Nexon proved something with the visitor patch.

The video isn't edited, that's how the background change happened, there was no server check that implemented the changes, the screens went black for a second or two and then that was the start of Stage 2. Even if you weren't in maps that have backgrounds the screen would go black during that transition, at least mine did anyway even though I was inside the OSSS Base.

I was there waiting for midnight for Stage 2 to start, then bam, screen went black and I thought the servers crashed or something, then everything came back up and sure enough the Time Machine was there. :f6:

The video isn't edited, that's how the background change happened, there was no server check that implemented the changes, the screens went black for a second or two and then that was the start of Stage 2. Even if you weren't in maps that have backgrounds the screen would go black during that transition, at least mine did anyway even though I was inside the OSSS Base.

I was there waiting for midnight for Stage 2 to start, then bam, screen went black and I thought the servers crashed or something, then everything came back up and sure enough the Time Machine was there. :f6:

yeah it happened to me too, i was in leafre, then my screen went black, i thought to myself: oh well another win7 d/c -closes maple on task manager, then suddendly it got back, but darker lol

cash shop weather effects.

they don't even need to touch the original background image.
they can add a semi-transparency layer (png image) above the background layer,something like


top layer ---------- <- cs weather effect
layer 005 --------- <- char
layer 004 --------- <- platforms

layer 003 --------- <- ufo

layer 002 -------- <- mount/building/background-near
layer 001 -------- <- sky