Anyway! The gist is that Funcom is planning Tokyo: Orochi Tower for next week (a small delay), followed by the “never-before-released lair region of Kaidan” in the next update. Halloween (Samhain) is also due “shortly after” the Orochi Tower patch goes live, and yes it’ll be similar to Whispering Tide. And involve cats. I don’t know.
Some combat tweaks are also on the way. “We are reviewing all passive abilities and removing the penalty from damage-dealing potential by virtue of being an AoE attack,” Funcom says. “The reasoning behind this is for consistency across all weapon passives and to allow for more build options in non-AoE fights. Generally speaking, we’ll see an increase in damage dealt by all weapon types, particularly Assault Rifles. Since ARs don’t have a single-target option for grenades, we’re removing the AoE ‘penalty’ from Grenade active abilities as well. This should allow Assault Rifles to be a more competitive damage dealing weapon across all encounter types.”
