Awaken: Chaos Era, the turn-based RPG that was released in the early days of the current year 2022 is almost on its way to completing its half-year anniversary. The game had been in an open beta state for over  1 year the last year and was released with so much content and heroes that it overwhelmed the new players during the global launch. The game is pretty stable now, with over 2 million downloads combined on both the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. With such an enormous following, the game’s developers have stated that they will work on new heroes to introduce new mechanics and make the game more exciting and competitive.

The new update for Awaken: Chaos Era can be seen already live in-game as it was implemented on 20th July 2022. The update majorly brought more new heroes along with it to diversify the hero pool in the game. As usual, one special hero is going to be available to be summoned via a rate-up banner for a specific duration of time. The 3 new heroes – Rick, Agustin, and Hazel are being added to the roster of summonable heroes in Awaken: Chaos Era. Apart from the release of new heroes, some specific optimizations to different areas of the game and general bug fixes can also be seen. For more details, players can take a look at the official patch notes posted on the game’s official website.

Rick – New Wood Elemental Unit

Rick is a Legendary rarity Wood elemental unit from the Titan Icelands Faction. Rick has a very high base Attack of 1512 and a low base Defense of 562. Rick has one of the highest base Attacks in the game and his ignore defense capabilities are nothing to be laughed about. He excels at dealing single targeted damage and can obliterate entire teams if he can stay alive for a few turns. He needs to be paired with high durability and support heroes to keep him alive. Players can build Rick with Attack%, Critical Hit Rate%/Attack%, and Attack%/Critical Hit Damage% as main stats. We recommend using the Cursed/Assassin/Divine set of gears and emphasizing Attack%, Critical Hit Rate%, Critical Hit Damage%, Focus, and Speed as sub-stats. 

Take a look at Rick’s abilities in detail:

Marked Man (Trait)

Grants Stealth for 1 turns at the start of each round. +50% Crit. Resistance while Stealth.

Ascension Effects:

Grants Stealth for 1 turns at the start of each round. +100% Crit. Resistance while Stealth.

Stealth: This character cannot be targeted by an enemy and takes 30% reduced area splash damage in the Arena. The effect is removed when attacked.
[Unremovable] 

Vigilante (ATK)

Deals 100% damage (+30% if marked) to an enemy and applies Defense Down for 2 turn(s).

Level 2: Damage +10%.

Level 3: Damage +10%.

Defense Down: -30% Defense.

Mark of Doom: The marker counterattacks against any use of the target’s ability. [Unique Effect]

Doom Assassin (Passive)

This character counterattacks against the use of an ability by any enemy affected by Mark of Doom while in a Stealth state, dealing 100% damage while ignoring Defense Up, Damage Reduction or Shield effects on the target.

Level 2: Damage +10%.

Level 3: Damage +10%.

Level 4: Damage +10%.

Shadowmaster (ATK) 

Boosts Accuracy. Deals 150% damage to an enemy, ignores 30% of target Defense and inflicts Mark of Doom. The defeat of any enemy affected by Mark of Doom refreshes this character’s ultimate.

Level 2: Damage +10%.

Level 3: Ability cooldown is reduced by 1 turn(s).

Level 4: Damage +10%.

Level 5: Ability cooldown is reduced by 1 turn(s).

Agustin – New Dark Elemental Unit

Agustin is an Epic rarity Dark elemental unit from the Soulplunders Faction. Agustin has a medium base Attack of 1208 and a low base Defense of 498. Agustin has a very high base HP of 4766 and a very low base speed of 101. Agustin’s usability as one of the top-tier damage dealers is possible due to his amazing sustainability. To counter Agustin, players need to use high critical hit heroes to not let Agustin counterattack. Agustin can work well against heavy Light elemental teams. Players can build Agustin with Attack%, Critical Hit Rate%/Attack% and Attack%/Critical Hit Damage% as main stats. We recommend using the Revival/Assassin/Guard set of gears and emphasizing Attack%, Critical Hit Rate%, Critical Hit Damage%, HP%, and Focus as sub-stats. 

Take a look at Agustin’s abilities in detail:

Loyalist (Trait)

Counterattacks with this character’s ultimate upon taking non-critical damage. Cooldown: 1 round.

