GPO Update 13

GPO WHOLE CAKE? PART 2?

UPDATE 13:

NEW ISLAND:

• Blossom Falls
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• Located in the Second Sea
• Slightly left of Southeast from Whole Cake Island
• Features the portal to the Dragon Emperor Dungeon
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• Has pvp pads and dummies
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• Has a crew capture point

NEW DUNGEON:

• Dragon Emperor Dungeon
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• A new multi stage dungeon in Blossom Falls
• The objective UI will guide you thru the dungeon stages
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• [QOL] All 5 geppos regen the moment you touch the ground
• MVP of the dungeon gets a random fruit
• You can now store fruits in dungeons

NEW BOSSES:

• Dragon Emperor
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• Located at the end of the Dragon Emperor Dungeon.
• Has a full form phase
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• Drops:
• [NEW] Dragon Emperor's Cape (3%)
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• [NEW] Dragon Emperor's Outfit (3%)
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• [NEW] Dragon Emperor's Gourd (3%)
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• [NEW] Thunder Club (0.1%)

NEW MINI BOSSES:

• King
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• Located inside the Dragon Emperor’s Dungeon.
• Has a full form phase
• Drops:
• [NEW] King's Mask (4%)
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• [NEW] King's Outfit (4%)
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• (weapon in the lunarian update maybe)
• Pedro
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• Drops:
• [NEW] Pedro's Outfit (8%)
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• [NEW] Pedro's Cape (10%)
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• [NEW] Moonfang Rapier (5%)
• Biscuit Commander
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• Drops:
• [NEW] Biscuit Commander's Outfit (6%)
• [NEW] Biscuit Commander's Shoulder Cape (8%)
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NEW FRUITS:

• [MYTHICAL] LEOPARD
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• Leopard Ascension has Speed and Fighting modes that can be swapped using Predator Shift.
• Damage from rokushiki and kamishiki will contribute to the mode bar
• Kamishiki can be used in base human form while having Leopard.
• Custom Tailorable
• [LEGENDARY] BISCUIT
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• Custom Tailorable

NEW WEAPONS:

• [MYTHICAL] Thunder Club
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• Drops from the Dragon Emperor
• Custom tailorable
• [EPIC] Moonfang Rapier
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• Drops from Pedro located at Whole Cake Island
• Mink buffs the skills and has slightly different vfx

NEW OUTFITS/COSMETICS:

        Most of these are obtained from the new dungeon

• 3 new factory operator outfits
• Rescuing a factory operator has a 20% chance to reward their matching outfit to the player who escorted them
• Cannon Operator Outfit
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• Heat Laser Operator Outfit
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• Reinforcement Operator Outfit
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• 4 new Blossom Villager outfits and the Blossom Villager Strawhat.
• Freeing villagers after King is defeated rewards villager outfits
• Strawhat is rewarded after all 4 outfits are obtained.
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• 2 new regular Beast Pirate outfits
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• 4 new Elite Beast Pirate outfits
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• 2 new Elite Beast Pirate accessories
• Beast Pirate Rat Hat
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• Elite Beast Pirate's Cape
• https://gyazo.com/2d691f7ecadd8c168181486998d4abd4.mp4
• Apple’s Professional Suit
• New quest reward item from Mira located near the mirror world entrance
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• All Seeing Blossom
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• https://gyazo.com/852aace0c838ebcb824dc156fed2b2f6.mp4

NEW TITLES:

• Dragon Slayer
• Defeat the Dragon Emperor 25 times to unlock.
• 10% extra damage to Dragon Emperor as perk
• 雷鳴八卦 (Raimei Hakke)
• Obtained if you get the Thunder Club drop from the Dragon Emperor.

