Pet Simulator 99 has recently released the Titani?c Present update, and it is packed with exciting new features and rewards. You can now grow your Titanic Present by adding pets to it, with a chance to get rare, huge pets like the Icy Phoenix, Reindeer Agony, and even the Titanic Icy Phoenix. For more details, check out the patch notes.

Pet Simulator 99 Titanic Present update patch notes

Titanic Present

• The bigger your present, the better the rewards!
• Add pets to your Titanic Present and watch it grow.
• Chance for the HUGE Icy Phoenix, HUGE Reindeer Agony, and even a TITANIC Icy Phoenix.
• Open it anytime, but the more you add, the luckier it becomes.
• Located at the end of the Holiday World.

Limited Titanic Pet

• Unwrap your Titanic Present and see what Santa Paws gave you!
• Don’t miss the chance to claim the limited-time TITANIC Icy Phoenix.
• Boost your Titanic Present’s titanic luck and get unwrapping!

Limited Huge Pets

• New HUGE pets found in the event, minigame, final egg, and more!

  • Huge Reindeer Agony - Found in the Titanic Present! (rare)
  • Huge Icy Phoenix - Found in the Titanic Present!
  • Huge Holly Corgi - Earned from the final egg!
  • Huge Snowflake Pegasus - Found in Snowstorm Survival!
  • Huge Lit Octopus - Earned from rebirthing your Christmas Tree!
  • Huge Gingerbread Dragon - Reward in the Gingerbread Clan Battle!
  • Huge Naughty Cat - Earned from the Titanic Present Leaderboard!
  • Huge Rudolf - Earned from the Huge Train Gifts!

New Zones

• Each zone is packed full of holiday festivities!

  • Open your Titanic present, survive the snowstorm, watch the huge train, combine lucky gingerbread, and more.
  • Complete quests to unlock all of the event areas!

New Eggs

• Explore the new zones and hatch from 3 new eggs!

  • The final pets in these eggs give a huge boost to your Titanic Present growth.
  • Plus, unlock the chance to hatch the new Huge Holly Corgi in the final egg.

New Pets

• Hatch 6 pets from the Holiday World!

  • Including favorites like Lit Octopus and Naughty Cat.
  • Plus, the newest best pet, the Icy Phoenix!

Huge Gift Train

• All aboard the Huge Gift Train!

  • This train constantly drops off presents with HUGE pets.
  • Watch for your name - hopefully, you get lucky!
  • Located at the end of the Holiday World.

Huges for Luck

• Trade Santa Paws HUGE pets for HUGE luck!

  • The more you contribute, the higher your luck multiplier.
  • This is the key to unwrap HUGE and TITANIC pets.
  • Santa Paws will be dropping ALL the gifts next week.
  • Check the final zone for the countdown!

Lucky Gingerbread

• Trying to increase your luck even more? There are 4 types of boosters to supercharge your present unwrapping.

  • Lucky Gingerbread: +10 luck points
  • Super Lucky Gingerbread: +200 luck points
  • Ultra Lucky Gingerbread: +3,000 luck points
  • Mega Lucky Gingerbread: +10,000 luck points

• These are dropped from Gingerbread Breakables!

Lucky Gingerbread Machine

• Craft your Lucky Gingerbread into even better boosts!

  • Up to Ultra Lucky Gingerbread may be crafted.
  • Located in the Elf Village zone.

Titanic Present Upgrades

• Boost your Titanic Present with Present Upgrades!

  • Unlock even better Huges, Titanics, and rewards!
  • Located at the end of the Holiday World.

Snowstorm Survival

• Fight the freeze in Snowstorm Survival!

  • Cut logs, feed the bonfire, and stay warm to survive.
  • Expand the melted snow radius to uncover hidden chance eggs!
  • The bigger the fire, the better eggs you’ll find.
  • Great for hatching rare pets to grow your Titanic Present!
  • Located in the Christmas Valley zone.

Christmas Tree Refresh

• Keep on decorating those Christmas trees!

  • New HUGE with the same place and same ornaments.
  • Snow Globes are now dropped from the Titanic Present!

Hatching Contest

• Rise to the top of the leaderboard!

  • Trade Santa Paws the most HUGE pets!
  • Located at the end of the Holiday World.

Gingerbread Clan Battle

• Introducing the Gingerbread Clan Battle!

  • Add the most Titanic Present pets.
  • The clans with the most points wins!
  • Top 1: Gold clan medal, Huge Rainbow Gingerbread
  • Top 2-3: Huge Golden Gingerbread
  • Top 4-10: Huge Gingerbread
  • Top 10: Silver clan medal, Gingerbread Hoverboard, Gingerbread Booth, Clan Gift
  • Top 50: Bronze clan medal, Gingerbread Booth, Clan Gift
  • Top 500: Clan Gift

• Rewards are given to all members of the clan.

Super Holiday Pack

• Unwrap the magic of the Super Holiday Pack!

  • Features rare pets, exclusive items, and super surprises.
  • Only available during the event!

Candy Cane Pack

• Sweet treats like limited-time pets and items!

  • Includes the Titanic Nutcracker Cat and Huge Nutcracker Cat - this month only!
  • And the Huge Candycane, Candy Cane Booth, and Candy Cane Hoverboard!
  • Plus, exclusive eggs, active huge eggs, and more!

Fixes

• Fixed advent calendar to allow for catching up to 13 days.
• Added more hidden presents.
• Changed elf to be in new final egg.

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The Early Access launch of Path of Exile 2 �a sequel that's been several years in the making �has been met with a pretty fantastic reception. As well as a review score of "Very Positive" on Steam, Grinding Gears' newest action RPG also pulled in over half a million players in just a couple of days.

So far so good, it seems. Although, it's not even been a week yet. It's very much early days, still. Much work needs ??to be done, and no time like the present, as the developer has sent out the first major patch for the game.

Version 0.1.0d of Path of Exile 2 has started rolling out, and comes shortly after GGG announced it had initiated some QOL changes to the game, with promises that more would be on the way, al??ong with the full patch notes. Well, today is that day, and the update comes with a host of adjustments, tweaks, and bug fixes, as well as chan?ges to trigger gems and energy gain.

Path of Exile 2 version 0.1.0d patch notes

You could read the full changelog here. However, I've handily pasted it below to save you from opening a new??? browser tab. Why yes, I am generous.

General Improvements and Changes

• Passive Block chance now applies to blockable hits from all directions, as opposed to just hits from in front.
• Player size is now set to Zero units while dodge rolling instead of One unit.
• Some smaller monsters can now be pushed while dodge rolling. This includes monsters such as the Adorned Beetles in Keth.
• Inscribed Ultimatums and Djinn Baryas now display whether you will obtain Ascendancy Skill Points upon completing the Trial of Chaos or Trial of the Sekhemas respectively.
• Removed World Map Pins for encounters that were not from specific locations in Areas. ie. From Monster drops.
• Improved attack in place behaviour.
• Rain of Arrows and Firestorm now have a hit-rate limit to prevent cases of them absolutely obliterating very large bosses. This will have little to no impact outside of boss fights with very large hitboxes.
• Leech has been buffed.
• Boneshatter now more reliably hits your target.
• The duration of Armour Break has been increased to 12 seconds (previously 6).
• To improve performance, Incinerate now creates circular areas of ignited ground instead of segments.
• Added CTRL+Click shortcut to open the Currency Exchange at the appropriate NPCs.
• Added a button to travel to the Trial of Chaos on the world map.
• Added art for Close Combat Support.
• Added 2D art for the Defiance of Destiny Unique Amulet.
• Added "Ascendancy Skill Points" as a keyword, which details how sets of Ascendancy Points are obtained.
• Added search functionality for Gemcutting and vendor inventories when using a controller. Keybinds for searching Stash on a controller have also been updated.
• Added Gemcutting restrictions option for Gamepad.
• Added suggested Supports for Time of Need.
• Updated the suggested Supports for Bonestorm.
• Added an option for opening the Trade website to the main menu for consoles.
• Runes now sell to vendors for more Gold.
• Updated art for Reserved Life and Mana.
• Updated the description on Runes to clarify that once socketed they cannot be replaced.
• Auras and Curses that affect ally or enemy resistances now display values in the Skill popout panel.
• Tweaked the audio of the Kiwi Pets, Chimera Pet, and Baby Crowbell Pet to reduce their impact in town areas.
• Updated the wording on the Invoker's "...and Protect me from Harm" Ascendancy Passive Skill to clarify its functionality.
• Updated the description on Hexblast to clarify that it only detonates a single Curse per Enemy in its radius.
• Updated the description on Fiery Death Support to clarify that the Supported Skill does not need to kill the ignited enemy itself.
• Reduced the defenses provided to monsters by the Magma Barrier modifier.
• Walking Goliaths no longer use their suicide attack if they are Rare.

Trigger Gems and Energy Gain

Trigger gem en?ergy gain was not in the right place, and it was far too easy to use ailments to trigger spells. One problem with the previous system is that if we balanced it to make triggering happen in boss fights then the triggering would happen far too often during clearing??. In order to address this, we are now making "Monster Power" part of the calculation for energy gain.

This means that it's far easier to trigger skills from Unique Monsters than it is from normal monsters, but you also hit many more normal monsters when fighting. Another issue was using low-level skills with unconditional ailment applications such as Flame Wall to igni?te enemies for triggering. In order to make the?? source of the ignite matter, we are making the energy gain dependent on the strength of the ignite. We have also rebalanced all energy gain across the board.

Ultimatum Changes

• Generally improved balance across the board with Ultimatum monsters, bosses and modifiers. Mostly targeting outliers that were too difficult and bringing them in line.
• The monster density of Ultimatum encounters has been made more consistent.
• Stormcaller Runes, Blood Globules, Heart Tethers and Impending Doom rings no longer spawn while a player is on a lift or near the altars in the Vaal Soul Core room.
• Fixed a bug where Player Minions could get stuck at the top of the lift in the Trials of Chaos.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug which caused enemies to be Primed for Stun or Electrocute earlier than intended while in a party.
• Fixed a bug where Gemling Legionnaires with the Integrated Efficiency Ascendancy Passive Skill allocated could lose their 3 additional Skill Slots if they were empty when entering a new area.
• Fixed a bug with party member reviving when using WASD input where you could revive party members from too far away.
• Fixed a bug where "Waystones found have a chance to be a tier higher" on the Atlas Passive Tree wasn't working.
• Fixed a bug where the Audio Mix setting was not being remembered when restarting the game.
• Fixed a bug where one of the small Passive Skills in the Fleshcrafter cluster was not connected to the Notable Passive Skill. It is possible for your Passive Skill Tree to be reset if you had this cluster allocated, apologies!
• Fixed a bug where you could not open a portal in The Riverbank in Cruel difficulty.
• Fixed a bug where some of Zalmarath, the Colossus' skills could persist after their death.
• Fixed a bug where opening a full-screen panel while disenchanting could prevent you from performing any actions until you relogged.
• Fixed a bug where some fire spells, such as Volatile Dead and Incinerate, were not functioning correctly with Raging Spirits.
• Fixed a bug where "Buffs on you expire Slower" from the Prolonged Assault Notable Passive Skill and other Chronomancer Ascendancy Passive Skills was applying to Debuffs and other effects as well as Buffs.
• Fixed a bug where non-reviving Minions were spawning a Remnant from the Grim Feast Buff when dying in your presence.
• Fixed a bug Infernalists with the Pyromantic Pact Ascendancy Passive Skill allocated were considered to be on Low Infernal Flame if they were at 50% of Maximum Infernal Flame or lower, instead of 35%.
• Fixed a bug where the world map icon for Candlemass in Cruel was not updating correctly.
• Fixed a bug where you could be unable to upgrade Gems despite satisfying the Attribute Requirement by having the Adaptive Capability Gemling Legionnaire Ascendancy Passive Skill allocated.
• Fixed a bug where Fiery Death Support was not dealing damage correctly.
• Fixed Infusion Support Gems on Herald skills applying the gain damage as extra elemental damage to all attacks instead of just the damage from the Herald skill
• Fixed a bug where Expedition encounters could fail to generate in the Decay Map.
• Fixed a bug where Quality on the Sacrifice Skill was causing Minions to Revive 0-5% more slowly, instead of more quickly.
• Fixed a bug where the exit portal for the final boss in Trial of the Sekhemas did not visually display upon killing the boss.
• Fixed a bug where socketed Skills you didn't meet the requirements for were missing their name in the Skills menu when using a controller.
• Fixed a bug where the Elemental Storm skill granted by the Stormweaver's Tempest Caller Ascendancy Passive Skill could sometimes place the storm underneath you.
• Fixed a snapshotting bug with the "Loads an Additional Bolt" Crossbow modifier.
• Fixed a bug where the Contagion Skill was not spreading Poison.
• Fixed a bug where Tempest Bell could become invisible.
• Fixed a bug where NPCs were missing their name labels in Hideouts when using a controller.
• Fixed a bug where signing into a guest account on PlayStation 5 could delete your friends list in-game.
• Fixed a bug where you could sometimes be unable to enter your hideout on PlayStation 5.
• Fixed eight instance crashes.
• Fixed six client crashes.
• Fixed a client crash that could occur on Xbox.
• Fixed three client crashes that could occur on PlayStation 5.

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CookieRun: Kingdom has recently revealed its upcoming update and it is packed with cool stuff. This update is set to go live on October 16, 2024, and will bring a new Beast Raid: Avatar of Ruin.?

Not only that, this update will also feature a new icing theme where you can collect the 'Great ??Destroyer' items by playing Beast Raid mode and events. For more details, here are the patch notes.

CookieRun Kingdom October 2024 update patch notes

Beast Raid: Avatar of Ruin

Overview

• The great Avatar of Ruin has appeared, clad in iron and ready to destroy the Cookie World.
• Defeat the new boss in Beast Raid!
• Clear Crispia, Stage 8-30, to unlock Beast Raid.
• Fight the Avatar of Ruin and claim rewards!

Beast Raid Details

• Beast Raid is a time-limited battle mode.
• You can enter Beast Raid using Beast Raid Tickets.
• Beast Raid has 5 difficulty stages:

  • Easy
  • Normal
  • Hard
  • Expert
  • Master (will be added in a separate update)

• Difficulty stages can be selected without restrictions; default is Normal.
• Master difficulty can be unlocked by clearing Expert.

Battle Mechanics

• Beast Raid is divided into 3 stages using 3 Cookie decks.
• Stages change depending on the boss's HP.
• Avatar of Ruin wears armor; destroy body parts to stagger and increase damage dealt.
• You can target specific body parts for greater damage.
• After one leg is destroyed, the boss deals increased damage until the other leg is destroyed.
• Avatar's right leg is vulnerable to Water damage; left leg to Earth damage. Other types will be partially ignored.
• Phase 2 begins after dealing enough damage, making the boss grow more powerful and inflict Burn periodically.

Scoring and Rewards

• Rank is determined by points earned in battle; season rewards are based on rank.
• Final score is recorded until defeat; claim a portion of Stage rewards.
• Rewards include Rank rewards, Stage rewards, and Special Mission rewards.
• Purchase items in the Beast Raid Shop using Destruction Coins.

Beast Raid Shop

• Great Destroyer Icings are available for purchase.

  • Can be purchased once; displayed as “Sold Outâ€?afterward.

• Remaining Destruction Coins convert to Coins, delivered via in-game mailbox after season ends.

Missions

• Clear missions to earn mission points for Beast Raid Mission rewards.

  • There are 5 mission rewards; remaining points convert to Coins once the season ends.

Team Ideas Feature

• Recommends Cookies and Treasures to defeat the Beast Raid boss.
• If you lack recommended Cookies or Treasures, their spaces will remain empty.

New Icing Theme

• New icing theme, “The Great Destroyer,â€?added.
• Claim the new icing set by participating in events and Beast Raid.
• Beast Raid Shop items:

  • Hair: Disheveled Hair
  • Face: Crown of the Great Destroyer

• Beast Raid Missions:

  • Gear: Battle Axe of Fire & Jam
  • Hats:

    • Eternal Flames (Expert clear reward)
    • Wheel of Eternal Flames (Master clear reward)

  • Dough: Spicy Dough (Play in Beast Raid x3 reward)

Clear Beast Raid Rewards

• Clear Beast Raid on Normal for the first time to earn:

  • Outfit: Armor of the Great Destroyer

• Icing Collection Theme Reward:

  • Eyes: Burning Eyes
  • Lips: Grin of Frenzy

Miner Cheesebird’s Virtual Mine Exploration

• Explore the Virtual Mine to dig up various rewards and Nutmeg Tiger Cookie’s Soulstones.

Mining Mechanics

• Mine rocks using tools to obtain various rewards.
• There are 65 floors; deeper levels yield more Soulstones.
• Mining equipment can weaken rocks; they are destroyed when density reaches 0.

Mining Tools

• 8-bit Pickaxe: Select and destroy a rock within one-tile range.
• 8-bit Choco Bomb: Destroys a rock and surrounding ones within one-tile range.
• 8-bit Cherry Bomb: Destroys a line of rocks within one-tile range.
• 8-bit Rocket Firecracker: Destroys any rock and surrounding ones.
• 8-bit Horizontal Firecracker: Destroys a horizontal line of rocks.
• 8-bit Vertical Firecracker: Destroys a vertical line of rocks.
• 8-bit Detection Radar: Detects hidden treasures.

Chests

• Claim Nutmeg Tiger Cookie’s Soulstones from Golden Chests on each floor.
• If Cookie is unavailable, it converts to Epic Soul Essence and Mileage Points.
• Regular Chests provide items like mining tools, Rainbow Cubes, and Crystals.

