The Fifth Family: Upcoming Features & Halloween Update Breakdown

The Blood Cage is a dedicated PvP contest for players to challenge the current Blood Champion, claim the Cage and defend it.

Entry: Enter through The Underground for 10 Stamina. If the Cage is empty, you become Champion; otherwise you challenge the current holder.

Queue: If a fight is underway, challengers join a hidden queue in entry order. The winner holds the Cage and faces the next challenger.

Restrictions: Champions and queued challengers cannot leave voluntarily. Going offline doesn't remove the Champion. The Champion cannot take part in conventional PvP while holding the Cage.

Combat Rules: Normal legitimate buffs, passives and consumables apply. This isn't a normalised-stat or consumable-free mode.

Separate Cage Vitality: Outside injury cannot weaken Cage health, and Cage defeat doesn't damage normal-world Vitality. Winners recover full Cage Vitality before the next bout.

Only Cage Vitality refills automatically. Energy, Nerve, Stamina and other resources do not. Buff durations run normally, and one-combat effects end after their bout.

Scoring: Earn one point for every complete minute holding the Cage. Points from separate reigns add together during that day; losing the Cage doesn't erase points.

Leaderboards: The interface shows today's top five and yesterday's top three. Tied daily placements are resolved through combat, without an extra entry Stamina charge.

Daily Rewards:
1st: 250 MG + 125 Platinum.
2nd: 125 MG + 65 Platinum.
3rd: 65 MG + 25 Platinum.

Values in testing - Will be revised.

Daily Reset: Scoring stops at 00:00 server time. The Cage reopens empty at 00:05.

Forge Access: The Cage replaces the district Forge tile, but Forge remains available through Inventory.

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New Crimes: 50 repeatable circumstantial crimes, five per district. Each requires the right district weather and a minimum total Instinct level, ranging from 1–5 in Downtown to 46–50 in The Syndicate.

Crimes remain hidden until you meet the Instinct requirement. Recommended level is guidance, and no previous circumstantial completion or local Insight is needed.

Rewards: Successful circumstantials award cash and Player XP, with chances at materials and other loot. They give no Mastery, Insight or family Favor.

Item-Loot Chances After Success:
Setup: 2%.
Capstone: 5%, increasing to 10% through local Insight.
Circumstantial: 10%.

One loot hit selects one item-table result. Rare access replaces the standard result. The percentages within tables are conditional, not chances per crime attempt.

Rare Access Within an Item-Loot Hit:
Setup: None.
Capstone: 2% to 7%, depending on Insight.
Circumstantial: 2%.

This makes circumstantial rare-table access 0.2% per successful crime.

Setup Loot: Family shards, resource consumables, Cash/Gold/Platinum Boxes, ordinary gear and applicable specialties. No sets, dossiers, rare table or raw crafting materials.

Capstone Loot: Ordinary gear, neutral sets, eligible matching family sets, and rare-table rewards including three-shard affiliated dossiers, district pets and district vehicles.

Family Specialties:
Viola: Parts.
Kito-gumi: Non-weapon gear.
Iron River: Weapons.
SBP: Medical.
Volkskaya: Ordinary gear.

Circumstantial Standard-Table Shares: These apply within the 10% item-loot hit:
Assigned material 25%.
Ordinary gear 17.5%.
Neutral set 5%; matching weather set 2.5%.
Family shards 15%; resource consumables 15%.
Cash/Gold/Platinum Boxes 10%/5%/3%.
Rare-table access 2%.

No family-set row or Insight adjustment applies to circumstantials.

Capstone Rare Details: At Insight 5, dossiers, unclaimed district pets and vehicles each occupy 6% of the rare table before acquisition adjustments.

One-Time Unlocks: Once a district pet or vehicle is acquired, its chance shifts to sets instead. Where eligible, half goes to the matching family set and half to a neutral set; otherwise it all goes to neutral sets. Selling or transferring cannot reset the unlock.

Crafting Materials: Raw crafting materials drop from circumstantials, not setups or capstones. Six chemical Residues drop in batches of 5 (standard) or 10 (rare); Bright Powder, Mineralizing Fluid, Sticky Sap, Golden Dust and Platinum Dust drop 1 or 3. The chosen crime determines the material.

Exclusive Rewards: Some circumstantials have one-time pets, vehicles or weapons. A reward with 1% of the rare table has a 0.002% chance per successful crime (1 in 50,000 on average). A split 0.5% rare-table reward is 0.001% (1 in 100,000 on average).

These are probabilities, not guaranteed drops after a fixed number of attempts.

