Shanda Games announced that the simplified Chinese version of "Love Live! Academy Idol Festival" will be launched soon. This update marks the official debut of Aqours. Aqours, a brand new academy idol group, swept the Japanese version on July 5, 2016, making countless Japanese fans happy and topped the Japanese domestic game list.

LoveLive! Academy Idol Festival 30 million players around the world! Brand new school idol group, charming game features, exciting new content

Aqours, a brand new school idol group, officially joined the game

Most fans of "Love Live! Academy Idol Festival" are no strangers to Aqours. Players can already experience the group's songs and redeemed member stickers. The new version update marks the official debut of Aqours, and also brings a lot of new content, such as the brand new recruitment of top students and the main plot of Aqours.

Unlocking the main plot of Aqours has nothing to do with the level, so that both old and new players can access the latest content. All stories, in-game lines, and voice are done by Aqours members themselves.

LoveLive! Choose your idol group at the Academy Idol Festival! Switch arbitrarily between μ's and Aqours

A new feature has been added to LIVE, plot and recruitment, and players can switch between μ's and Aqours modes. Players will get higher scores if they use μ's member challenge songs in μ's mode. On the contrary, players will get higher scores if they use Aqours member challenge songs in Aqours mode.

It has nothing to do with the level, and completing the topic can unlock Aqours songs.

The most precious one, the new SSR rarity

SSR is a brand-new excellent student rarity, located between SR and UR. The additional adjustments increase the chances of SR members.

Love Live! New ssr is added at the Academy Idol Festival

Skill Level Update

After this version update, when players practice members, they will gain skill level experience when practicing members with the same skills or practicing support members. When the experience is accumulated to a certain amount, the skill level will be improved. It has nothing to do with rarity, and any member can practice supportive members.

* When supporting members practice, the two members must be of the same type.

** Skill level experience is not affected by Super Success and Ultra Success effects.

Captain Skills

When using all members of a group, grade, or team, brand new URLCaptain's skills will achieve maximum effect. The purpose of this function is to help players upgrade to the next level, and the URs that have been launched will also give the captain skills.

Love Live! Academy Idol Ceremony Captain Skills

New partners and favorite pt

Players can now choose their favorite members to form partners. The partner will serve as a guide on the HOME page and other major pages. When the player checks other player information, he can see the captain of the player's home team.

This update also includes love pt. Players can use these special points to view the members they use most frequently. The bond system has been imported into the game, and you can get the favorite pt by adding members to the team or choosing them as partners.

Love Live! Select your favorite portrait at the Academy Idol Festival

Players can now switch between unawakened and awakened drawings to make the game experience more personalized.

Love Live! A richer and more comprehensive member list of the Academy Idol Festival

The maximum number of members at the initial stage of the game increased from 90 to 120. To this end, the game deleted the issue that requires players to upgrade to obtain the maximum number of members.

* Players who have obtained an additional cap by completing the project task will no longer add additional caps.

** In the future, the rewards for increasing the upper limit of the members will be replaced with 1 loveca. We will issue compensation to players who have completed the above tasks during the update. In addition, the maximum upper limit of the members has now been increased to 1,000, and the upper limit of the members for each loveca will be increased from 3 to 4

*** Support members (alpacas, teachers, etc.) will be integrated into a special page and will no longer be counted as the number of members.

*** Support members with skill level above 1 will be exchanged for the same number of support members with skill level level 1. After the update, the filtering function has been imported, which can more conveniently manage members.

Love Live! New reward box and Academy Idol Skills

After completing LIVE, the reward box will appear. Each time you complete LIVE, the bonus box slot will be increased. After the accumulation is full, a special box will be opened to reward players with Academy Idol skills and other props. The reward box has different levels. The chances of appearing precious items in high-level boxes are also high, but players need to achieve higher scores.

Academic Idol Skills are a skill used to enhance members in the game. These skills can be obtained from the bonus box, which needs to be obtained in LIVE. There are 4 types of school idol skills. Strong skills require multiple card slots to enhance members' abilities.

Love Live! Academy Idol Festival Special Training (Awakening)

As of now, players need at least 2 identical members to conduct special training (awakening). Now players canUse stickers to accomplish this task. Players can also increase the number of card slots for school idol skills.

* The number of stickers obtained when practicing or dismissing awakening members is now adjusted from 2 to 1.

Special training for the same members

Unlike card awakening, members will also receive additional school idol skills card slots.

* Awakened members will receive additional Academic Idol Skills.

Special training with stickers

Members can use stickers to awaken. The number of stickers required varies according to the rarity of the member.

Awakening members conduct special training

Awakening members can also use special training to increase skill card slots. When using special training with the same members, awakened members will receive 2 card slots. There is only one card slot when using stickers.

Rarity Initial Skill Slot Maximum Skill Slot

N 0 1

R 1 2

SR 2 4

SSR 3 6

UR 4 8

Special R 1 1

Special SR 1 1

Special UR 2 2

The above shows the initial skill slot number and the maximum skill slot number for each rarity

* SSR has been appended in the update.

** The number of skill slots will be used as a reward, login reward, and sticker store exclusively according to the member.

Add to add expert difficulty, master difficulty is available

As of now, expert difficulty is limited to special songs. After this update, the expert difficulty will be the general optional difficulty. After unlocking a new song, players can challenge expert difficulty.

The difficulty of masters has also been added after the update. This difficulty exceeds the expert difficulty and will appear as the most challenging difficulty in the game. Master difficulty is only available in 4 songs per month. This difficulty is intended to add more in-depth challenge fun to core users.

Love Live! Academy Idol Festival Song

* The song topic has not changed.

** Expert songs no longer appear in special songs.

*** Master difficulty will be logged into μ's song first, and there are plans to expand the Master difficulty series in the future.

Random Selection

Random selection will automatically select songs for the player from unlocked songs. This function can be turned on after unlocking some specific hot songs. Random selection will appear in special songs, switches in Smile, Pure and Cool every day.

μ's and Aqours modes can use this function, and there are 4 difficulties: simple, ordinary, difficult and expert. Additionally, randomly selected songs accumulate bonus box slots faster.

Challenge Festival – First round

Event duration: It will be opened soon

Love Live! Academy Idol Festival

The event will challenge players to complete 5 songs at a time to redeem precious rewards. The difficulty of the song will increase one by one. Players can give up with a reward after completing a song. But players can also continue to challenge for more rewards. For every song completed in the event, the player's rewards will be richer.

Players who complete the activity requirements will receive one SR Mahime Nishikino (Easter), one R Satoko Fukayama (Teacher) and other rewards.

Love Live! Academy Idol Festival Recruitment