Infernal Odyssey Is NOW LIVE! on Artix Entertainment

The Infernal Odyssey promotional package is NOW LIVE! Collect a beautiful trove of new armors and gear with a bountiful complement of powerful cores. This new promo is can be purchased with the 10,000 AP and 4,000 AP packages. The 4,000 AP packages comes with no Varium and no extra cores aside from those already equipped to the gear.

This new promo comes with the following new items:

Hades' Armor
Hades' Armor CC
Hades' Royal Armor
Hades' Royal Armor CC
Hades' Infernal Sword
Hades' Abyssal Sword
Hades' Infernal Arsenal
Hades' Abyssal Arsenal
Hades' Infernal Gun
Hades' Abyssal Gun
Hades' Infernal Bow
Hades' Abyssal Bow
Hades' Infernal Bident
Hades' Abyssal Bident

The new cores and their effects are listed below:

Lotus Petal (Armor Active): Sacrifice a random skill for 40% less EP cost, +10 stats for each attack for 4 turns.
Charon's Obol (Armor Active): Spare your life with 1 HP after a fatal attack. Prevents debuffs. Active up to 5 turns.
Shade Snare (Primary Active): Strike for 25% Energy drain, draining 25% Energy for each melee attack for 2 turns.
Infernal Binding (Primary Active): 85% dmg. against 2 targets, prevents Rage attacks for 3 turns.
Legendary Shot (Sidearm Active): 110% dmg. Each use deals increasing dmg. by 10%, maxing out at 130%.
Oblivion Blast (Auxiliary Active): 100% dmg., disables passive HP/EP regeneration for 3 turns. This does not apply to active regeneration skills like Field Medic, Frenzy, or any other skill that restores HP/EP with a single attack. This core was formerly listed as Legendary Bow, but changed to be more thematically consistent.

The Infernal Odyssey promo package also comes with a new rare Infernal Odyssey achievement with purchase!

Not included in the promo packages are 4 new Infernal Odyssey styles available at the character customizer for all!

Boss Breaker Revamp (In Progress)

The Boss Breaker leaderboards have been up long enough to collect and act on feedback. When we released the boards, we hoped to give players an insight into their PvE stats and provide and competitive outlet for those who needed a break from PvP. As is often the case, competition brings out the worst in people, discouraging daily participation.

To combat this, we are developing an overhaul to the Boss Breaker boards and achievements to reward based on a boss kill threshold rather than a winner-take-all approach. These changes should make the achievements and board status attainable without devoting 20 hours a day to grinding or resorting to more nefarious tactics and catching a ban. These changes are in-progress and will launch as soon as they are finished. Those who currently hold Boss Breaker achievements will retain them, but they will be deprecated in favor of new achievements once the new system launches.

Enemy AI Reconfigured

Many hard NPCs of the Legendary and Nightmare variety have been reverted to the legacy AI routine. We made a change in the end of July to revert the AI of many extremely difficult NPCs, but we missed a few in that initial pass. Now, these boss-tier NPCs will use the old RNG AI patterns longtime PvE champions are used to.