Story update “Ancient Apostles: The Reaper of the Woods" - now available

Dear Sword Art Online fans,

Thank you for playing SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Lycoris.

The latest patch “Ver1.20” 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 #1 “Ancient Apostles: The Reaper of the Woods”
*This quest can be accepted after completing the main guest
*If the “Ancient Apostles: The Reaper of the Woods” does not start even if the main quest 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

- Added “Mutated Beast” Quests
*This quest can be accepted after completing the “Ancient Apostles: The Reaper of the Woods”. Interacting with the monument allows the player to accept Raid Dungeon quests, located in North Centoria

UI

- Fixed the marker of the main quest temporarily disappearing during quests
- Fixed the location of the Calamity Plants not immediately reflected on the mini-map when the main quest "The Three Keys" is in progress

Online Multiplayer

- Fixed the “Super Arts” and the “STUN gauge” not synchronizing properly during multiplayer mode
- Fixed the issue where unplugging the LAN cable while in the main menu may cause the player to be unable to proceed
- Fixed the battle unintentionally resetting on certain occasions during multiplayer mode

System

- Fixed the effect of the personal arts code "Sturdy Body" not properly reflected on the status screen
- Fixed certain enemies not spawning while using the Anima “Cautious”
- Fixed the issue where the accuracy rate for enemies above Lv100 was applied to enemies below Lv100
- Fixed Tiese’s sub episode being unable to proceed on certain occasions

Battle

- Increased the level cap of the playable characters from 50 to 70
*The level cap will be upgradable after completing “Ancient Apostles: The Reaper of the Woods”
- Increased the level of weapons from 5 to 10
- Changed the upper limit of the damage count from "999,999" to "99,999,999"
- Fixed the descriptions of the battle skills, passive skills and add-ons listed below not matching the actual buff/debuff effects
Battle skills: Warrior of the Gods+, Echoes of Madness+
Passive skills: Rain Incarnation, Guardian's Stigmata, Mythic of Lurking, Mythic of Carnage, Blade Incarnation, Mythic of Ascension, Bloodblossom Stigmata, Binary Star Sword God
Add-on: Sage's Stigmata
- Fixed the Battle skill “Liberation+” and “Falcon Fist+” not properly activating on certain occasions

Others

- Fixed other minor bugs and issues

Updates:

Details of Ancient Apostles: The Reaper of the Woods

- Kirito and Sinon must explore the haunted woods
- Defeat the Boss named Fatal Scythe to obtain a new costume and weapon for Sinon
- Reaper of the Woods visual

Other additional contents

- Mutated Beast Quests – By defeating the boss, you will obtain items to upgrade your equipment.
- Level cap increase from 50 to 70

Upcoming updates

- Ancient Apostles: The Knights of Contradictions story – Tiese receives a letter from her uncle. In the letter, he shares information that will help the human army. Thus, the group sets out to see him.
- Tiese 3D visual
- SAOAL Update Milestone
- CUBE VOL.2 – Vol. 2 coming in patch Ver.1.20!
- Daily quest, game balance adjustment, level cap increase
- Ancient Apostles series – New story will be added every 1-1.5 months
- Mutated Beast Quests – A quest where you can obtain items to upgrade your equipment. The harder the quest, the higher the chance of obtaining upgrade items.
- SAO Game series original playable heroines – planned to be added before the release of DLC #1. Stay tuned for more info!

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