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Anniversary Event

The Spiral Knights Anniversary Celebration has come to an end. The decorations have been taken down, the frosting cleaned up and the Total Caketastrophe mission is no longer available. Biscotti thanks all knights for their assistance in cleaning up a mess that never happened.

• Bulky and Maskwell will remain in the Town Square until April 23, when all Cake Slice tokens expire.

Prestige

The first prestige reward, Prestige Badges, will now be granted to the most prestigious of knights! See the tooltip on any prestige reward for more information on all five levels of Prestige Badges.

Items

• Eyes on the various jelly helms now animate and recolor according to the knight's personal color like other helms.

Interface

• The knight creation UI now alerts you if a name is unavailable in real time.

Bugfixes

• You can no longer pull out a vial while standing on a lift barrier.
• Shadow Party Hat accessory now correctly displays its name.
• Animations when holding lift objects have been fixed.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY SPIRAL KNIGHTS!

Spiral Knights is celebrating its first anniversary with a special event! Join in on the fun now through April 10, 2012!

It's a Caketastrophe!

Visit the Haven Town Square to meet the Skylark's Head Chef, Biscotti. She will inform you of a 'situation' at hand that involves hordes of monstrous cakes known as 'Creep Cakes.' Helping her solve this 'situation' will reward you with cake helms! Features include:

• A new Prestige Mission, 'Total Caketastrophe' is available during the event
• Biscotti, Maskwell and Bulky can be found in the Haven Town Square
• Creep Cake nests can be found randomly within the Clockworks
• Participating in these events will reward you with Cake Slice tokens
• Maskwell now trades Cake Helms in exchange for Cake Slices
• Bulky now sells confetti and Cake Slice tokens

Please note, the Frosted Helm and Foiled Frosted Helm will expire, however the Prismatic Frosted Helm lasts forever!

Get the Anniversary Prize Pack!

To celebrate the first anniversary of Spiral Knights, the Haven Treasury is giving away a FREE Anniversary Prize Pack with the purchase of any $9.95 energy purchase! The prize pack contains a random assortment of goodies that includes:

• Handfuls of confetti (always included)

One accessory (always included): 4% Chance:

• Cool Birthday Candle
• Regal Birthday Candle
• Military Birthday Candle
• Heavy Birthday Candle
• Fancy Birthday Candle
• Dusky Birthday Candle
• Toasty Birthday Candle
• Cool Party Hat
• Regal Party Hat
• Military Party Hat
• Heavy Party Hat
• Fancy Party Hat
• Dusky Party Hat
• Toasty Party Hat
• Cool Party Blowout
• Regal Party Blowout
• Military Party Blowout
• Heavy Party Blowout
• Fancy Party Blowout
• Dusky Party Blowout
• Toasty Party Blowout

2% Chance:

• Volcanic Party Hat
• Divine Party Hat
• Prismatic Party Hat
• Volcanic Party Blowout
• Divine Party Blowout
• Prismatic Party Blowout
• Volcanic Birthday Candle
• Divine Birthday Candle
• Prismatic Birthday Candle

1% Chance:

• Shadow Party Blowout
• Shadow Party Hat
• Shadow Birthday Candle
• Sprinkle Aura (yes, your knight will be covered in delicious sprinkles)

Prize Pack Details

Offer available through April 10, 2012

All prize pack items are delivered UNBOUND.

As a special bonus, each purchase has a chance of receiving DOUBLE PRIZES!

Other Changes

• Heavy statues will now "snap" into position on pressure plates, making it much easier to place them.
• Throw-able objects such as pots and vials now have a targeting arrow.
• "Command Emotes", such as /attack and /helpme now have translations for French, German, and Spanish.
• The Elevator Pass will now be promoted when players are at an elevator and run out of energy.
• Fixed a statue exploit in Firestorm Citadel Smoldering Steps
• Fixed a bug in Firestorm Citadel Charred Court where you could get trapped by a timed door

Today's patch contains behind-the-scenes content for a future event.

• Removed chat transforms for emoticons and lolspeak
• Fixed issues with the Troika sword line charge attacks

Items

Some balance changes have been made to some items:

Armor & Helms

Skelly series:

• Removed fire weakness

Magic Cloak series:

• Removed stun weakness

Drake Scale series:

• Added Poison resist.

Chaos set:

• Added Charge Time bonus
• Removed stun and sleep weakness

Justifier set:

• Added stun resist

Shadowsun set:

• Added poison resist
• Removed curse weakness
• Changed piercing defense to shadow defense
• Increased handgun damage bonus

Deadshot set:

• Added Handgun Attack speed

Nameless set:

• Added freeze resist

Bombastic Demo set:

• Added freeze resist
• Increased bomb damage bonus

Shields

Drake scale series:

• Added poison resist

Swords

Troika and Triglav Series, Thwack Hammer:

Charge attack changes:

• Charge attack is now a two hit combo
• Increased charge attack damage area
• First hit does not impulse or apply status, is weaker
• Second hit is more powerful, has status

Spur, Arc Razor and Winmillion:

Basic attack combo changes:

• Attack one no longer has a forward impulse.
• Attack one hit box narrowed and elongated slightly to bring inline with other swords.
• Attack two forward impulse increased slightly.
• Attack three knock-back impulse increased slightly.
• Attack three hit box widened.

Charge attack changes:

• Backstep at beginning of swing removed.
• Spur charge attack power reduced
• Arc Razor and Winmillion charge attack power increased, bullets now pierce through multiple targets

Economy

Crown and heat payouts for all levels will be undergoing adjustments over the next few patches in order to better balance the game economy and create a better experience for all players. In this patch you will see changes to missions and levels that were previously awarding an overabundance of crowns and heat.

UI

• Smilies typed into chat may be transformed into an appropriate emote.
• Mac OS: text editing commands will now follow Mac conventions.
• Added a confirmation check for exchange missions.

Bugfixes

• Fixed the collision on Cursed Nature Sprites to resolve a bug where they could get stuck.
• Fixed bugs with depositing Cursed Nature Sprites in the Sprite Sanctuary.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a freeze when using chat history.
• Mecha Knight monsters will properly block player bullets.