Update General Patch Notes: November 3rd, 2023

Welcome to the general Patch notes for the Halloween 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 balance and client changes, they will be included here.


General Changes

• The Halloween Event is now active! Click here for details.
  • The Freemarket Entrance has received a fully new Halloween makeover!
  • From this patch onwards, the Toymaker questline (Haunted House) will be permanent content, instead of seasonal.

• The first two tiers of our HP Challenge system have been released!
  • Everyone's current Challenge progress has been wiped.
  • The rewards for clearing each tier can now be claimed: 5m mesos for tier 1, Albatross pet for tier 2.
• To go along with the final release, the Challenge system has been altered:
  • [General]
    • Mages will now be able to claim MP via Challenges, along with HP. Rosa's dialogues have been updated to reflect this change.
      • An upcoming post will provide more information about the addition of MP rewards for Magicians.
    • Class-related challenge tests are now marked as [completable] if the player has yet to finish their quest by speaking with the job instructor; will turn into [completed] after.
    • Dialogs and quest menu text for questlines for both tier 1 and 2 have been reworked.
    • Dummy targets in the Training Map will no longer influence Challenge progress.
    • Maps for the Travel challenges have been altered.
    • Fixed a bug that allowed for instant completion of Test of Skill challenges (Tier 2 class challenge).
  • [Tier 1 questline]
    • The droprate of Fierce Fang has been reduced.
    • The ingredients to prepare the Translucent Potion have changed, to include more areas of Victoria Island.
    • Arel's chase is now a timed quest.
    • A new hunting quest has been introduced, before the player is able to enter the Cursed Sanctuary to fight Jr. Balrog.

• [Client] Initial support for monster Teleport skill has been implemented.

• Butler PQ (Halloween) has been revamped:
  • Rooms have been renamed, from First, Second and Third Room to Chimney Room, Mirror Room, Ghost Hall.
  • Chimney Room: platforms in three of the four jump quests have been altered, to reduce discrepancies in difficulty.
  • A new room has been introduced, Library Room: it will bring a new puzzle to solve, after the Mirror Room and before the Ghost Hall.

• Ravana and Jiaoceng fights now only require one person to sign up.

Map Changes

• "Grandmaster Council Hall": stunned mobs will no longer fall under ground level.
• "Crimsonwood Mountain - Cavern of Fear": stunned mobs will no longer fall under ground level.
• "Zipangu - 2095 Park" : stunned mobs will no longer fall under ground level.
• "Zipangu - 2102 Shibuya" (only Dunas2 map): some footholds in the bottom right area of the map have been altered/removed, to prevent projectiles from getting stuck in an invisible wall.
• "Ellin Forest - Western Region of Mossy Tree Forest 2": removed a duplicate floating copy of npc Shadrion.

Mob Changes

• Crimson Guardian: various hitboxes have been fixed, and the vertical attack range has been slightly increased.
• Our ongoing work on Neo Tokyo quality continues:
  
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  • Aufheben: the horizontal hitbox on her Dash attack has been slightly decreased, to better match the animation.
  • The following monsters have had various hitboxes fixed, and the timing of their damage now better matches the animation cues:
    • Summoned Overlord
    • Overlord
    • Afterlord Type A
    • Afterlord
    • Prototype Lord
    • Iruvata
    • Maverick A
    • Maverick Form B
    • Maverick B
    • Maverick Y
    • Maverick S
    • Maverick V

Skill Changes

Warriors:

• Monster Magnet now once again works against Dunas, Dunas2 and Pink Bean.

Bugfixes

Npcs:

• Philia's name has been corrected to Phyllia.
• Tess (Altaire Camp NPC) now blinks at a human speed.

Items:

• "Phylia's Warp Powder" has been renamed to "Phyllia's Warp Powder".
• "Scrolls for Pole-Arm for Accuracy" names and descriptions have been corrected to mention "Pole Arm", without the dash.
• Server-sided data for Grey Mouse pet has been correctly reimported.
  • This fixes issues with invalid pet expiration data, which caused the game to crash when attempting a revive via Water of Life, or problems when attempting to retrieve the pet from Cash Shop.
• Stonetooth Sword walking frames have been fixed.
• Aquarium Chair no longer displays invalid healing amounts above the player's head.
• Springy Worm description now correctly mentions "Ludibrium", instead of "Ludirium".
• Noble Maple Rod no longer crashes the client with certain skill animations.
• "Party Time!" (pet equip) now mentions Peppy Slime instead of a nonexistant Excited Slime.
• "Black-hearted Earrings" (pet equip) has been readded to the Cash Shop.

Skills:

• [Night Lord] Shadow Web now once again follows the correct success rate per skill level.

Maps:

• "Forest of Dead Trees IV": Richie now correctly respawns every 3 hours, down from a glitched 24 days.
• "The Road to the Garden of 3 Colors": corrected a map tooltip to mention "Garden of Green I", instead of the nonexistant "Garden of Blue I".
• "Cave of Life - Horntail's Cave": the exit crystal no longer attempts to respawn the HT summon reactor, when a non-instanced player leaves the map with it.
  • This fixes an issue where Staff characters could accidentally trigger a double HT fight, by leaving the map via crystal.
• "Zipangu - 2102 Shibuya": fixed certain footholds to no longer cause players/pets to get stuck while falling.
• "Crimsonwood Mountain - Crimsonwood Keep" : various disconnected footholds have been fixed, and other details and missed foothold handlings have been added.

Mobs:

• Jack-o-Lantern death animation no longer ends with a random frame from Desert Rabbit.

Quests:

• Npc name "Phyllia" has been standardized in the following quests:
  • "Dr. De Lang, the Missing Alchemist";
  • "Phyllia's Pendant";
  • "For Phyllia";
  • "Re-acquiring Dr. De Lang's Notes".
• "Yoona's Quiz on Shopping 3" has been reworked:
  • The question is now about which item of the 4 presented is not available in our Cash Shop.
  • Choosing a wrong answer will hint at the correct Cash Shop path for the given item.
• "Building a Ventilation Fan": removed white space before the quest name.
• "The Door to Bai Shan": in-progress quest menu text has been properly translated.
• "A Puzzling Code": corrected syntax of the in-progress quest menu text.
• "Do Gong's Spell": fixed a typo in Do Gong's dialog.