Trick or Treat... — M.A.R.S. News

Halloween 2022

The spooky season is here, so why not carve a jack-o-lantern with the new Scythe melee? Kill 1,000 Zombies to make this weapon yours permanently!

And that's not all, grab the Eternal Dracula (White) Costume from the store to get an outfit with a permanent 10% HP Bonus!

Additionally for our F2P players, the Eternal Dracula (Black) costume is available in the Credit Store for 8,000 QGold!

Aside from the amazing Halloween themed items & events, we have major updates for patch 1.0.32 as follows:

2 new systems
Wingman Drone system
Transformation Device

2 new armor sets
Experimental Prototype Armor
Dimension Cruiser Armor

1 New drone type
Pulsar MK3/MK4

3 new weapons
Legacy Styx
Lightning QJY-88
Legacy Shadowburst

3 new PvE maps
Chaotic Land (Critical Defense)
Lost City (Mass Biochemical Crisis)
The Shadow Palace (Threshold Defense)

Infinite Dimensions
The first 15 layers of the infinite dimensions have been opened! These levels provide much greater challenge than nightmare difficulty! This comes with the Time And Space Essence and Time And Space Debris Shop! Along with a new set of armor and much more!

Quality of Life Changes
Drone levels and potential are no longer lost when gulping with $Gold

Quantum Reward Boxes: These boxes are now awarded for completing quantum realm stages. (15% Chance for a random weapon core, 85% chance for artifact chip)

Boss fragments, keycards, turret placements, and drone mods will no longer be globally announced in chat, this should reduce chat clutter

1 day versions of lvl 7 strong artifact weapons (Super Sunset, M132 Type X, Soul Howl) have been added to Fog Boxes (collection of lingyuan diji only)

Crystal Cell MK5/MK6 Blueprint has been added to the Platinum Gallery

New Daily/Weekly missions
New daily/Weekly missions have been added, along with a new mission for your first drone wingman!

PvP Balance Changes
M249 (All Variants)
Accuracy reduced 650 to 615

MG3 (All variants)
Accuracy reduced from 635 to 605

M24 Frag Grenade
No longer affected by grenade pouch

Flash Grenades
Increased blind duration by 1.5s
Increased to 2 starting grenades (3 with Grenade Pouch)

Smoke Grenades
Increased to 3 starting grenades (4 with Grenade Pouch)

Effectiveness of Shrapnel Magnet II and Shrapnel Magnet III increased by 15% each.

Drone Balance Changes

MARS Drone firerate increased by 40%

Happy Haunting!

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