Test Server 2026.04.23

NARAKA: BLADEPOINT Test Server Update – 2026-04-23

Greetings, heroes,

First, thank you for your continued support of NARAKA: BLADEPOINT. You've been granted access to our Beta Server.

The following adjustments apply only during this test period and do not represent the final balance.

New Content

I. New Hero: Tara Gan Goes Live

She probes the deepest principles of the cosmos, weighing fates within a hair's breadth.

For half her life, Tara Gan has gazed at the stars and charted every ebb and flow of the tides — only to calculate the final ruin of all things.

Knowing that heaven and earth show no mercy, she steps onto the board herself, sworn to be the wildcard that contends against fate.

II. New Rift Traversal Chapter: River Runs Red — Relic Mysteries

A scion of royalty, born of celestial lineage, Stood against the storms to shield the Mainstay. Banished to rivers and seas, yet his resolve endures; For you he unravels relics, and recounts the rise and fall of ages.

Seller Sincere has received a letter from an old friend. Zhao Shiniao — a Song-dynasty noble of broad and deep learning — wishes to return a past kindness and is on his way to Camp to lend his aid. Pay this old friend a visit and have him help decipher the mysteries hidden within these relics.

River Runs Red: Relic Mysteries — the all-new chapter arrives soon!

1. New System — Relic Mysteries

  1. After completing the Season Quests A Letter from an Old Friend (故人来信, literal translation) and Audience with the Noble Heir (寻访宗英, literal translation), the new Travelling Merchant Zhao Shiniao will be unlocked in Camp. He helps players uncover the mysteries hidden deep within Song-dynasty relics.
  2. Uncovering the mystery of a Relic unlocks a corresponding exclusive ability for the player.
  3. Uncovering the core mystery of each Relic unlocks a Season-exclusive Combat Item.

There are three Season-exclusive Combat Items this season: Marvel·Breakthrough, Marvel·Stealth (奇物·潜行, literal translation), and Marvel·Yang Return.

  1. Marvel·Breakthrough: Unlocks a Sundial in the Innerworld. Once activated, interacting with it returns you to the Outerworld. Only usable in River Runs Red·Innerworld, and only within the first 15 minutes after the match starts.
  2. Marvel·Stealth (奇物·潜行, literal translation): Footsteps are silenced while moving. Under certain conditions, you can enter an Invisible state; breaking stealth greatly enhances your damage and Scale Rush effects.
  3. Marvel·Yang Return: When defeated, you immediately enter Rebirth, keeping 5 catties (斤) of Relics, with guaranteed retention of any Primary Weapon below Celestia quality and a chance to retain armor.

Seasonal Combat Items cannot be traded in the MARKET. After the season ends, Zhao Shiniao will depart and all related Epiphany progress and abilities will reset. Combat Items already obtained are still kept.

2. New System — Escort Codex

  1. The Escort Codex system unlocks at Prestige Level 20.
  2. Spend Void Coins to open the Qiantang Volume for various Traveler items, with a chance to win the weapon skin Spring Piercer!
  3. This Escort Codex also adds exclusive Extreme-grade Amulets and Extreme-grade Rubrics.
  4. The Void Coin cost to open the Escort Codex increases with each opening. Every Thursday at 4:00, the cost resets to its initial value.
  5. Each opening grants Score. Reaching specified Score thresholds guarantees Celestia equipment crafting materials and the Spring Piercer skin!
  6. When opening the Codex, you can add Relics to speed up unlocking the Spring Piercer skin.
  7. Opening the Codex has a chance to drop the Score item Poetic Ink·Sentiment (诗墨·写怀, literal translation). Each one used lights up one character of a poem on the interface; lighting all characters grants a large amount of Score, after which the poem progress resets.

