Patch 26.4: Item Improvements, Colosseum PTM, Bug Fixes

News

• A huge thanks to the volunteers that are organizing 2-3 PvP tournaments each weekend! There will be more this weekend.

• Lots of exciting stuff coming up in terms of updates ;)
  We're EXTENSIVELY reviewing ALL feedback and suggestions. EVERYONE is encouraged to submit feedback or ideas. We're going to be launching a new system soon to allow anyone to submit AND VOTE on feedback ideas, bug reports, and event suggestions!

  
  
  Events

• There will be tournament events again this weekend.

• We may use the new tournament system again this weekend!

  • Application will be in-game.

• Rising pass has been reset! Complete missions to earn rewards.

  • This season we will be adding several new rewards!

Extra Rewards

• In addition to existing prizes, there are new event rewards:

  • Winners

    • Nepturo's Scale (1x)

    • Swift Crystal (3x)

• 3X GP events will be held recurringly throughout the days/week (announcements will be made ingame using megaphone system).

  • Additional GP will be sent via mail after the conclusion of each round.

  • Additional GP will be sent to all active participants (winners or losers)

• Team Indicators

  • Added effects to indicate blue team vs. red team.

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• Ranking System Improvements

  • We are humbled that Colosseum PTM has continued to be a fun, competitive game mode for almost 30 seasons.

  • There are two major Colosseum PTM updates that are going to be applied. The following changes may apply while the servers are online via live-update (so no server downtime or patch notes).

    • Skill Rating Calculation Score

      • The current SR algorithm is the result of continuous improvement to ensure accuracy and fairness. We are planning two important changes to the SR algorithm (pending testing and validation):

        • Teammate & Enemy Frequency -> Consecutive matches (above normal distribution) with little variation in either teammate composition or enemy team composition will be weighted less. This means that if you frequently face the same enemies in multiple matches (within the same 10 round instance), the weight (# of points gained or lost) will be less significant.

        • Damage and Healing ->

          • We've been working on a new, state-of-the-art damage calculation and transparency system that allows you to see statistics related to both outgoing and incoming damage values inflicted. This new system (Rising DekaDux) will be taking into account by the skill rating algorithm.

            • If you're interested, you can try the new statistics overlay by clicking the link above.

            • The new overlay currently requires an additional download (one time). We plan to integrate it in launcher upon release.

            • We're also working on translating it to Chinese.

          • In addition to making the SR algorithm even more accurate, this will help us detect, track, flag, and penalize any form of abuse, unfair competition, inactivity, or win-trading. There will be no warnings and consequences will be serious.
            

• Atma Dungeon Accessories

  • Success rate for Atma earrings increased: 5% -> 10%

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• Drop Improvements

  • Kastrioti [Hard] - Final Boss

    • Now drops between 2-4 Nepturo's Scale

    • Now drops between 2-6 Naruke

  • Atma Dungeon - Final Boss

    • Now drops between 2-4 Nepturo's Scale

    • Now drops between 2-6 Naruke

• Corrupted Divine Belt

  • Fixed issues with upgrading and branding.

• Shipwreck Hard - Tritone

  • [Fix] Magic Stone Piece now properly stacks when picked up

• Atma Dungeon

  • [Fix] Magic Stone Piece now properly stacks when picked up

• Kastotica Mansion Hard:

  • [Fix] Mobs now give EXP

  • [Fix] Armor Gem Box now has an equal chance of giving each gem

  • [Fix] Swift Crystal's now properly stack when picked up

  • [Fix] Pet Pierce 2% can now be socketed into pets

  • [Fix] Dark Judicator Title now properly appears above character name

  • [Update] Removed God of War Socket 5% from final boss

  • [Update] Brighan Steak now drops 3-6 instead of 1

  • [Update] Grilled Snail Cheese now drops 3-6 instead of 1

  • [Update] Increased Soul Stone 40% -> Soul Stone 100%
    
    
    

• Mitera Terror Boss

  • Drops have been improved

    • [INFO] This change was reverted due to an automatic bug-check and will be reintroduced in the next update.

  • Announcements/countdowns upon statue (to summon) spawn and destruction, as well as boss spawn, will be enabled

    • Announcements will appear both in-game via megaphone and on Discord countdowns.

• Aloken

  • Optimized code for "Pibistab" skill to fix a bug that caused it to sometimes inflict 0 damage despite successful cast.

• Trie Muse

  • Fixed issue with Bone Shard getting interrupted when casted.