Winterfest Has Arrived!

As snow begins to fall on Haven once more the Strangers and snipes have begun to celebrate Winterfest! This year the holiday festivities include a new Coliseum map, a special Prestige Mission, exclusive prizes and more!

Mission: Save Winterfest!

Impostoclaus has come to town but unfortunately not every child will be receiving a present from him. In the gremlin outcast town of Emberlight, a faction of fiendish, green-furred gremlins called 'grinchlins' have begun an attack on Emberlight. These grinchlins seek to rob the orphans of Emberlight of their presents and even destroy Impostoclaus!

It's up to you to accept the new Prestige Mission, 'Save Winterfest!' and help Impostoclaus deliver presents through a monster infested back alley of Emberlight. Knights have only a limited time to run presents to safety, avoiding monsters who mean to steal the presents as well as defending Impostoclaus from grinchlin attacks!

'Save Winterfest!' is a unique Prestige Mission as it can be completed as often as you like while available. Delivering presents successfully rewards the party with Winter Wish tokens.

New Lockdown Map: Avenue

Battle over a snow-swept cityscape where the snow is not just for shoveling, but great for throwing at other knights!

Features:

- A 3 CP map where the combat is fast and frigid - watch out for those snowballs!

- Open up even faster routes to your CP via a back door button

- The Slush Puppy in the central square guards plenty of snowballs, but it won't be happy if you try to take them!

Winterfest Rewards

Participation in the 'Save Winterfest!' Prestige Mission and Coliseum events will earn you Winterfest rewards in the Haven Town Square. Visit Impostoclaus and his little helper, Randolph to cash in Krogmo Coins and Winter Wishes for the following:

- Frosty Prize Box featuring Frosty costume armors and accessories

- Various Santy Hats

- Snowballs you can throw anywhere

And more!

The Hunter's Lodge and Boss Trophies

Guild Halls with both 3F expansions can now install the Hunter's Lodge. The Hunter's Lodge is a monster hunting lodge curated by the great hunter, Armero. It contains a guild alchemy machine containing monster trophy recipes. Guild alchemy machines use resources from the Guild Treasury and deposit results into the Guild Treasury.

Boss trophies require special materials available from Brinks in the Haven Bazaar for boss tokens. Materials include:

- Snarbostuffing

- Jelly Glue

- Schemer Scrap

- Dark Ember

Boss trophies list:

- Frumious Fang

- Replica Natural Snarbolax

- Replica Shadowy Snarbolax

- Jelly Gem

- Royal Jelly Crown

- Replica Royal Jelly

- Roarmulus Blueprints

- Small Replica Roarmulus Twin

- Large Replica Roarmulus Twin

- Almirian Seal

- Lord Vanaduke's Mask

- Lord Vanaduke's Finery

Guild Hall Doors

Guild Hall rooms can now have doors that restrict access to guild members of specific ranks. Doors can be installed via the room console. Like rooms, they must be re-installed if they are ever removed.

Doors include:

- Member Door

- Veteran Door

- Officer Door

- Guild Master Door

UI Changes

- Hall of Heroes has new loading screen art.

- Loading screen and end of level report headers have had their art adjusted.

- Acquisition of Arsenal items now plays an interface effect.

- Guild Records can now be filtered by knight name.

Bugfixes

- When directed to a specific mission in the Mission Interface, players will no longer be directed to a closed mission if an open version of the same mission is available.

Celebrate the Spiral Knights Guild Hall Expansion with an exclusive Battle Stand furnishing item (to add to your Guild Hall), Honor Blade sword, and Honor Guard Shield. Log in before November 19th, 12pm pacific!

All current guild halls are being upgraded will all-new expandable features. You can now add new levels, rooms, and furniture to your Guild Hall. In the future, the newly expanded halls will also serve as fortifications against the coming darkness that lurks within the Clockworks.

• Customize and expand your guild hall using the Design Mode, accessed from your guild's Command Console
  
• Buy furniture to decorate your new rooms from the Birdsong Emporium
  
• Purchase vendor and service rooms for extra convenience
  
• A special training hall elusively for guild members
  
• Guild upgrades: member limit increases and guild storage
  
• Set your Guild Hall to 'open to the public' and meet prospective recruits or throw a party!

The Dark Harvest Festival

The Dark Harvest Festival is now being celebrated in Haven and will end on November 1st! This annual event honors the mischievous Punkin King in order to ensure a healthy fall harvest for Haven. All Clockwork Tunnels-style levels like Power Complexes and Blast Furnaces now have a chance of featuring special rooms inhabited by the Punkin King. Simply hop on the party pad and discover if the Punkin King has candy tokens or something else in store for you!

There is also a Prestige Mission available daily throughout the event that gives you a guaranteed encounter with the Punkin King.

Both via the Arcade or the Prestige Mission, Tier 1 awards the fewest candy tokens while Tier 3 the most candy tokens.

Candy tokens come in three varieties (Hard Candy, Sour Candy and Sweet Candy) and can be exchanged in the Haven Town Square for festive masks and prize boxes!