3. New System — Alchemy Furnace

  1. Perilous Path and Doomed Path now feature Alchemy Furnace (炼丹炉, literal translation) gameplay. You can purchase Jade Sprigs (玉枝, literal translation) in advance — at the MARKET out-of-match or from the Rift Dealer in-match — and place them in the Alchemy Furnace, where they're forged into elixirs together with Herbs and Metal Ore Relics.
  2. In the Outerworld, the Alchemy Furnace is personal — invisible to others. Each match allows one Boost to advance its progress, and completion takes several matches; progress is saved across matches.
  3. In the Innerworld, the Alchemy Furnace is shared. A single match is enough to complete alchemy quickly, with higher-value output — but watch out, others can steal from it. Progress is not saved, so collect your goods before you Escape.
  4. Alchemy yields elixirs, which can be exchanged at Seller Sincere out-of-match for many precious items. Go try it!

4. New Rift Nemesis Mechanic

  1. Players who defeat you in a match, or steal your elixirs, can be marked as your Rift Nemesis.
  2. Holding a Nemesis' Letter, you can join the match a Rift Nemesis is currently in.
  3. When you and your Rift Nemesis are both in the Innerworld, a pursuit can be triggered, revealing the Rift Nemesis's location.
  4. Nemesis' Letters can be bought in Camp with Void Coins, or in the SHOP with Gold.
  5. Defeating a Rift Nemesis grants an extra Nemesis Golden Card, engraved with the time and place of the takedown.

5. New Collectibles

Six new Collectibles are added: Golden Secret Edict, Lin'an Strategic Map, Iron Charter, Banner of Loyalty, Demon-Subduing Vessel, and Umbrella of Fate. Each has its own Examine animation!

6. Traveler Loadout Optimization

  1. Streamlined the loadout flow — you can now modify your loadout preset and adjust your personal loadout from the same interface.
  2. Added a Top function to the loadout interface (when buying weapons and armor) and to the Etch Rubrics interface (when buying Rubrics). Pin frequently used items to the top and skip the tedious search.
  3. Updated the existing Recommended sets and now support adjusting some equipment within Recommended sets. Give them a try!

7. Pity Summary Display Optimization

The Crossover Collectible progress bar in the Lobby and Map interfaces will disappear after the event ends, but you can still search Lootable Containers to obtain those Collectibles, and you can click a button in the Lobby to view details for each Collectible.

III. The Morus Isle Adjustments

  1. New Land of Peace mechanic: A Gate of Peace appears after the first Shadow Corruption spread ends. Interacting with it lets you enter the Land of Peace for abundant supplies. Players inside the Land of Peace cannot be attacked by other players. Use a Ranged Weapon to strike the Chime Bell to restore your status, or use a Melee Weapon to strike the flower orbs to obtain Dark Tide Coins, which you can spend on the Land of Peace's exclusive supplies.
  2. New item from the Rift Dealer: Vermilion Bird Talisman — for a limited time, when eliminated, you can enter Rebirth while keeping some of your Souljades. (Cannot be triggered in special areas like Realm of Yang.)
  3. Several new types of Collect mechanisms have been added to the map; interact with them to get resources.
  4. New plant Vajra Fruit: restoring effects are enhanced after use, and it can stack up to three times.
  5. Removed the Yang Spirit Well mechanic.
  6. Limited rule active. Available heroes: Viper Ning, Feria Shen, Tianhai, Ziping Yin, Temulch, Tarka Ji, Kurumi Tsuchimikado, Yoto Hime, Valda Cui, Yueshan, Wuchen, Justina Gu, Takeda Nobutada, Matari, Akos Hu, Zai Ji, Tessa, Tara Gan.
  7. Higher-quality Stash drops have been added to The Morus Isle.
  8. The Time-Space Dealer (时空货郎, literal translation) is closed in The Morus Isle.

The above adjustments apply to Ranked Mode, Quick Match, and Bot Mode (人机模式, literal translation) on The Morus Isle map.

Hero Adjustments

I. Inor Wan

  1. After becoming Thunder Lord, the lock-on range of his Airborne Horizontal Strike is slightly reduced.

II. Zai Ji

  1. For the Ultimate-empowered Charged Attack moves Chain Dance (链舞, literal translation) and Chain Dance·Bind (链舞·拘, literal translation), the Focus during the attack is changed to Skill Gold-tier Focus.

