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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.
Read more…MapleStory Next, MapleCon & KMST ver. 1.2.180 – Demon Slayer Collaboration
The previously announced Demon Slayer collab has been released in the test server, and it’s slightly different than the version that JMS got. There’s such little non-event content in this patch that I barely had anything to translate for this post 😛
While the actual KMST patch was a bit disappointing (albeit expected), there’s some exciting news!
First off, the showcase for the MapleStory winter update, MapleStory Next, will take place on December 7! In addition, the MapleCon will take place that same weekend, over 3 days. This is a legit convention at a hall with multiple booths, prizes, and merchandise which looks very very cool!
Read more…KMS ver. 1.2.395- Tomb of the Gods, Tallahart & Skill Balancing!
The second Fall update has been released to the official servers. This patch contains the level 290 area Tallahart, as well as very drastic skill balancing (with some additional changes from the test server) and various QoL improvements!
Next month, we’re going to get Asmos Canyon, which we don’t know much about. In the Milestone showcase, they said it would be a new type of system that rewards enhancement items equivalent to mesos or something like that, which is pretty vague.
Read more…KMST ver. 1.2.178 – Tallahart & the Long Awaited Balance Patch!
Last Wednesday, the test server was updated with the new level 290 area Tallaheart and much more importantly, the first real balance patch since before New Age, which was way back in June 2023, so it’s been almost 1.5 years! (if you don’t include 6th job and the new Mastery Cores) Changseop also did a Maple Now stream talking about their plans for balance going forward.
I saw that some people were wondering why my post was later than it usually is, and it’s actually because my apartment got flooded the day after the patch 😭 Woke up excited about the Wind Breaker buffs and then a city pipe burst… Thankfully not too much was ruined but I still can’t go home until they fix it, so I’ve just been working on this in pieces in my free time on my laptop. Anyways, life goes on, they add more QoL, a new high level area people will complain is too high level, Bishop support gets nerfed… wait what?!
Read more…KMS ver. 1.2.392 – MapleStory Milestone: Flowers Blooming in the Moonlight!
The first patch of the summer update, Milestone, has been released, featuring the Flowers Blooming in the Moonlight: Aran & Eunwol Remaster. It also contains various game system changes and improvements, as well as the main summer event One Page in Memory, themed around the pasts of the Black Mage’s commanders.
In other news, many of you might have heard about Steve (x3TheAran59) and Kobe (iSIingGunz)’s account issues. While I am lucky enough to still be able to play, depending on what response they get, that might change. If I’m no longer able to play the game with my friends, it really would have a huge effect on my motivation going forward, and I may choose to quit as well. And if I do that, I think I would probably no longer be doing any of this either (i.e. translating KMS updates and writing this blog). It would feel really weird to continue to translate updates for a version that I would not be playing. Nothing confirmed either way yet but I just wanted to share my brief thoughts for now.
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