NTE 1.4 is dated on both servers: CN 24 September, global 30 September
Neverness to Everness 1.4 releases on
30 September 2026
The exact unlock time has not been announced. The countdown above runs to midnight where you are, which is the earliest the date can start for you — not a confirmed unlock moment. We update this page as soon as the publisher or the store page states a time.
Both servers are dated. CN: the official 异环 account's recap of the 16 September preview stream says 1.4「祷歌为谁而诵」opens after maintenance on 24 September. Global: publisher Perfect World Games and developer Hotta Studio announced 30 September, as reported by Gematsu on 16 September — the same outlet whose 1.3 report carried the global 19 August date. No unlock hour has been announced for global, so the countdown runs to local midnight and the time stays marked unconfirmed. Every version so far has run maintenance 06:00–11:00 (UTC+8); that is a pattern, not an announcement.
| Release date | 2026-09-30 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Hotta Studio |
| Publisher | Perfect World |
| Platforms | PC · PlayStation 5 · iOS / Android |
| Preload | Not announced |
| Early access | None advertised |
Updated 28 September: global is dated too — 30 September. Publisher Perfect World Games and developer Hotta Studio announced it on 16 September, as reported by Gematsu; we had not picked it up because Perfect World’s English news hub never posted it. It is the date this page had derived, so the countdown does not move — but it is no longer ours. The unlock hour is still unannounced.
Updated 17 September: CN 1.4 now has an official date. The preview stream aired on the evening of 16 September, and the official 异环 account’s own recap says 1.4「祷歌为谁而诵」opens after maintenance on 24 September — the same line appears on the official 1.4 PV published the next day. That is exactly the date this page had derived, so the countdown does not move; what changes is that half of it is no longer a derivation.
Global is still undated. Superseded on 28 September — see above.
The dates now: both announced
| Date | Status | |
|---|---|---|
| CN 1.4 | 24 September, after maintenance | Official — the 异环 account’s recap of the 16 September stream, and the 1.4 PV |
| Global 1.4 | 30 September | Announced by Perfect World Games and Hotta Studio (via Gematsu, 16 September); hour not announced |
| CN phase 2 | 15 October | Reported from the stream by community recaps, not by a post we can link |
| Maintenance pattern | 06:00–11:00 (UTC+8) | Every version so far; the CN unlock lands at the end of it |
The derivation — six-week cadence plus the six-day CN offset — landed on both dates exactly. What is still missing for global is the hour: no maintenance notice has been posted, so the countdown runs to local midnight and the time stays marked unconfirmed until one is.
What is already official
Blackbird is playable in 1.4. Her character art went up on the official account on 23 August — the fortune-reading steward of the Witch’s House becomes the game’s first limited 5★ Anima unit, and the reveal card carries her English name and the S-rank Anima marks itself. By reveal order she is the phase-one banner.
Akane Rin follows. Art posted 24 August, one day later — the breakout character of the band story, slotted by that order as phase two. CN discussion immediately put her popularity above Blackbird’s.
Pukaland opens. The park southeast of New Herland has been on the map since launch, gates shut. The official 1.3 stream closed on it: carousel, roller coaster, drop tower, haunted house, Ferris wheel.
The banner structure, from the stream
Reported consistently across three independent CN recaps of the 16 September stream. Hotta has not published a text post listing these, so they are stream-read rather than link-checkable:
| Phase 1 — from 24 Sep | Phase 2 — from 15 Oct | |
|---|---|---|
| New 5★ | Blackbird — S-rank Anima, main DPS with a dual-mode kit, and she can fly in the open world | Akane Rin — S-rank, the attribute CN calls 相 |
| Rerun | Lacrimosa | None |
| Length | 21 days | 21 days |
Our earlier prediction was half right, and the wrong half is worth saying out loud. This page previously carried the CN community’s cadence-reading: Lacrimosa in phase one, Chaos in phase two. Lacrimosa landed. Chaos did not — phase two has no character rerun at all. If you were budgeting Annuliths on the assumption of a second rerun to skip, that assumption is gone.
We are not giving Akane Rin’s attribute an English name. Her reveal card shows the S-rank mark; the English term for 相 has not appeared in a source we have read, and inventing one is how wrong names spread.
Pukaland, and what else the stream showed
Pukaland opens with 1.4 — maze, haunted house, roller coaster, drop tower, pendulum ride, smaller minigames, and a fireworks show at night. That is more than the 1.3 teaser showed.