III. Ziping Yin

  1. The extra Health restoration that Nature's Touch and Nature's Touch: Protect provide to teammates is changed from 300 to 200.

IV. Other Adjustments

  1. Changed the material color of Ultimate Focus from gold to pink, making Focus tiers easier to distinguish.

Out-of-Match Adjustments

I. Map Selection

  1. In Ranked Mode, The Morus Isle is now available to select for a limited time.

II. Like and Tip on the Photo Booth Profile

  1. Like and Tip features have been added to the Photo Booth Profile interface, along with a total likes counter.
  2. The original Profile layout also gains a Like feature and Like counter.

III. Photo Booth Update

  1. Optimized the cover display in "My Shots".
  2. Added 2 new Official Templates.

IV. Chat UI Polish

  1. Improved the appearance of the Chat Bubble.

V. Custom Mouse & Keyboard Buttons — New "Counter 2"

  1. Counter 2 functions identically to Counter 1, but can be bound to a different key.
  2. For new players, Counter 1 defaults to the side mouse button; Counter 2 defaults to the keyboard's G key.
  3. For players who have changed their keybinds, those bindings remain. Counter 2 defaults to empty. Only Counter is allowed to be saved as empty.

VI. New "Quick Use in Bag" Option

  1. Via Settings → Gameplay → Quick Use in Bag, you can now set whether skills, Ultimate, and Counter can be used while the bag interface is open.

Rift Traversal Adjustments

I. New Rift Traversal Equipment

1. Every move hides an edge, every stance leaves a trap! Whipsword joins the Rift Traversal battlefield.

New Celestia Whipsword: Wind Reversal

  • Charm: Winds Reversed — after charging, the Horizontal Strike and Vertical Strike moves are altered, and can be released in a loop.

New Legendary and Extreme Whipsword: Whipsword·Crusher

  • Mastery: Ground Crusher·Pursuit — the 2nd Stage of Charged Attack Horizontal Strike and its follow-up moves are altered. Landing the Horizontal Strike follow-up after a charged Horizontal Strike grants a 65% restoring effect. Landing the Vertical Strike follow-up applies Vulnerable, increasing strike damage taken by 5% for 5s, and disables Grappling Hook and Mole Hook.

New Legendary and Extreme Whipsword: Whipsword·Rend

  • Mastery: Bone Carver — after each Focus move lands, it tears open a wound that causes Health to drain, dealing 7 DMG to Health per second for 4 seconds.

Whipsword Rubrics:

  • Sin Cleaver: Alters Whipsword's crouching and sliding Horizontal Strikes.
  • Blazing Cyclone: Alters Whipsword's charged Vertical Strike moves.

Same-origin Martial Skill: Double-edged Weapons Congeneric joins the Rift Traversal battlefield.

2. New Dual Halberds

New Legendary and Extreme Dual Halberds: Dual Halberds·Engage

  • Mastery: Vulpine Sigil — Damage to Monsters increased by 10%. During the Charged Attack of Horizontal/Vertical Strike, and during the release of "Dragonlike Might", press Vertical/Horizontal Strike to enter the special movement Defuse Form (四象化, literal translation). During this, you can defuse one Monster attack; using Vertical Strike during the defuse animation unleashes Vulpine Sigil, and after a Charged Attack you can further unleash the special Vertical Strike combo Vermilion Coil.

3. New Combat Items

  • Legendary Brew [Aged Nuptial Wine]: For 300s after drinking, Skill Damage is increased by 33%. Triggering a Sharpshot Dodge or a Successful Counter refreshes 15% and 45% of Skill Cooldown respectively.
  • Legendary Brew [Nine-Twists Rejuvenation Nectar]: For 300s after drinking, Element Resistance is increased by 40%. When your Frostbite, Thundershock, or Toxin values are maxed out, you become immune to 1 element effect. This effect triggers once every 60 seconds, up to 2 times.
  • Legendary Brew [Cellar Green Plum Brew]: For 600s after drinking, when struck by stagger damage there's a 30% chance to trigger a green-aura shield that knocks back surrounding enemies and grants 3 seconds of Invisibility. Triggers once every 60 seconds, up to 2 times.

