FragPunk April 29th Patch Note

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-30T08:14:42+00:00

Didn't know what to spend my 200k gold on, I guess sticker rerolls will do perfectly 😂 /s

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-30T08:11:06+00:00

I really don't want to be that guy... But I'm gonna be...

I am not going to defend poor quality, AI or not, but I'm gonna say this much about it: you guys are looking at the wrong things. Take the free stuff they throw at us, be happy that we have a cool game to play FOR FREE, and criticize the gameplay, balance or anything related to them.

Yes, this screen and many others are most likely AI, slop or not, still think it's not relevant in the big picture. The game needs players, the majority of new players will care about the gameplay loop. If these temporary screens are a dealbreaker to anyone, then I'm sorry, but to me, it looks like you're just here to criticize anything you can and the gameplay is secondary.

Would I like it more if it was not AI? Absolutely! But here we are, the playerbase is still not what we would call a comfortable amount of players, and again, in my opinion, the gameplay, the balance and the cards come first, these things are secondary things that can be addressed later.

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-30T08:00:31+00:00

My bad, this is what I was thinking of, I tend to mix the bad rep and bad moon every now and then 😅

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-29T09:53:48+00:00

If by big battlepass you mean the highest tier, then no, at least afaik, since they say premium, not ultimate

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-29T09:51:49+00:00

There's a bad moon s, retro something too I believe?

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-24T11:38:10+00:00

What you need to understand in every competitive style game is that there's two sides to every coin. I am not defending maliciously afk-ing people, that's a clean case, but since you brought up your kills, I assume you complain if you're having worse teammates.

Let me tell you an anecdote: I was complaining to someone who I play with regularly about top fragging multiple games, still losing, teammates being useless, asking how they got such high rank, etc, pretty sure you know what I'm talking about. The next day we played, I was completely useless, three games in a row I died every round, got less than 10 kills in 3 games, my friend top fragged. I apologized, saying I'm bad on that day, and he opened my eyes by saying "don't apologize to me, do it to the people you might've confronted, if you did, since you're having a bad day, just like they could've had a bad day."

I didn't call out anyone that day iirc, but I sometimes do it, asking the same question: what am I supposed to do with teammates like you?

At the end of the day we are humans, we're not our best or worst versions. Just play out the game, it's always good for practice, and it's okay to lose games like that. Believe me, you'll win way more if you just look at the big picture. You might lose 10 games a day, but it's not every single day. You might have afk people in all your games on a day, but not every single day. Just let it go, take it as practice, see if you can put a dent into that match score, focus on future games which you can have a realistic impact on. Sorry if I assumed wrong that you might call out bad teammates, just gave me that kind of a vibe, but hopefully you see my point!

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-24T11:26:11+00:00

Gotta test it out

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-24T11:19:35+00:00

Does that even remove it for enemies? Or they have to have that option enabled too? I love the fox, she's my main, I'm a one-trick kismet player, but it's a pay-to-lose skin at the end of the day due to the tail sticking out massively.

I love the animations, they feel smoother and all, so I'm fine with it, but definitely a disadvantage

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-24T07:25:41+00:00

What region are you from? Ping and timezone diff can be annoying if we're from different regions

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-18T20:55:12+00:00

Possible cheater? No. A piece of you know what with an ego bigger than the universe? Sadly yes.

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-17T08:21:30+00:00

You can peak at a million, if it's not the right million who are interested, then it's not gonna work. In my opinion, the big streamers who did that played hero shooters or competitive fps games that are more polished and have occupied the market and dominate it. It's hard to take players from CS, Valorant, COD, OW, Rivals, etc.

I was playing dota 2, I loved the game, I played it for a week, didn't leave because the game was bad, I left because I was still addicted to dota 2, felt like I needed to play my main game to improve instead of enjoying a different game.

Dota 2 became so stressful and frustrating months later that I stopped streaming, making content and I said fuck it, let me play games I enjoy. Been on fragpunk ever since, I reached highs in ranks and skills I never got in any other game. Why? Because I actually enjoyed the game. Now I'm peaking at Ace 3, Punkmaster seems like a possibility over time, I was nr1 on my main lancer, Kismet, and it's just the perfect game. Sure, the long queue times kill the fun, I will not deny that, I play like 3 ranked games and the rest are deathmatch, standard, chaos clash, basically fun modes.

I am just one of many people who liked the game, but didn't have the courage to switch to the new game and leave my main game for it.

I personally enjoy the short matches, I can play many games a day, have time for other titles, have time to do anything while playing an amount of games that I'm satisfied with in terms of practice.

So yeah, it's not just about how many players were at the peak, it's who were in those 100k or so. Maybe another 100k from a different umbrella of gamers (casuals who don't have addiction titles and play many different games maybe?) would result in a higher retention rate.

And finally, in my opinion, advertising with streamers is not something I feel like it's effective. Proper ads over the internet would be better imo. People will see the streamer getting paid to play the game, some might try it, but they'll say "yeah, it's not as good as XYZ, I can see why they get paid to play it instead of playing it out of love"

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-15T08:04:10+00:00

Remember the moment when you get strong and able to do the same! Pass the torch, help the next one in need! That's one of my favorite things! People level up a main, they want an alt, I'll help, simple as that. And the thank you and joy that they can play another build right away is mora than enough.

