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APRIL FOOLS!

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Keeping in tradition with previous years, this year's April Fools had something special! At some point late at night during the rise of the second of April some curious nomad clicked on his hunting bow in the loadout to discover he had a Boomerang instead! The Boomerang has only 80 damage but it fires surprisingly quickly and in classic boomerang flavour it whirls back to its origin point after it has reached its max range, surprising any beasts still lingering there.



Rumor has it that the Boomerang was initially a hack originating from Australian players who, frustrated by their inability to hit any players from Europe because they're literally worlds away, came up with a way to have their projectiles zoom back to their targets to compensate for their lag issues! But that's just a rumor of course!



In response to the new human Boomerang, beast players cried out in disgust about this ever prevalent human privilege. Never mind those pesky win rates all the stat geeks are talking about; when humans get a new weapon, the horde should get one as well, damnit! And so the benevolent game devs [dev edit: stop sucking up, Tjens!] also added a new beast weapon to the game's arsenal. It's a skull. And you can throw it. Good luck hitting anything other than an immobile critter, but it's a weapon! Yay! [dev edit: you can also hit stationary nomads trying to block around. :/ ]


What did you think about this year's April Fools'?

EXPERIMENTAL CHANGES INCOMING!

Hello again. Although ingame patch news is certainly more convenient to read than forum, we're letting everyone know about the hands-on, all-practice-no-theory, gameplay test changes weeks. This way, be it supporter or opposer of said changes, everyone has the chance to experience first-hand some of the most controversial subjects with some of the more controversial changes.

Week 0: Already happening since XR 1.3 - Behemoth sprint.
Week 1: Behemoth sprint + Behemoth melee hit slow down to 1/5 movement speed.
Week 2: Behe rolled back, Sac and Fire Wards switch places (Sac tier 1, Wards tier 2).
Week 3: Sac and Fire Wards switch kept; researching any tier 2 items may skip researching tier 1 items first.
Week 4: 1-hit-1-kill effect removed from Ballista and Summoner ranged attacks, by reducing damage vs. foot units (Lego and Pred survive 1 hit)
Week 5: 1h1k is restored for Preds/Legos lower than lvl6. Summoner gets magical melee attack that pushes enemies back and Ballista gets a Field Service Mode where it can be repaired and restocked.

CURRENTLY UP - A BREAK!:

Thanks for giving us some leeway to experiment by voting for more frequent patches, in such large percentage (72% for daily/weekly/monthly). After the test weeks are done, we're going to roll everything back and analyze the results, and make permanent - or remove - any and all changes.