New Costumes

• New costumes for Sorbet Shark Cookie and Peppermint Cookie:

  • Epic: Sorbet Shark Cookie’s Frazzled Concierge
  • Epic: Peppermint Cookie’s Mystical Hotel Porter

• New Legendary costume for Black Pearl Cookie:

  • Legendary: Black Pearl Cookie’s Crimson Specter of the Abyss

New Magic Candy

• Peppermint Cookie gains a new Magic Candy: Refreshing Waves.

  • Dispels Burn from allies and casts an HP Shield.
  • Water-type Cookies receive amplified effects and extra damage to monsters.

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Arena Breakout has released their Season 6 update, which brings a bunch of new stuff in the game. Starting off, we get four new weapons: MP5K, CPW, G3, and SG550, ?and three new medical supplies: Combat Stim, Auto-Immune Injection, and Breakpoint Stim.

Apart from that, the developers have done some reworks for several maps for smoother gameplay. To know more, here's the patch notes for Arena Breakout Season 6.

Arena Breakout season 6 update patch notes

New weapons

• MP5K Submachine Gun

  • Strong firepower for close-range combat.
  • Excellent for personal defense.
  • Uses 9x19mm ammo.

• CPW Submachine Gun

  • Delayed recoil bolt.
  • Single and burst firing modes.
  • Uses 5.7x28mm ammo.

• G3 Assault Rifle

  • Roller-delayed blowback mechanism.
  • Famed for accuracy and damage.
  • Uses 7.62x51mm ammo.

• SG550 Assault Rifle

  • High rate of fire and great accuracy.
  • Better suited for long-range combat.
  • Uses 5.56x45mm ammo.

New medical supplies

• Combat Stim

  • Enhancing injection for endurance.
  • Still in trial stage; side effects unknown.

• Auto-Immune Injection

  • Composite medicine injection.
  • Enhances unconditioned reflexes in muscles.

• Breakpoint Stim

  • Unstable effects; may enhance hearing and stamina.
  • Can trigger body's repair functions but may cause severe immune reactions.

New attachments

• M4A1 extended handguard
• M4A1 tactical handguard
• M110 special handguard
• AK tactical handguard
• FAL lightweight stock
• FAL stable stock
• P90 bottom rail upper receiver
• More attachments added!

Map updates

Mine

• Redesign of EI Milar Village region:

  • Major changes to roads and mountains.
  • Added 3 new areas: Crash Site, EI Milar Village, Water Refill Station.
  • New extraction point on the western mountain.

• Extended southern tunnel of the Freight Station.
• Improved railroads for vehicle stability.
• New Mine Lockdown mode added.

Port

• Teams spawn further apart.
• Improved extraction points:

  • North of the Post Office, Administration West, Western Outpost, Tulip Street East: Activated at various times during raids.
  • Sewer Entrance: Activation time adjusted.
  • New Havana Apartments: Whistle required for activation.
  • Andrews Street Corner: No-backpack extraction point.
  • Improved valid area for extraction points.

• No keys needed for Guard Room or Port Authority West Gate.

Armory

• Central Gate now fully opens when switch flipped.
• Changed cover layout in some areas.
• Improved indoor lighting.

TV Station

• Central Gate extraction activation time moved to 10 minutes after raid starts.

New events

• Operation Blackout

  • Event Time: All S6
  • Exclusive rewards available.

• Farm Forbidden Zone

  • Event Time: All S6
  • Increased danger, but valuable rewards.

• Mine Lockdown Zone

  • Event Time: All S6
  • Strengthened enemy defenses and increased loot.

• Northridge Royale

  • Event Time: Weekends starting Oct. 19
  • True Battle Royale format with no gear fear.

• Limited-Time Mode: Northridge Forbidden Zone

  • Event Time: Oct. 17 â€?Oct. 23
  • High risk, high reward.

• Faction Event Stage I: Iron Skies

  • Investigation into humanitarian aid attack.

• Faction Event: Shattered Iron

  • Event Time: Oct. 11 â€?Oct. 24
  • Special convoys spawn in Mine.

New Release, new rewards

• Log in between Oct. 11 and Oct. 13 for a limited-time Universal Key!
• From Oct. 11 â€?Oct. 16, complete the update for coins and other prizes.

Season 6 rewards

• Search Supply Points Daily

  • Event Time: All S6
  • Rare rewards available after first raid of the day.

• Weekly Scratch-Off

  • Event Time: All S6
  • Log in weekly for chances to win rewards.

System improvements

• Overhauled main missions.
• Evita and associated missions taken offline.
• New contact: Lyle Moreno.
• Key Equip function improved.
• Skins for throwables added to Ammo Quick Equip screen.
• Quick Kits can now be used for various skins.
• Military Supply event access changed.
• Improved personal info screen with medals section.
• Lobby layout improved.

Balance adjustments

• Improved recoil control and accuracy for various weapons.
• Adjustments to peek mechanics and character mobility.
• Enhanced stopping power and armor penetration resistance.

Other fixes and improvements

• Soundprint adjustments based on the player's sound indicator.
• Improved character animations in third-person view.
• Enhanced hip-fire and recoil recovery for weapons.

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The latest Adopt Me! Halloween event update brings exciting new features, including a brand-new mini-game and plenty of fun activities. Purple Pumpkins are s??catt?ered around in different locations, which you can collect and redeem for various items like pet wear, creatures, and more.

T?here is also a Cricket's Tile Hop mini-game that?? you can play to earn Candy Corn. Let's dive into the Halloween update patch notes.

Adopt Me! Halloween event update patch notes

Cricket’s Tile Hop

• Navigate through the tiled Lab alongside other players.
• Go first to earn more Candy Corn.
• Don't worry about falling; you'll respawn.
• Use tornadoes to progress through stages.
• Collect Purple Pumpkins along the way.

Purple Pumpkin Vending Machine

• Collect Purple Pumpkins throughout Adoption Island.

  • Locations include minigames, the Sky Castle, and the Neighborhood.

• Team up with friends to find all the Purple Pumpkins each day.
• An increasing number of Pumpkins will appear during the 4-week event.
• Note: Purple Pumpkins will not be purchasable with Robux during this event.

New Creatures and Pet Wear

• Creatures Available:

  • Frankenfeline: 10 Purple Pumpkins or 3,600 Candy Corn (Common)
  • Indian Flying Fox: 61,000 Candy Corn (Ultra Rare)
  • Pumpkin Friend: 150 Purple Pumpkins (Ultra Rare)
  • Grim Dragon: 1,000 Robux (Legendary)

• Pet Wear Items:

  • Fang Necklace: 1 Purple Pumpkin or 550 Candy Corn
  • Monster Friend Hat: 3 Purple Pumpkins or 1,300 Candy Corn
  • Witch Nose: 3 Purple Pumpkins or 1,050 Candy Corn
  • Sorcerer Wand: 6 Purple Pumpkins or 2,450 Candy Corn
  • Slime Shades: 2 Purple Pumpkins or 750 Candy Corn
  • Web Cape: 7 Purple Pumpkins or 2,600 Candy Corn
  • Tiny Age-up Potions: Purple Pumpkins
  • Age-up Potion: 9 Purple Pumpkins

• Vending Machine stock will change weekly, but pet wear will be available for Candy Corn throughout the entire 4-week event.

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Clash Royale revealed their October 2024 update and it seems ?like it is going to be an exciting one. Supercell, the developer of the title, revamped both Lucky Drops and Pass Royale to make it more rewarding for players.

Lucky Drops will now have different rarities ranging from one star to five stars, while Pass Royale will include a bunch of extra rewards like Lucky Drops after completing the pass. Plus, they are also introducing a new champion card, “Goblinstein,�and a card evolution, “Electro Dragon.�/p>

Clash Royale October 2024 update patch notes

New Pass Royale

User Interface Improvements

• New user interface.
• Improved value on the Free Pass.
• Added an Evolution Wild Shard to the Free Pass.
• Animated banner included in the Free Pass.

Lucky Drops

• Earn Lucky Drops on both Free and Paid Passes.
• Recurring Lucky Drops available.
• Earn Lucky Drops after completing the Pass (Free and Paid).
• Five rarities: Ranging between 1-star and 5-star.
• Earn more Lucky Drops daily: Find them on Daily Tasks and Pass Royale.
• New animation for Lucky Drops.
• Guaranteed 2 or 3-star Lucky Drops available on the Pass.
• More items available: Emotes, banners, random cards, and shards.
• Special giveaway: 30 Lucky Drops (6 per day from October 2nd to 6th).
• Note: While individual Lucky Drop value decreased, earn 5 times more Lucky Drops each season as a free-to-play player.

Improved Daily Tasks

• Five tasks available.
• Up to four Lucky Drops per day.
• Earn more crowns with Daily Tasks.
• Streak feature: Complete daily tasks for extra spins.
• Note: New features will be tested for the first four weeks; limited player access.

Evolution Updates

King Tower Evolution

• Two Evolution slots for King Tower Level 11.
• Second Evolution slot accessible from Level 30 / King Tower Level 11.

New Champion

• Goblinstein

  • Monster approaches enemy buildings while Doctor waits to spring the trap.
  • Doctor can electrify the link, damaging nearby enemies.
  • Players in Arena 11 and above will unlock Goblinstein and an emote for free.

Electro Dragon Evolution

• Evolved Electro Dragon's attack chains between targets infinitely and can hit the same target multiple times.

Additional Changes and Fixes

• Increased length of Boost Potion from 1 hour to 3 hours.
• Added reporting functionality for Clan Name and Description.
• Hovering troops (Royal Ghost and Battle Healer) now take damage from Earthquake, Goblin Drill spawn damage, and Royal Giant Evolution’s ability.
• Death damage will not affect Towers during Tiebreaker.
• End of support for Android 5 & 6 and iOS 12 & 13.
• Fixed issues with Deck Builder, Goblin Drill Evolution, and various troop interactions.

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Spectre Divide has dropped its September 24 updat?e, and it is bringing some cool changes to the Sponsor abilities, and more.

If you are playing this game for a while, you might face some issues with the usability of the Sponsor utilities. Worry not; Mountaintop Studios, the developers, have fixed this i?ssue to make the process much smoother.

Apart from that, Spectre Divide has also got a map update like Mill, Skyway, and Metro, along with so?me quality of life improvements to enhance your gamepl?ay experience.

Spectre Divide September 24 update patch notes

Sponsor updates

We wanted to enhance the responsiveness of equipping and ?using sponsor utility. The following changes aim to improve the “snappiness�of thrown ?projectile sponsor abilities, allowing for smoother and earlier use without precise timing.

General changes

• Equip animations for all thrown abilities can now be canceled 0.2 seconds earlier by activating the ability (beginning the throw).
• Throw animations have been sped up by 20%.

Impacted abilities

• Ghostlink
• Deadzone
• Pinnacle
• Splinter Grenade
• Flash Grenade
• Bloom
• Swarm Grenade
• Umbra
• Recon Wing
• Vector
• Nano Sphere
• Ryker
• Wave Scan
• Hull Mine
• Muu
• Patches
• Dazzler
• Hyper Dome

Additional updates by Sponsor

• Bloom Technologies

  • Twin Mend (E)

    • Increased the speed of the activate animation by 20%.
    • Holding Primary or Alt Fire once the activation window is open will execute the ability if you have a valid target.

• Ghostlink Collective

  • Partition (Q)

    • Holding Primary once the activation window is open will execute the ability.

• Vector Dynamics

  • Vector Wall (E)

    • Holding Primary or Alt Fire once the activation window is open will execute the ability.

• Pinnacle International

  • Splinter Grenade (Q)

    • Disabled friendly-fire damage.

• Morgen United

  • Meltdown (E)

    • Disabled friendly-fire damage.
    • [Editor’s note: Meltdown is currently still applying friendly-fire damage after this patch. We'll update this note as soon as there is a fix.]

Map updates

• Mill, Skyway, Metro

  • Improved ambient environment sound.

Quality of life improvements

• Improved the performance of weapon muzzle flashes.
• Enhanced performance of the Cyberlord weapon set VFX.
• Improved first-person equip animations for smoother transitions.
• Added hype music to the Victory Scene at match end.
• Added hype music to Flawless Round.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug causing teammate legs to appear jittery when strafing.
• Resolved an issue where Umbra’s Glare Burst would sometimes fly away and briefly reappear.
• Fixed the sound effect not playing when a new endorsement level is unlocked.
• Made minor improvements to translations.
• Fixed the Helion melee popping into view when equipping while using Adrenalink.
• Resolved an issue with BattlEye failing to load files at game launch, causing audio issues.
• Fixed performance drops that could occur when using equipment at elimination or round end.

Hotfixes

• Fixed an issue where ultra wide mode was broken when aiming down sights with sniper rifles (removing stretched resolution).
• Fixed visual effects for Duality persisting on teammates.
• Resolved a bug that prevented preview videos from playing in the store.
• Fixed several rare crashes.

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The latest update for CookieRun: Kingdom is co??ming on September 25, and it’s?? packed with some exciting stuff.

This update brings a new Wind element and a?? Wind??-type Artifact that’ll boost Wind damage and attack speed. Plus, there’s a Difficulty Challenge event where you can snag all sorts of rewards.

On top of that, Pastry Cookie is getting a new Magic Candy. Also, there is a promotion event for Wind Archer Cookie, which will reward you eve??ry time you level up.

CookieRun: Kingdom September 25 update patch notes

Cookie Alliance: Wind Element added

• The Cookie Alliance gets a new Artifact: Wind
• The Wind-type Artifact increases Wind-type damage.
• The upgrade effect gives additional damage proportional to attack speed.
• The upgrade cost for the Wind Artifact is equal to the other elements.
• Enjoy the Difficulty Challenge event to celebrate the addition of the Wind element in Cookie Alliance!

Cookie Alliance: Difficulty Challenge

Rewards

• Easy: Magic Cookie Cutters x3, EXP Star Jellies Lv.6 x10, Aurora Pillars x3, Aurora Bricks x3, Aurora Compasses x3
• Normal: Magic Cookie Cutters x5, EXP Star Jellies Lv.6 x30, Aurora Pillars x5, Aurora Bricks x5, Aurora Compasses x5
• Hard: Magic Cookie Cutters x7, EXP Star Jellies Lv.6 x50, Aurora Pillars x7, Aurora Bricks x7, Aurora Compasses x7
• Expert: Magic Cookie Cutters x10, EXP Star Jellies Lv.7 x70, Aurora Pillars x10, Aurora Bricks x10, Aurora Compasses x10
• Master: Magic Cookie Cutters x15, EXP Star Jellies Lv.7 x100, Aurora Pillars x15, Aurora Bricks x15, Aurora Compasses x15
• Hero: Magic Cookie Cutters x20, EXP Star Jellies Lv.8 x150, Aurora Pillars x20, Aurora Bricks x20, Aurora Compasses x20
• Event Duration: Sep 25, End of Maintenance â€?Oct 1, 23:59 (GMT+9)
• Event rewards will be delivered via your in-game mailbox by Oct 2 (GMT+9).
• You can claim all rewards up to the highest difficulty level you managed to clear during the event period.
• For example, if you clear HARD, you’ll get all the rewards for easy, normal, and hard.

New Magic Candy

• Pastry Cookie gets a new Magic Candy: Fervent Prayer
• After Pastry Cookie uses her skill, the number of her Lightbringer Bolt Ricochets and firing range will increase. She will also inflict additional damage if the target is vulnerable to Wind-type damage.

Event

Wind Archer Cookie Promotion Event

• Claim rewards in the Wind Archer Cookie promotion event!
• Rewards· Promote Wind Archer Cookie to â˜?: Life-sprouting Toppings (5 kinds) x1, Legendary Attunement Kits x50, Radiant Beascuit Dough x50, Juicy Stamina Jellies x150, Topping Pieces x100· Promote Wind Archer Cookie to â˜?: Life-sprouting Toppings (5 kinds) x2, Legendary Attunement Kits x100, Radiant Beascuit Dough x100, Juicy Stamina Jellies x300, Topping Pieces x200· Promote Wind Archer Cookie to â˜?: Life-sprouting Toppings (5 kinds) x3, Legendary Attunement Kits x150, Radiant Beascuit Dough x150, Juicy Stamina Jellies x400, Topping Pieces x300· Promote Wind Archer Cookie to â˜?: Life-sprouting Toppings (5 kinds) x4, Legendary Attunement Kits x200, Radiant Beascuit Dough x200, Juicy Stamina Jellies x500, Topping Pieces x400· Promote Wind Archer Cookie to â˜?: Life-sprouting Toppings (5 kinds) x5, Legendary Attunement Kits x300, Radiant Beascuit Dough x300, Juicy Stamina Jellies x700, Topping Pieces x500
• Event Duration: Sep 25, End of Maintenance â€?Oct 1, 23:59 (GMT+9)
• You can claim rewards even if you have fulfilled the requirements before the event starts.
• However, you have to log in at least once during the event period.
• Event rewards will be delivered via your in-game mailbox by Oct 2 (GMT+9).
• You can claim rewards up to the promotion level reached during the event period.· For example, if you promote Wind Archer Cookie to â˜?, you get Life-sprouting Toppings (5 kinds) x2, Legendary Attunement Kits x100, Radiant Beascuit Dough x100, Juicy Stamina Jellies x300, Topping Pieces x200.

Additions, changes, and improvements

• Rewards for daily activities
• Coins and Kingdom EXP from the Tree of Wishes have been increased.
• Rewards from Bounties have been increased.

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Update 29 of Pet Simulator 99 is here, and it’s packed with some pretty cool stuf??f. You can check out the new Elemental World and catch some awesome pets, like the Dark Dragon. Plus, you’ve got a shot at hatching the Electric Penguin from the n?ew eggs.

There’s also a fresh quest from Trainer Preston, and if you complete it, you’ll snag an elemental gift. On top of that, there are various changes, fixes, and new items added in this update. So, let’s dive into the patch notes for Pet Simulator 99 Update 29.

