each case. Once I've determined that it is under powered, next I have to consider whether to buff it, nerf/re-balance everything around it, or rework it entirely. Which in itself, comes with dozens of factors to consider. But most importantly, if I do rework it, does it still play into the design of its class (mastery), and if I change it, is it for the betterment of the class or for the short term enjoyment of the players. When part of the designers job becomes to please the player base in the short term - it leads to decisions that don't consider longevity and long term balance. It is very easy to just buff something, most of the time, this receives the least criticism. People hate being nerfed, and love being buffed. Buffing other peoples classes doesn't hurt you as much as nerfing yours. So naturally, the easy decision is always just buffing. This leads to a common problem in MMORPG - power creep. My way to avoid this is to constantly make hard decisions, being stringent on my design is a benefit I get to enjoy by being the sole decision maker of the game. In a typical AAA company, if you make decisions that outrage players, you lose your job. This leads to situations where you buff things endlessly without considering other aspects of the game. Hard decisions are hard to make, but necessary. Another hard thing to maintain is a perfect imbalance, which is the concept that having everything fair is not fun, and that every player should have something about their class they feel. Is special. Players will often take two very different things in different classes and say "why does this class have this but this class doesn't?". Sometimes the first reaction even as a designer to this is "oh yeah, you're right, that's not fair is it?" but when you take this a step further and continue to balance things in a way that makes each class a re-skin of one another, it takes away the fun people can find from being overpowered in some ways and overcoming their underpowered-ness in others. What we should be balancing is the bigger picture, and making sure each class has the opportunity to shine in their own way. Creating content and the importance of Social experiences in MMORPG Being able to push out content faster than it can be experienced is not just an impossibility for an MMORPG like Nin Online, which has a small team, it is simply not possible to create a quest faster than players can complete it, you can't create a boss faster than players can get bored of it. At least not in a modern game development scenario. It might be possible one day. But we've seen that games, Nin Online included, have been able to retain players for years or even decades, so we know that pushing out content is not directly equivalent to retaining your players. There are a few ways games can tackle this, first by designing your game with social experiences in mind, you create infinite possibilities for interactions. Building systems that encourage player interaction one by one, makes a game not about what you do, but who you do it with. Each player becomes "content" because they provide a new way the game can be experienced. This should be prevalent in all MMORPG - but its not. Its one of the biggest charms and allures of the genre, but yet its so often forgotten by large studios. Expanding the right content in the right amounts is also important for Nin Online at least. Sometimes adding a boss is top priority, but sometimes working on an entire new village is more important. Sometimes working on features for a very small group of players like imprisonment for Military Police Forces will benefit the game more than anything. Prioritizing the right thing at each point the games development is key for sustaining the games enjoyment. Sometimes advertising and marketing is purely the focus of mine because I want to introduce new players to give more potential experiences to everyone else. Game industry trends and One upping older content Sticking to design rather than the trends of other games is important, and once core gameplay systems are in place, there's often a point where MMORPG just seem to slap in features like achievements and in the case of WoW, Garrisons. Although they seem cool initially, sometimes these features can have negative effects on the pre-existing content. Adding too many instanced content can take away from the World aspects of the MMORPG and negate the large amounts of work poured into making an expansive world. While it can be used to encourage exploration and doing more in your world, achievements can also cheapen the idea of exploration in the world by listing out exactly what people can do in your world and by rewarding certain ways to play the game, you lessen the fun in doing things players are not given rewards for. "Quality of life" changes. While this term is actually used to describe changes that make doing menial tasks easier, like a UI change that makes inventories easier to scroll through. Sometimes developers mistake changes like adding more inventory slots as a quality of life change. While it does give players an easier time, it can also in turn make inventory management less important, which for some could be a kind of fun. Inventory management is a large part of classic RPGs and while modern RPGs tend to have limitless inventory space, I myself personally find the idea of not having infinite pockets more immersive and gives me a reason to return to world hubs to sell loot, which creates a new dynamic, which in turn increases my chances of meaningful social experiences. One of the largest parts of Nin Onlines game design is to create a large world and encourage players to never stay in the same spot too long, and encourage exploration. Not having an easy time in achieving makes achieving more valuable. Quality of Life is a popular buzzword, but is only useful in it's domain. An example of a Quality of Life's potential is having un-intuitive UI or un-intuitive systems that can be better if it had more visual cues. My point is that Quality of Life is a term thrown around everywhere and is used in out-of-context situations because of how general the term is. Eg. Increase the EXP rate because that would increase the Quality of Life of players in the game. Content Creep Content creep is not a real term, but I use it to identify the problem I see with games that focus on adding content for current player base, commonly the players who are very invested in the game and whom have maxed out their level cap. Focusing on retaining players rather than new players is important as well, and a fine balance has to be made so that you can retain your old player base while also making it increasingly more fun for new players. This will make it more likely that new players will join, which is also a good thing for the existing players, because as we established earlier, new players is in a large way, new experiences and new content in a social world. Sometimes going back to balance and ensure the old content is still viable when you've added new content is important, and I feel the biggest violation to this was Maplestory. By adding a dozen classes on top of the original 4-5, they invalidated the old classes, wasting the old content that old players loved and new players could've loved. Increasing Limitations in Technology Working within the limitations of your technology is also very important. A lot of older MMORPG had very great limitations on their hands, that players never even knew about. In the days of Ultima Online, they could only have a limited amount of houses before the server couldn't handle them. So they limited the amount and made them expire. In the days of World of Warcraft, they added instanced player housing, which made it so the server only loaded the data when they needed it. In the case of Nin Online, we try to stay away from instanced content because it removes the feeling of being in a perpetual world, and also because its not in our engine at the moment, but even if it was - I would struggle deciding on whether or not to use it. Because the idea of having actual property in the game sounds a lot more fun than everyone being able to own an instance that nobody else will enter. Because items are stored server side to prevent cheating, we also have a limited number of items we can create - so we have to avoid adding items, equipment or cosmetics that nobody will use. Everything has a weight on our server resources. Every cosmetic added for a small group of players is one less important equipment like a Flak Jacket or Sword. As time goes on and we improve our backend technology, it will increasingly be important to stick to the core game philosophies for design. Maplestory famously started condensing the original world that everybody loved by deleting maps and making the world smaller to make way for new content. Which is another example of forgetting how important the original design and content for new players who haven't tried the game is. I’ve also realized that as monitor technology has increased, pixel density has increased, and it has in turn made Nin Online characters really tiny, and you see too much of the world at once. While this is temporarily helped with the “Zoom” functionality in our settings, eventually, I will have to combat this with some sort of more long term solution or the game will become so radically changed it no longer looks like what is supposed to originally look like. Here is a video talking where they talk about the limitations of the technology back in Ultima Online and how they pushed it. Conclusion If we consider the 3 factors about MMORPG development stated at the start of this developers log, it creates a philosophy that helps make sure that the MMORPG you're designing continues to grow in size but maintains what makes it fun in the first place. This is all just a scratching the surface of a very large market trend that I've noticed over the past decade since my days playing MMORPGs like Maplestory, Ragnarok Online, MU Online, World of Warcraft when I was a kid, playing private servers of these games, and playing modern MMORPGs. If you search YouTube, you will find a larger movement of players of classic MMORPG or new players anticipating Classic WoWs release. This is also to explain to the players who are willing to listen that as a designer with the freedom to make difficult choices for the benefit of the game, instead of just pleasing people, I am going to make these decisions that will piss people off a lot, but it’s going to be for the sake of the games longevity to the best of my knowledge. And even though sometimes it seems like common sense that we should buff this or nerf that, sometimes - you just have to trust that the people making the game knows what best in a broad picture. Sometimes the players are right, and I’ve had so much changes to the original design made because of player suggestions, as well as minor changes like balancing based on what players have suggested. But I still do have to consider a myriad of things before just copy pasting ideas for balance changes, and it’s not an easy job when balancing for the future and what’s to come and not just for short term pleasing. Thanks for taking your time to read this wall of text! Inb4 nerf tai

