[[OPEN BETA] Patch Notes for November 16th, 2025 - Issue 28, Page 3 - Build 6]

On 11/19/2025 at 10:41 PM, Staceypants said:

(Cross-posting to help out you beautiful people)

Since many of the Phantom Gladiator parts are recolor variations of existing parts, it was frustrating to find a lot of them. For example, it took me forever to figure out that the Gladiator Belt is a Retro belt option. When other new costume parts have dropped, we got a list of where they were in the Tailor menu. Since we didn't get one for these parts, I'll list the parts that are variations, i.e. don't have their own slot in the menu. Some are obvious, others not so much.

 

* Parts will display as 'Phantom Gladiator' after the variation has been selected.

Phantom_Gladiator_Belt: Upper Body > Belt > Retro

Phantom_Sybil_Belt: [Female] > Upper Body > Sybil Tight/Sybil With Skin > Belt > Roman Sybil

Phantom_Greaves: Lower Body > Boots > Roman Greaves

Phantom_Vambraces: Upper Body > Gloves > Roman Vambraces

Phantom_Half_Helmet: Head > Half Helmets > Valkyrie

Phantom_Gladiator_Shoulders: Upper Body > Shoulders > Gladiator

Phantom_Pauldrons: Upper Body > Shoulders > Roman Pauldrons

 

The rest of the pieces are listed as their own piece in the appropriate category (Helmet Detail, Chest Detail, Kilts / Shorts).

 

[Ninjutsu defense for tanks and brutes]

Plenty of tanky ninjas out there!

[Year Round Purchase Ability]

I support this suggestion after rereading through your responses. I originally thought you were asking to make badges purchaseable *that weren't already*. I was mistaken!

On 11/20/2025 at 11:40 AM, Rudra said:

And that is countered by we can already purchase the badges in question and there are already threads asking to be able to just buy other badges, especially accolades. I am very much opposed to adding to the array of badges we can purchase. I am of the opinion badges should be earned by the character getting the badges by doing the content. Especially in the case of accolades which at least one previous thread has asked to be able to purchase. Expanding the window in which something that can already be purchased is available for purchase does not open the door to requests for more badges to be purchasable.

 

This suggestion has nothing to do with badges that must be earned by doing content. It is only about badges that can already be purchased and requires no actual game play to get.

 

Edit: So the suggestions you and @Glacier Peak are concerned will start happening if this is implemented already get asked for. Kind of hard for this to lead to that starting when it has already happened.

 

 

[[FOCUSED FEEDBACK] New Labyrinth of Fog Expansion]

Is anyone struggling with the darkness?

[Help for harder badges? MoKeyes/RHW/midnight dodger/worthy opponent?]

It took me six years to get those on my one and only badger. I play on Indomitable. I don't show up every night to iTrials, but I made a concerted effort this past summer to do so and eventually was able to get those badges. 10PM ET are daily iTrials. We attempt RHW Saturdays, once a month I believe. This past summer we ran RHW three times in a row and badged every time. 

 

Edit: Oh and we're running it this Saturday, 22 November. I think around 4pm ET? Hope on over and ask in LFG about the RHW attempt and someone should be able to give you the exact time. 

[A Minor and Potentially Silly Request]

You can convert them to Architect Entertainment tickets and then spend the tickets on a number of items.

[[FOCUSED FEEDBACK] New Melee Set - Sonic Melee]

38 minutes ago, High_Beam said:

Hmmm.  @ScarySai, I am watching that video watching you put up of the solo character +4/8 content (based on the mob size I am seeing and level 55) and to be quite honest, it doesn't look like it sucks.  Looks like you are plowing through mobs at an amazing pace.  Is suck code for something else, becuase I would love to suck like that.

Absolutely melting Level 55 mobs. That's awesome. 

[Year Round Purchase Ability]

14 minutes ago, Glacier Peak said:

You might be changing my mind. 

 

9 minutes ago, Rudra said:

This isn't something I'm going to put effort into fighting for. If we disagree, we disagree.

What

[Vanguard Giving Merits For The Lost]

The in story reason is that Lost are the precursor to Rikti.

[Year Round Purchase Ability]

3 minutes ago, Rudra said:

Except it isn't. The requirement for the Exultant badge was to log in the game between 11 AM ET on Saturday May 1, 2010 and 11:59 PM ET on Monday May 31, 2010. If you did not log into the game during that window, you missed the opportunity to get that anniversary badge on that character. And yet we can go to Luna every year and buy the badge from her for 100 Reward Merits. That badge's window of opportunity is gone. And yet we can still go back and buy it.

I'm in favor of removing the purchase ability entirely, if that's your argument. 

 

4 minutes ago, Rudra said:

We can have 1,000 characters per server. And for players that collect badges and play lots of alts, that is a constantly growing problem of accessibility.

