Patch 10 – Elemental Damage + The Lunar Arena

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This week we introduce some new systems, elemental damage and relationships with NPCs.
We’ve also moved our Asia server location to Japan to improve latency and login issues on Asia region.

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Highlights

• Elemental damage on gear. Fire, Cold, Lightning, Explosive and Void added damage can now roll anywhere added Physical damage could, on armour, weapons, rings and necklaces, from both drops and crafting. DES-3534
• The Lunar Arena opens. Take on the Elite Hovertrix in a brand-new enclosed arena at Tier 4 and Tier 6. Start with Trial by Moonlight from Ringo in Lunar City, then return for Cold Fire – Lunar Arena from Brask. QUEST-682 QUEST-692 DES-3732 DES-3748 DES-3747
• New stories to chase. The three-chapter More Than Fish questline with Ray at the Neo-Tilus harbour, seven new side quests across Arcadia, Virelda and Farpoint, and a new relationship with Tobin Cairn where daily gifts unlock cutscenes, quests and big Mining rewards. QUEST-684 QUEST-685 QUEST-686 DES-3869 DES-3785
• Better arena loot. Every arena chest now guarantees an armour or weapon piece from that arena’s own gear set, and Everdune Arena Tier 3 now drops Neotilus gear. BUG-1872 DES-3888
• Steam screenshots. Press F12 in game to save a screenshot straight to your Steam library. ENG-1900

That covers the most notable changes, but keep reading for the full update.

New Content

Lunar Arena: Elite Hovertrix

• Added the Lunar Arena, a new enclosed arena with a Lunar look and feel, built to the same size as the Virelda arena. It comes in Tier 4 and Tier 6 versions. DES-3748 DES-3732
• Added new Tier 4 and Tier 6 arena entrances in Lunar City. DES-3747
• Added the quest Trial by Moonlight from Ringo in Lunar City. It requires Onward and Upward and leads you to the Lunar Arena to face the Elite Hovertrix. Players with 30 or more Strength can skip straight to the Arena challenge. QUEST-682
• Added the Lunar Arena – Elite Hovertrix (T6) challenge, started through the Cold Fire – Lunar Arena quest from Brask in Lunar Mountain, with new rewards. QUEST-692
• Hovertrix now stays inside the storm border during her attacks instead of flying and dashing out of the playable area. BUG-1912

More Than Fish

• Added the More Than Fish questline from Ray at the Neo-Tilus harbour, unlocked after Feeling Fishy. Each chapter asks you to show Ray some fish. Fish you already own count, and you keep every fish, so hold on to your catches between chapters. QUEST-684QUEST-685QUEST-686
  • One Word Too Few: show 2 Sand Trout, 2 Catfish and 2 Desert Pupfish. Rewards 50 gold and 250 Fishing XP. QUEST-684
  • Something to Byte About: show 2 Perch, 2 Bytefish and 2 Bulka Bream. Rewards 100 gold and 400 Fishing XP. QUEST-685
  • The Whole Shoal: carry one each of Sand Trout, Catfish, Desert Pupfish, Robocarp, Perch, Bytefish, Bulka Bream and Chromafish at the same time. Rewards 150 gold and 600 Fishing XP. QUEST-686

New Side Quests

• Added seven new side quests for players who have completed The Power Behind the Power. Follow-up chapters require the previous chapter, and each quest gives one-time rewards. DES-3869
  • Vessa Coil in Arcadia offers The Spare Part and Who Gets the Light.
  • Orren Pike in Virelda offers A Road on Paper and Put Your Name to It.
  • Nemi Rook in Virelda offers A Blank Worth Keeping.
  • Tovan Silt in Farpoint offers Hold Until Relieved and That Will Do.

Relationships: Tobin Cairn

• Added a relationship with Tobin Cairn, found near Virelda‘s western mine. Give him one gift per day to earn relationship points. DES-3785
  • Milestone rewards: 10,000 Mining XP at 10 points, 15 Commission Medals at 20, 100,000 Mining XP at 30 and 25 Commission Medals at 40.
• Added new relationship quest markers above NPCs. They show a heart alongside the usual ! and ? icons so relationship quests are easy to spot. ENG-1940