I am quite against global chats in MMORPGs, and it's not just me who thinks this way. The initial idea for /v was to give it to Hokages to announce messages, but we trialed giving it to everyone, and people started relying on it too much. So my ideas to limit it to a RP use is a compromise. But this is just an idea. Here's other people discussing it. "Basically what world chat does is to encourage antisocial behavior. If the guy you want to badmouth is close to you and can kill you, you will think it twice to say anything bad at them." "I love UO where you can chat only in closest vicinity since your words appear literally over your head and it's an isometric game. Dunno about official servers, but old ass shards were like that, I used to play those that even hadn't any ingame guilds systems present so literally no chat channels other than your immidiate surroundings." "What you're saying is true, matchmaking kills social curves in MMOs, and WoW ruined everything. Everybody kind of just knows that things got 'too convenient'." "This is is a pretty interesting argument. Many of my best interactions in recent years are when I run into other players out in the wild and just use the "local" version of chat t ask if they want to group up. The global/regional chats seem to be much less condusive to playing together, at least unless folks are strictly goal oriented." "It's also the ability to do simple things like dicking around, but online. Coupled with a verbal/social presence of distance-based chat made mmo worlds feel alive. To me it did. That's why Runescape was so popular among my friends and opened us up to try all the other ones out at the time. Today I feel like all aspects of any mmo always has the same endpoint. And that point just gears it straight back to PvE or PvP. Makes the experience bland and one track. Crafting, cooking, questing, it's all just to bump up your gear or combat. You don't do it for fun; there's no auxiliary reward for it. That's why close-system chats were so refreshing and flavorful for mmos. Half the fun came from other players themselves. The game base just facilitated the enjoyment of the company of others. The loss of the chat you speak of though is the exact reason why none of my friends play online games anymore. The mmo genre today has honestly been reduced to short-term themeparks and joyless raiding. I think online FPS and MOBAs are still popular, though. And lo and behold they have both insular chat systems and organic gameplay." I'm not saying that these people are right. But in my opinion as well, I think local chat makes the world feel a lot more spacial, and more real. Being able to shout to the entire world with no in-game reasoning kind of kills immersion. But we'll see!

