October 20th - Community Stream and Content Announcements!
Hello everyone! Long time no Stream Announcement!
I hope everyone has been enjoying the blood bath of Halloween this month. I want to start by thanking everyone for such a striking amount of participation in our first seasonal event. It has taught us a lot about how to manage these events and how we should build them going forward! A couple of points that we are aware of and will be changing for future years of the event going forward:
-The New Mechanics for the Last Week will be event-long. Find out more in the Last Week of the Event!
-The Pvp portion of the event will be restricted to the last two weeks of the event to lower the amount of time the playerbase is actively encapsulated in a blood bath.
-Milestone rewards will be less difficult to obtain.
-The Boss will have more Badges for special circumstances such as being the one to slay it.
Additionally, the Christmas event (Very early in development still) is being focused around the idea of the community working together to increase the value of a shared payout for the whole community. This should be and is intended to be in direct contrast to the Halloween Massacre. Please do stay tuned for more about this.
The Big Huge Patch
We have several Big, Huge, Important systems coming into play in the next month or so, and the stream happening at the time announced at the end of this Gazette will give players an opportunity to not only see a sneak peek into the future of the next couple of months, but allow them to share concerns or perspectives that could alter this content to be more aligned with community sentiments. Some of these systems include the following:
-An Importation system where players directly compete for the resources required to produce Restores for Nerve/Energy/Stamina. This is the exclusive facility for The Docks (Yes we hear you, we're working on giving every district an exclusive facility).-The Chemical Lab, an exclusive facility where you can use the materials from the importer among new materials from circumstantial crimes to create restores and status items for a range of 25 different status effects. This is the exclusive facility for The Industrial District.
-25 New status effects!
-Insight, a new mastery system that rewards players for completing 5 levels of mastery on a Capstone crime with better loot rates, better drop rates on better items from the loot tables, and a point of a new stat for reaching level 5 Insight, Instinct.
-Instinct, a new combat and exploration stat that represents your characters innate understanding of the city itself, which shows as a 0.5% reduction to your opponents total stats in all four main combat stats for every point of Instinct you have more than they do. This stat also allows players to access Circumstantial Crimes.
-Circumstantial Crimes are a series of Crimes unlocked by Instinct that reveal 50 new weather-linked opportunities that reward new sets, pets and weapons. Not only that but new materials for the crafting of consumables.
-The Blood Cage, a King Of The Hill style facility where the strongest are crowned champions and everyone else is laid to rest, the exclusive facility of The Underground.
-The Arms Refinery (Early in Development) a facility that allows players to deconstruct gear for materials or put up to three perks on a weapon, and up to one perk on any armor. There are about 80 of these perks with 3 levels of upgrades each.
-Poker!