Balance & Design Changes

Gear & Loot

• Added Fire, Cold, Lightning, Explosive and Void added-damage stats to rolled and crafted armour, weapons, rings and necklaces. They can appear anywhere added Physical damage could roll, at the same value, and each of the six damage types is equally likely. Added damage overall is no more or less common than before, so Physical now rolls less often. Rarity odds and other stats are unchanged. Only newly created items get the new options. Existing items are unchanged. DES-3534
• Every arena chest now guarantees one armour or weapon piece from that arena’s own gear set. This covers Virelda Arena (including Abyssal), Lunar Arena, Farpoint Arena and Everdune Arena. Farpoint Arena‘s guaranteed piece is always armour. Belts and rings are not part of the guarantee, and their drop rates are unchanged. BUG-1872
• Everdune Arena Tier 3 chests now drop Neotilus gear and can also drop the Recurrent Frost Band ring. Farpoint Arena Tier 5 and Tier 6 chests can now also drop a staff and a sword. DES-3888
• Added lower-tier versions of the 8 special effect rings, such as Always Catch, to Stable and Unstable dungeon chests. They keep the full-strength special effects of the higher-tier rings but roll weaker extra stats. DES-3856
• Fixed the Gecko Backpack granting a flat +20 to healing and shielding. It now gives the +20% bonus to healing and shielding described in its tooltip. If you relied on the flat bonus, especially with small heals and shields, expect less healing. DES-3923
• Fixed six chem-lab consumables checking the wrong sickness before use. Hive Lord’s Elixir, Eclipse Elixir and Phase Elixir are now blocked by Infused instead of Metabolic Shock. Data Surge Stim, Abyssal Stim and Warp Stim are now blocked by Metabolic Shock instead of Infused. You can no longer stack these elixirs with other elixirs, or these stims with other stims. DES-3933

Relics & Abilities

• Added a new movement speed relic, Fleetfoot. It has 5 levels, each granting 5% Move Speed. DES-3932
• Ability-specific cooldown relics (Curved Stalker, Rapid Invocation, Flashfire, Fast Hands) now only change their own ability’s cooldown and no longer change your global Cooldown Reduction. They now multiply with gear Cooldown Reduction instead of adding to it. With gear Cooldown Reduction equipped, the reduction relics are slightly weaker than before and the Curved Stalker penalty is much smaller. This also fixes Advanced Stats showing a negative Cooldown Reduction value. DES-3615
• Supporter relic Haste phases (Phase II, V and VIII) now each add 10% Cooldown Reduction and show up in Advanced Stats. The Phase II and V cards now read 10% instead of 5%, matching what they already gave. Haste now adds to gear Cooldown Reduction instead of multiplying with it, counts toward the Cooldown Reduction cap, and no longer speeds up weapon attacks. DES-3616
• Cinder Twins Phase III now increases damage from all fire sources. Previously it only boosted Близнецы Глим. DES-3925
• Fixed staff heavy hits not triggering heavy-hit legendary effects, including the cooldown reduction effect on Virelda Warcrest Greaves. Staffs converted to physical damage can now also trigger physical heavy-hit legendary effects. BUG-1861
• Fixed the Physical Charge relic not converting Бомба damage to physical damage. Bombs now deal physical damage with this relic equipped, so they scale with physical bonuses instead of explosive ones, and the tooltip shows the correct damage type. BUG-1185
• Updated several ally relic descriptions to say clearly when the effect also applies to you in solo play. This covers Rally Cry, Sanctuary, Frozen Bastion, Bomb Engineer and Void Rift. Effects centred on you always include you. Placed areas such as the Ледяной куб, bomb smoke and Void Rift only affect you while you stand inside them. Heavy Payload no longer mentions allies, as that effect was already removed. No relic behaviour has changed. BUG-1662

Dungeons & Progression

• The ability you are given in the Virelda Outskirts is now Чакрам instead of Бомба. Исцеляющий импульс, Дрон, Укрепление and Миниган have been removed from the random ability pool there, so the abilities you find lean toward damage. DES-3855 DES-3862
• Reworked the Virelda early progression. The Outskirts chest now always drops a Double Chakram Ring. The arena is now a side quest, and the main path runs from the Outskirts to repairing the beacon, then the Eastern Reach. Beating the Eastern Reach earns you an apartment from the Chief. DES-3862

Крафтинг

• Added core breakdown recipes to the Power Core Forge. You can now split 1 Weapon Core or Ability Core into 5 of the rarity below (Uncommon to Common, Rare to Uncommon, Epic to Rare) at no gold cost. These recipes unlock at Forge levels 1, 2 and 3. Core materials still cannot be broken down. DES-3930