This is just an idea and something I want to hear your thoughts on. What if each village has an aviary and in order to broadcast messages to the village you need to be in the aviary.

Added more animation while using Sealed Box. Rocky Caves renamed to Cursed Cave. Rocky Cave (3F) renamed to Cursed Laboratory. Added Level 30 Weapon Master (STR) Jutsu - Crescent Moon Beheading Reworked Dance of the Crescent Moon Hit animation. Dance of the Crescent Moon AoE hit range decreased to match animation.

Dear Ninja, For the longest time, I've wanted fans to become a Sand-only weapon. However, due to obligations to keep it free for everyone to hold cosmetically from a competition that gave out pink fans in 2014/15, I've been holding back that decision. I think it's time for this important change to be made, and so as of sometime in February, we will make it so fans are only usable by Sand ninja. It is for the sake of the betterment of the game that I'm making this decision, although it may inconvenience some and cause many to rage. But keeping fans for Sand Ninja and Sand Missing Ninja, will help keep the villages unique and help us head towards the goal of each village being different. Regards, Ueda

Added 2nd Floor of Rocky Caves! Added 3rd Floor of Rocky Caves! Added Sealed Box in the Rocky Cave?! Shadow Shuriken Technique now silences enemy for 0.5s (Experimental change) Increased all Explosive Tag jutsu damages. Clones temporarily disabled due to bugginess.

Fixed animation duration for poisons!

Fixed bug with using /v if you escaped from prison and get pardoned.

Don't worry about that. I've explained the legality a dozen times before. It's not a concern in the slightest bit. That being said, we have no intention of trying to compete with Bandai Namco's games on Steam etc. Bandai Namco would never publish a fan game like Nin Online. They have no interest in our non-existent profit margins. If they had interest in our game format and monetization, they would've made Nin Online with a small team years ago.

This is a poll for people who are Non-medics, finding out - how much do you want a medic on your team in these scenarios.

