Ring of Elysium

Patch contents overview:
I. Adventurer Season 8 officially launches! Unlock the Adventure Pass to rank up your Tiers, earn in-game rewards, and earn 1500 E-Points back!
II. New map- Vera
III. New traversal equipment on Vera- Motorbike Pack
IV. New vehicles on Vera- Viper SUV and Viper Truck
V. New 7.62 airdrop weapon on Vera- SCAR-H
VI. Various events with FREE skins and Misc. changes
VII. Bug Fixes

Please note:
Ring of Elysium’s live servers will go down for maintenance for approximately four hours at:
Pacific Time: April 9th, 0:00-4:00
UTC/GMT: April 9th, 7:00-11:00

Adventurer Season 8- AFTERMATH

• The Adventurer Pass spans over the 10-week season and is a way for players to earn exclusive in-game rewards. By playing the game and ranking up the seasonal Adventurer Tiers, players will unlock various epic rewards including:
  
  
  
  • E-points: The S8 Adventurer Pass rewards include a total of 1500 E-points! Players can spend 950 E-points to unlock the Adventurer Pass and earn 1500 E-points back when they hit tier 97.
    
  • Adventurer Characters (does not affect game balance)
    
    
    
    • There will be three Adventurer Characters in this season. All characters have a variety of unlockable styles, and will gradually unlock as the player's Tier increases their Adventurer Pass
      
      
      
      • Jacques (Base Character Preview)
        
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      • Arvid (Base Character Preview)
        
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      • Moore (Preview to be announced)
        
      
      
    • Portraits
      
    • Traversal equipment appearances
      
    • Lobby music
      
    • Loading screens
      
    • and more!
      
    
    
  • The Adventurer Pass is separated into two parts:
    
    
    
    • The Free Pass - all players can obtain rewards by increasing their Adventurer Tiers without any sort of payment
      
    • The Adventurer Pass, which is available for 950 E-Points. E-Points are a premium in-game currency obtained with real-world money via Steam payment (1000 E-Points is equivalent to $9.99 USD)
      
    
    
  • As always, none of the rewards in the Adventurer Pass affects game balance, and all unlocked rewards stay forever
    
  
  

New Map- Vera

• Map background introduction:
  
  
  
  • Located to the east of the Andes Mountains, the vast desert dominates Vera's landscape, and its mining economy attracted a large number of outsiders to make a living here. Later, as natural resources and the economy declined, Vera's population decreased year by year, becoming a "no man's land". Now, a deadly nuclear storm is approaching Vera, can you survive the competition and make it out alive?
    
  
  
• Being a compact-sized, fast-paced and action-packed map, Vera features 3-man Squad and Solo matchmaking queue options only
  
• The natural disaster on Vera is a radioactive sandstorm, as the game progresses, this deadly storm will gradually encroach all areas
  
• There are 4 traversal equipment packs available on Vera, including: Glider, BMX, Motorbike, and the Grappling hook
  
• There are 6 tactical abilities available on Vera, including: Biosignal Detector, Deployable Shield, Recon Drone, Holographic Decoy, Medgun, and the Stealth Cloak
  
• Added 2 new types of vehicles on Vera: Viper SUV and Viper Truck
  
• Added a new airdrop weapon on Vera: SCAR-H, a 7.62 assault rifle
  

LTM Rotation

• Europa Island has been added to the daily limited-time mode rotation, available every Monday
  

Season 8 Log-in Rewards

• Log-in to the game to get your special gifts and start off your Season 8 adventures in style! Rewards include an exclusive functional accessory “Geiger counter” (with various flash levels depending on area’s radioactive intensity), a 7-day trial card for a random Adventurer Character, and a set of traversal equipment appearances
  

Event: FREE Citori Weapon Skin “Rattlesnake”

• Introducing the FREE weapon skin event for Season 8: Citori- “Rattlesnake”
  
• Event period: April 9th to June 18th, 2020 (Pacific Time)
  
• During the event, log-in to get the 14-day free-trial version of the skin immediately
  
• You can get 10 points for daily logins and 5 points for completing daily tasks
  
• Reach 100 points during the event period to earn the permanent version of the skin for FREE!
  
