Eternal Return News

Hey everyone, Aesop here.

So last week, we opened the servers all weekend and it was all well and good until the server started experiencing some issues while everyone here at Nimble Neuron was asleep.

So, we're gonna do right by you and open it again for another weekend.

[h3]This Saturday, 12AM GMT + 1 (November 21st, 2020), the European server will open until Sunday, 11:59PM GMT + 1 (November 22nd, 2020)[/h3]

We're still trying to do our best to bring you as much Eternal Return as possible.

Please note that the EU server still has a lower population than the NA or KR servers, so you may experience longer queue times in off-peak hours. For that, I'd like to apologize ahead of time for any inconveniences you may face.

Thanks again for playing Eternal Return and for all the feedback you all have provided to us. ❤

Players can create and upload Steam guides in our Community Hub describing their build and strategy. Every week we select up to 3 guides each for Korean, English, and Chinese language.

We might select 1 or 2 additional guides in any other language depending on the number of guides submitted in the main languages. The selected guides will receive A-coins in reward for their piece of knowledge.

[h3]Event duration (extended):[/h3]
From October 21st, 7 am to November 30th, 10 pm PST

*Guides can be posted until the end of the weekdays Friday 4 pm KST, GMs will review and share the selected guides on the following Monday.

Selected guides will be displayed in #guides channel of Discord

[h3]How to participate:[/h3]

• Upload a Steam Guide on Eternal Return’s Community Hub (https://steamcommunity.com/app/1049590/guides/), make sure it fits the requirements below! (one player can submit only up to 3 guides during the whole event)
  
• Submit a link to your guide in this form: https://forms.gle/ejsHP2GH8nLxoBvYA
• Wait for the GMs to review the guides uploaded (review each Friday KST), up to 3 guides per language will be selected and shared each Monday.
  
• You will receive 4 000 A-coins per guide selected (so up to 12 000 A-coins if you write 3 guides that get selected). You will be able to get your favorite or new character much faster with this reward!
  

[h3]Guide selection criteria:[/h3]

Guides must be written clearly and must contain images for better understanding.

Guides will be required to be categorized using the tags offered on Steam among the following categories:

• Characters
  
• Crafting
  
• Co-op
  
• Gameplay Basics
  
• Walkthroughs
  
• Weapons
  

You must select the language your guide is written in before submitting your guide. Guides written in English, Korean, and Chinese will be prioritized. Guides in any other language will only be picked if there is a low number of guides submitted in the 3 languages stated above.
The title of your guide must follow the format below:

• If it’s a character guide:
  [Name of the character chosen] - Community Guide by [PLAYER NAME]
  
• If it’s a weapon type guide:
  [Name of the weapon type chosen] - Community Guide by [PLAYER NAME]
  
• If it’s a general guide about gameplay:
  [Eternal Return Gameplay] - Community Guide by [PLAYER NAME]
  
• If it’s about a specific game mode:
  [Team mode - Duo] - Community guide by [PLAYER NAME]
  
• Others:
  [GUIDE THEME] - Community guide by [PLAYER NAME]
  

[h3]Rewards:[/h3]
Each Guide will assign 4 000 A-coins to the writer.
One person can only submit up to 3 guides for this event.

During the 3 days that followed Shoichi's update, all data indicating character performance, excluding pick rate, was rather low, delaying our decision to release any changes.

When a new character is released, we usually see a high pick rate for the first 3 days before it decreases again, but Shoichi hovered around 15% through the weekend. Players were learning how to play him, increasing the amount of data we have for character performance. We recorded higher than average kills for him.

The culmination of all this data means we're pushing a patch for Shoichi a bit early, and moving Wednesday's typical balance patch to Friday for us to study his new data.

[h2]Shoichi[/h2]
As an assassin, Shoichi is a character more powerful when managing space and staying at a distance, but a bit weaker in melee. However, due to his low HP, he was more difficult to handle than we initially thought. When facing Shoichi, it required more micro-focused skills or targeted equipment to counter him.

Focusing on his level 6 power-spike, we are reducing the early game power of skill amplification builds, and are changing the (hard to counter) root from Ruthless (R).

[h3]Phony Deal (Passive)[/h3]

• Critical Strike Chance per stack 3/4/5% —> 3/5/7%
  
• Base damage of thrown daggers 50/75/100 —> 25/60/95
  

[h3]Good Faith (Q)[/h3]

• Damage 30/65/100/135/170 —> 30/75/120/165/210
  

[h3]Bottom Line (W)[/h3]

• Base Damage 10/60/110/160/210 —> 10/40/70/100/130
  
• Range 6m —> 5.5m
  

[h3]Ruthless (R)[/h3]

• 1-second root—> 30% slow (1 second)
  
• AOE Damage 150/200/250 —> 50/150/250
  
• Dagger damage 50/75/100 → 25/60/95
  

[h3]Team Mode Variables[/h3]

• Damage dealt in Duo mode 100% → 97%
  
• Damage dealt in Squad mode 100% → 94%
  

[h2]Item changes[/h2]

• Mount Slicer
  • Attack Power 30 → 33
    
  • Skill Amplification 40 —> 35
• Fan
  • Skill Amplification 16 —> 11

Eternal Return will undergo temporary maintenance from 10 PM to 12 AM PST to apply the 0.19.3 update.

※ The game will be unavailable during the maintenance period.
※ Please restart your client after the update.

Thank you for your patience!

Silvia is fueling up and getting ready to zoom around Lumia! She's pretty quick, but we managed to get her to stop and pose for a second. Let's check it out:



Flashing the peace sign before she takes off again, Silvia is ready to race circles around everyone else on the island.



Silvia is tuning up her beautiful blue bike, ready to join everyone else in Eternal Return very soon.
Think you can keep up with Silvia? What kinda skills do you think she'll bring to Eternal Return? We'd love to hear your thoughts on the Official Discord!