Hotta Studio's urban open-world gacha has pushed out its third major update. NTE: Neverness to Everness Version 1.3, "Rising from the Moonlit Fog," went live on August 19 after a five-hour maintenance window, and it is a bigger drop than the version number suggests: a new story chapter, two new S-Class characters across two banner phases, an entire coastal region bolted onto the city, and a set of quality-of-life fixes that players have been asking for since launch.
Duskmoor: the city gets a coastline
The headline addition is Duskmoor, a new region extending Hethereau outward into open natural scenery β including the Starfall Bay Resort and the open water of Tearlake. For a game whose identity is built on driving and everdriving through a dense modern city, a genuinely open stretch of coast and water is a meaningful change of texture rather than just extra square footage.
The story chapter that goes with it is Fogden Game, picking up the thread version 1.1 left dangling as Eibon and the ETD finally come face to face with the Scarlet Letter. Fogden itself is described as an ever-changing landscape β a space the Scarlet Letter has engineered to run a game of its own, which is a neat justification for a zone whose layout is allowed to rearrange itself between visits.
Zankou now, Linko in September
Version 1.3 splits its banners across two phases, and both new characters are limited S-Class.
Phase 1 (August 19 β September 9) runs Zankou alongside a rerun of Nanally. Zankou is an Incantation Gas DPS whose whole kit orbits the Eye of Delusion in her right eye: she flips between a Reality state that boosts her own damage and an Illusion state that stacks damage-over-time on whatever she's hitting. Pull her and you also get the Red Nightshade outfit she wears in the story quest, free.
Phase 2 (September 9 β September 30) brings Linko, an Anima Plasma support built around AoE quickswap β calling in companions for synced element-based strikes β with Hotori rerunning alongside her. Nanally's rerun is the one to watch if you missed her: she's an Anima Plasma DPS with follow-up attack and Esper Cycle reactions, and she can ignore gravity, which is as useful for exploring Duskmoor as it is in combat.
Free Annulith, and a lot of it
Perfect World Games is opening the version with a reasonable pile of compensation currency. There's Annulith x300 for the maintenance window and another Annulith x300 for bug fixes β 600 total, straight into your account β plus Praise Jam x56,000 for anyone at Hunter Level 11 or above, and a Circle Gifts login event on top.
That is not a full ten-pull's worth on its own, but combined with the version's event currency it meaningfully shortens the runway to Zankou for players who have been saving.
A summer of beach events
The event calendar leans hard into the Duskmoor coastline, and runs through September 30.
- Volley Star β a 2v2 beach volleyball tournament, which becomes a permanent mode rather than expiring with the patch
- Surf Breaker β surfing
- Shipwreck Salvage β jet-ski exploration for materials, opening August 28
- Hunter's Crucible β the combat event, paying out Fons, Annulith and upgrade materials
- Lucent Tides β the version's Mystery Box event, which is where the limited watercraft Tide comes from
- Runway Echos and Breezy Tour β a monster survival challenge and a bicycle event respectively
Beyond the Rails also graduates to a permanent fixture, refreshing three times over the course of 1.3. There are limited windows of double Stamina and doubled resource gains scattered through the version as well.
New toys for the garage
NTE's vehicle collection expands too. The Sirocco is buyable for Fons 4,000,000, and Stillmeadow House β a new property β runs Fons 6,900,000. The Tide watercraft is limited and comes out of the Lucent Tides Mystery Box rather than the shop.
The quality-of-life list
The smaller changes are the ones long-term players will actually notice day to day. Outfit Rotation picks randomly from your wardrobe. Daily Anomaly Furniture rewards get a Claim All button. Photo Mode now works while driving or swimming, which for a game this preoccupied with cars is an odd thing to have shipped without. And City Delivery finally supports Auto-Drive.
Version 1.3 runs until September 30, 2026, on iOS, Android, PC, Mac and PlayStation 5, with cross-progression across all of them.
