2022 KDnF Winter Festival Summary

• Winter Festival is a yearly event in Korea where the developer showcase what're coming. This year, a schedule for the next 6 months has been released. For the sake of easy digestion, this post is be organized base on the roadmap. Also the primary information are based on the amazing translation of "halfmango". All credits goes to the user.

Table of Contents

• Dec 8th, 2022
• Level 1-100 Scenario Renewal
• Storm's Wrath Improvement
• Enhanced advanced dungeon admission ticket
• Convenience improvement update
• Dec 29th, 2022
• Archmage's Dimensional Corridor
• Noblesse Code: Dusk
• January 2023
• Character Renewal: Avenger, Shadow Dancer
• Arad Adventure Season 4
• February 2023 - New class Archer and first subclass
• April 2023 - Next Archer subclass "Traveler"
• May 2023 - Codename Gaebolg
• Second Half of 2023 - New Region Celesti
• Other Improvement & Changes
• Other News
• References

Dec 8th, 2022

• Level 1-100 Scenario Renewal:
• Stronger narrative and directing
• Reorganization of growth flow, difficulty, compensation, and fatigue consumption. Quest line will be divided into 12 section with overall FP cost reduced from 3,500 to 1,835
• Storm's Wrath Improvement:
• Added MASTER difficulty that pays higher level of rewards. Require 33,982 fame entry, unknown option level rewards.
• Added NORMAL mode with no limit on the number of entries using 90 Ryan Core as entry material. This mode will have low drop rate, which in term similar to old school RNG hell mode.

• Enhanced advanced dungeon admission ticket:
• Advanced dungeon ticket enhancement system added using Ryan Core as material.
• Apply buffs related to additional equipment drop along with buffs that make the character stronger. The buff apply to individual party member.
• Some examples include: drop additional resonance epic at boss, guarantee one level 65 options level, etc.

• Convenience improvement update:
• Direct use of materials in the safe (Gold, Golden Beryl, Power Essence)
• Before fusion, item name, option level, and enchantment information (enhancement/amplification/refining) at a glance. Aka when looking at fusion epic, you can see information about the original item.
• Damage/Buff Value display function added (Based on option level 1) to make gear comparison easier. Scheduled to be applied on 12/29

Dec 29th, 2022

• Archmage's Dimensional Corridor:
• This is a second legion content where you encounter with transcendent beings unique action and new gimmick play
• Require 38,000 fame, similar play style to Ispins (e.g. no coin use, entries, difficulty)
• There will be 4 difficulty levels. Highest level will be completely different fight with cosmetic and unique rewards.

• New fusion gears will be Sub Equipment, Magic Stone, and Earrings

• Noblesse Code: Dusk
• Noblesse Code Normal Advanced Dungeon Added. This is where you can play with other people (1~4 players) just like Destroyed Castle and Meister's Lab.
• This is designed to bridge the gap between Advance dungeon's difficulty.

January 2023

• Character Renewal: Avenger, Shadow Dancer
• Avengers: Demonization renewal and new motion added. Improved some skill presentation
• Shadow Dancer: "has the backstab gimmick that has been clunky to use & not very intuitive, especially against a group of enemies. They’ll work on both improving this gimmick while giving her new tools for crowd control. At the same time they’ll work on some optimizations to improve the logic processing for characters & mobs interaction."
• Arad Adventure Season 4:
• Adventure KING difficulty and new subjugation added
• Addition of level 110 materials and updated shop items
• Added new rank mercenaries and mercenary collections

February 2023

• New class Archer and first subclass: Archer, a new class that uses a bow as its main weapon. The first subclass is called "Muse" which is an addition buffer class that uses musical note. Below are her intro BGM and instrumental version

April 2023

• Next Archer subclass "Traveler". This one added some tech to her arsenal. The other 2 subclasses will be revealed later.

May 2023

• Codename Gaebolg
• New content of existing Master's lab settings and stories
• This is a legion version where you attack in cooperation with 7 masters to directly combat with Gaebolg?

Second Half of 2023

• New Region Celesti
• The first world under the sky birthplace of Saint Horn where you adventure into a new world. Still under development.

Other Improvement & Changes

• Advanced dungeon rebalancing.
• Developer wants to make the dungeon shorter while keeping the difficulty consistent.
• Increased beryl drops when cleared.
• Adds resonating gear from normal dungeon heroes modes 
• Ispins changes:
• Will allow life token usage at level 1 difficulty (applies to Archmage’s corridor as well)
• There will be no more buffer scaling
• Level 1 difficulty rewards increase to 20 and level 3 rewards changed to 8 untradable materials and 12 account-bound material.
• Future changes:
• Flexible drops: higher chance for better gear to drop up to a certain option level. 
• Set effects may make a return for future gears (going back to 5/3/3? no info yet)
• Male slayer sprite renewal (2nd half 2023)

Other News

• Yoon has stepped down as director and promoted to CEO of Neople. New executive director, live service director and contents directors were introduced to take his place.
• As a festival gift, they're giving out Level 110 golden capsule, 11 selectable epic boxes, and +12/8 aspect weapon box, title and tons of other things.

References

Youtube - JangJi

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