Game updates/March 2023

March 2023 updates
Wednesday, 29 March 2023 Tuesday, 28 March 2023 Friday, 17 March 2023 Thursday, 16 March 2023 Wednesday, 15 March 2023 Tuesday, 14 March 2023 Wednesday, 1 March 2023
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Update - March 29, 2023

Bug Fix

• Fixed an issue that caused some guardian virtues to activate their passive effects in Super Adventure Box.

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Update - March 28, 2023

Super Adventure Festival

Moto's world-renowned Super Adventure Box returns again when the Super Adventure Festival kicks off on March 28! Explore two worlds (and one test zone) of excitement, peril, and educational entertainment to earn holographic weapons and a variety of loot. Travelers can visit the Super Adventure Box in Rata Sum; temporary portals have been placed in each major city to facilitate easy travel to the scenic hub of asuran culture!

• Festivities begin on March 28 and will continue until April 18 at noon Pacific Time (UTC-7).
• Complete the festival's meta-achievement, (Annual) Super Adventure Box Nostalgia, to earn the new Powered Gloves armor piece! Last year's reward, the Reality Rig Mk1 chest armor, is now available from Super Adventure Box Traders.
  • For the fashionable and asymmetry inclined, unlocking the Powered Gloves armor in the wardrobe will immediately unlock a Powered Left Glove and Powered Right Glove to wear on just one hand.
  • The Reality Rig Mk2 and Reality Rig Mk3 remain available from the Super Adventure Box Trader.
• A new Generation One weapon set is now available! You'll receive your choice of a weapon by progressing the Super Adventure Box Nostalgia meta-achievement, and you can earn a second choice from a secret achievement or purchase additional tradeable boxes from the Super Adventure Box Weekly Trader.
• New weapons have been added to the Retro-Forged weapon set! You can purchase these weapons directly from a festival vendor or find them as rare drops in Super Loot Bags.
• New Super Adventure Box-themed guild decorations have been added! Turn your hall into the cavernous level of your dreams.
• Infantile Mode has been renamed and is now Exploration Mode.
• A number of Super Adventure-related bugs have been fixed to ensure a safe education for all heroes.

General

• Fixed a rare DirectX 11 rendering crash that occurred during character selection.
• Fixed the positioning of the map label for Gyala Delve.
• Fixed a bug that caused dialogue to be played map-wide during the "Escort Rama deeper into the mines" event.
• Fixed an issue that prevented mount skills from functioning properly inside the Storm Tracking story instance in the fourth episode of Living World Season 4, "A Star to Guide Us."

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• Rarities in equipment tooltips are now color-coded.
• The Black Lion Chest has been updated to the Liberated Resolve Chest
• The contents of Black Lion Statuettes have been updated.
• The contents of the Vintage Black Lion Weapon Box have been updated.

Update - March 17, 2023

Bug Fix

• Fixed an issue that could prevent the story from progressing during the Air of Mystery chapter of “What Lies Beneath” if the player exited the map while dialogue was playing

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Update - March 16, 2023

Bug Fix

• Fixed some issues with several cosmetics

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Update - March 15, 2023

Bug Fix

• Fixed an issue that prevented players from receiving progress toward the achievement Ongoing Investigations: The Jade Brotherhood when listening to the Jade Brotherhood’s and Yao’s audio logs.

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Update 2 - March 14, 2023

Release Note

• Chromium Embedded Framework has been temporarily removed and reverted to Coherent UI while we investigate a crash.

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Late Notes - March 14, 2023

World Polish

• Fixed an issue in the Deep Trouble story instance that could cause the story to fail to progress if the player left nearby enemies alive and the enemies interrupted control of the jade bot.
• Fixed an issue in the Deep Trouble story instance that could cause the story to fail to progress if the player dealt extremely high amounts of damage to the boss right before a phase change.

General

• Coherent UI has been replaced with Chromium Embedded Framework to power web-based interfaces like the launcher and Trading Post.
• Fixed a visual issue that caused some visual effects to appear twice, or not at all. This affected the mine telegraph effects used by Prototype XJ-1 in the Echovald Wilds meta-event.
• Both versions of the Dragonjade-Tier Reward Package now use the same icon.

Profession Skills

Elementalist

•  Dragon's Tooth: Reduced power coefficient from 1.5 to 1.33 in PvP only.
•  Water Trident: Reduced damage bonus when striking a chilled foe from 50% to 33% in PvP only.
•  Swirling Winds: Reduced duration from 6 seconds to 4 seconds in PvP only.
•  Elemental Celerity: Adjusted recharge amount from 100% to 25 seconds in PvP only.

