Apr 30, 2014

GunZ 2: The Second Duel - Guntrix

Hello everyone,

We have a maintenance schedule today.
Maintenance Schedule:
April 30 02:00 PST – April 30 05:00 PST

Scheduled Tasks:

A new character, Wayne the Strider joins the battle.. New set of items for Strider are also added.
A new map, Gustav Hangar is now available. Campaign mode map, The Beast of Steel, was used to recreate this new PvP map.
All accessory items in Shop will be provided at 50% reduced price permanently. They can also be purchased with Gold now.
Tesla shop updates
- New accessory items (times ones) are added to costume packages. (removed green armor items instead)
- Weapon packages now only include weapon items of the same character class.
Update on Weekly 50% Discount
Discount on sunglasses is over, and following items will be on sale
- Small Fairy Wings, Small Angel Wings, War Banner, Alexsei Backpack, Angry Alexsei Backpack
- Weekly Discount does not affect gold prices of the sale items.
A few particular areas of Abandoned Mansion map were advantageous to a certain character class. We have restricted the area in this patch.
We’re holding a new weekly MVP event.
(10 competitors per each group, Thunder Badge will rewarded to the top player of each group)
There was a bug where players could bypass the second target destructible object in Time Assault mode. We fixed the bug and now it cannot be bypassed.
1v1 match of Team Elimination and Gladiator matches now requires 5 rounds won for winning the match. For Team Deathmatch, it requires 70 points to win.
Custom game is back!
New game mode, Practice Mode, is now available. Practice Mode is a custom game type of match that does not provide any match reward.

The game servers will be closed during the maintenance.
We’re sorry about the down-time and will do our best to reopen the game servers as soon as possible.

As of today, we are releasing our game out of Early Access phase. First of all, we would like to thank you all again for supporting us from the very beginning.
There have been ups and downs for the past two and a half month since the launch of early access. Starting with the beta launch hiccup such as the notorious server capability issue, a number of problems such as network issue, hacker situation, optimization problems, and so forth have occurred. At the same time, we also have made significant changes and improvements to the game, although some of you may still disagree. :-P
I’d like to say that today’s official release is just an opening of a new chapter of GunZ 2. We will keep putting everything we can offer into the game for constant improvements. Starting with introduction of Strider, we will continue to add more exciting contents to keep you entertained.
Some of you have been with us for the past few years from GunZ 1. Some of you have joined the community with Steam release. As a small token of gratitude for supporting us from the beginning, we are providing each of you an Early Access Badge. You won’t be able to get the item from any other chance, so I suggest you to hold onto it. :)

Also, we will provide all in-game items at 20% discount price for 1 week to celebrate the official release.

Again, thank you very much, and have a great time in the new chapter of GunZ 2.

- GunZ Team

Apr 30, 2014

Update 1.0 : Wayne the Strider

GunZ 2: The Second Duel - Guntrix

Hello everyone,

We have a maintenance schedule today.
Maintenance Schedule:
April 30 02:00 PST – April 30 05:00 PST

Scheduled Tasks:

A new character, Wayne the Strider joins the battle.. New set of items for Strider are also added.
A new map, Gustav Hangar is now available. Campaign mode map, The Beast of Steel, was used to recreate this new PvP map.
All accessory items in Shop will be provided at 50% reduced price permanently. They can also be purchased with Gold now.
Tesla shop updates
- New accessory items (times ones) are added to costume packages. (removed green armor items instead)
- Weapon packages now only include weapon items of the same character class.
Update on Weekly 50% Discount
Discount on sunglasses is over, and following items will be on sale
- Small Fairy Wings, Small Angel Wings, War Banner, Alexsei Backpack, Angry Alexsei Backpack
- Weekly Discount does not affect gold prices of the sale items.
A few particular areas of Abandoned Mansion map were advantageous to a certain character class. We have restricted the area in this patch.
We’re holding a new weekly MVP event.
(10 competitors per each group, Thunder Badge will rewarded to the top player of each group)
There was a bug where players could bypass the second target destructible object in Time Assault mode. We fixed the bug and now it cannot be bypassed.
1v1 match of Team Elimination and Gladiator matches now requires 5 rounds won for winning the match. For Team Deathmatch, it requires 70 points to win.
Custom game is back!
New game mode, Practice Mode, is now available. Practice Mode is a custom game type of match that does not provide any match reward.

Apr 24, 2014

04/27/2014 04:00 PST Maintenance - 4hrs (Balance)

GunZ 2: The Second Duel - RaonHaje

Hello everyone,

We have an extensive balance patch scheduled today.
Maintenance Schedule:
April 24 04:00 PST – April 24 08:00 PST

Please refer to below patch notes for details of the balance update.

Contents Updates

- Added login event contents
- Supply Crate rewards have been changed

A Supply Crate will now be given after winning 3 matches. Adding 2 more wins afterwards will provide a Quality Supply Crate.
Once player receives a Quality Supply Crate by winning 5 matches, reward count will be reset and player will receive a regular Supply Crate after winning 3 matches again.
Supply Crate now provides 1 or 2 Purified Ore
Quality Supply Crate now provides 1 or 2 Purified Crystal

- Update on Weekly 50% Discount

Discount on sunglasses is over, and following items will be on sale
Napping Cat, Horse Mask, Friendly Chicks, Compact Wind Turbine, Skull Mask
(Weekly Discount does not affect gold prices of the sale items)

- A safety system has been added to permanent unique (orange and blue) item disassemble interface. Players now need to input numeric codes displayed in the interface in order to proceed with disassembling unique items.
- Updates on netcode

Amount of host’s bandwidth usage is greatly reduced.
Anti-leadshot feature has been improved, thus gameplay with bad ping has been greatly improved.
Improved the issue of characters shaking when ping is bad.

