Unleashed coming to GMS starting June 19th!

But fair enough, I can see why some players would want to actively play in 800*600.

Some people are still playing on computers that can't handle the size of 1024x768. I think that's a small reason though.

There's this character in the Unleashed video that oddly looks like my Battle Mage (old look).

 Battle Mage

 Mage in video

There's this character in the Unleashed video that oddly looks like my Battle Mage (old look).

 Battle Mage

 Mage in video

I was actually wondering if it was you as I saw the trailer, figured you may have gotten access to the test server because of your volunteer status.

I was actually wondering if it was you as I saw the trailer, figured you may have gotten access to the test server because of your volunteer status.

Hah, I wish!
But nope, not me.

GUYS!

What is this? What is coming this August?

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Silent Crusade revamp?

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GUYS!

What is this? What is coming this August?

Some kind of crime against nature, body horror fusion of Silent Crusade bosses?

Or, I guess just some kind of Silent Crusade revamp.

GUYS!

What is this? What is coming this August?

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Definitely looks like the Silent Crusade monsters, yeah.
Hmm...

Silent Crusade revamp... all of my love... That should fix the damn things!

Also, if you all didn't catch the EXP values for FTP and VPQ, FTP mobs were giving ~1K EXP per kill, and VPQ ones were giving ~18K. FTP high level...? Nope. VPQ? Yes. Twisted Aqua Road is about 15-16K.

Hadriel

GUYS!

What is this? What is coming this August?

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Silent Crusade revamp?

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In August, you say? Didn't Girasol mention the NLC exclusive expansion coming later this summer? I wonder if this has anything to do with it?

S..so the Cygnus revamp is getting pushed back even farther?

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S..so the Cygnus revamp is getting pushed back even farther?

Pushed back? I did not realize they had given us a date. Or even mentioned it at all.

Pushed back? I did not realize they had given us a date. Or even mentioned it at all.

So it's unreasonable of me to have expectations for the release date of a patch? If you're simply objecting to my use of those two words, perhaps I should have said Cygnus Returns is arriving later than I expected.

KMS received the first part of the Cygnus revamp 28 days after Xenon, following a patch 14 days prior, containing Monster Life and Root Abyss, both of which we have. They also received each patch of Unlimited in two week increments, whereas it's three weeks for us.
Of course we don't have to adhere to KMS' patch schedule, but I had expected the Cygnus Returns patch series to start two weeks after Demon Avenger's release in GMS.

So it's unreasonable of me to have expectations for the release date of a patch? If you're simply objecting to my use of those two words, perhaps I should have said Cygnus Returns is arriving later than I expected.

KMS received the first part of the Cygnus revamp 28 days after Xenon, following a patch 14 days prior, containing Monster Life and Root Abyss, both of which we have. They also received each patch of Unlimited in two week increments, whereas it's three weeks for us.
Of course we don't have to adhere to KMS' patch schedule, but I had expected the Cygnus Returns patch series to start two weeks after Demon Avenger's release in GMS.

You'd think that by now, what with all of our differing content and scheduling patterns aside from KMS, that we'd learn that we don't strictly follow KMS. Or at the very least, not anymore. We've gotten some very generous additions (such as Sengoku, new exclusive areas, and hell, even all of this new content with Unleashed), and it only makes sense if they 'delay an update' here or there to compensate. Don't worry; I'm sure we will receive everything that we should in due time.

You'd think that by now, what with all of our differing content and scheduling patterns aside from KMS, that we'd learn that we don't strictly follow KMS. Or at the very least, not anymore.

I never said we do. My world was not blown when Nexon released Monster Life early. I simply adjusted my own imaginary patch schedule accordingly. However, this Silent Crusade revamp out of left field did surprise me. It proved me wrong, and now I'm disappointed.
Perhaps you're comfortable with waiting and letting Nexon surprise you, but that simply doesn't work for me. Might have something to do with the fact that I have no incentive to play the game until the Cygnus revamp. Forgive me if I'm too enthusiastic.

Not sure what GMS will do for the Cygnus Returns, but when you think about it, the Cygnus revamp is incomplete when it's only 3 characters. GMS might reveal the 3 characters or just wait until KMS is finished with the Night Walker and Blaze Wizard and release it as a complete revamp set (though, not sure how this would fit storywise if any later).

Though to offset the 'filler' content that we sometimes get (I'm looking at you, 2 month anniversary), we tend to get large patches. The recent Hyperskill update is one such example, and the Alliance update was another one.

I wonder if the Silent Crusade revamp involves the Tower content that JMS got, that would be pretty cool.

Also, I can't help but wonder if the Unleashed update will include:

• Increased drop rate of equips and higher chance of getting higher than rare potential
  
• 3rd Character Card set
  
• Inner Ability changes
  
• Boss changes
  

I wonder if the Silent Crusade revamp involves the Tower content that JMS got, that would be pretty cool.

Also, I can't help but wonder if the Unleashed update will include:

• Increased drop rate of equips and higher chance of getting higher than rare potential
  
• 3rd Character Card set
  
• Inner Ability changes
  
• Boss changes
  

What were the azwan changes again? I forgot what they were about

What were the aran changes again? I forgot what they were about

Aran changes? Were there any Aran changes in unlimited?

I wonder if the Silent Crusade revamp involves the Tower content that JMS got, that would be pretty cool.

Also, I can't help but wonder if the Unleashed update will include:

• Increased drop rate of equips and higher chance of getting higher than rare potential
  
• 3rd Character Card set
  
• Inner Ability changes
  
• Boss changes
  

I know it's nothing conclusive, but I did notice a few things from the teaser video.
For one, it didn't seem like any of those honor medallion thingies were dropping. The three Inner Ability lines also appear to be the same size, and not much larger like in KMS, so perhaps there's a chance we'll keep our current IA system. I for one really hope so.
Same thing could be said about the equip drop rate. As I recall, equips started dropping like candy in KMS when Unlimited hit, but I didn't see any drop in the teaser.

As for boss changes, I really hope they're tinkered with at least somewhat. That's probably the most important thing.
Apparently Spark copied over KMS' Unlimited Boss HPs for everywhere except Root Abyss (or at least Empress still has Unlimited level HP). I hope we don't follow suit.