Update General Patch Notes: December 28th, 2023

Welcome to the general Patch notes for the Christmas Event 2023 patch!

This post will contain a comprehensive list of fixes, changes and new implementations for the server side of things. Because this patch includes less client (v1.22) changes, they will be included here.


General Changes

• The Christmas Event is now active! Click here for details.
  • A new custom Timer graphic will be used in the two Snowman PQs.
  • The Freemarket Entrance received a seasonal makeover!
  • A permanent snow effect has been added to the Freemarket Entrance, Happyville area, and the new event PQs.

• NPCs in Happyville and Santa's House have been reorganized:
  • Simon (Shalom Temple entrance) has been added.
  • Various NPCs are now permanent parts of the maps, and will correctly appear as green dots in the minimap:
    • Roodolph;
    • Snow Spirit;
    • Santa's Helper;
    • Fur Puff.
  • Some NPCs have been repositioned.

• The shine effects for rare items on the ground has been updated.
  
  Spoiler: comparison

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  The change affects Gachapon, NX cards, Raffle tickets.

• [client] The magic damage formula has been updated.
• [client] Forced max speed/jump has been added to APQ and CWKPQ bonuses.
  • More info on these changes in our Balance Changes thread.

Spoiler: A list of more technical changes

• Friendly monsters (eg. the Moon Bunny in Henesys PQ) now support receiving fixed damage by other monsters, instead of being forced to take calculated damage.
  • Currently, this only affects the new Event PQ.

• A new system to automatically enable/disable specific content is being implemented.
  • This will help us quickly act on features that break or give problems, without the need to manually disable them from the code.
  • Currently, this is only enabled for event-specific content.

Bugfixes
Items:

• "Grandma's Pumpkin Pie" can no longer be dropped, by ignoring the warning popup.

Maps:

• Fixed a typo in Yulete's Office stage of Magatia PQ (Yulete now leaves the lab "hurriedly", instead of "humedly").

Mobs:

• Fixed a graphical glitch on one frame of Heron's ground slam attack.

Quests:

• "Make Your Style!" (Islander style randomizer quest): choosing to not change any style will now correctly award experience.
  
• Name references across the Thailand questline have been corrected. This affects the following names:
  • "Captain Nares" corrected to "Captain Nareth";
    
  • "Snakelina" corrected to "Apaporn";
    
  • "Uncle Pluto" and "Long Tup" corrected to "Lung Tup".