• This weapon skin is limited to this event. After the event, this skin will not be sold in any form. Make sure not to miss it
  

S8 Supporter rewards

• Introducing “Supporter rewards”! Purchase any amount of E-Points during Season 8 to claim a supporter reward pack at the Event Center, rewards include an Epic SCAR-H weapon skin, a Desert Camo appearance for the Viper SUV, and a special portrait
  

Lucky Draw- Season 8

• Lucky Draw is back and updated with new rewards! With an epic prize pool including the SCAR-H weapon skin, a set of traversal equipment appearances, and accessory!
  
• Event Period: April 9th – May 7th, 2020 (Pacific Time)
  
• Event rules:
  
  
  
  • Players can find the Lucky Draw interface by visiting the “Event Center” in the lobby
    
  • This event is divided into four 7-day stages, players can draw 5 times during each stage and each draw costs 50 E-Points
    
  • Players are guaranteed to get one item from the prize pool per draw, and items already drawn will not be repeatedly rewarded
    
  
  

Adventurer Pass Owner Exclusive Rewards

• Introducing “Exclusive Daily Chest,” Adventurer Pass owners can claim one chest daily for random rewards including portraits, E-Points, vehicle appearances, weapon skins, and more!
  

Raging Sea Supply Box & First Blood Lootcrate update

• Updated the rewards for the two supply boxes in Season 8
  
• Raging Sea Supply Box- replaced a set of traversal equipment appearances, 5 weapon skins, 2 vehicle appearances, and an accessory
  
• First Blood Lootcrate- replaced a set of traversal equipment appearances
  

Leaderboard and statistics reset

• With the launch of Season 8, we will reset the leaderboards, player ratings, and all personal statistics. This will continue to happen at the start of every new season
  

Battle Buddy- Season 8 Update

• We have fully updated the rewards of the Battle Buddy invitation system and reset all players’ Battle Buddy relationships. Players are welcomed to continue recruiting new Battle Buddies in the Season 8 to join your adventures in Ring of Elysium
  

Store

• Added two accessories for purchase in Store
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where limited-time weapon skins caused other permanent weapon skins to display incorrectly in some cases
  
• Fixed an issue where players couldn’t use healing items in the last zone occasionally
  
• Fixed an issue where characters’ model was displayed incorrectly in some cases
  

Map

• Planted Vera-related lore on Europa Island, can you be the first to find out Vera’s secrets?
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused exceeded client VRAM usage under certain circumstances
  
• Fixed an issue where the client occasionally stuttered when players respawn on TDM mode
  

Client

• Optimized the client's memory usage
  

DX12

• DX12 client now supports the following hardware:
  
  
  
  • Intel Core i7-1065G7 integrated graphics
    
  
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an animation error when characters respawn after eliminated while crouching or proning in TDM
  
• Fixed two cooldown errors after characters get eliminated while activating the invisibility cloak in TDM
  
• Fixed an issue where the location of the safe zone walls were presented slightly incorrectly on Europa Island
  
• Fixed several incorrect rock collisions on Europa Island
  

Team Deathmatch

• Introduced a scoreboard for TDM, hold the default keybind “~” to bring up the scoreboard, and release pressing to dismiss
  
• Players can now report suspected players via the scoreboard, simply hover the mouse over the player’s name and select “report”
  
• Fixed an issue where the game didn’t automatically end when a team is empty (after players left the game)
  

• Extended the available times of this LTM by 4 hours on Saturday and Sundays, here are the details:
  
  
  
  • NA Server: 14:00-22:00 Pacific Time
    
  • EU Server: 16:00-24:00 UTC/GMT
    
  • AS Server: 16:00-24:00 GMT+8
    
  
  
• Players can now invite friends to queue up for TDM, pre-made teams will be more likely to get matched against other pre-made teams
  
• Optimized the client performance in TDM
  

New gamemode- Team Deathmatch

• Introducing the 4V4 TDM- a gamemode that allows you to focus purely on the thrill of gunfights in ROE. In this limited-time mode, players will be put into two 4-player teams to compete in a small arena on Campbell Shooting Range. Eliminating your opponents and earning scores will be your only goal, enjoy the non-stop action!
  
