April Fools! <s>[KR Test] New Dungeon: Civilian Protection Training</s>

• Kapra wrote on 2015-04-01 22:37
  [SIZE="4"]Disclaimer, this entire thread is fake. The contents of this thread was made by the KR Test Team as a 2015 April Fools joke.[/SIZE]
  
  KR Test just surprised us with another part of the Renovation update, another dungeon.
  

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  This dungeon is located in Bangor and is accessed with a Shield, like the Gargle raids and Training dungeon.
  

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  Unlike the training dungeon this seems to follow an altar-pass system like regular dungeons.
  

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  This dungeon is filled with monsters that fight amongst themselves. Each room has a timer and you must keep everyone in the dungeon alive long enough for the timer to go out. If a player or monster dies, the entire dungeon fails.
  
  In some rooms there are herbs you can pick/ores you can mine that do different things like healing the monsters, freezing the monsters, slowing them down.
  

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  There are different monsters with different AIs, but most rooms are full of lizard men who will multiaggro you like ghasts if you interrupt their fighting. We can't do anything but 1s on them, though we're unsure if that's because of our underdeveloped characters or the enemy's defensive stats.
  

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  The golems seem to change color, we are not sure what this means yet. It might be similar to Nightmare or the Alban Golem, but we haven't been able to confirm anything yet.
  
  The wizard things seem to be capable of debuffing you into a wolf transformation, but it seems easy to interrupt their animation. They can also destroy the resources so always keep an eye on them.
  
  We actually can't beat this dungeon yet because its really difficult with our low leveled KR characters, so we're not entirely sure what all the rewards are. But in data there seems to be a new light and heavy armor set we suspect to belong to the same set as the divine weapons from Gargle raids. There also seems to be a Basic and Intermediate version of this dungeon as well. This is like a much harder version of Fortinbras Expedition. We'll update this thread as we get more information, and make a consolidated thread when we know everything.
• Tropa wrote on 2015-04-01 22:59
  Oh, looks interesting, and the Color-cycling Golems are rather interesting.
  
  
  Glad to see an update thats not some unless outfit or crapapon.
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2015-04-02 00:14
  Very interesting, we'll see where devcat goes with this :P
• Aeribella wrote on 2015-04-02 00:59
  April First. Believe nothing!
• Qnjo wrote on 2015-04-02 01:13
  @UP Already second, for the most of the world.
• Rydian wrote on 2015-04-02 02:54
  Wait wait wait.
  
  This isn't the "Up your skills" dungeon that gives the "Up the forge" or whatever (not sure on the translations) reforging kit that raises the level of one of the existing lines on the item by 1, is it? I remember that was brought up somewhere and players were against it.
  
  Something like "Half the players would just rather have an event fine kit and the other half don't want people to be able to rank up a low-level reforge that they like" or something, I forgot how it was described.
• Tetosan wrote on 2015-04-02 04:18

  Quote from Rydian;1269779:

  Wait wait wait.
  
  This isn't the "Up your skills" dungeon that gives the "Up the forge" or whatever (not sure on the translations) reforging kit that raises the level of one of the existing lines on the item by 1, is it? I remember that was brought up somewhere and players were against it.
  
  Something like "Half the players would just rather have an event fine kit and the other half don't want people to be able to rank up a low-level reforge that they like" or something, I forgot how it was described.

  
  
  It does seem like you can indeed craft Reforge kits with Items found in this Dungeon.
  I've discovered some things in the pack files that seem like materials.
  
  

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  Sadly i really don't have more time to check in on this stuff as i need to go to sleep now.
  I'll get back tomorrow with pictures and stuff.
• Tropa wrote on 2015-04-02 04:26

  Quote from Tetosan;1269787:

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  [S]#NewCylinderHype?[/S]
  
  
  Why must content be a April fool's joke?
• Esileruf wrote on 2015-04-02 04:48

  Quote from Tropa;1269791:

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  #NewCylinderHype?

  
  I'm afraid not.
  

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• Kapra wrote on 2015-04-02 07:11
  Okay if you guys didn't figure it out yet, yes this was an April Fools joke. This was actually our April Fools joke, not Nexon's. Not sure if Nexon KR did anything this year for Mabinogi. I hope my fake screenshots and Teto's fake itemdb entries made you question reality, so... April fools!
• Darkboy132 wrote on 2015-04-02 08:04

  Quote from Kapra:

  Shield
  
  lizard men
  
  wizard

  
  
  No photo proof of Emblem, Lizard Men, or Wizard thingies, but photo "proof" of almost everything else. That was a pretty obvious fake.
  
  Sorry, but I have nothing else to comment. I'm not one to be excited for Fools shit (hate jokes and pranks and bull honky).
• DefinitelyNotTwin wrote on 2015-04-02 08:39
  Date and Lizardmen gave it away.Nexon haven't used that thing in ages.
• Kapra wrote on 2015-04-02 10:53

  Quote from Darkboy132;1269804:

  No photo proof of Emblem, Lizard Men, or Wizard thingies, but photo "proof" of almost everything else. That was a pretty obvious fake.
  
  Sorry, but I have nothing else to comment. I'm not one to be excited for Fools shit (hate jokes and pranks and bull honky).

  
  

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  I tried. To make them work I'd have completely rework their model to work with a gnoll framework which would be hell and take horus of work. Originally I did intend on doing that, but to be honest I completely forgot about April Fools so I didn't have much warning.
  
  Was gonna do the same with the shield. I was actually halfway done working on a custom dungeon model/texture but, agian, forgot and didn't have time left. Was going to be a crystal mine in bangor.
  
  The Wizard I just pulled out of my butt because I couldn't think of interesting monster ideas in time.
  
  

  Quote from DefinitelyNotTwin;1269808:

  Date and Lizardmen gave it away.Nexon haven't used that thing in ages.

  
  Same with a lot of things, which is why I thought maybe it'd be believable. That's this director's trend so far, take old assets and make new content with no effort on making new areas.
  
  
  I would also like to take this time to thank anyone who got the joke but didn't spoil it, and anyone who played along with the joke, thanks. Hope the same happens next year if anybody tries something like this.
• Elleanior wrote on 2015-04-02 12:19
  I picked up on it with the shoddy images compared to the newer content. Sorry, but you're going to have to do better than that do outsmart an artist.
  
  Thanks for the giggles though. :P
• Tetosan wrote on 2015-04-02 12:57

  Quote from Tropa;1269791:

  [Image: http://puu.sh/gYwsw/75a286e318.png]

  
  
  [S]#NewCylinderHype?[/S]
  
  
  Why must content be a April fool's joke?

  
  
  needless to say the Cylinder wasn't part of the plan, it just happened that i put the fake items right under the Divine Weapons in the itemdb XD
  
  i also originally intended to put 'April Fools' in the description of items so people who actually went out and translated it would've known.
  
  

  Quote from Elleanior;1269815:

  I picked up on it with the shoddy images compared to the newer content. Sorry, but you're going to have to do better than that do outsmart an artist.
  
  Thanks for the giggles though. :P

  
  
  It's Nexon we're talking about. XD