Pet Simulator 99 Update 29 patch notes

Elemental World

• Travel through all the elemental zones!
• Discover upgrades, relics, rewards, and vending machines.
• Unlock the final zone to meet with Trainer Preston!
• Catch pets that are roaming around—even HUGES!
• Travel to the new world with the cannon in the Void Hub!

Hatch Eggs

• Hatch your way through 5 new eggs!
• Chance to hatch the new HUGE Electric Penguin in the final egg!

Collect Pets

• Hatch 12 pets from the new zones!
• Including our favorites: Grass Bunny, Rock Monkey, and Psychic Seal
• Plus, the newest best pet, the Elemental Phoenix!

Limited Huge Pets

• New HUGE pets everywhere!
• Huge Water Zebra: Earned from Elemental Gifts!
• Huge Dark Dragon—caught from the Elemental World's roaming pets!
• Huge Electric Penguin: Earned from the Elemental World's final egg and roaming pets!

World

Capture Pets

• Pets are roaming around all of the zones!
• Help catch them for Trainer Preston's quest.
• Chance to find the HUGE Dark Dragon roaming around.

Trainer Preston

• Prove your worth to Trainer Preston!
• Catch pets to complete his quest.
• Receive an Elemental Gift as the reward!
• Get your quest from Preston in the final zone.

Huge Chest

• The huge chest takes a SUPER long time to break—even with friends.
• There is a good chance a HUGE pet spawns when it breaks.
• Also, it shows the damage-per-second (DPS) it’s receiving!
• Test out your enchant loadouts, pet teams, and more.
• The chest is located in the final zone.

Items

Pet Cube

• Find a pet, throw a pet cube, and cross your fingers!
• Pets can be hard to catch depending on their rarity.
• Drops from breakables, elemental gifts, and the huge chest.
• Looking to catch a super rare pet? Use the Ultra Pet Cube.

Ultra Pet Cube

• It’s better than a Pet Cube, it’s the Ultra Pet Cube!
• This cube gives you the best chance to catch a pet.
• If you find a HUGE pet, make sure to use this cube!
• Drops from breakables, elemental gifts, and the huge chest.

Elemental Gift

• Fire, ice, earth, and more packed into the Elemental Gift!
• Chance for limited-time items, and high tier potions and enchants.
• Huge Water Zebra, Elemental Booth, and Elemental Hoverboard
• Given as a reward for finishing Trainer Preston’s quests!

New Rank

• Added a new rank 32!

New Clan Battle

• Introducing the Reversed Clan Battle!
• Earn points by catching rare pets.
• The clans with the most points wins!

First Place

• Gold clan medal
• Huge Rainbow Reversed Cat

Second-Third Place

• Huge Golden Reversed Cat

Fourth-Tenth Place

• Huge Reversed Cat

Top 10

• Silver clan medal
• Reversed Hoverboard, Reversed Booth, and Clan Gift

Top 50

• Bronze clan medal
• Reversed Booth and Clan Gift

Top 500

• Clan Gift

Rewards are given to all members of the clan.

Exclusive

Soul Exclusive Egg

• Beyond the mortal realm lies the new Soul Egg!
• Featuring the brand new TITANIC Soul Owl!
• 2 new HUGE pets: HUGE Soul Cat and HUGE Soul Dragon
• Limited-time! Don’t miss out on your chance to hatch this egg!

Elemental Pack

• Unleash the elements! Power up with new limited-time pets & items!
• Chance for the new Huge Elemental Phoenix only in this pack!
• Plus, Titanic & Huge Kitsune, Elemental Hoverboard & Booth, and more!

Quality of Life

Added

• Added a supercomputer button to the main screen for rebirth 9 players
• Added an option to use multiple chest keys at one time (crystal, tech, chest, etc.)—maximum 100
• Added â€?â€?button in the index machine to show missing pets
• Added a fruit mastery perk to auto eat shiny fruit
• Added a friend label next to a friend’s name in a trade
• Added an option to consume multiple potions as a potion mastery perk
• Added circles on pets in the rainbow/gold machine that qualify for the rainbow/gold pet quest

Changed

• Changed the supercomputer to re-open after each use
• Changed the fuse machine dial to max out at 100 selected
• Changed the fruit notification to not show if you have the auto eat mastery

Fixed

• Fixed “@???â€?showing for names on new incoming mail
• Fixed the shiny nightmare hoverboard showing in the index machine
• Fixed the partner trading booth showing in the index machine
• Fixed a visual issue with eating max fruit
• Fixed clan invite bugging if the clan was deleted

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Anime Defenders has rele??ased the Double Evo upd?ate and it is packed with cool stuff. Small World Games, the developer of the game, also added a new unit list feature and made bosses 3x bigger, so you can spot them easily.

The game also intr??oduced six new mythic double evolutions and new story modes, like Magma Cave and Underwater City, with tons of fresh chapters and Infinite Modes.

There’s also a new Golden Knight Portal for snagging epic units and some?? sweet balance changes like better VIP rewards and cheaper Raid Shop items.

Anime Defenders Update 6 Double Evo patch notes

Quality of Life Changes

New Units list feature

Access units anywhere on the map easily by ac?cessing this menu.

New Passive and Ability description in the UI

Comprehensive explanations ?of each unit's passive abil??ity to enhance understanding and usage.

Bosses model size increased by 3x

Bosses are more easily seen.

6 new Mythic Double Evolution

• Mythics have a second evolution that makes them stronger than ever!
• Prime Commander* > Prime Leader**
• Proficient Sharpshooter* > Expert Sharpshooter**
• Flame Dragon God* > King of Dragons**
• Skull Paladin* > Skull Vindicator**
• Elf Hero* > Elf Saint**
• Curse Lord* > Curse Overlord**

Double Evolution Requirement(s)

• New Story Mode Items
• Portal Epic/Legendary Units
• Portal Items

2 New Story Modes

• 12 New Chapters & 2 New Infinite Mode!
• Magma Cave
• Underwater City

New Golden Knight Portal

• This Portal drops Secret, Mythic, Legendary & Epic Units.
• Use Legendary & Epic Portal Units to double evolve your Mythics!

Update 6 Balances

• Buff in VIP Quest rewards
• Cheaper Raid Shop rewards
• Trait Crystal market cap raised to 1500 gems

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Valorant 9.05 patch is here and the new update has?? buffed a couple of Agents and wea?pons. It also includes some map updates for consoles and here's a complete rundown of the patch notes.

Update 9.05 has buffed Astra after a long time and Chamber has his Rendezvous radius increased. Ares has also b?een buffed where it performs better while crouched. Omen has some new voice lines for Viper, Clove, Iso, and Vyse.

What’s new in Valorant patch 9.05?

Astra's Star count increases ??from 4 to 5, giving her the power back to maneuver between Smokes, Gravity Well, and Nova Pulse ??just the way it was before patch 7.04.

Chamber's Rendezvous gets a buff too where the teleport radius has been increased fr??om 13 to 18 meters. This will give the Sentinel more freedom when it comes to escaping gunfights or simply teleporting to another part of the map effectively.

Ares' nerf gets revered an??d it's as effective a?s the Odin while crouched. Its headshot multiplier has been adjusted from 2.4 to 2.5 which means you can kill an enemy with two shots on their heads if they are within 30 meters. Regarding map updates, Breeze enters Unrated and Swift Play queues on consoles.

Below you can find the full Valorant update 9.05 patch notes.

Full Valorant 9.05 patch notes

ALL PLATFORMS

AGENT UPDATES

Omen

• We’ve updated Omen’s voice lines and added interaction lines with Viper, Clove, Iso, and Vyse.

Chamber

• Rendezvous: TP radius increased from 13m >>> 18m

  • Chamber could use a light nudge to fight for more space on maps safely around his Rendezvous. More space around his Rendezvous beacon allows for more setups and allows Chamber to push out more aggressively and take unexpected angles.

Astra

• Stars: Increased from 4 >>> 5

  • After rebalancing some of Astra's power away from her Gravity Well and into her Nova Pulse and Cosmic Divide in Patch 7.04, Astra has struggled to be competitive with other Controllers. Given Astra has to choose between fulfilling her core duties as a Controller and using her other abilities, this change gives Astra more freedom to use her other pieces of utility without sacrificing her ability to smoke throughout the round.

Stim Behavior

• Over the years we've heard player feedback that combat stim effects like Reyna's Empress can feel disruptive when spraying and it makes it harder to hit your shots. We've updated all buffs that increase your rate of fire to have consistent recoil control that matches the default rate of fire. This should allow players who are stimmed to utilize their learned muscle memory that they’ve built up from un-stimmed weaponry. This change only affects how the stims modify recoil without affecting the applied spread reduction.

PLAYER BEHAVIOR UPDATES

• We have updated the existing ranked and Premier restrictions to expand to all team-based modes so that penalized players will be restricted from queueing up in any team-based mode for disruptive behavior.

WEAPONS UPDATES

Ares

• Revert crouch benefits nerf from standard 25% back to 40%

  • Crouching is better again and is now the same as Odin.

• Headshot multiplier adjusted from 2.4 >>> 2.5

  • This makes an Ares kill in 2 headshots while within 30m when previously it would have done 144 damage.

These cha?nges aim to make headshot damage more consistent with competitors and to encourage its capability at holding down a location against multiple enemies.

BUG FIXES

Client

• Fixed an issue where some letters with special characters in Polish, Russian, and Japanese were not returning the correct result when searching using the Search bar in the Spray screen collection page.

Maps

• Abyss

  • Fixed a spot where you could land on a ledge that is out of bounds on the map.

• Lotus

  • Minor art fixes around the map.

• Icebox

  • Fixed a gap where you could shoot through the door frame in A Pipes from Mid Boiler.

• Sunset

  • Fixed a gap in the retractable roof above B Boba.
  • Fixed the box at Mid Top to display the correct bullet penetration decals.

• The Range

  • Removed a placeholder object in the vista.

PC

PERFORMANCE UPDATES

• Optimized threading logic and ordering of files on disk to improve load times. Please note that this will increase download time of the patch and an increase in patch time.

PLAYER BEHAVIOR UPDATES

• We've updated the Riot Voice Evaluation (RVE) experience in certain regions where voice recording is now enabled to ensure you understand the behavioral expectations and technical implications associated with RVE and voice chat.

PREMIER UPDATES

• Added a button to view the maps available in Playoffs. To see the Playoff map pool, click Playoffs Event in the schedule on the Premier hub, and then click the “Show Map Poolâ€?button in the center of the hub.

Console

CLIENT UPDATES

• Progression Screen

  • The objectives panel on the progression screen will now feature Agent gear if there are open slots. Previously, only Basic Training, Battlepass, and Event Pass were featured and left an open slot if completed.

GAMEPLAY SYSTEMS UPDATES

• Added a new Map Cursor Speed slider which will let you speed up or slow down cursor movement on the megamap and maps for Agent abilities (Example: Brimstone’s Sky Smoke).

MAPS UPDATES

• New map: “Breezeâ€?enters Unrated & Swift Play queues.

BUG FIXES

General

• Fixed an issue where the Base Aim Curve setting was being applied to cursor movement on the megamap and maps for Agent abilities (Example: Brimstone’s Sky Smoke).

Agents

• Ability Targeting

  • Fixed an issue where Deadlock’s Sonic Sensor, Cypher’s Spycam, and Vyse’s Arc Rose could not be placed on some map walls during the BUY PHASE.

• Vyse

  • Fixed an issue where KAY/O’S ZERO/POINT was destroyed by Shear.
  • Fixed an issue where Shear’s collision would linger after being placed on sloped surfaces.
  • Fixed an issue where Shear could extend over gaps improperly.
  • Fixed instances where Shear’s destruction voice line was not properly playing.
  • Fixed instances of Arc Rose voice line being cut off prematurely.
  • Fixed an issue where the combat report would show the incorrect abilities for Vyse.
  • [PS5] Fixed rare client crash instances related to Steel Garden.

• Omen

  • Fixed an issue where From the Shadows was not cancellable with certain bindings.
  • Fixed an issue where Dark Cover would move slower than intended.

• KAY/O

  • Fixed an issue where Kayo’s Ability HUD was ordered incorrectly.

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Clash of Clans just drop?ped their September 2025 update, and it’s a big one. We’re talking new Magic Snacks, Superchar?ges, and a bunch of other cool stuff.

Supercell, the developers of Clash of Clans, also rolled out the Clan Notice Board feature where leaders and co-leaders can post custom messages for everyone in the clan to see. T?ake a look at the full patch notes to get all the details.

Clash of Clans September 2024 update patch note

Clan Notice Board and Search

• The Clan Leader and Co-leaders can write a custom message on the Notice Board or use Clan Description as the text of the notice. In addition, the background image of the notice can be customized.
• Players looking for Clans will be presented with Notices from the Clans that fit them the most, including criteria of other Clan membersâ€?activity and other various aspects that the game will take into consideration automatically.
• Changing Language or Family-Friendly Clan Settings will unpublish the Clan Notice, and the Notice will have to be re-published. There will be a confirmation dialog before settings are changed and the Notice gets unpublished.
• Players can still search for Clans with their name or Clan Tag and with Advanced Options.

Magic Snacks

• Available during the September Treasure Hunt Event, we are introducing a new, more fun way to reward players with temporary boosts to their builders, heroes, troops, equipment, and research!
• Magic Snacks will only be available during the Treasure Hunt Event for now, and can only be won through the Event's Chests. During this Event, players can win up to 3 Magic Snacks every 48 hours.
• Magic Snacks expire within 24 hours and cannot be accumulated or sold like magic items, so you better use them fast!
• They are stored in their own dedicated storage, which will become available when the very first Magic Snack is obtained.
• There will be a total of six Magic Snacks in this update: Builder Bite, Study Soup, Mighty Morsel, Power Pancakes, Training Treat, and Clan Castle Cake.

Treasure Hunt: Coming on September 11-30!

• There is a new, fun way to obtain more rewards from your Multiplayer attacks!
• In the upcoming Treasure Hunt, we will introduce players to a new concept of looking for Chests in their attacks and obtaining those for extra rewards!
• Players will be hunting down Chests, which, after attacking, can be opened up for extra rewards containing Resources, Decorations, Skins, Hero Equipment, Magic Snacks, and Magic Items, including Hammers!
• Players can encounter four different types of Chests while trying to open them: Common, Rare, Epic, and Legendary.
• However, not all highlighted treasure locations will contain a Chest! Some will contain a decoy, and players must search for the real one.
• Up to three Chests will be available at the event's start and will refresh every 48 hours.

Supercharge

Are you done with all your building upgrades? Then it's time to SUPERCHARGE! Push your buildings to the limit by upgrading them further to reach t??heir maximum level!

• Starting in Town Hall 16, Supercharges are new optional extra buffs for some buildings. They differ from normal upgrades in a few ways:

  • Small: They are shorter, cost less, and give smaller stat buffs.
  • Max Level Only: They can only be done when the building has reached its maximum level.
  • Temporary: When a new level for a building is released, all previous supercharges made at that level are depleted, and those buildings lose their buffs.

• Each building can be Supercharged up to three times, each time buffing a different stat adding a more powerful lightning visual effect to your building!
• To Supercharge your buildings you need to employ one of your Builders and spend a few resources.
• There's a currently an known bug with Supercharges: When you start a Supercharge upgrade, the building is not disabled. This mean that the upgrading Defense will still defend while upgrading and both Collectors & Mines will still generate Resources We will be releasing in the future an optional update to fix this.

Introducing Legendary Scenery: Clash of Dragons

• This scenery will feature incredibly detailed large-scale regions and elements that have never been seen before in Clash of Clans. Some additional details and visual features are transition animations, and cut scenes that are hand-made for these sceneries to make them extra special and unique. We will also roll out a behind-the-scenes video explaining the process of creating such detailed and elaborate cosmetic content. 
• These kinds of scenery will only come out occasionally as they take an order of magnitude more time than the regular-size Sceneries that players have come to expect in the game. In terms of the physical size of Legendary Sceneries, they are over six times the size of the previous sceneries that we released in the game.

Hard Mode changes

• Common Hero Equipment levels are now capped at level 15.
• Epic Hero Equipment levels are now capped at level 21.
• Attacking Hero DPS -5% (from -15%).
• Attacking Hero HP -5% (from -10%).
• Defense building DPS +5% (no change).

Quality of life improvements

• Tactical Overview is now enabled in Village Edit Mode, as well as while scouting in Wars.
• All Puppet Equipment now has a button to see the troop that will be summoned.
• When trying to purchase something for gems, the pop-up prompting you to purchase gems will now detail how many gems you were missing.
• The War Map will now display the donated amount and total capacity of each player's Clan Castle troops instead of the word “Donateâ€?
• The Single Player and Practice tabs will now display your progress on the tab itself.
• A pop-up will now ask you to confirm your signing up for the Legend League.
• Seasonal Obstacles are now bundled by the corresponding season in the layout editor inventory.
• A confirmation popup is now shown if trying to exit Clan settings with unsaved changes.
• The Clan popup is no longer closed after editing settings. ‘My Clanâ€?tab is shown instead with updated settings.
• ZZZ playing from Worker Huts is now consistent with whether or not that builder is actively working.

Economy Balance Changes

• We would like to give players more rewards for battling! So, to do that, we increased the Dark Elixir rewards in the League bonus for most Leagues, and we increased the percentage of resources that players can loot from storages! This means that you can steal more from Storages from others, but be careful—this also applies to your own Storages!

Bug fixes

• Magic Mirror Clones no longer receive damage boost from Invisibility vials or any equipment.
• Clones from Magic Mirror no longer affect the re-deployment time of Archer Queen.
• Clones from Magic Mirror no longer receive passive DPS buffs from equipment.
• Fixed an issue where some player names could contain invisible characters. These characters are no longer allowed to be used.
• Fixed an issue where performing an attack that completes the Star Bonus consumes Shield twice.
• Google Play Games PC: Clan Castle and Siege Machines now share the same shortcut key.

