GPO Update 9

UPDATE 9: (was supposed to be a .5 but yea self explanatory once read entire document)

NEW MAX BOUNTY: 1,500,000

NEW FRUITS/CHANGES:

• BUDDHA [MYTHICAL]
• Added animation to venom fruit model

NEW ISLANDS                                

• IMPEL BASE
• Located in second sea
• NW of thriller bark
• Includes 3 sets of difficulty levels
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• 5 Floors with 3 sets of difficulties that you can vote on
• Don't want to post too much about it in the update doc otherwise this doc would be a very long one, everything else about impel down you guys can see ingame
• NPCs don't drop items however if you successfully clear impel down you get rewarded points which can be used to buy drops such as weapons, outfits, race rerolls, and fruit chests.
• YOU DON'T KEEP ANYTHING YOU GET FROM CHESTS INSIDE OF IMPEL DOWN
• TRANSYLVANIA [2023 HALLOWEEN EVENT]        
• Located in first sea
• West of shells town

NEW BOSSES/MINIBOSS:

• HALLOWEEN EVENT
• [MINI BOSS] Resurrected Ba'al
• Drops 3 items
• 1 Weapon
• 1 Outfit
• 1 Cosmetic
• [BOSS] True Demon Ba'al
• Drops 3 items
• 1 Weapon
• 2 Cosmetics
• Located in first sea
• Two years ago Ba’al didn't meet his demise, he was only banished back to hell. Fueled by vengeance, he emerges with a new powerful vessel!
• IMPEL DOWN RAID
• Warden of Impel Down, Vera
• Jailer Han
• Impel Down Elite High Guard
• Head Jailer of Impel Down
• Bulgori
• Sphinx

NEW WEAPONS/CHANGES

• IMPEL DOWN
• KESSUI
• BLACK PITCHFORK
• VERA’S WHIP
• RAIUI
• CREW REWARD (TOP 50 CREWS ON LEADERBOARD)
• ACE
• HALLOWEEN BATTLE PASS
• STARK GUNS
• HALLOWEEN EVENT
• HOLLOW’S HALBERD
• HOLLOW’S GREAT SWORD
• Revamped basic katana animations

NEW FIGHTING STYLES

• VAMPIRE
• Trainer located in second sea thriller bark
• DUHALLIAN [LIMITED HALLOWEEN RACE]
• Trainer located in first sea transylvania

NEW ITEMS/CHANGES:

• 39 NEW ITEMS
• Outfits/Accessories
• 9 NEW CUSTOM GRIPS
• Buffed Kikoku drop rate
• Outfits that took up a cosmetic slot have been buffed and are now categorized as armor

NEW TITLES:

• 3 NEW TITLES
• Marines can now earn rewards for having certain titles
• Capes
• Outfits
• Title progress when gripping or arresting people is now visually displayed

REVAMPED CREW SYSTEM:

• YOU MUST HAVE 100K+ BOUNTY TO CREATE A CREW
• Create up to 10 ranks within the crew
• Each ranks permissions can be configured
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• Base max members is 10 but can be increased all the way to 500 (may have to adjust depending on how well the game handles)
• Supports both pirate crews and marine factions
• ONLY MARINES CAN JOIN MARINE FACTIONS
• If you are a marine trying to resign and you are in a marine crew, you must leave that crew before resigning, same applies for pirates trying to become marines.
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• NEW CONQUEST GAMEMODE
• 4 crews queue against each other in UNIVERSE HUB
• The matchmaking will try to queue your crew with other crews that have similar infamy
• Capturing a island will give the crew overall points
• Flag poles can be used to set spawn points, but these can be easily destroyed
• At the end of the timer the crew with most points wins the conquest and gets rewarded with infamy and conquest points
• Crews that lost will lose infamy
• Conquest points can be used to expand your crews max members
• Crew captain for first sea is located at Shells Town
• Crew captain for second sea located at the desert kingdom in front of the cafe
• Will also be used to purchase things for the crew in the future
• Infamy is used to determine your crews ranking on the global leaderboard for all crews
• If your crew has reached the infamy threshold (50k infamy) and have enough to be on the global leaderboard, then everyone in the crew gets whatever is the current top 50 reward.
• To check if your crew is top 50, there will be a number displayed, once its displayed you can rejoin to claim the reward
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• If your crew drops from the leaderboard the rewards will be taken away, rewards are also non tradeable
• Crews can now also capture islands for infamy and conquest points which is only available in public servers
• Capturable islands are displayed below the compass showing how far you are and if it's currently captured
• Each crew mate can only capture ONE island in the server but they can contest other islands.
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• Some islands are worth more than others which is displayed in yellow
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GENERAL CHANGES:

