Over the past few months, we've been sharing FIST OF THE NORTH STAR: LEGENDS ReVIVE. updates through videos and live streams.

To communicate with all Revivers more nimbly, we will also be issuing updates in the form of these Director's Letters going forward.

Regarding the newly introduced LR rarity that debuted recently, we have received a great deal of feedback and opinions. Thank you very much.

In this first installment, we will share our improvement plans for LR based on your comments, along with information on a new fighter coming soon.

We will also provide an update on the Alliance Battle latency improvements we mentioned the other day.

We have received a great deal of feedback regarding LR, and the entire operations team takes it very seriously.

In this update, we would like to share our improvement policies for two of the most frequently raised points.

It's hard to understand battle performance after a rarity upgrade.

In response to this feedback, we have posted a notice introducing the battle performance of LR Fighters. It summarizes detailed specs and the differences, so please take a look.

We've compiled the detailed specs and differences, so please be sure to check them out.

We have also begun internal discussions on a medium- to long-term improvement plan to make it easier to check performance within the app.

Implementation will take some time. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience until these improvements are in place.

The use cases for LR and UR Fighter Shards are hard to understand.

As a measure we can implement promptly, in the update scheduled for 10/16, we will add a cautionary note to the UR Fighter shard conversion popup stating that "UR Fighter Fragments cannot be used for LR Seven Stars Unlock.

Furthermore, in the mid-November update, we will improve the Seven Stars Unlock screen so that shard conversion will only allow converting into shards corresponding to the fighter's current rarity.

We are also reviewing other feedback and requests you have submitted.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused regarding LR.

We take your comments seriously and the operations team will work to address and improve each point step by step.

Next up is the new fighter segment.

Here is the new fighter arriving from 10/16!

"Yuria, Star of the Young Benevolent Mother" will newly appear as a UR Support Charcter.

As of now, Support Characters are planned to be released as UR.

We reached this decision after considering various factors, including their impact on battles and how they are obtained.

That said, we believe the appeal of LR Fighters lies not only in battle performance but also in how they internally confront their "Fate."

We will continue to explore ways to deliver that kind of appeal for Support Character to all Revivers.

Now, let us introduce the distinctive battle performance of "Yuria, Star of the Young Benevolent Mother."

Life Link is a new effect that allows the damage an allied fighter would normally take to be shared among all allies who have Life Link.

"Young Compassionate Mother Star Yuria" grants Life Link to allies and restores their HP through various means, thereby enhancing the team's overall survivability.

"Yuria, Star of the Young Benevolent Mother" permanently increases allies' damage dealt and reduces damage taken.

Moreover, the magnitudes of these effects scale based on each fighter's current HP.

When a fighter's remaining HP ratio is high, offensive performance is greatly enhanced; when it's low, defensive performance is significantly strengthened--providing precise, situation-aware support in battle.

Please check the detailed performance in-game at a later date.

Next, an update on the latency improvements.

We have completed preparations for the previously announced "Aliance Battle latency improvements."

We will implement an improvement in the October 16 update that shortens the loading time when navigating to the Aliance Battle TOP screen. Please note that loading time will still depend on factors such as your network environment and device performance, so try it out in the next Union Battle to see the difference.

We will continue working on other behavioral improvements as well.

Updates on our progress will be shared in future Director's Letters and other announcements.

That's all for this Director's Letter. In future letters, we plan to gradually share our policies and ideas for battle adjustments, as well as outlines of planned app improvements, and we are preparing accordingly.

We will also provide updates in future letters on efforts to speed up announcements of issues and to reduce the number of defects.

The next Director's Letter is scheduled to be published in mid-November.

Our entire team is working to bring you content that all Revivers can enjoy even more, so please look forward to it!

Thank you for playing FIST OF THE NORTH STAR: LEGENDS ReVIVE.