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Anime Royale has dropped it??s first ever update, which brings a new story map, raid map, and more. This new update will also bring 10 new units for you to try.

While this patch is relatively small, it is crucial for you if you want to grind in the game. Here are the patch notes for Anime Royale Update 1.

Anime Royale Update 1 patch notes

New content

• +1 Story Map
• +1 Raid Map
• +1 Rift Map
• +10 New Units

  • One Secret
  • Two Evos
  • Three Mythical
  • One Legendary
  • One Epic
  • Two Rare

• New status effect "Frostbite"
• Increased Unit level cap by five
• Buffed shiny rate by 10x in banner
• Trait Golem enemy (special class, doesn't deal damage to the base, has a chance to appear in infinite mode, drops some trait rerolls)

Quality-of-life

• Added x1.5, x2 speed to Rifts
• Status effect image is shown on enemies.
• Leave the Match button in the battle place.
• Flying only unit target mode.
• Unit stat display on mouse hover.
• Map teleport screen GUI.
• You can now refresh your quests using Robux.
• Added BONUS infinite rewards display (for example, bonus trait drop display from trait golem).

Fixes

• Upgrade GUI status effect image multiplying
• Fixed rift quests rewarding even if you lose
• Fixed quest refreshing, giving less than max quests sometimes
• Fixed blessing not unequipping
• Fixed blessing animations staying after blessing unequipped
• Multiple other bug fixes

Other

• Battle place FPS optimization.
• Removed Jotero's second attack knockback to prevent infinite wave locking.
• Infinite game mode Boss health increases even higher every 10 waves.
• Bosses after getting CC'ed (time stop, stun, freeze) are immune to being CC'ed again for the next five seconds.
• Changed Rift lifetime from five minutes to ten minutes.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 open beta has commenced and brings a slew of changes for Weekend Two. This includes a Jackal PDW SMG nerf, some new weapons,? better spawning, and a l?ot more.

The patch also adds new Equipment, Scorestreaks, and Perks to the table. Babylon is the new map that has bee??n added to the roster and earning weapon XP has also been adjusted for faster leveling up of guns.

Movement speeds while carrying different weapon classes have been also adjusted. Below you can find the entire patch notes from Activision.

Full Black Ops 6 open beta patch notes

Global

Progression

• Level Cap increased to 30. New content available to unlock:

  • Level 21:

    • Blast Trap (Lethal Equipment)
    • Scavenger (Perk - Enforcer)

  • Level 22:

    • Interceptors (Scorestreak)
    • Fast Hands (Perk - Strategist)

  • Level 23:

    • Sleeper Agent (Field Upgrade)
    • Cold-Blooded (Perk - Recon)

  • Level 24:

    • Combat Axe (Lethal Equipment)
    • Tac Mask (Perk - Strategist)

  • Level 25:

    • DM-10 (Marksman Rifle)

  • Level 26:

    • Gunfighter (Wildcard)
    • Forward Intel (Perk - Recon)

  • Level 27:

    • Gearhead (Perk - Strategist)

  • Level 28:

    • Decoy (Tactical Equipment)
    • Ninja (Perk - Recon)

  • Level 29:

    • Chopper Gunner (Scorestreak)

  • Level 30:

    • Tanto .22 (SMG)

• New Rewards available to unlock:

  • Level 23: “The Truth Liesâ€?Loading Screenâ€?/li>

  • Level 27: “Beta Expertâ€?Animated Calling Cardâ€?/li>

  • Level 30: “Bug Smasherâ€?XM4 Weapon Blueprint

Multiplayer

Weapons

Weapon Swap Speeds

We’ve seen the feedback about weapon swap speeds, and we agree. We’ll be reducing weapon drop times across the board for an overall increase?? to swap speeds. Players looking for an even quicker swap speed can try out the Fast Hands Strategist?? Perk in Week 2 of the Beta.

• Assault Rifle, SMG, Shotgun, LMG, Marksman Rifle, Pistol, and Launcher drop times reduced by 50ms
• Sniper drop times reduced by 100ms

Movement Speeds

We are making small adjustm?ents to baseline movement speeds on all weapon classes to make sure they are sitting in a good spot relative to one another. We have mostly focused on Move Speeds and ADS Move Speeds, which come into play during combat engagements.

Overall we are happy with the weapon class usage and performance we’ve seen in Beta Weekend 1, as well as the upper end of movement pacing offered by SMGs, so these adjustments keep SMGs the same and generally improve other classes. We are mindful of spee??ding the game up too much and will continue to monitor and assess game data and your feedback.

The other notable change here is to Melee Sprint Speeds. We want play?ers to feel incentivize?d to pull out their Dedicated Melee weapon as a means of map traversal. We also want to ensure that Melee users can catch up to other players who are sprinting with ranged weapons for those sneaky Body Shields and Finishing Moves.

Weapon Adjustments

Jackal PDW

• Decreased Maximum Damage from 29 -> 26

  • Decreased Maximum Damage range from 15.24m -> 14.61m

• Decreased Near-Medium Damage from 23 -> 22

  • Decreased Near-Medium Damage range from 22.86m -> 17.78m

• Decreased Medium Damage from 22 -> 18

  • Decreased Medium Damage range from 29.21m -> 26.04m

• Decreased Minimum Damage from 19 -> 15
• Small increase to view kick strength and view kick deviation.
• CHF Barrel

  • Headshot multiplier improved from 1.2 -> 1.4

The Jackal PDW ‘s intended strength is best in class handling and decent mobility, balanced by a sl??ower rate of fire compared to many of the other automatic weapons in the game. It was overperforming at medium ranges, so we’ve increased the damage falloff and pulled the ranges closer along with a slight increase to recoil. Maximum damage and CHF Barrel headshot multiplier have been adjusted to maintain the same hit to kill numbers while using the attachment.

C9

• Increased medium damage range from 25.4m -> 27.31m

We feel that the C9 is in a good spot as a well-rounded Submachine Gun with a solid rate of fire. It h?as higher horizontal recoil compared to other Submachine Guns, so we’ve given a boost to its medium damage falloff range.

SWAT 5.56

• Disabled burst fire queuing, which was queuing an additional burst if the fire input was activated at any time during the previous burst or the burst cooldown.

Attachments

• The Rapid Fire attachment now correctly displays its recoil penalty con. The attachment description has also been updated to indicate the tradeoff.

Maps

General

• Adjusted general spawn logic to enable additional valid spawns under certain scenarios.
• Adjusted spawn logic across several maps with the goal of reducing a high frequency of spawn flipping.

Scorestreaks

• RC-XD

  • Improved handling and general usability.

• Watchdog Helo

  • Increased base health.

• Hellstorm

  • Increased Cluster Bomb damage radius.

Equipment

• Lethal Equiptment

  • Thermo Grenade

    • Reduced explosive ignition delay.

Movement

• Slight increase to the time to enter prone or supine during a slide.
• Slight increase to all mantle speeds.
• Slight decrease to time before movement is allowed after landing from a Dive to Prone.
• Slight increase to Dive to Prone landing friction.

Progression

• Weapon XP

  • Increased awarded Weapon XP, which will decrease the amount of time needed to gain Weapon Levels. The Weapon XP speeds observed in Weekend 1 were slower than expected.

• Daily Challenges

  • Fixed an issue that was causing the Daily Challenge countdown timer to display the incorrect reset time.
  • The “Get 50 Eliminations with the Recon Perk Specialty equippedâ€?Daily Challenge will now track progress correctly.

• General

  • Beta Rewards earned in a match will now appear in the After-Action Report.

Audio

• Increased player weapon firing audio volume.
• Additional footstep audio adjustments.
• Reduced audio levels for impact sounds when taking damage.
• Resolved an issue where Shotguns could play more than the intended number of hit impact sounds.
• Resolved an issue where explosion sounds would not play during normal gameplay.
• Resolved an issue where some sounds were not playing during Best Play.
• Reenabled a previously disabled audio occlusion system on PlayStation 5.

Best Play

• Adjustments to underlying Best Play logic which will result in more varied and interesting Best Play selection.

UI

• Improved stability throughout various menus and HUD.
• Addressed various localization issues.

Settings

• Users should no longer encounter issues when switching their ADS Transition Timing to ‘Instantâ€? when using keyboard and mouse.

General

• Increased the duration of the Lobby Vote before matches to give players a better opportunity to participate in the vote when returning to the lobby after a completed match.
• Reduced the amount of camera motion in the Dynamic Deathcam.

Stability

• Improved stability in Skyline.
• Improved stability in Training Course.
• Improved general server-side stability.

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The First Descendant update?? 1.1.0 is here, setting Season 1 into motion and adding a ton of new content, like a new Descendant, more quests, dungeons, and other goodies.

Hailey Scott is?? t?he brand-new Descendant in Season 1, joining the roster as a Ranged DPS. Her Descendant Attribute is Chill, sharing the Attribute with Viessa.

This new season, Invasion, continues the story with the 'Mysterious Phenomena' quest. Twice-daily dungeons join the fray with puzzles and fights to solve as fast as possible, along with a new Battle Pass. The limited challenge adds new cosmestics and other ess??entials to all platforms, along ?with the update, on Steam, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and 5.

Full The First Descendant Season 1 patch notes

The First Descendant's full patch notes read below, or you can check out the official blog post detailing its 1.1.0 update.

New Descendant: Hailey

• Added "Hailey Scott."

Hailey Skills

• [Passive Skill] Safe Strategic Retreat: The "Weak Point Damage" decreases when attacking nearby enemies, and increases when attacking distant enemies.
• [Active Skill 1] Cryo Round: Fires multiple Cryo Rounds at enemies to deal damage and inflict "Cryo."
  ã„?Enemies inflicted with "Cryo" receive additional damage from Hailey's firearm attacks.
• [Active Skill 2] Storm Snare: "Knocks back" enemies with a "Chill Vortex" and fires a giant Freezing Beam. Hit enemies are inflicted with "Cryo."
• [Active Skill 3] Cold Fury: Grants "Cold Fury" to herself every second.
  ã„?While in the "Cold Fury" state, her Movement Speed gradually decreases, but her Firearm Penetration and Critical Hit Rate for Firearms and Skills all increase significantly.
  ã„?Once "Cold Fury" reaches maximum stacks, she becomes immune to "Knockdown" and her Firearm and Skill Critical Hit Damage increases.
• [Active Skill 4] Zenith: Equips her "Unique Weapon." When attacking with the "Unique Weapon," greatly increases Penetration and Firearm ATK and deals additional Chill skill damage. Recovers MP upon attacking Weak Points. When the "Unique Weapon" skill ends, decreases the Cooldown of the skill depending on the number of bullets.

Added Hailey Research

• Researching "Enhanced Cells" requires 36 "Enhanced Cell DNA."
• Researching "Stabilizer" requires 36 "Stabilizer Components."
• Researching "Spiral Catalyst" requires 36 "Spiral Catalyst Links."
• Researching Hailey requires "Enhanced Cells," "Stabilizer," "Spiral Catalyst," and 36 "Data Chips."

Farming Hailey's Research Materials

• Hailey's "Enhanced Cell DNA," "Stabilizer Components," "Spiral Catalyst Links," and "Data Chips" can be acquired by completing "Invasion Dungeons."

  • Clear any Invasion Dungeon to acquire one of Hailey's Research Materials with a 100% chance.
  • Clear Invasion Dungeons faster to acquire up to 3 Hailey Research Materials at once.
  • Invasion events occur daily in two dungeons. Invasion Dungeons can be cleared twice per day.

• Hailey's Research Materials can also be acquired by defeating monsters in Hard Infiltration Operations. To farm Hailey's research materials faster, participate in the following Hard Infiltration Operations.

  • Hailey Enhanced Cell DNA: [Kingston] [Hard] - Magister Lab, Slumber Valley
  • Hailey Stabilizer Component: [Vespers] [Hard] - The Shelter, [Echo Swamp] [Hard] - The Chapel
  • Hailey Spiral Catalyst Link: [Agna Desert] [Hard] - The Asylum, [Agna Desert] [Hard] - Caligo Ossuary
  • Hailey Data Chip: [Hagios] [Hard] - The Haven, [White-night Gulch] [Hard] - Mystery's End

New Episode: Invasion

• After completing all existing main quests, the Invasion episode continues with the "Mysterious Phenomena" quest.
• Progress through the main quest "Altered Design" to unlock the new progression system "Inversion Reinforcement."
• Progress through the main quest "How to Hide the Truth" to unlock the new content "Invasion Dngeon."

Invasion Dungeon

• You can enter Invasion Dungeons from the Infiltration Operations Terminal.
• The Invasion event occurs daily in two of the "Hard Infiltration Operation" dungeons.
• You can choose to play either "Infiltration Operation" or "Invasion" in a dungeon where the Invasion event has occurred.
• Invasion Dungeons can only be played solo.
• While the number of entries isn't limited, you will no longer be able to enter the Invasion Dungeon once you've acquired all of the "Ironheart Particles," which are obtained by clearing the dungeon.
• Invasion Dungeons have unique mechanics for each Vulgus Legion, requiring different strategies.
  ã„?Legion of Immortality: The "Phase Separation Veil" blocks the entrance. As it nullifies all attacks, you need to overload it and shut it down. Defeat the enemies and feed their "Artificial Brains" into the Quantum Computing Unit. Unlock the entrance while the "Phase Separation Veil" is down.
  ã„?Order of Truth: You must survive the explosion from Inversion Energy and ancient Arche. Remove malignant tumors from the "Arche Pillar" and identify its symbol. You must find the "Ancestor Drone" that matches the symbol. After surviving the explosion, destroy the "Wall of Malignant Tumors" with the "Inversion Energy Emitter."
  ã„?Legion of Darkness: You must disable the encryption system sealed with Inversion Energy. Climb the "Central Control Unit" and identify the trait of the "Arche Tile" with Guide's help. Occupy "Arche Tiles" of the same color to decode the encryption. The Legion of Darkness Vulgus will try to take back the "Arche Tiles."
• The faster you clear Invasion Dungeons, the more Hailey Research Materials you can acquire.
• Clear Invasion Dungeons to acquire Gold and "Ironheart Particles (Inversion Reinforcement EXP)."

Inversion Reinforcement

• You can check the Inversion Reinforcement from your Inventory.
• Acquire "Ironheart Particles (Inversion Reinforcement EXP)" to level up your "Inversion Reinforcer."
• As the level of the "Inversion Reinforcer" increases, you will gain "Energy" which can be used to learn the Inversion Reinforcement Effects.

  • There are 5 types of Inversion Reinforcement Effects: "Hunt," "Attribute," "Recovery," "Survival," and "Season."
  • When you learn all 4 effects in the same line, the line's Collection Effect will be enabled at all times.
  • You can enable and use 3 of the Inversion Reinforcement Effects you've learned.
  • You cannot enable 2 effects in the same line simultaneously.
  • The Inversion Reinforcement Effects are applied to all Descendants.

• Inversion Reinforcement will be reset at the end of the Invasion Season.

Hard Difficulty ?Field �Collect Ironheart Particles

• Added the "Collect Ironheart Particles" task for the Hard Difficulty fields.
• Complete the task to acquire "Ironheart Particles (Inversion Reinforcement EXP)."
• The progress status of the "Collect Ironheart Particles" task will be reset at the end of the Invasion Season.

New Module: Luna's Modification Modules

• Singer's Mercy: When using a skill, places a speaker and grants buffs to allies near the speaker.
• Aggressive Melody: Changes the effects of "Passionate Stage" and "Delightful Stage" to the increase of Firearm Damage and Weak Point Damage.

Battle Pass

End of Pre-Season Battle Pass

• The Pre-Season Battle Pass, Battle Supply Shop, and Bonus Shop will be closed.
• You will automatically receive Battle Pass rewards you unlocked by leveling up but have not claimed.
• If you have any remaining Supply Coins, you will automatically receive the remaining items in the Battle Supply Shop in sequence.
• Remaining Supply Coins after the purchase of all Battle Supply items will expire and cannot be recovered.
• Unused Bonus Coins will expire and cannot be recovered.

Start of Invasion Season Battle Pass

• The new Invasion Season Battle Pass arrives.
• Get the new Ultimate Weapon, EXCAVA, as the Battle Pass reward.
• Acquire the helmetless head skins of Bunny (Exhilarating Breakaway), Valby (For Freedom), and Sharen (Tactical Decision).
• Also check out the cute cat back attachment "With Cats".
• Enjoy many more Battle Pass rewards, including free rewards.

Start of Invasion Season Battle Supply Shop

• The new Invasion Season Battle Supply Shop arrives.
• The Battle Supply Shop is all free. Level up your Battle Pass and obtain various skins.
• Acquire Bunny's "Golden Afterimage" body skin and "Voltage Control Mask" head skin.
• Acquire Valby's "Liquefaction Acceleration" body skin and "Hydraulic Adjustment Helmet" head skin.

Added New Products

• Added Hailey to the list of standard Descendants in the shop.
• Added "Hailey's Sniper Squad Full-Dress Uniform" premium skin package.
• Added Hailey's "Typical Army Beret" premium head skin.
• Added Hailey's "Hair & Makeup 1â€?and "Hair & Makeup 2" packages which include her head skin.
• Added Hailey's "Southern Front" and "Color from the Unknown" body skins.
• Added Hailey's "Milk Tea" makeup.
• Added "Lepic's Infectious Agent Survivor" premium skin package.
• Added "Yujin's Nightmare on Med Street" premium skin package.
• Added Ajax's "Mk. Dominator 02 Set" evolving skin.
• Added “Twisted Worshipâ€?female event skin.
• Added "Colossus: Dead Bride Skin Set" female event skin.
• Added "Colossus: Executioner Skin Set" male event skin.
• Added "Albion Fire Brigade Set" unisex event skin.
• Added "Gentlemanly" male event skin.
• Added 10 types of paint.

