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november patch

18 November, 2025

the big patch came out and going on my beloved nlomien mules have been so fun with the CD reset update <:

I've been finding I don't find bosses past nlomien very fun so I'll be preparing 5 more this sunny sunday (sia, drk, lynn, bucc, hero)

my other favorite updates have been:

• 260+ monster park
• familiar preset
• making cash weapon/cape effects disappear

the last one is strange because for some capes, it just causes them to become a normal transparent cape.

back to my old map, which I have nice memories of

the bugs have been really interesting too - there's one where the channel list shows channel 2 as "channel 60". How does such a bug even happen? and also one I wish I partook in, the bug where visiting mo xuan's home town converts you into a mo xuan. they must have some crazy interns working in their dev team

based on the monetisation updates this patch, it feels like Nexon recently got a consultant for mobile gacha games, because a lot of the new packages, models, interfaces, visual effects and animations mimic that genre. which I don't like, but I guess it was an inevitability.

a subtle side-effect-but-not-really is the amount of "content" the game throws at its players now. a lot of mobile gacha games make this feeling of "there's always something to do" with endless menus and windows and lists and checkboxes and check-ins (note how they aren't really new mechanics, more just systems) (all which would be some microtransaction)
and maple's always been like that, but with this update they really went all-in on it.
and it creates this weird feeling of disconnect - from how players are interacting with forms (buttons, checkboxes etc) more than the game itself.
and another thing nexon has never had is the appearance of its staff liking or knowing much about video games as a leisure system.
so it feels like we're getting further and further from maplestory being a video game
the thoughts of another rat voluntarily stuck in a nostalgia wheel

which brings me to maple classic
people have negative doubts about it, which I guess is the same with any MMO launching after 2010 or so
I do think modern players would not be able to enjoy the game because the busywork and data entry tasks are not present
and now that we're adults and have a sense of time passing, I don't think most would have the patience to play.
and patience for what? - that's the other thing, we also have this pressure to "keep up" with the numbers.
for me I hope that it is a lightweight program so that I could have it on in the background as a social game - kind of like how I used to AFK in DS1 in the background waiting to be summoned.
I can hang out with bob the snail and talk to passerbys.

this post turned out awfully verbose but I've been coping on this video game a lot recently so all the little forms and buttons have been filling my brain.
it hasn't been entirely consuming though, I have drawn a bunch <:

cash shop transfer

10 November, 2025

transfer event wahey

my deck

spent 3 hours shuffling items around. there are 0 regrets

this week is the big patch week
I feel more excited over the notes and others being excited for the patch rather than the update itself :D
always amusing and mildly concerning how much work GMS devs put on themselves after how the last few major patches went
you'd think they might err on the side of caution and break it down into smaller pieces
but it's good to see the devs embody the masochism that we as players also embrace

truly a community effort

haunted house

24 October, 2025

we got a cool minigame for halloween :D
same mechanics as Exit 8, and full of nostalgic little pieces:

those purple horse things!!

Even though this year doesn't come with many halloween cosmetics, I've really enjoyed the effort put into this minigame. Some of the anomalies actually spook me - whoever made this actually knows how to make horror games.
e.g. the one where you see the masked man walking FAST, so you walk back feeling SAFE and that's when they decide to throw ANOTHER masked man at you at the portal

people have started hyping themselves up for challenger world season 2!
I've managed to talk myself out of CW (again).
i am too casual to do CW!! and already so comfortable in Kronos.

the plan now (subject to change 5 more times) is to switch to my bishop in the winter update, and get him to 280!

280

3 October, 2025

I got to hit 280 for the first time · v ·

can I quit now

don't want to ruin this round number so I'll work on some other characters

With the last UI/MVP update i think we are feeling the effects of being the only non-P2W region still taking in new P2W features.
it doesn't feel very nice and doesn't make you very hopeful for the futur of this spaghetticode video game :[

still looking forward to CW2 though

night troupe mu lung

23 September, 2025

mentoring in progress

I had a lot of fun with this event, I liked the mentoring level-up feature because it felt like a junior member of your legion was learning by watching your main character train.

decoction

12 September, 2025

I am being pretty silly with this event,

Night Troupe is best for people who do 1+ WAPs a day, and I have done 0 (zero) this event (I have only done 2 in my life).

And it's not just that I hadn't been doing WAPs, I also just have never trained.

For whatever reason, I am choosing this event to train 30 minutes a day, which has to make this the worst event for me to daily train 30 minutes a day on, relative to the other events where you get a guaranteed 30-day pendant and 3x coupons.

Better late than never?

A really good roll that I only got to use for 1 hour total because I've been working every waking hour of my life

And now that I'm "actually playing the game", I've gotten to passer-by across some cool people!! Shapaz happened to come into the same map and channel as me to do one of his dailies waoooo. And then a few days later the same thing happened with Scardor! (I got to say hi to him :3c). very dorky starstruck noob activities.

For bossing progress, I got to take down HWill, HLucid, and CSlime for the first time!
I got a Dreamy Belt for my bravery :D

drawing

5 September, 2025

ahehewhwehhweh

I keep trying to quit this blog and quit maplestory but I'm failing so bad

I'm failing so bad that I'm already theorycrafting making a new evan """as my new main""" for season 2 of challenger world

I've been wanting to make a new layout with my current avatar costume,
also I did make the blog ironically hard to read with the tiny box and overlaying graphics but it's just annoying me now!!!

sia 260

14 July, 2025

hellow

my sia has reached level 260 from daily arcane river quests and monster park!

chubby

I find the class visuals to be kinda strange,
why is there a fat axolotl constellation

gender-locked class means she gets the paper bag over her head :3c

 

☆*: .ツ. o(≥▽≤)o .ツ.:*☆

 

So now we transfer the dailystory onto our bishop, who we said we were going to main, but will no longer main.
Though I found bishop to be really fun to train on Hyperion, I've gotten too used to my bowmaster.

in the mines

The plan is to continue doing dailies and weeklies on my bm + bishop,
and then with the next hyperburn coming up,
we'll level the buccaneer from 218 to 260!