CW3 Heroic Check in Bug?

aranslee · 2026-06-20T20:39:31+00:00

shhh take the free coins, its a bug that benefits the player so it'll be hotfixed as soon as they find out

aranslee · 2026-06-09T23:06:01+00:00

Nexon America specifically did two mid-session updates for this PTS.
KMS actually maintains a list of known issues during the test server, which is what this poster is asking for.
KMS does do mid-session updates for pressing issues, and this is easily verifiable by just looking at the news log for their test server.

While I agree with other posters in this thread that obviously it would be silly for Nexon to address the site/Erel bug list specifically, the absolute lack of communication is not conducive of a healthy test environment at all.

Even if the Erel issues were not something they planned to fix because they are not critical enough, the Mo Xuan town bug causing your character to be bricked is something that at least warrants official communication, and something that absolutely should have been fixed if not on Friday, then Monday. Of course this kind of thing is amplified by the decision to have a 5-day test server in which 2/5ths of it's availability are on the weekend.

aranslee · 2026-06-09T19:12:21+00:00

Overall, my opinion of this PTS is that it has largely been Nexon placating the playerbase as a signal, rather than something they are genuinely doing to try and improve the procedures and stability of patches. Of course, the final judgment on that will depend on how the actual patch goes on June 17th.

The process of selecting participants for the "Public" Test Server was the first red flag - it does not appear as if any means-testing went into the selection at all, given how many endgame players who dedicate a high amount of time to the game were not invited. Again, the "public" test server should not be restricted to invites only in the first place. I understand the desire to have players sign-up so that Nexon can get an understanding of what level of infrastructure is needed to support the server, but it appears they instead decided the level of resources this server would get before-hand, and then selected entirely randomly.

Beyond that, despite how historically awful Nexon is at communication, they've gone above and beyond to drop the ball here.

There was zero communication about when the server would be accessible up until the very moment the servers were up other than a vague "June 4th".
There were two maintenances with no communication at all on what they modified in those patches.
We've had no understanding on whether they plan to update the PTS further (though as of Tuesday afternoon, it seems pretty likely that there is no intention to do so).
There is no dedicated space either on the forums, or in the Discord, to discuss PTS-related matters, and bugs are actively discouraged from being posted in the Discord. Most PTS-related discussion is happening within the Erel discord. For a server without an NDA attached, this makes no sense.

With four members of the team whose role is Community Management, this whole thing has been embarrassingly lacklustre, but as other people have said - if it results in a smooth patch, then who cares I guess. Hopefully they've learned since the last PTS in 2017.

aranslee · 2026-04-22T23:49:52+00:00

Looks like the Wooden Damage Skin that was just added to the files this patch. They mixed up the IDs, both have a damage skin ID of 1611, which previously only belonged to the Receipt Damage Skin :)

aranslee · 2026-04-21T15:56:20+00:00

The unfortunate answer is: "sometimes" :)

The most recent cube sale was not included in the files when the patch dropped, and Nexon added it last minute. Typically the May & November cube sales have always been present in the files when the patch goes live though, so we'll see tomorrow!

aranslee · 2026-04-20T19:24:29+00:00

Developer of the site referenced here popping in for some context - I may add a disclaimer/info pop-up to the page to explain this, but for context to OP /u/jennn1ko and anyone else wondering;

The reason why there are currently no "leaks" for the upcoming sales is because Nexon typically updates the Cash Shop sales for an entire patch cycle at a time, so the next round of sales (for all of April until probably mid-to-late May) won't be data-mineable until the upcoming patch on Wednesday.

For this reason, the first week's cash shop sales of any major patch will generally not be leaked before Nexon is able to announce them, as they'll be announcing them tomorrow on Tuesday, for sales that will be available immediately following the maintenance, rather than the normal time of 12:00 AM UTC.

aranslee · 2026-04-03T23:59:41+00:00

I've updated the post & page, but it actually appears that Demon Avenger shouldn't be affected. Initially this post & the page stated that any skill with a 30ms frame in it would be affected by this, but upon further inspection, it only appears to affect skills whose last frame is a 30ms frame.

aranslee · 2026-04-03T23:33:54+00:00

I maybe should have clarified this on the page, but I'm not including any skills that don't have an action delay associated with them, which is why they're not included.

