The totem has retired and now I am dressing up Limbo Spector C. I look forward to seeing you guys this Saturday, especially you, Inkwell. We can have a nice chat about maple's future, or you won't be sleeping well for the next few months.

This cosplay is SUPER HARD to wear and is a balancing act and half with the shoulder rings. I cannot take a selfie unless I took one of the flowers of though.

Looking at the steam charts, there was a 16% decrease in players in August, and a further 20% decrease in September (worst decrease in 2.5 years, and 2nd worst decrease in 6 years). Yes it's an inbetween patch but still, this is a much worse drop than usual. There will be a slight increase in October due to Classic, so don't think we'll actually see figures for modern? I'd suspect the drop would've been even worse.

I play Interactive and have dabbled in Reboot. I accept we're not getting Uni CS, no pottabe badges, no nice totems, they are keeping GMS classes OP, Nexon are who they are, we can't have nice things, etc. It is what it is. All I really want is for some core gameplay issues driving away players to be addressed. The incentives to play keep getting lower.

For interactive, aside from GoF, TC and Brilliant items (haven't seen one in 100+ runs), boss drops are next to useless. Kalos eternals are worthless, pitched is almost worthless, limbo eternals are months away from being worthless, gear in AH has crashed, bossing is unrewarding. The game is not new player friendly in the slightest. Frenzy has a bandaid solution. They've gradually reduced Bpot Cube accesability from events to the point where theyve now replaced them in winter countdown with hard cubes (lol).

In Reboot, obviously leveling hexa is beyond ridiculous (specifically for legion champions). People are paying $20 worth of frags to put 3 levels into Origin. I get it, create problem, sell the solution, make us starve (like they do with classic). but people are walking away at a level we haven't seen in a long time.

I enjoy modern MS but I'm no longer making meaninful progression with the game in its current state. If there's no solutions planned in MapleCon then it feels like modern will just rot now. Copy paste KMS and hit delete on anything half generous. I can live with most of their greed but not with the direction the game is heading for. They've already conditioned classic players to spend $80 to play 2 weeks early. All resources now are invested in making Classic sustainable while similutaniously milking the players. I should know better by now, the future of Classic/Modern note (which included nothing on modern) was Inkwell's best pisstake of his career.

I fucking hate this stupid mini game

• Wipes your buffs on entry.
• Does not reset your CDs.
• Times you out if you stay still/doesn't enter new inputs for too long
• Does not have a training dummy in the waiting room.
• When choosing the dialogue to enter the actual punch king map where you do damage, a SECOND dialogue box appears that you have to respond to before you enter.
• For Demons, prevents the use of Astra Infusion skill. meaning you lose almost 10% FD if you "upgraded" your RFS to Astra secondary.

We are back to 2015 gaming bois.

"Cannot be done in the current map"

So, I can't just save some time and recruit or auto-match while farming, I need to be in town doing nothing to be in a party.

Yeah Oinkwell, explain us the logic behind this one

Seeing tons of posts/comments about GMS being in the worst state its ever been in but am wondering what would nexon have to show at maple fest for the community to say GMS is in a good state?

Anybody know how strong the new key down skill is in correlation with the other skills in a 40/full cycle BA? It looks dope af

I know this is MapleM but regardless this is an interesting collab. TalesWeaver is another MMORPG for those unfamiliar. Could maybe come to GMS but I doubt it.

1. Plan whether you're going to escape bottom right or bottom left. At the top middle of the map, there's a tree. The safe house is determined by the longest distance from your position. If you want to set it to the bottom right, move a bit to the left. If you want the safe house to be bottom left, move a bit to the right of the tree. You want the safe house on the bottom because it's way easier to jump down than it is to jump up/ climb.
2. Place cameras along your escape path. For left side, I like to place it along the swing. For right side, place one on the hay stack above the house. Also another one above where it springs you.
3. Time to go hunting. Either they're detected by your camera, or somewhere on the other side or top. Yetis are also hungry and might go towards food. You just have to move your cursor above the target to hit. There's no range or minimum distance required to shoot. Takes 3 hits to kill.
4. If the yeti is too much of a coward, and it's taking too long, you can force night time by wasting your shots. Quickly check around your escape path and around the top area to see if any yetis are nearby. Then trigger night time. Try to run horizontally right or left as much as possible first. If you reach the top safe house, it's just one down jump into the bottom safe house. Other wise, you'll probably need to down jump once or twice. It also takes two hits for the yeti to kill you.

tldr; can we all just agree for yetis to just stand in front of a camera and get shot for quick 250pts?

edit: alternatively, as a hunter, you can just waste your shots, trigger night time, and get killed to quickly end the game. Give 500pts to 4 other people.

According to whackybeans

I got my classic fix, played until level 24 and decided the leveling is too slow for me personally and I don't like the maps being horribly overrun. Wanted to check out the modern version now as I know its a little faster to level there. Does this game have a European Community still?

Absolutely worth it

Here's my take on what I think is going to be announced. It's a mix of what was announced during KMS's Overdrive Showcase and my own personal observations from the game (along with some copium). Sorry if the formatting is crap, I don't post a ton.

Things we will almost certainly get (No explanation needed):

- Challenger World 4

- Lethe

- Bellona

- Ride or Die 5

Things that I think we'll get for sure:

- Althea Saga continuation: Seemed to do really well last time, developers seem to enjoy doing it, it makes money.

- No less than 4 (optional paid passes): The whales whale. What can I say.