If a player can get the badge on one character, they can get them on all their characters. Outsiders of Praetorian locked badges. 

 

5 minutes ago, Rudra said:

Back on Live when we could have 48 characters per server, and only if we bought the expanded character slots? Getting limited access badges was much less difficult. There are players with hundreds of alts as opposed to Live's 48. Surely some allowance for players with lots of alts can be accommodated?

Alts are not a persuasive argument to me to change the requirement. 

 

6 minutes ago, Rudra said:

The issue I have with this argument is that the only badges I am talking about are badges we can already purchase. The request isn't expanding what badges can be purchased. I wholeheartedly agree with you on not expanding what badges can be purchased. However, anniversary and winter badges can already be purchased. All I am asking for is an expanded window for those with lots of alts to do what the game already allows.

Oh that actually makes sense. That would satisfy myself because I could choose not to purchase the badges outside of the window of the event and players who want the badges could do so if they so desired. 

 

You might be changing my mind. 

[Listen to Feedback: Sonic Melee Not Ready]

Homecoming listens to feedback. 

 

I've never seen in any other free game, (let alone in any paid game), someone from the development team respond to a reported bug or issue in real time, post a patch to fix it, then re-engage with the person who reported it to check if that issue was resolved. That's insane by itself, but add in that neither myself or the developer are paid to do either of those things and we both have other obligations, and it's a miracle to me. It might even be foolish because now that's the standard that I expect working with the Homecoming Team - but it works both ways. I'm not going to waste their time with garbage knee jerk patch note rants because there are plenty of posters who do that already in these forums and Discord. They should expect from me, and anyone else who participates in testing, the same level of passion and effort that players expect of them. 

 

And that's my opinion. 

[Listen to Feedback: Sonic Melee Not Ready]

32 minutes ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

Hello all.

 

I have done no testing at all for this page, mostly because Sonic Melee just didn't seem that interesting to me. However, I did want to stop in and say "thank you." This thread has been very entertaining.

 

Take care all and Happy Thanksgiving.

What no /jranger!?

[Year Round Purchase Ability]

I don't support a year round purchase ability.

 

If the requirement for a badge is that a player logs in at certain time of year in order to receive the badge, that is the requirement.

 

I worry that if this change were to be implemented, other badges that have requirements that aren't convenient for players would be looked at to become purchased instead of meeting those requirements as well. Slippery slope as it were. 

[Listen to Feedback: Sonic Melee Not Ready]

The premise of this thread is baffling to me. The original poster has been responded to directly and publicly by more members of the Homecoming Team than any other poster on these forums during this Page 3 open beta. They've been directly quoted and received explicit confirmation that their feedback was read by members of the Homecoming Team. The actual lead powers developer responded directly, multiple times, in this very thread. And yet they still continue to say they aren't being listened to? 

[Font of Malevolence High Score Thread!]

Since the new Labyrinth changes are now on Open Beta, I am announcing that once published to the Live shards, I will reset the High Scores. This is due to the changes in the Font of Malevolence experience (and new tactics!) that are likely to occur due to these changes. For posterity, I will keep the previous High Scores on the original post for everyone to remember how awesome we were!

[Any progress on the mids build importer tool?]

1 minute ago, ScarySai said:

The direct to server tool, not the popmenu mids generates.

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, I haven't seen that in a while.

[Any progress on the mids build importer tool?]

That's odd, I've used it as recently as two weeks ago. Did you click the exporter and run the command prompt?

 

 

Then just run the popmenu that you named from the export file when you log in to the character.

 

 

[Listen to Feedback: Sonic Melee Not Ready]

1 hour ago, Captain Powerhouse said:

Note I am not saying feedback is not welcomed, we are still looking at design feedback and it will be considered for the first post-launch update.

Emphasis added. 

 

[Recommendations for Reworking Badges]

I already dislike getting every Architect Entertainment account wide badge applied after creating any alt because my one badger got it. I would not like further contributing to this.

[How many Characters does it take to use all the Powersets?]

[Incarnate Shards and Threads]

2 minutes ago, Arbegla said:

Or rewards merits, so you can at least use them to roll recipes?

[where to download tequila]

[Incarnate Shards and Threads]

Convert Incarnate Threads to Architect Entertainment tickets.

[A relook at support powers]

So no. 

[[FOCUSED FEEDBACK] Badge Tracker & Profile Customization]

1 hour ago, Faultline said:

That is somewhat difficult because of the Praetorian badges, you would see badges your character can never earn. There's no clean way for the game to know the difference between a badge you haven't earned, and one you cannot earn.

Understand that I have no idea what is possible with game code, but could there be a check for Praetorian Son/Daughter in that situation? If yes, show all badges flagged praetorian, if no, don't show?