⚠️ PRE-RELEASE CHANGELOG

These patch notes cover an upcoming update that is not yet live.

The release date is currently TBD while we finish bug fixes, testing, and final polish. Features listed below may also change before release.

New System: Starcharts & the Nexus Atlas

Debuting the new Starchart system with our first premium tradeable chart, the Nexus Atlas.

• Choose a path and complete various challenges for loot.
• Costs 6,250 rubies in !shop, limited to 2 per day (subject to change).
• $25 (USD) if bought directly from frg.gg/shop (spins give a variable number of rubies), with various bundles for better deals.
• The atlas frequently awards rubies and tradeable spins along the way, plus chances at a big assortment of other rewards: new playermodels, several compendium artifacts (Zeropoint / Ethereal Reaper), various ruby items and runes, and of course: brand new items.
• Charts are tradeable before activation, so players can trade for one without spending rubies or buying from the shop.
• There's more than this chart in the game.

New Currency: Stardust

• A free seasonal currency earned passively over time: 10 per 10 minutes of active playtime.
• There is currently no active way to speed up your gain, outside the Reservoir seen below.
  

New System: Reliquaries

A sort of "shrine" you can offer currency to in hopes of loot, or break open for exclusive rewards. Available now in !shop.

• Fairly high risk: you are not guaranteed a reward. Sometimes they award drops without popping open, called Consolation loot.
• The longer a reliquary goes without popping, the better the consolation loot you are eligible for. Once it pops, that resets.
• The reliquary's tier is indicated by visual effects as you offer to it; they become more and more elaborate with fancy particles.
• There is no built-in pity for popping it. The pity is that higher reliquary tiers give you potentially higher tier consolation rolls before it pops, on top of the loot for popping it open.
• There is one each for Stardust, Rubies, and Coins, and each has its own pool of Special Limited Items (none exclusive, just separate pool counts).
• The Coin and Ruby reliquaries are limited to 2 pops per day (it could take many attempts to pop one open). The Stardust one has no limit per day.

New: Star Wars Effigy

• Added Starfighter Effigy: works like bat-bonk. After death you spawn as the ship tied to the effigy (the ship is rolled when the effigy is created, with a rare chance at the Millennium Falcon). Fly around, destroy stuff for XP and loot, and earn etchings. After enough etchings the effigy detonates and awards loot (no more ship spawns after that).
• Added Starfighter Vigil Effigy (new): progress while alive. Just play TTT: kills and surviving rounds carve etchings, and every etching pays out its loot instantly, with golden etchings paying several rolls at once. After its final etching the vigil completes and the effigy crumbles.
  Both effigies can sit in the Compendium Synergizer at the same time, so you can run both paths together.
• Both are available in !shop (coin section) for Coins, each with a daily limit of 2.

Elements: First Pass

• Completed the first pass of adding elemental types to traits and weapons. Subject to change. Not all traits have elemental types. If you think a trait should have an element or has the wrong type, let me know. This does not add MORE damage to anything, this is just me categorizing what already exists.
• This system will be used going forward for more interesting synergies, resistances in pve, and so on (mostly PVE stuff).

• The total damage tracker now has sub-trackers for each element type, showing what is dealing what. Report any traits that may not be proccing, I may have messed up their conversions.

• Reminder: you can hold middle mouse to keep the stat display UI open, letting you hover the elements to read what they are.
• With this comes Resonant Elemental Shields. You will see these on some enemies occasionally. (You can test these out in the firing range, or ask the new npc)
• You can search for elements in your inv via elements: element,comma,separated.
  To search for a weapon with an elemental damage type, rather than traits, you can use damagetype: element,comma,separated.

Damage Numbers & Glow

• Added br_compact_damage_numbers: set to 1 to show 1,000 damage as 1K. (Disabled by default.)
• Added br_dmgnum_glow
• Added a custom glow shader for damage numbers (and other effects). Customize or disable it with br_dmgnum_glow 0-1 and br_dmgnum_glow_boost 0-4 (0 = dim, 4 = brighter).
• Damage numbers now merge by default when similar types hit in nearby locations. Toggle with br_dmgnum_merge 0-1. You can also use br_dmgnum_reaction_tags 0-1 to toggle the new resistance labels if you want less visual clutter.
• Added a custom glow shader for glowing names and text: br_glowing_text_bloom 0-1 to toggle, br_glowtext_glow_boost 0-4 for intensity, and br_glowtext_strength 0-1 for final composite intensity.
• You can find many more config options in !settings.
  

UI & Quality of Life

• Searching for items now properly finds items within bags that are within other bags (up to 3 deep).

• You can now set collection priority per bag:
  

• You can search element: element, names, comma, separated to find weapons & traits that have specific elements. This has some gaps as some mechanics not visible for searching utilize elemental damage (such as rockets in etched, or requiem modules).

• Inventory Search now should crash you less, and it separates storage from base inv.

• You can now right click -> Open to Item, and it will open the storage and scroll to & highlight the item in said storage for quick access.
  

• Remade the party system & UI
  
  
  

• You can now use 99% of all "Usable" type items from storage slots. (Runes, jewels, etc, you can also use items from storage WITH these by dragging from storage into applicable input slots).