• The TDM LTM is available from 18:00 to 22:00 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) for EU server, and 19:00 to 23:00 PT (Pacific Time) for NA server, and 18:00 to 22:00 GMT+8 (Beijing Time) on every Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
  
• Team Deathmatch is FPP and grappling hook only. Before the game starts, players can select from 6 tactical abilities and 9 weapon loadouts
  
• There’s no “knockdowns” in TDM, when HP goes to zero, players will be directly eliminated and respawn in two seconds. Players drop their loot normally, but the elimination boxes will shortly disappear
  
• Players can press “M” to change their loadout mid-game, which will be switched after they respawn
  
• There’s a five second grace period after players respawn. However, the grace period will immediately stop if the player fires their weapon
  
• Players automatically recover their HP if they haven’t taken any damage for a period of time, any incoming damage will stop the recovering process
  
• Each elimination adds 1 point to your team, the team that reaches 50 points first will win the game. If no teams reach 50 points by the game ends, the team with the higher score wins the game
  
  

Real-time Dynamic Global Illumination

• We have implemented a full real-time dynamic lighting system, bringing a better visual and graphic experience to you
  
• The new advanced lighting feature is fully dynamic and real-time, with a corresponding change in both dynamic weather/time periods and dynamic scenarios, making it realistic and natural
  
• This feature is only available with the DX12 client, and can be found in the advanced graphic settings
  
  

Badge Collection Event

• Event period: March 19 to April 8, 2020 (Pacific Time)
  
• During the event, obtain gold and silver badges by participating in any gamemode except Training and Custom mode and redeem Rare and Epic weapon skins, and event exclusive supply boxes at the Event Center! Supply box rewards include random weapon skins, traversal equipment appearances, tokens, Adventurer Tiers and experience points
  
• Badges can be earned by:
  
• Looting airdrops and elimination boxes
  
• At the end of each game, the top 12 teams in Squad mode and the top 40 players in Solo mode will be rewarded with badges according to their ranking
  
• In Team Deathmatch, badges are rewarded according to the total number of elimination
  
• After the event, badge redeem will be closed and all badges will disappear, please redeem them in time
  
• Players can obtain up to 100 golden badges and 200 silver badges per day
  
  

Spring Supply Box Event

• Event period: March 19 to April 8, 2020 (Pacific Time)
  
• During the event, play a game round in any limited-time game mode of the day and claim a Spring supply box. Box rewards include Adventurer Character styles (base Adventurer Character is required), M4A1 weapon skin, portraits, vehicle appearances and more!
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused client framerate drops
  
• Fixed an issue where textures were loaded too slow at the beginning of a game
  
• Fixed several incorrect object models
  

Adventurer Pass Bundle

• Introducing the Adventurer Pass Bundle, priced at 50% OFF, make sure you don't miss this opportunity!
  
• The Adventurer Pass Bundle includes: Base Adventurer Pass, 20 Instant Tier Boosts, and 10 Exclusive Supply Boxes (random rewards include Epic weapon skins, accessories, and E-Points)
  
• The Bundle is available for purchase at the Adventurer Pass tab in lobby, please note that if you have already purchased the base Adventurer Pass, you will not be able to purchase the Adventurer Pass Bundle
  
• Adventurer Pass Bundle sale period: March 12 - April 9, 2020 (Pacific Time)
  
  

Optimization

• Optimized the size of client updates
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where textures were loaded too slow at the beginning of a game with the DX9 client
  
• Fixed an issue where running the client for an excessively long period of time could result in high memory usage
  

Performance

• Optimized the client's memory and VRAM usage
  
• Optimized the size of client updates
  

Settings

• Added the "Reduce Input Latency" setting, enabling this feature will effectively reduce the mouse input latency in-game, but may also reduce frame rates
  
• Some backstory on this feature:
  
  
  
  • Thanks to the feedback and help from enthusiastic players in the competitive community, our client team were able to look into the reasons why ROE has slightly more input latency compared to other games, and we found out a variety of shooters on the market utilizes an Nvidia feature called “Ultra-low latency”:
    
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  • However, that feature only works under a non-DX12 environment, so our devs swiftly developed a mechanism implementation of that feature into ROE, effectively reducing the mouse latency in-game by up to 47% at a very small cost of framerates (about 5%).
    