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Five New Levels: Each of the 50 capstone crimes can reach Insight 5. Insight is specific to that capstone.

Getting Started: Full Mastery qualifies you for Insight 1 through the Gain Insight confirmation. Complete another four full-Mastery-equivalent progress bars to reach Insight 5.

Mastery Changes: Existing Mastery requirements are reduced to 75% of their previous values, rounded to the nearest integer. Completed Mastery stays complete, including district-boss qualification.

Insight Rewards: Each Insight level improves that capstone's successful base cash, Player XP and raw Favor by 5%, and adds one percentage point to its item-loot hit chance.

At Insight 5:
Base cash, Player XP and raw Favor: ×1.25.
Item-loot hit: 5% to 10%.
Rare-table access within a loot hit: 2% to 7%.
Overall rare-table chance per successful capstone: 0.10% to 0.70%.

Rare-table weighting also shifts towards dossiers and district pets and vehicles not yet acquired.

Permanent Instinct: Insight 5 grants one permanent Instinct point per capstone, for up to 50 points from crimes overall.

Limits: Insight does not raise crime success chance, crafting-material quantities, Mastery XP or box contents. Its bonus doesn't apply to other crimes.

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Example: 20 Instinct versus 12 means an eight-point gap, reducing the lower player's affected stats by 4%. Final affected stats round upward.

No Advantage at Equal Scores: Equal Instinct means no reduction; the higher participant does not gain a separate direct stat bonus.

Vitality: Instinct doesn't directly reduce Vitality.

Cash Bonus: Each Instinct point adds +0.1% cash after applicable cash modifiers. Box contents are unaffected.

Crime Unlocks: Total Instinct unlocks circumstantial crimes.

The 50 points available through capstones are not a global Instinct cap.

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The Importer introduces expeditions that allow players to use their pets to obtain materials.

Setting Up an Expedition: Choose a destination, select up to five eligible pets and purchase materials within the team's carrying capacity.

Pet Carry: Each pet contributes half its applicable Carry, rounded down. Every plant uses one Carry.

Equipped pets and pets already away on another expedition cannot be selected.

Six Regions: Expeditions cover Asia/Russia, Oceania, Africa, Europe, North America and South America.

Each region has its own available materials, prices, freight costs and travel time.

Shared Stock: Regional materials have shared global supplies.

If another player purchases something, the remaining stock decreases for everyone.

Stock fully resets every six hours, with hourly regeneration between resets.

Simply browsing does not reserve anything.

Expedition Times: Base voyages take between four and eight hours.

Players receive an expedition report halfway through, then collect their materials on return.

Expedition Slots: Everyone begins with one free slot, expandable to six concurrent expeditions.

Freight Costs: Freight is charged against the selected carrying capacity, including unused space.

Once an expedition has been dispatched, it cannot be cancelled.

Materials can be kept for personal production or traded with other players.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Chemical Lab introduces a manufacturing system built around research, material refinement and finished consumables.

Research: Unlock recipes and develop new production options. Only one research project can be active at a time.

Refinement: Convert materials into ingredients and intermediates, using between one and five available slots.

Production: Manufacture finished consumables using between one and five production slots.

Refinement and Production operate independently. Finished products must be collected manually.

Resource Restoration: Consumables can restore Nerve, Energy or Stamina.

Tier I restores 10.
Tier II restores 15.
Tier III restores 25.

Regeneration Consumables: Products can also provide +100% regeneration to the matching resource for one hour.

Where Materials Come From: Imported plants support resource products, while circumstantial crimes supply additional raw crafting materials.

Trading: Players can trade ingredients, intermediates and finished consumables.

This means players can choose whether to gather materials, refine them, manufacture products or purchase what they need from other players.

The available consumable supply has already been increased by 50%.

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The upcoming preparation system lets players choose offensive effects and defensive counters before combat.

Offensive Slot: You can prepare one offensive consumable. Preparing it locks the item, which is consumed only when its chosen trigger executes.

Available Triggers:
First normal action.
Your HP reaching 75%, 50% or 25%.
Opponent HP reaching 75%, 50% or 25%.
First First Strike.

How Triggers Work: A first-normal-action trigger replaces that hit. A First Strike trigger activates before the strike, without cancelling the strike itself.

Activation Limit: Only one prepared offensive item can activate per player per fight. If the trigger never executes, the item isn't consumed.

Defensive Slot: One active protection can be maintained. A different defence replaces the previous one, while preparing the same defence refreshes it.

Standard Anti-Items: Last for ten fights, reducing the magnitude or relevant probability of the matching effect:
Tier I: 25% resistance.
Tier II: 50% resistance.
Tier III: 75% resistance.