The Quality Brews [Wedding Wine], [Rejuvenation Nectar], and [Green Plum Brew] will no longer be produced.

II. Equipment Balance Adjustments

  • Celestia Armor [Frost Soul Armor]: When the armor breaks, the freezing aura radius is slightly increased, and Freeze duration is increased from 1.4s to 1.8s.
  • Legendary and Extreme Armor [Scale Armor·Frenzy]: Defeating enemies now also grants a 4.5% Attack bonus; the cap is unchanged.
  • Celestia Fistblades [Septus]: Vulnerable per stack from landing attacks is increased from 1.5% to 2%.
  • Celestia Staff [Thunder Grace]: The Divine Thunder created by a Counter now builds 25% more Thundershock on enemies.
  • Celestia Longsword [Frostchill]: The effect changes from "only triggers once every 8 seconds" to "triggers once every 4 seconds".
  • Celestia Cannon [Heavy Frost]: The cluster sub-munition damage left after the explosion is reduced by 33%.
  • Legendary Dagger [Dagger·Silence]: Silence duration is reduced from 4 seconds to 3 seconds.
  • Slightly reduces the stagger that the Yin-Yang Jade summoned by the Legendary Rubric [Yin Yang Convulsion] deals to airborne and downed enemies.
  • Slightly increases the strike range that knocks back surrounding enemies when the Legendary Brew [Sorrow-free Dew] effect triggers.
  • When a weapon's durability hits 0, its Attack reduction is changed from "down to 50%" to "down to 30%".
  • When a weapon's or armor's durability hits 0, the effect of its etched numerical-bonus Rubrics (Attack, Health, Damage Reduction, Pierced Sun, Shadow Slash, etc.) is halved.

Currently, daggers and cannons paired with their Rubrics and Forge effects feel too well-rounded once built, with overtuned performance. This adjustment is a slight nerf. At the same time, zero-durability Celestia equipment — by virtue of having no usage cost combined with a finalized build — has been creating fairly negative experiences for opponents in combat. This adjustment reins that in. We'll keep watching the overall combat environment and adjust as needed, so that more distinctive Schools can shine.

III. Other

  1. Removed the spawn point at the Ghost Market (鬼市, literal translation) in River Runs Red.
  2. Adjusted the route of [Prison Break].
  3. The Prison Break Escape point — previously canceled 150 seconds after being successfully opened (and only players who had completed [Prison Break] could Escape there) — has had that restriction removed, and now functions as an unconditional Escape point.
  4. Enemies imbued with Sinister Aura (煞气, literal translation) have been added to the map; defeating them has a chance to grant higher-value drops.
  5. New Key spawn points added to [River Runs Red] Innerworld.
  6. [River Runs Red] Outerworld adds the new Cave [No.1 Royal Suite·Outer]. Visit the Rift Dealer to purchase the [Qiantang No.1 Royal Suite Key·Outer] and use it to open the Cave. The Key cannot be carried out of the match.
  7. The Mechanism Hall in [River Runs Red] has been adjusted: after solving the puzzle to open it, an appropriate mechanism start-up time is now added before you can enter the corresponding underground floor.
  8. Sealed Chests (密匣, literal translation) on the map gain a new button-input unlock method — press the interact key at the right moment to speed up the chest's unlocking progress.

IV. Hero Adjustments

  1. Slightly reduces the Bind duration and the pull-back distance on a successful grab from Zenda Wu's skill Winged Assault: Summon.

Showdown Adjustments

I. In-Match

  1. A new cutscene plays at the end of the Culmination stage on Hard and Nightscream difficulty: all things fall to ruin, and the Mask of Immortality changes hands. Before Wuchen leaves with the mask, he reveals a stunning secret — Chaos has come. Who shall break it?

Bug Fixes

I. Hero-Related Bugs

  1. Fixed an issue where Cyra, while in her Ultimate state, could occasionally evade Viper Ning's Ultimate stun effect when dodging close to a wall.

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