Dear Sword Art Online fans,

Thank you for playing SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Lycoris.

The latest patch “Ver 1.30” has been released to fix major / minor bugs and improve overall gameplay. Please see below for details.

New Additional Contents

✔️ Added free additional story update part #2 “Ancient Apostles: The Knight of Contradictions”

• New Tiese reward costume & Finish Arts
• Newly added boss

*This quest can be accepted after completing “Ancient Apostles: The Reaper of the Woods”
*If the “Ancient Apostles: The Knight of Contradictions” does not start even if the “Ancient Apostles: The Reaper of the Woods” is complete, please try below.

• If Cardinal is set as one of the party members, please remove her from the party.
• If the player is in a dungeon, a village or a town, such as the Southern Corridor and Rulid village, please exit from the dungeon, village or town

Online Multiplayer

✔️ Fixed several issues that occur when the connection is lost with the host

System

✔️ The days of the week in which the player can challenge the Mutated Beast Quest have been adjusted as follows:

• Monday: Norlangarth Empire
• Tuesday: Sothercrois Empire
• Wednesday: Wesdarath Empire
• Thursday: Eastavarieth Empire
• Friday: Norlangarth Empire and Sothercrois Empire
• Saturday: Wesdarath Empire and Eastavarieth Empire
• Sunday: All empires

✔️ Added LV150 to the Mutated Beast Quest
✔️ Fixed the issue where players are unable to proceed during the "Massive Bird" quest if the quest “Back to Rest” is accepted at the same time
✔️ Increased the default proficiency to 150 for all weapon types when starting a new game
*Only applied to main characters and default Wayfarers
*The weapon proficiency will be increased to 150 even when selecting Continue with a save data with a weapon proficiency under 150
*The weapon proficiency will not change when selecting Continue with a save data with a weapon proficiency over 150
*No change will be applied for the sword skill proficiency
✔️ Increased the chance of upgrading the weapon proficiency
✔️ Changed the color of the shop clerks’ icon, name, and calling to make it easier to distinguish from general NPCs
✔️ Unlocked Raid quests that are incomplete will now be shown in the results when searched from “Search by Quest”
✔️ Added a “Custom” icon to customized equipment
✔️ Fixed the issue where the details of a different arts code would be displayed on certain occasions
✔️ Fixed the issue where certain menu screens were unable to scroll using mouse and keyboard
✔️ Fixed the issue where text cannot be entered in full screen mode

Battle

✔️ The max level of the raid quest “Reaper Reborn” has been increased from 100 to 125
✔️ Increased the level cap of the playable characters from 70 to 80
*The level cap will be upgradable after updating the game to Ver1.30
*The limit of the SYSTEM CONTROL AUTHORITY will stay at 50
✔️ Increased the level of weapons from 10 to 15
*In order to level up to LV15, player must complete Mutated Beast Quest LV150 and obtain the required resources

✔️ The button indications for Blade lock will now stay in a fixed position of the screen
✔️ Players can now take an emergency dodge when launched into the air by an enemies’ attack using SP
*The amount of SP used will differ depending on the situation
*This move is different from the battle skill “emergency dodge”
✔️ Increased the damage of the normal attack driven by the weapon types and characters listed below
Weapons: One-Handed Sword, Rapier, Dagger, Mace, Whip, Katana, Two-Handed Sword, Bow, Dual-wielding
Characters: Eugeo, Alice, Renly
✔️ Decreased the HP of certain enemies

Others

✔️ Fixed other minor bugs and issues

Updates

✔️ Ancient Apostles #3 will be part of the upcoming update, so please stay tuned for more information!

Thank you again for your continued support, patience, and feedback.