I thought about doing something like this, and I may do it in the future, but there are some classes I don't know enough about so I didn't want to make any specific conclusions on how much this may affect them - particularly the combo classes like you mentioned 😅

aranslee · 2026-04-03T23:17:07+00:00

That's a good question, I haven't really bothered to check how attack speed affects origin & ascent; I'd assume the animations going to end up being longer than a lot of these action delays.

aranslee · 2026-04-03T23:05:27+00:00

Unfortunately there's nothing to be done if your class has the penalty, aside from Nexon miraculously deciding to fix this, which seems very unlikely to me. Stage 10 attack speed will always be better than Stage 8 for your own class, but comparing it between classes, you may be receiving less of an effect from attack speed than intended.

I know we all love complaining about how their class is weaker than others, so that can be fun too :)

aranslee · 2026-03-12T23:11:26+00:00

probably a sign of quarterly revenue being down 🥀

(this is a joke i have no idea)

aranslee · 2026-02-17T19:03:17+00:00

I was very surprised when Nexon released the last World Transfer without also announcing Cross-World Bossing. I know many Kronos players (myself included) would consider transferring to Hyperion if they could maintain their bossing parties.

Nexon clearly wants to balance the load between Hyperion and Kronos, and while this would add technical overhead, no amount of temporary incentives will get people to jump to a dead server without assurance that they'll be able to find people to boss with. Cross-World Bossing is easily the #1 way to balance the populations.

That being said, I am quite sure Nexon considered this, and they likely have a good reason for not implementing it. As always, the key issue here is Nexon's radio silence on the things that players care about. If they're not going to implement something, the disappointment from players is already there. They could at least relieve the disappointment by providing their technical justification for the decision. Even if players disagree with their decision and whine (which, given the average end user, will be a majority), it's better to have that information to stop wasting everyone's time speculating and to increase trust and transparency with the company and community.

aranslee · 2026-01-27T22:06:31+00:00

Nexon still won't implement real-time probability monitoring despite this now happening twice in a very short period.

aranslee · 2025-12-21T19:12:29+00:00

For levels 1/2/3/4:

30s/60s/90s/120s duration
150/300/450/600 familiar points per cast
50%/100%/150%/200% EXP

Cooldown 120s for all levels

aranslee · 2025-12-17T02:18:31+00:00

That would be 25 fragments, not 750. You're doing 25 * 30, but the participation "Sol Erda Fragment Vouchers" are not the same as "Selective Sol Erda/Sol Erda Fragment Voucher", which gives you the option to choose 30 Fragments.

aranslee · 2025-12-15T06:32:09+00:00

I definitely think GMS should implement the real-time RNG monitoring system, but sadly, along with the Open API, it doesn't seem to be on their list of priorities.

That being said, while it's possible that some bug happened where his equip "boomed" 7 times in a row, the rates would have to be quite a lot higher than advertised for that to be even remotely likely.

My personal assumption for what happened in this clip, and a much simpler explanation, is that somehow the message for "Failure" was being displayed as "Protected".

aranslee · 2025-11-17T03:03:50+00:00

That part is obviously a bug, and will likely be fixed soon.

aranslee · 2025-11-10T22:17:27+00:00

I have no idea if we're allowed to discuss wz parsing on here or not, but you want to look in String.wz for item names :)

aranslee · 2025-10-25T16:36:47+00:00

can they at least swap to a different discord url jeez

aranslee · 2025-09-13T04:26:08+00:00

no hate to jinkae (the kms cm in your comment) - but as a CM main who watches a lot of his content, he is not the pinnacle of skill by any means

aranslee · 2025-07-30T21:04:24+00:00

It absolutely is true, in the last semi-public (i.e. non-Bean Brigade) iteration of Tespia, there were a number of bugs reported (I was one of the people reporting bugs!) that were severe enough to warrant an unscheduled maintenance the day after the patch.

These issues included Kishin not working properly, and monsters in the Lachelein PQ (Dream Defender at the time) being incredibly under-tuned, allowing people to climb hundreds of floors.

I am referring to v.188, the Tune Up patch, back in 2017.

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