アンスウェラー

Patch notes included somewhere in here.

At this point of time, there are probably only a few categories of player left here.

1) Heavy CP spammers. Invested too much money in the game to quit willingly.
2) Die-hard SMT fans.
3) Casual gamers who shuffle around a few MMORPGs.
4) Extremely “casual” gamers who have somehow grind to 80+ without proper enchants/skills/etc… aka your Leeroys.

The gap between the last category and the rest is often huge. These are players that will never be good, and will always be second-rated and by extend, WC/Disapora is something they won’t be able to enjoy.

The second/third group are drastically shrinking for a very obvious reason: lack of content. Even the most casual of casual players have done at least a 1000 Ichigaya Gold by now.

This means that Category 1 and 4 forms the bulk of the remaining population.

—

I’ve mentioned this before: Cave’s focus lately has been on devil related stuff, since there’s isn’t really much left for humans.

There’s really nothing much that can be done for human gears now. Cooldown/cast? More than 100% is possible. Damage boost? Already high enough, especially with cards/incense. It’s at a point where every class has a way to hit 9999 on 100% resistance stuff, with some classes, i.e. melee able to hit 9999 on just about everything.

This week’s lottery features sets that gives devil’s the ability to do limit breaks.
Last week’s lottery features sets that gives devil’s cooldown reduction
The lottery two weeks ago features comps that grants a massive buff to devils.

Now, a lot of people are probably excited over Wild Cat, but it’s content that many people are unable to access.

Firstly, the prerequisite quest for WC, Sibling require you to clear Sugi Silver in 17mins or Cell Silver in 16mins. The required dungeon is randomly chosen.

Most people at this point won’t have a devil optimized for either of these dungeons. You are also not going to have pulses, super armor or any consumables to use.

Try and run Sugi/Cell Silver using only your devil’s skill. You’ll be surprised at how long it takes, even in a full group.

This makes clearing Sibling something that’s fairly out of reach for most people. As a result, there are quite a few complains floating on the forums about this.

Because of that, Cave is organizing a GM event on 3 days to help people to clear Sibling.

http://www.megatenonline.com/news/archive/event2715.html

This is the first time I’ve ever seen Cave organize an event where GMs actually do something. This should demonstrate just how dire the situation is.

In addition, we have Diaspora where hidden damage modifiers are applied to reduce human damage while increasing devil damage.

This pushes the need for players to acquire new sets of armor/weapon just for their devils, along with massive regrinding of appropriate devils.

This supports the first group of players, the heavy CP spammers. They now need to spend even more RL money to acquire new gear since Makka as a currency is worthless.

From what’s reflect on the client files, Ikebukuro is going to be more of the same.

—

Now for patch notes.

I’ll talk about the emergency patch first.

This patch caused a huge bug when the server was first brought up: Every single tarot/soul effect was disabled.

Why did this happen? Because they added 3 new tarots and that somehow corrupted the entire crystal table.

Anyway, the server was brought down again to fix the issue, and a 2hr COMP expansion card alpha is given as compensation for the extended downtime.

The actual patch notes itself is way less interesting.

—

Patch Notes for the 27th of May

Twitter Campaign

The following world bonus is being applied as there were more than 100 retweets on twitter about the Diaspora update.

- Devil’s XP gain: +50%
- Devil’s SP gain: x2
- Player’s XP gain: +50%

This bonus will last from the 27th of May to the 3rd of June.

Dispora Field

- Reverse tarots are now possible rewards from Dispora
- Skills have been added to Dispora’s exchange list. (Fin: It’s still the same 3 skills. Just that the exchange wasn’t enabled until this week.)
- Part of Dispora’s BGM has been changed.
- Fixed the behavior of some devils in Disapora

Bug Fixes

- Fixed a bug where the time limit get reduced when you switch floor in Nether World.
- Fixed a bug that causes lighting to behave oddly in Nether World.
- The upper limit for devil’s soul point is now set at 100 000.
- Some items have their icons changed.
- Some items have their names changed.
- Maximum stack for mag has been increased from 10000 to 50000.
- Random text changes.
- New characters will no longer have the wrong expert skill cap applied to them