Festive Masks
Maskwell has set up shop in the Haven Town Square and will trade items for candy tokens.

Masks include:

- Paper Frankenzom Mask (lasts 2 weeks)
- Paper Phantom Mask (lasts 2 weeks)
- Paper Spookat Mask (lasts 2 weeks)
- Replica Frankenzom Mask (lasts 2 weeks)
- Replica Phantom Mask (lasts 2 weeks)
- Replica Spookat Mask (lasts 2 weeks)
- Authentic Frankenzom Mask (lasts forever!)
- Authentic Phantom Mask (lasts forever!)
- Authentic Spookat Mask (lasts forever!)

In case you're just a few pieces of candy shy of the mask you desire, candy tokens can also be purchased from Bulky in the Haven Town Square.

Dark Harvest Prize Box
In addition to festive masks, Maskwell also has Dark Harvest Prize Boxes for trade. Dark Harvest Prize Boxes contain random, unbound items.

Items and Odds

33% for one of the following:
- Hallow Side Blade
- Hallow Wings
- Hallow Bomb Bundle
- Pumpkin Bomb Bundle
- Hallow Crest
- Hallow Parrying Blade
- Hallow Plume
- Hallow Ribbon
- Hallow Scarf
- Hallow Dapper Combo
- Hallow Power Scanner
- Hallow Glasses
- Hallow Round Shades
- Hallow Com Unit
- Hallow Mecha Wings
- Hallow Vertical Vents
- Hallow Bolted Vee
- Hallow Headband
- Hallow Maid Headband
- Hallow Toupee
33% for one of the following:
- Jack o' Bombhead Mask
- Hallow Crescent Helm
- Hallow Round Helm
- Hallow Fur Cap
- Hallow Hood
- Hallow Pith Helm
- Hallow Plate Helm
- Hallow Sallet
- Hallow Scaled Helm
- Hallow Tailed Helm
- Hallow Winged Helm
33% for one of the following:
- Hallow Flak Jacket
- Hallow Draped Armor
- Hallow Fur Coat
- Hallow Cloak
- Hallow Brigandine
- Hallow Plate Mail
- Hallow Cuirass
- Hallow Scale Mail
- Hallow Culet
- Hallow Raiment
1% - Haunted Aura

Plus Even More Prizes!

Each Dark Harvest Prize Box also includes random handfuls of Trick or Treat Confetti as well as a chance to receive even more prizes: Trinket Slot and Weapon Slot Upgrades, Krogmo Coin Boosters and Heat Amplifiers!

Trick or Treat Confetti launches a pumpkin in the air and then...

Levels
- Added an arrow pointing to the elevator in tutorial lobbies.

Items
- Two new proto armors and helms have been added to knight creation.

UI
- Minor clarity improvements to the Vendor interface.
- The Coliseum button on the main HUD has been moved to the center of the screen.
- Coliseum and Party Finder buttons have new animations to indicate status.
- Main menu button added to spectator mode at bottom of screen.
- While using the Alchemy interface, the name of the item you're choosing to create is now displayed at the top of the Ingredients panel.
- Info box/Description added to Loadouts panel.

Bugfixes
- Firo Driver / Firotech MKII now displays fire status in tooltip.
- Items will no longer spawn in FSC fountains.
- Virualent Catalyzer plays correct sound when fired.
- Fixed case where players could get stuck in a room with no respawning pot to free themselves.
- Miracle Cloak Recipe now requires the correct amount of Light Shards for a 4-star item.
- Spectating a game will no longer cause you to stop waiting for a PvP match.
- Fixed some issues with stunned monsters. More fixes are on the way.

New Danger Mission: Ghosts in the Machine
Spiral HQ has received a distress call from a derelict facility deep within the Clockworks.

The distress call came in the form of a digital message saying only 'save us.' Believing it to be a potential trap, Spiral HQ has deployed Desna's Recon Rangers to investigate the facility and assist anyone who may have sent the message.

Ghosts in the Machine is a new Danger Mission, intended for skilled players. It is available in the Prestige Mission section of the Mission interface.

New monsters are featured in Ghosts in the Machine and their official names are:
- Static Soul
- Surging Bombie
- Static Deadnaught
- The Big Iron

As a special launch celebration, Ghosts in the Machine will be available daily for a week! Following that it will be added to the the Danger Mission rotation.

Spectator Mode
You can now watch any live Coliseum game with Spectator Mode! To access, open the Coliseum and press the 'Spectate' button. Then just select the game you want to watch and enjoy!
- Press the arrows at the top of the screen to change between players, or use the arrow keys
- Spectators cannot see invisible players (Lockdown)
- Spectators can chat with other spectators during the match
- Spectators cannot chat with players until the end of the match
- Players cannot see spectator chat during a match

Bugfixes
- Minor changes to handling chat commands: if a command is typo'd the line of text won't clear.

