Fishing and Hacking are here, throughout the world, you will now find fishing nodes in the lakes and oceans as well as hacking nodes to obtain those rare hacking materials.

Rolled into this release is a major server upgrade which improves performance across the world.

We’ve rebuilt the tutorial dungeon to improve the experience for new players, as well as add new UI and UX to the dungeons making it clearer what upgrades effect which abilities.

We’re bringing some of the previous cosmetics into the store this release, as well as bringing SoulBits, into our events as rewards this weekend.

Features

• Introduced three new hub locations: Everdune, Farpoint Rift, and Neo-Tilus. Each hub includes a vendor and a bank to enhance player convenience. [DES-1972]
• Introducing new quests in the Neo-Tilus area, utilizing the new system for fishing nodes to enhance gameplay and exploration. [DES-1990]
  • A Pirate’s Life for Me
  • Time on the Line
  • Tales from the Sea
• Introducing a new NPC vendor in Farpoint with updated UI and renamed recall discs to ‘Farpoint Recall’ for a more immersive experience. [DES-1978]
• Introduced new fishing zones [ART-3204]
  • You can find fishing spots in Virelda, Seabreeze Pass, Neo-Tilus, and more.
  • This is the first of two fishing updates, where next update will bring additional fishing equipment and level/item locked nodes.
• Introduced new hacking zones [ART-3204]
  • Hacking is now available within multiple overworld areas: Virelda, Clifftop Pass, Farpoint Rift, and more.
• The Chieftain’s Desert Cloak now allows stacking of recall discs and has increased capacity for food items and stims/flasks, enhancing item management convenience. [DES-2055]
• Added a HomeDisc corp rep to Virelda to allow players to set their home location. [DES-2076]
• Introduced a new ‘Apartment Keypad’ icon to enhance the user interface and improve interaction with apartment content. [TECH-8907]
• Reworked vendors to include new ‘packages’ defining their layouts, involving adjustments such as categorizing by location (e.g., Virelda, Arcadia) and limiting equipment and consumable offerings to promote chemistry crafting. [DES-1960]
• Implemented a new animation sequence into the ‘Enter the Fray’ quest, enhancing the transition experience. [DES-1962]
• Introduced a new ‘Treasure Magnet’ icon to enhance fishing by allowing players to collect NPCs’ lost items required for quests. This magical fishing tool will aid in retrieving quest items such as lost diaries or pocket watches, improving quest completion dynamics. [ART-3212]
• Recolored the radar icon to a golden theme to create a ‘Treasure Radar’ for players to enhance their treasure hunting experience. [ART-3202]
• Removed the secondary pop-up when interacting with chests to streamline the user experience. [TECH-8894]
• Implemented a new system for mob and boss loot tables in dungeons, allowing for customizable drop tables per room. Players will encounter varying loot based on newly designated loot tables for mobs and bosses within each dungeon room. This enhances variability and rewards in dungeon runs. [DES-2078]
• Gear stats are now correctly applied to movement speed modifiers, allowing players to experience movement speed boosts. [TECH-8878]
• Introducing the Soul Soup buff, which when consumed, fully restores Yoku. [DES-2065]
• Introduced new accessories into drop tables for mobs in various dungeon tiers, enhancing loot variety and player customization options in dungeons. [DES-1967]
• Abilities across various categories now increase in damage based on their associated Combat Skill Levels (Strength, Marksmanship, Dexterity, Technology, and Knowledge). Specific abilities such as ‘Fortify’ and ‘Healing Pulse’ also see benefits from these skill level increases, providing more integrated gameplay dynamics. [TECH-8871]
• Introducing a feature where the total number of interactions for fishing is tracked per user, to prevent multiple users from fishing the last node simultaneously and losing rewards. [TECH-8823]
• Enhanced the Tag System UI to include glow effects on related abilities and detailed tooltips, improving the clarity of upgrades during gameplay. [TECH-8762]
• Players can now click on quests in the ‘all quests visible’ interface to open the specific quest, improving navigation through quests. [TECH-8448]
• Implemented new fishing nodes in the game, allowing players to interact with and fish at designated fishing spawn zones. This feature includes the integration of global resource nodes for foraging, hacking, and mining. [TECH-8327]
• Introduced a new fishing node system allowing multiple players to fish simultaneously. Fishing nodes will visually represent multiple backend nodes, and will disappear after a set number of successful interactions, limiting rewards to the first successful catch for each remaining fish. [TECH-8315]
• Introduced the ‘Treasure Magnet’, a new key item that gives players bonus loot when fishing, enhancing their fishing experience. Ensure it is in your toolbelt to function properly. [DES-2074]
• Gathered all Neo-Tilus NPCs for integration into future quests, enhancing the narrative and player engagement in upcoming updates. [DES-1991]
• Introduced additional apartment keypads in Farpoint Rift, allowing easier access to player apartments across different areas of the game world. [DES-1983]
• Players can now navigate their character by clicking on a location in the minimap, enhancing ease of movement and exploration. [FEATURE-412]
• Increased the prevalence of Sunbloom in starting zones by adjusting resource zones to prioritize Sunbloom over Witherleaf. [DES-2058]
• Introduced a consistent design theme for banking NPCs across different game regions by unifying their appearance to bring familiarity for players entering new areas. [DES-1973]
• Added new all-directional attack, walking, and idle animations for the Butterfly weapon set, including the Great Sword, Hammer, and Sword. [ART-3090]
• Introduced the Treasure Radar key item, an essential tool for treasure hunters, enhancing their ability to locate hidden treasures. [DES-2063]
• Updated the multiplayer death screen to provide clearer messaging for players in a party. Now, the screen will display ‘Waiting to Respawn’ with the subtext ‘You will respawn at the end of the round if your party survives’ instead of ‘Try Again’, reducing confusion and discouraging premature departures from the game. [TECH-8811]
• Added an apartment keypad to Farpoint Rift to increase accessibility to apartments. [TECH-8329]
• Updated the end screen to provide a star-based scoring system to rate player performance and highlight ‘New Record’ achievements, making gameplay completion feel more rewarding. [TECH-8872]
• Mobs have been updated to use backend loot tables for item drops, allowing different loot tables to be assigned per room in dungeons. This enhances item drop customization and simplifies the mob-loot table management process. [GAME-3765]

