Naruto Arena

Hi all!

It's amazing to see over 6000 members online on this saturday. This really is a the best way to stay motivated for the staff, to continue create more characters and updates.

Over the past weeks we have been working on an update. This update has three goals. The reducement of bugs, making the game more clear to the players and add more possibilities for new skills.

The update has for example some improvement to Kakashi's Jutsu Immitation. Images, and skill descriptions will now change when you copy a skill. Although most characters will not change, some core things of the game will be changed slightly.

All characters are being re-checked for bugs, false descriptions and classes are slightly reworked. There will also be a new standard of how descriptions and durations of effects are brought towards the players.

As soon as the update is there we will reset the bugs and glitches section on the forums, and closely monitor that for the upcoming time.

We expect to release this update somewhere during the next week, hopefully tuesday. Just before the release, the site will be down for a few hours. For now have a nice gaming night!

Till then,

Gametester

The next batch of characters from Shippuuden are here! Say hello to Yamato, Four Tails, and Orochimaru (S).  All three require you to finish their respective missions to be used.

Yamato (S) is a member of ANBU whose real name is unknown. Given the code name Yamato by Tsunade for this mission, he is tasked to lead Team 7 while Kakashi recovers.

 

Orochimaru returns, strong as ever and with some new tricks up his sleeve. But his body seems to be on borrowed time.

 

Naruto, after giving into his rage and manifesting a fourth tail ceases to be himself. In this state Naruto becomes a mindless being of rage and destruction but the price is his own life.

 

OK. Balance Change 11/16/08:
Nerfs: Kin
Boosts: Zabuza, Shigure, Yoroi

Luapman

12/07/08 Server glitch found & fixed
It appeared that lately there were some server issues where stats wouldn't update. The cause of this bug was found and i'm happy to say its fixed. The servers will probably run smoother and the so called "undefined"-stats bug should be gone. GL, gametester.

11/07/08 Balance Changes:
Boosts: Yoroi, Shigure, and Zabuza (minor corrections to slight over-nerfs)

Luapman

Basically this is a scale back of power-creep on some characters. There are significantly more characters in the 49-47% range of wins than the 52-55% range. As such, minor nerfs to these higher characters is much more in order than minor boosts to a field of characters over twice as large.

Characters with 52% or higher win rates that were nerfed:
Nidaime, Jiraiya, Yoroi, Gai, Itachi Body Double, Kurenai, Kakashi, Zabuza, Tsunade, Shigure, Kiba, Shizune.


Luapman

10/26/08 Balance Update:
Rework: Kabuto (due to an unresolvable glitch)
Boosts: Shigure, Kisame Body Double, Sai
Luapman

10/22/08 Balance Update:
Nerfs: Kazekage Gaara
Boosts: Kabuto, Sasori
Luapman

Get it? It ryhmes!

Anyways, without further ado I present the next two Shippuuden characters here at Naruto-Arena.

Kazekage Gaara:
After a few sort years and much soul-searching, Gaara has risen to be his village's Kazekage. Rather than destroying others he now protects those he cares about to prove his existence.



Sai:
A current member of the elite ANBU Root, Sai is an unparalleled artist who uses chakra to bring his images to life.




Also Kabuto has seen a major change to both Mystical Palm Technique and Secret Healing Wound Destruction. Be sure to check out his skills.

Luapman

10/13/08 Balance Changes:
Boosts: Kabuto
Luapman

10/11/08 Balance Changes:
Reworks: Yoroi, Kabuto
Luapman

10/5/08 Balance Changes:
Boosts: Kisame Body Double, Kin
Luapman

10/4/08 Balance Changes:
Nerfs: Kankuro, Kidoumaru
Luapman

10/3/08 Balance Changes:
Nerfs: Kabuto, Orochimaru
Luapman

9/24/08 Mission Changes:
The search for Sakon
The search for Tayuya
The Sound amongst the Leaves
A genius of ranged combat
(If you run into a bug, just win an other battle with the mission requiremnts. This should fix it.)
Mark

9/20/08 Balance Change:
Boosts: Neji (S)
Nerfs: Sasori
Luapman

The chakra exchange system is released!
Give your opinion and vote in this topic.

Hi players,

Here are the votes for the chakra system proposals:
Proposal A (3 of a kind for 1 specific) (473) (30%)
Proposal B (5 random for 1 specific) (856) (55%)
None of both! (239) (15%)

Since we do don't think we will have any major balance issues because of the change we are going to test it the coming day(s) on all game types (private, quick and ladder). We will implement the system in the next hour. If you are currently playing it is wise to check the news after every match. If this newspost says its released you have to refresh your game in order to see the chakra exchange option.

We will soon make a topic where you can vote if you like the change or not.
Furthermore a minor change in the engine has changed a problem with Tree Bind Death. The skill now works whenever a character uses a skill (instead of when a skill would be successffull).

Good luck!