- Number of rounds in 1vs1 Team Elimination and Gladiator matches is now increased to 7 rounds.

Balance updates

- Common changes

The distance that a player can travel in the air by dashing after wall jumping has been decreased
Resolved the bug in which characters that are knocked up in the air or knocked down on ground not getting 50% reduced damage from flame thrower and grenade launcher.
Player characters can no longer shoot while on boost run status. (Firing ranged weapon will cancel boost run)
Flipping (knocking up) now keeps targets in the air slightly longer than before.
Continuous dashing motion is now smoother and dash-jumping distance has been increased.
Added new character animation/motion for when getting attacked in mid-air.
Player characters now receive super armor status when rising up from the ground and take only 50% damage when attacked while rising up.
Player characters now take 50% reduced damage while in bash motion.
Getting knocked up again in mid-air now won’t get the target as high as before.
Player characters can only Rise, Rise Attack, or Roll Dodge when knocked down on ground now.
- Any action other than these intended ones such as does not cancel rising animation. For instance, players can no longer shoot ranged weapon while rising up.
The following damage reduction skills and states now also reduce damage from active skills (Q, E, R skills):
- Armor stat bones
- Knocked-down and Knocked-up states
- Particular damage reduction skills such as Rena’s Shadow Dancce
Player characters can now move while guarding or taking NPC’s melee attack.
All player characters’ rising attack now have fixed damages instead of damage based on weapon’s attack power
- Ivan: 40
- Rena: 40
- Elena: 30
- Max: 40

- Character balance updates

Ivan

R skill, Lightning Blade damage is decreased from 70 to 40 and has 4.5 second cool-down time.
Decreased damage of jump attack by 25%. Ivan can now continue combo attack on targets that are knocked up in the air.
Attack Damage ratio of the final blow of a combo attack has been decreased from 1.8 to 1.5.
Attack Damage ratio of the knock-up attack lead by 3 normal melee attack combo has been decreased from 1.0 to 0.8.
Lucky Bullet now knocks back enemy targets.
Invincibility duration of following skills has been reduced.
- Cyclone Kick: 0.9 sec > 0.5 sec
- Death Strike: 0.9 sec > 0.5 sec

Elena

Damage of R skill, Home Run has been decreased from 75 to 45. R skill now has 5 second cool-down time.
Increased damage of final blow of LMB>LMB>RMB>RMB combo attack.
(LMB: left mouse button, RMB: right mouse button)
Reduced reloading time of Marauder series (Marauder reduced to 0.1 / Lightning Marauder to 0.05).
Decreased penetration rate of New Tuber from 18% to 15%.
Elena can now deal combo attack on enemy target that is already in mid-air.
Hammerfall now knocks up enemy targets instead of knocking them back.
Decreased DPS of assault rifles by 5%.
Grenade round’s direct hit sensitivity has been reduced.
- Before: grenade exploded if an enemy target existed within 20~25 CM radius
- Now: grenade explodes if an enemy target exists within 5 CM radius
Invincibility duration of following skills has been reduced.
- Hammerfall: 1 sec > 0.8 sec

Max

Seismic Smash damage reduced from 60 to 40, and it now has 7 second cool-down time.
Reduced radius bonus of Seismic Smash gained by Crowd Control skill by 33%.
Fixed the bug of Shield Shock not damaging enemies when casted right above the targets. Reduced damage of Shield Shock from 140 to 120. Shield Shock can also damage knocked-down enemies now.
Reduced penetration rate of flamethrowers by 10%, except for:
Inquisitor - no change
Blast Inquisitor – increased penetration rate by 5%
Slightly reduced DPS of Apocalypse series.
Movement speed when holding miniguns has been increased slightly.
Dash attack with shield now knocks back enemy targets instead of knocking them down.
Damage of Shield Charge has been increased from 160 to 180.
Getting attacked with normal attacks while shooting flamethrower or minigun now does not cancel/stop shooting action.
Invincibility duration of following skills has been reduced.
- Shield Shock: when slamming on ground 0.6 sec > 0.3 sec / additional 0.2 sec when activated
- Shield Charge: 0.9 sec > 0.5 sec

Rena

Shadow Rush skill damage is reduced from 80 to 40, and it now has 6 second cool-down time.
Cloaking after casting Shadow Decoy now grants her invincibility for 0.2 seconds instead of being invincible for the entire cloaking duration.
Added casting time on Shadow Dance skill, and Rena becomes invincible for 0.2 seconds after casting the skill.
Jump attack damage has been reduced by 15% and Rena can now deal combo attack on enemy target that is already in mid-air.
Shadow Rush now knocks down enemy targets.
While Shadow Rush skill has been an unguardable skill, player characters can now receive Guard Break status when guarding it with melee weapon.

The game servers will be closed during the maintenance.
We’re sorry about the down-time and will do our best to reopen the game servers as soon as possible.

- GunZ Team