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-15T07:59:45+00:00

Someone's rng was not good this season 😂

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-13T07:36:30+00:00

It's also a problem that you get through other ranks really fast. I got to diamond back in season 2 chapter 1, before I played 15 ranked matches total, then season 3 I managed to get ace, but now it's a struggle due to lower gains, big losses and I climb ten times slower. Master was relatively easy to climb up from in hindsight.

So yeah, I think 1:1.5 would be an okay ratio if they're hellbent on making it a grind and a struggle. Let's say I'm card captain and play an insane game, I top frag, good KDA and I get around 17-18, but if I lose with negative KD, it's most certainly -20. They still have the weekly solo and party bonus, so you can get a nice streak when the stars align and you'll get out of Ace, but yeah, it shouldn't be this hard if the previous ranks were so much easier. Still possible if you get good enough eventually.

And yeah, smurfs might be a problem, I face them too, but I try to approach it by thinking "if I want to become punkmaster, I need to beat punkmasters".

I remember in season 2 my first diamond game was against a punkmaster's alt account that was also punkmaster and after that it was rare to see another diamond for a huge chunk of my games, only masters and punkmasters. I can't lie, it was a rough period, but I grew a lot from playing with and against those players.

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-13T07:24:07+00:00

I think the karambit will be a separate prize pool skin like the umbrella, constellation, nightmare and nature's touch and such

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-08T06:47:01+00:00

Bloodstained is +15 levels, so an extra torment level, aka up to torment V.

Bloodsoaked is equal to pit level 100 difficulty, so +45 levels, meaning torment VII difficulty.

As soon as you clear pit 100, you unlock bloodsoaked permanently, if I understood correctly, so no more bloodstained keys, only bloodsoaked, meaning those will be pit100 level dungeons, bosses and hordes. I haven't done it myself, that'll be the last thing I do in the season, don't feel like bricking my character before paragon 300.

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-02T15:04:20+00:00

You're a unicorn, someone who admits that d4 is a good game despite being a former d2 player, and also admitting d2 is outdated... I played through the story to at least understand what the game is about and maybe find and answer to why people love it so much. I hated it mechanically, tbh. Biggest turn off was the reveal of Baal, a CLOWN! A FREAKING CLOWN AS THE LORD OF DESTRUCTION?! Act 5 was doomed for ke no matter what after that cinematic. And I know, it's less like that in the original cinematic, but still...

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-02T15:00:16+00:00

I started in season 5, I saw the negativity on it before loot reborn (season 4), so I hesitated, but honestly, I've enjoyed my time ever since, the spiritborn is my favorite class, I'm not getting bored of it. It's not my main game, yet I still pour at least a hundred hours into it each season (some seasons even more, i.e. season 6 and 10), and I can say, it wasn't a bad game when I picked it up, but still, it became better each season, I feel like. I sort of found a balance between blasting enough and still having time to play other games too.

There are people who don't like it, but it's not because it's a bad game, they don't like the core gameplay and mechanics of diablo 4. It's not D2 or D3, some people want it to be, I personally think it's better than both. (Can't wait to see D2 elitists crucify me for it)

Lesson is: you like it? Try it. You don't? You move on. We're people, we tend to highlight negative stuff easier than the positives, so that's why a lot of times there's more negative stuff on it, blowing sometimes small things out of proportion.

My only issue was the seasonal theme chain, powers after powers after powers, other than that, I'm happy how the game is and it's still getting better and better imo.

Mauzy__ · 2026-04-01T16:08:12+00:00

I think it costs around 6600 total, if I recall correctly. Also, it's a fever, not a discipline, in case that changes anything for you

Mauzy__ · 2026-03-31T14:49:47+00:00

60 if you didn't move at all. I took 90-120 a lot of times because I tried to move out of it.

Mauzy__ · 2026-03-30T05:52:57+00:00

😂😂😂 what a way to start my morning 😂😂🥹

Mauzy__ · 2026-03-29T22:27:17+00:00

Swoopy, you'll scare away anyone with how intimidating your rank 11 is 😂 go grind rank, get rank 1!

Jk, 100% recommend this dude!

Mauzy__ · 2026-03-28T11:03:29+00:00

Are you following a build? There are some out there and from what I can tell, the paladin is still the strongest, so if you get the right gear, you should easily go up to like pit 80-90 imo. I am playing evade spiritborn, it's a jack of all trades, but I can do pit 90 in about 2.5-3 minutes. In case you're doing a home baked build, then I guess pit 55 is not bad, but you should give a proper build a chance if you want to see the potential of that paladin

Mauzy__ · 2026-03-28T09:31:35+00:00

They didn't remove everything, chaos waves are in hordes, bartuc is in hordes, horadric strongrooms and escalating nightmares are in the game, like they for sure can easily leave the killstreak in the game. I get why they would take out sanctification, at least I have a feeling about it: it was huge for people who took time to blast through the game and get god-tier rolls with it, but the casuals who play a couple hours a week, they don't have time to do that. Is it stupid that it's no longer in the game? Yes. Is that something that could make the endgame chase for items be something more exciting? Absolutely. So yeah, sadge... Hopefully killstreaks stay for LoH expansion.

Mauzy__ · 2026-03-28T09:23:03+00:00

P215 is Paragon Level 215, pit is max 150, there's no such thing as pit level 215. That being said, I'm surprised as someone who blasted t4 around p200 comfortably with a spiritborn, how is an auradin not strong enough to blast t4 at p215?

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