Medical Ninjas in the Naruto series are both some of our favorite characters and some of our most hated. On one end we have people hating on Sakura and Ino who's feats until the Great Ninja War seemed forced in there to give them some relevance, on the other hand you have Tsunade who everyone universally agrees is a bad ass because of her medical Ninjutsu feats. As I mentioned in the previous dev log. Not all Masteries are meant to be as good at PvP or PvE. Some Masteries trade these abilities greatly for utility. Some masteries trade long-term survivability for short term damage output. Nin Online's inspiration for what Medical Ninja should feel like comes from a bunch of different characters. Firstly, we have two sub-paths that we want players to balance between. Here's a list of characters that you should feel like as you go towards that path. Full support Medic - Rin Poison Attack Medic - Kabuto When you get combined Masteries, and advanced Masteries.. Full Support Medic (Advanced Medic /w CHK) - Tsunade level medical Ninjutsu Advanced Poison Ninjutsu (Advanced Medic /w INT) - Ibuse Medical and Taijutsu User (Medic + Taijutsu) - Tsunade In total this is 5 different modes of medics we want to balance for. There will be people who choose to take Medic + Water still, and it won't be that bad because you'd have limited amount of jutsu slots which you will fill up with not just Medic and Water jutsu, but also hidden jutsu, clan jutsu and summoning jutsu in the future. Full Support Medics are not supposed to feel as viable in combat as other ninja. Except when you use Chakra Scalpels. Essentially, you're supposed to feel like a one trick pony as a pure support medic, when it comes to damage output. You are the support of your team, and Chakra Scalpels should allow you to push out damage and defend yourself temporarily while your team is too preoccupied. So you are basically Rin. Poison Attack Medics are supposed to be less viable in combat than a typical class in terms of pure damage output, but relies on poisons to get an upper hand in extended fights, where you tire out the opponent. As of now, this and full support medics are a little far from its original design. Cursed Seals are artificial sage modes. It is when unnaturally implanted kinjutsu and senjutsu is granted to its user. I have a theory that it was originally intended for Sasuke to have gained what his affinity towards Hawks and a potentially scrapped Hawk sage mode to him early by orochimaru. Which explains why he gains Hawk-like features when he gained his Cursed Seal form (hawk eyes, wings and a beak like Mark on his face). This was probably scrapped in order for Jiraiya, Orochimaru and Tsunade to have the same Summons as Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura. All the Sound 4 have Summons and artificial sage modes where they gain marks, just like Naruto does when he enters sage mode. But as the game is inspired more by Naruto than Shippuden, this is what we're going for. Cursed Seals in Nin Online will be an optional addition instead of ordinary Summons and Sage Modes that will require you to leave your village and learn from an evil ninja. However, as this is very far off, and I know people love Cursed Seals and its a large part of the series, I include them as part of the attack medic's kit for now. But this is the full vision of what Cursed Seals will be eventually. Advanced Poison Ninja are based on Hanzo, Torune and some freaky Ninjutsu like Orochimaru. You will get deadlier poisons which do different things, slow your enemies, damage them, silence them etc. There were initially plans for poison immunities, but that has been scrapped because such easy hard counters are not fun. A medicine making system is planned for medical ninja to use ingredients to make pills which can then be sold or used by allies. In conclusion, while medical ninja are meant to be very different from what they currently are, and as time goes by, this will be what it becomes. In the meanwhile, I do want them to be as fun as possible and provide unique gameplay, like having cursed seals.

You can now check your overall village score contribution towards Economy, Intel and Manpower from the Mission Assignment Desk. The contributions started recording on 17 January 2019.

