Summary of the August 18 (Tue) Developer Live Stream

Phase 1

(9/3 - before 9/17 maintenance)

The "Elite Squad Ranking Run" will take place. Participation is only available in private-matching 4-player parties where the same Descendant cannot be in the same party. The top 10 squads with the fastest clear times will receive Radiant Dawn Hero Medal, Namecard, UI Theme, and Lounge Decoration.

Phase 2

(9/17 - 10/15 maintenance)

The "Leaderboard Ranking Run" will take place. Both solo and party participation is available. Achieving a top-30 ranking earns Dawn Hero Medal of the Shining Squad, Dawn Hero Medal, and more. After Phase 2 ends (10/15), Conquest difficulty will close.

Clear Reward (Common to Both Phases)

Clearing Conquest difficulty at least once during the event period earns the "Dawn's Hero" Namecard and UI Theme, and the Transcendent Weapon Malicious Dominator skin, regardless of ranking.

- A 4v4 Creator Challenge Event will take place. Eight creators are divided into two teams to challenge Conquest difficulty, and team voting will be held on the official website starting August 20th.

- Detailed rules and rewards will be announced in a future notice.

■ New Descendant: Raven

- The new Descendant, Raven, is being added. She is a Descendant who was formerly the boss of a guild in the back alleys of Albion.

- Raven is a Non-Attribute Fusion Descendant and a firearm-based skill Descendant who uses stylish movement skills and a shotgun.

- Farming location: Can be obtained from the Legion Laboratory or the Sigma Sector - Isolated Desert.

- Basic Skill Guide

Passive - Queen of Darkness

Enhances shotgun ATK and fire rate and deals additional damage with skill damage.

Skill 1 - Shadow Shot

Can be used after firing a shotgun five times. Deals additional damage to enemies in the "Trace" state.

Skill 2 - Raven Feather

Launches a raven to create a "Blade Feather," dealing "Bleed" damage to enemies. The Blade Feather's location can be used to quickly move Raven.

Skill 3 - Shadow Step

Dashes to apply "Trace" to enemies, and grants Raven "Veil of Night," gaining a Multi-Hit buff and damage nullification (7 times).

Skill 4 - Vendetta

A shotgun-firing skill that deals more damage the closer the target. Consumes a dedicated resource to deal additional damage on rapid follow-up shots.

- New Skill Module Guide

A module that converts Raven into a skill Descendant. Additional damage increases in proportion to the number of harmful effects inflicted. Skill 2 changes to "Raven's Claw," creating a Nest and specializing in area hunting chained with Skill 4 "Midnight Hunt."

Nightfall

Law of the Back Alley

A module that changes Raven from shotgun-exclusive to being able to use[/url] all firearms. Additional damage increases based on accumulated Edict (Dignity, Overwhelm, Bind) debuffs. Skill 2 ‘Shadow Rake’ draws enemies forward toward Raven. Skill 3 ‘Shadow Step’ is same as the base skill, but also grants a brief unlimited ammo effect after using it. Skill 4 "Night's Edict" can apply all 3 Edicts at once.

- Raven's premium skin "Ruler of the Night" and 3 head skins and 2 makeups are being added.

■ New Content: Trials

- "Trials," a new content built on roguelite elements, is being added.

- Difficulty increases with each run, and random teleports change the route each time.

- One run consists of 7 zones; difficulty increases as zones are cleared, and a Variable Code is selected. Up to 20 Variable Code selections are available across 4 total runs.

- A "Cracked Fissure" event occurs during runs, and players can choose whether to proceed for additional farming opportunities.

- Trials opens immediately upon entering Hard difficulty; a certain level of Arche Activity is required for public matchmaking.

- Through Trials, players can farm Transcendent Weapons, Merit Tokens, growth materials, Archive Shards, and more.

■ Merit Exchange

- Merit Tokens can be obtained from Trials (unlimited farming) and the Mega Dungeon (once per week).

- Merit Tokens can be used at the "Merit Exchange" through NPC Reina.

- Key Items at the Merit Exchange

Category

Description

Transcendent Trait Element

A material obtained by dismantling Transcendent Weapons, which can be additionally obtained from the Merit Exchange. Used to purchase Transcendent Weapon re-adjustment items.