Quality of Life

• Added Steam screenshot support. Press F12 in game to save a screenshot to your Steam screenshot library, where you can share or upload it. ENG-1900
• Added a loot beam to pick-ups (the health, speed and other power-ups dropped by enemies) so they are easier to spot on the ground. ENG-1562
• Added an Exit Game button to the maintenance screen, so you no longer need Alt+F4 to close the game during maintenance. You will be asked to confirm first. ENG-1811
• Added a short tutorial tip after you die in a dungeon. It suggests gathering ore and foraging materials to craft better gear before your next attempt, and replaces the previous quest dialogue. BUG-1715
• Beacon and Dungeon Finder locked text now shows each dungeon and tier’s correct unlock condition, such as the questline you need to start or complete, or the dungeon you need to extract from first. Unlock requirements themselves have not changed. DES-3475
• Added new themed icons for each Achievement category: Character, Collections, Combat, Exploration, Mobs and Skills. ART-4361

Исправления ошибок

Quests, Tasks & Achievements

• Fixed the Where It Hurts V objective asking for a Cactaro Knight that never appears in Shattered Eastern Reach. The objective now targets the Cactaro King and completes correctly. BUG-1254
• Fixed A Snout for Detail. Materials are now tracked properly, each task can be completed on its own, and Pip now shows the completed quest marker once both tasks are done. BUG-1714
• Fixed issues with Hobb‘s mining quest in Virelda. Each task now completes on its own, and Hobb no longer disappears after both tasks are done until you refresh the game. The quest now also awards 750 Mining XP alongside its gold reward. DES-3832
• Fixed the Shop menu and currency bars becoming hidden again for some players after they had already been unlocked. QUEST-693
• Fixed a typo in Granny Smith‘s dialogue during Sow Much Trouble. BUG-1885

Dungeons & Combat

• Fixed frequent lag, freezes and performance drops in dungeons. BUG-1905
• Fixed Ruinchain not triggering its legendary effect from Цепная молния. Chain Lightning now has the same chance as other Elemental abilities to trigger Ледяной куб, Pyrosphere or Цепная молния. BUG-1855
• Fixed the Celestial Yoku Gunner Pendant legendary passive not activating. Casting Миниган with the pendant equipped now spawns a second, stationary Minigun that fires 12.5% faster, and that Minigun now deals damage consistently, including against bosses. BUG-1727
• Fixed the Emberline Belt (T6) and Frostline Belt (T6) effects not triggering consistently. The Emberline Belt now correctly grants its +2% Fire damage buff. The Frostline Belt now grants +2% Cold damage for 5s (stacking up to 10) when you Chill or Freeze an enemy, including with Ледяной куб, and its description has been updated to match. These fixes also apply to belts you already own. DES-3877
• Fixed the Necrotic Cape dropping with no stats. Newly dropped capes now roll stats correctly, and the Necrotic Cape now has a legendary effect. DES-3882
• Fixed Hard Mode raid boss XP sometimes granting only one relic upgrade instead of two, which left the screen darkened and blocked further levelling for the rest of the run. BUG-1784
• Dead players are now greyed out on the party UI during the Spectra raid, so you can tell who has died. BUG-1775
• Fixed spikes from the Cactaro King‘s ball ability overlapping and flickering when the boss was stunned mid-ability or close to a wall. BUG-1514
• Fixed two Cactosaurs sometimes appearing when a room collapsed in a dungeon. Only one now spawns. DES-3942

Items

• Fixed gear dropped from enemies with a rarity roll (such as Epic or Legendary) being blocked from trading even though it showed as tradeable. Upgraded gear that is marked untradeable stays untradeable. BUG-1503
• Fixed the Catalyst Ring sometimes showing a negative level in its tooltip. BUG-1746
• Fixed a crash when entering a quantity at a crafting station. BUG-1404

Производительность

• Fixed a large FPS drop when opening the Achievements menu. Switching tabs or claiming achievements may still cause a brief hitch. BUG-1902

Under the Hood

• Enemy loot is now rolled directly on the game server for dungeon enemies, overworld enemies and destroyable dungeon objects. Drops appear as soon as an enemy dies, and a failed loot request now only loses the drops from that one loot table instead of every drop from the kill. Drop rates are unchanged. ENG-1907
• Reduced how often the game asks the servers for skill and buff data. Skill updates now apply instantly from the server instead of being re-requested, cutting background traffic. ENG-1917
• Improved server-side caching for skill, buff and relic data to reduce server load. ENG-1927 ENG-1928
• Improved how game audio is stored and delivered, so sounds load faster with less server work. ENG-1899
• Reduced the amount of translation data sent between game services, cutting background network traffic. ENG-1902