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KMS ver. 1.2.399 – MapleStory NEXT: Union Champion!
The second patch of the MapleStory NEXT update has been released, featuring the new Union Champion and Champion Raid systems! Compared to KMST, they increased the difficulties of the Champion Evaluation missions.
The next official server patch will be on February 20, with the new boss Baldrix, so we can expect a test server update a week before that.
Read more…KMS ver. 1.2.398 – MapleStory NEXT: 3rd & 4th Mastery Cores!
The first patch of the MapleStory winter update, NEXT, has been released! The main attraction is the completion of Mastery Cores with the 3rd and 4th Cores being added at the same time, but there’s also a ton of game changes and improvements like cross world Auction House/Meso Market, Genesis Weapon Liberation changes, and the Skill Sequence system which lets you buff up with a single key!
The main event for the next two months is the Dawn Star Banquet, a New Year’s banquet held at Darmoor’s royal villa in Arboris where many of the Apostles have gathered. Together with Primacy, you infiltrate the banquet to find more information on your enemies.
The next official server patch will be on January 16, so expect a test world update on January 9, where we will learn more about the new Union Champion system.
Read more…2024 MapleStory Winter Showcase – NEXT
The 2024 MapleStory winter showcase, NEXT, took place yesterday at KINTEX in Ilsan, Korea, where they announced the next three months of content. And of course, right after it ended, KMST was opened with some of that.
I’m going to cover just the showcase in this post, with the main bullet points and some of the details that Changseop mentioned. Currently working on the KMST patch notes, will probably take a longer than normal amount of time considering the number of skills added all at once. The next KMST patch will be in less than a week, and then it all gets released in the official servers the week after so it’s going to be post after post after post!
Also, although I wasn’t lucky enough to be able to go to the Maple Con/NEXT showcase, Steve was and he sent me a million pictures he took there. Would people be interested in a post about the IRL events/minigames/prizes/etc. they had there? It would probably not be for a couple of weeks at least though considering all the other stuff coming out soon.
Read more…MapleStory’s History – Interviews from 15+ Years Ago!
It’s been a while since I’ve done a non-patch related post. If you guys have been reading for many years, you might remember some of my really old posts like the MapleStory character relationship chart and the one about the various MapleStory published books/artbooks (it’s funny to look back at this, I said that I wanted to own them one day and I actually did just get them, 10 years later!). I also got the Aran and Eunwol remaster books so maybe I’ll do a post on those if people are interested.
Anyways, a while ago, I was looking through some really, really old MapleStory news and I found a bunch of official articles/streams/interviews that were archived by a user called mazefind (some of you might remember them as they used to upload a lot of KMS videos on YouTube). These streams included interviews with the development/design teams and they mentioned a lot of little tibdbits I thought would be fun to share.
It’s a bit of a long post but I hope there are some people that might enjoy this kind of ‘behind-the-scenes’ stuff.
Read more…KMS ver. 1.2.397 – MapleStory X Demon Slayer!
KMS’ first anime collab (unless you count Frozen which they did back in 2014), MapleStory X Demon Slayer, has been released! The main event is being able to play as Tanjiro, a limited-time job! You can also train with Zenitsu and Inosuke, and of course, tons and tons of cosmetics. I’m gonna end up buying everything because of my FOMO…
The schedule looking forward is the showcase pre-stream on December 5 (probably not much if any news there), MapleCon from December 6-8, and the Winter update NEXT showcase on December 7! Usually they open up KMST soon after the showcase, and the first patch of the Winter update on the official server will be on December 19.
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