• Health/Stamina pots are now stackable and heal % max hp
• Reduced in BR
• You no longer regen HP while stunned, but you can now regen stamina
• First and second sea spawns now transfer instead of resetting when traveling between them
• You can set your spawn to Desert Kingdom then travel to the first sea and return to Desert Kingdom instead of the default Rovo Island when you go back to 2nd sea. Vice versa for first sea
• Buso haki now lasts forever in arena and battle royale
• Added product gifting
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• Better haki color customization
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• Also tradeable/giftable now since it got converted into a essence
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• Better color customization in main menu too
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• All fighting style stats have been converted to one generalized stat, meaning you no long have to keep readjusting stats every time you get a new fighting style
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• [IN COMBAT/DUNGEONS ONLY] Geppo goes on cooldown after being used 5 times within 5 seconds no matter what, even if you geppo and touch the floor in between, also added a visual indicator for when it's back up
• https://gyazo.com/30863d850865948ad730d4274186c226.mp4
• Evasives added, you don't need to do anything to obtain it, everyone automatically has it.
• To activate the evasive you must be stunned and have the evasive off cooldown then just press Q which gives you a small boost in movement and iframes for a bit allowing you to get out of combos.
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• Party members are now highlighted in green
• Arena cooldowns and health regen can be enabled with !pvppads on in private servers
• In the future we plan on shifting towards ROBLOX VIP servers which will come with more private server settings such as a cooldown toggle, ability to kick people and ability to host private battle royales (gives no rewards)
• Having a fighting style that has its own melee will automatically apply that to all fists, meaning you can have dragon claw m1s with a fruit tool selected instead of that fruit having basic m1s.
• Redid the backend for matchmaking queues, should be alot more reliable now and less down time
• Adjusted some of the beginner islands to be more easy
• For 2024 we do plan on revamping the first sea for mobile support
• Added cooldown counter
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• Observation haki now highlights party members in green and everyone else in red
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• Haki v2 now highlights your weapon
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• Enabled global chat which displays your title as well
• Decided to add this since its hard trying to communicate with people in the server who aren't nearby
• Has option for party chat only too
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• Trading shouts are back
• These are global messages that you can buy with robux with a cooldown, they will show in the chat in all trade hub servers, you can toggle these off as well.
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• You can now go directly to whatever sea you left off on from the trade hub instead of going back to the main menu
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• You can now unequip your custom grips
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• If you have multiple of one item it will display it
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• You can now M1 multiple targets
• Also fixed m1s being unreliable and missing sometimes
• Made leveling 30% easier

COLOSSEUM EVENT CHANGES:

• You no longer get rare/legendary chests for winning
• Top 3 get a RARE+ fruit with a 2X chance of being a legendary
• Everyone else who participated gets a random fruit
• Reduced the cooldown from 45 mins to 15 mins

FACTORY EVENT CHANGES:

• You no longer get rare/legendary chests for winning
• Top 3 get a RARE+ fruit with a 2X chance of being a legendary
• Everyone else who did at least 5% dmg gets a random fruit

FRUIT CHEST CHANGES:

• Max capacity for legendary and rare fruit chests have been reduced to 5
• If you currently have 15 you will still keep all 15 however you won't be able to get any new chests until you drop below 5
• Converting legendary to a mythical chest requires 5 legendary chests now
• Price is still same
• Added legendary fruit pity so for every 100 fruits you get, one of them will be LEGENDARY, this applies to fruits you get from outside of chests too like factory/colosseum/krakens and you don't need ASE to get this pity
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NPC CHANGES:

• Bosses can use evasives now
• Krakens and sea beasts will avoid going too close to islands
• Fixed splash effect

ARENA CHANGES:

• Added elo to 1v1s,2v2s,5v5s and battle royale
• This makes it so the game will try to queue you with other people in your skill range
• Calculated based on your total matches played and win %
• Removed id/phone number verification requirement to play BR/Arena

BR CHANGES:

• Only one lucky zone now
• Increased size of final zone by 75%
• Added vampire and cyborg medals
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• Increased max level to 575
• Party chat is enabled by default
• Map themed to fall

BALANCE PATCH

Zushi - Legendary

• Gravity Pull CD reduced 25 > 15

Suna - Legendary

• Desert Flight faster out of combat
• Decrease ragdoll/stun on Frenzy
• Desert Spada cooldown increased

Kage - Legendary

• Increase the m1 scaling for Silhouette’s Assault
• Iframes added to Fleeing Shadows
• Added slight endlag to Shadow Box (about the same endlag as the ragdoll stun the box gives so you can’t follow up)
• Less stun for Burrowing Shadows

Goro - Legendary

• Reduced stamina cost for Lightning Dragon to 50
• Once fully charged the ult should just cast
• Removed Hyper Armor for Lightning Wrath and Lightning Dragon
• Sped Flash Smash start up by 30%
• Added Hyper Armor to Flash Smash
• Increased the damage scaling for Paralyzation by 50%
• Increased full size scaling speed for paralyzation when you hold it

Ope - Mythical

• Gamma Knife knocks people away
• Counter Shock start up increased by just a bit
• Mes Start Up Reduced

Venom - Mythical

• Venom Spit CD increased
• Venom Spit CD 3 > 10
• Removed ability to perfect block puddles
• Added true stun on the initial hit for Venom Hydra