MISC CHANGES/ADDITIONS:

• Added a boss drop list showing each boss's possible drops and rates.
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• Added reward-odds displays before purchasing certain random-item products.
• All legendary rarity and above custom grips are now tailorable
• Use the code ILOVEGPO for free Tailor Vouchers! (expires in 5 days)
• One Tailor Voucher covers the entire customization cost of a fruit, fighting style or weapon, no matter how many tabs you customize.
• The special tailor token bundle is also on a deal, buy 2 packs get 1 free
• List of tailorable grips
• Legendary
• Bari Sphere Crush
• Blackhole
• Blo’s Explosive Egg
• Bomu Mines
• Candy Cane Blossom
• Dirty Fireworks
• Dismantle
• Freezing Shatter
• Frostspire Storm
• Gift Explosion
• Haunted Seeking Pumpkin
• Ice Grip
• KO
• Lightning Strike
• Meteor Strike
• Oni
• Ope Scramble
• Paw Grip
• Pica Smash
• Pika Grip
• Reaver
• Sentinel
• String Dissection
• Suna Grip
• Tori Grip
• True Ba’al’s Snake Fire
• Venom Hydra
• Mythical
• Amaterasu
• Kurohitsugi
• Planetary Devastation
• Susanoo
• Improved climbing around ledges and corner navigation.
• Improved NPC pathfinding.
• Improved party health and stamina bars.
• Tori-Tori is now customizable at the Custom Tailor.
• You can now equip one title for its perks and display a different vanity title.
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• You can now store fruits in dungeons.
• Damage indicators are now visible on targets you damage even if far away
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• Players on Xbox and PlayStation with cross‑play disabled will no longer have crew flag captures in the servers
• Cross-play is a roblox feature where it would only put the players in xbox/playstation servers and players from other devices couldn't join
• Replaced roblox shop with in-game shop
• BR storm damage now credits 0.5% max health per tick to evasive bar
• BR fruit users drowning now credits 2% max health per damage tick to evasive bar
• ADDED AUTOFILL TO BATTLE ROYALE/IMPEL DOWN QUEUES
• If you dont have friends or cant find anyone to play duos,trios, or squads with you the game will autofill you with another person in the same situation!
• Works with parties as well, for example if you have 2 people for squads but cant find 2 more, you can queue up and the game will autofill
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• Expect bugs, but those will be fixed since we haven't tested this with hundreds of players
• This will be extended to arena modes as well later
• Added direct shop access to Impel Down, you no longer need to reclear all of Impel Down to access the shop.
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• Direct Shop visits use Normal difficulty odds and grant no dungeon rewards or leaderboard progress.
• Stock saves across servers, while Premium players receive a refresh every five minutes
• Completing the dungeon still provides a separate fresh shop using the selected difficulty’s odds
• Shop is only available if you are solo in the lobby and have previously fully cleared Impel Down in the past
• Added a regular requeue zone as well so you no longer are forced to only requeue for nightmare+
• Impel Down queues now require Level 300

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS:

• Improved UI loading speeds for inventory, HUD, and shops.
• Helps with mobile devices
• Helps with people with a huge inventory collection
• Fixed lag issues caused by repeated M1 attacks in long sessions.
• Fixed more server memory leaks
• Improved the texture preloader, should notice less unloaded images in vfx

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed Blood Queen displaying the wrong Peli requirement.
• Fixed Buddha half-form remaining active after Dark Root use.
• Fixed climbing interacting with non-solid surfaces.
• Fixed Diving Tides attacking at the wrong angle.
• Fixed Dragon Hybrid animation issues and T-posing while carrying.
• Fixed Draconic Tail Slam and Thunderfall being used at the same time.
• Fixed M1s being usable too early after Diving Tides.
• Fixed mb all and mb [username] not properly removing combat tags.
• Fixed ping spikes during the Radiant Admiral Raid.
• Fixed player stats and team bars sometimes not displaying correctly in the player list.
• Fixed several abilities failing when a character or effect disappeared during use.
• Fixed some effects failing shortly after joining the game.
• Fixed some long-distance attacks failing or colliding incorrectly.
• Fixed some NPCs getting stuck or stopping after encountering a movement issue.
• Fixed some older VFX not playing correctly.
• Fixed some VFX not appearing correctly for other players.
• Fixed the combat tag timer reaching 0 while the player was still in combat, especially while ragdolled or being carried.
• Fixed players sometimes remaining on the boss damage contribution list after they were no longer participating.
• Fixed Cyborg upgrade data sometimes remaining after changing to a different race.
• Fixed some Crew Shop purchases not granting the purchased item.
• Fixed Crew Shop rerolls sometimes failing to update the shop.
• Fixed Crew Tokens not being handled correctly when creating a crew.
• Fixed some crew alliances not being recognized correctly.
• Fixed capturable island ownership not updating correctly after players left or changed crews.
• Fixed capturable island rewards sometimes being granted after the player no longer controlled the capture point.
• Fixed duplicate or outdated captured-island ownership being stored for crews.
• Fixed custom tailored colors for some skills not appearing in modes like battle royale and Impel Down
• Fixed fishing bypassing server seabeast limits
• Fixed a lot of skills bugging the player into the void.
• Especially with PikaV2 Blitzstrike
• Many other bug fixes