Ascension Effects:

Counterattacks with this character’s ultimate upon taking non-critical damage. Cooldown: 1 round. Reduces Crit. Damage is taken by 30%.

Shadow Slice (ATK)

Deals 100% damage to one enemy and applies Unhealable for 2 turn(s).

Level 2: Damage +10%.

Level 3: Damage +10%.

Level 4: Damage +10%.

Unhealable: Received healing effects are reduced by 100% (excludes Life Steal).

Eternal Twilight (ATK)

Attacks deal +40% damage to Light targets and 50% splash damage to other enemies.

Level 2: +5% damage, +5% splash damage.

Level 3: +5% damage, +5% splash damage.

Level 4: +10% damage, +10% splash damage.

Hunters Blade (ATK) (Ultimate)

Deals 180% damage to an enemy, removes a positive effect from the target, restores Health equal to 50% of damage dealt, and grants a 15% Defense Pierce effect (max 3 stacks).

Level 2: Damage +20%.

Level 3: Ability cooldown is reduced by 1 turn(s).

Level 4: Damage +20%.

Hazel – New Water Elemental Unit

Hazel is an Epic rarity Water elemental unit from the Holy Light Empire Faction. Hazel has a high base HP of 5784 and a medium base Defense of 548. Hazel is a great healer-type hero that heals allies based on her own MAX HP. Hence, she needs to be built extremely bulky to provide more healing to allies. Players can build Hazel with Speed/HP%/Defense%, HP%/Defense%, and HP%/Defense% as main stats. We recommend using Terra/Vanguard/Revival set of gears and emphasizing HP%, Defense%, Focus, and Speed as sub-stats. 

Take a look at Hazel’s abilities in detail:

Dark Blessing (Trait)

Deals 100% damage to all enemies upon 4 consecutive team attacks to one enemy within the current round, inflicting Speed Down to the target for 2 turn(s). Applies Stun to the main target for 1 turn(s) with a 60% chance to inflict Stun on other enemies for 1 turn(s). Cooldown: 3 round(s).


Ascension Effects:

Deals 100% damage to all enemies upon 4 consecutive team attacks to one enemy within the current round, inflicting Speed Down to the target for 2 turn(s). Applies Stun to the main target for 1 turn(s) with a 60% chance to inflict Stun on other enemies for 1 turn(s). Cooldown: 2 round(s).

Speed Down: -30 Speed.

Stun: Unable to act. [Control Effect]

Dark Orb (ATK)

Deals 100% damage to an enemy and heals whichever ally has the least Health. Healing scales with this character’s Max Health.

Level 2: Damage +10%.

Level 3: Damage +10%.

Level 4: Damage +10%.

Swift Recompense (ATK)

Heals a team member and removes all negative effects from them. Healing scales with this character’s Max Health.

Level 2: Healing boost.

Level 3: Healing boost.

Level 4: Ability cooldown is reduced by 1 turn(s).

Wings of Fury (ATK) (Ultimate)

Heals a team member based on the amount of this character’s Max Health. Applies Max Health Up to the target for 2 turn(s).

Level 2: Ability cooldown is reduced by 1 turn(s).

Level 3: Healing boost.

Level 4: Ability cooldown is reduced by 1 turn(s).

Max Health Up: +20% Max Health.

General Optimizations 

Some general optimizations coming to the different systems of the game:

• Added a new function where players can swap squads in the Team Arena during the squad selection phase.
• In the squad selection phase, players will be prompted if the selected hero is not wearing his full gear set.
• Optimized the UI (User Interface) of the Chat system.
• Added a gear set icon on the Custom Gear Pack.
• In the Forge, players will now get reduced red dot notice to avoid inconvenience.
• The attack bonus provided by the Frenzy effect is increased from 10% to 20% in the Sky Arena game mode.

Bug Fixes

Some bug fixes to keep the game smooth:

• [Battle] Fixed a bug where Edicris’ Refracting Prism could crash the battle.
• [Battle] Fixed a bug where Flarence’s ability may cause only 1 damage dealt.
• [Sky Duel] Fixed a bug where viewing the results would crash the interface.
• [Sky Duel] Fixed a bug of failing to sync to the latest round after reconnecting in battles.

Players can enjoy Awaken: Chaos Era on the bigger screen of their PC with BlueStacks using a keyboard and mouse.