- Most of the QoL from Overdrive: Simplified dailies, Legion grid change, 20 minute boss change, Damage cap increase, Boss practice per phase. This will probably be in a flashy montage.

- Roadmap through February, along with a heartfelt apolgy from Inkwell: He will probably say how sorry he is about not giving us proper communication and the failure to keep the game maintained as much as they said they were going to. They will follow it up with a roadmap that outlines the winter event through February.

- 3rd Hexa Skill Core: this was in the Overdrive showcase in KMS, so it will be here too.

- 5th Legion champ unlocked: See above.

Things we may get, but also things we may not get:

- Pity system change (but in a good way): This includes things like another 10% increase on Star Speck box collection and the ability to hold even more traces. And for the copium addicts out there, Grandis trace restore missions.

- MVP revamp. Mentioned in Overdrive but I don't think it'll make it's way over here.

- Monster Park hands: Or just the "hands" feature all together, where you can control your character remotely via your phone. I just think that's too much for GMS to bring over.

- Monster Park Extreme removal + Monster park sweeps: This would be an awesome change to get, but we may not get it. KMS (as well as GMS interactive) uses maple points to purchase MP passes 3-7, so the incentive is there to complete all of them at once (this would encourage people to use maple points to instantly complete 7 runs of monster park). As awesome as it would be to only have to run MP once and get 7 full runs, I don't think GMS will get this.

A large amount of copium needed:

- Universal Vac Pet: I don't think we're going to get anything "universal". Not entirely sure how the final tier of Universal Vac Pet would work on Heroic. Reboot makes a TON of money from Vac Pets (look at the last event). They probably won't even mention it.

- 90 crystal change: A lot of people are asking to halve the amount of crystals and double the amount of meso we get from them, making running bosses more efficient. Instead of 10-15 boss mules, only 5-10. KMS got the change, but we didn't. We still won't get it. A mapler can dream, though.

- Instanced Loot: Yeah, still no. Heroic will still have to abide by the honor system for their vestiges.

Keep dreamin', bud:

- Universal Cash Shop: Them giving us cash shop transfer once a quarter pretty much confirms that we'll never get this.

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Hi!

I worked hard with Nexon support to ressurect my old character, which I put toms of time to.

It's lvl 139 bishop and lvl 133 bowmaster.

Unfortunately, the account was hacked and I barely have any equipment.

It's been 15 years since I played - can you recommend me on how to begin - how do I get decent gear? Are there any must do quests? I guess the character is pretty weak for now

Thanks for any tips!

Am I trying to enter for nothing or is it just that popular rn

Disclaimer: This has nothing to do with Classic/founder's packs/Maple con. This is going to be a rant, mostly about vac pets and RNG

I'm just feeling like Maple doesn't respect the time I put into it and the magic is quickly going away.

I just feel so defeated when I spend hours bossing every week, only for a CPU to choose a number and go "haha, loser, I chose the wrong number so you don't get a pitched drop for the (xth) week in a row!"

I've played since 2006, and reboot from day 1, and actually literally never seen a source, ever on any character for example, and I run pretty high droprate (436%) and do hard vhilla every single week

but then when I actually do have something to improve and have been saving for weeks or months, and I try to starforce, only for a CPU to choose a number and go:

"haha loser, wrong number, all those weeks/months of saving are now flushed and you've wasted your time (or even worse, it booms and you've made backwards progression, you're now weaker than before)"

I know it is so much better than before. I was there when starforce fails reduced the count, and before safeguarding. But that doesn't mean the current version isn't above criticism. Safeguarding to 22 was a great choice to add. It doesn't take away the hollow sadness that comes from blowing your entire life savings and getting nowhere because RNG.

It's like a downward spiral when my vac pet dies and I gotta ask the question, do I really wanna "subscribe" for another month...

(this is theft by the way, most MMOs will have normal looting range and design the game around it, Nexon chose to make massive maps after Grandis came out and keep the shitty pets and charge 100 freakin dollars in order to have a normal farming experience)

And then there's the point of how Changseop said himself a vac pet is necessary to have a normal experience, and how Korea has universal CS so you can share pets, and now they have account-wide vac pet slots so it's even better

It just feels disrespectful how awful of a state our "global" version is for vac pets, when other countries with weaker currency need to spend a month of salary because their currency conversion is so terrible for a 99$ pet (still ridiculous even after "discounting" it with RP)

Then we get Frieren collab and they nerf the pull chance for collab vac pets by HALF from the one punch man. Like, what is going on bro?

It feels like Nexon KR only allows Inksell to exist purely because Maple Classic is his passion project and it's good PR in their eyes to have nostalgia IP version of the game, and they only allow GMS to exist purely as collab whale bait at this point.

The only thing that still feels "pure" and something I fully enjoy is farming frags and upgrading hexa skills, because they're permanent. No chance to boom, no RNG for upgrading, no chance to waste all your resources and be in the same spot. Just farming and getting stronger. THAT is what a long-term MMO is about to me.

That's really the last cornerstone still keeping me playing. But this event is so awful that I only login to press the winter check-in button then do 5 mins of sacred dailies and logout.

I'm not uninstalling, been with this game too long and love my character too much. I just wish it was better. I wish there weren't 1 trillion RNG systems and wish all the stuff we spend money on wasn't RNG like cosmetics and royal coupons, when those are direct choice in Korea.

and I wish half the Use tab items didn't randomly expire for no reason. Let me hoard resources! They've changed sides on this issue for certain things like the bossing pots, now do it for legion coupons, exp coupons, cubes, flames, mag pots, everything that matters.

Yap session over, how do you all feel?