Improvements

• Introduced a feature to hide objectives in non-boss rooms within the tutorial dungeon to enhance player immersion. Note that normal dungeons remain unaffected by this change. [TECH-8884]
• Enhanced visibility of interactable NPCs by adding a glowing aura and ensuring they draw on top of other elements, making them easier to find even in crowded areas. [TECH-8877]
• Improved map functionality so that clicking on a quest in the sidebar now opens the map centered on the quest’s location, enhancing navigation and quest tracking for players. [TECH-8691]
• Improved the toolbag system to return gateway messages, ensuring that tools related to minigames (such as pickaxe for mining, gloves for foraging, etc.) work as intended. [TECH-8675]
• Vendors have been normalized across the game to ensure clearer progression and differentiation between city and village vendors. Vendors such as Virelda, Arcadia, Everdune, and Foundation now offer item types that scale with zone progression, and they feature personal purchase limits and unique item packages. [DES-1591]
• Refactored the Quarry Gates to directly check the door instance for permission updates, providing a more reliable solution and reducing the risk of quest log changes causing issues. This improves gameplay consistency by ensuring players only access areas they have permissions for. [TECH-8682]
• Various mounts received a visual update [FEAT-455]
  • Bone Mount (added inventory icon as well)
  • Braisilian Cigar Mount
  • Broom Mount
  • Coffin Mount
  • ETH Board Mount
  • Koi Fish Mount
  • Pencil Mount
  • Pizza Mount
  • Red Car Mount (added inventory icon as well)
  • Soda Can Mount