Other Items

A variety of other items can be exchanged in addition to Transcendent Trait Elements.

■ Rotational Build[/url]

- A Trials-exclusive feature that lets players borrow and play a Descendant with all equipment pre-set, excluding Ancestor Modules.

- Beginners who have not completed their Descendant setup, or Descendants who have just entered Hard difficulty, can play Trials immediately.

- A dedicated Rotational Build matchmaking pool is operated, with matchmaking separate from players entering with their own Descendants.

- Focusing the farming of Transcendent Weapons and Merit Token on the first clear is possible.

- When playing with a Rotational Build, EXP and Proficiency are not gained; however, focusing the farming of Transcendent Weapons and Merit Token on the first clear is possible, and growth materials such as Archive Shards, Reactors, and External Component growth materials can also be obtained.

- Two to three Rotational Builds are provided each week and rotate weekly. Build settings can be checked in the details and used as a growth reference.

■ Boost Path: Bunny Build Guide

- Starting August 20th, the "Boost Path: Bunny Build Guide" will be provided for Descendants at Mastery Rank 20 or below.

- Regardless of return timing, it is automatically applied without a separate application if the condition is met.

- Upon completing the Boost Path, players obtain an Ultimate Bunny with pre-configured Electric Condense settings, excluding Ancestor Modules.

■ New Transcendent Weapons

- 11 Transcendent Weapons are being added.

- Each Transcendent Weapon has a fixed attribute, and up to 3 Transcendent Weapons can be equipped simultaneously.

- Transcendent Weapons can be obtained starting from Normal difficulty. Existing fully-set Ultimate Weapons can be used until a Transcendent Weapon setup is established, and when a Transcendent version of an Ultimate Weapon is released, the existing Ultimate Weapon skin can be directly applied to the Transcendent Weapon.

- Quality Guide

Category

Description

Quality

The maximum is 400. The higher the quality, the higher the performance ceiling of the Transcendent Ability.

Base Quality

The guaranteed minimum quality when farming a Transcendent Weapon. It increases with each farm. Example: After reaching Base Quality 400, a quality of 400 is guaranteed to drop within the content's upper limit.

(Example)

Quality Range by Content

Sigma Sector: 176-325 / Onslaught Mode Difficulty 4: 376-400 / Void Vessel Hard, Axion Infiltration and above: quality 400 can be obtained. In most content, quality 400 drops extremely rarely.

- Transcendent Ability Guide

Category

Description

Transcendent Ability

Consists of three Factors. Based on quality 400, a total of 150 points are distributed across three Factors, specializing in either area combat or single-target combat depending on distribution.

Sub Ability

Consists of 1-2 fixed Sub-Abilities and 2 randomly generated Sub-Abilities. Enhances the weapon's pure stats.

■ Transcendent Weapon System

– Boost System Guide

- Transcendent Weapons drop from almost all content.

- Drop probability can be increased with the Battle Pass Premium upgrade and drop boost items.[/url]

– Dismantle / Deslin Shop Guide

Dismantling unwanted Transcendent Weapons yields "Transcendent Trait Elements." Higher quality yields more, with a bonus added for Battle Pass Premium users.

Dismantle

Deslin Shop - Transcendent Weapon Box

Additional Transcendent Weapon Boxes can be purchased with Transcendent Trait Elements. Also contributes to increasing Base Quality.

Deslin Shop - Material Exchange

Transcendent Wave Modulators (3 per week) and Sub-Wave Modulators (5 per week) can be exchanged for Transcendent Trait Elements.

Transcendent Ability Re-adjustment

At the Weapon Workbench, use a Transcendent Wave Modulator to change the 150-point distribution. The re-adjustment result can be viewed side by side with the previous state before selecting.

Sub-Ability Re-adjustment

At the Weapon Workbench, use a Sub-Wave Modulator to reroll the 2 random Sub-Abilities. One of the existing Sub-Abilities can be locked before re-adjusting only the remaining one.

■ Battle Pass Overhaul

- The Battle Pass-exclusive Ultimate Weapon reward has been removed, and Premium benefits now include an increased Transcendent Weapon drop rate and a dismantle material bonus.

- The Transcendent Weapon drop rate increase starts at 5% at level 1, reaching a maximum of 20% at level 80. It can be used together with drop boost items.