  • Clear Red-Orange, Glossy Cerise Pink, Matte Candlelight Yellow, Clear Fog Blue, Echo Swamp Brown, Sun-Kissed Beige, Sand Dust Beige, Milk Tea Beige, Enamel Deep Black, Real Matte Black

Hotfix 1.1.0

Content Improvements
(1) Content

• Added visual hints (Ecive effects, chat messages) for locating Encrypted Vaults.
• Replaced missions in Hard Infiltration Operations with more combat-oriented ones.
• Increased the EXP reward for completing Hard Infiltration Operations. Also increased EXP for defeating monsters by 1.5 times.
• You can now acquire rare basic materials as a reward for completing Hard Infiltration Operations.
• Increased EXP for defeating monsters in Normal Infiltration Operations by 1.5 times.
• Added directions to appear when using Ecive during missions.
• Monsters will no longer target players who are participating in other missions.
• Story dialogues will no longer be repeated in Hard Difficulty missions. As a result, Hard Difficulty missions will not play additional voice lines or subtitles.
• Changed the Immunity mechanics of certain Named Monsters. Replaced the sphere destruction mechanic of Eterllick, Celdir, Dmigor, and Plaudia with shooting weak points.
• Increased the barrier hit range of Named Monster Eterllick.
• Players will no longer be teleported when joining Largescale Outpost missions.
• Increased the Gold reward for completing Hard Difficulty Largescale Outposts by approximately 3 times.
• Improved the routes so that shards acquired from Void Fragments can be used on the Fusion Reactor in the same battlefield.
• More than doubled the amount of shards obtained from Void Fragments.
• Changed monster types and spawn locations in certain Void Fragment missions.

  • "Hagios: Dune Base," "Vespers: Moonlight Lake," "Echo Swamp: Abandoned Zone," and "Fortress: Frozen Valley"

• Removed the starting requirements (Void Shards) of Void Fusion Reactors and added requirements (Void Shards) to the Reconstructed Devices that appear in Fusion Reactors.
• Made an improvement so that only one type of shard is required when using the Reconstructed Device in a Void Fusion Reactor.
• Reduced the time to interact with Reconstructed Devices.
• Summoned Reconstructed Devices now expire 10 seconds after all participants have used them.

We are constantly monitoring fee?dback to further improve Outposts and Void Fragments. For long-term improvements, the dev team is considering ideas to evolve Outposts into a non-stop combat experience, as well as improving the farming accessibility of Void Fragments and Fusion Reactors with the integration of content.

In this 1.1.0 update, we've also changed the spawn location of certain Void Fragment missions to provide an efficient way to farm shards for each attribute. In addition, we've added snipers in certain Void Fragment areas to prevent the use of macros.
in certain Void Fragment areas
We hope these changes w?ill make your farming experience more enjo??yable.

• Players can now view the "Past Mission Results" from the menu after completing Special Operations, allowing them to restart the mission.
• Improved display of the mission tooltip information on the Special Operation and Infiltration Operation World Map screen.
• More than doubled the amount of shards that can be picked up in Special Operations.
• Acquire additional Descendant EXP when completing waves in Special Operations.

(2) UI/UX

• Fixed issue to allow multiple socket types to be assigned to a single module socket.

  • The socket type applied to Loadout Setting 1 can also be used for Settings 2 and 3 as well.

• For slots with multiple socket types, the socket type can be changed from the selected menu

  • Each socket type for Loadout Settings 1, 2, 3 can be changed so they all may differ.

• Fixed issue to allow the dismantling of equipment during combat.
• Added dead zone settings to the game controller options.
• Made improvements so that the Amorphous Materials linked to Fusion Reactors are displayed in the acquisition information, like Intercept Battles.
• Made improvements to allow the ability to designate the quantity of researches when researching enhancement materials.
• Reduced research time for [Standard/Precision] Ion Accelerator, Phase Exchanger, and Adjustment Control Axis.

With the addition of the research quantity selection feature, players can now research up to 500 Adjustment Co?ntrol Axis at a time. This allows them to conduct more research in one go, reducing the number of visits to Anais. However, the inability to simultaneously conduct multiple research will reduce the amount of enhancement materials that can be acquired in a short period of time.

Whil??e we want to give players new features, we also want to make sure that players in certain situations aren't losing out. As a result, we've shortened the time it takes to research enhancement materials so that despite only doing one research at a time, you'll still acquire a similar amount of enhancement materials as before. We hope this will help players research and utilize enhancement materials more efficiently.

• Made improvements to display only modules you have in duplicate when combining modules.
• Increased the number of symbols that can be displayed, when designating them as Attached Items, to 8.
• Made improvements to allow the ability to set an "Equipment Option" category in "Filter all as junk" for Reactors and External Components in equipment.
• Changed the display location and design of the random options to improve inventory slots. Removed displays for the Reactor's attributes/Arche type and fixed the display for External Components set effects.
• The Reactor icon has changed so that it now varies, depending on the Arche type.
• Changed some External Component icons to differentiate their appearance based on their DEF, Shield, and HP stats.
• Schematized the "Amount of Owned Equipment" tooltip in inventory.
• Significantly increased the quantity of Shape Stabilizer you own.
• Improved the map to show the location of records needed to be found when progressing Descendant related quests.
• Made improvements by adding a Tracking On tab when researching, making it easier to view the tracked target.
• Improved the Intercept Battle screen to display the number of Linked Amorphous Materials players have at each Intercept Battle.
• Improved the ability to view "Mission Details" through the mission tooltip on the map.
• Improved the display of the red dot when there are unacquired Battle Pass items.
• Improved the ability to purchase a one-time, large quantity of enhancement materials at the shop.
• Improved the ability to preview each component of a bundled product without moving the screen.
• Improved the ability to view each Evolution Stage of an evolving skin in the shop.
• [Console] Added attributes and Arche keywords, by type, to the Descendant and Weapon Module screens, making it easier to find modules on console platforms as well.

(3) Descendants

• Jayber

  • Fixed an issue where some stats were not reflected in Jayber"s "Turret."
  • Skill Power Modifier, Additional ATK for skills when attacking Colossus/Legion of Darkness/Order of Truth/Legion of Immortality, Incoming Damage Modifier
  • Improved Jayber's "Turret Sync" effect to apply to summoned turrets.
  • When equipping skill module "Turret Engineering," instead of improving summoned turrets to create a "Turret Zone," increased cooldown of "Turret Engineering."

• Blair

  • Improved Blair's "Pitmaster" Skill so it now increases the Critical Hit Rate by the number of "Flame Zones" he has, up to a maximum of 5.
  • Increased Blair's "Flame Zone" Skill DMG.
  • Increased the DMG dealt by Blair's "Burn" Skill effect.
  • Made changes so that Blair's "Extinguish" Skill no longer retrieves "Flame Zones."
  • Improved "Taste of Aggression" effect to stack for the "Extinguish" Skill.
  • Improved the MP Heal per "Flame Zone" from the "Taste of Aggression" and "Power of Fire" effects to be proportional to Blair's Max MP.
  • Increased the maximum amount of "Flame Zones" that can be absorbed through the "Extinguish" Skill.
  • Increased the duration of the "Blaze Up" Skill, reducing its MP cost.
  • Improved the "Burn Taste" Skill so that the skill can be halted when pressing the button during use.

• Increased skill DMG of the "Burn Taste" skill and improved it to be affected by duration-related modules.
• Increased the Max Stack when equipping the "Incendiary Bomb" skill module, and reduced MP cost.
• Increased the number of "Small Fireballs" for the "Deadly Cuisine" skill when the "Classic Chef" skill module is equipped, and increased the effect of the "Pitmaster" skill based on the Flame Zone count.
• Ajax

  • Improved Ajax's "Orbit Barrier" and "Hyper Cube" barrier to be affected by attribute resistances, and increased the barriers' HP and DEF ratios.
  • Increased the ratios of barrier-related stats when the "Life Barrier" and "Void Barrier" skill modules are equipped.
  • Fixed an issue with continuously recovering shield for "Void Walk" and "Matrix Recomputation" skills and increased the Max Shield Up ratio.
  • Improved the "Void Walk" skill to have faster motion transitions when used while enhanced.
  • Modified the "Body Enhancement" skill to increase HP, DEF, and Shield, and improved it to grant 100% Void Energy when used, but increased the Cooldown and Skill Cost.
  • Changed the "Void Walk" skill so that it can be stacked when the "Void Charge" skill module is equipped, and increased the damage dealt proportional to DEF when using the "Void Walk" and "Expulsion" skills.
  • Improved "Void Charge" to restore "Void Walk" stacks and reset the Cooldown of "Expulsion" when used while enhanced.

In this update, we've made balance adjustments to Ajax, Blair, and Jayber. We've been closely analyzing feedback from the community and continue to monitor all Descendants and Ultimat?e Weapons. As we move forward with this Invasion Season, we'll continue to balance more Descendants and Ultimate Weapons based on your feedback. We'll do our best to make your experience more enjoyable and fair.

• Improved level balance for Descendant spawn sounds.
• Removed a voice that would play repetitively whenever hitting a note while Luna's "Noise Surge" skill module was equipped.

(4) Equipment

• Changed the 4-piece set effect of the Ultimate External Component "Bravery" to increase "Skill Duration" without any conditions.
• Increased the "Incoming Damage Modifier" values for the "Pain Reliever", "Sensory Dep (HP)", "Sensory Dep (MP)", and "Psychological Victory" modules.

Optimization Improvements

• Made some performance improvements when fighting many enemies.
• [PC, PS5, XSX] Made some performance improvements when using ray tracing.
• [PC] Optimized the Shader preparation stage.

Bug Fixes
(1) UI/UX

• Fixed an issue in the inventory where the DPS value within the weapon icon would change when designated as junk while in "View Module Stats" mode.
• Fixed an issue where the quantity tracker on the HUD would not update if you have Tracking On for an item you do not have on the Library screen.
• Fixed an issue where the "Start with the current squad" button would not display on the results screen after completing the final wave of Special Operations.
• Changed the squad recruitment countdown to no longer appear in the center of the screen when "Restart Mission" is selected in matchmaking.
• Fixed an issue where the icons for High-Value Mark for Arrest and Mark for Arrest's icon looked unnatural when viewing their acquisition information.
• Changed "Firearm Critical Hit Resistance" to display to 3 decimal points in the inventory's info screen as well.
• Fixed an issue with the Kingston Special Operation not being counted for the Resource Defense award.
• Fixed an issue where the "None" setting was showing as "Friends Only" in the Support Requests options.
• Fixed an issue where skipping the Descendant and Weapon research cutscenes would skip the acquisition result screen sound.
• Improved the display of names and weak points for enemy commanders and assassination targets so that they are now only displayed within the Ecive radius.

(2) Descendants

• Fixed an issue where, when using Bunny's "Lightning Emission" and "High-Voltage" skills, the first hit's connection effect would not appear.
• Fixed an issue where the status effect icon for Bunny's "Electric Transition" skill would appear to be the same as her Speed of Light icon.
• Fixed an issue where the "Ice Sphere" for "Viessa" and "Ultimate Viessa" looked the same.
• Fixed an issue where notes would not display in certain situations while Luna's "Noise Surge" skill module was equipped.
• Fixed an issue where some Descendants' skill damage was not being applied correctly to Void Fragments.

(3) Equipment

• Fixed an issue with the Ultimate Weapon "Smithereens" where the Fire Rate reduction from the effect of the Unique Ability "Fearlessness" was slower than stated.
• Fixed an issue where each effect's icon looked the same on the Unique Ability info screen of "The Final Masterpiece".
• Fixed an issue where some Ultimate External Components would display the same icon when triggering their set effects. (Annihilation, Polar Night, Venom Essence, Frozen Heart, Active Volcano)

(4) Modules

• Fixed an issue where the Shotgun module "Targeted Vulnerability" module would appear to have the same name as the "Weak Point Sight" module.
• Fixed an issue where icons for effects triggered by some ultimate modules were displayed as icons for other modules (Decimator, Passionate Sponsor, Mental Focus, Real-Life Fighter)

(5) Miscellaneous

• Improved an issue where characters would get stuck in some areas of the world.
• Fixed an issue where characters could move through terrain that was not intended to be traversable.
• Fixed an issue that caused effects to remain in some areas.
• Fixed an issue where the named monster Sigvore's Grenade skill generated 2 AOEs.
• Fixed an issue where the named monster Sigvore's Explosive skill was generated mid-air.
• Fixed an issue where named monsters would intermittently fail to teleport in their immunity phase.
• Fixed an issue where pressing the number 0 key in Kingston would briefly pan the camera to a different area.
• Fixed an issue where the target items would be flung around excessively in Seizure missions.
• Fixed an issue with the Void Fragment sound overlapping when restarting after aborting a Void Fragment mission.

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On August 26, 2024, Strikerz released the UFL 0.56 patch for a Common Test, a period for players to check and try out the new feature??s and u??pdates before its official launch.

The UFL 0.56 patch update includes three new game modes: Training Room, Friendly Matches against AI, and Quick Match. This will give you more options to warm up and get a hold of the game mechanics before jumping into competitive matches, unlike the open betas earlier in 2024.

Coming to other changes, the addition of Super Cancel is a highlight. You can activate it by pressing LT and RT and comes in handy during passes and shots. Apart from that, there are multiple AI enhancements and other quality-of-life changes to improve gameplay. You can find the full UFL patch notes below.

Full UFL update v0.56 patch notes

New Game Modes

• Added Training Room mode: an arena where you can familiarize yourself with the game mechanics
• Added Friendly Match mode:

  • you can play against an AI opponent
  • you can play with a friend on the same console

• Added Quick match mode:

  • you can play with a random opponent without affecting your statistics and rating
  • you can play with a friend by providing them with a match join code

Gameplay

• Added Super Cancel during passes and shots (Activated by pressing the LT+RT buttons simultaneously)
• Reworked through passes, passes into the penalty area, crosses, low crosses, and pass targets
• Added Idle animations for players waiting to take a penalty, removed synchronous playback of animations
• Revised the active tackle mechanic:

  • added new animations
  • allowed tackles from behind
  • revised the strength and direction of the ball rebound when tackled

• Revised the goal celebration mechanic: teammates and the goalscorer now run around opponents
• Added the ability to make up to 5 substitutions in a match
• Fixed an issue where the passive tackle would trigger first, followed immediately by the active tackle
• Fixed an issue where the wall would move in the opposite direction to the one requested by the user
• Improved facial animations
• Goalkeeper:

  • Adjusted the correct direction of the deflection after goalkeeper's saves
  • Improved current animations and added new animations

• Fixed an issue where the player could not put the ball into play from a set piece
• Improved ball control in dribbling
• Fixed an issue where the player would fly into the air upon physical contact
• Fixed an issue with incorrect player animation during aerial combat

AI

• Defensive behavior:

  • Completely reworked the logic of team pressing when using the defensive styles "Constant Pressing", "Press After Possession Loss" and "Press on Unsuccessful Touch":

    • New logic for determining targets and their subsequent distribution among players for maximum effective pressing
    • Depending on the situation, players in pressing are positioned to intercept a potential pass or to prevent the opponent from advancing towards their goal
    • Team pressing now works throughout the pitch, not just in the opponent's half

  • Added additional cover in defense when man-marking a player with the ball. If the current marker falls behind the opponent and is below the ball line, another player who is in front of the opponent with the ball will come to his aid
  • Defensive line players will stay closer to each other in their half

• Attacking behavior:

  • Attacking runs

    • Revised the conditions under which players make runs behind defenders. Now players will only make them if they are in the line of sight of the player with the ball and he can physically pass to them
    • Players have better awareness of each other's positions on the pitch and will no longer make attacking runs into the areas of another position or "cross" with each other

  • Positioning for a pass

    • Improved overall player positioning depending on the actions and direction of movement of the player with the ball
    • In fast attacks, central midfielders will primarily try to move forward, while in slow attacks they will slightly drop down to help advance the ball
    • Flank players will try to open up for a pass only within their flank, maintaining width and not drifting into the center

• Set pieces:

  • Reworked the conditions for completing set pieces. Now the transitions between a set piece and play will be smoother
  • Improved attacking behavior of players on corners and free kicks

• In case of a dangerous situation, such as an interception or contested ball, and until it is resolved one way or another, attacking players will act more passively (not moving forward, stopping current runs, etc.)
• Fixed an issue where the referee was positioned directly in front of the ball on a free kick in the center of the pitch
• After rushing out, the goalkeeper tries to return to his goal as quickly as possible (previously, he was backing away)
• Fixed a situation where the players ran out of their penalty area after the goalkeeper saved a penalty
• After a penalty or free kick, players no longer get stuck in idles, but instead quickly engage in their mechanics and do not repeat the same reactions
• Players leave the wall immediately after a free kick and are assigned the appropriate game AI mechanics

Audio and Visual

• Connected commentator events to the "Free Kick" cut-scenes
• Added commentator event sounds to "Seasons"
• Added city sounds to city stadiums, such as car horns
• Changed the sound of the ball hitting the net and the post/crossbar
• Improved the animation of player interaction in cutscenes
• Temporarily disabled foul replay
• Added replay of a dangerous moment in the highlights
• Improved ball display in replays
• Added sweat effect on players
• Improved the appearance of 11 players

  • DuÅ¡an Vlahović
  • Micky van de Ven
  • Levi Lаmar Samuels Colwill
  • Warren Zaïre-Emery
  • Enzo Jeremías Fernández
  • Daniel Olmo Carvajal
  • Moisés Isaac Caicedo Corozo
  • Pedro Neto
  • Manuel Ugarte Ribeiro
  • Nicholas Williams Arthuer
  • Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana

• Updated 350 player photos
• Fixed a bug with the jersey penetrating the player's texture

Other Changes

• Added a tab to Match Result showing the progress of playersâ€?leveling up and Skill Points earned;

  • User can open the footballer's profile from the squad
  • Skill Points can be spent directly from this screen

• Tutorial windows have been added to all meta gameplay mechanics on the first visit
• Added tooltips for working with skills
• Added new markers to notify users of changes
• Changed the bulk purchase mechanic for skin packs, now you can select the number of skin packs directly on the store screen
• Improved UI mechanics:

  • skip skin pack opening
  • buying/selling footballers via the radial menu
  • displaying interaction with skins and skin sets in the Squad section

• Fixed several UI bugs

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Valorant 9.03 patch on August 13 brings a ton of quality-of-life updates involv??ing different Agents to ensure smoother gameplay. Here's a rundown of everything from update 9.03 patch notes.