Special Counters: Anti-Marking and Anti-Forgetfulness provide immunity to their matching effects. Anti-Stunning also resists Dazing.

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The prepared consumables system introduces several types of offensive status effects.

Here's what each one actually does.

Core Stat Effects:

Weakening: Reduces STR.
Sundering: Reduces DEF.
Slowing: Reduces AGI.
Shaking: Reduces DEX.

These reduce the affected stat by 5%, 10% or 15%, depending on tier, for the remainder of the fight.

Damage Over Time:

Dislocating deals 1.25%, 2.5% or 5% of Maximum Vitality per applicable tick, for up to ten turns.

Ordinary armour, Block and damage mitigation do not reduce these damage-over-time ticks.

Combined Stat & Damage Effects:

Burning: Reduces STR and causes damage over time.
Corroding: Reduces DEF and causes damage over time.
Hobbling: Reduces AGI and causes damage over time.
Bleeding: Reduces DEX and causes damage over time.

Each provides a 5%, 10% or 15% reduction to its affected stat, alongside the corresponding damage-over-time effect.

Both components expire after ten turns.

Two-Stat Effects:

Battering: STR and DEF.
Exhausting: STR and AGI.
Faltering: STR and DEX.
Encumbering: DEF and AGI.
Rattling: DEF and DEX.
Disorienting: AGI and DEX.

These reduce both affected stats by 2.5%, 5% or 7.5%, depending on tier, for the remainder of the fight.

Sickening: Reduces all four core combat stats.

Tier I: 1.875% per stat.
Tier II: 3.75% per stat.
Tier III: 5.625% per stat.

Stunning: Provides a chance to skip consecutive enemy actions.

Tier I: 40% chance to skip one action.
Tier II: 35% chance to skip two actions.
Tier III: 30% chance to skip three actions.

Dazing: Provides an 8%, 16% or 25% chance to skip each eligible normal action for the rest of the fight.

Anti-Stunning also provides resistance against Dazing.

Sapping: Allows the attacker to recover health equal to 8%, 16% or 24% of qualifying damage dealt to a Sapped target.

Healing only applies to actual damage removed. Overkill and damage-over-time effects do not provide healing.

Marking: Increases qualifying Fight Club Gold rewards when the Marked target is killed.

Tier I: ×1.5.
Tier II: ×2.
Tier III: ×2.5.

This does not multiply Blood Cage rewards.

Forgetfulness: Increases an otherwise-valid Mug yield.

Tier I: ×1.25.
Tier II: ×1.50.
Tier III: ×1.75.

Existing Mug Protection continues to apply.

Anti-Marking and Anti-Forgetfulness provide complete immunity to their matching effects for ten fights.

Crystallization: Introduces matching Family/type shard stakes through the existing combat stake system.

Tier I: 50% chance for one shard.
Tier II: 75% chance for one shard.
Tier III: One guaranteed shard, plus a 25% chance for another.

Defensive IVs: Matching IVs provide 25%, 50% or 75% interception chances per applicable shard.

An IV expires after successfully intercepting during a fight, or after ten fights at most.

Crystallization follows the existing shard-stake rules. It does not automatically steal permanent combat stats.

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Following community feedback, a change to the True upgrade system has been announced.

Halloween True Coins: Halloween will have its own True Coin, used to upgrade equipment sets belonging to the Halloween event.

Reusable in Future Years: Halloween True Coins will remain useful in future Halloween events, allowing players to use them beyond this year's celebration.

Other Seasonal Events: Christmas will have its own True Coin, with other seasonal events following the same system.

True Upgrade Effects: The stream revealed the following improvements when upgrading eligible equipment:

+20% to each item's base stats.
+1 Set Point.
Existing Forge rank is preserved.
Forge bonuses are recalculated using the upgraded base stats.

Upgrade Limit: Each individual equipment piece can receive its True upgrade once.

Original Stream Pricing: The reveal showed True upgrades costing 2,500 Pumpkin Coins each, with seven purchases available per set type. The subsequent announcement introduces seasonal True Coins in place of the original set-specific upgrade items.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The content reveal covered the Vehicle Rebuild, Racing V3, Blood Cage, Circumstantial Crimes, redesigned loot tables, Insight and Instinct progression, the Importer, Chemical Lab, prepared consumables and new combat status effects.

The Halloween finale also introduces additional Spirit opportunities, new equipment sets, weapons and True upgrades.

The upcoming systems are being previewed ahead of their release, while the Halloween changes have the specific dates outlined above.

Blood Cage Rewards: Values in testing - Will be revised.