In the interest of transparency, Scott has been removed from his position as Lead Voluntary Helper and will be removed from the game entirely (as per his request) in the following days.

Without going in to too much detail, items and credits were gifted to some players to the detriment of the game's economy in actions deemed not befitting of his trusted position. As such, he will be leaving the community and these items / credits will be tracked down and recalled.

While this is a poor end to his 8 years of service to the game, it will not be forgotten. Congratulations to Will in his promotion to Lead Voluntary Helper.

Furthermore, Scott asked me to extend his thanks to the community and tell you all that it was a pleasure to work for. We wish everyone the best as we part ways.

The Hive Gatekeepers now have new drops that are sure to help you in your hunting pursuits. They realized that some of the medicine they had on hand did not really help their levels of power so they've borrowed something brand new from the Brotherhood. To be absolutely clear here, the majority of their older drops have remained unchanged. We've just swapped out a couple of items for some brand new ones and added 1-2 brand new items as well

In other news, there's been a break-in at Joe's Merchandise in Sector 3. Reports state that the Journal of a Shadow Hunter that continues to be sold from Joe no longer gives blueprints as someone has stolen all of them. Will we ever see blueprints in the book again? Probably not. The book still seems to carry valuable information that still unlocks some interesting new things for those who have never read it before!

Speaking of the Shadow Hunters, earlier today we received a transmission from them stating that their Elite Hunters tried crafting the item in Special Blueprint 3 using a high-powered Prime Amulet but it did not seem to work, contrary to recent reports. They even tried using other types of specific/special high-powered Amulets but those did not seem to work either... seems like none of those work. Their Elites have chalked it up to some kind of unexplained energy interfering with the use of an amulet like the Prime in crafting the blueprint. Sigh, just what does it need?!

Happy hunting!

Double Gains are coming to an end soon! There are about ~ 6.2 hours left for it from the time of this post, so if you've got time - work or hunt some turns!

In other news, Aida's at her final strength. She won't be seeing anymore changes anytime soon (and if she does, we'll let you know in advance).

Things that will be changing soon, however, are the drops for the Hive Gatekeepers (unlocked by the Journal of a Shadow Hunter found in Joe's Merchandise)! Some of their drops will be replaced with some new interesting items (they won't lose the weapon drop, however, so don't worry about that).

This change will happen sometime within the next 24-48 hours so just wanted to give an advance notice on it. Until the update "drops" (lol), go at 'em and get all the amazing revives and small meds you can!

Happy hunting!

The Shadow Facility is back and ripe for the hunting! But what's this? They have a new machine? You need power? Path Key Parts are still in play? What's going on ?!?!?!

Hey everyone,

Thanks for participating in the hunt for the parts of the Path Key! You all did so great working together towards a common goal as a community. But now you have a bigger challenge ahead of you - one that pit community interests against individual interests. What will be your Legacy in this event?

You all have already started figuring stuff out so just wanted to mention a few things:

1. Contributors - you have received a reward that can be claimed at the Shadow Facility. For those who didn't contribute or tried but couldn't get a part in, do not worry! The reward will soon be publicly available from a certain local vendor.

2. Test Subject 0: Aida has come out! She's the one responsible for the recent attacks against X-Corp Facilities (which worked out in your favor, judging by X-Corp mining, didn't it?). But is she a villain or something else? A note here is that she's currently not at her maximum potential - she will be very soon. But she does have something special up her sleeve!

3. This update hasn't introduced everything.

Happy hunting!