Engineer

•  Blast Gyro: Adjusted might from 2 stacks for 6 seconds to 1 stack for 12 seconds in PvP only.
•  Kinetic Accelerators: Adjusted might from 2 stacks for 8 seconds to 1 stack for 15 seconds in PvP only.
•  Sneak Gyro: Increased cooldown from 60 seconds to 75 seconds in PvP only.
•  Speed of Synergy: Reduced area-of-effect superspeed duration from 5 seconds to 3 seconds in PvP only. Reduced self superspeed duration from 7 seconds to 4 seconds in PvP only.

World vs. World

General

• Repairing walls and gates will no longer award event participation. This alleviates the behavior we've seen in farming Objective Scaling Rewards and "wasting" supply while defending. However, an additional side effect of this is that repairing alone will not progress achievements that require event participation, such as Keep Keeper, Nice View, or Stay Out.
• Adjusted Objective Scaling Rewards on certain keep defense events.

Update - March 14, 2023

World Polish

• In response to player feedback, we've made the following changes to the Gyala Delve meta-event rewards:
  • The daily cap on Jade Miner's Keycards has been removed. After earning a large quantity of keycards, their drop rate will be reduced for the day.
  • Ancient Outcast's Mining Caches no longer require keycards to open and only spawn from the meta-event's boss fight.
  • Ancient Outcast's Mining Caches from the post-boss champion events have been replaced with standard Gyala Delve Mining Caches.
  • Keycard Exchange Service prices have been reduced by up to 50%.
• As a result of removing the keycard cap, mining cache contents have been adjusted.
• Fixed an issue that caused Gorrik and Chul-Moo to display an incorrect conversation icon when talking to them in Gyala Delve.
• Added a new region lore marker for Ari in Gyala Delve to indicate that she can tell you more about local history and what the Jade Brotherhood has been up to.
• Fixed an issue that could cause open-world story dialogue for "What Lies Beneath" to be interrupted by meta-event dialogue in Gyala Delve.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the "Stop the kappa burglar before it escapes with the stolen goods" event from correctly contributing to base upgrade progress in Gyala Delve.
• Changed the Mark of Pain condition icon used by the Champion Twisted Skelks[sic] in Gyala Delve.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Nozomi's achievement availability marker from properly displaying in Arborstone.
• Fixed an issue that caused lost scouts in Gyala Delve to display conversation icons when a player initiated combat.
• Fixed an issue that caused allied NPCs to remain in the Behemoth's Gap base after it was claimed by hostile forces.
• Fixed an issue that prevented researchers' health bars from being displayed while escorting them in Gyala Delve.
• Removed a blank conversation option from Chul-Moo's dialogue at the Jadepillar Point base.
• Pristine Jade-Enhanced Shells will now return to players' siege turtles when recapturing a base in Gyala Delve.
• Fixed an issue that prevented defeated enemies' markers from disappearing when defending the bases in Gyala Delve.
• Fixed an issue that caused two event markers to follow the researchers when escorting them in Gyala Delve.
• Behemoth's Gap base and Jadepillar Point base can no longer be upgraded once players have progressed to the "Defeat the ravenous wanderer" event.
• Fixed an issue that caused players to lose both stacks of Pristine Jade-Enhanced Shells when only a single base was lost.
• Fixed an issue that prevented some players from receiving progress toward completing the Deadliest Thing on Two Legs achievement.
• Clarified the Ongoing Investigations: The Jade Brotherhood requirement text.
• Fixed an issue that prevented some spell decals in Hall of Chains from rendering correctly when using DirectX11 rendering.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Soo-Won's defiance bar from returning to a breakable state after the vortex phases that begin at 60% and 40% health.

Items

• Fixed an issue that prevented Dragon's and Ritualist's attributes from appearing as options on raid and fractal equipment with selectable attributes.

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Update 2 - March 1, 2023

Bug Fixes

• Adjusted the Objective Scaling Rewards.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the story to stall during the chapter An Air of Mystery if the player exited the map while story dialogue was playing.
• Fixed a bug that caused the New Friends, New Adventures achievement to not recognize previously completed shrine guardian achievements from other End of Dragons maps.
• Fixed a potential stall with Yao's behavior after defeating Mal-Chin in the Jade Crisis meta-event.

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Update - March 1, 2023

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that sent the event mail from the Black Lion Requisition Officer to players more than once.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when spectating another player in PvP and other potential instances.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Gyala Delve Mining Caches and Ancient Outcast's Mining Caches from awarding rare unidentified gear.
• Fixed a client crash in Gyala Delve.

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