Happy New Year, my dear dreamers!
As previously announced, the game will change its price model to F2P on January 11th. Today’s update makes all necessary in-game changes to accommodate this switch. Please check the announcement post as well as the notes below for more information!
On the content side of things, today’s update brings a new main quest area, a new quest type, an additional mining depth, achievement support, campaign improvements and more! There are tons of new items and more ways of earning them than ever!
Changes and bug fixes can be found below:
F2P Changes
- Henceforth, new players have immediate access the following four party members only: -Marlon, Forest, Reiketsu, Monolith
- The following characters can be added to your party by purchasing the relevant DLC: -Anna, Shirai, Faeris, Natsume (releasing January 11th, free for players purchasing the game before then) -Characters will appear in your hub area once purchased and awakened from their slumber
- Awakening characters is performed from within the new Awakening Room in the bridge ar-ea. Eucreta will give an introduction to this new system when meeting her for the first time -Changed initial position of Eucreta
- If players uninstall the DLC, the game will remove the respective character from the party, and they will need to be awakened again after the DLC has been reinstalled. The character’s growth will not be reset -Introductory character dialogue will only play the first time awakening the character
Achievements
- Added support for achievements
- Added 37 achievements
Campaigns
- If there is an active campaign, the party machine will list a “Receive Gift” option until the gift has been claimed
- Code Input no longer is required
Areas
- Added new main quest area: Wilds -New drops available: -Tier 6 weapons and armor -Rare tier 11 weapons and armor -Level 3 ability books -Radiant Mining Stones
- Added new hub area: Awakening Room -Accessed from within the bridge, this is where characters are awakened from their slumber if owning their respective DLC
- Renamed main quest area Forsaken City -> City
Urgent Missions
- Replaced by the newly added Bonus Quest
Bonus Quest
- Added new quest type: Bonus Quest -Various types of rare enemies appear and drop useful items
- Bonus Quests can trigger at a random chance after a completing a main quest
- Bonus Quests disappear after being played or if playing any other quest
- Bonus Quests can be upgraded like facilities -Increases appearance rate of bonus quests -Increases variety and amounts of enemies fought
Mining
- Added depth 4 -Unlocks together with the new main quest area: Wilds -Offers Pure Mining Stones
Items
- Added Chaos Weapon Amplifier -+0-5 ATK -Costs 2 Infection Fragments at the Secret Exchange
- Added Chaos Armor Amplifier -+0-5 DEF -Costs 2 Infection Fragments at the Secret Exchange
- Added Tier 11 armor: THORNMAIL -Armor decorated with spikes dealing recoil damage to enemies
- Added Tier 11 vest: LIFE GAMBLE -An experimental vest decreasing or increasing damage taken
- Added Tier 11 cloak: MATRIX CLOAK -A reactive cloak occasionally preventing subsequent attacks
- Ability books may only be used when the class they apply to are part of the party
- The secret shop will be available as soon as clearing the first quest
- Increased cost of tier 11 weapons in the secret shop from 10 -> 15 Infection Fragments
- Renamed all gifts used exclusively on Forest
- Changed order of class-exclusive items in menus and shops to reflect the new order of party members
Classes
General
- Ability books may only be used when the class they apply to are part of the party
Enemies
- Adjusted benefits of encountering the rare enemy Lumen -Increased drop rate for Dream Amplifiers -Increased experience gains from 0 -> 500 exp -If there is 100% hit rate on the attacker, Lumen cannot avoid their attacks anymore
- Increased the HP of all boss-type enemies in the Beach area
- Reduced the size of the Hornet Captain/Queen Hornet boss-type enemy
Characters
- Zanasu will introduce himself and the Spirit Hunt automatically after unlocking the City main quest area -Added new dialogue for Zanasu
- The bridge staff has added dialogue before the player talks to Eucreta for the first time
- Decreased opacity of characters conversing with the party over long distance
System
- Added the option the teleport directly to the quest select screen via the quick teleport func-tion -Unlocks after talking to Eucreta on the bridge for the first time
- The starting item loadout for new players was expanded by 1x Reviver
- The info sheet in the mall area displays the location of Eden now as well
- Changed the phrasing in the character creation from Option -> Type for available appearances
Player Guide
- Renamed Guide -> Player Guide
- Added new category: Status Effects -Common SEs -Buffs & Debuffs
- Added new sub-entry to Items: Minerals
- Adjusted descriptions and/or spelling for select segments
Bug Fixes
- Mutagen weapons will correctly recycle for 70x Goddess Fragments
- Fixed the issue of one instance of text not showing in the Spirit Hunt interface
- Removed found instances of doubled space between text
- Using an invalid gift code no longer plays the associated message twice
- No longer can use the instant teleport function in the communications room before the intended introduction of the feature
- Renamed the Wild Pecker (Quest) -> Frost Giant to reflect the change in boss encounter implemented in the last update
- Select elements in the Eden area now are impassable as intended
Thanks for playing F2P!
(Claim Gift in-game)
3x Dream Weapon Amplifier
3x Dream Armor Amplifier
100x Play Token