zOMG NewsFeed! What's NEW, What's Changing!

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Want to know what's changing/ Stalk Qix to get it first hand! Qixter's posting history is very useful! Dang Qix deleted the updates archive.

Here I summarize some of the cooler stuff!:

Events

Mini-Events (7/2/09):

Aerial Bombardment: (Barton Town, CL 2.0 and lower)
Get ready to kill gift boxes from Airshark!
Badges: Chum, We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

Rotary Menaces!: (Village Greens. CL 2.0 and lower)
Find the three lawnsharks and destroy them!
Badges: Greenskeeper of the Peace, Kickin' Grass and Takin' Names

Grucken Chuckin'!: (Bill's Ranch, CL 3.0 and lower)
Gruckens are on the loose! Catch as much as you can within the time limit!
Badges: Stop That Grucken Around, That's Grucken Amazing!

Deadman Spies!: (Zen Gardens, CL 4.0 and lower)
Purses are raiding Zen Gardens! Destroy them before they take over!
Badges: Fly By Intruder, Clutch Infiltrator Assassin

Buzzkill!: (Bass'ken Lake, CL 5.0 and lower)
Buzzkill in Bass'ken Lake! Help destroy it!
Badges: Beat the Buzzer, Buzzkiller

Bug Breakout!: (Old Aquaduct, CL 6.0 and lower)
Shochroaches and walkers are coming out from the Hive! Get rid of them before the time runs out!
Badges: Bug Stomper, Insecticide

Trophy Hunters!: (Gold Beach, CL 7.0 and lower)
P3s are taking over Gold Beach! Kill them before they take over Gold Beach!
Badges: Hunt Harasser, P3TA

Saving the Spirits!: (Otami Ruins, CL 8.0 and lower)
Put out the flames before the timer runs out!
Badges: Flame Quencher, Servant of the Spirits

Orb Spills: (Every zone, CL depends on the zone)
Charged orbs are all over the place! Get them before the timer runs out!

Past Events:
Easter Event: Egg hunting was a blast, got 2 badges and the recipes for Cheepz, Basketh Loo and Sundae Sweets.

April Fools Day, there was a Airship over Barton and if you boarded it took you to CANDY MOUNTAIN! Well not really, but you did get a free "Error"

New Features

Double-Orb prices got reduced! Deluxe version is now 299 GC, and regular version is 124 GC. (8/5/09)

Orb Swapping! By placing two rings on the swap interface, plus the click of the magical 'swap' button, the CLs of both rings will swap! (8/5/09)

Ring Buffer and Double Orb PowerUp durations have been reduced from 60 minutes to 20 minutes. (7/2/09)

Badges Kill Counter! Go to the Badges Kill Counters and see how close you are to all your badges! (5-22-09)

ALL Powerups Soulbound ALL of them including the ones I was using as clan welcome gifts *sniff* The only way to get em with gold now is buying those zOMG bundles which have skyrocketed. You can still get them with cash.

Null Fragments Gone! Well they're not needed for recipes. You can talk to Nicolae in Barton to trade them in for orbs or rings! (3-11-09)

ORBS! ORBS ORBS! Orb drops have approximately DOUBLED throughout the game! OMG!

Warp To Friend Feature! Available in the PDA! Woot!! This can bring you to the layer your friend is in. (Jan 27th, 2009)

Ring Polishers now come in a new type that lasts a whole hour!! (Jan 27th, 2009)

Double Orbs Items now available in Backalley Bargains!

Icons on users (1/21/09) Little circles appear in the lower left corner of the avi when you select a user now. Green means ready for crew invite, red means they don't want a crew and blue means they're already in a crew! Very useful when crewing people!

Ring Balance! (1/21/09) there were small changes to ring balance across the board. Fitness lost some of its weight, Divinity has a longer effect and Area attacks got beefed a bit! Check the forums for more!

CL Lowering!!!! (Dec 18, 200 cool Just talk to Trixie in the Null Chamber and chose to Lower your Ring Power! The days of spare ring sets just to fudge low CL are OVER! Thank goodness!!

/me command (Dec 15, 2008?) Let's you do actions in clan and talk chat! It's fun!

g command: (Dec 15, 2008?) select a target like a monster, of a dazed crew member, press the [g] key and you move to them. CAUTION. if they're on the edge of the screen you may go to the next screen over!

NEW RANDOM STUFF

There are new special creatures in every region! Landstrider in the Old Aqueduct is the newest rumored addition!  

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New Quests (Many of these seem very glitchy still!! D: )
Aqueduct Quests 3 New Quests. Frank asks you to salvage 5 biochips from the aliens, rewards orbs and sometimes powerups!
The Starwatchers want a Vox from the Preada
the GIB wants you to kill 10 Terrors and 10 Preda int he warzone (this one is still highly glitched)(March-2009)

Otami Quest April, 200 cool
Blaze now seems to give a repeating quest to hunt Coatl feathers... if you can get it to work.
Also a new NPC is giving out a repeatable to hunt spear heads. Find her up along the path to the Blood Tree.

Bassken Lake Quest (Jan 15, 200 cool Hunting Carrion Fluffs for the guard near the north gate of barton! Attack the trash cans to make them appear!

New Sewers Quests (Dec 23, 2008?)
NPC: Elisabeth
Quest: Defend the Town - this lets you go back in the sewers and get goo and badges too. RING PICK!
Quest: Gaian About Town - This is broken for many people, but if you can make it work you pick a ring!

Zen Gardens Quests (Jan 15, 200 cool There's a quest to hunt My for Katsumi and a quest from the guard to find Katsumi. I succeeded in the weave quest, but it looks like the quest to find Katsumi only works if you get it when you've never talked to her yet. You also may also pick up a quest to "Dim the Lanterns" from the guards outside of Barton, and one to Turn Down the Drums from the guards on the opposite side.

You may want to check for some of the early quests! I actually somehow picked up some early ones like Mark's Ring over again. o.O

Quest Changes

Landshark's CL has been lowered to CL 7.5. Therefore, you must be CL 7.0 or lower in order to fight Landshark.

End Boss encounter has been changed. If everyone in the crew gets dazed during the encounter, your character will be removed from the EB chamber. When your crew returns to the EB chamber, the whole EB fight starts from the tail. Due to this change, EB health totals have been reduced so crews can complete the encounter in one piece.

Kat's Kokeshi Doll, the She-Wolf, Papa Saw and Duneslam have all become instanced. This means that you go into a small separate screen with just your crew to fight them. All 3 seem to work similarly. They start out like the hive and you have to survive several waves of dolls or wolves whose numbers depend on how many of your crew is inside the instance. Then you get the actual Mini Boss. They are HARD. CL caps are 4.1 for Kat's Doll, 5.1 for She-wolf and unknown yet for Papa Saw. Also, the miniboss will NOT appear after the waves end if someone in the instance is too high!

EndBoss is being slowly changed. Scaredy Cat no longer seems to work on him.. But if you do beat him, he gives a one time, pick of any CL10 ring! This is only if you've not already beat him 4 times!