• Artifacts now have special item borders, with an exclusive one for First Edition artifacts. Mythicals also get special borders (pending cooler artwork).

• You can now hold middle mouse to keep stat displays up and hover over parts of them for more info. Underlined text (like in item descriptions or trait lists) is now hoverable too.

• Remade the Input QTY prompt: it now supports typing 100k or 1M instead of 100000 / 1000000.
  

• Completely recoded the entire market place, update the UI a bit.
  

• Updated market place listing UI:
  

• Updated the coin visual for in-world coin loot explosions.
  

• Added a new rare drop available from various permanent and seasonal sources.

• You can now open multiple crates from storage.

• Completely remade & modernized my Dialogue system to support many new features, this will be used more moving forward. Things like Sealed Djinns now use this for their options.
  

• Sockets now show which traits are added directly on the item (soon to properly show dampening too):
  

• Added a kill marker popup (disabled by default): a skull pops in near your hitmarker when you get a PVP kill.

  • Headshot kills show different visual effect.
  • A customizable kill sound plays alongside the popup.
  • Opt-in for now: enable with br_enable_killmarkers 1.

• Customization convars:

  • br_killmarker_glow (default on) and br_killmarker_glow_boost to toggle and tune the glow intensity.
  • br_killmarker_sfx_url to point the kill sound at any >AUDIO< URL you like.
  • SHOW_KILLMARKER 0 to hide the popup entirely.

• Test it anytime with br_test_killmarker (add 1 for the headshot version).

• You can now see a hp bar above the shooting range dummy.

• You can now add Elemental Shields to shooting range dummies for testing.

• Remade dummy damage tracking:
  

• Multiple people can use their loadouts at the same time in shooting ranges.

• Players can now just press 'Re-equip' loadout in their inventories to get their loadouts from anywhere within a shooting range. (Maybe should make)

• Updated the post-round screen on TTT, it now has a 'damage' tab. This shows a damage breakdown of all damage you dealt and took and from what sources.
  
  
  Note: The post-round UI had to be made slightly larger for this to look good, so it may feel a bit jarring at first.

  • Aura particles will now fade out as they get closer to the center of your screen, ensuring they cant fully obscure.

Balance & Changes

• EveryOtherBullet has been remade, from every 3 bullet deal x% extra dmg, to every 3rd attack on a target, and in pve this deals kinetic .
• Plague Tendrils: chain proccing nerfed significantly due to the sheer number of damage instances it was putting out. This is an integrity change; it was by far the strongest trait on the server. Damage per tendril was increased to help compensate, so the nerf will be very noticeable while overall damage lands back around where I want it.
• You can now reset Moonbound Vow tracked kills (right click the item, then "Moonbound Vow: Remove a recorded foe").
• Buffed Cerb damage a bit.
• Made Cleanse & Muffle imbued on Daybreak.
• You can no longer use glider while Malefic Bladesaw is active and vice versa.
• You can no longer swap weapons while Malefic Bladesaw is active.
• Thraksurge is now hitscan.
• Shadowstrike (extinct and non extinct) also now hitscan and should feel somewhat better to shoot. Also now works with buckshot.
• Echoes of the Rift's runes decay slower in pvp. +10% mobility.
• Added Stamina bar to Hylian Boneward. Its block now works in PVE, mitigating a % of the damage. Each hit absorbed drains your stamina in pvp and pve. Since the block is more limited, the users are now more protected from various traits & interactions while having stamina, with each instance of mitigation consuming stamina.
• Add Gilded Reward Chest to empowered bounty & loot orbs.
• Beamcaster MKIV now auto fires at max charge, also increased its pve damage.

Fixes & Performance

• Fix gard triple hitting players with its secondary attack.
  • Buffed its base primary attack damage from 28 to 35
  • Buffed its m2 damage.
  • Gibs targets under 75% hp, as long as that hp amount is lower than 2000.
• of Malefic Bladesaw now only works when holding the weapon that has it (like it was supposed to)
• Optimized the hell out of the NextBot base: max enemy limit increased roughly 3x. Clears a ton of tech debt and adds shared functionality across all enemies (factions, fighting each other, and more).
• Fixed all Enhanceable items not retaining their max-upgrade perks, and made max-upgrade traits unable to be removed or annulled. Applies retroactively and auto-applies to fully leveled weapons that missed their perks.
• Fixed DamageToUndead not working in Relic.
• Fixed a ton of issues and performance problems.
• Fixed Onslaught pvp damage being 1.5x - 1.25x instead of 1.15x - 1.25x and now display that on the tooltip.
• Many many more changes and tweaks too many to list.

Ostara

• Added ~15 new daily run modifiers.
• Buffed the odds of finding a forge in the world.

Survive

• Hardmode is now the base mode and has returned. Loot has been updated a tad.
• Increased mob density.

Post release plans:

• You now spawn with loadout.
• Its akin to starting at round ~30.
• All records have been wiped.
• Mega buffed the weapons built into survive.
• Wall weapons have been replaced by upgrades you can buy. You have a limited number you can buy total, but you can swap out ones as needed for better ones you find. Every 5 rounds the upgrades shuffle.