Magu - Legendary

• Magu Eruption cooldown increased by 30%
• Magu Eruption size scale off devil fruit faster because of the cd increase
• Magu Swamp speed increased by 50%

Gomu/Gear 2 - Rare

• Added a bit more stun for Jet Gatling
• Increased stun for Jet Stomp
• Red Hawk damage increased by 20%
• Elephant Gun dazed stun cannot stack

Mera - Legendary

• Increased 35% damage scaling for Hiken
• Increased 35% damage scaling for Flame Pillar
• Once fully charged the ult should just cast.
• Mera Flight faster out of combat (same as suna flight)
• Reverted Fireflies speed boost but increased the stun for each hit
• Disabled Flame Pillar during Mera’s Flame Flight

 Spring - Epic

• Spring Leap now has 3 leaps before going on cooldown if in Spring Mode
• Death Knock block breaker removed
• Facebreaker stun increased

Pika - Legendary

• Mirror Kick inflicts dazed status effect
• Increased the cooldown for Light Flight by 5 seconds

Gura - Legendary

• Blast Clutcher takes less time to charge to full size

Hie - Legendary

• Can now freeze targets ragdolled

Mero - Rare

• Love Charm increased cooldown 15 > 17

Bari - Rare

• Bari Cage cooldown 6 > 15

Horo - Rare

• Damage scaling for Mini hollows increased by 30%

Bomu - Rare

• Bomu users are able to see their own mines once placed
• Bomu Grab cooldown increased 15 > 19
• Bomu Mines now break block
• The field size for the mines should increase faster

Spin - Common

• Spinning Cyclone cooldown increased from 8 > 12

Heal - Common

• Healing Support % increased by 30%

Cyborg - Rushdown/Zoner

• Machine Gun Blows cooldown increased 16 > 20
• Reduced Machine Gun Blow’s dmg by 50%
• Laser Pulsar cooldown decreased 18 > 14
• Stamina drain for Missile Shower
• Cyborg Flight stamina drain increase but speed increased by 30%

*Nitoryu (2SS) - Shotokan

• M1 Scaling increased
• Nitoryu Strike doesn’t need haki to hit logia users
• Hyper Armor added to Rashomon Draw
• Increased stun on Tower Draw
• Reduced duration of Raging Whirl 3>2

Ittoryu (1SS) - Bait & Punish

• Raging Serpent stun increased

Black Leg - Shotokan

• Increase cost for m1 dmg BlackLeg/Diable

Rokushiki - Zoner

• Rokuogan CD 45 > 60

*Inferno Rocket Blade - Medium

• Increased startup speed on Explosion Field
• Made the m1s and skills scale entirely off Gun Mastery

*Iceborn Rapier - Medium

• Removed the Hyper armor for Iceborn Shard

*Kikoku - Medium

• Amputate stun increased slightly so it’s a true combo
• Reduced the stun on Sterben Line so it no longer extends (right now if u turn the skill off the opponent let go then turn back the stun is so long u can just start an m1 string making it a true extender )
• Removed Iframes from Amputate

*Kiribachi - Heavy

• Increased the points required for Kiribachi Frenzy damage scaling
• Decreased stun time for Kiribachi Smash by 0.4 seconds
• Increased cooldown for Kiribachi Frenzy 15>20

*Crab Cutlass - Medium

• Revert Lunge start up to be faster since Iceborn Rapier literally has the thing Cutlass was nerfed for originally

*Hollow Fang - Light

• Slight hitbox increase

*Iceborn Daggers - Light

• Damage reduced by 50% for Iceborn Death Lotus but stun increased during Iceborn Aura
• Slight hitbox increase

*Elo Hammer - Heavy

• More m1 stun
• Reduce damage by 40% on Pounding Festival but add a daze effect at the end similar to Gura

Candy Cane/PCC - Medium

• Flash Freeze startup reduced but cooldown increased

Kraken Greatsword- Heavy

• Increased the endlag for cross slayer slash

Iceborn Rapier - Medium

• Removed the Hyper armor for Iceborn Shard

Golden Staff - Medium

• Reduced stamina drain for both barrages (they last for like 6 hits but take like 25% of your stamina bar despite doing no dmg or stun)

Gravity Blade - Medium

• Gravity Field block break last hit
• Gravity Field start up decreased

Soul Cane - Medium

• Soul Parade CD increased 10 > 15
• Soul Parade stamina cost from 35 to 70
• Soul Parade ice block stun increased

Cupid’s Battleaxe - Heavy

• Weapon changed from medium scaling to heavy scaling (reason: big battleaxe should hit hard)

Flower Bouquet - Medium

• Buffed the stamina gain you get from Flower Smell, its now 10% max stamina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTbo9qfJbqg

The anniversary event wasn't able to make it this month, so we will be bundling it together with a christmas event in december

If anything was left out then it was something of minor importance or i just forgot to include it

At anypoint if the crews break we will disable them get it fixed

Any bugs found in the first week of release will be fixed and sorted out