Along with the new wasteland map today, we have another smaller update.

Introducing...

1. New Abilities - There's a whole new category of abilities called Items that comes with a few abilities for now (and more in the future). This comes with Item Study, Intermediate Item Study, Armor Honing, Weapon Honing. Item Study is unlocked for everyone whose level is greater than 20 in Information > Abilities.

Armor Honing and Weapon Honing are 2 new abilities that let you passively train equipped Armor and Weapon XP per hour.

Intermediate Item Study let's you use certain special items. For now, there's only one green radioactive item that you can use. (Hint: ).

It comes with another ability too but more on that in a few weeks.

Using the gives you...

2. Player Status Effects - These are effects that either provide players with buffs or debuffs or both . Right now, if you use a , you can get the following Effects:

a) Radioactive Efficiency

b) Radiation Sensitivity

On using a , you will always receive the first status effect, while having a small chance of getting the second! Bare in mind that you can only use a once every 3 hours (unless otherwise blog-posted).

I hope you like this smaller update. I expect there to be ..polarizing opinions on the new abilities in particular but enjoy

On a separate note, or notes:

1. Contributors for the Phoenix Key phase of the event - your reward will come soon!
2. We've been slowly increasing in average online now. General online now numbers have gone from 60-70 to 70-80s and occasionally now 90s!
3. We hit Online Now 101 earlier this week Whether these numbers are to do with new year's, advent, or updates, or none of these, I think they're great and encouraging!

As a tiny dumb celebration for #3, this weekend will have Double Gains active. The effects of Radioactive Efficiency? They'll stack on top of Double Gains. Enjoy