Lost Ark servers temporarily down: Time, maintenance schedule, and more

Smilegate will be releasing a number of hotfixes to the game today, therefore Lost Ark servers around the world will be temporarily unavailable. According to their most recent tweet, each region's servers will be blocked at 5:00 a.m. PT (1:00 p.m. GMT), and gamers will be unable to access the game for about four hours.

The hotfixes that will be put in today will aim to address a wide range of issues, including in-game chat, fixed quest dialogues, and more.

All fixes and changes coming to the Lost Ark February 12, 2022 hotfix

• Fixed area chat, which now will allow all players to talk to other players in a given area.
• Fusion Material rewards from the Welcome Challenge have been increased to better support player progression.
• Mari’s Secret Store will now display the regional server time instead of UTC.
• Fixed quest dialog UI to avoid text overlap on certain 4K resolutions.
• Player names will no longer be shown as “Unknown Player” in Voice Chat UI.
• The words “Royal Crystals” and “Crystalline Aura” are now displayed in non-English languages in the Steam overlay when finalizing a transaction.
• Fixed the title “Nightmare” which was displayed as blank.
• World bosses now drop the proper gear for the Martial Artist classes.
• Added an option for VoiceOver on the Character Selection screen.
• Sorceress audio now plays when playing in a non-English language.
• All classes now have audio when using voices 2, 3, or 4 in a non-English language.
• VO is now present in the “Stronghold Ceremony” quest cinematic.
• VO has been added for Kazeros in the “With Gratitude” quest cinematic.

Aside from the hotfixes, the Lost Ark developers have mentioned additional quality-of-life improvements that would be included in future updates. Switching to lower-population servers will eventually provide players access to more Founder's Packs, as well as more servers in North America West, North America East, Central Europe, and South America.