With Valorant patch update 9.03, both PC and console players can experience a slew of c??hanges that will ind?uce better communication among team members. The Ground spreading and Map Targeted abilities are the highlights of this update.

What's new in Valorant patch 9.03?

Starting patch 9.03, you can see improvements to several Agent abilities like Brimstone’s Incendiary and Viper's Snakebite, the ones that spread alon?g the ground. This will be in the form of more consistent sp??reading and applying damage.

Additional icons and pings will now be visible for abi?lities of certain Controller Agents such as Brimstone’s Sky Smoke and Orbital Strike, Clove’s Ruse, and Omen’s From The Shadows.

You can also?? see Sage's Barrier placement on the minimap and Pearl map is finally playable for Unrated? and Swift Play game modes. You can check the full patch notes below.

Full Valorant 9.03 patch notes

All Platforms

General Updates

• Made improvements to how overlapping interactable objects work. You should now perform the desired action more consistently.

  • For Example: A dart from Cypher’s Spycam should no longer prevent you from attaching to a rope if you’re directly looking at it.

Agent Updates

• Ground Spreading Abilities

  • We're making improvements to abilities that spread along the ground like Brimstone’s Incendiary and Viper's Snakebite. Previously, these abilities had inconsistent effects depending on the exact location they landed, ranging from extremely different sizes or damaging through walls and in areas the ability wasn’t visually present. With this update, these abilities should spread more consistently and only apply damage in places that are consistent with the visuals.

• Map Targeted Abilities Improvements

  • You can now ping and see additional icons on maps used for ability targeting

    • Affected abilities: Brimstone’s Sky Smoke and Orbital Strike, Clove’s Ruse, and Omen’s From The Shadows.

• Sage’s Barrier Orb

  • Barrier Orb’s placement preview now also shows up on the minimap.

Performance Updates

• Improved the performance of Iso’s Kill Contract ability.

Bug Fixes

General

• Fixed issue where opening menus would reset your toggle crouch/toggle walk state.

Gameplay Systems

• Fixed a bug where pinging guns on the ground was not displaying the gun's name in the text feed.
• Fixed a rare bug that resulted in the defuse timer showing up as â€?00.00â€?if the Spike was defused as the round timer hit 0.
• Fixed an issue with Ability icons not appearing on the minimap as an Observer.
• Fixed an issue where in certain scenarios, you can see an enemy but they don’t appear on the minimap.
• Fixed an issue where "DAMAGE TO YOU/YOU DEALT" is overlapping the Combat Report widget.
• Fixed font size readability issues with Combat Report in certain languages.
• Fixed an issue with auto re-scoping for Outlaw, Marshall, Operator staying active while the gun goes through a reload.

Maps

• Abyss

  • Fixed a spot in Mid Library where thrown abilities can clip through the shelves into gameplay space.
  • Fixed a spot where Agent utility could be thrown off the map and used as a platform.
  • Revised the message from the Scions of the Hourglass to fix text errors.
  • Fixed a minor visual issue for the railings around Defender Spawn.

• The Range

  • Fixed a bug where certain words in the Range were not being translated correctly into various languages.

PC

Bug Fixes

Client

• Combat Report

  • Fixed a bug where during pre-round, [Tab] must be held down while pressing the cursor toggle button to enable the cursor.

Console

Map Updates

• Pearl enters Unrated & Swift Play queues.

Known Issues

General

• Fixed issue where opening an Ability map and the Shop/Scoreboard simultaneously could result in a loss of input.
• Fixed an issue where pressing an Ability button while diffusing the Spike would equip a weapon.

Agents

• Harbor

  • Fixed an issue where Harbor’s High Tide wall would end prematurely.

While the new Valorant 9.03 patch is live, here's when the next Night Market takes place.

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Panik Arcade has dropped a new update for Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom that, among other things, adds a “Psycho Taxi�mode that focuses on the Crazy Taxi formula of delivering fares.

Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom is mostly a platformer, but some levels require you to maintain a timer that is fil??led by picking people up and delivering them to their destination, not unlike S?ega’s classic arcade game. However, it’s much more laidback because, again, the focus isn’t on this mechanic but rather on collecting gears.

Psycho Taxi is a side-mode that omits all that collection nonsense and instead focuses on working a day in the life of a ludicrous? shutt??ler of passengers. From the sounds of things, it’s a new level rather than a repurposed existing one.

To access it, you need to find an N64 cart in one of the early levels: “Arcade ?Panic.�Once you have this, you can visit a Psycho Ta?xi arcade unit to play the new mode.

I reviewed Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom earlier this year, and I loved it. I’ve been disappointed a few times by recent retro-inspired platformers, but it won me over with its infectious hyperactivity. I’m not sure I’m going to reinstall it specifically for this mode, but�You know what? Maybe. Or maybe I’ll just play some Crazy Taxi 3.

Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom is currently available for PC. With the Steam Summer Sale going on, it?’s also marked down?? by 20%.

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Illfonic has released a new update for their asymmetrical game about ghosts and ghosbusting, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed. T??his one is sort of low key, but it does cont??ain some new cosmetic items.

The first of the two big cosmetic additions is the ability to skin the Slimer type ghost to look like either the original Ghostbusters puppet or the familiar rascal from The Real Ghostbusters. This is a nice addition, though I’m surprised it took this long. There’s a Slimer skin already that kind of looks l??ike a cross between movie and cartoon Slimer??, but there’s enough of a difference that I’m sure some will prefer a more accurate representation.

The second is the “Cracked�gear shells, which supposedly make your gear look like a configuration from Ghostbusters: Frozen Kingdom. I don’t know, I haven’t watched it. I?’m trying to not be so snobbish when it comes to avoiding movies, but I still didn’t really find the desire? to go see it.

With these content drops, there’s often a new level, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here. I’m not entirely surprised. I would imagine that, at this point, the playerbase isn’t active as it was. The last time I dropped in, I didn’t really have a problem finding people to play with, but we’re now a year-and-a-half out from its 2022 release. Most inte?rnet people would have migrat?ed back to their favorite live service offering.

I still like it. Last time I played, however, I got some bad stuttering that I wasn’t able to solve. Maybe that got fixed, but the patch no??tes don’t suggest that. Here they are:

New Cosmetics

Suit Tints

• Ragged 
• Halftone 
• Orange Checker 

Changes and Improvements

General

• Addressed an issue which was causing infinite loading screens
• Fixed an issue where the emote wheel could get stuck on screen after visiting Ghost Realm
• Fixed an issue where players could crash if the they joined a host who was replaying a cutscene from the Firehouse TV
• Fixed an issue where players were unable to find a joinable match

Busters

• Fixed an issue where players could not tuck in their boots in the Customization Menu
• Fixed an issue where a Buster’s game could crash if they were clearing slime during final Ghost capture
• Fixed an issue with the Side Hustle: â€?em>The Classic: Help Reinforce tethers for 120 seconds totalâ€?not tracking progress when reinforcing a Bot’s tether
• Fixed an issue where Busters could not rotate their RTV camera after being hit by Dark Lance/Ice Spear

Ghosts

• Fixed an issue where Ghosts were not able to detonate a rift immediately after haunting an object
• Fixed an issue where Brainy could get soft-locked while charging Glob Throw and sabotaging a pack or detonating a rift
• Fixed issue where the Ghost’s camera would sometimes continue to shake after using Brainy’s Glob Throw
• Fixed an issue where Winky’s Sludge Puddle was not applying slime properly to Busters jumping through the puddle

Maps

• Addressed several exploitable areas in Funzone map
• Addressed several exploitable areas Station map

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The awaited Economy 2.0 update for Cities: Skylines 2 has arrived. With it comes a massive slew of changes to the underlying systems for the game which will have a massive impact on how it’s played.

I haven’t really touched Cities: Skylines 2 since the debacle of its launch. Most of my major complaints about it were in regard to its visuals and its unavoidable litany of bugs. I would, however, probably have some difficult in differentiating whether any given issue was?? working as intended or just bugged. Mechanically, however, I thought things were fine.

But while I didn’t see any deep issues with the economic simulation, the Economy 2.0 patch notes make me question if I should have. Many of the facets of a city’s workings ha??ve been completely revamped in a way that feel like they should have been designed in the first place, such as “rich households prefer larger homes in attractive neighborhoods.�They didn’t before? Others have just had their values change for a? more balanced game.

The patch notes and materials leading up to th??e release also mentions that existing city saves will go through a catastrophic adjustment period as all the underlying revamped mechanics are applied. In particular, many will die because of changes to the age? at which your citizens kick the bucket. Taxes and costs are also changed, so your budget might not be so balanced after the changes.

I created a singular massive and successful city before quitting due to the frustration around unavoidable bugs. I plan to return to it just to see the effects. I mean, theoretically, I think my urban design is sound, but my zoning was built in relation to demand driven by the now outdated ??economic model.

Anyway, in closing, I’ll leave you with t??he patch notes:

Building Upgrade Rework

• More control over upgrades from the Selected Info Panel of City Service buildings.

  • All upgrade types can be removed from the Selected Info Panel of a City Service building.
  • Sub-buildings can be removed by using the bulldozer as well.
  • Sub-buildings can be relocated.
  • Sub-building can be turned on/off.
  • Sub-buildings can be selected.

• Sub-building upgrades can now be placed freely within a radius limit from the main building.
• Updated City Service tutorial.

Economy updates

• Government subsidies for the city have been removed to make the economy more challenging and transparent.
• Taxes and Services tabs in the Economy panel now unlock at milestone 1 and the Production tab unlocks at milestone 2.
• Added “Import City Servicesâ€?city policy to toggle import of city services from Outside Connections.

  • Separate imported service items in the budget panel.
  • Outside Connections won't send service vehicles if the policy is toggled off.
  • Added imported service expenses for ambulance, hearse, fire engine, garbage, and police. The fee scales with the city's population.

• City Service changes:

  • Increased chance of entering and graduating both Elementary School and High School.
  • Adults can now apply to High School if they didn’t finish it (1% chance, can apply 3 times).
  • Garbage accumulation accounts for students, employees, prisoners, occupants, and homeless people in the calculation.
  • Balanced garbage city service upgrades.
  • Buildings now pay a fixed fee for garbage collection instead of a variable amount based on garbage collected.
  • Adjusted garbage accumulation values.
  • Adjusted upkeep costs of most City Service Buildings.
  • Wages for city service employees are paid from player money
  • Increased electricity import price.
  • Increased the time it takes for Ambulance and Hearse notifications to appear.
  • Adjusted the Service Fee curves for efficiency and consumption.
  • Adjusted water service fees (With old saves the game will force reset the value to the new default position).
  • Increased the amount of workers for

    • Medical Clinic
    • Small Coal Power Plant
    • Police Station
    • Cemetery
    • Fire House
    • Landfill

• Demand changes:

  • Residential density depends on household wealth and family size.
  • Household spawns are based on average citizen happiness, homelessness, tax, available student positions, and available jobs.
  • Commercial companies spawn based on household needs, reducing how often the same companies appear in the city.
  • Commercial and industrial demand has been adjusted to avoid “Not enough customersâ€?complaints for newly spawned companies.
  • Taxes now have more effect on demand.

• Employment changes:

  • Workers from Outside Connections no longer pay tax.
  • Workers from Outside Connections are not included in population or workplace infoviews.
  • Workers from Outside Connections will look for new job more frequently.
  • Workplaces in Outside Connections are less desirable than workplaces in the city.
  • Only citizens who don't have health problems (such as Sick or Injured) count as valid employable citizens.
  • Citizens can only receive unemployment for a limited amount of time. When they run out of unemployment, they will complain about “High Rentâ€?and move away.
  • Fixed population jobs & workers amount issue.

• Households & happiness changes:

  • Households without adults will now move away.
  • Rich households prefer larger homes in attractive neighborhoods (higher land value, good service coverage, etc), poor households prefer cheaper houses and don’t mind services being far away.
  • Household needs are calculated based on their spendable money (what’s left after paying rent), so they now spend their money more reasonably.
  • Reduced the number of senior citizens moving into the city.
  • Adjusted wealth happiness factor to a reasonable value.
  • Low happiness affects the chance a household will move out of the city.
  • Households consider the garbage fee when calculating their spendable money.
  • Added curve parameter to death rate to smooth the death of senior citizens (existing cities will experience an immediate death wave)

• Production and Company changes:

  • Adjusted values for:

    • Resource production.
    • Resource price.
    • Household wages.
    • Tax income.
    • Resource price now has two parts, a lower one for industrial processing, and another for commercial companiesâ€?service prices. Customers (households) pay full price, which is both parts combined.
    • Changed the workforce needed per unit for resource processing to a preconfigured amount instead of automatically calculated at the start of the game.
    • Companies now go bankrupt instead of looking for new locations if their current property isn’t suitable for profit.
    • Changed Industrial Manufacturing space multiplier from 1 to 5 to allow more workers per grid so fewer buildings are needed.
    • Adjusted office employee amount.
    • Adjusted amount of work required per product to decrease city income.
    • Adjusted simulated service prices.
    • Improved companies to move away not just because of bankruptcy, but also because of the tax rate and workforce factors.
    • Rebalanced Extractor Resource greatly reducing profitability.
    • Balanced Industrial and Office companies Default Output Amount, Max Workers Per cell, Resources Initial Price, and Work needed per unit. Increased Space multiplier of Industrial and Office zones.

• Rent and Building Level changes:

  • Removed the virtual landlord so building upkeep is now paid equally by all renters.
  • Added new rent calculation: Rent = (LandValue + (ZoneType * Building Level)) * LotSize * SpaceMultiplier.
  • Tweaked “High Rentâ€?notifications to be based on the household’s income. Even if they currently don’t have enough money in their balance, they won’t complain and will instead spend less money on resource consumption.
  • Building level is now based on whether renters can pay the upkeep fee. When they pay the full fee, the building condition increases by a constant amount, if they cannot pay it, the building condition decreases by the same amount.

• Crime rate adjustments:

  • Fixed police service coverage for zoneable assets. The police station will patrol regularly to decrease the crime rate, and all zone type buildings will increase crime rate depending on the police service coverage.
  • NA and EU PoliceVehicle02 Crime Reduction value changed to match the NA and EU policevehicle01 value.
  • Removed crime scene pathfinding limitation of building's crime rate to avoid all criminals having the same pathfinding result to queue up to do crime.
  • Added new crime factor to lower crime probability in cities with larger populations.
  • Lower crime recurrence probability due to criminals needing to wait a long while to remove criminal tag.

• Increased the cost of purchasing Map Tiles.
• Added upkeep fee for new map tiles

  • The 9 starting are excluded and do not have have map tile upkeep fee

• Added option to “Unlock all map tilesâ€?(also disables achievements and the tile upkeep cost)
• Increased construction cost and upkeep costs for roads.
• Moved upkeep breakdown from Tooltip to Selected info panel.
• Reduced the amount of money the player gets back from bulldozing roads and buildings.
• Adjusted the max shopping amount of the household from 4000 to 2000.
• Adjusted Specialized Industry Unlocking to start from milestone 0.
• Fixed taxes being collected after bulldozing the entire City.
• Fixed Citizen Wealth Infoview not highlighting households with 'Wretched' wealth level.
• Fixed the wrong moving away statistic data being displayed.
• Fixed a newly spawned company complaining about a lack of workers.
• Fixed commercial zones incur massive amounts of debt for the citizens.
• Fixed refund inconsistencies when replacing roads and stops.
• Fixed high death possibility issue:

  • Fire accidents now will only cause 1% death compared to the previous 50% death of an on fire medium/high density building.
  • The building's destruction event will now cause 50% death compared to previous 90% death of citizens who are still in it.

• Fixed Outside Connection workers won't find a job.
• Fixed trade cost divided by zero bug.

Modding

• Updated mod publisher to use auto login from Paradox SDK.
• Updated Paradox Mods to Version 1.5.2

  • Added new feature: Mod details will now show what dependencies are installed and if any are missing
  • Improvement: When started, it will now try to go online again if being offline before
  • Improvement: Change the close X hover effect when using a gamepad
  • Improvement: Improve text on empty state when on library or playset details when offline
  • Fix: Offline mode will now start with your active playset
  • Fixed double back click from following creators view
  • Fixed broken bumper navigation when offline and using a gamepad
  • Fixed gamepad legend when offline on library or playset details
  • Fix: Pressing the B button on a gamepad will now close the Sync modal
  • Fixed a warning with font weights
  • Fixed a warning with height not being set correctly in scrollbars

• Added support for custom units for sliders used in mod settings
• Added support for keybindings for mods:

  • Mods can introduce their own input action which are integrated into the game input system.
  • Added key binding field to the automatic option which allows mods to provide key rebinding for their actions.
  • Added built-in conflict detection between the game bindings and mods bindings based on action usage.
  • Added warning sign next to each binding which has conflicts.
  • Added main menu notification if a mod has a key binding conflict.
  • Added support for 3 different types of actions: press (1 button), axis (negative and positive button), vector (up, down, left, right buttons)
  • Added the ability to set separate keyboard key and gamepad button for one action.
  • Added the ability to use built-in and write custom processors and interactions for actions.