- Customization rewards include common skins, the Vortex skin, the Orca skin, and Hover Bike accessories. The final reward at level 100 is the Vortex skin.

- The Battle Pass skin "Nightfall" (Raven, Ajax) is being added.

- Head skins, social motions, and accessory boxes from Season 1 are being added to the Bonus Shop. Descendants who did not participate in Season 1 can re-obtain some Season 1 items.

- The Battle Pass Premium price remains at 500 Caliber.

■ New Trigger Modules

- 2 new Trigger Modules are being added.

A module for movement-skill-focused Descendants. Using a Redeployment-type skill builds "Maneuver" stacks; when stacks are full and a Redeployment skill is used once more, skill power increase, ammo non-consumption, and max shield increase effects activate for a set time. Usable by Raven and Sharen, and is optimized for Raven.

Perfect Positioning

Aesthetics of Violation

A module for Neutralize-skill Descendants. When a Clash-type skill and a Neutralize-type skill are chained within a set time, the target receives a defense decrease effect ("Brand of the Weak") and the Descendant gains a skill power increase and cooldown reset for the skill with the longest cooldown ("Amusement of the Strong"). Usable by Kyle, Keelan, Ajax, Valby, Sharen, and Esiemo.

■ Monthly Balance

- Keelan & Kyle

- Numerical rebalancing is being applied to Keelan and Kyle.

The mechanism that scales damage based on max shield has been actively strengthened. Damage is increased to a level usable in Onslaught content, and the skill chain flow has been improved for better responsiveness. The synchronization value will be slightly decreased.

Kyle

Keelan

Operational difficulty is lowered and the minimum damage output is raised to ensure stable firepower.

- Synchronization Value Changes

- The following are key Descendants whose synchronization values are being adjusted in this update. Descendants including Dia and Ajax are being buffed.[/url]

■ Fellow Level Expansion

- The maximum Fellow level has been expanded to 40.

- HP recovery, ammo recovery, and MP recovery effects are improved as the level increases.

- Fellow growth materials can now also be obtained from Infiltration Dungeons.

■ QoL Improvements

- Weapon Proficiency Improvement: Weapons equipped in a slot gain 100% Proficiency even if not held in hand.

- Per-Player Debuff Management: Even if the same Descendant is in a party, each player's debuff stacks and durations are independently maintained.

- Rare Basic Material Mass Acquisition Rate Increase: Reduces the difficulty of farming Ultimate Weapons.

- Monster Shooting Improvement: Bullets are now fired in the direction the muzzle was facing at the time of firing.

- The random combination of Normal difficulty champions effects has been reorganized into intuitive combinations.

- EXP gained in Hard difficulty field missions has been increased to match Infiltration Operations standards.

- Additional improvements will be detailed in the update notes.

■ Cosmetic Updates

- August 20th (Thu) Cosmetic Update Guide

Light and Dark Skins (6 types)

Light and Dark skins will be added, with Dark skins for Valby, Serena, and Ines. Light skins for Hailey, Dia, and Blair will be added.

Light and Dark Back Attachments & Spawn Effect

2 back attachments and a spawn effect with a Light and Dark theme are being added.

New Makeups

Serena Black Punk, Ines Crack of Dawn, and a new Bunny makeup are being added.

Viessa Premium Skin

The "Agent Snow Empress" skin, designed for activity in various climate environments, is being added.

- The "Field Survival Trainee" skin will be added on September 3rd. Details will be revealed through short-form videos on the official channels.

- Transcendent Weapon-exclusive skins will also continue to be updated.

■ August Events

Start Date

Event

Details

[Attendance] Frontline Medical Support

A login attendance event.

Karel's Mothership: Conquest | Creator Challenge Vote

Eight creators are divided into two teams to challenge Conquest difficulty, and rewards are given based on team vote results. Voting is available on the official website starting August 20th. Details will be announced in a future notice.

The Great Battle Deployment Mission

Play missions to obtain and grow new and rebalanced Descendants (Raven, Kyle, Keelan) and defeat enemies in actual combat.

New Content Challenge Mission

An event to challenge new content such as Karel's Mothership and Trials.

[Returning] Back to Albion

A support event for returning Descendants.

A research acceleration event.

Accelerate Research Week