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  • It’s worth noting that the "Reduce Input Latency" setting works with both Nvidia and AMD users. Again, we want to express our appreciation to all the amazing feedback from our community, thank you for inspiring us to continuously improve the game, and let’s continue to work together and make ROE a better game!
    
  
  

About the new map - Vera

Adventurer Season 7 Extension Announcement

New content in Season 8

4V4 Team-deathmatch mode

• A new gamemode is coming! The new 4V4 TDM allows you to focus on experiencing the thrill of gunfights. In this mode, players will be put into two 4-player teams to compete in a small arena. Eliminating the opponent and earning scores will be your only goal, enjoy the non-stop action! The 4V4 TDM mode is expected to be released in March. Stay tuned for more details
  

Real-time dynamic global illumination

• We have optimized Ring of Elysium by adopting a full real-time dynamic lighting system, bringing a more realistic visual and gaming experience to you
  
• Lifelike look and feel: illumination algorithm upgrade- calculated by the law of real world light propagation, boosting the graphics close to a “lifelike” and “cinematic” level
  
  
  
• Real-time full dynamic lighting: other than the improvement to lighting quality itself, the bigger highlight is "dynamic". Many AAA games in the industry often use a pre-computed approach when it comes to lighting, which results in the lighting being "still," with only one time period and one weather condition. However, our new lighting system is fully dynamic and real-time, with a corresponding change in both dynamic weather/time periods and dynamic scenarios, making it realistic and natural
  
  
  
• Mainstream configuration compatible: the new lighting system implements an accelerated optimization algorithm for mainstream graphics cards. You won’t need a monster PC to run the game with the full-dynamic "cinema-quality" lighting settings. And in the future, we will be adopting ray tracing technology to improve the efficiency and quality of ROE even further
  
  
  

Patch Notes – S7 Pinnacle Challenges, Tier Boosts (Feb.27.2020)

Season 7 Extension

• Season 7 has been extended to April 9, 2020
  
• Various in-game events has been extended as well
  

Pinnacle Challenges

• Pinnacle Challenges are back! The reward of this event includes a FREE Season 8 Adventurer Pass which is worth 950 E-Points, as well as E-Points, experience points, and an exclusive portrait!
  
• Event period: February 27 – April 9, 2020
  
  

Spring Log-in Rewards

• Spring is here and we have prepared some fancy rewards for you! Login to the game from February 27 to April 1, 2020, and claim a reward box
  
• Edit: Please note that we have a made a mistake in the patch note above, the rewards will be directly sent to your "Appearance" collection, not claimed by opening a supply box in your "Vault" tab, we apologize for the overlook and thank you for understanding
  
  

Store- Adventurer Tier Boosts

• We have brought the Adventurer Tier Boosts back to the Store! There are three levels of Adventurer Tier instant boosts available for purchase (+1, +10 and +20 tiers)
  
• A few tips:
  
  
  
  • Players can purchase adventurer tiers at the Store or through the "Buy Tiers" button under the Adventurer Pass interface
    
  • The +10 and +20 tier options both have discounts compared to purchasing just one adventurer tier
    
  • Please pay close attention to your current adventurer tier when purchasing. If your adventurer tier exceeds 100 after purchase, the exceeded tiers will be converted to character level experience points
    
  • Please note that players will not be able to purchase adventurer tiers if they are already at tier 100
    
    
  
  

Gameplay

• When the squad has a player that is knocked down but getting revived by the Medgun, the whole squad will no longer be immediately eliminated
  

Heroic Challenges

• Enabled the Season 7 Heroic Challenges, available for Adventurer Pass owners that have reached Tier 100
  
• Complete the Heroic Challenges for exclusive rewards such as portrait, accessory, and Adventurer Character Styles!