I can't see the original thread or the screenshot in question because its been deleted, so forgive me if I got something wrong here as I've had to go off your comments (which may I add hasn't been fun, why do we have to be so hateful?).
There is nothing coming out in any blog discussing changes to the Zaryte crossbow. There might be the odd over a cup of tea conversation here and there, but that's literally an every day occurrence with many items.
The screenshots in this thread were faked, most likely by someone attempting to merch.
Arcane is one of the most passionate developers I've ever had the opportunity to work with. He puts in so much effort with his work and truly does care about the community and Old School as a whole.
The last few days have been quite frankly awful for him, and it's mostly down to this subreddit and its targeted hate towards him. I don't understand why some of you think it's acceptable to keep this up.
We JMods are only human. Sometimes we goof and make mistakes. Mistakes should be crtiticsed, and I'll always welcome that, but it saddens me to see that for some of you it's enough justification to just instantly assume the worst and become abusive :(
I'm preparing myself for the typical replies when I come out and say something like this, where you highlight how we're just trying to push the blame on you for being mean and we did nothing wrong. But this hate brigade over an honest mistake really needs to stop.
The reality is I've been working closely with Arcane around the Nex release and how communications were handled.
Whether you believe me or not is your decision to make, but I can assure you there was never any malicious intent or purposefully trying to give an advantage to certain players. The little information that was shared by Arcane around the Nex launch were from conversations driven by passion. After seeing so many negative comments about a boss that wasn't being approached with the best meta, he simply just wanted to spread the word and emphasise how not everything had been figured out, getting players to really think about their strategies before asking for further changes.
We both know and appreciate that speaking in Discord servers isn't ideal, and how doing so can seem rather hypocritical when we're purposefully withholding information elsewhere. We're genuinely sorry if you felt like it was unacceptable. I'd like to think this won't happen again and you can expect key details to be shared publicly going forward, but also expect to see conversations with JMods across social platforms continue - we love talking with you and being as involved as we are. Without it we'd miss out on so much valuable feedback.
Can we all just agree to log in and have fun on the Shattered Relics League now? :)
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