To address the cheating that changed the NPC locations in Ship 2 and Ship 9.
Sega is pushing forward preparations to correct this problem through a special maintenance on July 13th, 2012. They have already rebooted the affected blocks and banned the cheaters. However this problem may surely happen again unless they perform a Special Maintenance. They have confirmed on Ship 9 that several NPC locations have suddenly changed. If you are playing a block and notice the NPCs are not in their correct locations, please move to another block immediately.
On Ship 2, they have confirmed that cheaters have managed to change the positions of several NPCs on certain blocks. Since they will have to reset the affected blocks; If you are playing in a lobby and notice that the NPCs aren't in the right locations, please switch to another block immediately. They are currently investigating the situation and so far none of your personal information has leaked out.
Since the Open Beta Test, they have confirmed around 75 accounts of individuals using cheat tools and real money trading (RMT) services. These accounts will be permanently banned, and from now on, any account that is caught cheating will be quickly banned.
When you find players who are cheating, please use the "wickeduser" report form and send a screenshot with their Player ID number attached.
Planet Lillipa expands with another area called the Subterranean Tunnels! Below the desert exists a facility that the previous civilization left behind. Eerie sounds of machines still resonate deep within this mining facility. All Arks members who are level 33 and up can get clearance to explore this new area.
But your trip through this area won't be easy, you'll have to fight Darkers and brand new types of Mechs you haven't seen before on the planet's surface.
This update plans to add new quests, interrupt events and client orders.
For example, there's a new interrupt event where you have to save the Lillipas who were captured by the Gilnas mechs. To allow the Lillipas to escape, you have to fend off the surrounding enemies before the Gilnas explodes.
New Enemies
シグノビート Signobeat
Signobeat specializes in battle and through the use of an optical illusion it can create clones of itself to confuse players. The signobeat can produce a blade from its hand. Be on the watch for his clones and defeat his main body as soon as possible!
ガーディナン Gardinans
Gardinans are aerial type mech enemies that attack in groups.
Tranmizer
Tranmizer is a mech that transforms based on close range/long range combat.
Big Varder
Big Varder is battleship-like boss for the Mines area, and is armed with missiles, lasers, and flame throwers among other things.
New Costumes
This update adds new costumes like the ユカタヴィア "Yukata Wear" and ジンヴェバオリ "Jinvebaori." New accessories include the ラッピーおめん "Rappy Omen (Rappy Mask)", and うちわ "Uchiwa (Fan)"!
Rank Series(Furie's Cast Parts) ランクスシリーズ
Tiger Pierce(Aki's Costume) タイガーピアス
Colossus Series (Cast Parts) コロッサスシリーズ
Maintenance Report
The 12 hour maintenance covered a few things:
A new client update to ver1.0003.2
Fixed some bugs where under some conditions the block servers were down.
Fixed a bug where based on a character's height, the Ballistic Coat's model would appear oddly on the character.
Implemented countermeasures so that one can not unilaterally attack the tundra bosses in certain spots.
In addition to this maintenance, there was a separate 1 hour maintenance that fixed a bug where you were not able to purchase or withdraw items from the "My Shop".