• Fixed issue where downloading a certain number of mods in a specific way resulted in a crash to desktop.
• Fixed a bug where SettingsUISetterAttribute could not use private methods and properties
• Fixed installing notification getting stuck when downloading a mod failed.
• Updated notification texts.
• Updated "mod loading error" dialog to show the error.
• Fixed issue with mods not loading if playset was changed using the web version or there are mod updates.
• Fixed some cases when mods are not loaded or "enabled code mods are changed" notification does not appear.
• Fixed "mod page" and "disable" buttons being visible on mod loading error message box with local mods.
• Fixed endless "mod loading..." notification if mods failed to load.
• Fixed Unity installation not being found if the game is running on a different account than the one who installed Unity
• Fixed issue where modding toolchain install/uninstall warning dialog overflows when the list of dependencies is long by making the panel scrollable

Performance

• UI performance optimizations for the economy panel.
• Other UI performance optimizations with audio bindings, rendering, cursors, and updating panels.
• Performance optimization for Chirper panel.
• Optimizations for particle effects.
• Optimizations for audio memory usage.
• Optimized placement to improve FPS when placing complex buildings or roads.
• Fixed job-finding performance issue when there were no available workplaces and no employable workers, causing endless job pathfinding queries which heavily affect the performance.

Fixes & improvements

• Unity update 2022.3.29f1
• Fixed a crash to desktop when using the quick load function while relocating and rotating a building.
• Fixed a crash to desktop after deleting Train Station with a broken Subway connection and trying to place new subway tracks.
• Fixed crash to desktop in SetupFindHomeJob
• Fixed crash to desktop caused by removed renter.
• Fixed crash to desktop when resizing oil extractor area so that some pumps get deleted
• Improved likelihood of household members traveling together as a group.
• Improved hue, saturation, and randomness values of tree leaves.
• Improved collision radius for BirchTree, PineTree, and SpruceTree to better match the visual empty space. The bushes etc. can now be propped closer to the trees.
• Improved citizens and delivery vehicles pathfinding to take building construction time and path duration into account to avoid arriving at construction sites.
• Ambulances transport some patients in emergency mode (randomized with health level).
• Lowered building fire spreading probability to other buildings.
• Changed default glass material from tinted brown to non-tinted.
• Updated EU and NA theme icons.
• Improved wealth info view color and citizen wealth state parameters.
• Fixed wealth info view color not matching household wealth, changed it from household member based wealth to household based wealth.
• Improved Airport development tree node icon.
• Adjusted XP values for low construction cost building.
• Fixed depots so trains/subway can now only drive through them by using dedicated by-pass track (the track without “No Track Connectionâ€?.
• Fixed Several Signature Buildings don't get occupied (must be rebuilt for the fix to take effect)
• Changed signature building info view color priority higher in RCIO infoviews
• Fixed Ludo Square and Cane Residences signature building bonuses to be more consistent.
• Fixed issue with some settings not getting saved.
• Fixed achievements progression on saves that have used mods not being disabled.
• Fixed specialized industry main building missing.
• Fixed Forestry and Ore Industrial Storage yard props not showing.
• Fixed farming extraction area color so it’s visible on fertile land with the info view open.
• Fixed crematorium sub-building car access when snapped to the main building. Main building or sub-building(s) need to be moved/replopped for this to take effect.
• Fixed specific situation causing taxis from Outside Connections to get stuck for a long while.
• Fixed wrong passenger count/capacity displayed for personal cars that have a trailer attached.
• Fixed driver not included in passenger count and capacity for personal vehicles.
• Fixed vehicles driving through parking facilities or transport stations without intending to use their services.
• Fixed citizens parking their cars at public transport stations without the intention to board a transport line there.
• Fixed traffic jams occurring inside Parking buildings.
• Fixed airplanes driving through the runway without landing at the airport.
• Fixed issue where fire engines are unable to react to and extinguish the additional buildings from the specialized industry areas
• Fixed Garbage Trucks collecting garbage outside their operating district if their way goes through different district.
• Fixed resource piles on spawnable storage yards not instantly updating when delivery truck unloads cargo.
• Fixed trucks keep going back and forth between commercial and industry.
• Fixed commercial companies accidentally exporting goods to other companies.
• Fixed broken pathfinding warning after rebuilding destroyed service building that has extension upgrades.
• Fixed mail getting stuck due to heavy traffic at the cargo terminal by adding a trip needed buffer amount as another cost in resource trade pathfinding.
• Added a penalty for resource pathfinding when the cargo station has more requests or sent out most of the vehicles.
• Fixed Water Tower’s viewing upgrade not providing entertainment.
• Fixed Hospitals and Clinics not refilling their pharmaceuticals storage
• Fixed cargo train terminal left and back paths not connecting to roads too
• Fixed City Policies not clearing properly and carrying over between different save game loads
• Fixed The Deep End achievement not unlocking at exactly 200000 loan
• Fixed citizens stopped finding jobs when unemployment was high
• Fixed high unemployment rate issue by adding variety to the citizen education levels when spawning
• Fixed population infoview jobs didn't match workplace info view's data
• Fixed discrepancy in workplace count by excluded the Outside Connection workplaces from population's calculation
• Fixed DateTime overflow error by reducing the max starting year for a map to 3000.
• Fixed floating prop issues with Deuclidia Apartments, Nuclear Power Plant and Technical University.
• Fixed hotel renter deserialization bug causing unknown mayhem for tourist / hotel logic.
• Fixed tourists with "Leaving the city" status not leaving the hotel.
• Fixed Parallel and grid roads misplace connected road lane.
• Fixed Roundabouts disappear when connecting roads at a certain angle.
• Fixed track slope causing tight curve warning / no connection when built a certain way.
• Fixed connection notifications with buildings over a train truck tunnel.
• Fixed net-tool replace mode is enabled when no compatible assets exist.
• Fixed destroyed buildings still create Noise Pollution.
• Fixed 'No Pedestrian Access' warning appearing for Medical University after adding Extension Wing upgrade
• Fixed issue where the cost of purchasing multiple map tiles varied depending on the order in which the map tiles were selected
• Fixed workplace links in citizen Selected Info Panel not working when the workplace was a service building.
• Fixed screen resolution set in the launcher right after the game launch not being applied.
• Fixed all overlay shaders broken when using dynamic resolution scaling.
• Fixed minor inconsistencies with infoview coloring for cables/pipes/lot for buildings under construction, destroyed or otherwise without mesh.
• Added secondary infoview background color so that roads don't disappear on terrain.
• Improved RCIO tax statistic colors to correspond zone colors
• Removed car paths and parking on NA_MixedRight01_L1_4x6 (and L2) and NA_MixedLeft01_L1_4x6 (and L2) to prevent pathfinding fails due to how the buildings can spawn
• Several improvements and fixes for controllers:
  

  • Added more controller hints.
  • Improved options navigation with controller so that moving between page content and search is consistent when tabs or advanced options are visible
  • Improved multiline text to be focusable so that scrollable panel can scroll to it while using a controller
  • Fixed navigating with the controller over an upkeep section required multiple up/down presses on the controller.
  • Fixed options menu controller navigation issues when "Show advanced" toggle is present.
  • Fixed not all locked toolbar items were focusable with the controller making it impossible to see the conditions to unlock a given feature.
  • Fixed requirement tooltips for placing a building not updating properly when moving the building with a controller
  • Fixed an issue with controller that it was impossible to scroll to the end of the building info panel list if the building did not have any upgrades
  • Fixed tooltips not rendering properly on top of the controller hints.
  • Fixed issue with opening mods UI profile page with gamepad
  • Fixed issue where names of tabs inside the City Services panel cannot be accessed when using a controller

• Fixed building effects not rendering correctly in the UI.
• Fixed a bug where placing a road could cause tooltips to jump between their target positions
• Fixed building effects when viewing detail tooltip where placing a building could overlap with building icon
• Fixed options slider field slider position not updating properly if its value was changed outside of the options menu - ie. changing radio volume in radio panel
• Fixed issue where closing citizen lifepath detail view the list would not re-focus on the last focused entry
• Several fixes for UI interface scaling when using bigger text size.
• Fixed UI disappearing on some tutorial step transitions.
• Fixed UI disappearing on closing signature building unlock dialog.
• Fixed options description not changing after scrolling certain dropdown lists.
• Fixed loading warning popup staying on top of the frozen/busy state of loading screen and not fading out.
• Fixed non-centered error message in Paradox Account -panel.
• Fixed Paradox account link button overflowing in various languages.
• Fixed Economy budget panel overlapping text in some languages.
• Fixed tooltips rendering outside of the screen.
• Fixed edge case of quitting the main menu or starting a new game by opening the pause menu from the button in the upper-right corner while using map tiles view.
• Rebalanced all citizen audio volumes.
• Fixed cemetery sounds not playing.
• Fixed audio source position that was not correctly set for multiple assets:
  

  • Fixed sounds of Residential Signature Buildings play even if buildings are not functional
  • Fixed sound effect of navigating through the Main Menu is almost inaudible
  • Fixed Overground Parking's upgrade does not add new sounds

• Keybinding:

  • Block all actions while listening for key press when the rebinding process is ongoing.
  • Added the ability to reset key binding to the default.
  • Added controller button icons to key binding options.
  • Added support for rebinding some specific tool actions and camera rotation
  • Added batch rebinding option which allows changing multiple keybinds without receiving the "cannot be rebound" error
  • Fixed controller hint when two direction action has bindings when one direction has binding with modifier and another one without modifier.
  • Added auto-detect for keyboard layout. Keybinds are converted to the current layout and keep their physical location (for example, WASD key bindings on French keyboard will be shown as ZQSD). It converts only Latin-based layouts, while US international layout is used for other non-Latin-based layouts.
  • Fixed building Selected Info Panel not opening when the Info Panel option is assigned to the Right Mouse button and disallowed the same key being set for Info Panel and Cancel actions.

Known issues

• Medical clinics not refilling their pharmaceutical storage is fixed, but with old saves you might need to wait longer to see it to recover because the resource could become negative. As a workaround, you can destroy and rebuild the building.
• With old saves, the water budget is reset to the default 100% value.
• Existing saves may experience a death wave if they have a lot of senior citizens, however, we’ve made changes to avoid these in the future.

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The desolate Ashlands undergoes a dramatic transformation in the new Valheim update, introducing fresh perils across the terrain. Even seasoned explorers will encounter unique points of interest that have been revamped for the latest version. If you're eager to dive into the unknown, here's a glimpse of what's in store with the Valheim Ashlands update and how to play it. 

How to play Valheim Ashlands update

While the Valheim Ashlands update is not yet part of the base game, players have a unique chance to get a sneak peek by participating in the Public Test version. As per the Valheim official page, here's how you ca?n get in on th??e action:

1. Open Steam
2. Go to your Steam library
3. Right-click on Valheim and select 'Properties'
4. Select 'Beta'
5. Type in 'yesimadebackups'

If you have a Microsoft or PC Game Pass, you can still join the Valheim Ashlands Public Test through the Xbox Insider Hub app. Si?mply navigate to 'Previews' and select 'Valheim Public Test' to join. You must complete the registration process to download the required Beta patch.

Since both versions are a part of the Public Test, you may encounter bugs or other problems while Valheim Ashlands is in its Beta stage. More patches will likely arr?ive before its Live versio??n to improve it for the final rendition. 

What's new in the Valheim Ashlands update?

Get ready for an exhilarating adventure in the Valheim Ashlands update, packed with a plethora of new feat?ures. From powerful weapons to formidable creatures and innovative crafting tools, there's something for every player. Without giving away any ??spoilers, here's what to expect:

• 10+ New creatures
• 30+ New weapons
• New bombs and ammunitions
• 70+ New buildable items
• 5 New crafting station upgrades
• 30+ New crafting materials
• 3 New armour sets
• 2 New capes
• 15+ New food items and potions
• New locations
• New music
• New events
• New mechanics

The biggest stars of the show are the new creatures and weapon builds, which will bring on some challenging feats. Some of the latest features, including armor, enemies, and locations, were shown in the Valheim: Ashlands Gameplay Trailer:

Iron Gate suggests starting a new game if you've previously explored the Ashlands before?? the update. This is due to a terrain change that can significantly impact your previous world. For example, houses built in the Ashland base game version may no longer be accessible as the ocean flo??ors rise and the terrain lowers. 

The developers also recommend backing up any files and defeating the Queen in the Mistlands. These suggestions ensure a better experience for the Valheim Ashlands update, whether you ?are just starting out o?r are a veteran player. Nevertheless, beginners should familiarize themselves with the game's world since Ashlands is regarded as one of the most challenging biomes, especially with the new update. 

If you don't mind seeing spoilers, you can check out the official patch notes for the Valheim Ashlands update:

Valheim Ashlands patch notes

Mechanics:
* Beware the skies! Cinders rain down from above in the Ashlands, causing damage to those who are unprotected
* Wooden build pieces can now catch fire in the Ashlands �and the fire spreads!
* A new world modifier that allows fire to spread outside of the Ashlands as well (part of the immersive preset)
* Deadly lava takes up large parts of the landscape; traverse it with your very own platforms
* Lay claim to Charred Fortresses with two new Siege Machines
* New plantable Ashvines will grow on the walls of your base
* Combine your Flametal weapons with gems (Bloodstone, Iolite & Jade) in order to upgrade them to magical weapons (giving them blood, storm and nature based effects respectively)
* The wate??rs in and around the Ashlands are boiling hot, and only the sturdiest of ships ??can sail them

Creatures:
* Enemy: Fallen Valkyrie
* Enemy: Charred Warrior
* Enemy: Charred Archer
* Enemy: Charred Warlock
* Enemy: Charred Twitcher
* Enemy Turret: Skugg
* Enemy: Morgen
* Enemy: Bonemaw Serpent
* Enemy/creature: Asksvin (tameable & rideable)
* Creature: Asksvin Calf
* Enemy: Volture
* Enemy: Lava Blob
* NPC/Enemy: Redbeard Dvergr
* Boss: Fader
* Miniboss: Lord Reto
* Spawner: Monument of Torment
* Spawner: Effigy of Malice

Crafting:
* Material: Majestic Carapace (previously Queen Drop)
* Material: Fader Relic (placeholder item)
* Material: Asksvin Hide
* Material: Asksvin Bladder
* Material: Asksvin Tail
* Material: Morgen Heart
* Material: Morgen Sinew
* Material: Celestial Feather
* Material: Bonemaw Scale
* Material: Bonemaw Meat
* Material: Bonemaw Tooth
* Material: Volture Meat
* Material: Volture Egg
* Material: Charred Skull
* Material: Charred Bone
* Material: Pot Shard
* Material: Bell Shard
* Material: Dyrnwyn Fragments x3
* Material: Bloodstone
* Material: Jade
* Material: Iolite
* Material: Flametal Ore (previous Flametal is now obsolete)
* Material/craftable: Flametal (previous Flametal is now obsolete)
* Material: Sulfur
* Material: Ashwood
* Material: Grausten
* Material: Charcoal Resin
* Material: Proustite Powder
* Material: Asksvin Neck
* Material: Asksvin Skull
* Material: Asksvin Ribcage
* Material: Asksvin Pelvis
* Material: Charred Cogwheel
* Material: Molten Core
* Material/craftable: Ceramic Plate
* Materia/craftable: Shield Core
* Plantable: Ashvine Seeds
* Artisan Table extension: Artisan Press
* Galdr Table extension: Feathery Wreath
* Cauldron extension: Rolling Pins and Cutting Boards
* Black Forge extension: Metal Cutter
* Black Forge extension: Gem Cutter
* Craftable: Bell
* Resource location: Lavaiathans
* Misc: Asksvin Egg

Craftable Items:
* Weapon: Dyrnwyn (sword)
* Weapon: Slayer (greatsword)
* Weapon: Brutal Slayer (greatsword)
* Weapon: Scourging Slayer (greatsword)
* Weapon: Primal Slayer (greatsword)
* Weapon: Nidhögg (sword)
* Weapon: Nidhögg the Bleeding (sword)
* Weapon: Nidhögg the Thundering (sword)
* Weapon: Nidhögg the Primal (sword)
* Weapon: Flametal Mace
* Weapon: Bloodgeon (mace)
* Weapon: Storm Star (mace)
* Weapon: Klossen (mace)
* Weapon: Berserkir Axes
* Weapon: Bleeding Berserkir Axes
* Weapon: Thundering Berserkir Axes
* Weapon: Primal Berserkir Axes
* Weapon: Ash Fang (bow)
* Weapon: Blood Fang (bow)
* Weapon: Storm Fang (bow)
* Weapon: Root Fang (bow)
* Weapon: Ripper (crossbow)
* Weapon: Wound Ripper (crossbow)
* Weapon: Storm Ripper (crossbow)
* Weapon: Root Ripper (crossbow)
* Weapon: Splitnir (spear)
* Weapon: Splitnir the Bleeding (spear)
* Weapon: Splitnir the Storming (spear)
* Weapon: Splitnir the Primal (spear)
* Shield: Flametal Shield (with multiple styles!)
* Shield: Flametal Tower Shield (with multiple styles!)
* Weapon: Trollstav (blood magic)
* Weapon: Staff of the Wild (elemental magic)
* Weapon: Dundr (elemental magic)
* Weapon: Staff of Fracturing (elemental magic)
* Armour Set: Flametal Breastplate, Flametal Greaves, Flametal Helmet
* Armour Set: Robes of Embla, Trousers of Embla, Hood of Embla
* Armour Set: Breastplate of Ask, Trousers of Ask, Hood of Ask
* Cape: Asksvin Cloak
* Cape: Ashen Cape
* Misc: Asksvin Saddle
* Bomb: Basalt Bomb
* Bomb: Smoke Bomb
* Ammunition: Grausten Payload
* Ammunition: Explosive Payload
* Ammunition: Charred Arrow
* Ammunition: Charred Bolt
* Ammunition: Flametal Missile