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where players were unable to complete the quest ‘Law of Equivalence’ after receiving Steve’s IOU, as the quest would not progress when returning to the Witch Doctor. [DES-2052] (miminzeroz)
• Fixed an issue where Pip was not present in the first chest room of the ‘Dungeon Rescue’ quest, preventing players from progressing. [QA-2451]
• Fixed an issue where the Virelda Chief NPC did not accept the Scroll of Life, preventing completion of the Quest Cave Venture. [DES-2066] (Reported by player: prairie)
• Fixed an issue preventing players from interacting with the Mysterious Vending Machine during the ‘2001: A Snack Oddity’ quest, which blocked item hand-ins and quest completion. [DES-1933]
• Fixed an issue where items were not removed from the user’s bag upon completing the quest ‘2001: A Snack Oddity’. [DES-2059]
• Fixed an issue where the ‘Enter The F.R.A.M.E’ quest displayed an incorrect task location on the map at the FRAME Base Camp. [KUDOS-260]
• Fixed an exploit where spectators in the Necromancer raid could deal damage with ranged abilities after respawning. Spectators are now correctly prevented from using abilities outside the arena. [KUDOS-258]
• Fixed an issue where Pip’s dialogue was incorrectly labeled as ‘Dialogue’ and Pip’s portrait was missing when interacting for the second time during the ‘Dungeon Rescue’ quest in the eastern breach dungeon. [KUDOS-188]
• Fixed an issue where fishing nodes were not spawning in Neo-Tilus. [TECH-8885]
• Fixed an issue where hacking nodes would not destroy themselves after being failed twice, preventing further attempts and making them unhackable. [TECH-8467]
• Fixed an issue where players could obtain multiple home discs without being charged at the vendor in Hector’s workshop. [DES-2060]
• Fixed an issue where local resource pools were draining at an incorrect rate, unrelated to player activity. [TECH-8910]
• Fixed an issue where resource nodes were displaying incorrect sprites, and ensured that all mounts and their animations draw correctly. [GAME-3862]
• Fixed a crash issue that occurred during resource distribution when mining in Virelda with two accounts. [TECH-8900]
• Fixed a crash that occurred when players abandoned a dungeon while being pursued by enemies. The issue involved a server-side error related to enemy AI still trying to interact with the player’s coordinates after they exited the dungeon. [TECH-8864]
• Consumables now correctly display the buffs they provide in their tooltips, ensuring players can make informed decisions about their effects. [TECH-8841]
• Fixed an issue where the Minigun ability would remain active during a client pause, causing desynchronization. [GAME-3847]
• Fixed an issue where players could still mine resources even when their bag was full, leading to the deletion of resources. Now, resources will drop to the floor if the bag is full. [TECH-8361]
• Fixed an issue where dead players still had a visible glow and could pick up exp gems that were nearby. [TECH-8782]
• Fixed an issue where recall disks could be used in dungeons, allowing players to teleport out after combat, which unintentionally bypassed dungeon mechanics. Players can no longer use portal items in combat or non-combat rooms within dungeons. [TECH-8780]
• Fixed an issue where the ability card sound effects would continuously loop after the first relic upgrade. [GAME-3848]
• Fixed an issue where buffs set to clear on death, such as those from the food item ‘fish taco’, were not being removed upon death and respawning in a dungeon. [TECH-8856]
• Fixed an issue preventing players from entering Arcadia City after completing the quest ‘A Major Problem’. Players can now access the city through the main gates as intended. [DES-2087] Submitted by player Mariette.
• Fixed an issue where reloading the game while in Shadow Path would teleport the player to Arcadia instead of respawning them in the same area. [TECH-7858] (Reported by player MrSnorch)
• Fixed an issue where players were unable to complete the ‘Cracks in the Foundation’ quest due to missing quest NPCs and incorrect quest status updates. [DES-2053]
• Fixed an issue where players could not access the Broom NFT Mount despite having a connected wallet. The issue was due to incorrect responses from the Moralis web3 API, and a workaround has been implemented by switching to the Alchemy API. [TECH-8392]
• Fixed an issue where the quest ‘Just Keep Swimming’ could not be completed if the baby fish was sent to the bank due to full inventory. [DES-1178]
• Fixed an issue where players could enter the Necro raid dungeon solo, now enforcing a minimum of 4 players to enter. [TECH-8820]
• Fixed an issue where the NPC required for the quest ‘A Pirate’s Life For Me’ was missing east of Neo-Tilus. This resolves the issue preventing players from advancing in the quest. [QA-2456]
• Resolved an issue causing low FPS in the open world due to excessive mining nodes causing resource drain. [QA-2387]
• Fixed an issue where hacking nodes in the gauntlet caused the game to crash. [QA-2450]
• Fixed an issue where the ‘Business Is Blooming’ quest marker would only appear after entering another area instead of appearing immediately after completing the ‘Run Rabbit Run’ quest. [KUDOS-236]

Balance Changes

• Reduced the cost to open T2 chests from 200 Yoku to 125 Yoku to bring better balance between chest tiers. [FEATURE-457]
• Updated food consumables to align with new cooking and farming progression, including the addition of preventative debuffs like Metabolic Shock for potions and Infused for elixirs. Enhancements to stamina regeneration buffs have been made, affecting items like cooked food and elixirs, ensuring continuity and better benefits from raw food consumption. [DES-1602]
• Loot tables containing food have been adjusted in alignment with the new buff changes, ensuring players receive appropriate enhancements from consumables. [DES-2064]
• Adjusted vendor prices for cooked food items to reflect new standardized fish fillet prices. Additionally, fish raw requirements have been reduced for several recipes: Fish sticks now require 3 raw fish instead of 5, fish tacos require 5 raw fish instead of 10, and fish burgers require 5 raw fish instead of 20. [DES-1926]
• Increased the drop rate of Lunar Keys in T3 dungeons to improve accessibility for players attempting the Necro raid. This change aims to reduce the time required for players to obtain keys necessary for the Necro raid. [FEATURE-438]
• Reduced the Hemlock foraging level requirement from 4 to 1 to make early foraging levels less dependent on Sunbloom. [DES-2056]

Consumables have undergone a fairly substantial rework which we’re aiming to use as a foundation for a much more coherent stats structure going forward. For a while consumables have been in a pretty inconsistent position where either completely ignoring them, or pre-buffing multiple food buffs to stack over 300% additional maximum health were both relevant in the same game space.

Consumables should feel meaningful and varied, where players choose which food and potions to use based on a variety of factors.

With this update, consumables are split into families of consumable type where you can only have one type active at a time (we introduced this already with Metabolic Shock).

You’ll find some new additions in here, along with some new movement speed modifying buffs intended for overworld use (however they can be used in combat if you’re brave enough).

Below you’ll find the new consumable buffs for reworked consumables:

Event Schedule

Classroom doors are shut, and the world is your new lecture hall. Between roaming beasts and abyss-tainted waters, there’s plenty to study—and more to survive. Hope you took notes.

A new cosmetic set has dropped for everyone to get their hands on – the Bluehorn Academy Set! The events this week will provide the usual credits with the addition of Soulbits up for grabs with the events this week!