Dear Ninja, Maybe this is going to be a tradition, maybe not.. but since I did one for 2017. Let's keep it going! Our second year of service has gone by! It wasn't the smoothest year.. with unending crashes beginning in the middle of the year all the way to November. It feels sad knowing so much time was spent trying to fix it, and so many potential players turned off by the interrupted services. During the time, we continued working on content, at a slower pace, while spending a lot of time looking into fixing bugs. We learned a lot from this, and we're sure this won't happen again. If anything, it was a costly lesson, and I'm still very sorry for all the inconveniences caused. You can read about that dilemma here, Despite all this, and despite still being behind in the specific goals for 2018. We managed to achieve a lot in development during 2018. Unfortunately, sometimes we have to shift focus to more pressing matters and jump around to work on things that aren't what we initially planned for. But all I can say is that, what was planned to be released in 2018 is well under way. We started off the year by attempting (and deciding to keep) hiding player names by default, and only showing them when hovered on. We had a discussion with the community in late 2017 and most players were receptive of the idea as it promoted stealth, focus on player's avatars and recognizing people by their appearance instead of just a name. This was a great change and I love how much more immersive the game is from a simple tweak. We added Toad Mountain into the world and shortly after released the level 30 quest line for Toad village! We added Rogue Ninja titles, Glasses Shops, Utility Shop for Sand, Jutsu Limits by Level, we rebalanced Jutsu to use stat requirements, we added Slows, Snares and Silences and rebalanced the game around them, and made Youthful Spring Technique actually make you move faster and added sensory technique. We introduced Bounty Missions where you finish by claiming bounty rewards! Added Monks in both villages sell Blessings for ryo. We introduced messenger missions. We rebalanced stat scalings in June. We rebalanced chakra charging and then did the biggest rebalancing of jutsu and masteries since Open Beta launched in 2017. Besides expanding the world with Toad village, we also expanded it with Tanzaku Quarters, and all the maps leading up to it, like the Valley of the End map! We improved exploration by making sure all doors you see that are open, are enter-able. We improved the design of the Sand village by revamping a large number of buildings with unique exteriors so they stood out from others. Introduced the Event Prize Room. We added Kumoroi's Lair and the Level 20-30 Boss Fight. We expanded your character's depth by introducing the Fortune Teller. To make it easier to navigate the larger world, we added World Maps and village Maps to help people get a better sense of directions! We also filled villages with trash - literally. We expanded RP by added the special Military Police Forces, which added a new village dynamic by giving a group of players power to detain other ninja. We also introduced all the Sand village Chunin Exam facilities. We added sitting animations so players could sit on chairs and RP scenes like being in a meeting. We added features like 0.5s, 0.1s stuns instead of the minimum stuns being 1s in the past. Battle injuries became visible graphically for everyone, with scars appearing on your body. Additive/Subtractive graphics allowed for us to make day look more vibrant and fogs look more evil. We added global variables to our server, which then allowed us to create cool features like Village Scores, Boss Dungeons and in-game election polls. We added larger than 1 tile hitboxes for enemies so we could give bosses large bodies. We added the feature to allow us to play different music for different times of day, which made our villages feel more alive in the day and peaceful at night. We added NPC vs NPC combat which allowed us to create Summons and Summoning jutsu! We normalized audios for the game to give the game a more consistent audio level and made all maps 1080p ready! We added Zoom functionality for better compatibility with large monitor resolutions. Misc. features like Twinking, Inventory Slots Expansions, Eye Changers, Walking Sounds, Hotkey Bar going grey when you're unable to cast, Taijutsu Weapons, Slowed Run Casts, Shared Cooldowns for similar Jutsu, Barrier Tags. We fixed Rubberbanding! Made the client work with DirectX9! We fixed the worst server crash that was plaguing Nin Online ever. and finally, we ended off the year with a one time Christmas X Halloween mash up event! In total we added 100+ new items including cosmetics, 30+ Maps , 50+ NPCs. This is only a brief overview of some of the more interesting things introduced in 2018. We have hundreds of other bug fixes, changes and additions you can read about in our Patch Notes starting on page 12! I also excluded content that is unavailable to players as of today, even though they are added. To end this all, I just want to thank everyone for sticking with us through 2018, and for joining us in 2018. Welcome to Nin Online! Regards, Ueda

Fixed exploit at Hidden Lair Entrance. Removed Chakra Regeneration granted by Shirokata's scaling to by Chakra. This was a decision made by a rogue developer. Sorry for the inconvenience. Fixed Whirlwind Kick Technique being 2 tile range instead of 3 on Ranks I and II. Renamed "The Chosen One" Title to "Hero of the Toads" Earth Split Technique Ranking up reworked to match other jutsu. Earth Split Technique now stuns enemies by 2 seconds on all ranks. Earth Split Technique Chakra Cost reduced from 38 to 28 on all ranks. Earth Split Technique is now a run cast. Earth Split Technique damage changed from 30/40/50 to 32/34/34. Ravaging Earth Spike Technique no longer stuns targets by 1 second. Ravaging Earth Spike Technique damage increased from 30/32/34 to 40/40/44.