Build pieces & furniture:
* Building Pieces: 25 Ashwood Pieces (Ashwood Wall, Ashwood Half Wall, Ashwood Quarter Wall, Ashwood Arched Wall, Ashwood Decorative Wall, Ashwood Decorative Window, Ashwood Divider, Ashwood Floor 2x2, Ashwood Floor 1x1, Ashwood Decorative Floor, Ashwood Arch, Ashwood Beam 1m, Ashwood Beam 2m, Ashwood Pole 1m, Ashwood Pole 2m, Ashwood Beam 26°, Ashwood Roof Cross 26°, Ashwood Beam 45°, Ashwood Roof Cross 45°, Ashwood Wall 26°, Ashwood Wall 26° Inverted, Ashwood Wall 45°, Ashwood Wall 45° Inverted, Ashwood Stair, Ashwood Door)
* Building Pieces: 26 Grausten Pieces (Grausten Steep Stairs, Grausten Stairs, Grausten Floor 1x1, Grausten Floor 2x2, Grausten Floor 4x4, Grausten Small Pillar, Grausten Medium Pillar, Grausten Tapered Pillar, Grausten Tapered Pillar Inverted, Grausten Small Beam, Grausten Medium Beam, Grausten Small Arch, Grausten Medium Arch, Grausten Wall Arch, Grausten Wall Arch Inverted, Grausten Wall 1x2, Grausten Wall 2x2, Grausten Wall 4x2, Grausten Window 2x2, Grausten Window 4x2, Grausten Roof, Grausten Roof Corner, Grausten Arched Roof (2), Grausten Arched Roof, Grausten Arched Roof Corner (2))
* Building Piece: Flametal Gate
* Defence: Ashwood Stakewall
* Stack: Ashwood Stack
* Stack: Grausten Pile
* Stack: Pile of Skulls
* Stack: Bone Stack
* Furniture: Ashwood Bed
* Furniture: Bone Throne
* Furniture: Lava Lantern
* Furniture: Asksvin Rug
* Furniture: Straw
* Furniture: Small Green Pot
* Furniture: Medium Green Pot
* Furniture: Large Green Pot
* Furniture: Ashwood Bench
* Furniture: Asksvin Skeleton
* Siege Machine: Catapult
* Siege Machine: Battering Ram
* Ship: Drakkar
* Misc: Shield Generator
* Misc: Portal �Stone

Food & Potions:
* Food: Cooked Volture Meat
* Food: Cooked Bonemaw Meat
* Food: Cooked Asksvin Tail
* Food: Fiddlehead
* Food: Fiery Svinstew
* Food: Marinated Greens
* Food: Mashed Meat
* Food: Piquant Pie (cooked/uncooked)
* Food: Roasted Crust Pie (cooked/uncooked)
* Food: Scorching Medley
* Food: Sizzling Berry Broth
* Food: Smoke Puff
* Food: Sparkling Shroomshake
* Food: Spicy Marmalade
* Food: Vineberry Cluster
* Mead: Lingering Healing Mead
* Mead: Lingering Eitr Mead

Misc:
* Location: Ruins (multiple)
* Location: Redbeard Dvergr Outposts
* Location: Putrid Hole
* Location: Charred Fortress
* Event: “The undead army marches�br />* Event: “The dead have been summoned�br />* Lore: New stones
* Lore: New dreams
* Lore: New Munin dialogue
* New music
* New forsaken power
* Terrain changes for Ashlands (Ashlands is now cut off from other biomes, only access??ible by sea)

Fixes & Improvements:

* Fixed Major Healing Mead material
* Fixed Minor Eitr Mead Material
* Standardised texts throughout the game
* Updated names for old Flametal items
* The? popup for unlocking new things is displayed longer

The Valheim Ashlands? patch notes give you a better idea of what to?? anticipate before diving into the latest features. They also provide an update on general fixes and improvements for those who have experienced problems in the base game.

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Now that Call of Duty Season 2 is over, a new chapter awaits players, introducing the latest maps, rewards, and challenges. We're here to explain MW3 and Warzone Season 3's patch notes.

All Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone Season 3 changes

The return of Rebirth Island is the biggest takeaway of Warzone Season 3, considering that many fans have been asking for it since its 2022 departure. The map presents a more modern look, using Modern Warfare 3's revamped graphics. However, the iconic location still holds true to its roots, including cl??assic POIs like Prison and Factory.

Modern Warfare 3 also features new maps, such as 6 Star, Emergency, and a Remaster of Growhouse. Each location offers 6v6 player-based matches, typically small to medium-sized. As for weapons, you can expect an expansion in the Gunsmith with the FJX Horus Submachine Gun, MORS Sniper Rifle, Gladiator Melee, and BAL-27 Assault Rifle (mid-season). Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare players may recognize the MORS and BAL-27, transcending to the MW3 world.

Unfortunately for MW3 Zombies players, Season ??3 does not featu?re any new content at launch, but more is expected to come in the mid-season. This includes another Story Mission, Schematics, and Wonder Weapons.

For a list of changes from MW3 and Warzone Season 3 patch notes, here's what you can expect:

MW3 Season 3 Patch Notes

New Maps

Season 3 introduces a total of six 6v6 Multiplayer m?aps to Modern Warfare III.

Three of these maps are brand-new locales and layouts, while the other three are fresh yet familiar experiences. Look for the Emergency 24/7 Playlist at the start of the Seaso??n, with other exciting Playlists to follow in the c?oming weeks.

• Emergency
• 6 Star
• Tanked
• Growhouse
• Grime (In-Season)
• Checkpoint (In-Season)

New Modes

Kick it ??back in Season 3 with some all-time classics, then prepare for all-new Modes arriving later in the Season.

• Capture the Flag
• One in the Chamber
• Minefield (In-Season)
• Escort (In-Season)

New Weapons

Progress the Battle Pass to unlock four base Weapons, includi?ng the iconic MORS and BAL-27 from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014).

FJX Horus (Submachine Gun)

An ultra-compact SMG with best-in-class CQC damage and mobility.

MORS (Sniper Rifle)

This single-load railgun delivers a high-damage payload with excellent velocity and penetration.

Gladiator (Melee)

A compact, concealable punch knife that was initially used by gamblers and politicians.

BAL-27 (Assault Rifle, In-Season)

A bullpup prototype weapon designed to increase fire rate over time while the trigger is squeezed. The first 4 shots are slower to fire but highly accurate.

New Aftermarket Parts

Add some s??pice to previously mastered weaponry with eight all-new Aftermarket Parts.

JAK Cutthroat

This 3D-printed stock provides an unrivaled combination of speed and stability while aiming down sights.

JAK Revenger Kit

This conversion kit turns the BP50 into a CQC legend. A 9mm caliber conversion with shortened receiver and high-capacity magazine.

JAK Jawbreaker

Converts this Shotgun into a hard-hitting, automatic Battle Rifle.

JAK Shadow Titan Kit

Converts the Bruen Mk9 into a compact and integrally suppressed light support weapon chambered in 300 blackout.

JAK Patriot

Converts the M16 into a fully automatic rifle with a heavy ported barrel built to provide superior recoil control and firing aim stability.

Wardens

Relive the glory days, stir up the hornet’s nest, and take down your enemies, leaving no loose ends with these museum-worthy akimbo lever-action Shotguns.

JAK Atlas Kit

Converts the AMR9 into an extremely lethal and accurate 5-round burst carbine chambered in 556.

Photonic Charge Barrel

This hyper-advanced barrel is more than simply a barrel. Holding the trigger charges the rifle and releasing fires a single, high-power energy projectile.

New Equipment

Tr?y fr?esh tactics with two new Equipment items arriving later in the Season.

EMD Mine (Tactical, In-Season)

Proximity-triggered mine that sticks to surfaces. Once triggered, the mine shoots out tracker devices that reveal the enemy location and direction until removed.

Enhanced Vision Goggles (Field Upgrade, In-Season)

Toggle between normal vision and enhanced vision with integrated target highlighting. Has limited battery.

New Perks

Ta??ilor your ??Loadout to your playstyle with all-new Perks in Season Three.

Compression Carrier (Vest)

Assisted healing and gas protection.

Modular Assault Rig (Vest)

Lethal and Tactical scavenger.

Gunslinger Vest (Vest)

Secondary Weapon specialist.

Reinforced Boots (Vest)

Immune to movement reduction effects.

High-Gain Antenna (Gear)

The minimap is zoomed out for you and nearby allies.

New Operators

From cultural i??cons to new friends and foes, a small army of new Operators is on its way to Modern Warfare III.

• Banshee
• Hush
• Snoop Dogg
• Stasis
• Cheech
• Chong

New Events

Be on the lookout for ??Events with limited-time rewards to earn throughout Season Three.

• Vortex: Vi.Rus Mainframe
• Call of Duty Endowment: U Assist Veterans
• Godzilla x Kong: Battle for Hollow Earth
• Blaze Up

Global

Customization

• Corrected protection with the Aegist Imperials Blueprint to match the base Riot Shield.
• Resolved an issue causing Blueprints to lose aesthetics when saved as a Custom Mod.

Multiplayer

UIX

• Added an unlock status and game origin filter for Operators and the ability to sort by latest additions and name.
• Added a new option to the Settings menu to test all speakers in the current audio setup.
• Seasonal cinematic cutscenes can now be skipped.
• Tac-Stance status is now indicated on the HUD in the Firing Range.
• Weapon Mastery Emblem unlock requirements are now displayed in the Customization menu.
• Adjusted various Attachment descriptions and Pros/Cons listed in the Gunsmith to better reflect their true attributes.
• Gunsmith Attachment Filters

  • Changed filter combination logic from AND to OR.
  • Selected filters are now reset after each game session.
  • Removed redundant Locked and Unlocked filters.
  • Filters button now displays actively engaged filters.

• Bug Fixes

  • Killstreak HUD overlays will no longer persist after destruction by the Stormender.
  • Additional Perk slots are now displayed correctly in the Killcam.
  • Applying certain Weapon filters will no longer unexpectedly kick the player back to the menu.
  • Improved alignment of values in columns on the Scoreboard.
  • Addressed an issue causing Weapon Mastery Challenges to not accurately display the progress of previous completions.
  • Calling Card unlock criteria will now consistently appear upon hover.
  • Resolved an issue preventing certain Emblems from being added to Favorites.

Gameplay

• Decreased obstructive VFX while firing MWII Weapons to align with MWIII standards.
• Removed variance from ADS Idle Sway, allowing a predictable sway pattern.

Our next step toward improving the feeling of aiming across all ?input devices in Modern Warfare III arrives in Season 3. As previously detailed, aimed down sight idle sway discourages players from holding their sights for an extended period of time with a constant, subtle motion that introduces slight inaccuracy.

In today’s update, we’ve removed variance from aimed down sight idle sway, resulting in a predictable and consistent motion curve. This change raises the skill ceiling and rewards players who take? the time to master their favorite Weapons.

Progression

• Added Party Bonus XP, allowing players to earn more XP dependent upon the party size.

  • 2 Players: +25% Rank and Weapon XP
  • 3 Players: +25% Rank, Weapon, and Battle Pass XP
  • 4+ Players: +30% Rank, Weapon, and Battle Pass XP

• Added an Armory Unlock Challenge for the Trebuchet Brake Muzzle Attachment.

Maps

• Afghan

  • Addressed an exploit that allowed players to hide within geo near the Plane.

• Das Haus

  • Set factions to Spetsnaz and Rangers, resolving an issue causing missing announcer voicelines.
  • Added spawn points in the Storeroom in Team Deathmatch, Domination, and Free for All Modes.

• Meat

  • Added spawn points throughout the map in Team Deathmatch, Domination, and Hardpoint Modes.
  • Removed specific spawn points near the Loading Dock to prevent spawning in the line of sight of an enemy.

• Quarry

  • Addressed an exploit near the Industrial Road that allowed players to exit the playable area.

• Shipment

  • Renamed Shipmas to Shipment as it is now the permanent experience.
  • Added collision to prevent players from accessing an unintended ledge near the Drug Stash.

• Skidrow

  • In Hardpoint, players can no longer contest the Destroyed Apartment hill from an unintended location near the window.

• Sporeyard

  • Players can no longer exit the playable area through the roof of the Red Warehouse.

• Tetanus

  • Set factions to OpFor and Task Force 141, resolving an issue causing missing announcer voicelines.

• Vista

  • Added collision to prevent bullet collision through the staircases near the Marketplace and Tower.

• Operation Tin Man (War)

  • Players will no longer be prompted to use a turret occupied by another player.
  • Players who join a match in progress can now see the control panels during the first objective phase.

Modes

• Private Match

  • While the CDL Rulset is active, team kill penalties will no longer stack.

• Snipers Only (Limited-Time Mode)

  • Restricted Killstreaks to UAV, Advanced UAV, and MGB.
  • Disabled melee attacks, including Fists.

Weapons & Attachments

» Assault Rifles «

• RAM-7

  • Decreased neck damage multiplier from 1.3x to 1x (-23%).

• Holger 556

  • Decreased upper leg, lower leg, and foot damage multipliers from 1x to 0.85x (-15%).

The Holger 556 now requires shots to land above the waist for ?a 4-shot kill.

• MCW

  • Decreased headshot damage multiplier from 1.3x to 1.1x (+15%).

With the ???MCW, 1 headshot will no longer result in a 4-shot kill.

• DG-56

  • Increased sprint to fire time from 178ms to 199ms (+12%).

» Battle Rifles «

• SOA Subverter

  • Increased sprint to fire time from 256ms to 268ms (+5%).
  • Increased aim down sight time from 270ms to 290ms (+7%).

• BAS-B

  • Decreased rate of fire from 667rpm to 600rpm (-10%).
  • Decreased recoil center speed by 6%.
  • JAK Outlaw-277 Kit

    • Decreased sprint to fire time from 252ms to 226ms (-10%).
    • Decreased aim down sight time from 300ms to 240ms (-20%).
    • Decreased aim down sight rate of fire penalty from 150% to 135%.
    • Increased medium damage from 74 to 90 (+22%)
    • Increased minimum damage from 70 to 90 (+29%).

The JAK Outl?aw-277 Kit is now a?? maximum of 2-shots to kill to all body locations.

• Sidewinder

  • Decreased sprint to fire time from 231ms to 210ms (-9%).
  • Increased bullet velocity from 600m/s to 770m/s (+28%).

» Submachine Guns «

• RAM-9

  • Decreased sprint to fire time from 178ms to 147ms (-17%).

• AMR9

  • Decreased sprint to fire time from 189ms to 136ms (-28%).

• Rival-9

  • Increased sprint to fire time from 93ms to 110ms (+18%).
  • Decreased near-medium damage from 27 to 25 (-7%).
  • Decreased medium damage from 25 to 23 (-8%).
  • Decreased lower torso, lower arm, and hand damage multipliers from 1.1x to 1x (-9%).

• HRM-9

  • Increased sprint to fire time from 94ms to 110ms (+17%).

• Striker 9

  • Increased sprint to fire time from 100ms to 103ms (+3%).

• Striker

  • Increased sprint to fire time from 100ms to 110ms (+10%).

• WSP-9

  • Increased sprint to fire time from 88ms to 110ms (+25%).

• WSP Swarm

  • Increased sprint to fire time from 88ms to 99ms (+13%).

» Shotguns «

• Added Long Haul 50 and Wolfcall 300 Muzzle Attachments to MWIII Shotguns.

» Light Machine Guns «

• TAQ Evolvere

  • Increased sprint to fire time from 245ms to 257ms (+5%).
  • Increased aim down sight time from 385ms to 415ms (+8%).
  • 7.62 Belt Magazines

    • Decreased neck damage multiplier from 1.4x to 1.2x (-14%).

  • 5.56 Belt Magazines

    • Decreased rate of fire from 857rpm to 789rpm (-8%).

• Bruen Mk9

  • Decreased aim down sight time from 410ms to 350ms (-15%).

• RAAL MG (MWII)

  • Increased sprint to fire time from 199ms to 216ms (+9%).
  • Increased aim down sight time from 330ms to 380ms (+15%).
  • Increased neck damage multiplier from 1x to 1.3x (+30%).
  • Increased upper torso damage multiplier from 1x to 1.2x (+20%).
  • Increased leg and foot damage multipliers from 0.9x to 1x (+11%).

» Marksman Rifles «

• MTZ Interceptor

  • Increased aim down sight time from 280ms to 300ms (+7%).
  • Decreased medium damage from 88 to 83 (-6%).
  • Decreased minimum damage from 84 to 77 (-8%).
  • Decreased near-medium damage range from 44.5m to 38.1m (-14%).

» Sniper Rifles «

• XRK Stalker

  • Increased aim down sight time from 580ms to 600ms (+3%).

• KV Inhibitor

  • Increased aim down sight time from 540ms to 580ms (+7%).

• SP-X 80 (MWII)

  • Increased sprint to fire time from 270ms to 310ms (+15%).
  • Increased aim down sight time from 570ms to 590ms (+4%).

» Handguns «

• TYR

  • 12.7x55mm Snake Shot Ammunition

    • Increased minimum damage range and bullet termination range from 14.5m to 19.6m (+35%).

• WSP Stinger

  • Akimbo WSP Stinger Rear Grip

    • Increased rate of fire from 600rpm to 750rpm (+25%).