Also reported from the stream, same three-recap basis:
- Porsche collaboration, second wave — two new cars, obtained through blind-box pulls
- A separate city-tycoon track called 噗卡计划, running independently of the existing one and progressing off accumulated Fons
- Monthly-pass rework — higher level cap and rewards; the weapon-selector box becomes convertible to Fons
- Extra pulls beyond the usual seven-day sign-in
The stream codes expired on 20 September
The stream handed out three 100-Annulith codes plus one materials code, and all four expired on 20 September 23:59 (UTC+8) — the same four-day fuse every NTE preview stream has used. The four codes, marked expired, and how redemption works →
Related
- NTE 1.3 countdown and version record
- CN vs global schedule, explained
- Zankou: materials, kit and whether to pull
- Tier list through an F2P lens
- Codes: current status and how to redeem
Sources
The 24 September CN date is first-party, from the official 异环 Bilibili account: its recap of the 16 September preview special and the 1.4 version PV both carry the line “1.4版本「祷歌为谁而诵」将于9月24日版本更新后开启”. Hotta published no text post listing the banners, so the banner line-up, the 15 October phase-two date, Pukaland’s contents, the Porsche wave and the monthly-pass changes are read off the stream — we cross-checked three independent CN recaps and kept the narrower claim wherever they disagreed. The 30 September global date is the publisher’s: Perfect World Games and Hotta Studio announced it on 16 September, as reported by Gematsu. We read it through Gematsu rather than a first-party post because Perfect World’s English news hub has not carried it; until 28 September this page showed the same date as our own derivation.
The cadence anchors are official patch notes: 1.2’s (8 July maintenance, 06:00–11:00 UTC+8) and 1.3’s (19 August) — 42 days apart. The six-day CN offset is documented on our schedule page. The Pukaland teaser is the official 1.3 livestream; the area’s name and locked-since-launch status are on GameWith’s area page. The Blackbird and Akane Rin reveals were posted on official CN channels on 23 and 24 August and relayed in CN community coverage the same days; Sportskeeda carried them in English. Blackbird’s Anima typing matches between CN coverage (魂) and Game8’s rendering; Akane Rin’s element type has no settled English rendering yet, so this page does not print one. The Lacrimosa and Chaos rerun expectations are CN community cadence-reading — labelled as such above — and the derived dates are ours. No number on this page’s date line is official, and every place it appears says so.
FAQ
When does NTE 1.4 come out?
24 September 2026 on CN and 30 September globally — both announced. CN's date is in the official 异环 account's recap of the 16 September stream; the global date was announced by publisher Perfect World Games and developer Hotta Studio and reported by Gematsu the same day. Both match the six-day CN-to-global offset 1.3 used.
What time does NTE 1.4 unlock?
Not announced for global. Every version so far — 1.2 and 1.3 included — ran maintenance 06:00 to 11:00 (UTC+8) and unlocked when it ended; on 30 September that would be the evening of 29 September in the Americas. That is a pattern, not an announcement, so the countdown above runs to local midnight and says so.
Who are the NTE 1.4 characters?
Officially revealed: Blackbird, the steward of the Witch's House, had her character art posted on official CN channels on 23 August — the game's first limited 5-star of the Anima type — and Akane Rin, the band-story character, followed on 24 August, slotted by the reveal order as the phase-two banner. Rerun expectations (Lacrimosa in phase one, Chaos in phase two) are community cadence-reading, not announcements.
When is the NTE 1.4 livestream?
Around 19 September if the pattern holds — the 1.3 stream aired 8 August, five days before the CN launch. Not announced. NTE streams hand out three redemption codes each time; they land on our codes page the moment the stream airs.
Is Pukaland in 1.4?
Yes — this one is official. The amusement park southeast of New Herland, visible but locked since launch, was teased at the end of the official 1.3 livestream as next-version content: carousel, roller coaster, drop tower, haunted house and Ferris wheel.
Why does CN get 1.4 before global?
The six-day gap is the schedule, not a delay — CN and global run separate builds on a fixed offset. Our CN-vs-global schedule page explains the whole system, including what it means for guide coverage: anything that breaks on CN gets called out before it reaches the global build.
Are there NTE 1.4 codes yet?
Not yet. The three-code batch comes with the 1.4 livestream, as it has every version. Codes expire fast; the current working list lives on our codes page.
- Gematsu — 'Neverness to Everness version 1.4 update For Whom the Verses Mourn launches September 30': the global date, attributed to publisher Perfect World Games and developer Hotta Studio (16 September) press report, not an official statement
- NTE official (CN, Bilibili) — 1.4 preview special recap: "1.4版本「祷歌为谁而诵」将于9月24日版本更新后开启"
- NTE official (CN, Bilibili) — 1.4 version PV, repeating the 24 September date
- NTE official (EN) — Version 1.2 patch notes: 8 July maintenance, 06:00–11:00 (UTC+8), the cadence anchor
- NTE official (EN) — Version 1.3 patch notes: 19 August maintenance, the other cadence anchor
- NTE official (CN) — 1.3 livestream recap of 8 August: the stream that teased the Pukaland area
- Sportskeeda — 1.4 characters Blackbird and Akane Rin revealed press report, not an official statement
- Game8 — NTE roadmap: Pukaland in 1.4, same six-week derivation for the date press report, not an official statement
- GameWith — Pukaland area page: the park southeast of New Herland, visible but locked since launch press report, not an official statement