I know the game hasn't even been announced for NA or Europe (Currently only Korean and Russia with China & Japan planned next), but quiet a few people play with the English Patch in those regions regardless. Unfortunately there is still no news about a release in other regions, but this at least seems to indicate the game is still being fully supported and shouldn't be dying any time soon (Last I saw it was still in the Top 10 most played title in Korean caffes)
Overall some pretty nice additions and changes and personally am most interested in the removal of Genderlocked Classes and the UI rework. The various QOL changes, such as streamlining the myriad of currencies and adding more camera control, is also a nice touch.
Conference Live Stream (In Korean)
Translated breakdown
1. Guardian Raid Difficulty Changes – Addition of Challenge(Trial) and Nightmare difficulty levels.
2. Photo Mode – Free camera to use for Videos/Screenshots.
3. Leaderboard – Rankings for several contents in the game.
4. Battle Royale Island
5. Affinity System Update – After the current 'Faith' affinity phase there is now an 'Affection' phase.
6. Expedition Territory Island – Your personal island with housing and you can bring NPCs here that you have reached higher affinity levels with or even your other characters as NPCs. Comes with several new features and changes. Naval Expeditions with your NPCs. Affinity NPC Dressing Room
7. Genderlock Removal – Each gender will have a little variety to the same class. The Male Battlemaster and Female Devil Hunter were shown.
8. Life Skill and Naval Exploration(Sailing) revamp – Life skills are shared between characters now, Sailing becomes much more rewarding with new activities.
10. New Dungeon: Gates of Paradise – Deepsea dungeon and Guardian Raid Boss Arcadia
11. Quality of Life 'QoL' changes
They showed a list of changes planned that is categorized as 'convenience' updates.
12. LOST ARK Season 2 starts – More lore and the current Season 1 is considered as a prologue introduction to the Ark.
- Cross-server Group Finder
- Expedition Quests Shared
- More character hair styles
- Completed Quests list addition
- Calendar Island improvement
- Island Heart revamp
- Avatar presets
- Guide updates
13. Content Cleanup and Positioning Changes – Removal of useless currencies and better organized access.
14. Silmael's Battlefield (GvG) Improvement – Addition of Fortresses and Castle Sieges.
15. Island War – Different Occupation based Fight systems between Islands.
16. More Lore related changes – Continuation of the story about Cadan, one of the strongest story characters.
17. Class Mechanism Changes – For more enjoyable gameplay.
18. Trading Card Game(TCG) System Improvements – Combine Cards, Set Effects, etc.
19. UI Revamp – Completely new UI, you can see some examples on the screenshots above and below.
20. Two Completely New Classes which will be revealed at a later time
21. New Continent: Papunika
22. Region Leader Raids – More info later.