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You had me until I saw Lobstroserbi. Might be the most blursed player suggestion I've ever seen...

raids 3 soundtrack is entirely microtonal and heavily features King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

It's more a case of us having fixed a bug (spawn-hitting) that was a staple for many key progress milestones on certain types of limited account (namely 10hp accounts).

By fixing the bug, we unintentionally had the knock-on effect of preventing any future creators of these account types from being able to achieve the same things. In Poll 76 it was stated: 'We hope that this is a sensible way to let those players resume the content in a way that feels fitting to Old School and not reliant on a bug.'

The fundamental change to how those restrictions work was made when the bug was fixed and this is a fitting way to balance the playing field while still making sense in-world.

PSA: the sections initially included in this post regarding the Clan Hall cat & piano have been removed, these pieces of content are scheduled for release next week alongside other Clan Hall changes.

Apologies for the inconvenience and to anybody who was excited to bust out a tune or two while their clannies feed Hannibal.

The team are aware of a lot of the prevalent issues with mobile at the moment and are actively working on fixes. Expect a status update next week on where we're at in terms of what we've fixed and what we're still working on!

Missed opportunity! Oh what could have been...

the piano tuner joke was in the newspost :(

I think of it more as a tongue-in-cheek approach to at least have a little fun with it. It'd be a little bleak for the post to just read 'hitsplats gold but not always (check settings), feed cat, black keys'.

Makes it more enjoyable to write about and perhaps make somebody smile during the downtime - might I recommend the banger of a joke about 'piano tuners'?

Ultimately when writing newsposts we can't magically get more content out that week. With a project the scale of Raids 3 being so close at-hand, it's natural that we might have the odd slow news week here or there.

For these kinds of weeks I think we generally try to have a little fun with the posts and at least make them an enjoyable read. Perhaps it's not an approach that everybody's a fan of and I'm sure we could strip them down if more people wanted - but it does make them more enjoyable to write too!

Main focus of this week is tying up or updating people on bits from Poll 76, apologies for any disappointment!

In OlmTheSnek's defence that was an edit I made after a few people had asked about it, but at least it's up-to-date now!

Anybody looking to minimise combat xp for any particular reason. Overwhelmingly - though not necessarily limited to - the 10hp community (which would incl. skillers) in this case, though!

Have had a couple of players suggest this and was planning to bring it up in our next player suggestions meeting with the devs, would be nice to remove some of the 'performance anxiety' for people trying new content in competitive groups.

The maintenance we're carrying out isn't directly related to the content of the update, but we are sorry for any inconvenience or disruption today's maintenance causes you.

Essentially at the breakpoints indicated, should you see a unique - it's well within the realms of realistic to expect to see one of the highlighted items. Getting one of the items that isn't highlighted isn't something you should ever realistically expect, but it's not completely impossible.

It's not like CMs.

Perhaps we'll release a couple of them before TOA opens, but revealing all would kill so much of the mystique and magic of release day!

There was a stream recently where we showed some concept art of the Lobby area, including a very polite Bank Camel!

Playtesters reported minimal (but not 0...) spitting while they were gearing up, hopefully this is reassuring!

Just to save you a re-read: 'The chance to gain a unique item, and the quantity of the normal loot you receive, is also boosted at higher Raid Level. This means there’s always an incentive to challenge yourself if you want to get your hands on that sweet, sweet loot!'

So to answer your questions:
- Breakpoints are shown for Normal and Expert mode runs. However, once your raid level surpasses 50 you'll see the highlight around the Lightbearer/Fang which indicates that they can be reasonably obtained at this difficulty.

- Even if something can be reasonably obtained, unique chance scales with raid level. So it's always going to be worth pushing yourself for better odds assuming you're getting consistent completions!

Will happily confirm that invocations are a lot more interesting than just stat boosts!

It's the number of invocations currently selected!