BALANCE CHANGES/ADJUSTMENTS:

• FRUITS
• Buddha
• Hybrid form m1 hitbox reduced to slightly larger than Iron Fist's m1 hitbox
• Hybrid form now requires 35% mode bar to enter, up from 20%
• Dragon
• Full form now loses movement speed as you lose HP, the same way other flights do
• Full form mode bar now drains 20% faster (roughly 90 seconds down to 75)
• Draconic Tempest Spiral speed boost reduced by 15%
• Draconic Tempest Spiral radius reduced by 10%
• Draconic Cataclysm damage reduction now lasts through the full endlag, so you are no longer punished for landing the move
• Goru
• Players caught in Golden Age now take 95% reduced damage from outside sources, the same way Yami R already works
• Gura
• Shock Punch base cooldown increased from 9 to 12 seconds
• Horo
• Negative Hollow now despawns after 5 seconds, down from 10
• Ope
• Shambles can now be used while drowning if the target is a Tact rock, giving Ope a way out of the water without regaining underwater kill pressure
• Spring
• Spring Facebreaker no longer grabs a target who blocked the hit
• FIGHTING STYLES
• Dragon Claw
• Dragon Claw Slashes damage reduced by 30%
• Dragon Skull Crusher damage reduced by 25%
• Iron Fist
• Galaxy Impact stat point requirement increased from 175 to 200
• Galaxy Impact now grants 15 seconds of storm immunity to those hit, up from 8
• Fist of Love knockback reduced by 30%
• SWORD STYLES
• One Sword Style
• Rapid Slashes damage scaling reduced by 37.5%
• Rapid Slashes cooldown increased from 10 to 13 seconds
• Raging Serpent first press now costs 30 stamina, down from 40
• Raging Serpent hold drain halved
• Shishi Sonson cooldown increased from 10 to 14 seconds
• Dragon Blaze cooldown increased from 60 to 75 seconds
• Two Sword Style
• 72 Caliber Phoenix damage scaling reduced by 20%
• 72 Caliber Phoenix endlag reduced by 0.2 seconds
• Raging Whirl cooldown reduced from 15 to 13 seconds
• Raging Whirl now costs a set 40 stamina instead of draining a percentage
• Raging Whirl damage scaling increased by 25%
• Raging Whirl now block breaks from the halfway point of the spin onward, rather than at the very end
• Nitoryu Strike cooldown reduced from 25 to 20 seconds
• Nitoryu Strike damage scaling increased by 15%
• WEAPONS
• Moria's Scissors
• Scissor Impale endlag increased by 0.1 seconds, so the first m1 that extends off it no longer connects
• Sunken Anchor
• M1 hitbox reduced to match Kraken Blade's
• COMBAT
• Moves cancelled by Perfect Block
• The following now stop entirely when perfect blocked, instead of continuing through the rest of their damage and effects:
• Draconic Warcry
• Slayer Cross Slash (Kraken Blade)
• Flames of Frost (Iceborn Blade)
• Kessui Barrage
• Triple Ripple (Shusui)
• Gravity Field (Gravity Blade)
• Bat Tornado (Kage)
• Triple Talon Kick (Tori)
• Storm immunity
• The following now grant storm immunity to anyone caught by them, and to the user, for as long as the move holds them:
• Thunderous Blitz (Moonlit Electro)
• Leviathan Plunge (Abyssal Karate)
• Dragon Skull Crusher (Dragon Claw)
• Perfume Femur (Mero)
• Snow Blizzard (Yuki)
• Mochi Buzzcut (Mochi)
• Supreme Mochi Buzzcut (Mochi V2)
• Kamikaze Hollow (Horo) — victims only, the user is not granted immunity
• Golden Age (Goru)
• Vampire Bite (Vampire)

farewell cupid until next year!

we ended up pivoting towards way more dragon dungeon content than whole cake content, which wasn’t originally planned..

stay tuned for the next updates!