New Danger Mission: Heart of Ice
Join Desna's Recon Rangers and explore the fiendish city of Amu-Sol. This frozen wasteland is home to a deranged and devilish cult plotting to put the entire Clockworks into a permanent state of deep freeze!

The entirety of Amu-Sol is swarming with frozen souls and deep within the heart of the city lies the source of it all: the cult's powerful leader, Maulos and a towering column of pure everfrost.

Heart of Ice is a new Danger Mission, intended for skilled players. It is available in the Prestige Mission section of the Mission interface.

New monsters are featured in Heart of Ice and their official names are:
- Frozen Soul
- Perma-Frostifur
- Maulos

Bugfixes
- Trojan shockwave attack range has been restored to the previous range.

Updates to Spiral Knights have been released. The major changes include:

New Danger Mission: Compound 42
Spiral HQ has uncovered a gremlin bioweapons facility deep within the Clockworks. It is believed that this facility belongs to a member of the Crimson Order known only as ‘Herex.’ The Recon Rangers have been tasked with infiltrating the facility and uncovering the nature of Herex’s bioweapons before they are put to use.

Compound 42 is a new Danger Mission, intended for skilled players. It is available in the Prestige Mission section of the Mission interface.

Items
- Item drops will no longer appear inside of flame tiles, such as those in Firestorm Citadel.

Monsters
- Drones have been tweaked so that they have more consistent behavior.
- Trojans should no longer spam their push-back attack when near large amount of blocks.
- Fire produced from oil is now slightly less potent.
- Fire produced from oil now consistently damages monsters.
- Oil now ignites from oil slick to oil slick at a slight delay.
- Fire produced from oil in Tier 2 now burns for the intended amount of time.

UI
- Popups referencing the ATTACK button now display the first available key association for the command.
- Added /invite and /joinknight commands to chat interface.
- Changed Prestige Mission tooltips to show your knight's current prestige levels instead of the mission's.
- Added prestige icon to knight's prestige number when inspected.
- Added a tooltip for PvP button.
- Removed Energy Module on the HUD until at least one of a player's knights has reached Haven.
- Added tooltips for advanced video options.

Updates to Spiral Knights have been released. The major changes include:

Danger Mission - Legion of Almire
As an honorary member of Desna's elite Recon Rangers squad, fight your way through a horde of Almirian undead to reach the inner sanctum of their necropolis, which is rumored to hold great wealth for those who survive its deadly defenses. Be warned - the cursed Legion of Almire will not give up its hidden riches without a fearsome fight!

Danger Missions, like Legion of Almire are a Prestige Mission. Danger Missions are noted by a red skull icon on the mission card art. A Danger Mission is intended for skilled players as they are much more challenging than an average mission, but have greater rewards upon completion.

Danger Missions will begin appearing in your Prestige Missions at Rank 4-1, or once you have entered Tier 2.

Lockdown
Join the battle in two new Lockdown maps!
- Stadium - Utilize team-only barriers and bombshells for a home field advantage in an arena with plenty of space for large battles.
- Mines - Carve and blast your way through a stone-filled mine. Open up assault paths or leave stones in place to delay the competition.

Monsters
New monsters have been added that will be first seen in the new Danger Mission, Legion of Almire.
- Bombie - A zombie with a very short fuse and an explosive temper. Don't let them get near you!
- Almirian Crusader - A powerful undead knight from the cursed kingdom of Almire. They lie encased in ash until intruders get too close...
- Deadnaught - A deadnaught is a giant, undead guardian who wields a great spear and can reanimate zombies, much like a grim totem.

Spiral Knights has been updated.

Items
A new 'Armor Rear' accessory slot is now available. Items that now use this slot are:
- Tails Tails
- Wolver Tails

Monsters
- Zombies will now only drop loot on initial defeat. Rez'd zombies will drop nothing.
- Slag Guards now have new artwork. Hail Almire!

Graphics
- Made adjustments to certain textures on low detail setting.

Levels
- Prestige Mission: Pinch of Salt - the interactive salt pile that is used to open a door is more clearly visible
- There is new music for slime-themed levels. The Royal Jelly Palace will keep the original slime music.

Spiral Knight has been updated.

Lockdown
Join the battle in two new Lockdown maps!

Downtown: A traffic-congested, frigid city with plenty of Fire Pots to melt the ice!
Gardens: A secluded garden with hidden paths amongst its ruined walls

Changes to the Scoring System:
Lockdown will now use a scaling point system where each additional Capture Point controlled by a team is worth fewer points per tick

On a 3 Capture Point map:
- 1st CP captured is worth 5 points
- 2nd CP captured is worth 3 points
- 3rd CP captured is worth 1 point

On a 5 Capture Point map:
- 1st CP captured is worth 5 points
- 2nd CP captured is worth 4 points
- 3rd CP captured is worth 3 points
- 4th CP captured is worth 2 points
- 5th CP captured is worth 1 point

Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug where knights were burning to death while Vanaduke was giving his monologue. Ouch!

- Removed chat transforms for emoticons and lolspeak
- Fixed issues with the Troika sword line charge attacks