Sep 8, 2020

Eternal Return - Nimble Neuron

Hey everyone, Aesop here with your favorite kind of update: Patch Notes. There's a lot of stuff here, so let's get started.

Game

New Weapon Types

I'm sure you've seen our last posts about this, but we've added a couple new weapon types to our characters. Try them out when you get the chance!

Li Dailin - Nunchaku
Hyejin - Shuriken
Isol - Pistol

System

Emotes

Winky Face
We've added a system to display emotes to show your teammates how impressed you are with their sick 1v2 win or to show your displeasure at your enemies chasing you. Just press T (default) to open up the Emote wheel and use your mouse to pick the appropriate Emote.

Assists

More XP for you if your Jackie steals your kill!
We've added a system of "Assists" to team modes.
You will receive an assist in team modes by doing the following within 10 seconds before the target is killed:

Damage the target
Apply a debuff to the target
Target steps on a trap of yours
Buff or heal a team member who does any of the above to the target.

Experience granted
- Killer: 200 xp + 60 per level of opponent
- 1 player assist: 100 xp + 30 per level of opponent
- 2 player assist: 50 xp + 15 per level of opponent

Hunting experience granted
- 2 people hunt target: 60% each
- 3 people hunt target: 47% each

The images displaying "Kills/Animal kills" are now just K,A,H (kill, assist, and hunt, respectively.)

Other

More LP and more chickens! Also, reducing the cooldown of skills by half might be a little too much..

LP Gains in Duo and Squad slightly increased.
Maximum cooldown reduction lowered from 50% -> 40%
Animals now respawn faster after being slain
- Chicken: 4mins —> 2min 30sc
- Bat: 4min 30sec —> 3min 15sec
- Boar: 4min 30sec —> 3min 15sec
- WIld dog: 5min —> 4min
- Wolf 5min —> 4min
- Bear 6min —> 5min
Cemetery security console location moved
Chat windows will display a "no teaming" notice to help remind players and avoid violations of Eternal Return TOS.
Saved Plans
- When setting a route, it will now display the area which an item is totally completed.
- Added a filter for hiding duplicate items and basic materials.

Balance

We've heard your feedback on characters and are trying our best to balance to make each character fun and worthwhile, so we've made a couple small tweaks. We mentioned some things like Magnus and Fiora's changes in previous patches and that they take some time to implement, but here they are!

Weapon

Quick Cut (Rapier) Cooldown: 20/12sec → 30/18sec
Cloak and Dagger (Dagger) Cooldown 24sec → 40/25sec
Throw: Extra normal damage per mastery level 4% → 5%
Crossbow: Attack Speed per mastery level 1.8% → 2%
Sniper: Skill amp per mastery level 1.5% → 1.8%
Bat: Attack speed per mastery level 2.7% → 3%
Hammer: Extra normal attack damage per mastery level 4.5% → 5%

Character

Fiora

Team mode damage reduction: 5% → 3%
Two handed sword base attack speed 0.75 → 0.78
Marche & Rompre(E)
- Can now move in the targeted direction when activating skill the second time

Jackie

Dagger base attack speed: 0.725 → 0.7
Two handed sword base attack speed: 0.65 → 0.68
Dual Sword base attack speed: 0.575 → 0.6

Magnus

Broken Bullet(Q) cast time: 0.8sec → 0.5sec
Bike from Hell (R) now travels in direction of mouse pointer

Hyunwoo

First Attack (E)
- Collision ranged reduced 0.5m
- Defense reduction: 6/7/8/9/10% —>7/9/11/13/15%

Li Dailin

[NEW] Weapon type: Nunchaku
Drink Up(W) Liquid Strength (when not Tipsy) extra normal attack damage: 0.3% → 0.2%

Xiukai

Wok it Off (E) collision range reduced 0.5m

Hyejin

[NEW] Weapon type: Shuriken

Isol

[NEW] Weapon type: Pistol
SP regen per level: 0.04 → 0.03
Assault rifle base attack speed: 0.65 → 0.67
Rebel Assault(W)
- Damage: 20/40/60/80/100 —> 20/30/40/50/60
- SP Cost: 70/80/90/100/110 → 70/85/100/115/130
Camouflage(E)
- Move Speed Increase: 10/15/20/25/30% —> 10/11/12/13/14%
- MOK Operational Mine (R) Cooldown 40/30/20sec —> 40/35/30sec

Nadine

Squad mode damage dealt reduction: 7% → 9%
Crossbow base attack speed: 0.6 → 0.63

Aya

Squad mode damage dealt reduction: 7% → 10%

Zahir

Eye of Azrael (Passive) proc damage: 50/75/100 → 20/40/60

Sissela

Go Get 'Em Wilson!(Q) Area Damage: 60/95/130/165/200 → 60/90/120/150/180
Free at Last(R) Damage: 100/200/300 → 150/275/400

Item

Dagger

Carnwennan
- Extra Normal Attack Damage: 32 → 29

Bat

Spy Umbrella:
- Skill amp 35 → 30
Statue of Soteria:
- Attack power: 85 → 95

Spear

Fangtian Huaji
- Skill Amp 45 → 40
Gentian Silver:
- Gun Attack Power 95 → 100

Bow

Golden Ratio Bow
- Skill Amp 30% → 20%
Elemental Bow
- Recipe change: Scorchbow + Gilded Quill Fan → Scorchbow + White Crane Fan
- Movement Speed + 0.1
Ancient Bolt
- Attack Power 40 → 50

Crossbow

Sharanga
- Attack Power 122 → 140
The Legend of The General
- Attack Power 85 → 100

Two-Handed Sword

Monohoshizao
- Life Steal 16% → 18%
Laevateinn
- Attack Power 60 → 75
Arondight
- Attack Power 35 → 45
Thuận Thiên
- Attack Power 60 → 70

Rapier

Durendal Mk2
- Crit Chance 30% → 20%

Dual Swords

Divine Dual Swords
- Life Steal 15 → 18%
Starsteel Twin Swords
- Attack Speed 30% → 50%

Shuriken

Death Rune
- Skill Amp 25% → 20%
Mystic Jade Charm.
- Skill Amp 15 → 12
Azure Dagger
- Skill Amp 35 → 30

Guitar

Bohemian
- Crit Chance 15% → 20%

Armor

Head

Imperial Burgonet

Skill Amp 16% → 14%

Mithril Helm

Cooldown Reduction 20% → 15%

Tactical OPS Helmet

Cooldown Reduction 20% → 15%

Helm of Banneret

Defense 15 → 20

Laurel Wreath

Defense 6 → 12

Crystal Tiara

New recipe: Circlet + Piano Wire → Circlet + Stallion Medal

Chest

Sunset Armor

Defense 25 → 28

Rocker's Jacket

Attack Power 20 → 25

Amazoness Armor

Defense 35 → 38

Battle Suit

Defense 18 → 25

Butler's Suit

Attack Power 20 → 25

Covert Agent Uniform

Cooldown Reduction 20% → 15%

Arm

Sword of Shah Jahan

HP 300 → 400

Creed of the Knight

Crit Damage: 35% → 30%

Leg

Maverick Runner

Attack Speed 20 → 30%

EOD Boots

Defense 18 → 21

White Rhinos

Movement Speed 0.3 → 0.35

Accesory

Schrodinger's Box

Health 500 → 420

Trap

Mousetrap
- Quantity 3 → 2
Snare
- Quantity 3 → 2
Jungle Guillotine
- Quantity 2 → 1
- Damage 75 → 100
Remote Mine
- Damage 550 → 450

Optimization

We want to make Eternal Return smooth and playable on PCs of all specs. We're constantly focusing on optimization and a playable experience.

Optimized UI when moving item slots and fixed some frame drop with updating items and guides.
Improved frame drop that occurred during status effects and checking tooltips
Improved frame drop that occurred when animals first spawned
Fixed issues where visual effects would not disappear as intended
Improved sound line loading
UGUI outline improvements

Bug Fixes

We're always trying to squash bugs that pop up

Fixed bug displaying normal pings instead of dragging pings on some boxes.
Being hit by crowd control will cancel skills that you have already "queued up"
Fixed tooltips to correctly reflect cooldown reduction
Crossbow skill now correctly knocks back nearby enemies.
Li Dailin no longer freezes when Sissela pulls a player into Li Dailin's ultimate.
Hyejin's omens will no longer be seen if she is in fog of war.
Bat weapon skill (Full swing) sound effect corrected.
"Start Game" button defaults to your most recently played game mode.
Fixed camera issues in spectator mode when using Page Up/Down if camera was locked with Y.